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Kendrick Lamar Set for Slope Day

Students express both elation and disappointment over choice

By ARIELLE CRUZ and SAM BROMER

the stage accompanied by a live band, rather than a D.J. Graham Chapman ’13, vice chair of the Breakout hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar SDPB, said he was pleased with the choice will headline Slope Day 2013, the Slope Day of headliner, calling Lamar “a very up-andProgramming Board announced Thursday. coming artist [who] we’re catching ahead of One of the two openers will be DJ 5 & a the curve.” He said that he hopes the conDime, while the other has yet to be announced. cert will please fans of all types of The Sun’s Arts and Entertainment writers and music, so that “people who are unhapmembers of the Cornell community sound off py with rap will have other genres they may prefer.” on the decision.

Lamar is the latest in a line of critically “Lamar is a very up-and-coming artist acclaimed hip-hop ar[who] we are catching ahead of the curve.” tists chosen to headline Slope Day before Graham Chapman ’13 achieving prolonged commercial success.

After waiting for almost a year for the Kanye West, who headlined the announcement of this spring’s Slope Day concert in 2004, released his highly headliner, the performance was unveiled acclaimed debut, The College today with a surprise: Kendrick Lamar, the Dropout, only four months before much-hyped hip-hop sensation — whose performing at Cornell, while Drake first major label release, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. headlined Slope Day 2010 a month City, garnered critical accolades and debuted before dropping his freshman release, at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart — Take Me Home.

Lamar’s rise in the has been chosen to headline the biggest event of the year at Cornell. Unlike most world of hiphip-hop artists, including last year’s Slope hop began Day headliner Taio Cruz, Lamar will take late last

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The Pet Dilemma

Nikhita Parandekar grad says that something has to be done about the increasing number of pets being euthanized or abandoned with the economic downturn. | Page 7

Arts Oscar Nominated

The Sun interviews Tim Squyres ’81, who was nominated for Best Film Editing for his work on the Oscar-nominated film, Life of Pi. | Page 8

Sports Taking Back the Game

The men’s hockey team will compete this weekend after recovering from a seven-game losing streak last weekend. | Page 16

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year. His album was hailed as one of the best albums of 2012 — if not the decade — by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The Guardian and The New York Times. But Lamar still has See LAMAR page 9

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Don’t kill my vibe | Kendrick Lamar will perform this Slope Day.

Technical Issues Delay Fence Removal Potential Sequester May C.U.says thermal Cut C.U.Federal Funds sensors are still By Six to Eight Percent undergoing tests

By JOSEPH NICZKY Sun Senior Writer

Two years after a string of suicides led the University to erect fences around bridges on and around campus, Cornell decided it would replace

the fences with nets hanging under the bridges. Though work on the nets was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2012, the fences will remain on the bridges indefinitely until remaining issues with their technology are resolved, according to John Keefe, project manager.

Each bridge is equipped with cameras that are designed to detect heat so that emergency personnel can be notified when someone has jumped or fallen into the nets and needs to be rescued. Currently, however, the cameras are too sensitive, according to Keefe.

“The basic problem is we’re getting

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Still under construction | Due to complications in the bridges’ thermal cameras, fences still remain on bridges on or near campus.

too many false alarms, and we need to calibrate the sensors so that they detect a human, but don’t detect a squirrel,” he said. “We’re trying to find the sweet spot.”

Winter Storm Nemo and other storms may have caused problems with the heat-detecting cameras by creating “optics of extreme temperature variance,” or drastic shifts in temperature, according to Delgado.

“We had the system basically operational before the recent storms, and after the storms we had to calibrate, so the weather may have had something to do with it,” Delgado said. “The extreme weather revealed that we had to do some additional calibration work [on the thermal imaging cameras] before we commissioned the system.”

In addition to suffering delays caused by issues with the thermal camera, the nets’ installation was held up in part due to problems shipping materials for their construction, an issue which has since been resolved.

“The mesh system comes from Europe. There was a minor hiccup at one point that affected the delivery of the mesh systems,” Delgado said.

Keefe said that changes in weather may affect the effectiveness of the thermal imaging cameras in the future.

“If there’s a branch in the way and See FENCES page 4

By ALEXA DAVIS

Sun Staff Writer

If Congress does not come to an agreement on how to cut the U.S.’ deficit

by March 1, it will slash the country’s budget by more than $85 billion — leading to a six to eight percent reduction in Cornell’s federal funding. University administrators warned that the so-called “sequester” cuts may lead to a decrease in research funding, jobs and financial aid that is supported by the government.

The cuts would slash the budgets of government agencies, like the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health, which provide research funding to Cornell, according to Robert Buhrman Ph.D. ’73, senior vice provost for research.

“[The reduction] is not cataclysmic, but if you are the individual whose project is stopped, it is cataclysmic,” Buhrman said.

In 2012, Cornell’s research programs received $466 million from the fed-

“If you are the individual whose project is stopped, [the cuts are] cataclysmic.”

Robert Buhrman Ph.D.’73 eral government, which constituted 80 percent of all University research funds, according to Buhrman.

About 70 percent of Cornell’s research funds support graduate students and research staff. The remaining funds cover the cost of equipment, electricSee SEQUESTER page 4

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News, “Cornell Reduces Greenhouse Emissions by 7 Percent From 2010-12,” Thursday Speaking about Cornell’s reduced greenhouse gas emission “We have been exceptional in the progress that we’ve made. We stopped burning coal, and we soundly beat our Kyoto protocol goal of [reducing our] 1990 emission levels [by] seven percent by the end of 2012. We are now striving beyond that for eventual carbon neutrality.”

Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research Talks at Twelve: Andrew Smiler Noon - 1 p.m., 2nd Floor Conference Room, Beebe Hall Cornell in Turin Summer 2013 Information Session 3 - 4 p.m., 153 Uris Hall

Lanny Joyce, director of energy management in Facilities Services

CU Music: Composers’ Forum 5 - 6:30 p.m., Milstein Hall

News, “Graduate School Prepares Students for Job Hunt,” Tuesday Speaking about partnering with Cornell Career Services for greater graduate student advising “We are increasing the focus on advising graduate students about the range of career paths available to them in professorial and administrative roles in academia, in industry, in government and in the nonprofit sector.

Anthropology Colloquium: Corpse, Stone, Door, Text Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan 3:30 - 6 p.m., 215 McGraw Hall

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Arts, “School, Scales, and Songs: An Interview with Pentatonix,” Wednesday Speaking about Pentatonix’s first tour “It really has been surreal. Touring is something I have wanted to do since I was eight years old and it’s even better than I imagined. It’s such a relaxed, fun atmosphere! Wake up, soundcheck, hang out, meet fans, perform, sleep, repeat! It’s a dream honestly.”

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Scott Hoying, vocalist, Pentatonix

Off the Label Tour 2 - 3 p.m., Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Science, “Prof. Jesse Goldberg Uses Songbirds to Study Learning,” Wednesday Speaking about understanding the nature of failure “Failures are important to go through, and are a totally normal part of any learning process. If we just go back to trial-and-error learning, the whole point of it is realizing that you did something wrong. Don’t take it personally.”

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New S.A. Resolution Will Increase Feedback Given to Byline Orgs.

The Queen’s a cappella

By ELIZABETH KUSSMAN

the byline-funded Slope Media Group.

“We should be given every The Student Assembly passed a opportunity possible to prove ourresolution Thursday that would selves worthy of funding,” she said. improve communication between Katherine Olsavsky ’14, current byline funded student organiza- treasurer of Slope Media, was also tions and the appropriations com- in favor of the resolution. mittee.

“We do appreciate S.A. allowing The resolution would create a us to carry out operations as we see follow-up task force within the fit but we would definitely appreciappropriations committee that will ate more feedback as to whether we offer feedback and recommenda- are fulfilling our mandate,” she tions to byline funded groups dur- said. ing non-byline funding years — Emily Bick ’13, president of years in which the appropriations Haven, Cornell’s LGBT Student committee does not determine Union, said the resolution supallocations. The S.A. said it hopes ports a “process [that] is crucial to the resolution will ensure that bothsuccession and success in organizations are spending their byline funded organizations.”

The resolution did not pass without “I am really concerned about how much debate. Some members of the SA we are expanding the authority of the explored the concern appropriations committee and to what that this resolution extent are we looking to be involved.” would give too much power to the approUlysses Smith ’13 priations committee.

“I’m just really concerned about how money efficiently. much we’re expanding the authori“I’m 100 percent in favor of ty of the appropriations committee this,” said Stephen Breedon, vice and to what extent we’re looking to president of public relations for the be involved,” said Ulysses Smith S.A. and a member of the appro- ’13, vice president of diversity and priations committee. “It’s our inclusion for the S.A. responsibility to serve the student Other S.A. members said that body, and if we’re allocating six the resolution could provide inforand a half million dollars, we have mation necessary to open a healthy to do it fairly. I think this resolu- dialogue between the S.A. and tion gets the job done.” byline funded groups.

Roneal Desai ’13, vice president “I think offering more feedback of finance for the S.A., said that and information is not a bad the resolution received both writ- thing,” said Garrison Lovely ’16, ten and verbal support from a total freshman representative for the of 15 out of 31 byline funded orga- S.A. “We give them the power to nizations on campus. None of the determine the fate of the organiza31 organizations opposed the reso- tion, so I think we should give lution, and representatives from them the information they need to organizations including Cornell change that fate.”

Minds Matter, Haven, Slope The intention of the resolution Media Group and the Slope Day is not to micromanage groups, said Executive Board spoke at the meet- Don Muir ’15, Arts and Sciences ing in support of the resolution, representative for the S.A. and a according to Desai. member of the appropriations “Communication is absolutely committee. necessary to make the byline fundRather, Muir said, “It is a meching process more of a conversation anism to determine whether the between byline funded groups and recommendation that is made can Student Assembly rather than the be fulfilled.”

Student Assembly making arbitrary decisions,” said Dani Elizabeth Kussman can be reached at Gredoña ’13, former treasurer of ekussman@cornellsun.com.

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All The King’s Men, an a cappella group from the United Kingdom, performs in Sage Chapel Thursday night alongside The Hangovers, a Cornell a cappella group.

City of Ithaca Maintains Credit Rating

By REBEKAH FOSTER Sun Staff Writer

The City of Ithaca has retained its credit rating of AA, despite earlier facing a $3 million budget deficit.

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 announced the news on his Facebook page Feb. 15, saying, “thanks to the hard work of our staff and the difficult decisions we made ... we’ve just learned that we were able to maintain our credit rating at AA.” The rating will allow Ithaca residents to secure low interest rates on long-term borrowing, Myrick wrote.

Moody’s, a credit rating agency, assigned Ithaca the Aa2 credit rating — the third higest credit ranking that Moody’s awards.

“The city’s credit rating is a pulse of how overall city finances are,” said Steven Thayer, city controller. “The rating covers all aspects of city activity ... so for the city’s rating to stay strong at an Aa2, the community, including Cornell and Ithaca College, have an impact on the overall economic climate in Ithaca.”

Credit ratings are determined by credit agencies that evaluate the likelihood that a borrower will be able to repay a loan.

“Lenders rely on credit ratings to determine whether they are comfortable with the level of risk of the lender, and if so, at what interest rate they are willing to lend,” said Prof. Yaniv Grinstein, management, finance.

A poor credit rating indicates that the borrower has a high risk of defaulting.

Several factors which influence a credit rating include budget deficits, loans that a city maintains and tax revenues, according to Grinstein.

“If the city has more outstanding debt, then it means that it needs to repay more in the future, and it therefore means that the likelihood that it might not have enough cash to repay [the loan] is larger,” he said.

Tax revenue and the stability of governance in a city also impact its credit rating, according to Grinstein.

“Tax money is the main source of income to a city and its main source to repay loans. If, for example, the city faces high unemployment, the level of anticipated taxes is going to go down, and there will be less money in the future to repay the loan,” he said.

Stability of governance affects credit ratings because the “history of deficits in previous years and the ability of the mayor to pass changes in the budget or changes in taxes” are all examined upon determining a city’s financial rating, according to Grinstein.

The stable credit rating is especially significant because this year, development in Ithaca will be more active than in previous years, according to Thayer.

“As far as projects, the city has a large Commons reconstruction project start-

ing in April, and also the Water Treatment Plant Reconstruction project which will start later this year,” Thayer said. “In addition, there are several private development projects occurring during the year. Many housing and apartment buildings will be under construction over the next two years.”

Though the city’s stable credit rating will enable it to pursue multiple economic development projects, the future still holds many challenges, Thayer said.

“This is a difficult period for the city financially, so maintaining the Aa2 bond rating will continue to be challenging for us,” Thayer said. “Many issues face the city including high debt load, lower fund balance and reserves, higher pension costs, higher labor costs, higher health insurance costs, higher insurance liability costs and level or decreasing revenues.”

For now, the city will likely invest in restoration projects, according to Grinstein.

“When the city of Ithaca has a high credit rating, it means that it can borrow at a low interest rate,” he said.

“This source of funding is useful should the city decide to invest in new projects or even in case it faces an unforeseen need for cash.”

Rebekah Foster can be reached at rfoster@cornellsun.com.

The Slope Day Programming Board announced that Kendrick Lamar will be the main act for Slope Day 2013. What do you think of the announcement?

“I am going to ‘drank’ so he ‘don’t kill my vibe.’”

“I was too DRANK to comprehend the news.”

ZAC PETERSON / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

We’re all ears | The Student Assembly meets to discuss a new resolution about giving feedback to byline organizations on Thursday in the Willard Straight Hall.

— Lovin’ It ’15 — Dionysian Editor ’14

“Cornellians are going to get some Poetic Justice after Taio Cruz’s dismal performance last year. Drank.”

— Good Kid ’16 — Compiled by Kritika Oberoi

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NEWS

Timing for Removal Sequester May Lead to Cuts Of Fences Undecided In Federal Financial Aid, Jobs Due to Camera Issues

donate support other things. We do not anticipate and I do not think it is either reasonable or feasible to anticipate that we will supplant a ity and other facilities, according to Buhrman. reduction in federal funding with donations,” If the sequester occurs, the University will Buhrman said.

Instead of seeking donations, Cornell will see an inevitable decrease in the number of jobs in research it can support, but the amount of strive to expand its funding base to include jobs it may have to cut is unknown, according industrial, state and foundation funding, to Buhrman. The University’s current funding according to Buhrman.

The budget cuts will not only affect Cornell provides a cushion so that individuals will not lose their jobs immediately. However, if pro- but may also affect the Ithaca area, according to grams are not renewed over time, funding for Buhrman.

If there are fewer individuals studying at the jobs will cease, Buhrman said.

Cornell, then “If the sequestrathere may be less tion goes into effect, money flowing it will be implement- “Would you lay somebody off if you lost into Ithaca’s econed in a rolling fash- five percent of your grant? It depends on omy, accodrding ion, so it is impossi- how big your grant is. If it is $10,000, to Buhrman. ble to say now how The sequestrasome things are then probably not. But if it is $10 million, tion cuts may going to be affected,” then probably.” have also larger said Simeon Moss, consequences for vice president for Diane Miller the nation, University communiaccording to cations.

Diane Miller, director of federal relations at Buhrman. The portion of the United State’s Cornell, said that it is unclear how budget cuts GDP that is spent on research and development will specifically affect research at Cornell has been declining at a faster rate than other because federal agencies have not decided how nations, Buhrman said. This may lead to a “brain drain”, or emigration of highly trained they will distribute cuts.

As a result, the effects of the budget cuts are and intelligent individuals to nations that can not clear — agencies may make cuts across the better sustain their interests.

According to Miller, the government has board, they may renew select grants, they may reduce one project’s budget more than another, been intensifying the way it is talking about or they may choose to direct more funding to sequestration so that the public will perceive the outcome to be as harsh as possible. other research universities, Miller said. “[The federal government] has been trying “Would you have to lay somebody off if you lost five percent of your grant? It depends how to make [the sequester] sound as scary as possibig your grant is. If it $100,000, then probably ble,” Miller said. “They’re saying: We’re not not. But if it is a $10 million grant, then prob- going to have meat inspectors in slaughterhouses, we’re not going to hire TSA agents at the airably,” Miller said.

If the sequester occurs, federal financial aid port, we’re not going to have as many air traffic may also be negatively affected. Although Pell controllers.’ They are trying to make it sound as Grants — a federal grant given to undergradu- scary as possible so that the outcome sounds ates with financial need — are protected by the like it will have an effect on everyone’s day to act, it is not clear how other aid programs will day life.”

As it waits for Congress to act, Cornell is be affected, according to Miller.

The only effects that are known is that pro- using a team of administrators on Capitol Hill cessing times will be slower since the office of to communicate with senators about the potenfinancial aid, which is subject to the sequestra- tial sequestration.

“Until the sequester happens and the agention, may need to lay off workers, according to Miller. Additionally, origination fees, which cies tell us what is going to happen we’re just compensate for the cost of processing and lend- waiting. All the research universities are suging funds, will rise by 7.5 percent, increasing gesting strongly to Congress and the administration that they find alternative way to deal the cost of borrowing money for students.

Although Cornell could face tough budget with fiscal challenges of country,” Buhrman cuts, the University is not looking to alumni to said. make up for the reduction in the research budget, Buhrman said.

“We have very generous alumni and other Alexa Davis can be reached donors to Cornell. Those funds that they at adavis@cornellsun.com.

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the breeze catches it the wrong way, it triggers the alarm,” he said.

The University is still in the process of determining how long it will take before the thermal cameras are fully operational and the fences can be removed, according to Delgado. Completion of the project was originally scheduled for the end of 2012.

On Monday, workers adjusted the sensors on four of the bridges for a trial period of several weeks, according to Keefe.

“We reset four cameras to the best of our capabilities, and we’ll track that for false alarms, and if that works we’ll do it for all the bridges and track them. If that works, we’ll link it to [the Cornell University Police Department].”

However, the timeline for the changes is still undecided, according to Keefe.

“The timeline is really pretty variable right now,” he said. “If that works, it’s probably another cou“We reset four cameras to the best of ple of weeks our capabilities, and we’ll track that [from now for false alarms, and if that works until completion]. If that we’ll do it for all the bridges and doesn’t work, track them.”

I’m not really sure what John Keefe we’re going to do at this point.”

Although, Cornell’s net system is based off a similar system in use in Switzerland, the University’s use of thermal imaging cameras in conjunction with the nets is unprecedented. As such, Cornell does not have a model to follow when calibrating the cameras, Delgado said.

“The Swiss system did not have a detection system,” Delgado said. “This is a new application of the camera. This is the first installation of this type of mesh and this type of camera perhaps in the world. We are developing and testing this system before anyone else is.”

Come summer, Cornell may need to readjust its thermal sensors, Keefe said.

“We’re not sure if the differences in temperature are going to affect it. The summer and winter are a little bit different, obviously, so we need to look again in the summer to see what it looks like,” Keefe said.

Unlike the six other bridges, the Suspension Bridge will not have nets installed directly under it. Instead, a similar system — in which the mesh is wrapped around the bridge — will be installed at the site at the end of March.

“It is sort of [like] wrapping a sock around the entire bridge,” Keefe said.

Joseph Niczky can be reached at jniczky@cornellsun.com.

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Police: Hotel Altercation Sparked Vegas Shooting

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Bullets were flying from a black Range Rover at a gray Maserati as the vehicles raced toward a red light on the Las Vegas Strip.

Beneath the neon lights, police say, the Maserati ran a red light at one of the Strip’s busiest intersections and smashed into a taxi that exploded into flames early Thursday, killing the two people inside.

Three more cars and a utility truck also collided at the crossroads home to Bellagio, Caesars Palace and Bally’s, injuring at least six more people as the Range Rover sped off in the pre-dawn darkness.

The Maserati driver was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The dramatic scene that more than one tourist compared to something out of a violent action movie set off a frantic search for the occupants of the Range Rover that continued into the night, and marked the latest violent episode on the Strip since the beginning of the year.

Two people were critically wounded in a shooting at a parking garage Feb. 6, and a tourist was stabbed Saturday in an elevator at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie told reporters several hours after Thursday’s attack that it was sparked by an argument in the valet area of the nearby Aria hotel-casino, and that the violence at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road did not reflect the values of Las Vegas residents or visitors.

“What happened will not be tolerated,” Gillespie said. He promised the shooters would be “found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”

On the Strip, which remained closed as daylight turned to darkness 12 hours later, the fiery rampage shocked tourists.

“We get stabbings, and gang violence,” said Mark Thompson, who was visiting from Manchester, England, with his wife, “but this is like something out of a movie. Like ‘Die Hard’ or something.”

Police said they were contacting authorities in three neighboring states about the Range Rover Sport with dark tinted windows and distinctive black custom rims and plates that fled the scene about 4:20 a.m. It had a car dealer’s advertisement in place of a license plate.

In Southern California, the California Highway Patrol alerted officers in at least three counties to be on the lookout for the SUV. Las Vegas police Sgt. John Sheahan said the Range Rover was last seen near the Venetian resort as it headed north from the shooting scene on Las Vegas Boulevard.

Witnesses also told police the SUV and Maserati had come from the nearby CityCenter area, the home of Aria, just south of the site of the attack.

“We have numerous witnesses to this,” Sheahan said. “But what is the genesis of this? We don’t know yet.”

Predawn jogger Eric Lackey was on his way back to the New York-New York hotel when he snapped a cellphone photo of the blazing scene moments after the crash. Black smoke billowed from the flaming taxi, amid popping sounds from the fire.

Lackey, of Forest Hill, Md., said a security officer in a yellow shirt performed CPR on a person on the sidewalk while police officers canvassed a small crowd of perhaps 15 onlookers gathering at the scene.

“Police were asking if anyone was still in the vehicles and if they heard gunfire,” Lackey told The Associated Press. “That’s when I realized it wasn’t just a regular accident.”

Sheahan said police have video from traffic cameras at the intersection and were checking hotel surveillance systems. The video will not be made public, he said.

Police did not release the names of the people who were killed, citing the ongoing investigation.

The crumpled, gray Maserati, which had no license plate, came to rest several feet away from the incinerated taxi.

“The people I feel sorry for are the people in the taxi,” said Elvina Joyce, a tourist from Regina, Saskatchewan. “Seconds made all the difference in the world for them. Wrong place, wrong time.”

The area near the scene has been the site of high-profile violence in the past.

Rapper Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996 about a block away under similar circumstances, as assailants opened fire on his luxury sedan from a vehicle on Flamingo Road. The killing has never been solved.

More Tests Needed in L.A. Hotel Water Tank Death LOS ANGELES (AP) — More testing must be done to determine the cause of death of a 21-year-old Canadian tourist whose body was found wedged in a water tank atop a downtown Los Angeles hotel, authorities said Thursday.

An autopsy performed Thursday didn’t provide definitive answers into whether Elisa Lam was killed or if she fell victim to a bizarre accident. Coroner’s officials will await toxicology tests before making a final determination.

Lam’s body was found Tuesday in a water cistern atop the downtown Cecil Hotel. Police have called her death suspicious.

Guest complaints about low water pressure prompted a maintenance worker to make the gruesome discovery.

Before she died, hotel surveillance footage showed her inside an elevator pushing buttons and sticking her head out the doors, looking in both directions.

Discussing immigration

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President Barack Obama’s recently appointed White House chief of staff Denis McDonough supported Obama’s push for a more comprehensive immigration plan.

More Elite Universities Offer Free Online Courses SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More of the world's elite universities are joining the rush to offer "massive open online courses" that are broadening access to higher education. But some experts question how much so-called MOOCs can help students trying to earn college degrees.

Coursera and edX, two of the leading MOOC providers, on Thursday announced major expansions that will roughly double the number of universities offering free online courses through their websites.

Cambridge, Mass.-based edX, which was founded in May by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it will add six new institutions, including five outside the U.S., which will offer at least 25 additional courses.

Mountain View-based Coursera said it will add 29 institutions, including 16 outside the United States. Over the next several months, the schools

will offer 90 new courses, including some taught in French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.

"Having courses taught in other languages will enable more students to take our classes," said Andrew Ng, a Stanford University professor who co-founded Coursera last April.

MOOCs have attracted millions of students and captured the public imagination over the past year, allowing people from all walks of life to learn from leading scholars at top-tier universities — free of charge.

But the question remains: Can these large-scale, highly automated classes help increase college completion rates or lower the cost of earning a degree?

So far only a small number of institutions are offering degree credit for MOOCs, but that could change if more colleges determine the digital classes meet their academic standards.

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To the Editor: Re: “THOMAS: February? Not My Month,” Opinion, Feb. 19 A few years ago, when I was a high school student, I was approached by a woman during a community-wide effort to better community relations in Ithaca, N.Y. She said to me, “I think what you’re leading is great. I personally don’t see skin color when I look at people.” I paused. I wasn’t sure how to respond because I understood what she meant to say, but I wasn’t sure she realized what she actually said. This same logic applies to an article recently written by Deon Thomas. He stated his issue and his claim, but his precedents and facts for it were meager and ultimately, his suggestions were counterproductive.

First, let us remember the origins of Black History Month. In 1925, the second week of February was deemed Negro History Week since it contained the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. This designated week came before Brown v.

Board of Education in Kansas, before Emmit Till in Mississippi, before Bloody Sunday in Alabama and before the Civil Rights Acts in 1964. In 1976, President Gerald Ford expanded Negro History Week to a full month and named it Black History Month. I bring up this lineage to say Black History is not used so much to highlight the history of Black people, but to reflect on the struggle for freedom. It is a chance to reflect on a time when powerful nations and kingdoms were stripped of their pride and carried across the ocean on a boat to be sold for pennies. It is a chance to remember the power of one man in Haiti to rise up and lead a revolution that would be heard and feared around the world. It is time to think about the ways in which we are still working toward the dream of being judged not by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character.

In 2012, a film was aired on PBS called “More Than A Month.” It was directed by filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman, who set out on a cross-country journey to determine if Black History Month was still relevant. Many people, including the aforementioned Morgan Freeman and rapper Talib Kweli, agreed that the idea of Black History Month ultimately marginalizes Black history. I can see how one could agree with their opinion, but the ideas they use to support their veiwpoint are questionable.

In an interview, Kweli said, “I’m down for thinking of African history or black history as part of a world history, as opposed to it just being a month set aside for it. I think that marginalizes it a bit.” I don't think I’m going out a limb here when I said that everyone, those who oppose and support Black History Month, agree that Black history is world history.

However, here is where the theory that Black History Month is no longer important falls apart. While Mr. Thomas’ and Kewli’s sentiment that Black History be taught as an integral part of U.S. or world history is commendable, it’s impractical (before you stop reading this letter because you think it’s radical, please at least finish this paragraph). The history of Black Americans, African-Americans and even African history itself has become so distorted over the years that if it was grouped in with U.S or world History it would be nothing more than a lie. It has been purposefully changed to cover up and justify horrific events, and these events have become so numbing to us now that I wonder just how many of us remember how explicitly horrific they were. High school teachers wouldn’t be able to teach “black history” with “American history” without contradicting themselves every 15 to 25 year time period, and that’s being generous.

Thomas closed his article by writing: “However, if you believe in the effectiveness of these months and continue to contribute to the segregation of America, I hope you remember that it’s not me, it’s you.” Sir, I must congratulate you on single-handedly continuing to contribute to the “segregation of America.” The fact that you view these months (which I assume alludes to Women’s History Month, Latin-American History Month, and Native American History Month) as a barrier to cultural growth is both sickening and saddening. These months do nothing more than to celebrate cultures that are so often misjudged and glossed over. In fact, I’m sure that if you took part in any of the events going on during the month of February you would be amazed at Black History Month is truly about. It is about education, appreciation and reflection.

I will now close by saying this, this letter to the editor was not meant to insult any individual or put anyone on the defensive. It is simply to shed light on the other side of Thomas’ claim that black history is irrelevant. You can claim that Black History Month fosters racism; I claim that it fosters pride and understanding. You can claim black history can be taught in conjunction with American History; I claim our students would receive the same thing they receive now: false advertisements.

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The Economy, Ethics and Euthanasia

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ne of the statistics we hear fairly often in veterinary school is that when the economy crashed in 2008, pet ownership declined with it. We talk about this in order to understand the potential impact of a shrinking client base on the veterinary profession and to get a firmer grasp on what affects the economy can have on veterinary medicine. We then understand why pet ownership has decreased fairly steadily; what we never talk about, however, is how this happens.

The reason that’s easiest to stomach is that when older pets die, owners do not replace them with new additions to the family because they can no longer afford to do so.

However, there are also the people who cannot afford to have their current pet and have to find something to do with that young, healthy animal.

One option is to give the animal up for adoption. This is a feasible outcome for an owner if the pet is non-aggressive, because then the person can give the animal to an adoption-guarantee shelter that is obligated to keep it.

However, one of the problems with this is that most shelters are often full to capacity and an influx of pets puts a big strain on them. The owner must also read the fine print in the shelter’s policy very clearly because even “no-kill” can be an ambiguous term with several exceptions.

Another option is to simply release the animal on the streets. I heard about this when I spent a semester studying in Buenos Aires as an under-

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There is clearly no easy solution to the unwanted animal problem. graduate. Veterinarians there told me that when their economy crashed and people could no longer afford their pets, they often released them in local parks. That being said, abandoning an animal who is accustomed to being indoors and cared for could be considered animal cruelty.

The last option is to ask a veterinarian to euthanize the animal. The owner has to pay for this and has to face the hard reality that they are sentencing their pet to death (which is a likely outcome in the other two options anyway). Also, from the veterinarian’s standpoint, it raises a serious ethical dilemma. Is it acceptable to kill a healthy animal when your job is to improve their lives? My gut reaction is to say no. I would help to try to find a new home for the animal but I wouldn’t put it down. Practically though, that could make me, at least temporarily, the owner of several animals that I will have to support. If I just refused and sent the animal home with the owner, then it is likely that that animal would face one of the aforementioned fates or be taken to another veterinarian who would agree to carry out the euthanasia.

I’ve only been referring to house pets so far; the situation gets more complicated when we start to think about horses too. Horses are even more expensive to keep than small animals and have even longer lives. There are very few horse shelters in the country and most of them are consistently full. It can be hard, practically speaking, to just abandon a horse in a field, which leaves euthanasia or simply not providing proper care (not feeding enough, skimping on routine care, etc.). So if an equine veterinarian faces the same quandary as her small animal counterpart, what’s the right decision? Personally, provided the horse was healthy and sound, I would try my hardest to help the client find another home for their horse instead. But realistically, what I actually would do is to go to my boss for advice and hope that I’m part of a practice with ethical guidelines that I can learn from.

There is clearly no easy solution to the unwanted animal problem. It has to be attacked from multiple directions, such as educating potential new pet owners about all of the costs of keeping a pet, discouraging breeding “just for fun” when there are plenty of animals that need homes and trying to find a way to alleviate the financial strain of having a pet — perhaps through discounted feeding programs for low income families or by taking a closer look at pet health insurance. As the economy recovers hopefully this will become a less severe problem, but steps should be taken to ensure that animal care does not have to suffer again the next time the economy takes a nosedive.

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

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hants rose from the crowd, bodies skipped, jumped and embraced — all in a sustained calamity of both personal and political expression.

On Sunday, I had the privilege of going to Washington D.C. for the Forward on Climate Rally.

More than 100 other Cornellians came, along with a number of Ithaca College students and townies. When we arrived, we were met by about 35,000 other Americans who wanted to take a stand against climate change.

The commonly held belief about protests in a democracy is that they are like an eccentric petition, motivating politicians on a specific policy based on how many “voters” show up in the street.

Yet I doubt that anyone who came out on Sunday would say that their sphere of action is limited to a vote for our representatives in government. Rather, the protesters created a joyous microcosm of resistance.

The protesters created a carnival in which its frivolity was a political act.

The use of the word “carnival” to describe political protests was sparked by the 20th century Russian scholar Mikhail Bakhtin, whose descriptions of this animated resistance trace back to the Medieval era. These celebrations created a space

and network of people who were not content with the dominant lifestyle at the time. This dual process of creating a space and a network is — and should be — the purpose of protests today.

This creation of a space is what gives a movement its identity. Each day, the environmentalist movement makes progress in a

that a cause which stood for a beautiful ideal … should demand the denial of life and joy. If it meant that, I did not want it. ‘I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.’” For Goldman, dancing was her cause. Her personal freedom in the movement signified the

While the streets turned into a carnival, they also turned into a conference of sorts, strengthening our ties with America’s environmentalist network. myriad of locales. And on Sunday these local groups converged to create a space that would express their collective identity. Many people, both inside and outside the movement, scoff at this carnival. They dismiss those who cheer, dance, play instruments or dance with puppets and costumes in protest. But they are mistaken.

The style of a protest gives an identity to its larger movement. Take a look at Emma Goldman, an immigrant, feminist and anarchist from the early 20th century. Once a fellow revolutionary questioned her eccentricity and suggested that her dancing was not suitable for their cause. Goldman reflected, saying “I did not believe

political freedom that she hoped the movement would achieve. The carnival on Sunday affirmed the environmentalist movement as one that embraces this identity. It proved to be a protest in which people from all backgrounds can come and dance.

I sang with political clubs of grandmothers. I reflected and strategized with student organizations from around the country who are also working on divestment campaigns. I danced to a drum with groups of indigenous North Americans who are fighting against environmental degradation in Canada and the U.S. I chanted with into a bullhorn with members of a black community organi-

zation in Mississippi and cheered with Quakers from North Carolina, Baltimore and Connecticut.

And yet this carnival did more than solidify our collective identity. As we reveled together, we also shared the work we all were doing in our various communities. While the streets turned into a carnival, they also turned into a conference of sorts, strengthening our ties with America’s environmentalist network. Now I can go to Mississippi, Virginia, Saratoga Springs, or St. Louis and engage in the work of those communities. Similarly, I now have allies who I can trust should they come to Ithaca.

While I am cynical about how the protest will influence Obama, Sunday will always be a success in my eyes. As we return to the work in our local communities, we will be empowered by the knowledge that we are connected in a deeply rooted network far bigger than ourselves.

And we will find strength in the memory that within this community, we can dance.

Tyler-Lurie Spicer is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

He may be reached at til4@cornell.edu. Personal Politics appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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BY ZACHARY ZAHOS Arts and Entertainment Editor

On Sunday, Tim Squyres ’81 will walk down the world’s hottest strip of red fabric, maybe bumping into Anne Hathaway or Bradley Cooper as he makes his way into Dolby Theatre for the 85th Academy Awards. One of the five nominees for Best Film Editing, Squyres shaped Life of Pi into the film that has captured hearts, minds and half a billion dollars in box office worldwide, but he isn’t losing any sleep over the attention. Before Sunday’s ceremony and his March 10 visit to present Life of Pi at Cornell Cinema, The Sun spoke with Squyres about the awards season, his long-running collaboration with Ang Lee and how Cornell made him the film editor he is today.

THE SUN: Are you enjoying the Oscar publicity?

TIM SQUYREs: You know, the whole Oscar season is fun, if you don’t get too hung up about winning and losing and all those kinds of things. The nice thing about it is that it’s usually an indication the film was successful, and that’s part of what you do it for — you want as many people to see your movie as possible, and an awful lot of people have seen Life of Pi. So, the fact that a) a lot of people have seen it and b) a lot of people have really liked it, that’s great and really a validation of what you do. The awards, per se, are not a big deal, but they are an indication of other things, which are really nice.

SUN: To what extent does an editor have to campaign on the awards circuit?

T.S.: I don’t know how you would even do that. There are screenings [for Academy members] where editors, DPs, production designers, writers will go and do Q&A’s after screenings. But, no, there’s not a lot of campaigning. The studios will sometimes run “For Your Consideration” ads — sometimes for the whole film, sometimes for individuals — but that’s out of our hands. All that we do is go to screenings and do interviews and answer questions.

SUN: Are you close with your fellow editing nominees?

T.S.: … I only knew one of them before this whole thing started, [Zero Dark Thirty co-editor] Dylan Tichenor who I’ve known for years. ... The others I’ve met this awards season.

Great guys and talented editors — I don’t see them as competition at all. They are other editors who I respect and it’s great to hang out with them.

SUN: Moving to Life of Pi, what unique challenges did the 3D visuals present to you, as an editor?

T.S.: Well, 3D is another whole set of variables. ... Either you can shoot a movie in 2D and post-convert it to 3D, or you can shoot it in 3D. Most films shot in 3D [are edited] in 2D. … We decided, right from the beginning, that we wouldn’t do that. Because neither Ang [Lee] nor I had ever worked in 3D before, we didn’t want to have to be editing in 2D and intellectualize, imagine how it would be in 3D. So we decided to take that step out and work in 3D all the time. Right from the first day of cutting, I was wearing 3D glasses and wore them all day, every day for a few years, practically, while we were finishing the movie.

There are a lot of things you have to do differently in 3D. You perceive things differently. Every dissolve, which usually works fine in 2D, has to be addressed. There are things you have to do in 3D that make it work properly, to make it smooth to watch. … It was a little tough on the eyes — there were a lot of headaches — but it was very interesting, and there’s a lot to learn about 3D. It doesn’t take very long to learn a little of it, but it takes a lot of time to learn all of it; I don’t know if I’ve learned all of it yet. …

SUN: The visual effects are such an integral part of the movie. It was hard to tell, but apparently, the tiger wasn’t even real most of the time. Does it ever worry you that you are the guy responsible for bringing not only the actors’ work to life but also the visual effects work, which is the creation of dozens, if not hundreds of people?

T.S.: Or thousands. [laughs] There were a lot of people.

Watch the closing credits and that’s just the tip of the iceberg … An awful lot of people worked on the visual effects.

There are 23 shots in the film with the real tiger and hundreds with the CG tiger. ... Usually, in editing, you are constrained by the performances that you can get on set. What’s interesting about this film is that that was not true. For one of the main characters, [the tiger] Richard Parker, we could control his performance in post-production. We wanted to make sure that he always behaved like a real tiger. That’s one thing we decided very early on: We would not anthropomorphize him at all. He would look, move, behave, do everything like a real tiger. We had a tiger consultant ... who came in and worked with us and the animators to ensure that his behavior was all real. There were a lot of places where they shot it with one set of blocking in mind and we changed it to something else. It was really nice to have that kind of input and control over the characters’ performance — and we really looked at it as a performance. Obviously, there are huge technical aspects to it, but in talking with the animators, we would speak, largely, in terms of emotion. “He needs to look more nervous, or more hesitant. More annoyed than straight-out angry.” We

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talked in those terms, and [the animators] are so talented that they would be able to translate that into pushing pixels around. … [The experience] was great, it wasn’t daunting at all.

Similarly, one of the challenges of the film was that, for a large portion of the film, all we have to look at is the ocean, the boat, the tiger, the kid, the raft and the sky. It’s the same elements; we don’t have the scene in the shopping mall, or the car chase and all those things. ... It was very important to us to make the ocean and the sky not characters, exactly, but to give them character. Give them variety, keep it realistic but it can be stunningly beautiful, and that’s what people go to see movies for. So we put a lot of effort into making the ocean, the sky and the environment very interesting but also realistic and plausible.

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Life of an Editor: Life of Pi’s

Tim Squyres ’81

SUN: About that very long stretch of the film with Pi on the raft with the tiger: You’ve shown a talent with large ensemble pieces like Syriana, but here you have that “classical unity”of place and action. For an editor, do these constraints separate the boys from the men — so to speak?

T.S.: Well, it’s really great to have different sorts of material. One of the things I have said to people in classes is that it’s really important not to have a personal style. Style has to be appropriate to the footage. In Life of Pi, the kind of editing you would do in Crouching Tiger is not really relevant. It’s very specific material that needs to be handled in a specific way, and it’s about finding the right tone and right kind of pacing — fast when you need to be fast, but I also enjoy films that take a bit of time, in places. … You need to be able to recognize what strengths of the material you have are and try to accentuate them. Hopefully, that’s different with every film.

The great thing about working with Ang Lee [is that] we’re not making the same film over and over again; it’s a new challenge every time. Life of Pi was a whole different set of challenges we hadn’t done before. So I’m very glad that Ang doesn’t have a comfort zone of moviemaking that he stays in. I don’t imagine I’d ever have the opportunity to edit a martial arts film, but you just do what is right for the film.

SUN: Another sequence I would like to point out is the ship sinking, which really hit me. It was thrilling, frightening yet had that human element, which makes it deeply sad. For a sequence like that, are you gauging how powerfully it “hits” you as you watch it over and over again?

T.S.: Yeah. An interesting thing about the sequence is that there’s no music in that scene until he goes underwater to look at the ship. That was a decision I made right from the very beginning, not based on any theory of filmmaking, but because it felt right. A different approach would be that this is an action scene, and [the action] that comes before it should have action music. But that, for some reason, didn’t seem like the right way to do it, so we just relied on sound effects until he goes underwater to see the ship. He sees the ship sinking, and it’s not just a ship sinking, but it’s his family, it’s his whole life. So, then, the music is not about action; it’s about loss.

That brings out the emotional aspects of it, which is what we want people to be thinking about. It’s a, technically, very complicated sequence ... but it’s important not to look at it as an action scene and ignore the actors’ performances. An action scene usually involves danger of some sort, and that means danger to a character who someone cares about. So it’s always important to stay engaged emotionally [when editing] a scene like that. Our actor, Suraj Sharma, who had never acted before, did a really good job of portraying the different emotions that you’d be going through in a scene like that.

SUN: Your long-time collaborator, Ang Lee, comes across as very humble and soft-spoken in the interviews I have seen of him. How does he hold up in the cutting room, or is he even there with you most of the time?

T.S.: When he’s shooting, he never is in the cutting room; he’s busy shooting. … But once we finish shooting and screen the assembly [cut], he sits next to me all day, every day until we [finish] the picture. For this film particularly, we did everything together, so, yeah, he’s extremely involved in editing. For a director, when you’re on set, there is a lot to do and a lot of people to wrangle and a lot of stuff that needs to happen in a certain way, and there are procedures, hierarchies and all that.

In the editing room, it’s just the two of us. We can do whatever we want. We can goof off all day, if we want to. ... We’re both pretty disciplined and know what we want to accomplish. Temperamentally, we are pretty similar and, in tastes, we are pretty similar, but not completely similar, because if we agreed all of the time, we wouldn’t push each other to make

the movie better. You want to right level of push, and we push each other a little bit. We have been working together for many years and he’s a real pleasure to work with. The interesting thing about him is that he motivates and inspires everyone to do his or her best. ... Everyone in the visual effects house always wants to work on his films, just because he inspires people.

SUN: Shifting gears a bit, what’s your stance on the “film versus digital” debate? Well, financially, there’s not a debate any more.

T.S.: Yes, that debate is settled.

SUN: But do you have thoughts whether you’re losing something with digital filmmaking, or are you all for it?

T.S.: For an editor, it doesn’t particularly matter whether you record on film or digitally. When it gets to me, it’s digital, anyways. The first digital revolution in the film was in postproduction — whether you cut on film or cut digitally ...

Then acquiring digitally happened 15, 20 years later. Like the first change, early on, you could make a case of why you should stick to film. But digital cameras have become so good now, and you’re able to shoot in such a wider range of light that a lot of the arguments people gave don’t really apply anymore. The cameras will be getting better. If you’re shooting 3D, you have to shoot digitally; that’s not an option. Ang had never shot a film digitally before, so he was initially reluctant, but the cameras really won him over. The image quality you can get now is very film-like, so I would have a very hard time telling you why we should stay on film. Perhaps a cinematographer could, but the amount of control we have in post is really impressive. There’s a shot we shot as a night shot, and it’s in the movie as a day shot. Now, going “day for night” is fairly easy but going “night for day” is much harder, and we were able to go into the shot and pull enough out of it to make it look plausibly like day. If we shot it on film, there is no chance in the world that would have worked.

SUN: I’d like to bring this back to Cornell before we end.

You are one of a few acclaimed film editors from this school: Michael R. Miller ’74 being one and [Martin Scorsese’s editor] Thelma Schoonmaker ‘61, of course, is the big one.

T.S.: Of course!

SUN: Is this all a coincidence or is there something or someone at Cornell that pushed you toward editing?

T.S.: No, I think it’s a coincidence. ... Thelma was there quite a ways before me, and I don’t think there’s anything about walking through gorges that leads you to be an editor. And I certainly did a lot of walking through gorges. But, no, I think it’s just kind of a fluke that you have consecutive editing nominees.

SUN: Well, how has your education from Cornell translated into what you do now?

T.S.: My education from Cornell was not primarily in film. I was there as a physics major and got my degree in psychology. I think having a technical background is very helpful in editing — a scientific way of thinking ... A general education is really helpful. If you’re going to be a storyteller, it’s important to know how to use the software, but it’s also important to know some things about life and to have interests outside of filmmaking. When you’re telling stories, you’re trying to communicate with people, and my Cornell education was very helpful in that it was a broad and general education. The film stuff was important, but the other stuff was important, too. The math and science was important, psychology was important, the language was important, everything was important. What’s so important in learning how to be a storyteller is having stories to tell — understanding nature, understanding culture. That’s where my Cornell education was the most valuable, I think.

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

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not achieved the national prominence of Nelly or Taio Cruz, two previous headliners of the event.

At Cornell, reactions to Lamar were highly polarized.

Gizem Sakalli ’15 said that she was expecting “someone more famous.”

“I think we could have done better.

SDPB has a lot of money and C o r n e l l deserves better than this guy Kendrick Lamar,” she said. “I have never heard of him. Even the normal concerts that we have are better than this guy.” better than this guy.”

Though Lamar is not well known by some Cornell students, his mix of mainstream hits and under-

ground success makes him “a good choice for a college audience,” according to Drew Adler ’16.

“Unlike Taio Cruz, Kendrick Lamar is a legitimately good artist. He offers a good blend of music you can enjoy and real artistic talent,” Adler said.

In response to concerns about the performer’s relative obscurity to a portion of the Cornell population, Chapman said he was “really okay with that. Maybe they don’t know of him now, but they have a few months to look into his music and get to know the songs.”

5 & a Dime, a Philadelphia-based D.J., mash-up artist and producer, will open along with another performer that has yet to be announced. Chapman said that in their search for a second opener, SDPB is “specifically debating between alt-rock and pop-rock bands like Neon Trees last year” in an attempt to diversify music genres represented at Slope Day. He expressed hope that the concert will please fans of all types of music, so that “people who are unhappy with rap will have other genres they may prefer.”

Other artists considered as headliners for Slope Day included Vampire Weekend and Weezer, but each was either unavailable or out of the club’s price range.

Although either of these choices had considerable potential, Lamar is, without a doubt, a highly coveted artist. It was recently announced that Lamar was also selected to play a number of major festivals this summer, including Governor’s Ball, Bonnaroo and Firefly. Among music critics at least, Lamar is the act to book.

Lamar gained more attention in the public eye last month with his debut performance on Saturday Night Live, which included a collaboration with Lonely Island on their latest single, “YOLO (You Better Watch Out).” Though some Lamar fans have expressed reservations about the rapper’s ability to perform live, his recent appearance on SNL revealed, at the very least, that he has the potential to give an commanding, energetic performance outside of the studio.

Whether or not the quality of performance will be as

good in the open air, or if attendees will be sober enough to know the difference, the set list he will enter the day with is far superior to that of Taio Cruz. Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City contains both crowd-pleasing radio hits and deeper cuts. Often, the album blurs the line between mainstream and underground. “Swimming Pools (Drank),” the album’s most successful single, has found considerable mainstream popularity through its catchy hook, which will have students answering its call to “Pass out, drank. Wake up, drank.”

Yet the song also paints a harrowing portrait of the artist’s struggle with alcoholism: Lamar reflects on his grandfather’s death from the disease, laments the social pressure he feels to fill “a swimming pool fool of liquor … and dive in it,” and after a drunken bout with his subconscious — presented with masterfully syncopated lyrical prowess — comes to the conclusion that he will die from his addiction.

This track is just one example of many Lamar tracks that can entertain as they inform. Though some, like the 12-minute “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst,” lie on the more introspective side, the artist has more than enough exhilarating club-hits to avoid becoming a buzzkill on the Slope, such as “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe,” an ode to the good times that takes a moment away from the worries that plague him throughout the album, and “Backseat Freestyle,” a freewheeling flashback to Lamar’s formative years that unleashes the bravado of a naïve — but insanely talented — young artist.

SDPB may be taking a risk bringing a “real” rapper who talks about real issues, but it is a decision that will likely pay off.

As SDPB chair Yang Zhou remarked, “I think people are going to be happy.”

The Sun’s arts section can be reached at arts-and-entertainmenteditor@cornellsun.com.

Four Perspectives on Four Freedoms

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n the upcoming months, Cornell students will have the opportunity to attend three screenings and resume one TV series that feature four protagonists who typify the American male identity. These men appear in stories that either question or champion the freedoms promised by American doctrine.

While steeped in American heritage and idolatry, these four icons are pitted against the attitudes of their times. They are four departures from their era’s conventions that have since become conventions. Each stands as either a torchbearer of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” — speech, worship, freedom from fear, freedom from want — or exemplars of the pitfalls these freedoms dig up.

ATTICUS FINCH (To Kill a Mockingbird plays March 1 and 3 at Cornell Cinema): Finch, a patriot and father, represents “the freedom of speech” and the moral triumph of civic virtue over mob mentality. While defending Tom Robinson from a raciallycharged, unfounded accusation of rape, Finch stands strong against the town’s disapproval. Through the trial scenes, author Harper Lee proves that while provincial attitudes may be backwards, freedom of speech is there to safeguard against immoral positions. Finch’s brave usage of the first amendment makes him our first hero. American Film Institute’s “Heroes and Villains” poll voted Gregory Peck’s 1962 role as Atticus Finch the “Greatest Hero of All Time.”

DEAN MORIARTY (On the Road is currently in U.S. theaters and comes to Cinemapolis April 5): Although Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty’s

tracking devices are unorthodox (stolen cars, hallucinogenic drugs, etc.), Jack Kerouac stated that his most acclaimed novel “was really a story about two Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God,” taking “the freedom of worship” to its peripherals. Moriarty is a devout cowboy who has seen the American frontier mentality spread west, then close back in on itself, spawning a post-war era of claustrophobia and cultural homogeneity. Moriarty goes on the road to evade this narrow cultural atmosphere. Fleeing a lifestyle of “settling” and following traces of God, Kerouac’s duo takes the ecstasies of sex, nightlife, danger and drugs as fleeting brushes with divinity. The high priest of their new religion is undoubtedly Moriarty, the restless prophet that begot a generation of acolytes and imitators we called “hippies.” Although we now see this religion of hedonism as growing in response to America’s Judeo-Christian ethic and the ’50s Cold War mentality, Kerouac’s notoriously celebrated the McCarthy trials with marijuana-infused parties and defended himself as a normative American

Henry Staley Politicizing Art Catholic. His and Moriarty’s take on Catholicism embraced a new, more liberating mode of spiritualism, natural to those who were “mad to live.”

DON DRAPER (Mad Men Season Six begins on AMC April 7):

Draper, nestled in his suburban cushion of materials, traditions and lies, has come to represent “the freedom from fear” of an America quickened into uniformity under the specter of an atomic bomb. During the several days of panic over the Cuban Missile Crisis portrayed in the Season Two finale, Don negotiates the selling of Sterling Cooper to Putnam, Powell and Lowell to ensure his company’s financial stability. The show’s creator, Matthew Weiner, said the episode shows how “Americans in particular always respond to crises by going to work.” From the manufacturing output surge in WWII to Cold War middle-class prosperity, Americans have many distractions to free them from fear. Arguably, Draper’s whole lifestyle is meant to secure him from his fear of guilt, warfare, danger and his past. His story is ironically cast against a map of the world where arms competition has made the bombs more destructive and the consequences graver, defying the “Freedom from Fear” promise that “a world-wide reduction of armaments” be ensured so “no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor ... anywhere in the world.” When we catch up to Season Five, we find a conservative Sterling Cooper Draper Price fearful of a radicalized America and social change, but Draper in an Upper East Side apartment, safely distanced from the revolution in the streets.

JAY GATSBY (The Great Gatsby opens May 10 nationwide): Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) throws the best, rowdiest parties on Long Island, owns the biggest, gaudiest mansion in West Egg, New York and is in love with the dream girl of the American South, the most beautiful and sought-after belle, Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan). He aspires to the grandest heights of

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success in quintessential American fashion, and his will to reward is so strong that he bypasses human relationships (no friends greet him in the novel’s end) and the law (his money is illicitly obtained) to get what he wants. Since he has everything that cornerstones American success, he should have the “Freedom from Want,” right? Author F. Scott Fitzgerald instead argues that want is menacing, ruthless and endless. Gatsby is both consumed in want of the past (his times with Daisy) and want of the future and its fortunes, so consumed that he doesn’t attend his own parties and enjoy the present. Surrounding him is a circus of “wanters,” ruthless Jazz Age socialites who attend his parties but abandon him when he has nothing more to give. According to Fitzgerald, the “freedom from want” is untenable and so are the things excessive want demands. Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald argues that our rewards will infinitely tag behind our “capacity for wonder.”

To Kill A Mockingbird and the two novels (On the Road and The Great Gatsby) have captured America’s wonder; let’s hope the two film adaptations and Mad Men’s second to last season do as well.

Henry Staley is a freshman in the College of Art, Architecture & Planning. He can be reached at hstaley@cornellsun.com. Politicizing Art appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Team president Glen Grunwald said Martin will be signed to a 10-day contract with the hopes that he could stay with the team for the remainder of the season.

Grunwald said Martin will be insurance for injured big men Rasheed Wallace and Marcus Camby, a pair of 38-year-old backup forwards who have both been battling foot injuries.

“We’ve always liked Kenyon, he’s a great competitor and good defender,” Grunwald said on a conference call, adding that Martin was already familiar with many Knicks. “We think that there will be some synergies already built into the mix and we're just looking forward to adding a good defender who can help us in our quest this season.”

Martin played with Carmelo Anthony, J.R. Smith and Camby in Denver before spending last season with the Los Angeles Clippers, averaging 5.2 points in 42 games. He also teamed with Jason Kidd in New Jersey on teams that reached the NBA Finals in 2002 and 2003.

But Martin, 35, has been injury prone in recent years. Still, he’s a rugged and versatile defender whom Grunwald thinks can help.

“We watched a lot of the tape of his season last year with the Clippers and he played very well,” Grunwald said. “We’re hopeful that he’s going to show that he’s still got what it takes to be an NBA player.”

Brewer was a starter earlier this season who lost his spot — and eventually his place in the rotation entirely — after a shooting slump. He was dealt for a 2014 second-round pick and cash.

Brewer was phased out once Iman Shumpert returned from knee surgery. Never much of a scorer, Brewer had played well during the Knicks' strong start, but never recovered once things started to go bad and Grunwald didn't really know why.

“I’m not really sure, but he obviously was not playing and we just tried to look at what our team needed to move forward,” Grunwald said.

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junior goaltender Andy Iles. “Unfortunately, we have not had the success at home, because it is such a special place to play and it’s so much fun to play in front of these fans. It’s a big weekend for us. We have some of our confidence back.”

Saturday will also serve as Senior Day and may be the last time that the eight seniors — Erik Axell, Braden Birch, Nick D’Agostino, John Esposito, Chris Hogan, Omar Kanji, Vince Mihalek and Greg Miller — will play in competition at Lynah Rink.

“Being Senior Weekend, there is going to be a little extra energy in the building,” Iles said. “[The seniors} might never get another opportunity to step on this ice. We are going to cherish it, use our fans and it’s going to be a fun weekend.”

The seniors will be honored in a post-game ceremony to commend them on their achievements in their four years on the Hill.

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“Those guys have been a great part of the program for four years. You tell them all the time to take every day like it’s your last,” Schafer said. “As a freshman, you kind of shrug it off. As a sophomore, you don’t think about it much. As a junior, you are like, ‘Oh, it’s next year.’ But then all of a sudden you wake up and here you are. I think that time flies by so fast. It is hard to believe that these guys are seniors.”

Schafer also said he especially hopes his team can pull off two wins this weekend so the seniors can finish their four years on a high note.

“It’s unfortunate because it is not the way that the senior class should go out … I think that they want to play their best hockey and really get to the league championship,” Schafer said. “They are great and have committed themselves. And now they find themselves in this unique position.”

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The women’s hockey team closes out the regular season on the road this weekend at RPI and Union. The No. 3 Red (21-5-1, 16-3-1 ECAC) will face RPI (10-18-4, 810-2) on Friday night and Union (7-21-4, 0-16-4) on Saturday afternoon. The Red is tied atop the ECAC standings with Harvard at 33 points. The Crimson has three remaining games against St. Lawrence, Clarkson and Yale.

“Last weekend was huge for us,” said senior captain and defenseman Laura Fortino. “But right now, we are just looking forward to keeping the momentum. We know that anything can happen on any given night.”

Despite the tie at the top of the ECAC standings, the Red’s 0-0 tie against Dartmouth last Saturday clinched the squad at least a share of the Ivy League Championship. It is Cornell’s fourth championship in a row. The Red is the only Ivy League school to accomplish this feat, also doing so from 1976-1980. This weekend, Cornell will play for seeding in the ECAC tournament.

“It is natural to [want to] know how [Harvard] does,” Fortino said. “But right now we are just focused on how we do. We really just want to get the two wins and then see how we match up against the other teams.”

Historically, Cornell owns RPI and Union with a

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Lying in wait | After taking care of business this weekend against RPI and Union, senior Lauren Fortino said her teammates will have to wait and see how Harvard fared in order to find out where the Red will be seeded in the ECAC tournament.

combined 30-5-0 record against the two teams. At Lynah Rink on Feb. 1, Cornell routed Union, 8-1, with four of the goals coming off the stick of junior forward Brianne Jenner. On Feb. 2, the Red beat RPI, 3-1, after getting off to a quick start with two scores in the first period.

Cornell has also won its last four regular season finales by a combined score of 21-6.

The Red has been on a hot streak this month, as well as last month. The Red was 7-1 in January and is 4-1-1 in February. Jenner won ECAC Hockey Player of the Month for January as she recorded a team-high 23

points. Junior goaltender Lauren Slebodnick was the league’s Goaltender of the Month, as she had seven victories while giving up just three goals in four conference games.

After facing off against Union and RPI, the Red will have to wait for the results of Harvard’s games this weekend to see how it will be seeded in the ECAC tournament.

Scott Eckl can be reached at seckl@cornellsun.com.

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ference wins and now find themselves in a neck-and-neck fight to maintain pace with Harvard and fend off the Though Lucas-Perry is averaging only surging Red. five points in 13.8 minutes per game, Princeton took care of the Red on he has been Penn’s most effective its own home court on Feb. 1, defeatshooter at 47 percent from 3-point ing Cornell 76-59. The length of the range. Now that the Red is familiar Tigers’ frontcourt in forwards Ian with Penn’s offensive weapons, it will Hummer and Denton Koon was a have a more constant concrete issue for the d e f e n s i v e “Their offense is so unique, if they Red as the plan. team strug“We need gled to score. look where they want to go, they Only to talk and two communiplayers — can hit cutters [in the paint].” cate on sophomore shooters, we Johnathan Gray for ward got caught Shonn Miller up on watchand senior ing the ball in transition [last time] forward Josh Figini — were in double and lost track of some shooters,” Gray figures and Princeton all but shut the said. “We have to sprint back on door in the second half, holding the defense and locate who is a shooter Red to just 29 points. and where they are on the court.”

Hummer and Koon combined for The Red’s biggest test of the week- 44 points on the day, and Princeton’s end will come against Princeton (12- efficiently run offense helped them 9, 5-2). The Tigers come to Newman shoot over 50 percent from the field. having lost two of their last three con“Koon played extremely well, he’s Continued from page 16

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Senior Nick Sachvie and the men’s squash team will compete for its first National title at the Potter Cup this weekend. The Red is seeded fifth and will open up against Yale on Friday.

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In denial | Sophomore forward Shonn Miller will be one of the Red’s big men who will have the difficult task of keeping the ball out of the hands of Princeton’s leading scorer Ian Hummer.

going to be a concern and a focus for us defensively,” Gray said. “We’re going to have to pressure the basketball. Their offense is so unique, if they look where they want to go, they can hit cutters [in the paint].

We need to make every pass difficult for them and speed up the tempo so they’re not able to take their time on the offensive end and do what they want.”

According to Chemerinski, it will be especially important for the Red’s forwards to deny passes into Hummer and Koon on the low block — where they are most lethal.

“If we make it difficult to look inside and pass it in, that will disrupt what they try to do on offense,” Chemerinski said.

Though the Red has perennially been a strong team on its home court, the squad is only 1-2 at Newman Arena this season. Improved play in conference games on the road — where the team is 4-1 — has kept Cornell nipping at the heels of Harvard and Princeton.

“For some reason we haven’t been particularly good at home. [Maybe it’s] a lack of aggression coming out

and then we have to kind of pick things up,” Gray said. “We need to have the same mentality that we do on the road where we’re playing desperate. We have to take that aggressiveness [back home] because nothing is given to us and other teams will try to come in and beat us.”

Two wins this weekend would put the Red in a tie with Princeton for second place and — depending on what Harvard does in its conference games — right behind the top-ranked Crimson.

However, according to Gray, the Red hopes that his team will not put too much weight on the matchup with the Tigers.

“We’re anxious, we know where we are,” Gray said. “In terms of where we want to get we have to understand it’s only one game. If we take things one practice at a time, one quarter at a time, everything will take care of itself.”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Visits Top-Ranked Penn, Princeton

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Shut down defense | Coming off a career-high 23 points last weekend against Yale, junior guard Allyson DiMagno said the Red needs to play team defense.

The Red looks to bring home two wins when the women’s basketball team faces off against Penn and Princeton this weekend.

Coming off of a loss to Yale and a win against Brown, the Red takes on the top two seeded teams in the Ivy League Conference.

Cornell (11-10, 3-4 Ivy League) will travel to Philadelphia, Pa. to take on No. 2 Penn (12-9, 5-2) on Friday at 7 p.m and then face off against No. 1 Princeton (16-5, 7-0) on Saturday at 6 p.m.

“We are hungry for wins,” said senior captain and forward Clare Fitzpatrick. “We are looking to come out here and prove that we’re experienced and win close games. We have confidence going in, so I think that is something that will influence the games this weekend.”

The Red experienced a tough loss to Yale last weekend with a final score of 67-58, but then bounced back with a nail-biting victory over Brown on Saturday, 60-58. The squad will have another opportunity to battle both these teams again in the second half of conference play.

According to Fitzpatrick, the team has been working hard individually and collectively to prepare for these two tough games.

“We definitely need a win against Penn, we let them take one away from us here at home,” Fitzpatrick said. “And Princeton is just a hard team, very talented, but we know that we can play with them and we just need to go out there and prove it to ourselves.”

Penn and Princeton both defeated the Red earlier in the season, which enabled them to clinch the top spots in the Ivy League. The Red was neck-and-neck

with Penn in the first half, but lost its momentum in the second and fell to the Quakers, 65-56. The team then faced Princeton and was unable to stifle the Tigers’ strong offense, losing by a final score of 77-46.

“Just playing together as a unit and believing in each other will definitely help get us through those adverse moments,” said junior guard Allyson DiMagno. “If we can effectively execute in transition on offense, that will be a huge boost to helping us win the games this weekend.”

According to DiMagno, the Red will continue to strengthen its team defensive and offensive strategy going into the games this weekend. The squad will have to place a large part of its focus on the defensive end on Princeton’s leading scorer Niveen Rasheed.

Rasheed is averaging 17.3 points and 9.4 rebounds per game, and she scored a game-high 21 points against the Red in their last meeting. The rest of the Tigers’ starting lineup is balanced and DiMagno said it will be important to limit all of their scoring opportunities.

“You can’t just shut down one girl, you have to shut down everyone, so it is definitely going to be a team defensive effort and it is going to be a lot of pushing up the defense to keep them off-guard,” DiMagno said.

The Red sits in sixth place in the conference right now, but is only one win behind Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale.

“Two wins this weekend will be huge for us. It would definitely be a confidence booster,” Fitzpatrick said. “We want to finish strong and we have a lot to prove still.”

Marissa Velasquez can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

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pick in the draft, Chicago won that little ping-pong ball lottery style thing (that seems outdated, if you ask me) to earn the chance at the undisputed first overall pick. Enter again: Derrick Rose.

Immediately, Chicago exploded with joy. Rose is a Chicago native, and after one year with the Memphis Tigers — which is a situation I criticized because of former Memphis head coach John Calipari’s affinity for this kind of collegiate attendance — Rose was going to be coming home.

His time at Memphis became a quick vacation away from his hometown, and it truly was viewed as such upon his return to play for the Bulls.

After this return, Rose became a symbolic Chicago athlete. At home games, he is always the last player to be announced, and where each Bulls player is announced with their number and college, Rose’s introduction is always, “From Chicago, #1, Derrick Rose.”

So it came as no surprise to me when Bill Simmons — the editor-inchief of Grantland — said the following with respect to Rose: “This is a weird comment that can’t be backed up, but I’m making it anyway: I don’t think any NBA fan base loves a player more than Bulls fans love Derrick Rose. If you went into a Chicago sports bar and started trashing Rose during a Bulls game, you’d get beaten up and left for dead in an alley.”

Despite this strange sentiment, I think every Bulls fan would echo that loyalty. Rose is becoming more and more unique in a league that is seemingly being overrun by divas and the

unending quest for a better contract.

In a press conference when asked about his drive and determination, Rose responded, “There’s no point in playing this game if you aren’t trying to be the best, and if I’m not trying to be the best, then I might as well retire.” No other commentary needed.

So, despite Michael Jordan’s 50th birthday last week, the focus remains on Rose. It was still a front-page story this past week that Rose started participating in 5-on-5 practices, and today even just an update on his status continued to make front page news. Yes, we are talking about practice, and we are talking about it as if it were the be-all, end-all of practices.

Rose was the youngest player to ever win the MVP award at the age of 22 in 2011 and you can only imagine how badly he’ll repeat this feat after the past nine months of hard recovery. Here’s to hoping he makes his 2013 return tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, the next day.

My point is that if you’re stuck arguing about the power players on the East Coast or if you think Lob City is unbeatable on the West Coast, I recommend you meet in the middle in Chicago. Take a hard look at how incredible Derrick Rose is, and will be for years to come.

Finally, a quick shout-out to Stacey King, the lead color commentator for the Bulls, who is responsible for the title of this article. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, YouTube search “Stacey King Bulls” as soon as you possibly can. You will not be disappointed.

Annie Newcomb can be reached at anewcomb@cornellsun.com.

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Climbing out of a rut | After snapping a seven game losing streak last weekend, senior defenseman Nick D’Agostino said the Red is more confident in its ability to put pucks in the net.

MEN’S HOCKEY

Squad Ends Regular Season at Home

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Last weekend, the Cornell men’s ice hockey team grabbed a 2-2 tie against Harvard and a 4-2 win over Dartmouth, ending a frustrating seven game losing streak. The Red heads into its home games against RPI Friday and Union Saturday on the prowl for two more victories to add to this season’s count.

“We were coming off of a seven game losing streak … I honestly think that [last] weekend was about putting some goals in the back of the net and getting some confidence as a team,” said senior defenseman Nick D’Agostino. “We had a big second period against

Dartmouth where we were able to score a couple goals.

Against Dartmouth, we really put the puck in the net and had a great third period and got a win. We were able to carry that over to Saturday.”

The Red hopes to continue to reverse its luck this weekend. Two more wins would increase its chances of earning home ice going into the championship tournament. Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said a lack of offense was part of the reason the Red could not capitalize on other opportunities and pull out more wins this season so far.

“The bottom line is that I don’t think we have been doing anything differently over the past six to eight

games. We have been faulting the same recipe. It’s just the fact that we were able to capitalize on some scoring chances at Dartmouth. I think that at Harvard, it was a very similar game that we have faced,” he said. “We got down and then we made it 2-2. These guys kept coming along. I think that we have been playing more consistently for longer periods of [time] and that has helped us out.”

The two home games against ECAC foes will close out the Red’s regular season schedule.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Surging Red Battles Ivy Foes

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Coming off a sweep of its conference road games last weekend, the Red (13-12, 5-3 Ivy League) finds itself at a crucial crossroads with two home games against Penn Cornell and Princeton on Friday and Saturday. With the Tigers losing their second Ivy game on Saturday, the Red has a chance to pull vs. closer to the top of the Ancient Eight if it can come away with another sweep.

The Red squeaked by with a two-point win over Penn (6-18, 3-4) earlier in Penn the month after getting off Today, 7 p.m. to a slow offensive start in Ithaca, N.Y. the first half. Sophomore guard Galal Cancer’s last second bank shot in the paint eventually allowed Cornell to escape the Palestra with a 71-69 victory.

“Any time you get a win on the road you’ll take it, but we realize that we could have played a lot better,” said senior guard Johnathan Gray.

The Red allowed the Quakers to shoot 50 percent from beyond the arc, with guard

Patrick Lucas-Perry leading the way with 14 points and four triples. Though the Red defense held Penn’s top scorer Miles Cartwright to just eight points, Gray acknowledged that his team will need to pay more attention to the Quakers’ role players this time around.

“We understand we have Cornell to improve on getting out to their shooters,” he said.

“Some people hurt us who we weren’t thinking were going to score, so we have to vs. pay more attention to them.”

Coming out of the locker room down by three in that game, the Red was able to turn up the pressure on the Princeton defensive end, forcing 10 Saturday, 7 p.m. turnovers in the second half.

Ithaca, N.Y. “If we come out with the intensity we played towards the end of that game, we’ll be in good shape,” said senior forward Eitan Chemerinski. “I think what we did best was pick up the tempo defensively and frustrate the passers and that helped to jump-start our offense.”

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Keep up communication | Senior guard Johnathan Gray said a key point for the Red this weekend will be talking on defense and getting out to the shooters.

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Free falling | Senior captain Kyle Dake recorded his 16th fall of the season last weekend and now has the opportunity to break the school’s record of 17.

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C.U.Takes on Iowa in Quarterfinals

By SKYLER DALE Sun Staff Writer

After defeating Hofstra and Nebraska this past weekend, No. 9 Cornell will take on No. 2 Iowa on Friday in the National Duals quarterfinals in what will be an opportunity to advance to the semifinals and pick up the program’s 750th all-time win.

According to senior Joe Stanzione, Iowa is a formidable opponent, but the Red is capable of performing well against the Hawkeyes. “[Iowa] has a traditionally tough line up — but not impenetrable,” he said.

At 125 pounds, No. 5 Nahshon Garrett will take on No. 1 Matt McDonough.

Though McDonough has the advantage in the match, Garrett has won 33 matches this season — the most of any other wrestler on the Red. Bricker Dixon will take on No. 2 Tony Ramos, who is 4-0 against ranked opponents this

season. Dixon and Ramos wrestle at the 133-pound weight class.

Though Cornell’s No. 10 Mike Nevinger is ranked two spots below No. 8 Mark Ballweg in the 141-pound class, Nevinger is no underdog. He is 30-9 during the 2013 campaign.

At the 149-pound class, Chris Villalonga will take on Brody Grothus. Villalonga is favored to win in this match-up; Grothus is just 1-7 against ranked opponents this season.

At 157 pounds, Jesse Shanaman will take on No. 1 Derek St. John. Shanaman is still looking to prove that he is worthy of an NCAA spot and a win against St. John would improve his resume.

At 165 pounds, No. 1 Kyle Dake will wrestle No. 3 Mike Evans. Winner of an NCAA championship at three different weight classes since his freshman year, Dake is highly favored to defeat Evans. Dake also recorded his 16th fall of the season last weekend and is one fall shy of the

school record, which he will now have the opportunity to break.

“He trains harder than anyone and with great training comes great confidence,” said assistant coach Mike Grey.

According to Stanzione, Dake will need to pick up bonus points if the Red is to win against Iowa.

The Red rounds off its lineup with Duke Pickett taking on Grant Gambrall or No.14 Ethen Lofthouse at 184 pounds, No. 4 Steve Bosak taking on No. 19 Nathan Burak, and Jacob AikenPhillips taking on No. 6 Bobby Telford.

Despite a challenge ahead, the Red remains confident going into the weekend as the underdog.

“I think Iowa will also be a bit off guard with what we bring to the table,” Stanzione said. “They are going to be expecting to hammer us, but I think they are soon going to find out that we are fairly capable of beating them.”

Skyler Dale can be reached at sdale@cornellsun.com.

s a departure from my normal commentary relating to college football, football in general, or my family’s insanity as it relates to football, I’m moved this week to talk about a person who — as a Chicagoan — is near and dear to my heart: Derrick Rose.

I grew up during the Bulls championship years, and I can remember watching the Bulls beat seemingly whoever they played at will throughout my childhood. One of my earliest memories is asking my dad who had won the Bulls game the previous night. His

East Coast basketball fan, you are holding your breath until the Knicks start floundering, or otherwise Lebron James’ MVP season is blowing your mind.

If you are from the West Coast, you cannot stop talking about how high on a scale of one to 10 the panic meter should be for the Lakers (but actually, this is a segment on SportsCenter almost every day) and whether or not Kobe is too old or too selfish or too whatever.

In the beginning of last year’s playoffs, Rose tore his ACL and has been rehabbing for the past nine months.

Adidas has even documented

Annie Newcomb Sucks to Suck response of, “Who did you want to win?” undoubtedly meant that the Bulls had been victorious (since my wishful thinking as a three-year-old was extremely powerful).

So in a city that honors, worships and otherwise glorifies Michael Jordan in every way possible, it would have seemed unlikely that within my short adult life, another basketball star would capture the attention of Chicago and the nation at large. Enter Derrick Rose.

There is a lot of coastal bias when it comes to national sports coverage. If you are an

his road to recovery in short video segments called “The Return” on their website.

So in between the coasts, Derrick Rose’s injury has been dominating the Chicago basketball scene, and it’s not just because of his playing ability; it is about the love and respect that Rose’s reckless and selfless play has earned him.

Rose came to the Bulls in the 2008 NBA Draft due to what can only be called the ultimate miracle of miracles.

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