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WHAT’S INSIDE

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SCHEDULE OF SPRING SPORTS

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MEN’S L ACROSSE The team continues to work towards its goal of remaining undefeated in the Ivy League and at home at Schoellkopf Field

2012

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BASEBALL Squad’s mix of seasoned veterans with 10 new freshmen leads to promising start

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BASEBALL March 2 March 2 March 4 March 4 March 10 March 10 March 11 March 11 March 17 March 17 March 18 March 20 March 21 March 22 March 23 March 23 March 24 March 27 March 27 March 31 March 31 April 1 April 2 April 4 April 4 April 7 April 7 April 8 April 8 April 11 April 14 April 14 April 15 April 15 April 17 April 17 April 21 April 21 April 21 April 22 April 22 April 22 April 24 April 27 April 27 April 29 April 29 May 5 May 6

W 15-4 at UMES W 7-0 (5 inn.) at UMES W 2-14 at UMES W 13-0 at UMES W 6-3 at George Washington W 5-1 at George Washington L 4-3 at George Washington W 12-3 at George Washington W 16-6 at Delaware State L 11-2 at Delaware State W 19-6 at Delaware State L 6-9 at Virginia Tech L 4-5 at Virginia Tech W 5-1 at Longwood W 4-3 at Longwood W 3-1 at Longwood Rain at Longwood W 5-2 (9 inn.) at Albany T 3-3 (6 inn.) at Albany L 2-6 Harvard* W 12-7 Harvard* W 2-0 Dartmouth* W 5-2 Dartmouth* W 5-4 at Canisus L 7-3 at Canisus 12 p.m. at Brown* 3 p.m. at Brown* 12 p.m. at Yale* 3 p.m. at Yale* 4 p.m.

Binghamton 12 p.m.

Columbia* 3 p.m.

Columbia* 12 p.m.

Columbia* 3 p.m.

Columbia* 2 p.m.

Siena 5 p.m.

Siena 12 p.m.

Maine 12 p.m. at Penn* 3 p.m. at Penn* 12 p.m.

Binghamton 12 p.m. at Penn* 3 p.m. at Penn* 4 p.m.

Binghamton 12 p.m.

Princeton* 3 p.m Princeton* 12 p.m at Princeton* 3 p.m at Princeton* 12:00 p.m Stony Brook 1:00 p.m Binghamton

March 30-April 1 April 14-15 April 21-22 April 27-29

GOLF 18th of 22 at Towson Invitational All Day at Princeton Invitational All Day at Century Intercollegiate All Day Ivy Championships

MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING March 31-Apr. 1 All Day at San Diego Crew Classic April 7 All Day at George Washington April 14 9 a.m at Syracuse w/ Navy April 21 9 a.m Princeton w/ Yale May 15 All Day Eastern Sprints May 25 9 a.m.

Penn May 31- June 2 All Day IRA Championships at Camden, N.J. MEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING April 7 April 14 April 15 April 21 April 28 May 13 June 2

TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA All Day All Day

March 31 April 7 April 14-15 April 21

9:00 a.m.

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All Day 9 a.m.

Penn w/ Harvard at Princeton Yale at Columbia w/ MIT at Dartmouth EARC Sprints IRA Championships at Camden, N.J.

WOMEN’S ROWING at Syracuse w/ Boston U. at Princeton w/ Radcliffe at UVA Invitational Brown w/ Columbia

April 28 May 13 Feb. 28 March 3 March 6 March 10 March 17 March 20 March 24 March 31 April 7 April 10 April 21 April 28 May 4-6

9 a.m.

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at Dartmouth Ivy League Championships

MEN’S LACROSSE W 17-12 Binghamton W 18-7 Army W 19-4 Canisius L 8-9 OT at Virginia W 8-7 Yale* W 9-8 OT at Denver W 16-11 at Penn* W 7-5 at Dartmouth* 1 p.m.

Harvard* 7 p.m.

Syracuse 3 p.m.

Brown* 7 p.m. at Princeton* TBA Ivy League Tournament

WOMEN’S LACROSSE March 3 W 12-6 at Harvard* March 10 W 19-7 Columbia* March 13 W 21-7 Canisius March 17 L 13-17 Notre Dame March 20 W 22-13 at Jacksonville March 24 L 10-11 Penn March 31 W 13-12 OT at Princeton April 7 5 p.m.

Dartmouth* April 14 1 p.m.

Loyola Maryland April 17 7 p.m.

Syracuse April 21 12 p.m.

Yale* April 24 4 p.m. at Binghamton April 28 12 p.m. at Brown* SOFTBALL March 3 L 0-6 Marist March 3 W 9-8 Akron March 4 W 2-0 Rider March 4 L 2-3 at George Mason March 10 W 8-2 Hartford March 10 L 0-2 at George Mason March 11 W 6-3 9 inn. Hartford March 11 L 0-3 at George Mason March 17 L 0-7 Bowling Green State March 17 W 1-0 at George Mason March 18 L 0-1 Albany March 18 W 7-4 at George Mason March 20 L 2-6 at Virginia Tech March 20 L 4-6 at Virginia Tech March 22 W 7-0 at Liberty March 22 W 7-4 at Liberty March 23 L 1-3 at Delaware State March 23 L 2-8 at Delaware State March 24 W 9-8 Bucknell March 30 L 2-6 8 inn. Harvard* March 30 W 10-8 Harvard* March 31 W 4-2 Dartmouth* March 31 W 10-8 Dartmouth* April 3 L 1-7 Albany April 3 L 6-8 8 inn. Albany April 6 2 p.m. at Brown* April 6 3:30 p.m. at Brown* April 7 12:30 p.m. at Yale* April 7 2 p.m. at Yale* April 11 12:30 p.m. Syracuse April 11 2 p.m.

Syracuse April 14 3:30 p.m.

Columbia* April 14 5 p.m.

Columbia* April 15 12:30 p.m. Columbia* April 15 2 p.m.

Columbia* April 19 3:30 p.m. at Colgate April 19 5 p.m. at Colgate April 21 4 p.m. at Penn* April 21 5:30 p.m. at Penn* April 22 12:30 p.m. at Penn* April 22 2 p.m. at Penn* April 25 3:30 p.m. at Ithaca April 25 5 p.m. at Ithaca April 28 12:30 p.m. at Princeton* April 28 2 p.m. at Princeton* April 29 12:30 p.m. at Princeton* April 29 2 p.m. at Princeton* May 2 3:30 p.m. at Binghamton May 2 5 p.m. at Binghamton * Ivy League Game

SOFTBALL Blood looks to compete for Southern Ivy Division Title for third straight year

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WOMEN’S ROWING/GOLF Both teams set goals going forward with the season: for rowers, qualifying for NCAAs and for golfers, an Ivy Title

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MEN’S ROWING Experienced squad off to early start preparing for Eastern Sprints and beyond

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WOMEN’S L ACROSSE Strong leadership and coehsion help give the team confidence as it progresses through the season

CREDITS EDITORS Lauren Ritter ’13, Dani Abada ’14, Scott Chiusano ’15, Haley Velasco ’15

DESIGN Supplement Design: John Schroeder ’74 Cover Photo: Tina Chou grad Cover Design: John Schroeder ’74

PHOTOGRAPHY Tina Chou grad Oliver Kliewe ’14, Connor Archard ’15, Monica Suh ’15, Xiaoyue Guo ’15

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RED WORKS HARD TO REMAIN UNDEFEATED

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

TINA CHOU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Boys club | The senior class has a comradery that extends from the locker room to the field.

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iven last year’s 14-3 record and the Red’s trip to the NCAA quarterfinals against powerhouse UVA, there were great expectations for the men’s lacrosse program as it entered the 2012 season.

Already more than halfway through the season, Cornell sits atop the Ivy League with a perfect 3-0 conference record, in addition to its 7-1 record overall. Winning key games in March against Ivy rivals Yale, Penn and Dartmouth, as well as nationally ranked Denver, put the team in a good standing as it heads into the last four games of the regular season against Harvard, Syracuse, Brown and Princeton.

Highlights of the season so far have included winning the season opener against Binghamton on Feb. 28 at Schoellkopf.

The Red ran off with its 14th straight victory in a home season opener with the 17-12 win over the Bearcats. Senior captain and Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award finalist Rob Pannell scored a career-high 10 points in the game.

Only four days later, Cornell welcomed the Army Black Knights to Schoellkopf, where the Red handily won its second game of the season in an 18-7 blowout to a team which beat Cornell 11-9 the year before.

Freshman attack Matt Donovan impressed coaches and fans alike in his second collegiate game, scoring four goals and two assists in the victory that earned him the honor of Ivy League Rookie of the Week — his first of three for the season so far. “[Donovan] has been steady from the beginning and it’s impressive to see him contribute in that fashion,” DeLuca said. “He’s … worked extremely hard. He’s far from perfect and has work to do on his game, but the effort that he gives on a daily basis is impressive.”

Showing that consistency and offensive execution is what wins games, the Red dominated Canisius, 19-4, on March 6.

A major credit to the win was the Red’s face-off unit comprised of sophomore Doug Tesoriero and senior Mitch McMichael. The midfielders combined to win 20-of-26 restarts at the face-off “x.” Throughout the season, assistant coach Paul Richards has been working specifically with Tesoriero and McMichael, trying to help the face-off pair improve its wrist work, execution and speed. At this point in the season, the face-off unit has won 100-of-187 re-starts, giving the team a 53.5 win percentage.

“We stated off pretty strong at the beginning of the year, such as against Canisius. About halfway through the season so far we

had a bit off a bad stretch against some pretty good face-off guys,” McMichael said. “We started off strong and tailed off in those games against Denver and Yale, but in the past games we picked up. … Our goal as a team is 55 percent and I think overall we are right around there.”

After beginning the season with a perfect 3-0 start, the Red suffered its first and only loss of the season to national powerhouse Virginia. Traveling to Baltimore, Md., Cornell lost 98 in overtime at the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic.

Missing reigning national player of the year Pannell due to injury, the Red fought a hard battle, which featured a late game rally by junior attack Connor English, who scored consecutive goals in the span of 21 seconds.

our vocal communication with people on the end of the field and communicate with everyone so they know where they are going with the right position. We are trying to take more of a leadership role on the defensive end and getting everyone on the same page.”

In recent weeks, Cornell has fought hard to return to the level of play it was at during the first few games of the season.

The Cornell brand of lacrosse is known for its consistency, execution and high-intensity, which is something that DeLuca says the team is working hard to get back to.

“We’re trying to take it one game at a time and try to improve on a daily basis in practice and improve on game day — keeping it simple and focused,” he said. “Knowing that there are expectations and discussions out of the locker room, but we are trying to maximize our potential to be as successful as we can.”

Cornell beat Penn, 16-11, and Dartmouth, 7-5, over the past two weekends, as the team continues to work towards its season goal of remaining undefeated in the Ivy League, as well as undefeated at Schoellkopf. Spearheading efforts on the offensive end of the field are seniors J.J. Gilbane and Scott Austin, junior Steve Mock, English and Donovan, according to DeLuca.

Sophomore Andrew West, junior A.J. Fiore and senior Brian O’Donnell have shared time in net for the Red. While DeLuca said that there is always room for improvement, the efforts that have been seen on all ends of the field have been producing results that cannot be discounted.

“Our records speak for themselves — the bottom line is we are finding different ways to win, fighting through adversity, coming from behind, not playing to our potential [and] fighting through injury,” DeLuca said. “It’s never the same game in every game and it’s frustrating, but at the same time when you step back the guys have found decent amount of success despite the adversity. … We’ve scratched the surface with utilizing the depth of the roster with the perseverance and their ability to pull out wins despite their circumstances.”

The Red will graduate nine seasons at the end of the season —Chip Daugherty, Matt Restaino, Austin, Gilbane, Lang, Langton, McMichael, O’Donnell and Pannell.

“Every time you think that it’s almost over you just want to work harder and make more of the time you have left because your days are limited,” Gilbane said.

Coach Ben DeLuca says that perseverance, fighting through adversity and consistency are keys to success.

Returning from the upset, Cornell hosted Yale on March 17, beating the Bulldogs, 8-7. While earlier games in the season featured double digit scores for the Red, Cornell struggled to connect in the offensive end of the field against Yale, as well as to execute at the face-off “x,” where it only won 6-of-17 restarts. Playing against fellow Top-10 team Denver a few days later, Cornell barely escaped with a 9-8 overtime win. Both teams were very evenly matched, which slowed down the offense and made scoring more difficult. The defense put up a strong wall for the Red, staving off any overtime efforts by Denver. Leading the defense this season are juniors Mike Bronzino, Jason Noble and Thomas Keith and senior Roy Lang, according to DeLuca.

“The sole senior back in that end is Roy Lang, who we have asked to change his role slightly this season … which I think has helped us play more aggressively,” he said.

Noble and Bronzino are stepping up this season to fill the space left by Max Feely ’11, who graduated last May. “Last season we lost [Feely], who was the leader in the defensive end,” Noble said. “Mike and I needed to step up

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Red Off to Best Start Under Walkenbach SQUAD LOOKS FOR YOUTH TO PLAY BIG ROLE

MONICA SUH / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

A fresh start | After finishing a disappointing 10-30 last season, the baseball team has turned things around with the help of a talented freshman class.

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Junior pinch runner Spencer Souza stood on third base in the bottom of the ninth inning of a tie game, 33. Timing the Longwood catcher’s lazy throw back to the pitcher, Souza took off for home, sliding in safely and giving the Red (16-5-1, 3-1 Ivy league) its 11th win of the season — one more than the team’s total from last year. Souza’s late inning heroics two weeks ago have become standard for the Red, as they are just one example of the small things the team has been doing to help put it on the road to its strongest season since head coach Bill Walkenbach took over three years ago.

“We really have no holes,” said junior infielder Brenton Peters.

According to Peters, the team has improved from top to bottom. Though the offense has been solid as of late, the Red’s defense has kept it in close games.

“We always try to make a team as strong as possible up the middle, because those are the guys that anchor us,” Walkenbach said. “And I think we have the best anchor in the Ivy League in [senior Marshall Yanzick] at shortstop.”

Yanzick is batting .303 with 16 RBI’s, and has been nearly flawless as the captain of the infield with a .924 fielding percentage. However, though his statistics speak for themselves, Walkenbach believes his shortstop is just

BASEBALL PLAYERS TO WATCH MARSHALL YANZICK Yanzick is hitting .303 with 16 RBI’s, but his contribution might be felt even more at shortstop, where he has been a reliable anchor all season long. According to head coach Bill Walkenbach, the senior is also just as important off the field as a leader.

BRENT JONES The freshman hurler has exceeded all expectations in his first year with the Red. He leads the staff with a 2.35 ERA and 30 strikeouts. Look for Walkenbach to continue to hand him the ball on the mound late in the season in pressure situations.

have had a lot of innings and they’ve emerged out of the as valuable off the field.

“His leadership has been crucial to our success,” he freshman stereotype,” Peters said. “They’re no longer 18 said. or 19 year old wide, bright eyed kids coming out of high Joining Yanzick in the middle infield is Peters, who has school — they’ve risen to the occasion.” only made three errors on the season. The junior and With seven starters hitting over .300 at this point in the senior together make up a solid double play combination. season, the Red’s offense has made drastic strides since last “Marshall and myself have really meshed together up season, when only two starters finished over .300. the middle,” Peters said.

“Experience is the biggest thing,” Walkenbach said. “The In the outfield, senior centerfielder Brian Billigen has seniors have learned about their approach to the game and been putting up huge numbers. After winning Ivy they’re having much better at-bats from day to day.”

League player of the week in the first week of the season Billigen is second in the league in batting average, first for going 8-for-18 with a triple and homerun, Billigen is in runs scored and first in RBI’s. Cruz, the sophomore still batting .422. slugger, leads the conference in homeruns with seven.

“Brian covers amazing amounts of ground out there,” Senior Frank Hager is also batting .351 with two homers.

Walkenbach said, since the centerfielder also leads the “It comes with confidence because we worked so hard team in stolen bases (8). throughout the fall,” Peters said. “Our senior leaders have Billigen suffered an injury in this weekend’s Ivy open- some of the highest batting averages on the team because er, and was replaced by freshman J.D. Whetsel. According they put in the work, whether it’s Frank hitting homeruns to Walkenbach, although Whetsel has big shoes to fill, the or Marshall getting on base and moving runners over.” freshman has really come through for the Red. With a team that has a serious chance at competing in “We’ve been able to replace Brian with [Whetsel], the Ivy League, Walkenbach said he believes there is still who is actually the fastest player on the team.” room for improvement.

The Red’s three main outfielders — sophomore Chris “We need to work on our consistency and staying Cruz, Billigen and Whetsel — all run sub-7 60’s. healthy,” he said. “We’ve come “Our outfield is making plays in the gaps that other up against some good pitchoutfielders don’t normally make ing lately, so our offensive because we have that kind of numbers are down a little, speed,” Peters said. but I expect that to rise as we ease Anchoring the Red’s into Ivy play.” defense, the pitching staff has Even in its losses, the Red has continued to turn away oppoonly lost by more than four runs one nents game after game. Most time, against Delaware State. recently, sophomore Connor “With the guys we have on the Kaufmann, who is 4-1 in five starts, mound, we’re going to be in every carried the Red to a 2-0 victory over game we play, and with one or two Dartmouth with the team’s first no-hitexceptions, that has been the case so ter in 32 years. Kaufmann received Ivy far,” Walkenbach said.

League Pitcher of the Week honors for his standWith the bulk of Ivy play still to out performance on Saturday, March 31. come, the Red has its work cut out Freshman Brent Jones and senior Rick Marks, for it against perennial powerhouses the leaders of the staff, are third and fifth in ERA in like Princeton. However, according the Ivy League at 2.35 and 2.76, respectively. to Walkenbach, this team has the Freshman Brian McAfee rounds out the Top-10 at senior leadership that can help 3.86. Jones is also fourth in the league in striketake the Red far. outs with 30. Freshman reliever Kellen “This is the strongest Urbon has four saves and an ERA of .75 group of senior leaders I’ve in 12 innings. ever had, and one of the Of the 10 players Walkenbach best freshman classes we’ve recruited for this year’s team, seven ever had,” Walkenbach are pitchers. said. “And I think the “We’ve been lucky enough to numbers we are get guys innings early enough to putting up are get their feet wet in college baseball, showing that.”

XIAOYUE GUO / and they’ve performed very well,” SUN STAFF Walkenbach said.

PHOTOGRAPHER Though the staff does look young Freshman phenom | and inexperienced to outsiders, Peters Kevin Tatum has started all but and Walkenbach see experience one of the Red’s games this season, beyond their years in the young and is hitting a solid .333 with 12 RBIs and hurlers.

“Basically, [the freshmen] four doubles.

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FIGHT TO THE FINISH AS THE RED WORKS TO DEFEND

SOUTHERN IVY DIVISION TITLE

By SCOTT ECKL

1996, taking a team that went 6-35-1 in 1995 to 17-20 in just one year. Blood has compiled over 400 wins in his career at The defending Southern Ivy League Cornell, including six first place or share Division champions, the Cornell softball of first place finishes and five trips to the team begins the 2012 campaign in hopes NCAA tournament after winning the Ivy of playing for the title in the champi- League championship. In recent years, onship series for the third straight year. Blood led the Red to three straight Ivy The Red (12-11, 3-1 Ivy League) began League Southern Division champiconference play against Harvard (15-8, onships.

With five seniors and two juniors, the 3-1) on March 30 and Dartmouth (712, 0-4 Ivy) on March 31. The Red split Red has a solid base of experience that the doubleheader against Harvard, the can help against its tough Ivy League opponents. Blood noted the importance of senior capHead coach Dick Blood believes that the tains Erin Keene and Katie Watts. quest to maintain the Southern Ivy “[Keene and League Division title will be a ‘dogfight.’ Watts] are instrumental in bringing our team together same opponent it lost to in the finals last this season,” Blood said. “They both year, but came back to sweep Dartmouth believe in the club and their voice has demonstrated a strong work ethic that the next day.

Cornell continues its march through the younger players follow.”

Blood also expressed his enthusiasm the Ivy League as the team travels to Brown (3-13, 0-2) and Yale (7-15, 1-3) for the younger players. Sophomore on April 6-7. The Red finishes its Ivy Jenny Edwards leads the team in homeschedule with consecutive weekends runs, RBI and runs scored, while sophoagainst Columbia, Penn and Princeton, more Alyson Onyon leads the pitching each with four game series. Cornell has staff in innings pitched, strikeouts and midweek battles scheduled for the games started while boasting a 2.75 upcoming weeks against local opponents ERA. “We have a solid nucleus of players,” — Albany, Syracuse, Colgate, Ithaca and Blood said. “It is just a matter of whether Binghamton.

“We are going to have to work hard to they can all click together is another story.” get back to where we were,” Watts described the early season said head coach Dick struggles of being able to perform well in Blood.

“The all facets of the game.

Southern Division “We cannot seem to put all three is loaded and it is pieces — offense, pitching, defense — going to be a together,” she said. “Hopefully, dogfight.” with the pressure of the Ivy upon Blood has us we will be able to do it.” headed the The Red got off to a strong program start on March 31 - April 1 as since it went 3-1 against Northern Ivy League opponents Harvard and Dartmouth. The team outscored its opponents 2624 over the weekend, while only committing four errors.

Senior Jenny Stoller pitched a complete game against Dartmouth, allowing just four hits and striking out six batters en route to her CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN STAFF first victory of the PHOTOGRAPHER young season.

For the fences | Sophomore Lauren Bucolo Sophomore Christina blasted three of Villalon is currently the six homebatting .235 this runs Cornell season, making her hit over the a key part to the weekend.

Red’s offensive Going success. into the doubleheaders, the Red struggled with a 56 Sun Staff Writer

ultimate goal of “fourrecord over Spring Break.

“Our record does not reflect where we peating” its should be,” Watts said. “The focus this reign as season will be how we can remain consistent throughout and be able to figure out the opponents’ strengths and weaknesses.”

Watts noted how many teams in the Ivy League have improved this season, particularly highlighting Penn as the most improved squad over Spring Break.

Blood pointed out a few suprises that the team experienced at this early point in its campaign. Senior Morgan Cawley leads the team in batting average, while freshman Linda Lauefer hit a clutch two-run homerun off Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Rachel Brown in the first game against Harvard.

Freshman Clare Feely boasts the team’s highest on-base percentage for 2012.

Despite the successful start against CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Harvard and Dartmouth, Blood and Dominant force | Sophomore Alyson Watts remain cautious as to not get too Onyon boasts a 2.75 ERA, a team best. ahead of themselves.

“Yes, we expect to return to [the Ivy League Championship],” Watts said. Ivy League champions.

“Opening with the defending champs “But, right now we just have to focus game-by-game and take things one step [Harvard] was a great challenge for this year’s squad,” Keene said. “I definitely at a time.”

Each Ivy League game counts the think we rose to the occasion.”

The questions for this year’s softball same towards the final Ivy League record that will determine which two teams team remain its ability to consistently play in the final series. While the Red play all facets of the game at a high level, was eager to beat up on the team that all while taking each Ivy League game as beat them in last year’s championship, the most important game of the season.

Harvard, Cornell continued to focus on its other Ivy League rival, Dartmouth. Now the team’s focus shifts to Brown and Yale, the remaining two Northern Division opponents.

ALYSON Columbia, Penn and Princeton, along with ONYON Cornell, comprise the The sophomore pitcher has been Southern Division.

Whichever team wins in instrumental for the Red this the championship series season. She leads the team in earn an automatic bid to innings pitched, strikeouts and games started while the NCAA tournament.

Penn sits atop the Ivy boasting a 2.75 ERA. As a freshman she struggled League with a perfect conin the circle and saw limited game time but has ference record, 4-0, leadproven to be a substantial team member this season. ing the Red and Harvard at 3-1.

JENNY Erin Keene echoed Watts’s and Blood’s conEDWARDS cerns about taking each game as it comes.

The sophomore leads the team “We are not trying to in homeruns, RBIs and runs look too far in advance,” scored this season. Last season, she said. “We are just takshe earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors ing it one game and one weekend at a time and and finished the season ranked among the Ivy trying to get the job leaders in walks (third), RBI (sixth) and runs done.” scored (eighth). She also led the Red with 29 RBIs. Every Ivy League game remains vital to the Red’s

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ROWERS MAKE NCAAS A TEAM GOAL

By ALEX GATTO Sun Staff Writer

The women’s rowing team began its season with a strong showing against Syracuse on Saturday, March 31, defeating one of its major rivals in every single rowing event. Since beating Syracuse, the Red has worked hard to maintain its momentum and to attempt to achieve the team’s overall goal — going to the NCAA tournament at the end of the spring.

While it is the spring season that qualifies a team for the NCAA tournament, preparation for the tournament really begins during the fall season when athletes train to meet their own personal fitness goals.

“The fall is a lot more about rewarding hard work,” said head coach Hilary Gehman. “You’ve got to love hard work. You can’t be afraid of it, and you can’t shy away from it.”

According to Gehman, practice does not consist of just strength training and conditioning. There are other important factors the team works on daily.

“We’re focusing a lot on how to really fine tune the recovery in between races,” Gehman said.

“Nutrition and hydration are very important.”

Recovery will be very important for the Red during this spring season. Most of the meets the team will race in are in a “double duel” format, where the Red faces one team initially while two other teams race each other. The winners from each race goes head-tohead in a final race, as the losers from each race face off in a consolation match. In either scenario, the Red competes twice in one day, which is why recovery is such an important thing to practice, according to the coach.

“We want to try to be prepared for two races in one day before we have to really peak, which is at Ivy League championships,” Gehman said. “It is challenging, but it’s something that we train for.”

The Ivy League championships is the last major meet for the Red before the NCAA tournament.

This is the first year that the Ivy League championships are being hosted, primarily because the system for qualifying for the NCAA tournament will change starting in 2013. It used to be that the Ivy League was part of the Eastern Sprints Rowing League, where

selection to the NCAAs was based on a school’s performance in one of the five geographic qualifying regions, with Cornell competing in the Mid-Atlantic Region against schools like Syracuse. The change will be from that of a regional qualifier system to a conference automatic qualifier system. The five teams that win their conference will advance to the

NCAA tournament and compete against 11 other teams invited to fill “at-large” positions.

According to senior captain Stephanie Lohberg, the Red will strive to place first in the Ivy League and advance to NCAAs automatically, but will also try to gain enough recognition to be invited as one of the “at-large” teams by racing and beating other

out-of-conference teams. Lohberg says she is optimistic about the team’s chances, citing the Red’s preparation and ability to work hard as two of its most important qualities.

“We’ve been working on being clean and aggressive in our races,” Lohberg said. “At a certain point, it comes down to who is willing to fight for that extra inch.”

While the Red was denied an invitation to NCAAs last year, the team is determined to qualify to be invited to the tournament at the end of this year.

“We’re determined to win every race this season,” said senior captain Margaret Cook. “Our overall goal is to make it to NCAAs … We really want an invitation to compete.”

In a Deep Ivy League, Red Believes It Can Compete for Title

By ZACH GAYENER Sun Staff Writer

Coming off of a last place finish in the 2010-2011 Ivy League championships, the golf team is looking to move up in the rankings and potentially make a run to win it all this season. Losing Matt Jaye ’11, after graduation last year, hurt the Red, according to senior captain Alex Lavin; however, the team should not be counted out of contention for the title just yet.

“Last year we lost one of the Ivy’s best players in Matt Jaye,” Lavin said. “But, this year we’re loaded with young guys looking to step up and guys back from injury, including myself.”

Although no starting line-up is set in stone, both Lavin and senior John Dean have noted three sophomores — Zach Bosse, Carl Schimenti and Craig Esposito — as impact players to watch in the upcoming season. The rest of the lineup could see many different players step up and play well to contribute to the team.

“None of the spots are set in stone, so look for John Dean, [senior] Mark Baity, [Sophomore] Max Koehler and myself to work into the mix often,” Lavin said.

Another noteworthy player is freshman Andrew Palmer, who Lavin said had a great season so far and could make it into the lineup with solid qualifying scores in the upcoming weekend.

The most important thing that the Red is looking forward to is the team’s shot at the Ivy League Championship.

“Ivies is the toughest, simply because everything is on the line,” Lavin said. “It’s a tough field, extremely tough course, and it’s win or go home.”

The Ivy League looks very deep this year, especially compared to recent years, according to Lavin. While that provides for a lot of competition, it will not put the Red out of contention for winning the title, the senior captain said.

“People have said Columbia and Yale are the two top teams,” Lavin said. “As I’ve said the Ivy League is very deep this year, deeper than it has ever been. People have been talking about Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth and even Penn so we need to step up and take the title.”

When asked who is Cornell’s biggest in-season rival, Lavin did not really have one in mind, instead citing the opposition the Red faces in the Ivy League.

“Our biggest Ivy opponent is probably Yale, but we love beating Harvard and Princeton. [In the regular season] we see teams such as Colgate, Navy, Penn State, etc. fairly often, but the rivalries aren't the same.”

The Red started its season at the Fireline Towson Invitational on March 30 through April 1, and will play at the Princeton Invitational and the Century Intercollegiate tournaments before going to the Ivy League Championship at the end of April with the hopes of coming out on top.

Sophomores will prove important in the line-up.

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EXPERIENCE LEADS VARSITY EIGHT CREW A WARM SPRING BREAK GIVES ROWERS A LEG UP

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the extra training the Red got in over Spring Break as an advantage over the rest of the competition.

That competition will be on full display at Eastern Sprints — the league championship event held annually in mid-May that the crews spend all of their fall and spring season preparing for.

“Anything can happen [by that time of the year] — when you’ve got guys out of school, and they have a little bit of time to unwind and rest up and pay attention to what they’re doing,” Kennett explained. “It gets late enough in the year, the water gets fast; I don’t put anything by them.”

The Cornell men’s heavyweight rowing team boasts one of the most experienced first Varsity eight crews in recent memory, including five seniors and three juniors — all of whom rowed for the Varsity squad last year. Led by co-commodores Jim Voter and Brian Searle, the senior-laden crew features Gardner Yost, Alex Karwoski and Russ Mason, who are joined by junior class representatives Chris Massey, Kevan Zadeh and Jim Rectenwald.

“They’re coming along — they’re stronger than ever, and they seem to be doing a lot of things right. It’s now just a question of taking responsibility and stepping up and making this thing move,” Lightweight “I think they can medal at the Sprints, but said head coach Todd Kennett ’91.

On the lightweight side, the goal “is to win Eastern Both the men’s and women’s teams enjoyed an they’re really going to have to buckle down and get unusually warm Spring Break in Ithaca, which serious,” Kennett said. “It’s not always working Sprints and IRAs,” according to senior commodore Michael Bohs. enabled the crews to get in more water-time, harder, sometimes it’s working smarter.”

“That is our goal every year,” he said, adding that “I think as a senior class and as a Varsity boat in according to Voter.

“We’re used to going out there in the morning general, our goal is to get onto the medal dock at he feels the team has been “saying” it the past three and busting up the ice before we’re allowed to row,” Sprints. It’s been a long time since a Varsity crew years, but this year something is different.

“Our juniors and seniors all got a taste of winning he said. “This year ... because guys weren’t cold, has done that for Cornell,” Voter added.

From there, it’s on to IRAs, which take place in our freshman years, when we won the freshman event they were able to produce better on the water, and two years in a row,” he continued. “But that was just as a result I think we got in better training.” a taste, this year there is a sense of urgency to Kennett was inclined to agree, noting win — and that sense of urgency is a “We had an incredible Spring result of guys truly wanting Break, and around that it.” time I saw them do Like the heavysome things that weight crew, the were pretty l i g h t we i g h t darn special. team had a I haven’t produchad a t i v e group Spring t h i s Break as fast, well — t h i s one that early.” included H e 18 practices attributed over the course such early of nine days. speed in part to “Each practice we having such good pushed ourselves to the water in the Cayuga Lake brink, and as a result we were all Inlet, which tends to make exhausted by the end. But we also crews row a little better. knew that we had gained so OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Furthermore, Kennett much from all the work we did, pointed to this past weekHigh hopes | The men’s heavyweight Varsity eight squad has set its sights high with the and we will definitely see the benefits end’s races at the San Diego Classic hopes of medaling at Eastern Sprints, the biggest competition of the year. throughout the course of the year,” Bohs said. as “a pretty big wake-up call ... in that not As far as specific improvements go, “there is always everything is right.”

The first Varsity eight crew had a questionable Camden, N.J., the week following graduation. speed to gain, even for the Olympic rowers,” accordouting in last Saturday’s race, finishing third in the However, as Kennett was quick to mention, “in ing to Bohs.

The commodore said that his team’s approach to heat behind Navy, which ultimately led to Cornell order to get to the national championship, you practice is to put all focus and energy into each stroke being assigned an outside lane in Sunday’s Grand have to go through Sprints.”

According to Voter, making it onto the medals so as to identify where the crew needs improvement, Final en route to a fifth-place finish. Last weekend’s performance aside, the men’s heavyweight coach dock at Eastern Sprints would put Cornell in a and then take the necessary steps to adjust accordingly. remains confident that “there’s still a lot of speed in good spot to subsequently medal at IRAs. “At the end of each practice, we want to come off “Ideally it would be a gold medal, but I think this group.”

Voter — himself a three-year member of the top we’d all be pretty happy with even a bronze,” Voter the water faster than we were when we began the practice,” Bohs said.

Varsity crew — spoke to the importance of using said.

Todd Kennett ’91 believes his senior heavy varsity squad is ‘better than ever’ at this point in the season.

MEN ’S ROWERS TO WATCH JIM VOTER The senior co-commodore is one of five seniors that will lead the heavyweight first Varsity eight crew. Voter is a three-year member of the top Varsity squad. His experience will be key to the team’s success this season.

MICHAEL BOHS Bohs helped the lightweight Varsity eight team to fourth place at the 2011 IRA National Championship last year.

As a senior captain this year, he will help the squad improve its speed at each practice.

BRIAN SEARLE The senior co-commodore rowed with the Varsity eight last season. Searle was also a member of the second varsity-8 crew at the 2010 Eastern Sprints when they won a silver medal and finished fifth at the IRAs.

MIKE SZYMONIAK Last year as a junior, Szymoniak rowed with the Varsity eight and helped lead the crew to a fourth place showing at the 2011 IRA National Championship.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE SPRING

SPORTS

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By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women’s lacrosse began this season with exciting success, displaying winning habits and overcoming diverse challenges. One such habit has been an ability to win on the road, as the team has five victories away from Schoellkopof. The Red (7-2, 3-1 Ivy League) has also been victorious in Ivy League contests against Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, propelling the team into third place in the Ivy League standings with six games left to play. A unique mixture of talent, senior leadership, chemistry and confidence makes this squad dangerous for opponents to face. And — while it is pleased with how the season has progressed thus far — the Red has high hopes for achieving even more as the season continues.

“There have been many positives so far this season,” said head coach Jenny Graap. “We feel good about the fact that we are continuing to improve. Hopefully the best is yet to come for this team. We just need to keep our focus on one game at a time, and continuing to stay true to the things that we hold dearly, like our work ethic, our attitude and our mental approach to practices and games.”

Continual improvement is far more than an encouraging trend. According to Graap, since Ivy League universities start the season later than other Divison I conferences and have less practice time before the season, being able to adjust and improve throughout the season is essential in order to achieve success.

“Improving is perhaps the most important factor in a season,” she said.

Because of the late start date, and the way the Ivy League sets things up with little practice time, it becomes necessary that we get stronger throughout march and April.”

The strong senior leadership consists of nine seniors who lead the team both on and off the field. They have spent their entire college careers at Cornell and are using

the experience factor to help younger players and to benefit the team.

“It’s something really special that not only are there so many seniors, but we’ve all played together since we came in as freshmen,”said senior attacker and forward Jessi Steinberg. “Being able to spread our wisdom to the underclassmen, take them in under our wing and show them how dedication has made the program into something special, is really awesome. All nine seniors do a really good job of checking in and making sure everything is doing well, which takes alot of pressure off of the captains.”

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all three years, but this year we realize that it’s our year and we want to make a statement.”

This friendship and unity is not limited to the seniors — it is a defining characteristic of the entire team.

Both the players and coaches value this unity and fully appreciate the ways in which it benefits the entire team.

“One of the main reasons I wanted to come to Cornell was because of how close the team was, ”Steinberg said.

“How close we are off the field and how much we genuinely care about each other really translates to our play

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have contributed to the Red’s success.

The team has benefited from contributions from a wide range of players, and it has executed a strategy of commanding, aggressive play. It has also been supported by quality netminding.

However, two concepts dominate the team’s preparations and meetings, according to Graap.

“We frequently stress discipline and communication,” she said.

“Discipline on the offensive end of the field is getting the personnel at the right spots to run your best scoring looks. Communication is to make sure everyone knows what to do and is willing to help each other. It’s the same on the defensive end.

Continuing to communicate is important because adjustments are needed and it’s a fast-paced, free-flowing game. Our players need to be so prepared at practice for all of these changing situations, like if an official calls a foul, you have to be resilient and be able to manage those changes. That’s one of the beauties of lacrosse. You can prepare your unit in practice so that practices are so intense that on game days you’re ready and don’t have to be overly thoughtful. You can just allow yourself to be an athlete and react to the situation because you’re prepared for it.”

The immediate goal for the Red is to finish in the Top 4 in the Ivy League standings, which guarantees a place in the Ivy League playoff tournament. The winner of that tournament is automatically selected for the national NCAA tournament. Belief in each other and on-field success have made the team confident that it can achieve that goal, according to Steinberg.

“I feel so confident about our players and coaches,” she said. “Every single person on the field is a threat. It’s awesome that from the freshmen to the seniors, everyone is so talented and is really stepping up. But it’s also nice to know that there is so much room for improvement, so if we keep on improving and keep playing well, the sky’s the limit.”

THE ROAD TO NCAA NATIONALS: Red Focuses On Creating Solid Unit To Improve Dominance The seniors’ play has improved throughout their time at Cornell, but they have never had a team with as much talent and potential as this one, according to Steinberg.

“Since I’ve been on the team this is the first year that our confidence has been through the roof,” she said. “We have so many talented players and it all stems from knowing that every girl on the field is contributing in some way.

Knowing how talented we are and how well we work together as a team is really something special.”

According to senior midfielder and captain Katie Kirk, the seniors are friends both on and off the field, and shared motivation to succeed has made the friendship even stronger.

“We’re not only good friends on the field, but we support each other off the field as well,” she said. “Being determined, focused, and having our number one goal as having a great season has brought us together. We have strived to be good

on the field.”

According to Graap, the team’s coherence also serves to build leadership, character and mutual understanding of each individual’s unique personality and capabilities.

“Our team embraces the idea of taking care of each other and supporting each other off the field,” she said.

“We take alot of pride in that. We spend alot of time in the offseason together doing things like community service, the Hoffman Challenge Course, and different leadership exercises. We get to know one another other off the field so we can get a sense of the strength, character and leadership that each individual brings.

This team can embrace each other’s differences and uniquenesses and really support each other. There are always differences between people, so it’s nice that the players feel good about being themselves and being unique.”

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Officer in Discrimination Claim Among Highest Paid Employees

By MICHAEL LINHORST Sun Senior Writer

Sgt. Douglas Wright, an Ithaca Police officer who is suing the city for racial discrimination, was the second-highest paid employee in the Ithaca police and fire departments in the most recent pay period for which records are available. During that period, his pay was higher than the two officers who, his lawsuit says, were unfairly promoted at Wright’s expense.

Wright took more money home than 43 more senior members of the police and fire departments and was paid $12,000 more than the chief of police during that pay period, according to SeeThroughNY.net, a non-profit organization that gathers government expenditures in New York State. Wright received a total of $113,474.46 during that one-year period, which ended March 31, 2011, SeeThroughNY figures show.

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As anger swells over the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old AfricanAmerican male, Cornellians gathered in solidarity at Ujamaa Residential College Thursday to discuss critical issues surrounding the tragedy.

On Feb. 26, Martin — who was walking, alone and unarmed, to the home of his father’s fiancee — was spotted by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch member. Zimmerman called the Sanford Police Department to report Martin’s supposedly suspicious behavior while he followed the teen. The two later engaged in a confrontation, which resulted in Martin’s fatal shooting.

Zimmerman says that his shooting of Martin was self-defense. Though the lead homicide investigator in the case said he did not believe Zimmerman’s claim, Zimmerman has not been arrested or charged.

Martin’s death has galvanized activists around the country and at Cornell to demand justice for his shooting.

Thursday’s forum was hosted by the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, which — along with the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association and Black Students United — co-sponsored a rally yesterday that drew more than 50 people to commemorate Martin’s death.

Kappa Alpha Psi invited Darrell Butler ’87, a diversity and professional development consultant, to moderate the discussion. Butler said he is from the Orlando area and has had conversations with Martin’s family, as well as with the mayor of Sanford, Fla. — the city where Martin was shot.

After providing a summary of the facts of the shooting, Butler challenged forum participants to look beyond racial issues and examine Martin’s death from a different lens, asking, “How do we break the cycle of killing black men based on assumptions?”

Butler said that after the shooting, he had “the talk” with his seven-year-old daughter about how to respond when a stranger approaches. He said that the expeSee TRAYVON page 5

the 10 highest-paid employees in the police and fire departments — a group that includes about 140 personnel.

Wright said that overtime work often inflates officers’ earnings, and that “other types of time ... if not taken as time off, are paid out.”

“Officer pay is often increased by thousands because they work many hours of overtime throughout the year,” Wright said in an email. “It is not the officer’s fault the overtime exists. Due to the unpredictable nature of police work, there is a rather high frequency of overtime.”

The figures from SeeThroughNY are the officers’ total pay, which includes overtime, the organization says.

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Remembering | Professors and students gather Thursday at Ujamaa to discuss the death of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teen who was shot in February.

Father of LEED: Green Bldgs Create Jobs, Reduce Energy Use

By BYRON KITTLE Sun Staff Writer

Rick Fedrizzi, co-founder of the United States Green Building Council and father of the LEED standard for evaluating buildings’ environmental impact, spoke at Cornell Thursday about how sustainability initiatives could spur economic growth while creating a healthier global environment.

Fedrizzi said that sustainable buildings are on the “center stage” of the planet’s environmental issues, because the world’s population is increasingly growing around centralized urban areas.

“Energy, water, waste materials, human health, all of the social implications of climate change –– all these things matter,” Fedrizzi said. “But when you consider that the great

majority ... of the world’s population is now living in cities that only occupy two percent of the world’s land mass, using up two-thirds of all energy [and] producing more than twothirds of all [carbon dioxide] emissions ... buildings are the way that we can at least do “We also know something solid economic dramatic.”

Fedrizzi this.” compared LEED to Rick Fedrizzi the nutritional facts found on food packaging: The certification could be an easy way for individuals and organizations in the construction industry to evaluate a building’s potential for sustainability and show how making a building sustainable could be economically advantageous.

“When we look at the idea of sustainability through the lens of green building,” Fedrizzi said, “you build green, it saves energy, it saves money, it creates jobs, it improves infrastructure and basically we grow [the] real estate market in an entirely different way.”

According that there’s a Fedrizzi, by case in all of to 2 0 5 0 , America will require almost s e ve n t y quadrillion BTUs of energy — a drastic increase from the amount needed today — to remain sufficiently powered. By focusing exclusively on renewable and nuclear energy, Fedrizzi said that number could be reduced to around sixty quadrillion BTUs. But Fedrizzi added that the most

drastic reduction of energy use would occur by focusing on the potential to reduce energy consumption through creating green retrofitting jobs to upgrade existing buildings to make them sustainable.

“In doing so, you can drop the energy demand to about 30 [quadrillions] of energy by the year 2050,” he said. “We also know that there’s a solid economic case in all of this. And the more that I can prove that we are absolutely creating value, creating jobs … [and] that we are able to do all of this in the name of a healthier planet and a healthier human population, then I think we’ve got no problem moving [green building] to a ten-trillion-dollar market.”

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By SYLVIA RUSNAK Sun Staff Writer

After the Supreme Court heard three days of oral arguments last week about the constitutionality of one of the nation’s most contentious pieces of legislation, President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Cornell professors weighed in with reactions and predictions for the case’s outcome.

“I would say that the oral arguments shifted views here in the Law School, from the expectation of a relatively easy victory for the government to thinking it's too close to call,” Prof. Kevin Clermont, law, said in an email Tuesday.

If upheld, the health care bill, signed into law by Obama in March 2010 and now often called Obamacare, would require almost all Americans to purchase health insurance plans or face fines, beginning in 2014. This particular aspect of the bill — arguably its most hotly debated component — is known as the individual mandate.

“The idea behind the individual mandate was that ... you want as many people in the health insurance market as possible so that everyone’s cost is lower,” Prof. John Blume, law, said. “If there are people that don’t have health insurance, they are the ones that drive the cost of the system.”

However, Blume added that the issue before the court is whether an individual mandate is constitutional — and if the government can force Americans to purchase health insurance.

The question is whether Congress can “require someone to effectively have health insurance or penalize them,” Blume said.

According to Clermont, most professors in the law school expected the Supreme Court to see the act having an economic impact that would be “sufficient to authorize congressional action.”

“The early expectation was based on the notion — even among those of us who believe in a limited federal government — that the Supreme Court's cases had already gone so far in expanding the Commerce Clause power that there was no logical way to strike down the Health Care Act,” he said.

Prof. Theodore Lowi, government, cited legal precedents that the Court has previously interpreted to give Congress the power to impose national provisions similar to the individual mandate. He referenced Wickard v. Filburn — a 1942 Supreme Court decision that upheld the Roosevelt administration’s policy of restricting the amount of land on which farmers could grow certain produce — and Social Security, which Lowi said is a form of “forced saving.”

Lowi said these “significant precedents” give him hope that the Court will ultimately decide to uphold the legislation. Even the strict conservatives on the Court “have to be supportive of the previous courts,” he said.

Still, Clermont criticized the oral arguments, calling them “sad” and saying they “exposed the politicization of the Court.”

“Mere precedent and logic looked insufficient to deter the Justices’ voting those merits along ideological lines,” he said.

Still, according to Clermont, some professors at the Law School maintain that conservatives’ questioning at the oral arguments was “largely bluster,” and that some conservatives will still vote to uphold the act now that they have had the opportunity to voice their opinions.

On the third day of arguments, the Justices considered whether the individual mandate could be severed from the entire bill, allowing the Court to uphold the constitutionality of the rest of the act while striking down the mandate.

Blume said that both the bill’s defenders and opponents argued that Congress would probably not have passed the legislation without including the individual mandate.

“That’s sort of the economic engine that makes the entire thing run, and without that, it’s not really sustainable,” he said. “The irony about this is [that] twenty years ago, the private mandate was a conservative idea. Now it’s being criticized as being a liberal idea, and that’s not the origin.”

However, Blume added that it would be unprecedented for the Supreme Court to vote down a piece of legislation “this broad and this significant that has such an effect on the national economy.”

“I think it was normally believed going in that almost everyone would vote to uphold it, and after the oral arguments, you saw lots of people saying …

‘It looks like the individual mandate is going to be struck down five to four’ and … ‘We don’t know what’s going to happen to the other parts,’” Blume said. “I’m not sure I see [the Justices] doing that at the end of the day, but I wouldn’t bet my entire IRA on it.”

But having followed the oral arguments closely, Blume said he still believes that “the most likely outcome, although not certainly definite, is that the Supreme Court upholds the law by either a five-tofour or a six-to-three margin.”

The Court is expected to rule on the case in June.

Sylvia Rusnak can be reached at srusnak@cornellsun.com.

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High School Students Experience Engineering First-Hand at Cornell

By ROMMIA WHITE Sun Contributor

Graduate students from Cornell's College of Engineering welcomed 41 families to Olin Hall on Saturday for the third annual WOMEN event, an outreach program designed to give female high school students the opportunity to experience the study of engineering first-hand.

The program allows high school students and their families, the majority from nearby rural areas, to take part in hands-on laboratory experiments and attend informational panels. Members of WOMEN — which stands for Women’s Outreach in Materials, Energy and Nanobiotechnology — hope the event will inspire more female students

to pursue careers in engineering.

“We are trying to get women to actually think about going into engineering when they go to school,” said Kathy Rogers grad, a chemical and biomolecular engineering student. “Females are underrepresented in a lot of the engineering majors.”

In addition to exposing students to engineering disciplines, members of WOMEN said the program also helps recruit students to Cornell, in particular.

“Cornell typically targets the closer high schools,” said Deirdre Costello grad, operations facilitator for WOMEN. “I think it’s good exposure for Cornell to reach out to schools outside of Ithaca.”

As an outreach coordinator for WOMEN, Rogers said parents have

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High school sophomores and their parents extract DNA from blended bananas in one of several experiments they participated in at WOMEN’s annual outreach event in Olin Hall Saturday.

expressed increased interest in Cornell because of their children’s experiences with the program.

WOMEN invited students in the 10th grade, Rogers said, “because next year, the girls will start looking at colleges and start figuring out what they want to do.” She said that the event gives students an opportunity to learn how to best prepare to apply to the engineering college.

According to Prof. Susan Daniel, chemical and biomolecular engineering, who is the faculty coordinator for WOMEN, the program is maintaining a long tradition of encouraging young women to pursue STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — majors at Cornell.

This has “had an impact on getting our undergraduate classrooms nearly 50-50 female [to] male, at least in chemical engineering,” Daniel said.

In addition to learning more about the field of engineering, the students who visited Cornell on Saturday were able to participate in several interactive, hands-on experiments in Olin Hall, Costello said.

For instance, the high schoolers learned about viruses, watched students demonstrate how to make nylon and took part in a laboratory experiment in which they were taught how to make lip gloss and perfume, according to Rogers and Costello. Later in the day, parents were able to join their daughters in the lab to experiment with extracting DNA from bananas.

Parents could also attend a financial aid seminar and to take a campus tour.

Additionally, faculty spoke to parents at an informal seminar about the latest news in engineering at Cornell.

According to Daniel, survey results from previous WOMEN events show that parents appreciate the chance to be involved in the program.

“Our formula seems to be just right, as our feedback is always incredibly positive,” Daniel said. “We find that many rural parents haven’t had much college experience themselves and don’t have a really clear picture of engineering, so it is critical to engage them — to equip them with the correct information that can effectively influence their daughters’ decisions toward STEM careers and college.”

The program is also well-received by participating high schools, according to Costello.

“Not only are schools sending students back each year, but more and more schools are accepting Cornell’s invitation,” she said.

Daniel said that, ultimately, “everyone wins” in the WOMEN program.

“The 10th grade girls get a taste of college life ... and a chance to see what is thrilling about science and engineering; the parents get information that helps them prepare their daughters for college and encourage them into STEM careers; the graduate students learn how to lead and mentor; and the faculty get the chance to promote science,” she said.

Rommia White can be reached at rw427@cornell.edu.

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C.U.Aims for LEED Certification SUSTAINABILITY Continued from page 1

building practices has been ramping up at Cornell, where the Board of Trustees, as part of the University’s Green Building Initiative, has required all new buildings on campus that cost more than $5 million to achieve at least LEED silver certification — the third highest rank attainable — since 2011.

Prof. Sheila Danko, chair of the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, agreed that pursuing LEED certification made sense for Cornell, but said that it was not a one-size-fits-all undertaking. Additionally, Danko said, some organizations, including some governmental institutions, have questioned the appropriateness of LEED. “[It’s] a really important question . . . that’s being asked a lot right now,” Danko said. “Why should we go through this? Why should we pay all of the extra money and expend the extra time and energy to do this? It costs money to hire people to document . . . these things.”

For a building to be considered for any LEED certification, Danko said, its owners are required to do “a lot of extra work,” such as compiling checklists of quantifiable environmental performance, calculating water use and air quality, recording materials used for construction and documenting how the building was constructed.

After the owners of the building have produced all necessary documentation, they must calculate how many points are potentially achievable under the LEED standard and submit a request to be certified for that number of points.

“The process is very labor intensive,” Danko said. “To document the fact that you did it in such a way that somebody else can review it critically and assess whether or not you met [the LEED standard] — that’s where all the extra work comes in.”

Still, Danko said Cornell decided to pursue LEED certification to raise societal awareness around green projects and to start a dialogue with the community on what it means to pursue environmental sustainability.

“To a large extent, it’s about the value of communication; it’s about raising awareness; it’s about walking into a building and seeing the seal [and] going, ‘Oh, I think I know what that means,’ or ‘What does that mean?’” Danko said. “That might not be appropriate for some other institutions. It’s not that they’re wrong and we’re right for doing it — for us at Cornell, it is about educating the populace.”

Prof. Ying Hua, design and environmental analysis, a member of the United States Green Building Council, said she is working with students on campus to explore how occupants of sustainable buildings become aware of what standards like LEED actually mean.

“This is a good way to communicate with building users . . . to introduce this as something special about this building and to give people a reason to learn more,” Hua said. “LEED is not just an evaluation system, but quite an effective education tool.”

Hua is also working with students from Cornell University Sustainable Design, an interdisciplinary group that promotes environmentally friendly structures, to create course material that other colleges could use as a framework for integrating sustainable building practices into their curriculum.

According to Danko, the University pursued the maximum number of LEED points possible — equivalent to platinum status — for the new Human Ecology Building, located behind Martha van Rensselaer Hall. Although the building’s construction standards fell short of the goal, it achieved gold status, the second-highest standard.

Fedrizzi, who toured the campus before his speech, said he was “blown away” by the LEED-certified buildings in the College of Human Ecology, adding that they have created a more pleasant working environment for students.

“I’m looking at these hallways filled with sunlight and these natural wood finishes,” Fedrizzi said.

“When you start to look at just what’s happened on this campus ... you see that the transformation is really beginning.”

Byron Kittle can be reached at bkittle@cornellsun.com.

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Racial Issues Discussed at Forum TRAYVON

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rience provided an opportunity to learn from the circumstances of Martin’s death.

Additionally, Butler said that the shooting demonstrated a need for increased youth mentorship.

“We can view this as a teachable moment for teenagers who we have not been able to mentor yet,” Butler said. “Let’s do something different from what were conditioned to do — get away and scream as loud as you can, ‘A stranger is trying to hurt me!’”

Butler emphasized the need to hold elected officials and voters more accountable for enforcing the fair use of self-defense under laws such as Stand Your Ground, which Martin’s shooter George Zimmerman has used as a defense for his actions. The Stand Your Ground law allows citizens to use deadly force to defend themselves when they believe their lives are in danger, even if they could retreat from the situation.

“A challenge of the law is a good thing, and even the writer of the law said he did not intend for it to be used like this,” Butler said. “How do we move forward and hold our elected officials accountable? How do we hold the voters more accountable?”

Janelle Boyd ’13 said the shooting raised a number of complex issues.

“Has it ever been looked at that an adult killed an adolescent — that Zimmerman was 28, and Martin was 17?” Boyd said. “What can we do and how should we look at it? What are we fighting for and what is the bigger picture?”

Students said the conversation also provided a chance to talk about other hot button issues that may have contributed to the environment in which Martin was shot.

“The biggest thing that stuck out to me … is that [Martin’s death] transcends a racial issue,” said Bashir Alhadi ’13. “A lot of things were said [at the forum] that introduce different variables like age and socioeconomic status.”

Butler said he hoped the forum empowered its participants to become more passionate about issues of social justice –– a goal that Boyd said she felt the discussion achieved.

“Awareness is important and my voice counts, and if we get other people on board, then we can really make a difference,” Boyd said. “This is deeper than Trayvon Martin, and it has become bigger than him.”

Alhadi said she is optimistic about spreading awareness about racial profiling and police misconduct to the wider Cornell community.

“We wanted to use this to kick off the weekend purposefully,” Alhadi said. “This is an issue pertinent to the community and something that is not going to change overnight.”

Mark Seals II ’12, another member of Kappa Alpha Psi, also praised the event, calling the discussion “very informational.”

“I felt we had good representation and good discussion,” Seals said.

“Everyone had different points and we can now take into consideration each perspective.”

Dan Temel can be reached at dtemel@cornellsun.com.

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crimination he argues he suffered.

Wright, who is the second white Ithaca Police officer to allege discrimination, says that he was unfairly passed over for promotions twice. In both instances, he says, a black officer was promoted instead of him due to the black officer’s race. Wright is seeking $10.5 million from the lawsuit’s defendants, who include the IPD, former Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson and other city officials.

Wright “has been deprived of income in the form of wages, benefits, promotional opportunities and job assignments which were made or denied because of [Wright’s] race and defendants’ discriminatory acts and policies,” the lawsuit states.

“The defendants unfairly and routinely endorse, support and believe the word of AfricanAmerican and minority employees over that of [Wright] and male Caucasian employees,” the suit says.

The city filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on March 22, arguing that Wright’s assertion that he is white and was not promoted “cites no facts to suggest that one thing had anything to do with the other.” The city’s motion says that Wright’s lawsuit is “built entirely upon the bald assumption by Plaintiff Douglas Wright that his promotional failures were due to his race.”

In the lawsuit, Wright cites two

incidents in which he was eligible for a promotion but saw a black officer receive the promotion instead.

Wright alleges in the suit that in 2007, he was passed over for Pete Tyler, a black officer who is now deputy chief. In 2009, Wright was eligible for promotion again, but was passed over for Marlon Byrd, the lawsuit states. Byrd, who is also black, is now a lieutenant.

Because white male employees are excluded from “positions of visibility, authority and power,” Wright and other white males in the police department receive “lower regard, lower pay and fewer benefits,” the lawsuit states.

But in the 2011 pay period, Wright received about $1,000 more than Byrd and almost $20,000 more than Tyler, according to the SeeThroughNY data.

Paul Wagner, an attorney who is representing the City of Ithaca, declined to comment on the lawsuit. Other city representatives and police officials did not respond to requests for comment.

Wright is the second white Ithaca Police officer to make racial discrimination allegations. In another lawsuit, filed in May 2010, Chris Miller claims he faced harsher discipline than his non-white colleagues. He also argues the city retaliated against him for filing a human rights complaint.

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Re: “Students Deface Posters They Call Racist Against Asians,” News, March 26

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Dear Members of the Cornell Community, As many of you may know, the upcoming event “An Evening with Margaret Cho,” for which the Cornell Women’s Resource Center is a sponsoring organization, has been the center of a much-publicized controversy concerning the font used in the original event advertisement. The font that was used is called Chop Suey, and it has a history of being used to represent Western orientalist ideas of Chinese culture and identity.

The WRC would like to extend a sincere apology for our oversight in the production and distribution of the poster. The font choice of the original poster is racist, and we wholeheartedly apologize for offending anyone in the Cornell community. By allowing actions like this to occur on our campus, we perpetuate an environment and culture that condones and trivializes racism. While the WRC did not design or approve this poster, as a sponsor of the event, we accept responsibility for the content of any materials used to promote it.

We acknowledge that many people had various responses to this font, and within the WRC, we have used this as a learning experience to better serve the Cornell community. We hope that everyone involved and affected by this controversy will use it as a productive means for respectful dialogue around issues of race, identity and intersectionality in the Cornell community.

We stand in solidarity with all those who work for social justice and for the full and authentic expression of every individual’s complex identity.

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The Sun’s Berry Patch reporters have no ethics. They also have a thirst for blood.

They recently decided to bring together one male and one female from some of Cornell’s most aggressive campus organizations to fight to the death. This year, the Cornell Republicans, the Cornell Democrats, the Student Assembly, Cornell Organization for Labor Action, Pep Band and the Association of Computer Science Undergraduates kicked off the competition. May the odds be ever in their favor.

Right out of the gate, the Cornell Republicans started battling it out. It was like a vicious Presidential primary where only one of the two could win. The most handsome and rich of the two came out alive, severely wounded. He was quickly taken out by a member of the Cornell Democrats, who pounced down from the trees on the embattled Republican, ending his life with severe blows to his character and a ton of negative political advertising.

Cymbal Guy was one representative for the Pep Band. His first feat during the competition was to ensnare the snare drummer, the other Pep Band member competing. He was then free to turn his attention to the rest of the field. Known for his endurance when playing the cymbals really loudly at Cornell Hockey games, he also proved his endurance in the challenge. When one of the COLA representatives came at him running naked, armed with a bullhorn and angry letters to President David Skorton, Cymbal Guy took him out with one quick blow of his cymbals.

The other COLA member tried to get everyone to disaffiliate with the competition, just like he tried to get the University to disaffiliate with the Fair Labor Association. He was about as successful at the former as he was at the latter, and was killed soon after. A Student Assembly candidate had a similar idea. He tried to draft a resolution to get The Sun to end this competition, but The Sun doesn’t really care about the petty requests of the Student Assembly, so that ended quickly.

The computer science group proved to be the most crafty. Immune to the idea of sleep, they came in with the biggest advantage. They quickly discovered that the best option would be to construct a giant booby trap outside of Libe Café, ensnaring everyone who walked in the door. This successfully took out everyone on the Student Assembly, the Cornell Democrats and the COLA representatives, as these groups couldn’t resist the temptation to go into their usual roosts.

Cymbal Guy saw his opportunity. After years of going to athletic games, he decided to use his connections on the sports teams, sending a horde of athletes to take out the nerds once and for all. Cymbal Guy, finally defeating the competition, let out a deafening roar. Now, the campus, left without its leaders, is turning to Cymbal Guy for guidance. He now writes letters to Skorton and runs naked through the Arts Quad to protest all clothes made by workers. Skorton is confused.

A positive look at tenured profs To the Editor: Re: “Cornell Leans on Tenured Profs,” News, April 4 The Cornell Sun’s coverage of statistics suggesting that Cornell has a high ratio of tenured to adjunct faculty framed this finding primarily as a negative thing — a problem to be solved. While The Sun did include quotations to the effect that Cornell’s lower levels of adjunct faculty was of benefit to the University, all of these were placed in the second half of the article and on the inside pages, apparently in mitigation of the overall disappointment at Cornell’s commitment to tenured faculty.

I would suggest that this is rather something that Cornell should take pride in. A commitment to hiring faculty such that they have a degree of financial security, access to full employment benefits and the full use of institutional supports does not seem to be something that should prompt apologies or the wringing of hands. Attempts to increase the use of adjuncts should alarm Cornell students concerned that their professors are able to give their fullest attention and commitment to students’ academic development. As an instance of the broader phenomenon of the casualization of the labor force, students should be equally concerned about the consequences of a trend toward greater economic insecurity for workers in all spheres.

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CORRECTION An article titled “Students, Faculty Doubt Efficacy of Plagiarism Software” that appeared on Thursday stated that the Judicial Codes Counselor, which is charged with assisting students with Code of Conduct violations, has not yet seen a case in which Turnitin.com — a plagiarism detection software — detected plagiarism.

While this is, in fact, true, the Judicial Codes Counselor does not necessarily see all of these cases. Each individual college’s Academic Integrity Hearing Board first hears them. The Judicial Codes Counselor only sees cases when an accused student requests assistance. According to Carol Grumbach, associate dean of students, the number of cases the CJC has encountered does not mean that Turnitin.com is ineffective.

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When Extracurriculars Are Much More Than Résumé Building O

ne of the reasons people choose Cornell for veterinary school is that Cornell claims that students have an earlier opportunity for practical experience than they would at many other schools. This is true — I know that there are at least a few schools where dealing with animals is not an essential part of the curriculum until students enter clinical rotations in their final two years (most vet schools are set up so that students are in lectures / labs for the first two years and rotating through the different departments in the hospital for roughly the last two years) and here we have the chance to start working with animals from day one. We learn how to do physical exams on all kinds of species at the same time as we learn about their anatomy, so we will really be able to apply our theoretical knowledge in a practical setting. In this block of classes that has just started after spring break, we’re going to have the chance to practice specific clinical skills on different species.

That being said, I’ve always been a proponent of the practice makes perfect mentality, and I had anticipated that vet school would involve a lot of practice. I am also continually impressed by how confident the third and fourth years seem to be in dealing with their patients and I assumed that this confidence was something they picked up in the first two years of vet school. What I’m coming to realize is that this confidence is not something that they necessarily picked up in a strictly academic setting. While it’s true that we get a lot of hands on experience before clinics, “a lot” is relative and really means that we get to practice routine procedures at most a handful of times.

Although this is a handful more than at many other schools, it still doesn’t seem enough to me to create the level of confidence and skill that I want to have before entering clinics.

What it really comes down to is that we have to take advantage of the tons of extracurricular activities offered to us — I think that these are the things that give us the prac-

tice and self-assuredness that I’ve admired in the upperclassmen. I’m used to prioritizing extracurriculars below academics, but I’m starting to think that in vet school, they should be on slightly more even footing. The multitudes of opportunities provided to us are not only fun and interesting, but also incredibly valuable practice. For example, there’s a community healthy pet clinic that the vet school participates in twice a month. Owners bring their pets in, and for $20 they get routine shots, a physical exam, parasite preventatives and other routine maintenance. The clinic is primarily staffed by students (who have completed the first block of classes in which we learn anatomy and how to do physical exams) with a few veterinarians from Cornell and the surrounding area on hand to offer help when needed. I participated in a clinic last November, and found it to be exhilarating and motivating and my comfort level interacting with clients and their animals skyrocketed.

In the same vein, underclassmen are encouraged to volunteer (for fun or for credit) in the Community Practice Service at Cornell’s hospital. Here, the third and fourth years are the primary clinicians, but the first and second years are the ones who get to greet the client and take a detailed history that we then present to the upperclassmen. There are also several jobs in the hospital that we can take advantage of, and wet labs run on a regular basis by the student clubs. For example, last weekend I participated in the large animal symposium which was put together by several of the student clubs, who had invited guest speakers for one of the days and then divided the other day up into a series of labs.

Doctors in the hospital had volunteered their time to teach

us specific techniques and then supervised as we practiced some of them.

As the year has gone by I’ve learned how to manage my studying so that I have enough time to do the activities I find most interesting (until it’s around two weeks before an exam, and then the studying takes over completely). I should emphasize that besides being good practice, all of the extracurriculars are a lot of fun and always help me refocus myself so that I remember why I’m studying so much and get excited about vet school all over again. All that being said, I’m just a first year — maybe I’ve got it all wrong and Cornell is a magical place where the upperclassmen have just learned how to do things by intuition and didn’t need any practice at all. I’ll report back when I

Nikhita Parandekar Hoof in Mouth get there, but right now I think I’ve learned that vet school itself is just a place where we learn all of the information we’re going to need to use in the future, but it’s taking advantage of the activities that aren’t formally part of the curriculum that really gives us the skills to succeed.

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a first-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

The Case for Passion W

henever I tell my friends what I’ve been doing since graduating in December, it usually comes as a bit of a surprise. I can only assume the surprise comes from the fact that I started an apparel company called Bora Wear that gives part of its proceeds to an orphanage for HIV+ children called TOTO Love even though: 1) I never spoke about entrepreneurship as a potential career option and 2) I wasn’t a Fiber Science and Apparel design major.

And I completely understand where this

these lofty ambitions, I soon came to the realization that engineering wasn’t for me. This college was supposed to be the most practical, yet I wasn’t seeing the applicability of the integral of sin(x) to the street children in Nairobi. You can call me naïve or a “Quitter!,” as my Engineering friends do, but I needed something else that better served my passion.

Even if you don’t find my story that interesting or compelling, studies have shown that passion makes a difference

attainment” in a chosen area and a “willingness to put in great amounts of time and effort.” In their study Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals, Duckworth et al wanted to answer the question why some individuals accomplish more than others of equal intelligence? Across six studies, these researchers found that grit, “working strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress,” accounted for significant impact on success outcomes “over and beyond that explained by IQ.” Cornell is awash with hard workers talented peoGuest Room and ple, but those two traits mean nothing without some underlying passion.

I know every Cornellian wants to be a success. I know you want to graduate from this university and make some indelible mark on this planet. But if you are not following some passion or interest, then you are lowering your chances to succeed. Just to be clear, wanting more money isn’t the kind of passion discussed here. We are talking about a drive that gets you out of bed and you never stop thinking about. We are talking about you being on the edge of financial ruin and still moving forward.

We are talking about being happy and enjoying every moment of your tumultuous journey. If your interests and your trajectory don’t line up, why are you doing it? Why are you making yourself

James Muna ’12

confusion comes from because they don’t see my underlying passion and vision. Simply put, I want to make Africa a better place.

I grew up in Kenya for half my life, with my family moving to the States in 2001. I was awestruck by how much better life in America was. The people definitely weren’t better but the convenience, the scale and the order of America was mind boggling. It was then that I decided that my goal would be to make Africa a better place.

Entering Cornell as a Civil Engineer, at the suggestion of my father, I saw myself radically altering the infrastructure of the continent, moving toward my inevitable Nobel Prize. Despite

in success. In 1869, Sir Francis Galton published the first social scientific study that analyzed genius and greatness. Galton collected biographical information on eminent judges, statesmen, scientists, poets, musicians, painters, wrestlers and many others.

Ability, he concluded, was not equal to success; instead, he claimed achievers were triply blessed by “ability combined with zeal and with capacity for hard labor.” In Developing Talent in Young People, Benjamin Bloom looked at the development of world-class pianists, neurologists, swimmers, chess players, mathematicians and sculptors. Bloom found that the general characteristics of success were a strong interest in the area, a desire to achieve “a high level of

suffer? Why are you resigning yourself to a life of unhappiness? With a profound attachment to your goal, you will find any way to get around the inevitable barriers that will arise.

Without that passion, it becomes that much easier to give up and live a life of mediocrity.

I didn’t apply to a single job, much to the chagrin of my father. Admittedly, I had no idea how to be an entrepreneur. If it wasn’t for Dan Cohen, and the entrepreneurship Lab (the business incubator at Cornell), I don’t think I would have fully pursued Bora Wear.

But this business is all about my passion and my vision. The beauty of someone purchasing something at borawear.com is that it isn’t just about the unique clothes, but it is about the fabrics we use and the textile jobs that we create, it is the smiling faces we will bring to the children at TOTO Love, and ultimately it will be the jobs we create when we open a factory in Kenya and start producing things there.

Don’t just follow the crowd. Don’t just look for the biggest paycheck. Don’t just compromise your beliefs and values. Do something that you care about.

Do it because you want to be successful.

Do it because you want to be fulfilled.

Do it because when you succeed you will be leading a life that you will be proud of. And isn’t that worth the struggle?

James Muna graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences this December. He may be reached at jmm548@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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ENTERTAINMENT Not the Fairest of Them All

LUBABAH CHOWDHURY Sun Staff Writer

After childhood, there seems to be something unsatisfying about fairy tales. Damsels in distress, unremittingly evil antagonists and chivalrous princes are all good and well, but wouldn’t it be nice if the damsel could save herself once in a while? Doesn’t the villain have any good qualities, let alone sympathy? And why is it assumed that spoiled, pampered princes are every girl’s ideal? Given the slew of fairy tale adaptations coming to cinemas this year, it would seem that quite a few of us want something more than archetypical characters and dubious messages about not only gender roles, but also about good and evil. Some movies and books have succeeded in reinventing the fairy tale. However, the greater part of retellings seem to have nothing new to say: The characters are as static and onedimensional as ever, and the troubling messages only come across more strongly than before. And despite all the hype, Mirror Mirror, directed by Tarsem Singh, is unfortunately of the latter category.

The movie opens with the queen (Julia Roberts) narrating Snow White’s pitiful saga: after her mother dies, the king takes a new wife, who wrestles the throne from the princess and declares it to be her own. At the same time, the queen declares this story to be her own, which sets expectations quite high: Who doesn’t love an indepth study of an antagonist’s psychology? Suffice it to say that these expectations are completely deflated almost immediately. All sympathies lie with the soft-spoken and spineless Snow White (Lily Collins), who has not been allowed to leave the castle since her father passed away.

One cannot help but suspect that it is not the evil queen Snow White to be their girlfriend for the umpteenth who stands in her way, but rather Snow White’s lack of time, the joke got rather worn out. conviction; once one of the stock servant characters conOne could say that the clichés and silliness were selfvinces her to leave the castle and see the plight of the peo- aware and therefore slightly more palatable. But no ple for herself, she goes merrily amount of self-awareness on her way without so much as could make up for the shoddy a “Halt!” from the ridiculouslycharacter development and Mirror Mirror dressed guards. While walking disturbing ending. Lily through the forest, she meets Collins looks like Snow Directed by Tarsem Singh the handsome and conveniently White, but she also acts like Featuring Lily Collins naked Prince Alcott (Armie Snow White. She never raises and Julia Roberts Hammer), who has just been her voice above a whisper and robbed by seven “giant her idea of rebellion is crashdwarves.” Their attraction ing a masked ball which her towards each other is instantastepmother has expressly forneous, albeit contrived, but it is bid her to attend. Her sympathwarted by the queen’s plan to marry the boy. Snow thies with the starving peasants make her somewhat more White is exiled from the palace so that the queen can have likable, but it is never indicated that she plans to do anyher way with Alcott. Hilarious high-jinks ensue. thing about it other than wring her hands and shed a few If only that were the case! The dialogue is wooden and tears. Like many writers and directors before him, Singh painfully unfunny: At one point, two of the guards is under the mistaken impression that putting a sword in pinky-swear to one another that they will not tell the a woman’s hand suddenly makes her stronger. While the queen about Snow White’s outing to the village. The montage in which Snow White learns how to fight shows dwarves’ salivating over Snow White is irritating and her determination, it also makes one wonder: Why doesrather disn’t she use this strong will of turbing, hers to overthrow her stepconsidering mother, help her people or at she is an least claim her prince? Why is unarmed she content to simply stay in woman in the woods? Her romance with the midst the prince is one of the shallowof seven est love stories ever depicted: we ll-mu s After a handful of meetings in which they ogle each other, they decide they are in love and of course the movie ends with a lavish wedding. Perhaps they do deserve each other; Prince Alcott has about as much personality as a rock, though he is considerably better looking.

In the end, Mirror Mirror makes no attempt to subvert or even trouble the gender stereoCOURTESY OF CITIZEN SNOW FILM PRODUCTIONS types and myriad other issues cled, albeit small, men. The queen’s labo- raised in the original fairy tale. Yes, the girl learns how to rious efforts to retain her youthful glow wield a sword, but does she really learn how to speak her are too close to the truth to really be mind and fend for herself? Yes, the boy gets the girl, but laughable; when she slathers bird drop- what does it mean if their relationship is based purely on pings on her face and tells herself to go to physical qualities? Mirror Mirror is that deceptive, pretty her happy place, one can easily imagine apple that disappoints from the very first bite.

Julia Roberts enduring a similar procedure outside the context of the movie.

Not to say that there wasn’t some laughter Lubabah Chowdhury is a sophomore in the College of Arts and in the theater, but after the dwarves asked Sciences. She can be reached at lchowdhury@cornellsun.com.

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The Men Who Knew Too Much Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy tells the story of George Smiley, a semi-retired British intelligence agent recalled by his boss in the early 1970s to investigate a Russian mole planted in the top ranks of Smiley’s former employer MI-6. His task is fraught with confusion from the get-go. Known internally as the “circus,” MI-6 has a weak immune reaction to their intelligence leak, and transforms from a potent intelligence apparatus to an asylum for paranoia. Director Tomas Alfredson throws us into a fog, and it’s only at the end of the movie that the sky begins to clear up.

Through a series of flashbacks and parallel narratives, the movie — adapted from John le Carré’s classic spy novel — chronicles Smiley’s investigation of the circumstances surrounding Operation Testify, an attempt by MI-6 to find the Soviet Union’s mole inside British intelligence. The operation culminates in a meeting in Budapest between agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) and a defecting Hungarian general, who possesses ostensible knowledge of the mole’s identity.

The movie begins with scenes from the mission. Prideaux is shot in the back by Hungarian agents shortly after leaving his meeting, which turns out to have been a setup. Buccaneer field agent Ricky Tarr (Tom Hardy) soon enters the picture. We learn that it was Tarr who originally acquired knowledge of the mole and tipped off Oliver Lacon (John Hurt), the civil service intelligence agent who assigned Smiley to the task.

But Tarr obtained this information through a love affair with the wife of a Soviet agent, creating a conflict of interest that influences

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his later actions. With Tarr on his side, Smiley enlists Peter Guillam, Tarr’s immediate superior, in a spy operation against the top four members of the circus. Their code names are the title of the movie.

But the new team doesn’t operate smoothly. Personality faults strain communication and provide a sub-context that casts doubt on many of their actions. Tarr has his love affair, which he hopes to continue if Smiley can pull off a swap of agents with the Russians. Guillam, a dweeby, awkward spy, is professionally oriented. He is reluctant to engage in devious activities, if they are Cornell even m o r a l l y Cinema upstanding.

Smiley is cold.

He’s not an engaging protagonist, though his success in his former career as a spy does make him the most interesting professionally. Each seems to possess an agenda of his own.

The viewer only gets a general picture of how these characters ally with one another through scattered, anachronistic recollections. As a consequence, the present remains unclear throughout the narrative. And even when the characters do open up with information or recount a memory of an important event, their stances remain unclear. For instance, it only becomes possible to understand Tarr’s connection to the chain of events after enough details emerge to clarify the relationship between cause and effect.

Simliarly, Smiley conceals his intentions, and his stoic demeanor suggests little prior disposition towards his former colleagues.

He negotiates with his teammates obliquely, providing them with enough information but remaining at arm’s length.

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Because of the general sense of mistrust, personal conflicts and the nature of espionage, very little information in the movie is reliable.

“Everything the circus thinks is gold is shit,” one of the top agents admits later in the movie.

It’s true, we learn.

The viewer joins Smiley in his task to COURTESY OF swim to the bottom FOCUS FEATURES of this shit, but the account is impersonal. We’re treated like a fellow-spy.

Alfredson’s visual and audio techniques assist in this mission. From across the street or in adjacent buildings, we see characters meeting. While this makes for a captivating cinematographic experience, it makes events difficult to interpret. The transition between scenes is choppy, leaving the viewer guessing what event or time period the narrative has just entered.

If one feels like an outsider, it’s only because that’s what a spy is: an outsider, privy only to the information he or she gathers or is granted access to. Above all, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy portrays an organization sickened by mistrust. The film examines the problems bound to arise in an agency committed to a national purpose, but whose currency of communication is necessarily clandestine.

In a 2008 essay in The New Yorker, Le Harpe, a former British spy, reflected on the general attitude he encountered while working for the British security service MI-5 and its emergence in his fiction. “The superbug

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ou are the generation of lost photographs,” a fam- isfied with his life as a billionaire, longing for a ily friend told me as he handed me another Leica Charlie Sheen-esque harem and a garage full of camera body to examine. The camera had a solid Bugattis, Paganis, and Ferraris instead of his single yet reassuring quality to it, like a semi-automatic weapon modest Honda Fit, and so decided that Facebook with a harmless trigger. He went on, “I used to work at Bel photos would cost $100 a year. Would you pay? I Air Camera, and I met my wife there when I was your age. personally wouldn’t want to lose the 750 photos I know cameras. There’s just something about film that dig- my friends and I have taken over my 6 year ital technology can never achieve.”

Facebook membership. I’m not quite sure any of It seems that film is out and digital is in. Kodak filed for those photos exist anywhere else anyway. We’ve bankruptcy in January, following Polaroid to the technolog- put all of our photographic eggs into only a few ical graveyard. What’s amazing to me is that Kodak actually digital baskets, which are tenuous at best. invented the first digital camera, but chose not to focus on Digital image technology is partially responsideveloping the technology for fear of undermining their ble for furthering our own narcissism. Cameras monopoly on film. Oops. are omnipresent, as are Photoshopped magazine I’m no Luddite. I appreciate the convenience of digital cover models. You don’t like the way you look in imaging technology (and technology in general) as much as that picture? Push that trash button and try it the next man. Digital images are generally a lot easier to again. This is nearly impossible to do with film; it’s work with: we don’t have to make our film pass through the hard to know immediately if you’ll get a shot X-ray machine at the airport, we don’t have to wait more “right,” and either way it costs you some money. We all than a second to see what our pictures actually look like, and know that guy or girl on Facebook or Myspace with all of we can carry thousands of them with us in a chip not much their pictures thoroughly vetted to portray themselves in the bigger than our image they desire, rippling thumbnail.

6-pack abs and all.

The jump to And to a certain extent, the digital has that’s all that we see of othbeen largely driven ers. Gone is the private by these convephoto album, saved only nience factors, but for your close friends and digital images have grandchildren. We “Like” Los Angeles no permanence. to see others keeping up Daze There are no negaappearances and showing tives of digital themselves off to the images. You might world. It is a compulsion have seen a .jpg of Keanu Reeves this week on the internet created by the panopticon of Facebook and social media: with a quote: “Archiving digital images is a technological your digital self is being watched constantly, but you can’t be dilemma. The idea of that discovered shoebox of pictures, or sure when or by whom. wedding album, will not exist digitally in your camera or on We might be hooking up with the digital but we still love your computer or in a ‘cloud’: you should print them.” film. Consider Instagram, Apple’s 2011 “App of the Year.”

How many of your pictures does Facebook own? We’ve All it does is make your digital photos look more interesting all blindly scrolled through and agreed to the Terms of and lifelike by putting a film-like filter over them. Film is Service. Suppose Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day, unsat- what makes the Ride of the Valkyries scene in Apocalypse

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of espionage madness is not confined to individual cases. It flourishes in its collective form. It is a homegrown attitude of the industry as a whole. Is a cure at hand? I doubt it,” he wrote.

The disease that Le Harpe describes counts delusion, paranoia and fantasy as some of its most dangerous symptoms.

Smiley finds himself in the midst of one of the worst episodes of this plague: members of the agency are definitely paranoid and obsessed with fantasies about the mole’s identity. Le Harpe experienced something similar. In the 1960s, while he was working for MI-6, he weathered a wave of communist paranoia that swept the agency and led to a blood letting. If the events of the story seem muddled, or if Le Harpe remains confused about the events in his own biography, the nature of the disease amongst spy agencies is much clearer.

Now so incredible, since all of the helicopters and guns have to be genuine, not just digitally added ghosts. Film is reel.

Keanu Reeves is releasing a new documentary this summer entitled Side By Side, in which he speaks with filmmakers like James Cameron, Danny Boyle and George Lucas about the shift from film to digital cinema. I can’t think of a better person to tackle the uncanny valley and the issues with digital 3D than Keanu, who brought the world into the age of CGI with The Matrix way back in 1999.

This week Google began testing their new augmented reality glasses, with the potential to overlay digital images onto our everyday lives. It’s an amazing sign of progress, but a reminder that we must overcome the shortcomings of digital imagery and cameras in our art and our culture before we can move forward.

I bid farewell to my family friend, who had given me another antiquity, a fountain pen, before bounding down his brick front steps and into my car. I tuned in to K-EARTH 101.1 only to hear Paul Simon pleading with the world, “Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away...”

Patrick Cambre is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pcambre@cornellsun.com. L.A. Daze appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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“We had a good game against them last year,” said senior midfielder Mitch McMichael. “We shut them down pretty good.”

While the Red has dominated the Crimson as of late, the team knows that Harvard is a serious contender this year and is not to be taken lightly.

“We expect to see a really talented team, who’s going to be eager to play a tough game against us,” Daugherty said. “We beat them twice last year – once on their field – and we beat them pretty handily in the Ivy Tournament at Schoellkopf. We look forward to seeing a hungry group who’s ready to take a shot at us.”

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Between the pipes, the Red will be looking to get the ball past junior goalkeeper Harry Krieger and freshman netminder Jake Gambitsky, who will be splitting time. Sophomore attackman Daniel Elipp will also pose a serious threat to the Red, tallying 19 goals and 14 assists for the Crimson this season.

Despite Harvard being a daunting opponent, the Red has spent much of its practice time this week trying to improve its own game instead of preparing specifically for the Crimson, believing that is the best way to prepare for Saturday.

“We’re focusing a little bit less on Harvard and a little bit more on ourselves,” Daugherty said.

“We’re getting back to basics and working on fundamentals: stick-work, ground ball play, and getting back to our fundamentals – which make Cornell Lacrosse what it is. We’re focusing more on us this week.”

While the team as a whole feels that it needs to do more to get to the point where it should be, the Ivy League and the NCAA has indeed been impressed by certain Cornell players, with standout freshman attackman Matt Donovan earning his third Ivy League Rookie of the Week award and injured senior attackman Rob Pannell being named a finalist for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award.

Zach Waller can be reached at zwaller@cornellsun.com.

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The women’s rowing team will travel to Princeton, N.J. and New Haven, Conn. this weekend to face Princeton, Radcliffe, Columbia and Yale. Coming off an impressive season opener last week, the No. 16 Red are prepared for one of its toughest races yet.

The team will race the three schools on Saturday morning at the Class of 1975 Regatta in New Jersey, before heading straight to Connecticut to take on Yale in the afternoon.

According to head coach Hilary Gehman, recovering between back-to-back races will be the Red’s greatest challenge.

“It’s not an ideal situation to get right on a bus for three hours after you race, get off the bus and race again,” she said.

“We’ll definitely be working on recovery.”

Gehman emphasizes the importance of getting the squad walking around the bus to make sure muscles are moving, while senior Anna Psiaki claims “chocolate milk and maybe a neck massage” are crucial to post-race recovery.

In the history of Cornell women’s rowing, the Red has only defeated Princeton once, in 1983. Psiaki says the Tigers pose the biggest threat on Saturday.

“Sometimes we look at Princeton as this unbeatable force,” she said. “But they’re girls just like us that work hard every day and I think we have the ability to work harder than them and beat them one stroke at a time.”

The Tigers opened their season with mixed results, winning two of their five events against Brown and Michigan.

While Princeton might be its strongest opponent, senior Taylor Goetzinger says the Red does not underestimate the other teams, especially Columbia.

“Some of our boats have never beaten Columbia before,” Goetzinger said. “They’ve snuck up on us when they shouldn’t have, but we’re prepared for that this year.”

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Out for blood | Though the Red has a difficult weekend ahead of it with races against Princeton, Columbia, and Yale, senior Ana Psiaki is confident that the team is well-prepared and rearing to go.

Columbia has beaten the Red in the 1st Varsity for the past two years, while 2011 marked Cornell’s first win over Yale in nearly ten years. Radcliffe, too, has increased its speed this year, Gehman said.

Despite these skilled competitors, Psiaki believes the Red is mentally prepared to take on the challenge.

“I think our greatest strength is our instinct and competitive spirit,” she said. “We have so many people that are fighters and want to win above anything else.”

Beyond this determined mentality, both Gehman and Goetzinger cite the team’s depth and speed across the board as major advantages going into this weekend.

“We don’t just have one or two fast boats,” Gehman said.

“I think all of our boats are going to be competitive, and our varsity is really fast this year which is an added bonus.”

“We’re really excited about our speed this year,” Goetzinger — the seventh seat on the 1st Varsity boat — added. “How we compete against Princeton and Yale will tell us a lot about where we stand in the Ivy League.”

Due to a recent change in NCAA qualifying, this is the first year that there will be an Ivy League championship for women’s rowing. Prior to this season, the Ivy League was a part of the Eastern Sprints Rowing League. However, the NCAA will instate a new conference qualifier system as of 2013. The winning team from each conference will advance automatically to the NCAA tournament, while remaining

schools compete for at-large invitations. The Ivy League championships will take place in May. According to Goetzinger, Cornell’s program has been steadily improving in recent seasons. In 2010, the Red achieved its first national ranking since 2004, and it narrowly missed out on the NCAA tournament in 2011.

“Our program is kind of up and coming over the past few years,” Goetzinger said. “We’re going from the underdog position to a crew that can hang with anyone.”

To prepare for this weekend, the Red has concentrated on stamina, recovery and mental focus.

“As a team we decided to start preparing for this race last weekend,” Goetzinger said. “We needed to get our minds in the right place for racing these teams and for recovering in between races.”

“We’ve been doing a lot of full-out race pieces back-toback to try and prepare for the double race format,” Gehman said.

Although they have a difficult weekend ahead of them, all three women are confident that the Red has the ability to win.

“We’re out for blood,” Psiaki said. “Nothing and no one can hold us back.”

Gina Cargas can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun.com.

Squad Hits the Road Red Plays Host to April Open at Barton To Play Brown, Yale TRACK & FIELD

By SHAYAN SALAM Sun Staff Writer

The men’s and women’s track teams will compete at home this weekend as they host a variety of teams during the April Open. Competing at the meet will be Syracuse, Binghamton, Buffalo and other schools. Additionally, two Canadian universities, Carleton and Toronto, will both make the trip down to compete at Cornell.

So far, the Red has had a successful start to the outdoor season. Both teams fared well during their spring break trip to California meets, and numerous athletes placed in their events during last weekend’s Ithaca Invites.

According to women’s head coach Richard Bowman, the meet should be an opportunity for every athlete to experience some fresh and strong competition.

“It will be competitive in almost every event with some great athletes. It’s time for people to start to make their mark in the outdoor season,” Bowman

said According to senior captain and decathlete Nick Huber, the meet is an important one for the men’s team as well, because it will be a rare opportunity to compete in the decathlon.

“It’s really big for a lot of guys, we’re going to race really hard,” he said. “The decathletes are going to be competing in probably one of three decathlons this year. Pretty much everyone on our team is competing and we’ll be going full strength.”

The decathlon, a grueling two day event, will test competitors over the course of the weekend.

This meet will also be the first outdoor meet where everyone on the team will compete together.

“Choosing the people to compete in each event will be really hard when we have so many good girls in each event.

However, I think that’s a good problem to have because it means we have depth on the team,” said senior sprinter Melissa Hewitt.

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Full out sprint | The men’s and women’s track teams look to improve on a successful indoor season at the April Open this weekend.

“We’ll have everyone at the same place at the same time which will help us feed off each other and get into a rhythm,” Huber said. “It will be very unified this weekend compared to the California meets and Ithaca Invite.”

The April Open, along with the Bucknell Invite and Upstate Challenge will be the three meets the teams will participate in before qualification meets like Penn Relays begin.

“These next three meets will be determiners of who will be able to qualify and go to our championship meets,” Bowman said. “These are meets where almost everybody on the team can compete and get a chance to make their mark.”

Both teams will soon find themselves in championship season, with only a month to go until the Ivy League Championships..

“We try to take it one weekend at a time and do the best we can, but when championship time comes around we’ll be really excited,” Hewitt said.

Bowman echoed her sentiments, but understands that his team needs to be cautious about becoming complacent, even though it performed well in indoor season.

“We felt pretty good about the indoor season, and we’re really lucky to have these meets to sort ourselves out,” he said. “We want people to understand that just because something went well during indoor season doesn’t mean that we can let up at all. That was a long time ago and we want the good things to carry over but we also don’t need anybody settling.”

with five starters batting over .300. Junior infielder Cody Slaughter leads the team at .339 with 13 RBI’s and two long balls. However, Brown’s pitching staff has struggled so far this season. Only two starters have ERAs below seven. Heath Mayo, who has the most wins on the team with two in five starts, sports a 4.50 ERA. The Red’s offense, though, which has been solid in Ivy League play, will likely be without sparkplug Brian Billigen, who suffered an injury last weekend.

Billigen is leading the team in all offensive categories except homeruns.

“We’ve got to remain healthy … It hurts to lose Billigen,” Walkenbach said.

The Bulldogs (6-18, 0-4) have dropped four straight conference games to Columbia and Penn.

They are riding on Cale Hanson’s offense to carry them through the deep Ivy league. Hanson is batting a team high .463 and has stolen five bases. On the mound, Pat Ludwig leads the team with a 2.27 ERA, but he has yet to record a win in five starts.

Junior Nolan Becker has also started five games, and has a 1-3 record with a 5.54 ERA. With the possibility of pushing past Princeton and Penn in a three-way tie for first with wins this weekend, the Red is focusing on putting teams away early, according to junior infielder Brenton Peters.

“We need to improve on getting ahead on a team that’s already down,” he said. “We’ve let a couple teams that we got ahead of stay around.”

The Red was guilty of this on Wednesday, when it let the Griffins hang around and come back from a four run deficit to make the game a nail-biter.

“We have to do a better job making sure teams know we’re going to stay ahead and not let them back in the game,” Peters said.

Shayan Salam can be reached at ssalam@cornellsun.com.

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

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Red Set to Battle Harvard at Home

By ZACH WALLER Sun Staff Writer

Looking to remain undefeated in Ivy League play, the men’s lacrosse team takes to the field this weekend to Cornell face surging Harvard. Things kick off Saturday at 1 p.m., with the Red welcoming the Crimson to the turf at Schoellkopf.

Following last week’s win at vs.

Dartmouth, the No. 5 Red (7-1, 3-0 Ivy League) sits in a three-way tie atop the conference standings and will be looking to make that position more exclusive by knocking off Harvard (5Harvard 4, 2-0), who also shares the honor (along with No. 10 Princeton).

Saturday, 1 p.m.

While the Red continues to domiSchoellkopf Field nate in the wins column, having won its last four contests – including 3 Ivy League victories – the team is still not satisfied with the way it has been playing and knows that it will need to step up its game if it hopes to down a team like Harvard.

“We aren’t too happy with the way we got our win last

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Facing off | Senior midfielder Mitch McMichael will have to go up against Harvard’s talented freshman midfielder Keegan Mitchell at the face-off spot this Saturday.

weekend,” said senior midfielder Chip Daugherty. “Our stick-work was poor and we didn’t run our offense. We made a lot of improvements this week and we’ve had a good week of practice so far. We’re really excited to have another home Ivy League game.”

Harvard comes into the contest having won three of

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Seniors Look for First Ever Win Over Green

Squad Splits With Canisius

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

By NICK RIELLY Sun Staff Writer

With a 3-1 record in Ivy play and a 7-2 record overall, the women’s lacrosse team is poised to make a run for the Ivy League Championship, a feat that has not been accomplished since 2006.

Coming off a huge overtime win against Princeton, the Red looks to build on its momentum against Dartmouth at home on Saturday, and hopefully climb even further in the national rankings.

“Dartmouth (7-1, 3-0 Ivy League) has always been a Cornell good team, and we have been working all this week to focus and develop a strategy against them,” said senior midfielder Katie Kirk. vs.

When Cornell (7-2, 3-1) faces off against the Green this Friday, the team will be facing a Dartmouth squad that is loaded with talent and looking Dartmouth to make a run at a national title this year.

The Green is currently Saturday, 5 p.m. ranked in the Top-10 in two Schoellkopf Field national polls. In addition, the Green is coming off a two game winning streak, and has suffered its only loss to nationally ranked Florida.

“Dartmouth is a good team, and we have had a lot of trouble competing with them in the past,” said junior attack Veronica Lizzio. “At the same time, every Ivy game is important, and we prepare accordingly for each one.”

However, despite Dartmouth’s firepower, Cornell is still riding its overtime win against Princeton last weekend. Senior captain Jessi Steinberg’s impressive performance earned her the title of womenslax.com Player of the Week. Her four goals and one assist against the Tigers propelled the Red to victory. In addition, senior

its last four, taking down Brown, Dartmouth and Michigan, while losing a tough, 16-8, decision to the No. 2 Massachusetts Minutemen. The Crimson will look to make the most of this recent success as it takes on the

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At the helm | Senior Cacki Helmer earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on March 12.

defender Cacki Helmer is having a career season, earning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on March 12 for creating numerous turnovers and collecting eight ground balls.

“The win against Princeton was great,” said senior attack Olivia Knotts. “It kept us in the running for the Ivy title, and made the game against Dartmouth this week mean even more.”

In addition to staying in contention for the conference title, a win against Dartmouth would give the seniors a victory against a team that they have yet to defeat in their careers at Cornell.

“This game against Dartmouth has some extra meaning for us,” Knotts said. “Not only would it give us a major victory in Ivy League play, but it would give us our first win against a team we have not defeated in three years.”

Cornell will face off against the Green on Saturday at 7:00 P.M. The game will also be Cornell’s “Pink Game” this season, as t-shirts will be sold and donations will be accepted to raise awareness for breast cancer.

Nick Rielly can be reached at nrielly@cornellsun.com.

After giving up an early four-run lead, sophomore infielder Ben Swinford’s RBI double in the top of the seventh inning gave Cornell the victory in the first of two non-conference games with Canisius on Wednesday. In the nightcap, the Griffins handed the Red just its second loss in the last 11 games, 7-3.

Canisius (17-16) plated four runs in the fifth inning of the first game, but the Red was able to fight back in the seventh. Freshman infielder Kevin Tatum started off the late-inning rally with a walk and an advance to second on a wild-pitch. He then came around to score on what would eventually be the winning run on Swinford’s double down the right field line.

Tatum scored two of the team’s five runs, and Swinford was 3-3 with 3 RBI’s in the game.

“We’ve had a great influx of young hitters,” said head coach Bill Walkenbach. “When one guy gets hot, it takes pressure off other guys and our offense snowballs from

there.”

The Red also got another solid relief appearance from freshman Kellen Urbon. He threw a scoreless bottom of the seventh to close out the game and record his fifth save of the season.

In the second game of the doubleheader, errors plagued the Red. Of the seven runs the Griffins scored, only three were earned. The offense also had no answer for the four different pitchers Canisius put on the mound, as it only recorded three hits.

Last weekend, the baseball team rode sophomore Connor Kaufmann’s no-hitter – the first in 32 years – to a sweep of Dartmouth in the first weekend of Ivy League play. This weekend the Red will head to Providence, R.I. for two games with Brown, and then to New Haven, Conn. for a series with the Yale Bulldogs.

The Bears (4-18, 2-2 Ivy League) are coming off series splits with both Columbia and Penn.

They sport a formidable lineup, See BASEBALL page 15

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Putting it away | Junior infielder Brenton Peters said the Red needs to work on staying ahead of teams when it jumps out to an early lead.