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Protesters marched through Day Hall, Ithaca Commons and DeWitt Park in honor of May Day. | Page 3

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Forum Addresses Change to Policy On Sexual Assault

After Race,Gitlin’15 Elected Student Trustee

By DARA LEVY

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s Title IX Coordinators, a group of faculty members who oversee concerns related to gender discrimination on campus, hosted an open forum Wednesday to discuss the University’s revisions to its sexual assault and harassment policy and procedure.

If the revisions are approved, student complainants and respondents may move from testifying at hearings to writing their testimonies.

The coordinators of this change said they are seeking feedback from the Cornell community to ensure See FORUM page 5

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Talk it out | Alan Mittman, director of the Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations, speaks at an open forum in Malott Hall Wednesday.

C.U.Fraternity Members:Greek System Has Been‘Greatly Mischaracterized’

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer

In light of disciplinary actions taken against fraternities for alcohol and hazing violations over the academic year, some fraternity members say they are concerned that fraternities have been mischaracterized by both the University and students.

During the 2012-13 academ-

ic year, at least eight fraternities have faced disciplinary action.

The Delta Phi and Chi Psi fraternities — suspended in March — will have announcements regarding their futures made in the coming weeks, while the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity will have its case reviewed shortly, according to Travis Apgar, associate dean of students for fraternity and sorority affairs.

O-Week to Include Workshop on Sex-Ed

By PATRICIO G. MARTÍNEZ Sun Senior Writer

Following a string of sexual assault incidents reported on campus, the Class of 2017 will be the first to participate in a workshop on consent and healthy sexual relationships during Orientation Week this August.

“Speak About It,” a troupe of young college graduates and actors who travel the country raising awareness against sexual violence, will come to campus to lead the workshop for first-year and transfer students.

According to the group’s

website, the troupe’s goal is to generate a conversation about sex and to leave students feeling educated, entertained and empowered to create change on their campus.

Both students and administrators collaborated to include the presentation as part of the Orientation Week experience of incoming students at the University.

According to E.E. Hou ’14, creative director of the Every1 Campaign — a student organization that addresses issues of sexual assault and consensual sex See WORKSHOP page 4

in Gitlin as Student Trustee, citing Gitlin’s experience on the Student Assembly.

After leading a campaign “Having spent the past two met with virulent opposition years serving on the S.A. with online, Ross Gitlin ’15, outgo- Ross, I am more than confiing ILR representative for the dent in his ability to represent Student Assembly, was elected the undergraduate student Student Trustee, the Office of body,” Muir said. the Assemblies announced Current Student Trustee Alex Wednesday.

Bores ’13 said that Gitlin has Competing against six already proven himself through other candidates, community initiaGitlin won 35.7 tives within the S.A. percent of the vote, “I think [Gitlin] capturing 1,769 of will do a fantastic the total 4,949 baljob. He already has lots cast. Runnerincredible leadership up Don Muir ’15, experience on camoutgoing Arts and pus,” Bores said. “He Sciences represenhas a proven track tative for the S.A., record of going collected 1,214 above and beyond.”

GITLIN ’15 votes.

Throughout the Gitlin attributed his success campaign, Gitlin said, he faced to the efforts of the students strong opposition from some who assisted with his cam- students, including being paign, whom he said were named on a website that highespecially supportive during lighted his past as former presthe final days of the race. ident of the Tau Epsilon Phi “The team that we assem- fraternity. The fraternity lost bled going into the campaign University recognition after a was tremendous,” Gitlin said. hazing-related incident in “The amount of support we January. had from across campus held “A leader takes responsibiliour ground game together.”

See TRUSTEE page 4 Muir expressed confidence

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In addition, the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity lost recognition in January after an investigation regarding hazing-related violations, while Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity lost its recognition for a semester for “underage and excessive alcohol consumption” violations.

Michael Reynolds ’15, See FRATS page 5

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Marching From C.U. to Commons, Protesters Rally For Free Speech

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer

Cornell students, Ithaca College students and other members of the Ithaca community marched in a protest that went through Day Hall, the Commons and Dewitt Park Wednesday in honor of May Day — also known as International Workers Day. The march, which began at Ho Plaza with a drum cirMATT MUNSEY / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER cle and two speeches, promoted free speech and political Marching for free speech | Protesters gathered on Ho Plaza and marched through Day Hall, Ithaca Commons and Dewitt Park to promote activism on campus, participants said.

According to Carmen Martínez ’14, one of the march’s free speech and political activism on campus Wednesday. organizers, participants protested for the right to hold protest was the solidarity and support protesters felt for increased use of surveillance systems, Martínez said many political protests without permits and criticized a one another, but he added that the rally was also meant to of the protestors disagreed with the U.A.’s approach.

University Assembly resolution that requested placing garner attention.

“A lot of us are in agreement that security cameras are additional surveillance systems on University property.

“We are here today to actually have a rally and be as not the best way to increase security. It’s not going to realThe protesters also asked for an increase in wages for loud as possible,” he said. ly change the culture on campus, and we need to be tarIthaca waste workers.

In the spirit of the protest, Martone referenced the stu- geting the culture — not so much increasing surveillance The UUP resoludent takeover of Willard Straight Hall on students,” Martinez said. tion, which was “We are here today to actually have a After Day Hall, the protesters marched downtown to in the April of 1969. tabled at the U.A. “If ever in the future the students rally and demand an increase in wages at a hearing the meeting Tuesday, rally and be as loud as possible.” reach a level of organization and waste-water treatment workers from the Ithaca communiclarified the requicourage which will resemble the level of ty and the Tompkins County Workers Center. site procedure stu- Mario Martone grad “[At] the Commons, we will be doing an action in solcourage and organizations of the [students should follow dents] in 1969,” he said, then future idarity with waste workers in Ithaca who are asking for a when using generations of students fighting and living wage, which they are not currently receiving,” University property for protests. It stated definitively that protecting justice “will remember us.”

Martinez said. a permit is not required, though students would still be Finally, the march concluded at Dewitt Park, where the After protesters gathered on Ho Plaza, they then able to submit them. marched to Day Hall, where students gave speeches and participants had a potluck and spoke about the the signifWhen protesters gathered on Ho Plaza, Mario Martone dropped off a letter highlighting their demands regarding icance of May Day for them. grad, one of the protest’s organizers, chanted, “Injustice the UUP proposal and the increased use of surveillance anywhere is injustice everywhere.”

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Ithaca Project Will Compile Residents’ Journal Entries

‘One Day in Ithaca’ project officially proclaimed by mayor at Common Council meeting

By CHRISTOPHER YATES Sun Staff Writer

In an effort to archive the average day for an Ithaca resident, Ithaca residents will write short essays about their daily activities as part of the “One Day in Ithaca” project, City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ‘09 announced at a Common Council meeting Wednesday.

Residents will be asked to write about how they spent their day on May 17.

“This will be a message to future generations of Ithaca residents, testifying where we were as a community in 2013,” Myrick said.

The project marks the 25th anniversary of the “Great Ithaca Write-in” of 1988, during which over 6,000 essays were submitted by Ithaca residents and compiled into a book, according to Carol Kammen, Ithaca resident and coordinator of the project.

Kammen describes the original write-in as “the first of its kind in the nation,” but credits a Russian community for originating the idea in the 1930s.

“We hope that everyone in the city will contribute their daily reflection to the archive,” Kammen said.

Looking through some of the essays submitted by Ithaca residents in 1988, Myrick reflected upon the entry of that year’s mayor — John Gutenberger.

“Twenty-five years later, it’s clear that not too much has changed; his day started at 7 a.m., it ended at 10:30 p.m. and it was filled with conflicts between Ithaca residents and Cornell University,” Myrick said.

The goals of the project are not only historical documentation, but also to help build a sense of unity and community in Ithaca, according to Kammen.

“By looking at our commonalities, it will bring us all closer together,” Kammen said.

Christopher Yates can be reached at cyates@cornellsun.com.

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Harvard University announced Monday that the University received a $50-million gift to fund entreprenuership in the life sciences, The Harvard Crimson reported.

The gift — donated by the Blavatnick Family Foundation — will fund the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, which finds promising biomedical projects and helps them develop.

Yale University will join Harvard, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania in covering sex-reassignment surguries for studends starting Aug. 1, the Yale Daily News reported Friday. The coverage has been given to faculty and staff since 2011 and unionized workers since January.

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Students from Government 3827: China and the World, debate the China-U.S. political dynamic out on the Arts Quad Wednesday.

With a $2.1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, Columbia University faulty and administrators plan to work on a project to create courses that will be offered exclusively abroad, the Columbia Spectator reported on Wednesday.

In 2014, undergraduates who study abroad will have even more courses to choose from as Columbia continues to embrace a global mind-set, The Spectator reported.

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Workshop to Emphasize Consent Gitlin‘Learned a Ton’ From Election WORKSHOP

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— the workshop will consist of a dynamic presentation between actors and spectators that includes skits and monologues based on real stories.

“A lot of freshman come to campus very experienced, with little knowledge about the importance of consent and sexual relationships,” Hou said. “The workshop’s main contribution will be to raise awareness about both consent and sexual assault.

Hou said many students are unaware

about the pervasiveness of sexual assault on college campuses, and that a workshop of this kind will convey to entering students the importance of fostering a culture of consent.

According to statistics compiled by the New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault, at least one in four college women will be the victim of a sexual assault during her academic career. On the other hand, one in six men experience abusive sexual experiences before age 18, according to a study conducted by U.S.

Centers for Disease Control.

Anisha Chopra ’13, outgoing at-large rep for the S.A., said the impact of the workshop will be to begin an initial conversation among freshman about the importance of consent and fighting sexual assault.

Anna-Lisa Castle ’14, co-chair of the Women of Color Coalition, said she hopes the presentation “is included in a more holistic, broader effort of initiatives.” Castle is also a participant of the Assembly for Justice — a group that coor-

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“I am excited that this is a conversation that will start in Orientation Week, but it should not end there. This is not a solution by any means,” Castle said.

“I hope the administration is as committed to continuing the conversation throughout the Cornell experience.”

While she said she recognizes the workshop’s goals are necessary and excellent, Castle said “there is more to be done beyond initiating a conversation about consent.”

“These goals will not be achieved until we take a hard line against sexual violence as a campus community,” she said.

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ty of his organization. Ross Gitlin is not a leader,” the website said.

Gitlin said that the efforts against him ultimately did not shape his campaign.

“We wanted to run on the issues,” Gitlin said. “We brought what we thought were the strongest aspects of our platform forward, and I think that was shown.”

Gitlin said his campaign platform was comprised of five primary areas — communication and accountability, diversity and inclusion, financial aid, health and safety and sustainability.

Gitlin’s first goal is to advocate for a 24/7 help center at Gannett Health Services for students to seek live help whenever they may need it.

“The greatest thing is that since [the term] is two years, I have a lot of time to get things done,” Gitlin said.

Bores said he would like to see Gitlin continue the work Bores has done in regulating Collegetown leasing procedures. He said that some of the main initiatives Gitlin will work on will include continuing to reform the Greek system and helping to improve campus health facilities.

“I’d love to see [Gitlin] take ownership of some of the ideas he talked about during the campaign,” Bores said.

Bores also said that recently, higher education has been going through a “challenging time,” citing the shift to online teaching technology, as well as public pressures regarding tuition and research funds.

“We have a great institution that has stayed ahead of the curve, but [Gitlin] as a trustee will have a role in helping to

make decisions about how Cornell will position itself in the future,” Bores said.

Gitlin said that as the only undergraduate representative on the Board of Trustees, he will try to make the board more accessible to hearing as many student requests as possible.

“I’ll try to break down barriers, so students can report what exactly is important to them directly to the Board,” he said.

Gitlin said that he has “learned a ton,” both from the election and his opponents.

“Each and every single one of my opponents ran an amazing campaign. ... I know whoever had been elected would have done an amazing job,” Gitlin said.

Muir, who said that he still looks to serve Cornell in some capacity, said the election gave him a better understanding of the concerns of the student body.

“The competitive nature of this race has encouraged all seven of the candidates to come together, resulting in the emergence of the best possible platform that will best serve the Cornell community,” Muir said.

Gitlin said that he looks forward to partnering with the other candidates on future projects.

“Just because the election is over doesn’t mean we’ll stop working. We all got into this race to better the Cornell community,” Gitlin said.

According to Ari Epstein ’04, assistant director of the Office of the Assemblies, all challenges and appeals regarding the election were resolved, and none of the candidates were disqualified.

Dara Levy can be reached at dlevy@cornellsun.com.

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president of the Zeta Psi fraternity, said said he believes the Greek system has been “greatly mischaracterized.”

“We are seen as mindless animals that do nothing but drink, but people forget that we are one of the largest sources of alumni donations, philanthropy and active student involvement on campus,” Reynolds said.

He also said that while the University is well-intentioned in its decisions regarding how to change the culture of the fraternity system, he is worried that the changes to Greek culture are “dangerous.”

Reynolds added that a compromise needs to be made between fraternities and the administration.

“If there are any changes to be made, they should be done slowly.

That is the only way to ensure a lasting change that meets halfway between the Greek system and the administration,” Reynolds said.

Apgar said he believes that any mischaracterizations of the Greek community are unfortunate,

and that the actions of the few should not paint the rest of the system negatively.

“The reality is if there weren’t all of these positive characteristics of these organizations and benefits of being a member of this student experience, we wouldn’t be working as hard to preserve the Greek community,” he said, adding that he encourages open dialogue among the community about the issue.

Many fraternities say the four-quarter system — which prevents first semester freshmen from attending fraternity parties — is problematic for the Greek community.

Renato Amez ’14, president of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, said he believes such a system causes fraternities to throw events in secret.

“Instead of first semester being an open environment where you can go out at night and not be concerned about not getting back home safely, fraternities are seen as speakeasies,” Amez said. “With resident advisors and CUPD interrogating freshmen, it causes a lot of distrust, even among our student

population.”

Amez added that he thinks the four-quarter system pushes risky behavior underground, resulting in the consumption of alcohol by freshmen in environments that are unmonitored and less safe than open parties, according to Reynolds.

“This is college; it would be impossible to completely eliminate alcohol from the picture, but allowing for safer environments for typical college behavior is something that we all can agree on,” he said.

Reynolds said it seems like the University is trying to dictate student life at Cornell. He added that that while it is Cornell’s responsibility to protect the well being of students, it is not their job to “babysit” the undergraduate population.

“We want to be treated as responsible adults and be put on an equal field as anyone else,” Reynolds said.

Fraternity presidents also said that students not involved in Greek life have also mischaracterized fraternities.

According to the results of the 2013

Cornell Perceptions of Undergraduate Life and Student Experiences Survey — an online questionnaire completed by 45 percent of undergraduates this year — 49 percent of surveyed students said that they either “disagree” or “strongly disagree” when asked if they “enjoy what the Greek system contributes to Cornell University.”

Amez, however, said he believes that those who speak ill of the Greek community as a whole are “ignorant” and have either had a poor experience with a minority of the several thousand members involved in the Greek System or have no friends in the Greek system.

“When I meet someone new, I don’t waste my time arguing on behalf of the Greek system. I let them form their own opinions after getting to know me and my interactions with the rest of the community,” he said.

This story continues on cornellsun.com Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun.com.

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that they have taken the correct approach toward drafting the new policy and procedure, Policy 6.4.

At the forum, Prof. Dan Brown Ph.D. ’81, animal science, said the change to the policy — which proponents say would decrease the psychological burden for victims because they no longer have to be present at a hearing — cannot compensate

for the trauma that sexual assault victims experience.

“There is nothing that Cornell can do to make up for what happened to a victim.

There are no sanctions that Cornell can put out there that would be sufficient,” Brown said.

“To me, you’re selling something to the victim that is false.”

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Alexa Davis can be reached at adavis@cornellsun.com.

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Clarifying UUP Requirements IN NOVEMBER, CONFUSION OVER the University’s permit requirements for on-campus protests spread when Cornell Police broke up competing rallies held by the Cornell Israel Public Affairs Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine, evicting the latter from Ho Plaza. Members of SJP and others have claimed the administration was infringing on students’ free speech rights. This Tuesday, the University Assembly tabled a vote on a change to the Campus Code of Conduct that would better define Cornell’s permit requirements for such protests. The need for the U.A. to carefully consider and clarify policies that may restrict students’ ability to express dissent is clear.

At the November rallies, CIPAC believed their UUP gave them preferred access to Ho Plaza. SJP thought their lack of a UUP did not preclude them from staging a counterprotest at the same time. Which of the two groups was in the right? Based on CUPD’s odd and tentative compromise — forcibly ejecting SJP from Ho Plaza after waiting out nearly an hour of dueling — even Cornell officials were unsure. According to a recent University report, the incident shed light on contradictions that may exist within the ambiguous language of the Code of Conduct. These discrepancies must be eliminated via simple and uniformly enforced guidelines.

The resolution set aside Tuesday seeks to illuminate the fuzzier points. It proposes changing the code to reflect two clarified policies: UUPs would be recommended, but not required, for on-campus rallies or demonstrations; and unregistered counter-protests would be permissible. The resolution also rightly maintains Cornell’s authority to enforce basic “time, manner and place” restrictions that ban prohibitively disruptive protests at regular University events and activities. We disagree with some who say that such restrictions — which are content-neutral and thus do not allow for discrimination against groups based on the beliefs they hold — infringe on basic free speech rights.

However, to avoid unreasonable restrictions on students’ free expression, much clearer guidelines should be implemented to define what exactly constitutes “disruption.”

Bright-line rules clarifying permissible proximity, volume and form of protests would better ensure that the University is not free to arbitrarily disband student demonstrations on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, any clarification of the Code of Conduct should elucidate the role of UUPs on campus and outline what conditions are required for an event to be considered a “counter-protest” and thus free of permit requirements.

Student groups have vocally expressed fear that if UUPs are recommended but not required, organizations will be pressured to register demonstrations to avoid the threat of disbandment. If this concern is unfounded, as some University officials have implied, then the language used in any proposed policy changes should explicitly reflect that. It is the ambiguity present in the current Code of Conduct that leaves the most room for potential abuse based on the content of dissenting speech. The problem of confusion that occurred last semester will not disappear if the U.A. approves new policies that are as ambiguous as the old ones.

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t was a warm summer day in the summer of ’98. I was angry after a phone call with my mother. My seven-yearold self sat with a marble notebook and penned a long note expressing my grievances. Though I never gave my mom that letter, I immediately felt relief. This was the first time I’d experience the power of writing.

During my sophomore year of high school, I cold-called my town’s newspaper looking to get involved. I suppose I sounded official enough on the phone because they thought I was in college ... only until my dad drove me to the interview. In my awkward pubescent stupor, I ran around town meeting and interviewing countless kind souls. It was refreshing and exhilarating. My favorite part of being a reporter was having complete strangers share their stories with me.

I came to college with the expectation that I’d take more time for myself, my friends and even perhaps for my schoolwork. To combat my high school burn out, I would refrain from taking on too much. I can’t help but remember attending Last Call’s spring concert my freshman year. It was their 15-year anniversary.

As I watched the finale, in which Call Boys of the past and present sing in unison, I suddenly felt incredibly sad. Seeing the joy they felt celebrating their timeless bond, I feared that I’d never have anything comparable. Luckily, I was wrong.

A year after that concert, The Sun filled the void I had felt. Together, we wrote, edited, photographed and designed collaboratively to produce a physical manifestation of our craziness. The process itself is pretty amazing. The Sun gave me the sense of belonging so many of us search for throughout college — something that transformed my time at Cornell.

Being a reporter, columnist and editor has been a cathartic, informative, growing process — one that has turned me into who I am. I got to forge tight bonds with three editorial boards, meet Bill Nye, watch Svante win the Democratic primary and even run around the Commons during a blackout interviewing some truly hilarious folks. Most importantly though, The Sun has given me a venue to write. To this day, writing is my way of dealing.

Some run, others paint or play music, but for me, there is no greater release than the written word. Being a columnist specifically has made me move past brute feelings to articulate my thoughts and construct coherent arguments. Some Wednesday nights have been nervewracking. Voicing your opinion in a public forum is vulnerable and uncomfortable at times. But my audience has been supportive, inquisitive and productive. For anyone who’s ever written a kind word or question: Thank you. Your words keep me thinking, growing and moving forward.

The Sun served as a catalyst for my time at Cornell. It showed me the power of camaraderie, the influence of mentors, the potential of community. What I didn’t realize at the moment was that I’d find different circles of peers to feed each part of my personality — the aggie, the planner, the journalist. In college, much of who we are is defined by what we do. We dub ourselves athletes, dancers, artists, brothers, sisters, activists and comedians.

It’s my hope that as we transition into being teachers, politicians, nurses, bankers, farmers, researchers, consultants and entrepreneurs, we don’t forget to do all of the things we love. The communities that have welcomed me have shown me so much about what I care about and who I am. Though I might find myself hours, even days from the 14850, the things I’ve learned remain. That’s the thing: This is just the beginning.

Cornell has given me so much.

Friends, meltdowns, RPCC brunches, plantation picnics and Vitamin D deficiency. By no means has this been a perfect ride. But through the good and bad, Cornell has inspired me. I realize the bountiful farms around Tompkins County fueled my love for local food and the top-down structure of this University made me hell-bent on developing more democratic cities. My experiences have unleashed passion, direction and excitement. I’ve found folks that love to Greek Dance, brew beer and nerd out about urban planning. The people around me have stretched my brain and forced me to turn my arguments inside out.

In the “real world,” it’ll likely be harder to find peers to listen to all my weird ideas and terrible jokes (trust me, I have a lot of them). It might be difficult to find fulfillment or feel purpose so easily.

Without Club Fest and our little bubble world, it’ll likely be a challenge to find communities of people that share the same passions.

I’d lie if I said I wasn’t sad. I am. But I am also filled with the spirit of youthful adventure, hope and Jack Kerouac. My days on the Hill have taught me a great deal about the world and about myself.

The things I’ve learned and the people I’ve met will come with me. Anyway, I have an inkling that the best is yet to come.

Fingers crossed that my stay on my parents’ couch in suburban New Jersey (the new Bushwick) will be relatively enjoyable and short-lived. And hopefully, one day, I can write in as an alumna explaining that life goes on — perhaps even happily!

Until then, I leave you with my ultimate gratitude. Thanks for letting me do what I love.

Katerina Athanasiou is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning. She may be reached at kathanasiou@cornellsun.com. Kat’s Cradle appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Christo Eliot |

The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight

Getting Back To My Roots

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et’s be honest with ourselves, it is May. I’m tired. You’re tired. And in all likelihood, one of the last things you want to do is get really intellectual and provocative with me for 800 words like you have every other week this year. Also, Slope Day is tomorrow which means some of you might already be inebriated, and I don’t want an angry mob of people who prefer frozen yogurt to ice cream drunkenly chasing me down Ho Plaza like they did a few weeks ago. You also probably don’t want to read a column reflecting on what I’ve learned this year while still recognizing that I have a long way to go and a lot to still learn ... or whatever. Rather, I will get back to my roots and write a column about nothing in the form of a bulleted list: • I saw that the convocation speaker this year is the mayor of Newark, Cory Booker. I’m happy that Cornell was able to get a respected and accomplished leader like Mr. Booker, but after looking at the list of previous convocation speakers, I saw that it was pretty saturated with politicians (Bloomberg, Guliani, Pelosi, et al.). It makes sense — politicians that achieve success like those who have spoken at Cornell’s convocation every spring typically are very compelling public speakers. My issue is that most students graduating from Cornell will not become politicians. Cornellians go on to do a variety of things and are very successful in a number of non-political fields. I think it is about time that our convocation speakers reflect the diversity of actual Cornellians. Thus, I am appealing to the convocation chair for the class of 2015 — John Stamos should be the guy.

In all likelihood, one of the last things you want to do is get intellectual and provacative with me for 800 words.

He is a man of many talents (acting, being a Greek yogurt spokesman, etc.) and would certainly give an insightful speech that would benefit any graduating class.

• Although I am not a father myself and cannot really confirm that this is true, I imagine the feeling that I get when I find a tube of chapstick that I thought I lost (and that was not destroyed in the washing machine) is probably pretty similar to the feeling you get when you return to the park to find that luckily your child wasn’t kidnapped.

• The bagel industry has a very interesting interpretation of the word “everything.” I don’t consider salt, onion, sesame seeds, garlic, and poppy seeds to be everything. Off the top of my head, water bottles, cats, the Declaration of Independence are all also things — which means they should probably fall under the umbrella of the word “everything.”

• As the weather improves and the sun starts to shine a lot more, I fully support people who spend time outside on the Arts Quad. I would like to see less canoodling though. It isn’t because I find it particularly off-putting (I do), but because Ezra Cornell probably wouldn’t appreciate all of these young people engaging in tomfoolery right in front of a statue of him. He made students farm during their free time when he founded the school so I’m not sure macking on the arts quad is part of the Cornell he envisioned.

• I got an email from a medical school student recently with the words “MD Candidate” in the signature. I thought this was a great idea and have since incorporated “Pulitzer Prize Candidate” and “Nobel Peace Prize Candidate” into my own email signature. Keep in my neither of those descriptions are false. For anyone.

• If you want to avoid ATM fees, just do what I do. Go to Target, buy some Tic-Tacs, and get cash back. That is usually good enough for most people because Tic-Tacs cost less than most ATM fees. I usually take it a step further though and return the Tic-Tacs to get my money back. You’re welcome.

• Drake (rapper) has a popular song called “Started from the Bottom” in which he talks about his rough upbringing and rise to superstardom. I looked it up though — Drake grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in Toronto and starred as “Wheelchair Jimmy” in the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi. I’m not sure which of those is “the bottom,” but my money is on Degrassi.

• If anyone has any information on how to get invited to join the Illuminati, let me know. I’m interested.

Good luck on finals, everyone. But if they don’t go as well as you would have liked (you probably should have studied more), just know that being a waiter isn’t super hard and you can live comfortably on just tips. Don’t stress too much.

Christo Eliot is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. He may be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Hannah Deixler |

Shades of Grey

College Out of the Box I

like to compartmentalize — we all After some thought (and a night do. Life is so much simpler when of sleep), I realized that its the people messy things like feelings and — the ones who have made me and memories can be put into boxes, my experience here immeasurably sealed up and put away to be revisit- better — who are the reason I should ed later. During these last few months not fear the boxes. This community, as my friends and classmates have which to me has become synonybeen preparing for graduation, I have mous with “college,” cannot be simply shifted my gaze toward other, stored away for convenience. They more manageable boxes: My thesis, simply can’t. Leaving Cornell does the job market, really anything to not mean leaving behind friends, keep my mind off of May 26. By suc- experiences and personal growth. cessfully compartmentalizing, I have So I guess this is the natural place avoided addressing my imminent to mention my friends, my immedideparture from this place. ate community — the extraordinary Until now. Early Tuesday morn- people who have made my memories ing, I looked out onto Libe Slope and meaningful and have left me afraid of watched the sun rise. West Campus losing them. These wonderful people, looked picturesque as usual, and the the ones who have made me laugh as grass on the slope had regrown after a often as they have made me proud, seemingly never-ending winter (I are the ones who have allowed me to hadn’t noticed). I had just spent the be myself for the last four entire night in the Cocktail Lounge of Uris Library. I was pulling my last all-nighter of I was so afraid to admit college (and God willing, of that I was leaving my life) and I was not because I dreaded pleased about it. However, having to put all of somehow, after four years of these moments into denying what I knew was inevitable, I had a moment. a box, seal it and I’m not sure if it was because label it “college.”

I was sleep-deprived or if looking at Ref Works for so long had years (and haven’t given me the boot actually fried my brain, but gazing for it). It is the moments I have out at Libe Slope, it hit me like a ton shared with these people that I am of Big Red bricks: Holy shit, this is it. most afraid of losing.

Realizing the end was unfortuBecause we did it. We survived nately, but unavoidably, close, I start- mice, carbon monoxide and Moned rolling through all of my most tezuma. We drank too much, and memorable experiences from the last slept too little. We celebrated job four years. As the memories snow- offers and graduate school accepballed, I realized that I was so afraid tances, but mourned losses of loved to admit that I was leaving because I ones and consoled the occasional brodreaded having to put all of these ken heart. We went to more a capella moments into a box, seal it shut and shows than were probably necessary. label it “college.”

We bombed prelims, but we aced Everyone uses clichés at gradua- finals. We acquired nicknames. So tion like “The start of a new chapter” many nicknames. We slept in or “today’s the first day of the rest of cramped rooms in sorority houses, your life.” But those are all frighten- and in sleeping bags in Botswana. We ingly black and white. They are all had meaningful debates about relicompartments. Our experiences and gion, politics and Khloe Kardashian. successes are supposed to be repre- We “borrowed” things from people sented by arbitrary honors cords and and places we don’t know. We won’t latin titles as souvenirs of the experi- return them. We cheered each other ence, but after graduation we are on as we passed our swim tests (a few expected to pack up boxes and move years late). We repped brown and onto “the rest of our life.” blue at the Big Red. We perfected the But I don’t want a souvenir and I Jell-O shot. We watched each other don’t want a box. I want the real sing, dance and dazzle a sold out thing.

Bailey Hall. We survived freshman

year together as next-door neighbors.

We helped our community, and we helped one another. We watched anxiously as our president was reelected, and angrily as marathoners were shuttled to Mass. General. We ate too many Souvlaki salads (red sauce on the side), but maybe took too few walks in the plantations. We stayed up too late studying, and even later doing nothing. We went out on Mondays, and stayed in on Saturdays. We ate more pizza after 1 a.m. than we’ve ever eaten in daylight. We wine toured. We wore costumes. We traveled the world together. We got bigs, and then we got littles. We got old. We lost coats and credit cards at Pixel and Johnny O’s.

We only sometimes found them. We took a lot of pictures. We went to apple and chili festivals and a state fair. We told — and created — too many stories.

We’ve had a good run.

Most of the reason I was avoiding addressing graduation was because I didn’t want to acknowledge how scared I was to tuck away these memories on some unreachable shelf.

Moving forward, our joint memories will undoubtedly look different, as we will no longer be in this free-for-all called “college” (I hear Jell-O shots are less appropriate in the “real world”). But the important part of these experiences — the wonderfully kind and caring people who were right there with me — won’t be shoved anywhere. I can carry all that they are to me, and all that they have done for me, wherever I go (wherever that may be). So for that, I thank them. All of them. I love you all. Life will look different, but it doesn’t have to mean forgetting what all of this was.

It is, after all, only fitting that I bid you all adieu with one last piece of meandering ambivalence — for me, a final Shade of Grey. Stay complicated, Cornell.

All the best moving forward (and hopefully without boxes), HTD

Hannah Deixler is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at hdeixler@cornellsun.com. Shades of Grey appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Kaitlyn Tiffany Remember when Andy McMahon loved the Beach Boys?

Sigh. Me, too.

In the year since McMahon shed the title of Jack’s Mannequin, he has recorded music for the positively nauseating NBC show Smash, Instagrammed a full catalogue of dramatic doorway, bridge and escalator photos, introduced a website featuring a “Words” section (largely prose about Los Angeles as metaphor. And metaphor. And metaphor.) and bopped around from Alternative Press to The Huffington Post giving interviews about how he is so-very-ready for people to stop associating him with leukemia. It hardly seems a coincidence that this gear-shifting E.P. is titled The Pop Underground, whereasthe first E.P. he released in remission in 2008 was titled The Ghost Overground. (That’s “gear-shift” as metaphor.) The SoCo spiked-locks are gone, and so is the J.M. eyebrow piercing — today’s Andrew McMahon is clean cut in cardigans and a bottled blonde combover á la … Betty Draper? Is that an unironic mustache? Do those still exist?

The quality of his first solo E.P. seemed like less than a guarantee, but as a girl who once angstily considered Andy McMahon the great love story of her adolescence, I was hopeful.

The Pop Underground, released a mere eighteen months after Jack’s Mannequin’s final record People and Things, opens with the track “Synesthesia,” a catchy, upbeat history of his career thus far and somewhat of a comfort for his fans’ qualms. “I see colors when I hear your voice,” is the explanation of that not-quite-rolling-off-the-tongue title, and despite the decidedly techno departure from J.M.’s mostly natural sound, the chorus is as catchy and charming as Jack’s Mannequin fans would expect. Finally, a chance to put your dancy pants on with Andy, and it’s not an unwelcome shift.

But “Synesthesia” is clearly the standout track.

The rest of the E.P. represents a logical transition for an artist almost fifteen years out from the debut album he recorded with his high school band, Something Corporate.

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In a career that spans some 20 illustrious years, Michael Bay has directed some of the most hideous-looking motion pictures I have ever been witness to. It’s no secret that the director behind Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor and the Transformers trilogy, who likely hears sonic explosions in his dreams, cares nothing for the art house scene. Bay’s specialty has always been obnoxiously loud, relentlessly simple and frequently assaultive fare that, despite the loathing of critics, makes piles of money during the summer months. Some of Bay’s movies are so dumb and purposefully not grounded in logic, they are fun to watch for the express purpose of laughing at how seriously they manage to take themselves (Armageddon, anyone?). How that film in particular manages to present its plot with a straight face is beyond me.

Having said that, Michael Bay’s newest, Pain and Gain, emerges a cut above the rest. To explain, this is a filmmaker who specializes in crap-infused pieces of junk that make millions at the box office. In all probability, that’s precisely the reason why he makes movies like those. My guess is that instead of making thoughtful, intelligent, artful cinema for the masses, Bay would rather make loud, mindnumbing, highly profitable headaches. With Pain and Gain, Bay proves how savvy he is to the sheer unintelligent nature of his movies, his cinemagoers, and to an extent, Americans in general. This time around, Bay is out to make a mockery of himself, his style and the millions of idiots who send him laughing all the way to the

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up album, The Glass Passenger was a recovery album, and People and Things was the renaissance album about moving on from crisis and settling back into daily life and struggles on a micro-level, The Pop Underground takes an expansive view of past and future. “Learn to Dance” contains lyrics about McMahon’s “unborn children” and in “Catching Cold” he sings, “baby girl you gave the blood that saved me,” which is almost certainly a gesture to his sister Katie. “After the Fire,” the final track of the EP has an awkward synth-driven chorus, but the verses are classic McMahon. The lyrics, “We were dancing with the ashes falling, we were singing by the open flame” contradict the fun and upbeat track — they’re about forgetting and burning things down and could certainly serve as a manifesto for the extent to which McMahon plans to leave Jack’s Mannequin and its associations in the dust. An a cappella fadeout puts a clean ending on this four-track tribute to family, friends, bandmates and fans. “Tomorrow is another day,” says Andrew (Scarlett O’Hara?) to sum up his transition.

Except for that the chorus of the song two tracks prior says that “There’s no tomorrow.”

Anyway, thematically the evolution is great, but aesthetically, I think I might just smell a sell-out. There’s a sense that McMahon is ready for his piece of the pie—maybe not in monetary terms, but certainly in recognition. After all, he is getting into his 30’s and is ready to be taken at least as seriously as his good buddy Tommy Lee. “I never made a gold record and I’ve never been to Mars,” McMahon sings in “Synesthesia,” a line that seems to nod at unrealized dreams.

McMahon recorded a plethora of songs under both Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin that referred to his abandoned childhood dream of being an astronaut. As far as that “gold record” he never made, Jack’s Mannequin was a piano-rock and pop combo with an alternative fan base and a sound that never catered much to radio play. This E.P. features McMahon’s most generous mainstream-pop leaning yet, with heavy-handed auto-tuning and synthetic beats, and it’s

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I don’t want to say that it’s definitely what he was going for. I have a lot of respect for someone who would empty their bank account at age 22 to produce a record on their own terms. And I basically love how he jumped down the Alternative Press interviewer’s throat to tell him that he was not going to fucking use KickStarter to put out an album, thank you very much Amanda Palmer. At the same time, McMahon doesn’t need auto-tune and I’m not sure why he’s using it. There’s a palpable regression, particularly in “Catching Cold,” to the sometimes-whiny, melodramatic adolescence of Something Corporate, a band which was, in hindsight, as of-the-early-2000’s as anything else. Jack’s Mannequin didn’t accrue nearly the aspirational adolescent fan-base as SoCo, and though J.M. fans are fiercely loyal, they were never the sort to hold clout in garnering critical acclaim.

McMahon is obviously conscious of this in “Synesthesia” — “My friends are in the news, collecting trophies for the songs they wrote.” Yikes. He’s never had a Top 40 hit or nabbed a Grammy, and he’s mostly seemed okay with it, even celebratory of it … until now. The intro to “Learn to Dance” has a female backup voice that legitimately sounds as if it was pulled from the bubblegum mess that was Hillary Duff’s musical career and the first few bars of “Catching Cold” sound like Owl City post-Carly Rae Jepsen disaster.

“We are a scrappy tribe and we stand for something,” McMahon said of his fans in an article for The Huffington Post. This E.P., however, takes some contradictory stances on what exactly that might be. There’s emotional maturity to respect in the lyrics, but there’s also some pandering to the synthetic-pop-lauding-masses. I definitely preferred McMahon when he was “underground” and happy to be there.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun.com.

ty. Doing some social satire and working with a bank on a regular basis.

The movie itself features one of the dumb- budget of only only $25 million (chump est casts of characters in cinematic history. Aside change on all his other movies), plus only one from the principals, there are scenes featuring a scene featuring an explosion, works in Bay’s doctor who makes explicit comments while favor. Namely, it gives him a chance to marry administering injections into the nether the incomprehensible stupidity of his filmic regions, a prostitute convinced that her meat- approach with the incomprehensible stupidity of these characters, headed friend is a COURTESY OF and set us up to CIA operative, and DE LINE PICTURES laugh at both. other usual Michael Mark Wahlberg, Bay film-types. The who has shown great three principals are maturity as an actor Daniel Lugo (Mark in films like The Wahlberg) Paul Fighter and The Doyle (Dwayne Departed, could have Johnson), and done worse, much Adrian Doorbal worse, than he does (Anthony Mackie), here (think The a trio of gym hunks Happening).

He who come up with a Pain and Gain seems to be having a plan to kidnap a mulDirected by Michael Bay good time playing a timillionaire (Monk Starring Mark Wahlberg bull-headed, musclehimself, Tony clad dope, and it Shalhoub), and torhelps that at least he is ture him into signing enjoying himself. over his bounty.

Dwayne Johnson As is repeatedly goes nuts playing a pointed out, the story the film draws its premise from is true. Three slightly paler version of the Hulk, about equivdenizens of Miami, Florida really attempted alent in size and mentality, plus an addiction to something like this in the mid-nineties. If the cocaine which send him spiraling out of conaccount of events is entirely true, these must be trol. Since Wahlberg and Johnson are fully three of the dumbest lawbreakers in the US of aware of the cheesiness of the movie and the A, which is saying one hell of a lot. The movie thinness of their parts, the more overacting they chronicles just how horribly, and at times hilar- do, the funnier they are to watch. Anthony iously, awry their ill-conceived plan goes, on Mackie is sly and amusing as a wisecracker who account of how stupid the criminals are. That recalls a less funny version of Zack Galifinakis material gives Bay a certain unique opportuni- in The Hangover. In one scene, Mackie’s charac-

ter tases Tony Shalhoub incorrectly, knocking him out; in another he injects a different victim with one too many tranquilizers ... etc.

Yes, it’s way too over-the-top, but without the incessant explosions and the constant crashing of metal bots pummeling one another, I was okay. I couldn’t help but laugh when the three nimrods attempt to remove a dead man’s finger pints from a crime scene by hacking off his hands. The absurdity of that is irresistible. They drive to Home Depot, buy a malfunctioning chainsaw, then resort to a hatc et, and finally, dressed conspicuously in a Kiss the Cook apron, Wahlberg attempts to dispose of the hands themselves by barbecuing them.

The grill creates too much smoke, so Johnson takes it outside and cooks those hands in the driveway. That got a chuckle out of me.

Make no mistake, I don’t care for the majority of Michael Bay’s pictures. In fact, there are only two or three among them that I find decent. To call Pain and Gain passable is probably more than it deserves, but that’s what it is.

I am at a loss for recommendation when people ask me whether it’s worth a watch. I know I wouldn’t be particularly keen on seeing it again.

I know that in recent months, brilliant, geniusauteurs such as Quentin Tarantino and Terrence Malick have disappointed me, and a hack like Michael Bay has surprised me with this movie from left field. If pressed, I would say perhaps Pain and Gain might be something worth seeing, for no reason other than to laugh at Bay and his actors, as they all make self-conscious fools of themselves.

Mark DiStefano is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msd97@cornell.edu.

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One Last (Bad) Movie Review

a movie in which Katherine Heigel projectile vomits on him would be a good call? (Maybe he just wanted to hang out with his buddies As I sat in an empty movie theater waiting Diane Keaton and Susan Sarandon). for a late afternoon showing of The Big Wedding Why would Robin Williams play another on the last Tuesday of my undergraduate career, prying clergy member/marriage councelor after I questioned every decision that lead up to this it worked out so well License to Wed? moment.

And Amanda Siegfried, why do you always How did it come to this? All alone and play a bride? (I suppose she does look great in watching a half-heartedly constructed star-stud- white). ded mess is probably my own personal hell.

The latest entry in the older people having Was it when I decided to write for arts this sex/we love messy modern families genre, based semester? Was it roughly four years earlier when on the Swiss-French Mon Frère Se Marie, is I first signed up for the science section? (My painfully bad. Raunchy lines have never fallen interests have shifted significantly since that fall so flat. of 2009). Or was it even further back than that Family patriarch Robert De Niro lives with — when I decided that applying to school in his ex-wife Diane Keaton’s former best friend, hilly, chilly Ithaca would be a good idea?

Susan Sarandon. Their adopted Columbian Some may argue that a liberal arts degree son is marrying into Amanda Siegfried’s conhas little value. I would retort, however, that servative Catholic while this brand of family. Her bigoted education may lack parents fear having The Big Wedding employability, it beige grandchilmakes us better and Directed by Joseph Kosinski dren. But they more accepting should not worry Starring Robert DeNiro, humans. The liberal — their “nonKatherine arts encourage perCaucasian” son-inception and conlaw is played by Heigl sciousness of motivathe very Caucasian tions. They open our Ben Barnes. minds and increase During a preour sympathy with wedding meeting our fellow man. with Priest Robin Williams, it occurs to Barnes So I’ll use the thoughtfulness that I have gar- that his adoptive parents’ divorce is a sin for his nered over the past four years when I approach orthodox birth mother, who will be attending the mess that is this contrived family comedy. the wedding. Obviously, he now has to get his Why would Robert De Niro, the living leg- parents to pretend they’re still married. end of Goodfellas and The Godfather, think that Obviously. Yah, I don’t get it either. But luckily TAJWAR MAZHAR Sun Staff Writer

this means trouble! and hijinks! ensue.

Along for the ride is bitter older daughter Katherine Heigl and son, 29-year-old virgin doctor Topher Grace. For added weirdness, Grace’s character spends the duration of the movie trying to get into his adoptive brother’s biological sister’s pants.

Confused? So was I. Choppy editing and badly timed deliveries did not help.

For a family that had trouble communicating their problems, this clan is surprisingly good at voicing their contrived feelings. Only a small nudge is needed before the any one of the ensemble cast members goes on an expository rant.

This is the type of movie where people keep falling down and bumping into one another.

At one point, things got really bad for me and no amount of popcorn could make the anger subside and sadness subside. I shouted expletives at the screen, but no one was there to hear me.

I have an underlying dread that those who can’t create, critique. I don’t think I’ve ever offered to review a film I felt would be good, but it’s open season on films that feel scripted in a boardroom.

I can’t help it though. I love movies more than anything. I relish both the escapism and the harsh reality. I adore storylines, character development and attempts at capturing the human condition.

But if none of the above is possible, at the very least I would like to laugh. And that’s why The Big Wedding fails big time.

Maybe one day I too will create something — and, just maybe, today won’t be the last time my name appears in The Cornell Daily Sun’s arts section.

Until then, I leave you with this — at Cornell the days are long, but the weeks are short. After a while, time is parceled into moments between prelims and papers, between when problem sets are due and applications need to be completed. So much of your time at Cornell will be marked by deadlines, and deadlines have a way of speeding things up. You have been told this before. You will be told this again, and again — but take advantage of Cornell. Be grateful for your beautiful campus and your brilliant peers.

But most importantly, avoid movies where lines like “I truly loathe this place” are delivered solemnly in the trailer. We all know better than that.

(I’ll just be crying myself to sleep rewatching Taxi Driver until graduation).

Tajwar Mazhar is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tmahar@cornellsun.com.

Wrong in All the Right Ways

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got hurt in the Cornell game,” writes Erich Segal in Love Story. Of course, Segal’s protagonist is a Harvard hockey player mulling over a dismal outing to the “wintry wilds of upstate New York,” but allow me to wilfully ignore this. I’m glad Cornell was hard, because it’s too easy to confuse comfort with happiness or meaning. I’ve had three relentless and stunning years, one of them at the helm of the arts desk, and I have survived to say: Anything can happen.

Don’t ever write off anyone, especially yourself. But before I continue my descent into sappy clichés, I’ll invoke Stephen Fry’s wisdom: “I am a cliché and I know it … but, it is my story and worth no more or no less than yours or anyone else’s.”

I’ll relate the travails of my freshman year because graduation columns tend to only celebrate the awesome. I want to say to anyone who isn’t (yet!) having an awesome time: You’re not alone, and you will survive. Don’t lament the lives you didn’t lead. As you find yourself, learn to accept yourself, too.

As P!nk has said, “you’re wrong in all the right ways.” Away from everything I’d ever known, I had the freedom to question everything, even the religion I’d grown up with.

I came to Cornell dazed, hopeful and terrified. I’d spent my whole life in Singapore (“you’re Singaporean Singaporean?”), and it took me some time to appreciate how, under the allencompassing term of “international student,” there are different degrees of foreignness. As a freshman, I found Morrissey’s words searing and amusing — “shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you, from doing all the things you’d like to.” But it only made me self-conscious when 30 seconds into nearly every conversation I had, I would be asked where I was from on account of my mysterious accent. (I can completely identify with Sofia Vergara, of Modern Family, when she talks about the impossibility of mastering the American accent).

And what was this discordance that I felt with so many classes and so many people? Some kind of existential crisis, personality flaw or culture shock? How, if ever, would I fit in and stand out? How could I be myself when I didn’t know who I really was? All around me, everyone seemed so confident, so purposeful. They knew what to say, what to join and where to

go. I was not having the time of my life and honestly, I was really guilty about it. I was in a great school on a great scholarship that came with a job I saw as meaningful and essential — what shouldn’t I be happy about?

In a way, The Sun saved my life. It taught me to be relentless and fearless; you kind of have to be if you’re writing about shows you know nothing about. I joined The Sun my first semester, excited about snagging a press pass to the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra show, for which I wrote a mystifyingly brief review — at 281 words, this was about 400 words shy of the required length. In the three years since, I have come to understand a little more deeply what it means to fall hard for something. This is probably uncharacteristic for an arts writer, but my defining moments have also been my quietest. I have stood in the hallowed presence of Marcel Duchamp’s “La boîte-en-valise” (“Box in a Suitcase”), Tibetan religious paintings and Rembrandt etchings — and then tried to say something intelligent about them. As I ventured into the Johnson more and more, I started to question why I was moved by what I saw. So I started taking art history classes. That was the start of a series of fortunate events that have led to my acceptance to graduate school, where I will study visual anthropology.

So, I am going to give these last words to the people at The Sun who continue to show me Darn That how much bigger the world Dream really is: • The impossibly cool and immensely talented arts staff writers and illustrators. Special thanks to Zander, Santi and Rachael for working on my columns.

• The always fearless 130th Editorial Board.

• The Arts editors who came before, and taught me so much: Peter and Ruby, James and Joey. I will always be in awe of all of you. The arts editors who came after: Sam and Arielle, you are perfect. Well, almost. Your sense of adventure will take you places.

• My co-arts editor Zach: I don’t even know where to begin. It’s been exceptional working with someone who cares so much. If I watch a movie — any movie — and start tearing up before the opening credits are over, the fault is completely yours.

So, this column, which I’ve literally spent two days writ-

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ing, hasn’t turned out as I’d expected. I was going to make it far more exciting and heroic. But most goodbyes are imperfect, anyway.

A final note on leaving. This is mostly directed to seniors who wonder if they’ll be remembered after they leave. My sophomore year, I encountered two especially striking works of art: The Chinese contemporary artist Song Dong writes his diary on stone with water. In Bihar, India, women still engage in Madhubani painting to celebrate special occasions and festivals. To make the vivid, geometric patterns, the women smear paste made of powdered rice on canvasses, cloth or newly plastered walls. The painted prayers (to borrow Stephen Huyler’s phrase) last for days; the water diary entries last only for hours. But they were there, once, and maybe, that’s all that matters. As Huyler observes, “it is the moment of creation, the intent of the heart, that is important. Art, like life, is considered transitory.”

Daveen Koh is a senior in the College of Arts, Architexture and Planning. She can be reached at dkoh@cornellsun.com. Darn That Dream ran alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Liao Ends Spring With Shout-Outs LIAO

Continued from page 16

approaching a homeless man’s beard. I don’t think he even trims it anymore. I really wonder how long he’ll keep this up … until he retires? It is firmly his identity at this point, but it is getting a tad ridiculous.

Shout-out to DeAndre Jordan for his dunk on Brandon Knight. Weekly, I take a break from my homework, put this

video on repeat and just sit back and enjoy. It pumps me up every time I see it.

Shout-out to the Cornell men’s ultimate team, the Buds.

This past weekend, the Buds competed at regionals and won for the fifth year in a row by beating UConn in the finals, 156. They are the only team in the nation to have won their region and advance to nationals for five consecutive years. The team doesn’t get much publicity because they are not a varsity sport, but it’s quite an achievement.

Shout-out to anyone who reads my random musings about sports. I don’t do any actual reporting or say anything meaningful, but I hope you have learned some things from my columns and enjoyed my opinions. Either way, expect one more year of the same. Have a great summer!

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.

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Great Sports Moments To End the Semester LIAO

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Shout-out to the Lakers and that circus of a season. You could write a 900-page novel about this season. Coming into the season with great expectations, the age, lack of chemistry and injuries to everyone just completely derailed any hope of winning anything in the playoffs. The way Dwight Howard got ejected in their final game was a perfect way to end the most disappointing season for any team in any league I can.

Shout-out to Spike Albrecht and being able to live vicariously through him in the NCAA Championship game. The way he caught fire and dominated Twitter for half an hour is what makes sports — especially college sports — so perfect.

Shout out to Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III. With incredible seasons by all three of these rookie quarterbacks, it leaves the NFL in capable hands as Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and the rest of the old guard start to grow older. The NFL is an absolutely boring game without great quarterbacks (see: Jets, NY and Cardinals, Arizona) and it’s comforting to know that this will not happen any time soon.

Shout-out to Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love for their PepsiMAX commercials by far the greatest sports-related commercial out there.

Shout-out to Lionel Messi and his absolute dominance.

The statistics for the miniature striker look straight out of a video game, where you only shoot with one person.

Watching him play makes it seem even more like he’s a video game character, moving faster and doing things the computercontrolled defenders simply can’t stop.

Shout-out to Cleveland and the continued struggle of their sports teams. Making fun of my friends from Cleveland is one of my favorite pastimes, and it would not be made possible without the Browns, Cavaliers or Indians. At least the Law of Large Numbers says they’ll all be good at some point?

Shout-out to LeBron James and turning into the dominating basketball machine we all wanted him to be. Pundits have criticized him for years for not concentrating on basketball, not using his immense physical gifts to their full extent and not being clutch. At this point, he makes anyone who criticizes him seem like an idiot. We love to watch greatness in sports, and right now, LeBron James is great.

Shout-out to James Harden’s beard. At this point, it’s See LIAO page 15

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account that was created last year, and I still don’t know who it is. I’m assuming it’s someone on the team, maybe one of my friends.

It’s a little creepy actually because I’ll be in the library and they’ll tweet something about me being there and I’m not even following them. It started when I broke my foot and someone created the Twitter account thinking it’d be funny to update on Rob Pannell’s injury status and now it’s become Rob Pannell spotted at Pixel.

Have you been making a conscious effort to figure out who’s behind it?

No. I think it’s funny and was funnier when it first came out, but I haven’t seen too many tweets from them lately. Maybe it’s someone from The Sun. 8. Who are the three kings?

So that’s our attack line of Steve Mock, Matt Donovan and myself. I guess we kind of labeled ourselves as the three kings, I think it was Matt Donovan who came up with the name. We just stuck with it and it has become the joke of our team because the three of us get a lot of the press.

Do your teammates actually refer to you three as that?

Sometimes. We’re trying to get it trending. #Twitter.

Where does your personal nickname of Hollywood originate?

I tend to be one of the more trendy, into style guys on the team. I like to dress well. I’m always wearing sunglasses with my suits, or color combinations, so Tom Freshour gave me that nickname, which is funny because my uncle’s nickname is Hollywood, and I kind of like that nickname.

He’s the only one who uses it though.

Do you have any other good nicknames?

RP3 is my favorite. It was given to me my freshman year by Max Seibald. There’s Chris Paul, CP3, and RG3, so RP3 is probably one of my favorites.

9. Who maintains body hair better, you or Russell Scott?

I’ll have to go with myself. I like to keep myself well groomed, and guys on the team think that that’s a little weird. I’m just not a big fan of hair. It goes hand in hand with the Hollywood thing.

Marry, chill or ditch: Russell “Gator” Scott, Tony “Phat Tony” Britton, or Matt “T-Man” Taylor?

Marry Tony, chill with Russell Scott and ditch T-Man, for obvious reasons.

If you had to choose, would you rather have your own or Chris Langton’s body?

I’ll say Chris’. He’s an Olympic athlete, so that’s all that needs to be said. I’ve worked very hard for mine though; Chris’ is very natural.

To read the rest of 10 Questions with Rob Pannell please visit cornellsun.com.

Reena Gilani can be reached at rgilani@cornellsun.com.

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1. How did you get involved with lacrosse?

I started playing in fourth grade. I had always played baseball growing up — my dad played baseball and football at Brown — so I was always a baseball player, but one of my best friend from home played lacrosse and I was over his house playing and he said I should try the sport, and I got into it immediately. I put my baseball mitt away and have been playing lacrosse ever since. My uncle had played at Hofstra [and] my family knew a little bit about it, so I started playing.

What made you like lacrosse more than baseball?

It’s just faster paced, which is what I loved most. Lacrosse is constant action, and the position I play allows me to have the ball in my stick a lot, which I like, and I like to be a part of what’s going on. It’s more exciting and fun for me.

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How did you choose Cornell and what has your experience been like here?

Cornell was really the only school that was willing to give me a shot as far as top tier, Division I schools go. They were the only school that really wanted me, and they had never even seen me play live. I came up on my visit here, and I loved the passion that the coaches had for lacrosse and winning. They talked about family, and I could really see something that I wanted to be a part of, which it has been. I’ve made friendships and learned lessons that are going to last me forever. It has truly been a remarkable experience, so much that I have been here for five years, and it’s great.

How did you make the decision to redshirt?

It was after I broke my foot.

College lacrosse is the pinnacle of lacrosse; it’s the highest level as far as I’m concerned, the most competitive and there’s nothing like it. To have one of those four years that you’re guaranteed taken away from you and to have a chance to come back for a fifth year was really a no-brainer. I love Cornell and the program so to come back for another year and play for Coach DeLuca and with my teammates was certainly an opportunity I wasn’t going to pass up on.

Are you playing for the Lizards next year?

I have been drafted with them, and I have

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the opportunity to play for them, so I will decide at the end of the season, but it was awesome to have been drafted.

2. Can you tell me about your time at Deerfield Academy?

My time at Deerfield was great. I met J.J. Gilbane there, and we became best friends instantly. We share a lot of the same things and same passions for everything. J.J. was really one of the first people who got me into working out, so we were known for going into the weight room at night and we had fun. It was an awesome experience at a very prestigious academy and a special place to be a part of.

Did you both already know you were coming to Cornell when you met?

I didn’t, but J.J. knew. I wasn’t being recruited by Cornell at all at this point but he actually told the coach about me, which I think helped a great deal. I owe him a lot for coming here.

3. Do you have any behindthe-scenes scoop from the ESPYs? So the night of the ESPYs there’s an award ceremony and then an after party. Cee Lo Green and Lupe Fiasco performed, a n d

Seniors Rob Pannell (left) and Steve Mock (right) strum on their guitars to celebrate their success with the Red.

you are right in front of them, which was really cool.

Did you meet any other celebrities?

Yeah, a bunch. My ex-girlfriend who was with me at the time was neighbors with Matt Hasselbeck and he was there with his wife, so I went right up to him and introduced him to my girlfriend since they didn’t really know each other. They ended up talking and his wife came over and that was pretty cool. Later in the night there was a chicken and waffles after-after party with a bunch of late night food. My ex-girlfriend and I were on line for the food with people like Dirk Nowitzki. Tim Tebow, Tyson Chandler and Jason Kidd, so it was pretty special.

Why do you only date girls named Jessie?

It’s just a great name. The two girls I’ve dated are named Jessie: Jessi Steinberg who played lacrosse here and graduated last year and Jessie Neiman who currently goes here, is abroad right now. It just happened to work out that way and I’ve been getting the brunt of it ever since, so now I strictly go for girls named Jessie. It wasn’t ideal that they spelled their names differently though; resulted in some awkward, not ideal, spelling your girlfriend/exgirlfriend’s name wrong situations.

What other features do you look for in females?

They have to be shorter than me. I tend to l i k e brunettes, tiny girls. The two Jessies that I’ve dated have been pretty similar, so I guess that’s probably my type. I tend to like exotic looking girls, not sure why.

4. Has your big butt contributed to your athletic success?

Absolutely. Through the years working out I’ve only added to my big butt, but it helps move me around the field. It shields me from my defenders. The “lax babes” know what I’m talking about.

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5. Do you have any memorable stories from your trip to Europe last semester?

I went with J.J. Gilbane and two friends from home. J.J. and I were touring Europe for two weeks by ourselves before my other friends got there and we were winging it the whole time, booking hotels and flights as we went. At times it wasn’t the most organized trip, but we had a great time. Ibiza was the best. We also went to Oktoberfest and we stayed in tents at this place called Stoke Travel. It was the joke of the trip because the tents weren’t big and there were three of us in a tent. At this point, there was J.J., my one friend who was 6-4 and me. It was a six-foot by sixfoot tent, so as you can imagine the setup of three grown men in a tent wasn’t exactly ideal. They gave us a yoga mat to sleep on, and a sleeping bag that wasn’t much of a sleeping bag. One night, I fell asleep on my iPad as my pillow. I think we stayed in our clothes for three straight days. The motto for Stoke Travel where we stayed is “your tent or mine,” and I’ll leave it at that.

6. What kind of hairspray works best?

Ah, of course, the hairspray comes up. I have hairspray in my locker so the guys make fun of me for it. I like to be presentable, so after I shower, I put a little hairspray in my hair.

Everyone on the team has their own naturally flowing hair and mine doesn’t flow very naturally, so I need a little bit of stick and hold. I’ll usually go with the biggest bottle I can find that’s on sale.

7. Tell me about your Instagram.

Instagram straight flexin’. I love Instagram and get made fun of for it by the guys because I have a lot of little kids that follow me and like my pictures.

It’s a joke on the team for me to tag my teammates in all my pictures so they get some followers, so they’re always trying to get me to put their names in it.

Does it work?

Yeah it does. I know they’re just mocking me when they get some new followers, but I think it’s great. I like it a lot better than Twitter and how you can connect everything with it. It’s become a running joke that if someone has a picture, ‘just let Rob Instagram it,’ because everyone’s always commenting on them, so I just go with it.

How do you get some of the cool angles of your pictures?

A lot of my pictures are during practice and if I’m not practicing I’ll try to lay down on the turf and get some pretty good pictures. One of our assistant coaches also takes a lot of pictures because he’s a big picture guy.

On the topic of social media, what is ‘Pannellwatch’?

‘Pannellwatch’ is a Twitter See PANNELL page 17

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Fencing

Position: All-Around Stats: • Placed seventh at nationals on bars as a sophomore in 2012 after posting a career-high 9.875

Position: Foil Stats: • Took sixth at the 2012 NCAA Regional tournament and qualified for the NCAA Championships, where she took 18th overall

Hannah Balleza Field Hockey Position: Forward Stats: • Ranked in the top five all-time at Cornell in goals (third, 31) and points (fifth, 74), while sitting in 12th place overall for career assists (12)

Stats: • Earned her first All-Ivy League Team honor, finishing the season ranked 14th in the country • Made the Top-flight Ramsay Division of the CSA Individual Championships

Stats: • Started in the takedown of SMU, 27-3 • Helped defeat the University of Virigina, 24-7, to advance to the National finals

Ryann Young W. Tennis Stats: • Second on the team for Ivy League record, going 3-4 • Went 12-5 in singles and a team-best 13-4 in doubles during dual matches

Position: Forward Stats: • Led the team with 35 goals and 35 assists for 70 points, the fifthbest scoring season in Cornell women's hockey history

Track and Field

Squash

Polo

W. Ice Hockey

Montez Blair

Jessenia Pacheco

Kailey Eldredge

Brianne Jenner

Event: Decathalon Stats: • Placed in 11th in the NCAA Indoor Championships in the high jump • Came in fifth at the Penn Relays

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Craig Esposito Golf Stats: • Finished second on the team in scoring average (78.56) for the second straight year • Served as tri-captain for the team

Nik Feldman Polo Stats: • Started the match against UConn to help the Red clinch a spot at the 2013 USPA Nationals with a 28-12 win

Allyson DiMagno W. B-Ball Position: Guard Stats: • Named second team All-Ivy • Led Cornell in points and rebounds, averaging a doubledouble with 14.7 points and 11.5 rebounds per game

Chris Cruz Baseball Position: 1B/OF Stats: • Led the team with four home runs • His career total of 19 runs ranks fifth in the program

Daniel Haber M. Soccer

Carolyn Horner Field Hockey

Position: Goalie Stats: • Finished the year on top of the country in points per game and goals per game • Signed professional contract with Israel’s Maccabi Haifa

Position: Goalie Stats: • Ranked fourth in Cornell history for career shutouts (6), while sitting in 12th place overall in career saves (162) and 13th overall in career wins (10)

Alyson Onyon

Brendan Miller

Softball Position: Pitcher Stats: • Pitched a 15-inning game to shutout Princeton, 1-0 • Earned second team All-Ivy honors last season

Sprint Position: Quarterback Stats: • Named to the All-CSFL First Team • Completed 50 percent of his passes for 1,446 yards

Athletes Will Give Back in Bench Press for a Cure The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee plans upcoming fundraiser on May 6 where Cornell athletic teams lift weights to raise money for the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes

By ARIEL COOPER

more money.”

However, SAAC does not have a specific monetary goal in mind. The overall purpose of the event is to raise awareness and bring the athletic community While most of us are preparing to hibernate in the library for the next two together in support of a good cause. weeks, student varsity athletes all across campus are hitting the weight rooms to “We actually didn’t set a [monetary] goal,” Hannon said. “We decided that train for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee’s upcoming fundraiser: Bench obviously we’re doing this event to raise money, but that’s almost a secondary goal Press for a Cure. The event, which will be held on Ho Plaza on Monday, will raise to promoting awareness and … showing that student athletes do participate and money for the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes. The center’s mission help out with the community as well.” is “to create and sustain a community of support for people living with and affectThis year, Bench Press for a Cure will take place on Ho Plaza for the first time. ed by cancer,” according to the organization’s web site. Through their efforts, the The hope is to attract the attention of the entire Cornell community, rather than athletes hope to inspire their peers to donate to this worthy cause. just the athletic community.

SAAC is made up of two representatives from each varsity team. According to “This year we’re trying to promote it even more by holding it in the middle of junior co-president Ben Swinford, SAAC exists to serve as a communication line campus on Ho Plaza as opposed to just the varsity weight room where only varsibetween the athletic administration and ty athletes would see it,” Swinford said. student athletes. Swinford is also a mem“We’re trying to expose it to the whole “We decided that obviously we’re doing this event to ber of the varsity baseball team. student population.”

“We come together about three times a Steinberger added that he hopes “We raise money but that’s almost a secondary goal to month and speak about ways to improve get a good group of people at Ho Plaza,” promoting awareness and ... showing that student the system,” he said. “We [also] put on a Steinberger added. “I don’t think it’s been few events to provide student athletes with there in the past,” he said. athletes do participate and help out with the an opportunity to give back to the comTwo of the teams are taking the community as well. ” munity.” fundraiser even further by organizing The organization also seeks to foster their own competition within it. The Mary Beth Hannon community between the athletic teams baseball and men’s lacrosse teams plan to themselves. face off at 12 p.m. on Monday to see “[SAAC seeks to] improve the student athlete experience and promote commu- which team can get the most reps. Each team will choose ten members for the nity among different athletics teams,” sophomore Mary Beth Hannon said. competition, and one professor is already signed up to sponsor the showdown with Hannon and sophomore Sofia Steinberger are the incoming equestrian represen- a generous pledge per rep, according to Swinford. tatives for SAAC. Together with Swinford, they are responsible for organizing this “There’s always a fun natural rivalry between the two spring sports, so to come year’s Bench Press for a Cure. together for a good cause like this through a friendly competition will be exciting,” Each team is asked to have at least 10 percent of its members participate, he said. according to Hannon. The participants ask their friends and family members to So before students settle down in the library for a full day of studying on either make a donation or pledge a certain amount of money per press. Females Monday, they may run into some dedicated athletes lifting weights on Ho Plaza. will be lifting 65 pounds, while males will lift 135 pounds, according to “We’re really hoping that we get strong support from the whole student body Steinberger. … and we’re excited to have it out in the open, we think that’ll be a big hit,” Bench Press for a Cure is an annual fundraiser that has been increasingly suc- Swinford said. cessful in the past few years.

“In the last two years, it’s been more and more successful,” Swinford said.

“We’ve gotten participation from almost every single varsity team in the last two Ariel Cooper can be reached at years. We had a higher number of turnout per team, and … we were able to raise acooper@cornellsun.com.

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Liao Reflects On Sports In 2012-13

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Hut, hut, hike | Junior sprint football quarterback Brendan Miller winds up for a long pass to his Cornell teammates.

By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer

With just two days left of school, I was having trouble thinking of a topic to write about and instead reflected upon the last year of sports and what’s happened. What has justified by existence as a sports fan? What has made me laugh?

Who deserves some recognition for some great achievements?

Before long, I had accumulated a list of tens of things and thought that they all deserved a shout out for collectively making a great year of sports happen. Let’s go through some of them, with a short blurb for each.

Big shout-out to Jason Collins openly admitting he was gay earlier this week. In the macho world of sports, it’s great to see progress made towards homosexuality and the acceptance of his announcement throughout the NBA community has truly been inspiring. Of course, there are still plenty of bigots out there, but it’s great to see progress made, and I hope for even more progress in the future.

Shout-out to the Jets and screwing up seemingly everything they can. They lost their best player and leader, Darrelle Revis, to a trade and this headline recently appeared on ESPN: “Jets GM: All five QBs to vie for job.” There’s an old football adage, “if you have two quarterbacks, you don’t have one.” What happens if you have five quarterbacks? Do you have two and a half quarterbacks?

Answers to be revealed next season.

Shout-out to the Denver Nuggets and Andre Miller.

Although they are currently behind in their series with the

Albert Liao Playing the Field Warriors, they’ve been by far the most fun team to watch all year. They play fast, with incredible energy and almost seem to make spectacular plays.

While 37-year-old Andre Miller continues to be extremely effective, despite shooting flat jumpers, looking out of shape and moving at the slowest pace imaginable.

See LIAO page 18

Mike Nevinger Wrestling Position: Attack Stats: • Qualified for his secondNCAA tournament with a third place finish at the EIWAs • Named NCAA AllAmerican twice

Jeff Mathews

Tori Christ

Football W. Soccer

Position: Goalie Stats: • Racked up 88 saves over the season, ranking 11th in the program history for a single season

Position: Quarterback Stats: • Leads the Ivy League in passing attempts (405), completions (251) and yards (3,196) • Finished on the All-Ivy second team See JUNIORS page 19

Riders Finish Season at National Competition

By ARIEL COOPER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The equestrian team is wrapping up its season at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association national competition in Harrisburg, P.A. The final competition is a three-day affair, taking place between Thursday and Sunday. Although the Red only has one rider qualified to compete — freshman Meridith Meyer — the team will also send three additional members and one horse to help out at the show.

“Last year I came down specifically to help take care of our horses, but this year, [sophomore] Sofia [Steinberger] and I are here as official IHSA volunteers,” sophomore Mary Beth Hannon said.

Hannon will be voIunteering alongside Steinberger and senior tri-captain Emily Kowalchik. “I think we will be helping with setting the jump courses and [be] ringside to do whatever tasks are needed throughout the day,” she added.

Since nationals is not hosted

by one specific school, all of the schools in the venue’s zone contribute horses to the competition.

Eighteen schools will be bringing horses this year, according to Kowalchik. This year, nationals will take place in Cornell’s zone.

When it came to choosing a horse to bring to the show, the team looked for one who would be able to handle the overwhelming event.

“We try to bring the most reliable horses,” senior tri-captain Emily Webster said.

“This is the biggest venue [nationals has] been in in a long time which can be kind of spooky,” Kowalchik said.

Luckily, Fern, one of the Red’s newer horses, seems to be up to the task.

“Fern thrives under work, so it’ll actually be good to have him work for a whole week,” Kowalchik said.

After a strong first season on the team, Meyer is heading to nationals to compete in the open flat division. Meyer was Ivy League reserve champion in both

open flat and fences and also placed second in the Cacchione Cup and individual season-long competition between the open riders in each region. Bronwyn Scrivens ‘12 won the Cacchione Cup last season and went on to be the first Cornell rider to compete in the Cacchione class at nationals. Meyer feels well prepared for the competition and is looking forward to the experience.

“I want to be relaxed as I go into the arena … because at that point, I’ve done everything I can to prepare,” she said. “I also just want to have fun. It is an awesome experience to even make it to nationals; I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself.”

This will be head coach Todd Karn’s first trip to nationals, as well as Meyer’s. Karn is a seasoned competitor, trainer, and horse show judge, so the squad predicts that he will take the competition in stride. “[Coach Karn is] really good at not getting fazed by the horse show and sticking with the basics and staying focused regardless of

what’s around [him],” Webster said. “I don’t think it’ll be that different from any other show because he always expects the best from us whether we’re at practice or we’re at nationals.”

The Red competes in the toughest IHSA zone in the nation, according to Kowalchik.

Skidmore and St. Lawrence usually dominate the competition in Cornell’s zone, and both schools will be sending teams to nationals.

Last year, Skidmore was the first place team at nationals and St. Lawrence came in second.

Meyers’ victory at zones proves that she has the ability to stand out amongst these tough competitors.

“I just hope to gain the experience of competing at nationals because [the opportunity] may never come again,” she said.

“Hopefully, this experience will help me become a better competitor throughout the next three years on the team.”

Ariel Cooper can be reached at acooper@cornellsun.com.