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Amid Controversy, Cornell To Partake in AAU Survey

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26 universities opt out of sexual assault survey

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Though 26 universities have declined to participate in a sexual assault survey conducted by the Association of American Universities, Cornell announced Thursday that it still plans to participate in the survey.

Two dozen colleges belonging to the AAU — including Princeton, Stanford and Johns Hopkins — have decided to refrain from participating in the survey, citing concerns about its efficacy, according to Inside Higher Ed. The anonymous survey will compile data from 800,000 undergraduate and graduate students across the nation, and

produce a publicly available set of aggregate results, although each university’s data will only be released to its respective administrators, according to the AAU. With the exception of the names of university-specific organizations, all participants will also answer a uniform set of questions.

Sixteen researchers wrote a letter expressing their concerns about the survey in a Nov. 17 letter to the leaders of AAU universities, where they urged university leaders to reject the survey.

Led by Jennifer Freyd — a University of Oregon professor — the researchers point to the survey’s lack of transparency, a $85,000 participation fee per university and uniformity as some of its main short-

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“Without comparative data among institutions, the practical value of a nationwide survey will be severely limit-

ed. ... Furthermore, spending $85,000 for a non-transparent survey may well See SURVEY page 4

Cornell Employee Killed in TCAT Bus Accident Monday Following second fatal accident, mayor addresses pedestrian safety

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

A Cornell staff member was killed Monday in an accident involving a Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit bus on North Campus, according to the University.

Angela Stedwell, the pedestrian struck in the fatal accident, was an administrative assistant for the Department of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology.

The incident occurred on the 200 block of Jessup Road, according to police. Stedwell was hit by the TCAT bus as she was crossing Jessup Road near the A Lot. Responders were called to the scene at around 7:30 a.m.

An investigation into the circumstances of the accident is ongoing, according to the University. The Cayuga Heights Police Department is leading the investigation.

TCAT is working with local authorities as well as the New York State Public Transportation Safety Board during the course of the investigation, according to Patty Poist, communications and marketing manager for TCAT.

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

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Do not cross | Emergency responders were at the scene of a TCAT bus accident Monday morning.

A state investigator was on-site to speak with the bus driver and TCAT’s operations team, Poist said. The name of the bus operator will not be released.

“At this juncture, there is no way of telling how long the investigation will take,” Poist said. “TCAT extends heartfelt condolences and deepest sympathies to Angela's loved ones.”

Mary Opperman, vice president of human See TCAT page 4

Following the deaths of two pedestrians, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 addressed how the Ithaca community can increase the safety of pedestrians and drivers.

In a fatal acident on Saturday morning, Oluchukwu Onuora ’15, a student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was struck by a motor vehicle on Route 96 outside of Ithaca. No charges are being pursued against the driver, according to the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office.

On Monday morning, Angela Stedwell, an administrative assistant for the College of Human Ecology, was hit by a Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Bus while crossing

Jessup Road at around 7:30 a.m., according to police.

“We’ve been dealt a series of tragic blows,” Myrick said. “The pain their families are experiencing is unimaginable, and I know that the entire Ithaca Community holds them in our thoughts.”

The quick succession of the two fatal accidents has led many to question how to improve the street safety, according to Myrick.

“Safer streets require two things: better awareness and better infrastructure,” Myrick said.

In 2014, Ithaca added several features to improve pedestrian safety, including new traffic signals with “improved pedestrians features” and ‘bump outs’ at intersections that See SAFETY page 5

Gabe Kennedy ’12 Wins ABC Reality Cooking Show The Taste

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer

Gabe Kennedy ’12 was crowned the champion of ABC’s cooking competition show The Taste on Thursday, winning a $100,000 prize and his own cooking show on ABC’s website.

Kennedy — who graduated from the School of Hotel Administration — won the finale with his three-course meal of

scallop wrapped oysters, spiced honeyglazed duck breast and a donut dessert.

Kennedy described his food as not only refined, but also accesible and approachable. According to Kennedy, his food philosophy centers on maintaining a connection with his creations.

“I transport myself to a rice paddy in Indonesia if I’m cooking a curry or the fishing docks in Baja if I’m grilling up some fish,” he said. “I think its impor-

tant to have a connection with your food, so the products I use are local, they’re seasonal they’re sustainable.”

Kennedy said his goal of making an KENNEDY ’12 impact on the food industry eventually led him to Cornell, which felt like a “natural progression.”

Kennedy enrolled in Cornell through a collaborative joint degree program between the University and the Culinary Institute of America — where he trained at before joining the hotel school.

“I want to make an impact in the world and I want to make a difference See TASTE page 5

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NEWS

C.U. Hip Hop Collection to Go Digital

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Professor: Cornell at ‘the forefront’ of preserving rap and hip hop records

By MOLLY KARR Sun Staff Writer

Open-Access Research Site Reaches One Million Subscribers

The research repository arXiv reached one million submissions, the University announced Jan. 15. Scientists can upload their research onto the open-access service, which was founded by Prof. Paul Ginsparg, physics, over 20 years ago.

In 2014, arXiv received over 97,000 submissions, according to the University.

State Some Syracuse Police Officers Earn More Than Mayor

100 Approximately Syracuse city employees earned more than the city’s Mayor Stephanie Miner (D) in 2014, according to The Syracuse Though Post-Standard.

Miner’s salary of $115,000 is the highest of any Syracuse municipal employee, 78 Syracuse police officers and 16 firefighters earned more than that through overtime pay.

Due to a shortage of police officers — the force has 45 unfilled jobs out of 493 authorized in the city budget — many officers worked overtime, The Post-Standard reported.

NYU Student Filmed Himself Setting Classmate on Fire

The lawyer for Jaime Castano — a New York who student University allegeldy filmed himself setting fire to his classmate’s bed — argued during his arraignment on Tuesday that the prosecution cannot prove that the victim did not want to be set on fire, The New York Magazine reported.

Castano is charged with assault and reckless endangerment. The victim suffered burns on her torso and was intoxicated during the incident.

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Anyone with access to the Internet will soon be able to view a collection of historical rap and hip hop documents — which includes 500 vinyl recordings and approximately 100,000 newspaper and magazine articles — by the end of 2015, according to Katherine Reagan, curator of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

The Cornell Hip Hop Collection plans to digitalize the hip hop history collection that Bill Adler — the founding publicity director of Def Jam Records — sold to the University in 2013.

“We are digitizing his news clippings, magazines, label press packets and other paper based historical documents on the history of hip hop,” Reagan said. “Due to the vast size of the collection, it will take a few years to complete the entire Adler archive.

But the first segment should be up by the end of this year.”

Students will not be the only ones that will benefit from having easy access to Adler’s collection. With its digitalization, scholars from all over the world will be able to study documents and photos of artists like L.L. Cool J, Aaliyah and the Beastie Boys.

“People have been coming to me for 20 years, at a minimum, because I put together this collection,” Adler said to the National Public Radio.

“To not take care of it [a collection] of that importance, would almost be criminal,” Prof. Steven Pond, music, said.

“The library has a responsibility to preserve these things for the researcher,” Pond said. “Beyond that, this is music that speaks to many constituencies, and the library should find ways to give access as broadly as possible to them.”

Prof. Travis Gosa, Africana studies, stressed the importance of hip hop and its effect on today’s generation.

“Archiving the music, poetry and culture of urban and poor kids should, I think, be

related to ongoing efforts to ensure that students from these same neighborhoods and backgrounds are represented as students and scholars at Cornell,” Gosa said. “Artists like Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS One and Queen Latifah made it cool for a black kid to be smart and to study black and African history.”

In addition, Gosa said he hopes that hip hop may one day be studied as classical literature is studied now.

“The idea that Cornellians in the year 2165, on the 300th anniversary, may be using hip hop artifacts to debate the classic philosophies of Public Enemy or EPMD like we now deliberate Shakespeare, brings a smile to my face,” Gosa said.

According to Pond, the conservation and digitization of these precious documents gives them renewed importance.

“Many of these [materials] are [rare] because they were not distributed well or they

— Compiled by Sofia Hu

Molly Karr can be reached at mkarr@cornellsun.com.

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Rochester Takes First Place at Eleventh Big Red Mock Trial Tournament,Edging Out Cornell Team

By BENEDETTA CARNAGHI Sun Staff Writer

Cornell came in a close second at the Big Red Invitational Classic — a tournament organized by the Cornell Mock Trial Association this weekend — losing only to the University of Rochester.

Thirty teams from 17 different universities flocked to Ives Hall and Myron Taylor Hall to participate in the tournament, which is in its 11th year.

Cornell’s A team finished 7-1 in the com-

petition as did Rochester’s team. Rochester won the tournament during a tie breaker, according to John McAdams ’15, vice president of the Cornell Mock Trial Association.

Approximately 200 competitors argued a civil case called Park v. Duran, which is about a shooting between two young children that resulted in a death, according to Robert Puzio ’17, public relations chair for the Cornell Mock Trial Association.

“The governing body, the American Mock Trial Association, actually tried a lot of new things with the case this year,”

University of Michigan Fraternity Causes $50,000 in Damages

The Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity at the University of Michigan caused over $50,000 in damages to a ski resort last weekend, according to USA Today. Barry Owens, the manager of Treetops Resort, said members of the fraternity damaged the furniture, carpet, walls and ceiling and were escorted from the hotel by Michigan State Police.

University of Michigan is “very disappointed in the behavior” of the students, spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald said, USA Today reported.

have gone out of print,” Pond said. “With new people having access to these documents, it gives them a new artistic half-life.”

Alongside medieval music manuscripts graduals and musical broadsides from the 18th century, Kroch Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has an extensive archive documenting the history of hip hop culture.

“Besting even the efforts of Harvard’s hip hop collection, Cornell is at the forefront of preserving hip hop so that future generations can understand how it — a culture pioneered by youth disregarded as unintelligent, poor and even criminals — grew to become the most musically complex, most poetically complex and most politically charged movement of the 20th century,” Gosa said.

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Objection, your honor | Ryan Allison law addresses students competing in the Big Red Invitational Classic — a tournament hosted by the Cornell Mock Trial Association — this weekend.

McAdams said. “Instead of just having one option on which charge [intentional shooting or negligent parental supervision] to pursue, they actually added a second option, so you can run two completely different cases.”

Because teams must be prepared for both of these charges, this year’s case is “especially interesting and challenging,” McAdams said.

The Cornell team has made it to the national championship two years in a row, according to Ashani Ranwala ’17, one of the tournament co-directors. “[The BRIC] is good because it allows us to test what we know and get ready to prepare for the real thing,” Ranwala said.

The Cornell Mock Trial Association — which is fully student-run — has provided its members opportunities to develop debating skills, according to Ranwala.

“I am not really that interested in law, so for me it was just something that I enjoy,” Ranwala said. “It teaches you how to present what you are thinking in an argument, but you have to be on your feet. You have to know how to react.”

The team has traveled across the northeast to compete, according to Ranwala.

“Just this year we went to Tufts, Yale, Brandeis, Cleveland. … [and] to Orlando last year for nationals,” Ranwala said. “We have a young team. Our program is very young and I think that’s good because we are already showing a lot of potential.”

Benedetta Carnaghi can be reached at bcarnaghi@cornellsun.com.

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Sexual Violence Experts Urge Colleges to Refrain From Survey

NEWS

The wave

Cornell: Survey will further understanding of sexual assualt SURVEY

who also served as Cornell’s 10th president from 1995 to 2003 and as interim president from 2005 to 2006 — said the survey is a relieve institutions of the incentive to per- “significant milestone” in a November 2014 form valid surveys conducted by those with memo. expertise in researching campus sexual According to Rawlings, the survey will assault,” the researchers wrote in the letter. allow the organization to assess campus cliHowever, in a statement given Jan. 22, mate across many institutions and to deterJoel Malina, vice president of university rela- mine the frequency of sexual violence on tions, said he hopes that college campuses.

Cornell’s participation in “[There] is little data and Yamini Bhandari ’17, the survey would convice president for outreach there are few tangible and women’s representatribute to a larger national solutions out there.” cause. tive for the Student The University is parAssembly, said she believed Yamini Bhandari ’17 ticipating in the survey to the survey would help “further the understandadministrators better ing of sexual violence in a national context,” understand the sexual assault situation on Malina said. “By analyzing data from campus.

Cornell and other United States colleges and “I believe the survey is a good way for universities participating in the survey, the administration to get real data on the numAAU will help higher education institutions ber of incidences of sexual assaults on this across the country understand, prevent and campus,” she said. “That being said, I am respond to sexual violence.” somewhat hesitant on whether or not stuAAU President Hunter Rawlings III — dents would feel entirely comfortable sharContinued from page 1

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) waves to the crowd after speaking at the Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday.

ing this information in the form of a survey.

I hope the questions are framed such that it be a safe space for students to share their experiences.”

Bhandari also said she hopes the AAU survey would spark student discussion about sexual assault on campus and guide both students and the faculty toward a solution.

“The current campus attitude toward

conversations about sexual violence is open to discussion but hesitant to act,” she said.

“Part of this is because there is little data, and there are few tangible solutions out there.”

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun.com.

University Employee Struck by TCAT Bus TCAT

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resources and safety services, offered her condolences in a statement issued to members of the Cornell community.

“I offer my deepest sympathy to Angela’s family, friends and co-workers, who could not have prepared for their sudden loss,” she said. “I ask all of you to keep Angela in your thoughts.”

Monday’s incident follows the death of Oluchukwu Onuora ’15, who died from his injuries Saturday morning after he was struck by a car while walking along Route 96 outside of Ithaca.

The last TCAT-involved fatality that occurred on campus was in March 2000, when junior Michelle Evans was struck and killed by a TCAT bus at the intersection of Thurston and Wait Avenues, The Sun previously reported.

University resources: Members of the Cornell community seeking support can call Gannett Health Services’ Counseling and Psychological Services (607-255-5155), EARS’ peer counselors (607255-3277), the Faculty Staff Assistance Program (607-2552673) or find additional resources at http://caringcommunity.cornell.edu.

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

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Hotel School Alumnus Wins $100K TV Prize Takes home title following ABC finale TASTE

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for food,” he said. “I decided to go to Cornell, because I believed that really understanding the entire system of how business in the world operates is essential for me to make that difference.

It was through Cornell, that Kennedy said he found his way onto The Taste, an experience which he described as “pretty magical.”

“I was on a trip to Istanbul and Romania and I was totally off the grid for two weeks. I came back and I had a whole bunch of messages ... suggesting that I apply to The Taste, that I had been referred by a Cornellian,” Kennedy said.

Beth Goodwin ’12, Kennedy’s former classmate, had referred him to join the competition.

“I owe a lot to Cornell,” Kennedy said. “A big thing about Cornell was learning new ways of thinking and teaching me how to creatively approach situations.”

The work ethic Kennedy said he gained while cooking at the Culinary Institute of America and studying at Cornell later transferred over to his time on The Taste, which he said he

“went 150 percent into.”

“I would say that one of the largest learning experiences through The Taste was what I can accomplish when I truly dedicate myself to one thing,” he said.

While competing on the show, Kennedy said participating in individual and group cooking challenges allowed him to push himself to explore and try out new techniques.

Additionally, he was also mentored by celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, an experience which he described as “pretty surreal.”

“I think that the opportunity to interface with that caliber of chefs — in particular the mentors and the guest mentors who visit the show — was really inspiring,” he said.

Since winning The Taste, Kennedy has been working on a variety of projects that include potential TV projects, a cookbook and possible restaurant concepts.

“I want to change the world by encouraging people to cook and getting people inspired to have a connection with their food,” Kennedy said.

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

Myrick Talks Pedestrian Safety SAFETY

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narrow how far pedestrians have to walk to cross streets.

The city will continue such efforts by adding such features at other intersections and roads and by completing a waterfront trail from Stewart Park to Cass Park.

“We’ve got to do even more and I'm committed to seeking out best practices from around the country,” Myrick said.

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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OPINION

David Zha |

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Letter to the Editor

On Cornell campus,warning signs ignored To the Editor: Re: “Pedestrian Killed on North Campus,” News, Jan. 26.

The two fatal motor vehicle accidents this week — one involving a Cornell senior struck on Saturday, and one involving a pedestrian killed on North Campus on Monday — are both shocking and deeply saddening. It is also important, during this time of grieving, to ask how such tragedies could have been prevented.

Both incidents are under police investigation, and we should not speculate as to what specifically caused these deaths. But it is clear that pedestrian and bicycle safety has been a problem on campus for many years, and not enough was done to avert such tragedies. Dozens of personal injury accidents, most involving pedestrians, bicyclists and skateboarders, have occurred in the last few years. University officials, law enforcement officers and members of the Cornell community have failed to adequately address this danger on our campus.

I have been both a pedestrian and a driver on campus for four years; both experiences are equally terrifying. As pedestrians, we Cornelians are distracted and reckless. The advice to “look both ways before crossing the street,” which our mothers tried desperately to drill into our heads as children, goes ignored. Every day, I see fellow students looking down at smartphones as they cross the street without making sure oncoming traffic stops for them. Like deer, many pedestrians jolt out into the road, even when snowy conditions will make it difficult for motorists to stop in time. As drivers, we are just as bad, often stopping in the middle of intersections to let out passengers. On the other hand, despite million-dollar construction projects, Cornell’s bike lanes are still dangerously small, and Cornell’s crosswalks are poorly marked. Concerningly, CUPD rarely enforces jaywalking laws, except for a couple of days a year when dozens of J.A. referrals are handed out. I often see pedestrians cross through red lights in front of idling police cruisers, and officers usually look the other way. Unless law enforcement integrates pedestrian safety into their patrols, like they do for speeding infractions, behavior is not going to change.

In this time of mourning, I hope that both the University and the wider Cornell Community think critically about making campus a safer place to get around.

Every death is a tragedy, and every collision is preventable.

Benjamin Gradesbery ’15

The Angry Spirit Bear

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onflicted Cornell fraternity man “There’s pressure everywhere to cut the D’had Aziv recently came out with traditions,” he continued, “Even from his position on hazing in an inter- alumni who’ve already graduated from the view conducted last Thursday. Citing initiation program and don’t understand newfound revelations experienced on his the present need for order and hierarchy. recent health leave, Aziv declared that his I mean what’s the point of a fraternity current view on his fraternal traditions without the pledging, anyway? Charity? were “sketchy at best.”

Drinking? Seriously, you could do those Aziv stated he was “against hazing.” things without having to hang around “Sorta.” irresponsible douchebags all day.”

“Well, pledging can get pretty When asked if there could be some immoral,” Aziv said, “But on the other other way of integrating pledges into the hand, I have no clue how we’d run a frat brotherhood while maintaining an approotherwise.” priate level of reverence for the institution “Our recent pledging events have defi- and their predecessors, Aziv replied, “No.” nitely been scaled back in hazing intensi“These rituals have been around for ty,” he added, “but that actually kinda hundreds of years. They work. Some of pisses me off.” them may be grossly inhumane, but that’s Aziv took his health leave after an no reason to discontinue a long lineage. exceptionally intense semester. He strug- It’s the best way to bind people together. I gled to reconcile myself just don’t academic work with feel comfortable responsibility as a in Aziv took his health leave participating fraternity pledgethem anymore master, all while because I can feel after an exceptionally managing his duties my soul starting to intense semester. He to a growing unravel.”

Percocet addiction.

When asked if struggled to reconcile Worried that his his continued memacademic work with excessive partying, bership within the consistent cruelty fraternity made him responsibility as a and expanding pile complicfraternity pledge-master, all inherently of unfinished ILR it in hazing and a reading was becomwhile managing his duties clear hypocrite, he ing the perfect responded, “I mean to a growing Percocet cocktail for a per… maybe.” sonal meltdown, Aziv offered a bit addiction.

Aziv decided to take of advice to the one the safe way out. in three freshmen He made it back in time for Rush Week who will soon be carrying around dark because he still “firmly believe[s] in tick- secrets this semester. ling balls.”

“Just remember kids, you can always “While I was lying on a hospital bed rationalize your hazing experience afterafter powdering my nose a little too hard, wards as the most fun you’ll never want to I just came to realize there’s already so have again. Any unaddressed frustration much pain and suffering the world does to can be vented upon the pledge class after us and that we do to ourselves, that it’s you. Also, if you feel like quitting or seekreally not necessary that we perpetuate it ing help, you should have thought about onto others,” Aziv said. “I mean, I made that when you were drunkenly signing a kid flail around in an inflatable pool full your bid.” He encouraged pledges to “just of my own piss while blasting the do it like the rest of us.”

Gilligan’s Island theme song for three and When asked about his views on femia half hours before I called him a brother. nism and equality of pay for women Aziv It was a great idea at the time, but I’m stated, “It makes sense I guess … but it’s probably going to hell.” also kind of bullshit.”

“I really do think it’s wrong,” he added, “But being gone for a semester and coming back now … I’ve seen first-hand what Zha is a senior in the College of Arts and happens when you spare the rod on the David Sciences. He may be reached at dzha@cornellsun.com. pledge. There’s no respect around here The Angry Spirit Bear appears alternate Tuesdays this these days. No respect.” semester.

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OPINION

Annie O’Toole |

Trustee Viewpoint

Death Penalty Project Gives Real-World Experience to Undergraduates T

he Cornell Death Penalty Project runs clinical programs at Cornell Law School in which students assist with the representation of capital defendants. The project is run by three professors, Prof. John Blume,law, Prof. Sheri Johnson, law, and Keir Weyble, law, all of whom are extremely experienced in the field of capital defense.

In my column this month, I wanted to introduce Sun readers to the meaningful work that the Cornell Death Penalty Project is doing, through my experience so far.

As a student in the Capital Punishment Clinic run by the Cornell Death Penalty Project this semester, I spent a week in South Carolina over Winter Break working on the investigation of a new case for the clinic. After watching Professor Blume argue a capital case in front of the South Carolina Supreme Court for one of the clinic’s clients (he informed us this was his seventy-fourth argument in front of that court, no big deal), we visited death row and met with three clients.

Meeting with the client for whom I would be working for the rest of the week and potentially the rest of the semester was probably the most valuable aspect of the trip. Putting a human face to the name of a death row

The Cornell Death Penalty Project provides the opportunity for students outside the law school to enroll in the course Law 4501: The Death Penalty in America or the human development course Human Development 4140: Social and Psychological Aspects of the Death Penalty. inmate and speaking with him about his life and his case put the gravity of the work into perspective. Normal coursework does not have such high stakes. Our conversation further impressed upon me that I must work as hard as I can in every aspect of his case, so that the very best effort is put forward to save his life.

For the rest of the week, I drove with a partner around rural Orangeburg County, South Carolina, to interview the jurors from our client’s trial to better understand the full picture of what happened going into and at trial.

This was not easy work. We spent eight hours a day in the car, confronting empty plots of land where it appeared a juror used to live, muddy dirt roads we were afraid of getting the rental car stuck in, barking unleashed dogs and skeptical home inhabitants trying to help jurors avoid us.

But when we found jurors, they were surprisingly willing to speak with us. Because we asked, they rehashed difficult memories of literally signing someone’s death sentence. From them, we learned more about the details of the trial. We also learned about our jurors’ lives and relatinships and connected with them on a personal level. For example, when I shook one woman’s hand to thank her for talking with us, I was informed that I have very cold hands, “but a warm heart.”

I am very grateful to be part of the team working on these important cases, which literally mean life or death for our clients. If, like me, you are interested in law or the death penalty, you can get involved too. The Cornell Death Penalty Project provides the opportunity for students outside the law school to enroll in the course Law 4501: The Death Penalty in America or the human development course Human Development 4140: Social and Psychological Aspects of the Death Penalty. I highly recommend that you take one of these courses before you graduate.

For more information about the Cornell Death Penalty Project, please visit http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/death-penalty-project.

Annie O’Toole is a second year law student at Cornell Law School and the graduate student-elected trustee. She can be reached at ado29@cornell.edu.

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Far Above the Dead Sea’s Waters T here is little in common humorous recollections of between Ithaca and the camel-riding that I recycled ancient desert strong- during smokers, there was a hold of Masada, which lies in nagging, almost philosophical the midst of Israel’s Negev discontent that kept me from Desert just in view of the Dead embracing my free trip to Israel Sea. Masada — a once obscure as an unblemished, transformapalace of Roman-era extrava- tive juncture of my young life. gance — has in recent decades I cannot speak with authority become a focal point of about all Birthright trips — I American Jewish tourism in did not travel with Cornell Israel. Nearly two thousand Hillel — but I suspect that I years ago, 1,000 Jewish zealots am not the only smiling staked out atop the sandy crags American camel-rider rocking of Masada and killed them- fraternity t-shirts on the selves rather than submit to the Galilee to whom this disconRoman re-conquest of Judea. tent has whispered. It is, of This bloody history, as David course, unrealistic to expect Fischer ’15 pointed out in his that an all-expenses paid trip column last week, has been halfway around the world hoisted from irrelevancy as would come without some sort proof of a narrative of Jewish of agenda. But I worried that resilience and Jewish sovereign- this snapshot of the Israeli ty. And yet as I stood atop the experience — all schwarma and ruins of King Herod’s summer hummus and sunny hiking — palace, buffeted by winds cool- provided Birthright attendees er and stronger than one would with an incomplete vision of expect from a desert, I found the Jewish State without telling the Masada narrative to be for- them that their vision is incomeign and, frankly, unhelpful. plete. The word “Palestine” was Why was a tragic suicide pact, uttered not more than a dozen carried out by a relatively extremist faction of ancient Jewish I suspect I am not the only rebels, placed at smiling American camel-rider the climax of a rocking fraternity t-shirts on the Birthright trip meant to ingrati- Galilee to whom this discontent has ate American whispered.

Jewish youth to the modern State times; our last night was spent of Israel?

I turned away from the tour in the West Bank, which my group, tired of wondering what tour guide preferred to call they would say about a group “Judea and Samaria;” we of religiously-motivated rebels skipped over our stop at Rabin who killed themselves and their Square, the commemorative families as a final act of resis- monument to the assassinated, tance to a British or French or pro-peace Prime Minister, American conquest, and looked Yitzak Rabin. I am, again, out at the distant, dull glint of speaking only for my own the Dead Sea. From our perch Birthright group — but I shudatop the mountain, the poiso- der to think of the endemic nous haze of salt lay, visibly incompleteness of American heavy, atop the water. On the Zionism, 20 or 30 years hence, other side, Jordanian moun- if tens of thousands of youths tains lay, like slumbering think that Masada is an adegiants, beneath foreboding quate symbol of the Jewish clouds. Half-absurdly, as my State.

To be frank, I did not expect wind-watered eyes looked over the striking vista, the alma to have these fears salved at mater began to chime: “Far Cornell. The polarity of the above Cayuga’s waters, with its conversation — dueling battles between Students for Justice in waves of blue…”

I was ready to go back to Palestine and Hillel-affiliated groups — has, I worried, Ithaca.

When I returned to Ithaca, exhausted our campuswide will memories of Birthright became to deal with the Israelia fuzzy backdrop to a chaotic Palestinian issue in a way that Rush Week, but beneath the our campus deserves. But, just

as I was emerging from the daze of Rush Week, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Cornell Hillel had invited Ari Shavit, a prominent columnist for Israel’s center-left Ha’aretz newspaper and author of My Promised Land, the bestselling treatise on Zionism. He, in short, was the answer to my prayers. The invitation, extended by Hillel, proved the potential for intellectual robustness within the institutional Jewish life at Cornell, and the speech itself was an affirmation of a holistic vision of Zionism that I found so lacking on Birthright.

The event garnered no coverage in The Sun, which I believe is a grave misjudgment on the part of the editorial board. If The Sun will spend weeks covering — and entertaining commentary — on the moments when the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue on campus seems hopelessly deadlocked and shockingly infantile, it must rise to the occasion when our campus is graced with a potential moment for progress. Shavit gave interested students the potential to talk about paths forward, in ways that have not been disproven by round after round of failed negotiations. He spoke of a “Marshall Plan” for the Gaza Strip, and reminded young American Jews, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo travesty, that they cannot allow temporal success of Jews in postWWII America to insulate them from the historical necessity of a safe (and democratic) Israel.

So where does that leave me — and anyone else in my boat?

We cannot reject the value of a Birthright trip because its value is not alone sufficient to the needs of American Zionism.

We cannot turn away from the debate altogether, because the insufficiency of Birthright Zionism mandates that we add our perspective to the campus and national discourse. If you were left dissatisfied with the narrative of Masada, turn instead to the narrative of My Promised Land. And then, knowing you are not alone, raise your voice.

Jacob Glick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com. Glickin’ It appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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O Christopher Stanton Lupe Fiasco is a weird dude. From making claims that aliens abducted him as a child to failed attempts at resurrecting bifocals as a fashion trend, he perpetually walks the line between social media sideshow and mercurial rap star. Yet the artist seems dissatisfied with either fate, as illustrated by his recent decision to stop giving interviews and end all social media presence. This drama follows a career-long battle with Atlantic Records over issues of creative control and timely release dates. The soured relationship culminates with this year’s Tetsuo & Youth, Lupe’s fifth studio album and his last with the label. By now, fans of the rapper have learned to discern which of his career decisions are label concessions and which are purely his own, a confusing distinction that explains such debacles as 2011’s maligned Lasers, the pop-rap follow-up to his gritty, critically-acclaimed The Cool. For the most part, Lasers is a disturbingly bland and apolitical release from one of rap’s most brilliant weirdos and acute social commentators. In 2012, Lupe promised his alienated fans a return to form by announcing the release of the boldly titled Food and Liquor II, an intended sequel to his 2006 debut. While a definite improvement over Lasers and sonically a step in the right direction, fans and critics alike continue to await the return of the young, energetic rapper they met on Kanye West’s “Touch the Sky.” This melodramatic timeline brings us, at long last, to the release of Tetsuo & Youth. The 80-minute album’s bloated scope becomes apparent from the tracklist alone: It features no fewer than five interludes and as many as three songs that clock in at almost 10 minutes each. This initially reads as aggressively anticommercial, but further examination reveals the involvement of Australian Idol alumnus Guy Sebastian — who was responsible

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The Sebastian collaboration, “Blur My Hands,” is the most radio-friendly piece of music Tetsuo & Youth has to offer, featuring a poppy, sing-a-long hook over a fuzzed-out bass line. Would Lupe have made this song without pressure from his label? It’s uncertain, but the creative tension between a single artist’s vision and a corporation’s concern with commercial appeal remains present (though certainly to a lesser degree than on Lasers).

Whether due to label concessions or the seemingly random, fleeting nature of his thought process, Lupe has yet to craft a singular masterwork with a clear vision. For all their strengths, the original Food & Liquor and The Cool both feature some terrible tracks and incoherent narratives. Tetsuo & Youth does not break that streak, but it does provide a number of moments that capture and magnify Lupe’s unparalleled storytelling abilities, unclassifiable musical tendencies and slippery wordplay. The guy is an acrobat with words, allowing them to effortlessly fall into one another without missing a beat. Internal assonances and double entendres abound, effectively conveying the chaotic but fluid thought process of his anomalous mind with dense bars unmatched by his contemporaries. When rapping from the firstperson, Lupe seems to view words as an aesthetic rather than a tool for communication, resulting in hollow but beautiful nonsense, a tendency he admits to on “Mural”: “The ribbon in the sky is the rhythm that I drop / Dribbling the eye across the prism of a clock / That lacks meaning, but racks up stacks of fat read-

ing.”

This approach grows old by the end of that nine-minute cut, but Lupe fans know he is best when storytelling from an alternate perspective, creating richly developed characters with unique insight into oft-discussed issues. This is the side of Lupe that made masterpieces like “Hip-Hop Saved My Life,” and thankfully he’s present on several of Tetsuo & Youth’s better tracks, most notably the two-part opus “Prisoner 1 & 2.” The harshest, most spot-on condemnation of the prison-industrial complex to come from a rapper this side of Killer Mike, it features Lupe rapping from the perspectives of prisoners, their families and prison guards. While the album tends to suffer from bland, misused instrumentals, the dramatic violins and aggressive stomping of “Prisoner 1 & 2” match Lupe’s manic energy perfectly. It is a future classic worthy of placement on a better album. A few of the other tracks (“Dots & Lines” and “Madonna”) come close but ultimately fall short of the high bar it sets.

Tetsuo & Youth insists on subverting its own likability with its seemingly pointless interludes (not to mention the banjo solo that kicks off “Dots & Lines”) and sheer length, rendering it unwieldy and almost inaccessible. Then again, that sentence could describe most of Lupe’s discography, and I’m curious to see how that changes once he’s freed from a major label contract.

Tetsuo & Youth is a project that rewards repeat listens, and on a few tracks the rapper reaches new heights both musically and lyrically. Unfortunately, the album as a whole is about as inconsistent as Lupe’s career.

take a back seat to the the group’s electric, feminine chemistry and Sleater-Kinney don’t overwhelm the quality of the album — its taut construction, No Cities to Love robust vocal energy, slamming lyrical poetics, catchy choruses Sub Pop and riffs and bright, burning instrumentals.

The sentiments of many of the tracks — pleas to authenticity and consciousness and warnings about the high costs of submitting to rat race or a mundane Jael Goldfine technology and social media infused coma, as well as insights to struggles of the American Sleater-Kinney, the radical DIY punk rock trio hail- working class family — are often tired ones, but ing from the riot grrrl scene of Olympia, Washington, Sleater-Kinney delivers them with a creative freshness was a defining group in rock and roll throughout the in their lyrics that makes them not only listenable, but 1990’s and early 2000’s. Punk queens Corin Tucker and compelling. Forgo your eye rolls for the old-school Carrie Brownstein (star of IFC’s Portlandia) got their change-the-world/fuck-the-man rock trope because No start at Evergreen College screaming about various Cities To Love possesses an acrid humor that’s dry and isms, and subsequently developed into one of the most cynical without being caustic or insincere, and it blends acclaimed all-female rock groups of all time. gorgeously with their passionate political stylings.

Their notorious hiatus finally came to an end after Highlight songs COURTESY OF SUB POP nine years last Tuesday with the release of their eighth include the album’s studio album No Cities To Love: a hiatus which has par- title track “Cities To alleled debatably some of the most precarious years for Love,” which is the genre of rock and roll in history. To make one thing bright and danceclear, rock is not dead — the click-bait eulogizing of able with a strong entire musical genres being one of the worse hobbies of beat and a catchy, pseudo-intellectual music bloggers but it has undeniably sardonic chorus. taken on new shapes in recent years. However, the girls “It’s not the city, it’s are back in town and No Cities To Love takes us back to the weather we a more political and arguably a more dynamic moment love,” offers an ode in rock and roll, in disarmingly inventive ways. to the fast-lane tourIn keeping with the band’s historical brand of social ing life of their preconsciousness, the album engages with liberal, anti- hiatus career. The material, queercore and feminist themes, but it is first a faster-paced “Price rock album, and then a protest album. Their politics Tag,” features a deli-

cious and nostalgic, dark, disenchanted feminist punch and bears this ominous final lyric “I was lured by the devil, I was lured by the cause / I’ll take God when I’m ready I’ll choose sin till I leave.”

The album is far more accessible than most of their discography, which includes several hard core combat rock and screamo albums. That being said, on No Cities To Love, Sleater-Kinney stays true to their punk, riot grrrl roots. Lead singer Corin Tucker doesn’t have the high pitched scream of Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna but her emotive vocals, which have been described as “love them or hate them,” evoke a similar if softer sound. However, she has serious range, switching rapidly from track to track, and sometimes within a song, from cutting angry screams to coy spoken lines, to creepy whispers, to a softer more melodic singing voice.

The brute force and blaring punk siren is all there, but the group’s sound has matured into something simultaneously refined and raw, and totally thrilling for the listener. Basically, if Sleater-Kinney has anything to do with it, rock and roll is doing just fine.

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Christopher Stanton is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun.com.

Jael Goldfine is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com.

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Amy Poehler’s Memoir? Yes Please! this love. I should point out here that I have a picture of them wearing underwear on their heads while simultaneously pooping.”

Poehler’s honesty and ability to stand up for herAmy Poehler’s Yes Please is an entertaining and insight- self, especially to older men by whom she feels ful read that can be enjoyed by Poehler aficionados, mem- insulted or disrespected, is inspirational. She gets to oir fans and fiction readers alike. Despite her frequent the point and doesn’t sugarcoat it, yet maintains complaints about the difficulty of writing, finding time to decorum whenever possible and even lets you hug write and her self-acknowledged attempts to lower expec- her somewhat unwarrantedly. “Who doesn’t love tations for the book in its very preface, Poehler’s style is self-righteous anger? …When I yell at the dads polished and honed, unique to the celebrity-memoir drinking coffee and looking at their phones at the genre in its concision, organization, and thoughtfulness. playground while their seven-year-olds play on the The chapters make sense, she knows what she wants to preschool monkey bars, I feel like I am fully alive. say, she is ragingly self-aware and each sentence reveals But for the most part, I try not to yell ‘fuck you.’ I try to say ‘yes unexpected tie-ins to previous thoughts and please.’

And jokes. She frames biographical information Yes Please ‘thank you.’” and trade secrets within narrative anecdotes She talks that create a sense of suspense and story

By Amy Poehler about how to almost novelistic in nature. What did she Dey Street really apologize, say when she went off book as Dorothy in how to take ownthe fourth grade Wizard of Oz play, damn it? ership of what I need to know! you say on TV, Yes Please is laugh-out-loud hilarious at how to know points and tearily heartwarming at others. what’s okay to Her adoration for and meaningful friendsay on TV or in ship with Tina Fey and Seth Meyers are private, how to simultaneously moving and enviable. Her descriptions of these relationships are also somehow com- honorably wait tables, how to know when to move forting — celebrities really aren’t friends with each other on, how to “treat your career like a bad boyfriend” just because they’re all famous and they can be. They truly and when to let someone hug you and when to tell love each other just like we love our average, non-famous them, “You’re crazy, old man.” She offers great advice friends. It’s adorable and normal-seeming. Also normal- about working in a male-dominated field: “I’m not seeming is Poehler’s immeasurably huge and dynamic love sure if you have heard about this new theory that for her children — a concept that many parents say is men and women are different, but it’s really starting beyond description, but here Poehler’s writing particularly to catch on,” she begins. She also tells you everything you excels. She describes the bizarre and beautiful way she want to know about being on SNL and meeting lots of loves her kids in simple yet perfect terms: “I love my boys famous people and trying not to freak out about it. Poehler so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love offers readers an ideal balance of expectations-fulfilling will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary humor, what-you-were-actually-curious-about biography, MADELINE C. JONES Sun Staff Writer

and still-relevant-to-us-commoners life advice. Yes Please is delightfully engaging and real.

Madeline C. Jones is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at mjc37@cornell.edu.

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Russell Wilson and the Seahawks will take on Tom Brady and the Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday as the Seahawks look to win their second consecutive championship.

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consecutive games.

The way the Hawks play the game, it is difficult to argue against them being favored to win Atlanta is currently first in the NBA in points the Eastern Conference — and maybe even the allowed, second in assists per game, and sixth in NBA Championship. LeBron James, Kevin points per game. So to beat the Hawks, not only Durant and James Harden are all only minor does a team have to break down the best defensive threats against a team like Atlanta, a team that team in the league, but must outscore a superb gets a good shot every possession and that forces offensive team as well. On offense, the Hawks its opponents into more difficult shots. Last seahave the perfect roster for their style of play: an son, without All-Star center Al Horford, the All-Star level point guard in Jeff Teague, a three- Hawks were minutes away from beating an excelpoint marksman in Kyle Korver, a lockdown lent Pacers team in six games, until they allowed a defender/solid offensive small-forward in 16-4 run in the final minutes and ultimately lost DeMarre Carroll, two do-it-all bigthe series in game seven. But men in Paul Millsap and Al that was 2014.

Horford, and a deep bench. Over The way the Hawks play Of course, the NBA is the last 10 games, each of the the game, it is difficult to especially unpredictable, but Hawks’ five starters has led the they can stay healthy, the argue against them being ifAtlanta team in scoring in at least one of Hawks are the team the games. This sounds a lot like a favored to win the to beat come April. They face Spurs scouting report. Team, pass- Eastern Conference. the Warriors one week from first basketball. Just as Tim Friday, in what could be a Duncan, Tiago Splitter and Boris preview of the 2015 NBA Diaw are all adept at passing for Championship. Or maybe the Hawks will meet the Spurs, so too are Kyle Korver, Al Horford and the Spurs in the title. What an interesting series Paul Millsap. Everyone who plays for the Hawks that would be. can pass the basketball. If you can’t, you won’t play for the Hawks. Easy enough. When you Shatzman is a second year hot columnist. He can be contacted at combine their passing with their shooting per- Ben bshatzman@cornell.edu. Calling the Shatz appears every Tuesday this centage, it makes sense that they have won 16- semester.

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past three years for sure. It showed through our dual-meets during the season that this is not the same team that has been in the league for the past three years,” he said. “We are bigger, closer and faster than any team I’ve been on before. I think there are going to be some heads turning at Championships.”

Hallowell agreed, adding that the weeks leading up to the meet will be important for the team.

“After our best season in the last four years, I think the team knows we have what it takes to be competitive at Championships. The next few weeks are crucial to be resting and maintaining our strength so we can go into Ivy Championships feeling confident and ready. We swam well against every Ivy team this year, and there is no reason we can’t extend that success into the Championship season.”

John Mcgrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

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Healthy Red Squad Takes Down Penn,Lehigh

By RACHEL CHERNER Sun Contributor

Back at home after beating Ivy League opponents Harvard and Brown, the Red Wrestlers hosted the University of Pennsylvania and then traveled to Lehigh this weekend.

The team had high expectations going into the weekend, hoping to rise above one of its Ivy rivals.

“A victory over Cornell would make Penn’s year. Penn has consistently been the team we have to beat, and I don’t believe this year is any different,” said head coach Robert Koll. “The same thing can be said about Lehigh and the Eastern Championship.”

The Red came into the weekend riding a two-game Ivy win streak over Harvard and Brown, after suffering its first loss of the

season against Missouri on Jan. 10.

Koll’s goals for his team were met on the first day of the dual meet, when the Red took the win over the Quakers, 26-9.

“I was confident we were going to wrestle well,” Koll said.

“We just finished a grueling winter training cycle [and] the results looked great [this weekend].”

On Sunday, Cornell kept up the competitive spirit when it claimed a win over Lehigh, 219. Although the comeback over Lehigh was certainly a highlight of the afternoon, the real shining moment of the day was the match at 184 lbs., when sophomore Gabe Dean faced No. 3 Nathaniel Brown. Recently named as the No. 1 184-pound collegiate wrestler in the country, it was no surprise when Dean came out of the match

carrying his second win of the weekend, defeating a Top-five wrestler in overtime.

With two more wins under his belt, Koll attributed the team’s success to the enthusiastic Cornell fanbase and spirited environment created by Red fans.

“These teams always get up for Cornell [and] tonight we wrestled in front of 2,000 fans in a gym designed for 1,750,” he said. ”It was an amazingly intense environment.”

According to Koll, now that the team has a full squad of wrestlers after several injuries at the start of the season, the team is seeing better results.

“For the first time all year, I can honestly say that every guy on the team wrestled well. I could not be more pleased and proud of how they performed,” Koll said.

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Back on top | Junior Nahshon Garrett defeated his opponent in exciting fashion in the Red’s victory over Lehigh on Sunday.

Cornell will continue its dual meet competition next weekend, hosting Princeton on Friday and Lock Haven on Saturday.

“We wanted to come out

healthy and get two more victories. Mission accomplished,” Koll said.

Rachel Cherner can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

Team Ball ‘Spurs’ Swimmers Race Past Colgate in Road Meet Hawks Forward Men,women dominant as season winds down to Ivy League Champs O SWIMMING & DIVING

n Friday night, as Klay Thompson was producing a scoring quarter for the ages, the Atlanta Hawks were quietly celebrating their 15th consecutive win after defeating the

been a rather infrequent occurrence in the ATL over the last couple months — although Falcons ex-coach Mike Smith, now unemployed, may disagree. In a league that focuses so much on the superstar, the

Benjamin Shatzman Calling the Shatz Thunder 103-93. Now, beating a healthy OKC team is no easy task. But beating a healthy OKC team desperate for a win, sitting several games out of the playoffs, is like an eight-year-old begging his parents for a video game at Target: kid, it ain’t happening unless you’re really, really good. The Atlanta Hawks are really, really good.

As All-Star Weekend approaches, the Hawks are 36-8.

Atlanta is first in the Eastern Conference — the second seed Wizards trail the Hawks by seven games — and second in the NBA, behind only the Golden State Warriors for best record in the league. Atlanta has won 16 consecutive games.

And for all who claim the Hawks simply prey on the lowly Eastern Conference, they have won 10 consecutive games against Western Conference opponents. On Nov. 26, the Hawks were 7-6.

Today, two months later, the Hawks are 36-8. Losing has

Hawks are following in the Spurs’ footsteps, proving that when team basketball is played the right way, it is nearly unbeatable.

If you watch a Hawks game and think, “this team plays a lot like the Spurs team that won the title last season,” it is not mere coincidence.

Hawks’ head coach Mike Budenholzer spent 18 seasons as an assistant in San Antonio before leaving for Atlanta in 2013. Budenholzer is one of the many Popovich-assistants and/or Popovich-coachedplayers to go on to secure NBA head-coaching gigs (Mike Brown, Avery Jackson, Monty Williams and Jacque Vaughn — to name a few).

And while products of the Popovich Coaching Tree have had varying degrees of success, Mike Budenholzer seems to have mastered the Spurs’ art of flawlessly executed team basketball.

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By JOHN MCGRORTY

Sun Staff Writer

This past weekend, Cornell’s swimming and diving teams competed in Hamilton, New York, against Colgate. Both the men and women were able to swim away with demanding wins and fast times. The men finished with a score of 204-80, while the women came away with a 112-73 victory. Both teams competed extremely well and illustrated that they have the demanding late season speed that will be transferable to the upcoming Ivy League Championships.

“Colgate is always a good meet for us because it gives the team a chance to swim our off-events and have some close races with it,” said senior Timothy Satterthwaite.

“Overall the team was quite happy with the results and had a great time at the meet.”

Senior Thomas Hallowell agreed, adding that swimmers were able to gain experience in different events.

“The Colgate meet is a great opportunity for guys to swim events they wouldn’t normally swim,” he said. “It provides them with a chance to prove themselves and for us to gain confidence in the depth of our team.”

For the women, strong races by junior Jenna Immormino helped to push the Red to a high level of success. Immormino had a strong showing and won three individual events. She also pushed the Red to yet another victory in a relay event.

The women are now 5-3 overall on the season and look to build upon their success next weekend

against Brown.

On the men’s side, the Red was able to begin the meet with a 1-2 finish in the opening relay.

The Red continued from that point forward and never looked back. Cornell had a great deal of individual and combined success that included sweeps in the 400 IM, 200 fly and 100 freestyle.

“The team just needs to keep in mind that there is not much left of the season and to keep training hard. We are in the best shape we’ve been and so with only five weeks left it’s basically time to just focus on keeping ourselves healthy so that we can crush it at the end of the season,” Satterthwaite said.

According to Hallowell, because Brown represents the conclusion of the regular season, it gives the Red additional motivation.

“Brown is always an exciting meet because it is the last meet of

the season and is our final chance to compete before the Ivy Championships,” he said. “After a resounding win at Colgate, we need to keep our focus and maintain the confidence of a team who has swam really well all year.

Brown is the last opportunity to win in a dual-meet setting, and I

“After a resounding win at Colgate, we need to keep our focus and maintain the confidence.”

Thomas Hallowell know it will prove to be a great meet for our team.”

Satterthwaite said he believes that this team has what it takes to maintain this confidence.

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MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR

Red waves | The women’s team picked up its second straight win with a victory over Colgate this weekend.