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Protesters Demand Entrance toTrustee Meeting

Students chant,bang on walls of conference room

By SOFIA HU Sun News Editor

Student activists protesting the $350 annual student health fee, tuition increases and University finances writ large chanted outside a Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, demanding to be let in as administrators and personnel stood in front of the meeting room’s closed doors.

Kicking off an almost two-hour-long protest, Zakiya William Wells ’17 addressed students in the lobby of Willard Straight Hall, “I just want to say that if speaking about their grievances with the it’s already unclear, trustees and shared governance is a University administration. farce.”

“I’ve got some Zakiya William Wells ’17 things to say to our ‘illustrious’ trustees. I just want to say that for some of us, this [$350 student health] fee is more than what we make in a month. This fee is rent. This fee is more than we have to our name,” Zakiya said. “This place — despite all of its rhetoric on diversity and inclusion — is still incredibly unsafe for people of color, for women, for people who identify as LGBT, for people who are low income. I just want to say that if it’s already unclear, shared governance is a farce.”

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Death to the fee | Student activists march on Ho Plaza, protesting the health fee, tuition hikes and University finances.

From Willard Straight Hall, over 50 protesters marched onto Ho Plaza and up Campus Road, eventually making their way into Statler Hotel. Shouting chants like “Who are the trustees? They don’t represent me,” “Costs rise, so do we” and “Raise hell, not tuition,” the students moved through the front lobby and hallways of Statler without

opposition from staffers or administrators.

As the protesters filled the waiting area outside the Statler Amphitheater where the Board of Trustees was convened in a closed meeting, the students stood in a circle, See PROTEST page 5

Skorton, S.A., GPSA Report S.A.Opposes Hiring of Inclusion Dean At Board of Trustees Meeting

By DANIEL ZIMMERMAN

Sun Staff Writer

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

The Cornell Board of Trustees heard reports on issues ranging from the affordability of a Cornell education to University transparency during the open session of their full board meeting in Statler Hall Thursday.

Reports were delivered by

President David Skorton, Student Assembly President Sarah Balik ’15 and Richard Walroth grad, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly.

The open session, which lasted for approximately half an hour, began with trustee Paul Salvatore’s ’81 announcement that the University See TRUSTEES page 5

for the new dean could be used more effectively in programs that are “funded by Cornell undergraduates” through “prioritiz[ing] funding to increasing service capacities of advocacy

The Student Assembly passed Resolution 53 at their meeting Thursday, expressing disapproval of the University’s creation of “We need to step back and the Senior Associate Dean for Inclusion, understand that we’re asking one Engagement and Community Support position and saying that the money person to run an entire department.” would be better spent allocated to proAntoine Saint-Victor ’16 grams which advocate for students.

In addition to the representatives of the S.A., the event was attended by centers, not expanding bureaucracy.”

Ten S.A. members voted for the resolution, around 30 community members.

The resolution text said “the University while two opposed it and two abstained. should suspend the hiring process for the new See S.A. page 4 dean”, and that the “tentative $116,000 salary”

Phlegar:C.U.Giving Day Exceeded Expectations

By DAVE JANECZEK Sun Staff Writer

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Gather round | The Board of Trustees hears reports from President David Skorton, S.A. President Sarah Balik ’15 and GPSA President Richard Walroth grad on Thursday.

In the first ever Cornell Giving Day Wednesday, the University raised just under $7 million dollars, in what the alumni affairs department say they hope will become an annual event.

Charles Phlegar, vice president of alumni affairs and

development, said he hoped to see something resembling the event every year, but that it was too early to say if Giving Day would become an annual event.

“We’ve got to evaluate [this year’s results]. How much time

did we put in? How much did it really cost? We’ve got to evaluate what alumni liked about it or didn’t like about it,” Phlegar said.

Phleger explained that the See GIVING DAY page 4

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Quotes of the Week Opinion, “The Language of Culture,” Monday Speaking about the rich linguistic tradition in the United States “With no official language, our country maintains its cultural mosaic identity. The history of the United States is found among the speakers of myriad Native American languages, Finnish, Tagalog, Swahili, Arabic, various Creole languages and hundreds more.”

Conna Walsh ’15 News, “Provost Search Committee Holds Public Forum,” Tuesday Speaking about challenges the next provost will face “It’s an incredibly challenging job. It’s not only the chief academic officer — which means all of the deans and all of the departments all ultimately report up to you, but [it’s] also the chief operating office — the person who manages the budget.”

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News, “University Decries Undercover Video Featuring Assistant Dean,” Thursday Speaking about a video which claims that an assistant dean gave advice on how to help terrorist groups “It is shameful that any individual would pose as a student facing racial discrimination at another university, ask leading questions on hidden camera about Cornell’s tolerance for differing viewpoints and backgrounds, and then conveniently splice together the resulting footage to smear our assistant dean and our University.”

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C.U.Supports Housing Fund

University pledges $1.2m for low income housing in Tompkins County County Legislature.

“The county is truly appreciative of the support and financial contributions Cornell and the City [of Ithaca] The University pledged support for a six-year extension have provided to establish, and now to continue, the proof the Tompkins County Housing Fund on Thursday, cit- gram,” Lane said in the press release. “Nearly 40 percent of ing the continued challenge of housing affordability in the all households in Tompkins County currently pay unaffordable portions of their incomes for housing ... The Housing Ithaca community as housing prices continue to rise.

The Housing Fund was founded in 2009 as a joint ini- Fund's success in helping to increase the number of affordtiative between the University, Tompkins County and the able housing units available makes it critically important for City of Ithaca to help develop local housing units for low- efforts to ensure that individuals and families of all income levels can live, work, and particto-medium income earners in ipate in community life within the Ithaca area, according to a “Ithacans pay a larger percentage of Tompkins County.”

Tompkins County press release.

The Housing Fund has In the press release, Mayor their income [for housing] than helped to spur the construction Svante Myrick ’09 explained anywhere in the region.” of 124 affordable housing units that the continuation of the in Ithaca and Tompkins Housing Fund is a necessity due Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 County since its inception in to the current housing “crisis.”

2009 through providing inter“Housing in the City of Ithaca is extraordinarily expensive. Ithacans pay a larger est-free loans and grants to local real estate development.

President David Skorton said in a statement that suppercentage of their income than anywhere in the region, Myrick said. “This growing crisis requires a proportionate porting affordable housing programs in Ithaca and response. That's why the City of Ithaca has invested hun- Tompkins County has been a key priority for the University dreds of thousands of dollars in this program and is com- for many years.

“We have been long-time supporters of Ithaca mitted to continuing our support.”

The University has agreed to provide a total of $1.2 mil- Neighborhood Housing Services and Better Housing for lion over the next six years to help the Housing Fund con- Tompkins County, two agencies that help our friends and tinue. This is supplemented by an additional $600,000, in neighbors find safe and affordable housing,” Skorton said. addition to staff support, pledged by Tompkins County. “We continue to support the Housing Fund because buildThe City of Ithaca has provided a further $100,000 to help ing affordable housing has a meaningful economic impact on the community we all share.” cover the costs of the first year of the extension.

The Housing Fund has been one of the most successful examples of campus-community collaboration in recent Melvin Li can be reached years, according to Michael Lane, chair of the Tompkins at mli@cornellsun.com.

By MELVIN LI

Sun Staff Writer

Website to Connect Cornell Students Abroad

By RUBIN DANBERG-BIGGS

tional,” she said. “Approximately 30 said. “This year, we’ve spent a lot of percent of the undergraduate popula- time developing the site and user tion studies abroad for a semester at interface and building a comprehenCornell students traveling abroad one point in time during their sive Ivy League team that we’re betwill have less trouble finding each Cornell. Further, Cornell is unique ting a lot on to get the word out.” other this summer, thanks to the in its size.”

Though the project began at expansion of the Summer Playbook Batista said she envisions that Harvard, Heine said the goal is to Project to Cornell.

Cornellians will share the benefits expand to the entire Ivy League in Luke Heine, a student at Harvard that previous Playbook participants time for this summer. However, he University who created the project have gained. said this is where the expansion will last summer, said the playbook is a “People used the program club- stop. website which connects students of bing in Shanghai, backpacking across “We’re keeping this in the Ivy the same university who are in simi- Europe [and] forming Istanbul-trav- League because they employ one of lar areas while away from campus. eling friendships,” she said. the strictest screenings of character in “Whether you are the world,” Heine said. added that he was inspired interning in New York “The Summer Playbook is basically a City or Buenos Aires or to Heine create the Summer Playbook way for people to know who’s around Beijing, you can find thinking about his own summer other Ivy League stu- plans. them over the summer.”

“When I was running along the dents around you.”

Luke Heine According to Heine, Charles River and wanted to know Ivy League students who where my friends would be over the were a part of the summer, and so I went ahead and Students sign up online during the Summer Playbook Project were able developed a system ... that was last spring. Then, over the summer, the to connect around the world and year’s Summer Playbook,” he said. website connects them with class- improve their summer experiences. mates in the same city as them.

“The project was an instant suc“The Summer Playbook is basical- cess last year at Harvard with 800 Rubin Danberg-Biggs can be reached at ly a way for people to know who's people signing up in 10 days,” Heine rdanbergbiggs@cornellsun.com. around them over the summer and then facilitates connecting with other Book talk people,” Heine said.

The Cornell expansion of the playbook has been spearheaded by Student Assembly President-Elect Juliana Batista ’16 and Shivang Tayal ’16, international representative for the S.A. The playbook intends to prevent students who are studying abroad on internships and school breaks from feeling isolated, according to Batista.

“A lot of times we stay with families abroad or meet other Ivy students by chance,” Batista said. “The Summer Playbook takes out that chance and allows us to form our own intentional international experiences.”

Batista said that Cornell, a particularly large and diverse Ivy League KELLY YANG / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER university, has a unique need for this Steve Gabriel speaks about his book, “Farming the Woods,” in Anabel Taylor Hall service.

Thursday.

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Giving back | Khanh Phuong Tong ’15 takes part in the Cornell Effective Altruism Giving Game Thursday in Willard Straight Hall.

Student Group Educates About, Gives to Charities

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Contributor

Cornell Effective Altruism — a student-run group that launched at the beginning of the semester — hosted its first event, “Giving Game” in Willard Straight Hall Thursday to teach Cornellians how to donate money more effectively.

The event gave passersby the opportunity to use funding from The Life You Can Save, a philanthropic organization, to donate to the charity of their choice, according to Molly Atkinson ’17, president of Cornell Effective Altruism.

Students were allowed to donate tokens, representing real money, to three charities — Oxfam, Give Directly and Population Services International. At the end of the game, Cornell Effective Altruism donated the money funded by The Life You Can Save to the charities proportionally based on the number of tokens each charity earned.

Participants were given information about the different charity options so they could make wellinformed decisions and know how the money would be used.

“I thought the Giving Game was both interesting and insightful,” Nathan Ihemeremadu ’18 said. “I donated to Give Directly, because it seemed like the money was going straight to the poor in Kenya and Uganda.”

Ellie Reppy ’17, secretary of Cornell Effective Altruism, explained how this event related to the organization’s larger goal to raise Cornellians’ awareness about the importance of being well-informed donors.

“We want to start conversations and call attention to some of the issues surrounding the way people donate money,” Reppy said. “Our adopted slogan is ‘do good better.’”

The objective of the game, which reflected the goals of Cornell Effective Altruism, was to present research from outside organizations in order to help people make informed decisions about where and how they donate, according to Atkins.

“There are so many people at Cornell who care about the world and are doing really spectacular, influential things with their lives,” Atkinson said. “I want to bring this idea to them, so they can have it in their heads as they move forward.”

Atkinson added that the club hopes to collaborate with Cornell’s many philanthropic organizations in the future.

Discussions for the creation of the club began last fall, according to Crystal Lee ’17, treasurer of Cornell Effective Altruism.

Josephine Chu can be reached at jfc239@cornell.edu.

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S.A.Opposes Hiring of Inclusion Dean University Raises Nearly S.A.

Hubbell said.

Hubbell also said that the new dean will do meaningful work.

During the discussion period prior to the vote, a “[The new associate dean is] not going to be in group of six students, including several S.A. repre- a room somewhere pushing paper. He [or] she will sentatives and members of different campus diver- be out in the trenches like the rest of us,” Hubbell sity organizations, shared their perspectives as to said. “This person is going to work with us … [to why the resolution is necessary. relieve] the workload of these several associate deans Antoine Saint-Victor ’16, co-president of Black by assuming some of the responsibilities that are Students United and a member of the panel, adding to their workload.” expressed his concern that the role of the dean the The S.A. also invited student speakers to voice University is proposing would require more than their opinion on the resolution. Valerie Mack ’16 one person for success. said she sees a contradiction in the University’s pro“We need to step back and understand that posals and students’ wishes. we’re asking one person to run an “[There is a] fundamental entire department,” Saint-Victor problem on both sides [of the “We feel as if it's our said. “That’s why we’re here asking discussion] where the duty to bridge these for help on their behalf, because University seems to be calling we need more people to do more for more inclusion among stucommunities.” work, because it’s hard for one dents, and students are calling Antoine Saint-Victor ’16 person to do the budgets of an for more support,” Mack said. entire department, cater to entire Mack said she does not communities and be on multiple believe that additional funding committees at the same time.” for advocacy groups for minority students would Dean of Students Kent Hubbell ’67, who spoke solve problems of segregation she believes exists in in front of the S.A., answered questions from some the Cornell community. of the representatives and suggested a compromise “I feel that the segregation at Cornell is very in which both a new dean and increased funding to strong and very apparent, and segregation adds to support centers could help to foster a more nurtur- the pressure that students feel,” Mack said. “Giving ing environment. more money and support to these advocacy centers, “I would propose that we do both: complete our it's not going to solve the ultimate issue which is search for a talented new associate dean and that there is none of inclusiveness on this campus. endeavor to provide needed support to the directors ” of our advocacy centers,” he said. “If we simply stop Saint-Victor said he believes that advocating for this search right now, we will likely be obliged to resources for support programs is pivotal to help begin again next year, because we will have to initi- improve the Cornell community. ate a new search.”

“We’re student leaders, and we feel as if it’s our Hubbell said that while budgets cuts have been duty to bridge these communities,” Saint-Victor made across the University and specifically in the said. “When we feel like we’re going to burn out, office of the Dean of Students, the current budget we reach out to these resources, ... but it’s hard to will be have to be changed slightly to adapt because reach out to them when they’re burning out themof the new position. selves because they’re by themselves.” “[We] will be obliged to re-allocate resources within the Office of the Dean of Students [and] we Daniel Zimmerman can be reached at have already begun to explore possibilities,” dzimmerman@cornellsun.com.

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$7M on First Giving Day GIVING DAY

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the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development decided to host the first Cornell Giving Day this year due to both the University’s technological capacity and the sesquicentennial anniversary, according to Phlegar.

“During our sesquicentennial year we thought that it would be an appropriate time for an event like this,” Phlegar said, “There’s maybe fewer than five universities that can pull off an event like this because of the technology that goes into it.”

According to Phlegar, both the amount of money raised and the level of community excitement the drive created exceeded organizers’ expectations for the event.

The fundraising effort generated social media and email activity related to Cornell “like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” he said.

“Hundreds of thousands of Cornellians were communicating with each other on social media and through emails,” he said. “It brought a lot of attention to Cornell during this 24 hour period.”

The 24 hour fundraising event was described by organizers as “a festive and inspiring virtual coming-together.” Activities included an all-day live webcast featuring alumni, professors and student group members; outreach events in New York City and trivia sessions.

In addition to the option to donate directly to the University, contributors could choose to designate their gifts to specific Cornell colleges or student groups in order to help those entities “unlock” special challenge grants — worth a combined total of $300,000.

Raising over $1.8 million, the

Department of Athletics and Physical Education took first place, the College of Arts and Sciences came in second with a total of $1.17 million and the School of Hotel Administration received the third highest total with $1.13 million raised, according to results published on the Cornell Giving Day website.

Cornell Tech received the least support of all designated fundraising units, gaining $7,145 from 37 donations.

“We would’ve expected Cornell Tech to be on the bottom for this one because they don’t have an alumni base,” Phlegar said. “Its not a reflection of the support for Cornell Tech, which has been unbelievably successful.”

The event was inspired by

“There’s maybe fewer than five universities that can pull off an event like this.”

Charles Phlegar Columbia University’s Giving Day event, now in its third year, according to Phlegar.

President David Skorton said in a University press release Thursday that he saw the “power of the Cornell community in action” on Giving Day. “Together, our alumni, parents and friends have shown how much they care about the University, and how much of an impact they can make together to further our mission on so many fronts,” Skorton said. “I’m truly impressed and grateful for this historic day of giving to Cornell.”

Dave Janeczek can be reached at djaneczek@cornellsun.com.

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Skorton, Shared Governance Leaders Present to Trustees TRUSTEES

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raised nearly $7 million in its first annual Giving Day Wednesday. Salvatore’s report, which was met with applause, also thanked the Board for their leadership in fundraising efforts.

“I know that Columbia [University] has done [a giving day for] three years and in their third year they raised $10 million,” Salvatore said. “In our first year, we’ve raised $7 million, so we’re off to a fantastic start.”

After Salvatore’s statement, Skorton began his report to the Trustees by presenting a memorial resolution for Henry “Hank” Bartels ’48, who passed away in January.

Bartels, a presidential councillor and Foremost Benefactor of the University, “helped the University thrive and set a lasting example for other Cornellians to give back as alumni,” Skorton said. The motion carried without opposition.

Skorton then recognized the successes of members of the Cornell community, including Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources and safety services, who was recently named one of the 15 most influential women in human resources; James Eaglesham ’15, who is one of 14 students nationwide to be named a Churchill Scholar; Victoria Wines ’17, who recently placed third in the NCAA Fencing Championship and wrestlers Gabe Dean ’17 and Brian Realbuto ’17, who came first and second in the NCAA Wrestling Championship respectively.

In conjunction with the University’s announcement Thursday that it will be renewing its pledge to the Tompkins County Housing Fund by committing $1.6 million over the next six years, Skorton expanded on Cornell’s resolution to maintaining affordable housing for “low-to-moderate income households” in the community.

“One of the concerns that we have … is that of a shortage of affordable housing in our county,” Skorton said. “Despite the successes ... of Cornell University, our community around us includes a lot of people who are struggling.”

Skorton ended his report by speaking about the University’s $400,000 pledge to partially finance a pedes-

trian and bicycle corridor along Pine Tree Road to ensure believe that tuition was too high.

Walroth said he hoped that the University would safer travels for community members using the route.

Following Skorton’s presentation, Balik addressed the reevaluate its funding packages to reflect the median Board about the recent initiatives of the S.A., focusing seven or eight years graduate students took to receive on issues of affordability and community rights and degrees rather than the current five years currently responsibilities that she believed would still impact stu- accounted for in funding packages.

Walroth also spoke about dent life “10, 20 [or] 50 years a resolution the GPSA from now.”

“I would say that faith in shared passed last year, which creatShe began by explaining the ed a new policy for graduate “infrastructure fund commisgovernance is waning here. This students who become sion” that the S.A. created last might be largely due to perception.” injured while performing year by using money from its research duties. endowment to fund infrastrucRichard Walroth grad “While we feel that this ture initiatives that students new policy does go a long prioritized, including the successful installments of “nap pods, outlets in different way to address many of the issues that were raised, many students remain deeply concerned that the new policy libraries and more water fountains” this year.

Moving to issues of affordability on campus, Balik doesn’t do enough to guarantee coverage to students,” he spoke of the S.A.’s goals to try to create an unpaid intern- said.

He added that other students also felt “Cornell ship stipend program through money from its “students helping students grant” and to create a student-run gro- [would] contest any claims that c[a]me to court.”

In addition to graduate student grievances about cery store that would aid students facing “food insecurituition and injury policies, Walroth also said that trust in ty.”

“These issues are sometimes unspoken about on our University transparency is declining as well.

“I would say that faith in shared governance is waning campus and its really unfortunate,” Balik said.

Balik concluded by presenting S.A. initiatives that here,” he said. “This might be largely an issue of perceprelated to “rights and responsibility” on campus, which tion.”

Although Walroth said he believed the University is included the goal of making legal advising available to students and the creation of a community bill of rights. transparent, he added that information is often only “What we’re trying to do is extrapolate positive lan- extended to a small group of student leaders. When these guage from currently existing policies on campus and for students eventually graduate, it creates a lack of continuonce tell people what they can do rather than what they ity in transparency of processes.

“To fix this, the GPSA proposed a new system where can’t do,” Balik said. “Ideally, this is something that will bring together all constituent assemblies, all the mem- student leaders be allowed to consult a larger subset of bers of the community and really make Cornell a place the GPSA to get opinion from across the campus instead of just a few select leaders,” he said. that’s easier to navigate for all.”

Walroth also said the GPSA began preparing memoWalroth, who presented last during the open session, also spoke about issues of affordability at Cornell in randa whenever consultation on major policy changes addition to a discussion on transparency in the took place as a way to preserve continuity, maintain records and highlight the key graduate students who University’s shared governance system.

Addressing high tuition fees for graduate students, were involved in the decision making process.

Walroth thanked the administration for lowering tuition for self-paid graduate students in their sixth years and Gabriella Lee can be reached beyond, but added that many graduate students still at glee@cornellsun.com.

Students Protest Outside Trustee Meeting PROTEST

As the standoff between the protesters and administrators began its second hour, the protesters began banging on the walls of clapping and chanting. A the conference room, intending to makeshift coffin, which prodisrupt the ongoing meeting claimed “Death 2 the fee,” was inside. propped on top of a table. At least Cornell Police arrived at the four University personnel stood in scene soon after, asking students to front of the closed amphitheatre stop the banging. After the prodoors. testers ceased, the officers Robert Harrison ’76, chair of remained, interspersed throughout the Board of Trustees, came out of the crowd. those doors and stood silently, The students ended the protest hands clasped, for several minutes with a pledge near the midto continue dle of the circle their actions of chanting beyond this students. year and a “solConspicuously idarity clap.” out of place in “Unless his suit and red they change the tie amid a sea way they run of winter jackthings and ets and protestactually give us ers’ signs, the voice we Harrison deserve at this motioned sevU n i v e r s i t y, eral times for we’re not going silence and for JENNIE LI / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER to let them an opportunity come here and to speak, but Decrying costs | Students march on Ho Plaza to protest the health fee and the protesters tuition hikes, eventually arriving at the Board of Trustees Meeting in Statler Hall. meet in peace,” D a n i e l ignored him and continued chanting. Harrison pus? And if they do, there’s a seri- Marshall ’15 said. “This is only eventually returned to the meeting ous problem with what’s going on going to get bigger every single year.” inside that room.” room.

Malina called the protest a However, according to Joel The protesters remained, switching from one chant to Malina, vice president of universi- “missed opportunity for the stuanother, as administrators and ty relations, the closed session dents.”

“Curiously, when the Statler employees stood to the side meeting was “in compliance” with Chairman of the Board of Trustees and along the walls. the state’s open meeting laws.

“The determination of which went out to talk to them, the proApproximately thirty minutes into the chanting, the activists surged portions of the Board of Trustees testers declined to have a discustowards the conference room meeting were open to the public sion and ignored him,” he said. was made in full compliance with doors, demanding entrance.

Wyatt Nelson ’16 said the New New York’s open meetings law,” Sofia Hu can be reached at York State Supreme Court Malina said. shu@cornellsun.com.

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Appellate Division’s ruling in Holden v. Cornell University (1981) requires the Board of Trustees to open its meetings to the public when deliberating actions that concern the statutory colleges.

“All Board of Trustee actions concern the statutory colleges because Cornell is composed of those colleges,” Nelson said. “How can you tell me that the actions of those trustees don’t have to deal with half of the colleges on cam-

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Student Fashion Spotlight Speaking with Senior Designer Paige Kozak ’15

BY JAEL GOLDFINE Arts and Entertainment Editor

“Finding beauty in the banal” describes the design doctrine of Fiber Science and Apparel Design student, Paige Kozak ’15, who has been drawing since she was young, and found a gratifying medium of expression in fashion and design. A native of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she originally wished to pursue her passion for art and design at a traditional art school, but has since found Cornell’s program’s approach and her access to a wider education of disciplines to be a positive and fulfilling experience. Most recently, for her senior thesis, Kozak conceived, designed and created a character and a space for her, as an interactive gallery exhibition, which she also advertised and developed through an accompanying Instagram account (@_a_muse). Attendees to the showcase were permitted to peer into the delicately but subtly curated bedroom of said muse, known as Quincy and observe her. Kozak displayed unique and and characteristically peculiar objects — a fishbowl, a copy of The Fountainhead, gold slippers, an alligator skin-covered discman, acorn caps and more — around the room, creating a concept aesthetic, centered around whims and tastes of her character. Louisianna Tekosky ’18, played Quincy, performing the character as if she was alone in her room.

This muse, Quincy, has inspired Kozak’s looks for her collection in the 31st Annual Cornell Fashion Collective Runway Show, which she will design for as a fourth-level designer. The Sun sat down with Kozak to discuss her time at Cornell, her senior thesis, design philosophy and evolving career ambitions.

THE SUN: When did you start designing? How did you end up at Cornell for Fiber Science and Apparel Design?

PAIGE KOZAK: I’ve been drawing since I was really young, my dad always had a sketchbook and I wanted one too. Once I got more into middle school, [I started reading] Teen Vogue, and I got really into fashion then. My suburb was very typical preppy, old school, and I felt like an anomaly to that, and I liked to be different. I’m from a suburb right outside of Detroit, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. It’s just very basic there, so I liked doing my own thing and I guess fashion was the way that I expressed myself so that’s why I went into apparel design. Initially I thought I wanted to go to Pratt … but once I visited, I was not into it. ... I applied to Cornell even though I didn’t think I wanted to go there because they’re very sterile online, and they emphasize the fiber science rather than apparel design but once I visited, I don’t know why I liked it… but I just had that gut feeling. And I wanted a wider education and I wasn’t so set on being apparel design, it was just the major

that seemed fitting at the time.

SUN: So a big part of your work this year was your senior project “A muse: quincy.” Can you talk a little bit about that?

Where did you first get your inspiration for that project?

P.K.: When I started drawing … I would draw these elaborate set ups for stories. I would make a girl and her backstory and all her favorite objects and her best friend and draw her room, and then get bored of it and move on to the next storyline. So this is pretty much going back to when I first started drawing, like this is just a grown up real-life version of that. I still feel like I don’t fit into something specific, like a specific job title; like I love movies, set design would be amazing, and all the little details that go into it like Wes Anderson. His films are so based on aesthetic… and I just think his characters are so great and they’re so defined by the aesthetic of the film and their dress and their items. So, it kind of started off like that.

Just like bringing a person to life through her objects. ... It sort of turned into a weird social experiment too, because it is kind of voyeuristic. … I’m offering you the chance to go into this girls private life and watch her, and it’s kind of creepy. It’s just interesting how it developed.

SUN: Is that what drew you to the performance art aspect of the project? Would you characterize it as performance art?

P.K.: I’m not sure, I mean it definitely was a performance … but it’s not like typical art I guess. I guess I’m still not sure how to define it really. Yeah, it’s just been a really interesting exploration and how people react to it. Like the fashion show is such a quick showing of your work, and I just feel like this is just a different way to interact with objects and … so if this was a business plan, like this would be the store, and instead of having a typical store setup, you would just go into someone’s room and be like, “Oh, I like this lamp! I’ll take one.” There’s more to it than that but I don’t want to give away my ingenious business concept! So “a muse” is just trying to approach things in a different way, and inspire a different way of thinking about things.

SUN: As far as the accompanying instagram account which documented Quincy, did you have a specific intention for using social media as a component of the project?

P.K.: Yeah, mostly advertisement. Because what I want to do is creative direction, special project type things. This project and then another project I’m working on are mini models of that, so I wanted to have the instagram build hype and create interest, and I just wanted to do something very visually appealing, like teasers. And then I also [put] posters up everywhere. So … I just think it’s interesting to advertise like that.

SUN: How would you describe your design philosophy or your mindset about design?

P.K.: Ok, [I would say] my catchphrase is “beauty from the banal.” And just trying to think about things in different ways, like something that you kind of take for granted every day and just turning it on its head. And I like that design and art allow me to create my own little worlds. I just want to think about things in different ways and have other people interact with that. [I think] a lot about interaction and collaboration.

SUN: Could you talk a little bit about your experience in the Fashion Collective?

P.K.: The fashion show is the main purpose of the club, we have speakers come occasionally, but the point is to put all the student’s work on show, which is nice, at other schools it’s a lot more selective, but here everyone is invited to show. This is only my second time showing my own work, freshman year I had one piece and then there was this collabroative team with

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Pendelton, a wool company based in Portland. One of the sons went here and he started it a few years ago. Pendleton gave Cornell students a set amount of money which is used towards Pendleton wools to create a menswear line. It was a really good experience. Yeah, for each year, you get to show more looks and then senior year you can show up to 11. I’ll have seven.

SUN: What type of collection will you showing? What are the inspirations guiding it?

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P.K.: There’s still one more look that I need to do but, it’s basically a romanticized version of Quincy’s wardrobe … I mean everything in Quincy’s world is romanticized. It’s kind of like going through her day. So I’m going to have a robe pajama look, and then she has her track outfit, and she’s really into gnomes, and this cape that’s totally out of place in her small town. It’s very ’70s influenced, like her smoking jacket, I always sort of picture Oscar Wilde in a smoking jacket, so that’s kind of reminiscent of him because he’s one of Quincy’s favorite authors. But all the looks will revolve around this Quincy character. … I tried to figure out how to explain this character on the runway, without her room and all of her items behind her. So I’m going to have [the models] come out, not in a traditional runway format, they’ll probably all be on the stage at once, but yeah Louisiana will close it. I tried to brief the other models on what Quincy is all about so they can all embody her character.

SUN: What are your ultimate goals as a designer? What do you see yourself doing after graduation?

P.K.: After gradua“I’m just trying to look at tion, I don’t know yet, things in different ways, but I’m thinking of starting off in advertissomething you take for ing, branding, marketgranted every day and ing, that sort of thing, in fashion. And then turning it on its head” from there, I want to execute my own conPaige Kozak ’15 cepts. I want to do special projects, like this sort of thing. Definitely selling items, but in a new way, and just making things less boring. I just feel like everybody does the same thing, and I want to do something different! I don’t think that what I want to do is a definable job right now, I want to create my own niche role.

SUN: If you could design for one person, a celebrity, politician, artist, writer or historical figure, living or dead, who would it be?

P.K.: I’m going to say Oscar Wilde again. I took a class last semester, Decadence with Ellis Hanson (which I totally recommend), that was about the aesthetic movement and decadent writers, and that was really influential to me as a person and I identify with them a lot. I’ve always just thought Oscar Wilde was so entertaining, and I think he would be really fun to design for. [He] is influential in [my line] with all the velvet and velour. What would I design? I see a lot of velvet and brocade and carnations.

Tickets for the Cornell Fashion Collective’s Annual Runway Show are still available online or from Collective members. The show will be held this Saturday, April 11, at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall.

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

She can be reached at arts-and-entertainmenteditor@cornellsun.com.

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Student Fashion Spotlight Speaking With Senior Designer Tiffany Dang ’15

BY DANNI SHEN Sun Staff Writer

Before the 31st Annual Cornell Fashion Collective Runway Show which takes place April 11 in Barton Hall, The Sun sat down to talk to Tiffany Dang ’15, one of six senior apparel designers, about her final collection, fashion influences and career aspirations.

THE SUN: How would you describe your work?

Fisher — the really simple garment, which is also very functional. When you put it on you feel very pretty. Claire McCardell and Alexander McQueen are also designers whose works I like.

SUN: Has there ever been a collection or show that has left a particularly deep impression on you?

T.D.: There was the Christian Dior in 2007, where they did a collection inspired by origami. That really left a big

TIFFANY DANG: I’m drawn to clean lines and structure; minimal, feminine, all at the same time. It’s all about the fit.

SUN: And how do you define “feminine?”

ture. I tell people [that] I really like to create things, and I use whatever medium I have to create. Fashion just happened to be one of them.

SUN: What seems to make apparel design so particular in relation to other art practices is its specific relationship to the human body. Is there anything about that relationship which interests you?

T.D.: When I’m creating art objects, I feel like it’s about me as an individual, but in fashion, even though an inspiration might start from within me, the end product is always for someone else. Everything is specifically tailored to someone else’s body. When I finish making a garment, my aesthetics are ultimately for whoever will wear it.

SUN: Are your designs informed by your own cultural identity?

T.D.: It’s a way in which you present yourself. For me, I associate “feminine” with sophisticated; not something too extravagant.

It’s all these little details, and therefore not in your face. I like to think that it’s a subtle notion.

T.D.: They’re definitely a mixture of me and my life growing up in a very conservative culture in Asia. When I’m designing, I don’t gravitate towards anything extreme. There’s Western aesthetics in my work, in which the pieces are tailored very close to the body, as well as the Eastern sensibility, which is classically more loose fitting and flowing from the body. I like that combination, the free form, the structured form, and maybe even a spiritual form.

SUN: What inspired this collection?

T.D.: This final body of work is inspired by the coffeehouse culture during 19th and 20th century U.S., as well as Europe. The first time I thought about this idea was actually during a design project where I was going to places and just observing my surroundings. So I went to a coffee shop and observed people there. I remember going to Caffè Reggio, one of the oldest coffee shops in the country, which had an antique quality that I particularly liked. I was also interested in the atmosphere of coffee shops and how people interact with one another within a public but intimate space. There’s a kind of free-flowing exchange and coming together of ideas, but within a society that is very structured. So in parallel, I thought to have both free-flowing and structural garments in this collection.

SUN: Who and/or what do you take influence from?

T.D.: I don’t have any particular designers that I follow.

For me it’s more interesting to look at individual outfits, or a collection. However, I do like the aesthetics of Eileen

SUN: What’s next?

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impression on me, specifically in the way they manipulated the fabric. The other would have to be from Issey Miyake. He had a show which featured dancers who performed wearing his pleated wear.

SUN:: Are there other forms of creation that you’re interested in?

T.D.: I originally didn’t start out as a fashion designer, but was interested in fine art. I went into fashion because it’s just a different way of expressing art to people. I also love drawing and illustration, as well as building and struc-

T.D.: Short-term wise, I’m looking towards women’s wear and ready-to-wear companies, which fit my aesthetics. I also want to get a Masters in business. Long-term, I see myself back at home in Vietnam working with my parents and bringing back what I’ve learned here. I’d like to create a brand, which mixes that knowledge with the culture back at home.

Tickets for the Cornell Fashion Collective’s Annual Runway Show are still available online or from Collective members.

The show will be held this Saturday, April 11, at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall.

Danni Shen is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at dshen@cornellsun.edu.

Game of Thrones: A Song of Book and Show

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here is an odd tension in the air. Your friends are all watched season one of the HBO series, I am strugon the edges of their seats. Fingernails are being bit- gling to decide how I feel about this. See, those of ten. Likely, at least one person is trying to hide us who only started reading after they started behind a pillow. These are the kinds of things that fans of watching are in an interesting place. We have expeHBO’s Game of Thrones have come to expect from the rienced both sides of the coin. political-drama-fantasy hybrid.

My first response to this announcement was However, a big portion of the fandom is impervious to frustration and disappointment. Where I am now the gut wrenching suspense and twists. As a book reader, in my Game of Thrones fandom is a place where I one of my favorite parts about watching the show has hold the books over the show. I don’t want to learn become not only watching what I know is about to hap- what happens from the screen anymore, I want it pen, but watching my friends react as some of their favorite from the big guy himself. And what does this mean characters see for the books? Are they going to be their final day. more of novellas than original Typing it out, pieces?

I realize how Fortunately, we have an answer messed up that for that question. It is reported may be. But most that while the show will reveal book readers will major plot points, how we are Needell agree, it’s a ton of taken there will not necessarily remain the In a Crapstack fun. There is a same. Weiss and Benioff know exactly weird sense of where each of the main characters will end security — power, even — in knowing what is about to up at the end of the book series. They plan on taking them unfold. And this coming season, that is going to be taken there, but taking their own way. And I suppose that is away from us. something I can take at least a little solace in.

Earlier this week, Producers Dan Weiss and David But still, there is a part of me, deep down, that is giddy Benioff announced that not only will the show begin devi- for the unknown. While I would never say I regret reading ating more from the book from which it is based — the books, at times, I do miss the shared suspense and George R.R. Martin’s critically acclaimed and wildly pop- shock that comes with watching the show with a group. If ular A Song of Ice and Fire — but the show will begin spoil- it weren’t for the experience of going through the emotioning major plot lines from the books. al roller coaster that is season one with my friends and famAs an avid fan that only began reading the books after I ily, I may never have been so hooked on or even have

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picked up the books in the first place. This part of me is anxiously excited for the prospect of having my heart torn out and stomped on with my buddies again.

Again, typing it out, I realize how messed up that may be. But it comes with the territory when we’re talking Game of Thrones. Everything’s kind of messed up. And when it comes to season five, I just hope that the most messed up part isn’t my incessant complaints that things were better in the books.

Evan Needell is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at eneedell@cornellsun.com. Needell in a Crapstack appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Examining Cornell’s Health Fee

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ew York State is home to some of the highest caliber institutions of higher education in the nation, teaching our nation’s best and brightest. This includes our own Upstate Ivy League institution, Cornell University.

However, our best and brightest are being held back.

Compounded by President Barack Obama’s stagnant economy, students now bear the brunt of Washington’s health care mandate, which is anything but affordable.

I care about these students, the last thing these young adults — who are already saddled with huge student loan debt and increasing economic hardships — need are even more hurdles.

Unfortunately, Cornell University's new health care fines are just such a hurdle thrown their way.

frankly, it is simply not fair.

Cornell University has stood as a bastion for new and creative ideas. I am confident the best minds at this fine institution can find a funding mechanism that can make the University-sponsored health insurance program fiscally solvent without crushing students with these additional costs.

For example, why doesn't the University turn to the high-paid professors, administrators and contributors who support the idea of universal healthcare to pick up this tab?

Why not force these often overpaid individuals to put their political ideologies into practice and help fund this social experiment without adding to the debt of the students?

Isn’t that a fair method for solving this?

Cornell University has stood as a bastion for new and creative ideas. I am confident that the best minds at this fine institution can find a funding mechanism that can make the University-sponsored health insurance program fiscally solvent.

By fining students who make the rational decision to remain on their parent’s health coverage or purchase it independently, students are just being set further back. Our bright minds do not need any more burdens. They need opportunity.

Students who sought hope and change are now paying the high price of politics as usual. This is not a cost they should have to face.

They are already being forced to have insurance, why must they pay even more for a catastrophe of social policy thrust on them by their university? This is double jeopardy and

This fine, which punishes those who have already chosen to be socially responsible by getting covered, must be reconsidered. Both sides agree, it is time to stop bogging our students down with high education costs. It begins with removing unnecessary and burdensome barriers. At a time when the rhetoric of lowering the costs of higher education scores political points, it is worthless if not backed up by action.

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The Failure Of Mass Incarceration

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he United States imprisons more people than any other country on Earth, totaling around 2.2 million inmates in the nation’s prisons and jails. More than 700 out of every 100,000 Americans are currently in jail or prison — only the tiny island nation of the Seychelles, and perhaps North Korea, has us beat. In comparison, China incarcerates somewhere between 100 and 200 people per 100,000. Even Iran incarcerates fewer than 300 individuals.

As a result of generally harsh sentencing regimes, especially for drug crimes, America’s incarcerated population has ballooned by 500 percent in the past thirty years. This explosive expansion of America’s prison population began in the late 70s and early 80s, at a time when crime rates were also rising at an alarming pace. Since its peak in 1993, however, crime rates in the United States have declined significantly.

Violent crime, in particular, has fallen by nearly 75 percent in the past twenty years. Despite this, America’s prison population is more than 50 percent greater today than it was in 1993.

Mass incarceration on the American scale doesn’t come cheap. The average minimum-security federal prisoner costs around $21,000 a year to house and care for, while the average maximum-security federal prisoner costs $33,000 a year. State per-prisoner expenditures vary widely, but it’s safe to say that the average cost well exceeds $20,000 per year.

This means that taxpayers foot a bill in the tens of billions every year to keep nearly one percent of American adults out of productive employment and in a detention system that produces repeat offenders at an unacceptable rate.

Moreover, thanks in part to discriminatory sentencing schemes, mass incarceration’s effects are felt most harshly in low-income and minority communities. For example, until 2010, the mass of powder

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Thanks in part to discriminatory sentencing schemes, mass incarceration’s effects are felt most harshly in low-income and minority communities. cocaine required to earn a defendant a ten year sentence was 100 times the mass of crack cocaine, resulting in the same sentence. Fortunately, that disparity has since been narrowed from 100:1 to only 18:1. Such discriminatory policies provide a significant part of the explanation behind one of the most startling statistics in criminal justice — in a nation that’s 63 percent non-Hispanic white, more than 60 percent of inmates are racial and ethnic minorities. African American communities, in particular, suffer as a result of the current overly harsh sentencing regime. Nearly a third of black males spend some time jail or prison (because, in part, of discriminatory policing and prosecution), and as a result African American communities lose an inordinate quantity of their members’ economically productive years to the criminal justice system.

Despite its costs, one might be able to mount a defense of the current system if lengthy terms of imprisonment succeeded in reducing the rate at which criminals reoffend. Unfortunately, they do no such thing. Recidivism in the United States hovers around 50 percent reincarceration within three years. This figure is slightly higher than, but closely comparable to, most other Western countries, where sentences are often half as long for the same crime as they are in the United States. Those countries that do have significantly lower recidivism rates than the United States — most notably Norway, where only 20 percent of released prisoners are re-incarcerated after three years — place much more emphasis on rehabilitation and reintegration than does the United States. This distinction clearly demonstrates that locking relatively minor offenders in an alien environment dominated by criminals for years at a time, and then releasing them with minimal prospects for gainful employment doesn’t work at preventing future crimes.

Fortunately, a powerful bi-partisan movement advocating for reform of the criminal justice system has begun to coalesce. In 2014, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) came together to author a bill intended to help nonviolent offenders seal their records and thus find gainful employment. More recently, Republican John Cornyn (TX) and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) introduced a bill that would allow eligible prisoners to reduce their length of incarceration significantly. Most promising, however, is the recent formation of the Coalition for Public Safety, a partnership between longstanding ideological foes: The Koch Brothers and the ACLU, Americans for Tax Reform with the Center for American Progress. That coalition, which already has more than $5 million in backing, aims both to overhaul sentencing and to reduce recidivism by increasing reintegration efforts.

While this is good news for those concerned about our bloated and discriminatory system, advocates and concerned citizens should not rest on their laurels. The real work of sentence reform remains to be done. Only pressure from citizens can ensure that the reforms ultimately passed go far enough in refocusing our criminal justice system from retribution to rehabilitation, and from isolation to reintegration.

Otherwise, reformers might end up in the all-too familiar situation of having secured a handful of feel-good measures that do nothing more than place a Band-Aid over a gaping wound.

Geoffrey Parker is a student at Cornell Law School. Responses can be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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— A.T.B. DROP IT LOW There’s nothing worse than having a messed up knee right before Spring Break. Not only can I not twerk or drop it low without pain, swimming, bar hopping and all other activities are going to be a struggle.

— K.M.

GET OVER IT Try to be a Sun editor, they said. It’s a manageable amount of work, they said.

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class starts, I don’t have the time or patience for you to hang out in the stall for 12 hours.

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#COUNTRYCLUBPROBLEMS I hate when my roommate leaves things like her toenail clippings and coffee grounds on the table and counter.

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META-KVETCH I can’t believe I wasted the only kvetch of compet on complaining about being sick. So I dedicate this kvetch to complaining about the lack of kvetches at the time of this submission. Get it together, Sun. — J.Z.

MISS YOU TOO When bae leaves you to go home to Brooklyn.

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SHAMONA! I came to the (sad?) realization last night in the office while dancing to Jackson 5 music that my life will not be complete until I’m a Motown singer from the 1960s.

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S.B. (AKA SMALL BLADDER) To my fellow women of the world: I get it. We pee a lot and have many other beautiful bathroom needs.

But I do not understand what takes some of you so damn long. When I have a lot of coffee and two minutes before

MERP What is kvetch? What is life? Who are you? Question: What?

— S.H.H. THAT’S ALL FOLKS It’s been nice responding to the all of your emails(?), but I’m going to hibernate now. See you all on the other side of break.

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“Good pitching generally beats good hitting so, we must be prepared to defend consistently in order to give ourselves a chance to win,” Blood said. “One could expect that the games this weekend will be very tight ballgames. Solid defense, which starts with solid starting pitching, will be key. We must defend.”

As a senior, Giaquinto said she feels that the talented group of freshmen ladies that have joined the squad has reinvented the team.

“I think our strength comes from our freshmen. Having nine new teammates has reinvigorated us this year,” she said. “We are a different team on and off the field. We have great team chemistry. And nine new players, including three new pitchers, means that our competition has no idea what's coming. In a sport that documents practically every pitch, I think our freshmen definitely give us an edge.”

This weekend will be a challenge, as the Red has not seen as much playing time as usual at this point in the season due to many cancelled games as a result of bad weather. The women will have to come out strong to defeat their first Ivy League competitors.

Hannah Noyes can be reached at hnoyes@cornellsun.com.

Intervention for Our High School Pitchers?

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has taken equal, if not more, significant hits as the starting rotation. It is hard to look at the seeming epidemic of Tommy John surgeries that the Mets have been experiencing and not believe that something could be amiss on the inside. Is the organization taking proper care of its pitchers? Are these injuries being spotted early enough to help them? Mets General Manager, Sandy Alderson told The New York Times that, “You can always look at your practices in developing pitching. …

We will certainly continue to look at what we’re doing. But this is an industry-wide problem, and there is some suggestion this goes back to pitching loads and things that predate even college.”

While I am certainly not prone to trusting Sandy Alderson’s judgment, and though his statement does seem like a bit of a cop out, I can’t help thinking that in this case, he might be right. Maybe the Mets have just been increasingly unlucky in getting pitchers whose arms have already been overextended. If that is true, then MLB teams need to start taking into account how much arm use their star pitching prospects have been subject to over the years. It may be difficult to go back that far in a player’s career, but if arm issues are beginning in little league and can be identified, then it’s a problem worth trying to fix.

An article in USA Today last July reported on this issue, arguing that arm troubles are rampant in youth baseball and only getting worse. Prominent orthopedic surgeon James Andrews performed Tommy John surgery on 17 youth and high school players, 18 percent of the totally surgeries performed in 2000. By 2010, that number jumped to 41 surgeries and 31 percent of the total.

Andrews told USA Today that high school players “outnumber the professionals” in arm problems resulting in Tommy John.

The Little League instituted rules for pitch counts in 2007, causing injuries there to drop 30 percent, according to USA Today. This is certainly a step in the right direction, but it is possible that for some young pitchers in the league today, that change came too late.

The next logical step would be to institute the same rules in high school baseball.

It is much harder to nationalize rules at that level, because competition is so variable across the country. Coaches differ in their coaching styles and when college scholarships are on the line, insti-

“It is possible that for some young pitchers in the league today, that change came too late.” tutionalized pitch counts could easily be tossed aside. If this does not happen at the high school level, it is up to professional scouts to understand how much stress has been put on the arm of a prospect before he even gets to college.

Pitching arms are simply in higher demand in baseball today.

A righty flamethrower is inevitably going to be much more attractive to scouts than a corner infielder. But the risk of arm injuries is always there, and the Mets have become the Sisyphus of Tommy John surgeries; every time one pitcher climbs back into health, a different one goes down.

It is a cruel cycle that Mets fans can only hope will evaporate in time, if in fact it is just an unlucky streak of coincidences. But if it is a more deeply rooted problem, MLB teams across the league should be investigating how to protect their pitchers better, and how to keep their prospects healthy at a young age.

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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Ivy Play Starts Against Brown,Yale

By HANNAH NOYES Sun Staff Writer

This weekend marks the beginning of the home season for the Cornell softball team. The women will host Brown today at 2 p.m. for its first home game on the Neimand*Robison field, and Yale on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. So far, the women are sitting at a 3-8 record, but spirits are high.

The past two games have been cancelled, which is hard for a team that expects to play back-to-back games almost every day.

“We have had a mixed bag of postponements and cancellations which has interrupted the day-to-day, game-after-game demeanor that a softballer develops,” Blood said. “It takes volumes of ‘at-bats’ or ‘innings-pitched’ to establish a cerebral approach to this game. … I hope that we can adjust early.”

Brown’s record is currently leading Cornell’s at 5-7.

However, the game against Yale will be more evenly matched, for the Bulldogs have a similar record to Cornell’s at 3-7.

Senior infielder Sophie Giaquinto said she is confident in her team’s ability to see success against Brown and Yale.

“So far, it seems like we have all the components for a successful season,” she said. “We have an extremely talented team group of individuals. Our offense has been very powerful and our pitchers have done a great job mixing things up on the mound. This weekend, I hope that we can put all the pieces together and stay sharp on defense.”

Blood agreed, noting that the Red also has to stay sharp in the field as well as at bat in order to remain a strong opponent.

“We must remain aggressive on defense by challenging hitters by pounding the strike zone and working ahead in the count,” Blood said. “At the same time, it is important that we attack on offense.”

The Red is looking forward to seeing freshmen Maddie Orcutt and Katie Carmichael’s performance on the pitcher’s mound tomorrow. Orcutt was named the MVP of her Lexington, Kentucky high school and Carmichael was a fourtime all-league selection at El Capitan High School in her

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espite traces of snow still left on the ground here, baseball season is on the very near horizon and the New York Mets have already received bad news. Heading into this season with a young and promising trio of starting pitchers in Matt Harvey, Jacob DeGrom and Zach Wheeler, there was talk of the Mets actually being contenders in the NL

Scott Chiusano Who’s on First?

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Snowy red | The Red has been unable to compete in its last couple of matches due to incliment weather. This weekend will be the first time the Red gets to play at home this season.

hometown of Lakeside, California. Other potential players to take the pitcher’s mound this weekend include freshman Sierra Stone, sophomore Jessica Bigby, and junior Meg Parker.

See SOFTBALL page 11

East. Contenders! It’s a beautiful word, one that Mets fans have shelved for almost a decade now. But with the announcement that Wheeler would be undergoing Tommy John surgery, it seems that not much has changed after all.

According to an article in The New York Times, Wheeler is the sixth Mets pitcher on the roster who will have or has already had the surgery. Before him, left-handed reliever Josh Edgin was the most recent players to go under the knife. Reliever Bobby Parnell is also coming off of the surgery, meaning that the bullpen See CHIUSANO page 11

EQUESTRIAN

Women Head Into Post-Season at Alfred University

By ARIEL COOPER Sun Senior Writer

With the regular season over, the Cornell equestrian team has one thing on its mind: nationals. But with the culmination of the season still a month away, the squad is only just beginning to take its final strides towards the finish line. This weekend, 17 riders will travel to Alfred University for regionals, where they will compete to move onto zones and ultimately nationals as individuals.

Only two riders from each division will earn a spot at zones, so competition will be stiff. The Red has doubled its practice time

over the last few weeks in order to ensure that every rider will enter the ring more than ready to compete.

“We increased the freqency of our practice to help the girls just get more saddle time,” head coach Joanna Novakovic ’03 said.

The intensified practice schedule has been gruelling but rewarding, according to sophomore Chelsea Huss.

“It’s taxing in regards to time and sleep but I think overall there’s definitely a visible improvement with consistent performance within the team and I think everyone feels a bit more ready,” she said. “Having that extra time in the saddle really helps.”

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Diverse in the saddle | Sophomore Lauren Jaquay will compete in the advanced walk trot canter this weekend.

Huss will be competing in open flat and Novakovic said she has been working fences along with sophomore Meridith hard to keep the riders focused and collected Meyer and senior co-captain Georgina de before competition day and said she is excitRham. While many riders will only be com- ed to attend regionals for the first time. peting in either a flat or a fences division, all “In our last team meeting … we talked a riders have been working on riding without lot about techniques to help stay calm and stirrups in order to visualize and to build to be really pos“There’s definitely a visible improvement strength in their itive,” she said. improvement with consistent performance.” “It’s my first leg muscles.

“That’s one time to regionChelsea Huss of those things als, so I’m that none of us excited to see like to do … but because of it, we’ve just how everyone can do.” gotten stronger and are more confident Jaquay said that she hopes to do her best when we have our stirrups,” Huss said. and feels ready for the challenge ahead.

Sophomore Lauren Jaquay, who will “I know that I know how to ride, I just compete in advanced walk trot canter, said have little things that I have to keep focusing the riders have also been rotating between on,” she said. “I feel pretty confident that many different horses to simulate the differ- I’m going to be well prepared for the coment kind of mounts they may encounter at petition.” regionals. Riders are randomly assigned a While regionals is an individual competihorse in each competition. tion, the camaraderie between the members “For the most part, we’re switching hors- of the Red remains strong. es and trying to keep in mind what type of “Even though we’re technically compethorses we’ll be getting at regionals and trying ing for ourselves we’re still a reflection of the to stick with that equivalent on our team,” team,” Huss said.

Jaquay said.

Novakovic said she is confident in all of Although the Red will not be on its her riders’ abilities and feels that they all home turf, regionals will be the squad’s have the ability to succeed. fourth competition at Alfred, so riders are “Any of them could win,” she said. very familiar with the horses they may be “They’re all well prepared [and] they’re all riding. good riders, so it just kind of comes down to “I think it does help that we know the the way things turn out that day, and a little horses there … so we have a good idea of bit of luck.” what the horses are like and how they like to be ridden,” Novakovic said. “That makes it a little bit more familiar, makes a little more Ariel Cooper can be reached at [of] an even playing ground.” acooper@cornellsun.com.