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Provost Deficit Raises Questions Among Faculty

By GABRIELLA LEE

Dutta said transparency on the issue has varied across Cornell’s colleges.

“A lot of it depends on the school and I While colleges and administrative units think different schools have different prepare for budget reductions totaling approaches,” Dutta said. “In the Johnson $27.5 million for the upcoming fiscal year, School, we’ve been extremely proactive and questions about the decision to decrease transparent. I think that varies from school allocations remain among faculty members to school.” across campus.

Prof. Elizabeth Sanders, government, The budget cuts, which will be imple- said the need to adjust to additional budget mented across the University on July 1, will cuts after reductions that were made in the be made in order to fix a wake of the global finanrecurring structural “There has been quite a cial crisis in 2008 was a deficit of $55 million in “surprise.” bit of discussion of the the Provost’s budget, “The budget cuts The Sun previously after 2008 were very provost’s deficit at the reported. drastic,” Sanders said.

Faculty Senate.”

While Dean of “The surprise is that University Faculty we’re going to endure Prof. Chris Schaffer Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66, substantial new cuts astronomy, said most [due to reduced provost faculty and staff members had not yet allocations], just when we hoped to be heard formal announcements on the cuts, doing new replacement faculty hiring and Interim Provost Harry Katz said he had graduate program rebuilding.” released preliminary reduced budget figProf. Adam Smith, anthropology, also ures last December. said he believes the upcoming budget strinAccording to Soumitra Dutta, dean of gency “was not something that faculty the Johnson Graduate School of expected.”

Management, information has primarily “Given that Cornell has been conductbeen transmitted to faculty members by ing an enormously successful fundraising their respective college deans. campaign and the performance of the stock While some faculty members have been aware of the impending budget decreases, See BUDGET page 4

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Facelift | Above: A rendering shows the proposed appearance of the northwest corner of Upson Hall, facing the Engineering Quad. Below: The same Upson corner as it looks now.

Planning Board Approves Upson Hall Renovations Fuertes Museum Funds Sought Cornell Astronomical Society fundraises for upgrade

By KIMBERLY LEE Sun Contributor

The Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus may soon see an upgrade and museum addition, which the Cornell Astronomical Society has been crowd fundraising for since February.

The Cornell Astronomical Society intends to set up a new museum in the eastern wing of the observatory, which is located past Helen Newman Hall, in order to display a collection of vintage civil engineering and astronomical instruments and observatory history, according to

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Astronomical advances | The Cornell Astronomical Society plans to open a museum in the Fuertes Observatory.

Samuel NewmanStonebraker ’17, president of the organization.

The museum will display several 19th century pieces of equipment that Cornell Astronomical Society members discovered approximately 10 years ago in the basement of Fuertes, NewmanStonebraker said.

“It started as a slow progression of making [the equipment] more presentable,” said Brecken Blackburn ’15, vice president of the organization. “[Plans for the museum] have been talked about for as long as I’ve been here.”

The new museum will offer interactive exhibits, such as optic displays, that will facilitate hands-on learning, according to Blackburn. The observatory plans on remaining open to See FUERTES page 5

By PAULINA GLASS

Sun Staff Writer

Renovations proposed for Upson Hall, a building on the Engineering Quad, were approved by the Planning and Development Board at a meeting Feb. 24. The project is expected to begin this spring, according to the project’s initial proposal.

According to the proposal, submitted to the planning board last December, the renovations would update the aesthetics of the building and improve the building’s energy efficiency and accessibility at a cost of $40 million.

Prof. Garrick Blalock, applied economics and management and chair of the board, said he supported the renovations.

“I think it’s a great project,” he said.

The renovations will take place in multiple phases, which will proceed in

order of funding, according to Blalock.

“My understanding is the project has three stages, two of which are currently funded and the third of which is conditional on additional funds coming in,” Blalock said. “I think that they’re going to construct the first two in the spring, but it’s up to the applicant.”

Blalock said building projects of a certain scale require approval of the City’s Planning and Development Board.

“If somebody wants to build a project in the city of Ithaca that exceeds a certain threshold in terms of its size and scope, they have to go through an approval process,” Blalock said.

The process to approve renovations included multiple steps beginning with the assignment of the planning board as the lead agency for the specific project, See UPSON page 5

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Downtown Ithaca Alliance Welcomes Engineering Firm, Specialty Store

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By ANDREW LEE Sun Staff Writer

The Downtown Ithaca Alliance and Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 welcomed two new businesses — Taitem Engineering and Bramble — to the downtown area Monday.

Taitem Engineering is an Ithaca-based consulting firm that specializes in mechanical, electrical and structural engineering, as well as energy studies, energy research and specialty contracting services.

According to Theresa Ryan, marketing manager for Taitem Engineering, the firm has acquired a new office building after moving several times.

“We originally had our [offices] at 107 S. Albany St. before moving to 109 S. Albany [St.], then to 110 and now finally back again to our current location at 109,” she said.

The firm moved to a new building to accommodate their growing solar design and duct sealing crew, according to a press release from the Downtown Ithaca Alliance.

The Downtown Alliance also welcomed Bramble — a store that sells herbs and spices in bulk as well as other local products — to the area.

Owned by a collective of four experienced herbalists, Bramble aims to connect the products of local farmers and herbalists with the members of the Ithaca community, according to co-owner Ciele Gladstein.

“All of our products are 100 percent locally made and 25 percent of our bulk herbs are sourced through local farms,” Gladstein said. “By keeping our focus local, we are

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Architecture students attend the “Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Pop Culture” book talk in Milstein Hall Monday.

building a sustainable network that allows us to keep the money and resources of our area directly in the community.”

Located in Press Bay Alley at 118 W. Green St., the store will serve as a local venue for events, classes and workshops, according to Gladstein.

“We knew the area was full of skilled herbalists and wellness practitioners with products and knowledge to share, but it was lacking a community resource or venue to do it in,” Gladstein said.

Gladstein said she and other co-founders came up with the idea for Bramble during the summer, with the idea becoming reality when they discovered the micro-retail stores in Press Bay Alley.

“This approach to retail, with its emphasis on small spaces and low overhead costs, allowed us to open a store in the downtown area,” Gladstein said.

Gladstein said Bramble became involved with the Downtown Ithaca Alliance with the encouragement of her landlord, John Guttridge.

According to executive director Gary Ferguson, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance was able to provide Press Bay Alley with funding from the state, enabling developers to build the retail space that Bramble currently occupies.

Ferguson said, although the alliance was easing its recruitment efforts during the rebuilding of the Ithaca Commons, 2014 was still a “good year” for attracting new businesses in the downtown area.

“With the impending completion of [the] Commons construction, we will redouble our efforts and expect to see a number of new businesses choosing downtown for their home,” Ferguson said.

Andrew Lee can be reached at alee@cornellsun.com.

Attorney Recounts Corruption Trial of Former Detroit Mayor

Mark Chutkow describes process of convicting Kwame Kilpatrick at law school talk

By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Staff Writer

Mark Chutkow, a lawyer at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, spoke about his experience as a lead prosecutor in the public corruption trial of Kwame Kilpatrick — a former mayor of Detroit who was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2013 — at the Cornell Law School Monday.

Chutkow, who is also chief of the public corruption unit in the Eastern District of Michigan, recounted the sequence of events that lead to Kilpatrick’s ultimate conviction of financial corruption.

Kilpatrick’s 28-year sentence was the longest corruption sentence in United States history, according to Chutkow.

In Kilpatrick’s case, Chutkow said the FBI could not open an investigation into his activity until 2005.

“Just to open an investigation, the [Federal Bureau of Investigation] needs two independent sources saying the same thing about a criminal behavior,” Chutkow said.

Once the investigation was opened, Chutkow said the first steps involved wiretapping Kilpatrick’s phones and analyzing his financial records, which revealed that he had received an inordinate amount of cash deposits. Investigators also analyzed text messages sent on his SkyTel messaging device, which Chutkow said was a “big break in the case.”

Chutkow said he and his team then

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Law and order | Mark Chutkow, Assistant U.S. Attorney and chief of the public corruption unit of the Eastern District of Michigan, speaks yesterday to students about public corruption.

procured a search warrant and uncovered those.” thousands of text messages, including Chutkow said the progression of prethose between Kilpatrick and his accom- senting stories of corruption from minor plice Bobby Ferguson. schemes to major ones would allow for the According to Chutkow, there was jury to infer and eventually come to decienough proof to bring a case against sions as the trial progressed.

Kilpatrick that went beyond his tax eva“We started off the case with the presion and fraud, and into deeper levels of sentation of small stories, like how corruption and extortion.

Kilpatrick and Ferguson embezzled money Chutkow said Kilpatrick’s messages fol- from a State Arts Fair,” Chutkow said. lowing a sewer collapse “Even though it wasn’t a led investigators further lot of money, it showed “A true public servant to the discovery of his what they were doing. sees responsibility in corruption.

After we created little “For Kilpatrick and stories, we got to the big their job, not power.”

Ferguson, disasters were stories, like the sewers.”

Mark Chutkow opportunities for big In discussing the final contracts,” Chutkow stages of the trial, said.

Chutkow said he pre“Let’s get us some money,” read one of sented financial records as evidence to Kilpatrick and Ferguson’s text message refute the case put up by the defense. conversations about a city contract.

“We were able to put together a graphOnce Kilpatrick had a set court date, ical display to refute the defense,” preparations for the trial presented new Chutkow said. “[It was] a display over time challenges, according to Chutkow. showing that Kilpatrick’s cash transactions Chutkow said the selection of a jury from had been negative before he took office over 400 candidates was an “extensive and increased positively and quickly as his process.” time in office progressed.”

“In choosing a jury, we were more conChutkow said his closing argument was cerned with group chemistry than any- short and involved recounting the testithing else,” Chutkow said. “In a case like monies of key witnesses. this, the jury can lose focus [once the trial “A true public servant sees responsibilistarts], so we needed an organizing theme ty in their job, not power,” Chutkow said. for the jury to use as framework in decidIn the wake of the incident, more meaing whether or not the evidence fits the sures have been taken in Detroit to story.” improve the city’s economy and create Chutkow said his opening statement more transparency in the government’s was brief and grounded in irrefutable facts. activity, according to Chutkow.

“We made an opening statement of just “It’s going to take decades for the city to 40 minutes to hit on some of the themes of recover, but it’s on its way,” he said. indisputable points [and spoke on] themes of abuse of trust and greed,” Chutkow Ariel Seidner can be reached at said. “There isn’t a witness who can refute aseidner@cornellsun.com.

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Some Faculty Express Concern About Potential Cuts

Recently announced budget stringency raises questions about University finances and future plans BUDGET

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market has lifted the endowment’s value, who would expect three to five years of budget cutting?” said Smith, who is also chair of the anthropology department.

While some faculty members expressed a need for greater awareness on issues surrounding University finances, Burns said it was clear that administrators also wished to increase inclusion of faculty members in the University’s decision-making processes.

“We faculty welcome our inclusion in such important discussions,” Burns said. “But as I understand it, a problem has been that the administration has only recently come to fully understand the budget. Universities, and especially Cornell, are very complex organizations so it’s not easy to turn a single knob to get a particular outcome.”

With varying levels of understanding about the provost deficit across campus, many faculty members said they questioned how lowered provost allocations will tangibly affect departments and programs across campus.

“If more budget cuts are imposed, I expect that the faculty will ask thoughtful questions at Day Hall to be sure that Cornell is making changes that will streamline operations and reduce costs, but will not affect the University’s fundamental academic values,” Burns said.

Dutta, who said Katz had given a presentation to Johnson faculty and staff Friday, added that many faculty

members had questions about the provost’s deficit, in addi- college deans and faculty members time to prepare for the tion to questions related to balancing the University’s over- coming fiscal year. all budget.

“There has been quite a bit of discussion of the provost’s He also said faculty asked questions about whether the deficit at the Faculty Senate and at other forums that budget cuts were “a short-term fix or a long-term solution” involve faculty,” Prof. Chris Schaffer, biomedical engineerand if there would be “long-term sustainability of ing, said.

University academic ambitions and how to align them” Schaffer — who is also a member of the University with constraints faculty may be facing.

Faculty Committee and the director of Dutta expressed the importance of graduate studies for biomedical engimaintaining communication between “The surprise is that we’re neering — said that he could “recall administrators and faculty members. going to endure substantial Provost Fuchs describing the issue at a Senate meeting as long ago as “It is very important to make faculty new cuts, just when we Faculty last Spring or even the previous Fall.” more aware of the financials and Dutta said faculty members at the accounting of the school, because today hoped to be ... rebuilding.”

Johnson School had also been prepared most faculty aren’t aware of the financial Prof. Elizabeth Sanders for budget cuts. conditions of the school or the “We were expecting it,” Dutta said.

University as a whole,” Dutta said. “The “It’s just that it has become more official more information that they can share the better the shared understand is and that’s better for and more certain right now.”

College deans will be meeting with Interim Provost making a collective consensus about the right way to proHarry Katz and Vice President for Budgeting and Planning ceed.”

Eduardo Peñalver ’94, dean of the law school, also said Paul Streeter beginning in the next three weeks to present he expected faculty from the law school to ask for more budget plans for their colleges. According to Katz, the specific explanations on the source of the deficit and how Office of the Provost will not be approving budgets that lay off staff or reduce student services. the University had decided to fix it.

Katz, who was previously dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, said he had made a concerted effort to release preliminary figures early so as to give Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

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the public during the construction process, according to NewmanStonebraker. Once completed, the museum will be free to the public and require minimal upkeep, he said.

Currently, the space for the museum is used mostly for storage.

According to Newman-Stonebraker, approximately three-quarters of the collection is on makeshift display and funding would go toward improving the condition of the rooms and make equipment displays more appealing.

Some of the items on display with handwritten note cards had been put on display 25 years ago, according to Blackburn. She noted that the project was “multigenerational.”

As of Monday afternoon, the Astronomical Society has raised approximately $3,000 through a Cornell crowdfunding website “We want to print some and hopes to to reach its goal of large posters about Carl $7,500 by March 10, according to Newman-Stonebraker. The Sagan ... [to] keep the Astronomical Society plans to focus on Cornell.” immediately start cleaning the space and improving the lighting Brecken Blackburn ’15 once fundraising ends.

“We want to get nice placards for each display,” Blackburn said. “We also want to print some large posters about [former Cornell astronomy faculty member] Carl Sagan and the history of the observatory, [to] keep the focus on Cornell.”

The crowdfunding site has been a good way to reach people outside of the astronomy department. With over 4,000 people visiting Fuertes every year, Blackburn said the site will enable those who once visited and enjoyed their experience to donate to the organization’s cause.

Blackburn said adding the museum to Fuertes is a “natural” next step in the observatory’s progression.“It is something that should happen,” she Kimberly Lee can be reached at kwl38@cornell.edu.

Upson Hall Renovations Pass Planning Board Updates to Upson will begin this spring UPSON

ments to the look of the building.

“I’m really excited for the Upson renovation because it will better complement its modern according to Blalock.

“We conduct an environmen- neighbor, Duffield, and enhance tal review and a site review,” the collaborative space it already Blalock said. “The environmental provides,” Merrifield said.

Allen Jiang ’18, who is also in review is concerned with whether or not there will be any environ- the engineering college, said he is mental impacts … that we need looking forward to an updated to worry about, and then we need Upson Hall. “[The renovations] will be to make sure the plan for the site fits with the city’s overall develop- good.” Jiang said. “[Upson] felt really old, like it was the casualty ment plan.”

According to Blalock, the of budget cuts.”

Blalock said he hopes the renoprocess was simple due to the vations would “uncontronot only improve versial” “I think it’s fair to the look of nature of the characterize the building Upson Hall, but project.

“It’s really as being one that needs the overall feel of the Engineering a bunch of refreshing.”

Quad as well. improve“When it’s all ments [to the Prof. Garrick Blalock done, which may building], be a couple years, and since there are really no immediate I think you’ll find the Engineering neighbors other than Cornell, Quad will be just a lot more invitthere’s really no one to object to ing, welcoming and attractive,” Blalock said. it,” Blalock said.

At last Tuesday’s meeting, Blalock said he personally approved of the improvements to Planning Board member John the building’s aesthetics, which he Schroeder ’74, The Sun’s producsaid were intuitive and necessary. tion manager, suggested that “Clearly, this was a building Upson’s basic corrugated terra that was built at a time [in 1956] cotta design be used for future when aesthetics were different renovations of other older than what they are now,” Blalock Engineering Quad buildings, said. “So I think it’s fair to char- which would eventually give the acterize the building as being one whole quad a new unified architectural look. that needs some refreshing.”

Graham Merrifield ’18, student in the engineering college, Paulina Glass can be reached at echoed the need for improve- pglass@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Slouching Towards Tehran: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

which The Girl tilts her puppy dog eyes up at Arash and murmurs, “I’ve done bad things.”

The line feels ridiculous coming from a character who sustains herself by stalking people Malaise pervades writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour’s A and chomping down on their throats. In a simGirl Walks Home Alone at Night. Cigarettes crackle unreason- ilarly pointless scene, The Girl corners the ably loudly, puncturing neo-noir shadows, as The Girl (Sheila nameless street urchin (Milad Eghbali) and Vand) and gardener-cum-drug dealer Arash (Arash Marandi) admonishes him to “be a good boy” for the rest wander around the fictional Bad City neighborhood. of his life. The dialogue fails to advance the Amirpour’s pared-down dialogue and mysterious characters, plot or explain The Girl’s behavior: Is she however, eventually drag the viewer into a world of ennui, not moralistic or animalistic, conflicted or predatory? suspense.

In fact, A Girl’s most entrancing scenes Vice Films, a sister department to Vice Magazine and vice.com, produced A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and the barely relate to the plot and instead dive headfilm fits into Vice’s prevailing formula. Whether through arti- long into the film’s saturated atmosphere. The cles, films or web documentaries, Vice often tells pseudo-intel- Girl slowly twirls alone in her basement apartlectual stories of drugs, sex and crime that contain little narra- ment to Farah’s “Dancing Girls,” a mute cross-dresser passiontive meat. And, while a reader can peruse a few Vice articles, ately dances with a single black balloon, Arash’s detoxing satisfy their scandalous sweet tooth, and venture off to other father curses the cat for having his ex-wife’s eyes. Amirpour succeeds as a director when she abandons her drawn-out, conwebsites, watching A Girl is a 100-minute commitment. voluted plot and crafts vivid, imaginative A compelling story of scenes. loneliness and abuse exists A Girl Walks Home Unfortunately, Amirpour drowns a few within A Girl. captivating scenes in a mass of late-night, Unfortunately, tangential Alone at Night tedium. In the first segscenes that serve mainly to Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour black-and-white ment of the film, Amirpour introduces a show off the director’s retro Starring Sheila Vand, Dominic large number of small plots: Arash’s relaGoth aesthetic and the cintionship with his addict father, Arash’s relaematographer’s dexterity Rains tionship with Shaydah (Rome Shandaloo), dilute Amirpour’s potential his employer’s daughter, Saeed’s abuse of tour-de-force. Many of A Atti (Mozhan Marnò), a Bad City prostiGirl’s failings result from tute. The film’s progression drops nearly all self-indulgent screenwritof the initial sub-plots and still only covers ing habits. the plots concerning Arash and The Girl’s The Girl’s neck-bite relationship and Arash’s father’s addiction decisions play out a contrived metaphor of addiction. The Girl follows an evident haphazardly. A Girl’s structure suggests that Amirpour wrote blood-sucking modus operandi: Kill only dealers and junkies. interesting introductory scenes and, failing to sufficiently cut Her murder of cocaine-addled, violent Saeed (Dominic Rains) down to the integral storylines, tried to tie whatever she could over The Free Electric Band’s fuzzy track “Bashy” packs a into a semi-comprehensive skein.

Despite its shortcomings as an entire film, A Girl succeeds cathartic punch. Yet, after her second kill, I wanted to shout, “Oh I get it, she’s sucking the life out of addicts like, you know, on a few, smaller notes. Amirpour is an inventive mise-enthe drugs themselves.” The characters’ interactions only fur- scène director with an inverse-Wes Anderson eye for detail. In one isolated scene, The Girl pushes herself along a wall on the ther the film’s forced construction.

Much of A Girl’s dialogue crosses over from pointedly min- urchin’s skateboard. Covered by a black cloak that extends imalistic to melodramatic. Consider, for example, a scene in from the top of her head to the sidewalk, the viewer sees only

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a slowly rolling black triangle against the dirty wall occasionally punctuated by the extension of a pale hand.

Furthermore, A Girl triumphs at embodying the cultured, cosmopolitan characteristics that make Vice articles and videos so, well, addicting. Underground soundtrack featuring morbid Iranian techno? Check. Gratuitous shots of metal suitcases filled with cocaine and ecstasy? Check. Unsettling portrayal of early morning streets in an abandoned city? Check. Yet, it walks the line between complex enough to seem profound and simple enough to easily follow extremely well.

In some scenes, A Girl tries to be a neo-noir narrative. In others, it unabashedly embraces its status as art school experimentation for the hipster masses. Yet, Amirpour’s refusal to fully commit to either extreme prevents her from fully embracing one of her many compelling storylines, or from eschewing the plot for emphasis on her beautiful, macabre scenes. A Girl explicitly tells a story of addiction and intimacy in a half-formed underworld. Implicitly, it announces Vice’s successful campaign to extend into feature films, bringing its too-cool-for-school attitude and narcotics obsession along for the ride.

Or maybe A Girl simply exists to transmit an unnerving, suffocating ambience. As Farah sings in “Dancing Girls” while The Girl slowly twists and spins, “She’s just a normal girl / dancing to her favorite song. / It’s time to go / let’s get on with it.”

Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

Pawnee Forever: Parks and Rec’s Finale

BY RADHIKA PARIKH Sun Contributor

For any devotees of Parks and Recreation, the events of “One Last Ride,” the show’s finale, did not come as a surprise. The show — which has had a happy beginning and a happy middle — got a happy ending.

“One Last Ride” doesn’t pretend that it’s going to be anything other than extremely sentimental. The transition from the show’s present day to its future — with Leslie paying tribute to her friendship with each one of her work family members — is surely a little sappy, but it gives us the closure we needed. We wanted assurance that our favorite people in Pawnee lived out the happy lives they deserved, and that’s what we got.

Leslie and Ron’s relationship has always been a highlight of Parks and Rec. For years, Ron has been played as a hero limited only by his distaste of change, and every time Nick Offerman has channeled Ron’s vulnerable side, it’s hit me hard. That being said, nothing in this finale hit me harder than Ron’s story. Ron’s story is really different because his represents a genuine step in his life. This is a different Ron, one who recognizes that life is bigger than living by some code. This Ron reaches out to Leslie in his moment of need. Ron’s story ends with him in a happy marriage, his children in college and him paddling a canoe, embracing a job working for the federal government. Also, Ron looks fantastic in his park ranger uniform.

We see that Donna and Joe are living in Seattle, reveling in Donna’s success as a real estate agent by taking crazy trips around the world (including to “Middle Korea”), setting up school programs (called, obviously,

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“Teach Yo Self ”), working on a Nascar pit crew and coming in ninth on Italy’s Got Talent.

Tom ends up expanding Tom's Bistro to 20 restaurants across the country; unfortunately, they all fail because America runs out of beef, spurring to write what becomes an international bestseller, Failure: An American Success Story. The best part is that Tom's book outlines

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seven specific types of successful people: the Leslies, the Bens, the Rons, the Toms, the Aprils, the Andys and the Donnas. But he says no one should want to be a Garry.

The finale doesn’t really touch upon death, with the exception of Garry and Jean-Ralphio. Garry’s fate is preposterously nice: He becomes Mayor of Pawnee and keeps his position for years, his wife never ages and he dies peacefully in his sleep at age 100. Jean Ralphio fakes his own death, and we see him at his own funeral,

scheming to make money off of his life insurance. The episode does let him have an earnest moment when he declares his love for Leslie Knope, to which she replies “I know.”

Leslie and Ben have officially made it into the big league of politics: They’re at a dinner party at Vice President Joe Biden’s house. Leslie is approached by the DNC about running for the Governor of Indiana. At the same dinner, Jen returns and approaches Ben about running for the same position. Unable to figure out who should run, they assemble the whole crew in Pawnee at the old Parks office to help them figure it out. When Ben and Leslie approach the group with the conflict, Ben interrupts and announces that Leslie will be running for governor because it was in her childhood dream journal.

Later, when Ben and Leslie attend Garry’s funeral, they are seen with secret service men.

“One Last Ride” is more of an epilogue than anything else. The last few weeks have wrapped up the show’s story completed the development of the characters. By the very nature of the flash-forwards, we can’t really expect to see anything more than glimpses, but we get to know that these people all still love each other and are going to live out happy, long lives.

In the last clip of the end credits, we don’t see Leslie, Ron, Donna, Tom and Ben embrace. Rather, we see Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Retta, Aziz Ansari and Adam Scott. This last moment reminds us of why we loved Parks and Rec so much — Pawnee may have been fictional, but the friendships and love this show showed us were real. Goodbye, Parks and Rec. We loved you.

Radhika Parikh is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at rp459@cornell.edu.

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addling down a lazy river, a figure dressed in traditional Native American garb — the kind seen in spaghetti western films — comes to light. We then get a glimpse over the bow of the canoe, revealing plastic bags and floating newspapers. The man dressed in native garb continues to paddle through what now appears to be a city harbor filled with garbage.

The background is painted with billowing smoke.

The native man now stands at the edge of a highway, watching people throw trash out of their car windows. A bag filled with what appears to be fast food remains hits the feet of our protagonist, spraying him with the garbage.

“Some people have a deep abiding respect for the natural beauty that was once this country. And some people don’t. People start pollution, people can stop it,” says a gruff voice accompanying the scene. As the camera pans up toward the native man’s face, we see one single tear rolling down his cheek.

The famous commercial, produced for Keep America Beautiful Inc. by the former Marsteller Agency, was released on Earth Day in 1971.

As iconic as the “crying Indian” advertising campaign was — even having been named one of the top 100 ad campaigns of the 20th century

by Ad Age — would it have the same iconic effect if it ran today?

The commercial is inherently racist, taking advantage of cultural stereotypes of an already exploited race. Although the commercial would probably not be as well received nowadays,

maybe the more than 30 year old advertisement would not raise as much controversy as one might think. Depictions of Native Americans have historically been that of the “noble savage.”

Native Americans are represented in media as belong to a particular time and particular space. Popular media fails to depict native people as having moved out of those particular times and spaces into spaces of modernity. The media prevents depiction of “real” Native Americans, favoring the fictitious representation.

Now, it’s one thing to blame Mr. Iron Sights Cody (the actor portraying the native man) and Marsteller for the inaccuracy and racist depiction of Native Americans, but the 70s were a different time, right? The media industry has moved past inaccurate, racist depictions of native people, right? Historically, Native Americans have been consistently played by white actors. Burt Lancaster in 1954’s Apache, Henry Brandon in 1953’s The Searchers and Audrey Hepburn in 1960’s The Unforgiven, just to name a few.

However, Benjamin even Mr. Maracle C o d y’s Na t i v e American heritage is questionable. According to Mr. Cody, he was born in Oklahoma territory to his Cherokee father and Cree mother. the New Orleans Times-Picayune questioned Mr. Cody’s heritage in 1996 following an interview with his half-sister, May Abshire, and the surfacing of some documentation — including his baptismal records — which pointed toward Mr.

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Cody being of Italian-American rather than Native American heritage. Mr. Cody denied this, stating that he was in fact a Native American.

Even more notable is the recent recreation of The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp as Tonto. Depp claimed to be of Cherokee heritage in 2002 on Inside the Actors’ Studio, and later, while speaking with Entertainment Weekly in 2011, added that he may be of Creek descent. Depp’s heritage is still under question.

In speaking with MTV.com, Depp said that his film was “an opportunity for [Depp] to salute Native Americans.” He continued to mention that he hoped to end years of Native American misrepresentation in Hollywood, even though the film continues the same trend of misrepresentation.

I’ve seen the film. Depp’s performance mimics those of Burt Lancaster, Henry Brandon and Audrey Hepburn. He speaks in the same, “sort of monosyllabic stuttering, uttering, Hollywood Indian-speak,” said Hanay Geiogamah, a University of California, Los Angeles professor and a Kiowa tribe member.

Geiogamah continues to note that “[Depp] could have, had he wanted to, cast himself as The Lone Ranger, and put a qualified, capable American Indian actor ... of whom there are quite a few now, in the role of Tonto.”

So does this misrepresentation of Native Americans in the media really affect the Native American population? The NPR interview with Geiogamah from which these quotes are

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excerpted reveals that media representation harms natives: “It’s a major setback for the Native American image in the world because that’s how millions of people will think American Indians are now,” said Geiogamah. “After all these years and all this effort to try to get Hollywood to understand their portrayal of Native Americans, and some real good work having been accomplished, to see it all sort of pushed aside because a big star wants to play Tonto.”

From the airing of the “Crying Indian” commercial to modern films like The Lone Ranger, not much has changed. It seems like the media will never get it right, which just leaves us with the question: Who’s the real “crying Indian?”

Benjamin Maracle is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at bdm85@cornell.edu. Guest Room runs every Tuesday this semester.

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Responsible Budget Cuts

IN RESPONSE TO AN ANNUAL DEFICIT facing the Office of the Provost, the University will cut allocations to each of Cornell’s colleges and central administrative units in July. Following the closure of the $55 million budget shortfall, all colleges will likely see a 2 to 2.3 percent decrease in annual expenditures. While we commend the University’s commitment to responsibly managing its finances, we are concerned about the feasibility of cutting expenses without negatively affecting academic services for students.

Cornell has made great strides to ensure that the University’s budget has remained balanced, highlighting its commitment to remaining fiscally responsible when allocating resources. By addressing this deficit — which has occurred over the past five years following the 2008 global financial crisis — the Provost affords individual colleges the opportunity to address issues of efficiency and ensure that money spent is used responsibly.

We commend Interim Provost Harry Katz for his stance against reductions in academic services and staff, but we question whether this remains feasible. Having their appropriations cut by $27.5 million, colleges and administrative units could be forced to cut or scale back programs that directly affect students’ educations. Although this reduction of college budgets was announced months before colleges are expected to conform to the changes — providing more time to address potential challenges — informing and working with departments across the University will be imperative to ensure a transparent and productive reduction in expenditures. Administrators in Day Hall must work with all levels of leadership across Cornell’s colleges, as well as faculty and staff, when strategizing on how to shape the University’s future academic programs in a way that does not compromise students’ education.

To address half of the annual deficit, a portion of next academic year’s tuition increase of $1,830 for all undergraduates, which was announced Thursday, will be allocated to the Provost’s budget. While the tuition increase — which Katz says was not enacted in response to the need to eliminate the budget shortfall — enables colleges to cut less than they would have without the additional funds, the University places an increased financial burden on students by continuing to increase tuition at an alarming rate.

Administrators must continue their commitment to providing a large amount of financial aid to students, while balancing the costs of a Cornell education with the need to address larger financial concerns.

By addressing fiscal challenges in a responsible manner, the University has the opportunity to make progress in promoting efficiency. We urge administrators to collaborate with faculty and the colleges to ensure that these cuts do not prove to be detrimental to Cornellians’ education.

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I Want to Love You Cornell, But You Are Being Difficult I want to publicly thank President David Skorton and Vice President Susan Murphy for speaking with students at the meeting in Willard Straight Hall last Friday. The discussion was calm and respectful, but I walked away from the meeting with a sinking feeling in my gut.

I walked away from that meeting with a deep personal conflict brewing: Can I really trust what Skorton says? When I was an underclassman, I was enchanted by all the truly wonderful programs and faculty that make Cornell great — and I trusted the administration. Now, through reading, research and thinking, I have seen through the Ivy Walls. I have learned about many inconvenient truths that underpin the University’s greatness, and I had descended into internal conflict.

I have a love-hate relationship with Cornell because it does many things I and many students are proud of, but it frequently cuts back on its virtues to bolster its bottom line. Below are a few examples of things that have undermined my trust.

I know these things bother many more people besides myself; Administrators and students alike have admitted to and identified an intense erosion of trust.

1. Cornell employs far more administrators than faculty. Cornell University spends 36 percent of its annual budget to employ 3,250 full time administrators.

Only 100 of those administrators are classified as “Student and Academic Affairs and Other Education Services” by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Compared to the more than 3,000 administrators, the University employs 1,745 full time “instructional staff,” including everyone from the lowliest adjunct to the tenured professor.

2. Cornell hosts world class professors, but recently the administration has cut their salaries and continues to add fewer and fewer new full professors. They leave many adjuncts living near and below the poverty line — paying them only two or three thousand dollars per class — and without the resources they need to become great thinkers, researchers and teachers.

3. The University hosts dozens of musical performances and showcases art, but in 2010 it slashed the performing arts department budget, effectively destroying the department’s ability to interact with the community and provide consistent and quality culture to the student body.

4. Cornell does excellent research that advances human knowledge, but the administration fails to provide graduate

students who carry out that research with basic medical protections when they are seriously injured — protections that are commonplace and required by law throughout American industry — leaving graduate students burdened with tens of thousands in medical expenses after a lab accident.

5. According to a Cornell Endowment investment analyst I spoke to last week, Cornell could provide free tuition using only the interest the endowment produces — without touching the six billion dollar principle. But this year the Board of Trustees raised tuition once again, as it has for the last five decades, and continues to grow its massive endowment.

6. At a meeting with President Skorton, he admitted that the Board of Trustees does and should hold “Supreme Power” because Cornell needs to be run like a corporation. I’ll inject some personal opinion here: a corporation has a profit motive. A university has an education motive. Why do the Trustees think Cornell should be run like a corporation?

7. Cornell provides financial aid to many students who are in need, but then imposes a $350 fee that won’t be covered by financial aid, and that could easily be paid for in a more responsible way.

Meanwhile, middle class families are shut out of the University because they are too rich to get aid but too poor to afford $61,000 per year of expenses, expenses that exceed the annual income of at least half of all of Americans.

Students asked Skorton some of these questions at the Friday afternoon meeting.

He didn’t give us any concrete answers about how the University would combat rising administrative costs. He promised the health fee and tuition increases would continue.

The Board of Trustees and the administration have lost my trust, and they have failed Cornell’s mission. They have given in and are turning Cornell into another profit-driven corporation with an oversized administration. We don’t need another committee investigation or more administrators to “look into it.” We need to empower a diverse group of people, like we have in the past, to guide Cornell away from the trustees’ corporate plan and toward something nobler, before the University I want to love becomes unrecognizable.

Wyatt Nelson is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and can be reached at wyatt.outoors@outlook.com.

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CORRECTION A March 2 news story, “Skorton Promises Transparency to Student Activists,” incorrectly stated that the town hall on March 16 will be regarding the student health fee, and that there will be a committee formed to find ways to consolidate campus costs. In fact, at the town hall, President David Skorton will give a presentation to the campus about financial transparency, and there is currently no plan for a committee.

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here, did you think to kill me?

There’s no flesh or blood with in this cloak to kill.

There’s only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Farewell.”

Alan Moore, V for Vendetta Boris Nemtsov was a top ranking official within the Republican Party of Russia — Party of People’s Freedom, a liberal opposition group. Two weeks before he was shot and killed in the highest-profile political assassination in Russia in a decade, Nemtsov met with an old friend to discuss his latest research — research he wanted to include in a pamphlet to be called “Putin and the War,” about President Vladimir Putin and Russian involvement in the Ukraine conflict. A former deputy prime minister under and frontrunner to succeed first post-Soviet President Boris Yeltsin, Nemtsov believed he enjoyed immunity, despite the nature of his work. They wouldn’t touch him because they wouldn’t want to create a precedent; power would change hands in Russia again, and those who served Putin wouldn’t want to create this precedent. Right?

Wrong.

Precedents are dangerous things — once set, they are not easily forgotten, especially when they are set in the public eye. There has been a lot of talk surrounding who ordered Nemtsov’s assassination.

Was it Putin? Why would the Russian president choose to make a martyr out of an opponent who became all but irrelevant in recent years? I mean, just look at that 85 percent approval rating — clearly. Putin had nothing to be worried about. Was it an outside faction looking t o encourPrecedents are dangerous things — a g e once set, they are not easily political forgotten, especially when they are dissent set in the public eye. within t h e Russian Federation? That’s a pretty smart play on their part. Was it the CIA? It was definitely the CIA. It’s always the CIA. The fact is that if you’re asking who was behind Nemtsov’s assassination, you’re asking the wrong question. It matters very little who was actually behind the assassination. The man could have been killed by a brain aneurism, and Putin would still be held responsible for creating a political climate where Nemtsov had to die for his opinions. Julia Ioffe, a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, had it right when she wrote: “People in the opposition will not believe anything that comes out of the Kremlin in terms of who did this. They perceive this as a message directly sent to them.

When you see Boris Nemtsov’s body lying with the Kremlin as a backdrop, they understand that's a message directed to them.”

In the assassination of Nemtsov, a new precedent was set: a precedent of deep distrust between the Russian people and their government. The tens of thousands of Russians that marched past the Kremlin walls on Sunday were not marching only in honor of Boris Nemtsov, the slain opposition leader, but also in honor of those who truly believed in transparency between the people and their state. “It’s unlikely I would have come to the demonstration in Maryino,” said Marina Nevskaya, a marcher in Sunday’s tribute, “But all decent people had to come here. What happened was a personal spit in my face. I don’t want to hide my face from my children.”

Trust between a government and its people is integral to the progress of a country; without faith in those chosen to represent the interests of the people, there is no room for economic growth or intellectual freedom. It’s simple, really — if you feel as if your livelihood is not protected by the government, you will be less willing to take financial risks that could contribute to an expanding economy.

If you don’t trust in those in place to protect your right to expression, you will hesitate to express yourself.

“Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade but always order without justice, without love or liberty, which cannot long postpone their world’s descent to pandemonium,” Alan Moore said in addressing the chaos around him. I’m not sure if I can say the same “descent into pandemonium” is where the Russian government is headed, but I do hope the leadership sees the significance of the chaos at its heels.

Hebani Duggal is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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The Legacy of the Politician, The Reporter and the Billionaire

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onsidering the recent presidential election in 18 deluge of the complete months. He too, in this very third season of the criti- early stage of the season, begins cally-acclaimed House of Cards to worry about his legacy.

The spoilers are done now that Netflix rained down upon the huddled, unwashed masses unless you have the real-life of expectant binge watchers, news on your DVR and are yearning to witness the cunning planning on catching up when machinations of the you have a chance to binge Underwoods, I thought it watch. Moving from the ficwould be prudent to begin this tional politician segment of the column with a quick discussion column to the very real reporter of my progress through the section, I wanted to briefly disthird season. Fair warning, cuss David Carr — no, not the there will be some slight spoil- quarterback who was Eli ers ahead. But since I have only Manning’s backup when the watched through the second New York Giants won Super episode of the third season, I Bowl XLVI. Journalist David will not get into too much Carr was well-known as the detail. If you want to avoid New York Times media critic spoilers, skip the next para- before his death on the newsgraph and begin reading when I room floor on Feb. 12. A tenadiscuss the reporter and the bil- cious advocate for print jourlionaire mentioned in the head- nalism amidst the scorn of digital media companies that he line.

One of the exchanges that covered, Carr once aggressively typifies the desire of the main told off the founders of new characters to cultivate a legacy media darling Vice Media for (a recurrent theme in the show) suggesting that the New York occurs in season two, episode Times wrote about “surfing” seven when then-Vice President instead of serious news coverUnderwood and then-President age. The interaction was recordGarret Walker discuss Walker’s performance.

Details like that are horrifying, and they Frank counsels W a l k e r : obviously muddle his legacy. But legacy “Presidents who cannot only be a sum of the amazing obsess over his- things that one has done. tory obsess over their place in it, instead of forging it,” to which ed in the 2011 documentary the historically-minded Walker about the Times “Page One,” asks, “Who said that?” The and the clip has become a wideresponse: “I did, just now.” The ly-shared audiovisual eulogy to chilling moment provides a a man who didn’t pull punches sharp contrast between the with his reporting or his quesruthlessly cunning Frank tioning.

I’m sad to say that before his Underwood and the plodding, advisor-reliant Walker — of no death, I did not know much relation to non-fictional proba- about Carr’s story. I read his ble Presidential candidate Media Equation column most Governor Scott Walker (R-WI). weeks because the business of However, once Underwood media fascinates me, but I did ascends to the office of not know the specific of the President, we see that barbed man’s life. After reading his quips about legacy do not make obituary I learned that he was a a president. At the start of the former drug addict, who had third season, President fought off addiction, put in Underwood has terrible years of good reporting and approval ratings, and his party’s then rose to his well-regarded leadership has decided not to position. There were sordid have him run in the upcoming details to go along with the

heartwarming ones. During the throes of his drug addiction, he once left his newborn twin girls in a car in the middle of winter while he bought drugs, something he recounted in his 2008 book The Night of the Gun. Details like that are horrifying, and they obviously muddle his legacy. But legacy cannot only be a sum of the amazing things that one has done, it also must factor in the negatives. Carr was a reporter whom I deeply admired, and I miss his work already.

Another recent story comes from the Oracle of Omaha, seemingly folksy, loveable billionaire who also bears a striking resemblance to fictional House of Cards billionaire Raymond Tusk: Warren Buffett.

Last Saturday, Berkshire Hathaway (Buffett’s famous conglomerate holding company that owns insurance, energy, railroads and other sorts of companies) released Buffett’s 50th annual letter to the company’s shareholders. In the letter, the 84-year-old Buffett mused on searching for a successor (still not announced but likely down to two finalists) as well as the origins of the company. Rather amusingly, Buffett recounts that he was going to sell his shares in Berkshire Hathaway (then a failing New England textile company) back to the company in 1964, but after the CEO shorted him $0.125 per share from a previous agreement, Buffett decided to double down and slowly bought a controlling interest in the company. Think about it — had Buffett not given in to the very human emotion of feeling slighted, the legacy of Berkshire Hathaway would have been very different.

David Fischer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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junior blue-liner Cassandra Poudrier hammered a one-time slapper off the face-off to beat Saints goalie Carmen MacDonald. The Red would keep its lead going into the third period.

Six minutes into the third period, St. Lawrence tied up the game. However, Derraugh admired his team’s ability to stay positive and aggressive.

“I thought the girls did a great job of not getting down when [St. Lawrence] tied the game,” Derraugh said. “They kept their heads up and showed strong resolve to push back to get the next goal.”

Cornell came back 3:50 minutes later to regain the lead. After a failed shot attempt by junior forward Jess Brown, sophomore defender Sydney Smith tapped it back to Brown, who poked it into the goal.

At the end of the game, senior forward Jill Saulnier hit the puck into the empty net to secure Cornell’s 31 win, and a 1-0 lead in the series.

On Saturday, Cornell had an incredible comeback from being down 2-0 going into the third period to win the quarterfinal game, 3-2. The Saints pressured Cornell from the start, drilling shots towards net.

After the first 40 minutes of play, St. Lawrence led shots on goal, 28-13.

In the final period, the Red flicked a switch and worked quickly to get back into the game. In the first three minutes of play, junior forward Anna Zorn loaded up and slapped the puck past the Saints’ MacDonald to spark Cornell’s comeback.

As the crowd grew and got louder, the team fed off Lynah’s energy and played more confidently and with greater disciplined. With 12:07 to play, senior forward Brianne Jenner pounced on the puck and passed it to Saulnier, who one timed the puck into the goal to tie up the game.

In the last four minutes of play, Jenner won the faceoff and passed the puck to Saulnier, who rushed past a Saints defender, creating a two-on-one with senior forward Emily Fulton. Saulnier made a patient play to draw the defender, before hitting Fulton a saucer pass which Fulton hammered past MacDonald to send the crowd into an absolute frenzy.

“It was a lot of fun and Lynah is a great place to play women’s hockey,” Derraugh said. “We are very fortunate to play in front of the crowds that we do.”

Next week, the team travels to Clarkson to play in the semifinals. So far this season, the Red has found success against Clarkson, tying its most recent game against the Golden Knights and winning the one before that.

Last season, Cornell beat the Saints to win the ECAC championship. Derraugh said his team is feeling confident going into these games and is happy about its matchup this weekend.

“I think the experience from last season certainly helps,” Derraugh said. “We will play hard and confident hockey.”

Daniell Letourneau can be reached at dletourneau@cornellsun.com.

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school record, beating the previous record by over a second.

Junior Victor Luo, sophomores Liam Sosinsky and Jordan Berger also had exceptional races and were able to score in this event.

“There were a lot of things that led to the team’s success this year but I would say team cohesion was essential,” senior Tim Satterthwaite said. “The team was close this year and it was clear through the swimming that people weren’t just swimming for themselves but were swimming for a team and a family and that is what makes all the difference.”

On the diving side, the Red had three scores on the 3-meter board. Hallowell placed 11th overall, which earned him fifth place all-time in Cornell standings. Matt McCoy finished 16th and solidified an eighth place overall Cornell position.

After a strong season, the Red is optimistic going forward.

“I could not have asked for a better senior season. With huge wins over Dartmouth, Brown and Penn, we had more league dual meet wins than I have had in my career combined, as well as the highest finish at Ivies in three years,” Satterthwaite said.

“Despite competition in the league getting steeper every year, this team was able to rise up and have some incredible swims and great memories. Cornell swimming is back on the map again.”

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

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Women Win Twice, Advance To Semifinals With Clarkson

By DANIELLE LETOURNEAU Sun Staff Writer

With the help of a loud and lively home crowd, Cornell (18-10-3, 14-6-2 ECAC) beat St. Lawrence (19-12-5, 13-5-4 ECAC) in two straight games to advance to the semifinals of the ECAC tournament.

On Friday, the team controlled the puck for the majority of the game, taking away goal opportunities from the Saints. However, St. Lawrence’s goal attempts were potentially game changing. In the first period, Corthe Red gave up a few breakaway chances and found itself shorthanded two times. However, sophomore goaltender Paula Voorheis stepped up to the challenge and MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR made tremendous Red on top | Senior forward Jillian Saulnier had two goals in Cornell’s pair of saves.

Voorheis said victories over the weekend, helping the Red put away St. Lawrence.

she believes the team did a good job defending and keeping the Saints at bay. The hard saves were also a way to get her warmed up and focused.

“The first two shots were breakaways but I think it got me warmed up,” she said. “I didn’t get many shots, but the ones I got were hard. I think [St. Lawrence] would have had more opportunities had the team not put in the extra effort.”

Head coach Doug Derraugh agreed and felt that those saves were crucial to the team’s success.

“They came through with speed and we weren’t aware of what was happening behind us and it’s a whole different game if they score on those two goals, so those two were crucial for us,” he said.

Despite a sloppier start, Cornell refocused, regained control and had more shots on goal in the middle period. With 7:48 remaining in the See HOCKEY page 11

SWIMMING AND DIVING

The Changing Nature Men Place Sixth in Ivy League Of the NBA Championships, Break Records

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unday’s much-anticipated Cavaliers-Rockets game lived up to the hype, as two MVP candidates on title-contending teams dueled in an overtime thriller. But in the second half, the game took an unexpected turn when one MVP candidate kicked the other MVP candidate square in the jewels. Yes, James Harden — that guy with that beard — delivered a subtle yet clearly deliberate foot to King James’ manhood.

Players from both teams jawed back and forth for a moment, but eventually the dust cleared, and no players were ejected.

decade earlier, Charles Barkley threw a ball at Shaq and Shaq responded by tackling his current colleague to the floor. And how about the notorious Reggie Miller trash-talk, and the cockiness of Michael Jordan and Larry Bird? Where is that today?

The bad-boy persona in the NBA has vanished since those guys retired.

Is the new generation of players simply less competitive? Paul Pierce thinks so. Last month, when asked why there is less trash-talk in the league today, Pierce answered, “Computers. They play NBA 2K instead of going to the park”.

Ben Shatzman

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

This past weekend, the Cornell’s men’s swimming and diving team competed at the Ivy League Championships in Princeton, New Jersey. The Red had an incredibly successful overall meet and was able to have its best finish since 2011. Overall, Cornell finished sixth within the Ivy League, with a total of 692 team points. The Red had an impressive team and individual showing and was able to illustrate its ability to compete with any Ivy League team.

“This year marked a huge

improvement for the team at Ivy Championships,” said senior Thomas Hallowell.

“Everyone demonstrated a lot of toughness and we had some really strong performances overall.”

The Red’s strong performance came as a result of a season’s worth of consistent hard work and effort.

“This year we focused a lot on being tough and prepared to fight for each and every race,” Hallowell said.

“A lot of guys dug deep to finish out races and we had an Ivy Champion in two events. [Freshman] Alex Evdokimov is the first Cornell swimmer to be Ivy Champion since 2010 …

Overall, I think the team’s fighting spirit allowed it to push through obstacles and have the best performance at Ivy Championships in four years.”

Evdokimov was able to walk away as champion in both Ivy League breaststroke events. He won the 100 breast and the 200 breast beating out many top swimmers, including Princeton’s Jack Pohlmann and Harvard’s Eric Ronda. The race was incredibly fast paced and close; the top three finished within .08 seconds of one another.

Evdokimov also set a See SWIMMING page 11

Calling the Shatz I didn’t expect LeBron James to retaliate against Harden with anything more than a few words. James has never been a trash-talker, instead opting to let his play do the talking.

But man, if Harden had kicked, say, Charles Barkley in the beans, I would’ve expected an all-out brawl to ensue. Of course, Barkley had a much different, far more confrontational on-court personality than James has.

Over the years, the number of fights and the amount of trash talk in the NBA has been on a steady decline. There was the infamous Malice at the Palace in 2004, when the Pistons, Pacers and fans at the game engaged in a massive brawl that resulted in season-long bans. A

Pierce, now 37 years old, played against the Reggie Millers and Michael Jordans of the league. And his response is spot on. The stars of the 90’s — and earlier — had little technology with which to entertain themselves. Miller didn’t play NBA 2K. Jordan didn’t post tweets after games. Shaq didn’t follow Barkley on Instagram. These guys didn’t have the technology that connects players in the league today. When they met on the court, it was pure competition.

For the rest of this column, please visit cornellsun.com.

Ben Shatzman is a sophomroe in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be contacted at benshatzman@cornellsun.com.

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Making a splash | The swimming and diving team earned its highest place finish in the Ivy League Championship since 2011 this weekend.