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By DAVID TICZON Sun Staff Writer

The Student Assembly Financial Aid Review Committee has partnered with the College of Arts and Sciences Career Services to fund “Summer Experience Grants” for students in the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Art, Architecture and Planning.

Freshmen, sophomores and juniors will be eligible to apply for the grants that offer monetary support for “unpaid or minimally-paid” internships, according to an email sent

by Arts and Sciences Career Services.

The source of the grant is a program established by the Student Assembly in 1985, called “Students Helping Students,” according to Joseph Fateh ’15, a member of the

Prospective graduate students admitted to the architecture college meet with faculty at an Open House in Milstein Hall Monday.

S.A. Financial Aid Review Committee.

The original purpose of the program was to “aid students with both emergency and unpaid internships,” Fateh said. “There is no documentation that supports whether the latter was ever put into practice, so we wanted the fund to

live up to its name and original objective.”

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State Lawmakers Discuss Revoking C.U.Funding Following Video

By ANDREW LORD Sun Staff Writer

Republican state lawmakers have issued statements saying they believe federal and state funding should be pulled from Cornell after the release of a video that purports Joseph Scaffido, assistant dean of students for student activities, said he would welcome terrorist groups onto Cornell’s campus.

In the video, which was released March 24, an undercover interviewer from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas asked Scaffido whether Cornell would be willing to send

humanitarian packages to “freedom fight- be taken against the University in response ers” and “people in the Islamic State Iraq to the video.

“I am calland Syria.” In ing on the response, the video shows “It’s just plain wrong. This is the lowest Department Scaffido saythe New York state Republicans have of Homeland Security to ing, “There ever gone.” begin a fullare a lot of scale investiour student Barbara Lifton gation into organizations Cornell that do things University, and ensure that no criminal like that all over the world.”

New York State Assemblymember wrongdoing is being perpetrated there,” Chris Friend (R-124th) said he wants to Friend said in a statement. “Cornell is a discuss any “punitive measures” that can major employer, educator and policy dri-

ver in the Southern Tier, and I assure you, no one in the Southern Tier wants Hamas activity this close to their homes.”

According to Friend, measures may include “eliminating the $156 million Cornell is slated to receive in state funding.”

Assemblymember Brian Kolb (R131st) echoed Friend’s sentiments in a March 25 post on his Facebook page, saying he believed in revoking funding until Scaffido leaves the University, if the video accurately expressed his beliefs.

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Law School’s Laura Spitz tapped interim vice provost of int’l affairs

By PAULINA GLASS Sun Assistant News Editor

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Prof. Barbara Ransby, history, University of Illinois at Chicago, speaks yesterday about 20th century historiography in Goldwin Smith Hall.

Prof. Fredrik Logevall, history, will leave Cornell this summer, according to the University. Laura Spitz, associate dean for international affairs at the Law School, will become the interim vice provost for international affairs until a final candidate is chosen to fill Logevall’s position.

Logevall will leave Cornell to become a faculty member at Harvard University July 1, where he will be both the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a professor of history, according to the

University. Logevall has served as vice provost at Cornell since 2013 and has been at Cornell since 2004.

In addition to her current role as dean for international affairs, Spitz is also executive director of the Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies. She will still be serving in her roles at the Law School while working as interim vice provost, according to the University.

Logevall said he “couldn’t be more pleased” with Spitz being tapped for his position.

“Laura Spitz will be a tremendous leader of the internationalization effort at Cornell. She’s been a mainstay on the Internationalization

Council these past 20 months, and she’s also contributed mightily to the work of the Language Education Council,”

“Laura Spitz will be a tremendous leader.”

Prof. Fredrik Logevall Logevall said. “More than that, she has a deep commitment to international studies and research, and to working with all parts of the campus to strengthen Global Cornell.”

Logevall added that Spitz’s background also makes her suitSee INTERNATIONAL page 4

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New Cornellian-Founded Application Seeks to Improve Dining Experience

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

FillMyFork, a mobile application co-created by a Cornell alumnus that gives food recommendations for campus eateries, will launch Wednesday.

The application will be made available to students at Cornell, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Angeles for iOS devices, according to Kartik Shastri ’12 M.Eng ’13, co-founder of FillMyFork.

An Android version will be released in the fall.

Shastri said FillMyFork is the “only food app” students will need on campus.

“We believe that food at college should be social, delicious and cater to every student's preferences,” he said.

“Cornell food especially is delicious, and with our app you can find the best of the best and get your friends in on the action.”

According to Prof. Tom Brenna, nutritional sciences, a scientific advisor for the app, FillMyFork will “filter out” the meals that are not on a student’s personal menu.

“It’s a sort of Yelp for dining halls in that it tabulates meal ratings, so [you] have a rating of meals being served now,” he said. “It can [also] be filtered to show only ratings by people with your [own dietary] preferences.”

Other features of the application include a social media feature, where students can automatically inform their friends that they are going to a “particular dining venue,” Brenna said.

Brenna said he believes the application will be especially useful to students who may have dietary restrictions. “[It will] assist people in seeing what's served in the dining halls according to their dietary preferences and

allergies,” he said.

Shastri said he and co-founder Arun Nijhawan — a 2013 graduate of the University of Toronto — have worked together to develop and fundraise for the app.

“Arun and I grew up together in Boston, so we've been buddies for a long time,” he said. “We got into Draper Incubators in San Francisco to start and raised money at a Shark Tank event in Boston. We incorporated in March 2014 and after a year we're thrilled to see the app live.

Shastri added that the whole process, from conception to launch, has required much effort.

“We actually started targeting the fitness industry,” he said. “While testing our app, we saw that college students were the most excited and also most overlooked. So we launched a beta [version] at Cornell [last] December and got over 300 signups in a day. That's when we decided to help campuses first.”

Brenna said the application opens up “many opportunities for current students … [and even] Cornell Dining.”

“Cornell Dining was exploring FillMyFork as an app for informing on allergens and I think that is a part of this week's release,” he said. “For current students, the company is offering the opportunity to participate in an early stage live marketing experience connected to their launch of FillMyFork this week on the iPhone.”

With regards to the future of the application, Shastri said he and his team will spend the summer improving FillMyFork and bringing it to more college campuses.

“If you download the app and aren't on one of our three campuses, you can tell us to come to your campus — we'll be adding these campuses first,” he said. “Lots of colleges are waiting for a solution like this, we're on a mission to help them out.”

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Colin Harris ’00 MBA ’08 speaks at the Finance and Sustainabilty Colloquium in Sage Hall Monday.

Shastri said he hopes that in the coming weeks, every student at Cornell will hear about FillMyFork.

“Whether it's reviews or nutrition, most apps ignore campus food and we want to solve that,” he said. “Our mission is to revolutionize campus food so we hope students enjoy the app.”

Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at dseghal@cornellsun.com.

Startup Support Program to Launch This Summer University

Life Changing Labs seeking teams for eight-week ‘startup incubator’ program

By GABRIELLA LEE

Cornell Team Named USTA Tennis on Campus National Club of the Year The United States Tennis Association recognized Cor nell’s club tennis team as the 2014-2015 Tennis on Campus National Club of the Year, according to a USTA press release. The annual award acknowledges a college or university club tennis team with a history of excellence and community service. As part of the award, Cornell’s team will participate in the 2015 Tennis on Campus National Cham pionship this Thursday to Saturday, according to the release.

Weill Cornell Medical College Belfer Research Building Certified LEED Gold The U.S. Green Building Council awarded Weill Cornell Medical College’s Belfer Research Building a LEED Gold certification, according to the University. The building is the second laboratory building in New York City to achieve LEED Gold distinction, which recognizes sustainable building design, construction and operation, according to a University press release. LEED Gold is the second highest level of certification possible.

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Life Changing Labs, an organization supporting entrepreneurial efforts of Cornell students, will launch a “Summer Startup Incubator Program” that will run for eight weeks this summer, according to the University.

“There was no structured way for student founders to work on their own startups [during the summer],” said Michael Raspuzzi ’16, president of Life Changing Labs. “With that being seen as a problem from last summer, the Life Changing Labs team has been working for the past year to make this summer as integrated a program as possible.”

Life Changing Labs will be looking for six to eight teams of alumni or student-based startup businesses and will offer mentorship

Playing with the President

and “much needed” resources, according to styled after Y Combinator, a seed accelerator, Raspuzzi said.

Raspuzzi.

According to Peter Cortle, founder and “They’ll receive mentorship, one-on-one advice and there will also be weekly guest director of Life Changing Labs, the “goals of speakers [from] experienced entrepreneurs,” the summer program include fostering a strong community and network of Corenll Raspuzzi said.

He added the program would provide student and alumni entrepreneurs.”

He added that Life Changing Labs was support based on the individual needs of the “growth focused” teams, with and aimed for each “different “I think there are a lot of very rich startup to achieve a advisors five to seven percent and menopportunities made available through weekly growth rate. tors fitted this summer incubator.”

According to the [to the Life Changing Labs teams] on a Michael Raspuzzi ’16 website, over case by case $200,000 of basis.”

Additionally, the program will require the resources will be available to startups teams to meet together once a week and pro- through partnerships with Google Cloud, vide updates on their startups — an idea Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Bizspark, GitHub and Braintree.

Life Changing Labs also receives support from Entrepreneurship at Cornell, a Cornell-wide program that aims to promote entrepreneurial spirit.

The summer incubator program has already generated interest from many parties, according to Raspuzzi. He said Life Changing Labs will welcome teams from multiple stages in the startup process.

“We already have a lot of interest and applications, both from individuals and team companies who are looking to develop their program,” he said.

Raspuzzi added that he believes the incubator program would be a “great opportunity” for anyone who has any interest in getting involved in entrepreneurship at Cornell.

“There are a lot of very rich opportunities made available through this summer incubator,” he said.

The submission deadline for applications to the incubator program is Friday.

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Laura Spitz to Serve as Interim Vice Provost Republican INTERNATIONAL Continued from page 1

able for the position.

“A foreign national herself, she is sensitive to cultural difference, while at the same time she has a broad understanding of this university and its structures,” he said.

Interim Provost Harry Katz also expressed excitement over

the appointment of Spitz to the scholarship and commitment to position. international affairs.

“Laura’s exper“We are tise in internationfortunate to “[Spitz] ... will bring al affairs will bring a have valuable insight scholar of valuable insight and and energy to our Laura’s calenergy.” efforts,” Katz said iber and in a University experience Harry Katz release. step up to President lead us in David Skorton praised Spitz’s this initiative, which is so

important to Cornell’s future,” Skorton said in the release.

Katz, Skorton, Logevall and President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett unanimously said they believed a commitment to globalizing Cornell perspectives and education is vital to University growth, according to the release.

“Cornell’s profile as a global university, expanding internationally in its composition, scope of activities, experiences and competency, is strong,” Katz said. “The advisory councils and task forces, as well as the work of so many others throughout our campuses, will continue to build upon this vision.”

Garrett has been recognized for her dedication to globalizing universities, according to the University.

She said she will make further development of international programs a priority when she serves as president.

“Cornell is already deeply engaged as a global university, which is reflected in our teaching, research and creative work, as well as by our many international students, researchers, faculty and alumni,” she said in the release.

Garrett added that that she wants to tangibly expand Cornell’s influence abroad, and detailed some of the steps she said she would take to achieve this goal, according to the University.

“I am committed to working with my colleagues to increase the number of international students on our campuses; to expand our influence through innovative professional graduate programs, some delivered online, around the world; to give all of our students access to meaningful study-abroad experiences; and to continue developing strong partnerships with other top research universities around the world,” she said.

Paulina Glass can be reached at pglass@cornellsun.com.

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“If these reports accurately reflect the mindset of this faculty member and Cornell University, New York State should immediately withold all state funding until this individual is no longer on campus,” he said. “Taxpayers should not be asked to subsidize institutions that welcome terrorists with open arms.”

However, New York State Assemblymember Barbara Lifton (D-125th) said the actions of her Republican colleagues regarding the matter are“ridiculous.”

“This is one of the most absurd and outrageous things I’ve seen,” Lifton said. “These lawmakers are linking themselves to well-known, nefarious political operatives, putting their own reputations at risk.”

Lifton said Project Veritas is full of “right-winged operatives” that are known to set up “phony stings.” “[These people] are political operatives conducting sting operations against their counterparts,” she said. “President Skorton did a great job responding in his statement ... making very clear — as we all know — that Cornell students will do nothing to support terrorism.”

In a March 25 statement, President David Skorton said the video was a “shameful” attempt to “smear” the image of the University, and the idea that Cornell would support a terrorist group such as ISIS or Hamas is “absolutely offensive.”

The efforts to cut funding are not limited to Friend and a few of his colleagues, according to Lifton. The issue has prompted Edward Cox, chair of the New York State Republican party, to send out “fundraising letters” in order to garner support for the initiative for potential measures taken against Cornell, she said.

Lifton said she is “suspicious” that the journalists at Project Veritas and Republican leaders in the New York State Legislature somehow “coordinated” the operation.

“It just looks like the whole thing got coordinated,” she said.

“It’s like they had [someone] go in [to Scaffido’s office], get the tape, send it to the New York Post and then have Cox raise money off of it.”

Lifton expressed disappointment in lawmakers pursuing the initiative.

“It’s just plain wrong,” Lifton said. “This is the lowest the New York state Republicans have ever gone.”

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

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Summer Internship Grants to Help Arts, Architecture Students Up to $50,000 total to be offered in funding “The grant won’t be enough to cover the summer savings for students on financial aid and it won't serve as a stipend, but I on a case-by-case basis.

“We place the greatest weight think it will make unpaid or on articulation of career inter- minimally paid internships est,” Fateh said. “Few [applica- much more feasible for a large tions] have been received, so we number of Cornell students,” encourage more students with Henderson said.

Students from the arts and passionate career interests to architecture colleges were chotake a look.”

The number of students who sen in particular to gauge interest and due to will receive the grants are cur“We were motivated to need,perceived accordr e n t l y unknown, but create something like this ing to Kartik M a t t h e w because of the belief that R a m k u m a r ’17.

Henderson no one should have to “This is the ’16, S.A. vice first semester sacrifice their career president for internal opera- goals ... because of their these grants were being tions, said he financial situation.” offered, so we estimates that wanted to it will be in Matthew Henderson ’16 start with only the “range of a couple of 20 to 30 stucolleges to see if there was interdents.”

“It’s tough to estimate the est in applying for these grants,” number of grant recipients since Ramkumar said. “We also felt the allocation is based on candi- that these were the colleges that dates’ specific expenses, as had the most students receiving opposed to being a fixed grant unpaid internships that were of great financial burden.” amount,” Henderson said.

Henderson said he hopes the The maximum amount allotted to a single student will be program will expand to allow all $3,000. Up to $50,000 in total students to pursue their career will be awarded, according to goals.

“We were motivated to creGretchen Ryan ’97, associate director of financial aid for cus- ate something like this because tomer service and community of the belief that no one should have to sacrifice their career relations.

“We tried to envision what goals or turn down a summer the worst case scenario could be experience because of their in terms of the expenses some- financial situation,” Henderson one can accrue over the sum- said. “The expansion plans for next year are to open this up to mer,” Henderson said.

According to Henderson, the all undergraduate colleges.” grant is not a stipend, but rather a means to encourage students to not choose internships based David Ticzon can be reached at dticzon@cornellsun.com. on prospective pay.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Student Fashion Spotlight Speaking With Senior Designer Brandon Wen ’15 NATALIE TSAY Blogs Editor

Senior designer Brandon Wen ’15 got his start in fashion by designing costumes for a middle school play. Perhaps this is a beginning shared by many others, but his story is pretty atypical. After he got involved in sewing classes and fashion in general, he discovered that he had a strong interest in more experimental design. His work appears to be as much art as it is fashion, and when it comes down to the ideas behind the abstraction, Wen has a very clear sense of purpose.

Oftentimes, Wen’s goal is “redefining what we know and what we do.” To create his pieces, he looks outside the world of fashion. He tries to find things that are pure — things “not too clouded by culture or bias.” Last year, his subject was the body, and this year it will be fears. “I try to find things that are malleable and especially related to form and shape,” Wen said, “because that’s what I’m trying to redefine about fashion.”

You might have noticed by now that Wen is setting out to make some big changes to the way society views fashion and beauty. It wasn’t until his sophomore year at Cornell that Wen realized that he wanted to focus his attention on plus-sized women in specific. “We did a project in my project development class,” he said, “and the project that I did was based on mass-producing clothing for plus-sized bodies.” His project was well received and even got some unexpected attention from the press, proving that his work centering on plus-sized women is interesting to both him and society at large.

“Sometimes when you do niche things, you can’t tell who will be interested,” Wen said about the project. The

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results, though, convinced him that looking to plus-sized women to create his work would be a worthwhile and fascinating effort. In the time that has passed since his sophomore year, Wen has turned what started out as a mere interest into a real, conscious process, contextualizing his ideas and creating some truly intriguing projects.

When asked about his approach to working on a piece, he described it as an ‘applied arts’ technique. He strives to create a physical representation of what he’s thinking, then turn it into a physical surface. When talking to Wen about his work, it is clear that he has a very strong vision and that he knows exactly how to transform this vision into a tangible product.

According to Wen, Cornell has given him the license and atmosphere to develop his own eccentric style. “I like that they give us a lot of freedom in terms of what we can do because it’s not so much of a set program,” he said. “Some people, in their last year, will not end up being in fashion design — they might end up doing costuming or photography. There’s lots of room to figure out what you like about fashion.”

In addition to providing this sense of free rein, Cornell has also shaped Wen’s thought process by being, for lack of a better expression, in the middle of nowhere. “It has taught me a lot about independent thinking in a place where you are a bit removed from fashion, not only the industry but other people in fashion,” he said. “You are forced to make design decisions based only on your own thoughts. It’s a nice bubble to create in. You can work at your own pace.”

After our i n t e r v i e w, Wen held a walk-through rehearsal, in which I participated by W e n ’ s request. He was trying to decide on formations, and to do so, he had us try a few different patterns. I can’t say that I gained any PHOTOS significant COURTESY OF modeling BRANDON WEN experience,

Death Cab for Cutie, one the founding bands of the indie rock genre, released their eghth studio EP entitled Kintsugi last Tuesday.

Its title refers to a Japanese art form in which broken pieces of ceramic are assembled in a novel, artistic ways. The album is a similar art piece, collecting elements from Death Cab’s previous endeavors and combining them to create a cohesive sound. Conceptually, the album reveals cracks in relationships, faults in feelings and reconciliation with loss. Lead singer and lyricist, Benjamin Gibbard, crafts narratives around these themes, once again, demonstrating his immense talent for poetic craft.

Musically, the album is polished and melodic.

Kintsugi works as a milestone for Death Cab for Cutie, marking the end of the band’s career with founding guitarist and producer, Chris Walla, but also revealing their musical resilience over time. Despite describing feelings of being broken, the album is really about reassembling and reassessing life after loss.

Part of what makes Death Cab for Cutie a consistently impressive collective is Gibbard’s ability to construct lyrical stories. Each song has its own narrative arc, describing specific experiences and giving the songs meaning beyond vague, arbitrary conventions. Gibbard reimagines and individualizes love songs. “Little

but I did get a closer look at Wen in working mode.

My experience in that rehearsal confirmed what I already knew — Brandon Wen knows exactly what he’s looking for

when it comes to presenting his work and how he can do so in the most effective and aesthetically appealing way.

Because Wen is a senior, I asked a question that every student in their last year of undergraduate study has probably been asked time and time again: Where would you like to go from here?

“I would like to try to find where in the world I can continue doing this kind of weird, experimental garment art thing,” he said. Though he acknowledged that it might be in the U.S., he said he’s looking more toward Asia or Europe. Wen wants to find where his kind of work would fit into the context of a country’s design field and culture before making the choice of where to attend grad school to further hone his craft.

At the end of the interview, I gave Wen a create-yourown-question question, and his response was a pleasant surprise.

“Question for the general public,” he said. “I want to know how the work is received. For those of you who will see the show, I want to know what it is in your eyes, or what connections [you] make from it. Part of my work is trying to make everything void of references so you’re only judging it based on what you see and nothing outside.” He asked for all feedback be directed to baw226@cornell.edu.

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

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

Wanderer” is a prime example of this: Gibbard describes a modern long distance relationship with specific locales and modes of communication. He includes images of Tokyo and Paris, as well as creates an image of two lovers meeting at an airport baggage claim. The band proceeds from this track with the darker number, “You’ve Haunted Me All My Life.” Gibbard creates a different relationship in these next four minutes, yet we hear residual lines of longing and loss.

Every Death Cab for Cutie album has a simple acoustic track, and this album is no exception. For Kintsugi, the track that fills this void is “Hold No Guns,” which describes an individual’s longing for his lover to remain despite fears of abandonment and emotional pain. Gibbard’s soothing voice against his simple acoustic picking resembles “Talking Bird” from 2008’s Narrow Stairs and, arguably the band’s most popular track, “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” from 2005’s Plans. It is simple yet effective, and offers a mid-album break for reflection.

The album has some especially catchy, upbeat tracks resembling the Death Cab’s sixth studio album, Narrow Stairs. The album’s third track, “The Ghosts of Beverly Drive” also possesses these qualities. It’s fast-paced with mostly major chords, but the band includes intriguing

elements that give it life. The song features momentary toy piano lines in the pre-chorus, as well as eerie “oohs” that intermittently appear. Similarly, “Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)” has a simple chord progression and quick rhythmic structure, but it keeps with the album’s concept. Gibbard recounts an individual’s socioeconomic ascension and the subsequent emptiness that ensues. He repeats the line “Only a fool gives it away” over ironically major chords, using the song as a façade for a much darker idea of deception and denial.

This album is an interesting hybrid of Death Cab for Cutie’s old and upcoming sounds. It remains cohesive despite reconciling brokenness. Though guitarist, Chris Walla, still plays on the album, the songs battle with his loss both musically and lyrically. It poses an interesting question about the fate of the band, as they have yet to create an album without Walla’s integral involvement. Kintsugi is the first step towards this challenge and only time will tell how the band develops after his departure.

As of now, Kintsugi is a critical album in the band’s history and one that offers positive prospects for them.

Anita Alur is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at aalur@cornellsun.com.

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Wild Tales, You Make My Heart Sing

Ordinarily, I believe movie reviews are supHere are a few things that happen in this flick: posed to follow some sort of traditional structure. An aircraft filled with people becomes a panic site But since Wild Tales is unlike any film I have ever when everyone on board realizes they know the seen, I am going to review it in a different man- pilot; Two waitresses argue whether to put rat ner, hopefully one that is reflective of the film poison in a fearsome customer’s food; A man itself. tired of having his car towed decides to do someI settled into the theater and on comes a scene thing criminal to the DMV; Two men experience of a woman at an airport. Then we get the tradi- unbelievable road rage involving defecation, tional expository dialogue. Establishing the place, strangulation and combustion; A bride finds out time, location, backstory, et cetera, et cetera, the her groom has cheated on her and what ensues is way most movies condense a textbook’s worth of the most memorable wedding reception in cineinformation into an unnecessary dialogue scene, ma history.

The film seems to cruise on a wave of purely to give the audience information. Even though I did not realize it, I was grumbling enthralling mania. I was electrified in my chair, inside. Was this going to be another boring exer- the movie junkie in me went nuts, and for two cise in shots of people talking? Just another criti- hours I was treated to a rush of pure adrenaline that reminded me cal darling with the why I love same tired camera movies: You aren’t angles? Something Wild Tales supposed to be that had no busiDirected by Damián Szifron able to tell what’s ness being a film, coming next! In could have been a Starring Ricardo Darín, Oscar most films — stage play and was Martínez, Érica Rivas critically lauded actually excruciatand the ingly boring?

Hollywood monNo. Not by a strosities alike — long shot. There you can spot the was soon a ludiplot points a crously sharp left thousand miles turn and I realized I was watching the Pulp Fiction of foreign art films. away. Wild Tales’ foremost weapon is it’s sheer The plot can only be described as nitroglycerin. unpredictability, a force many filmmakers have The camera angles are deliberately conceived and long ago forgotten. Future directors, pay attenridiculously stylish. The film is a crooked anthol- tion: This is how you make an exciting film. ogy and a golden import from Argentina. It is Forget exciting — this is how you make a film, directed and written by Damián Szifron, whose period.

The three act structure? There is none. filmography I plan to binge watch directly after writing this sentence. On the strength of this Central protagonist? None. Villains? Everyone is movie alone, I would say he is both a radical and a villain and also a hero. Just like in real life. a master. There’s a very, very good reason why it’s Mind-numbing action sequences, Oscar-calibratcalled Wild Tales. It lives up to that name and ed speeches, excessive CGI, sequel potential, prequel potential? No, no, no, no, no. The movie more.

comes up with a list of every single dreadful convention in the book and breaks every last one of them. No climax, no inciting incident, no discernible narrative trajectory. Makes you want to take the big thick manual of formula screenwriting and rip it in COURTESY OF WARNER BROTHERS half.

And did I mention, it’s entertaining as hell?

Szifron glues your eyes to the screen and dares you to look away. I know I’m flinging around the hyperboles here, but the reason you have such trouble looking away is because you actually want to know what’s gonna happen next! Do you know how unusual that is?! That is exciting! And thrilling! And invigorating! Cinema sins, good luck finding anything trite in this movie.

Anything can happen here — it’s an outlandish, outrageous, glorious wild west.

I mentioned Pulp Fiction earlier because many celebrate that film as a classic example of lawlessness, a film which achieves miracles through rule-breaking. But certain rules Pulp adheres to, Wild Tales has no respect for. Szifron doesn’t bother to interconnect all the insane and uproarious events in the film. There’s no moment of convergence. It starts abruptly and then it stops abruptly. Anyone who loves film will love it, anyone who doesn’t love film will see it, love it, and then learn to love film.

Know this: the movie does have conflict — conflict at its most primal and pure, without the customary excuses for it, and that is what makes

all drama interesting. Not cool effects, not big name stars, not snappy dialogue, not millions of dollars on the screen. Aristotle probably would have loved this movie, despite the fact that it takes a bazooka to his classical unities. You can think of Wild Tales as, well, a collection of wild tales — six or so short stories strung together on film, each one of them extremely compelling and exorbitantly crazy. Never, ever, do you have the slightest idea where Szifron’s madcap ship is heading, you just go along for the fantastic ride.

I’m going to stop now, because I have to go down to Cinemapolis and see this movie again — I know I haven’t uncovered five percent of the joys inside it. Now get out of your chair and check your laptop for the showtimes at Cinemapolis. If you’re not at home, use your iPhone. If you’re in class, leave to check the showtimes. You have never seen anything like this and you will never see anything like this again. Get yourself in a seat and bon voyage.

Mark DiStefano is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

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Representative’s arguments largely illegitimate To the Editor: Re: “GUEST ROOM: Examining Cornell’s Health Fee,” Opinion, March 26

As the mother of a freshman who uses her parents’ health insurance, I was interested to see that Congressman Reed wrote a letter to the editor objecting to Cornell’s imposition of a $350 fee for students who do not use Cornell’s insurance program. Like Mr. Reed, I find this fee unfair and improper.

However, the congressman’s arguments were entirely undermined by his injection of partisan politics in the form of complaints about the Obama economy (which, by the way, is burgeoning, not stagnant), about “overpaid” professors (who certainly had no input into the fee — this is both a red herring and an ad hominem anti-intellectual attack), and about supporters of universal healthcare. Cornell’s health fee has nothing to do with the Affordable Health Care Act or any other “social experiment.” If all students used Obamacare, we wouldn’t even be talking about students with Cornell insurance versus students without.

If health insurance is just a foolish ideology that students are “forced” to have, how can the congressman describe students who have chosen to be covered as “socially responsible” and “rational”? Instead of constructing a short, logical complaint about the fee, Reed’s team wrote a badly constructed political hodgepodge.

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n Nov. 19, 2014, Rolling Stone sexual harassment, then she was more magazine published a story enti- susceptible to believe a story that other’s tled “A Rape on Campus: A would press harder to fact check.

Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at Although the Rolling Stone claims that UVA” written by Sabrina Erdely. This they were too deferential to the victim, it story reached 2.7 million views online must be noted that even in instances in which is more than any than any Rolling which they could have pressed further to Stone feature not about a celebrity. confirm the story without upsetting the Approximately 2.7 million people were victim, they failed to do so. For example informed that a woman was gang raped they could have spoken to the victim’s

by Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brothers at three former friends that she claimed the University of Virginia. Those 2.7 were present after she escaped from the million people were told that her friends fraternity house but refused to help her refused to help her, that the university out of fear of being ostracized. culture did little to assist her and that The part of Colombia’s report the due to the reactions of those around her struck me the hardest was that “Erdely’s she refused to even help herself. And the reporting led her to other, adjudicated 2.7 million people recoiled in disgust, cases of rape at the university that could anger and incredulity. It turns out that have illustrated her narrative, although the readers none was as had every shocking right to feel and dramatThis is the problem with a lot of incredulous as ic because J a c k i e ’s . ” journalism today, the drive to shock ultimately E r d e r y Rolling readers when the core value should be e x p l a i n e d Stone magathat the to inform them. zine was point where coerced into she thinks retracting they went the story when several gaps in the story wrong was not questioning whether or continued to widen. not the victim should have been a part The magazine tasked the Columbia of the story at all. It seems that the staff School of Journalism with writing about fell in love with this story due to it’s the lapse in reporting and fact checking shock value and never looked back. This is the problem with a lot of journalism that led to the false story.

The conclusion that a lot of people today, the drive to shock readers when are coming to is that due to the sensi- the core value should be to inform them. tive nature of the topic, the editors at Colombia’s report even states that “The the Rolling Stone failed to be demand- editors made judgments about attribuing enough with the victim and thus let tion, fact-checking and verification that her control the narrative. As the greatly increased their risks of error but Columbia School of Journalism said in had little or nothing to do with protecttheir report, “Because questioning a ing Jackie’s position.”

However, they do not go so far as to victim’s account can be traumatic, counselors have cautioned journalists to question the drive that led them to their allow survivors some control over their risky methods of reporting. Journalism own stories. This is good advice. Yet it is a business, and, as such, it is about does survivors no good if reporters doc- making money. In order to make money, umenting their cases avoid rigorous the goal must be to appeal to as many practices of verification.” I agree whole- readers or viewers as possible, but in that heartedly with the aforementioned mission journalists cannot continue to statement, yet I have my doubts about abuse the art of journalism. When this being the central problem that led forced to view journalism as an art, one to the illegitimate feature. I would, must acknowledge the carefully balanced however, like to state that it would be scale of both appealing to readers while far better to have a victim no longer not straying too far from the proper able to cooperate in a feature than to craft of reporting. publish a story that leaves countless This does not mean that journalists people wrongly questioning the veraci- should stray from the truly shocking stoty of other rape survivors. I believe the ries that paint a picture of the problems central problem was that the reporter pervading our society, it just means that and the editors were not simply looking journalists need to make damn sure that to expose a problem that occurs far too those stories are fact and not fiction. often on our college campuses, they Hopefully this extremely public mistake were looking to shock the public. will force some change in the journalism Simply speaking, they wanted those 2.7 industry, but it seems doubtful at this million views. point. As NBC news correspondent Lisa I began to conceive this idea when I Myers tweeted, “So no one gets fired and read the first paragraph of Colombia’s no policies change? No wonder so few report, which stated that according to trust us anymore,” and in an even better Erdely’s notes she was searching for a point, Politico’s John Bresnahan tweeted single, emblematic college rape case that “What would Rolling Stone in its heywould show “what it’s like to be on cam- day write about an institution that pus now … where not only is rape so screwed up unbelievably, damaged peoprevalent but also that there’s this perva- ple's lives but punished no one?" As an sive culture of sexual harassment/rape aspiring journalist, I would love to bring culture.” The first thing that popped back this heyday: But with no policies into my head was confirmation bias, changing and no punishments in sight, which states that people have a tendency what can we expect? to interpret information that confirms one’s preconceptions. If Erdely went in Deon Thomas is a senior in the School of Industrial looking for a story that confirmed her and Labor Relations and can be reached at idea that there was a pervasive culture of djt79@cornell.edu.

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eople that have their life together scare me. If you can show up to class with the readings done and notes laid out for discussion every single day, I’m not sure how to interact with you. In preparing to write this column alone, I ordered four large coffees, sampled a slice of lemon cake that tasted about three weeks old and taught myself how to say the words “apple” and “table” in Mandarin. Did I figure out what vital opinion I have to share with the world this week? No. Do I know where I’m headed in life? Not really. Have I taken all the quizzes uploaded onto Buzzfeed in the last seven hours? Absolutely.

Somewhere between finding out if I can pass a fifth grade spelling test and whether I am actually dating Ryan Gosling (yes to both — I am always dating Ryan Gosling, that’s not even up for debate), I came across an article that caused me to step back and stop searching for validation through Buzzfeed quizzes. It was an interview with the incredible Mindy Kaling, titled “14 Pieces of Advice Mindy Kaling Has for Women.” Cue frantic note-taking in the middle of a Starbucks that has threatened to kick me out several times if I don’t “work calmly like everybody else around me.”

The questions posed by readers to Kaling ranged a wide variety of topics, from “How do you flirt?” to “How do you think the media can include more people of color?,” each question incited thoughtful responses from Ms. Kaling — responses that spoke to a host of larger issues than just those that were brought up. Two responses, in particular, caught my attention. One spoke to the issue of confidence in women, the other to the issue of priorities.

I came across an article that caused me to step back and stop searching for validation through Buzzfeed quizzes. It was an interview with the incredible Mindy Kaling, titled “14 Pieces of Advice Mindy Kaling Has for Women.”

To the young woman who believed the world told her she shouldn’t feel so strongly about herself or her opinions, Mindy responded with, “So here’s the deal with confidence. I used to have no confidence, then I had a great deal of false confidence and now I’m infused with real confidence. When people get the confidence knocked out of them, I feel like it was probably false confidence because you can’t … get [confidence] knocked out of you when you are truly confident. I think you have to be able to have everything taken away from you and be sitting in a ditch and know you could build it up from scratch. That’s how I feel and that’s how I know it’s true confidence.”

The distinction Kaling makes between fake confidence and true confidence is one that relates directly to the insecurities that I — along with many other college students around me — feel in dealing with people that seemingly have their lives together. Log into Facebook, Twitter, any social media site of your choosing, and you can find yourself scrolling through announcements of other people’s successes. Even just a simple story of your friend’s great internship can set off a wave of existential panic, no matter how composed you might have convinced yourself to be. It’s more than just pettiness; while there are, of course, elements of simple jealousy in these emotions, often times, they are also a reflection of a lack of confidence in the priorities you have for yourself.

Many people would say this lack of confidence in my priorities exists because my priorities include eating as many Doritos as I can while watching an unhealthy amount of Netflix. I would disagree: My priorities are what allow me to overcome the existential crises I am faced with. “I’m helped by the fact that I’ll have a panic attack after the sixth episode of the TV show I’m watching … so you just need to make sure that you have a finely honed panic mechanism that goes off,” says Mindy, in response to the fact that she too doesn’t always have her priorities in order.

A “finely honed panic mechanism” is perhaps the best way to put the fact that I can work only after several hours of procrastination and under as much pressure as I can put myself through — and frankly, I am entirely okay with this. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Mindy’s interview, my ridiculous study habits, and observing everyone else around me have their lives squared away, it’s that keeping your eyes on your own paper and focusing on what works for you is, in the end, what will allow you to create work set apart from everyone else’s.

Hebani Duggal is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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his installment of my to give up the enterprise biweekly column — in because “if any law enforcewhich I generally “dis- ment group were to turn its cuss issues relevant to the focus back on our campus, I Cornell community with satire, would be a top target.”

The next day, Michael personal anecdotes and a hint of self-deprecation” (according Getzler, a sophomore English to my resume) — has to do major at Columbia, was arrestwith the confessions of an over- ed for five drug-related charges sharer. Sorry to let you down, by the NYPD. Now, it would be inapprobut I will not be the one oversharing. My editor told me that priate for me to explicitly say sharing any details about my that Getzler and the Spectator’s personal life would be more anonymous writer are the same harmful to The Sun’s audience person. In fact, I hope that the than a freshman engineer dis- Spectator maintains commoncovering the Sex on Thursday place journalistic ethical standards by not revealing the columns for the first time.

Therefore, as you are settling anonymous dealer’s identity if back into your lecture halls for the NYPD asks. However, I am the final stretch of the year, I sure that a police department would like to turn your atten- with a history of busting tion to our fellow New York State Ivy League institu- I consider their flippant and ill-considered tion, Columbia use of a public, very trackable system to University. pay for an illicit transaction to be a gross T h e C o l u m b i a failure of discretion.

Daily Spectator published an anonymous news- Columbia drug dealers — most paper column in the April 1 recently in 2010’s Operation edition. The column’s title? Ivy League — would have had “Confessions of a departing knowledge of a network as vast drug dealer.” In the column, as the anonymous dealer the alleged drug dealer talks at describes. I am sure, therefore, length about, in the author’s that such a department would words, the “bevy of ‘fun-assist- not take a column that suggests ing’ substances” that he or she that the operations are happendeals to a network that is, ing without the knowledge of apparently, “scarily large.” The the NYPD particularly lightly. anonymous dealer gleefully The anonymous columnist’s describes the sheer amount that statement that “I feel as if every he or she sold in preparation for policeman or Public Safety offiColumbia’s Bacchanal, their cer I walk by is sizing me up” may have been more valid than equivalent to our Slope Day. The alleged dealer writes, previously thought.

In reporting on Getzler’s “Weed, edibles, MDMA, coke — I have sold all of these over arrest, the website Capital New the past week, in staggering York surfaced another interestamounts. Several hundred stu- ing dimension related to overdents (and I would call that a sharing. Capital New York conconservative estimate) will be firmed with several of Getzler’s smoking my weed this alleged former clients that they Saturday. There will be more had paid using the instant cash service Venmo. than 100 students rolling on sharing MDMA, thanks to me alone.” Apparently Getzler had a rule Both the scope of the operation with the Venmo payments: the — if the claims are at all true “description has to be funny.”

— as well as the pride and And most of them are fairly admiration that goes along with funny. Because Venmo paythe reporting are striking. ment descriptions are public, I However, there is another was able to access Getzler’s dimension to the oversharer’s account myself. The ones I pertale. Although the dealer finds sonally found funniest were the “Because,” it “fulfilling and exciting [to be] non-sequiturs: the person that people rely on “Spring cleaning,” “My new for fun,” he or she has decided designer turban collection” and

“You can’t even buy a tablespoon of your family’s Vermont maple syrup with this.” There were also the requisite Emojis: “old man followed by an eggplant,” “snowflake followed by a peace sign” and “woman” (perhaps named “Molly”?). The article on Capital New York pointed out that students who paid Getzler through Venmo are concerned about the public nature of the payments, something they clearly did not consider when paying Getzler for their new designer turban collections. More generally, I consider their flippant and ill-considered use of a public, very trackable system to pay for an illicit transaction to be a gross failure of discretion. In other words, these poorly thought out payments are just another example of oversharing.

T h e s e instances of oversharing and their consequences lead me to think of an important lesson. I think that many young people today forget that anything placed online or, even in a newspaper, is accessible forever.

Generally, it is funny to caption your Venmo payment to your roommate for this month’s utility bills as “sexx” or to caption a bottle of liquor as “handle of jack daniels to fuel our raging alcoholism.” But, at the same time, these captions are also incredibly idiotic. In the same vein, making your Facebook profile picture a picture of you shotgunning a beer while backflipping fullyclothed into your parents’ pool, all while flipping off the camera, might seem like a great idea right now. But such a picture can have side-effects other than making you look cooler than I ever will: It could cost you a job, an acceptance to grad school or it could actually make you look like a douchebag. So therefore, take a lesson away from our sister school to the south (east), and please don’t overshare.

David Fischer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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What Is Kentucky’s Historical Legacy?

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to do what these kids just did, to get to this point.”

Kentucky had a phenomenal season, and I don’t mean to pickapart Coach Cal’s use of the word “historic.” Frankly, I often refer to pizza as “historic.” Sometimes I use “historic” to describe a difficult exam. The point is, Calipari likely did not literally mean that in 2054, people will be reminiscing on the ’14-’15 Wildcats season in the same way people look back on Wooden’s UCLA run. But for the sake of breaking down Kentucky’s season, let’s use Coach Cal’s words in their literal sense.

There is a stark difference between undefeated and unbeatable.

While Kentucky entered Saturday’s game 38-0, they did not cruise to 20-point victories in wins one through 38. They had narrow overtime victories over Texas A&M and Ole Miss. They faced halftime deficits at home versus Buffalo and Columbia. They were a play away from losing in the Elite 8. While Kentucky did win all of these games, they were never unbeatable — but they were portrayed that way.

Heading into the NCAA Tournament, Kentucky’s There is a stark expectations were lofty, yet not at all unrealistic. The difference between question “Kentucky or the undefeated and field?” floated around — as in, will Kentucky win the title, or unbeatable ... [Kentucky will any of the other 67 teams was] never unbeatable. in the field? Their March expectations had much to do with their 33-0 record at the time. Don’t get me wrong; Kentucky was among the best teams in the country — I picked them to win the title — but had they lost a few of the close games they managed to win, people would have considered Kentucky among the favorites to win the tournament — not the overwhelming favorite.

The ’14-’15 SEC lacked the talent of previous seasons. It’s usually Kentucky, Florida, Tennessee, Mizzou, Ole Miss and so on, all competing for the conference title. This year it was Kentucky and Arkansas. The SEC is usually among the best conferences in the country, but this season, it wasn’t.

Kentucky only faced one ranked opponent from the time conference play began to March Madness — from Jan. 6 to March 15.

Maybe more challenges, or even a loss, would have lessened the pressure on a team of mostly underclassmen, and benefited the Wildcats.

Who knows? Yet, because of the undefeated record, people — myself included — thought Kentucky was far and away best team in the country.

Kentucky was one of the best teams in the country, but when all is said and done, just like 66 other tournament teams, they were not NCAA Champions, and the ’14-’15 Wildcats’ season was just another what-could-have-been season under John Calipari. Kentucky will continue to bring in top-tier recruits and compete for titles, in hopes of chasing history – history of the sort that John Wooden’s UCLA teams made. But for now, Kentucky had a great, 38-1 season.

Great, but not historic.

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com.

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Red Stays Atop Ivy League Beats Green, loses against Crimson M. LACROSSE

League games left against Brown and Princeton to keep its spot atop the league and, Sophomore midfielder with this, be guaranteed a spot Domenic Massimilian, who in the NCAA tournament. has had a historic year, picked Brown and Princeton are curup a career-high 14 ground rently tied for second in the balls for the Red and won 17 league each with records of 21.

The Red “We hurt ourselves a lot in [against will look to extend its Harvard]. We didn’t finish the home win streak this opportunities we should have.” week with Connor Buczek two games on Schoellkopf: the first of 23 face-offs. Lintner contin- against Canisius College at 7 ued his stellar season with p.m. today and the second three goals and an assist, and against Hofstra University this senior attack Matt Donovan Saturday at noon.

— who did not play in the Dartmouth game — added Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at three assists.

The Red has two Ivy sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

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The Corne¬ Daily Sun

TUESDAY APRIL 7, 2015

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Buczek Shines as Laxers Split Ivy League Games

By SHAN DAHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

The No. 3 Cornell men’s lacrosse team continued Ivy League play this past week, defeating Dartmouth on March 28 but losing to Harvard this past Saturday in Cambridge.

With a 3-1 league record, the Red are atop the Ivy League despite the loss.

The victory against Dartmouth extended the Red’s home win streak this season.

One of the annual goals “Defensively, we for the program is an had a great undefeated record on Schoellkopf Field. The game the whole team most recently accomplished this in way through 2011, when the Red fin[against ished the year 8-0 at home.

Darmouth].”

The Big Green held the Connor Buczek Red close in the first half of the game before allowing five goals in the third quarter. Senior midfielder Connor Buczek scored three of these goals, leading the Red’s second half surge to a final score of 8-2.

“Defensively we had a great game the whole way through,” Buczek said. “The offense didn’t pick up until the second half.”

However, things didn’t go quite as well for the Red a week later in Cambridge.

Although Cornell bested Harvard in shots (39-30) and ground balls (39-29), the Red came up just short against the Crimson, losing 10-9 after a goal by Harvard attack Devin Dwyer late in the fourth quarter. Dwyer also scored in the

MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Buczek the bullet | Senior midfielder Connor Buczek (center) shined against Dartmouth and Harvard, scoring four goals. first quarter.

The Red trailed the Crimson 6-4 at halftime and 7-5 going into the fourth quarter. Three goals by Cornell and one from Harvard midfielder Ian Ardrey left the game tied at eight with 8:00 left in the game. Harvard midfielder Joe Lang scored with 3:00 remaining to put the Crimson up 98.

Senior attack Dan Lintner continued his habit of lategame heroics with a goal with 0:40 left to tie the game at nine. However, the Crimson immediately responded with

the goal by Dwyer with 0:32 remaining to finish off the game, 10-9.

The Red took 39 shots in the game to the Crimson’s 30.

Harvard was still able to outscore the Red, 3-1, in the first quarter even though the Red won all five face-offs.

“We hurt ourselves a lot in that game,” Buczek said. “We didn’t finish the opportunities we should have.”

However, there were some positives from the game.

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Is Kentucky Red Drops Five During Spring Break Historic? Softballers record three wins against Morgan State,Mount St.Mary’s I SOFTBALL

n the 1970’s, the UCLA men’s basketball program, under legendary coach John Wooden, established its place in history.

Wooden led the Bruins to seven consecutive NCAA Championships — including four perfect, 30-0 seasons. Decades later, Wooden remains an icon, and arguably the greatest collegiate basketball coach to ever live, and rightfully so.

He made history.

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz When Kentucky head coach John Calipari takes the podium following a game, win or loss, he always remains composed. He refrains from obnoxious jubilance following a major win, and he keeps his cool post-defeat. It’s an admirable trait, Wooden-esque, really, especially considering the number of major wins — and similarly, heartbreaking losses (see 2008 National Championship) —Calipari has experienced in his coaching career.

On Saturday, after Calipari’s undefeated Wildcats fell to Wisconsin, the head coach addressed the media like he always does. In his opening statement, he reflected on the season that had just ended. “This season is historic. I just can’t believe anybody is going See SHATZMAN page 11

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY

Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell softball team hit the road over spring break, traveling all over to play a total of eight games and five opponents.

The Red tallied three wins and five losses during the road trip. All three wins came against Morgan State University and Mount St. Mary’s, while the losses came at the end of the week against George Washington, Harvard and Dartmouth.

“We knew the end of our trip was going to be tough. Harvard and Dartmouth have always been tough as they are always on top of the standings,” said junior infielder Emily Weinberg.

“Both Ivy teams have great pitching and hitting, so we knew we were going to have to fight hard to win those.”

The break started off on a positive note for the Red with two outstanding performances against Morgan State University with scores of 12-3 and 10-0. In the first game, Cornell started out shaky, allowing MSU to score three times. The Red, however, tied it up in the second inning and never looked back.

MSU didn’t score again and the Red offense kept driving runners home, adding four more tallies in the fourth inning and five in the sixth.

“I think the biggest thing that we did well against Morgan State was hit. Every single person in the lineup was getting hits and having productive at bats,” Weinberg said. “We got on, moved runners, and scored. In addition to that, solid pitching and defense helped us take those games away.”

The second game against the Bears

was just as one-sided towards the Red. Freshman pitcher Maddie Orcutt shut out the MSU, striking out seven and walking one. The Red offense scored one in the first, two in the fourth and an impressive seven in the fifth to end the game with a score of 10-0.

The Red extended the win streak to three with a 13-8 win over Mount St. Mary’s. The first inning was all offense, with Cornell scoring five and Mount. St. Mary’s scoring three. The Red steadily put up runs, and though MSM had a strong four runs in the third inning, they couldn’t keep up with the Cornell offense.

Junior Leanne Iannucci said she sees the Red’s offensive progression as a positive on which the team can build.

“The biggest thing we are doing this year is hitting, plain and simple. I think we’re leading the Ivy League in batting average and some other statistics,” Iannucci said. “Almost all of our recent games we were scoring over seven runs a game, and that is huge with the competition we face. If we continue hitting like we have been and fine-tune some other aspects of our game, we can only go up from here.”

Before playing Harvard and Dartmouth over the weekend, the Red had one more non-conference game in George Washington University.

“We played G.W. last year and had

two really close games with them, so we knew they were going to give us a good game,” Weinberg said.

The whole game was a dogfight; Cornell went without a run until the fourth inning, but came back strong in the sixth inning with four runs and adding two in the last inning to end with seven runs total.

George Washington went slow but steady, and had one run in each of the first, fourth and fifth innings, while netting three in the third and two in the sixth, ending at just one above the Red, with a final score of 7-8.

The Red dropped their last four games of spring break against Harvard and Dartmouth, wrapping up the stretch with a 8-15 overall record.

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

Getting on base | Junior infielder Emily Weinberg is third on the team in batting average.

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