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Fifteen students to showcase sustainability efforts of communities of Intag, Ecuador. | Page 3
Eliza Kuzmenke ’16 reviews the exhibit Datascapes in Milstein Hall by Prof. Jenny Sabin, architecture. | Page 8
The men’s lacrosse team remains undefeated with a win over Yale in its first Ivy League game of the season. | Page 16
With Alumni Support,WVBR Studios Return to Collegetown By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor
After spending 14 years in what was meant to be a “temporary location” near East Hill Plaza, Cornell’s student-run radio station WVBR has made the shift to a brand-new studio location in Collegetown — officially opening for business during a ribbon-cutting event Saturday. “We’ve been operating a bare-bones radio station for the past 14 years,” said Drew Endick ’14, general manager of WVBR. “[The new space]
features the amenities of any major corporate radio station, but it has the appeal, space and ability to innovate that any college radio station has. This will be a spectacular place to create content and to learn.” According to Endick, the new space at 604 East Buffalo St. — named Olbermann-Corneliess Studios — features $60,000 worth of new mixing board equipment. Newscaster and political commentator Keith Olbermann ’79 received naming See RADIO page 4
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Media man | Dan Zarrow ’06, chairman of WVBR’s board of directors, speaks at the ribbon-cutting of WVBR and Cornell Radio’s new studios.
Twelve Students Displaced Theta Delta Chi Suspended for Following Eddy Street Blaze ‘Serious Hazing’Allegations Firefighters remained on scene until 6 a.m.Friday By AKANE OTANI Sun Senior Writer
A fire broke out at 202 Eddy St. shortly before 1 a.m. Friday morning, displacing 12 residents and destroying the interior of the three-story house. Two students living in the residence were home when the fire began, but they were able to get out safely, according to the Ithaca Fire Department. All of the residents of the house — Cornell students — are accounted for and uninjured. Emergency responders are unsure of what caused the fire. Police tape and emergency responder vehicles
Extinguishers | Ithaca firefighters work to put out the fire that erupted at 202 Eddy St. early Friday morning. As of Sunday night, no cause has been determined. CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
blocked off much of Eddy Street, but dozens of students gathered outside to watch the fire as it ripped through the top of the house. Many took pictures; others hugged their friends. Visit cornellsun.com for additional images and video of the Eddy Street fire.
As firefighters continued trying to stop the fire, black debris began falling from the top of the house. Some students voiced their frustrations at the length of time it was taking to put out the fire, saying, “Just aim!” and “Come on.” By 2:15 a.m., most of
the students cleared out, leaving the street empty except for the emergency responders. Firefighters were able to bring the fire under control by 3 a.m. and remained on the street past 6:30 a.m. to put out and check for hot spots in the house. The displaced residents were offered shelter at friends’ houses for the night, police said. Cornell has also offered the students accommodations and is assisting the residents with finding new housing. Firefighters are continuing to investigate the cause of the fire. Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun.com.
By TYLER ALICEA
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The Theta Delta Chi fraternity, also known as “Thumpty,” has been placed on interim suspension for “credible allegations of serious hazing,” the University announced Friday. The suspension of Theta Delta Chi marks the second fraternity suspension this month. Last week, the University announced that the Chi Psi fraternity will be placed on interim suspension for reported hazing, which Travis Apgar, associate dean of students for fraternity and sorority affairs, said
could have been occurring for several weeks, The Sun previously reported. Under interim suspension, the fraternities will not be allowed to “engage in any activities other than operation of its residence,” according to a University statement. Apgar said he could not comment on the nature of the allegations, and members of the fraternity refused to comment. Sofia Hu contributed reporting to this story. Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
Ithaca Burglar Arrested by Ithaca Police, Stolen Items to Aid Ongoing Investigation The Ithaca Police Department charged a man with multiple felonies, including criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and burglary in the second degree, Friday. Police served a search warrant at the residence of Breon Brooks, 22, who police believe is responsible for a number of forced-entry burglaries in the Ithaca community, according to an IPD press release. The search warrant was served in the 400 block of West Green Street, where officers recovered a loaded handgun, three-and-a-half grams of heroin and various stolen items which police believe to be linked to recent burglaries, the release said. Police said they do not know the exact number of burglaries committed by Brooks. Investigators have begun to attempt to link each stolen item that was recovered to individual burglaries — a process that may take several weeks. Brooks was arraigned in Ithaca City Court Friday and was remanded to Tompkins County Jail in lieu of a $200,000 cash bail or $400,000 bond, according to the release. He is also facing a hearing on charges of violating the terms of his New York State parole. IPD Chief of Police John Barber expressed his relief at Brooks’ arrest, saying he was “pleased” with the efforts of the police officers involved in the case. “Ithaca is a safer place now that Brooks is off the streets,” he said. — Compiled by Annie Bui
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This week’s weather will start to feel more like spring, as temperatures start to climb and the sun comes out to play. What better reminder that Spring Break is less than two weeks away?
Labor Economics, Henry Farber 4:15 - 5:45 p.m., 115 Ives Hall Business: Not Just for Majors Anymore 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., 3343 Carol Tatkon Center
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American Red Cross Blood Drive 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Myron Taylor Hall
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Gallery to Showcase Students’ Experiences in Ecuador By AIMEE CHO Sun Staff Writer
Fifteen students who traveled to Intag, Ecuador over Winter Break as part of a service learning course will open a gallery Monday afternoon in the Human Ecology building, which showcases their experiences, according to Prof. James Lassoie, natural resources. The course, IARD 4940: Special Topics in International Agriculture and Rural Development, is a two-semester experimental course offered for the first time this year. Martin Zorrilla ’13 came up with the idea for the course and approached Lassoie and Prof. Charlotte Jirousek, fiber science and apparel, about teaching it. The gallery is dedicated to Jirousek, who died at age 75 due to a heart attack on Feb. 25. “[Jirousek] was the one who came up with the idea of creating a gallery, and the students got really excited about it,” Lassoie
said. “The students were really devastated by her untimely [death]. They wanted to share their ideas about her, so they decided to dedicate the gallery to her. There’s a section in the exhibit with lots of pictures and comments about her.” Zorrilla originally devised the idea of a course in attempt to connect Cornell students and Ecuadorian communities in a positive way. “I was born and raised in Intag. So I was creating a class to connect these two worlds — Ithaca and Intag,” Zorrilla said. “The idea was for students to do projects that would actually go out into the real world and do things asked for by community members.” Lassoie said Intag has experienced civil disobedience during the past 15 years due to battles over control from mining companies. “The government discovered copper in the area, so there has been increased pres-
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Ecuadorian experiences | Students who traveled to Ecuador over Winter Break as part of a service learning course will open a gallery Monday afternoon.
sure to institute open-pit mining in the worked alongside farmers, observed the area,” Lassoie said. “The communities need roasting and drying process and presented economic development, but they don’t a soil health manual that we developed want it come from mining because of all the last semester. I think that our most social and environmental damage it would important job was to build trusting relado. So [we] worked with the local commu- tionships so that future groups can connities and helped them develop livelihoods tinue to work with them and create longfor economic developterm impact.” ment that were sustainThe gallery was “This gallery allows us to able and not damaging developed this semesto the environment.” share the story of Intag with ter to showcase the The students spent of Intag, the Cornell community in a “essence” the fall semester according to Zorrilla. preparing for their trip, way that is both educational “The gallery tries to learning about issues of capture the ways in and very personal.” privilege, social equity which this class was Sarah Armour ’14 sustainability, and innovative from an according to Lassoie. educational perspecHe said that they tive,” Zorrilla said. divided into three teams, with each team “You’ll see pictures of Intag and the citizens, preparing to partner with a different com- excerpts from the students’ blogs, videos munity organization in Intag. and crafts made by our [Intag] partners. We “The students worked with a handicraft will also have crafts and coffee from Intag cooperative, a fair trade organic coffee on sale in the lobby.” cooperative and a conservation organization Sarah Armour ’14, another participant working on watershed management. They in the project, said that the gallery showcasSkyped with [the organizations] so they es Intag’s proactive efforts toward sustaincould get to know what the problems ability. were,” Lassoie said. “The Intag communities have been During their three weeks in Intag over opposed to mining and have been staving Winter Break, the students remodeled a off extraction projects since 1995 through store, created a manual on soil improve- grassroots organizing,” Armour said. “The ment, planted trees, developed maps of rare truly wonderful aspect of their approach is species in the area and helped develop new that the communities have not simply said tools, according to Lassoie. ‘no’ to mining, but rather they have said “In this kind of course, everybody rolls ‘yes’ to sustainability. This gallery allows us up their sleeves and does something. They to share the story of Intag with the Cornell get to know their Ecuadorian partners as community in a way that is both educareal life people with real life problems,” tional and very personal.” Lassoie said. The gallery opening will take place in Melanie Perten ’14, one of the students the Jill Stuart Gallery in the Human in the course, said the trip placed an empha- Ecology Building Monday afternoon from sis on long-term relationship building and 4:30 to 7:30 and the gallery will remain not imposing on a different culture. open to the public through March 28. “Every practitioner and activist we met greeted us with open arms,” she said. Aimee Cho can be reached at “While in Ecuador, I visited six farms, acho@cornellsun.com.
Lecture:‘Terrifying’Atmosphere Surrounds Ukraine Conflict By ANDREW LEE Sun Staff Writer
Speaking to Cornellians Friday alongside a panel of experts, Julia Ioffe, senior editor for The New Republic, explained the current situation between Ukraine and Russia. According to Ioffe, the protesters in Kiev did not want to topple the government like Russian President Vladimir Putin claims, but rather only wanted to remove Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych from power. “As someone who works in the
media, there’s a lot of information out there, [but] there’s also a lot of misinformation,” Ioffe said. “The Kremlin has been working in overdrive to muddy the waters and to give you certain ideas of what’s been happening over there that don’t necessarily correspond to the truth.” According to BBC News, the Ukrainian parliament held a vote to impeach the Yanukovych on Feb. 22, and Putin has characterized the recent upheaval in Ukraine as a coup d’état instigated by radicals and fascists sponsored by the West. Ioffe said the actual
role of radicals and fascists in the protests was minimal at best and has been heavily exaggerated by the media. “If anyone was really involved on the ground in Kiev, it was Russia,” Ioffe said. “Their guy, Yanukovych, lost, and what you see now is in part reaction to that.” On March 1, the Russian parliament approved Putin’s request to deploy troops in the Crimean peninsula, purportedly to protect the ethnic-Russian citizens living
there. Ten days later, the Crimean parliament announced that it would hold a referendum on whether to rejoin Russia or stay with Ukraine. The Moscowbacked referendum — which Kiev and have been described as being illegal by Western countries — passed Sunday, with 95.5 percent of voters supporting unification with Russia. Ioffe added that she was not surprised to see the type of tactics
the Russians were using to manufacture the crisis in response to the political instability in Kiev, and referenced the pro-Russian militias equipped with Russian arms and uniforms in Crimea that seized control of government buildings prior to March 1. For the rest of this article, visit cornellsun.com. Andrew Lee can be reached at alee@cornellsun.com.
Elementary, my dear Watson
Last Week in Review President David Skorton Will Leave Cornell for Smithsonian Institution in 2015 Cornell’s 12th President David Skorton will leave Cornell in June 2015 to lead the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the University announced March 10. University Assembly Passes Resolution Clarifying Freedom of Speech at Cornell The University Assembly amended and passed Resolution 9 — titled “Resolution to Clarify Responsible Free Expression in the Campus Code of Conduct” — after a lengthy debate among U.A. members, students and faculty Tuesday. Former Fraternity House Joins Campus Housing Starting next semester, 625 University Ave. — the former home of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity — will join the Alice Cook House community on West Campus, according to the University’s housing website. — Compiled by Annie Bui
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Students mingle during the Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery dinner social at the Johnson Museum Friday evening.
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New Studios Include $60,000 in New Mixing Boards RADIO
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rights for his large contributions, choosing to commemorate his father Theodore Olbermann, who he cites as a primary motivator for his work in media, and former WVBR program director Glenn Corneliess ’79, who died in 1996, in the name. “We did everything at VBR,” Olbermann said of his time at the station. “We plotted our careers, we plotted our social lives and our dates, and of course, we plotted against each other. We could not, however, have plotted these circumstances, so it is truly an honor to me, and it’s been my privilege to put [Corneliess’s] name on these studios.” The East Buffalo Street building was secured in Dec. 2012 in the midst of the $985,000 capital campaign to overhaul WVBR’s studios, according to Peter Schacknow ’78, a member of WVBR’s board of directors. The building was then renovated last summer and most of the station’s belongings — which included records, CDs and equipment — were moved into the new space over Winter Break. The new location also has twice as much usable space as the previous space near East Hill Plaza — dubbed “the Cow Palace” due to its association with the New York Holstein Association, a cattle breeding organization — according to Endick. The Cow Palace had been used as a temporary home for WVBR — and later its sister station Cornell Radio — after its previous permanent residence at 227 Linden Ave. was condemned by the city of Ithaca in 2000, Schacknow said. However, due to cramped conditions and significant distance from campus, relocation from the Cow Palace became a “top priority” for WVBR, said Schacknow said, who is also chairman of the capital campaign for the new studios. “2005 was my first trip to visit the Cow Palace. To say that I sunk into a deep depression the moment I saw it would be an understatement,” Schacknow said. “But I really have to hand it to the people who went through four years at the Cow Palace and somehow made WVBR as special for [them] as it was for us, even in a facility that was illsuited to the task, inconvenient and every other bad thing you could say about it.” According to Michael Mallon ’14, senior vice president of communications for WVBR, the return to Collegetown
is vital for the station’s position as a bridge between Cornell students and the residents of Ithaca. “My favorite part about this station is that it’s symbolically located at the bottom of Collegetown,” Mallon said. “It’s easy to reach for the students but so close to the downtown area — most of our listenership comes from the Ithaca population.” The station’s main new studio, with soundproof walls and a large window overlooking Stewart Avenue, is such an example, he said. “This is the perfect way to see Collegetown, to look out over Ithaca, to be a real part of the community, and that’s something we really lacked when we were on East Hill Plaza,” Mallon said. “We felt very separated — not a lot of people hung out at the station when they weren’t on air, and that’s something we really tried to fix.” Besides the new building itself, the capital campaign
“If I considered what I’d actually given back to WVBR as a percentage of my career earnings, I’d still owe [it] quite a lot.” Keith Olbermann ’79 went toward funding new mixing boards, soundproofing and recording studios, according to Mallon. “Our brand-new boards rival any major radio station in the country,” Mallon said. “We can actually broadcast live out of any space in the studio. ... This is a huge upgrade, because when we started our launch two years ago for CornellRadio.com, it was a 100-dollar mixer in a basement. Now it’s a full-fledged station.” According to Mallon, a large majority of the new studios’ funding came from WVBR alumni, as well as support from students. Olbermann was a primary contributor to the campaign and spoke at the ribbon-cutting event from his home, congratulating the students and board members who were involved with the transition. “Congratulations to everybody for pulling so hard, espe-
cially those who lived amid the cows for so long and kept the voice alive like some sort of medieval cult,” Olbermann said. “It was the most trying period in [WVBR’s] history, and I’m honored to have had anything to do with bringing forth a new home for the station.” Though Olbermann was unable to attend the ribboncutting event in person, he said that he has plans to visit the new studios soon. “If I considered what I’d actually given back to WVBR as a percentage of my career earnings, I’d still owe [it] quite a lot,” he said. Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said at the event that WVBR has an important role in giving the Ithaca community a positive relationship with Cornell students, which he believes is often lacking. “Radio is a deeply personal media. You are able to enter the home, the car, the kitchen, sometimes the bathroom of people all over the city,” Myrick said. “You change [Ithacans’] impressions of Cornell students. When you come into their lives and entertain them you are bringing for a lot of people in the community the only positive interaction with Cornell students.” Mallon and Endick, both seniors, agreed that though they will not have much time to personally make use of the new building, they look forward to what WVBR and Cornell Radio will be able to accomplish in the new studios. “This will be our home for the rest of my life, at least,” Mallon said. “This is a place we can keep nice, this is a place we can now afford to take care of. We’re at a place where the leadership of the station is extremely competent, and can take care of the station properly with no qualms.” Endick said he believes WVBR’s new location is home to “the best college radio studios in the country.” “It’s sad that I’m leaving this place in about a month and half,” Endick said. “I don’t get to use this space that I wanted to use so much, but I’m happy for all of the students who have access to this space and will hopefully make the best of it. … This space presents an opportunity for Cornell students to have accessible, hands-on training in media communication. This is not something that is very common — not a lot of students want to do it — but for the students that do want to learn media, this is the place.” Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.
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St. Patrick’s Festivities Kick Off Amid Tensions in U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) — St. Patrick’s Day festivities were in full swing Sunday with the usual merriment of bagpipes and beer, but political tensions lingered in the northeastern U.S., where city leaders will be conspicuously absent from parades over gay rights issues. New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio will become the first mayor in decades to sit out the traditional march Monday because parade organizers refuse to let participants carry pro-gay signs. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh wasn’t marching in his city’s parade Sunday, either, after talks broke down that would have allowed a gay group to march. Still, thousands of green-clad spectators came out for the parade in Boston to watch bagpipers, and organizers of a float intended to promote diversity threw Mardi Gras-type beads at onlookers. A similar scene played out in downtown Philadelphia. In Georgia, the dome of Savannah’s City Hall will be lit green, and several thousand people braved temperatures in the teens on Sunday to march with pipe and drum bands in Detroit and Bay City, Mich. In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day provides the launch of the country’s annual push for tourism, a big part of the rural economy. “To Irish people by birth or descent, wherever they may be in the world, and to those who simply consider themselves to be friends of Ireland, I wish each and every one of you a happy, peaceful and authentically Irish St. Patrick’s Day,” Irish President Michael D. Higgins, the ceremonial head of state and guest of honor at Monday’s parade in Dublin, said in a statement. Ireland’s head of government, Enda Kenny, became the first Irish prime minister to attend Boston’s annual St. Patrick’s Day breakfast Sunday. But Kenny has resisted pressure, in both Ireland and America, to support the gay rights lobby’s demand to have equal rights to parade on St. Patrick’s Day and he planned to march Monday in New York. “The St. Patrick’s Day parade (in New York) is a parade about our Irishness and not about sexuality, and I would be happy to participate in it,” he said in Dublin before leaving for a six-day trip to the U.S. Parade organizers have said gay groups are not prohibited from marching, but are not allowed to carry gay-friendly signs or identify themselves as LGBT. Some LGBT groups were to protest the parade along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on Monday. Others had planned to dump Guinness beer from the shelves of the Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the gay rights movement, in protest of the brewer’s plan to sponsor the parade, but that demonstration was canceled late Sunday after Guinness said in a statement that it had dropped its sponsorship.
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kelly during a St. Patrick’s Day reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Friday.
RNC Chairman: Primary Changes Will Rebuild GOP BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) — Planned changes to the Republican Party’s presidential selection process are part of a rebuilding process that will strengthen the GOP brand and hopefully make its presidential nominee more competitive in 2016, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told California Republicans on Friday, calling the GOP’s current primary process “a complete disaster.” Priebus said shortening the primary process by moving up the national convention at which the nominee is typically selected to June and cutting the number of debates are “not an establishment takeover. This is using your brain. Everything’s not a conspiracy.” “I think a traveling circus of debates is insan-
ity in this party,” Priebus told about 200 delegates. “We’re proposing to have fewer than 10, and this time around, we’re going to pick the moderators.” Priebus is proposing to hold just 10 debates for the would-be GOP nominees in 2016, compared with the 27 held ahead of the 2012 race in which former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was eventually selected as the party’s nominee. The chairman also touted a key victory this week in a hard-fought Florida congressional race that is seen as a possible bellwether of November midterm election. Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a special election Tuesday that largely turned on President Barack Obama’s health care law.
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In Support Of U.A.Resolution 9
LAST WEEK, THE UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY PASSED RESOLUTION 9, titled “Resolution to Clarify Responsible Free Expression in the Campus Code of Conduct,” to clarify restrictions that the University had in place regarding exhibition of free speech on campus. We commend Cornell for taking the necessary steps to clarify the Code of Conduct through Resolution 9, and we urge the University to continue providing its students the space for freedom of speech. This resolution, which was passed Tuesday, was proposed following an incident in Nov. 2012, when confusion over Cornell’s Use of University Property permit requirements for on-campus protests exposed a discrepancy over rules that govern students’ rights to congregate without a prior request in certain areas of campus. At the time, the Cornell University Police Department broke up rallies held by the Cornell Israel Public Affairs Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine. CUPD removed SJP from Ho Plaza, however, because they did not possess the appropriate permits to occupy the space. In an editorial last May, we called for the University to clarify UUP guidelines and solidify what each section of the guidelines meant to avoid a similar misunderstanding over campus freedom of speech rights from happening again. Resolution 9 works to take out the ambiguous language in the previous legislation and the Campus Code of Conduct. We applaud the University for its work to make its free speech policies more clear. The changes to the Code of Conduct remove the requirement for a permit for certain spaces, allowing outdoor picketing, marches, rallies and other demonstrations. They also included what would occur if a counter protest occurs. However, the University still ensures that if an extracurricular group or a private party has filed appropriate paperwork, then they will have the right to the space without disruption. We laud the University’s work on passing this resolution in support of student’s right to free speech. Resolution 9 does seemingly resolve the policy holes that were present in the Campus Code of Conduct. However, we do question why the University Assembly took until now, over a year after the initial incident, to pass this resolution. But despite this, we believe these changes the U.A. made to the Code will help ensure the rights of Cornellians are upheld in the future.
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My Brief Tryst With Cornell Politics
wo weeks ago, I decided to become put themselves through the process of a politician on campus and failed campaigning and delivering back to gloriously, of course — which is Cornell’s community. I still think it is why you’re still reading my column. But remarkable that anyone spends this extra after several days of intimate interaction time, considering all of us have the same with the Student Assembly, I have a mul- concerns and anxieties about getting into titude of opinions about government and a good graduate school, landing a good politics at Cornell. The first thing I enough job and graduating with a comnoticed is that we are all way too mendable GPA. From my personal expedepressed and we think more is wrong on rience of stepping out of my own life for the Hill than is right. While it might be two weeks and engaging with the rest of true that the weather plays way too many Cornell, I can affirm that it really helps to practical jokes on us and that our school tune into where we are now instead of work never seems to end, it really is not constantly worrying about the future that bad. We all go to a rigorous Ivy which, quite frankly, is wasted energy League and are our generation’s best bet, considering there is no way of knowing so it only makes sense that we have work what will happen tomorrow anyway. to do. Somehow, however, we still manPeople who know me well were conage to have a good time and, over the cerned because I am not great at acceptcourse of our four years here, manage to ing rejection and losing in a campus-wide touch so many lives in irrevocable ways. election could cause quite a few tantrums. But sometimes incredible things happen However, during the week, witnessing on campus that we sometimes don’t every person I cared about at Cornell supnotice or appreciate. This week, the porting me every time I decided to give Cornell Tradition up has changed me as a program was opened person. I think twice for International Every time someone posted an now before I start Students for the first loathing life. All of us acrid status update on time in Cornell’s hishave met people Facebook about how they tory. Last week the through Cornell withAfricana Library and could not care less about the out whom we cannot Research Center cel- Student Assembly ... I felt like quite imagine life anyebrated the lives of more, and I am glad I Michael Schwerner lashing out at them and asking had the opportunity to ’61, James Chaney them to rise to the occasion step back and acknowland Andrew Good- and put themselves through edge that while I could man, whose deaths still appreciate it. It’s the process of campaigning 50 years ago marked not as though I will not and delivering back to the beginning of the be losing sleep over a remarkable age we prelim or an absolute Cornell’s community. live in. Schwerner lack of internships, but initiated the desegrenow I know that I am gation in the fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, not going through any of it alone. changing Cornell’s Greek Life in a phe- Moreover, I realized that at times we stop nomenal way. Most of us are too busy to challenging ourselves and end up playing notice how much is happening at Cornell it very safe. I think allowing yourself to be everyday. vulnerable brings you back to the person While I was running for the Student you used to be at some point of time in Assembly, several people asked me why I high school before serious life happened. want to get myself into so much addi- There is something enthralling about tional work, meetings and what not. I did putting all your ambitions at stake on one not have a very good answer, but I now decisive moment and bracing yourself for know that after interacting with several the possibility that you might have to people on the current and future back down, pick up your tools and start Assembly that these are people who are again with the same amount of enthusiplanning, deliberating and working tire- asm. Cornell is teaching all of us more lessly to improve our college experience. than we realize and I hope everyone is No one asked them to adopt the S.A. awake during the hours that actually matlifestyle or eat, breathe and sleep meetings ter. I don’t see any of Cornell as politics, and emails. Irrespective of how efficient discrimination or competition. It is all of or inclusive the system is, I commend us, including our professors, living them for trying in the first place. together and sharing our experiences as Throughout elections, every time some- we discover and celebrate life. one posted an acrid status update on Facebook about how they could not care less about the Student Assembly — and Aditi Bhowmick is a sophomore in the College of how it really does not do anything any- Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at way — I felt like lashing out at them and abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings asking them to rise to the occasion and appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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Cornell and Mental Health: Part One D
espite the recent hiccup, the winter in Ithaca is finally melting away in an anticipation of spring. Increasing temperature and clearing sky boosts everyone’s moral: Sunlight takes away winter fatigue by suppressing melatonin secretion and grants us a happier, motivated mood by increasing serotonin. Even a good substitute for ultraviolet — litebox — can’t live up to walking through a green campus without a jacket on and letting the nature carry out its Vitamin D synthesis. For some of us with seasonal affective disorders or other mood disorders, however, the change of season isn’t a mere relief from long, dark winter; it marks a victory we’ve achieved over the sinking depth of depression. Although the current undergraduates weren’t present on campus during the spring of 2010, most of us are fully aware of that tragic semester when six Cornell students ended their own lives. The number and frequency of these suicide shocked the Cornell community and garnered national attention. That particular year, for some reason, was tumultuous for other schools as well. A junior at Yale jumped off of the Empire State building in March, and a man shot himself on the Harvard Yard in September, after leaving a 1,900-page suicide note. Whenever suicides occur on Cornell’s campus, people obsess over trivial statistics of suicide rates. For collegeaged group, the national average is approximately one suicide per 10,000. Hence, it appears that suicide does not happen any more frequently at Cornell than other schools, or even for young people who aren’t enrolled in college. Suicides at Cornell, however, have implications far beyond the scope of average suicide. First, it has to do with its public location people choose to execute the deed — which seem to be the gorges. While the setting alone may dramatize the situation at Cornell above others, but the scene is also preserved, at times for days, before a rescue team concludes its investigation. Unlike suicides at a private location or an avoidable public space, crossing bridges at Cornell is integral to living and learning on this campus. Whether be freshmen on their way to morning class or upperclassmen climbing up from Collegetown to reach their classrooms, central campus is physically set apart from surrounding areas. Thus, it is inescapable for most Cornell students to cross at least two bridges every day to and from central campus. Although we are constantly aware of the extensive history of each bridge, when there’s recent incident, we are reminded of the intensity and brutal difficulty of this place. The allegorical phrase cutthroat doesn’t seem like a pure analogy anymore. Walking over these bridges, mindful of the incidents that occurred there, it almost symbolizes soldiers marching on while walking over their fallen companions. We may have lost some of our troops but we shall stand strong and defend our ground. The first action Cornell implemented was to install fences around all the bridges and have security guards patrol the vicinity 24/7. When you look at the picture of these wires, notice they were inward, protecting the insiders than the outsiders. How ironic that we supposedly cream-of-the-crop high school graduates with high grades and intelligence need protection from not some external sinister being, but ourselves? Suicide is a mystery. As much as we delude ourselves into thinking modern psychology and technology can solve every problem, we can’t. We’ve learned certain groups of people tend to commit higher percentage of suicide than others, that it’s a red flag when chronically depressed person expresses joy without an attributable cause, but these are just social science statistics. Cornell administration has been working very hard to create helpline for students in crisis and train faculty staff and peers to monitor and care for students in needs. I applaud their effort and celebrate the fact that we haven’t lost anyone in that regard since 2010. However, in attempt to reduce or even eliminate on-campus suicide, I feel like we may have simplified the meaning of life. Don Oh is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He may be reached at doh@cornellsun.com. Bi the Way appears alternate Mondays this semester.
Anna-Lisa Castle | Nonstop Biweekly Real Talk
Re: Divestment and Its Moral Imperative I
n his recent column, those resources has been undoubtedly have detriGraduate Student banned in an effort to stop mental effects on the planTrustee Darrick further irreparable damage et. It’s about deciding not Nighthawk Evensen was to the Earth. As I wrote to profit from an energy right to point out a need with my coauthor of plan that disproportionatefor better arguments Resolution 32 and former ly hurts the very poor to of benefit the very rich. It’s regarding divestment from co-president fossil fuels. To briefly sum- KyotoNOW! Becca Macies about putting our money marize: no, it’s not enough ’14, “carbon emission miti- where our mouth is regardto argue that by divesting, gation policies are quickly ing our purported values of Cornell will start a trend making fuel reserves equality and sustainability, among universities every- unburnable and thus which has become a nothwhere, or that we might worthless, but as the The ing word in the mouths of shape national policy dis- Guardian pointed out, spineless liberals and those course. These are idealistic, investors are ‘betting on who are privileged enough but naive assumptions; countries failing to adhere to not yet have been these are possible out- to legally binding carbon touched by climate-related comes, but not certain emission targets.’” And this disaster. If we want to talk ones. In attempting to brings us to Nighthawk’s about sustainability, we answer the call for better other point: The argument must recognize that fossil arguments, one com- that this is a moral impera- fuels are finite resources menter cited Bill tive has been watered that will run out. And it’s McKibben's now-famous down. Because the tangible just as fiscally unsustainRolling Stone piece, which results of divestment are able as it is environmentalmakes a compelling case uncertain, and Cornell’s ly unsustainable to hinge for divestment. Another individual impact is — as our fate on the future of commenter, an economist many have pointed out — these resources. Even fossil and “sustainability profes- likely just a drop in the fuel companies know that sional,” mentioned the less-cited but also crucial fact that fossil fuels are not necessarily the We must recognize that fossil fuels are stable investment we finite resources that will run out. ... think they are, and that It’s just as fiscally unsustainable as overvaluing their share it is environmentally unstable to prices could lead to a “carbon bubble” that hinge our fate on the future of threatens global finan- these resources. cial markets. This is not an entirely new argument. In fact, it’s one bucket, I think it’s safe to things are changing: that I made to the Student say that the moral impera- They’re preparing for a Assembly when I was tive is not simply about future with a carbon tax. working to pass Resolution “saving” the climate, or The energy market may 32 as part of the original even the communities that continue to hedge risk but move for divestment. This fossil fuel extraction rav- fossil fuels specifically are not the long term cash-cow is the kind of empirical ages. The “moral imperative” conservatives want them to consideration that a trustee would presumably want to is not about flexing our be. This is a reality we need hear, but it’s tied to an eth- muscles to get fossil fuel to deal with, and in doing companies to change their so we have the opportunity ical one. A number of studies by practices. It’s far more to be on the right side of experts like Sir Nicholas reflexive than that — it’s history by choosing to get Stern, the international about us. The ethical argu- out of dirty energy, responorganization Climate ment isn’t just about our sibly of course. It is clear to everyone Tracker, the Australian impact on the rest of the Climate Institute and most world — though I don’t that the American conrecently the British House think we should underesti- sumption habits are unsusof Commons’ mate the importance of tainable. There is no doubt Environmental Audit our contribution to larger that rising carbon levels Committee, have warned forces at play — it’s about will have serious and perthat global stock markets deciding not to bet on our manent consequences for are overvaluing companies collective failure to meet the environment and with large holdings of coal, the internationally agreed- almost certainly contribute oil and gas in large part upon goal to reduce carbon to social and geopolitical because access to burning emissions, which will conflicts, which will exac-
erbate existing issues such as displacement, food security and rising inequality. However, there are still people that make the tired and complaisant argument that the fossil fuel industry isn’t the Big Bad Wolf it’s been made out to be and want to work with these companies in some imagined but unspecified transition process. In addition to misrepresenting some of the empirical evidence he cites in his recent op-ed, ironically titled, “Divestment: Cornell’s Brand of Ignorance,” David Bunk concludes by favoring remaining invested and pursuing the shareholder advocacy route. This is a doubly lazy argument: first because it doesn’t actually demand any risk on the part of the University and second because even the most basic research would reveal that Cornell does not engage in direct shareholder advocacy as a matter of policy, or at least it hasn’t in the recent past. In fact the only credit Cornell gets for shareholder advocacy from the premiere sustainability and social responsibility rating system, STARS, is for divestment from Sudan — proving that it is not unprecedented to manage our endowment for political purposes. Furthermore, we do not need to hold the hands of our transgressors under vague notions of “corporate responsibility” (ha!) and hope that they’ll listen and do the right thing. What we need is a regime change.
Anna-Lisa Castle is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at amc394@cornell.edu. Nonstop Biweekly Real Talk appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT DATASCAPES AT MILSTEIN HALL Speaking with Prof.Jenny Sabin
BY ELIZA KUZMENKO Sun Contributor
Datascapes examines science, art and technology in an architectural manifestation, taking a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding the ability to surpass boundaries. Prof. Jenny Sabin, architecture, states that “in each case there is clear datascape that is steering the investigation,” in an attempt to bridge the digital and the material. The concept of this approach is examined though several forms of construction. Parts involved close research with scientists in modeling complex biological behavior. There were also structural manifestations on the human scale, and finally a real world building design. The first includes new tools and novel methodologies for modeling complex biological behavior; the second entails architectural prototyping at the human scale; the third operates at the scale of ecological building design. This three-pronged approach engages materiality and geometry in multiple contexts, with overlays composed of dynamic data. Jenny Sabin’s practice and research is invested in developing a new material practice in architecture through the generative fabrication of the nonlinearities of material and form across disciplines. Biology presents useful conceptual models to consider, where form is in constant adaptation with environmental events. When walking into the gallery, one passes a motion sensor camera that captures the movement of the individual and feeds the information through a projector and onto the wall. It is an array of mixed shapes and calculated patterns presented in various colors of purples and blues. One might not realize this immediate connection but it further encompasses the delicate and thoughtful process of incorporating one’s biological self to the materiality of
the screen. This cross-disciplinary approach with mixed media is able to engage the viewer. The visitor in the exhibit becomes involved in the initial phase of the “datascape,” which adds another layer of interactivity into the web of design, human interaction and architectural form. The “eSkin” project, supported by the National Science Foundation, works on integrating material science and looks at playing cells into substrates, where the combination of scientific research and design objectivism come into play. Sabin calls this project, “the most mature project. It takes a lot of concepts as a starting point and then takes it to another level by incorporating cell biology and chemical engineering.” The simulated extracellular matrix becomes a starting point to view the PHOTOS COURTESY OF JENNY SABIN
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change of behavior in cells. Viewed on a large scale this becomes an inspiration for real world design. On the first wall of the exhibit, there is a large blanket called “Fourier Tapestry.” The black and white material, stitched with a distinct pattern catches attention as it leads you around the entire wall towards the back, providing an insight into the world of a forgotten art in textiles and the process of production. It is juxtaposed with a modernity in design and pattern but presented through the authentic processing of textile production. Sabin notes that there has been a “radical shift in the onset of new technologies” but the “biggest paradigm shift is the communication of information in terms of fabrication.” This is best seen through “Fourier Tapestry,” where the ability to surpass material constraints is realized and the connection between geometry and pattern is computed in real time. Further, walking towards the back end of the gallery, “myThread Pavilion,” is a piece that focuses on the extracellular matrix in a dynamic architectural tapestry. Sabin’s ability to work from a bottom-up process is evident in the materialization of the project — it was initiated by a construct of data based on the biological output of individuals who recorded their information through a Nike band. The data was a foundation for the threestep process of translating the data and then iterating something greater through a visual manifestation that focuses on the limitation of material. Sabin comments on “Branching Morphogenesis,” one of the earliest projects for the exhibit, saying “It is an architectural tapestry seen through protein events, in that matrix which
then specifies form structure. That installation was looking at prototypes, material organization and biological data.” “Branching Morphogenesis,” is a clever and brilliant piece that uses zipties to create discourse about the usage of biological data. Sabin discusses that the process is “bottom-up” because she follows “simple rules and parameters through iteration to create complex results.” Over 70,000 zip ties were used for this piece to create an elaborate piece that further pushes the limitations of materiality and creates an invitation to discuss the architectural approach of building something from such a basic material. This perhaps commodified object becomes a fascinating and complex project that has “tension in parts but creates a continuous form,” through the combination of each to the whole. Sabin told The Sun, “The exhibition brings together a boy of work that really spans roughly six years, or actually maybe a little longer, work, that has come out of my experimental design studio [in Philadelphia], as well as my lab where I conduct funded research.” The constructed design of the exhibition is a generous collection of work accomplished in the past six years, not to be called a “retrospective” but rather a process of progress and growth. The variety of work provides an insight into the ability to work across disciplines from art and architecture to science and design. It allows for an opening of discourse about how materiality functions and how one can surpass its parameters. Datascapes will be on display in the Bibliowicz Family Gallery in Milstein Hall from Mar. 4 to Apr. 11. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Eliza Kuzmenko is a sophomore in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at esk83@cornell.edu.
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The Vagina Monologues at Statler Auditorium: Raw, empowering and ‘totally orgasmic’
BY CAITLAN SUSSMAN Sun Contributor
When I stepped into Statler Auditorium last Saturday night to see The Vagina Monologues, I had no idea what to expect. Timed to coincide perfectly with International Women’s Day, I knew the production was bound to be a celebration of women and their bodies. What I did not expect was the pure explosion of an emotional experience that the show turned out to be. The original production was written by playwright Eve Ensler and soon became an award-winning international phenomenon, published in 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. The Vagina Monologues is, as the title would suggest, a compilation of monologues developed from interviews with real women all over the world about their relationships with their vaginas. These monologues, when juxtaposed together, are surprising, laugh-out-loud hilarious, extraordinarily painful and unbearably real. The women interviewed ranged from young girls to the elderly, from sex workers to refugees, from rape victims to women who had never seen their vaginas before. I found myself laughing one minute and sobbing the next. As a woman watching this production, it was at once unsettling and empowering to witness a theatrical expression of emotions that I myself, and many women like me, have and will experience throughout their lives. Co-directed by Andrea Fiorentini ’16 and Lanie Trafford ’14, this was one of the best staged productions I have seen at Cornell so far. “We almost sold out both [Friday and Saturday] nights,” says Fiorentini, “It was one of the most successful performances of this show out of all the years they’ve done it here.” A particularly surprising and impressive aspect of this production was that although the cast included some performing arts majors, many of the actors had little or no experience with theater. The cast members ranged from engineers to English majors, from undergraduates to Ph.D. students. This diverse range of backgrounds allowed each actor to bring something new and unique to the performance, something to which every audience member could relate.
BRITTANY CHEW / SUN CONTRIBUTOR The Vagina Monologues turned the taboo of the word “vagina” upside-down. The featured monologues included the poignant memories of an elderly woman played by Keriann Murphy, grad — “Down there? I haven’t been down there since 1973!” — and an adorable interview with a young girl brought to life by Kaitlyn Fletcher ’15 and Yana Lysenko ’16 — “If your vagina could speak, what would it say?” “Words that start with T & V, like turtle and violin. Somewhere deep inside, it has a really, really smart brain.” In a letter from the directors in the show’s program, they write “if, at the end of the night, you have learned at least one nickname for the vagina … then we’ve done our job.” In fact, I learned not just one, but several. Fiorentini and Trafford did an excellent job of grounding the production within the Cornell community, inserting witty quips into the script as the occasion demanded. “On North, they call it Nasties,” remarked one woman during the introduction. “On Central, they call it Bear’s Den. At Cornell, they call it Big Red.” One particularly amusing performance came from the dynamic duo of Sarah Jefferis, grad, and Elana Loeb In line with the pressing women’s issues raised by the pro’17, who made the powerful and hilarious skit, “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy,” their own. The mono- duction, all of the funds raised from ticket sales — $14,500, logue told the story of a lawyer who leaves her profession to one of the greatest successes of all the performances of The become a sex worker working specifically with women (“You Vagina Monologues so far — went to the Tompkins County don’t find anything like this in tax law!”). At one point during Advocacy Center, an organization providing support for victhe performance, the two women launched into a full-on emu- tims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. I left Statler feeling energized, saddened, frustrated, surlation of different types of moans, including the “Jewish Moan” (“Oyyyyyyy veyyyyyy!”) and the Irish Catholic Moan prised, confident and above all part of something larger than (“Oh father forgive me!”), rolling around on the floor in mock myself — part of a community of women worldwide rising for equality. No longer would I see my own body in the same way convulsions to uproarious audience laughter. However, the production was not all light-hearted. It raised again. I would not see it simply as something attached to many issues that are part of the realities of countless women’s myself to take for granted, but instead as a force for change and lives, but that are often kept in the dark, such as rape and female empowerment. At the end of the production, I could comgenital mutilation. A particularly stellar and poignant perfor- pletely understand why, as Fiorentini puts it, the production mance in this respect came from Tilly Rose ’15, portraying a was an “orgasmic experience.” Bosnian refugee who became the victim of political rape in her country. “My vagina was my village,” she told the audience. Caitlan Sussman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. “But I live somewhere else now. I don’t know where that is.” She can be reached at cms447@cornell.edu.
The Favorite Musicians of Our Favorite Musicians
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n Hollywood they have a saying: “One for them, one for me.” Usually, this refers to efforts to balance commercially successful and critically lauded endeavors — making one successful blockbuster and one avant-garde indie flick shot in Flemish using a handicam. This column is “for them”: For the readers who don’t want to hear me whine at length about the state of classical music criticism. So, without further ado, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: A listicle! In Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers’ love letter to folk music and the strummers who brought it into America’s collective consciousness, the titular character, a brooding, handsome, bearded visionary with charm and talent to boot, finds the music industry an impenetrable labyrinth. Armed with a scratched-up guitar (and tailed by a cat), Llewyn’s unsuccessful cross-country odyssey ends where it began: in a dark folk club in the Village. At the film’s close, Llewyn prepares to exit the club, having learned a lot but achieved very little. A young man takes his place on the stage. Who is this mysterious newcomer? Bob Dylan. The film touches on a frequently explored, but nonetheless important, truth: Our most influential artists are often not our most popular — or even, in their own time, our most respected. These men and women are visionaries; they believe in their work and refuse to sacrifice their ideals or bend to the fickle whims of the masses. Sometimes, things
are right in the world: Luck, circumstance, or pure willpower allow these musicians their time in the sun, as is the case with several artists named here. Either way, these musicians deserve every word of praise they can get. Do yourself a favor and check them out. Moondog One of the most important composers of the mid-20th century spent much of his time on the streets of New York, built his own instruments and was known as the
Sam Bromer There’s No Place Like Brome “Viking of 6th Avenue” for his Odininspired garb. Norse mythology notwithstanding, Moondog in many ways was a god. Born in the midwest as a mere mortal, Louis Thomas Hardin lost his eyesight at the age of 16 after playing with dynamite. Presumably, the tragic accident gave him superpowers; unlike Daredevil, however, he did not receive the ability to be played by Ben Affleck in a thoroughly mediocre comic book adaptation. In 1943, Moondog moved to New York City, where he began to perform as a street poet and avant-garde jazz performer. Inspired by the sounds of the city — traffic and crying babies, subways and fog horns — Moondog’s recordings met their share of derision, but were championed by several
significant public figures over the years, including Philip Glass, Charlie Parker and Martin Scorsese. All the while, Moondog held down his spot on 54th street, enlightening passerby for over 30 years. Buddy Guy Jimi Hendrix once said that heaven was “sitting at Buddy Guy’s feet and watching him play guitar.” But this blues legend remained outside the spotlight for over 40 years. Born in Louisiana, Buddy headed to Chicago in 1958, where he was discovered by Chess Records while playing on the street for pennies. Despite his obvious talent, however, industry politics and sheer bad luck kept Buddy relatively unknown until the so-called “blues revival” of the 1980s. Today, he is widely regarded as the “bridge” between blues and rock and roll and revered by, well, just about anyone who knows anything about the guitar. Fela Kuti Part Afrobeat pioneer, part virtuoso, part protest singer and part political activist, Fela Kuti is one of the most influential musicians — or humans — in African history. The depth of his influence was well-defined in this quote from the Herald Sun in 2011: “Imagine Che Guevara and Bob Marley rolled into one person and you get a sense of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti.” A native son of Nigeria, Fela found his success in the 1970s, one of the most tumultuous eras in Nigerian history. Torn apart by civil war and the remnants of British colonial rule, Nigeria was in need of a leader. Though imperfect — he infamously married 27 women and then divorced them
simultaneously in a lavish ceremony — Fela was more than capable of fulfilling this role. In a country marked by corruption and inequality, Fela was a source of unity and pride. And yet, Fela’s music, which shunned three-minute pop-friendly cuts in favor of rhythmic, lengthy and politically controversial compositions, was not well-received in the West until years after his death. Perhaps due to historical hindsight, or perhaps due to that Broadway musical about his life, Fela and the genre he created have received international acclaim in recent years. Dave Van Ronk If you’ve seen Inside Llewyn Davis — or read the blurb that started this bad boy off — you already know the jist of Dave Van Ronk’s life and times. The Coen Brother’s film was loosely based on the experiences of this folk singer. But the “Mayor of MacDougal Street,” whose admirers include Dylan along with Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell and countless other titans of the recording industry, deserves the celebrity treatment. After all, for years, Van Ronk was underestimated both in terms of talent and influence; Beyond his fanbase in Greenwich Village and the musicians whose music owed large debts to his work, he was anything but a household name. Like Fela’s afrobeat, Van Ronk’s work has deservedly received a boost in recent years (those of you in the know beforehand can pat yourselves on the back). Sam Bromer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com. There’s No Place Like Brome runs alternate Mondays this semester.
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Inspired by His Story, Icers‘Look Up’to Colin BERMAN
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the idea of perspective, saying he hoped the players are able to take something away from their experiences with Colin just as his family has benefited from spending time with the team. “It’s got to be a grueling schedule, a grueling practice schedule; as a student I can’t imagine having done all [that] and studying on top of that. For these student athletes to take time and embrace my family and make my kids feel that much happier, that’s awesome,” Hayward said. “I have to think that this is going to carry beyond their hockey careers into their everyday life, that they will gain some perspective from having a kid like Colin [around].” Hayward’s words struck a chord somewhere in my school-addled brain, and later that day I searched the Internet for an article I remembered reading after Kayla died. She had worked with a program very similar to Team IMPACT, called the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, and spent a season with the American University women’s basketball team. She sat courtside at nearly every home contest, and the team never lost when she was on the sidelines cheering them on. The article, which ran in the Washington Times three months after she passed away, quoted the coach and several team members about Kayla’s time with the team, detailing their experiences and echoing sentiments closely related to what Hayward said he hoped Colin’s presence would accomplish. “I think [she] gave us perspective,” American coach Matt Corkery told the Times. “She brought a kind of light into the program in a completely different way that we would not have had a chance to experience otherwise.” Scott, who has been significantly involved with Colin’s participation with the team, noted that he thought the Red’s relationship with the Hayward-Toland family had been immensely rewarding for the team in a similar manner. “It’s great having Colin around,” Scott said. “The guys, in a weird way, kind of look up to him. He’s been through a lot in his life, and the boys have learned a lot from hearing his story and seeing him, how much he’s getting better and everything. Everybody loves having him here.” Colin has his own locker room with the team, and a bright red label inscribed with the name “Hayward Toland” marks his spot in the room. Both Scott and Hayward described Colin’s initial interactions with the team as subdued, but that he gradually lost his timidity and became just like one of the boys. “He was pretty shy at first, but as soon as he kind of got to know us and get a little bit more comfortable, he’s really opened up and you really see his personality,” Scott said. “He’s a feisty little guy and that represents everything that we want to be about. He’s in there, he’s got no qualms of saying hi to everybody and giving knuckles and hi-fives and everything. It’s great to see him open up to our players, and at the same time our players really enjoy having him around.” As the media session wound to a close, Hayward and Toland let Colin enter the locker room to say a brief hello to the athletes, who had just wrapped up practice. A chorus of bro-pitched “heyyys” greeted his entrance, and it took nearly 10 minutes for his father to extract him. He didn’t want to leave. Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.
COURTESY OF THE HAYWARD-TOLAND FAMILY
Part of the team | The men’s hockey team gave Colin Hayward-Toland his own space in the locker room with a red label inscribed with his name.
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palling around with his older brother Aidan and tapping on various recording devices. That Colin is able to move around so willfully is a remarkable achievement on its own; that he is simply alive is both the biggest surprise and the biggest blessing of all. Colin, who is a regular sight around Lynah after spending the season as the youngest member of the men’s ice hockey team, is already a cancer survivor before the age of seven, and has nearly reached the five-year point that is such a milestone in cancer survival rates. “He’s in remission now, he’s gaining his strength back, he’s even on the ice now from time to time skating,” said Colin’s father, Ian Hayward ’04, beaming as he spoke about his recovering son. “It’s really amazing to watch Colin grow up around this group of big brothers that he’s got on the Big Red hockey team.” Hayward is chatting with the media about his son’s participation in Team IMPACT, a program that pairs sports teams with children facing life-threatening chronic illnesses. As one of the Sun’s hockey beat reporters, I jumped on the chance to cover the story. Colin’s tale, from his diagnosis, to his recovery, to his involvement with the team, is a story with distinct parallels and connections to the heartaches I’ve seen my own family endure. In 2009, Colin was taken to the hospital on his second birthday and diagnosed with ependymoma, a rare type of brain tumor. Three years earlier, my cousin Kayla — whose parents were in the Class of 1990, the same year as Colin’s mother, Tamiko Toland — had received the same diagnosis. Although St. Jude lists ependymoma as the third most common kind of brain tumor found in children, only 200 new cases of ependymoma are diagnosed a year among all segments of the population.
one-more-chapter-before-I-go-tobed girl she always was, even as she fought the debilitating effects of her major brain surgeries. She passed away two years ago March 8, at the age of 12, just under two months before her double Bar-Bat Mitzvah with her older brother was scheduled to take place. In Colin’s case, the effects of his treatment were so severe that he spent long periods paralyzed, surviving only with a tracheostomy tube. He permanently lost his right-side hearing and suffers from vocal chord paralysis, but in an extraordinary turnaround he has relearned to walk, regained much of the control of his facial nerves and will potentially be able correct his currently impaired speech through years of therapy. “I remember in 2009 sitting in a hospital room in New York and thinking of the ultimate worst, which is having to consider hospice,” Hayward said. “And there’s no way I could even imagine [seeing] him participate and be able to not just be around people, but to interact with them. The littlest things are milestones for my family.” Colin’s world expanded these past few months at the recommendation of a psychosocial director at a cancer retreat in Maine, who suggested Team IMPACT to his parents. The family, which lives locally in Ithaca, was matched with the Cornell men’s hockey program, much to the delight of Hayward. “[Colin] loves to play around, he’s a rough and tumble little guy, so I think hockey’s perfect,” Hayward said. “I was really excited when I found out it was a Cornell team because I’m an alum and my wife is an alum, and the rest has been great. Colin enjoys seeing the guys — he really looks up to them. I don’t know if they’re inspired, but Colin’s a pretty amazing little boy.” In a generous move, the team embraced not only Colin, but his brother Aidan, 10, as well. Siblings are an often-overlooked casualty of childhood cancer, and Hayward said the Red’s actions were especially meaningful. At the sugges-
“It’s really amazing to watch Colin grow up around this group of big brothers that he’s got on the Big Red hockey team.” Ian Hayward ’04 The ependymoma community is so small, indeed, that a later conversation with the family revealed that my cousin’s parents and the Hayward-Tolands participate in the same ependymoma listserv support group and have communicated before. It was a connection that surprised me, although in hindsight I should have guessed. To have two children diagnosed with ependymoma with parents from the same class year is a striking and saddening coincidence. Due to the location and aggressiveness of ependymoma tumors, the surgery to remove the cancer often leaves patients with severe physical impairments. In the five years after my cousin’s diagnosis, she remained the whip-smart, poetry loving, please-can-we-read-
tion of head coach Mike Schafer ’86 and assistant coach Topher Scott ’08, Aidan has his own personal jersey to go along with Colin’s. “Here’s something really cool — Topher and coach Schafer came to me and said, ‘how about we get a jersey for Aidan?’ And just to tell you, for all the years we’ve been going in and out of hospitals, siblings sometimes have it really tough,” Hayward said. “[It] means so much to me as a parent because I get to see both my kids here, participating, and not have one feel like he’s left out. That was so nice of them to extend their offer.” As Hayward talked about the program, he frequently mentioned See BERMAN page 12
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COURTESY OF THE HAYWARD-TOLAND FAMILY
Making an impact | Assistant coach Topher Scott ’08 and head coach Mike Schafer ’86 (seated) have given Colin Hayward-Toland and his brother Aidan a second home in the team’s locker room.
COURTESY OF THE HAYWARD-TOLAND FAMILY
Taken in with open arms | Through the Team IMPACT program, Colin Hayward-Toland, who was diagnosed with ependymoma in 2009, has gotten the chance to skate and pal around with the Cornell men’s hockey team this season.
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Knight, Stevens Lead Red’s Strong Defense Penalties Hurt Red In Defeat M. LAX
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offense came out strong and was clicking in the first half, and then our defense, which played outstanding, carried us home," Edmonds said. Freshman goalie Christian Knight came up big for Cornell, registering 14 saves and intercepting the ball in the final minute of the game as the Bulldogs scrambled to tie the score on a one-man advantage. Sophomore defenseman Jordan Stevens was also instrumental for the Red, keeping close tabs on Yale's leading scorer, Brandon Mangan. Stevens' efforts were successful as Mangan was held to one assist and saw his 24-game scoring streak squashed. The game was exciting from the start, with Yale's Oberbeck scoring on a pass from Alexander Otero to get the Bulldogs on the board in the first minute of play. Lintner quickly found the equalizer for the Red, but the Bulldogs pressed on. The squads continued to trade goals as Lintner netted another, but Max Scibber quickly buried one for the Bulldogs to erase the Red's lead and tie it up again at 2-2. Yale’s Sean Shakespeare launched the ball from the left wing to give the Bulldogs the lead for the final time in the contest. It was
short-lived, though, as senior midfielder Sten Jernudd quickly found the net off a blast from the right wing to knot the score at 3-3 just two minutes later. Back and forth goals continued as the first quarter wound down. Edmonds hustled to net a goal which gave the Red it's first lead of the match with 3:25 left before the break. Moments later, Yale’s Dylan Levings won the face-off for the Bulldogs and sprinted downfield, ripping a shot into the back of the net to tie up the score once again at 4-4. With 14 seconds left in the first quarter, Paoletta scored to set a 5-0 scoring run in motion for the Red. The five-goal streak included a hat trick from Donovan early in the second quarter as well as a goal by Edmonds. Down 9-4, the Bulldogs finally ended 15 minutes of scoreless play with a goal by Oberbeck. The Red quickly responded, however, as Edmonds scored off a pass from Buczek to head into intermission up 10-5. For the Red, the game became much more about producing a steady defensive push in the second half. Yale came back with a late surge to score three unanswered goals and reduce the deficit. With the game at 10-8, it appeared the Bulldogs were about to close the gap and take the reins. With just seconds left in the third quarter, though, Paoletta came
through for the Red to restore it's three-goal lead. The fourth quarter was noticeably quiet, with the Bulldogs tallying the sole goal. The Red's defensive lineup worked harmoniously as a group to hold off the Bulldogs, who were desperately trying to steal two goals to stay alive, according to Stevens. "We had a great game plan going in. ... The coaches prepared us well and we did a solid job executing," Stevens said. "We played well as a seven man unit." The Bulldogs had a man-up chance for the final 56 seconds of the game and rallied hard to make it count. Knight performed well under the pressure, though, and could not be beat. He intercepted a Yale pass and made a crucial save with just seconds left on the clock to hand the Red it's first Ivy win of the season. With the win, the Red remains unbeaten in both conference and overall play. "It is our goal, every year, to win the Ivy League and go undefeated on Schoellkopf, so getting a win against a good Yale team brings us one step closer to our ultimate goal," Buczek said. "It also allows us to continue to mature as we form our identity as a young team." Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.
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Red from opening up the lead, and eventually Mercyhurst broke through. It converted on two power plays opportunities in the second half of the second period to take a 2-1 lead. The Lakers again scored on the power play at the beginning of the third to take a lead from which the Red could never recover. “Obviously in tight games you have talented teams with talented power plays, so when you take penalties it can really kill you,” she said. “They really took advantage of that and in my opinion they also got a few lucky bounces.” Cornell trimmed the Laker lead to one with five minutes left in the third on junior forward Emily Fulton’s second goal of the game. However, despite raucous support from the Lynah crowd and desperate attempts to tie the game, Mercyhurst protected its lead and went on to win. “Especially after the second goal, when that really got our momentum going and got everyone excited, and we had the puck basically for the rest of the game after that goal, we had an absolutely outstanding crowd and couldn’t have asked for a better setup at the end, so it was pretty upsetting,” Saulnier said.
“I couldn’t have asked for a better group of girls.” Jillian Saulnier According to Saulnier, the Red played a strong game overall, but its failure to capitalize on scoring chances coupled with Mercyhurst’s strong power play proved too great a hurdle for the Red to overcome. “It’s definitely tough to look back on, and I think overall we were the stronger team and certainly prepared for moments like that, but we just couldn’t come away with the win when it mattered,” she said. Saulnier acknowledged that the Red is left with positive feelings heading into the offseason, despite the disappointing quarterfinal exit and the departure of the seniors, who were the leaders of the team. “I couldn’t have asked for a better group of girls, and especially the four seniors that are leaving this year — they will be greatly missed. They were huge parts of this program,” she said. “Its’ tough to look forward now, because it’s new and just happened yesterday, so it’s definitely tough to swallow, but we’ll remember this season and move forward for next year.” Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.
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ECAC battles | The stakes were high this weekend, as ECAC teams matched up for a trip to the conference semifinals.
Men:Higher Seeds Prevail In Quarterfinals Matchups E CAC playoff hockey is back, and this weekend’s games did not disappoint in excitement and intensity. In the quarterfinals of the ECAC hockey championship, Quinnipiac took care of Yale easily, defeating the Bulldogs, 6-2, on Friday and 3-1 on Saturday. Union blanked Dartmouth in the series opener, with goalie Colin Stevens blocking 32 shots for the shutout. Dartmouth came out in game two with energy, netting two goals in the first period, but the Engineers turned that deficit around with two goals in the final period, snapping the 2-2 tie en route to an eventual 4-2 win and series victory. The series between St. Lawrence and Colgate was an intense one, with both games decided by only one goal. Colgate netted two goals in the first
period of game one, and St. Lawrence was never able to find an equalizer, though they did score once in the third period. On Saturday, fortunes were reversed, and it was St. Lawrence that started off strong with two goals in the first period. However, Colgate refused to go down easy, clawing its way back and tying the game up before the third period began. The Raiders found the back of the net two more times against St. Lawrence goaltender Matt Weninger, and though the Saints were able to score once more after that, Colgate took the series with a 4-3 victory. The series between Cornell and Clarkson was the only one to go to a deciding game three. — Compiled by Scott Chiusano
Women: Mercyhurst, Clarkson Advance to NCAA Frozen Four
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hree ECAC teams took part in the NCAA quarterfinals this weekend. Mercyhurst and Cornell matched up for the third and final time this season, with Mercyhurst coming out on top, 4-3, despite two goals from junior forward Emily Fulton. Clarkson bested Boston College, 3-1, behind two goals by forward Vanessa Gagnon and 23 saves by goaltender Erica Howe. Harvard fell to Wisconsin after the Badgers netted two goals in the first two periods before the Crimson found an answer. Harvard’s Dylanne Crugnale scored the Crimson’s only goal in the third period, but it was not enough to overpower Wisconsin’s tough defense and the play of goaltender Alex Rigsby, who made 23 saves. Wisconsin will take on Minnesota in the Frozen Four, and Mercyhurst will battle Clarkson for a trip to the NCAA finals. — Compiled by Scott Chiusano
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Frozen Four | With the NCAA tournament underway, Mercyhurst and Clarkson came away with quarterfinals victories and an invitation to the Frozen Four.
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Laxers Remain Unbeaten After First Ivy Victory Defense comes up big by stifling Yale’s attack in second half play By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Assistant Sports Editor
This Saturday, the Cornell men’s lacrosse team defeated Yale, 11-9, in its Ivy League season opener. The Red jumped out to a quick start, netting 10 goals in the first half to take a convincing 10-5 lead going into the break. Following the offensive explosion in the first two periods, the Red did YALE @ CORNELL not see the same 11 9 scoring Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH Final success 3 1 9 1 Yale 4 in the 0 1 11 5 Cornell 5 latter half of the game. As the attack quieted, the squad put forward a strong defensive effort to fend off the Bulldogs and preserve the lead. Cornell remains one of two unbeaten teams
One for the books | Senior midfielder John Edmonds recorded a career-high three goals and two assists in the Red’s 11-9 victory over Yale on Saturday, the team’s first conference game of the season.
in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse (6-0, 1-0 Ivy), while the Bulldogs fell to 3-2 (0-1 Ivy). Sophomore midfielder John Edmonds was key for the Red's offense, recording a career-high three goals and two assists. Junior captain Matt Donovan showed another stellar performance, tallying three goals and an assist, and both senior midfielder Dan Lintner and senior defenseman Joe Paoletta got on the board for the Red with two goals apiece. Junior midfielder Connor Buczek also had a career day, racking up assists on five of Cornell’s 10 first half goals.
According to Edmonds, part of the reason Ivy matchups are so tough is because the men are familiar with the style of play. He praised the way the Red worked as a team, with the offense jumping out to a quick start and the defense tightening up its game in the second half to keep the Red on top. “Ivy League games are so physical and competitive because we know each other's personnel so well. Our See M. LAX page 14
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Icers Fall to Mercyhurst in NCAA Quarterfinals Match By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer
COURTESY OF THE HAYWARD-TOLAND FAMILY
Forming a family | Colin Hayward-Toland (center left) and his brother Aidan have become a part of the men’s hockey team’s extended family.
Colin’s Story: Surviving Cancer,With Some Help C olin Hayward-Toland ambles over, pauses in front of me and presses a goldfish cracker into my open palm. Surprised at his
politely asks for a goldfish and receives it with enviable grace. It’s a rather impromptu media gathering at Lynah rink, and even if he is too young to participate in
Emily Berman Guest Column boldness, I squeak a high-pitched “thank you” to the energetic six-yearold, accidentally sing-songing the words in that peculiarly condescending way adults sometimes speak to children. Nonplussed, Colin sidles over to the reporter beside me, who
interviews, Colin is still the star of the show. Under his mother’s watchful eye, he wanders with a distinctively crooked gait around the upper corner of the bleachers, See BERMAN page 13
After winning four straight games to capture the ECAC championship, the Cornell women’s hockey team headed into the NCAA quarterfinals with a great deal of momentum. However, the Red faced a talented and determined Mercyhurst squad, and lost a tight game, 3-2. With the loss, Cornell’s season came to an end, one game short of the Frozen Four. According to junior forward Jillian Saulnier, despite this disappointing loss, Cornell looks positively at what it accomplished on and off the ice this season. “This season we were seen as the underdogs to a lot of people, and I think we definitely proved a lot of people wrong,” she said. “We lost some really important players this year, which had a big impact on the team, but I thought we came together really well and had an outstanding group of girls off the ice that just gelled and clicked every single day and was will-
for the game,” she said. “We had a lot of energy coming out in the first few minutes of the first period. We got the first goal and had the momentum for a while, but they ended up getting a couple of goals on us.” Cornell dominated the first half of the second period, holding the Lakers to only one shot on goal over that span. However, Mercyhurst’s goaltender made multiple saves to prevent the See W. HOCKEY page 14
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ing to come and play and work for each other for our success.” Both teams came out with strong play to start the game, but the goaltenders stood strong to keep the game scoreless for most of the first period. However, Cornell earned a two man advantage at the end of the first, and it capitalized on the chance to take a 1-0 lead. “We had a good start and were really excited
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Just short | Junior forward Emily Fulton scored two goals, but it was not enough to lift the Red over Mercyhurst.