INDEPENDENT SINCE 1880
The Corne¬ Daily Sun Vol. 131, No. 93
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015 ! ITHACA, NEW YORK
12 Pages – Free
News
Arts
Sports
Weather
Fashion Forward
Fresh New Sound
One for the Books
Snow Showers HIGH: 5º LOW: -9º
The first Ecouture Fashion Show displays designs made out of recycled material. | Page 3
Tyran Grillo grad says Orchestre de la Suisse Romande brought freshness to Bailey Hall. | Page 6
Men’s lacrosse notches its first season win against Hobart College Friday. | Page 12
Former Student Pleads Guilty To 2012 Attacks Christopher Duenas appeared in Ithaca City Court Thursday By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer
A former Cornell law student was arrested and plead guilty to six charges following a two-year investigation by police. Christopher Duenas allegedly attacked two female students on campus in the early morning of Sept. 2, 2012, according to the University. Cornell Police identified Duenas, who has not been enrolled in the law school since September 2012, as a suspect after linking him to one of the victims through DNA evidence. In the days following the attack, Duenas — who fit the physical descriptions provided by the victims — was also reported missing by his friends, according to the University. On Sept. 5, 2012, Duenas’ vehicle was found passing through a United States Border Patrol checkpoint in California. CUPD investigators later flew to San Diego, California to obtain and execute a search warrant for DNA samples, which confirmed the link between Duenas and the victim. Police arrested Duenas at the United States-Mexico border on Jan. 14, 2015. He appeared in Ithaca City Court Thursday, where he plead guilty to two counts each of attempted assault in the third degree, unlawful imprisonment in the second degree and criminal obstruction of breathing.
CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Suspended | The Sigma Pi fraternity, which stands on 730 University Ave., was placed on interim suspension.
Sigma Pi Fraternity Suspended Following Hazing Allegations By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor
Administrators placed the Sigma Pi fraternity on interim suspension Friday following “credible allegations of hazing,” according to the University. The chapter may not take part “in any activities other than the operation of its residence” under interim suspension status, according to Joel Malina, vice president for university relations. “Interim suspension is used when a credible report is made indicating the actions of a chapter pose an immediate or imminent threat to students’ health, or that members’ actions are so egregious that the University is compelled to cease activities of the organization for the safety of the members, those joining or guests,” Malina said in a statement. The suspension marks the third time in the past month that a Cornell fraternity has been placed on sus-
See ATTACKS page 4
All-natural JASMINE CURTIS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRPAHER
Briana Cortesiano ’15, president of Ivy Naturals, leads a workshop on creating homemade hair care products for natural hair at Ivy Naturals’ 2nd Annual Hair Expo in Trillium Saturday.
pension. On Jan. 30, the University suspended the Psi Upsilon fraternity following reports of an incident involving “alcohol and an illicit substance,” according to the University. The suspension was lifted Feb. 4 after the claims were found unsubstantiated. The same day, the University announced that the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity was placed on interim suspension two days prior, pending an investigation. The suspension was lifted Feb. 13. Police Chief Kathy Zoner sent an email to the Cornell community Friday, reminding students of University hazing policies. “It is never O.K. to humiliate, demean or place someone in risk of physical harm or mental distress, individually or as a part of joining a group, team or organization,” Zoner said. “Hazing is a violation of Cornell policy, most organizations’ rules and [New York] State Law.” Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.
Three People Arrested for Residence Hall Thefts By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer
Three people were arrested in connection with a recent string of thefts at Cornell residence halls, the University reported Friday. Authorities were able to recover three laptop computers as well as a Bose stereo system which had an estimated value of around $4,000, according to the release. Justin Dickerson-Bozeman, 20, was charged with two counts of second-degree burglary, fourth-degree grand larceny and petit larceny, according to the University. Cornell Police also charged a 16-year-old Ithaca resident with three counts of second-degree burglary, fourthdegree grand larceny, two counts of petit larceny and criminal possession
of stolen property in the fifth degree. Cayuga Heights Police charged 22-year-old Jamal Ruff-Pringle — a resident of Cayuga Heights — with two counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. Dickerson-Bozeman and RuffPringle are both listed as temporary workers at Cornell, according to the University’s online directory. Dickerson-Bozeman and the unnamed 16-year-old were arraigned in Ithaca City Court and released without bail, according to the University. Ruff-Pringle was summoned to Cayuga Heights Village court and held at the Tompkins County Jail with a cash bail of $1,000. Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.
2 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, February 23, 2015
Today
DAYBOOK
Monday, February 23, 2015
weather FORECAST
Daybook
Today Navin Varadarajan: Advancing Cancer Immunotherapy One Cell at a Time 9 - 10 a.m., 165 Olin Hall
Hi: 5° F Lo: -9° F Snow Showers
Another frigid week in the arctic tundra we call Ithaca, waiting for the cold to break. Still waiting.
Urban Transit: Pathways to Efficacy for Brazil 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., 262 Uris Hall Saving the King’s Kitchen Garden of Versailles 12:20 - 1:10 p.m., 404 Plant Sciences Building Engaging With Media Coverage and Public Debates 3 - 4 p.m., 102 Mann Library
Tomorrow
John Palmore: Technique for Simulating Higher Reynolds Number In Physical Space Noon - 1:15 p.m., 178 Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall
The Rules of War: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and International Law 5 - 6:30 p.m., The Café, Anabel Taylor Hall
LIFE FINDS A WAY ...
... EVERY WEDNESDAY IN THE SUN’S
SCIENCE SECTION
The Corne¬ Daily Sun INDEPENDENT SINCE 1880
ALL DEPARTMENTS
Business Manager
Catherine Chen ’15
(607) 273-3606
Business: For questions regarding advertising, classifieds, subscriptions or delivery problems, please call from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. News: To report breaking news or story ideas, please call after 5 p.m., SundayThursday.
SEND A FAX VISIT THE OFFICE THE SUN ONLINE E-MAIL
Hi: 23° Lo: 3° Snow Showers It’s another cold and windy day, but at least you may get a glimpse of the sun, a rare sight around here. Hi: 13° Lo: -6° Partly Cloudy Temperatures hover below zero. Who is tough enough to brave the outdoors tonight?
Summer Activities Fair 1 - 5 p.m., Statler Ballroom
Editor in Chief
Hi: 22° Lo: 17° Mostly Cloudy Temperatures reamin low today, and that snow just never stops falling.
Using Technology to Get Students Prepared for Class 8:30 - 9:30 a.m., B12 Day Hall
Haley Velasco ’15
You know it’s winter at Cornell when 20 degrees feels like summer. Still, stay bundled up this week!
(607) 273-0746 139 W. State Street, Ithaca, N.Y. www.cornellsun.com sunmailbox@cornellsun.com
Postal Information: The Cornell Daily Sun (USPS 132680 ISSN 1095-8169) is published by THE CORNELL DAILY SUN, a New York corporation, 139 W. State St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. The Sun is published Monday through Friday during the Cornell University academic year, with three special issues: one for seniors in May, one for alumni in June and one for incoming freshmen in July, for a total of 143 issues per year. Subscription rates are: $137.00 for fall term, $143.00 for spring term and $280.00 for both terms if paid in advance. First-class postage paid at Ithaca, New York. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Cornell Daily Sun, 139 W. State St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.
Hi: 20° Lo: -2° Mostly Cloudy
TUE WED THU FRI
— Compiled by Phoebe Keller
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, February 23, 2015 3
NEWS
C.U.Holds Forum to Discuss Sexual Violence Prevention By YUN SOO KIM Sun Contributor
“There is not a university in the United States — or rather the world — that is not grappling with sexual violence,” said Lauren Weiss, director of the Cornell Women’s Resource Center. With over 100 individuals in attendance, representing organizations such as the Interfraternity Council and the athletics department, Cornell Minds Matter’s semesterly “Dining with Diverse Minds” provided a platform for students to discuss the social and cultural stigma tied with sexual violence. The event, held in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room, contained several group discussions regarding a short film of a fictional scenario leading up to a rape and bystander intervention, followed by speeches by several University staff members. Angela Han ’15, an advisory board member of the Cornell Women’s Resource Center and a facilitator at the event, said she believes the issue of sexual violence needs to be addressed. “People want to have this conversation, so having a setting [where] people could talk with each other rather than just listen to a lecture or presentation about “[Sexual violence] is sexual violence is such a difficult subject crucial and necessary,” Han said. because it has so Conversations many layers ...” on sexual violence should include Angela Han ’15 men and not just women, according to Eric Acree, director of the Africana library. “This is not a woman’s issue. This is a people’s issue,” Acree said. “And men especially, we need to get involved. Men need to talk to other men about issues of rape and sexual allowance. We need to be a part of that conversation.” Many men are taught not to express emotions and present themselves as “tough guys” said Alexis Santi, coordinator of Cornell Abroad Travel Safety. “Men end up not addressing their emotions when stuff comes up.” However, addressing sexual violence should involve more
JASON BEN NATHAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Take a stand | Eric Acree, director of the Africana library, speaks about preventing sexual violence at the Cornell Minds Matter Dinner with Diverse Minds in Willard Straight Hall Friday. than just discussion, according to Andrea Osborne ’17, a member of Consent Ed, a student organization. “[Sexual violence] is something that a lot of people talk about as meaning to be fixed, but nobody actually does much to fix it,” Osborne said. According to Osborne, students should work toward removing the stigma people face when discussing or reporting an issue. “It really is something that happens here [and people are] not likely to want to talk about it for fear of slut shaming or getting the perpetrator in trouble, since it’s often someone they know,” Osborne said. Sexual violence not only concerns this stigma but also several cultural and social “layers,” Han said.
“[Sexual violence] is such a difficult subject to talk about because it has so many layers … it’s important to look at it comprehensively and see how it ties into other issues that affect us today, such as gender bias, racism [and] classism,” Han said. Han said she hopes the event will help people to see the link between sexual violence and other issues of inequality between social groups. “When we peel down these layers, it comes down to education, how we are raised, the culture and structure of society and what we do in our daily lives to reinforce sexual violence or prevent it from happening,” Han said. Yun Soo Kim can be reached at yk556@cornell.edu.
Ecouture Event Highlights Fashion Made From Recycled Materials Fashion show hosted by Cornell Environmental Collaborative showcases eco-friendly designs By DANIEL ZIMMERMAN Sun Staff Writer
Many unusual and eco-friendly designs — made out of recycled
materials or previously used clothing — made their way down the “green” carpet as part of the first Ecouture Fashion Show hosted by the Cornell Environmental
BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Strut your stuff | Models walk the runway at the first Ecouture Fashion Show held at the Bear’s Den Friday.
Collaborative at the Bear’s Den Friday. Over 200 people attended the fashion show, where clothes were designed, produced and modeled by students, according to Maria Jiang ’16, co-facilitator for the Cornell Environmental Collaborative. The Ecouture Fashion Show was the inaugural event for the Cornell Environmental Collaborative — an umbrella organization for environmental groups on campus — after the group was re-named and re-organized from Sustainable Hub. In addition to the fashion show, the event also included speeches from Prof. Anil Netravali, fiber science and apparel design, who spoke about the becoming more conscious of using environmentally responsible materials and fibers. Lucy Stockton ’17, a member of the Cornell Organization for Labor Action, also spoke on poor working conditions for overseas sweatshop workers. “It was a good start for an event for us,” said Emma Johnston ’16, the other co-facilitator of Cornell Environmental Collaborative. “It brought together a lot of different people … I get excited when there’s sustainability events that aren’t all environmental people, and we have new faces in the room.” Jiang also said the event was aided in large part by contributions from members of the Ithaca
community, including local boutiques who donated clothing and material. Jiang said she was particularly pleased with the diversity of the event’s attendees, who had variety of interests and came from many different majors. She said a diverse audience was an important component of “bring[ing] together the greater Cornell and Ithaca community.” According to Jiang, the event
“Anytime we can bring a little color to the CornellIthaca atmosphere, we’re happy.” Maria Jiang ’16 brought together faculty members from the fiber science and apparel design department with other departments in the College of Human Ecology, student fashion designers and businesses from the greater Ithaca community. “The models and designers just put so much into it and they had planned for so long,” Jiang said. “Every day we go to class and we’re wearing these really heavy coats and ... there’s not a lot of room there to show off a lot of creativity and design of your own ... we got to showcase that [creativity]. Anytime we can bring a little color to the Cornell-Ithaca atmosphere, we’re happy.” Stockton praised the Cornell
Environmental Collaborative for drawing attention to issues of labor action related to fashion, highlighting Cornell’s decision last year to sever ties with JanSport as a major achievement that showed how social pressures and action can make significant change. “I think that Ecouture is a great step in the right direction,” Stockton said. “However, I believe that there are still greater societal issues we need to address, mainly the capitalist exploitation in the global fashion industry. Ecouture made a major step in bringing these issues to light, and encouraging people to buy responsibly or second-hand.” Johnston said the Ecouture Fashion Show is only one of several events that the Cornell Environmental Collaborative hopes to organize. She said the group is preparing for Spring Fest, an Earth Day celebration organized along with the sustainability office, an environmentally-oriented career fair and a club showcase on North Campus presenting all of Cornell’s environmentally related groups. “Going forward, we’re going to work on getting more clubs to buy into the idea of an environmental council, so that we have really strong support,” Johnston said. “I think it can be a really good service but only if all these clubs are interested in it.” Daniel Zimmerman can be reached at dzimmerman@cornellsun.com.
4 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, February 23, 2015
1,000 Join Muslim ‘Ring of Peace’ Outside Oslo Synagogue
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than 1,000 people formed a “ring of peace” Saturday outside Oslo’s main synagogue at the initiative of a group of young Muslims. The event in the Norwegian capital follows a series of attacks against Jews in Europe, including the terror attacks in Paris in January and in neighboring Denmark last week. One of the eight independent organizers of Saturday’s event in Oslo, Hajrah Arshad said the gathering shows “that Islam is about love and unity.”
Former Law Student Arrested ATTACKS
Continued from page 1
Police Chief Kathy Zoner acknowledged the work of CUPD investigators on the case in a press release. “Although the investigation was quite lengthy, we are extremely pleased that we were able to bring this case to a successful conclusion,” she said. Duenas is not currently affiliated with the University, according to police. Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS BRIEFS
Air Pollution in India Cutting 660 Million Lives Short by Three Years, Research Says NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s filthy air is cutting 660 million lives short by about three years, according to research published Saturday that underlines the hidden costs of the country’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels to power its economic growth with little regard for the environment. While New Delhi last year earned the dubious title of being the world’s most polluted city, India’s air pollution problem is extensive, with 13 Indian cities now on the World Health Organization’s list of the 20 most polluted. That nationwide pollution burden is estimated to be costing more than half of India’s population at least 3.2 years of their lives, according to the study, led by Michael Greenstone of the University of Chicago and involving environmental economists from Harvard and Yale universities. It estimates that 99.5 percent of India’s 1.2 billion people are breathing in pollution levels above what the WHO deems as safe. “The extent of the problem is actually much larger than what we normally understand,” said one of the study’s co-authors, Anant Sudarshan, the India director of the Energy Policy Institute of Chicago. “We think of it as an urban problem, but the rural dimension has been ignored.” Added up, those lost years come to a staggering 2.1 billion for the entire nation, the study says. While “the conventional definition of growth
has ignored the health consequences of air pollution, this study demonstrates that air pollution retards growth by causing people to die prematurely,” Greenstone said in a statement. For the study, published in Economic & Political Weekly, the authors borrowed from their previous work in China, where they determined that life expectancy dropped by three years for every 100 micrograms of fine particulate matter, called PM2.5, above safe levels. PM2.5 is of especially great health concern because, with diameters no greater than 2.5 micrometers, the particles are small enough to penetrate deep into the lungs. The authors note, however, that their estimations may be too conservative because they’re based in part on 2012 satellite data that tend to underestimate PM2.5 levels. Meanwhile, India sets permissible PM2.5 levels at 40 micrograms per cubic meter, twice the WHO’s safe level. India has a sparse system for monitoring air quality, with sensors installed in only a few cities and almost unheard of in the countryside. Yet rural air pollution remains high thanks to industrial plants, poor fuel standards, extensive garbage burning and a heavy reliance on diesel for electricity generation in areas not connected to the power grid. Wind patterns also push the pollution onto the plains below the Himalayan mountain range.
Blast Hits March In Eastern Ukraine, Killing Two KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A bomb blast killed two at a march in east Ukraine on Sunday on the first anniversary of the ouster of the country’s Russia-friendly president, a gruesome counterpoint to the hopes spawned by a cease-fire agreement more than a week ago. An exchange of prisoners this weekend and acknowledgment by both sides of a commitment to pull back heavy weapons are promising signs that peace may yet prevail, although sporadic exchanges of hostilities between government and separatist forces have yet to subside entirely. Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said the blast at a march in the eastern city of Kharkiv to mark the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych was due to an “unknown explosive device” and was considered a terrorist act. A police officer was one of the dead and about a dozen people were injured, the ministry said. A spokesman for the national security service, Markian
Lubkivskiy, said four suspects had arrested for the explosion and for planning other attacks. He said in a statement on his Facebook account that the suspects were detained while carrying a portable rocket launcher in their automobile, and appeared to acting under instructions from Russia. “We can clearly see that the launcher was received from the [Russian city of ] Belgorod. Instructions were received from the Russian Federation,” he said in broadcast remarks. Lubkivskiy did not specify if he was accusing private individuals in Russia or the government in Moscow, but the tenor of his claims illustrates the degree of distrust between Russia and Ukraine. The violence in Kharkiv comes as Ukraine continues to be riven by tension and bloodshed stemming from Yanukovych’s fall. The Ukrainian parliament voted Feb. 22, 2014 to remove him, following months of increasingly violent
protests in the capital, Kiev. The Crimean peninsula, where residents largely regarded his downfall as a coup, was annexed by Russia a month later. Then armed rebels opposed to the new authorities in Kiev took over large parts of two regions bordering Russia, setting off a war that has killed more than 5,600 people. A peace plan envisioning a cease-fire and pullback of heavy weapons was signed Feb. 12. Ukraine planned to begin withdrawing heavy weaponry from the front lines on Sunday, Ukrainian military spokesman Col. Andriy Lysenko told a briefing, but gave no details. Rebel spokesman Eduard Basurin said the pullback from both sides is to take place between Sunday and March 7, but he did not say whether rebels had made any moves yet. There was no immediate confirmation that the withdrawal had begun. Both sides are to pull back their big guns and rockets from 15 to 43 miles away from the conflict line — depending on the weapons’ size — creating a buffer zone of between 31 and 87 miles. The buffer zone was a main element of a peace agreement worked out by leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France. Late Saturday, 139 Ukrainian soldiers and 52 rebels were exchanged, as called for in the peace plan; it remains unclear how many prisoners may remain on each side and when any other swaps might take place. The cease-fire that was the first element of the Minsk plan was called into effect last Sunday. Ukraine said Russia-backed separatists violated the cease-fire a dozen times during the night with artillery and rocket attacks and an attempt to storm a Ukrainian encampment. Lysenko said one serviceman was killed and three wounded over the past day. Explosions were heard in the main rebel-held city Donetsk around dawn on Sunday and a rebel website says several buildings were damaged by artillery.
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, February 23, 2015 5
U.S. NEWS BRIEFS
Crews Free Whale Tangled In Net off Hawaiian Coast
Ice, ice baby
NATHANIEL BROOKS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
The United States Coast Guard ice breaker Sturgeon—pictured in the foreground—approaches a tank barge and tug stuck in the ice of the Hudson River in New York Friday.
More Students Snub Standardized Exams PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When it comes to standardized tests, parents across the country are (a) concerned; (b) demanding change; (c) pulling tens of thousands of children out of the exams; or (d) making themselves heard at the top levels of government. Answer: all of the above. The backlash is kicking into high gear this spring as millions of students start taking new, more rigorous exams aligned with Common Core standards. Officials say the high-stakes assessments are crucial to evaluating student progress and competitiveness. But a growing cohort of parents, students and teachers are rebelling against what they consider a toxic culture of testing. And officials, including U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, have begun to listen as the grassroots movement engineers a series of high-profile rebuffs: — Thousands of Colorado high school seniors walked out on new state-mandated science and social studies tests last fall. — An Ohio middle school teacher published a letter calling state officials “bullies” for printing a pamphlet that warned of wide-ranging consequences if students sit out exams. — At least 93 students at a single Philadelphia middle school are declining upcoming tests in a city that saw only 20 students districtwide sit out the exams last year. The polite phrase for the burgeoning movement
is “opt out.” But testing opponent Morna McDermott, a Baltimore-area mother of two, puts it more plainly: It’s a testing refusal movement — or a boycott. “We’re not doing this willy-nilly because we’re a bunch of disgruntled soccer moms,” said McDermott, who belongs to the national United Opt Out movement and refuses to let her children participate in Maryland’s assessments. “This policy is harmful to our society, to our schools, to our teachers and to our children.” Federal law requires states to test students annually in grades three through eight and once in high school. But schools and districts have layered on their own assessments, leading students to take an average of 113 standardized tests over the course of their K12 careers, according to preliminary research by the Council of the Great City Schools, a Washingtonbased organization representing large urban districts. Test results measure student achievement but also can be used in teacher evaluations, overall school report cards and as high school graduation requirements. Opponents say the exams distract from real learning, put added stress on students and staff, waste resources and — especially in poor urban districts, like Philadelphia — contribute to the privatization of public education. Schools that score badly are sometimes turned over to management companies or become charter schools.
Guard Troops Staying on Border, But Some Question Mission McALLEN, Texas (AP) — On U.S. 83, the highway that hugs the southern stretch of the TexasMexico border, law enforcement is everywhere. Even on a national holiday this week, the green-and-white trucks of U.S. Customs and Border Protection circled tirelessly around the empty streets of Rio Grande City, a hotspot for illegal border crossings. Texas state troopers pulled over vehicles, and a Border Patrol helicopter hovered above, keeping watch over the Rio Grande. Less visible are hundreds of Texas National Guard troops who arrived last summer and are u-nder new orders from Gov. Greg Abbott to remain indefinitely — probably at least through next year. But with migration numbers falling and the guard moving to remote outposts, local authorities and residents are questioning the troops' continued presence here. Previously scheduled to leave in March, guard members who typically respond to short-term disasters like hurricanes are instead digging in for one of the longest
domestic deployments in the U.S. That is despite dwindling apprehensions and an even steeper drop in unaccompanied children arriving from Central America. It was the arrival of those children in overwhelming numbers that prompted former Gov. Rick Perry to activate the guard in the first place. Abbott says the extended mission remains necessary until Texas hires more state troopers. “We will stay on station until our presence there is not needed any further,” National Guard Maj. Gen. John Nichols said. The troops had been stationed mostly along the Rio Grande. But in recent weeks, their presence became less visible as the guard began a gradual drawdown in anticipation of the mission ending in March. Still unclear is how many guard troops will remain, serving in their strictly surveillance role. They are armed, but they do not have arrest authority and must call another agency at the first sign of trouble. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw this week refused to disclose the total number of gun-carrying patrol-
men the state has saturating the Rio Grande Valley, making a complete picture of security elusive. The governor and state officials no longer disclose the number of guard troops being kept on the border, citing what they call operational security. When about 1,000 guard troops first arrived in August, more than 6,600 illegal crossers were apprehended in the first week, according to state officials. Those numbers have since fallen to around 200 guard members and about 2,000 weekly apprehensions. The National Butterfly Center, on a 100-acre property adjacent to the Rio Grande in Mission, was home to a group of guardsmen through the end of 2014. The center’s executive director recalled seeing them set up on a nearby levee in full body armor in the hot sun with high-tech surveillance equipment. Their presence appeared to act as a deterrent. “The folks on the other side are aware of everything going on, so they move it elsewhere. It is a business, and they want business to go smoothly.”
K A I L U A KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A 45-ton humpback whale tangled in heavy fishing line in Hawaii waters for more than a week has been freed. A crew from the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine on Sanctuary Saturday used a pole equipped with a knife to saw the line free, West Hawaii Today reported. Several hundred feet of heavy line used for hoisting crab pots was cut away, said sanctuary spokesman Ed Lyman. Entanglements can result in drowning, starvation, infections and
increased susceptibility to ship strikes, according to whale experts. The entangled whale was spotted Feb. 13 off the Big Island's Kona Coast by Big Island helicopter tour companies. The West Marine Hawaii Mammal Response Network documented the whale’s conditions and attached a tag allowing the animal to be tracked by satellite. Tour boats and tour helicopters helped track the whale throughout the week. The sanctuary planned a rescue for Feb. 16 but called it off when the whale moved into rough
waters. “We decided to stand down and be patient and wait for the weather,” Lyman said. The crew got its chance Saturday and sidled up to the whale in an inflatable boat. The crew grappled and held the line before more attaching buoys to keep the whale from diving, Lyman said. The inflatable boat was towed behind the whale at around 3 knots as the crew pulled to within 10 feet of the 45-ton creature and began cutting line. “There was no sudden thrashing. It would trumpet blow, which is a sign of stress,” Lyman said.
A&E
6 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | Monday, February 23, 2015
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at Bailey BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer
The first time I heard an orchestra on C.D., the sound was so smooth as to be hyper-realistic. Though I’ve since become accustomed to that digital sheen, being in the presence of the Geneva-based Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) on Thursday night at Baily Hall rekindled the freshness of that experience. Under the baton of Charles Dutoit, the OSR brought to Bailey Hall a scintillating turn of the century set list, which it executed with such precision that the concert felt more like a private recording session than a public performance. The concert’s highlights ended its first and second halves. Before intermission, Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky took center stage for an account of Sergei Rachmaninoff ’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini that was superlative on every level. This set of variations on the last of Niccolò Paganini’s solo violin Caprices had never sounded so spontaneous yet so controlled. From the attuned percussionists to Lugansky’s storming fingers, orchestra and piano functioned as one organism. Especially remarkable was the viscous midsection, which, despite having been made famous by its (over)use in the romantic 1980 film Somewhere in Time, held its own with a vividness far beyond that of the cinema. Hearing Lugansky was perhaps the closest thing to being in the presence of the composer himself at the keyboard. Maurice Ravel’s La valse, a self-styled “choreographic poem for orchestra,” is — like his Bolero — a quintessential stage piece, but even more so in the OSR’s rendering. Originally written for ballet, it has taken on
a life of its own in instrumental programs. Though it has often been misperceived as a tragicomedy of its titular waltz form (occasional hints of The Blue Danube seem to mock us in the opening minutes), it is better interpreted as, in the composer’s words, “an ascending progression of sonority, to which the stage comes along to add light and movement.” In this spirit, the OSR succeeded with flying colors, rippling out with graceful
restraint from barely-audible double basses into a cyclone of activity, all the while holding close to a certain darkness beneath it all. If a symphony orchestra is only as good as its wind section, then the OSR is world-class. Whether flitting about the branches of Igor Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale or wafting through Claude Debussy’s Images pour Orchestre, a veritable flock of French horns, woodwinds and bassoon added a feeling of nature throughout. In the latter piece — from which was excerpted the popular, tripartite “Ibéria” section — the
Jose Gonzáles Vestiges and Claws Mute Records
composer’s reflections of Spanish streets and festivals came that much more to life through snatches of song implied by the orchestra’s rear crest. Debussy is often (erroneously) characterized as an impressionistic composer, but the Images thrived on clarity, not obfuscation, of expression. Castanets clicked as if to mark the passage of time itself. Harps anchored us in the reality of the music’s meandering. Playful snatches of frivolity bled in from the margins. The effect was more Manuel de Falla than Monet. Stravinsky’s Nightingale was where things got polar. This symphonic poem, adapted from the composer’s first opera, has four distinct sections. Its inaugural hit threw us headlong into the most descriptive portion of the evening. Replete with fluttering, twittering (the traditional kind) and flying, it was a tour de force of inventiveness. Still, it seemed an odd and abrasive choice. While its dissonances hit the ears fresh and finished transcendently on the mental palate, the plodding, cellular approach wore thin. In addition, the stereotypically pentatonic scale of the “Chinese March” felt outdated COURTESY OF CREDIT SUISSE in the 21st century. However, one could easily understand the compulsion. Had Dutoit, for example, plucked a bouquet from Petrushka, the fragrance might have been far too sweet for its own good. Nightingale also proved that in an assemblage as humongous as the OSR, real power comes not from cymbal crashes and bass drum hits, but from the ability to elicit a whisper from a 112-piece band. Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.
TE S T S P I N S O O new and notable O music in review O O O O O OO O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
O
Anita Alur Jose González released his first album in eight years, Vestiges and Claws, last Tuesday. Though González took a long break away from his singer/songwriter career, the awaited album is hardly a departure from his previous style. Like many of his other endeavors, the collection of tracks features González’s atmospheric vocals alongside his classically inspired guitar playing. González is skillful and artistic, but this album merely mimics his previous undertakings. Though some tracks offer glimmers of possibility for González, most rely heavily on monotony and repetition, making them tiresome to listen to independently. González is a master of intricacy. He plays very well with harmonies, and his chord progressions are highly diverse and distinctive. Though his songs are soft in their nature, González includes a variety of textures that sporadically peek their heads out. His percussion choices are prime examples of this. Despite his delicate instrumentation, González still manages to create percussive diversity and intrigue, whether through clapping, maracas, brushes on boxed drums or shakers. His abilities as a guitarist are equally as impressive, and each song features a different picking pattern.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
O
Certain tracks were particularly complex and compelling. I especially enjoyed “What Will,” a song that changes dramatically over the course of its duration. González begins the track with several stagnant verses and intriguing, albeit repetitive, guitar lines. As it moves along, however, the song begins to adopt a new form, including dynamic shifts in its tempo and melody. González still manages to maintain his soothing melodic landscape, but this particular track is far more interesting to listen to than many of its unvaried counterparts on the album. “Open Book” was equally captivating. Its composition is quite simple; González includes some cliché, yet momentarily poetic, lyrics with a verse-chorusverse-chorus-bridge construction. However, González manages to make a seemingly overdone track like this interesting. He brings in jazz chords and the progression keeps changing as the song moves forward. The melody is also satisfying and serene, and this song brought me back to the Simon and Garfunkel era of folk music. This track concludes the album, and I really hoped to hear more of its kind after listening to it. This album, like many of his previous ones, falls flat with its repetitive tracks. Songs like “Leaf Off /
O
O
The Cave” and “Every Age” left me underwhelmed with their lack of dynamism and diversity. In songs like these, González relies too heavily on his minimalistic style, and he creates chord progressions and melodic lines that remain stagnant. Though songs like this work well as background music, they appear tremendously lackluster when listened to attentively. All in all, I really hoped to hear González experiment more with this album. After a long break from solo performance, González could have easily created a comeback album with a more refined sound that expanded on his characteristic stylistic elements. Like all of his other albums, Vestiges and Claws is a great study album; it is pleasant and soft enough to play while you’re working, and it definitely won’t draw you away from your activities. As a stand-alone piece, however, it lacks variety and distinctiveness and truly brings out lethargy rather than meditative thinking. González has the proficiency and creativity to create something better, and many of the elements needed are already there; he just needs to take a risk or two to make an album that stands apart. Anita Alur is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at aalur@cornellsun.com.
A&E
Monday, February 23, 2015 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | 7
Powerpuff Progression: Cartoon Network in College
L
ast week, Cartoon Network announced a reboot of The Powerpuff Girls set to air in 2016. While we don’t have too many details about the reboot yet — like who the writers and voice actors will be or how modern animation is going to play into the new version — the announcement is still pretty exciting. In honor of the news, my roommates and I spent the day yesterday watching season four of the original The Powerpuff Girls, the only season currently on Netflix. It was glorious. It was clear shortly after we started that this was not the show we watched as kids. It was actually way better. There is no way we could have understood a lot of what was happening as kids, and about 75 percent of the jokes must have gone over our heads. What I once watched as a show about three young superheroes saving the world — one whom I thought was ditzy, one whom I thought was too bossy and one whom I identified with — suddenly was a jaded and absurd-sweet show filled with often-inappropriate social and cultural gems. Hell, there’s a regularly-appearing villain who is possibly a transexual devil. He (or she) wears heels, has a sickly sweet voice and runs a diner when she isn’t trying to destroy the city of Townsville. The character was probably a first introductions to a transgender individual for a lot of us, and we didn’t even know it. In an episode where the girls make a new
friend, Robin, they and the professor tell her how they were made due to an accidental addition of Chemical X, and she responds, “Don’t worry professor, I was an accident too.” How did that make it to children’s television? In another episode, “Him Diddle Riddle,” the girls have to answer a series of riddles in order to save the Professor. Him, the devil character I was talking about, tells them in one of the riddles to get to the corner of Ching and Chang before the time limit is up and answer a phone. We get a flash forward to the corner they are talking about, and it looks like it is in the middle of Townsville’s Chinatown. A Chinese woman in one of those stereotypical triangular straw hats stands in front of a store near the ringing phone. They actually said the corner of Ching and Chang, and meant it as a totally casual race joke. Oh, to make TV in 2000. In another episode, Mojo Jojo finds the Indian version of himDeath Before self whom Decaf they name, of course, Raja Jaja. In another episode, Him makes reference to the totally-relatable-to-young-kids Physical Fitness challenge. Others include quotes like, “Adults play with toys too,” “You think you’re smart? Why don’t you take the SATs?” and one episode even has a fake ’50s PSA about how hanging out on the top of the town’s volcano can stunt your growth and give you bulimic disorders. All
Arielle Cruz
COURTESY OF CARTOON NETWORK
of this went completely over my head at age eight. Though the references and adult-aimed jokes came as a surprise during my rewatching experience, there were also moments that I couldn’t have misunderstood and made me proud to be a young watcher. One was when the girls want to join a maledominated Superhero League. The superheroes mock the girls mercilessly, and one tries to explain to them that men and women have different roles and that the girls should just go back home and cook or something. The girls question the power structure and refuse to accept his concept of gender binaries. They are supposed to be five years old. He asks them a series of questions and ends up getting stumped by the girls’ response: “Who makes the money in your family?” “Dad.” “Who has the career?” “Dad.” “Who cooks dinner?” “Dad.” “Who
does the laundry?” “Dad.” “Who washes the car?” “Bubbles.” The Powerpuff Girls may have been one of the most progressive children’s shows on TV. As amazing as The Powerpuff Girls was and I’m sure reboot will be, there is no way that the new version will have the same balls and throw-caution-to-the-wind attitude as the original. The times won’t permit it. But, hopefully, if the world is just, maybe most of the ridiculous humor, badass intro music, progressive attitude and cultural allusions will remain an important part of the show. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to pirate season one. Arielle Cruz is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at acruz@cornellsun.com. Death Before Decaf rusn alternate Mondays this semester.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Pick up your FREE COPY of
The Corne¬ Daily Sun at the following locations: CORNELL CAMPUS • A.D. White House • Admissions Office • Africana Library Center • Alice Cook Dining • Anabel Taylor Hall • Appel Commons • Baker Hall • Bard Hall • Barnes Hall • Bartels Hall • Bethe House • Big Red Barn • Carl Becker House • Carpenter Hall Library • Ctr. for Intercultural Dialogue • Clark Hall • Computer Services & Financial Aid, East Hill Plz. • Cornell Institute for Social & Economic Research • Cornell Store • Corson Hall • Court Hall • Dairy Bar • Day Hall Main Lobby • Dickson Hall • Donlon Hall • Duffield Hall • East Hill Office Complex • Environmental Health & Safety Building • Flora Rose • Gannett • Goldie’s (Physical Sci. Bldg) • Goldwin Smith • Hasbrouck Center
• Horticulture Office • Humphreys Service Bldg. • Ives Hall (ILR) • Ivy Room (WSH) • Johnson Museum • Keeton House Dining • Kosher Dining Hall • Mac’s Café • Martha’s (MVR) • Mann Library • Myron Taylor Hall + Hughes Dining • Noyes Main Lobby • Okenshields, Willard Straight • Olin Hall • Olin Library B Level • Plantations Gift Shop • Rhodes Hall • Risley Dining • Robert Purcell Community Center (RPCC) • Sage Hall Atrium •Sibley Hall, Green Dragon Café • Snee Hall • Statler Lobby • Statler Terrace Restaurant • Tatkon Center • Teagle Hall • Transpor. Dept.,Maple Ave. • Trillium • Uris Hall • Vet Center (Shurman Hall) •Weill Hall, M1 Rm + Synapsis • Willard Straight Hall Lobby + Dining
OFF CAMPUS • Autumn Leaves Used Books (Ithaca Commons) • Bear Necessities • Center Ithaca • Coal House Café • Collegetown Bagels: CTown + Triphammer • Commons Grocery • CFCU: Triphammer Rd. + East Hill Plaza • Corner of College & Dryden • Corner of State & Aurora •Express Mart, Comm. Crnrs. • Hillside Inn • Hilton Garden Inn • Holiday Inn • Ithaca Coffee Co.
•Ithaca College, Phillips Hall • Jason’s Grocery & Deli • Kendal • Kraftees • Lifelong • Oasis (Greenstar) • P&C Fresh (East Hill Plaza) • Salvation Army • Shortstop Deli • Stella’s • Tompkins Cty. Public Library • Tops (Triphammer Rd.) • Universal Deli • Warren Real Estate: Downtown,Community Crnr.
or stop by The Sun’s office at 139 W. State Street
OPINION
The Corne¬ Daily Sun
Rachel Gerber | Words With Gerbs
Independent Since 1880 132ND EDITORIAL BOARD HALEY VELASCO ’15 Editor in Chief
CATHERINE CHEN ’15
TYLER ALICEA ’16
CAROLINE FLAX ’15
ZACH STEELE ’15
NICK DE TULLIO ’15
SCOTT CHIUSANO ’15
RACHEL ELLICOTT ’15
ALEX REHBERG ’16
Business Manager
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Advertising Manager
Web Editor
Sports Editor
Blogs Editor
Multimedia Editor
ELIZABETH SOWERS ’15
KELLY YANG ’15
Design Editor
News Photography Editor
CONNOR ARCHARD ’15
NOAH RANKIN ’16
Sports Photography Editor
City Editor
ANNIE BUI ’16
ANUSHKA MEHROTRA ’16
News Editor
News Editor
KAITLYN TIFFANY ’15
SEAN DOOLITTLE ’16
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Arts & Entertainment Editor
KATHLEEN BITTER ’15
KAY XIAO ’16
CHARDAE VARLACK ’15
SYDNEY ALTSCHULER ’16
Science Editor
Dining Editor
Associate Multimedia Editor
Assistant Sports Editor
EMILY BERMAN ’16
ANNA FASMAN ’16
Assistant Sports Editor
Assistant Sports Editor
NICOLE HAMILTON ’16
MANU RATHORE ’15
EMMA LICHTENSTEIN ’16
KATHLEEN SHIM ’15
Graphic Design Editor
Outreach Coordinator
Marketing Manager
Social Media Manager
LUISE YANG ’15
CHRISTOPHER UHLER ’15
Human Resources Manager
The Spot Manager
ARIELLE CRUZ ’15
ALEXA DAVIS ’16
Senior Editor
Senior Editor
JAYNE ZUREK ’16 Senior Editor
WORKING ON TODAY’S SUN DESIGN EDITOR DESIGN DESKER PHOTO NIGHT EDITOR
Elizabeth Sowers ’15 Jayant Mukhopadhaya ’15 Haewon Hwang ’17
EDITORS IN TRAINING EDITOR IN CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR ARTS EDITOR NEWS DESKERS SPORTS EDITOR SCIENCE EDITOR
Alex Rehberg ’16 Annie Bui ’16 Anushka Mehrotra ’16 Troy Sherman ’18 Paulina Glass ’18 Phoebe Keller ’18 Anna Fasman ’16 Sloane Grinspoon ’17
Editorial
Experiencing Cornell History Without Compromise EARLIER THIS MONTH, THE FACULTY SENATE withdrew its resolution calling for the cancellation of morning classes for the September inauguration of Cornell’s 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett. The University Faculty Committee cited the incoming president’s and Interim Provost Harry Katz’s desire to hold classes, with Dean of Faculty Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66 arguing that “there are times when you should fight the administration” and that this was not one of those times. However, we believe that Cornell should allow students to participate in this historic day without compromising their education. Classes were not cancelled for President David Skorton’s inauguration in 2006, setting the tone for a less noticeable celebration than Jeffrey Lehman’s ’77 Ithaca inauguration just years before. Despite the larger commemoration in 2003, classes were also not cancelled; instead organizers of Lehman’s inauguration encouraged professors to cancel some classes during the day. Yet as the University ends its sesquicentennial celebrations, administrators should continue to promote Cornell history by keeping notable occasions accessible to all. Since classes are cancelled through part of April’s Charter Day, we also believe classes should be cancelled for Garrett’s inauguration, which we believe to be of equal importance of other historic moments. All Cornellians who wish to actively participate in the University’s history should be able to experience without having to skip classes for the inauguration of Cornell’s newest president. Burns is correct that Cornellians should not fight the administration on certain issues. We believe, however, that participating in this momentous Cornell occasion without consequence should be a priority for Cornellians. We encourage student and faculty leaders to fight for those on campus to have the ability to experience the inauguration of Garrett. Although not all students will choose to attend the inauguration, those who participate over attending a class will be penalized for partaking in Cornell history. We believe administrators and Garrett should reconsider holding classes during this year’s presidential inauguration to allow Cornellians to participate in Cornell history.
I
Cornell Pride and Outside Prejudice
f you scroll through your news feed, how spirited are we really? you likely have Facebook friends at For most schools, athletics is the prischools — like University of mary drive and cultivator of school spirMichigan or The Ohio State University it. Now don’t get me wrong — the ath— with pictures of tailgating galore. letics community here at Cornell is full You’ve wondered what it would be like and vibrant: Our campus is home to to spend your Saturdays at football over 1,000 impressive student-athletes, games rather than studying in the stacks whom serve as members of 37 hardof Olin. You probably clicked through working varsity sports teams. But what all 200 plus seconds of last week’s seems to truly motivate each of our con“Cameron Crazies” snachat story as well. nections to Cornell is unique and someAnd if you’re anything like me, you also thing a majority find outside of any wondered how long it takes one to get game, meet or match. that much blue paint off their body. You We’re each uniquely tied to our own may have even pressed “like” on that corner of campus. There’s a place and a Instagram picture of that girl from reason that grounds us and makes us Vanderbilt or the University of Virginia happy to be here. There’s a group or a wearing a sundress to a game in the mid- cause that continually motivates us and dle of the November, probably wonder- pushes all of our chins up when we say ing how one could still dress like it was that we are Cornellians. Whether that be summer at that time of year. a student organization or academic This past weekend, I stood in Section department, a research project or preB of Lynah professional fraterRink and nity, a greek orgaswayed side to It’s very “Cornell” if you think nization, a sports side as I sang team or, for most about it — we have a lot of of us, a group of those words we all know people we call pride, but not that much too well. For friends — that one last time I spirit. We’re all proud to be makes us proud to said “Hail, All be Cornellians. It’s Cornellians, to go here or to a distinct quality Hail Cornell” with my arms about this campus; have gone here. around some it’s a feeling you of my best start to acquire friends. Four after spending years and three sets of season tickets enough time here. You realize that you’re later, I got a bit nostalgic — hockey connected to something larger than the games tend to bring out the best of our physical space between the townhouses, Big Red spirit, and this was my last game the Schwartz Center and the vet school. as an undergraduate. But as I came You understand that being a Cornellian home and put my sweatshirt away in my can be a lifelong journey, and that your drawer full of collected Cornell gear four years here are just the start of it. (which even houses that free Kraftees tAnd this is what I mean when I say shirt they gave away freshman year), I it’s very “Cornell” of us to have more started thinking about spirit here at pride than we do spirit — we’re not a Cornell. It’s very “Cornell” if you think student body that paints our faces for about it — we have a lot of pride, but tailgates or has high attendance at most not that much spirit. sporting events — but we’re a student We’re all proud to be Cornellians, to body unyieldingly proud of the school go here or have gone here. We have we attend, the opportunities present and extensive and active alumni networks of the distinguished reputation that our thousands, and more and more prospec- alma mater carries. It’s the sort of thing tive students apply to become a part of you can’t see from the outside perspecthe Cornell community every year. tive of this campus, the kind of thing Whenever I’m not on campus and some- you didn’t truly understand when you one asks where I go to school, I confi- were one of those thousands of prospecdently answer “Cornell” with my head tive students hoping to be accepted, but held high — yet, I’ve only been to it’s this feeling inside you now. approximately four football games (the Homecoming game each year). We’ve Rachel Gerber graduated in December from the got Newman Nation and Lynah College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Responses Faithful, but outside of those arenas — can be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.
Guest submissions may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Letters to the editor must be in response to a piece in The Sun and under 600 words, while guest columns can be on any topic chosen and should be under 900 words.
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, February 23, 2015 9
OPINION
Conna Walsh | Words With Walsh
Keeping Historical Perspective
H
istory has always been one of my favorite areas of study. Throughout my primary and secondary schooling, and on through my career at Cornell, I have had the privilege of learning about history from some truly amazing, charismatic educators. Although history as a field of study is falling out of fashion among college students due to fears of a poor job market, being able to understand the mistakes and triumphs of our shared human past is an incredibly valuable and important skill. Unfortunately, others prefer to obfuscate the past. Last year, a debate arose in our country’s political arena about the revised syllabus of the Advanced Placement United States History course, which is taught in high schools across the nation. The College Board, a private educational company that publishes and administers A.P. tests, made changes to the curriculum guidelines of the United States History course last summer. As a result, many politicians said they felt these changes were “unAmerican” and that the new curriculum was “unpatriotic.” Recently, lawmakers in Oklahoma have gone as far as introducing a bill that would ban government funding for the course, which would effectively eliminate A.P. United States History from being taught in the state. Those politicians got their wish earlier this week as an Oklahoma legislative committee voted in favor of the aforementioned legislation. So how “un-American” can a class about American history possibly be? According to a number of conservative Republicans, the new A.P. curriculum guidelines fail to teach students about American exceptionalism, and they provide a “radically revisionist” viewpoint of American history. Additionally, many politicians are up in arms over the fact that the new curriculum focuses too much on negative aspects of American history, including slavery, mistreatment of Native Americans and Japanese internment camps during World War II. To pull a great line from a popular movie, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How could any politician think it’s a good idea to ignore these parts of our nation’s history? The horrible enslavement of millions of Africans and their descendants in our country happened. It happened for hundreds of years, and it is an aspect of our nation’s founding that we simply cannot ignore. Slavery was abolished only 150 years ago, and its effects on race relations still impact the lives of millions of people every day. One of our country’s most revered presidents, Andrew Jackson, committed genocide by supporting the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Thousands of Native Americans perished, and those who survived were stripped of their cultural heritage and forced to assimilate into the American way of life. To this day, our government systematically marginalizes Native Americans across the country. In 1942, the United States government forcibly incarcerated over 100,000 people of Japanese origin or descent in response to the attacks on Pearl Harbor. Over 60 percent of these people were American citizens. Simply by virtue of having Japanese heritage, these people were automatically suspected of crimes and espionage, and they were thus imprisoned by their own government. In a nation founded upon the ideals of freedom and liberty, how could these atrocities occur? These hypocritical and racist facets of America’s history must not be lost to the ages. Every generation must understand that not only did these events actually happen, but that similar incidents and mistakes can never be allowed to happen again. That might seem like a no-brainer to some, but unfortunately, our nation is coming dangerously close to forgetting some of these mistakes. Systemic racism is a theme throughout all of these past atrocities, and it still undoubtedly exists today. African American families and Native American families are still more likely to live in poverty than Caucasian families, a fact which is indisputably linked to centuries of oppression and marginalization. Additionally, last September a panel on Fox News touted the “success” of Japanese internment camps, and suggested that our government consider a similar measure of internment for Muslims in America. Let that sink in for a moment — these people were lauding an act of awful racism and suggesting that we do it again. We cannot let this happen. We cannot forget or ignore our troubled history. The United States has a responsibility to teach future generations about mistakes in our country’s past. Our children have a right to know how our ancestors went wrong, and how we can learn from these mistakes and make better choices in the future. If Germany educates its students about the atrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, why should the United States omit any negative part of its history from its classrooms? Please don’t get me wrong — I love this country. I think the United States is indeed an exceptional nation that is one of the most unique states in the world in many aspects of its society. I feel so lucky to live in this country every day, and I am so grateful for all of the opportunities I have received just by virtue of being an American citizen. It is because I love this country that I am so against whitewashing its history. I have faith that American people are hardworking, strong and capable enough to understand that although we are citizens of an exceptional country, that does not make us better than everyone else in the world. We have committed crimes against peace and humanity just like many other nations. By confronting this history and ensuring that we never repeat our mistakes, however, we can rise above our past to forge a better future. Every new law and every new initiative in our country must be created while remembering the context of our history so that we do not forget it. Indeed, Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana said it best — “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Conna Walsh is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at cwalsh@cornellsun.com. A Word with Walsh appears alternate Mondays this semester.
Web
Comment of the day “The overwhelming reception has been that the sculpture has overstayed its welcome and takes away from the vintage beauty of the Arts Quad.” Adding to the Discussion Re: “Arts Quad Sculpture Will Be Featured in PBS Documentary,” News published February 19, 2015
Amiri Banks | Honest A.B.
I
DoYou See Blood OnYour Hands?
nflammatory sentences like the day life, like breathing or walking. We should not perceive norabove headline conflict with my nature, and I would prefer malization as only the responsibilnot to use them. Unfortunately, ity of social activists. Just look at stark accusations and jarring the battle to eliminate “retarded” imagery do the best job of grab- and “faggot” from casual converbing people’s attention. sation. Once it became commonHyperbole elicits sensibility. So, place to challenge the users of given the position of concern these words, everyone stopped from which I write, you’ve left me using them so nonchalantly. little choice. Consider the follow- Regular people decided to speak firmly and candidly, but with ing: Over February Break, I took enough tact to not repel those part in ASIST Suicide they addressed. They created Intervention Training. The won- change organically. If you want to derful people working in Willard kill something evil, kill the related Straight Hall only needed two thought process at every conceivdays to teach me how to listen. able opportunity. How? By creating positive and Listening seems so simple. But when I think back to my friend, different experiences for people! no one heard his cries for help. If Our experiences inform the way my tenth grade peers and I knew we interpret observations, which then what I know now, maybe my in turn reinforces the way we friend would still be alive. Yet if I think. So when you smile and hadn’t suffered that loss, I may greet that unhappy-looking have never gone to that training. Such a cruel irony. Why? Why must tragic events serve as the I am livid. Livid, because I am catalyst for social exhausted. Exhausted, because I activism? feel as if I’m alone in walking There’s more. Last this road. Friday, I attended a Sexual Violence Prevention discussion. One of the speakers said stranger on the elevator, don’t he got involved after his best worry if he or she appears aloof or friend was raped. Again, tragedy in disdain. You’ve still managed to yielded social activism. At the affect that person’s experience, same event, I learned the story of even if only for a moment. In an individual who, after being doing so, you’ve begun the process subjected to sensitivity training of changing the way he or she for making a racist comment, thinks about future elevator pasfound his perspective on life com- sengers. Taking advantage of the pletely transformed. Again, human mind’s malleability requires you to first become tragedy yielded social activism. We all know what a “social uncomfortable, by grappling with activist” looks like: Those people the basis of any social issue: a who interrupt your day with die- group of human beings that lacks ins and protests, constantly bring empathy for another group. In the up heavy topics and love to make spirit of making people uncomimpassioned speeches. Those peo- fortable, please consider the folple who you either complain lowing questions. You may be suffering from a about, neutrally support (which, by the way, cannot be equated mental health issue but are too with actual support) or ignore. proud to admit your own vulnerSocial activists don’t always use abilities because society will label methods I agree with, but they you as “other.” Does this make wield a powerful tool — the abili- you feel uncomfortable? How ty to normalize the taboo. Take about the fact that knowing you’re feminists, for example. For what- not a racist is not the same as ever reason, women’s rights is a knowing you aren’t racist? Or the taboo subject of discussion, espe- fact that religion, even in just the cially for men. Feminists, howev- last year, has caused untold hatred er, view the discussion as a normal and violence? Or the fact that and intuitive component of every- porn consumption, of which I
have been a guilty consumer, is one of the worst and most accepted contributions to subliminal messaging, rape culture and systemic misogyny? Or the fact that using the buzzwords “rape culture” evokes images of the politics surrounding the phrase instead of a desire to simply eliminate rape? Or the fact that a gay man finds himself being hated for his love? Or the fact that people regularly take their lives because their self-image has been the source of criticism? Or the fact that you can create dangerous ruptures within a community by simply putting up a facade and avoiding conflict? Or the fact that your empathy for one group does not prevent you from displaying apathy towards another? Or the fact that, despite everything written above, I’ve not even come close to coming close to scratching the surface? Or the fact that some people would prefer to read this and find reasons to criticize me than get at the root of why I’m even writing this column in the first place? Go ahead and criticize me. Get angry. I welcome anger because I am livid. Livid, because I am exhausted. Exhausted, because I feel as if I’m alone in walking this road — one on which love and kindness take precedence over misinformed judgment and paranoia. But I’d much rather get lost sometimes, run into obstacles and feel fatigued than blindly claim denial of the road. I’d much rather suffer and complain to all the people not walking with me than join them on the side of the road. To walk indifferently alongside this road is to avoid all the shit, carnage and garbage littered across its path. And if you truly want to possess empathy, you’ll need to get down on your knees and bury your hands in that filth. After doing so, look at your hands again. Now do you see the blood? Amiri Banks is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun.com. Honest A.B. appears alternate Mondays this semester.
10 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, February 23, 2015
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS 1 Modern location code 10 Vertical sides 15 Ability to stand? 16 “What I always get” 17 Baby, for one 18 Ward cry? 19 “Bless __ ...”: Psalm 68 20 “Shadow of the Vampire” Oscar nominee 22 Mr. __!: old detective game 23 Churchill’s “so few”: Abbr. 25 Chess tactic 26 [Oh, my!] 27 Reagan era mil. program 30 “Die Hard” cry adapted from an old cowboy song 33 Trap catchings 35 Wager 36 Get comfy 37 “The Hangover” star 39 Is worth something, in dialect 40 Fifth-grader’s milestone, maybe 41 One may involve a homonym 42 Like the Negev 43 Range for some power measurements 46 “The Spanish Tragedy” dramatist 47 Behan’s land 48 Robot extension? 49 Chinese dynasty during Caesar’s time 51 Little 52 “__ yourself!” 54 1946 Literature Nobelist 58 Nice parting 60 Baklava flavoring 62 One removed from the company? 63 Cocktail portmanteau 64 Start using Twitter, say 65 Victoria’s Secret purchase
DOWN 1 Tiny 2 Urban, e.g. 3 Boorish Sacha Baron Cohen persona 4 Style 5 1993 rap hit 6 Low-quality paper 7 Home of Phillips University 8 Full of spunk 9 Instagrammed item 10 __ bug 11 Pac-12 sch. whose mascot carries a pitchfork 12 “Swingin’ Soiree” DJ 13 It doesn’t include benefits 14 About to crash? 21 About 1.8 tablespoons, visà-vis a cup 24 “Double Indemnity” genre 26 Basic ideas 27 Despicable sort 28 Australian wind 29 Willing consequence?
31 Step on stage 32 Grasp 34 Jackson Hole’s county 38 Court call 39 TV input letters 41 1980s “SNL” regular 44 Sacred beetle 45 Name derived from the Tetragrammaton
COMICS AND PUZZLES
Sun Sudoku
Puzzle #1956
GRACE KELLY
50 “Far out!” 52 Cheat, in slang 53 Notice 55 Hullabaloo 56 Text status 57 Most massive known dwarf planet 59 Fair-hiring initials 61 2012 British Open winner
CLASSIFIED AD RATES Ads are accepted at The Sun’s office at 139 W. State Street downtown, by phone or e-mail. Deadline: 2:30 p.m. at The Sun’s office on the day preceding publication. Monday’s deadline: Friday, 2:30 p.m. at The Sun’s office.
Standard Rate: $3.40 per day for first 15 words, 32 cents per day per word thereafter. Five or more consecutive insertions, $3.15 per day for first 15 words, 30 cents per day per word thereafter. Commercial Rate: $5.20 per day for first 15 words, 33 cents per day per word thereafter. Five or more consecutive insertions, $5.00 per day for first 15 words, 31 cents per day per word thereafter.
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
The Sun is responsible for only one day makegood on ads.
273-3606 classifieds@cornelldailysun.com
23 PARKING Parking Collegetown College Ave., Dryden Rd., Linden Ave., Cook St. 607-330-2442, 607-273-9414
xwordeditor@aol.com
By Jonathan L. O’Rourke ©2015 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
AVAILABLE NOW AND 2015-16
02/21/15
02/21/15
College Avenue Dryden Road
Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name. (Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)
607-272-3000
5
9
7
8
4
7
1
’15 Spring Parking Oak Ave
2 4
Odd/Even got you? Great price up from CTB avail Spring Semester
1
7
607-256-3778 nick@lambrourealestate.com
6
6 2
7
www.ithacarenting.com
Parking Collegetown Available Now 607-277-1234
2
6
3
25 ROOMS FOR RENT
9
4, Bed and Living Room Suites Share kitchen & bath. All util. incl. & laundry. $850.
8
607-229-5116
C
Classic Doonesbury (1981)
1
by Garry Trudeau
26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT 114 Catherine St New Building Will be open Aug '15. Everything new, large 6-BR unit with large common area, nice view, AC, Fitness Center, free laundry 10-month lease for first Tenants! nick@lambrourealestate.com or 607-256-3778 office
1-BR 309 Eddy St New bldg, fitness center, elevator, nice furniture, AC. $1495 includes heat, water. nick@lambrourealestate.com or 607-256-3778 office
Mr. Gnu
WALK TO CAMPUS 2015-16
by Travis Dandro
Perfect 1 bdrm. with free off-street parking, w/w carpet, laundry on site. Professionally managed. www.brooklanecornell.edu 607-257-5444
Beautiful New Renovation 1 Bedroom on Williams St. www.pjapts.com 607-229-5116 2 BEDROOM All included. $850. Free parking. Laundry. Big beautiful bedrooms.
607-229-5116 www.pjapts.com 5 BEDROOM
American Affairs Desk
Opposite Cascadilla Dorms All included. $895 per person.
by Mark Kaufman
607-229-5116 www.pjapts.com
Campus Hill Apts. 709 Stewart Ave. We are not near the campus, We are ON THE CAMPUS, The only privately owned apartment complex literally on Cornell University's campus.We have three 1 bedrooms, two 2 bedrooms, one 3 bedroom, and three 4 bedrooms LEFT! 1. Walk to Campus in minutes 2. Most have wood burning fireplaces 3. Balconies 4. Two on site Laundry rooms 5. Free high-speed roadrunner internet 6. Free Standard Cable (70 channels) 7. On site parking 8. Furnished with TVs
www.kimballrentals.com 257-0313
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Thursday, February 23, 2015 11
SPORTS
26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT
26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT RIGHT BY CORNELL 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR APTS. BEST PRICES 607-592-7694
PJ APARTMENTS COLLEGETOWN STUDIOS TO 18 BEDROOM MANSION 607-229-5116 WWW.PJAPTS.COM PJAPARTMENTS@GMAIL.COM MANY NEW BEAUTIFUL RENOVATIONS COMPLETED. TOURS AVAILABLE M-F, NOON-6PM OR BY APPOINTMENT. AVAILABLE FOR 2015-2016
Houses, Apts, Parking 1 to 3 Bedroom Collegetown - College Ave, Linden Ave, Dryden Rd, Bryant Ave, Cook St 607-330-2442 Office at 307 College Ave. info@urbanithaca.com www.urbanithaca.com Collegetown Terrace Apartments 1 and 2 Bedroom / 2 Bath Apartments Available now and for Spring Semester! 2 bedroom apartments also available to share. Heat, hot water and high speed wireless internet included. Stackable washer and dryer in apartments. Novarr-Mackesey Property Management www.collegetownterraceithaca.com office@ithacastudentapartments.com Free State of the Art Fitness Center Covered parking available for a fee. 607.277.1234
QUALITY, AFFORDABLE, CONVENIENT 1–3 Bedroom Apartments & Houses In Collegetown PARKING, LAUNDRY, UTILITIES (607) 273-7368 www.IthacaApartmentRental.com
Apartments, Houses, Parking Central Collegetown Superb Panoramic Views Modern Elevator Buildings Collegetown Plaza: Fitness Room, fantastic Cayuga Lake Views Studio, 1, 2, 5, 6 BRs Parking Collegetown Center: Concierge Service, quiet building, Fitness Room Studio, 1 BRs Parking Collegetown Court: Super convenient, exceptional value Studio, 1 BRs Other Collegetown Locations: Dryden Road, Eddy Street, Buffalo Street: 3 BRs, Rooms with kitchen privileges Parking Rent Smart. Live Well.
607-272-3000 Visit our office at: 119 Dryden Road
Ithaca Renting Company www.ithacarenting.com 227 LINDEN AVENUE 2&3 BR LUXURY APTS ********** COLLEGE AVENUE 1&2 BEDROOMS ********** 607-272-3389 BEFORE 7PM www.avramisrentals@aol.com 312 College Ave Collegetown’s Best Address Beautifully Furnished Studio, 1 Bedroom, 2 Bedroom & 3 Bedroom units. Office Open M-F 9-9; Sat 10-5; Sun 11-4. 273-9777 or 312collegeave.com
NOW renting. Apartments without hassle. Hudson Heights Apartments are located on South Hill, 8 minutes from Cornell. Prices start at $680/month. Rent includes: all utilities, parking, garbage and recycling. There are two laundry facilities on the premises and the bus route is on the block. Contact ILS for an appointment: 607-280-7660 or email renting@ithacaLS.com.
110 Heights Court 3 bedroom furnished apts. in historic mansion on North Campus just 1 block from Thurston Ave. and walking distance to Suspension Bridge. Spacious living areas with high ceilings and balconies. Gas heat, Standard Cable, High Speed Modem Internet, Water and Dumpster all included. Coin-op washer/dryer on premises. $675/person. Some 3 bedrooms can accommodate 4 people @$550/person. Call 257-0313 for showings.
North Campus Apartments Near your Sorority/Fraternity. Stay close! 3,4 and 5 bedrooms available with free roadrunner internet, cable, water, furniture and TV. Some apartments have 2 baths, dishwashers and fireplaces. Call or email for a viewing. Checkout 110 Heights court and Westbourne Apts. at www.kimballrentals.com Kimball Real Estate 257-0313
Newly Renovated Apartments 1, 2 & 4 Bedroom 100 Ft. from main gates of Cornell Starting at $595 includes all utilities. 592-9482
Now Renting for 2015-2016 1-6 Bedroom Apartments Collegetown and Near Vicinity Call Today Certified Properties 273-1669 certifiedpropertiesinc.com 2015-2016 WESTBOURNE APARTMENTS We are located within a beautiful 10 minute walk to campus in the historical district of Cornell Heights and are managed by concerned Cornelians with 42 yrs. experience in caring for the residential needs of Ithacans. Our apts. have all the features you would expect in the very best area residences. Some of the units have fireplaces and two bathrooms. We provide free Roadrunner internet and standard cable service. Resident parking available.
RATES BEGIN AT $575-$700/person plus electric 257-0313 www.kimballrentals.com
27 H OUSE FOR R ENT
Women Have Strong Weekend
Red breaks numerous Cornell records in final swim meet SWIM
Continued from page 12
enormous fight. We came together as a team and brought home a huge handful of personal best times and team top times,” said senior Bethany Douglas. Sophomore Currie Murch Elliot finished the 1650 free event in 16:57.40, a time which would put her in the Cornell record books as the fourth woman in the Red’s history to break 17 minutes in this event. Freshman Lizzie Thayer also had a successful showing in the 1650 free. “This was my first Ivy League Championship meet, so I don’t have much to compare it to, but I think the team as a whole was proud of our performance and the way we fought up until the very last event. We were hoping to beat Brown, but unfortunately, we couldn’t make it happen,” Thayer said. The Red had a strong showing throughout the meet. The swimming and diving team has been adamant in the recent past about working hard to develop and become successful in Ivy play and this year’s championship showing speaks to that hard work. “Our success is a product of our relentless hard work in the pool and weight room. We came into the season with specific common goals which kept us focused and on track every day,” said Thayer. “The team gets along incredibly well and the fact that being together makes even the most grueling practices fun is just another aspect that makes this team great.” Senior Meredith Drummond, Douglas and freshman Ingrid Winter all placed in the 200breaststroke event with strong personal times.
John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.
Moran and LeDuc Keep Red in Game BASKETBALL
Continued from page 12
Bulldogs to only 28 percent in the first half and 21 percent in the second half. Neither the Yale nor the Cornell team has been kept to 36 points in a meeting since 1975. The next night the Red hosted Brown for the “Play4Kay” game on Saturday. It was a tough game overall for the young squad and a long drought in the second half allowed Brown to creep back into the game, leaving the final score at 58-51. The game improved Brown’s record to 1014 overall, and 4-6 in the Ivy League, while Cornell’s record now stands at 15-9 overall, and 6-4 in the Ivy League. Marshall, once again, had a strong performance against the older and more seasoned Bears, netting 16 points and grabbing six rebounds. Her partner in the
paint, Aston, had 12 points and 10 rebounds, making it her sixth double-double of the season. Sophomore guard Taylor Depalma contributed nine points, the most she’s scored in her career at Cornell.
YALE @ CORNELL
37 Game: Yale Cornell
56 1ST 22 31
2ND 15 25
FINAL 37 56
BROWN @ CORNELL
58 Game: Brown Cornell
51 1ST 29 27
2ND 29 24
FINAL 58 51
Sophomore guard Megan LeDuc and Moran each were crucial to keeping the game as close as it was. LeDuc scored seven points and eight rebounds and Moran
2015-2016 Collegetown Linden Ave. 5 Bedroom House 2 & 1/2 Bathrooms. Parking Included. Fully Furnished. $775 per bedroom. Must See! 607-793-8681 607-564-7190 6 BEDROOM 10 MONTH LEASE Summer renovation. Available August. Huge house on 2 floors. Large porch.
607-229-5116 www.pjapts.com
RENT REDUCED!! 118 Cook St 12 BR House 607-277-1234 www.ithacastudentapartments.com
On the diving side, senior Bianca HerlitzFerguson placed 12th overall on the 3-meter board, earning a third place overall Cornell record. “This season was another breakthrough to follow up our winning record last year. We beat Columbia for the first time in a while, came 10 points away from beating Harvard at our season opener and defeated some of the tough competitors we faced again this weekend,” Douglas said. “We were able to solidify another winning season and are excited to do big things again next year.” Douglas attributes much of the team’s success to the coaching staff and its ability to bring the team together in a sport that “We were able to solidify can be s o m e w h a t another winning season and individually are excited to do big things focused. again next year.” “ T h e new coachBethany Douglas ing arrangem e n t s allowed the women’s team to become closer than ever in years past. Every time we raced, we raced for one another,” she said. “It is exciting to have a second winning season in a row, and I think our new gender-segregated training strategy had a positive effect on the team,” Thayer said. “We are happy, but not fully satisfied with this season’s results, and are ready to work even harder during offseason and next year to ensure we accomplish all we set out to.”
www.cornellsun.com
netted three points and doled out six assists. The rebound game was not an issue for the Red, as the squad grabbed 41 rebounds compared to the Bears’ 25. Late in the second half the Red missed 12 shots in a row and Brown came back from a deficit to tie the game, 39-39. A 15-4 run by the Bears put Cornell down with just a few minutes left to play, and the game ended with the Red down by seven. The squad is looking at this weekend as a growing experience. “Our loss on Saturday was very disappointing for us,” Moran said. “We still have a lot to learn as a young team and I think losing on Saturday was a really big learning experience for us.” Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun.com.
The Corne¬ Daily Sun
Sports
MONDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2015
12
MEN’S LACROSSE
Red Earns First Victory of Season on Friday By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell men’s lacrosse team notched its first victory of the season this weekend, defeating Hobart, 16-8. The win evened the team’s record at 1-1 and extended the Red’s winning streak against the Statesmen to 11 games. The Red had just come off of a 14-6 loss against Syracuse. Head Coach Matt Kerwick said that he is happy that the Red earned its first victory against one of the team’s biggest
rivals. “There’s a lot of meaning to that rivalry and to get our first win against them definitely feels good because the guys went out there and earned it,” he said. “I’m happy for the team.” The Cornell-Hobart rivalry is the oldest rivalry in Division I men’s lacrosse. The teams have played each other at least once in each of the last 136 seasons. In this weekend’s face-off, the Red played the Statesmen pretty evenly in the first, ending the quarter tied at three.
The squad worked hard in order to break open in the second quarter, when it outscored the Statesmen, 8-2. “Offensively, we felt like we generated good chances throughout the game, and that just took over for us in the second quarter,” Kerwick said. The Red’s offense and defense really came together in the victory. “We worked a lot this week in practice on putting our shots on goal, which we didn’t do really well against Syracuse and so that was the point of emphasis,” Kerwick said. Senior captain and midfielder Connor Buczek scored three of the 16 goals in the game, the most right after senior attacker Matt Donovan who notched five. “We played the way we know we can play,” he said. “We’re excited to get our first win and hopefully to get everyone on the same page and rolling from here, not to forget the Syracuse loss, but to put it behind us.” Kerwick stresses the importance of senior leadership. With 14 seniors on the team, guidance from the upperclassmen is essential for team unity and progress. “We have more seniors than freshmen [and] it allows us to teach them the way and show what it’s like on a day-today basis, especially during the season,” Buczek said. Kerwick looks forward to seeing what the senior class has to offer the team this season. “Those are the guys we’re going to follow throughout the course of the year when we go through the ups and downs of the season,” he said. “We’re very excited about what they’ll bring to the table for us.” The team’s goals are similar each season; winning the Ivy League tournament, going undefeated at Schoellkopf and winning a National Championship. The Red will play Binghamton at home on Tuesday for its third game of season. This will be the squad’s first home game of 2015. “We’re just trying to go week to week and day by day,” Buczek said. “Obviously next up we have Binghamton so [we] just [need to] focus squarely on them.”
MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR
Hitting Hobart | Senior attacker and captain Connor Buczek scored three of the Red’s 16 goals in its game against Hobart College, Friday.
Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Women Drop Game to Brown By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer
The women’s basketball team put up both a win and a loss this p a s t
weekend in its games against Yale and Brown, beating Yale on Friday, but losing to the Brown Bears on Saturday. This has been a pattern for the Red in the last four weeks of play; the group manages to clinch the Friday win, but going 2-0 on the weekend has been a struggle since its entered Ivy League play. Friday night, the Yale offense was shut down by a dominating Cornell defense. The men stifled the Bulldog shooters and kept the overall shooting percentage to 25 percent from inside the arc and the Yale squad to only 37 points overall. The final score was 56-37, Cornell. “We came out really strong against Yale and were really excited to get the opportunity to play the [Bulldogs] again after we lost [on their home court]. It was a team-wide effort and was a really big win for us,” said sophomore guard Kerri
CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Red splits | Sophomore forward Nia Marshall, along with the Red’s other starting four, contributed greatly to the women’s win against Yale, Friday.
Moran. The Red had lost to the Bulldogs on Feb. 1, with a score of 53-60. Yale’s second half performance really clinched Cornell’s lead, after a 12-point scoring run put the Red out of reach of a comeback. The Red looked to improve its focus leading up to the weekend as it prepared for Yale and it certainly paid off. The scoring was balanced for the team, with seven Cornell players putting points on the board. Sophomore forward Nicholle Aston led the team in scoring and was the only player to finish with a double-double, netting 10 points and grabbing seven rebounds. Right behind her was sophomore forward Nia Marshall and Moran, both with nine points. Junior guard Maddie Campbell and senior forward Sarah Poland also put up eight points each for the Red. But the defensive focus outshone the squad’s scoring statistics. On the other end of the court, the team was aggressive, keeping the See BASKETBALL page 11
MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR
Making a splash | While the women’s swimming and diving team earned a seventh place Ivy finish, the squad broke numerous Cornell records this weekend.
SWIMMING AND DIVING
Cornell Takes Seventh at Ivy Championship Meet
By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer
This past weekend, the Cornell women’s swimming and diving team competed in the Ivy League Championships hosted by Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The Red had a tremendous weekend for the record book, in which
it beat over 12 of the current Cornell University records and finished its season with a seventh place finish in the Ivy League. The Red had incredibly fast individual and relay swims and was able to show off all of the hard work it has put into this season. Junior Jenna Immormino finished
in third place overall in the 100 meter free event with a time of 49.73. Sophomore Cari Stankaitis, junior Chandra Yueh and sophomore Isabelle Cecere also posted impressive times in the 100 meter free event. “We came from behind and put up an See SWIM page 11