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C.U. Examines Effects Of High Faculty Size

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Faculty enrollment at all-time high

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

As colleges and schools across the University prepare to tighten their budgets in the next few years in response to reduced provost allocations, questions are being raised by faculty members and administrators on how best to maintain focus on academic priorities.

According to data presented at a Faculty Senate meeting last Wednesday, the faculty size reached an all-time high of 1,652 members last fall, with an increasing number of faculty members over 65 years of age. In addition, student enrollment — concentrated in professional masters programs — has grown over 10 percent since the fall of 2002.

Facing a likely increase in retiring faculty and a steady trend of increased student enrollment, Paul Streeter, vice president for budget and planning, said that fostering dialogue about the priorities and challenges the University will face would be important in shaping Cornell in the future.

“The colleges know most of their budget numbers at this point and they are developing their budget plans,” Streeter said. “The conversation that’s going to happen with the provost and the deans coming up is really looking out beyond next year.”

Faculty Size

Despite 2014’s record-breaking faculty size, Dean of Faculty Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66, astronomy, said the increase in faculty is “not an enormous growth.”

Additionally, data from the Faculty Senate Meeting showed that in the fall of 2014, 18.8 percent of the faculty was above 65 years old.

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Tools of the trade | New York Secretary of State Cesar Perales speaks yesterday at the County Chamber of Commerce.

N.Y. Secretary of State Argues for Proposed Minimum Wage Hikes

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

Cesar A. Perales, Secretary of State of New York, discussed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N.Y.) proposal to raise the minimum wage with local business leaders at a roundtable discussion at the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce Tuesday.

Cuomo’s proposal, announced on Jan. 18, would raise the minimum wage to $11.50 in New York City and $10.50 around the rest of the state if adopted.

Perales said he feels “very strongly” about the need to raise the minimum wage.

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Batista’16 Wins S.A.Presidential Race

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“We now have an enormous wage and income disparity in our nation, which has probably never been this big or this bad. And this is something we can do something about,” Perales said. “It’s not going to solve all problems, but addressing the minimum wage is something that is relatively easier to do for the people in the state through their legislators.”

The argument for increasing the minimum wage is two-fold, according to Perales. Not only would the proposed minimum wage hike help low income individuals earn additional income and address

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Juliana Batista ’16 won the presidential race for the Student Assembly, beating opponents Jeff Breuer ’16 and Matthew Stefanko ’16, according to election results released Tuesday evening.

Out of a total 4,581 ballots, Batista received 2,250 votes.

Stefanko and Breuer received 1,328 and 355, respectively.

However, Stefanko received sufficient votes for the un-designated at-large representative position and will serve in that position alongside Diana Li ’17, Gabe Kaufman ’18 and Maha Ghandour ’17.

Additionally, Emma Johnston ’16, current College of Arts and Sciences representative for the S.A.,

won the election for executive vice president. She received 2,551 votes, compared to opponent Peter Bidenwig’s ’17 706 votes.

Saim Chaudhary ’17 and Maria Chak ’18, current freshman representative for the S.A., will serve as the two minority at-large representatives. They both narrowly beat See ELECTION page 5

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson to Speak in April Cornell Republicans will host potential presidential candidate

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Natasha Khodykina ’17 and Olivia Obodoagha ’15 accept the Perkins Award for Interracial Understanding and Harmony on behalf of Cornell Minds Matter and ALANA, respectively, at a ceremony yesterday.

Dr. Ben Carson — a retired, worldrenowned pediatric neurosurgeon who has said he is currently considering a run for president of the United States — is set to speak in Kennedy Hall April 21 at an event sponsored by the Cornell Republicans.

The talk, titled “The

Change We Need,” will be followed by a ques-

chair of the Cornell Republicans.

“All of us are frustrated with the way Washington has done its job.”

Dr. Ben Carson tion and answer session and is open to the public, according to Brandon Thompson ’16,

Carson attended Yale University and the University of Michigan School of Medicine

before his residency at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, where he directed pediatric neurosurgery for 29 years, according to a press release from the Cornell Republicans.

During his career in pediatric neurosurgery, he successfully completed the first separation of craniopagus — commonly called Siamese — twins See CARSON page 5

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Women Charged With Killing Falcon to Save Duck COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho woman faces charges after authorities say she beat a hunter’s falcon to death with a beaded scarf after seeing the bird of prey take down a duck.

Patti MacDonald, 60, of Hauser, was charged with a misdemeanor count of beating or harassing an animal, the Coeur d’Alene Press reported.

Authorities say MacDonald fractured the skull of the 8year-old falcon named Hornet on Jan. 7. The duck also died and was being stored as evidence, Idaho Fish and Game said.

Hornet’s owner, Scott Dinger, said MacDonald should be charged with killing a protected species.

He said he was about 500 yards away when Hornet made a successful attack and landed with the duck. He said he was approaching the spot then he saw a red Jeep Wrangler pull up to the side of the road, and Hornet flew away but appeared injured.

Dinger said the woman told him she beat the bird, which had been with humans since the day it was hatched.

“So they don’t really know they are falcons,” Dinger said. “That was probably a part of his undoing, because you could walk up to him and he wouldn’t fly or try to get

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Craig Walker, a regional conservation officer for Idaho Fish and Game, said he later received an anonymous call from a woman saying she tried to save a duck from a falcon.

The phone system identified the caller as MacDonald.

Walker wrote in his report that the woman stated “that she had been very upset about the duck being injured, but felt bad about injuring someone’s pet.”

Dinger said it was tough to accept what happened because his bird was eight years old, and falcons can live for about 30 years when they’re with humans. “I had planned for Hornet to live longer than me,” Dinger said.

Ikea Ends Hide and Seek Games THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ikea has a message for people wanting to converge on its stores for giant games of hide and seek: Go play someplace else.

The phenomenon has taken off online in the Netherlands where a whopping 19,000 people signed up to a Facebook group promoting a game at Ikea’s Amsterdam branch next month. Another 13,000 signed up for a game in the Ikea store in the city of Utrecht.

But the Swedish retail giant has bad news for folks wanting to hide among its room-like furniture displays: The numbers signing up are getting out of hand and the events have been blocked.

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Prof. Kramnick Reflects On 50 Years of Teaching

By DAVID ZIMMERMAN Sun Staff Writer

After 50 years of teaching — 43 of which were at Cornell — Prof. Isaac Kramnick, government, will retire after this semester, following the sesquicentennial celebrations. During his time at Cornell, Kramnick has been a teacher and advisor and eventually became the first vice provost for undergraduate education.

Before coming to Cornell, Kramnick taught at Brandeis, Harvard and Yale. However, Kramnick said he “felt much more comfortable” at Cornell than at other universities because “the feel [at Cornell] was much more egalitarian.”

Kramnick said he served as chair for the committee that designed the modern-day West Campus housing, and naming the buildings after famous Cornell faculty was his idea. He has also been faculty elected trustee and has been chair of the government department twice.

Kramnick has taught also generations of students on topics such as the history of Western political thought and political theory.

In 1996, he was named The Sun’s “Favorite Professor of the Year.”

However, he said that while growing up, he never saw himself becoming an educator.

He attended a small community high school and was the first member of his family to study at a university. As a sophomore at Harvard, Kramnick met two professors who he said heavily influenced him. The two professors — Prof. Judith Shklar and Prof. Emeritus Stanley Hoffmann — helped him succeed in his undergraduate studies, which he said he felt poorly prepared for.

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which is what I have written about,” Kramnick said.

He credits the two professors for inspiring him to become a teacher and mentor for his own students.

“I guess my love of teaching and helping to open students to the world of ideas was totally shaped by what happened to me when I was a sophomore in college with these two wonderful people,” Kramnick said. “Their influence as my teachers is what made me want to be a teacher. I still think of them sometimes and the role they played in my life. My hope is that out there in my class, there are some people like me, and I am for them what Judith Shklar and Stanley Hoffmann were for me.”

Kendrick said teaching undergraduates and introducing ideas to students is what he “truly loved.”

“I find teaching freshman and sophomores just exhilarating — the thought of opening up the minds of young people to great ideas of Plato or Hobbes or Locke or Marx

or Freud,” Kramnick said.

One of his most memorable moments at Cornell took place during the period of the South African apartheid, when students protested the administration’s refusal to divest from corporations that did business with South Africa. Kramnick said he remembers students building shanty towns on the Arts Quad and the faculty’s disapproval of the Board of Trustees.

“It was a moment of exhilaration here,” Kramnick said. “There were sit-ins in Day Hall repeatedly, but it

was a kind of civil disobedience in which the participants knew that if they sat-in they would be arrested. It was kind of a disciplined and civilized form of civil disobedience.”

Recently, Kramnick co-authored Cornell, A History 1945 - 2015 with Prof. Glenn Altschuler, American studies, adding to his list of 20 publications. The book’s release coincides with the sesquicentennial, a celebration that Kramnick has helped plan for approximately six years as a member of the steering committees.

“My major contribution to that was that I came up with the idea for the Sesquicentennial Grove on Libe Slope,” Kramnick said. “There’s nothing on campus — no place, no building, no monument, no plaques that indicate the University celebrated its centennial in 1965. ... Those sort of absences led to the idea that we should have a place on campus that represents the fact of our celebrating a 150th birthday.”

Beyond his work at Cornell, Kramnick also served as an advisor to Ithaca Mayor John Gutenberger from 1983 to 1985. He said his involvement in local government began when he opposed Cornell’s intention to transform houses in his neighborhood into campus buildings. “[Gutenberger] was running for mayor, and I just sort of slowly became his advisor and suggested that he campaign against Cornell,” Kramnick said. “I remember the head of the Democratic party of Ithaca said, ‘But, everybody in Ithaca works for Cornell,’ and I said, ‘That’s why you run against Cornell.’”

Though Kramnick said he found the campaigning “incredibly exciting,” he never saw himself as politically minded.

“I realized when I was back with the mayor downtown, I’m not great with the demands of electoral politics,” Kramnick said. “It a kind of skill that’s different from being a teacher and interacting with students.”

As his retirement approaches, Kramnick said he will miss the “student reactions, [students] coming to see me in office hours, coming to see me after lecture to pursue a particular point.”

“It always seems to me that being a college professor is partly a gift because it’s a kind of work that one enjoys,” Kramnick said. “I always thought there’s something quite wonderful about being a professor. And, of course, what’s most wonderful about it is being able to influence people’s lives.”

David Zimmerman can be reached at dzimmerman@cornellsun.com.

Student Advocacy Group Launches Sexual Health,Consent Campaign

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Contributor

Student advocacy group Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood launched the “Know Your Body” campaign this week to reduce the stigma surrounding issues of reproductive anatomy, sexual health.

Co-sponsored by the Cornell Women’s Resource Center, the campaign aims to encourage Cornellians to have conversations about sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, sexual pleasure and consent, according to Vox President Cassidy Clark ’17.

There is no “good reason” for students to feel uncomfortable discussing these issues, said Lauren Cooley ’17, vice president of Vox. “Why is it that as soon as the

words ‘vagina,’ ‘gynecologist’ or ‘birth control’ are mentioned, voices immediately become hushed and people look around to make sure no one heard them say such a thing?” asked Lauren Cooley ’17. “The taboo nature of these topics is absolutely unnecessary.”

Additionally, the stigma surrounding these issues can prevent students from being informed, according to Clark.

“Our society often makes it very difficult for us to be informed about topics like your sexual and reproductive anatomy, the status of our sexual health, what gives our bodies pleasure and how to know what types of sexual activities we feel comfortable with,” Clark said.

Through a social media campaign and tabling in the lobby of Willard Straight Hall, Vox

hopes to carry out its education and awareness campaign, according to Zoe Maisel ’18, chair of public relations for the organization. “[We’ll be] posting about topics to help educate about our bodies and will be trying to reach out to new audiences,” she said.

In addition, Vox will host an educational activity on human anatomy Wednesday and provide information on birth control options Thursday in Willard Straight.

“We will be … inviting Cornellians to create artistics representations of sexual anatomy — male, female or any other [identity] — which we will be displaying on a banner,” Clark said. “We hope that this will be a fun and creative way to de-stigmatize parts

of the body that many have to Clark.

Maisel said the campaign been taught are shameful to discuss in a public and frank attempts to change the way the way.”

Cornell community views issues related to sex Clark said that Vox will aim to “Why is it that as soon and educate stu- as the words ‘vagina,’ a d d r e s s i n g misinformadents on how to effectively ‘gynecologist’ or ‘birth tion on reproductive anatouse Gannett’s control’ are mentioned, my and sexual resources. is The camvoices immediately health important. paign will end become hushed?”

“Misinfor on Friday mation and with a presenLauren Cooley ’17 miseducation tation on is dangerous,” campus by she said. “As Christine Barksdale — the founder of college students, we should have Sustainable Passion, a local all the facts about our own bodbusiness centered on provid- ies if we are to have safe and ing safe and healthful prod- happy sexual encounters.” ucts for women’s pleasure — who will talk about sex-posi- Yun Soo Kim can be reached at tivity and sex toys, according yk556@cornell.edu.

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This represents a sizeable increase from 10 years ago, when 9.6 percent of the faculty was above 65 years in age.

According to Streeter, Cornell’s large faculty size indicates the University prioritization of the need to maintain a strong faculty presence.

Following the 2008 global recession, when faculty numbers decreased significantly, Streeter said the University strategically invested in a faculty renewal program that was “a very deliberate effort on the University’s part to anticipate that at some point there’s going to be faculty retirements.”

However, Streeter said the University’s institutional emphasis on faculty will not change.

“The faculty count numbers will change each year through retirements, departures, and hires, but I don’t anticipate a fundamental change from where we are currently at,” Streeter said. “As President Skorton stated yesterday [at a town hall meeting discussing University finances] we’ve made faculty renewal a priority as a campus through some challenging financial times and this will likely continue.”

In addition, Streeter said the faculty renewal program will remain in place.

Burns echoed Streeter and said that despite facing budget stringencies, he believes the University should accelerate hiring rates.

“We want young faculty because they bring new ideas ... younger people … bring a skill set many of the older faculty don’t have,” Burns said.

“That said, many of the old faculty are wise. …

Many of the senior faculty are still extraordinarily creative.”

Enrollment

Another possible explanation for the increased faculty size is increased student enrollment, according to Burns.

Data presented at last week’s faculty senate meeting showed 10.3 percent total growth in student enrollment from fall 2002 to fall 2013. Of that growth, professional masters had increased by 66.3 percent from 2002 to 2014.

While undergraduate enrollment is capped by the Board of Trustees and the administration, according to Burns, the increase in graduate student enrollment has been “significant.”

The Johnson Graduate School of Management has seen a 44 percent increase in enrollment in the last 10 years. According to Soumitra Dutta, dean of the school, there are several possible reasons for an increase in MBA. students.

“First of all, it’s a question of market demand.

The demand for the MBA has been growing,” Dutta said. “The second reason is we’re also

growing the faculty and a lot of the faculty growth has been driven by the growth in endowment and tuition revenue growth.”

Dutta added that a third reason was the desire to increase the alumni network of the school as a way to strengthen the school’s reputation.

Additionally, Dutta said that in the specific case of the Johnson School, enrollment growth also occurred due to the new Cornell Tech campus, which has its own MBA program.

Budgets and Revenue

While the majority of tuition revenue from student enrollment remains with individual colleges, 10 percent of tuition money is channeled to the provost’s office in a University Support Pool tax in order to allow the provost to invest strategically across the colleges, according to the Streeter.

With colleges and administrative units facing smaller budgets, Streeter said the University would need to explore different ways of increasing revenue.

“One of our challenges is to increase revenues,” Streeter said. “We have a tight budget situation, so offering more degree programs or expanding degree programs is a strategy we need to consider, particularly at the master’s level.”

Burns said he believes there is good reason to seek revenue through professional master’s degrees and MBAs, but that it is important that this is driven with the proper academic goals in mind.

“We have to be sure that we do that in the right way, so that we satisfy our academic goals and that everyone needs to be involved in those conversations,” Burns said.

Enrollment Faculty Forum

In an effort to involve faculty members in discussions about the University’s methods in growing revenue, a faculty forum — titled “Revenue Enhancement: At what cost? And to what benefit?” — will be held Wednesday.

“It’s sort of an attempt to make sure that the faculty know what one gets for professional master’s degrees and MBAs and how to make those better and again realize what our competitors are doing and that the nature of the University is changing,” Burns said. “The hope would be that faculty and staff would have a better idea how to answer questions that are going to be asked in the future.”

Burns added that he sees the faculty forum and President Skorton’s town hall meeting on Monday as “excellent” signs of the administration involving the students, faculty, and staff in administrative decision making.

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

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argument is that it is the right thing to do.”

When asked, Perales said that many people opposed to raising the minimum wage argue out of emotion and fear, not on the basis of fact.

“Small business owners think that if they increase the wage, they’re going to have to let some people go,” Perales said. “[Secondly,] though young people want to enter the market, employers do not want to pay a 20-year-old $10.50 an

economic impact, he said.

“There are many people in the state of New York … that work full time every week and are still living below the poverty line. That shouldn’t happen … and this is something we can change,” Perales said. “But there’s also an economic argument. When low income individuals get additional income, they don’t save it or invest in the stock market. They spend it. Putting that much money into the “There are many people in the economy will have an enormous affect on state of New York … that work New York state — a full time every week and are very positive affect.” still living below the poverty Tompkins County is a “hot-bed for living line. That shouldn’t happen.” wage,” Perales said.

The Tompkins Cesar A. Perales Workers County Center, which has expressed support for Cuomo’s hour.”

Tristan Coffin of Alternate proposal, advocates for the adoption of a living wage, Federal Credit Union asked which they say would be at what local businesses could do to support the proposal. least $12.62 in the county.

“The first thing would be to Joseph Wetmore, owner of Autumn Leaves Used Books on push $8.75 out of existence as the Ithaca Commons, pointed the starting wage for so many out that increasing the mini- people,” Pearles responded. mum wage might actually save “You should also push the Senators that are opposed to the government some money.

“Raising the minimum this. I think that can make a wage would be beneficial to tremendous difference.”

The Tompkins County New York state not only in terms of increasing income Chamber of Commerce has not taxes from these peoples’ taken a position on Cuomo’s increased wages, but also in proposal, according to Jennifer reducing the expenses we have Tavares, president of the in social services costs,” Chamber.

“We have a very diverse Wetmore said.

However, Perales said such membership and we have an argument should not be the members that are fully in supprincipal reason to advocate for port of a minimum wage increase and living wage increased wages.

“The reality is that the employers,” Tavares said. “And increase is so small that if you’re then we do have members who unmedicated, you probably voice concerns. So at this time still will be,” Perales said. We’re we are neutral.” not making the argument in the fact that we are going to Divyansha Sehgal can be reached save social services dollars; the at dsehgal@cornellsun.com.

FACULTY FORUM Revenue Enhancement: At What Cost?

To What Benefit?

Wednesday, March 18 4:30–6:00pm

Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall Moderator: Joseph Burns, Dean of the University Faculty Panelists:

Kathryn Caggiano, OR&IE Ron Ehrenberg, ILR Francesca Molinari, Economics Paul Streeter, VP for Budget and Planning Charles Van Loan, Computer Science

Reception: 6:00–7:00pm in The History of Art Gallery (ground floor) Goldwin Smith Hall This event is free and open to the public

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out the third candidate for the position: Samari Gilbert ’17. Chaudhary, Chak and Gilbert received 1,611, 1,597 and 1,475 votes respectively.

The two University Assembly at-large representative positions will be filled by Matthew Battaglia ’16 and Matt Indimine ’18. With 1598 votes, Battaglia — who is the current vice chair for the U.A. — earned significantly more votes than the three other opponents for the position, who each received less than 1,000 votes.

In addition to these contested races, three other college representative races were contested — Agriculture and Life Sciences, Arts and Sciences, and Engineering.

Chris Li ’18 — who ran unsuccessfully for the freshman representative position in the fall — and Katie Zhu ’18 won the race for the agriculture college representative.

Mitch McBride ’17, who ran unsuccessfully for the transfer representative in the fall, Luke Bushner ’18 and Robert Dunbar ’18 will fill the positions for Arts and Sciences representative.

Lastly, both Justin Selig ’17 and Erinn Liu ’18 —

who currently serve on the S.A. — won the Engineering representative positions.

Batista said she believes the election results demonstrate that the Cornell community supports a “professional and issue-focused campaign.”

“I am overwhelmed and have my work cut out for me in the coming year, but I am confident I can serve the Cornell student body in the way it deserves,” Batista said.

Johnston said she is “humbled” by the results.

“I’m incredibly excited to continue to learn from and advocate for the brilliant students at this school,” Johnston said.

There were a total of four challenges for contested positions. All challenges were dismissed, and the results are final.

According to election results, 648 invalid or empty ballots were submitted for the presidential race.

Additionally, 1324 invalid or empty ballots were submitted for the executive vice president race.

This year’s voter turnout numbers indicate an increase in turnout compared to last year, when fewer than 4,000 students voted in the presidential election.

Rebecca Blair contributed reporting to this story.

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

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at the back of the head in 1987.

In addition to publishing eight books, Carson served on former president George W. Bush’s Council on Bioethics in 2004. In 2008, Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work.

The Cornell Republicans invited Carson to speak because of his “world-class” accomplishments, according to Thompson.

“Very few people can claim to have been at the top of two highly competitive and influential fields, yet Dr. Carson has done this in both neurosurgery and politics,” Thompson said. “He is an inspiration for tens of thousands of Americans and a powerful example of perseverance, overcoming adversity and living the American dream.”

Also, Carson announced in February that he is formally exploring a run for president.

“With the launch of [my] website, I formally establish … a presidential exploratory commit-

tee to examine whether I should become a candidate for president of the United States,” Carson said in a video message on his website. “All of us are frustrated with the way Washington has done its job … I think it’s time that we show them [how much] we care about the job they have done.”

Most recently, Carson made national headlines after he said homosexuality is a “choice” because people “go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay” during a CNN interview with television journalist Chris Cuomo. Carson later publicly apologized for his comments.

“In a recent interview on CNN, I realized that my choice of language does not reflect fully my heart on gay issues,” he said in a Facebook post on March 4.

“I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended.”

Thompson said he believes attendees will acquire a greater appreciation for their nation after hearing Carson speak.

“We hope that the audience leaves with a strong sense of appreciation for what makes this nation great,” he said. “[We] all have a role to play in securing America’s future.”

Andrew Lord can be reached at dlord@cornellsun.com.

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Editorial

Supporting Open Course Evaluations A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION of open course evaluations has circulated across the Student Assembly, University Assembly and Faculty Senate. The resolution was passed by the Student Assembly in November, and if approved by the University, the system will allow students to access information such as preliminary course syllabi, previous class sizes and course median grades in one centralized location. The development of a course evaluation tool should be pursued by the University in order to give students the necessary resources to best create academic schedules.

Cornell presents students with a wide array of subjects available for study, though many students can hold reservations when deciding whether to enroll in classes lacking detailed information beyond the instructor and a brief description of the course. Resources exist for some individual colleges — the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences hosts its own repository of syllabi and evaluations, and the College of Engineering makes numerical ratings from optional student course evaluations publicly available — but no university-wide system exists.

Instead, students often rely on third-party sites, which can have outdated information, their peers, who might be looking for different criteria in a class, or their advisors, who do not necessarily have information about classes outside their own department. Finding specifics about a course’s quality, difficulty and fit within a major remains a difficult and time-consuming task under the current course enrollment system.

President David Skorton said implementing a university-wide system would be difficult to adopt because each college and department holds jurisdiction over evaluations and implements them in different manners. Although we see a potential challenge to the system’s implementation, we urge administrators to work with each college to create a proposal that would benefit both students and colleges by including core questions common to all colleges as well as more specific questions.

By creating a university-wide evaluation system, the administration can ensure students across Cornell can properly assess and compare classes, while continuing to provide colleges with the information they need.

As students invest more in their education, they should be able to make informed decisions about the classes they take. Cornell should follow in the footsteps its peer institutions, including Columbia and Yale, and implement a university-wide course evaluation system to provide students with the information necessary for them to effectively select classes.

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Who CanTrust The Trustees?

hile explaining the new set of austerity cuts to the Faculty Senate last week, the Interim Provost exclaimed, “I don’t actually think of the University as hierarchical … I think of it more as a partnership.” He was rightfully met with laughter from the faculty, who, after being circumvented for every major development decision the University has undertaken in the past decade, have been told it is their job to sit quietly and endure another round of cuts.

As President Skorton admitted in his Transparency Town Hall, Cornell’s budget is constrained severely by a series of capital projects (construction) loans that Cornell took out in the last few decades.

Every single one of these loans was taken out without the consent of students, workers or faculty. As of 2011, Cornell’s total debt, as a percentage of its endowment, exceeds 35 percent — the third highest of any University in the world. In addition to the space that interest payments occupy in the budget, Cornell’s policy of leveraging itself makes it incredibly vulnerable in the case of a financial crisis.

Should another recession occur, Cornell would be forced to implement massive layoffs and skyrocket tuition in order to pay back creditors, as occurred in 2008. In order to convince creditors it can take out more loans, Cornell must pledge the necessary collateral. While Cornell might not explicitly offer its ability to increase tuition as collateral, it is undeniable that it implicitly serves that function. At U.C. Santa Cruz, administrators were revealed to be explicitly pledging tuition as collateral in an effort to drive down borrowing costs.

Consequently, Cornell compulsively increases enrollments, fees and tuition indefinitely. One Moody’s report in 2012 cited Cornell’s increasing “net tuition” — tuition minus aid — as a “challenge” for its credit rating, not because it was rising faster than students could afford, but because it wasn’t rising fast enough. This is the reality of the situation: While we might see a tuition freeze as not only reasonable but imperative, President Skorton, while he might agree, cannot do so, because to do so would be to sacrifice Cornell’s access to cheap credit. (Cornell’s debt outlook was only recently upgraded from negative to stable.) When he says that what makes us a “non-profit” corporation is that we do not have shareholders, he is being disingenuous: With nearly $2 billion in debt, we have investors whose interests routinely trump those of students, workers, faculty and the community.

The Trustees have the power to freeze tuition, abolish the health fee or end the ceaseless accumulation of Cornell’s debt.

However, many trustees have a vested interest in the opposite outcome. One capital project’s loan, taken out in 2010 — immediately following a round of layoffs and deep budget cuts — was underwritten by Goldman Sachs, where, at the time, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees was a Senior Director. The

University admitted that the arrangement could be considered a conflict of interest in the bond prospectus, but decided to do it anyway.

Trustee impropriety far exceeds the realm of Cornell’s finances. Stephen B. Ashley ’62, whose trusteeship was simultaneous with his Directorship of Fannie Mae from 2004 until the 2008 Financial Crisis, was sued by investors for “[violating] the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 by approving false financial statements and directly deceiving investors.” Despite having to leave Fannie Mae, he remained on the Board until last year. In 1994, our current Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Andrew H. Tisch ’71, a tobacco executive, testified under oath before Congress that cigarette smoking does not cause cancer.

This is not character befitting anyone, let alone those with “supreme control” over the University. When student organizations mismanage funds, they are denied funding; when student representatives deceive us, we are outraged; when Trustees preside over the mismanagement of the University, and even the country’s economy, we treat them like wise, public statesmen.

It is no accident that we are still recovering from the financial crisis.

How could we not be? Our school is literally entrusted to the same class of people — and in some instances literally the same people — who caused the financial crisis. When students, workers and faculty are told, year after year, to bear the costs of undemocratic decisions that directly affect us, we can only ask ourselves: Does unrestrained growth and risky, unregulated financing leading to a popular bailout sound familiar? Can “Caring Community,” the self-congratulatory phrase with which “campus leaders” so eagerly brand us, be sincerely applied to a University who cuts bus passes on Monday, introduces a Health Fee on Tuesday, raises tuition on Wednesday, cuts academic budgets on Thursday, throws itself a birthday party on Friday and then invites us just so it can ask for donations?

Throughout Cornell’s history, one continuous truth has been that those excluded from financial decisions end up paying for them. We ought not be surprised when administrators only unveil a financial transparency plan once they are faced with students occupying their offices, once their attempts to pressure student representatives into withholding information are leaked to the public. We are told to sit still while Cornell externalizes all of its costs onto those who had no say in incurring them, and who have the least capacity to pay for them. Despite what it persistently tells us, Cornell pays for its debt with student loans, its bureaucracy with academic cuts and its prestige with our disempowerment.

Throughout Cornell’s history, one continuous truth has been that those excluded from financial decisions end up paying for them.

Daniel Marshall is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dwm255@cornell.edu.

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OPINION

Christo Eliot |

The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight

Connecting With The ‘Any Person’

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s Cornell students, we have the words of our school’s motto “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study,” pounded into our heads seemingly from the second we first step foot on North Campus in August until we eventually and triumphantly hurl our square caps into the air at Schoellkopf Field 45 months later. And although we may grow tired of hearing passing tour guides force feed this Big Red doctrine down the throats of high school students, our good friend Ezra can rest easy knowing his mission has been accomplished.

We all know our school is home to an extremely broad spectrum of people. If aliens were to put a tractor beam over our campus and abduct all of us in hopes of recreating another earth on some similar planet elsewhere in the universe, the only real difference would be this new world would be slightly more jaded and have on average better calves. People here come from all over the globe, and have been molded into individuals by unique experiences and upbringings. We may even have a North Dakotan somewhere. Moreover, few schools cater to their students’ educational yearnings like Cornell. The breadth of academic pursuits at Cornell is astounding. We have architects, hotel administrators, engineers and integrated cattle nutritionists. This bizarre and diverse collection of people and interests is part of what makes Cornell such a meaningful chapter in all of our lives.

Somehow though, in the hectic commotion that is being a student at this school, we lose sight of the inherent beauty that comes with these differences.

Cornell is plagued by an “us and them” mentality where “we” are the nice normal ones, here for the right reasons, and “they” are the unfriendly ones who are studying too much, partying too much and doing too many drugs, balancing the social and academic aspects of college too effortlessly or any multitude of other factors that make them different. Through this, the idea of a greater Cornell community is lost. The person sitting next to you in lecture transforms from a classmate and potential friend to someone merely striving to put you on the wrong side of the next exam’s mean. Why do we do this? Why does our fellow Cornellian become the enemy? I am guilty of it too. Perhaps we focus too much on the “any” in our University’s motto and not enough on the “person.”

Why does our fellow Cornellian become the enemy? I am guilty of it too. Perhaps we focus too much on the “any” in our University’s motto and not enough on the “person.”

A friend of mine at school in Boston was recently riding the T (for those of you who don’t know, the T is basically Boston’s version of New York City’s subway) when a presumably homeless and psychotic man stepped onto the same car, mumbling incoherently to himself. The man proceeded to then rip an advertisement poster off the wall of the car and furiously scribble on it over the course of the next three stops. My friend assumed he was drafting his next “anything helps” sign and was surprised when the man left it to find a striking pen-drawn portrait lying on the seat. The abandonment of this portrait left several questions burning in my friend’s mind. Namely, how could this man not realize the talent he possessed in hastily creating a piece like this? And have those in his life not have given him the credit he clearly deserves?

“Cornell is great, but …” This seems to be the campus wide sentiment about our school’s culture. There is almost always a “but.” It might be the weather — frustration with how Ithaca’s transition to spring always looks a lot like Willy Wonka’s “Pure Imagination” descent down the staircase to the Fudge Room — or the challenging coursework making all of your intellectual gains seem insignificant. Whatever that “but” is, there seems to be a cloud of unfriendliness and unhappiness hanging over our beautiful campus.

I typically try and stay away from preachy diatribes in my column (or at least bury it deep in the subtext somewhere), but there is no reason for this unfriendliness to exist. One of the most fundamental goals of the human experience is to find happiness — a sustainable happiness that stays with us through the good times and the bad, one that does not hinge on external factors like prelim scores, significant others or finding $20 on the street.

How can we bring about this type of happiness? I am trying to find the answer myself, but a good start might be in changing the way we look at those around us. We should not view the classmate with the pristine notes and an uncanny ability to make it every office hours session as our enemy. We should not jump to conclusions too quickly about the homeless man scribbling on the back of a poster in your train car. While “Any person, any study” highlights the differences between Cornell students, we must not neglect the fact that no matter where someone comes from, what they choose to study or how questionable their hygiene habits are, we all fall under the umbrella of “person.”

We are all navigating our academic careers at Cornell and we are doing it together. There are a number of studies demonstrating the positive effects random acts of kindness have on both the acts’ recipients and the persons acting. Maybe helping paddle someone else’s proverbial canoe from time to time is not such a bad idea. Helping others and practicing compassion breaks down our own myopia and enables us to see the problems we battle with as the specks on the broader horizon they are. The word happy’s etymology is rooted in the Icelandic word “happ,” which means luck or chance. That said, there is no reason for happiness to be a roll of the dice. We can all help each other achieve happiness and foster a sense of a greater Cornell community in the process.

Christo Eliot is a senior in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Jordan Marzouk |

Guest Room

A Call for Greek Judicial Transparency

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hen my fraternity was disbanded more than two years ago, I was astonished by how the process had unfolded in the prior months.

Although I was certain that there needed to be a better way to handle Greek allegations and investigations, it has taken me up until very recently to fully understand why.

Tau Epsilon Phi was placed on interim suspension on Nov. 8, 2012, faced a hearing regarding hazing allegations on Dec. 17, 2012 and had its recognition revoked on Jan. 9, 2013.

The IFC Guidebook of Rights, Responsibilities and Requirements states that the interim suspension status, which effectively puts a halt on all fraternal activities, was to be used as a “temporary” solution while the case is pending. In other words, for the sake of fairness to the accused fraternity, the University has a limited window in which to proceed with judicial action or to allow the fraternity to resume normal activities. For us, Tau Epsilon Phi, this status lasted nearly six weeks from its announcement until a hearing and approximately eight weeks — or the larger part of a semester – if you consider the allegation until the hearing.

Emails from my fraternity members that questioned this “temporary” status went unanswered.

The aforementioned guidebook also states that “following a hearing, all parties will be notified of the decision within fifteen business days.” In our case, when including Christmas and New Years as non-business days, the IFC released a decision in the late afternoon on the fifteenth day.

Travis Apgar, Associate Dean of Students for fraternity and sorority affairs, commented directly following the announcement that “the decision to revoke TEP’s recognition was clear,” which raises questions as to why the maximum amount of allowed time was needed for the decision.

But “temporary” being ambiguous, and the IFC using every last hour in its timeframe, are simply procedural frustrations, not procedural violations. The entire process resembled something most juniors and seniors have experienced: Applying for a job with a really poor recruitment process. There’s an angst that results from an eight-week wait between an initial email exchange and an eventual interview, but the next part is like a slap in the face:

The company’s decision comes at the last possible minute and informs you that not only did you not get the job, but that the decision to reject you was an easy one. The analogy isn’t perfect but it drives home the same sort of unnecessary and easily avoidable emotional rollercoaster encountered in both processes. Still, these on their own are not offenses.

There needs to be something more wrong with the process than sheer vexation as a result of inefficiency and lack of communication.

The biggest problem, however, is more difficult to articulate even though I felt its pervasiveness throughout my own fraternity’s process. Recently, the Psi Upsilon fraternity was put on suspension for “an incident involving alleged use of alcohol and an illicit substance” on Jan. 30, 2015 but was allowed to resume normal activities less than a week later after an investigation “concluded that the initial allegations were not accurate.” A similar process occurred with the Sigma Pi fraternity in late February, with the fraternity again being released from any punishment after just one week of investigation. This triggered a moment of clarity for me as I quickly became cognizant of the fact that multiple components in the process were severely flawed, its illogicality finally lucid.

In most of these cases, we are given nothing more than a vague 10 word description of the offense and a one sentence conclusion sometime later about the final ruling. It is impossible to make any sort of valid judgment with such limited information even if we were willing to parse through all the available materials because, well, there are virtually none. There are no details on how an investigation was conducted, what was found, if there were any conflicting reports, how the committee knew they had gathered all the evidence they needed to make a decision, what factors were considered and maybe most importantly, how they then made a final decision. The unknown variables being thrown into this “decision equation” are alarmingly unclear as is the equation itself. All we can do is to conjecture about what factors truly dictated the eventual decision.

And, not so shockingly, we see huge variability and inconsistency in the results from such an inherently flawed decision-making process.

TEP had its recognition removed for four years for having pledges “[consume] a large quantity of alcohol, including hard alcohol, before participating in a sexually humiliating, mentally abusive and physically dangerous activity.” On the other hand, Chi Psi was simply placed on probationary status in the same semester after pledges were “demeaned and exposed to mentally/emotionally abusive treatment” as well as “expected to spend a large amount of time in the basement of the house where they sometimes ate meals [and] slept on hard surfaces.” The fraternity later had its recognition removed for just two years (with the possibility of returning after one year) as a result of another set of hazing incidents during their probation — this time without any further details on the nature of the incidents. There is even a lack of consistency with the degree to which information is released after the fact; for TEP, all possible case details were revealed and mischaracterized as sexual in nature, but for Chi Psi, exactly two words and no more were used to describe the acts performed: “serious hazing.”

Since when are we satisfied with so little information about what goes into a decision and how such a decision is made? This would be considered absolutely intolerable in other areas at Cornell, whether it be information about the budget, the endowment, or more recently, the mandatory health insurance waiver fee. Though some information is withheld in these areas, we succumb much more easily when it comes to Greek life by accepting so little; that is, Cornellians are demanding about possessing information about an array of topics when dealing with the University, but when it comes to Greek life, this characteristic falters and we largely accept informational asymmetry.

I’ll admit that even the clearest of problems don’t always have clear solutions. But by accepting inconsistent results, a lack of transparency and a blind faith in Greek system administrators to make correct decisions, I fear that many others will have to traverse the murky and unfair process that currently exists.

And to me that is completely unacceptable.

Jordan Marzouk is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at jdm325@cornell.edu.

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ICHTHYOLOGY

3-D PRINTING

PSYCHOLOGY

Stacy Farina Grad Explores New Fish Ventilation Model No bones about it | Bony fish, such as the sculpin pictured below, breathe by pumping water through the gills using various bone structures in the head. Farina’s research focuses on exploring the role of the branchiostegal apparatus in the process.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF STACY FARINA

By TAMAR LAW Sun Contributor

Children and adults alike are familiar with making a fish face — lips pursed and hands covering the cheekbones as if they were gills — but for Stacy Farina grad, the pose emphasizes key elements in her research on fish ventilation.

In fact, Farina has created a robotic fish with a 3-D printer to aid her work on modeling how fish pump water through gills and the various bone structures associated with the process.

“It used to have eyes on it,” Farina said of the head, which looks more like a sort of suction device. “I just taped them on because they orient people to actually looking sort of like a fish.

But most of what you are seeing is the buccal [mouth] chamber and I have modeled it as a really simple piston.”

Farina said she has had a keen interest in fish ever since watching the saga of predator-prey dynamics in her family’s pond as a child.

This fascination developed into a deeper appreciation for the functional morphology of fish, after she spent a summer working at the Shoals Marine Lab as an undergraduate.

“[The T.A. at Shoals] got me totally jazzed about comparative fish biomechanics,” she said. “I always liked fish, I was a fan, I liked the water and I liked the deep sea, but she got me hooked on this idea of using anatomy to understand organismal function

and evolution.”

Now in the fifth year of her Ph.D. program and funded by a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation, Farina works at the Bemis Lab within the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, primarily studying the

Robot fish out of water | Farina used a 3-D printer to construct this robotic fish head model, which includes adjustable openings that simulate the various pumps and bone structures used in ventilation.

variety of pumps within fish ventilation.

Ventilation refers to the process by which an animal transfers its respiratory medium to its respiratory tissues, according to Farina. For fish, this is accomplished by the cyclical opening

Since the 1950s, researchers have focused their ventilation m o d e l mostly on the mouth “Understanding [anatomy] and how an and the animal interacts with its environment operculum — a bony can have some important implications structure for understanding the animal’s ecology that acts as a gill cover, and ultimately conservation.” popularly represented Stacy Farina grad by the hands of and compressing of the mouth the fish face. Farina’s research and gill chambers, which forces model, however, also looks at the water out over the gills. The branchiostegal apparatus, a bone process varies greatly among fish structure located beneath the operculum. species, according to Farina.

“It has long been thought that “It is a cyclical process and it is that cyclical nature that makes it the movement of the operculum really complex and difficult to is the primary driver of expansion study,” Farina said. “There is a lot of the gill chamber and that the of variation in the morphology of morphology of the operculum both the mouth and the gill tells you the most about a fish’s chamber morphology. I am trying ventilation,” Farina said. “What I to understand how that variation have found is most of the variarelates back to differences in func- tion in gill ventilation can be tied back by the size, shape and numtion.” ber of [branchiostegal] structures.

They are really underappreciated structures in fish biology, and I think they can actually explain a lot of the diversity we see.”

According to Farina, there is a rich amount of variation within these structures — for instance, some fish have 50 branchiostegal rays while other species such as deep sea gulper eels, have none. In addition, deeper dwelling fish have larger branchiostegals than those that live higher in the water column, Farina said.

Since coming to Cornell, Farina said she has worked closely with the 3-D-printed robotic fish head, allowing her to better account for anatomical variation by manipulating the sizes of its gill chambers, operculum and

branchiostegals. It can also measure the limits of gill ventilation, which is impractical to test on real fish.

“I can make these motors go really fast or really slow, which you can’t do to with fish, because you can’t ask a fish to breathe quickly or slowly,” she said.

“There have been some experiments where they have poked holes in the operculum and stuff like that, which is really cool, but is really limited. If you start really doing Frankenstein things to fish, they will not behave normally.”

The same 3-D printer that produces most parts of the robotic head also functions to print 3D C.T. scans of sculpins — the type of fish Farina is focused on primarily — that she can then hold and manipulate, providing more of a hands on understanding of the morphology of these branchiostegals.

Although Farina’s research is rooted in understanding the biomechanics of these structures within a diverse amount of fish species, her research has broader implications for the environment as well. By studying shallow dwelling fishes, Farina can begin to model the morphology of deep-sea fishes that cannot be studied in the lab, which can be then used as a conservation tool.

“Anatomy is the interface between the animal and the environment and anatomy and function is the field that explores that interaction,” Farina said.

“Understanding this relationship and how an animal interacts with its environment can have some important implications for understanding the animal’s ecology and ultimately conservation.”

Tamar Law can be reached at tl432@cornell.edu.

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SCIENCE

Profs. Cindy Hazan, Vivian Zayas ’94 Discuss Theories of Adult Attachment

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Science Editor

Humans are highly social animals, a fact few are more familiar with than Prof. Cindy Hazan, human development, and Prof. Vivian Zayas ’94, psychology. This spring, the two professors published a book they edited and cowrote along with numerous other psychologists called Bases of Adult Attachment: Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior that attempts, among other things to explain differences in relationships based on how the relationships were formed.

“The typical approach is to look at how people differ in their relationships,” Zayas said. “We’re saying, ‘How did you get attached in the first place? What are the stages that people go through?’”

According to Zayas, these stages vary by person and relationship, but ultimately lead to the form of adult attachment known as a pair bond. “[In a pair bond] a couple now shows synchrony in emotional responses, physiology and behavior,” she said. “They’re able to provide support and regulate each other’s emotional response.”

Regulating one’s emotions is a “core feature” of the attachment relationship, and according to attachment theory remains significant from birth until death, Hazan said.

“To form really strong emotional bonds with other people is something we’re built to do,” Hazan said. “If we don’t do it, it’s hugely costly to our psychological and physical well-being.”

According to Hazan — who began her work on adult attachment as the field began gaining traction in the academic community in the 1980s — studies have found that people who do not have close relationships are more likely to exhibit “profound negative effects” that range in scope from mood to immune system functioning.

“You can predict a shortened lifespan and all kinds of negative outcomes on the basis of a loneliness measure,” Hazan said.

“This is a self-report measure about whether

Nice to meet you | According to Prof.

Cindy Hazan, certain sets of questions that are grouped based on increasing closeness can speed up feelings of intimacy between individuals who have pre-existing compatibility.

“The early part of a romantic relationship is extremely disruptive.

But once it’s established, it’s very, very conducive for getting good work done.”

Prof. Cindy Hazan time, as there are multiple levels of connection that must be breached before the full effects can be produced, according to Hazan.

Some dating strategies HAZAN attempt to circumvent this, including a set of 36 people have a strong grouped questions that cirattachment relationculated around the Internet ship, somebody they in January. can count on, someThe questions, ranging body’s who’s got from “Would you like to be their back. And peofamous?” to “Of all the ple who don’t have a people in your family, relationship like that whose death would you don’t sleep as well, they don’t ZAYAS ’94 find most disturbing?” claimed feel as well, they’re more likely to get sick and they’re more likely to to allow any two people to fall in love by gradually increasing vulnerability and intidie prematurely.”

Hazan said she believes college students macy. Does it work? According to Hazan, it also benefit from forming pair bond rela- may — but the individuals have to be funtionships, despite the notion that such rela- damentally compatible in the first place.

“The 36 questions essentially speed up a tionships could get in the way of professionnormal process,” Hazan said. “You don’t al goals.

“The thing that’s very pronounced is start on the first date by telling another perthat undergraduates have this sense that son all your deepest, darkest fears, fantasies they should delay getting attached to some- and whatever else. So the four groupings of one,” Hazan said. “Somehow they think questions basically take you deeper and that getting attached is a bad idea right now deeper and deeper into knowing the other ... and then they wait until they’re older, person, so it speeds up the process of developing intimacy ... It certainly doesn’t work if when the pool of eligibles is small.”

According to Hazan, this mentality may it reveals you have fundamental incompatinot have much merit, as undergraduates bilities.”

True pair bonds can still contain their were found to make better progress toward their goals if they had a romantic partner own problems, however. Often, problems in they were attached to, according to one the relationship seem invisible to those who are deeply in love, Hazan said.

Cornell study.

“If you think of the preponderance of “The early part of a romantic relationship is extremely disruptive,” Hazan said. matchmaking around the world and “But once it’s established, it’s very, very con- arranged marriage, it’s a relatively new phenomenon that people are choosing their ducive to getting good work done.”

Establishing this pair bond takes a lot of own partners on the basis of their sexual

attractions to them or romantic interest in them,” Hazan said. “People often don’t talk about the important stuff when they’re head-over-heels infatuated with each other.

There are changes in brain chemistry that literally blind you to the other person’s shortcomings.”

People are also disposed to entering similar kinds of relationships. According to Zayas, people predictably gravitate toward attachments that seem familiar, even if the familiarity stems from an abusive experience and these predispositions represent “a twoway street” in every relationship. “[In one study] women who had in the past reported being victims of psychological abuse were three times more likely to prefer a profile of a partner who had characteristics that other women thought were red flags,” Zayas said. “On the flipside, men who had engaged in belittling their partner, were controlling [and] had monitored their whereabouts were two times more likely to prefer women with low self-esteem.”

According to Hazan, a pair bond’s strength also depends on each partner’s attachments with outside individuals. That is, a couple is more likely to stay together if they receive support from family and friends — contrary to the idea that a “Romeo and Juliet” effect would keep the bond stronger.

“There are natural fluctuations in people’s satisfaction with their relationships, and during those periods of lower satisfaction it’s important to have those external forces keeping them together, such as families and friends,” Hazan said.

And though there are many tools to streamline forming relationships, whether it be a set of 36 questions or filtering results on a dating site, Hazan maintains that the true extent of an adult attachment can only be uncovered with time.

“You can get to the point where you’re in a painful medical procedure, and you can just think about this person and the pain areas of your brain are not as active,” Hazan said. “That’s how powerful the effect is.

That doesn’t happen overnight.”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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A&E

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT DR. DOG GETS BAILEY HALL ON ITS FEET

BY JAEL GOLDFINE Arts and Entertainment Editor

Sunday’s concert was an auspicious occasion for me.

I had been planning on buying $50 tickets to see the Philly-based baroque pop sextet as the final destination of a haphazardly planned spring break road-tripbeach-concert pilgrimage to Asheville, N.C. So, when I saw in mid-February that, by some absurd karmic blip, Dr. Dog would be traveling to my doorstep to perform for a mere $12.50, it felt like a personal nod from the all-powerful, celestial deity that is Cornell Concert Commission.

Despite my euphoria and disbelief, when I saw that they would be playing at Bailey Hall, I was skeptical.

While Dr. Dog doesn’t fit neatly into any one cutely prefixed sub-genre of rock (indie or otherwise), their messy roots rock energy and sound is plainly that of a grade-A, barefoot, packed-crowd, swaying, dancing, stomping band. Their music is the ideal stuff of sweaty music festival tents and densely packed, dim-lit, whiskey-and-cigarette type joints. So the concert being in Bailey Hall — the absolute antithesis of Bonnaroo — made me just a little bit apprehensive that the concert might not live up to its own serendipity.

The three-quarters-full auditorium and solo folkrock opener Elvis Perkins didn’t do much to assuage my anxiety. Although his dreamy lullabies, harmonica accompaniments, rhyming punny song about having a hog heart (which, in my opinion, didn’t get nearly enough laughs) and pale attempts at an audience-sing along were endearing, rather than contrived — particularly in light of his bare feet and the fact that he appeared to be wearing Jacob’s amazing technicolor dreamcoat — Perkins amused, but underwhelmed.

When the band (beanies and flannels all around) finally made their way on stage, they didn’t chat much except to offer a well-received Philadelphia shout out and mumble a brief complaint about cord-troubles

before launching into their bluesy, ragtime-y hit “Distant Light.”

After a couple songs (“Phenomenon,” “These Days”) of awkwardly seated rocking and unsatisfying foot-tapping, I got to watch from the balcony the moment when almost the entire audience, like a field of recentlyinfected zombies, simultaneously rose from their seats and began to sway and dance the way that jamming indie folk rock is meant to be danced and swayed to. People swarmed up to the stage, flooded the aisles and danced in their rows, not to mention the couples swingdancing in the wings: Bailey Hall was transformed.

As for the men who transformed it, it is rare that a band has two frontmen, each with such distinctive and affecting voices. Dr. Dog’s two lead singers: Scott McMicken, responsible for the band’s signature higher-pitched, creaking vocals and Toby Leaman, who carries a lower, scratchier tone frequently joined in a dissonantly melodic harmonies throughout the performance. Their eccentric vocals perfectly suited for their oft-criticized, slightly nonsensical lyrics (“There’s an elephant in my head / And I tiptoe around it / There are egg shells on the floor / Therefore I never touch the ground”) and bright eclectic instrumentals.

They performed a miscellaneous set from their last several studio albums: a few keyboard-heavy gospel ballads (“Too Weak To Ramble,” “Shame, Shame”), some Flaming Lips-reminiscent psychedelic numbers (Architecture In Helsinki cover “Heart It Races,” “That Old Black Hole”) and several of their more retro-acoustic farmhouse tunes (“Phenomenon,” “Broken Heart, “The Truth”). They satisfied the crowd effortlessly, without any hint of that tired “fine, we’ll

Muse’s latest single, “Psycho,” is exactly what you’d expect to hear from them — except maybe even better. All their trademarks are there: Matthew Bellamy’s distinctive vocals, a fantastic beat, killer guitar riffs and powerful lyrics. However, the music video gives it an extra edge.

“Psycho” is sung from the point of view of an army commander, who opens the video and shouts horrible, intimidating things like “Your ass belongs to me now” or “I will break you, do you understand?” to a new soldier. Bellamy later sings some of the same lines, but the commander’s and soldier’s yelling creates a whole new tone for the song. Their call and answer is an eerie depiction of the way soldiers are trained to think and the way it’s shot really captures the essence of the message.

The song itself is very catchy, but not like the infectious pop songs that get stuck in your head.

“Psycho” sticks with you in a good way — after all, how could the chorus, “I’m gonna make you / I’m gonna break you / I’m gonna make you / a fucking psycho” not have the powerful impact that Muse intended?

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indulge you with our hits, you poor, musically gluttonous heathens” attitude that can sometimes spoil your favorite songs and make you feel guilty for not being more excited about that “new stuff they’ve been working on.” They saved forgotten favorites “Nelly” and “Shadow People” for a killer encore, and ended the night with an impressively orchestrated one-two audience clap for their closing number, “Jackie Wants A Black Eye.” I most definitely had my rose-colored shades on that night, and I can’t be sure that Dr. Dog offered less moony-eyed fans the same giddy delight that made me feel transported to a festival mainstage (quite honestly, I was going to have a great time if they played a full set of Skrillex covers). But with earnest zeal and friendly warmth, they made the best out of a less than ideal space and got everyone in Bailey Hall, fans or not, on their feet.

Jael Goldfine is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com.

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Natalie Tsay is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ntsay@cornellsun.com.

Since they broke into the indie folk rock scene several years ago, Mumford and Sons have become cultural icons for their distinctive folk rock style and frequent banjo jamming. However, it seems from their latest single, “Believe,” Mumford and Sons will trade in their banjo for an electric guitar on their upcoming album Wilder Mind, to be released May of this year.

“Believe” reinvents Mumford and Sons by bringing them closer to alternative rock than folk rock.

The song doesn’t have the usual softness that typically accompanies a Mumford track, though it starts off slow and builds. “Believe” gradually begins with Marcus Mumford’s vocals gently singing, “I don’t even know if I believe / Everything you’re trying to say to me.” Mumford and Sons sticks with their typical musical formula in “Believe,” except they exchange their usual banjo music break foran electric guitar. The intensity of the song continues after the break leading into a verse of Mumford passionately saying “Say something, say something / Something like you love me.” The chorus of “Believe” repeats “I don’t even know if I believe,” with each repetition more passionate than the previous. “Believe” makes me want to scream the chorus as the song progresses, making it a jam I don’t want to stop rocking out to.

Aishwarya Singh is a freshman in the College of Engineering. She can be reached at as2539@cornell.edu.

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Arts Around Ithaca Negative Externalities, Lust, Yakbak, The Atomic Forces and Joseph Airport

Cornell Cinema’s Black & White Ball

This Friday, after all the frats have turned you away into the cold night air and you’re looking for an experience that’ll be a little different to quell that swelling feeling of uncoolness in your stomach, why don’t you mosey on over to Cayuga Lodge’s basement? You won’t exactly be treated to your usual dance grooves, but the musical stylings of Negative Externalities, Lust, Yakbak, The Atomic Forces and Joseph Airport are surely going to make you move in one way or another (if spastically). The show starts at 9 and costs a whopping $5. If you do the math out, that comes to $1 per band; all in all, a cheap and effective way to forget (through that great, unholy mollifier, Punk Rock) that you’re not cool enough to toil away your night faux-groovin’ amidst Sperrys-galore. Come let loose.

There are three things that every human being invariably enjoys: good movies, directly contributing to the sustenance of noble institutions and hors d’oeuvres. This Saturday, March 21, you’ll have the opportunity to do all three. Cornell Cinema — the Willard Straight staple that has been constantly providing stress relieving cinema to the Cornell population for 45 years — will be putting on its Black & White Ball, at which there will be both screenings of classic movies and all the finger food your heart could possibly desire. Tickets at the door will be $35 for Cornell students and $55 for the general public (minus $10 for each if you buy them before hand.

Festivities kick off at 8 pm in the Willard Straight Memorial Room.

8 p.m. Saturday at Willard Straight Memorial Room

9 p.m. Saturday at Cayuga Lodge

—Troy Sherman

—Troy Sherman

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Association: [RAW] EXPO 5 p.m. Friday at Milstein Dome

Expo [Raw] will be a night for the celebration of the collaborative work of student creators across disciplines. Teams of students from Engineering, Architecture, DEA, Fashion, Hotel, the Sciences and more have to come together to create icollaborative projects which will be exposed in their intermediary, raw and process states, in order to generate provocative discussion and intellectual exchange. The event will be hosted by Association, a student-run publication which features the work of students, faculty, and alumni across the disciplines of Architecture, Art and Planning, with particular interest in fostering community and overlap between fields.

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Cornell’s Critical History: Whitney Balliett ’51

W

hatever you think of The Sun, the neat fact is this paper stands on the shoulders of giants. You know about E.B. White ’21 and Kurt Vonnegut ’44, and how the latter famously said, “The Cornell Sun, thank goodness, showed me what to do with my life, and I did it.” But does it ring a bell when I mention the name Whitney Balliett ’51?

If it does, you must know a thing or two about jazz. You’ve heard not just Kind of Blue but Ascension, Speak No Evil and Brilliant Corners, too. Your fascination with this sound moved you to read up on its history, to discover what was in the air when Mingus, Miles and Trane sliced through it. For this purpose, you turned to Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker’s jazz critic for almost four decades, and heard this music and watched its masters through his prose.

When Balliett died in 2007 at the age of 80, his New Yorker colleague Adam Gopnik remembered him as “above all a poet, who pursued poetry by other means.” He had a self-described “impressionist” touch that could translate the totality of this indescribable genre into a blur of detail, metaphor and spot-on pronouncements. He ripped into performers when they phoned it in but learned how to appreciate the next challenging sound. Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, for instance, “causes earache the first time through,” but by the “fourth or fifth listening, one swims readily along, about ten feet down, breathing the music like air.”

This level of writing found its first home in these very pages, but aside from a review of a 1948 Duke Ellington concert at Bailey Hall (bet you didn’t know that happened), its subject was not music. Balliett’s primary beat, The Sun’s archives show, was the movies. He

wrote at a time of great Hollywood cinema, when inevitable classics like All About Eve, The Red Shoes and Sunset Boulevard, screened at long-gone local theaters listed simply in The Sun as “The Ithaca” or “The Temple.”

Being dense and terse in the way only natural-born newspapermen seem to know how, Balliett never wasted a lede. When the Temple screened Chaplin’s City Lights in January 1951, his awe-inspired copy opened, “It is very easy to toss caution to the wind and say outright that this is a great film.” His October 5, 1950 review of Destination Moon

blow: “But to trample the thing to death once and for all, the fact remains that a stationary camera is a dead duck. It gives you the awkward feeling that you are staring rudely, in this case at least, at what belongs to Broadway.”

I have more quotes, good ones, and I think the best use of my remaining space today is to share them with you. Balliett’s prose on jazz deserves more attention than it currently has, as does jazz as a whole, but it’s safe to say his sharp, unpretentious movie writing is close to unknown. Below are some Balliett excerpts from his time at The Sun, ordered in a deliberate manner: American Guerrilla in the Philippines, December 11, 1950 “The most puzzling thing about this film is the pronunciation of the second word in the title. Tyrone ‘Ty’ Power, the picture’s hero and a guerilla to boot, thinks of himself in the beginning of the story as no less than a ‘greeya.’ As time wears on he comes a ‘gurreeya.’

But then towards the end, he relaxes, drops his silly inhibitions, and joins the boys in the back room as a plain ‘gorilla.’”

“This small linguistic confusion would pass unnoticed were it not for the fact that it indicates only too well the quality of the film as a whole.”

The Asphalt Jungle, October 19, 1950 “If there is a director in Hollywood who really gets down on his knees and plays marbles when he is at work it is John Huston.

Very serious about this business of filmmaking, he devotes a great skill and boundless energy to everything he touches, and the results have been two of the best pictures to come out of the West: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, in 1947, and The Maltese Falcon, made in 1942. Remarkable for their excitement, realism, and polish, these pic-

Zachary Zahos A Lover’s Quarrel With the World matched the absurdity of pre-serious sci-fi with this intricate image: “If you have shared the notion held by many that the moon is a green cheese, this science-fiction number will stun you. Not a green cheese at all; it is a cold, barren, dreary place with the possibilities for plumbing very slim.”

Balliett was too entertaining a writer to be obsessed with theory, but he spun his own aesthetic philosophy when watching literary adaptations, which were then legion. Upon the release of Olivier’s Hamlet, he declared that Shakespeare does not equal good cinema, for to best appreciate his “art, his poetry, you must read him, or else listen to his plays on a nearly bare stage.” His ambitious review of Irving Rapper’s The Glass Menagerie clinches with a similarly honest and informed

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tures are also unmistakable proof that topnotch films have art to spare.”

Copper Canyon, October 12, 1950 “There is, believe it or not, one durable, dependable thing left in the world, closer to immortality than God or the Himalaya Mountains — the Western. ... Of the thousands of Westerns made, “Copper Canyon” ranks somewhere in the first thousand.”

The Man Who Reclaimed His Head, December 14, 1950 “Made for emotionally hungry folk who had nothing worse than the NRA and a faroff upstart named Hitler to worry about, it is stuffed with emotion and drama prepared in the grand manner. But if there is anything we don’t need today, it is Hollywood’s variety of spoon-fed hysterics.

Whoever had the idea that this dismal article should be dragged out of the vaults should be committed.”

Zachary Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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COMICS AND PUZZLES

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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Cheryshev’s Success Holds Potential to Open Gateways LINSEY

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extensively due to the enormous cost it would take acquire a player, mirroring the isolationist history of the country.

Russian players are relatively underrated. This is the country that has produced talents such as Lev Yashin and Andrei Kanchelskis; Yashin is widely considered the best goalkeeper ever and Kanchelskis had an excellent career with Manchester United, scoring 28 times in 123 appearances.

There are clearly talented players in Russia that the rest of the world should get to see in action.

The isolation of Russian soccer is likely a result of Russia’s history. During their reigns, both Napoleon and Hitler nearly conquered Russia, falling short due to freezing cold winters. A bloody Communist revolution produced 74 years of little progress, and the Cold War lead to American-Russian relations reaching new lows.

Twenty-four years after the breakup of the Soviet Union,

Russia is still struggling to establish itself. A month after the Sochi Olympics, which was a positive statement for Russia on the world stage, the country sent troops into Ukraine, ruining all of the positive buzz the Olympics generated. This is the story of Russia: one step forward and two steps back.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the tumultuous political history of Russia has inhibited the development of sports in the country. Several major flaws with

the Russian Premier League prevent it from becoming one of the top European leagues.

The potential is there for Cheryshev to bring about significant change.

Two very rich teams from Saint Petersburg and Moscow are alone in championship competition year after year. These

teams have the ability to buy expensive overseas stars, such as Brazil’s Hulk and Belgium’s Axel Witsel. The rest of the clubs consist of average Russian players.

The Russian national soccer team is a mess.

The team brought in a famous coach in Fabio Capello, which, initially, seemed like a positive step. The move, however, has actually hurt the squad massively. Capello has not improved Russia’s on-field product, as Russia was eliminated at the group stage of the World Cup, with Belgium and Algeria advancing from the group. Although no one would consider Russia a World Cup title contender, Capello knows the expectation is for Russia to at least progress past the group stage, especially considering his salary. Russia’s national team has become a laughingstock, both on and off the field.

This is where Cheryshev’s story comes in. Cheryshev’s development is most significant when one considers the fact that, as a player for one of the world’s largest clubs in Real Madrid, Cheryshev has the potential to attract a lot of attention if he is successful. He has the ability to convince other Russians to look for new opportunities around Europe.

Although it may be too early to consider him a trailblazer in Russian soccer history, the potential is there for Cheryshev to bring about significant change, both in encouraging more Russians to play abroad and improving the Russian national team.

Kevin Linsey can be reached at klinsey@cornellsun.com.

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four players were involved in a car accident in November, three players are still are not back.

Fleck has been battling an injury and says that he is “still trying to find [his] best tennis.”

The team continues to draw from their experiences to continue on a consistent path of progression. A 7-0 victory helps them gain confidence.

“This match was a big improvement from previous weeks against a tough opponent,” said Fleck. “As a team we will take confidence from this and take this momentum into the Ivy season.”

Jessica Brofsky can be reached at jbrofsky@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

GYMNASTICS

Gymnasts Place Third at West Virginia Meet Molotsky finishes third in bars,fifth in the floor leading flurry of Top-10 finishes for Cornell the meet. As the day progressed, however, the Red started to fade and errors crept into their routines.

“We started out really strong at West Virginia, but Cornell’s gymnastics team performed well this lost our focus when errors were made,” Spitzer said. weekend, when it travelled to West Virginia University “We need to be better about moving past mistakes and for a meet with the West Virginia and Penn. Against not allowing them to affect our competition. Still, it strong competition, most notably the Mountaineers, showed us that even on a bad day we were able to have the Red placed third, scoring 191.300. This is the many individual successes.”

Despite their slight fade, Cornell picked itself up to fourth time in five meets that Cornell has broken the finish the meet on a high, hitting all of the routines on 191.000 mark.

The Red was led by sophomore Elena Molotsky, bar.

“Even though the second half who scored 9.800 on the bars of the meet we had some strugto finish third and 9.825 on “We’re at a point where our skills gles, we still were able to keep the floor to place fifth. the spirits high and finish off “I feel great about my perare consistent, so now we’re strong given the circumstances,” formance this weekend,” directing our attention to perfect- Bourgeois said. “After suffering Molotsky said. “Leading up to postseason it’s nice to feel ing the little things that will really an injury and two falls on vault, the team finished off the meet consistent and confident in boost our scores.” strong on bars, hitting five for my routines. At this point in routines.” five the season, I love just being Courtney Spitzer Despite the ups and downs of able to go out and have fun the meet, there were many posiwhile I’m performing.” tives for the Red, which, accordOther Top-10 individual finishes for Cornell came from sophomore Alexandria ing to Spitzer, is really trying to fine tune its routines Bourgeois, who finished seventh on vault (9.700) and as the team heads to the end of the season.

“We’re nearing the end of our season, so we were freshman Courtney Spitzer claimed sixth on bars really focusing on the details,” Spitzer said. “We’re at (9.700) and eight on beam (9.725).

Coming into the weekend’s meet, the Red felt con- a point where our skills are consistent, so now we’re fident after a strong victory over Temple University, directing our attention to perfecting the little things when Cornell scored 192.125, their second best score that will really boost our scores.”

The Red will be back in action Saturday at the of the season. According to Bourgeois, the excitement ECAC Championships in New Haven, Connecticut carried through to the match at West Virginia.

“Coming from a great win at home against Temple where it looks to qualify for NCAA’s.

“Going into ECAC’s the team is focusing University last weekend, the team’s confidence and spirits were very high going into the meet this week- on hitting routines like we do at practice,” end,” Bourgeois said. “We knew competing at West Molotsky said. “Everyone has made their Virginia there would be a lot of energy so we were all best routines multiple times in the gym and as we are continuing to gain confivery excited.”

The Red’s confidence showed in their fast start to dence our goal is to go into the meet and

By JOEL COOPER

Sun Staff Writer

do the routines as well as we know we can do them.”

Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.

Top performer | Sophomore Elena Molotsky said she felt great about her performance at West Virginia after placing third on the bars and fifth on the floor.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Red Ride Three-Game Winning Streak after Sweep of Marist

By NATHANIEL MARTIN Sun Staff Writer

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Confident captain | Junior Dena Tanenbaum, captain of the women’s tennis team, hopes to see her team develop their ability to make adjustments.

After a slow start, the Cornell women’s tennis team is on the rise.

The Red posted its third consecutive victory on Saturday with a 7-0 sweep of Marist in which the team did not drop a set. The win brings Cornell’s record to 4-5, despite starting the season with three losses.

While the Red women were heavy favorites to defeat Marist, the players stressed the match’s importance in allowing everyone to gain valuable playing time, a point that has become especially critical in light of three match cancellations in the last two weeks.

“Going into the match, we were definitely feeling good after coming off of a couple wins on the road,” said junior captain Dena Tanenbaum. “We were mainly focusing on getting match-style practice: There are a lot of little things that you develop in matches — like mental toughness and the ability to make adjustments — that are hard to replicate in regular practice. We’ve had so many matches canceled this season and we’re heading into Ivies in just over a week so a big focus was on practicing and perfecting the little parts of our games and getting as much repetition as possible before we face Columbia in two weeks.”

The Marist match also provided players with an opportunity to test and incorporate these practice focuses before they must draw on them in big Ivy League matches.

“I was impressed by my teammates using this match as a chance

“I was impressed by my teammates using this match as a chance to work on things we’ve been practicing.”

Dena Tanenbaum to work on things that we’ve been practicing and really implement it into their game plans,” Tanenbaum said. “When you are working on something new in practice, it can be difficult to implement it in an actual match because you may not be the most confident in it. When matches get tight, you’re most likely going to revert back to your most comfortable habits, and may not end up using the new tactics. But the only way to make those new tactics comfortable is to go out and use them in a match, which is what the match against Marist gave us a chance to do.”

Even though the match was

more of an experience-builder than a test in itself, the team also emphasized that victory was not taken for granted.

“It’s really easy to underestimate an opponent, and then be caught off guard and have a tight match or lose to someone because you were just unprepared,” Tanenbaum said.

Cornell looks to build on this momentum as the most critical part of their season draws near.

With three home matches this weekend against Binghamton, Niagara and Ithaca, the team can bring its record above .500 for the first time this season. While the Red plays matches and tournaments throughout the year, its Ivy League campaign lasts three weeks from March 28 to April 19.

The fact that the Red swept all six singles matches and three doubles matches without losing a set indicates that the team did particularly well in keeping focus and motivation according to Tanenbaum..

“An important take away from this match is that everyone took care of business decisively,” Tanenbaum said. “It takes a lot of focus to maintain a high level of play and to be able to put a match away without giving up games because of stupid mistakes.”

Nathaniel Martin can be reached at nmartin@cornellsun.com.

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 18, 2015

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SOFTBALL

Softballers Drop Two of Three in Delaware Red falls to Saint Francis,splits two-game series with University of Delaware

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

Cornell softball team traveled down to Delaware, braving the rain to face the University of Delaware and Saint Francis University. Saint Francis handed the Red a 4-0 loss on Sunday. The Red (2-7) split with Delaware on Monday, winning their first game, 5-2, but dropping the second game, 5-4.

Against Saint Francis on Sunday, freshman pitcher Sierra Stone gave an outstanding performance on the mound, allowing just one run and four hits in six innings to Red Flashes. The Red’s hitting was solid, collectively they batting over .330 as a team. Cornell, however, couldn’t hit consistently enough to bring runners all the way home.

“It looked promising,” said junior infielder Emily Weinberg. “Our pitching is looking pretty good and we hit well, but we need to start putting all the pieces together if we want to win more games.”

Those little pieces did came together against Delaware. The Red came out with great energy, and controlled the tempo during the first game. Freshman pitcher Maddie Orcutt proved herself against the Ducks, allowing just one earned run and striking out four.

“The large freshman class brings a lot of excitement into each game, seeing what they are capable of and how great they are,” said junior pitcher Meg Parker.

In the second game against the Ducks, the Red led, 4-0, through two innings. Parker, sophomore infielder Chloe Pendergast and sophomore pitcher Jessica Bigbie all hit singles in the first inning. Junior Michiko McGivney hit a double in the second to bring Weinberg in to home plate, making the score 4-0.

Though the freshmen certainly stood out for their potential, the upperclassmen set the standard of play very high.

“Leanne Iannucci caught two games great behind the plate and Emily Weinberg consistently got on base with

either a sharp line drive or bunt single when we needed to get things going offensively,” McGivney said. “Chloe Pendergast played stud defense at short and came up huge with clutch hits with runners in scoring position on both days.”

In the week leading up to this invitational, the Red was still stuck indoors, but made the most of their practice time.

“We scrimmaged against each other a few times, which I think is the best preparation, seeing live pitching and pitching against batters,” Parker said.

The mental aspect of the team’s preparation was key for the Red this week. Despite being cooped up indoors, McGivney said the Red “made sure we didn’t waste a single minute of practice and worked hard individually on what we needed.”

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

Run-scoring machine | Junior infielder Emily Weinberg is tied for the team lead in runs with nine scored.

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Russian Soccer Netters Blank Binghamton Predicament MEN’S TENNIS

By JESSICA BROFSKY

Sun Staff Writer

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Fleck on fleek | Senior Sam Fleck, who won his singles match, contributed to the Cornell win against Binghamton.

With two matches left before the Ivy Season, the Cornell men’s Tennis team beat Binghamton, 7-0, at their match on Saturday at the Binghamton Tennis Center. Although the Red (6-5) had anticipated a win, the quality of their matches seemed encouraged the team, who pushed its record above .500 for the first time this season.

“Although we were probably expected to win going in, Binghamton is a solid team so we were anticipating a closer match,” said senior Sam Fleck.

The 7-0 win appeared to be a big confidence booster for the Red, who has been training consistently all season. Head coach Silviu Tanasoiu spoke to the improvement of the team this season because of the athletes’ admirable attitudes at practice and during matches, allowing the group to make steady progress and grow with each training session.

“Over the past month or s,o we have been playing better and better, gaining momentum from every match,” Fleck said.

The Red won its top two doubles matches, led by the pairings of sophomores Bernardo Casares Rosa and Chris Vrabel and Fleck and sophomore Colin Sinclair.

“We played aggressively from the start in doubles and that helping us clinch the doubles point,” said Fleck.

The Red also won four of six individual matches. Sinclair and Vrabel, who lost their first sets, came back to win their matches in their following sets.

Fleck, junior Stefan Vinti, Casares Rosa and sophomore Dylan Brown all won their set.

The Red is still working on fixing certain aspects of their game, especially with the Ivy League schedule quickly approaching.

“There were moments in the match were we lost focus,” Fleck said. “On my court and on two others there were times where we lost many games in a row that was probably more from a lack of concentration than a lack of execution or ability. We must maintain focus throughout our matches in the future.”

The team is not one hundred percent healthy at the moment. After See M. TENNIS page 14

L

a Liga, the Spanish soccer league widely considered one of the best in the world, has been dominated by Real Madrid and Barcelona for decades.

Right now, their two biggest stars, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, respectively, are the top two players in assists in La Liga. The league’s thirdmost productive passer

break into Real’s senior team, but has impressed on loan at other La Liga clubs like Sevilla and Villarreal, and will reportedly compete for a place in Real Madrid’s lineup next year.

As an attacking midfielder, Cheryshev is the kind of player who can make his teammates better, and it’s no surprise that

Kevin Linsey The Beautiful Game doesn’t currently play for either of these giants, however.

He’s Denis Cheryshev, a little-known Russian playing for Villarreal on loan from Madrid.

Cheryshev is an interesting case; he was born in Russia but trained in Spain as a child because his father was playing for a club there. He moved through various youth systems, eventually joining Real Madrid’s youth team at age twelve. Thus, despite being Russian by birth and eligible for the country’s national team, he received an education in the “Spanish style” of soccer. He has been unable to

Russian coach Fabio Capello has called him up to the Russian side several times since the World Cup. He is a talented youngster with the ability to make a real difference for Russia’s team on the field.

The lack of Russian players in other European leagues is a relevant issue now because of the development of Denis Cheryshev. Most Russian soccer players ply their trade in the country.

Russian clubs will pay extravagant salaries to keep the few excellent native players in the country See LINSEY page 15