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A federal judge denied Cornell’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that holds both the City of Ithaca and the University responsible for a student suicide in 2010 –– a decision that will allow the case to proceed. “[The] defendants’ duty was to maintain the Thurston Avenue Bridge in a reasonably safe condition as to prevent suicides,” Judge David Hurd ’59 wrote in his March 15 decision rejecting the University’s request. Tommy Bruce, vice president for University communications, criticized the ruling, saying that the University is not legally responsible for the death of the student, Bradley Ginsburg ’13, who jumped off the Thurston
Avenue Bridge in February 2010. campus. Furthermore, Ginsburg Ginsburg’s father, Howard faults the University for neglectGinsburg ’70, is seeking $180 ing to inform students and parents of three student suicides that million in damages. “The law in New York … occurred in the fall of 2009 –– an views the intentional act of killing one- “[Cornell’s] duty was to maintain the self to be extra- Thurston Avenue Bridge in a reasonably ordinary, and safe condition as to prevent suicides.” not does impose liabili- Judge David Hurd ’59 ty on others for failure to prevent suicides except in very action that he says could have limited circumstances,” Bruce allowed parents to conduct “a said. “These limited circum- mental health check” of their chilstances simply were not present in dren, according to the lawsuit. On Jan. 24, the University this case.” Ginsburg’s lawsuit, which was asked the court to throw out the filed in November, claims that the case on the grounds that neither city and Cornell were remiss in Ginsburg’s father nor his attorney failing to place effective suicide See GINSBURG page 5 barriers on the bridges on or near
C.U.Rowing Coaches Find Body in Cayuga Lake; No Foul Play Suspected By LIZ CAMUTI Sun News Editor
Several coaches from the Cornell rowing team helped recover the body of Brian Washington, Jr., a 25-year-old Ithaca resident they found in Cayuga Lake Thursday morning, according to Todd Kennett ’91, head coach of the men’s heavyweight rowing team.
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An autopsy Friday found no evidence of “foul play” surrounding Washington’s death, according to an Ithaca Police Department press release. The cause of Washington’s death was ruled as drowning, according to the IPD. The IPD statement added that the results of toxicology testing are pending and will not be available for two weeks.
Washington was reported missing to the Ithaca Police Department on Jan. 30, according to an IPD press release. A missing person investigation was ongoing when his body was discovered. The coaches found Washington’s body during a practice on Thursday, according to Kennett. An IPD statement added that the crew team discovered Washington’s body “floating” in the water.
Kennett said that Washington’s body, which was discovered before 8:45 a.m. and brought to the entrance of the Cayuga Inlet, had “been there for a while.” “Only the coaches saw it … we sent all the crews away before they knew what was happening,” Kennett said. The Ithaca Fire Department removed Washington’s body near the entrance to the marina at Allan
H. Treman State Marine Park shortly before 9:30 a.m., according to The Ithaca Journal. With the assistance of the Ithaca fire Department and Bangs Ambulance the body was recovered and transported to Onondaga County for an autopsy, according to an IPD press release. Liz Camuti can be reached at lcamuti@cornellsun.com.
Students Deface Posters They Call Racist Against Asians By JINJOO LEE Sun Staff Writer
Scrawled in black marker across posters advertising the upcoming concert of an AsianAmerican comedian, hours after they had been printed on March 14, was overt disapproval: “WTF. This font is not OK.” Khamila Alebiosu ’13, chair of the Multicultural Concert Funding Advisory Board — one of the groups organizing the concert — said that she found more than half of the 100 posters and quarter cards promoting the event in the Office of Student Support and Diversity Education defaced and then shuffled in with the unmarked pile that day. Margaret Cho, a Korean-American standup comedian who critiques social and political problems in her perfor-
mances — especially those pertaining to race and sexuality — will perform at Cornell on April 6. The release of the posters advertising her concert, which were created by the African Latino Asian Native American Students Programming Board, sparked controversy among minority groups on campus, leading some students to successfully demand their removal. A few hours after Alebiosu found the vandalized posters, an anonymous group calling itself “Scorpions X” claimed responsibility for the act in an email to MCFAB and ALANA, another group organizing the concert. In the email, Scorpions X objected to the posters’ font, which they called racist towards Asians. “If you call this vandalism, we will call this racism!” Scorpions X
wrote in the email. The font used was Chop Suey, which, according to Scorpions X, has a history of Asian-American stereotyping. In their
email, Scorpions X demanded that ALANA “discontinue use of these posters [and] quarter cards immediately and also remove current postings.”
The group also requested that ALANA issue a public apology to the entire Cornell Community. See CHO page 4
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Posters defaced | Scorpions X vandalized posters for Margaret Cho’s upcoming concert.
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can be made to see it, we will be unwilling to settle for less.” This, Mills said, proved true during the team’s five rigorous days on the trail. Mills and his teammates faced extreme cold, with temperatures dropping to about negative 20 degrees at night, as well as the knowledge that they could only rely on each other. Mills said that there was always something to do, from chipping through 18 inches of ice for water to keeping warm at night. Tedesco described the team’s routine before bedtime as “carefully choreographed.” Among other things, the team had to sleep with hot water bottles, jog circles to build up heat and insert their bodies inch by inch into their sleeping bags to maintain enough heat at night — a process that took half an hour. “When you’re spending an extended period of time in the
Where paved roads heading north end, flat expanses of frozen rivers, creeks and lakes meet evergreen forests in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota. In this wide open space — where, according to Nicole Tedesco ’04, the flatness creates the illusion of not going anywhere despite these winding paths — six Cornell Outdoor Education instructors went on a week-long dog sledding trip over winter break. COURTESY OF NICOLE TEDESCO ’04 “Nature doesn’t work in Dog days are over | Henry Mills ’14 “skijoring” with his dog, Sierra, on the last day of his trip to Minnesota. straight lines, so our paths along the rivers and lakes were always “crashes” — small trails that on “mini-solos,” “branching off said. curved,” Tedesco said. Similarly, Dayan said he connected bodies of water — like tentacles” to different places Henry Mills ’14 said the trip often required getting out and along the lake where they set up enjoyed being able to hear only was “a lot less romantic” than helping to push the sleds up camp for the night, according to “the odd creaking and groaning one would expect. slopes or maneuver sharp turns. Ostock. They were allowed tarp, of the ice freezing.” “You imagine a bright, sunny Hahn said he believed it was The dog sleds were “constantly three meters of twine, ski poles day on a trail and a ping-ponging between and what they could forage in important to give young people guy skipping along on “For the first time in so long, I was in trees,” said Dave Dayan, the wilderness to build a shelter these kinds of experiences a sled. It's a lot of the present. That’s what the expedition a Cornell Outdoor — in which they each spent a because they are integral to really hard work and a developing strong character. But night alone. Education instructor. huge exercise in team- was giving me.” “I was confident,” Kate in a place so still and “The most unique work, more than I thing about the dog Orlofsky ’12 said. “There was untouched, with nothing but really ever expected it Kate Orlofsky ’12 sledding experience for no doubt in my mind I could do the stars and the vastness of to be,” Mills said. me were the dogs,” this — this solo, this night — eternity, the team said they The team of six was joined by wilderness, life reduces — or Dayan said. “I am very much a and that felt incredible.” found education beyond practi11 dogs and three instructors expands — to the basics: food, dog person, but I’ve never Along with tapping into raw cal skills. from Outward Bound — a non- water, shelter, warmth, safety,” looked at them as a work animal survival abilities, Andrew “For the first time in so long, profit organization promoting Tedesco said. before. They love to pull. They Zukosky ’13 said he especially I was in the present,” Orlofsky According to Tara Ostock also really like human affection, appreciated the silence and soli- said. “That’s what the expedioutdoor education — on their ’13, the actual dog sledding was but given the choice, they tude of the experience. expedition. tion was giving me — resetting According to Mills, Kurt also a lot more difficult than she would much rather be running “My mind felt so clear and at me in the here and now.” Hahn, the founder of Outward had expected. Dog sledding over and pulling.” peace that I think this was one Bound, once said, “There is frozen bodies of water was relaAfter days on the trail con- of the first true meditation Nikki Lee can be reached at more in us than we know. If we tively easy, but going through stantly together, the team went experiences of my life,” Zukosky nsl37@cornell.edu.
Princeton Cracks Down on Rush Shire ’89 Works to Help Blind Experience Sight Freshmen banned from fall recruitment By THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN
Freshmen will be prohibited from attending formal and semiformal events held by Greek organizations, among other activities that affiliate freshmen with fraternities and sororities, beginning in Fall 2012, according to the report of the Freshmen Rush Policy Implementation Committee. In addition to explicitly enumerating the details on how the ban will be implemented, the report — which was released by the University at 2 p.m. today — threatens to ban fraternities and sororities altogether if there is not widespread compliance with the policy. “When President [Shirley] Tilghman met with our Committee in December, she suggested that in the future, violations of the prohibition on freshman affiliation can be expected to further reduce the University’s tolerance of sophomore, junior and senior affiliation,” the report reads. In October, Tilghman charged the committee with describing exactly what types
of activities should be prohibited under the ban, which was announced in August, as well as recommending appropriate penalties and devising a strategy to effectively communicate the terms of the ban to the student body. Tilghman will make a final decision on the policies recommended by the committee later this spring. The committee is chaired by Dean of Undergraduate S t u d e n t s K a t h l e e n Deignan and includes Associate Deans of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne and Victoria Jueds, English professor William Gleason and psychology professor Deborah Prentice. In addition, the committee includes three Princeton juniors who are involved in Greek life — Jake Nebel, Jamie Joseph and Shreya Murthy — and three who are not — Kees Thompson, a junior, and seniors Thomas Hellstern and Arda Bozyigit. This story was originally published in The Daily Princetonian on March 25.
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Shire said he was also interested in the job because he has known people with vision loss over the course of his life. “My mother worked for charities and service agents that served the blind for the most of my childhood exposure,” he said. In 2000, Shire had a chance to see his implants being used when he observed a series of Retinal Implant Project experiments with six blind human volunteers and one volunteer with normal vision whose eyes were scheduled to be removed because of orbital cancer. He said that the par-
light, patients also saw “a line of four dots in a row, yellowish and bluish color,” Shire said. Douglas Shire ’89 is currently He said that he was confident working in a Cornell laboratory to that if his team of researchers could develop a retinal implant that he build “an array of pixels, people hopes will allow blind individuals to would be able to see.” see light, color and even movement Marcus Gingerich, a researcher by the end of the year. who works with Shire, said the team The implant, called Generation has made many changes to the Four, is inserted behind the eye and implants since they first started work sends electrical signals to the brain to on them. The new Generation Four stimulate vision. Shire began workimplants — which are more coming on developing retinal implants plex and have more simulation for the blind as part of the Boston channels to transfer a greater volume Retinal Implant Project, a collaboraof information into the brain — tion which began between will, Gingerich said, hopethe Massachusetts Institute fully give “functional visu“Patients will be able to use devices ... of Technology and the al ability to people who Massachusetts Eye and Ear to enhance their quality of life.” are blind.” Infirmary and has since He said that there are Douglas Shire ’89 expanded to include research currently no cures for the teams at Boston University, blind — only treatments. the University of Louisville and ticipants were only lightly sedated so “The number of people suffering more. they could still talk while his from macular degeneration” — a Shire, a Cornell alumnus with an implants were inserted behind the loss of vision — “is going up,” electrical engineering degree, had patients’ eyes. Gingerich said. never worked in the fields of biology Experimenters sent electric curHe said that restoring one of our or medicine before he landed a job at rents to electrodes in the implants, sensory inputs is important because MIT researching eye implants. He which in turn transmitted these sig- “we are very visual, the way we typisaid this was his first time being a nals to the brain. Blind patients who cally perceive our environment.” part of a project that could lead to had been unable to see for 10 to 20 Through their work, Shire and potential improvements and break- years saw specks of light for the first Gingerich said that they hope to see throughs for the blind. time. improvements in vision among the When Shire learned about the Shire said the results of the exper- blind. opportunity to work on retinal iment provided evidence of a con“Patients will be able to use implants, he knew it would be a new nection in the nerves between the devices like the one we’re working and exciting chance for him to brain and the eyes, prompting on to enhance their quality of life,” expand his research experience, he researchers to work on developing “a Shire said. said. chronically implantable retinal “It was a great way to apply skills neuro-stimulator.” Jaclyn Chen can be reached at that I have to help people,” he said. In addition to seeing specks of jlc426@cornell.edu. Sun Contributor
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Group Blasts ALANA Over ‘Racist’ Posters CHO
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In response to Scorpions X’s email, on March 15, Kiranjit Longaker, assistant dean of students in the Office of Student Support and Diversity Education and advisor to ALANA, emailed an apology on behalf of ALANA and MCFAB to Scorpions X, promising to pull the existing images and create a different poster. Longaker said that Cho’s management had approved the poster for use prior to its release. “This situation does highlight the continued need for us to work toward increasing our knowledge, awareness and sensitivity, so that something like this does not happen again,” Longaker, speaking on behalf of ALANA, said in the email. But one day later, Scorpions X responded to ALANA’s email, saying that their apology letter was not acceptable and did not adequately address the situation at hand. They said that ALANA was not justified in bringing Cho to campus if her management accepted a poster using a font that, according to Scorpions X, reveals a “one-sizefits-all Asian stereotype.” They added that members of Cornell community have unfairly accused Scorpions X of being “militant, confrontational and angry” for speaking out on racial issues. “It is no coincidence that when marginalized people or any group that is not in power SPEAK OUT, it is deemed militant, radical and dangerous,” Scorpions X wrote in the email. “Would you have preferred silence and inaction, acceptance and complicity in the face of racism behind the Margaret Cho poster?” On Wednesday, in response to the controversy, Cho wrote a blog post, addressing the fact that the poster had been “written on, telling everyone off.” Cho said that she appreciated the effort that students took to address the racist imagery. “It makes me think that things are changing for the better, and I think that anger is a great tool to make wrongs right,” she wrote.
Still, Scorpions X went as far as to suggest that Cho was not the right person to promote awareness and sensitivity around issues of diversity. Anyone who finds the use of the Chop Suey font acceptable “is no ideal figure,” they said in the email. Karin Zhu ’12, vice president of external affairs for Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student Union, backed Scorpions X’s email, saying that the font promoted homogenization of Asians. She said that using a Chinese font for a poster promoting a Korean-American comedian was problematic. “To imply or say that Korean people and culture are the same as Chinese people and culture is like saying that the Italian and the French are the same; it does not make sense,” Zhu wrote in an email. In defense, ALANA and MCFAB said that they had considered several poster designs for the concert and that Cho’s management had approved the final design. Alebiosu said that she was surprised to find so many posters vandalized. “That was very scary to find. They marked about half of them and then shuffled them,” she said. Additionally, Alebiosu said that Scorpions X’s vandalism and emails were regrettable because, instead of promoting discussion, they “shut people down,” she said. Still, Zhu said that Cornell has much to learn from the controversy. “In the line of anti-racism social advocacy work, we all have a long way to go, and we all need to keep in mind not to propagate the oppression of others,” Zhu said in an email. Sharon Lau ’12, facilitator of CAPSU, added that, “Although ALANA did make a mistake with using this font … CAPSU is committed to working alongside ALANA and the rest of Cornell to improve cultural sensitivity and anti-racism education on campus.” Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.
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presented any facts that could have proved their case, claiming the University could not have known of Ginsburg’s intentions. Hurd rejected this appeal. In the original suit, Ginsburg’s father named President David Skorton, Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy ’73, Gannett Director of Mental Health Initiatives Tim Marchell ’82 and Gannett Associate Director Gregory Eells as defendants. But Hurd dismissed the allegations against the individual defendants on the grounds that the lawsuit “fails to state a cause of action against them.” He acknowledged that while the defendants “were aware of the history of suicides and knew affirmative measures needed to be implemented to prevent future successful attempts,” they could not be personally implicated in Ginsburg’s death. Despite disagreeing with Hurd’s decision, Bruce said the University was “gratified that the decision narrows the issues in the case.” Defending the University’s conduct, Bruce emphasized that Ginsburg had never used any of the University’s mental health resources. “Cornell has for many years invested significant resources, both human and financial, into mental health initiatives for our students, including suicide prevention,” Bruce said. “Unfortunately, Bradley Ginsburg did not avail himself of the extensive resources on the Cornell campus. All parties agree that his suicide was completely unforeseeable.” In his decision, however, Hurd noted that there have been 29 suicide attempts between 1990 and 2010 on the seven bridges located on or near campus, saying that the University should have been aware of the risk of student suicide. While the University could not have predicted Ginsburg’s
actions, he said, it could have taken more steps to prevent students in general from attempting suicide from the bridge. “[Ginsburg’s] affirmative act of jumping from the bridge cannot be considered extraordinary or unforeseen,” Hurd said. “It was clearly foreseeable that someone may commit suicide by jumping off the Thurston Avenue Bridge.” Though the Thurston Avenue Bridge is owned by the City of Ithaca, Hurd said that University could still be partially responsible for the consequences of failing to keep the bridge completely safe. “Although Cornell may not legally own the bridge, it controls its design and operation,” he said. “Accordingly … Cornell and Ithaca jointly controlled and maintained the bridge … and any duty owed will be ascribed to both.” Hurd said the renovations of the Thurston Avenue Bridge that took place between 2006 to 2007 were an unsuccessful effort to deter students from attempting suicide at the bridges on or near Cornell’s campus. “Clearly, the redesign and reconstruction did not prevent [Ginsburg] from jumping off the bridge,” he wrote. However, Bruce said that “public and private landowners” should not be held accountable for the actions of individuals, even if there exists a general risk. “If the judge’s determination to recognize liability against a landowner for the unforeseeable act of an individual who commits suicide where it's ‘foreseeable that someone’ may commit suicide were to be upheld, this would mark a dramatic expansion of the law,” he said. Bruce said the University is determined to clear its name as the proceedings move forward. “Cornell will continue to litigate this case, vigorously, and we look forward to a prompt resolution,” he said. Katharine Close can be reached at kclose@cornellsun.com.
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Ink-Corrigible Musings by Laura Miller
Being pre-med, I can attest to the fact that students in exam intensive courses use the current length of the finals period to their advantage. For example, the full two-week period allowed me to focus solely on my Organic Chemistry final exam last spring before dealing with my exams that followed a few days later. I needed that time cushion between exams to focus only on Orgo because dividing my time among all of my exams simultaneously would have caused me to do terribly on all of them. In an eightday period, even with a guaranteed day off, students will still have to study for multiple exams at once, because as one passes another will be approaching shortly. That means our blood pressures, caffeine intakes and time spent in Libe Café while sleep deprived will stay consistently high, whereas the current schedule allows us to get a full night of sleep and study productively during finals. The two extra days of Spring Break are just not worth the cost. As for the issue of Senior Week, the clear, dutiful ignorance the Calendar Committee displays upsets me. In Friday’s article reporting the proposed changes to the calendar, Professor Jeff Doyle was quoted as saying that his committee only makes “informal” efforts to consult with non-committee members and that the Calendar Committee relied on two SA representatives to canvas all 13,500 plus undergraduates. He also said, “I was never approached by any student committee on Senior Week, nor was I personally aware of its existence and our undergraduate representatives did not alert us to their desire to talk with us or suggest contacting them.” Not communicating with the student body on an important issue like this is not an excuse; it’s a fatal flaw in the process. And I would think that when proposing changes to the calendar one would look at the current one and see the events that might be affected. I find it reprehensible that the administration hides behind ignorance of an issue; ignorance is not an excuse under the law — why should we accept it here at Cornell? Cornell prides itself on its focus on undergraduate education, so the faculty should live up to this by making sure they consult multiple undergraduates when making changes. If changes are to be proactive, the Calendar Committee needs to reach out to the student body and the Senior Week Committee before making recommendations to the Faculty Senate. I urge them to take this opportunity to demonstrate the administration’s goal of transparency before changing the calendar, possibly to the detriment of students. Daniel Kuhr ’13
Clarifying statements on McGraw funding To the Editor: Re: “New Humanities Building Debated as Cause of Delay to McGraw Hall Renovations” News, March 6 I am writing in response to your recent new article on McGraw Hall, March 6, to clarify my statements about the funding for McGraw Hall renovations. From my vantage point in University Facilities, there are a myriad of “competing needs” on campus, and McGraw is one of them. However, as The Sun pointed out in its Oct. 21, 2011 article “Cornell to Build First New Humanities Building Since Goldwin Smith,” the new humanities building is being funded entirely by donations. Those donations were made for the sole purpose of the humanities project — it is not possible for the College of Arts and Sciences to redirect those funds to McGraw Hall. The University has spent $3 million dollars in the past couple years studying McGraw Hall, enhancing its structural components and replacing its roof. In a period of tight economic constraints, this alone speaks volumes about the University’s strong commitment to this wonderful gem of a building. I appreciate the chance to set the record straight. Erik Gray Zone Facilities Manager Dept. Of Maintenance Management
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Que Será, Será; And How! S
pring break can get you thinking. Thinking about your future. Not just the near future, but the more distant future. And not just your own. But that of everyone. So, here are three fascinating ideas about the future, which might not come true, but, if they do, will in fact be monumentally important, more important than almost anything else I can think of. They involve nothing less than the future of humanity, theology and the economy. Let’s start with the future of the human species. No one makes credibly bolder predictions about human civilization than Ray Kurzweil. Who is he? Kurzweil won first place in the international science fair in 1965 at age 17, graduated from MIT with degrees in computer science and literature, created a machine that helps the blind read, holds 24 patents, has been recognized as inventor of the year by MIT, successfully predicted the fall of communism and has won the National Medal of Technology and Innovation — the highest honor given to private citizens for technological achievements, awarded by the President himself, to people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak and entire companies like IBM, Xerox and eBay. In other words, he’s not a kook. Well, maybe he is. Apart from his inventions, he is a renowned futurologist. Kurzweil has quite a successful track record and Gates regards him as the “best in the world at predicting the future.” So, what does Kurzweil say the future holds? By the year 2045, he says we will reach a technological “singularity.” This is a time wherein “technological change will be so rapid and its impact so profound that every aspect of human life will be irreversibly transformed.” In just a little more than thirty years, there “won’t be a clear
distinction between humans and machine” because our brains will be “largely nonbiological,” allowing us to, among other things, “stop aging” and “live indefinitely” (see: mind uploading). Peter Diamandis, a leader in the personal spaceflight industry, says this means “we will become god-like, in terms of omniscience … omnipoten[ce] … [and] omnipresen[ce].” What then will become of our other God (or Gods)? Well, therein lies the second prediction; about the future of religion. British philosopher A.C Grayling claims that religion is now seeing its final “death throes.” Pew’s U.S. religious landscape survey has revealed that Americans “unaffiliated with any particular religion have seen the greatest growth in numbers as a result of changes in affiliation in America.” In fact, just this weekend, there was a rally attracting thousands and thousands of attendees to the National Mall in Washington DC, the Reason Rally, which was a national gathering of atheists and other secularists. Speaking at the rally, Richard Dawkins — an evolutionary biologist and previously the Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford — argued that atheists, secularists and agnostics are “approaching a tipping point” or “critical mass where the number of people who have come out has become so great, that suddenly everybody will realize, ‘I can come out, too.’” That moment, he says is “not far away now.” The trends are even starker in Europe. According to a Eurobarometer poll in 2005, fewer than 50 percent of men answer yes when asked if they believe there is a God. And less than half of people say they believe there is a God in, for example, the following countries: Germany (47 per-
cent), Hungary (44 percent), the United Kingdom (38 percent), France (34 percent) and Sweden (23 percent). Physicists at Northwestern and the University of Arizona have actually created a mathematical model that predicts that religion will be “driven toward extinction” in nine countries including our northerly neigh-
by promoting autonomy, mastery and purpose. Will we ever come to see such a system be? Well here’s some evidence that it’s creeping up. The prime example is Wikipedia. Not a single economist, he says, would have predicted the “Wikipedia model,” with peo-
Sebastian Deri Thought Crimes bors Canada as well as Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic. Coming back down to Earth and dialing back the sci-fi, what about the future of our country and our economy? In the world of work, the period of relying largely on extrinsic motivators to get results — such as regimented time based pay — may be soon ending or, at least, drastically changing. Daniel Pink is a harsh critic of our current methods of motivating performance. He believes a system of motivation “built around external rewards and punishments” may have “worked fine for routine twentieth century tasks.” But in the coming century such a system is “incompatible” with how we organize, think about and actually do work. Much better would be a system that relies more heavily on intrinsic motivation. For him, the “building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses” nurture intrinsic motivation
ple working for free because they feel driven to, would produce a better encyclopedia than Microsoft’s Encarta, staffed with paid employees and managers. And yet it has. In a similar vein, both Google News and Gmail were created in a work period at Google known as 20 percent time, where employees can use 20 percent of their time to work on any project they can dream up, independent of their regular work. And the multitude of columns in this paper demanding us to abandon jobs in the financial sector for lower paying ostensibly more meaningful ones elsewhere are a testament that this is our expectation for the future of work. So are we bound to become godless, god-creating cyborgs working for things we feel internally compelled to do? I’m excited to see. Sebastian Deri is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at sderi@cornellsun.com. Thought Crimes appears alternate Mondays this semester.
The Freedom of Traveling, Even in a Tiny Metal Box T
here’s a great irony in traveling. The goal of travel is to get away from the routines and conventions of life. When people travel, they often do it to get off the road they’re on and take a completely new path, one they’ve never been on before and which hopefully will lead them to somewhere new and exciting. A big part of the appeal here is freedom — freedom from the everyday, and freedom from the normal responsibilities of life. When you travel, you don’t
from being in a new place — in other words, not much of a journey. Think about the most common methods of transportation. Flying? You’re belted into your seat and the plane is following a very specific flight path that is out of your control. Taking a train? You can move around the car, but the train itself is on tracks and therefore couldn’t deviate from its path even if someone wanted it to. Driving? You have control over where you’re going to a certain degree, but you still have to follow the roads and you’re still, at the end of the day, sitting in a tiny metal box. Long-distance travel, the way things are now, is a matter not of getting away from the restricThe Weather Report tions of your regular life, but allowing yourself to be restricted further in exchange for the experience of temporarily being someplace new. It’s not about going, but rather about being taken somewhere. Yet despite these restrictions, going somewhere, even the physical act of journeying, still feels free. Even when I’m trapped on an airplane seat for eight hours with nothing to do but the crossword in the in-flight magazine, I still get that visceral rush of adventure and freedom I associate with traveling. Part of it is the excitement of going somewhere new, but there’s more to it than that. I think that, fundamentally, when I travel from place to place I don’t want control. Think of traveling to another city sort of like having a dream. In both cases, you’re temporarily taken away from the worries and cares of your everyday existence to a strange and new place. You surrender control over
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have to do laundry (unless you’re gone for a very long time) or worry about homework (unless you’re a Cornell student). Furthermore, you don’t have a schedule; if you decide midway through your day in a new city that you want to skip the art museums and spend the day wandering through back alleys, then you can do just that. Yet the irony in traveling is that for the most part, in order to get to that new, exciting place you have to undergo a very controlled, limited and un-free experience. That experience is the physical necessity of getting to wherever you’re traveling to. Now, we all know the old adage about it not being the destination but rather the journey that counts, but frankly the way most travel works is that travelers agree to withstand a period of discomfort, confinement and lack of control in exchange for the freedom and excitement that comes
yourself in exchange for the freedom and wonder that comes from being in an unfamiliar place. It’s a theme you see in literature as well, especially fantasy literature; the protagonists of The Chronicles of Narnia or The Wizard of Oz don’t actively seek out the magical worlds they end up in, but rather are whisked away to them by chance. This experience — of being taken away from everyday life and transported to somewhere completely new — is a fundamental human desire. The freedom felt in travel, though it comes from escaping one’s daily routine, is not truly about doing whatever one wants; rather, it’s about doing something different. Can traveling ever be more than just a dream, though? Can true freedom ever really be achieved? The thing about dreams is that you always wake up from them and the thing about vacations is that you always come home. If you start traveling and just never stop, then travel becomes your way of life — but if that’s the case, are you escaping from anything or simply trading one set of routines for another? Perhaps the key is to think of home not as a place or a set of routines, but rather in terms of the people who make you feel at home. So far, this column has been about traveling alone, something I’ve done only rarely. I travel with the people who are closest to me, and that way, I never leave my home while still seeing all of the different dreamscapes the world shows me. Freedom, then, is realizing how, if you’re with someone you care about, the whole world is your home and you never need to escape. Aidan Bonner is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at abonner@cornellsun.com. The Weather Report appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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ll is calm and all is bright in Burma — at least from the air. Clouds drift across a patchwork of land parcels that rest. As the plane descends, the glittering steeples of Buddhist temples come into view. The scene is ethereal. Even on the ground appearances can be deceptive. The sun rises over the quiet countryside. A boat glides across a glassy river. But there is something ominous brewing beneath this serene façade. “I took off from Thailand and landed in Rangoon. It was a bit of a surprise.” Prof. Robert Lieberman, Physics, clandestinely captured life in Burma over a two year period. A best-selling novelist and eclectic filmmaker (Lieberman recently directed the Ithaca-based comedy Green Lights), Lieberman is visibly moved by the narrative of a country he frequently describes as quiet and glorious. Burma once promised to be a land of great glory and peace. The country was the “rice bowl” of Asia, and the Burmese took pride in having one of the most advanced airports in the region. What the world knows about Burma since the military junta took over in the 1960s has been hazy. The country is widely believed to be run by repressive and eccentric generals who play golf and build multimillion dollar mansions in the administrative capital Nay Pi Taw as the people languish in growing poverty and anguish. While this image might be a caricature, it is not without truth. Under military rule, the former British colony has warranted comparisons to the fictional countries in George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. As an interviewee asserts, “this is not your typical military dictatorship. There is no cult of the personality here,” so it is more “insidious … you can remove one and replace him with another.” The result is a devastating climate of fear. But just what does fear look like? A female interviewee compares the uncertainty that pervades life in Burma to her unreliable gas supply; she never knows when to start cooking. Lieberman remembers filming only the feet of many of his interviewees: “Before, you showed a picture of Aung San Suu Kyi, you got arrested. People were terrified. If you got into a taxi right away, people will tell you right away, ‘I hate this government.’ If you were alone in a taxi and you were a Westerner … When I asked, ‘Can I record you?’ No. Those who weren’t, I was worried that they didn’t understand the risk.” By 1988, many Burmese did not have enough money to buy a sack of rice. As a Burmese interviewee recounts, the Ne Win government dealt with the economic hardship in an “absurd” way. The government withdrew some currencies from circulation, sparking nationwide protests. To quell the unrest, the government fired into the crowd. On that day, some said that the sewers in Rangoon were “running with blood,” clarifying that “they were not trying to be poetic.” Since then the government has continued to be accused of human rights violations, most recently prohibiting foreign relief teams from delivering crucial supplies to Burma when Cyclone Nargis devastated the delta region of Burma in 2008. About 130,000 people lost their lives. Remarkably, the Burma Lieberman captures is one that maintains grace under pressure. The people are dignified and soft-spoken, carrying themselves “like princes” even though they might be “dressed in rags,” as a female interviewee observes. Buddhism plays a central role in Burmese society, and much of the film is appropriately devoted to chronicling the religious practices of the Burmese. Despite their material poverty and isolation, the people do know what is going on in the world, according to Lieberman. The ever-resourceful youths capitalize on the “porous border” between Burma and China: “[The youths] use proxy servers. They go to internet cafes. They know Western music, they download Western music.” But Lieberman, like many of his interviewees, fears
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THINKING IS NOT AN OPTION Robert Lieberman’s They Call It Myanmar that resilience and adaptability might not be enough. Burma is resource-rich, and other countries are “drooling” at the prospect of doing business in the country once economic sanctions are lifted. However, the people and their leaders are largely uneducated and inexperienced at dealing with foreign organizations. In the striking words of a Burmese interviewee, “In America you have access… In Burma you don’t have access. Thinking is not an option. If we don’t use our brain we have no development.” Lieberman acknowledges that “the fear is less” now that President Thein Sein assumed office and promised to hold the first free, fair and clean elections on April 1. But Lieberman is uncertain about the prospects of political reform in Burma. He points out that only about 50 of the 656 parliamentary seats are up for grabs. Most Burmese have never expressed their political opinions, not even to close friends, so freedom of expression and other democ-
ratic ideals are alien concepts. “Aung San Suu Kyi is running for office,” Lieberman notes, but the country is still ruled by “the military that’s shed their uniforms and put on suits and ties. So democracy? I don’t know.” Lieberman’s interview with Ms Suu Kyi, the iconic opposition leader, was unanticipated; she was released from house arrest shortly after filming concluded. The Nobel laureate is as revered as her father, COURTESY OF ROBERT LIEBERMAN General Aung San, who was assassinated shortly after leading Burma to independence from British rule. In the film, she speaks candidly about her country and sheds some light on her 15-year stint under house arrest. While Ms Suu Kyi has yet to articu-
late concrete policies during her current campaign, many Burmese trust her because she sacrificed her life for Burma and still believes in her cause: “A strong, firm authoritarian hand cannot create unity; it can only give the appearance of unity.” While Lieberman is mesmerized by the raw beauty of Burma, as evidenced by the lush opening scenes, he is cautious to avoid romanticizing the scenes he captures. He lets the images and interviewees do the talking. The result is a stupefying hybrid of a documentary and home video in which the most mundane occurrences seem to hold a weighty significance. The rich-poor divide is stark. A mansion sits resplendent in the sun. Across the street, a man pours a bucket of grimy water over his head in front of his shanty town home. There is another blatant sign of poverty. Child laborers are a ubiquitous sight on the streets and worksites of Burma. “As long as they can move,” as one interviewee says, children as young as five are sold to wealthier families or to neighboring countries to work as laborers, domestic helpers or wives. The situation is heartbreaking, and Lieberman incisively underscores this by juxtaposing scenes of child laborers at work with the quaking voice of a Burmese man: “How can I think, how can I go away, if my neighbor’s daughter is going to be sold away?” This appeal is piercing enough, but Lieberman persists. He is a tough interviewer, and the film benefits from his intensity. It is clear from his relentless questioning that he is eager, almost desperate, to continually prod deeper. Amidst lush greenery in a rural neighborhood, he meets a young girl who, like many of the elementary school age children in the film, cannot afford to go to school. He inquires why she would like to go to school. She repeats her answer twice, “I want to be educated.” Lieberman presses on, “What does that mean?” The question resonates in the still, sunlit air with a philosophical profundity that clings to every gesture or word in the film. The girl is thoughtful, albeit a little bashful. She says, quite simply, “I want to be a doctor.” Her answer is startlingly innocuous. As the rest of the film makes apparent, she will not be able to fulfil her dream if things do not radically change in Burma. The quality of education is low, and what students do learn is “almost useless.” Lieberman deftly demonstrates what this means with an oddly disquieting scene. He asks students at a local elementary school to share what they have learned. They sing a patriotic song, obediently but not enthusiastically, “from revolution to decolonization, fight to the death of the enemy fascists [for the] freedom of our nation.” One can only hope that the right enemy is targeted. They Call It Myanmar will be screened on March 27, 7.15 p.m. at Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight Hall. Daveen Koh is a sophomore in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be contacted at arts-and-entertainmenteditor@cornellsun.com.
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Checking Out BY TOM MOORE Sun Staff Writer
The Sun got on the phone with writer David Greenman ’00 and director Gabriel Long ‘09 to discuss their new web series, Checked Out, on Dailymotion.com. THE SUN: Tell me a little bit about Checked Out. DAVID GREENMAN: Well, the first episode was actually a sketch I wrote for a class I was in. It was sort of inspired by a date I went on with a girl who worked at Trader Joe’s and [we] talked about Trader Joe’s almost the entire date. So I had this idea to play around with the type of people who work at that type of store, where people are a little more eccentric than the standard supermarket fare. SUN: So why a web series? Why not other formats like a short film or a standard television show? D.G.: It allows us to do something with a little broader scope without spending a ton of money to do it. I mean, shooting a feature film, you’ve got to fill at least an hour and a half. And a T.V. pilot, I think you have a more set structure that you have to fit with. SUN: Do you see the web series as just a low cost replication of the T.V. form that reaches a new audience, or is it really an artistically distinct form that forces you to think differently about what you're doing? D.G.: I think it’s evolving, and it’s continuing to evolve. The market for web series is increasing, and people are figuring out how to actually make money from it, and it’s become a really viable way to make content. I mean, there’s a lot of it out there. A lot of it is, you know, one person with a camera in their living room making super cheap content, but I have friends who have made web series with budgets of $20000. Which is crazy, but kind of cool. SUN: Absolutely. GABRIEL LONG: What it shares with T.V. is the serialization aspect. So I think it can be seen as a less expensive form of T.V. But I would definitely say that, in terms of directing, one thing distinct from T.V. or short film is people’s attention spans. You’re clicked away so easily that you have to innovate a little bit just to sell people and make sure that those first, like, 15 seconds really are going to get them to continue watching. I think that’s why a lot of web media is comedy, because people don’t have the attention span for drama. D.G.: I also think, you’re watching it on your computer, probably not even in the full screen window, maybe at work, so you’re giving yourself over a lot less than you would by sitting in front of your T.V. to watch Mad Men. So it’s got to kind of go out to the audience, which isn’t going to commit in the same way to a web series that they might to a T.V. show,
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or even a short film or something. SUN: It seems that a lot of shows branch into web media to build the audience for the show itself. Is that your impression of things, or are they really looking at ad revenue off of the web media itself? D.G.: I think now you’re getting a little bit of everything. I feel like this show, Checked Out, could turn into a T.V. pilot. And there are a lot of shows, I think to mirror what you just said, that are doing animated web series. But there’s also just a ton of content that's just being made for the web, deliberately for the web, whether it’s people doing it as a sort of calling card for themselves as an actor or writer or director, or they actually just enjoy making that format of media. SUN: There’s so much content out there, it must be hard to compete. Do you think the proliferation of content devalues real producers and directors who really know what they’re doing? G.L.: I think we’re moving towards, with the Internet generally, more of a focus on websites that filter or websites that amalgamate stuff. For instance, YouTube: everyone just puts something on YouTube, and then the cat video with a million hits is kind of the one that everyone watches. But then there are sites like Dailymotion, or Funny or Die or Collegehumor, that are focusing people’s attention on that higher level content, where you have web series that are produced with some level of professionalism. D.G.: And if you look at a site like Dailymotion, the site we’re launching on or Funny or Die, anybody can really put the content up there, but the people who do have some level of establishment in the industry, or content that the people who run the site see, that they really like. They’re able to take it and put it on the homepage and direct more people to that content. So you sort of get both worlds involved. SUN: So it must be really essential to get on one of those big, popular streamlined sites. Do you have to make a pitch to those who run them, in a comparable mode to how you would pitch a pilot for a T.V. show? D.G.: Absolutely. We thankfully had a finished product that we could send them to look at, so that’s the only real difference. We didn’t pitch with a script; we pitched with a fin-
ished web series. SUN: That’s a really interesting paradigm shift, if people running video sharing sites are suddenly a pretty big link in diffusion of culture or art or something. They’re suddenly in a chair of power over artists. D.G.: Yes, but I also think that some people who would probably, ten years ago, have been working at a studio or a network finding content for television are now ending up in the digital media realm. So it’s not necessarily people who love YouTube videos who decide the content, it’s actual people who are artists. You know, Hollywood artists, entertainment educated people who are interested in developing the field, which is still relatively new. SUN: Tell me more about Cornell in Hollywood. D.G.: Well, Cornell in Hollywood has been around for 20 years in various forms. Five years ago we started our internship program. Gabe was in the first group of interns, and Gabe and I have stayed friends since then. Gianna [associate producer Gianna Zoppi ’14] was in our group last year, and I really enjoyed working with her, and I said, “Hey, if you’re around later in the summer, in New York,” and she jumped right in. She was a real pleasure to have on set. SUN: For Cornell students looking to get involved in film production, it seems like Cornell in Hollywood really works. D.G.: Definitely. I've been out here in L.A. for twelve years, and since the program has started we’ve had more and more young people who have come out during summer to check out L.A. and say, “Oh, this is kind of a cool place to work,” who then come and move out here and are now working. One of our interns just became the post supervisor for Warehouse 13, which is kind of exciting for a 25-year old to be in that kind of job. And that all started from her internship here. Checked Out, starring Daniel Greenman, Zelda Williams, Vicki Lewis and Arjun Gupta, debuted on March 19. Tom Moore is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at wmoore@cornellsun.com.
First World Problems W
hen Odysseus attempted to get back to Ithaca, he spent 20 years battling witches, Cyclops and the six-headed monster Scylla. Just for the record, I would take a 40 Scyllas over American Airlines any day. Up until yesterday afternoon, I had been planning to write this column about what would happen if January Jones and John Hamm actually had children (my theory is that the world could not take that much beauty and would just end). However, after the most stressful 24 hours of my life, I have decided to talk about the Airline Industry and how I want it to die. If all had gone according to plan, my Saturday would have gone something like this: I would have been slightly annoyed to be waking up before Starbucks was even open to get to Los Angeles International Airport by 7 a.m. Then I would stumble onto flight 4101 to Chicago O’Hare, sleep for a couple of hours and then walk briskly to my connecting gate which would begin boarding right as I got there. Feeling somewhat harried, I would have collapsed into my seat on the flight from Chicago to Syracuse, slept some more then awoken to be in Syracuse by 5:30 p.m. From there, I would have taken my bus from
Syracuse to Ithaca, plopped down in my desk chair, ordered some Chinese food and watched a couple of episodes of Mad Men. The L.A. to Chicago end of the trip went pretty much as planned — except that due to maintenance, my flight out of L.A. was delayed 20 minutes. Instead, my brisk walk from the K terminal to the G terminal turned into a frantic sprint, something for which I was absolutely not dressed (I don’t know why I thought it would be a good idea to wear sandals). When I did arrive, panting and sweaty
Julia Moser Carrot Top Confessions at Gate G3, the gates were closed, and even though I could see my plane sitting there, the woman at the gate (I’ve forgotten her name, but I will be calling her Yolanda) told me I was not allowed to board. Luckily, I kept my composure as I calmly explained the situation to Yolanda. And when I say I kept my composure, I mean I burst into tears. Yolanda was not pleased. When I wailed that I needed to get to Syracuse,
Yolanda angrily got me on to the last flight for the night, which was on another airline, and took me through Cleveland. Also this flight to Cleveland was in yet another terminal, and the plane was leaving just as Yolanda yelled at me to run and catch it. So run I did. I scurried onto the smallest airplane I had ever seen, and touched down in Cleveland 55 minutes later. The one positive part of this saga is that the employees at the Cleveland airport were lovely. Remember how I just said that the plane to Cleveland was on the smallest I had ever seen? Well, the plane from Cleveland to Syracuse was smaller. And there was a lot of turbulence. I kept thinking that if I were to die, I would go back to Chicago and haunt Yolanda. The other thing I was thinking about was if the plane did crash and we all survived but were trapped on some desert island a la Lost, and somehow the rest of humanity all perished in some nuclear war, who on the plane would I restart human civilization with? I decided on Calvin, the flight attendant. When I did make it to Syracuse, of course my suitcase was not there and I spent an hour going over the details of my route with Baggage Services. I threw my hands up in despair and left Syracuse suitcase-less with only a faint hope that it would be found and delivered to me at some point. All in all, I recognize that my situation is not so bad. Yes, I will be dressed somewhat funnily wearing the odd assemblage of sun
dresses and snow jackets that I left in my dorm room until I get my jeans and t-shirts which are hopefully on their way to me, but it could have been a lot worse. I’m sure Calvin is a lovely fellow, but in any case I’m glad it did not come to that. The whole problem of having to lug through four different airports to get back to school and have my clothes and shoes lost somewhere along the way, is one that the majority of the world does not have the luxury of facing. It is one giant First World Problem, and I really shouldn’t be complaining. But it’s similar to a discussion one of my friends had with her rabbi when she was 12: Even though she had to talk about the evils of gossip and how Miriam was punished with leprosy for gossiping about Moses’ new wife, they both knew she was not going to stop gossiping any time soon. So, I will continue to complain about the fact that my good toothbrush is somewhere along the route from Chicago to Syracuse. I like complaining and I am good at it. But, at least I do so with the knowledge of how lucky, or how spoiled, I really am. And I am glad that, instead of being greeted by warring nobles upon my return to Ithaca, I was greeted by Don Draper’s charming smile on Netflix. Julia Moser is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com.
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Mowrey Denies Bulldogs Shut Out With Third Period Goal NCAA
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epic games in NCAA tournament history.” In Friday’s game, Michigan did not hesitate in making a scoreboard appearance. Just 1:11 into the game, star forward A.J. Trealis picked up a rebound off sophomore goaltender Andy Iles from Luck Glendening’s shot. Iles managed to make a second save, but not the third as Glendening picked up the second rebound and sent it past Iles’ skate, giving the Wolverines an initial lead. Just 22 seconds later, the Red’s hole appeared to get much deeper as Luke Moffatt beat a Cornell defender near the boards and made a move on Iles in the crease. Again, Iles made the save, but he was unable to stop Kevin Lynch, who stuffed in the rebound at the back post. Schafer stared at the referee for a minute, waiting to see if the play would be reviewed before eventually calling a timeout to regroup his squad. “With three commercial breaks per period, you don’t want to be using your time-out so early,” Schafer said. The referees reviewed the play
during the minute recess and ruled it no goal, no penalty due to goaltender interference by Moffatt at 1:33, keeping the Red within striking distance. “I felt confident out there. Maybe the first two shots went in but I wasn’t going to let that deteriorate my play,” Iles said. “The guys did great at responding and luckily the ref reviewed it. I didn’t even realize he was going to
captain Sean Collins. Just 40 seconds into the second period, Collins send a backhanded saucer pass through traffic to freshman defender Joakim Ryan for the Red’s second goal, lifting the team above the Wolverines, 2-1. Michigan had several good chances, as the blue and yellow kept trying to walk it in on the goal line and bank it off Iles, though the Wolverines were unable to “It showed the character of our team to b r e a k through. come back and for Rodger Craig to get Then, with 2:27 left in that big winner.” the second Sean Collins frame, senior forward Locke Jilson drew a penalty shot, but was review it to be honest.” Next, freshman forward John unable convert it to a goal, as he McCarron came up huge with an aimed for senior Shawn equalizer for Cornell at the 10:10 Hunwick’s five hole. Somehow, the Red killed off mark. His rocket of a slapshot from the boards clinked off the six penalties in the second. left side of the far post and sailed Forward Erik Axell, defender Braden Birch and defender Nick in. “Getting that goal called back D’Agostino, all juniors, killed off and getting that nice goal at the 1:30 of a 5-on-3 to win the periend of the first by John od after sophomore Armand De McCarron sent us into the inter- Swardt took a 10-minute misconmission feeling pretty confident,” duct for contact to the head. said senior center and alternate “Our penalty killers were just
unbelievable tonight, especially on that 5-on-3,” Iles said. The Wolverines were not ready to die yet, coming back to tie the contest late in the third period. Lynch, who was denied in the opening period, made up for it with a rebound goal. With 30 seconds left in regulation, a loose puck in the crease almost gave Michigan the game; however, Iles sprawled out to wall off the net with his body. At 3:35 in the overtime period, sophomore forward Roger Craig, who has made a habit of scoring game-winning overtime goals this season, sent the No. 1seeded Wolverine’s packing. Junior center Greg Miller released a hard shot, which Hunwick spectacularly saved, but Craig was there to deposit some rubber in the back of the net. “It showed the character of our team to come back and for Rodger Craig to get that big winner,” Collins said. Cornell’s following game versus the Ferris State Bulldogs was less spectacular, though it really demonstrated the competitiveness of men’s ice hockey on the national scene. Both teams held each other at bay until the third
period, when a flurry of goals decided the outcome. First, Garrett Thomson scored just 11 seconds into the final frame on an FSU power play. Sophomore forward Dustin Mowrey evened the score just over a minute later, but senior forward Jordie Johnston, with a pass from sophomore forwards Andy Huff and Cory Cane, ended the Red’s season. Iles made 19 saves on the night. To score his goal, Mowrey accepted a pass from freshman defender Kirill Gotovets and stepped between two FSU defensemen before stuffing it in senior Taylor Nelson’s five-hole. The Red’s unfortunate end to the season is survived by another bright story in sports. Making headlines in the likes of the New York Times and other national papers is the ECAC’s own Union (26-7-7, 14-4-4 ECAC Hockey), who have qualified for the Frozen Four in its second ever NCAA tournament appearance. Union will play the FSU Bulldogs on April 5 at 4:30 p.m. in a game that will be broadcast by ESPN. Rob Moore can be reached at rmoore@cornellsun.com.
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sive squad, Cornell has just two seniors and four juniors. In the semifinal game, Cornell took several undisciplined penalties — a symptom of having little depth of playoff experience for the least penalized team in the ECAC regular season. Sophomore forward Armand de Swardt accounted for a third of the total penalties awarded to both teams. “It was just embarrassing,” Schafer said. Freshman accounted for 31 of the Red’s 93 goals, as of the the game’s end and have been an integral part of the team’s systems from the start of the season. Freshman defenseman Joakim Ryan and freshman forward Brian Ferlin can even be described as “stand-outs” on the roster. “As a leader, it’s really disappointing not having mentored the younger guys the way we should have as a leadership group,” said senior defenseman and captain Keir Ross. “That’s the worst part of it — not that it’s my senior year or three other guys’ senior year, but that maybe we didn’t take charge the way we should have. It’s a tough pill to swallow.” The Red went on to beat Colgate, 3-0, the following Saturday in the tournament’s consolation game, as Harvard advanced on, but lost to Union in the ECAC Championship game. The Red’s team dynamic was surprisingly positive after its final win on the east coast this season. “We’re asking our guys to have short term memory,” Schafer said. Iles made 25 saves against the
Raiders for a shut-out, his fourth of the season, in front of a sparse crowd in Boardwalk Hall. His best accomplishment of the weekend was shutting down star player senior forward Austin Smith, who left Atlantic City with only one assist and a fourth place finish. After Colgate’s loss to Union in the other semifinal game, Smith was uncharacteristically emotional. “I’ve never given up in a game before, ever. I always compete to the end,” he said. “When it hit 5-1, I was trying to hold tears back. The rest of the game I was just circling and I had a million things going on in my head I wasn’t very effective.” Cornell’s forwards accounted for all three goals in the third game of the tournament. Scoring for the Red were forwards Collins, sophomore Dustin Mowrey and freshman John McCarron, respectively. Collins’ goal came from the low slot with just 25 seconds left in the first frame from senior forward Locke Jilson and freshman forwardCole Bardreau. The Red scored twice more in the second, holding off the Raiders for a scoreless third. While the team was dissatisfied with a third place ECAC finish, players said that they were eager to enter the NCAA regionals ranked No. 13 pairwise out of 16 of the best Division I hockey teams in the nation. The Red’s win against Colgate, an accomplishment considering its two regular season losses to the Raiders, was vital to earning Cornell a spot in the national competition. Rob Moore can be reached at rmoore@cornellsun.com.
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WRESTLING
Dake Bloodies Opponent, Etches Name Into History; Cornell Finishes in Fourth Place at NCAA Tournament Cornell brings home the hardware with three NCAA titles By BRIAN BENCOMO Sun Senior Writer
On St. Patrick’s Day, the Cornell wrestling team made sure the day was celebrated with Red. Three Cornell wrestlers were crowned NCAA champions on Saturday, March 17 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo. on the final day of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. The three champions are the most in a single season in school history and tied with Penn State for the most at this year’s tournament. "Last year we had ninety-something points, we took second, and I was crushed," said head coach Rob Koll. "This year I couldn’t be happier." Three seems to have been a lucky number for the team, as junior Kyle Dake’s national title was the third of his career. The Ithaca native was the first of his teammates to hit the mat for his championship match. With an undefeated season on the line, the No. 1 seed at 157 pounds squared-off against No. 2 Derek St. John of Iowa after having cruised into the finals with a dominant tournament run that included pins of his first three opponents and a shutout decision in the semifinals. The junior only gave up a point (on a stalling warning) en route to a 3-1 victory. The three-time champion earned his win, all while losing a contact lens in the second period as a result of persistent shots to the head from St. John. The match was intense on both sides, as Dake’s own head shots drew blood from St. John in the third. “I didn’t really get to my offense like I wanted to … [St. John] didn’t really do anything anyway, he just punched me in the face a bunch of times,” Dake said immediately after the match, eliciting a chorus boos from the Iowa crowd followed by a crescendo of cheers from Cornell supporters. The three individual titles are the most of any wrestler in school history. Dake is only the twenty-sixth wrestler in NCAA Division I history to accomplish the feat. Next year, Dake will have the opportunity to compete for a fourth title, which would place him in the elite company of only two other wrestlers — one of whom was in the audience on
Saturday, the head coach of Penn State — Cael Sanderson. In a way, winning a fourth would make Dake unique, in that neither Smith nor Sanderson won their titles without a redshirt season. Even if Dake is unable to claim this singular accomplishment next year, the junior has already etched his name into the history books this year by becoming the first wrestler to win three titles at three different weights. Dake won at 141 pounds his freshman year and 149 pounds last year before moving up to 157 this year. “Each year I come in with a new mindset — that I’m not the best in the weight class — so I gotta prove myself each year,” he said. After two more championship matches were put into the books, senior Steve Bosak stepped onto the center mat to face last year’s champion — Quentin Wright of Penn State. With a takedown by Wright in the second period and two escapes by Bosak — one in both the second and third periods — the match went into sudden death overtime where Bosak managed a takedown to earn his first national championship. “I’ve worked on that a long time in practice — it’s one of my go-to finishes,” he said about the move. “I was like, you know what, let’s not take this to double-overtime, let’s finish it now.” The ecstatic Bosak gave a shout out to the Cornell fans in his post-match ESPN interview saying, “You guys are the best fans in the country! I love you!” The win was a vindication of sorts for Bosak who had lost earlier this season to Wright. The two have only faced each other twice in their collegiate careers; however, they are familiar with each other since childhood, as they both hail from State College, Pa., where, incidentally, Koll was also raised, and so he admitted feeling quite pleased that the State College native was able to beat a wrestler from Penn State. Unfortunately for the Red, Bosak’s victory did not make a difference in terms of the team race. The Nittany Lions ran away with the team title this year. Despite scoring the most points in school history at nationals, 102.5, the Red still fell short of Penn State’s commanding 143 points. Second-place Minnesota scored 117.5 points, while Iowa placed third with 107.5. By comparison, the Red finished second last season to a Penn
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17, winning his third national title with the Red in a third weight division — an NCAA first.
State team that won with 107.5 points. Although Bosak’s victory could not stop Penn State from winning the team title, his win did limit the Nittany Lions to three individual champions. Overall, besides the three champions, the Red had two more allAmericans, including senior Frank Perrelli who finished fourth and sophomore Mike Nevinger who finished seventh. Following Bosak’s match, senior Cam Simaz made it three-for-three for Cornell in the finals with a victory over Edinboro’s Chris Honeycutt. Both seniors entered the match as the top seeds at 197 pounds and each carried only a single loss all season. The top-seeded Simaz’s loss was from an injury default, however. After the first period ended with Honeycutt in the lead 2-1, the Edinboro wrestler chose the down position to start the second period managing to not only escape but reverse Simaz — lifting the senior off his feet and into the air before bringing him back down for two points and a 4-1 lead. Simaz quickly escaped and secured his own takedown to tie the score. The No. 1 seed then dominated an exhausted Honeycutt in the third to win 7-5. The win capped an impressive career for the
four-time all-American who accumulated the third-most wins (140), the second-most wins by fall (47) and the most wins by bonus points (98) in school history. The win is also perhaps the cap on the most successful era in Cornell wrestling history. “This was supposed to be a rebuilding year and we had three titles — three champions — that’s pretty impressive,” Simaz said. Despite losing three of five all-Americans after this year though, Koll said he does not believe that this will ultimately be the peak of Cornell wrestling, though a team championship still eludes the school. “It’s a high-water mark for Cornell for now. We’re looking towards the future — I believe having three national champions is going to help me bring in the next group of recruits,” he said “We gotta bring in great recruits to be able to compete with Penn State — they got a juggernaut going there. But we’re going to take them out, if not tomorrow, then the next day.” Brian Bencomo can be reached at bbencomo@cornellsun.com.
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Junior Steve Mock was Cornell’s saving grace in a contest against No. 8 Denver on March 20, delivering a game-tying goal with just 6.2 seconds left in regulation play. The No. 4 Red won all three of its matchups during Spring Break, improving to 6-1 for the season.
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One of a kind | Junior Kyle Dake made a name for himself at the NCAA tournament on March
“I thought we were trying to use too much finesse, trying to get the perfect shot, rather than just getting pucks to the net,” he said. “Then we took two penalties late in the game and that slowed momentum our aswell.” Gophers The scored an empty-net goal to seal the win, leaving the Red with a feeling of disappointment over the loss. However, according to junior defenseman Laura Fortino, this season was still a suc-
cessful one and the team is proud of what it accomplished this year. “After the season you look back at all of the things that got us to the Frozen Four,
senior class with the most wins in team history. According to Derraugh, this was a unique senior class, one that was instrumental in bringing the women’s Cornell
look at the on-ice success of the program over the last three years, but also things you don’t see outwardly, [such as] the renewed commitment, renewed ethic,
“This senior class has completely changed the state of our program.” Doug Derraugh ’91 and as a whole we’re very proud of our team and what we accomplished,” she said. This was also the final game for the senior class — the
hockey program to the elite level of performance where it is today. “This senior class completely has changed the state of our program. If you
renewed new culture that we developed, they were the main reason we were able to do so. They changed Cornell women’s ice hockey from inside out,” he said.
According to Fortino, Cornell has a strong program that will hopefully continue to improve in striving to win a national championship. “We set out goals that we want to accomplish as a team, and it is disappointing when you don’t fulfill them,” she said. “So we just have to reflect on that and keep building, and getting better — and hopefully next year we can achieve those goals.” Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.
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MEN’S HOCKEY
Wild Ride Ends Abruptly as Icers Fall Short Squad stunned by Crimson, places third in ECAC tourney
By ROB MOORE
grams in the league,” he said. Harvard struck first with two goals in the first eight minutes — and never let the foot ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Cornell’s off the gas. Freshman defender Patrick junior defender Braden Birch and senior McNalley made the best of a 1-on-1 situadefender Sean Whitney collided off a third tion by getting a shot off. Iles made an initial period face-off, giving up puck possession chest save, but McNalley was able to knock to Harvard. Birch — who had just been in the rebound at 4:38. burned by senior forward Alex Killorn in a Next, Killorn scored his first of two goals breakaway goal — struggled to catch up to in the game for the Crimson. Killorn leads a Crimson double breakaway that lit the his team with 46 points and 23 goals this seatorch for a sixth time on Cornell sopho- son, at least 10 more than any of his teammore goaltender Andy Iles. mates in both categories. Junior linemate By this point in the March 16 contest, Marshall Evanston matched Killorn’s twin the 6-1 semifinal game had unravelled on the goals and freshman winger Colin Blackwell Red past a point of saving face. After travel- helped the team to victory with three assists. ling down to Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, With about a minute remaining in the the Cornell squad (19-9game, Red freshman forHARVARD 7, 12-4-6 ECAC Hockey) 6 ward Joel Lowry was left dropped its first game in in the slot. He received CORNELL 1 open the ECAC tournament to a pass from senior forward Game: 1ST 2nd 3RD Tot rival Harvard (13-10-11, Harvard 2 and alternate captain Sean 6 2 2 8-5-9). In its biggest loss Cornell 0 Collins for an easy goal, rob1 1 0 of the season, Cornell bing Girard of the playoff gave up six goals for the first time this year, shutout. Freshman John McCarron also subsequently suspending the team’s chance earned an assist on the play. for an NCAA at-large bid to the consolation The Red attempted two times as many game the following afternoon against shots in the first period as its rival; however, Colgate (19-17-3, 11-10-1). the Crimson blocked an astounding 16-of“As a head coach I take full responsibility 26 attempts, leaving just five on target. In for not having my team ready to play total, Harvard protected sophomore goaltonight. I didn’t push the right buttons in tender Raphael Girard by blocking nearly order to have them compete harder and half of all Cornell shot attempts. overcome that kind of adversity,” said head Looking at team leadership, Cornell is coach Mike Schafer ’86. graduating just four seniors of its 27 man Harvard’s head coach Ted Donato roster, after beginning the season with nine defended Schafer, while carefully stepping fresh faces. Compared to Harvard, which around a question of whether Cornell was has five seniors and five juniors on its offenplaying at its peak level of performance. “They are one of the best coached proSee ECAC page 14
Sun Senior Writer
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Last call | Sophomore forward Dustin Mowrey scored Cornell’s lone goal in the 2-1 loss to Ferris State in the NCAA regional finals on Saturday night.
C.U.tops Michigan in overtime, but Ferris State ends NCAA run By ROB MOORE Sun Senior Writer
While most college sports fanatics had their televisions tuned to the NCAA men’s or women’s basketball tournament this past weekend, another brand of madness was sweeping the nation. The Division I men’s ice hockey tournament had begun with regional semifinal and final games that narrow down 16 teams to the final four, which will head to Tampa Bay, Fla., to compete in the Frozen Four. No. 4 Cornell (19-9-7, 12-4-6 ECAC Hockey) downed No. 1-ranked Michigan (24-13-4, 15-9-4 CCHA Hockey) in the
Midwest regional, 3-2, with an overtime winner by sophomore forward Roger Craig; however, the Red’s trip to Tampa Bay was stolen by Ferris State (18-16-5, 12-12-4 CCHA) on Saturday night in a 2-1 loss. In the program’s 19th trip to the NCAA tournament, the Red progressed just as far as its last appearance in 2009, when the squad fell to Bemidji State, 4-1, in the regional final. Few students remain on campus that were here for the Red’s 2006 heartbreaking 1-0 overtime loss in the NCAA regional final game to Wisconsin, in what the press conference mediator described as, “one of the most See NCAA page 14
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Loss to Minnesota Sours Frozen Four Appearance By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer
Coming off a thrilling quarterfinal victory over Boston University, the Red hoped to produce another clutch victory in its Frozen Four semifinal matchup. However, the No. 2ranked Minnesota Gophers, who later won the national championship, were too much for the Red to overcome. Cornell (30-5-0, 20-2-0 ECAC) lost 3-1, falling short of the championship game and thus ending its impressive 2011-2012 season. The game did not start well for the Red, who was outshot by the Gophers, 21-5, in the first period. By the end of the frame, Cornell had fallen to a 20 deficit — with each goal coming on a Minnesota power play. According to head coach Doug Derraugh ’91, Minnesota’s strong attack to start the game led to the Red committing penalties and giving up goals.
“We started a bit on our heels, and give Minnesota credit — they came out and put us on our heals,” he said. “We had to move around in our own end, and that leads to penalties.” The two goals were different. The first was off an impressive individual effort from a Minnesota forward around the net, while the second came off a shot from the blue line. According to Derraugh, each
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goal could have been defended better, possibly preventing those points. “On the first one, it was a great individual play, but we had two players that left their feet,” he said. “One went down to block a shot and the other
went down to block a shot. Once you leave your feet like that it’s hard to get back to make a play. On the second one, we were late getting in the shot lane up top, we didn’t get there in time, and it ended up as a shot through a screen which is difficult for goaltenders.” According to Derraugh, the main problem with the team’s defense was a lack of aggression. “I think we were too passive early on in the game,” he said. “We were positionally okay, but we just weren’t aggressive enough. We needed to be much more aggressive on loose pucks, much more aggressive on the body. We were just retreating rather than being the aggressor.” Playing more aggressively led the Red to a more successful second period, in which it outshot the Gophers and cut the lead to 2-1. That goal was scored on the power play slapshot by sophomore defenseman Alyssa Gagliardi.
“We created a lot more turnovers,” Derraugh said. “We were much more aggressive — on the defensive zone and on the forecheck — and we created more turnovers. By doing so, we created a lot more scoring opportunities.” However, Cornell was unable to keep up its strong
play in the third period. The Red was only able to muster three shots, and two late penalties made the Red’s comeback mission all the more difficult. According to Derraugh, trying to be too perfect contributed to the third-period troubles. See W. HOCKEY page 15
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Closing time | Sophomore defenseman Alyssa Gagliardi scored the Red’s final goal of the season on a power play slap shot against Minnesota.