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No Letdowns

Terrific Trio

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Prof. Bryan Duffs, horticulture, shares his passion for teaching.

Gwen Aviles calls The Chainsmokers single “Don’t Let Me Down” a triumph.

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For the first time in program history, three fencers have placed on an All-Ivy team.

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Ballinger’17 Released on Own Recognizance

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Editor

BALLINGER ’17

Wolfgang Ballinger ’17, president of Cornell’s Psi Upsilon fraternity, was released on his own recognizance at his preliminary hearing Tuesday. The suspect, charged with sexual assault, did not appear in court and his case will proceed to the grand jury.

Ballinger waived his right to appear personally at the hearing, Ballinger’s attorney told the court

Tuesday morning.

In proceedings that lasted under five minutes, assistant district attorney Wendy Franklin said no evidence would be presented at the felony hearing.

“We will go to the grand jury,” Franklin said.

Ballinger was then released by the court on his own recognizance — promising in writing to appear in court for all following proceedings. He had previously been remanded to the Tompkins County Jail awaiting a $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond.

On Saturday, Ballinger pled not guilty to first-degree attempted rape, first-degree criminal act and first-degree sexual abuse. Police have charged him with one Class D and two Class B felonies.

Graffiti Links Sexual Assault to Fraternities

Ballinger was remanded in connection with an incident at Psi Upsilon’s fraternity house, after a female student reported she was sexually assaulted after being led to a bedroom at the house at 2 a.m. on Jan. 31.

Ballinger allegedly forced the student to engage in oral sex, sexually violated her with his hands and attempted to have sexual intercourse her, according to court documents.

The victim helped investigators identify Ballinger, and he turned himself in Feb. 4, according to a police statement.

The University placed Psi Upsilon on interim suspension Feb. 1, following the sexual assault allegations.

Phoebe Keller can be reached at pkeller@cornellsun.com.

Road to victory

Three fraternities vandalized Monday

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer

Following sexual assault charges levied against Wolfgang Ballinger ’17, at least two incidents of graffiti linking fraternities with rape allegations appeared on West Campus Monday.

Cornell police are currently investigating six incidents of graffiti, all reported since the president of Cornell’s Psi Upsilon fraternity was charged with sexual assault. One case of vandalism marked the north wall of the Psi Upsilon fraternity house.

Baker War Memorial Flagpole was painted with graffiti that read “All frats rape,” and a side door at the Delta Upsilon fraternity house was graffitied with the word “Rapist,” according to the Ithaca Voice. Both cases of graffiti were removed by Monday afternoon.

Other graffiti incidents marred the patio and house sign of the Chi Phi fraternity house, the house sign of the Delta Upsilon fraternity house and the glass of the University Avenue bus stop.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY RESULTS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY Bernie Sanders √ 60.0% Hillary Clinton 38.4% (All results as of 2 a.m. this morning)

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY Donald Trump √ 35.1% Jeb Bush John Kasich 15.9% Marco Rubio Ted Cruz 11.5% Chris Christie

11.1% 10.6% 7.5%

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Supporters cheer as the New Hampshire Republican primary election is called for presidential hopeful Donald Trump at an event yesterday in Manchester, N.H. (See story on Page 5.)

Man Attempts to Steal U.A. Discusses Divestment, Olin Library Laptop Carbon Neutrality Goal

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

A young male was reportedly seen stealing a laptop in Olin Library before running from the building at approximately 5:35 p.m. Tuesday.

Several people pursued him, and a witness at the scene shouted that he had stolen a laptop.

Another witness was heard yelling, “He has a knife!”

After sprinting out of Olin Library, the man ran into the entrance of

By JOSH GIRSKY

the McGraw clock tower.

Approximately two minutes after entering, blocked from leaving, the man retreated further up the tower.

Cornell University Police arrived at the scene at 5:40 p.m. and escorted the man from the building at approximately 5:55 p.m. Police took statements from several witnesses at the scene.

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

Sun Staff Writer

Provost Michael Kotlikoff defended the University’s refusal to divest from fossil fuels and its decision to abandon a 2035 carbon neutrality goal at a University Assembly meeting Tuesday.

Kotlikoff began the meeting by reading a statement from President Elizabeth Garrett — who could not attend the meeting due to health issues — in which she addressed divestment from fossil fuel companies.

“I made clear early in my tenure that I did not believe

divesting from fossil fuel companies was in the best interest of the University,” Garrett said. “An impact [on the global climate crisis], the board decided in January, could not be achieved through the symbolic action of divestment.”

Despite Garrett’s recommendation, many assembly members still voiced concerns.

Prof. Robert Howarth, ecology and environmental biology, said the University had put him in the uncomfortable position of urging See UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY page 4

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Man Allegedly Tosses Alligator Into Wendy’s Drive-Thru Window A Florida man is facing assault charges after Fish and Wildlife officials said he tossed an 3.5-foot live alligator into the drive-thru window of a Wendy’s.

U.S. Marshals arrested 24-year-old Joshua James on Monday and charged him with assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful possession and transportation of an alligator, according to WPTV.com.

According to the incident report, James pulled up to the window at a Wendy’s in Loxahatchee last fall and placed an order for a drink.

After he got the beverage, investigators said he tossed the alligator, which he had in the back of his truck, into the restaurant’s kitchen, according to the Miami Herald.

The alligator was eventually removed from the Wendy’s and dropped into a nearby canal.

Linda James, the suspect’s mother, told WPTV.com her son was just joking around.

Pingpong Ball Destroys Coke Can

Normally a pingpong ball can’t do much damage, no matter how hard it is hit.

But with scientific know-how, you can turn the ball into one insanely swift projectile.

Zeke Kossover of San Francisco’s Exploratorium blasted

a pingpong ball through a vacuum cannon. The ball punched a hole in a Diet Coke can at about 500 miles per hour.

Without air resistance, the lightweight pingpong ball can reach jet-like velocity, Kossover explained in a “Simple Feats of Science!” episode.

Lawyer Receives Texts From Chipotle Coupon Seekers A lawyer in Washington D.C. has received dozens of accidental texts from people seeking a coupon for a free Chipotle burrito.

Hank Levine’s daughter-in-law Dorry Levine shared a photo of several texts from people attempting to acquire a coupon for a free Chipotle burrito.

“My father-in-law’s cell is blowing up with people thinking they're getting free Chipotle,” she wrote.

Chipotle offered a free burrito to anyone who texted “RAINCHECK” to the number 888-222 as compensation after the fast-service Mexican restaurant closed on Monday for a meeting regarding the recent E.Coli outbreak.

The confusion occurred as some texters accidentally added an extra “2” to the end of the number, causing them to reach Levine instead of the number offering the free burrito coupon.

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NEWS

LecturerBryan Duff Expands on Rewards of Life as an Educator

By ALEXA ESKENAZI Sun Staff Writer

Teaching was always a part of life for Senior Lecturer Bryan Duff, horticulture.

His mother was a preschool and elementary school teacher, and his father was an army doctor who also taught medical students. Still, it took Duff some time to realize that his love for learning would lead him down the same road as his parents.

Duff said his path to realizing his true calling began on Jun. 4, 1996 — the day he graduated from Princeton University.

Duff was named valedictorian of his class and only had three minutes to speak at graduation because he had to share the stage with that year’s high-profile guest speaker — then President Bill Clinton.

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“What I talked about in that three-minute speech was how lucky we were to have such great teachers and mentors. I should have taken a hint from my speech that my heart was in teaching, but I didn’t,” Duff said. “It took me a couple more years of tutoring and doing some part-time teaching work to realize that I was a teacher.”

Duff attributed some of this delay to the fact that many consider teaching “respected, [but] not prestigious.”

“I was influenced by that cultural value,” he said.

His “kick in the pants” moment, as Duff describes it, was reading a letter to the editor written by a fellow Princeton alum, which he said he found on the back of a magazine. The alum wrote about why she taught elementary school even though she had a degree from such a prestigious university. “Well, who else would you want teaching your kids?” she asked in the letter.

“There is a certain arrogance about that statement I don’t like, but the basic sentiment that we want really bright, ambitious, motivated, kind people to work with kids — that I fully buy into,” Duff said.

Duff said he started out as a high school math teacher, where he was able to work closely with 80 students a year as the director of the senior class project — when seniors research and develop practical uses for something they have learned.

“What a privilege and a pleasure to help guide students in applying academic skills to something they had chosen,” Duff said. “There was great power in that. That’s how I got into teaching.”

After that experience, Duff realized he wanted to work with young people in a capacity that would have a similar impact. He began teaching education, where he could inspire some of his students to pursue teaching careers as well.

At Cornell, Duff ’s courses focus heavily on the application of knowledge and connecting undergraduates with young children. He and his students work together to create after-school learning programs for Ithaca’s local schools and travel as a class to implement them.

Duff said he sees the opportunity to work with the younger students as a privilege for both himself and his students.

“I think I have the best job in the world at Cornell,” Duff said. “As a senior lecturer, I get to focus on teaching and advising. On top of that, I have the resources of a university like Cornell. I have had so many opportunities to develop courses that give undergraduates really cool opportunities.”

This year, Duff received a grant to develop a course called “Crossing Borders in Education: The Case of Myanmar.” The objective of the course is to explore how the sizable group of Burmese refugees in Ithaca has adjusted to the different education system in the United States, he said.

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Prof Launches Carbon Neutrality Letter Campaign commit the University to the carbon neutrality initiative, he said.

Kayla Elyse Brooks ’15, one of Monger’s former students, pointed Prof. Bruce Monger, earth and out that there is an immediate atmospheric sciences, rallied stuneed for action towards carbon dents to protest President neutrality.

Elizabeth’s Garrett’s rejection of “Even 2035 is too late to turn Cornell’s 2035 carbon neutrality back the clock on our impact on goal in a letter-writing campaign the planet,” Brooks said. “Change launched Feb. 2. is important now.”

In October, Garrett said she Brooks also emphawould focus on Cornell’s sized that Cornell’s lead research and education rather than last year’s “There is so much potential for how our could provide an example to other universities.

Climate Action Plan — movement could snowball [to] other “There is so much in which President universities.” potential for how our Emeritus David Skorton movement could snowstated that the University Kayla Elyse Brooke ’15 ball not only here within planned to achieve carour Cornell community, bon neutrality by 2035.

Garrett has not completely 60 so far — to Provost Michael but for other universities, the country and even the world,” she made up her mind and is “equivo- Kotlikoff instead of Garrett.

Monger said he hopes Kotlikoff said. cating on this issue,” according to Brooks added that the original will “relay them to Garrett’s senior Monger.

Monger said he immediately leadership and to President Garrett Climate Action Plan — which has emailed students of his herself when she has regained her already outlined a significant porIntroductory Oceanography class strength and resumes some of her tion of the University’s carbon — including a listserv of 3,000 regular presidential responsibili- neutrality plan — is only lacking community support. former students — after reading ties.”

“What we need is for the comMonger’s “greatest hope” for his about Garrett’s decision, asking them to write to the president with campaign is that he and his stu- munity at Cornell to really stand dents will convince Garrett to re- up and help make it happen any their concerns.

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

The letter-writing campaign was inspired by an end-of-semester assignment that Monger has assigned his oceanography class for the past 10 years, in which his students write letters to their congressional representatives about a threat to the environment.

In light of Garrett’s cancer diagnosis, Monger said he plans to deliver the letters — numbering

way possible,” Brooks said.

“Investment is key to the plan, and we need to be investing resources, ideas and support.”

Emma Kohut ’18 wrote in her

letter that Garrett’s decision to reject the carbon neutrality initiative has “lit a flame on campus.”

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U.A.Urges Admins to Heed Advice of Shared Governance Bodies UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY Continued from page 1

politicians to support carbon neutrality while his own university did not share that goal.

“I understand fully the difficulties in setting a time frame. I understand the costs,” Howarth said. “But given the urgency to the planet of reaching this climate target, Cornell must demonstrate that we can do it. To say that it’s difficult or that we need more research sends the wrong message.”

Kotlikoff responded, saying the implications of a lack of information on carbon neutrality prevented Garrett from endorsing the goal.

“For a University to set a goal without a cost, without knowing what the cost of that is, is very difficult,” he said.

“We don’t have a plan that will get us carbon neutral by 2035.”

Kotlikoff added that the carbon neutrality plan had also received opposition from the University’s deans.

money for lots of new buildings or this or that,” Hatch said.

Elizabeth Chi ’18, an audience member, complained that the University’s actions were contrary to the desires of its shared governance bodies.

“I think I speak for the entire Cornell community when I say that our shared governance system seems a little bit more like a façade than a real shared governance system,” Chi said. “Every single shared governance body on campus has already approved fossil fuel divestment.”

Kotlikoff then moved to a presentation on the College of Business, highlighting the Cornell community’s role in determining the details of how the new college will be run.

The University plans to launch the College of Business in the next academic year, but does not have a hard deadline, Kotlikoff said.

The assembly also considered a resolution to gather

“But given the urgency to the planet of reaching this climate target, Cornell must demonstrate that we can do it.”

Prof. Robert Howarth “When the goal was presented to the deans, virtually every dean in the room said ‘Wonderful. Tell us how we do it without disinvesting in academics at Cornell,’” Kotlikoff said. “I think that’s what President Garrett and the leadership of the University are saying.”

Prof. Martin Hatch, music, countered, saying the lack of a financial plan was not a sufficient reason for refusing to commit to carbon neutrality.

“If there’s urgency, it should be to get that financial plan, and you should be putting a lot of people in the finance office into that rather than raising

information on possible worker’s rights violations on Cornell’s medical campus in Qatar.

Michael Ferrer ’16, an audience member, urged the University to investigate the situation despite a lack of hard evidence.

“There’s a very high likelihood that there is abuse going on in our campus in Qatar,” Ferrer said. “It’s not abuse that students would know about and it’s not necessarily abuse that faculty would know about it either.”

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

FraternitiesVandalized After Report of Sexual Assault GRAFFITI

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In the statement, police acknowledged that some of the other cases of graffiti could have occurred at an earlier date, but said “Each of the six cases ... is under criminal investigation.”

The reports of graffiti came after police charged Ballinger, who turned himself in to the police Friday, with sexual assault when investigators identified him with the victim’s assistance.

Ballinger’s lawyer announced Saturday that he plans to plead not guilty to counts of first-degree attempted rape, first-degree criminal act and first-degree sexual abuse.

Ballinger was released at his own recognizance at a preliminary hearing Tuesday morning. He did not appear in court or present evidence at his hearing, and his case will proceed to the grand jury.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

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Students Advocate Trump, Sanders Win Big in N.H. Carbon Neutrality In Letter Campaign LETTERS

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quences to your generation,” Shalloway said. “But we love our children and our students, and it’s critical that they — you — keep reminding us that every delay in our response is going to cause you to suffer and asking us to take action.”

Brooks said she believes students have enough influence to convince Garrett to rethink her decision.

“This fire will not be extinguished until we see action ...

My hope is that I attend a university that is on the right side of history,” Kohut said. “My hope is that the faculty and those that lead this institution practice what they teach.”

In his letter, Christopher Feely ’18 said “We are a strong community; we are the University revolutionary innovators; we are the has an obligation to stress leaders of tomorrow; we are Cornell.” the importance Kayla Elyse Brooks ’15 of environmental consciousness.

“We are a strong communi“If we can [add] a passion for preserving this planet’s envi- ty; we are revolutionary innovaronment to the list of [values tors; we are the leaders of cultivated at Cornell], wouldn't tomorrow; we are Cornell,” the world be better for it?” Brooks said. “I have no doubts we can do anything if we all Feely said.

Prof. David Shalloway, mol- stand together and figure it ecular biology and genetics, out.” said doing research on the prospects of carbon neutrality Josephine Chu can be reached at is not enough.

“We are leaving the conse- jchu@cornellsun.com.

Lecturer Tells Students: Pursue Passion,Not Fame DUFF

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To prepare for the class, Duff traveled to Burma last summer and visited half a dozen schools, where he noted the increased respect students showed teachers.

According to Duff, the education system needs to grow to allow students to pursue what they are good at and what they are passionate about.

Duff hopes that “one day our society will catch up and put the resources and the salaries behind

teaching that it deserves,” he said.

“If I had a goal, I guess I’d want students at Cornell and I’d want the public, more broadly, to see teaching and that work is incredibly challenging intellectually,” he said. “What’s more important than helping the next generation do better than we’re doing in caring for each other, in caring for the planet, in making the most of their talents, whatever they are?”

Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at aeskenazi@cornellsun.com.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders rode a wave of voter frustration with American politics to commanding victories in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries, adding crucial credibility to their upstart candidacies.

Sanders swept majorities of men, women, independents and young people in his win over Hillary Clinton, but faces challenges in the more diverse states that come next on the primary calendar. Trump, appealing to voters seeking a political outsider, could benefit from the persistent lack of clarity among the more mainstream Republicans struggling to challenge him.

“We are going to do something so good and so fast and so strong and the world is going to respect us again, believe me,” Trump said at a victory rally.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich grabbed second in New Hampshire after pouring nearly all of his campaign resources into the state. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio vied for third along with Ted Cruz, the Iowa caucus winner, ensuring all would press on to the next voting contest in South Carolina.

Sanders, at his own raucous rally, said his victory sent a message “that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California. And that is that the government of our great country belongs to all

of the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their super PACs.” The enthusiasm behind Trump, a real estate mogul who has never held political office, and Vermont Sen. Sanders, who says he is a democratic socialist, underscores the public’s anger with the current political and economic system.

Even if neither candidate ultimately becomes his party’s nominee, whoever wins that nomination will have to reckon with the voter frustration they’ve tapped into.

Clinton appeared to recognize that reality in her concession speech, echoing Sanders’ calls for taking on Wall Street banks and tackling income inequality. But she cast herself as more prepared to make good on her pledges.

“People have every right to be angry. But they’re also hungry, they’re hungry for solutions,” she said after congratulating Sanders on his win.

New Hampshire did little to clarify the crowded contest among more mainstream GOP candidates fighting to emerge as a challenger to Trump and Texas Sen. Cruz. Florida Sen. Rubio, former Florida Gov. Bush and Cruz battled for third behind Kasich.

Throughout the heated primary campaign, Kasich has prided himself on not attacking his rivals. A more moderate

Republican from a politically important state, Kasich told supporters Tuesday night that his second-place finish could be an indication that “we’re turning the page on a dark part of American politics.”

The day was a blow for Rubio, who had appeared to be breaking away from the second-tier Republican pack after a stronger-than-expected showing in Iowa. But he stumbled in Saturday’s debate under intense pressure from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has relentlessly cast the young senator as too inexperienced and too reliant on memorized talking points to become president.

Rubio conceded that the debate may have hurt him in Tuesday’s contest and pledged to supporters that his poor performance “will never happen again.”

Christie, however, didn’t benefit from roughing up Rubio. He lagged behind the pack as votes were being tallied and said he planned to return home to New Jersey to “make a decision on our next step forward.”

Bush was pressing on, declaring that New Hampshire voters had “reset the race.”

Republican voters were more negative about their politicians than Democrats, with about half of GOP voters saying they felt betrayed by party officials.

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Cornell Researchers Explain Creation Of First Self-Assembling Superconductor Interdiscplinary research leads to three-dimensional gyroidal superconducting structure

By KATHERINE QUINN Sun Staff Writer

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers in engineering, physics and chemistry recently created the first selfassembling superconductor. The news of this development came when Science Advances published the group’s research, describing their creation of the threedimensional gyroidal superconducting structure.

The group, led by Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering, Ulrich Wiesner, engaged the expertise of several Cornell faculty and researchers — including Prof. Sol Gruner and Prof.

James Sethna, physics, Prof. Francis DiSalvo, chemistry and chemical biology, Bruce van Dover, chair of the materials science and engineering department and graduate students Spencer Robbins and Peter Beaucage. All are co-authors to the study.

“We had the perfect storm of collaborators,” Beaucage said.

The integrative approach to the research was particularly important in the study of this electronic material because it implements the self-assembling nature of organic block copolymers in the traditionally inorganic realm of superconductor nanostructures.

Speaking about the interdisciplinary essential collaborative nature of this development, Wiesner said that “it stimulates the imagination because it brings two areas together that typically don’t overlap.”

“For me it’s so fulfilling because I’ve been thinking about it for such a long time, almost 20 years,” Wiesner said.

“The feedback’s been really, really good because it’s a little out of the box.”

Superconductors regularly attract great interest and research due to their vast potential as near self-sufficient nondissipative conduction media. These materials allow for the conduction of electrons with very little to no resistance and thus no dissipation of energy lost to heat.

Su p e r c o n d u c t i n g wires in a magnetic field can dismiss the need for a constant current supply and their technology is used in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners and fusion reactors.

The main drawback to superconductor technology is the necessity of operating at very low temperatures and until recently, superconducting was impossible at temperatures much higher than absolute zero. Thus, a large portion of superconductor research focuses on varying the nanostructuring and materials involved to explore the potential for improved macroscale conducting properties.

“We want to understand the materials and their properties better as we give them different structures ... What happens when you start to nanostructure these materials on periodic lattices?”

Wiesner said.

Wiesner first considered this idea of organic materials in three-dimensional gyroidal structures almost two decades ago, before he began working at Cornell in 1999. The porous gyroidal structure is understood as a complex cubic formation of spirals of superconducting material with 10nm sized pores dispersed throughout. Gruner advanced the con-

copolymer to form the alternating gyroidal network from direct sol-gel Niobium Oxide. While ammonia flowed over the oxide to convert it to Niobium Nitride, the sample was heated in air at 450 degrees Celsius. This heating step removed one of the two solvent-induced self-assembled gyroidal networks by evaporation.

“You can think of it like oil and water: you take chemistries that don’t mix,” Beaucage said. “[This] allows additives like nanoparticles to mix with only one of the block polymers.”

The subsequent heat treatment

Visualize | Computer simulations of the gyroid structure observed in the superconducting materials.

cept to the use of gyroidal structures in superconductors but the team encountered a challenge in figuring out how to synthesize the structure.

After unsuccessful experimentation with other superconducting materials, Wiesner consulted Sethna as to what material could exhibit superconducting properties in this structure. Sethna, who was writing a paper on superconductors at the time, recommended Niobium Nitride, an

required more experimentation to find a balance between preserving structure by reducing processing temperatures and improving material properties by raising processing temperatures. When Robbins first heated the sample to 700 degrees then cooled to room temperature it did not exhibit superconducting properties.

He then heated the same sample to 850 degrees in a second wash. Upon cooling, this sample showed superconducting properties. When heating the sample directly to 850 degrees in a single nitriding step proved unsuccessful, the group concluded that the sample must be heated twice, an unexpected requirement that the group cannot explain.

The use of organic materials and polymer self-assembly in synthesis is a revolutionary advancement

in superconductor structure. Block copolymer self-assembly in superconductor formation allows for precise tunability of morphology, dimensionality and feature size at the mesoscale.

Professor Wiesner calls this the “bottomup” approach to superconductor formation. “[The] information about final structure is encoded into primary sequence of polymers,” he explained.

The research related to the creation of this superconducting structure is momentous in light of the lack of studies into the effects of mesostructure on superconductivity. The experiment’s innovative implementation of organic materials is some of the first research into the area of organic material use in superconducting and composite structures.

This advancement opens many pathways for future research and collaboration between the inorganic superconductor and organic polymer fields and their scientific communities. The group plans to investigate the superconducting properties of this structure to determine the potential for elevated superconducting temperatures, conduction under different applied magnetic field conditions, or improved superconductivity. This specific structure prompts further lines of research such as inquiry into the double-heating requirement and the potential to increase conduction at large interfacial areas by filling the pores with a second material to make a composite superconductor.

The exciting potential of this development has been well-received by scientific communities and public audiences alike.

“We’ve been working on this for such a long time and think it’s so cool, and it’s really interesting to hear everyone else say [that] it’s such a neat idea,” Beaucage said.

The researchers are excited by the public’s enthusiastic response and are receiving increasing attention from the media, other scientists and researchers looking to collaborate, and even young kids sending in questions about the discovery.

Katherine Quinn can be reached at kkq2@cornell.edu.

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organic compound that Wiesner’s group was coincidentally working with.

The process involved the use of a three-monomer chain in a triblock

The curious cube | Left: Image of a bismuth-based superconductor levitating a magnet. Right: Scanning electron microscope image of the gyroidal structure in the superconducting materials.

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— Kyla Brathwaite Drake is back and “looking for revenge.” “Summer Sixteen,” the leading single off of his upcoming album Views from the 6, premiered on Jan. 30th on his OVO Sound radio show on Apple’s Beats 1Radio. If Drake was looking to ruffle some feathers before the drop of his new album, he certainly did. From insulting President Obama in retaliation for calling Kendrick Lamar the better rapper to his multiple shots at rival rapper Meek Mill, with whom he has a highly publicized feud about ghost writing — Drake is back. As a Drake fan, I wasn’t disappointed. Lacking the R&B-like vibe of some of his older tracks, “Summer Sixteen” comes across as a fast paced, aggressive anthem. The musical composition of the song itself is minimalistic, and despite its rhythmic changes throughout, it is easier for the listener to focus on and enjoy the lyrics. After listening to “Summer Sixteen,” I am impatiently waiting for Drake to drop Views from the 6.

The Chainsmokers “Don’t Let Me Down” Disruptor

— Gwen Aviles

So far Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, the duo that comprises the EDM group The Chainsmokers, are the masters of creating yearly hits. In 2014, it was the group’s song “#Selfie” that garnered them recognition. Last year, “Roses” was warbled on dance floors and blasted in cars everywhere. It was a song that bonded people with diverse musical inclinations all through summer ending, the leaves changing and our waiting for the snow that never came. Perhaps “Don’t Let Me Down” is The Chainsmokers’ triumphant 2016 single.

The single features the indelible vocals of 17-year-old Daya of “Hide Away.” The lyrics — “I need you, I need you, I need you right now/So don’t let me, don’t let me, don’t let me down” — are more than a little repeitive. But the simplistic pop lyrics are offset by the alchemy of music genres evoked in the song. As Daya sings, horns, percussions and claps lead the song away from typical pop categorization and into the relam of trap music. “Don’t Let Me Down” is a tranquilizer for your ears — a song you can unwind to at the end of the day or dance to as the sun rises. With its release is the realization that while people in general may let you down, The Chainsmokers continues not to.

Unlearning Everything My Dad Taught Me About Music

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n every music-happy kid’s upbringing there’s a parent who they learned about music from. You know — the one you inherited your weird decade taste-quirks, vinyl or (in my case) illegally-downloaded C.D. collection and general music-related perspectives from. You spent car rides exploring albums together, they shed tears of joy when you got really into their favorite old crooner and you showed them how to use Spotify (which they either never really took to, or began furiously trying to ruin your reputation as a Person with Pretty Cool taste by jacking your account and playing solely the Bee Gees and Mariah Carey).

For me (and probably for most of you, although that’s another column), it was my Dad. My dad had a tremendous and hazardous impact, not just on my music taste, but on the way that I thought about music in general. Just like he taught me how to walk, parallel park, make stirfry and fill out a W-2 form — from him I picked up the whole business of consuming, savoring, rejecting, adoring, debating, paying attention to and loving music. I was, I think, under the impression that my Dad knew just about everything about music. I imagined him as having intimately experienced the musical 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, accumulating unknowable depths of music wisdom and opinions along the way. All music-related queries were referred to him. He was my Lester Bangs, my Pitchfork and my Grammy’s: all rolled into one very short English teacher.

Unfortunately, the thing about listening and relating to music is that it is more like making stir-fry than driving a car: everyone does it differently and there are no rules. I suppose I never consciously considered what rules I might have been following, as I began to pursue music: which kinds of music I sought out and allowed myself to enjoy, and which kinds I ignored or dismissed.

But, what is the subconscious but a nasty place where creepy and precarious shit goes down, that, in your 20’s (or 70’s) you realize profoundly affected your entire consciousness, and which you hate yourself for. Because of this subconscious mess, I have spent a lot of time, ener-

gy and conversation unlearning everything my Dad ever taught me about music.

See, my dad (because he is an English teacher in his 50’s) listens to music like an English teacher in his 50’s listens to music: academically, with tried-and-true and yet totally arbitrary ideas about what is quality and interesting and desirable in music, and what is not: what music is good and what is “predigested fast food mush” or any strung-together phrase of the words “sugary” “cookie-cutter,” “cotton-candy,” “frosted flakes.” He thinks in hierarchies, echelons, pecking orders, rankings, superlatives, ceilings and whole-heartedly in genre. He finds “complexity” and the quality of being “difficult to like” to be unduly valuable in music. I have a lot of memories of him sermonizing this Tom Waits or Eddie Vedder or Nick Cave album, praising them for being “challenging,” “complex,” “nuanced” and “intellectual.”

Music he finds good is deemed “world class,” music Objectivity he doesn’t is “intolerable, and Bites that which he likes, but cannot justify by its superiority to other music, like (inexplicably) Bruno Mars is “just totally fun.” “Bob Dylan made five good albums and the rest was mediocre,” “x or y is one of the greatest blues album of all time,” “jazz and classical just have a higher ceiling than rock, which has a higher ceiling than rap and pop,” and this song is perfectly fine but it’s just “candy.” He speaks this way about music: loudly, frequently and with a reckless certainty that makes whatever he’s saying sound suspiciously like the truth.

I guess what I’m saying is that my Dad is an establishment music snob. An old, happy music snob — so comfortable and confident and self-righteous in his snobbery, that, as a burgeoning music-lover, I mistook his for the ideal subject-position to music. His mythologies of complexity, unlikeability, realness, challengingness; and his denigrating “comfort-food” construction of popular music were ones I grew up on, and internalized.

“Some, like “rap is bad” (the more glaring products of generational difference) were easier to discard than other, more subtle implications of his jargon and attitudes: like

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that good music is complicated and challenging; and the corollary, that one should be skeptical of music that is simple and easy to like.

But at some point, I realized that I’d grown up trying to listen to music like a 50-year-old English teacher, instead of allowing myself to listen to music like a teenage me. There’s nothing wrong with how my dad listens to music; he loves and engages with music in a way that brings him a lot of pleasure. But in learning about music through his lens, my own subject-position to music; my reactions and gratifications and sweet spots became muted, fuzzy and hard to identify.

A.O. Scott says, “We all like different things. Each of us is blessed with a snowflake-special consciousness, an apparatus of pleasure and perception that is all our own.”

I take him at his word. I want to worship, not the specters of quality or complexity, but my own apparatus of pleasure and perception; my own weird, changing, neurotic, young female subjectivities without one ounce of guilt or hesitation or the need to justify what it washes up.

I like the sound of women singing sincerely and vulnerably. Leonard Cohen can make me cry, and so can Taylor Swift. So can Girlpool and god damn it, so can My Chemical Romance. I think Avril Lavigne’s Under My Skin is a stunningly candid portrait of human pain.

The Avett Brothers, Carly Rae Jepsen and Azealia Banks all make make me want to get on a table and dance.

Almost everything Radiohead has ever made bores me and it’s not because I don’t get it.

At least in the spaces I travel, we are having these conversations more and more; about rejecting hierarchies of taste, and the machine of pop-shaming pretension.

However, a musically-passionate parent might be an unlikely source of ill-fitting ideas and pretenses about music — a set of rules you’d been following so long, you mistook them for your own.

So, I’m going to have a lifetime of inconclusive and frustrating arguments with my Dad and those who think like him. That’s okay. Just as long as the case I’m making is mine.

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

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College of Business: where is ILR? Re: “Provost Kotlikoff: College of Business Aims to Unite Fractured Programs,” News, Feb. 2 To the Editor: As news of the recently proposed College of Business gains further traction, Cornell students, faculty and staff now more than ever are faced with the realization that consolidation outweighs individual identity. As students from the Dyson School and the School of Hotel Administration form and publicly state their opinions on the newly-approved College of Business, a group is being left out of the conversation: students from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

As ILR students, we are taught that our curriculum is based on the idea of “advancing the world of work” by addressing various perspectives such as human resources, organizational behavior, and labor economics. We are taught that we can have a profound impact in fields such as law, finance and consulting. We are taught that we are an integral part of business education at Cornell.

As students ponder the decision to matriculate to the ILR Class of 2020, developing the narrative for future applicants to attend ILR will become increasingly difficult. A multitude of students are originally attracted to the ILR undergraduate curriculum because of the flexibility and opportunities provided in a vast array of fields. With a designated College of Business, we expect many potential students will be redirected to the programs in the Dyson School and the School of Hotel Administration. Will the ILR program simply devolve into a social sciences school funneling students into human resources and law school therefore losing the essence of “one major, endless possibilities”?

As the decision progresses forward, we must collectively recognize that the isolation of the ILR School forces it into conversations that it no longer belongs in. The business world is evolving, and to the credit of the ILR School, not only has it remained at the forefront of the study of employer/employee relations, it has also endured to produce some of Cornell’s most successful business students despite the growing presence of AEM and Hotel. Amid all of this, employers attached to “business”-oriented firms have come to embrace students in ILR for their fresh perspectives offered, a perspective cultivated from the ground-up where initial exposure to courses such as organizational behavior develop a foundation for what it takes to be an agent of change in the workplace.

With the recent approval of the Cornell College of Business, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations is once again left out of the conversation. As approximately 30 percent of ILR students hope to pursue careers in consulting or financial services, one must think how the purposeful exclusion of ILR in the College of Business will impact the value of our degree and, more importantly, our admission application figures. This piece is not a call to redact the decision, but rather a call for our key decision-makers to look in the mirror and ask themselves the critical questions needed before altering the landscape of Cornell and, specifically, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations with the introduction of the College of Business.

We pose the question to the dean, administration, and faculty about the future direction of the ILR School: what does this purposeful exclusion actually mean for the worth of our education?

Juliana Batista ’16, incoming Schwarzman Scholar concentrating in economics & business Zachary Benfanti ’16, incoming growth equity analyst at Stripes Group Kendall Grant ’16, incoming private client associate, Bernstein Global Wealth Management Catherine McAnney ’16, incoming investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan

When CAPS Gave Me Medication I Didn’t Need

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didn’t plan to spend finals week in the mental ward of Cayuga Medical Center.

Was it traumatic? That would be an understatement.

Was it worth it? Yes. How was it worth it? I found out I was misdiagnosed with a mental illness I did not have and was given sedatives and mood stabilizers from Cornell’s Counseling and Psychological Services that I didn’t need.

I came to Cornell from a university that had a traumatic experience with gun violence many years ago. As a result, there were many taboos and stipulations at my former university on talking about mental illness. At my previous university, people didn’t necessarily want to help you out of love, but out of fear that you would take their life — a recurring theme in debates on gun violence. I remember once having an administrator insist on holding my hand, as if I were a child, to go to the counseling office. I am not here to speak about gun violence, but rather my experience with mental health at Cornell and to shed light into how the field of mental health needs an overhaul.

Similar to Cornell, the ebb and flow of students having emotional and mental turmoil considerably outpaced the supply of counselors and psychiatrists at my previous university. Appointments were hardly guaranteed, the wait list was long and unless there was something seriously wrong, you had to

grateful.

In my therapy group I felt like a stranger.

I was never hospitalized, I never had tried a list of medications and I never experienced psychosis. Although I enjoyed the safe space of sharing my insecurities in graduate school, I was encouraged by my peers to accept “bipolar is different for everyone.” My reality could be different from theirs, but we were all “bipolar” in solidarity.

“Anyone with a mental illness feels helpless at times.”

“You have to be patient with the meds.”

“Try harder to change your lifestyle, don’t drink, don’t stay up too late, make sure to take your meds, eat better, etc.”

No one thought I was misdiagnosed or needed to be tested. I was bipolar, and that was that. I believed CAPS, for they were professionals, and I take credit for that being partially my mistake. However, I find there must be some malpractice going on, not only for me, when students are shoved pills they don’t need.

So what happened? I stopped taking the medication and soon after found myself in the Behavioral Unit. I felt sad, discouraged my grades were so poor and that I couldn’t concentrate. My exams were soon and I told a friend. I called CAPS asking them about what to do. My friend called CAPS and told them I was a danger to myself — again, I was trapped. Soon I was dropped off at Cayuga

I shouldn’t have been given any medication at all. In essence, if you hear about people taking anti-depressants who don’t need them and get more depressed on them — that was me. wait. After snagging a few spots with a counselor, I was told I might have a bipolar disorder, depression, some personality disorder traits or just senior year angst and that I should see a specialist. Time went by, I stopped going and soon after, I came to Cornell.

In contrast to my former university where one would have to lobby for medication, Cornell gave me medication my first visit. I didn’t need to send medical records from my old university — all I said was “a counselor once told me ‘I might be bipolar.’” In a day, I was given Seroquel and lithium, a psychiatrist and a therapy group.

For those of you not familiar with the various flavors of mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics or antidepressants, like any medication, they can have side effects. However, it’s hard to tell if they are effective or not because they are affecting your brain. You can tell after taking medication for acne if your face clears up, for your throat if the mucus starts to drain, but with mental illness medication — it is a waiting game. Often I heard things like “you have to reach the right level before they work — be patient” or “the side effects wear off.”

I started to slip in classes, I couldn’t remember, I couldn’t concentrate and, in essence, I developed a learning disorder. Why were my scores so low compared to others?

My insecurities started to build — I was told I needed this medication, but the ramifications on my academics were horrendous.

My cohort was worried. My best friend told me “I had no more feelings,” for she observed when I would struggle to have any expression besides a straight line. I was going through the motions like a vegetable, but CAPS told me that it was necessary, because I had a mental illness.

When I discussed my reluctance to take these medications after how they were affecting my personal life, I was asked, “Do you think men will like you when you’re not on these?” I felt helpless, trapped and accepted I was weak. I was projected the reality of a mental illness. I was getting more “help” than my previous university so I tried to be

Medical Center where I would spend the next few days trapped and disconnected from humanity besides a small window of three hours of visitation. Thank god for my friends.

At the unit, we were told to eat at certain times. We had to ask to get a puzzle from the cupboard. There were no locks on the doors and every 15 minutes someone checked up on you to make sure you were still around.

Everything is round and soft and the windows are plexi glass. People listened while you used the restroom sometimes. There, I met middle-aged men struggling with addiction.

I met just turned 18 year old children from broken homes. I met fellow Cornellians trapped in abusive relationships seeking a safe haven. I met one Cornellian from China who had no idea why she was there.

I cried a lot, I prayed a lot and I ended up coloring a lot.

While there I missed my final exams. But also while I was there I found out I actually had no mental illness. I shouldn’t have been given any medication at all. In essence, if you hear about people taking anti-depressants who don’t need them and get more depressed on them — that was me.

Mental illness has a stigma where people wish to overmedicate rather than undermedicate. I know my story is not unique to CAPS. I do not wish to discourage anyone from using their services, but please get a second opinion — they are understaffed and (I hypothesize due to historical and legal issues) pressured to medicate. I now have an unnecessary hospital bill to pay, exams to take and explanations to give for my grades.

I ask my friends to generously be patient with me as I swing back into this semester from last and to relearn who I am — for they met a false medicated version. This semester is going well only because at the mental ward they realized I did not need to be medicated.

If I had continued going to CAPS, I don’t know where I would be now.

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Ode to a Kanye West

’ve been pretty good about going to class this semester, but not so good about doing work when I get home.

Usually this means I’m up relatively late trying to convince myself that I can get away with doing my work between classes tomorrow or not at all. Last night was one of those nights, but luckily Kanye blessed me with another morsel of information about his forthcoming album. At 1:23 a.m., Kanye tweeted yet another new album title, T.L.O.P. At this point of the night, I realized I could either briefly speculate possible words for each letter of the cryptic acronym or continue working with the fervor of a Cornell junior without a summer internship. I chose the former, but unfortunately this led to a full on Kanye appreciation night.

But is that really a bad thing, man? It’s Kanye.

Regardless of how you feel about Kanye’s personality, there’s really no denying the consistent quality of his music.

For a mainstream artist that’s been around as long as ’Ye has, his sterling album record is nearly unprecedented. From his debut work, The College Dropout, to 2013’s Yeezus, every Kanye album has been both a commercial and critical success. Even his least critically successful album, 808s and Heartbreak, has gone on to be hailed by many as the most influential album for contemporary hip-hop — a testament to Kanye’s foresight and ingenuity.

That being said, where does Kanye go now? For a guy that’s seemingly always at the forefront of innovation in

If his latest album is just an amalgamation of old Kanye vibes, I’m not totally sure critics or I will be overwhelmed by it. To an extent, a large part of the novelty of Kanye’s work is his constant pushing of boundaries and subversion of the norm or expected. For Kanye to release an album where he just sounds like Kanye isn’t very Kanye of him. hip-hop, there’s not a lot of unchartered territory for Kanye to explore. With the release of “No More Parties in LA” and “Real Friends,” it doesn’t seem like Kanye is trying to do something new. With production more similar to MBDTF and Graduation’s bastard and lyrical flow we haven’t heard in a while, it seems like Kanye is turning a new leaf. He’s not drawing from Chicago House, Pop Art or Greek myth, and I’m not sure what to think.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved both “Real Friends” and “No More Parties in LA,” but my only hang up is with the quality of the actual album. What if it’s just fine? I’ve never heard a Kanye album and thought, “Well, that wasn’t bad, but I wasn’t all that into it or anything.” Every Kanye album has left me both thoughtful and fulfilled. I feel like this might be due to the constant innovation in Kanye’s music.

If his latest album is just an amalgamation of old Kanye vibes, I’m not totally sure critics or I will be overwhelmed by it. To an extent, a large part of the novelty of Kanye’s work is his constant pushing of boundaries and subversion of the norm or expected. For Kanye to release an album where he just sounds like Kanye isn’t very Kanye of him.

His album will come out Thursday, and Kanye will be live streaming a listening party from MSG to theaters all over the country. Luckily, my friends and I got tickets to see it at the Ithaca Regal Cinemas for the cool price of $25.

There was a $530 option that included a jean jacket, but my friends and I all agreed we had plenty of jean jackets already.

None of us are totally sure what the listening party will entail or what the songs will sound like, but it’s safe to say we’re all anxious and excited to hear ’Ye’s new work. Here’s to Kanye’s seven album hit streak and hoping everything I wrote up there is wrong.

Akshay Jain is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at aj265@cornell.edu. College Stuff appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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y freshman year was so the Rapper. Now, Chance is a because seriously, who are they? lit. Not only was great artist. I love “Juice” and Why bother having me fill Kendrick Lamar our “Sunday Candy” is pretty much out a survey on who I want to Slope Day performer in 2013, on a constant loop in my see perform at Slope Day, the but Nas, Jhene Aiko, Elle Spotify. But, Chance is not a state of mental health in my Varner and John Legend also Slope Day artist. He is way too community, my opinion on the graced our campus. So, you can mellow for Slope Day — way faculty who teach me, or other imagine my disappointment too mellow. I am positive I left university policies if my views when this year’s Slope Day the slope maybe 10 minutes into are not going to be reflected in artists were announced. Like his set last year because it just a real tangible way? I would seriously, who are Walk the was not hype enough for me. rather the powers that be just do Moon and Cash Cash? Do not Slope Day is a celebration! what they want instead of askget me wrong, I understand that We made it through another ing me how I feel only to ignore Cornell is comprised of thou- year of the ivy-covered hell halls my answer. Either that, or truly sands of students with varying of Cornell University (please give me the resources to bring music tastes the things I but these peowant to see to I would rather the powers that be just do what c a m p u s . ple were not even on the they want instead of asking me how I feel only Programming survey that that reflect was sent out to ignore my answer. Either that, or truly give the interests at the beginof my various me the resources to bring the things I want to communities, ning of this school year. I speakers that see to campus. know they get booked were not on for Bailey there because I distinctly catch this Gilmore Girls refer- Hall and not Sage Chapel so remember either typing in or ence, guys). And, maybe it is that people can actually get in selecting Fetty Wap! Come on, just me, but I just feel like the to attend the talk (ie: the everyone loves Fetty. people who make decisions that #BlackLivesMatter event that Slope Day is usually head- affect us as students — whether happened last week) and Slope lined by a hip-hop artist with a it relates to health care at Day artists that make me want pop, EDM or more rave-ish Gannett, the formation of new to run to the front of Libe Slope artist opening for the main act. colleges or majors, concerts, etc. and twerk on the stage.

Before I came to Cornell, — are so out of touch. Don’t get If Slope Day artists are a Drake, Snoop Dogg and T.I. me wrong, this could be due to reflection of the direction that performed. Those sound like the unique viewpoint that I’m Cornell is heading in, then I’m Slope Days I would have been bringing to the table due to how glad I’m graduating when I am. ecstatic to attend. But no, after I identify, which for the record Shoutout to the class of 2016, Kendrick there was Ludacris — does not make my opinion we had the best freshman Slope which I guess was cool. I can invalid, it just qualifies it as Day ever. respect the Slope Day program- simply that my opinion rooted ming committee for bringing it in my locus of being. But, let us Gabrielle Hickmon is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be back to the 99s and 2000s one be real, I also know I am not the reached at ghickmon@cornellsun.com. time for the one time. The year only one who reacted to Moon Gabbing with Gabby appears alternate after Luda, there was Chance Walk and Cash Cash in dismay Wednesdays this semester.

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“For me, leading has just really been about bringing the team together as a whole,” she said. “Our goal was to do really well at Ivies and we got united under this common goal and that helped with the training.”

With one more invitational remaining, Gangemi admitted the team’s focus was mainly placed on the Ivy League Championship.

“For me, leading has just really been about bringing the team together as a whole. Our goal was to do really well at Ivies and we got united under this.”

Angelica Gangemi Ivies held more than its normal level of significance; the round robin was the first invitational held at Cornell in nine years.

“It was so surreal,” Gangemi said of competing at a home tournament for the first time in her Cornell career. “I definitely channeled the energy of the crowd and all the supporters to motivate me to do well.”

Up next for Gangemi and Cornell is the Philadelphia Invitational which was originally scheduled for earlier in the semester but was postponed due to snow. Regionals and then Nationals occur in March.

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

Sports

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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2016

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Three Fencers Earn All-Ivy Nods in Cornell fencing history to earn the distinction three times.

“The fact that three of us could be All-Ivy at once, Three weeks before the biggest match of her season, made it 10 times as special,” Gangemi said.

As a team, the Red took fifth place, defeating Yale and senior Angelica Gangemi felt a searing pain in her shin.

With the Ivy League Championship fast approaching, Brown while losing to Penn, Princeton, Columbia and Gangemi knew she had to either be healthy or play Harvard, the latter three of which all tied for first place in the tournament. through the pain.

Head coach Iryna Dolgikh said defeating the “I asked [my trainer] what we can do to make sure that I can compete,” Gangemi said. “Basically I’ve been Bulldogs and the Bears was “no walk in the park.”

“We did challenge Penn in in a boot whenever I’m not a major way, but were not as fencing, just doing rehab to “I didn’t think about being injured. To fortunate in the end,” try to strengthen it.”

Despite the preventative me, I wasn’t injured. I was just a normal Dolgikh said. “I would like to note that against each opposmeasures, Gangemi was still competitor doing my thing.” ing school, our entire team experiencing some pain as the came out fighting in all of our tournament began. Not only Angelica Gangemi bouts; we took some amazing was she battling the top victories against Columbia fencers from some of the best fencing teams in the country, she was also battling shin and Princeton, which in turn earned some major points for Big Red Fencers toward the NCAA Fencing splints.

“I tried not to think about it,” Gangemi said. “My Championships ahead.”

With just one scheduled invitational left before gameplan was to be focused completely on the opponent in front of me and even if I got down to just now worry Regionals and Nationals, Gangemi stressed the Red’s about it and just always stay in the bout and strive to get cohesion as a major reason for the team’s success. While the next touch. That was my approach, I didn’t think fencers compete individually, she noted that teamwork is about being injured. To me, I wasn’t injured, I was just a still of the utmost importance to any squad’s success.

“If I’m not training with teammates who are pushing normal competitor doing my thing.”

And it worked. Gangemi finished in fourth in foil, me to do better then I’m not going to do better. We’re all just going to be in this stagnant pool,” Gangemi said. the highest finish among all Cornell fencers.

She joined junior Victoria Wines and sophomore “We push each other to work harder in practice and Gabriella Zusin on the All-Ivy second team, marking the that’s how we get better as a team.”

As the captain of the squad, Gangemi said one of her first time in program history that multiple fencers responsibilities is to foster a collaborative atmosphere earned All-Ivy honors.

Zusin placed fifth in foil, right behind Gangemi. surrounding the team.

Wines’ fifth place finish in epee was enough to give her See FENCING page 11 a third All-Ivy nod. She became only the second player

By ADAM BRONFIN

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETICS

Terrific trio | Senior Angelica Gangemi was one of three Cornell fencers to be placed on the All-Ivy second team.

TRACK AND FIELD

Winkler Breaks School Javelin Record;Track Teams Place in Top 3

Behind junior’s 75-foot throw, men take third at Sykes Sabock Challenge Cup;women place second

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Contributor

Hard work, motivation and increasing momentum continue to drive the men’s and women’s track and field teams to success in the early stages of their seasons. This past weekend saw both squads hold their own against stiff competition in State College, PA. at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup. The men finished third in a sevenschool field behind host Penn State and UConn. Overall, it was another successful showing by the Red with 17 IC4A qualifiers, and junior Rudy Winkler receiving “Athlete of the Meet” honors.

Winkler won the 35-pound weight throw with a heave of just under 75 feet, easily breaking the Cornell record and solidifying his ranking of No. 2 in the nation.

“Rudy’s performance was amazing,” head coach Adrian Durant said. “His throws looked as if they were floating in the air and would never come down.”

Winkler described his own performance as “surprising.”

“Earlier in the week, I was not throwing all that well,” Winkler said. “But on that day I just felt really good and finally got everything together. … Being recognized as the Athlete of the Meet is a huge honor.”

On the track, senior Max Hairston narrowly missed first place and took second in the 60-meter hurdles. Sophomore Brailin Paulino finished fifth in the 60-meter dash, and junior Mark Tedder ran the mile in 4:03.47, good enough for second place and sixth all time in Cornell history.

In the 5K, senior Zack Israel and sophomore Sam Chauvin both set personal bests and finished in third and fourth, respectively.

The Cornell women did especially well, as they finished second with 122 points, trailing only Penn State and ahead of several strong contingents, including Ivy League rival, Princeton. Fueled by the runners, the Red won two events, took home five runner-ups, and earned points in 25 different events over the course of the two day meet.

Unsurprisingly, head coach Richard Bowman said he was pleased with his team’s performance.

“They were fantastic,” Bowman said.

“We had a number of athletes step up again and do some great things.”

Last week, the coach emphasized the importance of momentum to his team’s mentality and success and knows the latest strong showing will do nothing but help keep it going.

“We really don’t want to break this

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Magnificient miler | Senior Kristen Niedrach’s mile time of 4:53 earned her first place.

Teammate Caroline Kellner finished in third.

momentum,” Bowman said. “Each week has been a continuation of the last, and that’s ideal.”

The women got off to a great start on Friday night with a win in the distance medley relay, anchored by sophomore Jackie Katzman who overcame a three-second deficit to propel the Red to the victory.

Saturday featured more success on the track. Senior Kristen Niedrach won the mile in under 4:53, and teammate and cocaptain Caroline Kellner finished in third less than two seconds behind her teammate. In the 200-meter, the Red took second, third and seventh and senior co-captain Udeme Akpaete took second place in the 400-meter.

“Right now we’ve got different groups stepping up and doing great things,” Bowman said about his team’s performance. “Hopefully in a few weeks it will all come together.”

With Indoor Ivy League Championships approaching at the end of the month, Bowman and the rest of the team are excited for everything to click all at once, and they know they will need it to in order to capture a championship.

Both the men and women will compete this weekend in Staten Island, N.Y. on Friday and back home in Barton Hall on Sunday, looking to build on recent weeks as the Ivy Championships begin to loom.

“This is [the] final push to get sharp and to prepare to battle it out for the Ivy Championships right here at home,” Durant said.

Charles Cotton can be reached at clc285@cornell.edu