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Amid job crunch, fewer recent alumni pursue law after graduation By JUSTIN ROULLIER
cent of the students that the Cornell Law School admits have three or more years of work experience. That seems to be true at The number of Cornell undergraduates many others schools.” enrolling in law school immediately after One student who felt pressure to defer graduation has decreased 44 percent over the law school was Emily Cusick ’12, an ILR stulast five years, according to data released by dent and the president of Kappa Alpha Pi, a the University’s Career Services Office. pre-law fraternity at Cornell. In 2007, 5.9 percent of the University’s “Some of the pre-law students in my fragraduating class went to law school in the fall ternity have just decided to do banking for after graduation, while only 3.3 percent of the next couple years,” Cusick said. “They the Class of 2011 attended law school the get these lucrative banking offers, and they subsequent year, just can’t say according to Jane “Some of the pre-law students in my no. A year off Levy, senior assowould probafraternitiy have just decided to do ciate director of bly deter me Cornell Career banking for the next couple of years.” from law. Services. There would Within the Emily Cusick ’12 be no impetus School of to go to law Industrial and Labor Relations, the decline school, so I’m going to law school next year has been even steeper, according to Harry just to make sure that at the end of the day I Katz, dean of ILR. Twenty-six percent of the become a lawyer.” ILR Class of 2007 enrolled in law school for Katz cited the economic downturn as the academic year following graduation, another factor causing the trend. compared to only 12 percent of the class of “The cost of law school has gone up and 2011 –– an almost 54-percent decrease. the number of job opportunities has gone Katz noted, however, that only students down,” he said. “People may be discouraged who enroll in law school for the semester to hear of the more limited hiring going on after they graduate are included in the data. in major law firms after the 2008 financial “Law schools increasingly encourage stu- crisis.” dents to work before they go on to law According to Richard Geiger, associate school,” Katz said. “The dean of the law school, Stewart Schwab, tells me that 50 perSee LAW page 5
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Late night lunch | Students anxiously wait for their food at Louie’s Lunch on North Campus. The city recently assessed an annual $2,153 fee on all food trucks.
Cornell’s Famed Hot Trucks Fight New Municipal Fee By DAVID FISCHER Sun Staff Writer
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, the owners of Cornell’s historic food trucks may be discovering soon. The owners of Louie’s Lunch and the Hot Truck appealed an annual $2,153 fee assessed for the first time last summer, by the Board of Public Works. On Feb. 27, the board will decide
whether or not the truck owners will have to pay the fee, proposed by the board in response to a state audit that indicated the two trucks were selling on city streets without properly paying the city. Albert Smith, the owner of the Hot Truck, and Ronald Beck, the owner of Louie’s Lunch, have both filed appeals
Despite Snow, Chili Cook-Off Heats Up Downtown By TAJWAR MAZHAR Sun Staff Writer
Offering more than 55 varieties of mouthwatering chili prepared by local eateries, Saturday’s annual Great Chili Cook-Off was the event’s largest “Chili Fest” yet. The day’s weather fluctuated between snow, rain and shine, but
did not discourage the community’s enthusiasm for the chili, cheese and cornbread provided by businesses such as D.P. Dough, Stella’s Restaurant and Viva Taqueria, among many others. “That’s Ithaca for you!” Patty Clark, event manager for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, exclaimed at one point, as the pour-
ing rain abruptly gave way to sunshine. “We got all kinds of weather this year ... but I guess it didn’t work against us the whole time,” Clark said. The 14th Chili Fest drew more than 5,000 visitors over the course of the day, according to Clark, who said that an increase in vendors this
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Chili for the chilly | Cornell students serve chili during Ithaca’s 14th annual Great Chili Cook-Off on Saturday. The event drew more than 5,000 attendees over the course of the day.
year prevented lines for chili from becoming unbearable. “The chili lines were a lot shorter this year,” Clark said. “Because we had so many entries, there were different places to spread people out.” GreenStar Cooperative Market, a Chili Fest fixture, gave out 15 gallons, or 1,300 cups, of chili on Saturday, according to Debbie Lazinsky, who works in the grocery store’s marketing department. Lazinsky emphasized the importance of Chili Fest for the business’ visibility. “We saw a lot of people that I don’t feel are regular customers, so it is great exposure for us,” Lazinsky said. GreenStar won third place in the vegetarian category for its chili, which is made with local black beans. “GreenStar is all about good, healthy food,” Lazinsky said. “Any chance we have to go into the community and serve healthy, homemade food is great for us.” Collegetown Bagels took the prize for best vegetarian chili, while best meat chili went to Razorback BBQ and Red Jacket Orchard walked away with first, second and third place in the category for best local beverage. Jeff McCall, from the New Roots Charter School, cooked in Chili Fest for the first time this year after moving from Texas. He said that he See CHILI page 5
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C.U. Students Gather For LGBTQ Conference At Brown University By RACHEL RABINOWITZ Sun Staff Writer
similar goals,” Treffeisen said. “It brings people together.” According to IvyQ’s website, the conference attempts to create a cohesive Ivy League LGBTQ community by teaching LGBTQ students and allies to examine their own identities while valuing the unique personalities of others. The conference’s website was created as a forum for participants to anonymously submit thoughts, feelings and personal experiences surrounding gender and sexual identities before the conference, according to the IvyQ website. Submissions were used as material for discussion topics developed by IvyQ organizers for the event. According to Treffeisen, the program was primarily organized into small discussion sessions with speakers. Session topics included health and sexual assault, identity, queer histories and sex and body positivity. “The conference isn’t particularly about policies and things like that,” Treffeisen said. “It’s learning how to be yourself and learning how to live. It’s about gay history and gay life.” Social events such as a talent show, a dance, an outing to downtown nightclubs and an on-campus movie screening were also offered to give participants a chance to socialize outside of the workshop setting. A career fair on Saturday provided students an opportunity to network with IvyQ’s main sponsors, including Oliver Wyman, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Booz & Company and McKinsey & Company. “It’s mostly a learning experience, but you’re making connections at other schools on a professional level and on a friendship basis that you can’t necessarily get on a day to day basis,” Treffeisen said. “You get to see what gay life is at other colleges.”
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual and Queer Ivy League students gathered this weekend at Brown University for the third annual IvyQ conference, hosted this year by Brown’s Queer Alliance. IvyQ is the first conference to bring Ivy League schools together to discuss issues facing LGBTQ students on campus. “The goal is to bridge the Ivy community for LGBTQ students and to explore issues” such as relations between the gay and straight communities, identification and gender issues facing the LGBTQ community, said Benjamin Gordon ’14, one of IvyQ’s Cornell organizers. This weekend’s conference attracted almost 500 students, an increase from the event held at Columbia University in spring 2011, which drew 400 students, and from the first IvyQ at the University of Pennsylvania in spring 2010, which drew 300 students. Despite the high overall turnout at the conference, Student Assembly LGBTQ Rep. Nate Treffeisen ’12 said he feels that Cornell is behind on LGBTQ acceptance when compared to fellow Ivy League universities. Only about 30 students from Cornell attended the conference. “We’ve got a long way to go when looking at other Ivies in terms of general acceptance on campus and general social openness,” Treffeisen said. “While the structured events and organizations are very similar, I’ve found that students on campus at most of the Ivies generally feel more comfortable [about being openly gay] than a lot of Cornell students feel.” The conference attracts LGBTQ students and allies — supporters who do not personally identify as LGBTQ — from all eight Ivy League schools and a few other universities, according to Gordon. Rachel Rabinowitz can be “It’s great in general because reached at you’re meeting people with rrabinowitz@cornellsun.com
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Absolute a Cappella sings during Great Gatsby Night at the Johnson Museum on Friday. Eleven a cappella groups performed at the event, which was hosted by the Johnson Museum Club.
City Leaders Honor Black History Month Airewele asked the other panelists if they “ever felt like a minority in this community,” to which they all responded “yes.” African-American community While Myrick said that he perleaders, drawing from their own ceived that “people in our generlife experiences, spoke about the ation” have a “greater opportuniimportance of leadership in ty to define outside of race,” he honor of Black History Month at added, “you really are how you the Tompkins County Public are seen … until you have an Library on Saturday. opportunity to define yourself.” Susan Currie, director of the For instance, Fort said she Tompkins County Public often felt like a minority because Library, said that the talk was she was typically the only black “our celebration of Black History member of an organization. Month.” ClarkAlthough The panel consisted Maynard, the teacher at of four leaders from the “You really are how you are seen ... Beverly J. Martin community: Ithaca Elementary School, said Mayor Svante Myrick until you have an opportunity to that “racism is not going ’09; Millicent Clark- define yourself.” to go away,” she Maynard III, a teacher expressed hope that the at Beverly J. Martin Svante Myrick ’09 community “can get to Elementary School; a point where we are Marcia J. Fort, the execaware that we are doing this and utive director of the Greater community. Airewele, the trained physi- correct it.” Ithaca Activities Center; and Attendees said that the event Aloja Airewele, a trained physi- cian who works for the American cian who works as a case manag- Red Cross, said that sometimes was a success, with Myrick nothelp can be provided by saying ing that it was “very well-attender for the American Red Cross. Myrick shared personal anec- “come with me, I’ll show you ed” considering that the chili dotes, often to boisterous how it’s done.” Prompted by an cook-off was happening at the audience question, Myrick added same time across the street. applause. Currie, the director of the Myrick referenced his life that, to keep youths from followPublic County story, noting that he grew up ing “bad leaders,” they have to Tompkins homeless, and said this was the “feel comfortable enough not to Library, said the event affirmed without constant that the Tompkins County Public reason he pursued a career in gov- follow Library is “a place for communiapproval.” ernment. The talk then moved from a ty connection.” Myrick said that neither he nor his siblings would be “the discussion of leadership to a discontributing members of society cussion of race in the Ithaca com- Wesley Rogers can be reached at wsr35@cornell.edu. that they are now” without gov- munity.
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ing class from 102 to 120 students by 2016 or 2017. International Enrollment Surges at Cornell Business School
International student enrollment at the Johnson Graduate School of Management rose from 22 percent to 34 percent from the 2010-11 to the 2011-
ernment programs, and that the “little bit of investment that was made in our family was exactly that, an investment, not a sunk cost, but a gain.” Additionally, Myrick said that serving others goes beyond repaying a debt and that through serving others, “not only would I be making up what I owe, but I would be making a larger difference than I ever could by seeking just to enrich myself.” Other speakers also talked about how to help youth in the
12 school year, signaling a return to pre-recession levels. The increase is consistent with a trend at peer institutions nationwide. Cornell Student Orgs. Celebrate Black History Month
In honor of Black History Month, Olin, Uris and Mann
Libraries are housing exhibits commemorating the past and present of the black community throughout February. The displays are part of a series of projects organized this year by students on the Black History Month committee. — Compiled by Jinjoo Lee
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Owners of Louie’s Lunch,Hot Truck Challenge New City Permit Fee HOT TRUCKS
“Grandfathering usually means that you can continue forward with whatever it is that you were doing, but it doesn’t mean that you are exempt against the permit fee, citing the length of time that from paying for the right to do that,” Gray said. they have operated on the sites without paying. Smith, who owns the Shortstop Deli in downBill Gray, superintendent of public works for town Ithaca, began attempting to acquire a hot Ithaca, said that the city is revamping its system for food truck in the ’80s in an effort to expand his charging those who use city land for private pur- business. He said he was told that the city was not poses, such as vendors on the Commons and the giving any more permits for food trucks at the hot truck owners, who will need to pay permit fees. time. “Now they’ll be caught up as part of the use of “Then in the [mid-1990s] I served on the Board city property program,” Gray said. “So we’ve sent of Public Works with then-Mayor [Benjamin] them bills and, not surprisingly, their bills are Nichols and basically asked him the same question. noticeably different than anything they’ve paid He said, ‘If you want a truck on-campus, you’re before because, in most cases, apparently, they’ve going to have to buy one of the existing trucks,’” never paid anything Smith said. “I served a for sitting at the curb“Apparently, they’ve never paid anything second term on the side and selling their Board of Public Works for sitting at the curbside and selling wares.” with [Mayor] Alan their wares.” In the early 2000s, Cohen and I asked the Smith bought the Hot same thing and the Gray Bill Truck from longtime answer was the same. ‘If owner Robert “Hot you want to have a Truck Bob” Petrillose, Sr. for $125,000. Smith said truck on campus you have to buy one of these that the value of the truck and its equipment was trucks.’” about $15,000 “so basically we paid over $100,000 Smith reiterated that he believed he was doing for the right to be next to campus.” the right thing in purchasing an existing food Smith said that in purchasing the Hot Truck, he truck. also bought a “grandfathered” right to sell goods on “Did I pay the wrong people? I don’t know,” Stewart Avenue. Doing so, he said, gives him the Smith said. “When you have two mayors tell you right to occupy the land without paying a fee, just that’s what you need to do to get one of these spots as Petrillose did for many years. — I did so.” “I’m just talking about being fair and the city Beck, the owner of Louie’s Lunch, did not wants to collect a couple thousand dollars or a lit- return a request for comment. He also filed an tle more per year for me to be in that location,” appeal of the fee. Smith said. “I already paid for that.” Gray, however, did not agree that the longevity of the Hot Truck and its status as a “grandfathered” David Fischer can be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. vendor excuses it from the fee. Continued from page 1
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dean of Cornell Law School, the number of applications to U.S. law schools has generally declined over the last five years. Geiger said that he expects that this pattern will continue next year and that Cornell will follow the national trend. “[Five years ago], national application numbers [were] about 85,000 applicants a year — that’s a rough number — and I’m guessing that the nationwide application number will be in the low 70,000s for this year,” Geiger said. “I would be surprised if we didn’t track with the national numbers.” According to Geiger, the economy tends to negatively affect trends in law school applications. “I have been doing this for a long time, and I have seen law schools’ application numbers go up and down,” he said. “They
have reacted in broad ways to the cation numbers. However, he stories in The New York Times general economy.” said that the decline in hiring by and The Washington Post about However, Geiger said he “white shoe” law firms — firms how law firms were no longer believes law schools may face a more than a century old which guaranteeing jobs,” Cusick said. slower recovery this time than represent Fortune 500 compa- “But I always knew I was going after previous declines. nies — have become known to to go to one of the top 14 law “It’s been a little different many undergraduates consider- schools, where employment statistics have remained from all the other pretty strong. Most of ups and downs of “I always knew I was going to one of the the bad numbers are previous years,” he coming from the worsesaid. “I think this top 14 law schools, where employment ranked schools.” time, because of the statistics have remained pretty strong.” Hallie Mitnick ’12, bad press that has who plans to attend law been out there Emily Cusick ’12 school in the fall, said about law schools she does not know anymisreporting numone who has been bers, the numbers deterred from pursuing law won’t recover as fast or com- ing a career in law. “It has been in newspapers,” because of hiring freezes. pletely.” “In fact, I think more people Fifteen law schools have been Katz said. “High end law firms sued recently for allegedly mis- were either rescinding offers or are looking at graduate and prorepresenting employment data to delaying the start of newly hired fessional school because the encourage applications, accord- associates. There has been a economy is so bad,” she said. ing to the National Jurist, a law sharp drop in hiring at white “Nobody is hiring, so some people might want to get another shoe law firms.” magazine. Some students, however, degree and then see how it is in Katz said he agreed with Geiger that the national media remained undaunted by portray- three or more years.” Katz said that he is confident attention may hinder law als of the legal job market. “I would read these horror that the legal industry will recovschools’ efforts to regrow appli-
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enjoyed the event. “I think the turnout was great … There [were] a lot of great contenders today, a lot of great chili,” McCall said. “I heard a lot of great things about everything. The weather didn’t seem to deter anyone.” Chili Fest also allowed Cornell students to interact with — and feed — people in the Ithaca community. Cornell students from the 87th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell, a hospitality showcase organized by the School of Hotel Administration, entered the festival with a beef tip sirloin chili. “People loved it … there were a lot of Cornell alumni who stopped by the booth,” said Lindsey Brous
’12. “Our chili was really well received. We had many people who came back two, three, or four times just to have a taste of our chili.” Chili Fest is one of several downtown Ithaca festivals, including Apple Fest and Brew Fest, that draw Cornell students and locals alike to the Ithaca Commons. “It was my first time going to Chili Fest,” said Sharon Guzman ’13. “I really like how festivals and these type of gathering give a greater sense of community. It’s especially great for Cornell students who don’t really associate much with Ithacans and Ithaca College.” Tajwar Mazhar can be reached at tmazhar@cornellsun.com.
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er, but that he is not sure when. “I expect that white shoe law firms will announce that they are hiring again sooner or later,” he said. In an average class size of 190 students at the law school, it is not unusual for about 20 to have attended Cornell for their undergraduate education, according to Geiger. “The entering class size in terms of Cornellians has been about the same over the past five years,” he said. Mitnick said she just hopes firms will start hiring again by the time she graduates from law school. “My hope is that in three years hiring will have picked up,” she said. “But as of right now, no matter what career you head into, you are going to find the same hiring problem.” Justin Rouillier can be reached at jrouillier@cornellsun.com.
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Committing to Collegetown Growth Few storefronts are left in Collegetown. In the heart of the neighborhood retail has begun to disappear, leaving only restaurants, bars and apartments. City officials and University administrators have bemoaned the struggling economy and “shabby” nature of new construction and called on students to help shape the future of Collegetown. However, it is the responsibility of the city, not the students, to incentivize growth in Collegetown. In order to make Collegetown an attractive area for local businesses, the city government needs to explore new ways to encourage economic growth. Even this semester, housing is replacing closing storefronts. The former location of Kraftees, a retail store specializing in textbooks, will soon be a model apartment for the Collegetown Terrace project. Additionally, the former Green Cafe storefront, centrally located on the corner of College Avenue and Dryden Road, has remained empty for over a year. Collegetown needs a diversity of stores for student consumers and local businesspeople. Diverse storefronts would improve accessibility to products and create a sense of neighborhood. This would motivate students to stay in Collegetown and spend money there, rather than leaving the area for goods. Students should view Collegetown not just as a place to eat and sleep, but somewhere they can spend time socially during the day. Something must be changed in order to make Collegetown attractive for retail storefronts again. Change in Collegetown is not likely to come from students. While many students choose to live in Collegetown, they leave year after year, and not only have little investment in the area but also little perspective with which to make decisions. However, students comprise a significant portion of the Ithaca population, and financially keep Collegetown alive as a neighborhood. It is the responsibility of the city government to make sure Collegetown is home to storefronts, rather than just restaurants and apartments. Businesses, such as grocery stores and retail, would be guaranteed a solid customer base, and with help from the city, would prosper in the neighborhood. More local businesses would give students the opportunity to contribute to Ithaca’s economy in a way that they are not currently.
friends’ profiles making sure they weren’t doing anything cooler than I was, done checking photos of ex-girlfriends and cool girls I had just met to see if they were with some better looking and generally more awesome guy, done with posting “Happy Birthday!” on people’s walls as if I genuinely cared about their lives. Eliminating such vapid and contrived social interactions should save a lot of time to be productive, right? Wrong. Instead I found myself on the New York Times, YouTube and –— unsurprisingly, given my incurable addiction to Sportscenter highlight reels — ESPN. Or else I would catch myself staring off into space, thinking about how I’m in my last few months at college, how I’ll soon be an “officially educated,” supposedly fully functioning member of society who also happens to be a genius in the cheap art of finding ways to avoid working. I will also, incidentally, be quite practiced at beating myself up over how much work I don’t get done — it is, in fact, one of the ways I don’t get much work done. Which brings me to the question: Is procrastination the problem or is it how I view procrastination that should change? A constant desire to be more productive, more efficient, more focused, more grounded colors my life. And I’m pretty sure it colors many people’s lives — especially here at Cornell where the A-types rule supreme. The feeling serves as a background for each semester: “Why can’t I be more efficient? Why does it take me all night to write a fivepage paper? Surely everyone else is way more productive and on top of their work than I am.” Translation: “I need to be more like a robot who can churn out assignment after assignment with no breaks, no time wasted on random sites, no other desires except that of finishing its work.” An exaggeration perhaps, and I will certainly admit that always having a sense that more work should be done conceivably makes us more focused. But such an attitude also comes with an inherent and pernicious sense of inadequacy, which is not only unhelpful but unhealthy. It is as if we’re never quite good enough. Even after an objectively productive day, when I actually do my Java assignment and Ancient Philosophy reading instead of losing myself in Linsanity, I feel like I should have done more. Or, at least, I wish that I was always so
you cannot conclude they actually are. It’s rare you get people to admit what they’re like outside of the library or class but chances are they love 30 Rock, Modern Family and Portlandia — or some slightly trashier equivalents — just as much as you do. Perhaps that doesn’t convince you. Perhaps you just know that most of your friends are busy with problem sets while you decide to bake yet another batch of midnight brownies or watch another batch of Family Guy episodes? I hate to repeat the tired old phrase that you should “never compare yourself to others but only to yourself yesterday.” Such an attitude is difficult when your grades and future job opportunities have a lot to do with how well you compare to those doing the problem set. Rather, the second step I propose is to embrace some of the benefits of procrastination. After all, time spent procrastinating — up late baking cookies with your friends or your GF or your BF, sharing a few beers with your roommates at 2 a.m. on a Wednesday, reading random articles recommended to you by StumbleUpon, watching NOVA shows about the universe during exam week instead of studying for actual astronomy — ultimately gives us interesting material to think and talk about. They are, speaking for myself, a source of wacky and cool conversations. Some, hopefully, will provide me with fun memories. Someday such memories will conceivably prove to be more valuable than a potential A in computer science. They will certainly be more valuable than another night in the library. Regardless of its potential future benefits, I know that such procrastination has been essential to making close friends here at Cornell. There is something wonderfully humble and unpretentious about deviating from the expected path of endless work. So go ahead, embrace your humanity, resist your march to machinehood, make some friends, make some memories and realize that procrastinating is what makes you worth being around. Frankly, I now wish I had done it more often.
Harry DiFrancesco is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at hdifrancesco@cornellsun.com. Stirring the Pot appears alternate Mondays this semester.
CORRECTION Due to an editing error, an article printed Friday, “Professors Teach Climate Change for Darwin’s 203rd Birthday,” incorrectly reported the dates of the Darwin Days events. In fact, the lecture on hops was held Thursday and the costume party was held Friday.
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Big Red Friend Zone: How to Keep Things Friendly at Cornell I
do not exclude myself when I say that we as Cornellians have developed the ridiculous belief that it is humanly impossible for two people of the opposite sex to be “just friends.” After all, I’m pretty sure I’ve accused every single one of my girlfriends of being romantically involved with every guy they’ve ever spoken to. They, in turn, almost always return the favor. Usually, these types of conversations end with an
tenance man your sexual desperateness (or prowess, depending on how well-defined his abs were) became the rumor of the week. This nonsense was clearly the result of living with 500 other girls who generally believed that The Notebook was more or less based on a true story. When prelim week rolled around, I invited one of my good guy friends over to my room for a late-night study sesh, unspoken rule be damned. To be fair, he was attractive enough that my Balch Hall cred would not be terribly threatened. But our friendship was of the platonic sort. There would be no scrunchies on the door or Lionel Richie Believe You Me bumping through the speakers that night. Or so I thought. Because according to my floormates’ overactive imaginations, those three hours we spent studying statistics were really the most passionate three hours of my young life. My roommate told me she was afraid to come in the door, so she ended up sleeping in the common room. My next-door-neighbor swore she heard sounds she thought could only be found in a zoo. They all rushed in, searching for the six million spent condoms I obviously went through. Amid the witch-hunt, I tried to deny the rumors. But denying them only fueled the fire. There was no hope. My friend and I had sex, at least as far as they were concerned, and that was that. Admittedly, I let it
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uncomfortable chuckle and my flimsy reassurance that there aren’t any real feelings between “insert-guyfriend-here” and I. But every once in a while, my friends will be unconvinced. And that is disastrous. Take my freshman year. I had the great fortune of living in that carpet-rich palace known as Balch Hall. If those stone walls don’t scream sexual repression, I don’t know what does. In Balch, it was generally understood that if you had a boy with you past 8 p.m., y’all would be bumping uglies on your lofted bed in no time. It didn’t matter if that guy you were toting down the halls was your gay best friend, your younger brother or your married professor. Hell, if you were seen even talking to the main-
go. If anything, I looked like I was getting more action than I actually was, which was not necessarily a bad thing. Not a bad thing, that was, until my statistics buddy caught me in the hallway after class. What had started as a funny story among my floor mates in Balch had turned into a full-fledged rumor that I genuinely found this person attractive. And now he believed it to be true. Let’s face it, kids, there is no real nice way of telling someone, “I’d rather contract tuberculosis and then set myself on fire than touch your penis.” I cannot help but think that this fiasco could have been entirely avoided if we at Cornell didn’t have some total preoccupation with dating and relationships on campus. I’m sure you’ve all heard that statistic that one in whatever Cornell graduates met their spouse at Cornell. And sure, maybe the whole Big Red wedding bliss rumor is true. After all, my parents met here their senior year. But I’m confident that my dating life does not have to begin and end in Ithaca, N.Y. Eventually, my friend and I cleared the air and we remain (platonically) chummy ever since. But every once in a while, we’ll get particularly drunk. And when we do, he’ll glance over at me with a look that says, “Are you going to pounce on me tonight? Because I’d really rather you not.” “No,” I’ll say. “But I’m always down for a round of tonsil hockey after the prelim tomorrow night.”
Cristina Stiller is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at cstiller@cornellsun.com. Believe You Me appears alternate Mondays this semester.
Stand Up for Israel, President Skorton L
ast week I attended a Shabbat dinner where President Skorton was the featured guest. Addressing a crowd of over 300 Cornellians, he congratulated the Jewish community for its many accomplishments and then moved on to a timelier subject: the University’s groundbreaking partnership with the Technion Israel Institute of Technology on the “tech campus.” He began by expressing enthusiasm for the project: Good. He then noted his opposition to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to delegitimize Israel in the cultural and academic spheres: Even better. However, he then stated that the University’s decision to work with the Technion was in no way a political statement: Not so good. Skorton strained to persuade us that there was no symbolic meaning behind the partnership, telling us that instead “natural forces,” such as similar agendas and good relationships, brought the two institutions together. We were not to think that Cornell was expressing its solidarity with the State of Israel or even its opposition to BDS. We were to conceive of Cornell’s decision as morally neutral. This is wrong-headed for two reasons. One is that partnering with an Israeli university constitutes explicit rejection of the BDS movement, no matter how vigorously the University tries to convince us otherwise. The second is that we have an obligation not only to reject BDS but also to make the reasons why we do so explicit. Since neither Skorton nor anyone else in the University administration is willing to do this, we must pick up the slack. As far as I can tell, there are only two formal statements of opposition to the
partnership with the Technion. The first is an “open letter” from the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel; the second is an online petition entitled “We oppose Cornell University’s collaboration with Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.” They’re virtually identical. Simply put, both assert that Technion has played a major role in Israel’s “war crimes” — or, if you prefer, its campaign of “ethnic cleansing” — by both designing weapons for the Israel Defense Forces and partnering with private companies who do the same. On its face, this might strike readers as a complex problem. But you can’t possibly still think that after looking at their objections more closely. They deplore the Technion’s efforts to create “complex weapons” for the IDF, sure. However, they also lambast the Technion for its role in developing the “Apartheid Wall” and an “advanced hybrid armor protection system” for military tanks. Let’s pause. If the case for opposing the Technion’s contributions to the IDF’s anti-terror arsenal is only weak, the case against its enhancements to Israel’s defense is downright inconceivable. Indeed, we should ask how they justify opposition to something as basic as tank armor. Do they want to increase Israeli soldiers’ susceptibility to attack? Though it’s certainly possible, I’m not sure we need to go that far. The real answer, I believe, is connected to the reason these groups will never boycott Cornell even as it makes itself “complicit” in Israel’s supposed crimes. These protests are not about Cornell; they’re not about the Technion; they’re not even about the IDF. It is about the legitimacy of Israel
itself. A country whose armor is criminalized is a country that has no right to defend itself, and by extension, no right to continue existing as a sovereign nation. This is the unmistakable subtext of BDS, a movement whose members have not and will never call for similar measures vis-a-vis either the United States — whose military aid should, according to their logic, render it complicit in Israeli “aggression” — or Syria, whose hideous regime murders civilians daily. Again, this isn’t really about pacifism. This isn’t about human rights. This is about delegitimizing
undermine Israel’s legitimacy, something he has justly never questioned. He must do so because they advocate a course of action that no person serious about resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could support, and he is one such person. And finally, he must do this because prominent faculty from our English and Government departments have already aligned themselves with this deplorable cause and might let its pernicious message wander into the classroom. Some might argue Skorton has done enough by facilitating the partnership;
Judah Bellin For Whom the Bellin Tolls the Jewish state. Another dimension of the movement’s backwardness reveals the same point. As Tom Friedman has noted, Israel’s universities create tremendous opportunities for its Israeli Arab population, far more than the left-wing professors who wish to boycott them. That the BDS movement is undermining the very institutions that achieve its stated goal should come as no surprise. The stated goal was never the real objective: I don’t think I need to tell you what was. Skorton must therefore stand up to the Technion’s opponents because they seek to
however, this is a case where doing a good thing without publicly explaining its goodness isn’t sufficient. It’s clear that the moral stakes are high here. It’s profoundly sad, though, that only the wrong side of the argument seems to recognize this.
Judah Bellin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be contacted at jbellin@cornellsun.com. For Whom the Bellin Tolls appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Up Is Down and Down Is Up
BY ALICE WANG Sun Staff Writer
“I am an art critic,” Faye Hirsch says to open her lecture at the Johnson. “What does that mean today? It seems to mean less and less as time goes on.” Last Thursday, Hirsch, writer, art critic and senior editor of Art in America, discussed the current gallery scene in New York City. Charming and candid — at one point she adorably said, “I’m really mostly just grumpy all the time” — she offered insight into the art world’s constant flux. Everything is shifting. The strength, the voice and even the role of the art critic is evolving, and maybe not for the better. There’s nothing lucrative in art criticism — and there never has been. Perhaps that is the one thing that has remained the same. Though the stock market crash of 2008 has exacerbated this tension, Hirsch remains hopeful: “I do still believe the art critic, however beleaguered, sees more than anyone else — except for the artist.” At the peak of the market, before the crash, New York had over 400 galleries. Now? Not nearly as many, but the nature of the game has changed, too. In terms of power brokering, the power really lies with independent curators, who are now given newfound reign. They have come to prominence with galleries that now compete with institutions due to their “museum-quality shows.” Nowadays, “museum-quality” really is the buzzword of the gallery scene.
At the Andrea Rosen Gallery, a Blue-Chip in Chelsea, “The Wedding (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project)” is an example of such a case. This museum-quality show features an ornately carved Victorian birdcage center stage, surrounded on four sides by church pews and then on four walls by 83 Walker Evans polaroids. Curated by Ydessa Hendeles, whose signature juxtaposition of contemporary works with quotidian items is on full display here, the show encapsulates the transformative role of the curator. But of course, Hendeles is not the only curator with an artistic license these days. She belongs to a trend: shows have become immense curatorial experiments. The “InFinitum” exhibition spanning four floors at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice is what Hirsch calls a “total mishmash.” There is no real principle behind these shows, which are given vague names to capture their vague concepts. Here, the emphasis lies in the display of these 300 works of art. Together, the layers of archaeological objects, old master paintings, contemporary works and installations create a new dimension of wonder — a landscape invoking “the infinite.” “A practiced curatorial eye and thoughtfulness crafted through years of training is being thrown out the window.” For galleries with deep pockets, a lot is available and a lot has changed. Blue-Chip galleries even “compete to look disinterested,” Hirsch says. They alone have the luxury of playing hard-to-get. That’s the power of capitalism in art. After all, galleries are nimble. They can sell three pieces in a show and pay off rent and labor for a year.
Meanwhile, museums struggle. Perhaps the most notable outlier is MoMA. “MoMA, I think, is really rockin’ these days,” Hirsch said. The old department heads are gone, the rigidity between departments has dissolved and the new blood has provided for a fresh experience. Their current “Print/Out” exhibition is a blockbuster. Not only does the show radically reposition the way we think about prints, but it also provides crucial commentary on the way art is disseminated and distributed. Prints are the work of multiples, seeing new meaning in new places. It is about re-contextualizing an image. In the exhibit, Damien Hirst contributes posters of enlarged prescription drug labels. Hirsch is surprisingly impressed, and she sasses, “As far as I’m concerned, it’s the only great work Damien Hirst has ever done.” MoMA has even sparked new interest in performance art with its groundbreaking Marina Abramovic show, “The Artist Is Present.” For instance, the Performa 11 biennial featured many quality shows, including the humorous “I Feel Your Pain” mixedmedia performance by Liz Magic Laser. The performance examines the use of emotion in political interviews to establish authenticity, and it adapts political dialogues into romantic dramas. Eight actors perform a sequence of scenes staged in a movie theater with these dialogues in “living newspaper” format. The performance opens with an adapted interview between Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, which Hirsch believes shows “the fascinating devolution of the idea that the personal is the political.”
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The perpetual transformation of the New York gallery scene has yielded an entirely new art world. In this world, traditional roles have been revamped and reassigned. In an economy where money is scarce and in galleries where everything is for sale (those Walker Evans polaroids run at $7000 a pop and even the drywall debris from a Joyce Pensato show broke bank), art has been turned on its head. “The curator is an artist. The dealer is a gallerist. And the artist is … I don’t know the word … but they no longer engage in the materials. Up is down and down is up in a lot of ways,” Hirsch said. In a field where breaking new ground is expected, somehow no one expected this. Alice Wang is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com.
Comedy for One, Comedy for All BY KYLE CHANG Sun Staff Writer
Courtney McGuire nervously stepped up to the microphone at the crowded Culture Shock in downtown Ithaca. Wearing her pinstriped New York shirt, she let loose a string of cuss words that sent the audience into stitches. McGuire was among the many local comedians to do standup at ComedyFLOPs’ Comedy Festival, held in downtown Ithaca on Saturday. Ithacans gathered around, not just to laugh, but to celebrate laughter along with the comedians. The festival, held at three venues in the Commons, also included comedy workshops and improv sessions, one of them by Cornell’s very own Whistling Shrimp. “Once you get one person laughing, they get their friends to start laughing too and soon the whole room is laughing,” McGuire said. “The goal of comedy is to find something that your audience can relate to so that when you tell your joke, it’s like they’re reliving the experience with you.” On consideration, it seems McGuire is right. In comedy, we always need something relatable that we can latch ourselves onto in order to laugh. For comedy to function, members of the audience must be able to locate a piece of
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the laugh that they can see in themselves. But finding this piece proves difficult. “[Being funny] really depends what kind of crowd you’re with,” said A.J. Foster, another comedian. “The same joke may not hit as well on different nights, or even in the same night but at different clubs. But you just have to have confidence in your own jokes.” In accordance with these outlines, the best comedians are the ones that find topics that speak to the entire audience, rather than just a few in the audience. Most people say that they are pretty funny with the right people: their friends. But the transition from regaling your friends to bringing down a whole house of ages, sensibilities and cultures is where the art of standup lies. “It takes about a year to figure out how badly you really suck [at standup],” said McGuire, who also noted the copious dedication it takes to excel in comedy. On the other side of the comic equation, you find that comedy always pokes fun at someone and doing so may end up alienating some of the audience, the exact opposite of a comedian’s intentions. But therein lies the definition of comedy: making fun of anything will end up offending someone. So what’s the best subject to poke fun at? Many of the best comedians immediately turned to their own lives for source material in order to take the offensive edge off the jests. And many of the worst comedians did exactly the opposite: they made fun of the audience. One of the comedians, who got no laughter from the crowd, even began to single out individual audience members to insult in retaliation for what he perceived to be a weak reception, revealing his own homophobia in the process. The more he made fun of the audience, the less we laughed (if it is possible to get less laughter than silence) and the less we laughed, the more he antagonized us for not laughing. The most important step, then, is to start off on a good note that makes the audience at ease and build a rapport, steps this comedian failed to follow. Instead he dived headfirst into a failed comedy set that he claimed had worked for
every other audience besides us. Needless to say, he was not deemed the funniest person in Ithaca and was actually booed off the stage. But the strange thing was that the belligerent comedian was so sure of his own crude humor, that he was offended by the audience’s silence. In this sense, it is the comedian’s job to unify himself with the audience and also to unify the audience members with each other. A comedian made a jab at how Cornellians are obnoxious, leaving me an outcast amongst the townies (they really do hate us and that is no joke). But for the vocal majority, the joke pleased the crowd. Within each comedian’s set, he or she had a chance to create a comfortable atmosphere and temporarily befriend the audience. If the strategy proved successful, euphoria rushed over the audience along with the strange feeling that they would be friends with the comedian in real life, despite the fact that they all have never met. But this feeling is not strange at all. The general consensus sits that humor is an important part of relationships. Before you laugh, you have to feel comfortable. The comedians that put people on edge by commenting on their characteristics (Jews, gays, African-Americans, etc.) were thus the worst at making people feel comfortable unless the comedians themselves were also of that subgroup. A.J. Foster was aware of this. His set mainly consisted of plays on “ghetto” stereotypes and when he made a gay joke, he quickly clarified that he had gay friends and he was completely supportive of them. Even this little concession kept the crowd at bay. All in all, ComedyFLOPs’ festival drew in a wide variety of comedians as well as a complementarily diverse crowd. This brought to light the comedian’s talents, or lack thereof, and proved one thing: comedy is a double-edged sword. It has the power to unite in hilarity or segregate in silence. The line is drawn between those who laugh and those who do not. Kyle Chang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be contacted at kjc95@cornell.edu.
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Arts Around Town Red Light Winter
Previews 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday At The Kitchen Theatre Playwright Adam Rapp’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Red Light Winter promises an evening of fiery dialogue, unabashed sexual rivalry and exquisite intimacy. Matt and Davis have been “frenemies” since college. It doesn’t help that their fortunes have since dramatically diverged: Matt is a struggling playwright, while Davis is a rapidly rising star editor. Matt is love-starved, while Davis has married Matt’s former girlfriend. Things get even more compli-
cated when the ever-cocky Davis decides to end Matt’s loveless spell. When a girl mysteriously appears at Matt’s door late one night, Matt is terrified. Rapp’s stirring unwinding of the hypersensitive, awkward Matt is just one reason why this play is a must-see. Tickets run $27 each and can be purchased through IthacaEvents.com or by calling 607-273-4497. Due to its content, this play is intended for an 18-plus audience. — Daveen Koh
The Magic Flute
Previews 8 p.m. on Wednesday At Hoerner Theater at Ithaca College The timeless opera composed by Mozart and written by Emanuel Schikaneder hits Ithaca on Wednesday. Follow the enchanting, luscious journey of handsome prince Tamino and his kidnapped maiden Pamina as love and music defeat evil. The humorous Singspiel features dialogue both spoken and sung, and in English, no less. Widely considered Mozart’s greatest opera, The Magic Flute will preview on Wednesday and premiere Friday. Tickets run from $5.50 to $11 and can be pur-
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Oliver!
7 p.m. on Friday at The Hangar Theater Charles Dicken’s classic Oliver Twist got the musical treatment back in 1960 with Oliver! and, 52 years later, The Hanger Theater will put on a three-day run of the production, starting on Friday. The story of a impoverished, unfortunate boy whose immortal line, “Please, sir, I want some more,” lands him into a whirlwind of trouble, Oliver! proves endearing and inspiring to this day. Tickets can be purchased on RunningtoPlaces.org for $12 each or by calling 607-277-8283. The show will run this weekend and this week-
chased on IthacaEvents.com.
— Zachary Zahos
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On and Around Campus Throughout the Week C.U. Music Presents: Cellist John Haines-Eitzen at Barnes Hall, 8 pm, Feb. 21, Tuesday. Haines-Eitzen will showcase his talents at Barnes Hall, where he welcomes guest appearances from members of the Rochester Philharmonic and musicians from Ithaca College. Marc Berger at Castaways, 5:30 pm, Feb. 24, Friday. Berger, known for his American roots and Western sound, will play at the Castaways on Friday. He has previously opened for such acts as Bob
Dylan and his song, “The Last One,” which speaks against nuclear proliferation, has become a prominent protest song of our age. Mia Hynes at Hockett Family Recital Hall, 7 p.m., Feb. 23, Thursday. Dr. Hynes, professor of music at the University of Central Missouri, will bring her acclaimed, virtuoso touch to Ithaca College on Thursday. — Sun Staff
Why Watching Clueless Will Not Make You Any Less Clueless W
hile going to an all-girl school or being a dork does not necessarily equate to being a social invalid, the two of those things together mean that, between the ages of 12 and 18, I did not talk to boys. That’s not entirely true — I did debate, so there were the weird annoying arrogant debate boys, not to mention my two guy friends from elementary school and my cat, Theo. And so because I spent my Saturday nights since 2005 watching TV and eating cookie dough, everything I know about the opposite sex comes from a weird amalgamation of John Hughes movies, British teenage sitcoms and She’s the Man. Now, however, I have realized that watching Clueless a million times may not be an adequate substitute for having a social life. The following are my top five misconceptions about the world that have been shattered since coming to college. 1. There are no 18-year-olds who look like Channing Tatum. Okay so this one was kind of a no-brainer. I always had an inkling that it was too good to be true. When Channing Tatum shot She’s the Man, he was 26 years old. Similarly, Penn Badgley was 24 in Easy A, even Paul Rudd was 27 when he played Josh in Clueless. Not to mention a 28year-old Cory Monteith who somehow passes for 17 every week on Glee. This is a phenomenon that is strangely limited to the guys. While yes, most of the actresses who
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play high school sophomores are not actually 15, they are much closer to that age than their male counterparts. Amanda Bynes was 20 in She’s the Man, Emma Stone was 22 in Easy A, and Alicia Silverstone was also only 20 in Clueless. In any case, it has always been fairly obvious that the actors who play teenagers could actually legally buy alcohol for the characters they play. My vague hope that there are teenagers who look like Aaron Samuels (Mean Girls) was one of the first to go. 2. Sports are not the most important thing anyone can do, ever. Whether it’s Emilio Estevez in The Breakfast Club, any character in Friday Night Lights or Troy from High School Musical, sports have always seemed integral to any high school experience. But as comedian Eugene Mirman puts it in his Youtube video, Eugene Mirman’s The Will to Whatevs Tip #44: Surviving High School, “Several years after you leave high school, about eight, everyone becomes fat and sports are no longer important. There aren’t a lot of lacrosse jobs after high school.” And the more I’ve talked to people who
went to “normal” high schools, the more I’ve realized that the importance of being the quarterback or captain of whatever team has been greatly exaggerated. 3. Prom is not the most important night
Julia Moser Carrot Top Confessions of your life. I missed my prom because of a family thing. I’m fine. Thank you Never Been Kissed and 10 Things I Hate About You, for misleading me on that one. 4. Girls do not wear heels to school. When I first saw Easy A, I was so happy that it was about a seemingly normal teenage girl with a sound mind and a smart mouth. And then I saw her wearing high heels in every single scene of the movie (even before she dresses like a skank). I freaked out a bit. I know that most girls did not wear ripped sweatpants under their uniform skirts with stained, oversized polo shirts like I did, but was I really that out of touch? It turns out
that the answer was no. While I dressed decidedly more hobo-esque than many, apparently the most dressed up normal people get during school is wearing dark-wash jeans, or maybe black pants. So costumers for Mean Girls and Easy A, this one is on you. 5. Rory Gilmore does not exist. Do not get me wrong, I love Gilmore Girls. Seasons one through four (or five depending on how you feel about Dean) charm and delight audiences. But, Rory is not real. In case you’re unfamiliar with the show, here’s a brief description of the character: beautiful, smart, witty, editor of the newspaper in high school and at Yale, valedictorian, class vicepresident; all of this while also staying lowkey and down to earth. Plus, every boy she meets ever on the show falls in love with her. Everyone from Chad Michael Murray to Milo Ventimiglia ditches his douche ways just to spend time with Rory, innocently watching a movie. Rory Gilmore is perfect; there is no getting around it. She has no flaws. So it was actually kind of a relief to see that, she does not really exist. It lowers the standards for us all. This plus knowing that 18-year-old Channing Tatum also is not real, means that I actually feel pretty good about my life. Julia Moser is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com.
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in high spirits. The Saints dominated play for much of the first, yet headed into the second down 2-0. Shots from Saints freshman forward Chris Martin and senior forward Jacob Drewiske flew past Iles in the middle frame, but a quick play put Cornell on top heading into the third. Senior forward Locke Jillson accepted a pass from freshman defenseman Joakim Ryan in the neutral zone and charged up the left side. Jillson beat his defender through the circle and went glove side on Weninger for his sixth goal of the season. Weninger made 26 saves on the night after securing last week’s ECAC Goalie of the Week honors. “[The game against St. Lawrence] was a night of swings,” Syer said. “There was some real highs and some real lows here. The played ebbed and flowed.” A third period unassisted goal by sophomore defender Justin Baker at the 4:51 mark was not enough to extend the Saints’ five-game winning streak. “It was huge for us,” Collins said. “They are two tough rinks to play at, and picking up three points gives us an opportunity to get a share of the title next weekend.” Only two home games remain before the ECAC playoffs — against teams Cornell tied on the road previously this season. “We’ve seen them — we know it’s going to be two tough battles,” Collins said. The Red hosts Union for its Senior Night Friday at 7 p.m., before facing Rensselear at the same time on Saturday at Lynah Rink. As of Sunday night, an ECACHockey.com poll pegged Cornell as the team most capable of defeating the league-leader. Rob Moore can be reached at rmoore@cornellsun.com.
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scoring or assisting on 23 straight points, including three from downtown. He finished the game with 25 points, six assists, five rebounds and just one turnover. “[Rosen] had a great game; he made some really tough shots,” said junior forward Eitan Chemerinski. “We were just trying to do the best we could to keep the ball out of his hands and just try to keep him from making plays, but he just made some big plays down the stretch.” Both captains, Ferry and senior guard Chris Wroblewski, had stronger games compared to the first time the two teams competed; however, neither could upstage the show Rosen gave at the end. Ferry scored 17 points, including four 3pointers, and grabbed six rebounds, while Wroblewksi finished with 14 points, three assists and three rebounds. The Red was in the game until the very end against Penn; however, against Princeton, Cornell started with very low energy and was unable to mount a comeback — trailing by as many as 23 points before falling, 75-57. Head coach Bill Courtney said he was displeased by the effort his team put forward. He subbed out all five starters at four minutes into the game. “We definitely didn’t come out effectively or with the intensity that we needed to,” Ferry said. “We gave them a lot of open shots and to their credit, they made their shots.” After tying the game 14-14 on a layup by freshman guard Devin Cherry, the Tigers went on a 24-8 run in the next six minutes. The Tigers did most of their damage from behind the arc, as they hit five 3-pointers during the run. Wroblewski ended the half by going coast-to-coast to score on a
buzzer-beating layup, cutting the lead to 44-32 heading into the break, where Princeton shot 69 percent from the field. “For us, our defensive intensity and execution was not where it was the first time we played them,” Ferry said. “We let them run their offense and get comfortable at the beginning of the game and once they got into a rhythm and started making shots, there really wasn’t a whole lot we could do to stop that.” The second half was more of the same, as the Tigers never led by fewer than 13 points. Turnovers played a factor in the Red’s demise, as Cornell turned the ball over 13 times in the second half alone. The silver lining in this game was the appearance of sophomore guard Dominick Scelfo and freshman guard Galal Cancer on the court. This was Scelfo’s first game playing major minutes and he made the most of this opportunity, scoring nine points in the first half. Cancer, who was shooting just 21 percent from the field in his last five games, provided a solid performance, scoring 10 points on 3-of4 shooting from the field. “I think [Scelfo and Cancer] are really good players and when given opportunities, they play really well,” Chemerinski said. “We’re just hoping that they’ll continue playing well [when given the chance].” After this disappointing weekend, the Red knows what it needs to focus on in practice, according to Chemerinski. “We have to continue to practice hard and continue to put an emphasis on our defense,” he said. “We have to keep working hard, keep practicing hard and hopefully we’ll get better results for the upcoming weekends.” Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.
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Taking it to the max | Senior captains Chelsea Karpenko and Catherine White chase after the puck Friday night at Lynah Rink.
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strong individual effort from senior forward and captain Rebecca Johnston. According to Johnston, the goal developed when she hit the puck into Clarkson’s end after a faceoff. “There was a face-off at the blue line and they won it back, but I hit it into the corner, chased it down, went around the net, and shot it above the goalies’ shoulder,” she said. The Red also grabbed the early advantage against the Saints the following night, and Cornell has frequently been effective in grabbing the early lead throughout the season. According to senior forward and captain Chelsea Karpenko, the Red recognizes the importance of starting strong and has focused on that throughout the season.
wanting to win it. We came out a little flat in the second period, so to see us bounce back and adapt was a really good step for us.” On Senior Night against the Saints, the Red earned a 3-0 lead by the midway point of the second period. After it let St. Lawrence climb back to make it 3-2, the Red played solid defense to hold on to the lead and get the win. According to Karpenko, being able to play strong defensively and hold leads will be very important in upcoming playoff games. “With the playoffs starting up, every game will be close and every team will be fighting right to the end, so to be able to hang on to a lead, that’s what it will come down to in the playoffs,” she said. “Getting a glimpse of that before playoffs start was really important for us.”
“It’s an emotional, happy and exciting day. It was a great night for the seniors, and winning made it that much better.” Rebecca Johnston “It’s important because it helps you build momentum and really sets the opposing team back on their heals to start the game,” she said. “Coming out strong and getting that lead early is definitely something we’ve been trying to focus on lately, and we’ve been doing a good job with it.” The Golden Knights tied the game in the second period, and after a scoreless third, the game went to overtime. The Red dominated control of the puck from the very beginning, and netted the winner when freshman forward Jillian Saulnier banked a shot off the post and into the goal. The play went to video review, but it was ultimately upheld as a goal. According to Johnston, the Red was determined to get the winner in overtime after it let Clarkson come back earlier in the game. “It was a great overtime for us,” she said. “We came out strong and they didn’t get any opportunities, so that showed us bearing down and really
Senior goaltender Amanda Mazzota — who has been injured since Jan. 27 — was back in net for these two contests. “Its great to have her back,” she said. “It was nice to see her back, playing well and confident like she normally is.” According to Johnston, Senior Night was a special moment for the Red’s six graduating seniors. “It’s an emotional, happy and exciting day,” she said. “It was a great night for the seniors, and winning made it that much better.” According to Karpenko, Cornell is now eager to start the playoffs. “This is what you play all year for,” she said. “It all comes down to the playoffs, so there’s a new element of excitement, and everyone knows there’s no second chances, so we have to give it all we’ve got.”
Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.
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Men,Women Defeat Skidmore Squads at Oxley
By ANDREA SIELICKI Sun Staff Writer
Head coach david Eldredge ’81 gave some of the Cornell starters on the men’s and women’s polo teams a rest over the weekend against Skidmore, allowing other varsity members a chance to get on the field. The men defeated the Thoroughbreds, 18-5, and the women won 21-6 at the Oxley Equestrian Center. Next weekend, both squads will leave Ithaca to face No. 1-ranked Virginia. The men (7-4) sat usual starters, junior captain Branden Van Loon and sophomore Nick Feldman, instead playing varsity members junior Justin Schick and sophomore Emerson Bilodeau along with freshman and regular starter Nik Stieg. In the second chukker, junior Connor Pardell, sophomore Tate Lavitt and freshman Alex Langlois finished out the game. Stieg led the Red with six goals, followed by Pardell, who registered three. “The game gave some really good experience to people who don’t get to play as many games,” Van Loon said. David Eldredge said that he did not think he would gain a lot by playing the starters since he already saw what they can do against Skidmore from the fall matchup. Cornell and Skidmore (2-6) last met in October and the team of Pardell, Feldman, Stieg and Van Loon overpowered the Thoroughbreds in a 44-0 shutout. The women (8-4) have a similar season record against Skidmore (3-8), a team the Red beat twice in November — once during regular play and again in the Bill Field Invitational. During Friday’s game, senior captain Ali Hoffman, senior Amanda Stern and sophomore Kailey Eldredge started for the Red — earning Cornell a 14-point lead by the end of the first half, with junior Kristen Russomanno subbing in for Hoffman in the second chukker. “We started off really well. That was good for Amanda, Ali and I. Starting strong is important for next week,” Kailey Eldredge said, alluding to next week’s match against UVA. The second half of the game was played by senior Brittany Cox and sophomore Beth LeBow, with Hoffman and Russomanno again switching off between the third and fourth chukker. Kailey Eldredge led the team with 12 goals — all scored in the first half — followed by four goals from Stern. Both teams will head down to Charlottesville, Va. this weekend to compete against the Cavaliers, a squad currently ranked first nationally for the men and women. The UVA men are the defending national champions, while the women lost to Cornell last year in the final round. The match against Skidmore provided the Red a chance to work on game technique before facing tougher competition, according to Van Loon. The junior captain said against
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Resting up | Cornell’s starters on the polo team had the weekend off against Skidmore, allowing other varsity members the opportunity to start against the visiting Thoroughbreds.
tough teams like Virginia, there is no time to contemplate plays. “Skidmore gave Connor and Stieg an opportunity to work on perfecting simple things and establishing muscle memory,” he said. Since the men had off last week, and this week Van Loon and Feldman sat out, the junior captain expressed some concern about being rusty against Virginia. “I would honestly prefer the option to get another game in before UVA, but at the same time we’re playing at the national level and [David Eldredge] set up this game schedule to test us,” Van Loon said. “I think it’s going to be a very big challenge but I think there’s going to be a lot of improve on.” The men played against the Cavaliers in the fall, losing, 17-10. This week in practice, Cornell will focus on fixing some issues to prepare for heavy competition. “The men still have plays where we basically suck and allow the other team back into the game,” David Eldredge said. “That’s the sign of a young team.”
He adds, however, that the men are a different team. “Now we have an identity so we’re hoping that we can play with that identity,” he said. The women face Virginia for the second time this season since losing to the team earlier in the fall, 19-9. Kailey Eldredge said since that time, the Red has become a different team and has had time to improve. “We’re looking to keep up our speed and aggression,” she said. “We want to keep up with these girls and not feel like we’re catching up all the time.” According to Kailey Eldredge, the women want to further team unity and improve on consistency. “We’re working to continue to improve in knowledge in one another,” she said. “The women are not the same team at the point in the fall that we are now.” The Cornell men and women face UVA this weekend, playing on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Andrea Sielicki can be reached at asielicki@cornellsun.com.
A Year of Rebuilding May Finally Be Paying Off B
eing one of only three away teams to earn three points or more in the North Country this year, the Cornell men’s hockey team proved it could win the Whitelaw Trophy at Atlantic City in 2012. Before this weekend, the Red earned three points or more on the trip only five times in the last 20 years. Driving up to Canton and Potsdam for hockey is akin to a trip to frozen hell. Although
and executed “The System” better than the Golden Knights. It was not surprising that Clarkson head coach Casey Jones, a former assistant coach and player at Cornell, employed a similar system to the one Cornell fans are accustomed. “The System” becomes even more effective when paired with a quality goaltender like Paul Karpowich, who is tied for third in the nation with Cornell’s Andy Iles and Union’s Troy Grosenick with five
Andrew Hu More Cowbell Cornell came incredibly close to losing both games against Clarkson and St. Lawrence, the players rebounded after opponent goals and fought off changes in momentum — a key skill that is necessary during the postseason. On Friday, the team held off Clarkson by controlling the puck for most of the game. Although shots on goal were relatively even, the Red had more quality chances
shutouts this season. Thus, watching the Golden Knights play was very much a déjà vu experience, and it illustrated what the Red could do better next time. For one, there needs to be better puck awareness in front of the net because a lot of great chances were missed throughout the game that could have earned Cornell a win. Clarkson’s defense is arguably one of the best in the league, so it was
difficult to open up shooting lanes directly to the net. Many of the Red’s greatest chances were rebounds in front of the goal crease, but players often missed the rebounds or drove them back into Karpowich’s pads. While it is good that the team is creating these chances and eventually one of these chances will turn into a goal, it is also necessary to increase the rate at which the Red is capitalizing on these opportunities. Although Cornell played better and should have won the game, luck is not always on the team’s side, and a tie is nothing to be ashamed of. Saturday night’s game against St. Lawrence was a different story as the Saints played an aggressive 1-2-2 defense, often sending two or three men deep to disrupt Cornell’s breakout. Compared to recent years when the Red could barely dump a puck in the opposing end, the team was relatively successful at bringing the puck out and recovering possession when it was lost in its own end. However, St. Lawrence was able to score on defensive breakdowns by individual Cornell players, which is something the team needs to address before next weekend. A few Red skaters were
not quick enough when reacting to opponent passes or shots, which allowed some easily defendable goals to be scored in the second period. On the flip side, Cornell’s goals on the night were mostly results of great team efforts by players like sophomore forward Dustin Mowrey, who slipped between two defensemen and caught a line-to-line pass from junior defenseman Braden Birch that gave him a breakaway chance and a score. Birch also assisted an earlier goal in the first period with a pass through the neutral zone to sophomore defenseman Krill Gotovets — who dropped the puck to junior Greg Miller — allowing Miller to throw the puck over the Saints’ unexpecting goalie Matt Weninger. Senior forward Locke Jillson helped the Red regain its lead in the second period by avoiding two Saints defensemen and bringing up the puck from the corner and back up to the slot for a quick shot past the blocked goalie Weninger. The game-winning goal by senior alternate captain Sean Collins was also well coordinated, as the forward poked in a rebound from a shot
by freshman John McCarron from the point, where the forward skated back to gain a better angle during a 3-on-2. This level of offensive awareness on the ice shows that this is not the Cornell team of old, which solely depended on shots from the blue line and lucky rebounds to put points on the scoreboard. Looking ahead, the Red has a chance next weekend to lock in the Cleary Cup — awarded to regular season ECAC champions — if it is able to sweep Union and RPI at Lynah Rink. Beating the Dutchmen and the Engineers will also catapult Cornell in the PairWise rankings and create a larger cushion for an at-large NCAA bid. For a rebuilding year when expectations were somewhat limited in October, this team has surprised us all with its level of competitiveness and recovery after losses to Colgate. Although winning in Atlantic City is the only sure way of reaching the NCAA tournament, making a final-stretch sprint next weekend will do wonders for the Red’s aspirations in March. Andrew Hu is a Sun Senior Editor. He can be contacted at ahu@cornellsun.com. More Cowbell appears periodically throughout the hockey season.
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Cornell Earns First-Round Bye in ECAC Playoffs
By ROB MOORE
Princeton (8-13-6, 6-11-3) increased Union’s first place lead to two points over the Red. The Dutchmen (19-6-7, 13-3-4) Saints sophomore goalie Matt Weniger have won 10 of their past 12 contests and looked surprised 36 seconds into the over- are poised to take the regular season chamtime period of Saturday’s game after Red pionship, the Cleary Cup, home to senior forward Sean Collins scored the Schenectady, N.Y. next weekend if Cornell game-winner with a backhand that trav- cannot win the head-to-head matchup. eled through his own skates and across the Junior center Greg Miller scored the crease. The sudden death goal was the last first goal in both contests, getting his pass of a three-point weekend for from sophomore the Red in which it secured a forward Dustin 1 Mowrey and senior CORNELL coveted bye for the first round of the ECAC playoffs. CLARKSON 1 defenseman and “It’s great to have a little captain Keir Ross bit of time off to regroup on 4 on Friday at the CORNELL a few things that we want to beginning of the ST. LAWRENCE 3 second execute in the playoffs,” said period. At assistant coach Ben Syer. “It the end of a scoregives our guys some time to heal their less first, Miller sent a puck off Clarkson bumps and bruises.” senior goalie Paul Karpowich’s back which Syer took the reins of the Red on forced a review of the play. The call was a Saturday as a first-year assistant coach for no-goal, but Miller would come back to the program. put the rubber away for sure with a deflecThe No. 12 Cornell squad (14-6-7,11- tion at 5:19 into the middle frame. 3-6 ECAC Hockey) played the Clarkson Both teams battled to produce similar Golden Knights (9-7-4, 15-13-6) to a 1-1 amounts of quality scoring chances, but tie on Friday night at Cheel Arena before neither could foil the other’s goaltender finishing off the weekend with a 4-3 over- until Clarkson graduate forward Nick time win over the St. Lawrence Saints (13- Tremblay snapped a rebound past sopho16-3, 9-10-1). Meanwhile, two victories more goaltender Andy Iles with less than over Dartmouth (10-13-4, 7-10-3) and seven minutes left in regulation. Iles regis-
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Putting up a wall | Sophomore goaltender Andy Iles registered 24 saves against Clarkson on Friday and another 24 saves the next night against St. Lawrence.
tered 24 saves on the evening and Karpowich played a similar game, with 27 saves on the Red. Both net minders received significant help from their posts; Cornell almost lost the game when sophomore forward Ben Sexton rattled a post with under a minute left in overtime. The Red — unsatisfied with a tie — earned its first win at Appleton Arena since
February 2005 the following evening. Cornell pulled out in front in the first and again in the second, but the Saints were not phased and tied it up twice to force the extra period. Improving upon its face-off percentage of the previous night, the men’s hockey team returned from Canton, N.Y. See M. HOCKEY page 13
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Penn, Princeton Defeat Courtney’s Squad By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer
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Paying respects | Senior captain forward Chelsea Karpenko, who notched two assists, was one of six seniors honored at Senior Night on Saturday.
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Red Ends Regular Season With Two Home Victories By BEN HOROWITZ
ning streak heading into the playoffs, which start next weekend. When Cornell last faced With two victories over the Clarkson on Jan. 28, the Knights weekend, the No. 3 women’s hockey came away with a 5-3 victory. team enjoyed a fitting end to its Therefore, according to senior forward and captain impressive reguChelsea Karpenko, lar season. In 1 the Red had CLARKSON two exciting contests at 2 revenge on its mind CORNELL entering Friday’s Lynah Rink, the Red (26-3-0, ST. LAWRENCE 2 contest. “The loss was 20-2-0 ECAC 3 definitely CORNELL still fresh Hockey) defeated Clarkson (21-8-5, 15-5-2), 2-1, on our minds, so there was an eleon Friday night, and ousted St. ment of revenge there,” she said. Lawrence (20-9-4, 14-6-2), 3-2, on “We wanted to pay them back.” In the rematch, Cornell jumped Senior Night the following day. Cornell already clinched the ECAC out to an early lead thanks to a title last weekend, but these wins See W. HOCKEY page 14 put the team on a seven-game winSun Staff Writer
The Cornell men’s basketball team continued its less than stellar play on the road, losing both games this weekend to rivals Penn (15-11, 7-2 Ivy League) and Princeton (15-10, 6-3). Cornell (10-14, 5-5) had a chance to move to as high as second in the Ivy League this weekend, but the two losses moved the team to fifth, out of contention for the Ivy League cham-
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intermission with much more energy, going on a 20-8 run in the first eight minutes to take a six-point lead, 49-43. All five Cornell starters scored during this stretch. “I think we executed a lot better offensively [during that stretch],” Ferry said. “We made
some shots and we were able to guard the ball — when you execute offensively and defensively, that’s how you get on a run.” After this run, Penn guard Zack Rosen took over the game, See M. B-BALL page 13
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pionship. The Red lost a close game in the final minutes to Penn, 73-66, before getting blown out by Princeton, 75-57. Against Penn, Cornell was hampered by turnovers in the first half — turning it over 10 times in the half — but kept pace with the Quakers. No team led by more than seven in the half and Penn led by six, 35-29, entering halftime. “We were a little nervous controlling the ball and we weren’t making smart plays or smart passes at the beginning of the game,” said senior guard and co-captain Drew Ferry. “It hurt us a little bit at the beginning, but we got it more under control as the game progressed and we did a better job of taking care of it.” Cornell came out of the
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Falling short of expectations | The Red was unable to come away with a victory on Friday in Philadelphia, Pa., but junior guard Johnathan Gray contributed 15 points, five rebounds and four assists.