IPD Sued for Racial Discrimination
White of cer alleges he was unfairly passed over for promotion
By LIZ CAMUTI Sun News Editor and MICHAEL LINHORST Sun Senior Writer
A second white officer filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit last month alleging that the Ithaca Police Department committed racial discrimination Sgt Douglas Wright’s suit follows a separate lawsuit by Chris Miller, a white officer who also said he was the victim of discrimination by the IPD
Wright’s lawsuit comes in the midst of an investigation into allegations which stem from Miller’s discrimination claims that Lt Marlon Byrd, a black officer, aided drug dealers Amid the lawsuits and the drug investigation, the police officers’ union, the Police Benevolent Association, will hold a vote of no confidence in IPD’s leadership on Tuesday, according to The Ithaca Journal Wright, the officer who filed last month’s lawsuit,
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C.U. Cites Outreach As Cause of Surge in Sexual Assault Cases
On Friday, the Office of the Judicial Administrator heard its 11th case of sexual assault this year setting the record for the most cases of sexual assault ever referred to the J A in one year Still, University officials said they believe improvements in education on assaults, rather than an increase in crime, is responsible for the uptick in referrals
But despite the significant increase in the number of repor ted sexual assaults, Judicial Administrator Mar y Beth Grant J D ’88 said that this does not necessarily equate to a rise in violent crime on campus I don’t think that there are necessarily more sexual assaults, but victims are repor ting them more often,” said Grant “Education leads to more referrals ”
Several administrators, faculty members, police and students involved with responding to cases of sexual assault at Cornell echoed Grant s response
“Statistically speaking, it is more likely that we as a team have created an environment that suppor ts victims of sexual assault enough that more people feel comfor table coming for ward and repor ting,” said Kathy Zoner, chief of the Cornell University Police Depar tment
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Women’s Resource Center and various student groups have led educational initiatives that she said has encouraged survivors to reach out to resources about their options and rights following an assault
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Our house | Amy Nichols grad enforces house policies and gives sisterly advice as Kappa Delta’s house director
Sorority’s ‘House Mom’ Finds Greek Life De es Stereotypes
By NIKKI LEE Sun Contributor
This is the fourth article in a series profiling the often-unrecognized personalities of Cornell and Ithaca Amy Nichols grad never got a taste of Greek life in college At Brigham Young UniversityHawaii, there are palm trees and sandy beaches but not sororities When Nichols became
house director of Cornell’s Kappa Delta chapter in October, she expected what she said any non-sorority girl might expect: snooty cliques and hierarchies
“There s this paradigm that sororities are drinking clubs and everyone goes out all the time Not at all,” Nichols said “I want my future daughters to be in Kappa Delta ”
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D J duo Major Lazer performs at Cornell Concert Commission’s first show of the semester in Barton Hall on Sunday
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Ailleurs/Here or Anyplace Else: Dancing in Translation” A Collaborative Lecture by Brent Hayes Edwards and Emily Coates and Lacina Coulibaly Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 4:30 p m Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
In D.C., Students Push for Fin. Aid
Amid proposed cuts to federal financial aid programs, 11 students traveled to Washington, D C , on Tuesday to lobby Congress to support student aid
The trip was sponsored by Cornell’s Office of Government and Community Relations, which organizes the trip annually, according to Adam Raveret ’12 Raveret, who went on the trip, said that although the University lobbies on behalf of students through its office of federal government relations in D C , the students went to D C to “give a face to this issue ”
We can tell about our experiences receiving student financial aid and receiving the Pell Grant and other loans that they’re offering ” Raveret said
On Wednesday, the students lobbied Congress to support Pell Grants needbased grants awarded to undergraduates of low-income backgrounds About 2,200 students at Cornell received Pell Grant funding in the 2010-2011 academic year, The Sun reported last year
Although the maximum Pell Grant award is likely to remain $5,550 through the 2013-2014 year, Raveret said in an email Thursday that “there are already estimates that the program will have a $7 5 billion shortfall in the 2014-2015 award year, so it is clear that a long-term funding solution is needed ”
“We were, at the minimum, asking that they not cut the [grant’s] maximum amount, ” said James Bor ’12, who also went on the trip
Students also lobbied Congress to maintain the government ’ s current interest rate on subsidized federal Stafford Loans need-based loans subsidized by the federal government to help students pay their tuition If Congress does not intervene, the interest rate for the loans will double from 3 4 to 6 8 percent on July 1, according to Raveret
“These loans are used by roughly nine million low-income students,” he said “The Obama administration is urging Congress to delay this increase for one year, but keeping the rate at 3 4 percent is expensive; the [Obama] administration estimates it will cost roughly $3 9 billion ”
The students spent Wednesday emphasizing to members of Congress that federal aid has enabled them and their families to finance their college educations
We got appointments set up for us in different [representatives’] offices A lot of times we talked to their staffer, which was their expert on education reform, on legislative issues involving education,” Raveret said In some cases, we were able to talk to the [representatives] or the senators, which was really cool, and tell them our issues ”
Bor called the trip was an “empowering experience ”
“So often, we see Congress as some sort of nebulous institution that not many people can reach, when in actuality, I think that the beauty of America is the fact that you can go to your [representative’s] or your senator ’ s office and speak with [them],” he said
“Being a responsible person requires you to be informed to figure out what’s at stake, and you use your voice and can ’ t just sit
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back ” Grace Omotunde ’12 agreed, saying that it was important for her to advocate for students like herself who receive financial aid
“It’s empowering being given that opportunity [to] voice what is important to you, ” Omotunde said
According to Bor, the group visited the offices of representatives from a wide range of states Bor, who was able to meet with the Congressman who represents his Virginia district on the trip, said that his representative was particularly impressed that college students would take the time to come five or six hours just to speak to them about how important financial aid is ” Raveret said that speaking to representatives in person increases the likelihood that
After Fire, Collegetown’s Miyake Will Be Closed for Several Months Popular Collegetown restaurant Miyake will be closed indefinitely after a fire at the restaurant early Wednesday morning caused significant damage to the restaurant s kitchen, according to the Ithaca Fire Department
Students: Do Not Reduce Length of Senior Week
Students slammed a proposal to shorten Senior Week that was included in a set of recommended changes to the University’s academic calendar
According to Matt Koren 12, co-chair of the Senior Week Committee, many said they feel short-changed by what he called the “blatantly obvious flaws” in the committee’s suggested alteration of Senior Week
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they will lobby on behalf of students
“Politics are local,” he said “It definitely does help meeting someone from your district who is directly affected by these types of legislation and who feels strongly about it ”
Echoing Raveret, Bor said that in the world of politics, facts and numbers can only go so far
“At the end of the day, when it comes down to the political realm, it’s one thing about cold, hard facts, about numbers, about aid but it’s another thing to have someone telling stories about how they’re able to go to college, to get a crack at the American dream,” Bor said
Sylvia Rusnak can be reached at srusnak@cornellsun com
Academic Honor Society Inducts
Top Arts and Sciences Students
C o r n e l l’s c h a p t e r o f Ph i Be t a Kappa an academic honor society that annually inducts students with GPAs in the top 10 percent of the senior class and the top three percent of the junior class –– initiated their n e w m e m b e r s a t a c e re m o n y
Thursday
The faculty president of Phi Beta K a p p a , Pro f Da n i e l S c h w a r z , English, said that the society first began inducting juniors in 2010 to tr y to expand its presence on campus
“A junior chapter means an onc a m p u s p re s e n c e a n d s t u d e n t s belonging to a dynamic community, ” Schwarz said Schwarz added that the organization has recently created an alumni board and has been actively reaching out to alumni members to create an endowment for a scholarship and other academic purposes
“ We’re s t a r t i n g f ro m s c r a t c h , ” Schwarz said “Other Ivies have huge endowments ” Phi Beta Kappa has additional plans in the works to increase its presence on campus, including hosti n g m o re c a m p u s - w i d e a c t i v i t i e s , according to Jessica Ye ’12, co-president of the society The organization has recently expanded from hosting one lecture series each year to hosting one each semester
“ We’re tr ying to make a stronger presence and do more on campus, she said “ We are tr ying to do more activities that involve the community ” Ye added that the society has also discussed creating an essay competition to foster excitement, which she
said will allow Phi Beta Kappa to “ stay true to our philosophies of intellectual stimulation and discussion ” At the initiation ceremony, stud e n t s e m p h a s i ze d t h a t i n d u c t i o n into Phi Beta Kappa is a benchmark of academic achievement
This is the only way I know of that they tell you where your rank is,” said Christopher Gaffney ’12, who was initiated in his junior year and is now the society’s web designer I think it s good to have some kind of recognition for your work ” The faculty secretar y of Phi Beta Kappa and senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Prof Walter Cohen, comparative literature, echoed this sentiment
“It’s always a pleasure to see peop l e h o n o re d
o r a n a c c o m p l i s hment, ” Cohen said “ That’s one of the things that s good about a university ” Schwarz’s address at Thursday’s ceremony, titled “ The Odyssey of Learning,” addressed the benefits of liberal arts courses and the impact that knowledge can have on a community
“It reflected what society can do for the community,” said Elizabeth Da v i s ’ 1 2 , a Ph i Be t a K a p p a inductee “He focused a lot on the idealism of students and how we ’ re working to bring knowledge and love of knowledge to the community ” Xufeng Min ’12, who was also inducted this year, said he enjoyed Schwarz’s speech Basically, [he] emphasized liberal arts courses in university missions,” Min said “I liked that a lot ”
Tina Ahmadi can be reached at tta6@cornell edu
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The Cornell Chamber Orchestra and the New York Baroque Dance Company, a historical dance group, hold a dress rehearsal on Sunday before their performance of the Rameau Project
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Margaret Taormina ’13 performs a solo with her all-female acapella group, The CallbaXX, at the A-Cow-Pella fundraiser event on Sunday
Police Of cer Says IPD Discriminated Against Him
cleared him of any wrongdoing in 2008, testimony from Officer Bob Brother ton in July suggeste d h i
says, a black officer was promoted instead of him because of his race Wright is seeking $10 5
Carolyn Peterson and other city officials
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and routinely endorse, suppor t and believe the word of AfricanAmerican and minority employees over that of [ Wright] and male Caucasian employees,” the lawsuit states
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u i t , Wr i g h t who joined the IPD in 1992 and was promoted to sergeant in 1999 cites two incidents in which he was eligible for promotion to lieutenant but saw a black officer receive the promotion instead Wright alleges in the suit that in 2007, he was passed over for Pete Tyler, a black officer who is n o w d e p u t y c h i e f I n 2 0 0 9 , Wright was eligible for promotion again, but was passed over for Byrd, the lawsuit states
“ By rd w a s p r o m o t e d e v e n t h o u g h [ C h i e f o f Po l i c e E d ]
Va l l e l y a n d D e p u t y C h i e f [ John] Barber both had information and evidence of serious criminal allegations which they failed to investigate The decis i o n t o p r o m o t e B y r d o v e r [ Wright] was based on race, ” the lawsuit states, referring to the allegations that Byrd aided dr ug dealers
Those allegations come from an ongoing arbitration related to Miller’s accusation that he is the victim of racial discrimination In the arbitration, several witnesses testified under oath that Byrd gave narcotics dealers i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t p e n d i n g dr ug investigationss, according to documents in the arbitration
A l t h o u g h Va l l e l y r e v i e w e d the allegations against Byrd and
Byrd out of fear he would tip off dr ug dealers to the times and locations police would be conducting busts, The Sun repor ted in Febr uar y Shor tly before Byrd’s promotion, Wright says he was called
according to the lawsuit, Vallely told Wright that Vallely needed to “show clear and convincing evidence why [ Wright was] a better candidate,” or else the
Byrd This decision was made,
Vallely and Barber had information relating to the dr ug allegations against Byrd which they failed to investigate before promoting Byrd
Wright is alleging that racial
beyond the promotions of Tyler and Byrd
The lawsuit claims that IPD’s racial discrimination extends to “hiring, promotions, discipline, retention, training, assignments and investigations into misconduct ”
The lawsuit also says that racial discrimination could play a par t in the selection of Ithaca’s next police chief The document s
acknowledged to [ Wright] that he will never make Chief of Po
Deputy Chief Tyler, seeks promotion to Chief of Police ”
Though the IPD could not be reached for comment Sunday night, defendants in the Miller case Vallely, Barber and Tyler successfully convinced the judge in that case to dismiss the r a c
t i o n claims, including the claim that there is a hostile work environment at IPD in 2010
The Sun’s News Department can be reached at news@cornellsun com
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New Compositions for Organ by Cornell and Eastman Composers
Monday, March 12 at 8 PM FREE AND OPEN TO THE CORNELL COMMUNITY
First Half in Sage Chapel Contrapunkt! Compositions by:
Kadeem Gilbert
Liza Sobel
Second Half in Anabel Taylor Compositions by: Taylan Cihan Steven Rice
Nichols Inspires K.D. Sisters
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According to Nichols, the Kappa Delta women ’ s sisterhood defies that stereotype, offering each member a support system that Nichols said she loves to be a part of Nichols’ official duties as house director include keeping the sorority’s women safe, enforcing the house rules and ensuring that everything in the house works Whether balancing finances or calling someone to fix a leak, Nichols described her job as “ a lot of coordination ”
“There’s usually always something wrong, ” Nichols said “It’s kind of a joke about how many days we can go without the washers breaking down ”
Nichols’ role in the house, however, goes beyond handling logistics
To a house full of sorority sisters, she is a role model, friend and, according to Danielle DeBlasis ’14, a “ mom away from home ”
“I love being that mom figure One girl was really sick, and I ran up and held her hair while she was puking, Nichols said Everyone needs a friend during vulnerable times ”
DeBlasis said that from doing yoga together in Nichols’ room to “smiling up a storm, ” Nichols ensures that she is always there for anyone who needs her Kristen Ewing ’14 added that within the first three days of Nichols arrival, Nichols knew every woman s name and has not stopped knowing “everything about every girl in the house” since then
The attachment is mutual; Nichols is currently planning her wedding with the help of her “41 new friends ”
“I love being a girl and being around girls,” Nichols said “I’m engaged to the love of my life, and it s just so fun to be able to tell the girls about all the plans and look up dresses ”
As a gift, one of the women made a frame for Nichols that said, in Kappa Delta colors, olive green and pearl white, “Kappa Delta House Mom” to which Nichols added “and Dad ” Nichols’ fiancé, Kent Uber, will move into the house after they wed in July
“None of us are at that stage in our lives where we ’ re getting married,” Ewing said, “ so it’s kind of nice to live vicariously through her ” Prior to coming to Ithaca almost two years ago, Nichols worked for General Mills, starting as a “muffin girl” in the assembly line and rising to become the company ’ s international project manager and coordinator
She worked during most of her time in school, taking classes at night or working from five to nine a m
Nichols said she has also traveled extensively: she spent one and a half years in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia on a church mission trip and has studied, interned and worked in countries including Cambodia, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Italy and India
According to Annie Henderson ’14, who shares Nichols’ interest in agriculture and food security in developing countries, Nichols has been involved with a non-governmental organization called Food for Life Vrindavan Nichols proposed a food security strategy that Food for Life accepted for implementation later this year The plan includes a school nutrition program that will familiarize children with new vegetables and a program to train farmers on sustainable agricultural practices
“It’s something she’s extraordinarily passionate about and really pours herself into,” Henderson said “She has that amount of perseverance to just continually [work] towards things that will better people ”
Some of the women in Kappa Delta said that Nichols’ extensive travel and education have allowed her to help them find internships and explore their interests
“[Once] we ended up in the kitchen talking to Amy for three and a half hours, and she told us about her experiences and how she got to where she is now, ” Ewing said “It’s so great to have someone in the house to inspire and motivate us ”
Nikki Lee can be reached at nsl37@cornell edu
Counselors Support Employees in Crisis
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a death or loss around the campus FSAP is included in these meetings ”
For instance, Tornusciolo said, in case of a crisis affecting faculty and staff, FSAP counselors contact the depar tment concerned to ask if it needs help from the program
“If, indeed, they would like some suppor t in order to address their depar tment staff collectively or individually, then we would become involved and provide the ser vice,” he said
Because many staff and faculty members consider Cornell their primar y community, they expect emotional suppor t from the University, according to Janet Shor tall, assistant dean of students and director of the Empathy, Assistance and Referral Ser vice, a peer-counseling program
“A staff member who was a Cornell employee died, and FSAP reached out to the other staff members here and was available for their personal comfor t and suppor t, ” Shor tall said
Employees using FSAP s ser vices are often str uggling with personal issues both at home and
in the worksplace, she added, citing “ teenagers ” and work balance as common stressors
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resource, ” Shor tall said
According to Hubbell, FSAP wants to maintain the confidentiality of its ser vices to protect faculty and staff
“A lot of these issues can be sensitive so we want to maintain discretion,” Hubbell said “I think we want people to know about it, but we don’t want to create an environment where people might be hesitant to seek the assistance because it is somehow vie wed as something that ever yone would know about ”
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approach situations slowly to carefully assess what faculty need
“ This ser vice really honors the ser vice that faculty and staff provide for the University We are here to suppor t them as they provide that ser vice to students and their fellow colleagues,” Tornusciolo said
Manu Rathore can be reached at mrathore@cornellsun com
C.U.: Outreach ‘Crucial’ To Reporting of Crimes
sexual assault such as SHAPE, Ever y1 and Consent-Ed a
promote awareness about violence and abuse said that education is crucial to increasing the
crimes, largely because victims of such crimes are often too intimidated to report them
“A lot of the time, the victim may not even report the case because they are afraid of what may happen following through with it and having to re-tell what has happened to them over and over again,” Kutsenko said in an email “Most abuse cases are a hard matter to report and to follow through with for both the victim and the police ”
expanded preventative measures against sexual violence in recent years
Wingman 101, a discussion-
s h e d b y Gannett in 2008, provides men with the skills needed to intervene and stop other men from c
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m advocate at Gannett
“A good wing man is someone who watches out for you and steps in if you are about to make a big mistake,” she said Cummings said the program has been particularly successful in engaging athletes and new members of fraternities
The Panhellenic Council has also supported campaigns that raise student awareness about
bystander inter vention and sexua l a s s a u
interactive workshops on
Cohen Ristorucci ’13 vice president of judicial affairs and stan-
Council, who
encouraged all chapters to schedule a Consent-Ed workshop for their new members, and we have
about the discussions ConsentEd inspired,” Cohen Ristorucci said
Still, some students said that there is progress to be made in the reporting and handling cases of sexual assaults on campus
“Although I am glad people are coming for ward and reporting their occurrences, I believe it is more important to focus on
Terrones said
Jamaican Drug Lord Faces Sentencing in U.S. Case
NEW YORK (AP) U S authorities say Jamaican dr ug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke was so r uthless that he once ordered a rival killed with a chainsaw
However, another episode left a more lasting impression with the general public: He was arrested wearing a curly black wig
A mug shot of Coke wearing the wig as a disguise while on the r un went viral on the Internet after his capture in Jamaica during a bloody siege of his ghetto stronghold in 2010 that left more than 70 dead At the time, he waived extradition to the United States and vowed to fight dr ug trafficking, gun smuggling, racketeering and other charges
But following a guilty plea last year, Coke faces up to 23 years in prison at sentencing this week in federal cour t in Manhattan
The 43-year-old Coke has sought mercy in a letter to the judge seven handwritten pages that in tone are formal and polite but in substance barely touch upon a litany of accusations painting him as a cold-blooded killer
“Good day to you, sir,” he wrote “I am humbly asking if you could be lenient on me ” Prosecutors have argued that leniency isn’t an option They want Coke to ser ve the maximum term and be depor ted
N.Y. Dems, Patient Advocates Seek New Drug Policy
ALBANY, N Y (AP) Influential black legislative leaders as well as patient advocacy groups targeting mental illness, ar thritis, diabetes, AIDs and other chronic diseases and conditions are pushing to get the Cuomo administration to relax a cost-cutting measure that they say forces patients to use inadequate medications
Their concern is language in regulations aimed at reducing Medicaid costs They say the language say allows health benefits managers rather than physicians to decide on the best medication for some patients The directive moves prescription ser vice for 3 million Medicaid recipients to managed care, a way to save money over the traditional fee-for-ser vice method
The directive is par t of Gov Andrew Cuomo’s attempt to cut billions of dollars from the state ' s burgeoning Medicaid health care program for the poor, one of the most generous in the nation The cost is a huge par t of the state budget and is growing faster than any other area
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Spar Before Key Miss., Ala. Primaries
BIRMINGHAM, Ala (AP) Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santor um on Sunday nudged rival Ne wt Gingrich to step aside, arguing a head-to-head contest between himself and Mitt Romney should “ occur sooner rather than later ” A defiant Gingrich predicted victories in Tuesday’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi
front-r unner in nearly a centur y Santor um and Gingrich were campaigning hard two days before what has become a potentially decisive Southern showdown for the GOP field
Losing Alabama and Mississippi would effec-
banked his waning prospects on an all-Southern strategy The former House speaker’s lone primar y wins have been in South Carolina and Georgia, a state he represented in Congress for 20 years A win for Romney in Alabama, where polling s
Gingrich and Santor um, could all but bring the GOP nominating contest to a close The former Massachusetts governor has built a substantial delegate lead against his rivals but has failed so far to win a state in the deep South, home to the Republican Par ty ' s most conser vative voters
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Naoshi Sato, 78, mourns the death of his son, Shocihi Sato, 47, who died in Japan’s tsunami last year, after a memorial ser vice Sunday The ser vice coincided with the disaster that killed over 19,000 on March, 11, 2011
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Hail Fellow, Well Met: Walking into a Community
This past Saturday night, I was sitt i n g i n C o l l e g e t o w n B a g e l s , drinking an iced tea with my girlfriend, when I was greeted by a rather obviously inebriated frat boy He shook my hand and said something along the lines of, “ you ’ ve got it all over your face!” He then shook my hand again and went off to sit with his friends
The reasoning behind his greeting was fairly simple: I had just come back from Filthy/Gorgeous, and was spor ting some rather garish-looking facepaint What gave me pause about the whole affair, however, was how he managed to get the courage to come up and talk to
me in the first place What can inspire someone to wander up to a complete stranger and introduce themselves (in this case, several times)?
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In this par ticular instance alcohol is a pretty obvious culprit But this happens even when it’s fairly clear that no Keystone Light is involved It s never as memorable as being told that I have John Car ter of Mars all over my face, but when I’m out wandering around Ithaca, people I don’t know will occasionally acknowledge my existence Not ver y often, but occasionally, and this is enough to some what star tle me I imagine a good por tion of the people reading this right now are thinking, “ um so? How is this wor th devoting a major por tion of an op-ed page to?” I, however, am not at all accustomed to this phenomenon I ve lived in Ne w York City since I star ted high school, and I’ve become accustomed to assuming that any stranger who makes eye contact with you wants to sell you something
What causes this cultural division? Why are people so much friendlier out here in Ithaca than in big bad Ne w York City? Par t of it can be attributed to a general lack of paranoia here, and to a more leisurely life lived by Ithacans
Pe o p l e h e r e a r e n ’ t a l w a y s r u s h i n g around with their Blackberries glued to their faces, nor are they usually in fear of being assaulted on the street But this still does not answer the question of why exactly people go out of their way to greet complete strangers
I think the answer lies in how people w a l k I n Ne w Yo r k C
walks It’s how people get from one place to another In Ithaca, however, once you get out of the confines of Cornell’s hill, most people get places in cars This, ironically enough, creates a sor t of community among pedestrians We choose to, or through various cir-
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side walk is to acknowledge them as par t of this greater community of travelers on foot This sor t of community can ’ t exist when ever yone is par t of it, since it has nothing to set itself off against therefore, no friendly greetings in Ne w York
readers who earlier were questioning why I get so worked up when people give me a quick nod on the side walk now thinking that I’m just applying a lot of unnecessar y analysis to something that should just come naturally? After all, I can t separate myself from the Ne w York City culture I come from It’s just as possible for someone born and raised in Ithaca to write a column going into depth about why Ne w Yorkers never say “hi” to people on the street Things like this always seem obvious to the people who grow up with them and bizarre to those who don’t
However, the thing about most communities is that we don’t know that they re there This is because, fundamentally, we think that ever yone else is in the community with us Yet communities are defined as much by those inside of them as by those outside of them, since a community exists as a particular subset of the general population, a subset that is opposed to other portions of the population
Next time someone nods their head at you as you walk down the street think about your reaction Odds are, how you feel is indicative of where you s e e y o u r s e l f s t a n d i n g i n t h e w o r l d , which communities you belong to and what kind of person you think you are And if you nod back, maybe you’ll make a ne w friend
Aidan Bonner is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at abonner@cornellsun com The Weather Report appears alternate Mondays this semester
CORRECTIONS
A ne ws ar ticle Friday, “Conflicting Stories Emerge in Maple Hill Murder Trial,” incorrectly stated the location of the murder It occurred by the Maple Hill apar tment complex, not the Maple wood apar tment complex
Two ne ws ar ticles Friday incorrectly identified the titles of members of the Student Assembly The representatives are not former members of the S A , as the outgoing Assembly does not step down from their posts until June
As someone who was better at English and history than math and science in high school, what I chose to study in college was partly an effort to shy away from the latter fields and take refuge in “softer” subjects “Leave the questions of science to the scientists, I am concerned with justice and morality,” we, who chose humanities, said! These two domains were exclusive “non-overlapping magisteria” as Stephen Jay Gould might say No meaningful dialogue between the disciplines was possible or necessary
This attitude, however, is lazy and destructive at best, hopelessly antiquated
The scientific study of human behavior is shedding new light on our actions and inner life To ignore these insights is not just a mistake It is criminal
I’m on our school’s mock trial team and have done mock trial for seven years now There was a point, at the beginning, when I really felt that I was crusading on the side of righteousness in a system optimized for delivering justice But eventually, I came to realize the solutions being offered in the courtroom simply could not get to the heart of the matter in the way science could This realization came not from inside a court room, but rather from a brain scientist writing in a magazine
In an article in the Atlantic, The Brain on Trial, David Eagleman makes the case that we must wade out of the swamp of the medieval machinations of our legal system obsessed with the ancient and largely useless preoccupation with assigning blame
He cites a seemingly straightfor ward
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pedophilia case Eagleman describes the case of a 40-year-old man who “developed an interest in child pornography” and began to make “subtle sexual advances toward his prepubescent stepdaughter ” Eventually he was sent to prison It was only after the discovery and successful removal of a tumor in his brain that he was able to abandon his pedophilia Eagleman explains, When your biology changes, so can your decision-making and your desires The drives you take for granted depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery ” Eagleman argues that “ we can build a legal system more deeply informed by science, because when modern brain science is laid out clearly, it is difficult to justify how our legal system can continue to function without taking what we ’ ve learned into account ”
But, David Eagleman is a neuroscientist
Of course he would be inclined to make such a grandiose claim for his discipline Well, we are hearing the same calls from within the law
Jon Hanson is Law Professor at Harvard He has a B A in Economics and a degree in law Yet, eventually his studies in law and specifically the tobacco industry led him to abandon this field for the study Social Psychology, Social Cognition and other Mind Sciences
He has since founded The Project on Law and the Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School and advocates for his version of the theory he calls Situationism As though it were coming straight from the mouth of Eagleman, Hanson writes that situationism “is premised on the social scientific insight
that the naïve psychology on which our laws and institutions are based is largely wrong Situationists seek first to establish a view of the human animal that is as realistic as possible before turning to legal theory or policy To do so, situationists rely on the insights of scientific disciplines ” And those insights are impossible to ignore Take the MAO-A gene Having a certain form of this gene (the low MAO-A gene), when combined with childhood mistreatment, sign i f i c a n t l y increases your chances of becoming violent Yet, I have only ever heard of one case where such evidence was even up for discussion In response to that evidence, the D A said “The more of this information that you put before a jury the [greater the] chances of confusing them ” In other words, the claim is not that such evidence is irrelevant, but rather we are too stupid to handle it How condescending and pessimistic Even the prosecution’s rebuttal expert claimed it’s way too early to use this research in a court of law If we are ever to progress morally and socially we cannot afford to hold such views Not just our legal system, but our political system too could use an injection of scientific reasoning Many political claims are testable scientific hypotheses and ought to be treated as such To support the “ war on drugs,” for example, under the claim that it
reduces crime and drug use is to make a scientifically testable and falsifiable hypothesis Of course the data is messy and experiments hard to come by, but the very act of framing these as scientific questions will help us hack through this choking epistemic relativism in which everyone is entitled to an opinion by virtue of the fact that their justification may correspond to a possible version of reality
Deri
The world is not essentially unknowable And the tools of science can help us peer into the eyes of reality And from that reality, we should build our society I’m not worried that we run the risk of ignoring science as a great tool in our legal system, political debates or moral reasoning Its encroachment into these domains is inevitable The question is how quickly we ’ re going to embrace it rather than resist it at the cost of progress With great gusto and speed, not only must scientists become lawyers, politicians and preachers but lawyers, politicians and preachers must become scientists
Sebastian Deri is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He may be reached at sderi@cornellsun com Thought Crimes appears alternate Mondays this semester
Time for a P rogress R eport
e are writing in response to The Sun editorial “Tackling Gorge Safety, Jan 24, which asserted that, “A stronger sense of urgency on the part of the administration may help to prevent more deaths in the future ” This urgency, and the fear that bureaucratic intransigence will inevitably lead to more deaths and injuries this coming summer, were the motivations for our efforts to establish a cautionary memorial for our son as covered in The Sun article “City Rejects Memorial for Nathaniel Rand ’12,” Feb 10
As of this writing, it’s been eight months since the last two student drownings at the gorges; enough time to ask whether
President Skorton's promise to implement effective safety measures has yielded results
To be specific, President Skorton charged vice presidents Susan Murphy and Mary Opperman to “rapidly review past and planned actions and report back by November 1, 2011 with recommendations for future actions ” That report, which President Skorton endorsed, omitted any references at all to past actions a lapse that logically precludes formulating an effective forward-thinking solution
Without this evaluative component which President Skorton himself stipulated in commissioning the report there is reason to worry that future measures will not be any more effective than past ones We are likely to see a repetition of that all too familiar cycle of tragedy, followed by expressions of resolve to prevent future tragedies, ineffective committees and half-hearted measures that are progressively diluted by other priorities and distractions, and then the next tragedy
This is not a theoretical issue; on average, every year about one to three Cornell students die from non-suicidal drowning
It is time to get a progress report on the steps that the University has taken since the report was submitted and to learn the answers to the following questions
1 Responses to the tragedies of last summer: What did the administration do to prevent further deaths after
Kendrick Castro ’11 drowned in May, a day after graduating? What did they do when Stanislaw Jaworski grad died in the early afternoon of July 2? What was done when Nate Rand died later that afternoon? What was done prior to and following our telephone call to President Skorton at the end of July to demand action to prevent additional deaths?
2 A report on the failures of the prior committees and task forces: What was the track record of the prior committees? Our concern is that such committees, established repeatedly over the years, have been worse than inefficient; they have fostered the illusion that the matter was being addressed What was the history of the Gorge Safety Task Force that was formed after the accidental drowning of Navin Parthasarathy in August 2006? The current committee could have read about the prior one that was formed five years ago in the Nov 2008 issue of Cornell Alumni Magazine What did that committee do before
Doug Lowe’s ’11 drowning in June 2008? What was done in the aftermath? What did the committee or University administration do after Leslie Reed ’09 suffered severe injuries in May 2009? Who was responsible for addressing gorge safety? The current steering committee could have read about some of the less than effective measures in the July 19, 2009 issue of The Sun
On Dec 2, 2011, Vice-President Mary Opperman was quoted on these pages as saying, “There [has] been work on gorge safety through a standing committee for years We came together in a really focused way this fall after the tragedies The planning and the ideas that you see there have been worked on for many years ” It would be important to know what VP Opperman is describing Surely, President Skorton and the members of the current steering committee all have access to the minutes of those meetings and could review and assess the outcomes of those many years of work The notion that a committee s planning and ideas can be construed as accomplishments is a Kafkaesque illusion that is exactly counter to substantive action
The stor y of the danger signs at the gorge sites is sadly emblematic of the ineffectiveness of this approach Signs had been designed by the Spring of 2011, but it was decided not to post them in time for the summer swimming season Vice-President Murphy told us that the university
wanted to wait and get opinions about the signs when the students returned for the Fall semester After our insistence, VP Opperman arranged for those signs to be placed at gorge sites on the Cornell campus in time for orientation week in August Similar signs have not yet been posted at other gorge sites that are just outside the boundaries of the Cornell campus This would require the coordination and cooperation between Cornell and the City of Ithaca recommended by the Gorge Safety Steering Committee report of Oct 1 Have Cornell administrators met with Ithaca officials about this?
3 The apparent absence of leadership: How is it that a university administration that can be extraordinarily nimble in pursuing a massive complex project like the NYC Tech Campus, which is currently budgeted for $2 billion, appears to be incapable of addressing the issue of recurring and preventable drowning? This success involved extraordinary leadership, a sophisticated public relations effort including professional videos, expensive lobbying efforts and negotiations with the NYC government, regulatory agencies and a foreign university Why can ’ t Cornell successfully negotiate with the City of Ithaca and local constituencies to take measures to prevent a continuing cause of recurrent deaths?
4 Project management: Many specific recommendations were made in the current Gorge Safety Steering Committee report Remarkably, this committee strongly recommended that yet another committee, “ an ongoing committee be charged with oversight of the gorge and be given the institutional authority to monitor progress on those activities that you authorize ” Who is responsible? What was done? Have they met with City of Ithaca officials to coordinate efforts on appropriate signage and safety measures?
Twenty five years ago, the family and friends of Danny Sastrowardoyo ’87 placed a memorial plaque engraved with the words “ to caution others in the hope that he will be the last ” Sadly he and many others were not the last If such deaths were isolated, we could understand the inclination to attribute their causes to common sense lapses But the repeated and unending trail of death shows it’s not the common sense of the victims that was lacking Enough with voices, condolences, memorials, concerns and pleas There is no doubt that this great university has the resources and talent to address gorge safety effectively But does it have the will?
Jacob and Maggi Rand are the parents of Nathaniel Rand Class of 2012 Freya and Gabriel Class of 2004 College of Agriculture and Engineering and Ethan Class of 2005 College of Human Ecolog y) are Nathaniel s sister and brothers Questions and comments may be sent to opinion@cornellsun com Guest Room appears periodically this semester
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Strung Space
Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, a choreographic work by William Forsythe, presented this past week at the Rand Hall Annex The piece envisions how blind French political activist and resistance fighter Jacques Lusseyran described the intricate workings of his mental space from where sprung thoughts and ideas
I went to see the performance this past Thursday on its last day of viewing From the cement ceiling of the large room hung a multitude of delicate pendulums, 20 inches apart, covering the entire area small, silver cones suspended a short distance over the floor on a white thin rope
That Thursday happened to be exceedingly cloudy and rainy, so from my weather-affected perspective the room appeared to be filled with a profusion of raindrops frozen in time
William Forsythe is a native New Yorker who currently resides in Frankfurt, Germany He founded his own company in 2005, The Forsythe Company For all the people who are as clueless as me when it comes to the intricate workings of ballet, he is viewed as the punk ass rebel of the ballet world Forsythe’s work is known for deconstructing standard ballet practices and redefining the boundaries of the art What results leans towards modern dance, if anything He
has produced a fair number of installation pieces over the years and his love for this art is clear in Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time
Entering the seemingly vast room, you need to navigate your way along the edges of the maze created by the pendulums to find a seat A lone male dancer, Brock Labrenz, is standing in the center of the expanse His uniform is nondescript: just a simple blue t-shirt, grey pants and sneakers
As the clock strikes three, the performance begins He starts off static, in one location, slowly unfurling his body His moves resemble those of a puppet I peek above to look for the domineering hands of the puppeteer but instead, all I see are masses of ropes As time goes on, the performer starts to move around the silver cylinders, never touching them The only sounds that punctured the silence are the clanging and clicking of the cylinders as well as the heaves and sighs of the dancer
The only setback to this choreographic piece is its inaccessibility to be viewed from every angle Such power would have pushed this exhibition from awesome to truly exceptional The pendulums took up every inch of the available space in the room, driving the audience to observe the performance from one fixed position The room also lacked enough seating for the continuous trickle of people that showed up to see Forsythe’s work Thus, many people had to occupy the (very) limited space in the corners of the room
Enter the Sander Zone
After a few minutes of dancing the dancer takes one of the ropes in his hands and lets it go Once he does that, the cylinder starts swinging in slow lazy circles He exhibits great control over his muscles, not only moving around the cylinders but also interacting with his environment The dancer experiments with his surroundings, trying different things with the instruments all around him At one point, he puts two of the cylinders in his pockets; at another moment he twists two ropes together, letting them unravel He explores all available options to him and tests the limits When he’s accomplished all that can be done with his eyes open for the time being, he closes them alluding to the sightless Jacques Lusseyran
He tries to maneuver blindly through the labyrinth of ropes, bumping into his surroundings In my mind, the area has transformed into Lusseyran s internal space The actor might only be confined in one area, yet his actions are apparent all throughout the entire room When he moves a row of pendulums in one area and dances to another section of the room, his actions reverberate all around the expanse When he lies down in the middle of the room, pendulums are swinging from one corner of the room to the other He is at once everywhere and nowhere
SAM MARTINEZ Sun Staff Writer
At the center of the little-known Tammany Coffee House in Risley Hall, a man, Gordon Sander 73, embraced in the teal suede of a studded armchair, floated in the nether of lofty ideas; his face laced with a quietly sinister pensiveness immediately engulfed by a good-natured eccentricity Impromptu, yet still dramatic lighting drew the small audience into his zone, The Sander Zone, appropriately backdropped with the twinkling stars of the Twilight Zone All of this in reverence of the delightfully peculiar Rod Serling
A brief background: Rod Serling is an icon best known for his work on The Twilight Zone, a late 50s, early 60s sci-fi television series The man was a “ one man show,” as Sander put it, having written two-thirds of the classic's episodes himself and introducing episodes as the dashing narrator Yes, he was the the black skinny tie and tweed blazer behind the smooth voice of reason in the deep space of the Twilight Zone
Though the studly Rod Serling, who unfortunately died at 51 in 1975, was not in the strange and rustic chamber, he might as well have been Reverence infused every word spoken by Sander as he spoke of his recently reissued
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biography of the iconic Rod Serling, Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television s Last Angry Man
Sander a writer, photographer, educator and ex-Risleyite garnished his homecoming at Risley Hall with a reading of his biography The biography is considered by many to be one of the most detailed and efficacious examinations of Serling's life and of the history of television
Finding that long-lost love for Cornell as the first artist-in-residence at Risley in 2002, Sander decided to stay in Ithaca and extend his work and involvement with the university Today, he continues to employ two Risleyites as his assistants or what he endearingly calls his “munchkins ”
His relationship with Risley is not bounded by the 18 Risleyites he has worked closely with; Sander hosts an all-night-moviewalkathon-poetry-reading called "Hanging Out" every May The nocturnal expedition includes a midnight movie, TV run, rendezvous at the Haunt, breakfast at the state diner and culminates in a poetry reading synchronized elegantly with the rise of the sun
Sander's ongoing relationship with Risley has symbolically brought him full circle in his literary career (he began writing in Risley and now presents his finished work here as well)
The cycle is also aptly reflective of his rela-
tionship with his past literary exploits and his bond with Rod Serling:
I like writing about unsung heroes and forgotten stories, and he seemed to me to be an unsung hero of American literature He was someone who hadn't been given his due That's what compelled me to write the book Risley, it seems to Sander, is the closest thing to an alternative college that Cornell has “I happen to be a fan of Risley, and I think Serling would be too Risley, much like Rod Serling, is an unsung hero He wrote in an era when writing for television was not of literary merit
Serling began his career writing for live television, composing plays with controversial and engaging themes like hysteria and prejudice, which according to Sander, he did not supplement The Twilight Zone was a television masterpiece with an unprecedented quality of writing stitched with motifs of relevance and concern to the citizenry The Twilight Zone was rich with social subtext
“[The book] is a historical biography in that I use Serling's life as a prison to tell the story of television, the first twenty years of television It s a two level kind of book I wanted to give him his due and his place in American literature ” In the dimness of Tammany, it must have
Eleni Konstantopoulos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at edk44@cornell edu Sam Martinez
been apparent to every body in the room that Sander outdid himself To say that Sander held Serling in high esteem would be iniquitous; Sander's study of Serling is so meticulous that one would swear they must have once been buddies
As Sander read from his book, eyebrows raised, his passion for [hi]storytelling and due reverence hit the audience with the force of glaring the 60 hertz of white noise paradigmatically associated with his field of study The man could not stand still, could not refrain from looking up to engage with his listeners Every inflection, every intonation walked the crowd deeper into the Sander Zone With every word, his head and body arched forward as if into the loophole that defied physics and took him into the twilight zone
“Serling, he belieeeeeved in television ” It was like watching intellect embody a child-like presence, enthusiasm rising and breaking the surface voluntarily or involuntarily Merge murkiness with undertones of clarity and dynamic intellectual fervor, and you are now entering the Sander Zone
ELENI KONSTANTOPOULOS Sun Contributor
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Arts Around Town
Guerrilla Girls Founder Frida Kahlo
4:30 p m Tuesday at RPCC Auditorium
Frida Kahlo, the pseudonym the founder of feminist group Guerrilla Girls goes by, gives a lecture on her struggle for gender equality at Robert Purcell Community Center Founded in 1985 in response to the Museum of Modern Art exhibition which featured a mere 17 women out of 169 artists, Gu
empowerment and attempts to combat s e x i
inequality, especially in the world of fine arts Spreading awareness through protest art and public speaking engagements, they continue to inspire a generation of young women to express themselves, whether through art or through some other means
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Coulibaly and Coates
7:30 p m Tuesday at Kiplinger Theater, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
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Burkinan Lacina Coulibaly per form t h e i r d a n c e d u e t Ic i O u
Organist Randall Harlow
8 p m on Monday at Sage Chapel and Anabel Taylor Hall
Cornell organist Randall Harlow presents compositions by both Cornell and E
organ is more than an instr ument to accompany requiems and psalms The first half of the concer t takes place in the peaceful atmosphere of Sage Chapel and features ne w works by Cornell students
Liza Sobel
Eastman composer Steven Rice This concer t is free and open to the public
Lubabah Chowdhur y
Purbo Asmoro Presents Arujuna’s Profound Meditation
8 p m on Wednesday at Barnes Hall
Shadow Drama Master Purbo Asmoro will bring Javanese classical drama and traditional music to life through captivating shadow puppetr y and a gamelan musical ensemble An English translation of the narrative will accompany the per formance This production is brought to you by the Cornell Concer t Comission
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will be featured during the night as well
Zachar y Zahos
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rocking out before the yellow-clad Bride slashes anyone and ever yone who gets in her way? Both are unforgettable scenes, and unfor tunately it would probably take any writer weeks to do such a tribute jus-
choices was gr ueling, since each of his films contains no less than several memorable soundtrack choices But for the sake of space and time (a girl’s gotta sleep at some point), I’ll rank my three favorite musical moments in Tarantino’s unparal-
d i s r e g a r d i n g perhaps the most ingenious mastermind of pairing gloriously fitting soundtracks with his iconic films The man himself: Quentin Tarantino How could I not have included him on my list of musicallyinclined filmmakers that spanned a total of two whole columns? How could his name have slipped my mind? What was I thinking?!
Fret not, Tarantino fanatics, for here I will dedicate an entire 755-word column to the living legend and the most excellent musical moments in his movies There are cer tainly lots of them; I mean, how can you say the guy ’ s name and not think of the dance contest in Pulp Fiction set to “ You Never Can Tell?” Or the scene in Kill Bill Vol 1 with the Japanese all-girl group
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Fire)” accompanies a tense sequence that documents the hours leading up to a gor y rampage disguised as a movie premiere attended by none other than Hitler The
scorned Shoshanna Dreyfus as she conspires her revenge on the Nazis that murdered her family, as Bowie’s robust voice booms over disco beats and synths “See
these eyes so red / Red like jungle burning bright, Bowie howls; with these haunting lines, we know that Shoshanna will stop at nothing to exact her vengeance and is out for one thing and one thing only: blood 2 Kill Bill Vol 2: Uma Rises From the Dead “Ok, Pai Me Here I come ” And w
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Bride, karate-chop her way through a wooden coffin where she’s buried alive by a former ally After breaking free from her shackles, The Bride uses what her Master taught her and swiftly breaks out of the coffin and crawls to the sur face in probably one of the most badass scenes ever on film Tarantino, a notorious film geek, brilliantly pairs one of his idols, Spaghetti Western composer Ennio Morricone and his song “L’Arena” with The Bride’s miraculous getaway From her silent scheming to her upward trek through the dir t, the eerie whistling, rich strings and vibrant horns all build to a roar until we see The Bride’s hand shoot up from underground towards the night sky Then, naturally, she moves on to her next victim
1 Pulp Fiction: “Don’t you hate that?”
“ W h a t ? ” “ Un c o m f o r t a b l e s i l e n c e s ” There was absolutely nothing uncomfor ta b l e a b o u t t h i s i c o n i c s c e n e f r o m Tarantino’s magnum opus that featured a young raven-haired Thurman and a suddenly cool again John Travolta in a 50s throwback diner The discourse between T h u r m a n ’ s Mi a Wa l l
Vincent Vega just goes to show that even though Tarantino is most praised for his intricate dialogue, he has an equal knack for letting music speak for the characters
Electric guitar master Link Wray’s three
legendar y chords fill the void of the conversation break as his “Rumble” rattles over the white noise in the restaurant
Instead of sharing dialogue, Wallace and Vega share intense stares as their sexual tension blisters with each violent, distor ted str um of Wray s guitar If this scene alone doesn’t prove Tarantino’s wor th as the king of contemporar y American cinema, I don’t know what does
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12 and Kadeem Gilber t 12, while the second half in Anabel Taylor showcases the works of Cornell DMA
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enough in its physical play, and failed to clear the puck when it was on the penalty kill
“We have to play a little more disciplined and try not to get our sticks up, ” she said “Minimizing those penalties is really important And, in terms of the penalty kill, they have a great power play and we were blocking shots, but sometimes we did not get it out when we had the opportunity to get it out Getting it all the way down the ice is the most important thing ”
According to Karpenko, the Red knows that its defense was not good enough in yesterday’s game, and the team ’ s communication and back-checking need improvement
“Most of their chances came on the rush, so its a matter of the forwards back-checking hard and the defense recognizing when they can step up and take somebody early in the play,” she said “Better communication between the defense and forwards will also help limit their chances ”
In the overtime periods, both teams came close on a number of occasions, before the Red finally won with just ten seconds left in the third overtime
According to Karpenko, as exhaustion kicks in, the game turns into a battle of wills
Everyone’s exhausted, and once you get into the second and third overtime it is really a matter of who wants it more ” she said “A lot of systems and tactical things go out the window Things aren ’ t pretty, and it is just a matter of trying to out-work the other team ”
When you ’ re in the moment it is do or die, so you kind of almost forget about how tired you are ” Johnston added “But fitness was important and I think we ’ re a pretty fit team and that paid off for us in the end ”
The hero in the end was Lauriane Rougeau, a junior defenseman with only six goals on the season She skated past one defender, split two others, and backhanded the puck through the goalies’ legs setting off the wild celebration The play appeared on SportCenter’s top ten plays later that night
“It was an unbelievable play,” Karpenko said “I don’t think they expected her to try to take it to the net like that, but she did and she buried it
And with that goal the Red is still alive in the quest for a national championship
Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun com
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13 games after going 3-for-8 in the second double header against George Washington
Red Takes Three of Four on Road Trip
By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
The Red started off the 2012 season with its best start, 6-0, since 1906, but lost to GW in its third game of the weekend on Sunday to end the streak Cornell headed back to the Mid-Atlantic region to face George Washington in a four-game series spanning Saturday and Sunday The Red is continuing its 20-game stretch on the road before beginning its Ivy League opener on March 31st against Ivy foe, Har vard
On Saturday the Red (7-1) swept GW (2-10), 63, in the first game and 5-3 in the second Sophomore pitchers Connor Kaufmann and freshman pitcher Brent Jones improved to 2-0 this season as they each earned a win Senior Marshall Yanzick expanded his hitting streak to 13 games since last year The Red produced 23 hits for the day, with eight different players recording hits in the opener Senior Brian Billigen had five hits, including a 4-for-4 performance in the nightcap Billigen was also named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Tuesday
“I thought this weekend was a success ” said junior infielder Brandon Peters “ We went 3-1 and lost a close run game Pitchers threw extremely well and we continued to hit The team is in a good place right now ”
Cornell continued into Sunday on a high note, but ended up losing to GW, 4-3 The Colonials scored two runs in the sixth and one run in the sev-
enth and eighth innings to put them up by two
The Red staged a comeback in the top of the ninth when senior Frank Hager and senior Brandon Lee both delivered singles to put runners on the corners with two outs Sophomore Ben Swinford then connected with a double to right that scored Hager to put the Red within one, but a strikeout ended the game for Cornell’s first loss of the season
However, the Red came back in the last of the four games to avenge the tough loss of the morning with a 12-3 win over the Colonials In the second game the Red came out strong, scoring eight runs in the first four innings before the Colonials could even get on the board Five of the Red’s hitters produced multiple hits during the game to ensure a victor y for Cornell
Peters scored four runs during the second game Billigen and sophomore Chris Cruz both hit homeruns in the decisive victor y
The Red will hit the road for a 10-game Spring Break trip The team will play a pair of double headers at Delaware before continuing South to Old Dominion, then to Virginia Tech for two games and finally to Longwood for four
“ The ultimate goal has been since day one to win an Ivy League championship and play in a regional,” Peters said “ We have a ver y talented team that is extremely motivated with only that end goal in sight ”
Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun com
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All of the Red s goals came within 8:21 of the starting buzzer, shorter than it takes Davethe Zamboni driver to clean the ice Head Coach
Bob Gaudet then replaced senior Dartmouth goalie Jody O Neill with his classmate James Mello who made a perfect 23 saves Mello’s readiness was not enough to close the 3-0 gap Though Dartmouth’s freshman center Charlie Mosey was able to flip the puck over sophomore net minder Andy Iles at 11:29 in the first off a rebound of freshman defender Andy Simpson’s shot, it was the only goal the Green would score
Iles’ 27 saves on the night helped the Red preserve the win without much insurance a feat the team struggled with this season as late as January
“[Iles] played phenomenal all weekend,” said Jilson “He just shows up to play every game ”
A tremendous amount of four-on-four hockey in the third period benefited Dartmouth, who needed a goal to move within tying range
Seniors Sean Whitney and Jilson scored during their final game on home ice, and sophomore Dustin Mowrey scored for the second night in a row Mowrey’s redirection from junior John Esposito came just 1:07 into the game and
Whitney almost had a second score off the crossbar, but the angle was off and it clinked harmlessly out of the crease
Mowrey’s goal was his sixth of the season
Unlike Friday s game in which junior forward Greg Miller was sent headfirst into the boards without a call on the play, nobody got away with anything on Saturday 17 penalties were handed out as evenly as possible to the two combatants Even still, huge hits were exchanged as is common in playoff hockey
After the game, the Red’s seniors took center ice to thank their fans and the team took a victory lap to amp up for more tournament play Cornell, holding the No 2 playoff seed, is scheduled to play the second semifinal game at 7 p m on Friday, Mar 16 Cornell will face off against third-seeded Harvard, who defeated Yale in three games this weekend two of which also ended in overtime victories
The Red is still looking for an at-large bid into the NCAA tournament “Guys are aware of it and are checking out our pairwise rankings,” said Ross Schafer does not advertise said statistics in his locker room, but players are understandably curious at this crucial point in the season
Rob Moore can be reached at rmoore@cornellsun com
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times, tying the game with Van Bourgondien’s down to the wire goal Junior attacker
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t oback unassisted goals within a 21 second span, just 16 seconds after Stanwick put away UVA s eighth goal The score w a s 8 - 7 ,
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va l i e r s rode off with the 9-8 victor y “If we could do it again, we d probably play the same way, ” Mock said “ We made a fe w mistakes and didn’t capitalize off a fe w oppor tunities It ’ s d i s a p p o i n t i n g t h a t w e couldn’t pull it out because we had the ball in our possession I think it’s something we can
their normal game, opting for a zone defense style, which required the Red’s offense to be patient when it came to
Sophomore midfielder Doug Tesoriero won 10 of the game
Cornell opens Ivy League play on Saturday, March 17 at 1 p m in a face-off against Yale (2-2) on Schoellkopf Field
Lauren Ritter can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com
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four goals and Cornell was up 13-4 “ We p l a y e d r e
Colgate,” said senior midfielder Shannon McHugh “Going 4-0 to star t the season feels really good, but we know that we have to sustain our level of play to be successful ” The Red’s next opponent will be Canisius (2-2) a team that gave them some trouble this fall
“In the histor y of our program, we have actually never played Canisius in the regular season However, we played them this fall, and they gave us a good game, ” McHugh said
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Top-10 in the countr y Notre Dame will pose a major challenge for Cornell, and will be a great benchmark for the rest of the season “Our first goal is to go into spring break with a winning r e c o
d , Mc Hu g h s a i d “However, if we can go down
would be great, too
Nick Rielly can be reached at nrielly@cornellsun com
Whitney’s Snapshot Ends Game One
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“I tweak it sometimes,” Esposito said The junior expressed confidence that his team could continue to win in the playoffs even in drawn-out games like Friday’s “I’ve been practicing the last week really hard, Esposito said about his own preparedness
The Green came back to tie the game twice, but could never pull in front Dartmouth senior defenseman Connor Goggin evened the score at two at 14:18 in the first with assists from Sikura and sophomore winger Matt Limdblad His goal was one of two successful power play conversions for the Green Shortly thereafter, Mowrey went top shelf on Dartmouth s senior goaltender Jody O’Neill on a pass from junior Greg Miller to regain the lead Sophomore goaltender Andy Iles made more than one save on Dartmouth breakaways to hold the Green at bay He denied senior center Doug Jones in the first with a sliding butterfly save and repeated the move again with five seconds left in the third The confident net minder also made a few dangerous plays that payed off for the Red, but could have ended in Dartmouth s favor He
caused some of his own problems It got pretty harry there a few times,” Schafer said Iles made 46 saves on the night
Halfway through the second, Dartmouth’s junior winger Jason Bourgea sent the puck across Iles to his senior line mate Schussler and the Green tied it up, 3-3 After that goal, 65:08 would pass without another score for either opponent
At one point in the first overtime period, senior forward Sean Collins accidentally stopped the puck from crossing the goal line
However, with just over two minutes left in the second overtime, a puck finally landed on someone ’ s stick in a scoring lane Whitney let a snapshot fly from near the blue line and it sailed over the shoulder of O’neil
It s just huge to get the win, Whitney said
“It was a long night There was a lot of hockey tonight,” Schafer said, his voice almost disappearing after the battle The team appeared exhausted and eager to begin its recover y before Saturday’s second win of the series
Rob Moore can be reached at rmoore@cornellsun com
Continuing the streak | Senior infielder Marshall Yanzick extended his impressive hitting streak to
M HOCKEY GAME 2
Red Takes Two From Columbia, Colgate
By NICK RIELLY Sun Staff Wr ter
In any spor t, when a team scores four times in the first 95 seconds of a game, it is usually a safe bet that team will end up winning It was no different for women ’ s lacrosse this weekend The Red scored four goals in the first minute and a half of its home-opener against Columbia to dominate the Lions in a 19-7 victor y After the victor y, and with quality wins against Colgate, Har vard and Rutgers, the Red is 4-0 this early in the season for the first time since 2009
“ We feel like we are playing our best lacrosse right now, ” said senior attack Jessi Steinberg, who scored four goals in the game against Columbia (1-3), including the 100th of her career “If we continue to play the way we are playing, we feel as though we can give anyone a game ”
On Wednesday, the Red (4-0) faced a Colgate (0-5) team that has been str uggling in the early stages of the season Cornell capitalized on poor defense and a lethargic star t by Colgate, and scored the first four goals of the game However, in the final period, the Raiders scored four straight goals to cut the Cornell lead to two with just under six minutes remaining in the game
After some jockeying by both sides, senior attack Olivia Knotts earned a free position and scored to put Cornell up by three Two minutes later, junior mid-
Cornell ended up winning the game 15-10
The Columbia game was no different, as Cornell star ted strong and continued its momentum throughout the game Twenty two seconds into the match,
Steinberg assist to put the Red up 1-0 Then, in just one minute and twelve seconds, Steinberg scored three
Men Fall to Virginia in O vertime
By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor
With less than a minute to go on the clock at the 2012 Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic, the Red needed to act quickly if it
w a n t e d t o s t a y i n t h e g a m e against Virginia and force an over time period The No 1ranked Cavaliers (7-0) seemed to have the game on lock, but
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Va n B o u r g o n d i e n p u t o n e a w a y f o r C o r n e l l (3-1), tying the game,
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like Virginia] can be high scori n g g a m e s o r l o w s c o r i n g g a m e s , ” s a i d j u n i o r a t t a c k e r Steve Mock “ We are both high scoring teams and they are a great defensive team, but that’s just the way the game played out and how we responded to that ”
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Gilbane lifted the Red to 3-2 w i t h a n a s s i s t b y Va n
Bourgondien Virginia retaliated with two goals of its own, but Mock cashed in his second manup goal of the day, ending the frame tied, 4-4, with 6:49 left before the half
“We are both high scoring teams and they are a great defensive team.”
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c o n t e s t i n t o a s u d d e n d e a t h period The Red’s four th game
o f t h e s e a s o n t h e s e c o n d without injured senior captain Rob Pannell could have gone either way, as both teams created multiple scoring oppor tunit i e s i n ove r t i m e ; h owe ve r, a t
2 : 2 5 i n t o t h e f o u r - m i n u t e f r a m e , U VA’s St e e l e St a n w i c k f o u n d f e l l o w s e n i o r c a p t a i n Colin Briggs on the doorstep and the Cavaliers claimed the win, 9-8 “ The whole game was a battle and [games against teams
The period ended scoreless for t h e Re d
s p a r k e d f o r C o r n e l l a t t h e beginning of the second period, with the team firing off three winners in a two and a half minute span Senior midfielder Roy Lang scored Cornell’s first goal at 20:37 into the game,
b r i n g i n g t h e 2 - 0 g o a l d e f i c i t w i t h i n o n e Mo c k c a p i t a l i ze d off a man advantage and sent a rocket into the net, tying the game at 2-2 Less than a minute
“Roy had a good goal there a n d [ Vi r g i n i a ] h a d a p e n a l t y that I capitalized for the first time, then J J c a m e b a c k w i t h a good goal and I finished it off with an a n o t h e r e x t r a - m a n goal,” Mock said “ We capitalized off of their mistakes on the sequence
The momentum that Cornell built during the half stalled in the third period, as the Cavaliers turned it up a notch and held
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h e Cavaliers’ 27; however, Virginia edged out Cornell by three for shots, recording 38 to the Red’s 35 The Red also turned the ball over four times in the third period, with UVA recording only
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Mock, a lack of execution may have been a factor for the Red
“It was a lack of execution; it was fr ustrating looking back on that,” he said “All those could be possessions or goals in our favor It’s fr ustrating that something like that happens in a game against UVA It’s definitely something we can continue to work on It was definitely something disappointing from that game ”
The four th period was like a second wind for the Red, as the team went on to score four more
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straight goals to bolster the Red’s lead to four Although Columbia scored the next two goals of the game, Cornell would respond by going on another four goal streak with scores from Knotts, Kirk, junior attack Caroline Salisbur y and junior midfielder Kelly Lang By the time Cornell reached halftime, Steinberg had
S quad Splits Series at Ma son Inv itation a l
By HALEY VELASCO Sun Ass stant Sports Ed tor
Trying to build momentum through the early days of the season, the Red returned to Fairfax, V A this weekend to split a pair of games, 1-1, at the Mason Invitational This was the third weekend that the Red traveled down south to George Mason to play in a warmer weather climate The record for the Red after three full weekends of game play remains even at 3-3
On Saturday morning, the team overtook Hartford, 8-2, in a head to head with the Hawks that the Red blew open in the seventh inning to clinch the game
However, the second game did not go as well and the Red fell to George Mason, 2-0, in the afternoon matchup
“For now, since we have 20 games until Ivy season, we just want to focus on each game coming up because that is what will prepare us for the season, ” said senior outfielder Katie Watts
In the first game on Saturday, freshman pitcher Brittany Sutton earned her first collegiate win for the Red, after Cornell pushed through the top of the seventh inning by scoring seven runs Sutton only allowed one run on seven hits to pick up the victory for the Red
“What’s really great about our team is that we have so many people that we can depend on in tough situations,” Watts said “I think our pitchers are going to be really important [for the rest of the
season]
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Senior infielder Erin Keene also made a notable appearance for the Red as she blasted a grand slam with two outs in the seventh Her bomb helped Cornell rally from a 2-1 deficit and put the team in the lead
However, game two was a completely different story for the Red as the offense was silent The team only collected four singles throughout the game Losing the battle against Mason ruined the showing made by sophomore pitcher Alyson Onyon, who struck out six and allowed only six hits in 5 2 innings
The Red came up fighting in the seventh, led by a single from junior outfielder/catcher Erin Belles Sophomore outfielder/catcher Christina Villalon then reached on an error to put two runners on After two quick outs, sophomore outfielder JJ Briggs singled to right field but the game was retired as Belles was thrown out at third
Looking ahead to the rest of the season, the Red tries to maintain its focus to take the Ivy League Championship title back from its rival Harvard According to Watts, the team also realizes that it has some challenges ahead from some tough competition, but Cornell seems confident in the bond and force that comes from the ladies on the team
We have such a great team dynamic and my goal is to win an Ivy League Championship [title],” she said
Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun com
Career numbers | Senior attack Jessi Steinberg had four goals this weekend in the win against Columbia, including the 100th goal of her career so far at Cornell
Down to the wire | Junior attack Max Van Bourgondien scored a goal with 28 seconds remaining in regulation to force overtime
Red Wins in Triple O vertime Thriller
The No 3 Cornell women ’ s hockey team has had many statement victories this season, but none compare in excitement or importance to the Red s thrilling victory over No 5 Boston University (23-14-1, 14-7-0 Hockey East) on Saturday afternoon at Lynah Rink The game was a national quarterfinal, with each team ’ s season, and a chance to go to the Frozen Four, on the line In a back-and-forth, neckand-neck contest, the Red came out on top, 8-7, when junior defenseman Lauriane Rougeau scored the winning goal with just ten seconds left in the third sudden death over time Cornell (30-4, 20-2 ECAC) will face the University of Minnesota in the Frozen Four’s first game next weekend in Duluth
“I was just so proud of our team, ” said senior captain and forward Rebecca Johnston “We came back when we were down, and it was a back-and-forth game, but we just never gave up It was overall just an amazing game ”
The game was Johnston’s last at Lynah Rink, and she made it worth every minute with a terrific individual effort She scored a a hat trick, which included two goals in a row to bring the Red from a 3-1 deficit to a 3-3 tie, and also tallied two assists According to Johnston, having this thrilling victory in her last game was a truly special moment
“I’m so happy that game could be my last one because it is one game that I will never forget,” she said
The game did not start off well for Cornell, who fell to a 3-0 deficit in the first period According to senior forward and captain Chelsea Karpenko, the early hole was partially a result of the Red letting the talented terriers have too many
scoring chances I think we just gave them too many quality opportunities, and a team that talented is going to make you pay, ” she said
However, the Red got on the board towards the end of the first period to go into the intermission with the game at 3-1, and on that very play earned a power-play on which it scored to start the second According to Johnston, getting that goal gave the Red an impor tant boost of momentum going into the second period
“Getting that goal was a huge momentum swing for us and it put us back in the game, right where we wanted to be,” Karpenko added
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“That was one of the most important goals [of the game], she said Its hard to come back from being down three goals, but getting that goal gave us confidence going into the second period ”
The Red scored 3 straight goals in the second period to take a 4-3 lead The Terriers came back to make it 4-4, before the Red again scored three straight goals, two off the stick of sophomore forward Brianne Jenner This gave the Red a 7-4 lead with under 14 minutes to go
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However, the Red then received three penalties, and the terriers converted on each one, tying the game with under two minutes to go According to Johnston, the Red was not disciplined
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Two Weekend Wins Advance Red to EC AC Semi nals
By ROB MOORE Sun Staff Writer
“How weird is it that we want this to be our final game at Lynah Rink?” senior forward Locke Jilson said to senior captain and defenseman Keir Ross as they drove to Lynah on Saturday afternoon
Shor tly before their second quarterfinal game with Dartmouth, Locke, Ross and the remainder of the men ’ s ice hockey team took a rare break from their game day routine to watch the third overtime period of the women ’ s NCAA quarterfinal win
“We all took it in and had fun rooting them on, ” Jilson said “The finish was incredible, it kept our energy high ”
Junior forward Eric Axell, who was sitting behind the goal, ran down to the glass to celebrate with the women Sixty minutes of hockey later, Axell was celebrating again, this time in anticipation for his own team ’ s trip to Atlantic City for the ECAC semifinals for the fifth year in a row The Red (17-7-7, 12-46 ECAC Hockey) downed the Green (13-16-4, 8-113) with a 3-1 win ignited by another jackrabbit start
“Enthusiasm was high [Friday] night but maybe not focus,” Jilson said “Tonight, even with the delay, we were able to get focused and really adhere to the game plan more so than last night ”
Fatigue had set in on every line of both Cornell and Dartmouth s line-ups towards the end of double overtime in what was at the time the longest game in Lynah Rink history That record lasted less than 24 hours, until the women s team toppled Boston University Saturday afternoon in triple overtime With two minutes and 20 seconds left in the fifth period of Friday s men s game, senior defenseman Sean Whitney scored his first goal of the season to clinch the victory
Whitney’s snapshot ended a 65 minutes and eight second stretch without a goal and propelled the Red (17-7-7, 12-4-6 ECAC Hockey) over the Green (13-16-4, 8-113), 4-3, giving them an initial lead in the ECAC quarterfinal series
“It was a weird game with how things started in the first period Then, nobody could score Both goalies played really well,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86 Friday’s game began with a flurry of scoring in the first period Though the Red’s freshman for ward John McCarron had a chance down low within the first minute, it was the Green that drew first blood
Junior defenseman Nick D’Agos-
tino took a tripping penalty to prevent a breakaway shot on Iles, and Dartmouth’s Tyler Sikura took advantage of his team s power play to tap in a rebound goal two minutes and 20 seconds into the game Through the first period, Dartmouth demonstrated more physical play than the Red, and seemingly good use of open ice Upon further inspection, however, Dartmouth was finding open ice more easily because they were often expanding from a collapsed defensive position the Cornell offense was forcing them into
Two goals by junior for ward John Esposito
d e m o n s t r a t e d the Red’s early dominance First, the puck was caught in the netting behind the Green’s plumbing Sophomore Dustin Mowrey worked it loose and it bounced around the crease before Esposito hammered it home at the back post Next, during a brief five-on-three situation for the Red, D’Agostino released a shot down low through heavy traffic and again it bounced to Esposito for a second back post goal at 10:20 With a week off to heal his ankle injury Esposito looked fresh though he did have to be carried off the ice once in the second regulation frame
A thrilling finish | Sophomore forward Armand de Swardt carried the puck past two Dartmouth defenders before passing it off to senior defenseman Sean Whitney, who scored the winning overtime goal
By ROB MOORE Sun Staff Writer
Time to celebrate | Junior defenseman Lauriane Rougeau scored the winning goal in triple overtime to give the women an exciting victor y in the NCAA quarterfinals
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By BEN HOROWTIZ Sun Staff Wr ter