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C.U.to Breathalyze Freshmen at Slope Day

By J.R. RICHARDS Sun Senior Schmoozer

To curb the dangerous behavior stemming from the “rampant binge-drinking culture” that has consumed Cornell’s student body, Boozin’ Smurphy ’73, vice president of student and academic services, confirmed Thursday that all freshmen must undergo mandatory breathalyzer tests before being admitted to Slope Day this year.

The move comes, Smurphy said, as administrators have banded together to prevent irresponsible drinking practices that are known to occur on the last day of classes –– including inebriated productions of Shake“The new safety speare’s The Tammeasures are ing of the Shrew, unconstitutional, pin-the-tail-onthe-freshman and oppressive and a drunken unicymajor buzzkill.” cling.

In addition to Josh Brock ’14 administering mandatory breathalyzer tests, University officials said they will perform vigorous search procedures at the entrance to Libe Slope and increase surveillance at IFC-registered events taking place on Slope Day –– a measure Student Trustee Alan Booze ’13 called “total b.s.”

Amid widespread student outrage, Norah Corn ’12, executive director of the Slope Day Programming Board, admitted that there was very little in the way of negotiation.

“At first we were appalled at what we’re being

forced to do,” she said in an email last night, “but after the administration threatened to shut down Slope Day entirely, we had no choice but to give in. Luckily, while the University expressed concern over the ‘explosively pro-alcoholic’ messages contained in the songs of Taio Cruz, we were able to resist their suggestions that we replace our headliner with ArmenianCanadian children’s entertainer, Raffi.”

Josh Brock ’14, at-large representative for the Student Assembly, made a statement rebuking Cornell’s rashness in addressing what he deemed a “multifaceted issue.”

Brock said that the new safety measures were “unconstitutional, oppressive and a major buzzkill.”

See SLOPE DAY page 4

By PASCAL CAMBRIA

Rager at RPCC

Denny Cattaro announces a Charlie Brown-themed dance party and sleepover as a sober alternative to Slope Day. | Page 3

Opinion Loudmouth

Ray Gin Sinnick ’13 assails the phrase “Y.O.L.O.,” blasting “Y.O.L.O.” embracers for cluttering his Facebook and Twitter feed with the motto. | Page 12

Arts Superiority Complex

The Sun’s Arts writers again make readers feel like losers for not being cool and hipster enough to get any of their reviews. | Page 13

Sports Bro On

The men’s beer pong team smashed its way to a heroic victory against No. 1 Duke in front of a packed Schoellkopf Field Wednesday night. | Page 20

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Let’s get slopey | Underage students stumbling around the Slope may soon be a sight of the past, as University officials vowed to breathalyze freshmen and step up security for Slope Day 2012.

Univ.Receives $420M for Weed Science Program The donation will also be used to help fund a research project to develop a special Cornell revealed a $420 Cornell Dining brand brownmillion anonymous donation, ie to be distributed to freshthe largest in the University’s man pre-med engineers at the history, to create the new end of prelim season.

Shakur Center for Weed Director of Weed Science Science in the Department of Prof. Toni Tommatoe, hortiHorticulture. The donation culture, said that while she was given anonymously over was elated to receive the donathe phone, Day Hall adminis- tion, she is still concerned trators confirmed Thursday. about its implications for the While the donor refused to future direction of the department.

“With this new donation, the vast “We typically focus on invamajority of our resources will be sive plant species, but put toward the study of with this new cannabis.” donation, the vast majority of Prof. Toni Tommatoe, horticulture our our resources will reveal his identity, he told be put toward the study of administrators that they “had cannabis,” Tommatoe said. no clue about what me and “I’m not sure the donors have my homie Snoop Dogg came an accurate perception of to do.” what our department actually Faculty members said the does.” funding will allow the hortiTommatoe added that the culture department to collab- department will be creating a orate with the Department of Weed Science major to the Applied Engineering and College of Agriculture and Physics to develop advanced Life Science’s curriculum for education technology that students who will study the will allow Tupac to teach ganja plant and be offered posthumous seminars on study abroad options in the advanced blunt rolling tech- Netherlands and Colorado. niques via hologram.

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center, the University is renegotiating its relationship with Frito-Lay to triple its stock at Nastie’s. The University will also be increasing its bandwidth limit to expand browsing of popular websites Reddit, Tumblr and Funnyjunk.com.

Professors in the horticul-

ture department praised the creation of the Shakur Center.

“Cannabis has proven to reduce such ailments as glaucoma, alleviate stress and ... whoa, since when did we get to Atlantis?” said Prof. Mary Jane Uana, horticulture.

See WEED SCIENCE page 5

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Blazing the path | An unprecedented $420 million donation

will allow the Weed Science program to dramatically expand.

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Political Rivals of Incoming S.A.Pres.

Found Dead in WSH

By JOJO SIMPSON Sun Overlord

Police discovered the bodies of six potential opponents to Alan Gotlin ’13, who recently ran unopposed for president of the Student Assembly, in a room hidden beneath the floorboards of the Willard Straight Hall memorial room on Thursday.

Each of the bodies –– who had been considered Gotlin’s chief opponents before mysteriously bowing out of the race –– were found with thousands of paper cuts from Gotlin’s multi-colored quarter cards. They also appeared to have been forced to make “Got-Some” posters, which were found lying beside their bodies by police.

Investigators apprehended Gotlin late Thursday night but later released him, saying they came away impressed with his leadership skills and said that they were convinced he had the right vision to lead Cornell’s student body.

“What a nice young man,” Sgt. Mickey Mark said. “His eyes are so …” he said before drifting off.

Mark also apologized for initially thinking Gotlin could be a suspect in the case, and said he hoped doing so would not hurt Gotlin’s presidency.

“Do you know Gotlin? Gotlin must be one of the sweetest guys I know,” Mark said.

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Cautioning Excessive Cautioning THE SUN RECENTLY WROTE AN EDITORIAL EXPLAINING the benefits of a particular policy move by the University, but also cautioned them to avoid the problems with the policy. While we think The Sun’s editorial position of praising the University while simultaneously cautioning it is beneficial, we caution The Sun not to write editorials that urge too much caution.

Caution, in certain amounts, is good, as it prevents The Sun from doing really stupid things, like calling the University out on something The Sun knows nothing about. Caution is also one of the best kinds of tape, as it is bright and yellow and really noticeable and prevents people from grievously injuring themselves. In racecar driving, the caution flag helps racecar drivers avoid obstacles as they make their way around the track.

However, we caution The Sun from cautioning too much. Have you seen how slow those cars go during caution laps? Like 20 miles per hour. It’s literally the most boring thing ever, and we already thought NASCAR was the most boring thing on TV anyway. Additionally, too much caution causes one to lose out on having a fun time. Do you think those Secret Service agents were using caution in Columbia?

Think about all the fun they would’ve missed out on if they had just a little bit of fucking discretion.

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In sum, The Sun’s editorial positions are usually great and hold the University accountable for its policies. However, we caution The Sun from cautioning too much and hope The Sun takes some stronger positions, kind of like the ones that we envision those secret service agents would take, especially in their affairs with Colombian prostitutes.

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S.A. SAVES CULTURE

Cornell Cinema to receive entirety of students’ tuitions ZEDDIE ZOIDBERG Sun Ridiculously Photogenic Neurotic

After years of bad blood between the two organizations, the Student Assembly decided Thursday to commit every dollar of every Cornell student’s tuition to funding Cornell Cinema. Viewed as an olive branch from S.A. to the Cinema, the once-fledgling movie theater will now have around half a billion dollars to allocate each year. On the decision — which is one of her last — S.A. President Rapacious Naps ’12 said, “I will admit, we were kind of dicks. The Cinema is a cultural and educational landmark of our University.” When asked about possible financial altercations of such a gung-ho deal, Naps responded, “Considering I donated my watch and Uggs to the Cinema as well, I’d consider this deal not enough.”

For the moment, a glowing Cherry Phesdoe, director of Cornell Cinema, told The Sun, “This opens so many new doors. We are the big game in town now.” Already scheduled for next semester are guest speakers George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, James Cameron and his submarine as well as the reunited casts of Star Wars and The Room. New films will now premiere a month earlier than set theatrical release dates, and the Cinema is expected to put both Cinemapolis and Ithaca’s Regal Cinemas out of business.

“We have so much money now,” Cherry exclaimed. “We might just buy the original 35mm negatives for Citizen Kane, City Lights, The 400 Blows, all of Lean, Scorsese, Hitchcock and Fellini — literally everything — and set them ablaze after entwining them into a Dragon Day effigy!” She then barked a disturbing, drawn-out maniacal laugh.

The Cinema’s reach is set to take over all of Tompkins County and the Finger Lakes region, extend to Buffalo and eventually monopolize the business as far as New York City. Cherry murmured to herself, which The Sun overheard, “It’s because students aren’t in charge; that’s how we are getting away this. Lack of transparency and poor student attendance — the only reasons.” The phrase, “My precious,” was reportedly muttered by Cherry, as well.

Meanwhile, all classes, programs, student organizations and all amenities have forever ceased. All students are forced, Clockwork Orange-style, to watch the entire filmographies of Henri-Georges Clouzot, David Lynch and, for sake of irony, Stanley Kubrick.

“It’s for their own good,” Cherry said, while brandishing a whip crafted from expired Kodak celluloid. “S.A. has saved culture, and they are sure going to get their money’s worth. This will not end until every student can name all the jump cuts in The Battleship Potemkin and Breathless.”

The Cinema has already taken over all of Willard Straight Hall and Ho Plaza and is expected to grow exponentially, using all Cornell acreage for movie theaters, popcorn stands and Cherry’s exponentially-expanding throne. Gun Hill is set for conquering tomorrow, and New York City’s Paramount Theatre will be reached before the end of the month. The ultimate goal, which Cherry refers as their “Mise-en-scene Destiny,” is to spread culture all the way to the West, a land she claims John Wayne still roams

Santorum Raps for Record Store Day CHAI SAN INDIO Sun Staff Hipster

In a surprise move, Camille & Haley Harris, the sisters responsible for the viral hit song “Game On — Song for Rick Santorum,” will release their song on vinyl days after the presidential candidate stepped out of the race. The Harris Sisters have rerecorded the song with Santorum himself,

who contributes a gangsta rap verse.

The shock of Santorum’s gangsta rap quickly turned into intense speculation on the rap’s motive. Though the former Pennsylvania Senator kept mum, he pointed to Mitt Romney’s “Who let the dogs out?” comment at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade as inspiration for his newfound talent.

“Mitt’s one consistency throughout his political career to reach out to a broader audience, any audience, inspired me to do the same,” Santorum told The Sun. “I intend to use my cultural sensibilities to insert God into the lives of gangsta rappers everywhere.”

An anonymous source calling himself “RonP a u l 2016/20/24,” however, has leaked the 20minute song to The Sun. This new version is less COURTESY OF of a song than a KING TUT charged stream-

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searching for solace at the precipice of civilization.

“The Student Assembly should be happy they made this decision,” Cherry said. “We would have taken ... extreme measures before long.”

“For culture,” she concluded, with a smile.

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of-consciousness narrative by Santorum with backing vocals and guitars. There is a moment when he calls “bullshit” on The New York Times and drops a possible racial epithet about President Obama before the Harris Sisters’ chorus drowns out the full word.

Santorum is at his best when he explains how homosexuality causes bad weather and the true motive behind his National Weather Service Duties Act. “Gay threat Seattle / is God’s place to battle / men who enjoy fellas / know when to bring umbrellas / my Weather Service Act/ keeps free forecasts wrapped / so homosexuals never know / when it’s gonna rain or snow / God will piss on their heads / and purify their beds / Socialists say Accuweather donations / was my Act’s main motivation / they can’t understand His clout / ain’t my problem, Santorum, out.” Santorum’s lyrical experimentation has many Sun Arts writers touting “Game On” as the song of the year.

More surprising than the rap itself is the response, because most pre-orders came from Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

“My purchase is an act of micropolitical resistance that short-circuits intricate networks of power that like, oppress us,” a patron of an obscure coffee shop said.

“That’s from Derrida or something. Good thing it’s on vinyl, because I don’t buy from the iTunes capitalist monopoly.”

When asked about the mocking response to Record Store Day, the day the single hits shelves, the confused Harris Sisters asked what a “record” is. Meanwhile, Santorum was magnanimous.

“I’m not angry. I can’t make the invisible hand become Jesus’s hand, but hopefully some will turn to God after hearing my gangsta rap.”

“Game On” will be released tomorrow, April 21.

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Boothe Brings C.U.Education to NFL Pre-Game Ritual

By JEREMY LIN Sun Staff Writer

New York Giants center and former Cornell football player Kevin Boothe ’05 won his second career Super Bowl this year. The 6-5, 320-pounder attributed the win to his pre-Super Bowl ritual, which dates back to his days at Cornell.

Boothe, who graduated with a B.S. from the School of Hotel Administration in 2005, was seen “doing something strange” the morning before the big game, according to his teammate and Giants running back Brandon Jacobs.

“That morning I was sitting outside his room waiting for Kevin and he was taking a real long time,” he sad. “So, I peeked my head in to see what he was doing.”

Jacobs paused and shook his head at the memory.

“Big Boothy was making both beds in the room, tucking them sheets in real tight and fluffing out the pillows,” he said. “And then, I couldn’t believe it, but he took these two little mint chocolate bars out of his pocket and put them on top of the pillows.”

According to Jacobs, the center proceeded to take the dirty towels from the floor, fold them into perfect triangles and hang them neatly on the rack. The running back could not tell The Sun anymore information, though, since at the time of Boothe’s ritual, Jascobs said he left the room quickly because, “I was afraid I was going to die from laughing.”

When The Sun caught up with Boothe a few days after the big game, he did not deny Jacobs’ account.

“I do it before every away game,” Boothe said. “It relaxes me, takes some of the pressure off and it brings me back to my days in the hotel school.”

Boothe did become slightly sentimental when referring to his alma mater.

“Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I wasn’t a professional football player,” he said. “Like every once in a while when I miss a tackle, or give Eli a bad snap, I think maybe I should have stayed behind the desk of the Statler.”

When asked if he was at all superstitious about the ritu-

al, Boothe was confident that it played a role in the team’s success.

“We’ve beaten the Patriots two out of two times in the Super Bowl since I’ve been doing it,” he said. “We all know it took some sort of miracle for that to happen.”

As soon as Jacobs reached the locker room after witness-

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rituals for reporters on Thursday, attributing the team’s success against the Patriots to his superstitious antics.

mets, shorts and cleats. For less than $100, we somewhat looked the part.

Though, we hoped our skinny legs wouldn’t be a dead giveaway. So Phase One — disregard rules, acquire equipment — was complete. We moved onto the next phase — back door cracked, don’t need a key.

Danny and I figured that the best time to sneak into the locker room would be on game day. Why not, right?

Everyone is hustling around and people are everywhere, so the bustle and confusion would be perfect for a quick looksie. We suited up in the parking lot and figured that the best plan of action was

Ginger McFierce But, Like Actually Danny and I are seniors here this year and one night when we were talking about the 161 Things to Do list over a pitcher at Dunbars, we came up with a brilliant an idea. We wanted to see what it was like in the locker room at Cornell. So, we came up with the perfect plan: we were going to sneak in and find out. Getting in shouldn’t be too hard right? Well, we got to see the inside of the locker room, but we also got much more than we bargained for…

The kick off “Operation ‘Kopf,” Danny and I thought it would be a good idea to dress the part. We went to the annual Cornell Athletics garage sale held in Bartels and bought jerseys, hel-

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Relaxing rituals | Former Cornell football player and New York Giants center Kevin Boothe ’05 described his pre-Super Bowl

That Time I Snuck Into a C.U. Locker Room M y best friend Danny and I played lacrosse in high school — and by played I mean we were the best Water Cooler Attendants that the team has ever seen. Need a towel or a cup of blue Gatorade? No problem, we’re on it. While we loved occupying the sidelines — helping to hydrate the team and wearing special team sweatshirts (that we bought ourselves) — I can’t help but admit that we always wished we had the opportunity to get out on the field and prove to everyone that we know more about lacrosse than just compostable paper cups.

ing Boothe’s antics, he said he coul dot help but share what he saw with the entire team.

When asked about what he thought of Boothe’s ritual, two-time super bowl champion quarterback Eli Manning

to strut towards the locker room and walk in confidently. I like to live by a motto I heard a coach tell a locker room a long time ago: “If you don’t know it, fake it — and fake it real good.” So, Danny and I were going to fake it “real good.”

We got to the big white doors and threw the doors open, not knowing what to except. We were greeted by a blur of guys running around the locker room — some were suited up, others were half dressed with slippers on, but everyone was singing along to the iPod playlist that I can only imagine who made. I can honestly say that “Call Me Maybe” is not only a favorite karaoke song of pre-teen girls, but also big col-

lege guys. I feel like it was one of those you have to have been there moments.

So, Danny and I took everything in and when we turned around, ready to make a break for the door and the parking lot, the big door flew back open and the coach walked in. Uh oh.

With our helmets on, you couldn’t quite tell who we were, so luckily no one had noticed we didn’t exactly belong in the locker room. We scrunched in with all the other guys to listen to the coach’s pre-game speech, and one guy made a crack about how he never noticed that I shaved my legs before, but after a quick glance from the team captain he quieted down. I looked at Danny and knew we needed to move out quickly, but suddenly things got real when everyone started talking about plans of attack and triangles and Lord knows what else and pointed to me and Danny. Apparently we are about the same size as No. 25 and No. 8, so everyone thought we were them.

The rest of the day was a blur, but let’s just say that Danny and I finally got our 15 minutes of fame on the field. I got a shot off, but it went into the wrong net — oops. When the game was over, Danny and I finally made a break.

As the team ran into the locker room, we hung a tight left and sprinted for the parking garage. Hope that No. 25 doesn't get in too much trouble for that own-goal. If you’re reading this, sorry!

So, that is the story of how we finally got to see the inside of the locker room and play on the field. I don’t think anyone will ever believe that two girls actually did all that, but, hey, true story. We even have pics to See LOCKER ROOM page 18

Cornell Hockey Player Named Next Bachelor On Hit Reality Show Monday night a Cornell hockey player made headlines when he named the next lead star of season 17 of the ABC hit series The Bachelor.

In a release, host Chris Harrison said that “We are very excited to have such a great athlete as the next Bachelor. We’ve had a doctor, a winemaker, a prince and a few pretty boys in the past, but never a beaut like this guy. He seems like a gem.”

The icer’s application essay — no doubt a product of a freshman writing seminar assignment — caught the eye of reality show’s producers.

Reproduced below, the essay was printed on the show’s website, where many women have already started writing in, begging for a spot on the new season.

“I have spent the last few years of my life searching for something to complete me, just I have been unsure as to what it may be. As a drafted prospect in the National Hockey League, I have spent the last 3 years playing at Cornell University, an Ivy League school in New York. Hockey has been a life pursuit of mine, and will continue to be such, yet the life I have always imagined has been one for two people, not just by myself. I have an acute feeling that something in my life is missing, almost as if some part of me is lost. I find myself overwhelmed at times, wondering if I will find the one person that my heart is seeking, yearning. I have a persistent pang of loneliness that I realize now can only be assuaged by finding the one true love of my life.

After a couple unsuccessful forays into dating life both back home in Canada and here at school, I feel that the Bachelor is the only true medium to help me discover my one true love; my missing piece.”

Season 17 of The Bachelor will air on June 17 at 8 p.m. on ABC. — Compiled by Dusty McWheelerton

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After $1M Donation, Gannett Looks for Permanent Funding

By JOSEPH NICZKY Sun Senior Writer

The University is working to find a permanent source of funding for the Gannett Health Center in order to avoid a significant reduction of its funding at the start of Fiscal Year 2013-14.

After a string of student suicides, in March 2011, Gannett received a funding increase of $1 million through a combination of one-time alumni donations and internal University funding. The University used $200,000 of this funding increase –– which was intend-

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late the world economy,” Paul said.

Paul slammed the Stop Online Privacy Act — which would have expanded the federal government’s right to The Ron Paul revolution roared through Ithaca on regulate copyright violations via online trafficking — and Thursday, as the Republican presidential candidate and blasted the War on Drugs. But he always returned to train anti-establishment icon implored a Lynah Rink crowd of his fire on the chief culprit: “big brother government.” more than 4,000 to join him and defeat the “tyrants” and “One thing we should know about liberty is that we do “enemies of liberty” destroying America. not get it from the government,” Paul said. “We get our Though widely thought to have a slim chance of beat- liberty in spite of the government.” ing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Paul quickThroughout the approximately hour-long speech, ly dispensed with any notion Paul’s visceral anger seemed to that he would adapt to the “One thing we should know about shoot out into the crowd and university setting and deliver a reverberate across the tall liberty is that we do not get it from dispassionate, professorial lecLynah rafters. He gave what the government.” ture. many considered a stump Instead, the boisterous speech, but was visibly animataudience was treated to a spec- Rep. Ron Paul ed at times, often punctuating tacle befitting the hockey his applause lines with a chararena — politics as a contact sport, with Austrian mone- acteristic grimace or scowl. tarism and Constitutional originalism as the primary “If I can’t move into your house, if I can’t take your car, bludgeons. if I can’t spy on you, the government shouldn’t be allowed “The founders were very clear: Government was sup- to, either,” Paul said. The government of “a free society posed to protect liberty. And that was it. It wasn’t about See RON PAUL page 5 trying to police the world. It wasn’t about trying to regu-

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“The explicit challenge is how to maintain that level of funding ... [and] anticipate continued growth in demand.”

Susan Murphy ’73 ed to improve Gannett’s mental health services –– to restore positions that had been cut from Gannett during the financial crisis, according to Greg Eells, director of counseling and psychological services for Gannett.

“At the time, we were planning on outsourcing our after-hours service because of budget cuts. We were actually cutting — planning on cutting therapist positions, reducing our after-hours service availability. So part of the money was to restore those cuts,” Eells said.

“We added six therapists [but] some of that was restoring two therapists we were planning on cutting.”

As the money from these donations runs out, Gannett must find a stable source of funding. It must also meet a rise in demand for its health services, according to Susan Murphy ’73, vice president for student and academic services.

“The explicit challenge is how to maintain that level of funding ... [and] anticipate continued growth in demand … particularly if health care reform continues to advance as we think it is and you want to provide parity of medical health and mental health as we do,” Murphy said.

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Injuries Reported After Car Crashes Into Café’s Outdoor Seating

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The driver of a white sedan appeared to have lost control and crashed into the outdoor seating area of the Gimme! Coffee café located at the intersection of Cayuga Street and Cascadilla Street on Thursday afternoon.

According to initial police reports, three people were struck by the car and one of them was hospitalized. Chairs, cups, a Gimme! Coffee mug, dirt and books were strewn across the street, and emergency responders had cordoned off the area and blocked traffic on the street.

Although it was unclear what caused the crash, witnesses said the driver of the car seemed to be pulling over to park when he or she lost control of the vehicle. The driver, who several said was female, was reportedly turning right onto Cascadilla Street in front of a black police car.

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Urging Cornellians to take chances in the spirit of the motto, “You only live once” “If you can’t act strange or careless in college, when can you? Being smart enough to know better shouldn’t condemn you to a boring, by-the-book life. So stop saying no when you mean yes and take some damn chances, because even if you fall flat on your face and look like a complete a-hole, I bet it’ll make for a great story.”

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Three Cornell Profs Elected To Arts and Sciences Academy

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Charlotte Fabiani ’12 reads the names of Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust as part of Cornell Hillel’s tribute to Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul paid Cornell a visit Thursday evening, speaking at a sold-out event at Lynah Rink. If you were a candidate in the presidential race, what would your campaign slogan be?

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences –– an honor society that recognizes achievement in a variety of fields –– elected three Cornell faculty members as fellows on Tuesday.

The professors, along with 217 other inductees, will join “some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists and civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders” by becoming AAAS fellows, according to a press release from the Academy.

This year’s Cornellian nominees are Prof..

Joseph Fins, division of medical ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College; Prof. Steven Strogatz, applied mathematics; and Prof. Thomas Gilovich, psychology. The three will join dozens of Cornell faculty in the AAAS, which was founded in 1780.

Fins said he was “absolutely delighted, surprised and completely humbled” to be elected.

He said he found the nomparticularly ination rewarding because PROF. STROGATZ although he has worked extensively in the medical field, he was recognized by the academy for his work in public affairs.

“Although I’m a physician and I work in the sciences, I’ve spent my whole career trying to be a bridge between the humanities and the sciences,” Fins said.

Fins attributed his multi-dimensional academic career to the liberal arts education he received at Wesleyan University.

“I remember I would be carrying a large organic chemistry textbook in one arm and Ulysses under the other,” Fins said, recalling his time as a pre-med undergraduate.

Strogatz, another nominee, has also successfully combined work in the humanities and sciences into his career. He has used his roles as both a professor and columnist for The New York Times to teach a broad audience about “the beauty and importance of math.”

“I’ve always felt like I wanted to teach. That was the calling — more than math, or anything else,” Strogatz said. “What I really liked trying to do is explain things in a clear way, in a way that makes them fun and interesting to people.”

Strogatz will be joined by his neighbor,

friend and weekly tennis partner, Gilovich, at the AAAS induction in Cambridge, Mass., this fall.

A professor at Cornell since 1981, Gilovich has extensively explored people’s everyday judgment and decision-making in his research.

Gilovich said that he drew from his work to “advise ‘unnamed’ campaigns to hone their message” in the last two presidential election cycles — a project he found extremely gratifying because he was able to “have an impact on an extremely important domain,” he said.

Gilovich said his proPROF. FINS gression into psychology was a natural one. Although he entered college thinking he wanted to be a lawyer, he said he found himself taking psychology courses and thinking, “Hmph, I must really like this.”

Gilovich emphasized the importance of critical thinking within any realm of education or major –– a sentiment also echoed by Fins.

“The best way to succeed in a world with evermore communication is to have the basic ability to think critically and write well,” Fins said. “I think the humanities cultivates those skills.”

Strogatz cautioned against specializing too quickly as an undergraduate. For instance, he said, many of his students and advisees express a desire to pursue finance early in their college careers.

“Certainly, those fields do pay very well — by that measure, they’re very attractive — but I just worry that people are afraid to pursue their own passion or even figure out what their passion really is,” he said.

Fins, Strogatz and Gilovich will join celebrities and leaders such as Hillary Clinton, Clint Eastwood and Sir Paul PROF. GILOVICH McCartney in the 232nd class of AAAS fellows.

“There are a lot of good things that a person can do in the world. It’s just hard to predict what that will be,” Strogatz said. “That’s the argument for a liberal education.”

Shane Dunau can be reached at sdunau@cornellsun.com.

Study Shows People Less Likely to Lie on Online Resumes

By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Staff Writer

Resumes posted on the popular professional networking site LinkedIn contain fewer lies about work experience than traditional, paper copies of resumes, researchers from the Cornell Social Media Lab said in a study.

Because LinkedIn resumes are posted online and are visible to former employers and co-workers, the researchers –– Prof.

Jeff Hancock, communication and information science, and Jamie Guillory grad M.S. ’10 –– thought that people tell the truth more often on public LinkedIn profiles than on traditional resumes.

To test this idea, the researchers surveyed 119 Cornell undergraduates who had not previously created a profile on LinkedIn –– one-third of whom were asked to create a public online LinkedIn resume for an international marketing consultant position. The position offered “attractive international office locations,” along with a high starting salary and signon bonus.

A third of the participants created a private LinkedIn resume, while the control group typed a resume on a Microsoft

Word document.

“This job description was embellished so that it was supposed to be difficult for an undergraduate to meet the qualifications,” Guillory said, noting that the job required three to five years of work experience.

After participants created their resumes, the researchers asked them to report any information that was not the entire truth.

When asking participants to disclose false information they had included on their resume, Guillory said that the researchers “provided them with statistics from other studies that demonstrated people lying often in their resumes and reminded them that lying on resumes is a common behavior.”

According to Guillory, more than 90 percent of participants in the study lied at least once on their resumes.

“We did see overall that it was more common for people to exaggerate and tell subtle lies than to tell outright lies,” Guillory said.

Resumes that were created on Microsoft Word or were private on LinkedIn had more exaggerations about subjects’ previous work experiences than the public resumes posted on LinkedIn by

the experimental group. However, the public resumes contained more lies about participants’ interests.

Participants with private resumes did not lie as much on their resumes because “they can only lie so much,” Hancock said.

“Our thinking is that they’ve already accomplished what they wanted to do,” Hancock said. “They’ve already lied about previous jobs, so they don’t want to feel like a liar … We don’t know for sure, but that’s what we think.”

Some participants in the study lied about the length of time worked at a particular company. Other lies, such as specific interests or recreational activities, were difficult to verify with other people.

“It’s really difficult for someone to say, ‘I know you’re not interested in traveling or learning a different language,’” Guillory said. “[The participants] chose to lie in a way that is safer for them, but makes them look slightly better.”

Hancock said that job applicants might be more inclined to lie on resumes tailored for competitive jobs.

“If they tried to get a ... less attractive job, they probably would have lied less,” Hancock said. “They lie for specific goals, like self-presentation.”

The types of lies observed included bending the truth — for example, altering the length of time worked at a job — omitting information and outright lies.

Although researchers did not specifically study the type of lies found in resumes, Guillory said that they did not see many outright lies.

“We didn’t seen any differences in the amount of deceptions across groups in the way that people lie, which shows that people are lying with similar frequency, but about different types of information between the different experimental conditions — private versus public conditions,” she said.

Although the study showed that people occasionally lied on public LinkedIn resumes, employers might still find online resumes useful, Guillory said.

“You see that this employee has a lot of connections from people that are trusted and who can see and verify their information,” she said. “It should push more people to be more truthful on their resume … whereas on a paper resume, there isn’t the same level of verification from employers.”

Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun.com.

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Murphy said the University must take into account both the rising costs of health care –– and the subsequent increase in student financial aid to cover these costs –– when seeking a permanent source of funding for Gannett.

“We know we need to bring in some additional revenue because you can’t rely on these one-time funds all the way along … Once you begin to do that, how do we make sure we’ve got the cost — the revenue stream as well to cover the financial aid, so that isn’t a barrier?” Murphy said.

One possibility the University is exploring, Murphy said, is charging students a health fee, folded into their semesterly tuition, to use Gannett’s services. This would replace the per-visit fees that some students — who are not covered by Cornell’s student health insurance plan or another carrier that waives them –– must pay, she added.

“We know many of our peer campuses have health fees that are part of their funding streams,” Murphy said. “That isn’t how we do [it] at Cornell right now and so that’s certainly something we are trying to take a look at to see if there’s a model there that makes sense for us.”

However, Murphy said the health fee might not be implemented.

Citing increasing demand for its services, Gannett is also considering constructing a new building. The idea was originally introduced in 2007, but was indefinitely postponed in 2008 due to the financial crisis, The Sun reported in March.

Although the University has yet to approve any plans, Murphy said she hopes the new facility will be open by 2018.

“The vision is an expanded facility,” Murphy said. “We can document that we are well beyond the capacity of that building.”

David Marten contributed reporting to this article.

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Harvard May Change Finals Schedule

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Harvard students could see evening final exams and a shortened exam period if a proposal discussed at Wednesday’s Committee on Undergraduate Education meeting comes to fruition.

Top College administrators at the meeting also voiced support for a plan to announce tentative exam dates before the semester starts but nearly unanimously struck down an Undergraduate Council proposal to introduce a new senior seminar program modeled on the popular freshman seminar program.

At the meeting, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris outlined a possible plan for a restructured exam period, which would last six days rather than the

current eight but include three exam slots each day—morning, afternoon, and a new evening time.

Harris said students would never have to take three exams in a single day, but they might be scheduled for two exams on one day more often.

Computer science professor and former Harvard Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis expressed support for the proposal.

“I think it would be great to shrink exam period by two days, even if it meant that there was a little less study time between exams for students—just to resolve the enormous compression that I think exists, especially at the end of the fall term,” Lewis said.

This story was originally published in The Harvard Crimson Thursday.

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should be strictly limited: The government should be there to protect your privacy, [but] it’s been flipped upside down.”

The speech seemed, in some respects, indistinguishable from a men’s hockey playoff game. A humming excitement preceded the main event. The Cornell pep band played “Don’t Stop Believing.”

The fans were in form.

“End the Fed! End the Fed!” they thundered from the bleachers, letting out continual whoops and shouts. “President Paul! President Paul!”

A rare protester stood up with a sign calling Paul a “bigot,” an “antisemite” and a “homophobe.” The rest of the audience disapproved, heckling him: “Asshole! Asshole!”

A man sitting next to him then grabbed the protester’s sign, ripped it to shreds and threw it to the audience — a move that was greeted with raucous applause.

Many of Paul’s fervent supporters said they came from the more conservative counties and townships around Ithaca. One such attendee was Randy Childers, an automotive technician from Romulus, N.Y. “He’s the only patriot running for office,” Childers said of Paul.

“I’m a student of history. Any change in government is always implemented by those of college age — they’re the ones who have the energy, who have the passion, who haven’t been indoctrinated yet.”

Members of the crowd, though, were not uniformly members of the Ron Paul revolution. And though the event proceeded smoothly, not all students shared the fervor for Paul.

Melanie Berdecia ’12, a member of the Cornell DREAM Team — an organization which strives to raise awareness about the difficulties faced by undocumented students — said that prior to the rally, DREAM was contacted by administrators who were “really concerned” about the possibility of the students protesting against Paul's presence on campus.

Although DREAM ultimately did not protest the rally, the organization, as of Thursday evening, had created a Facebook event titled “Ron Paul: Not So Common Sense Immigration ‘Reforms,’” outlining its viewpoints.

“We don't want to be violent, but we want to communicate our discontent with Ron Paul and his policies,” Berdecia said.

But for Paul, the tide of history is on his side, not on that of his opponents.

“People say, ‘Why do you want to go back to the gold standard, back to the 19th century? I’ll tell you what: They want to go back, to tyranny, and we want to go to the future of liberty,” he said.

Despite formidable odds, Paul emphasized that his campaign “is alive and well.”

“This revolution to restore our freedoms must continue,” he said.

“We must continue and never give up.”

Jeff Stein can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ecently, the Connecticut House of Representatives decided — by a vote of 82 to 62 — to repeal the state’s use of the death penalty. Considering that the state Senate reached the same decision the week before and Governor Dannel P. Mellow’s words that he will sign the proposal, it is safe to say that Connecticut will become the 17th state of the union to bar capital punishment. This also means that it will become the fifth jurisdiction in as many years — the others being Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York — to abolish the imposition of the death penalty for future crimes. For reasons that I will discuss below, I applaud Connecticut’s decision and hope that other states will also exercise proactive measures to join the abolitionist trend.

lawmakers should not ignore that this practice unjustly denies life — a fundamental right — to many of our citizens. First, the adversarial component of our criminal justice system seriously harms capital defendants. Since most defendants are individuals of low economic status, they do not have the resources to employ competent counsel.

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Diversity in the College of Engineering To the Editor: Re: “Engineering College Trails in Minority Enrollment,” News, April 16 The front page story in the April 16 edition of The Sun highlights a critical issue, both for Cornell as an institution and for our nation: the underrepresentation of certain demographic groups in engineering and science. The article performs a service by highlighting some of the challenges that minority students face, things that more traditional engineering students don’t even have to consider. The College of Engineering recognized these challenges more than eight years ago and invested in an infrastructure to enable the success of these students by appointing an Associate Dean for Diversity and creating a nationally recognized Diversity Programs in Engineering office.

These investments have paid off in many ways that are not reflected in The Sun article. The college is richly multiethnic and multiracial, with a vibrant mix of women, Asian, Hispanic, African and Native Americans that is the envy of many of our peers. The five-year graduation rates of our underrepresented minority students are far above the national average. At Cornell, 75 percent of our URM student earn an engineering bachelor’s degree in five years. Nationwide, just 52 percent of Hispanic Americans and 31 percent of African Americans receive an engineering bachelor’s degree within five years. It is true that enrollments of URM students in engineering at Cornell slightly lag the national average (by about 3 percent), but we would prioritize graduation rate over enrollment any day! Diversity Programs in Engineering supports all of these undergraduate groups with a suite of events that are open to all students who wish to participate. For these accomplishments and others, Cornell Engineering’s Diversity Programs in Engineering office was honored at the White House with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) in December of 2011.

The Sun has helped make people aware that success of minority students in engineering depends significantly on very real external factors related to being a minority and having nothing at all to do with ability. Can Cornell Engineering do better at recruiting and retaining underrepresented minority students? Absolutely! But, the strides Engineering has made in the last eight years show that we are on the right track.

Prof. Alan Zehnder, mechanical and aerospace engineering, associate dean for diversity and faculty development in the College of Engineering Prof. Rick Allmendinger, earth and atmospheric sciences, former associate dean for diversity and faculty development in the College of Engineering

First of all, I believe that states with de facto moratoriums on capital punishment, and states who rarely use the death penalty, should not wait for the Supreme Court to change its stance. Based on previous cases, it is reasonable to conclude the Court does not seem very interested in making the death penalty unconstitutional. For example, in Furman v. Georgia (1972), the Court held that death penalty statutes in the United States constituted cruel and unusual punishment and, therefore, violated the eighth amendment to the Constitution — applied to states through the 14th amendment.

The Court in Furman focused on the fact that, at the time, death penalty statutes were so broad and ambiguous that they allowed jurors to consider factors irrelevant to the case — e.g. race — when sentencing a defendant to death. As a result, the mandate of Furman was the following: “Where discretion is afforded a sentencing body on a matter so grave as the determination of whether human life should be taken or spared, that discretion must be suitably directed and limited so as to minimize the risk of wholly arbitrary and capricious action.” (Gregg v. Georgia) Furman’s decision led to a national de facto moratorium on capital punishment that came to an end in 1976, when the Supreme Court assessed new death penalty statutes limiting the level of discretion given to sentencers. In a series of cases known as the July 2nd Cases, the Court dismissed any possibility of considering that the death penalty in and of itself –– regardless of the circumstances –– violates the eighth and 14th amendments. It did so by declaring constitutional several state statutes, the most prominent one being Georgia’s.

In sum, the Supreme Court has made it clear that what violates the constitution is not the death penalty, but the manner in which it is determined and imposed. As a consequence, litigation in courts has focused — since 1976 — on reforming, but not outlawing, capital punishment.

However, if states who barely impose the death penalty and states with de facto moratoriums on capital punishment exercise proactive measures — such as Connecticut — to ban the death penalty, the Supreme Court may change its tradition. If the trend of abolition keeps its consistency, lawyers may eventually be able to convince the Court that under the evolving standards of decency implied in the eighth Amendment, capital punishment is cruel and unusual punishment under all conditions.

Even though the death penalty is not the center of attention of most Americans,

vague, creating room for arbitrary decisionmaking, such as discrimination.

The vague “henious, atrocious and cruel” (HAC) aggravating circumstance included in almost every death penalty statute is another example of the arbitrariness in capital punishment. It is difficult to imagine a first-degree murder that will not fall within the HAC category. And although the Supreme Court has created a standard limiting the discretion in HAC provisions, the fact is that these standards are also subject to numerous interpretations. Another problem with the death penalty is the high level of discretion granted to judges and lawyers in the questioning of potential jurors — or voir dire — during the jury selection process. Basically, judges have the power to allow any question that does not mention race in explicit terms. Frequently, the prosecution makes questions that implicitly ask jurors about views on race and other controversial subjects. As a result, the judge allows it, the juror answers it and the prosecutor can then use a peremptory challenge to strike a juror that is sympathetic to the defendant — without having to justify the action. Finally, strong empirical evidence such as the one presented to but rejected by the Court in McCleskey v. Kemp shows that race plays a central factor in whether a defendant is sentenced to death or not.

I believe in retribution. In theory, I think that, for the sake of justice, we are compelled to punish people and make sure they get their just desserts. I also believe that some crimes are so atrocious that the perpetrator deserves a punishment of death.

However, a retributionist’s ultimate goal is justice. And, in practice, I am strongly convinced that capital punishment in the United States — for the reasons mentioned above — is extremely unfair. More injustice results from this process than the “justice” done by executing an individual. We must not forget the death penalty is qualitatively different from any other kind of punishment; it is irrevocable. This is precisely why the Supreme Court created the concept of super due process for capital punishment proceedings. But even under current super due process standards, there is room for arbitrary and capricious action. There was before Furman, there still is, and if we do not take any proactive measures, the future will not be an exception.

Abdiel Ortiz-Carrasquillo is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at aortiz@cornellsun.com. I Respectfully Dissent appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Vet School Surprises N

ow that the school year is almost over — which is something I won’t admit out loud, but writing it down seems okay — I’ve been thinking of the things about vet school that have surprised me over the last years. I thought brainstorming for this column would be a little like pulling teeth (why is that even still a saying? I hope my dentist doesn’t find it hard to pull out teeth, and I don’t remember it being particularly painful), but it turned out to be surprisingly easy.

I’ll start with the things that relate directly to what we learn. I feel like we’ve learned how to make animals come alive — metaphorically, at least for now – under our fingertips. I pet my cat and I can picture what’s underneath all that fur, or I look at my horse and have a much more complete understanding of how he moves. Here’s a story to help this make sense for you. When I was very young, someone told me how to differentiate male sparrows from female sparrows. Ever since then, every time I saw a sparrow I would think in my head “male sparrow!” or “female sparrow!” but when I casually mentioned something about a male sparrow to a friend a little while ago she looked at me like I was crazy. (If you’re curious, male sparrows are the ones with the pretty dark brown streaks on their heads). Vet school has made it so that when I look at an animal, I see so much more than I used to.

I’ve also been surprised at the amount and variety of animal contact we’ve had. I didn’t ever really process that a vet school curriculum would include vaccinating llamas and trimming sheep hooves. However, I’m incredibly grateful that we get the opportunity to do things like this, because it makes everything that much more real for me, and makes me start to understand that one day I’ll be the one directly responsible for the lives of other creatures.

Additionally, my friends in med school have to practice things on themselves. I think vet school wins on that front (well, on all fronts, clearly, otherwise I wouldn’t be here, but this is a good example), because as much as I love my classmates, I would much prefer not to practice sticking needles into them.

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Which brings me to the social aspect of vet school. I’m used to the undergrad Cornell, which is so massive that you never expect to know even half the people in your classes, and even in the small seminar classes you almost never interact with each other outside of class. I’m not complaining — I loved the feeling of fitting into a niche as part of something bigger, and I knew what I was getting myself into. Which makes the contrast with vet school Cornell even larger. Almost everyone in my class knows each other and we see each other often outside of school (on the rare occasions that “outside of school” exists).

Fortunately, the people are all fantastic. I’m not saying that we’re all best friends, but we all seem to respect each other and get along well. Although the upperclassmen say that by the end of the four years, the way you see your classmates changes pretty dramatically.

Hopefully that doesn’t happen to us.

I also wasn’t expecting Ithaca itself to change for me as much as it has. I’ve only been to the arts quad once this year, and basically only go into Collegetown to meet friends who are still undergrads.

Really the only thing that’s stayed the same is the Wegman’s trips. My life is also considerably more dependent on my car than it ever used to be. We drive everywhere — to school, shopping, home, back to school again.

It feels a lot like living in suburbia and being in senior year of high school again.

Speaking of Ithaca, I also feel like the general attitude of the community to the vet school is different from the attitude of the community to Cornell in general. This one could be all in my head, but I’ve noticed when I tell people I’m in vet school they say, “Oh vet school! Cool!”

Usually followed by “So I have a dog…” But when I used

to tell people in Ithaca I was an undergrad at Cornell, the reaction was more “Oh. Cornell.”

On a more flippant note, I was surprised to find that I could be (almost) fully functional at 8 a.m. on a regular basis, to the point that sleeping in on the weekends means waking up at 9:30. And to think, I used to drag my feet to those 9:05 classes and absolutely refuse to take 8:40s. Also, vet school has changed my wardrobe into a strange hybrid of flannel (comfy), fancy (when interacting with clients) and farm (when interacting with large animals).

Seriously, though, in the beginning I would have told

Nikhita Parandekar Hoof in Mouth you that I was going into the whole experience with no expectations. Clearly I must have had some if so many things over the last year surprised me. I would say that I was excited to see what second year has to bring, but that would only be a half truth because there’s a lot of learning and a set of exams before the summertime and I’ve heard that fall of second year is one of the hardest parts of vet school. So instead, I suppose I’ll say, I’m excited to see how the rest of vet school will continue to surprise me. And that’s the truth.

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a first-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

Clinical Genomics as WCMC

hat are you going to do if a student commits suicide after finding out they have the genetic marker for early onset Parkinson’s disease?

This is not a typical discussion between professors and university presidents.

However, a new class at the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. program at Weill Cornell Medical College, Sloan-Kettering and Rockefeller University engendered such concerns. In fall 2011, Dr. Chris Mason, Cornell professor and head of the integrative functional genomics laboratory, envisioned a class for M.D.-Ph.D. students in clinical genomics. Mason’s work focuses on developing the promises made over a decade ago during the Human Genome Project.

From the entire 3.1 million base pair genetic code, the field of clinical genomics seeks

Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease is extremely small. Still, the chance is finite and non-zero and we have to be prepared for that possibility.”

Fortunately — or perhaps unfortunately — few genomic conditions are as strikingly binary as the example of early-onset Parkinson’s disease. Far more likely is that an analysis will reveal a 30-percent increased chance of heart disease or a 15-percent decreased chance of diabetes. Mason contextualized, “Clinical genomics is all about probabilities, and nothing is set in stone.”

Andersen countered by describing the concept of the “incidentalome;” essentially, everyone is walking around with 100 or so mutations that according to current scientific literature, should have immediate phenotypic expression (e.g. congenital deaf-

Daniel Rosen What’s Up, Doc? to extrapolate not only expected reactions to drugs, but susceptibility to disease and predicted long-term health outcomes. Mason proposed an unorthodox textbook for the class: the students would perform their class research on themselves by sequencing their full genome. So how did this goal led to a flurry of inter-institutional emails, meetings, invectives such as the one above and — to an extent — fear?

On a superficial level, performing genomic analyses of one’s own genome appealed to our scientific curiosity, and perhaps, to our narcissism. What could be more self-indulgent than gazing at your own reflection for 10 weeks, albeit genetically? Dr. Olaf Andersen, the head of the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. program, concisely described the perils of genetic sequencing, saying, “The chance of finding something as deleterious as early-onset

ness) but in reality, do not.

Probabilistic correlations and the incidentalome highlight the work needed in clinical genomics. From a clinical perspective, such in-depth genomic sequencing is akin to a whole body CT screen. Some medical centers market this as a proactive way to stay healthy, by imaging the body in detail. However, in reality, such screens either reveal nothing, giving a patient a possibly false sense of health, or reveal abnormalities that will eventually prove unremarkable but will induce multiple followup tests and associated costs and morbidities. Andersen concluded, “We simply do not have the infrastructure or knowledge in place to responsibly care for outcomes students may discover. Clinical genomics is a powerful tool, but we must proceed cautiously.”

Mason discovered that the legal implica-

tions lagged even behind logistical considerations. Administrators conferred with legal counsel at Cornell’s affiliate, NewYorkPresbyterian [??1] Hospital, and discovered that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act has no provisions for this type of information. Approval from the WCMC Institutional Review Board was also unnecessary as full genome sequencing was not technically an experiment. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 also did not apply.

Ironically, such ambiguity — both scientific and legal — was a driving force behind sequencing students’ genomes. As Mason explained, “the plan was to have students examine their own sequences and say, hey, I’ve got an allele for taller than average height, but I can barely qualify to ride a rollercoaster. Some of the gene interactions are beyond our current knowledge, there are environmental considerations as well, and just as in Gattaca, your genetic code is not the final determinant of your life.”

To gain more insight into the genetic counseling component, I spoke with Dr. Jessica Davis, a professor and clinical geneticist at NYPH and the Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr. Davis cautioned, “in teaching counseling it is important to not get swept away by the tech hype.” When asked to explain the expected role of the general physician, Dr. Davis prognosticated that, “genetics will be part of everything,” but intense analysis will fall to the genetic counselor. How many are in the United States and Canada? About two thousand. For something that promises to become as ubiquitous as blood tests, two thousand trained professionals for a population of over 300 million highlights the discordance between expectations and logistics.

Other universities are pushing for levels of genetic sequencing of students — with varying success. Stanford University recently conducted a similar genomics class in which students were given single nucleotide polymorphism panels. These are not as revealing as a full genome sequence but can identify known common gene variants. The University of California at Berkeley, pre-

sumably not wanting to be outdone by their perennial cross-bay rivals, attempted to test the entire incoming freshman class for SNPs in nutritional pathways. The state of California green-lighted the project but said that individual data could not be returned to students.

It may appear that researchers at WCMC are eager to develop a promising new technology while administrators seek protection from disruptive outcomes, legal and otherwise. The M.D.-Ph.D. students are symbolic for the underlying argument.

Are the students in the clinical genomics class acting as researchers, clinicians or patients? This unique opportunity first enticed the students but also proved to be a frustrating conflict of interest.

Mason stipulated that in order to conduct the full genome sequencing for students next year, “the concerns of administrators and institutions will have to be mollified. But unfortunately there is always a chance that a student will discover a BRCA mutation [indicator of strong predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer].” The bottom line is, “more information is always a good thing. It may be daunting, but that is exactly why we need to train scientists to properly interpret the data.”

Earlier this year two companies, Life Technologies and Oxford Nanopore, both claimed to be able to sequence the entire human genome in less than a day for about $1000. With technology improving and costs decreasing, the question is if we as clinicians will utilize genomic sequencing, but when. And will we possess the skill set to do so as competent physicians?

Hemingway timelessly replies, “The shortest answer is to do the thing.” For $1,000 and with appropriate training and computing power, anyone can dig through their genome. I may have found my graduation present.

Daniel Rosen is a first-year M.D.-Ph.D. candidate at Weill Cornell Medical College. He may be reached at dar2039@med.cornell.edu. What’s Up, Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Swedish Sounds of Silence

BY MARTHA WYDYSH Sun Staff Writer

This Sunday, Cornell Cinema will host a special viewing of Terje Vigen (A Man There Was), presenting a unique live accompaniment by Swedish film composer and musician Matti Bye on amplified piano, glockenspiel and electronic instruments. This 1917 film, directed by Victor Sjöström, marked the beginning of the golden age of Swedish silent film. Based on a poem of the same title

by Henrik Ibsen, it tells the story of an indigent sailor who tries to run the English blockade of Norway's southern coast in a small rowboat, desperately attempting to smuggle food back to his starving wife and daughter. Terje Vigen is captured by a British commanding officer, and years later, when this same officer's family finds itself dependent on Terje, he must decide whether to be benevolent or to take bitter revenge.

Matti Bye breathes new life into this film with his original score. Bye’s music is distressing, full of the trepidation that Terje Vigen’s story requires; he captures the colors of anguish in his hair-raising, ghostly melodies.

Bye is considered one of Sweden's most important composers of film scores as well as an extraordinary musician and improviser on the piano. He is most popularly known for writing a series of avant-garde scores for such early Swedish silent film classics as he has so masterfully done in this film.

The screening of Terje Vigen will also include the 15-minute film, The Birth of a Moving Image, a tribute to early filmmaking, directed and animated by David Giese. The piece — also featuring live accompaniment

by Bye — is a visual re-mastering of the oneminute film Danse Serpentine from 1900 by the Lumière brothers, using only material from the original 35mm reel.

The Sun was lucky to have a chance to hear from the talented Matti Bye himself: THE SUN: You have parents who were highly involved in the visual arts: a mother

who was an actress and a father who was a playwright. What got you interested in music as your own medium for art?

MATTI BYE: I was a shy child, and perhaps music was a world in which I could be very much alone — a hidden place. But one thing is the same in all of these art forms: the drama! I think a lot of what composing film music is about entails drama and getting the right dramatic curve.

sical background helped me to improvise directly from the films, but later, when they asked me to write music for small ensembles and record the music for DVDs, I became more and more of a film music composer.

SUN: In Terje Vigen, you fill a large void that exists in a movie with no original score.

What are some challenges you met with this great responsibility? Do you think that adding

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SUN: What made you want to write scores for classic, timeless Swedish silent films such as Phantom Carriage, Häxan and, of course, Terje Vigen? Is there something special about silent films that draws you to them?

M.B.: I love the time of early filmmaking because it was a time to explore and invent the language of storytelling in moving images. Live music was always used to accompany films because there was no dialogue. The story had to be explained through images and music. This bestows a very challenging task onto a musician. You get very involved, having to explain the story as a composer. My first years accompanying silent films, I did only at the piano. My clas-

music to these films changes their character?

M.B.: The beautiful thing about music for silent films is that you can add psychological levels that you don’t recognize in the images. Maybe this is only my interpretation of the story and the characters in it, but I have the freedom to do this. This is what makes this art form so exciting and vivid.

SUN: Can you describe the composition process for your film scores?

M.B.: I watch the film over and over. I read the novel. I try to empathize with the characters, almost like an actor getting a new role in a play. Instrumentation is also very important, as this is what sets the color.

SUN: It has been said that your work is concerned with the tension, which exists between moving image, sound and music, taking the viewer on a unique and lyrical journey of the world of dreams and illusions through a multi-sensorial experience of storytelling. This is especially perceptible in Terje Vigen. What do you have to say about this special bond of music to the story?

M.B.: Music sometimes embodies the feelings we experience when we react to images, and it can open up the imaginative subconscious. I personally love when I get involved in an artistic experience, an exhibition or a concert, when there is room for me, a space where my creativity can be part of the artist’s work. I want this phenomenon to happen for my audience when I perform my film concerts. I hope I create moods and hidden places where the spectator can be a part of this experience.

SUN: I found the score of Terje Vigen to be powerfully suspenseful and foreboding. How do you choose what feelings to bring out in each moment of the films you score?

M.B.: I want to bring sounds to the story that help the audience to participate in this very special moment we create together.

Everyone has their own experience of the film, and in this way you can truly call it a gesamtkunstwerk [German for “an allembracing art form”].

SUN: You also enjoy performing piano in the form of improvisation. What do you feel is the biggest difference between this type of impromptu performance and composing?

M.B.: When I compose, there is time for reflection. In improvisation, I have the feeling of absolute transience in the moment. I never perform in the same way two times; it is always different depending on the film, audience, place and mood I’m in during this very special event.

Martha Wydysh is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at mwydysh@cornellsun.com.

A Cabin Worth the Nightmares

BY ARIELLE CRUZ Sun Staff Writer

They are getting ready to go on a trip to — you guessed it — a cabin in the woods. Screenwriter Joss Whedon’s affection for Scooby Doo-esque gangs isn’t lost here. We “You think you know the story.” Braced for some bad have our attractive, athletic Fred and Daphne couple. Of plot twists, eerie dramatic music and the twitching impulse course our Fred — by the name of Curt (Chris to cover my eyes, I approached The Cabin in the Woods Hemsworth) — is our gang captain. There’s the nerdy girl ready for a scary movie.

(Kristin Connolly) as well as our classic stoner boy (Fran I am not much of a scary movie buff. Horror movies, Kranz). There is no dog to replace Scooby, but Jesse with their endless chainsaws, blood and torture chambers Williams does look a lot like Lil Bow Wow. — they’re not my thing. That being said, The Cabin in the The gang gets on their way and everything seems norWoods defies these conventions, going so far as to being one mal enough. They have a keg, they’re making painfully of the most entertaining movies I have seen in a long time. corny jokes, there’s a creepy guy at a gas station who might Never fear, horror fans, Cabin is not lacking in blood, gore as well be holding a sign saying “You’re Gonna Die!” — life or torture chambers. It still comes with your standard slut- is good. But as time goes on, little things — like a bird ty co-eds and jocks with bodies that can’t exist outside of vaporizing in a force field, an earpiece-wearing man on Hollister ads. But as far as their roof, the flipping back and forth to I know, a horror movie the “research” company — all leave us plot has never been done wondering: What is really happening?

The Cabin in the Woods quite this way before.

The clues we get along the way, and the Directed by Drew Goddard The movie begins in an more-than-obvious hints before someone Featuring office building. The camgets killed, should make this movie pretera follows what appear to ty benign. But if anything it feels like this Chris Hemsworth, be two egotistical middlemovie takes advantage of our pauses for Richard Jenkins aged researchers. They are comedic relief and scares us just the working at some corporasame. tion in fierce competition with another in Japan. But I am dying to review this in more depth — seriously my before we have a chance to figure out what these people are fingers are twitching, but I care too much about all of you doing and why they are even relevant, we are forwarded to too much to spoil it. Part of the beauty of this movie is that our five co-eds. when you go in, you think you know the story. Even when

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you get more and more information, the plot seems pretty predictable. But two-thirds of the way through, you’ll be thrown a curve ball and think, “Damn, good thing Arielle didn’t spoil this for me. She’s awesome!”

So instead I will say this: you don’t have to be a scary movie fan to like this film. If you enjoy Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Men in Black movies, sci-fi or simply the craftiness of cinema, this movie is for you. Only Joss Whedon could’ve taken the horror/sci-fi genre and mocked it with such self-awareness and still invest in each story strand so deeply. Director and co-writer Drew Goddard and Whedon attack and scare you, but also give you your sweet revenge.

Arielle Cruz is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at amc465@cornell.edu.

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lievably cheesy the plot was. It’s a good thing I’m an excellent eye-roller, because that was what I was doing during the majority of the movie. I wanted to die in my seat when When Titanic was released back in December of 1997, I Leonardo DiCaprio asked Kate Winslet where she wanted to was four years old. I did not see it until two or three years go and she responded, “To the stars,” as she stared longingly later, on a tiny little television set with a VHS player, tucked into his eyes. in a cabin surrounded by the relative solitude of Upstate New The other main sensation I experienced during Titanic was York. I remember lying stomach-down on my grandparents’ the feeling of being hit over the head with a club while James bed, surrounded by six of my cousins and my sister, upset Cameron yelled at me, “Class discrimination! Treatment of none of them wanted to watch Scooby Doo and the Witch’s women! The hubris of humans thinking they can conquer Ghost with me. While the details of that first viewing escape nature!” Not that I disagree with the points that Cameron me, I do recall a somewhat awkward conversation with my bombarded me with, but again, my eye-rolling skills came in mother the following day handy. And I know that many have about why the redheaded lady brought up this point, but — Leonardo Titanic 3D took her clothes off for the DiCaprio did not have to die! They greasy-haired man. both could have easily fit onto the door.

Directed by James Cameron One long night in the last I just don’t understand.

Featuring Leo DiCaprio, intervening 12 years, I saw The whole re-release of Titanic in Kate Winslet Titanic again, but I’m guessing 3D kind of offends me. Well, 3D kind that took place sometime in of offends me. As a lucky winner in the the early 2000s. When I 20/20 vision genetic lottery, I hate the watched it this weekend in 3D, several things surprised me. feeling of glasses resting on the bridge of my nose (especially The running time: this film is 195 minutes long. Three for three hours). But I just don’t quite understand the point hours, 15 minutes. That is three hours, 15 minutes I could of Titanic in 3D. It really only makes sense during the scene have spent catching up on my Russian homework or reading when the boat hits the iceberg. So for those first two hours I The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. had to see Leonardo DiCaprio’s greasy hair in 3D (which I Instead, I spent three hours, 15 minutes being force-fed a fic- don’t even really want to see in 2D) and Kathy Bates’ hats in tional history about a true event in which 1,514 people trag- 3D — again, not really worth it. ically died. I had a flashback to the time I was forced to see And if I’m not mistaken, it was James Cameron himself another James Cameron film, Avatar, and how after about an who made such a fuss three years ago about how wonderful hour I looked down at my watch only to have the friend I was he was for shooting Avatar in 3D, and how only posers shoot seeing it with tell me we had another two to go. something in 2D and then convert it into 3D later. Now Besides the length of Titanic, I was shocked by how unbe- James Cameron is all like, “LOLJK. I want to build another

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n 1971, a group of students at San Rafael High School in profits still rise, and nothing changes.

California began congregating around the statue of dairy While the profile of your average cannabis user has demigod Louis Pasteur at 4:20 p.m. each day to smoke changed, the image has not. Look at the way Michael Phelps cannabis and search for an abandoned crop of illegally was demonized after pictures of him ripping a bong [like a grown plants. They never found it, but 4/20 became a coun- champ] surfaced on the Internet and became an internatercultural rallying cry for smokers everywhere. tional scandal. The man won eight gold medals! Cannabis is 4/20 has become to pot smokers what St. Patrick’s Day is not exactly performance enhancing, but it helps with eating for drinkers — the same absurdity. Today, the University of 10,000 Calories a day and sleeping, though.

Colorado at Boulder plans to shut down its entire campus to All forms of media are responsible for perpetuating a prevent the yearly congregation of 10,000 people (and number of stereotypes about “stoners” that are entirely false. ~30,000 joints) on Norlin Quad, a hazy space equivalent to That engineer next to you in your Fluid Dynamics prelim the Arts Quad here at Cornell. could be blazed out of his mind. How about the Above the In Colorado, Amendment 64: The Regulate Marijuana Influence commercial with the talking dog? These media Like Alcohol Act of 2012, seeks to enact a more sensible pol- campaigns receive support from tobacco and alcohol comicy. The CDC pins the number of alcohol-induced deaths in panies, Phillip Morris and Anheuser-Busch for example. The 2009 at 24,518, excluding accidents and homicides. Why pharmaceutical industry still funds Partnership for a Drugare there much stricter policies for cannabis as a drug, Free America, which is just as absurd as it reads. despite its relative safety?

Today, Ritalin, Klonopin and Oxycontin are commonplace.

Remember that picture of President Obama in a straw These are not harmless drugs by any means. Yet cannabis is still hat smoking a joint? Last week at the Sixth Summit of the a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (1970), Americas, Mr. Obama said, “I know there are frustrations which means that it has a “high potential for abuse” and no [with the War on Drugs] and that some call for legalization medical use. While a good portion of medical marijuana … the United States will not be going in this direction.” patients may not have a medical need, the American Medical Legalizing all drugs may not be the best policy, but per- Association reversed its stance on marijuana in 2009 and haps the legalizaencouraged the government to tion of cannabis pursue cannabis research. So would be somewhy Schedule I? thing more akin to Those who profit from the the “middle illegality of cannabis are satisground” sought by fied with the status quo. It’s presidents Juan like Weeds on Showtime. I Manuel Santos of hate this show, and I’m not a Los Angeles Colombia and hater. The producers of this Daze Otto Pérez Molina show have made a lot of of Guatemala. money exploiting the image of Pledging to reduce the “southbound flow of money and weed and juxtaposing it with a lot of half-naked Maryguns to the region” looks great on paper, but so far the Louise Parker. I’m not sure most people understand that United States' actions have been focused on the supply-side. Weeds is just a rehashing of 1930s Reefer Madness sensationDid they sleep through Economics 1101? The Mérida alism, when cannabis and hemp became an issue for those Initiative provides money and guns to the region; cartel who sold competing goods.

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house.” (Yes, that is my James Cameron impression.)

The Titanic sunk on April 15, 1912, so the film was rereleased as a centennial celebration of the deaths of 1,514 people? I can only assume that’s why this is happening now.

When most of us think back on our experience of watching Titanic, we don’t think about those 1,514 individuals. We think about Jack and Rose. Jack and Rose never existed, and I fail to see (or feel) why their story is so much more monumental than the actual dramas experienced by 3,000 people.

I remember Titanic as being a film that changed people’s lives. It was this unbelievable, larger-than-life experience that taught a generation to seize each and every moment, to run around screaming, “I’m the king of the world!” Re-watching it this weekend, I am confused. It’s just not a very good movie.

And I don’t think my apathy towards this film is related to it being a romance. I love romantic films, in general, but the problem here is that I feel no sympathy towards either Jack or Rose. They’re both just kind of annoying and whiny (and this is before they have a real reason to be). Jack is a creep. He falls in love with her (by the way she is supposed to be 17) after knowing her for a couple of hours (including a really poignant moment in which he teaches her how to spit).

He also ignores her when she tells him to leave (when I took self-defense as a PE in high school, we called this “disregarding no”).

Rose also is kind of a spoiled brat. In one scene, her mother explains to her why running off with Jack is a selfish thing to do, and then she does exactly that. But, alas, they are on a boat, so there’s really no place to…

Julia Moser is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com.

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The stoner film genre isn’t any better. However, that should not prevent you from enjoying a wonderful Friday with your close friends, watching a good movie (The Big Lebowski is my personal favorite) and not thinking about issues like laws regarding cannabis. To quote Chris Tucker in Friday, “I know you don’t smoke weed, I know this; but I’m gonna get you high today, ‘cause it’s Friday; you ain't got no job ... and you ain’t got shit to do.”

Prof. Carl Sagan said it best in a piece he wrote the same year those Californians coined the term 4/20: “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” It is unreasonable to expect change from the couch. To blindly continue with unsuccessful policy is the real fog of reefer madness.

Patrick Cambre is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pcambre@cornellsun.com. L.A. Daze appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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The Red lightweight rowing team will also be competing this weekend against MIT and Columbia in the Geiger Cup. The race, which will take place in Cambridge, Mass., has been in place for over 50 years, according to head coach Chris Kerber.

“It’s pretty much been the same for over 50 years, and that’s pretty exciting,” he said. “Its pretty exciting for myself in my fourth season and it’s pretty exciting for the guys to race people they may know.”

Kerber’s expectations for the races this weekend, similar to those of last weekend’s races, include plans for team improvement.

“We’re looking to get better on the water, optimize our race plan, and even hone our skills, and that’s happening on a weekby-week basis,” Kerber said. “Each week is concluded by one of these races. We take each week at a time.”

According to Kerber, the Red will be battling a headwind on the Charles River. A headwind spreads out the competition and could therefore effect the results. He said that the Red has adjusted race plans accordingly.

“We’re racing some crews that are highly ranked in our league,” Kerber said. “That also helps us adjust and modify to have focuses down on the course.”

This year’s lightweight team is led by a very strong senior class and an advanced sophomore class, which creates a competitive environment. According to Kerber, the challenges provided from the younger team members really push the older members.

In a similarly structured competition last Saturday against Princeton and Yale, the Red performed very well. In the morning, it crushed Princeton, but was defeated in the afternoon by Yale.

“Each one of these times down the course is an opportunity for us to put forth our best and then kind of study it and analyze it and make it better each week,” Kerber said.

Tina Ahmadi can be reached at tahmadi@cornellsun.com.

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Women’s Rowing Looks to Win Its First Ever Dunn Bowl Against Brown Coming off a second place finish at the UVA Invitational, the No. 16 women’s rowing team will host No. 10 Brown and No. 18 Columbia in the Dunn Bowl this Saturday on the Cayuga Inlet.

The race will begin at 8:35 a.m., as the Red looks to win its first ever Dunn Bowl in the varsity eight race. The Cornell and Brown regatta is one of the oldest in the Ivy League, but in 1933, then-head coach John Dunn decided the race needed its own bowl.

Since its institution, the Bears have

taken the trophy every year. However, since 2000, when Columbia started to compete in the race as well, the Red has come in second place five times.

For the six seniors on the varsity eight squad, the Dunn bowl marks the last time they will row in Ithaca. The team’s last regular season race of the season will be in Hanover, N.H. against Dartmouth, before the squad heads to Camden, N.J. for the long-awaited Ivy League Championships.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

Women’s Lacrosse Finishes Off Conference Play Against Yale After defeating a tough No. 11 Loyola team last weekend, the women’s lacrosse team lost to Syracuse, 16-9, in a midweek non-conference matchup. On Saturday, the Red will resume Ivy play on senior day with its final game of the regular season on Schoellkopf Field.

The Red (8-4, 3-2 Ivy League) looks to secure a spot in the Ivy League tournament with a win over Yale (5-8, 2-4).

The Bulldogs are coming off two straight conference wins against Brown and Columbia, although they have not defeated a ranked opponent yet this season. Yale is led on offense by senior attack Caroline Crow, who has 29 goals and 11 assists on the year. Goaltender Erin McMullan has a 10.63 goals against average.

In 33 total meetings between the two teams, Yale has been victorious 19 times, but the Red has won the last four

matchups. Last season, Cornell won big, 14-3, thanks to a 13-0 run in the middle of the game led by four goals from senior attack Jessi Steinberg and three from senior midfielder Shannon McHugh.

Although a win on Saturday will put the Red in a good position in the conference, it will also be bittersweet for the team’s six seniors, who will be ending storied careers on Schoellkopf Field. The seniors’ accomplishments in their four years include leading the team to its first-ever Ivy League Tournament two seasons ago and upsetting No. 2 Florida, 96, last year.

A win on Saturday would keep the Red at least tied for third in the conference heading into the all-important final weekend of Ivy League play, when the team will face Brown.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

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Cayuga’s waters | Saturday’s race will be the final time the six seniors on the varsity eight squad race in Ithaca, before ending their regular season on the road.

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“It’ll be a nice end of the year, end of the season send-off,” said senior co-captain Katie Fink.

Cornell is typically a strong competitor at Ivies. The Red has placed second in the show for the past two years behind Dartmouth and Brown, according to Kowalchik. When it comes to horseback riding, the Green and the Bears are the squad’s toughest competitors in the Ivy League. Currently, Cornell and Brown are tied for the most Ivy wins.

“I’m always excited for Ivies because we’ve won it six times now and if we win it this year we’ll have won it the most out of everyone,” said head coach Chris Mitchell.

The Red is determined to beat the Bears and bring the Ivy Cup back to Ithaca, but the competition will be stiff. Unlike Cornell, Brown will be moving on to nationals as a team this year, according to Mitchell.

“I think we’re all pretty evenly matched … I think Cornell and Brown are a little bit [stronger] than Dartmouth this year,” he said.

The members of the Ivy League take turns hosting this exclusive competition. Last year, the Ivy Show took place at Cornell’s Oxley Equestrian Center. This year, the competition is being hosted by Yale and Columbia at a private facility in Bethany, Connecticut, according to Mitchell. While Yale rides at the facility regularly, most of the riders who will be competing on Sunday are not familiar with it.

“It’s kind of neat to go to a place that’s almost that neutral,” Mitchell said.

Another unique feature of the Ivy Show is that the squad is able to bring more riders than it can bring to a regular season horse show.

“The majority of the team that’s been showing all year is showing at Ivies,” Kowalchik said.

For most of the seniors, the Ivy Show will be their last one with Cornell. Only Bronwyn Scrivens, who qualified for nationals, will have the opportunity to show again this season as a senior. For senior Melissa Kenny, the Ivy Show has been a significant part of her career with the Red. It was the first show she was able to compete in as a freshman, as well as the first she competed in over fences.

“It’s been kind of the ‘show of firsts’ for me,”

she said.

Kenny has also had the opportunity to ride at Ivies every year.

“It’s been a really cool opportunity to be able to go to all the Ivies,” she said.

Additionally, the Ivy Show is a unique opportunity since only the eight members of the Ivy League are able to participate.

“It’s another show that we get to do that 99% of the teams in the IHSA don’t get to have so it’s definitely a cool opportunity,” Kowalchik said.

Senior Caroline Rusk will also be competing with the Red for the last time at Ivies. She recently qualified to move into the open division and will be competing in open fences for the first time. Rusk was also named an MVP at the team’s end-of-year banquet.

“I’m a little nervous because … the bar will be raised a little bit [and] the level of competition will be higher,” she said.

According to Kenny, even though the last show will be tough for the seniors, they are still looking forward to Sunday’s competition.

“I hope to do really well,” she said. “It’s my last show and after having been on the team for four years it’s kind of bittersweet because I’m really excited to be able to show and be able to compete but it’s also going to be my last show.”

The show will be a good way to round off the season.

“It’s a really nice way to bring everyone together … It almost feels like a showcase in some ways because we’re kind of showing how far each of us has come,” Rusk said.

Coming off of a successful regular season, the team is confident in its ability to perform well at the Ivy Show.

“We had a very solid season this year so I think that will be reflected in our turnout at Ivies,” Fink said.

The squad hopes that its hard work all season long will come together at the competition.

“We’re definitely as prepared as we’re going to be because we had stepped up the practices for regionals and zones,” Kowalchik said.

“I expect my girls to give me everything they’ve got as they’ve been doing all year,” said Mitchell.

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

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Senior squadron | Seniors Shannon McHugh and Jessi Steinberg totaled seven goals in the win against Yale last year.

Seniors Hope to Keep Ivy Win Streak Alive M. LAX

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game,” Donovan said. “You can throw records out the window.”

Led by senior attackman Parker Brown, who has notched 27 points on the season, the Bears currently sit in fifth place in the conference and will be desperate for a win as they look to snatch the fourth and final spot in the Ivy League Tournament. On the field, big contributions are coming from sophomore attackman Sam Huster, who has racked up 21 goals so far, and freshman attackman Nick Piroli, who has tallied 18. While Brown has had its strong moments, the team has suffered several blowouts this season, leaving the squad with an average of nine goals per game while giving up an average 10 goals per game.

“They have a pretty balanced offense,” McMichael said.

“Defensively they’re pretty typical.

They have a slower-paced offense that we might be able to take advantage of.”

Look for Cornell to try and jump out to a quick lead as it tries to crush the Bears’ spirits early on

and remain undefeated in Ivy League play as it moves into its final regular season weekend – an away weekend at fellow Ivy League leader Princeton. However, don’t expect the Red to look past the Bears, a team that has proven dangerous this season – just ask Duke or Yale what Brown is capable of – and will be hungry to try and gain a position in the Ivy League Tournament by bringing an end to Cornell’s 16-game home winstreak, the longest in the nation, on senior day.

“It’s an Ivy League opponent,” Donovan said. “With it being senior day – it’s going to be the last time the seniors get to play on Schoellkopf in the regular season – that’s probably going to play a pretty big role and I think you’re going to see more of the same from the seniors who have been so instrumental in our season thus far.”

“We’re just looking at it as the next game on our schedule,” McMichael said.

Zach Waller can be reached at zwaller@cornellsun.com.

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Squad Prepares for Ivy Show on Sunday

By ARIEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer

Although the Red may not have made it to nationals this year, there is still one final show left for the team this season. The Ivy Show is an extra invitational held annually for the eight Ivy League universities. The stand-alone competition has no bearing on the squad’s overall season, so it allows the riders to compete together one last time in a more fun, less pressure-filled environment.

“This is basically just one last time for us to compete as a team this year,” said junior co-captain Emily Kowalchik. “We’re not trying to qualify for anything anymore; this is just a time to enjoy showing as a team.”

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Records out the window | Freshman attackman Matt Donovan said how well the two teams have done so far this season will mean nothing when it comes down to this game.

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Red Hosts Brown in Last Home Game

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Syracuse game. We’re still just as focused, we’re still not content with how we’ve played. I think it was a good stepping stone in the right direction to get a After a well-deserved weekend off, the Cornell pretty decent game against Syracuse. men’s lacrosse team will get back into things “I think we’re going to build off of that this weekend when it squares off against Ivy momentum gained from the Syracuse foe Brown. The Bears make the long trip game and bring it into the Brown game,” Brown from Providence, R.I. for a 3 p.m. senior said freshman attackman and four-time day faceoff on Saturday at Schoellkopf Field.

Ivy League Rookie of the Week Matt After trouncing the No. 14 Syracuse Donovan. “It’s a whole new opponent and Orange last Tuesday by a score of 12-6, the we’ve got to focus that way.”

No. 3 Red (9-1, 4-0 Ivy League) took a While Brown’s record may not be vs. long-awaited weekend break as it prepared impressive, what is impressive is how well for its final regular season home game. it has been able to hang in with some of While the Red should enter the game the big names in college lacrosse, most refreshed and ready to finish out the season notably No. 5 Duke, who narrowly strong, the Bears (5-7, 1-3), will enter escaped the Bears in Durham, N.C., fendCornell tomorrow’s contest riding a wave of success ing off a late Brown rally to sneak out a it hasn’t experienced all season. The Bears close, 9-8, victory. In the Ivy League, the Tomorrow, 3 p.m. recently took down Penn and Providence Bears have been just as competitive, holdSchoellkopf Field and took Yale to four overtimes in what ultiing every Ancient Eight opponent to withmately ended up in a loss, 11-10, all in the in one goal — with the exception of No. last two weeks.

13 Princeton, who shellacked the Bears, “There was a little bit of frustration before the 13-2, back on March 31st.

Syracuse game,” said senior midfielder Mitch “It’s going to a tough game — it’s an Ivy League McMichael. “We just weren’t playing up to our potential. I think the guys are a little more relaxed after the See M. LAX page 19

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One last time | Because the team did not advance to Nationals this year, the Ivy Show will be the last time for the seniors to compete with their teammates this season.

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C.U. Looks to Come Away With Carnegie Cup

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Home crowd | Senior co-captain Jim Voter says he hopes to see a large turnout this weekend to help the Red bring home the Carnegie Cup.

The men’s heavyweight rowing team is geared up to compete with Princeton and Yale in the Carnegie Cup this weekend in Ithaca. The Carnegie Cup varsity races — described by head coach Todd Kennett ’91 as one of the oldest races in which the Red competes — were started by Andrew Carnegie’s wife.

Both Kennett and senior co-captain Jim Voter have high expectations for the race. According to Voter, although Princeton and Yale are two of the top teams in the league, the Red can compete in terms of ranking and ability.

“We’re anticipating a really close race,” Voter said.

According to Kennett, the Red has some rowers who are very strong and some who are really adept in the boat. The Red has long-term plans for increasing boat speed, which include focusing on individ-

ual improvements.

“Everyone’s going to have to do what they’re good at really well and attack their weaknesses,” he said. “We’re capable of producing some good boat speed.”

Kennett said that the cup this weekend would be a good measurement for the future.

“If we do well, we can say okay, this is a great performance,” Kennett said. “If not, we’ve got to go back to the blackboard and change what we’re doing to find the speed to win the league. I’m happy with the work the guys have been doing, and it’s important we have a maximal effort because it’s our last race for three weeks.”

The Red is coming off some success from last weekend against Syracuse and the Naval Academy. According to Voter, the team came in second place to the Naval Academy by just a few feet.

Kennett said that it was a pretty tough race and that the Red had raced against the Naval academy for three consecutive week-

ends now.

According to Kennett, the team has been thinking of scenarios and potential courses to maximize its boat speed.

“In rowing you have very little contact with the other boat,” Kennett said. “As long as you keep your focus in it, that’s what it’s about. It’s about how much boat speed you can create.”

According to Voter, the race should attract a decent crowd, especially since the Boatyard Grill will be open for breakfast during the races.

“It’s more than just being a good race against two of our rivals in the Ivy League,” Voter said. “It’s also a home race for us, and for the four seniors in the boat, it’s their last home racing during their time here. It’s a chance to bring a win in front of our home fans, and we’re going in with a little bit of a mental edge in that aspect as we hope to bring home the Carnegie Cup See M. ROWING page 18