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Trustees Establish Search Committee To Replace Skorton

March on

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

The Cornell Board of Trustees announced the formation of a Presidential Search Committee on March 28, which will nominate President David Skorton’s successor.

Skorton will step down from his current position at the University to serve as the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution — the world’s largest museum and research complex — in June 2015. His departure from Cornell was announced March 10.

The committee — comprised of 19 members spanning numerous Cornell constituencies — was appointed by Robert Harrison ’76, chair of Cornell’s Board of Trustees, according to a University release.

Representatives come from the Board of Trustees, faculty, undergraduate and graduate student bodies, University employees, the Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, See SEARCH page 5

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Olmert’s Lecture Cancelled After Bribery Conviction

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All aboard | A Tompkins County Consolidated Area Transit bus arrives at the Statler Hall bus stop.

A former TCAT employee was accused of embezzling nearly $250,000 from the company.

Former Employee Arrested For Embezzling From TCAT

By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor

This article appeared online on April 2.

An employee of Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit was arrested for allegedly embezzling nearly $250,000 from the company over the last several years, according to police.

Pamela Johnson of Cortland, N.Y. was charged for Grand Larceny in the Second Degree Wednesday after a “lengthy police investigation” stemming from irregularities found during TCAT’s annual financial audit, according to an Ithaca Police

Department press release. Johnson allegedly diverted approximately $247,000 to an unauthorized bank account under the guise of payments to a TCAT vendor.

In response to the arrest, TCAT Chairman KyuJung Whang — who is also Cornell’s vice president for facilities — issued a statement confirming that Johnson’s employment was terminated as of Wednesday.

“The TCAT Board of Directors and the TCAT management team are taking their obligations very seriously in the wake of See EMBEZZLE page 4

In light of his recent conviction for taking bribes while in office, Ehud Olmert — former prime minister of Israel — will no longer speak at Cornell on April 8, according to a Jewish National Fund press release issued Tuesday.

The former prime minister was convicted of taking bribes to “ease the construction of a huge housing com-

plex while he was mayor of Jerusalem,” according to The New York Times. He is now facing up to seven years in prison and is barred from leaving Israel.

Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003, supervising the Israel Lands Authority during the construction of a luxury housing complex called Holyland, The New York Times said. The complex — See SPEAKER page 4

Police Discover Mobile Meth Lab Near Green Street Parking Garage Police discovered a mobile methamphetamine lab near the Green Street parking garage Sunday after testing bottles filled with hazardous chemicals.

Ithaca police arrived on scene at approximately 1 p.m.

Sunday near the 200 block of East Green Street and discovered approximately six bottles of an unknown chemical, which Lee LaBuff, assistant fire

chief for the Ithaca Fire Department, said could be reactive.

Upon arrival on the scene, responders tentatively assumed that the bottles were related to the production of meth, LaBuff added.

At approximately 6 p.m., state and local police were on scene alongside IFD. Technicians were able to confirm that the substance was methamphetamine, according to an IFD

press release. An outside private company disposed of the substances.

While firefighters were on standby, LaBuff said the situation was “stable” and that the public was in no immediate danger.

He added that responders “treat every situation as a serious hazard” when arriving on the scene.

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Dyson Business Program Ranked Third Nationally

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By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

For the third year in a row, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Cornell’s Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management as the third best undergraduate business program out of 132 schools surveyed in its 2014 rankings.

This year, Dyson ranked behind University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce — which were first and second respectively — according to the rankings.

Director of the Dyson School Prof. Chris Barrett, BRYCE EVANS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER applied economics and management, said the ranking Darren Wu ’16 and Matt Persons ’16 start on the first puzzle of Microsoft’s nationwide puzzle challenge in Phillips Hall reflected Dyson’s high quality of students, faculty and Saturday. alumni.

Since the the Dyson program focuses on undergraduates, “they [are at] the center of attention for a world class faculty [which] is reflected in Dyson’s especially Kwesi Acquay ’14 said. “Additionally, the respect that Dyson can foster a “collaborative, learning environhigh ratings for student satisfaction,” Barrett said.

Dyson has among the best employers in the world dif- ment,” Don Muir ’15 said.

According to Businessweek, many top undergraduate ferentiates our program. The top employers continue to “Dyson’s collaborative environment more closely business programs are separate from make a concerted effort to recruit emulates the real world working environment and corgraduate MBA schools, and a school Dyson students.” porate culture of today’s highly successful companies,” with a highly rated undergraduate “Dyson is committed to its Dyson’s undergraduate focus he said. program does not necessarily have a students, as it continues to comes from the program’s small class Students and professors said they expect Dyson to similarly ranked graduate program. size, according to Lawrence Ntim continue on its trajectory and remain a top undergraduThe Johnson Graduate School of innovate with new ’17. ate business program.

Management was ranked seventh by initiatives to improve “It’s one of the smallest under“With the renovation of Warren Hall wrapping up Businessweek in 2012. graduate business programs,” Ntim next winter, some exciting new faculty joining the prostudent experience.”

Students majoring in applied ecosaid. “The second you get in, they gram this summer and an even more selective group of nomics and management said Kwesi Acquay ’14 nurture you and focus on getting incoming freshmen next year, we aspire to improve furDyson’s commitment to students was you the skills and tools to become an ther in the rankings in the coming couple of years,” one of the program’s main strengths. effective leader, communicator and Barrett said.

“Dyson is committed to its students, as it continues innovator.” to innovate with a number of quality new initiatives to Because of the small size of its business program — Sofia Hu can be reached at improve students’ experience and career opportunities,” around 740 students, according to Businessweek — shu@cornellsun.com.

Myrick ’09 Talks Healthcare on Meet the Press Mayor says Ithacans generally ‘excited’ for coverage under Affordable Care Act

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on March 30 to discuss what host Chuck Todd described as being the “single biggest issue” driving American politics: healthcare.

Myrick — alongside journalists Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report and Peter Baker, White House correspondent for The New York Times — participated in the roundtable segment of the program and spoke about issues of healthcare coverage and their relevance nationally, as well as to the

Cornell and Ithaca communities.

Former Pennsylvania senator and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R) also took part in the discussion.

When asked by Todd if there was much discourse in Ithaca on the topic of healthcare and coverage under the Affordable Care Act, Myrick said people were generally “excited” to get covered.

“Particularly young people are signing up, which is good for us … one of the things we have is a huge pool of talent at Cornell,” Myrick said. “Young people with great ideas want to start their own companies [and] create their own jobs, but they’re not able to do it because they need health insur-

ance.”

Myrick went on to say that much of this demographic who still needs health insurance end up taking jobs in fields they do not enjoy or work at companies they have no desire to work in.

“We [end up] los[ing] out on a lot of innovation, because they’re not able to take these chances,” he said.

With regard to the Senate midterm elections in November — and the question if Democrats would be able to maintain their majority in the face of turbulent discussion surrounding healthcare — Myrick said he believes voters will be most concerned about issues pertaining to the

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Meet the mayor | Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 spoke about healthcare issues on NBC’s Meet the Press.

future.

“To me, it’s the future … elections are always about the future,” he said. “And Obamacare and the debate over it is increasingly going to become the path.”

Myrick elaborated on this point, saying that even if in the near future people would be “insured all over the country,” many would still be concerned with large issues such as job creation and educational attainment.

“Who is going to create jobs?

Who is going to help my kid go to college? Who is going to help us build a better country? ” Myrick said. “If the Republicans continue to talk about the past, I don’t think they’re going to be successful.”

The mayor, however, also spoke of what he saw as a pressing issue to Ithaca and the entire country. When asked by Todd what he considered the “biggest problem” he was facing as mayor, Myrick simply replied with “potholes.” “[Potholes are] a national epidemic,” Myrick said to Todd.

“The problem is broader than that … there’s a reason why we can’t afford to fix those potholes, and that’s something every mayor across the country is struggling with.”

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

Before The Break Cornell Admits Most Selective Class In University History An agonizing wait for high school seniors and applicants to Cornell ended at 5 p.m. on March 27, when the University notified 14 percent of its more than 43,000 applicants that they were accepted to the Class of 2018.

Cornell, Ithaca Could Face Trial For 2010 Suicide Cornell and the City of Ithaca could face trial this summer for negligence in the death of a Cornell student who jumped from the Thurston Avenue Bridge in February 2010, a U.S. district judge ruled on March 25.

Cornell Considers Cutting Free TCAT Bus Passes Due to Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit’s $700,000 budget deficit, the University Assembly is considering a resolution calling for Cornell to revoke free TCAT bus passes for first-year undergraduate and graduate students.

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TCAT to Employ Forensic Auditing Student: Cancellation Firm to Inspect Agency Records Of Olmert’s Cornell EMBEZZLE

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these grave allegations,” Whang said. “The TCAT board and management team are firmly committed to ensuring that such incidents do not occur in the future. We are reviewing all of our accounting processes and will implement all necessary changes.”

According to Whang’s statement, TCAT is employing an independent forensic auditing firm to “further scrutinize the agency’s financial records” in the wake of the incident. Wang also said the company will seek to require Johnson to make full restitution to the company.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and Joel Malina, vice president for university relations, issued a joint statement Wednesday conveying their disappointment over the “very disturbing news.”

“The County, City and Cornell have for years found in TCAT a solid partner in area transportation. We believe “It is deeply disappointing in its to learn that a steward of mission and have these resources allegedly w o rk e d hard to put her personal interests m a k e ahead of [the community.]” s u r e TC AT Svante Myrick ’09 and Joel Malina has the resources necessary to operate a high quality transit system,” Myrick and Malina said. “It is deeply disappointing to learn that a steward of these resources allegedly put her personal interests ahead of the taxpayers, funding partners, and riders who support and rely on TCAT every day.”

Myrick and Malina went on to demand the recovery of all of the lost assets to TCAT as well as improvement to the company’s internal controls to ensure that a similar incident could not occur.

“We know that if the Board finds that lapses in oversight and control enabled this activity to occur over the course of several years, it will hold appropriate individuals accountable,” they said.

Chief of Police John Barber commended IPD’s role in the investigation, according to the IPD press release.

“I’m proud of the effort put forth by Lead Investigator Fred Myers and members of the IPD Investigative Division who worked diligently to solve this crime,” Barber said.

JOHNSON “The investigation required an immense amount of concentration and attention to detail to adequately prepare the case for prosecution.”

Ithaca District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson echoed these sentiments, though noted that Johnson is currently presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

“It is important for people to realize that the criminal justice system will ultimately decide guilt and innocence, but this is a strong case,” Wilkinson said in an IPD press release. “It was a superb job by all of the people involved in investigating this crime.”

The date for Johnson’s next court appearance has not yet been determined.

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

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which some Jerusalem residents call “the monster” — grew to more than 12 times the height it was allotted in the original permits.

His verdict was “the most severe ever against a former Israeli prime minister,” The New York Times reported.

Olmert was scheduled to speak at Cornell about how Israel maintains a democracy amongst its Middle East neighbors, The Sun previously reported. The event was to be hosted by Cornell Hillel.

Samantha Weisman ’15, president of Hillel, said that while the organization was “disappointed” due to the cancellation, the situation was not under their control.

“Although we are disappointed he won’t be coming, the Jewish National Fund was bringing him and it was ultimately their decision,” she said. “It’s unfortunate,

but we have a lot of great programming for the rest of the semester [we are] looking forward to.”

Corey Shapiro ’17 also said the cancellation of Olmert’s appearance at Cornell was “unfortunate.”

“I was looking forward to hearing Olmert speak,” he said. “I was sad to see him convicted after how helpful he was to Israel in a time of crisis, when [former prime minister of Israel] Ariel Sharon suffered from a stroke. Olmert really took control of Israel at a tough time in the nation’s history, and will always be remembered for that.”

The JNF was to sponsor Olmert’s four-campus tour in conjunction with Media Watch International in order to drive constructive dialogue on college campuses about issues affecting Israel, according to a March 26 JNF release.

Aimee Cho can be reached at acho@cornellsun.com.

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Board of Trustees Forms Cornell Presidential Search Committee 1. JAN ROCK ZUBROW ’77, trustee 2. PROF. BARBARA BAIRD M.S. ’75, PH.D. ’79, chemistry and chemical biology, trustee 3. JOSEPH BURNS, PH.D. ’66, dean of University faculty 4. DAVID CROLL ’70, trustee 5. PROF. JONATHAN CULLER, English 6. ROSS GITLIN ’15, undergraduate student trustee 7. LAURIE GLIMCHER, Stephen and Suzanne Weiss dean of Weill Cornell Medical College 8. ROBERT HARRISON ’76, chairman of the Board of Trustees

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RONALD MCCRAY ’79, trustee ALAN MITTMAN ’71, trustee PETER NOLAN ’80, MBA ’82, trustee CHARLES PHLEGAR, vice president for Alumni Affaris and Development LELAND PILLSBURY ’69, trustee LISA SKEETE TATUM ’89, trustee ANDREW TISCH ’71, trustee SANFORD WEILL ’55, trustee emeritus BARTON WINOKUR ’61, trustee PROF. MARIANA WOLFNER ’74, molecular biology and genetics, trustee A graduate student trustee

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senior administration and alumni.

Harrison also appointed Jan Rock Zubrow ’77, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees, to lead the committee. He cited Zubrow’s years of experience on the board and involvement in the past two presidential searches as reasons for her appointment as committee chair.

“She participated in the selection of our 12th president, and David Skorton has proven to be a great leader for Cornell,” Harrison said in the release. “I am excited to see this search get underway, and I look forward to an inclusive and uniquely Cornell search process.”

Chairmen Emeriti Peter Meinig ’61 and Harold Tanner ’52 will serve as advisers to the committee, according to the press release.

Additionally, the Presidential Search Committee has formed several subcommittees to increase outreach to and obtain input from the campus community — including faculty, students, staff and alumni — according to the University. Open meetings will be held by members of these subcommittees in Ithaca and at the

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Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.

The open meetings will gather input on the ideal qualities the next president should have to carry through the University’s outlined goals and to identify “the type of individual” that will be able bring “his or her vision” into the context, the committee’s website said.

The meetings will also focus on identifying challenges the University faces — difficulties that “need to be part” of the incoming president’s priorities.

Zubrow outlined some of the main questions that would remain at the forefront of the presidential search.

“Some of the questions we will be asking are, ‘What are the current initiatives that have been critical to Cornell’s success, and what are some of the opportunities and challenges going forward?’” Zubrow said. “And therefore, based on those assessments, what do we think are the key criteria for the person who would assume the presidency?”

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

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lot gets written about senior soci- judge your merit.

Yes, prospective society members are eties at Yale. A lot. There have been articles, exposés, entire evaluated on the basis of whom they books devoted to these extracurricular know and how worthy some seniors activities. Every year, there are (it feels judge them to be. There is a distinct and like) dozens of columns that grace the well-known hierarchy of these societies, pages of the News, defending or cri- and everyone is aware of which ones are tiquing some part of the “tap” process. on top. Those societies — whose new Now I’m part of that trend. Oh well. members’ names are splashed breathlessMuch has been written about the process ly online by Yale publications — always but little has been written about the soci- seem to consist of presidents of organizations, famous athletes or artists and the eties themselves. Here goes.

Societies offend me. They are the rich and prominent. They were judged to products of an insidious and juvenile be the “best” at Yale. The kids in the next popularity contest that creates unneces- tier of societies were judged to be pretty sary stress during an already stressful good as well.

The friendships people form in these time. Societies are a problem.

Full disclosure: I received exactly one societies are thus founded on the basis fancy little envelope under my door, with of “we are all good enough for each my name written in spiky ink on the other.” Society members have been front and the letter closed with a preten- judged, found worthy, and only then tious wax seal. I threw it away without can they sit around in a dark room looking inside. That was the extent of my together and tell drawn-out, selfinvolved memoirs. These friendships exposure to the society tap process.

Nonetheless, watching my friends are predicated on exclusivity, on netsweat or pretend to shrug off this entire working, on condescension.

Of course, some people form wonprocess, I felt moved to write a column derful, lasting friendships through about senior societies.

A little background: The tap process societies. But that is not justification begins in the second semester of some for their degree of exclusivity and outYalies’ junior years, and it extends until a right meanness. People form wondercouple weeks from now. It begins with a ful friendships on FOOT trips and with roommates letter under the — which sort door, and it ends kids in an essenwith relieved stuThese friendships are tially random dents running manner. There predicated on exclusivity, around in cosare a lot of tumes — because on networking, friendly people nothing is more on campus. secret than loud, on condescension.

As to the conspicuous Of course, some people objection that, inductions. well, Yale’s selecMany who form wonderful, lasting tion process is defend senior friendships through these exclusive too — societies claim that is absolutely that they are a societies. But that is not true. Yet just way for people to justification for their degree because we necesget to know a sarily accept great group of of exclusivity and some degree of kids to whom exclusivity to get they had not been outright meanness. in here does not previously mean that we exposed. They are just a way to make new friends, to meet then passively accept all subsequent new people. Yet if this were in fact the exclusive processes. Yale is, for the most case, surely societies could just pick kids part, unlike senior societies. Yale wants randomly — literally, names out of a hat. to pick the best and the brightest in If the point were just meeting new peo- order to foster a thriving intellectual ple, why the long, drawn-out, overly dra- environment, not in order to foster matic tap process? Why the interviews? friendships. Friendships happen, and Why the stupid little tasks? (“Meet here they will happen no matter which peoat 11:03, not before, not after.”) Why the ple are chosen, but the academic ambiance thing is key. constant judgment?

Besides, imagine if the Yale applicaPerhaps the interviews and prescreening are merely meant to pick a tion process rested on gossip and intimigroup of people who will get along? But dation and furtive envelopes slipped no — if that were the case, surely the beneath doors summoning prospective interview questions and pre-tapping students to stilted interviews.

Societies are a massive time committasks would not be so personal, so invasive, so humiliating. Furthermore, ment. They cost hundreds of dollars. should friendships really be engineered? They are pretentious. They are not Shouldn’t friendships be organic, secret. But, worst of all, they are meanformed from some silly accident or spirited. They form friendships only chance encounter, remembered years among those who are deemed “good later in a fit of nostalgia? Perhaps that is enough” to get in. sentimental. Perhaps friendships should instead be chosen by a panel of college Scott Stern is a junior at Yale University. He can be seniors who secretly-not-so-secretly reached at scott.stern@yale.edu.

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All Mom, No Tiger

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my Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother might be shocking or just plain wrong, but if her initial goal was to sell books she has marvelously succeeded. “Tiger mom” is now a phrase that has spread beyond Chua’s dreams as part of our modern lexicon, used pejoratively to describe any mother who instills discipline for successful children. But let’s cut to the chase: Nowadays, people use “tiger mom” with racial undertones, evoking unspoken stereotypes of Asian women like a shortcut to avoid actually mentioning the stereotype itself.

I can’t tell you to stop saying a word, or command you to use it in different way — it is a free country, after all. But a free country also means I can snarkily ridicule things I don’t like, and until my editors fire me for being annoying I’ll continue to do just that. I’m also not going to defend Chua, because any person who recklessly generalizes entire cultures — “Chinese parenting” is superior to “Western parenting” — is unworthy of defense. If we can’t take the fundamental assumptions of her latest book at face value, then we shouldn’t assume her other contributions either at face value. Being an authoritarian is Amy Chua’s description of Amy Chua. If she described herself as the “unchill mom,” Chua is still describing Chua.

But with Chua’s encouragement, much of the mainstream media has exploded the term from its strictly ascribed boundaries of parenting into a cultural conversation that doesn’t exist. Chua, in a later interview following publication of Battle Hymn, smugly told The Guardian that “When I show this book to immigrants and immigrants’ kids, they were like, exactly, this is how it is. It’s funny, they relate, it’s not controversial for them.” Rather than question this association, the media went along with it. If you write something generalizing the negative reaction to Chua as American “fears about losing ground to China,” for example, then you should reconsider publishing it.

Putting Chua on a pedestal means accepting her equivalence of “Chinese parenting” — whatever that is — with anecdotes like telling her daughter if she doesn’t master a piano piece that she would take her “stuffed animals and burn them.” Subsequent news stories on these anecdotes describe them as cold, coercive, draconian and domineering. We have a stereotype for this: It’s called a dragon lady. And thanks to most people buying that logic, every Asian woman in America with children now runs the risk of being labeled a tiger mother. I’ve had friends who know nothing about my childhood — jokingly — describe my mom as a tiger mother. I don’t feel offended, but like well-meaning people asking me where I’m “really” from it’s pretty annoy-

By the time I was born, [my mother] was a computer programmer at the bank where she, years ago, worked as a simple money counter. ing.

Speaking of my mother: My mother grew up in the slums of Macau and when she turned 16, her father died. She dropped out of high school, weaving baskets to support her family. Later, she took a job at a bank to count money and went to night school. She worked up the ranks, teaching herself English and a little German to read computer mainframe manuals. She taught herself assembly code to work with those computers. By the time I was born, she was a computer programmer at the bank where she, years ago, worked as a simple money counter.

Chua would probably categorize my mom as “Western.” When it came to raising me, my mom did make me play the piano and violin, but she explained to me the importance of learning, rather than using force or threats. She told me to do my best, and never denigrated my achievements as “not good enough.” She rather I genuinely enjoy something than have it forced upon me.

Why didn’t my mother raise me in the same way that contributed to her success? After all, my mom’s own upbringing seems to confirm Chua’s assertions that the “Chinese culture” of discipline, drive and ambition contributes to success. It’s really simple: My mom was under the pressure to support her family and care for her younger siblings; something, of course, that Chua doesn’t mention much in Battle Hymn. For Chua, the drive to success is simply the parental imposition of pressure, not something as basic as putting food on the table. In this way, Chua masks complex economic realities: Chinese parents don’t work hard because they want their children to be “math whizzes or music prodigies,” they want to open opportunities for their children that they never had. This is not a “Chinese” or “Western” thing; this is a fundamentally human thing. Lackluster book sales of Battle Hymn in China and its title there, Being a Mom in America are both revealing on how tepid her argument linking “success” and “Chinese culture” really is.

Misattributing success also works the other way too in misattributing failure. For every success story like my mom’s, there is probably someone who worked just as hard and wasn’t successful. While Chua plays minstrel to the model minority stereotype, the assumption of Asian Americans pulling themselves up by their bootstraps is at the core of denying Asian-Americans fundamental educational services like ESL and Special Ed: we “learn faster,” so we don’t need those services as much. Chua also says nothing about the enormous cultural, language and economic barriers that Asian Americans face, and how they denigrate the mental health of students. However, this might be on purpose: A study undertaken at my high school showed how Chinese students suffered serious emotional blows from dealing with that pressure. This year, she and her husband touted in their new book those same Chinese students are exemplary of Chinese success.

Ultimately, whether she’s right or wrong, let’s not pretend Chua represents anybody else.

Kai Sam Ng is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at kng@cornellsun.com. Cross-Eyed and Painful appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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ccording to Iron ated Tony Stark and because buildings are Man’s director Iron Man to personify named after them at Jon Favreau, American capitalism Cornell; they’re legreal life billionaire as a superhero. That endary for their entreElon Musk inspired may be a pretentious preneurial success. the movie’s protago- claim about a comic Elon Musk’s ties to nist Tony Stark ... book character, but Tony Stark stems from which is kind of crazy claiming superheroes our desire to romantibecause Tony Stark is embody nationalism cize his achievements Iron Man ... a super- isn’t that farfetched. in the same way. hero. Don’t get me Ever hear of Captain However, when claim Unless Elon Musk inspired wrong, there are strik- America? ing similarities Marvel also publishes Tony Stark’s creation, between the two. But, a comic about George we overlook his Cold adventures War nationalist roots.

Musk wasn’t born Bush’s until 1971, eight years fighting the British, Al In general, we disreafter Tony Stark’s cre- Qaeda and the Nazis gard our successful ation in 1963. Musk (which is unlikely entrepreneurs’ origins may have made a because it doesn’t own to write mythos about name for himself at an the rights to George them, forgetting that likeness), so much of our talent early age, but he cer- Bush’s tainly didn’t inspire a Marvel couldn’t write comes from other more countries. For examcomic book character something eight years before his overtly nationalist if ple, we forget billionbirth. The similarities they tried. Obviously aire entrepreneur Elon between Tony Stark Tony Stark is a busi- Musk is originally and Elon Musk have nessman but more sig- from Pretoria, South more to do with our nificantly, Iron Man’s Africa and didn’t earn culture than their real early adversaries are all U.S. citizenship until and fictional achieve- enemies of American 2002 — after spendments. As Americans, we love remembering successful entrepre- Iron Man’s popularity in the U.S. neurs like Musk as represents one of our nation’s legends like Iron Man, even if it best qualities. We value industry means forgetting over autocracy or violence.

Iron Man was created eight years before Musk’s capitalism. In Iron ing fifteen years in birth.

Since the Iron Man Man’s origin story, Canada because our system movies’ release, we’ve written at the outset outdated confused Tony Stark’s of the Vietnam war, makes immigration so origins with Elon Vietnamese terrorists difficult.

Saying we should Musk’s origins. Tony kidnap Tony Stark to Stark may not be your extort weapons. His update our immigratypical superhero, but earliest foe Black tion system is not a controversial he’s beyond human. Widow is literally a very When he was first Russian communist claim considering that written in 1963, the spy sabotaging Tony immigrants built this artificial heart he Stark’s capitalist enter- country; but in the same way we dismiss designed to save him- prise.

Iron Man’s popu- Elon Musk’s origin self was as fantastic as Spiderman’s radioac- larity in the U.S. rep- story as an immigrant tive spider or the resents one of our because we’d rather Hulk’s gamma radia- nation’s best qualities. pretend he is Tony tion. The first artifi- We value industry Stark, we dismiss our cial heart wasn’t over autocracy or vio- own origin story as invented until 1982, lence. Where other nation of immigrants nearly 20 years later. countries spin legends because we’d rather Iron Man isn’t Elon around warriors or not deal with the Musk in red and gold royalty, our myths sur- political implications. armor ... or any other round businessmen. Our politicians priorireal human being for After all, John D. tize their fear of jeopmidterm Rockefeller and Bill ardizing that matter.

Marvel comics cre- Gates aren’t legendary elections over updat-

ing our outdated immigration system for increased efficiency. Postponing immigration reform has become a yearly event like Black Friday or the Fourth of July.

Congress even started giving paid holiday for its inability to compromise on the issue (not to mention all other legislation). ... I think they called it shutting down the government?

Nothing happened when the Obama administration proposed legislation in 2008; nothing happened when federal courts challenged Arizona’s controversial legislation in 2010 and nothing happened last month, when the Senate’s progress toward reform died miserably in the House.

We put immigration reform on the back burner because we’d rather spin l e g e n d s around our successes than acknowledge how much we owe them to immigrants. We can pretend Tony Stark and Elon Musk are only the same in so far as his 3-D computer interface for designing rockets (like the interface Tony Stark uses for designing his armor in the movies) overshadows the fact Musk started PayPal as a Canadian — not an American — because of our convoluted immigration system.

Eric Schulman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at eschulman@cornellsun.com.

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Collegetown — a feature length film by Hugo Genes ’10 and starring former Sun Arts Editor, Graham Corrigan ’11, and Faye Tsakas ’13, seeks to tackle issues prevalent in colleges and beyond.

Genes and Tsakas studied Applied Economics and Management and American Studies respectively during their time here at Cornell.

In a mixed documentary and narrative form, the film takes us through college culture, exploring “the social and financial factors that determine career choices made by graduates of our universities,” according to Collegetown’s Indiegogo campaign page.

The Sun had a chance to chat with Genes and Tsakas about what inspired them to create the film, the film’s direction thus far and their goals for its impact on the nation’s youth.

THE SUN: How did you come up with this concept?

F.T.: Or exploring why people have that mentality even.

H.G.: What causes it and what we can do about it because I don’t think it really needs to continue. It shouldn’t suck. It shouldn’t be like some cliff you go off when you graduate. And it did feel that way. When I graduated it was like night and day in terms of my friends and what was expected from us, and the happiness level from my peers was extremely low. A lot of people not enjoying their jobs, working crazy hours. They didn’t realize the decisions they were making on campus would set them up for this.

SUN: You mentioned the morally questionable things that you experienced at Cornell. Do you want to speak to any of those instances specifically?

H.G.: We’re looking a lot at application processes because I found that investment banks and consulting firms try to mirror the way colleges recruit in high school: The brochures and the wording. They’re selling a career to you as a young person. And Greek life

HUGO GENES: A lot of it came from personal experience at Cornell. I’m not trying to focus strictly on Cornell. I think COURTESY OF HUGO GENES ’10 this is something that’s happening at a lot of universities. But as I mentioned, I went to Cornell as an undecided major.

Open-minded to see where I would end up and what I would study. I was kind of open to anything; I didn’t know what I wanted to do. After a few months on campus, I became aware of investment banks and their presence on campus, receiving emails for events. Its presence on campus quickly got me enthralled, and it’s an unknown when you enter college. I didn’t really know what these financial terms meant, I didn’t know what investment banks did. I think that’s the case a lot of the time. In high school you’re not paying attention to those things, at least most people aren’t, and then college comes and I knew I was taking out debt to go to Cornell. In the back of my head I did have these financial recruitment process mixes into that in a similar pressures of what would I do after college to way as well. I think Greek life set me up with make money to pay those off … I was recruit- the mentality of don’t ask questions. Listen to ed by Wall Street at Cornell; I interned there. guys one or two years older than you and don’t … When I decided not to work on Wall really question what they say. That kind of don’t Street, I thought that meant I would find ask questions mentality I saw throughout the another industry or I would find another sector recruitment process for Wall Street. It was kind or something to work in, but trying to look for of like if there were questions asked … they other jobs, I realized that the financial industry were alley-oops for the alumni that were has a huge scope right now and kind of a stran- recruiting; they were questions you kind of glehold on other industries. So if I was looking already knew the answer to. I remember bringat jobs in other types of work in New York City ing up a question about oil and war at an event I was seeing that I would still be working in at Cornell and it did not go well. The whole finance in some way or servicing finance or room was shuffling, like God forbid someone making a lot less money. So those kind of stress- asks a question about world issues to a es that I was having sparked my idea to reana- Goldman-Sachs executive. What’s wrong with lyze what happened in college. I think in college that? Isn’t that what these events are for? To ask there were a lot of social situations not I’m not those questions? Isn’t that what college is for, to that proud of. I had a lot of fun in college, there ask questions about society and figure out what were a lot of great things about it. But I think you can do to influence it? there were definitely some situations that were morally or ethically questionable.

SUN: What are your goals for the film?

FAYE TSAKAS: The whole film is Hugo’s vision, but I’ve been talking to him for awhile.

I think it was once Hugo started talking with others about it and realized that a lot of people had similar experiences and sort of just paying attention to how many people were talking about student debt and how many news articles were written about student debt, about financial institutions all these things sort of subjects that were gaining more momentum, and I think that’s where we saw more importance in the issues.

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H.G.: We’re definitely targeting a young audience. I want pre-teens and teenagers. That’s why we’re making it a mix of documentary and drama. The documentary form doesn’t attract children as much as drama or narrative does. So we’re mixing a lot of different film styles to try to gear this towards a younger audience. I’d like teenagers to see this so that they can see scenes that are realistic, that are based on people going through them and that reenact what they went through so that when a young person is at a college recruitment office hearing about the financial aid package or hearing about the school, or

when they’re in a recruitment, they have a reference point. They’re not hearing about an investment bank for the first time in college … that would be ideal.

F.T.: The films these days don’t actually show any real footage of what college is like for our generation right now. Social media culture … there’s a lot of stuff in movies and television that really dramatizes [the issues], especially with fraternities and sororities and Greek life.

So I think we’re kind of thinking to show in some ways a more realistic depiction — a real snapshot of what top tier college culture is like at this time in 2014.

SUN: Neither of you majored in film. How did you get involved?

F.T.: I was a Visual Studies minor. I took a lot of film classes at Cornell. Hugo took some too, actually. Both of us were interested in film or performance in some way or another all throughout college.

H.G.: This is my first feature film. I’ve made

shorts before and I worked on a documentary before that was shorter. But this is my first feature film. All my professors warned me … I feel like we took a huge bite of something, chewing every day. It’s a bit overwhelming but it keeps me going.

A big idea in the film was to use as many social actors as possible. There’s a character in the film in a lot of student debt. Chances are that character’s played by a person who is in student debt in real life. If there’s an actor in the film being recruited or interviewing someone for a recruitment, chances are they’ve been through that process in real life. We’re asking them to re-perform in those scenes what they’ve experienced throughout their college career or shortly after. That’s what I think differentiates this from movies like Wall Street or Frat House, or even American Psycho where Wall Street is portrayed but there’s some sort of glorification going on, there’s movie stars involved. This tries to find truth by trying to get people that really experienced these things and played these roles in society and play them on screen.

F.T.: All are based on true stories, some of it is fictitious writing.

But based in some way or another on real conversations that happened with people our age. We have a lot of friends who went to Cornell who are working on it in some way or another even if just giving ideas or writing one scene. So Hugo does the real majority of the work, but it’s kind of this collaborative process so that we’re able to show from many different perspectives the things that young people are

going through.

SUN: Did you have to get permission to film [here]?

H.G.: Because we’re moving in so many different spaces and different types of stages, permission is a big thing. I’ve talked to lawyers about what I can and can’t do. If you’re on the street, it’s public space. If someone has a camera, you don’t need to get permission from people on the street to film. If it’s like at a party you have to put a sign up. There’s different things you have to do. I’m not trying to single people out; I’m not trying to dehumanize people. I’m not saying, “Hey, you work at Goldman-Sachs.”… I’m not trying to find individual people that are doing things. I’m trying to look at trends to understand pressures that affect a lot of people. So when I’m getting real footage that is questionable in terms of legal issues, I plan on blurring things, I plan on making people unrecognizable so there’s no way for anyone to have an issue ...

When I’ve talked to Cornell students in the past about looking critically at the recruitment process for Wall Street … students talked to me about why I’m singling out a major, like why are you saying major in Applied Economics and Management is bad or something, and I wanted to point out it’s not singling out a major at all. It’s trying to say that certain industries such as finance are actually overshadowing other industries and making kind of an umbrella over other majors. If you’re a film major, the issues in this film pertain to you just as much because the way Hollywood looks at films now, they make financial deals for it … It’s not about singling out a major, it’s about looking at social and financial pressures all students are going through whether they know it or not.

F.T.: I just think especially at Cornell the bulk of the on-campus recruitment is… you know, I was not interested at all in finance, I found it almost difficult to be recruited by other types of industries. I found that it was overwhelming in terms of recruitment that goes on in the financial industry. So what does it say when our “best and brightest” are being pulled heavily in one direction? Not even just that direction, just in any direction … Student debt is the highest debt; it surpasses credit card debt in terms of the amount of debt that this country has. I think really there are these social and financial pressures for students who want to get a good education and take out loans to get a better education. How does this system of student loans and debt that our society has play out? The film is supposed to make you think about other alternatives.

H.G.: I just want to put it out there that I loved my time at Cornell. I’m looking back critically, but that’s just for self-improvement, for a little bit of therapy and because of unhappiness that I found in my peers after our time up there.

I love it there, and I think it has opportunity to be such a formative aspect of people’s young lives that sets them up for how they think in terms of career and for the rest of their lives as a professional in whatever they go into. There’s something off there that’s worth investigating and figuring out what we can do so we make sure that we all leave in college with the right platform and a wide perspective on it.

Rachel Ellicott is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at blogs-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Why Put Off for Tomorrow What You Could Get Done the Day After Tomorrow?

his week, I was #blessed enough to spend my spring break in the concrete jungle where dreams are made of that is Westchester, New York. I came home to a room filled with fragments of the past — school projects, finger painting experiments, physics notebooks, bobbleheaded athletes. My parents were moving and, as quasi-hoarders, they deemed it appropriate to keep everything I had ever touched. One particular artifact drew my attention.

Labeled “Sam’s Awesome Projects!” and adorned with an anthropomorphic pencil giving a thumbs-up, the binder contained all of the work I had completed, or halfcompleted, in second the grade. Most interesting was the first page. my Here, teacher had included two notes: One written to me, and one written to my parents. As a kid, I had always wondered why this separation was necessary. Looking back, I understood why. Each word seemed like an all-too-accurate indictment. “Sam has a very difficult time focusing,” she wrote in a cursive that my second grade brain apparently couldn’t decipher. “I am confident he can do all the work but he is inconsistent in producing a ‘product.’”

Besides signaling to me that, hey, maybe I really did have ADHD (sorry, mom, but it’s probably true), my teacher’s note made me realize that I am an incredibly prolific procrastinator — I

have been doing it for over a decade. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Many of the world’s greatest artists, musicians and writers have been procrastinators — Douglas Adams famously wrote that he loved deadlines for “the whooshing sound they make as they pass by.” But this is little comfort at 4 a.m. in Uris, as you find yourself stuck in an infinite loop of closing Facebook, taking a deep breath and then returning to Facebook.

Nor does it make it any less sad when you realize you forgot to eat today because you’ve been watching the new season of House of Cards since dawn.

Yet — and this may just be a sad, hopeless justification for my work There’s No Place habits — I Like Brome believe that procrastination, when done right, can lead to a happier and more fruitful life. The trick is to procrastinate the right way.

Picture the food pyramid (the “old” food pyramid, not that ugly new one that is being climbed by a stick figure. That is just dumb ... but I digress). At the top of the pyramid lie the “fats, oils and sweets,” or, in procrastinatory terms, either World Star Hip Hop or Buzzfeed’s “which tampon brand are you”-type quizzes. This high-cholesterol entertainment is undoubtedly fun, but nonetheless, should be avoided at the risk of heart attack, stroke or irreversible brain damage. Below, you’ll find the dairy and

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meat groups. Shows like Game of Thrones While easy to ignore, these hold the key come to mind: heavy, controversial and to making procrastination valuable.

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SELFIEand good for near-infinite hours OF-THE-CURVE TAKING ABILITIES. Note: This article was written PHOTO COURTESY OF of viewing, these groups need to in the hour or so I left myself after be complemented by the most #KODAKTHROWBACK. #AWW. #THATGAP. wasting almost the entirety of my #NEVERFORGET. nutritional group (and the crux break watching movies and TV. of my metaphor): fruits and veg…

Sorry about that. etables. This group is more flexible than the others — it is the film, television and Sam Bromer is a sophomore in the College of Arts music you know you should watch or lis- and Sciences. He can be reached at ten to, but rarely want to sit through sbromer@cornellsun.com. There’s No Place Like while avoiding other pressing tasks. Brome appears alternate Mondays.

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Mets Lose to Reds Despite Niese’s Gem NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathon Niese put to rest any worries about his health. Travis d’Arnaud did little to set aside any concerns about his ability to hit big league pitching.

Niese was sharp into the sixth inning of his injury delayed first start of the season Sunday, when the New York Mets lost 2-1 to the Cincinnati Reds, missing an opportunity to finish off a threegame sweep.

“I was very, very impressed, his velocity stayed consistent throughout the game,” manager Terry Collins said of Niese. “He’s got a repertoire that’s going to get people out.”

Niese (0-1), who was slowed by shoulder weakness and elbow inflammation this spring, held Cincinnati to two hits through five innings but gave up three straight singles to open the sixth, beginning with Reds fill-in starter Alfredo Simon (1-0).

Chris Heisey, in the lineup for Billy Hamilton, who has a jammed left middle finger, and Brandon Phillips each singled to load the bases, and Joey Votto followed with a sacrifice fly and Ryan Ludwick singled to left for a 2-1 lead.

Jay Bruce then grounded to first base, ending Niese’s day on his 90th pitch.

The left-hander allowed six hits and two runs in 5 2-3 innings in front of dozens of dogs at Citi Field on Bark in the Park day.

“I feel good, felt like the ball was coming out of my hand pretty well, obviously didn’t have any pain,” Niese said.

Collins thought the Mets had a chance to take a lead in the seventh when d’Arnaud sent a drive to left but it was caught at the warning track, extending the

catcher’s hitless start to 0 for 15.

“There’s no easy answers here,” Collins said. “The only way you do it is grind it out and have an approach, stick with it.”

The Mets went into the season with the 25-year-old d’Arnaud as their primary catcher and no veteran backup the system. He missed much of last year on the disabled list and hit only .202 (20 for 99) in a 31-game stint in New York.

D’Arnaud was acquired from Toronto along with top pitching prospect Noah Syndergaard for R.A. Dickey after the knuckleballer won the CY Young Award in 2012 and the Mets are expecting him to be their starting catcher for years to come.

Right now, though, all Collins is concerned with is if d’Arnaud is letting this slump affect him psychologically.

“I’m worried about his mental approach more than anything,” Collins said.

Said d’Arnaud: “My swing feels good, just trying to make good contact.”

D’Arnaud threw out Phillips trying to steal second base in the third inning.

Simon pitched seven impressive innings in his first start since Sept. 28, 2011, for Baltimore, but manager Price tapped the right-hander because Mat Latos is rehabbing from knee and elbow operations. And Simon didn’t disappoint. He allowed just four hits — including Juan Lagares’ RBI single in the second — and threw 79 pitches.

Manny Parra retired all six batters he faced for his first career save, pitching the ninth instead of J.J. Hoover, who gave up Ike Davis’ walkoff grand slam Saturday. Parra struck out Davis to end it Sunday.

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Balancing act | Senior Melanie Jorgensen finished seventh at the NCAA regional qualifier. She was the first Red gymnast to reach the qualifiers since 2011.

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place spot behind gymnasts from perennially strong gymnastic universities like Florida, Oregon State and Penn State.

Winning the event, and advancing to the NCAA Championship, was a pair of Florida gymnasts who boast Olympic experience.

Bridget Sloan of Florida competed for the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the next year won the World Championship for all around in London. Mackenzie Caquatto, also of Florida, tied for first with Sloan, scoring a 9.950. Caquatto has had experience competing for a spot on the Olympic team and has competed at the World Championships before.

In her four-year career at Cornell, the three time USAG All American Jorgensen has accomplished some impressive feats. Her top score on bars, 9.875, is the second best score on the event in school history. In 2011, Jorgensen was crowned individual champion on bars at the Ivy League Classic, and followed that up with a USAG National Title in the same event. This season she again won the individual bars championship at the Ivy Classic.

Jorgensen’s qualification for the 2014 NCAA regional was the first time a member of the Red had been invited since 2011, when Melanie Standridge competed on the beam.

“It was one of the highlights of my career,” Jorgensen said of the event this weekend. “I couldn’t have done it without the support of my teammates and coaches.”

This coming weekend, Jorgensen will compete in her last event for the Red, looking to further her legacy at Cornell. The Red will travel to Brown to compete in the USAG Collegiate National Championship, where the squad will try to put together a better performance than it did last season, when it finished with the lowest score of the eight teams at the event.

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun.com.

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the season, again from the upper right. Paoletta followed with his second of the day and senior midfielder Connor Entenmann capped the upperclassman rally — Cornell’s longest for the afternoon — with a strike at 6:22 to give the Red an early 4-1 advantage.

“We came out playing great,” said interim head coach Matt Kerwick. “I thought we were well prepared. Really, all the credit goes to Harvard.”

The Harvard attack relentlessly peppered freshman goaltender Christian Knight all afternoon, outshooting the Red 32-12 over the final three quarters of play. Despite an impressive 14 saves for Knight, the Crimson went on runs of three, four and then five consecutive goals, each separated with a strike by one of the Red’s lone bright spots, junior midfielder John Hogan.

Following a feed from Paoletta to senior attackman Dan Lintner to break a second quarter tie, Hogan took a flip from Edmonds and buried a deep shot from 12 yards away to notch the first of his three goals while extending the Cornell lead to 6-4.

Coach Kerwick’s attack struggled to generate a push as the contest progressed, however. Two of the Red’s top three points leaders, Buczek and junior attackman Matt Donovan, were each held scoreless on the afternoon. “[Harvard] didn’t shy away from any of us,” Buczek said. “They pushed out our hands, got out on us, and packed it in behind it. It’s tough to dodge to the goal when you see a slide and you see another defenseman right in front of you. They did a really good job of just packing it in and making it look like there was less space than there was on the field.”

“Maybe this is what this Also to the visitors’ team needed to knock us benefit was down a peg and now we senior Gabe can really re-focus.”

Mendola, an Ithaca High Connor Buczek School graduate, who dominated senior midfielders Doug Tesoriero and Cole McCormack 20-6 from the face-off X. “[They] controlled the face-off with their wing play,” Kerwick said. “We played a lot of defense in that game and you just can’t put that much pressure on your defense when you’re playing a talented team like Harvard.”

Trailing 8-6 midway through the third, Hogan helped keep the Red in the game with a left-to-right scamper across the middle of the grass. The junior, while falling, fired an over-the-shoulder shot to the lower left-hand corner of the net to cut the deficit to one.

The Crimson continued to surge, however, scoring four more times before the end of the third and maintaining possession to open the fourth. Cornell was out-ground-balled for the first time this season, 34-30, including an 18-9 disadvantage during the second half.

“They were extremely efficient on offense, using long possessions to find the best shot,” Kerwick said. “They wanted it a little bit more when it was on the ground. I think that was the difference.

The tough ground balls, they were really fighting and scrapping for them.”

Hogan showed a little scrappiness of his own, racing toward the left hash and firing just before being pushed to the ground by a Harvard defender to break the 5-0 run. Less than a minute later, sophomore attackman John Edmonds backed into a defender to create space in front of the goal and shoveled it in to cut the Crimson lead to 13-9.

A promising run came to a halt as Harvard managed to milk away the game’s remaining 9:35, and a final tally with 6:39 left in the quarter proved to be the nail in the coffin for the 14-9 victory. With the defeat, the Red becomes the final team in college lacrosse to tumble from the ranks of the unbeaten. “[W]e’ll learn from it and get better and move on to the next game,” Kerwick said.

Although the team’s upcoming contest against Syracuse won’t factor into the Ivy League standings, the Red will get a test from a Top10 squad that has remained undefeated outside of the ACC. “Maybe this is what this team needed to knock us down a peg and now we can really re-focus when we have the Orange in ... 72 hours,” Buczek said. “It’s never a good thing to lose, but if you’re going to lose, it might as well be now [rather] than at the end of April or before May rolls around.”

Buczek and company will have to prepare fast to face the Orange, which is coming off a 10-8 win over Binghamton last Wednesday.

Tuesday’s matchup will feature two of college lacrosse’s top offenses (Cornell ranks second in the nation with 14.3 goals-per-game, Syracuse twelfth with 12.2) and will mark the Red’s penultimate home game of the regular season.

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.

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Shattered streak | Harvard made sure that there are no longer any unbeaten teams in NCAA lacrosse this season.

he headline matchup of the weekend was between Cornell and Harvard, and the top two teams in the conference did not disappoint. The Crimson broke the Red’s unbeaten streak, winning 14-9 on Cornell’s home turf. Brown and Penn, two teams jockeying for a spot in the middle of the league standings, battled in another close contest this weekend. Brown’s Kylor Bellistri had three goals and Sam Hurster scored two, but it was not enough to top the Quakers’ balanced offense. Seven different Penn players scored to give the Quakers the 10-8 win and a leg up in the division standings, putting them in a tie with Yale for the third spot. The Bulldogs did not give Penn any gifts though, as Yale also won its matchup against Dartmouth, 16-10. The Bulldogs scored six goals in the final period to pull away. Their offense was led by Shane Thornton, who had three goals and an assist.

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Northwestern on Sunday, falling, 7-2. Princeton jumped out on top of Yale in an offensive burst in the first half. The Tigers scored nine goals in the half, stifling the Bulldogs’ offense and allowing only one shot to find the back of the net.

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the charge with four goals, and goalkeeper Annie Woehling had nine saves on 17 shots. Harvard also got off to a strong start in its matchup with Brown, scoring six goals in the first half compared to just one by the Bears. The Crimson’s Audrey Todd had three goals and an

assist in the win, supplemented by a goal and two assists by Alexis Nicolia. Crimson goalie Kelly Weiss was a wall in net, saving seven of Brown’s 11 total shots on the day.

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Red Gives Blood 600 Career Wins After Ivy Sweep

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Writer

Spring break proved to be pivotal for the Cornell softball team, as the Red went on the road for two important series with Ivy League rivals. Facing both Yale and Brown in conference play, Cornell swept both teams to deliver head coach Dick Blood his 600th career win. These wins brought Cornell to a 4-2 record in Ivy competition, putting the squad in a tie for first place in the South Division with the Columbia Lions.

In the first contest against Yale, sophomore pitcher Meg Parker took to the mound. She held Yale to only two hits while striking out 10 for her fourth win of the season. The game remained scoreless after the sixth, but some last inning heroics secured a 3-0 victory for the Red. Parker and senior infielder Christina Villalon got on base to get things started in the top of the seventh, and senior infielder Jenny Edwards brought both of them in with a double, snapping the scoreless tie. Sophomore catcher Leanne Ianucci brought Edwards in with an RBI single, giving the Red an important insurance run. Parker then came out in the bottom of the seventh and put the Bulldogs away.

Parker said the team gained momentum from the win in the opener against Yale.

“I was so happy I could keep my team in the game by throwing a shutout,” Parker said. “We celebrated the game one win by winning three more games.”

Senior Alyson Onyon took the circle in the second game

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Helping her cause | Sophomore Meg Parker struck out seven in the Red’s win over Brown, also going two-for-three with three RBIs at the plate.

of the doubleheader. Striking out four, Onyon led the Red to the second victory of the week. Yale tied the game in the fifth, but an error by the opposition and an RBI by freshman outfielder Jessica Bigbie pulled the Red ahead for good.

Cornell then traveled to Rhode Island for its second doubleheader of the weekend against Brown. Parker returned to the circle for the opener and was brilliant once again. The sophomore struck out seven and scattered seven hits in six innings of work. She also assisted her own cause in the batter’s box, going two-for-three, including a homerun, in the Red’s 8-3 win over Brown.

Cornell returned for the series finale, sending Onyon out to the mound once again. She struck out eight and allowed only four hits to the Bears’ offense, putting the Red’s offense in good position to secure the second straight sweep. The offense delivered, putting up seven runs on 14 hits.

Sophomore outfielder Michiko McGivney led the charge with a triple and a homerun. Villalon and Bigbie also chipped in two hits apiece, helping the Red to a 7-1 victory. The win was a milestone for coach Blood, marking his 600th victory and making him the first coach to do so in school history.

“I am so happy to be a part of team 21 and experience Coach Blood's 600th win,” Parker said. “He is such an amazing coach and this team wants to win more than anything.”

The Red hopes to channel its momentum from this weekend’s wins when it takes on Colgate (5-12) on Tuesday in a non-conference home matchup.

Lisa Awaitey can be reached at lawaitey@cornellsun.com.

GYMNASTICS

Jorgensen Places Seventh at Regionals Scoring 9.850 on bars, Jorgensen finishes behind top NCAA talents

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Leading the charge | Junior midfielder John Hogan (center) was a bright spot in the loss to Harvard, recording three goals and two assists.

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Senior gymnast Melanie Jorgensen stood tall in the Penn State Recreation Center. Among competition that included the nation’s best collegiate gymnasts, Jorgensen represented the Red in proud fashion at the NCAA Regional Qualifiers.

Out of the entire field of gymnasts on bars, only the top score would qualify for the NCAA Championship. Knowing she would need an almost perfect routine to have a chance at qualifying, Jorgensen scored a 9.850, .025 points short of her all time best. Her routine earned her a seventh See GYMNASTICS page 13

Overtime thriller

Laxers Hit First Bump, Fall to Ivy Foe Harvard

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

The race for the Ivy League crown just got a little tighter.

A 16-game winning streak against the Crimson and an undefeated conference record heading into Saturday’s game at Schoellkopf were both undone as No. 2 Cornell (9-1, 3-1 Ivy) was outpaced, 14-9, by rival Harvard (6-4, 3-0).

The Red will look to recover this week when the team hosts No. 10 Syracuse (6-3, 1-3 ACC) Tuesday at 7 p.m.

“It stings, but we’ve got all

of our goals still intact,” said junior midfielder Connor Buczek. “It’s one of those things where maybe we rode a little too high getting to 9-0.”

Senior midfielder Joe Paoletta streaked about 25 yards down the right hash and fired high from seven yards out to draw first blood for the Red at 12:29 in the first quarter. After a quick Harvard response to tie the game at one apiece, senior short stick defensive midfielder Mike O’Neil added his first goal of See M. LAX page 14

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Freshman attack Catherine Ellis scored a career-high six goals in the women’s lacrosse team’s double overtime victory over Dartmouth on Saturday. For full coverage of the game, check out tomorrow’s paper.