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PROVOST TO SLASH BUDGETS ACROSS C.U. To address $55 million annual deficit,colleges will see cuts totaling $27.5 million

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Senior Writer

To address an annual $55 million deficit in the provost’s budget, the University will decrease the budgets of all of Cornell’s colleges and central administra-

$55 million Approximate amount of the yearly deficit in the Office of the Provost’s budget.

tive units by a total of $27.5 million starting July 1, according to Interim Provost Harry Katz.

Each college will see budget cuts of 2 to 2.3 percent of its annual expenditures.

The deficit, which began five years ago, was a result of the provost’s office “giving out allocations to both the colleges and the central administrative units that exceeded the revenues that were coming in,” Katz said.

The provost’s budget, which partially funds each individual college’s budget, also goes towards student activities services, including libraries and the maintenance of some building facilities.

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A Yearly Deficit

$27.5 million Total amount of the decrease in allocations from the Office of the Provost to colleges and administrative units.

$5 to 10 million Approximate amount of the decrease in the operating budget of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Previous Provost Kent Fuchs was aware of the recurring deficit “in the range of $55 million per year” but decided not to reduce allocations for several reasons, according to Katz.

“What I observed was that Provost Fuchs was concerned that if he didn’t give out sizeable allocations, colleges and administrative units would have an even harder time due to the financial crisis,” Katz said.

In addition to weathering the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, colleges and administrative units also needed to adapt to a new University budget model, See DEFICIT page 4

Business as usual | The Office of the Provost, housed in Day Hall, has been running an annual $55 million deficit.

Skorton Promises Transparency Interim Suspension Lifted Town hall meeting on health fee to be held this month

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Staff Writer

The University will host a town hall meeting on the student health fee March 16 and will form a committee that will find ways to consolidate campus costs, President David Skorton told student activists in a meeting in the Memorial Room Friday.

Speaking to 10 students seated in a room set

up with over 100 chairs, Skorton opened the discussion by explaining that administrators are working to make information about the health fee more accessible and urged students to attend the open town hall presentation on the health fee.

The student health fee — which was criticized by many students following its announceSee FEE page 4 BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“There is no motive for me to bullshit that information. I intend to give you the correct data, the good stuff and the bad stuff.”

President David Skorton

Take a seat | President David Skorton discusses the student health fee and University finances with student activists at a meeting in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room Friday.

For Sigma Pi Fraternity

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

The University restored full recognition for the Sigma Pi fraternity Friday afternoon after it was placed on interim suspension status Feb. 20.

Under interim suspension, the fraternity was not allowed to partake in any activities other than the operation of its residence, according to Joel Malina, vice president for university relations.

“Sigma Pi may take advantage of all benefits of recognition in accordance with the recognition policy,” Malina said in a statement.

The fraternity was referred to the Greek Judicial Board for alleged hazing activities, according to Malina.

This is the third time the University has lifted a suspension on a fraternity this semester. On Feb. 4, administrators lifted a suspension on the Psi Upsilon fraternity after reports of behaviors involving “alcohol and an illicit substance” were found unsubstantiated.

On Feb. 13, the University restored full recognition status to the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity following its suspension on Feb. 2.

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

ForcibleTouching Reported Saturday

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Cornell Police issued a crime alert following a report of a forcible touching that occurred on the 200 block of Williams St. early Saturday morning.

A female victim

reported that a collegeaged white male, who she said she believed was very intoxicated, approached her at around 12:30 a.m. and pushed her against a wall. He reportedly attempted to kiss her and put his hand down the waistband of her pants, according to

police.

The woman was able to yell, slap and push the male away and rejoin a friend, according to police.

The male left and headed east on Williams Street.

The victim reported See POLICE page 5

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University Lab of Orinthology To Celebrate Bird Songs At Festival A five-day music festival called “Environs Messiaen: Natured Rendered at the Keyboard” will celebrate the sounds of birds — especially ones that composers have used from the Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology, according to the University.

The festival, which will begin Thursday, is in celebration of the lab’s centennial and the university’s sesquicentennial.

At Memorial, Friends Remember Jones’15 for Enthusiasm,Warmth

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Family, friends and faculty gathered to remember Shannon Jones ’15 at a memorial service Sunday afternoon in Sage Chapel.

Jones, who died Nov. 25 in her home in Cayuga Heights, was a senior independent major in the College of Engineering. Benjamin

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Local Route 96 Accident Leaves One Hospitalized At least one person was hospitalized following a car accident on Sunday afternoon along Route 96, according to The Ithaca Voice.

New York State Police were at the scene of the accident, which occured near Route 96’s intersection with Krums Corners Road.

Common Council to Debate Changes to Commons Rules The Common Council will discuss proposed rules that would allow dogs and cars on the Ithaca Commons Wednesday.

Under the proposed rules, dogs would have to be licensed and leashed, according to The Ithaca Journal.

National Common Core Tests Face Opposition From Parents Students around the country have begun taking a new round of standardized tests based on the Common Core standards, according to The New York Times.

These new tests have been faced with opposition, both from parents and attack ads, The Times reported. In many states, parents have begun movements that demand an opt-out option from the standardized tests.

Dr. Satchit Balsari speaks about the future of global health at the Global Health Gala in Anabel Taylor Hall Saturday.

Cayea, 32, was charged and indicted with second-degree murder for allegedly strangling Jones in a “domestic incident.”

Friends said they remembered the joy she shared with them and the enthusiasm with which she reached out to anyone.

Jones had a “unique approach to life,” Yashwardhan Rathouse ’15 said.

“Shannon was my favorite person. I met her freshman year, six years ago,” Rathouse said. “I liked Shannon, and I think that’s because she had an enormous capacity to empathize and love people who have absolutely nothing in common with her.”

Patrick Landy ’15 said Jones’ enthusiasm was “infectious” and that she had “remarkable maturity and emotional depth.”

“Shannon was unafraid to love life and always had an undiscriminating joy to share with those around her,” Landy said. “She made efforts to reach out to everyone. Shannon actively made the choice to reflect positivity on those around her. I am very inspired by her example and I intend to follow it in my own life.”

Jones was a member of Prof. Mason Peck’s, mechanical and aerospace engineering, Violet Satellite Project team, and several project members at the memorial recounted instances of her enthusiasm.

Jennifer Chen ’15, a member of the Violet Satellite Project, said she remembered Jones as a “a passionate, positive, encouraging, strong, and unique woman.”

“She inspired me to focus less on what other people think of me and more about myself and my feelings,” Chen said.

Hailee Hettrick ’17, who is also a member of the Violet Satellite Project, remembered how Shannon “lived, loved and laughed so much.”

“She was anything but shy,” Hettrick said. “Shannon was a force to be reckoned with. Brilliant, considerate, strong willed, spirited, and graceful. She was a one of a kind engineer.”

Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president for student and academic services, said that in Jones’ application to Cornell, her willingness to reach out to others shone through.

Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun.com.

Non-Profit BringsTennis to ChildrenWith Autism Cornell branch of ACEing Autism organization begins tennis lessons Saturday

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell branch of ACEing Autism — a national organization that provides tennis lessons to children with autism disorders to improve their motor, health and social skills — launched on Saturday at the Reiss Tennis Center.

Volunteers worked one-on-one with children at the hour-long event, playing with them and teaching them how to hit a tennis ball.

This new program will host biweekly tennis lessons for children of all abilities from age five to 18, with the purpose of Saturday’s event to familiarize the children with volunteers, according to Alexandra Saint Laurent ’16, the head coordinator of the branch.

“We are mainly hoping to get the kids

acquainted and geared up to have a fun next few weeks,” she said.

Judy Hockley, a resident of Endwell, New York, said she drove 45 minutes from her home to attend the event because she thought this was the “perfect” thing for her seven year old son James and will that it help his selfesteem.

“It’s hard because his friends at school can play football, baseball and basketball,” Hockley said. “I haven’t been able to sleep the last few nights because [tennis] is so perfect for him. … He needs the confidence building because he’s trying to identify himself with all these other kids who play football and baseball. He hasn’t stopped smiling [since this lesson started].”

Volunteers who taught the children how to play tennis said that the sport provides social and physical interactions that are beneficial to

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New Seattle Transit Program Discounts Prices For Impoverished Passengers The City of Seattle launched a new transit program Sunday, according to The New York Times. The program prices the costs of taking the county transit system based on a passenger’s income.

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The Cornell Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Prof. Chris Younghoon Kim, music, performs in Bailey Hall Saturday.

children with autism.

John Oakley, an Ithaca resident who has been involved with program for the past year, said he believes that tennis provide the “perfect” context for social interaction for children with autism.

“When kids have a social interaction in the hallway at school, they think about what the other person meant. And did what I say come out right?” Oakley said. “But here in tennis, you can control those interactions, and so these interactions happen in a way that’s easier for kids with autism to understand.”

Richard Spurling, the president and founder of the ACEing Autism national organization, said he hopes the program will help add fun into the lives of children with autism as well as their parents.

“When a parent learns that their child has autism, the first thing that they want to do is make their child better,” Spurling said. “They want to find the best therapies, and the best services, everything is a bit unknown. So they tend to forget about the fun.”

However, there is a lot more to ACEing Autism than just “hitting a ball,” Spurling said.

“A lot of these kids have low muscle tone, some kids have trouble holding a racket and some kids don’t understand our verbal instructions,” he said. “So we are helping them with their verbal, cognitive, and social abilities.”

Saint Laurent said she thinks ACEing Autism gives meaning to children with autism and their families because it helps to address stigmas associated with mental illness. These stigmas can have a “major effect” on a child’s development, she said.

“It’s important for everyone to know that just because someone is different or not the ‘norm’, it doesn’t mean that it’s bad or wrong,” Saint Laurent said. “I think that this is a goal that ACEing Autism works towards.”

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

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Provost Budget Cuts to Address $55 Million Annual Deficit DEFICIT

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first implemented in fiscal year 2014, according to Katz.

However, maintaining a $55 million yearly deficit in the provost’s office out of the University’s overall budget of $2.1 billion is not sustainable, according to Katz. He also said that while the provost’s budget has been in the red for five years, the University’s overall budget is balanced.

‘Some Budget Stringency’

In a document distributed last Wednesday, Katz notified campus deans, directors and department heads that allocations from the provost’s office in the coming fiscal year would “involve some budget strin-

gency” as continued provost budget deficits “would jeopardize necessary investments in innovative academic programs.”

By reducing provost allocations and capturing some of the growth in tuition revenue — which is proposed to increase by 3.9 percent for endowed colleges and out-of-state contract college students — the Office of the Provost plans to close the yearly deficit with a one-time adjustment, Katz said.

“We’re going to solve the process next year, and in the future there won’t be a deficit,” Katz said in an interview with The Sun. “The $55 million gap is being closed long-term.”

Allocations to colleges and administrative units will decrease by a total of approximately $27.5 million, which will

account for half of the provost’s allocations by that amount.” college budget. office deficit, according to Katz.

Each college’s budget cut will The College of Engineering Additionally, funds from the be determined using a formula had $242,439,000 in net expentuition increase will account for based on the total resources held ditures in fiscal year 2013, the other half of the deficit, he by the college, Katz said. according to the operating and said. Through a University According to a document dis- capital budget plan. The college Support Pool tax, the provost’s tributed by Gretchen Ritter ’83, operating budget would decrease office takes in 10 percent of dean of the College of Arts and by $4,848,780 if two percent of undergraduate and gradunet expenditures are cut. ate tuition.

Looking Into However, the proposed “We’re going to solve the process Inefficiencies tuition increase was not next year, and in the future there In the coming weeks, influenced by the structural deficit in the provost’s won’t be a deficit. The $55 million Katz said he will be meeting with different adminbudget, Katz said, and the gap is being closed long-term.” istrative groups across tuition increase was set campus to discuss the “based on policies and disHarry Katz budget deficit. In an effort cussions with the Board of to allot enough time for Trustees.”

Provost allocations to colleges Sciences, distributed on Feb. 9 colleges to prepare for upcoming and administrative units for the to Arts and Sciences faculty, the budget stringencies, Katz also coming fiscal years — which college plans to downsize its said he released tentative budget Katz decided to reduce in con- operating budget of approxi- cut amounts in late December.

Colleges are expected to presultation with President David mately $400 million by $5 to sent budget plans that will outSkorton, University vice $10 million. provosts, vice presidents and The arts college and other line how they plan to tackled the college deans, according to the endowed colleges were the most lowered budget to the Provost’s document — might “stay at a affected by the new budget office starting in three weeks, lower base,” according to Katz. model implemented in 2014, according to Katz. The provost’s However, provost allocations according to Katz. The proposed office specified that colleges may rise in the future if the two to 2.3 percent cuts would should aim to reduce spending by increasing efficiency and not office generates more revenue. further impact their budget.

“They’ll grow over time from The College of Architecture, by laying off staff and reducing other stuff, but they won’t snap Art and Planning had net expen- student services.

“We’re looking at ways to back,” Katz said. ditures of $49,096,000 in 2013, according to the University’s increase efficiencies particularly Reduced Allocations Operating and Capital Budget in information technology,” Will Be ‘Painful’ Plan for fiscal year 2013. A pro- Katz said. “We have redundant Katz said that for the colleges posed cut of two percent of net systems in some of the colleges and administrative units affect- expenditures would result in a ed, it will be “painful to reduce $981,920 decrease in the overall See PROVOST page 5

President Skorton Promises Budget Transparency at Future Town Hall FEE

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-ment on Feb. 5 — is an annual $350 fee that all students not enrolled in the Student Health Insurance Plan must pay starting in the 2015-16 academic year.

“I accept the responsibility that I have failed to give acceptable transparency,” Skorton said. “We will start rolling out transparency on [March 16] at the town hall meeting, which will also be web streamed and open to everyone.”

Michael Ferrer ’16 expressed concerns about the quality of information that would be shared at the town hall meeting.

“You get to release the data that looks good, and we have to play on your terms,” he said. “Forgive me for not being naive.”

Skorton responded, “There is no motive for me to bullshit that information. I intend to give you the correct data, the good stuff and the bad stuff.”

In response to questions from Wyatt Nelson ’16 about reallocating existing University funds to cover the health fee, Skorton said he is forming a new committee

that will seek to consolidate campus costs.

“We’re setting up a committee co-chaired by Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources, and Harry Katz, interim provost, that is going to look for inefficiencies,” he said.

“The point of that committee is to get [costs] as

“Give me feedback on what’s missing. I want to do everything we can to restore that trust.”

David Skorton low as possible without taking on unacceptable risk.”

When asked who else will compose the new committee, Skorton said he was unsure because the project is still in its planning stages, but that administrators are working to make it become a reality “as quickly as we can.”

Ferrer also asked about increased student involvement in administrative decisions, citing a leaked email that Sarah Balik ’15, president of the Student Assembly, sent to S.A. representatives urging them not to release “confidential

information” about the fee.

“For a lot of us, I’d call it a cover up,” Ferrer said. “The shared government system seems somewhat broken.”

Skorton responded that universities have recently been run “more like corporations,” but said he was “proud” that Cornell’s Board of Trustees contains two student members.

“The fact that we have voting members on the board who are students is actually quite unusual in the United States,” he said.

“The question will be how can we get more information out and have people feel like they have ability to affect the outcome.”

Murphy also responded to inquiries about the $200 of the health fee that will go to repay Gannett’s debt.

After the 2009-10 school year, which saw an outbreak of H1N1 and a string of student suicides, Gannett significantly increased its staff of physicians and mental health workers, according to Murphy.

“That increase in staff was funded initially through one time gifts which only lasted three years,” she said. “After

the allocation to Gannet went down, I had two choices — either fire staff members or figure out some other mechanism. I told Skorton in my professional opinion it would be irresponsible to fire staff.”

Skorton explained he had originally predicted that the University’s budget surplus would be sufficient to cover the additional Gannett costs, but that this turned out to be a miscalculation.

“My expectation was that by the time the three year loan ran out, the surplus would be enough to sustain new services,” he said. “My assumption was that we would accrue enough, but it did not come to pass.”

Skorton urged students to send their ideas to him, both regarding the information at the town hall meeting and means to increase student involvement.

“Give me feedback [on] what’s missing,” he said. “The worst part of [the student reaction to the fee] for me was the erosion of trust with the administration. I want to do everything we can to restore that trust.”

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

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On the map | Cornell Police issued a crime alert for a report of a forcible touching that occurred on the 200 block of Williams St. early Saturday morning.

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that the male was approximately 5 foot 9 inches with medium build and shaggy blond hair. He was wearing khaki pants and a blue and white striped, button-down long sleeved shirt, with no

jacket.

The Ithaca Police Department is assisting CUPD with the continuing investigation, according to the crime alert. CUPD increased patrols in order “to increase the safety of the community.”

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

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and between some of the colleges and the central University.”

“We’re looking at ways to increase efficiences, particularly in information technology.”

Harry Katz Additionally, Katz and Mary Opperman, vice president of human resources and safety services, will be leading a committee to help colleges and administrative units identify and

stay informed

reduce inefficiencies, according to the Feb. 25 document.

In addition to reducing inefficiencies, some colleges may also decide to slow the rate of hiring new faculty or re-evaluate lower-performing programs, Katz said.

Budget Discussions

Alhtough Katz released tentative information about budget cuts in December, Dean of University Faculty Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66, astronomy, said most faculty have not been involved with budget discussions.

“Most faculty have not yet heard formal presentations from the central administration about any new budget stringencies,” Burns said.

Burns said he believes that while Katz, Fuchs and Paul Streeter, vice president for budget and planning, had regularly briefed faculty governance bodies about the University’s budget, it is apparent that “the current administration wishes greater faculty involvement in setting University priorities.”

Katz said the college deans are responsible for communicating with their faculty members about their college’s finances.

In addition, Katz said Skorton will host forums over the next few weeks to broadly discuss University finances.

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

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT A Forgotten Classic: Mississippi Mermaid CHRIS STANTON Sun Staff Writer

Last week, Cornell Cinema made the bold choice of showing François Truffaut’s 1969 romantic thriller Mississippi Mermaid, one of the director’s lesser known works that faced a certain amount of derision amongst American film critics upon its original release. The New York Times’ Vincent Canby, who actually liked the film, dedicated an entire column to attacking United Artists for essentially burying the film stateside instead of properly distributing it. Although it failed to reach a sizable American audience at the time, La sirène du Mississippi was both a critical and commercial success in its native country of France, where its stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo were at the peak of their fame.

Adapted by Truffaut from the 1947 William Irish novel Waltz Into Darkness, the film chronicles the deceitful love affair of an American tobacco planter named Louis (Belmondo), who resides on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, and his Parisian mail-order bride, veritable femme fatale Julie (Deneuve). When Julie arrives at Réunion on a steamer named the Mississippi, Louis discovers she is not the same woman from the picture that she sent to him, but rather a much more beautiful one.

Julie — played brilliantly by a never-more-seductive Deneuve — explains that she sent a fake picture in order to test Louis’ intentions. Louis, played by Belmondo with a buffoonish earnestness unique to a star of his stature, mistakes the beautiful for the good and falls deeply in love with Julie. The rest of the film unfolds in a series of betrayals and reconciliations, with Julie constantly revealing new layers to her utter heartlessness and capacity for evil, while Louis repeatedly forgives her and champions the redemptive power of love (a recurring theme across Truffaut’s filmography that he confronts rather pessimistically here). Deneuve plays Julie as a frighteningly vengeful outcast bent on ensnaring the inhibited Louis in a pit of sexual obsession.

The most immediately noticeable feature of the film is its grandiosity, an element represented by the star power of its leads and the globetrotting, picturesque location shooting. One would not usually associate Truffaut with this sort of large-scale exoticism, but he manages it well here, shooting with a wide lens and employing a lengthy average shot-length.

It’s a vaguely Hitchcockian approach to a story that would have matched the Master of Suspense’s oeuvre well (Truffaut ranked the British director among his favorites and would go on to direct an homage to him entitled Confidentially Yours).

The 400 Blows director deftly matches this cinematographic reticence with long stretches of silence, letting the action unfold at its own slow-burning tempo. The film’s meandering pace creates something of a double-edged sword. For while its sometimes maddeningly slow crawl incites boredom, it also creates the visceral effect of watching a slow-motion catastrophe. The ever-present dramatic irony is that the audience knows Julie is up to no good, but Louis remains frustratingly blind to her treachery, forcing himself to trust her because he wants to believe in permanence. Truffaut’s perpetual romanticism shines through in the tragic exchanges between Louis and Julie. Certain critics reviled the film’s central romance as “perverse” and unrealistic, but one can more constructively read the film as Truffaut’s attempt at convincing himself of the existence of unconditional love.

Besides its merits as a singular film, Mississippi Mermaid is worth the watch simply to place within the historical context of one of film’s most innovative auteurs,

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himself partially responsible for the development of auteur theory through his work with André Bazin and Les cahiers du cinéma. Following his breakout success with his 1959 award-winning debut 400 Blows, Truffaut’s international popularity partially waned through a decade of mostly personal, intimate and distinctly New Wave efforts such as Jules and Jim and Love at 20. Mississippi Mermaid hardly resembles those films except in its theme of lost love, but it is interesting to consider how the film would be remembered had it arrived during one of Truffaut’s peaks in popularity. It certainly has merit and filmic innovation to spare, qualities that might have driven it to international popularity had United Artists not buried it upon release. Thankfully, Truffaut would regain his welldeserved spot in the American critical limelight with his 1973 Oscar-winning ode to cinema, Day For Night.

Chris Stanton is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun.com.

The Laramie Project at Risley Theater HADIYAH CHOWDHURY Sun Staff Writer

I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect when I walked into Risley Theater on Friday night to watch a reading of Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie Project. I certainly was not prepared for what the night had in store for me. I thought it was so cool that eight actors would be playing over sixty characters, but, considering this, I was unsure about how convincing the performance would be. In the end, I was completely overwhelmed; the end of the second act of the play even brought tears to my eyes. Frankly, The Laramie Project has made me consider the severe repercussions that an act of violence has on a community and made me wonder if there is ever a truly “acceptable” or “appropriate” response to acts of violence.

The play is interesting not only because of the fact that a small cast plays an incredible number of characters, but also because every character is based on a real person and every line of dialogue is based upon true statements from residents of Laramie, Wisconsin. Knowing that everything was so true made the play even more powerful. Even though Risley was not that crowded, there was an undeniable, unavoidable weight in the theater.

Perhaps it was because of the heavy topic that was being discussed on stage, but I think it was more than that. Each actor was so

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convincing in their respective performances and deliveries that I sometimes had difficulty believing that there were only eight of them playing so many characters. The sincerity with which this play was delivered was beautiful and admirable and awakened a sense of sadness within each member of the small audience. I think the intimacy of the space certainly added to the intensity of emotion felt by the audience, along with the fact that there were minimal props and there was virtually no set. This play was presented to us in its barest, most vulnerable form and it was almost painfully beautiful.

Ultimately, I think The Laramie Project is a wonderfully thought-out play. The story is simple: On Oct. 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wisconsin was brutally beaten in a field by two men. He was then tied to a pole and left there overnight. He was found in the morning and died of exposure six days later. The story is simple enough, but what the play truly captures are the reactions of the residents of the town. The cast of characters covered the entire spectrum of people affected by the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard that night in Laramie. I think my personal favorite interaction was between the police officer that found Matthew and the officer’s mother. While they both pretended that they had been barely affected by the events in their town, their facial expressions and tones of voice hinted otherwise. And honestly, I do not think I can quite do justice to the emotional catharsis I felt at the end of the second act when Matthew was officially declared dead. I think the beauty of this play is twofold: Firstly, the fact that the dialogue is based directly off of first hand interviews lends the play a sense of authenticity that could not have otherwise been replicated. Secondly, the characters discuss not only the murder of Matthew Shepard, but also their lives and experiences in Laramie. I loved trying to understand the heart and mind of every character. I had to keep reminding myself that each character represented a

real person, who may or may not be alive today, because it was so easy to forget that this incident in Laramie did, in fact, happen.

And I think that adds yet another layer of complexity to the play; it hurts to think about the fact that hate crimes are a reality and that they could happen to people that we know and love, so it is far easier to distance oneself from events like these than to entertain the notion that they could ever happen in one’s home town.

But ultimately, we cannot ignore hate crimes or acts of violence.

As one of the residents of Laramie said, ignoring these crimes gives the perpetrator of violence more power. So the residents of Laramie decided to take an active stand against the violence that almost destroyed their town, taking back some of the power that had been robbed from them and allowing each member of the town some sense of closure, regardless of their thoughts about homosexuals or their speculations about the reason for the attack.

Finally, I would like to congratulate and thank every single person involved in the making of this performance of The Laramie Project. The minimalist setting was perfect and the actual performance of the play was an absolute pleasure to watch. Every actor did complete justice to the characters they portrayed. I left Risley that night feeling like the residents of Laramie, ready to take power back into my own hands.

Hadiyah Chowdhury is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hchowdhury@cornellsun.com.

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f you think about it, Broadway composer Meredith Wilson, he might have actually created one of the very first rap songs ever back in 1957.” With that, 2014 Tony Awards’ host Hugh Jackman introduced the most awkward, stilted bit of the otherwise entertaining night: a call and response rap version of The Music Man’s opening number “Rock Island” with LL Cool J and T.I. Who knew that a white person, let alone Meredith Wilson — one of the whitest people to exist, ever — invented rap music? Jackman, he-who-is-notNeil-Patrick-Harris, probably didn’t mean to say that, exactly, but it is undeniable that Broadway has an odd relationship with hip-hop as a musical genre.

Let’s set this straight: “Rock Island” is not a rap song. It’s a patter song. It’s really fast, it’s rhythmic and hardly any notes are sustained. It’s similar to s p e a k singing, but with more alliteration and rhyming; it’s a tongue twister in song-form, and it’s meant to be hilariously difficult to sing and understand. Patter songs have been a staple of comic opera for over 400 years, made famous in numerous Gilbert and Sullivan works. The best example is “Major-General’s Song” from 1879’s The Pirates of Penzance, in which Stanley rhymes “lotta news” with “hypotenuse” at something like 200 beats per minute. It’s impressive — seriously, watch a video of this, it’s outrageous — but it’s not rap. Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas were the precursor to what we

understand as modern musical theatre, so it’s no wonder that the patter song would go on to enjoy a long career in many musicals of the 20th century. You’ve got The Music Man’s opening number and “Ya Got Trouble” and Company’s “Getting Married Today,” among many others. You even see patter in Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week” and Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” It’s everywhere.

I suppose I understand why Wolverine might have some difficulty in differentiating between rap and patter. They are both rhythmic and often include rhyme and a quick tempo.

The main difference, as I see it, is that rap is spoken to a beat, like poetry, and patter is sung, with each syllable of a word often residing on its own note. Some musical theatre professionals understand that difference, at least vaguely, and yet rap continues to baffle most composers to this day.

Like all the best examples of appropriation, it took 10 years for white peoPulp ple to notice. Rap FictSean first developed in the late 1970s in the black and Latino neighborhoods of New York, but it wasn’t until 1986, when Stephen Sondheim was writing Into the Woods, that he decided to try his hand with the newfangled genre, because, as he wrote in his memoir Look, I Made a Hat, rap “became omnipresently popular” in the 1980s. In the “Prologue,” Bernadette Peters — whom I hate, come at me #Lupone4lyfe — raps about rutabagas and watercress and pretty much just a list of vegetables for an entire passage. It’s cringeworthy and bad. Even Meryl couldn’t fix that.

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Broadway isn’t called “The Great White Way” for nothing.

According to the Broadway League, 80 percent of Broadway theatregoers are Caucasian, with an average age of 44 years old and an average household income of $200,000. Otherwise known as old, rich white people. And if there’s one thing old, rich white people love, it’s rap music. A match made in heaven if there ever was one. Last year, the blink-and-you’llmiss-it production of Holler If You Hear Me, the Tupac jukebox musical, opened at the Palace Theatre on Broadway and closed its doors after a disappointing 38 performances.

That’s only just above a Carrie: The Musicallevel disaster. Some critics blamed the tough economic environment of Broadway and some blamed the serious nature of the musical.

That’s bogus. The reason the Tupac musical failed is that the typical theatregoer thinks that Tupac and Biggie are the same person, your average “thug” and not the musical pioneer and virtuoso he was. Holler was unyielding and violent and real. Maybe too real for Broadway audiences, but it was true to itself and its message and that’s the most respectable thing a musical can be.

To his credit, in Look, I Made a Hat, Sondheim goes on to write that the reason he never wrote more rap in his musicals was not because he couldn’t find a place for it, but because he “didn’t have the imagination to.”

Sondheim credits the incomparable LinManuel Miranda — writer, composer and star of the hip-hop fusion musical In The Heights — with possessing the imagination to bring rap into the musical theatre mainstream. Miranda is

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one of the brightest minds working in the business today, working toward melding traditional, white Broadway expectations of narrative and tone with the musical stylings of hip-hop, realizing rap’s musical potential in ways its never been done before. It’s conventional and experimental; in Sondheim’s words, “It’s one pathway to the future.”

This season’s hottest theatre ticket is Miranda’s Hamilton, the biography of Alexander Hamilton as told through the eyes of Aaron Burr. The musical is almost entirely rappedthrough by a diverse cast. It’s a chimera, part1776, part-hip-hop, that never feels gimmicky or unnatural; a cultural reimagining that stands poised to, with its upcoming off-Broadway-toBroadway transfer this summer, merge the two mediums once and for all. It’s entire run at The Public Theatre has sold-out, and I’m positive that the Broadway production tickets will be just a difficult to procure when it opens.

I hope to be first in line, right next to Hugh Jackman, for a ticket when that time comes.

Sean Doolittle is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at sdoolittle@cornellsun.com. Pulp FictSean runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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wo deceptively simple questions ing debate about the scarcity of animate my teaching and opportunities for women in the proresearch in the Department of fessional theatre has prompted the Performing and Media Arts: Why this? nation-wide “50/50 in 2020” camWhy now? In any given cultural paign, for example, which actively moment, why might artists turn to seeks to secure equality in this arena. performance to explore society’s press- My classes at Cornell regularly introing concerns, what forms does their duce students to the historical perartistry take and how does art foster spectives, textual examples and critiwider civic dialogue, engagement and cal discussions necessary to gain a action? While this line of inquiry fuller understanding of these perforallows us to examine performance tra- mance traditions and their continued relevance, espeditions around cially since the the world and histories and throughout hisSeeing these students critical intertory, my work focuses on such connect their study of drama pretations of the traditions considerations so meaningfully to their remain contestin British and ed.

American thecreative practice for the atre from the Early in my wider Cornell community ... late-19th centutime at ry to the preCornell, folmade me very proud. sent. Across this lowing my era’s drama, we offering of a can trace new course on responses to a myriad of social and Contemporary American Drama, political transformations and some students from the class upheavals, see compelling representa- informed me that they had decided tions of individual lives shaped by to start a new theatre group on camsuch forces and gain important per- pus, the Asian American Playhouse. spectives on our own time.

They explained that, before taking On both sides of the Atlantic, two the class, they had had no inkling of of the most significant artistic devel- the wealth of plays by Asian opments of this period were 1) the American writers, and they now emergence of theatre as a locus for wanted to share those discoveries debates about gender roles, sexuality, with others; moreover, they had women’s rights, marriage and family selected Tea, a beautiful play about life and women’s economic, educa- Japanese war brides by Velina Hasu tional and vocational opportunities, Houston, for their inaugural producand 2) the burgeoning number of tion. Seeing these students connect women playwrights seeking access to their study of drama so meaningfully the stage to participate in these vital to their creative practice for the wider dialogues. My first book, on the rep- Cornell community, and knowing resentation of women and gender in that I had helped to expand their culthe work of George Bernard Shaw, tural horizons, made me very proud. considered Shaw’s writing in the My colleagues in the Deparmtne of British context of these debates, and Performing and Media Arts similarly interrogated Shaw’s critical standing value, yet also challenge established in relation to feminism. My next traditions and systems for training in book discussed the plays of American all areas of the department. We welwriter Susan Glaspell, one of the first come the opportunity to explore with women to win the Pulitzer Prize for our students the artistic backgrounds drama and one of the founders of the and perspectives they bring to legendary Provincetown Players the- Cornell, at the same time that we atre company. The vicissitudes of actively seek to expand their underGlaspell’s career and critical reception standing of the creative process across her lifetime exemplify the chal- through our classes and wide array of lenges women playwrights face within production opportunities within the a conservative, male-dominated pro- department and beyond. While the fessional theatre. My current book national and institutional focus on project, an edited collection of plays enhancing students’ skills in Science,

by Edwardian dramatist Githa Technology, Engineering and Math Sowerby, considers how Sowerby’s (STEM) fields is understandable, we very identity as a woman writer com- advocate the integral relationship of promised her success. Her first play, creativity and invention in all discicredited only to K. G. Sowerby, took plines. Where better than at Cornell London by storm, but when her full to support all students’ access to and name was revealed, critics began to engagement in the arts, and to proquestion her accomplishments, and mote the vital role that the arts can she was never again able to achieve a play in advancing learning and innocomparable theatrical success. vation — to champion STEAM for The controversies that attend the process of discovery? women’s efforts to see their work staged and that surround such topics J. Ellen Gainor is a professor in the Department of as gender and sexuality in perfor- Performance and Media Arts. She may be reached at mance remain vital today. The ongo- jeg11@cornell.edu.

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s a matter of ritual, Cornellians complain about the Ithaca weather.

I do this too. Just two Sundays ago, there was a windchill of negative 40 degrees. Given how cold it has been, I thought it would be a good time to remind ourselves about a vulnerable segment of the Ithaca community: the homeless. On the night of Nov. 22, I joined Kellie Meyer, a morning show anchor for WENY-HD in Elmira, members of the Ithaca Rescue Mission and other community members to be part of the Great Ithaca Sleep-Out to experience one night of homelessness at Stewart Park. We did this in order to raise awareness for National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week that was running from Nov. 17-23. This Sleep-Out was organized by Ms. Meyer and the Rescue Mission as part of the #IthacaHomelessChallenge for the week.

I told Kellie in the morning that the experience was terrible. The toe end of my shoes had burnt to a brown color because I had to keep them near the fire lest my toes suffer from frostbite. It was near 15 degrees that night.

Despite sleeping next to a fire, wearing multiple layers and placing blankets over my sleeping bag, I was still shivering in the morning. Another member of our group commented, “If I were homeless, I would get as far away from the Ithaca cold as possible.” Unfortunately, many of the homeless are not able to do that. How does one live like this every day?

With all my privileges, this was an incredibly humbling experience, one that has made me more grateful for the shelter, resources and access I had growing up and have at Cornell. Additionally, I want to recognize that my experience at Stewart Park is not nearly the same as what a person who is homeless feels on a winter night in Ithaca. The ways in which my experience differ from some or all homeless individuals are important to identify. First, our group had the luxury of a permit to have an open fire, a fact we were reminded of when an Ithaca Police officer told us, “We don’t even allow the homeless to have open fires.” Second, we all implicitly understood and were certain that this experience was temporary and that we had a warm bed awaiting us in the morning. That feeling of security is not present for the homeless. Third, not all homeless individuals live in communities and experience homelessness communally like we did at the Sleep-Out. I can only imagine how much worse it feels to experience all the difficulties and emotions of homelessness alone.

My experience, however, is far less important than the voices and experiences of the human beings who live these nights, not as a matter of choice but are forced to experience them as a matter of survival. There are a variety of different reasons one suffers from homelessness, but an examination of the scope of the problem in Ithaca is instructive. According to documents compiled by the Tompkins County Housing and Homeless Task Force, there were 1,746 bednights in December (at either the Rescue Mission, Advocacy Center or in Motels put up by DSS). One bednight means one individual sheltered for one night. It doesn’t mean there were 1,746 different people sheltered in that month, but that on average 58 people were in shelters on any given night. This number also does not mean there were only 58 people who used shelter services or that they were the same 58 every night. Furthermore, this number does not include the number of homeless who are turned away everyday. Dan Sieburg, the director of the Rescue Mission in Ithaca, related to me that turning away homeless people from shelters is a common occurrence because their shelter is often full and thus overburdened. Lastly, this number would be an underestimate of how many people are homeless in Ithaca because it doesn’t include those who do not seek shelter services and live outside. Something needs to be done to alleviate the stress on the system so that all of those who are homeless in Ithaca can have access to adequate services and care, can eventually find housing and live a life with dignity.

The problem of homelessness is directly related to the issue of affordable housing. As reported in The Sun on the Student Assembly forum for “enhancing lines of communication,” housing was stated as “the biggest issue we have in Ithaca.” What was not stated is that Ithaca has the incredible combination of one of the lowest rates of housing vacancy — less than 1 percent for apartments in downtown Ithaca in 2011 and around 6 percent for total housing units in 2010 — and extremely high rents. This combination makes for a complex problem that requires an equally complex approach for the solution.

According to the Off-Campus Housing Office, nearly 50 percent of all undergraduate and 85 percent of all graduate Cornell students live off campus. As we are very much a part of the Ithaca community, I urge all Cornellians to be mindful of the issue of homelessness and affordable housing and engaged with it in some way. Whether that be learning about the issue, volunteering at shelters and food pantries, donating clothes and blankets or being part of the community conversation on the problems and solutions to affordable housing and homelessness through the Homeless and Housing Task Force, we should do what we can with the time that we have on campus.

Omar Khurshid is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at ok67@cornell.edu.

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f you read my column week to week, you would remember I wrote about Bitcoin. I like coins, and I like bits (or am learning to like bits in Computer Science 3410: Computer System Organization and Programming — if you don’t get the joke don’t worry — there are 10 kinds of people in the world; people who get this joke and people who don’t). So for me, Bitcoin is on another level. The thing is, most people don’t know much about Bitcoin.

I wrote my column with that in mind. But, I’ve been dying to dive into Bitcoin in more detail.

So, I want to cover the subject again going into the financial economics and technology behind Bitcoin.

The first thing I want to address is how Bitcoin gets its value. To understand this, you need to understand how currency gets its value. We know currency values aren’t arbitrary and we can ball-park them. The method applicable to Bitcoin is the quantity theory of money. It says a currency’s value is derived from: the amount of real goods purchased with the currency (calculated using a basket like the CPI), the amount of currency in circulation and the rate at which the currency changes hands. Multiplying the supply times its turnover, then dividing by the amount of real goods bought, results roughly in a value in real terms. I say rough because there are assumptions I’m glossing over.

Economists call this turnover the velocity of money. And, the key takeaway is that the value of the currency rises with its velocity — all else being equal.

Although empirically calculating Bitcoin’s velocity is difficult, many argue it’s higher than other velocities. This is because Bitcoin transactions take constant time: 10 minutes to be exact (although most vendors don’t actually require you to wait). Yes, a transaction through other currencies could take even less time, but it could also take even more. It could take minutes to pay a cashier at a convenience store, or months and some clever accounting to move

money out of a country like China that restricts the movement of capital (not that I’ve done this).

Here’s a more intuitive way to think about the quantity theory of money: A currency’s purpose is to facilitate exchange, so a more valuable currency serves that purpose better by being exchanged more often. This principle started applying to Bitcoin in 2010 after one of Bitcoin’s first transactions. A Florida programmer paid 10,000 bitcoins for two Papa John’s pizza pies. He traded some ordinarily worthless bits in his computer’s memory for cheesy goodness because Bitcoin is a currency with some revolutionary advantages.

I talked a lot about those advantages last time so I’ll reiterate quickly. Bitcoin is decentral-

The solution involves a computation called a proof of work, which is required for processing transactions. Each proof of work references the proofs of works associated with the previous transactions made with the Bitcoins in the current transaction. The proofs of work form a chain. Adding to the chain of transactions requires devoting part of your CPU power to proofs of work. So, the longest chain is the one that majority of the computers agree on. Think of it like a kind-of voting mechanism with parallel CPU power.

Of course, I still haven’t finished the full story. Collusion among pools of miners to reduce payout variance makes it hard to say whether Bitcoin actually solves the Byzantine Generals’ Problem while staying true to its decentralized philoso-

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It’s also why it’s here to stay. ized. As a result, you can use it to pay for things regardless of who or where you are — a trait theoretically reflected in its high velocity. But, I didn’t talk about what made these advantages revolutionary to avoid an in-depth explanation of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is revolutionary because to be decentralized, Bitcoin had to functionally solve a problem in computer science called the Byzantine General’s problem. The problem as it relates to Bitcoin is getting reliable information about the order of transactions without a central authority. In order to get reliable information about the order of transactions, Bitcoin miners need to agree on that order. But, miners are competing to process transactions before each other.

The Byzantine General’s problem was first described in a paper written in 1980. It took until nearly 2008 to devise a practical solution for Bitcoin.

phy. Mining pools say they won’t collude — but only because they would destabilize the currency if they did. Also, the quantity theory of money doesn’t apply perfectly to Bitcoin because people buy them for speculative purposes.

Some say the speculation will die down, but that remains to be seen.

For the sake of the layout editor I’ll stop here. But truth be told, don’t think I could address everything I wanted to if I spent another week on Bitcoin. It represents an ever evolving discussion about exchange and the role for technology in exchange.

There will always be more to add to that discussion. It’s why I find Bitcoin so cool, and it’s also why it’s here to stay.

Eric Schulman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at eschulman@cornellsun.com.

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Crimson’s Corbin Miller Drops Free Throws; Red Notches Win M. BASKTEBALL Continued from page 12

had been deafening only moments earlier, was quieted and it seemed like all the momentum had swung back to Harvard.

With under two minutes on the clock, the Red had brought the lead back up to seven, but the game was far from over. Harvard guard Corbin Miller, one of the best free throw shooters in the league, was fouled on a 3-pointer attempt. With the crowd screaming, he missed all three shots.

“That will probably never happen again in his career,” said Harvard guard Wesley Saunders about the missed free throws. “He can make free throws with his eyes closed.”

Saunders, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year, scored a team-high 19 points but needed 21 shots to get there. In a battle of two top candidates for Player of the Year, it was Shonnn Miller who shined the brightest, totaling 24 points and 15 rebounds.

And it was Shonn Miller, not Saunders, who made clutch baskets down the stretch to give his team the lead. Following Corbin Miller’s missed free throws, Shonnn Miller got the ball and effortlessly knocked down a jump-shot to put the Red up by nine with a little over a minute remaining, effectively ending the game. Harvard started fouling and Cornell, the best free throw shooting team in the league, connected on all but one free throw to end the game and complete the upset. “[Shonn Miller] was aggressive right from the beginning. No hesitation, whether it was driving to the basket, or from three point range,” Courtney said.

“That’s the guy we thought he could be at the beginning of the year. He’s shown flashes of that but i don’t think he’s put together a complete game like that all year.”

With 21 total offensive boards, Harvard outrebounded Cornell, 43-33. Courtney acknowledged that his team is often outsized in the paint, but says his players’ hustle is what allows them to overcome size differences.

“If you look at any game of ours, when we’ve been successful, it’s because we’ve been the more scrappy team, the more aggressive team,” he said. “I think that at the end of the day, our grit and hustle really helped us win.”

Harvard, who entered the contest with just one Ivy League loss, was nationally ranked to start the season.

Coming off three consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, the Crimson seemed to be on the path towards a fourth. The Red may have derailed that.

Courtney joked after the game that Yale’s head coach may send him a thank you note for allowing the Bulldogs back into Ivy contention. After the weekend,

Harvard and Yale are tied for first place, with two games to play.

Harvard’s first in-conference loss came against Dartmouth (12-14, 5-7 Ivy), who the Red hosted on Saturday night for Senior Night. A ceremony before the game honored the six seniors on the team. In a rematch of Cornell’s overtime win several weeks ago, the Red looked to capitalize on its momentum from Friday’s big upset.

Cornell was within one with five minutes to play in the first half, but a red-hot shooting streak from the Green allowed Dartmouth to furiously go up by 12 at the end of the half. The Green extended the lead to 20 with seven minutes to play and the game seemed out of reach.

But Cornell did not cede the game just yet. A couple of quick shots and Dartmouth turnovers and the Red found itself down by just eight with a little under five minutes to play.

Sophomore guard Robert Hatter, who struggled to shoot against Harvard, was the brawn behind this run, getting to the rim and drawing contact. He scored the Red’s first eight points of the game and finished with 23.

“Hatter’s always aggressive. Whether [or not] he’s missed his first seven shots, he’s going to continue to shoot. He drives me nuts sometimes as a coach, but you gotta live with that because he continues to fight,” Courtney said.

Following a steal on an inbounds pass, sophomore guard JoJo Fallas turned the ball over and Dartmouth scored on the other end, pushing the lead back to double digits. The Red kept up the pressure, but there just wasn’t enough time on the clock. Dartmouth won, 56-45.

Cornell shot 54 percent in the first matchup against Dartmouth this season. On Saturday, the Red managed to shoot just 35 percent.

“We didn’t make the shots and that’s kind of been the story of this group. Especially at the beginning of the game, we got some open looks, but we missed the shots,” Courtney said. “I felt like we started to force a little bit, trying to make plays instead of going to the open guy.”

With 42 seconds left in the game, Courtney took his seniors off the court. The crowd responded with a standing ovation, thanking the seniors for their years of work.

“We’re like brothers, we’ve lived together all four years,” Cancer said of his fellow seniors. “We really thought we could something special. Those are some talented guys. I’m proud to have had these guys as my teammates. It was just a great experience overall.”

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

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Cornell in the lead, 27-23.

For the Red, seven players contributed to the box score, with sophomore guard Megan LeDuc’s outstanding 13-point performance leading the way. Classmate Nicholle Aston added 10 of her own, in addition to sophomore forward Nia Marshall and sophomore guard Kerri Moran both adding nine more each.

The teams traded baskets for most of the second half, keeping the score close, but the Crimson pulled away with a 16-4 run with only a few minutes left in the contest. Harvard ramped up the defensive pressure and kept Cornell to just 15.4 from outside the 3-point arc to hold on the lead. “[It was] just a tough weekend on the road. At Harvard we played a stellar first half and then came out flat in the second,” Aston said. “We lacked an overall

intensity in cuts and protecting the basket on drives and rebounds.”

The same storyline played out against Dartmouth, when the squad traveled north to play the Green on Saturday.

“Dartmouth reflected the same issues unfortunately,” Aston said.

The Red’s shooting kept them from making the game competitive against the No. 6 Green (1313, 3-9 Ivy). The Green shot 38 percent from inside the arc and an impressive 45 percent from beyond the 3-point line.

Comparatively, the Red only shot 26 percent from inside and 16.7 from outside the arc. Despite the overall shooting percentage, Aston was able to convert on five of her shots, adding 10 points and nine rebounds for the Red. Marshall added 10 more points and Moran had an outstanding all-around performance with eight points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals.

For the Green, junior forward Lakin Roland’s shots were falling left and right, and she totaled 17 points for Dartmouth. Right behind her was sophomore forward Fanni Szabo with 16 points.

The Dartmouth squad lit up the Red’s perimeter defense and got out to a 28-19 lead at the half.

In the first five minutes of the second half, the Red scored seven quick points, and cut the Green’s lead to just six points. Dartmouth answered back with a straight 15point run, and put the final score at 54-35.

“We are hoping to end this [season] on a high note in honor of seniors,” Aston said.

“We’re obviously disappointed with our losses this weekend,” Moran said, echoing Aston. “We have one weekend to make an impact in this league and we are looking forward to the two chances we have left.”

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky @cornellsun.com.

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The Corne¬ Daily Sun

MONDAY MARCH 2, 2015

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Jenner Nominated for Patty Kazmaier Award

Awarded to top Division I player each season;only 10 nominated

By JOHN ZAKOUR Sun Staff Writer

Senior forward Brianne Jenner started playing hockey at age three, and realized by the ninth grade she could play at an elite level. By her 14th birthday, Jenner focused solely on hockey as her sport. Her goal was to play Division I hockey and see “how far hockey could take [her].” Hockey has taken her to a gold medal, an Ivy League school and a nomination as one of the Top-10 players in Division I hockey.

Anyone who has followed women’s hockey at Cornell knows that Jenner is a special and talented ice hockey player.

We did not need an award to tell us that. But if you were not sure, all of the award nominations should convince you. On Feb. 26, Jenner was selected as a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, bestowed to the top player in Division I women’s ice hockey. This year marks the second consecutive season Jenner has been selected as one of the Top-10 players in college hockey. In typical 21st century fashion, Jenner told me she found out about her selection over Twitter, adding that it is “usually how those things go.”

The selection capped off a great few days for Jenner. The Red won game one of its opening playoff series Friday and Jenner was named to the First Team All-Ivy (which she has gotten all of her four years on the hill) and Ivy League Player of the Year in the span of two days.

While a player is more than her awards and statistics, Jenner’s stats are certainly impressive. The senior forward and team captain from Ontario, Canada, leads her conference, the ECAC, in both assists (31) and total points (45) and leads Cornell in all-time assists (131).

Jenner’s head coach, Doug Derraugh, offered nothing but high praise for one of his star players.

“I catch myself as a coach, because she does so many special things out there, becoming a fan rather than thinking about coaching,” he said. “[Jenner is] an incredible person, a great student, great in the community and great leader.”

Derraugh also emphasized how Jenner is a great Cornellian, as well as a strong athlete.

“She’s a perfect example of what you should be here,” he

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Top-10 Jen | Senior forward Brianne Jenner has been an invaluable member of the women’s hockey squad during her four years playing for the Red. This season, she leads the team as captain. said.

Coach Derraugh also explained that Jenner is a caring person, who goes out of her way to accommodate all of her teammates. Maybe the best evidence for him was Cornell’s 3-1 win over St. Lawrence. Up 2-1 with nothing but an empty net in front of her, Jenner passed to a teammate, giving her the goal.

Jenner balances her time as a student athlete well. Coach Derraugh explained Jenner is a great role model to “have our young players have someone like that to look up to.”

One of Jenner’s many accomplishments with the Red was starting a goal drive called Marker for Madison to help a family whose young daughter was suffering with cancer. She is happy she was a force for positive change and improving others’ lives, as now Madison is now well enough to skate around with the Red. Jenner was diplomatic during our talk about her nomination, focusing on her team’s task at hand in the ECAC playoffs, rather than on her personal feats. Jenner said she

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considers any individual award in a team sport a “recognition of the whole team.” Jenner emphasized her goal is to win her conference tournament and an NCAA championship. Individual awards are secondary to Jenner. It is the team’s success that matters to her. Even though she already holds one the highest honors in hockey — a gold medal with team Canada — she is “never really satisfied.” Jenner would rather own the NCAA title that has eluded her during her time at Cornell than any personal award.

Jenner said she hopes to continue to play for her country after she finishes her senior season with the Red. Jenner also plans to pursue a professional hockey career in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League after graduation.

When asked if he will miss Brianne Jenner, coach Derraugh’s reply was simple. “No doubt,” he said. He is not the only one.

John Zakour can be reached at jzakour@cornellsun.com.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Trumps Harvard Crimson Red Drops Both Weekend Drops second game of weekend against Dartmouth Green

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Staff Writer

Shonn Miller thumped his chest as he ran across the court, emphatically nodding at the crowd. Shon Miller, who normally keeps his emotions in check while on the floor, had reason to celebrate. He had just hit a shot that put Harvard away for good. Ivy League leader Harvard. Three time defending champion Harvard.

“I normally look mad or I don’t show emotion at all, but I just felt, when I hit that shot, ‘yes,’ it feels good, the crowd’s into it, we’re heading towards a win,” the 6’7” senior said. “We finally beat them for the first time in my career. It was just a lot built up to that point.”

The victory was the first for the Red against Harvard in five years and was head coach Bill Courtney’s first career victory over the Crimson (20-6, 10-2 Ivy). The game snapped a three-game losing skid for the Red (13-15, 5-7) and CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Mighty Miller | Senior Shonn Miller, along with the other starting four for the Red, brought the squad to a victory over Harvard for the first time in five years.

kept playoff hopes alive.

But it almost did not happen.

In the Red’s previous game this year against Harvard, Cornell took a threepoint lead into halftime, but was unable to maintain the lead as the Crimson went on a 24-2 run that silenced any hopes of an upset.

Friday’s game could have very easily followed the same script.

But, unlike last game in which the Red wilted in the second half, Cornell came out strong by making shots, forcing turnovers and playing suffocating defense. As the Red got going, the crowd’s excitement began to grow.

“When we go small and apply our full court pressure, that really gets the crowd excited.

I think we really fuel off that energy,” said senior guard Galal Cancer. “When the crowd is into it, it really propels us.”

Cornell took a 12-point lead off of a Shon Miller 3-pointer with 10:48 to go. Harvard immediately responded with a 3-pointer of its own as the shot clock expired on the next possession.

More hot shooting from the Crimson narrowed the lead to three with 5:27 left. The crowd, which See M. BASKETBALL page 11

Contests in New England

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

The women’s basketball team traveled on Friday to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to play the Harvard Crimson. The squad then went to Hanover, New Hampshire, on Saturday to play the Green at Dartmouth College.

The team dropped the Friday game with a final score of 60-54, and lost to the Green as well, with a final score of 54-35.

The Crimson (11-14, 4-7 Ivy) is currently ranked No. 5 in the Ivy League, compared to Cornell’s No. 3. Harvard’s usual group of standout players once again pulled through for the Crimson; Erin McDonnell and Kit Metoyer, who combined for 30 points, led the charge for the squad. Harvard’s shooting improved in the second half to 43 percent, from 41 percent in the first twenty minutes.

This gave the Crimson the edge over Cornell, who shot 34 percent in the first half and 36 percent in

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Top Red | Sophomore guard Megan LeDuc had 13 points against Harvard.

the second half. The boards also belonged to the home team, who grabbed 42 compared to Cornell’s 33 rebounds. Despite the rebounding and shooting percentage, the first half ended with See W. BASKETBALL page 11