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SCHEDULE OF SPRING SPORTS

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BASEBALL The baseball team returns from a season filled with an Ivy Championship and NCAA run with the hopes to continue last season’s success.

2013

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MEN’S LACROSSE With the strength of a large senior class and the talent of some younger players, the Red hopes to regain the Ivy League Championship.

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W 7-5 L 4-9 W 15-5 W 8-4 W 10-9 W 3-2 W 3-2 W 4-0 W 3-1 L 1-4 W 5-4 W 6-1 W 4-1 W 8-5 L 2-4 L 5-14 W 3-1 L 7-10 L 0-1 W 3-0 4 p.m.

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at UMES at Saint Peter’s at Saint Peter’s at UMES at George Washington at George Washington at George Washington at George Washington at Appalachian State at Appalachian State at Appalachian State at Davidson at Davidson at Villanova at Villanova at Villanova Albany Albany Brown* Brown* Yale* Yale* Canisius at Harvard* at Harvard* at Dartmouth* at Dartmouth* Binghamton at Columbia* at Columbia* at Columbia* at Columbia* at Siena at Siena Penn* Penn* Penn* Penn* at Binghamton at Princeton* at Princeton* Princeton* Princeton*

April 6 April 13-14 April 20-21 April 26-28

GOLF 13th of 13 at Yale Spring Opener All Day at Princeton Invitational All Day at Yale Spring Invitational All Day Ivy Championships

MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING April 6 7:30 a.m. at Harvard April 20 All Day at Navy w/ Syracuse April 27 All Day at Yale w/ Princeton May 4 8:30 a.m.

Dartmouth May 4 10:00 a.m. at Washington w/ Dartmouth May 19 All Day EARC Sprints May 24 All Day at Penn May 31-June 2 All Day IRA Championships at Sacramento, C.A. MEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING April 6 April 13 April 14 April 20 May 4 May 19 June 2

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at Penn w/ Harvard Princeton Yale Columbia w/ MIT Dartmouth EARC Sprints IRA Championships at Sacramento, Calif.

WOMEN’S ROWING April 6 April 13 April 20-21 April 27 May 4 May 4

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Yale Radcliffe w/ Princeton at Clemson at Brown w/ Columbia Syracuse w/ Dartmouth at Washington with Dartmouth

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Ivy League Championships NCAA Championships

MEN’S LACROSSE W 19-11 at Hobart W 11-6 Binghamton W 19-3 Colgate W 18-7 at Canisius W 12-11 at Virginia W 12-10 at Yale* L 8-9 Bucknell W 10-5 Penn* W 17-9 Siena W 21-5 Dartmouth* W 14-12 at Harvard* 6 p.m. at Syracuse 3 p.m. at Brown* 4 p.m. at Princeton* TBA Ivy League Tournament WOMEN’S LACROSSE W 16-10 at Canisius W 17-12 Harvard* W 17-5 Colgate W 14-7 at Columbia* W 13-12 OT Penn State W 15-13 at Albany L 10-11 at North Carolina L 11-12 OT at Penn* L 10-12 Princeton* L 5-9 at Dartmouth* 4 p.m.

Brown* 4 p.m. at Syracuse 1 p.m. at Yale* 7 p.m.

Binghamton 1 p.m.

Boston SOFTBALL W 9-1 at Rider L 1-6 at George Mason L 1-9 at Rutgers W 6-5 at Rider L 1-2 at Monmouth L 0-8 5 inn. at Longwood W 3-0 at George Mason L 1-8 at Longwood W 3-2 at Robert Morris L 5-7 8 inn. at Radford W 12-5 at Quinnipiac L 3-4 at Valparaiso W 8-6 at Boston College W 6-3 at Bethune-Cookman W 7-3 at Bethune-Cookman L 3-10 at Stetson L 6-7 8 inn. at Stetson L 0-8 6 inn. at Jacksonville L 4-5 at Jacksonville L 0-5 at South Florida W 4-3 9 inn. Manhattan W 16-6 Manhattan L 2-7 13 inn. Yale* L 5-7 9 inn.

Yale* W 8-5 Brown* W 9-6 Brown* L 2-6 at Dartmouth* W 10-9 at Dartmouth* 10 inn.

W 10-7 at Harvard* L 2-11 5 inn. at Harvard* 3:30 p.m. at Syracuse 12:30 p.m. at Columbia* 12:30 p.m. at Columbia* 3 p.m. at Albany 12:30 p.m.

Penn* 12:30 p.m.

Penn* 3:30 p.m.

Ithaca 12:30 p.m.

Princeton* 12:30 p.m.

Princeton* 3:30 p.m.

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WOMEN’S ROWING/GOLF Both teams look ahead to the season: for rowers, the team looks to qualify for NCAAs and for the golfers, the athletes look to an Ivy Title.

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MEN’S ROWING Despite a mixture of upperclassmen, as well as some new faces, both the lightweight and heavyweight teams look to improve.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE The women’s lacrosse team works towards an NCAA bid this season.

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SOFTBALL The softball team looks to the rest of this season, as it currently has a split Ivy record.

CREDITS EDITORS Haley Velasco ’15, Scott Chiusano ’15, Ariel Cooper ’15, Emily Berman ’16

DESIGN Supplement Design: John Schroeder ’74 Cover Baseball Player Photos: Xiayue Guo ’15, Leena Kulkarni ’15, Monica Suh ’15 Cover Design: John Schroeder ’74

PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Archard ’15, Tina Chou ’11 Xiaoyue Guo ’15, Oliver Kliewe ’14, Leena Kulkarni ’15, Monica Suh ’15

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DIAMONDMEN SET SIGHTS ON SECOND IVY CHAMPIONSHIP

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor

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fter winning the program’s first Ivy League title in Cornell history, the baseball team returned this spring ready for more success, as much of the 2013 season is already underway. With most of the young pitching staff returning and some strength at bat, the Red hopes to continue its early season success under head coach Bill Walkenbach through the rest of the spring.

“Our mentality didn’t change from last year to this year.

We know that we are a really good team and that we are capable of having another successful season so we really try to focus on the present and take care of business on the field,” said sophomore pitcher Connor Kaufmann. “We all are really focused on trying to make it back to the NCAA Regionals.”

So far this season, the Red has come out strong with a 1710 record and wins in some highly contested match-ups, especially against Ivy rival Brown. Cornell started the season with an opening weekend at the UMES tournament during the first weekend of March, which allowed the team to takedown the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 5-3, 6-2. The Red also split to St. Peter’s College that weekend as well, 3-4, 3-2.

Heading into the next weekend, Cornell faced off against George Washington for four games, where the Red fell to the Colonials, 3-4, 3-5, on Saturday, March 9 and split on Sunday, 0-1, 7-5.

Spring break for Cornell was not filled with beach time, as the team faced Appalachian State in a first weekend trio and then turned to a doubleheader against Davidson on March 19. In the three against the Mountaineers, the Red grabbed two of three W’s, 15-5, 8-4. Cornell took down the Bearcats, 10-9, 3-2, in the midweek throwdown before heading to Villanova to finish off the week. The team swept three games against Villanova, 3-2, 4-0, 3-1, to close out the time off from classes.

Coming back from the break, the Red went up against the University of Albany on Tuesday, March 26, suffering a 1-4 loss and gaining a 5-4 win.

“The first half of the season went pretty well but we really seem to be hitting our stride lately, which, is great because we are about to head into the most important part of our schedule,” Kaufmann said.

The weekend brought about the first of Ivy League competition for Cornell as it faced Brown and Yale. In the two against the Bears, the Red took both, 6-1, 4-1. As for the Bulldogs, Cornell took the first one, 8-5, before the second of the scheduled games was postponed due to poor weather. The games against Dartmouth and Harvard both had the same outcome as the Red split the duo of doubleheaders, 1-1, against each Ivy foe.

“A f t e r last year, we realized that these first couple

weekends are important to take seriously … Each game in the Ivy League counts for the same amount,” senior second baseman Brenton Peters said. “We came in taking these games extremely seriously. We lost a couple but we are still in the running for first place.”

Pitchers

The pitching crew looks pretty similar to last season with the return of most of the players this 2013 season with a few shifts in starters.

Kaufmann led the starting lineup for the Red but after an injury it is unclear whether he will be able to play for the rest of this season. In 2012, he went 7-2 with a 3.90 ERA; his collegiate highlights from the mound so far, including a nohitter against Dartmouth, which attributed to his All-Ivy first team honor last season.

Coming in as the second guy in the rotation is sophomore Brian McAfee. Last season, he only walked 10 batters in 66.2 innings and grabbed himself an All-Ivy Second Team honor.

Outfield

The stud of last year’s Ivy winning team, junior Chris Cruz returns to right and clean up in the batting line-up after setting the school record for homeruns in a season in 2012 with 12.

Sophomore J.D. Whetsel took over for Brian Billigen ’12 in center field. At the plate and on base, Whetsel has had a more refined approach this season thus far and has quick feet and a lot of potential for big-time stolen bases.

To round out the three is sophomore Kevin Tatum in left field. After serving as the designated hitter last year, Tatum occupies the third spot in the lineup.

Catchers

The catching position was highly contested this spring with three top candidates, including senior Chris Burke, freshman Collin McGee and sophomore Matt Hall. As the eldest of the contenders, Burke has hands-down the most experience of the bunch as well as good receiving skills and the knowledge of the current pitchers.

As a freshman, McGee has shown up ready to play, and along with his strong arm and control of the field, he possess a great threat to opposing teams. For the third possible starter, Hall comes in with strong blocking and receiving skills. When he is not behind the plate, he is the designated hitter in the middle of the lineup for the Red.

“We really are trying to win another Ivy League championship because we have a really talented team.”

— Connor Kaufmann

“The pitchers have been doing really well this year. They have been hitting the strike zone which is crucial for every aspect of the game. If you throw strikes, a pitcher stays in longer and the defense gets to be incorporated into the game,” said sophomore Brent Jones. “Guys like Brian McAfee and Nick Busto, those guys have started to really shine and do their jobs well.”

As a freshman, Jones was one of the most consistent players in strikeouts on the roster. He returns this season with a deadly fastball and a power slider to face the competition.

As a closer, the Red mainly looks to sophomore Kellen Urbon, who is a tough pitcher on the mound. His skills garnered him Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2012, Freshman All-American, All-Ivy First Team Closer and 2013 Preseason All-American.

Infield

To start in the infield, Peters plays at second for the Red and has been hitting lead off this season.

At third, Cornell has junior co-captain Ben Swinford joining Peters, and he returns to the starting lineup for the third year in a row.

Junior Tom D’Alessandro is the Red’s new shortstop, after serving as a utility player for the past two seasons.

To finish out the infield at first is junior Ryan Plantier. He has been a powerful hitter for Cornell who will continue to showcase his talent in the middle of the lineup.

The Remainder of the 2013 Season

Cornell looks to finish the rest of its season with matchups against Columbia, Siena College, Penn, Binghamton and Princeton before a potential Ivy Championship and hopefully another NCAA run.

“Honestly our entire division in the Ivy League is very strong so they are all going to be tough games,” Kaufmann said. “We play Columbia, Penn and Princeton in the next three weeks and they are all having great seasons so far, so we really need to focus and have a few good weekends.”

The rest of the season is packed with Ivy League competitors as Cornell looks to defend its Ivy League title and make another NCAA tournament run this spring.

“We really are trying to win another Ivy League championship because we know we have an extremely talented team and we know we are capable of it,” Kaufmann said. “If we can accomplish that, then I hope we make a run in the NCAA Tournament. Ivy League baseball is under-rated and we are trying to be the team to make some noise.”

In addition to winning last year, according to Peters, the team has seen some success on the field so far this season.

“I believe [we can win another Ivy title]. We have been playing defense really well and the pitching has been good.

Everybody has had some quality at bats and hitting the ball solidly,” Peters said.

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Red ready to rumble | The baseball team looks to build on its success so far this season, to continue winning Ivy League faceoffs and to grab another Ivy League title.

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Laxers Look to Return to NCAA Championship Tournament “[Buczek] made the U-19 U.S. team as an attackman, and coach moved him to middie and he made the switch and he’s done a great job so far of generating offense for us and ... pulling his best defensive player who covers the midfield,” Pannell said.

Defense

Senior team captain and 2012 All-Ivy selection Jason Noble has anchored the Red defense, which has surrendered a mere 7.60 goals per game. Noble leads the defense with 20 forced turnovers this season, with junior Tom Freshour next on the list with 13.

Head coach Ben DeLuca ’98 received four letters as a member of the Red defense himself, and has worked to keep the unit among the nations best. Since DeLuca became the Red’s defensive coordinator in 2002, the Red defense has kept opponents to fewer than 10 goals in over 68 percent of all games, including seven times this season.

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Hot and dangerous | Senior attack Rob Pannell returns for the Red as one of the main attackers this season.

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

A tight 9-8 defeat versus No. 11 Bucknell being the only blemish thus far for the Red, the Cornell men’s lacrosse team appears poised to make a championship run and return to the NCAA Tournament after narrowly missing out in 2012.

“Obviously last year wasn’t the typical season [we’ve been] used to in the past couple years, having not won the Ivy League championship and not [making] the NCAA Tournament,” said senior attackman Rob Pannell. “[W]e knew coming into this year we really needed to refocus and start from scratch.”

The Red’s 2012 season (9-4, 4-2 Ivy League) was marked by an eerily similar 9-1 start. From that point on, however, the team dropped its final three games: a 10-9 loss versus Brown, a 14-9 defeat at Princeton, and a disappointing 14-10 finish against Yale in the Ivy League Tournament’s opening round.

M. LACROSSE PLAYERS TO WATCH ROB PANNELL After coming off an injury last season, senior captain Rob Pannell returned to the field this season shattering records — becoming the all-time scoring leader for the Red and all-time assist leader. His time on the Hill got him an ESPY nomination in 2011.

STEVE MOCK Senior attack Steve Mock maintains his presence on the field for Cornell. He currently leads the nation in goals per game at 3.7. He was also honored as Ivy League Player of the Week twice so far this season and four times overall in his career.

Goaltender

“We just didn’t get better over the course of the year,” Pannell said, stressing the importance of senior leadership.

With last season’s 0-3 finish fresh in the team’s memory, the Red appears focused and is aided by the return of fifthyear senior Pannell — one of the most accomplished players in program history — after missing most of last season due to injury.

Attack

Nine former starters have returned for the Red this season, including several pivotal leaders on the attack.

One of the team’s impact players this year has been senior attackman Steve Mock, who earned All-Ivy honorable mention in 2012 and is one of four team captains for 2013. This year Mock has scored 31 goals in just nine games for a per-game average of 3.44, putting him comfortably among the NCAA’s top five in that category.

“I’d say he’s having as good a season as he’s ever had,” Pannell said. “He’s taken that captain job and he’s done a great job ... transitioning his leadership skills over to the field.”

Mock’s presence has been felt — the team’s only loss coincided with the one game Mock has missed thus far — but the return of captain and 2011 USILA National Player of the Year Pannell has been of equal importance. In ten games this year Pannell has nabbed 24 goals and has been on the giving end of another 30, putting the 2011 ESPY nominee among the NCAA’s best in both goals and assists. During a 10-5 victory over Penn on March 23, he eclipsed the 300-career point mark — one of only eight Division I lacrosse players to have accomplished such a feat.

Midfield

Short stick defensive midfield Tom Trasolini is representing the midfield as a team captain this season. Junior Doug Tesoriero and senior Thomas Keith hold the team marks for ground balls with

58 and 50, respectively, and Tesoriero has won more than 58 percent of his faceoffs this season for the Red. Among the younger players on the roster, sophomore Connor Buczek has emerged as one of the squad’s top midfielders.

Senior A.J. Fiore — a graduate of Ithaca high school — has started every game for the Red thus far. Fiore has stopped 85 shots for a .559 save percentage, putting him among the top-20 DI goaltenders in save percentage.

Sophomores William Joyce and Brennan Donville, a member of the U-19 Canadian National Team, have also seen limited action in goal this season. “[AJ] Improved tremendously over the fall, and is only improving as the season goes on,“ Pannell noted. “[H]e’s played as good for us as I’ve ever season him play as far as making the saves that he’s supposed to and making some of the saves he’s not supposed to make. He’s really done a great job of leading our defense.”

2013 Season

Cornell was ranked 15 in the 2013 Coaches’ Preseason Poll to begin the season, and the team has moved up to second after a series of impressive victories.

The Red has put up big scores this season, including 193 and 21-5 victories over Colgate and Dartmouth, respectively. More importantly, the Red was able to pull out a win in a tightly contested matchup against the University of Virginia — scoring a final-minute goal to defeat No. 18 UVA, 12-11, on the road in Charlottesville.

Although the team has remained within the NCAA’s elite in most major stat categories, the Red still has room for improvement.

“Something we can work on, really particularly, is our ability to clear the ball,” Pannell said.

“Bucknell was our sole loss because we could not clear the ball.”

As the Red closes out its third season under coach DeLuca, the team must remain focused over the final four games — road contests against Harvard (4-5, 11), No. 8 Syracuse (6-2), Brown (5-3, 1-1), and No. 8 Princeton (6-2, 2-1).

“You’ve got to take every team as the best team in the country and take that day-by-day approach,” Pannell said.

XIAOYUE GUO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior strikes | Senior Steve Mock leads the Red at attack as the team fights to regain the Ivy Championship title.

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The $10 million project to redesign the Commons, which has taken five years of planning and funding from four levels of government, kicked off Monday at an event that featured live music, speeches and an elementary school class performance of the “Bob the Builder” theme song.

“It’s an expensive project because it’s an extensive project,” Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said at the groundbreaking.

Construction will officially begin on April 15 to replace the amenities, furnishings and surfaces of the Commons and rebuild underground utilities — which include water pipes that are over 100 years old.

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Explosion Caused Brush Fire on North Campus,Police Say No injuries or damage reported

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

Cornell Police are currently investigating the cause of a small explosion that occurred near Risley Residential College early Monday.

The explosion occurred near the tennis courts west of

Risley at approximately 12:45 a.m. and caused a small fire to break out, according to Kathy Zoner, chief of the Cornell University Police Department.

When Ithaca Fire Department officials arrived on the scene, they found “an area of brush burning along a fence line behind the residence hall,” according to a press release from IFD. No injuries or property damage were reported, according to IFD. “At this point, it’s an ongoing investigation. Everything

has been gathered, the scene has been cleared and we’re now investigating who may have [been responsible],” Zoner said.

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S.E. Cupp ’01 Discusses Media Bias and Future of Republican Party

By EMMA JESCH Sun Staff Writer

S. E. Cupp ’01, author, co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle and a former Arts and Entertainment editor for The Sun, spoke about American media biases and how the Republican party could gain college stu-

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Suit Up | S.E. Cupp ’01 encourages viewers to be critical of the media they consume at a lecture Monday.

dent support Monday.

Cupp began her talk by challenging the commonly-held perception that the media ignores the the conservative viewpoint.

“Why do MSNBC and Fox have more viewers than CNN?” Cupp asked the audience. “Why is talk radio dominated by conservative speakers?”

Cupp said that there is a distinction between a news organization that acknowledges its political bent and a news source that claims to be unbiased.

“I would say that MSNBC and Fox are less biased than CNN because they are honest about their political leanings,” Cupp said. “CNN pretends to be in the middle, but it’s really not. When viewers watch Fox, they know what they’re going to get.”

Cupp said that media biases are not just political and can be difficult for viewers to spot.

“As viewers, it’s up to you to take a critical eye to what kind of views that you’re given,” Cupp said. “You can get your news in hundreds, if not thousands, of ways — you need to be a detective. Who are you listening to? What are their political views?

Where are they coming from? Who is sponsoring them?”

Cupp discussed a variety of biases in the media, including class, gender and antiChristian bias.

“Whether or not you believe in God, religion is part of the fabric of this country,” Cupp said. “The media does not need to support religion, but it does need to acknowledge that it is important.”

Cupp said that although she identifies as an atheist, she considers a person’s values –– faith-based or not –– to be a critical part of politicians’ policy-making decisions.

“How would I make George W. Bush separate his evangelical Christian beliefs with his decisions about stem cell research?” Cupp said. “It is unfair to ask religious people to divorce their politics from their religion.”

Cupp, whose appearance was sponsored by the Cornell Republicans, also spoke about how the Republican party could gain more of the college student vote by focusing on fiscal policy instead of social issues.

“Today, young people are deciding not to invest in homes or cars and are waiting to get married,” Cupp said. “I’m inordinately taxed for not being married or owning a house. I’m being penalized for making good financial decisions. [The] GOP should reduce taxes for making these decisions and make economic overtures in ways that are tangible to young people.”

Additionally, Cupp emphasized how the Republican Party could be improved, specifically focusing on how divisions within the party could be mended.

“We need to forget about appealing to those who are moderately conservative, and strongly conservative because we can’t afford to cut these groups in half,” Cupp said. “Instead, we need to judge our candidates on their effectiveness as communicators.”

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Opinion Growing Pains

Deon Thomas ’14 says that while he is one of many on campus who is obsessed with ratings, he hopes to break free of the ‘epidemic.’ | Page 6

Arts Getting Personal

Ithaca College’s production of Spring Awakening is “intimate” and “an experience” according to Meredith Joyce ’14. | Page 9

Sports Row, Row, Row Your Boat

The men’s rowing teams kicked off their seasons this weekend, with the lightweight team enjoying some success and the heavyweight team struggling. | Page 16

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Cornell, which has supplied more Peace Corps recruits than any Ivy League school for the past two years and helped Ithaca become the third-largest per capita contributor in the entire world, renewed and expanded its long-standing partnership with the agency Friday morning.

Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie HesslerRadelet met with University President David Skorton Friday morning to sign two agreements.

The first served to renew the University’s existing Master’s International Program, which allows students to count Peace Corps assignment work toward their masters degrees, and the second expanded the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program, which grants scholarships to returned Peace Corps volunteers, from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning to include the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

The signing, which took place in the Day Hall boardroom, was attended by University and Peace Corps representatives who were “instrumental” in the materialization of the agreements, according to Hessler-Radelet.

President Skorton expressed approval of the “brisk pace of recruitment,” a sentiment echoed

by Hessler-Radelet. “[Cornell] is a very special place,” she said.

The University has had “a strong history of partnership” with the Peace Corps since the organization was founded in 1961, Skorton said.

The agreements are the product of an initiative to further develop this relationship between the Peace Corps and the University, according to Skorton.

The University recognized the suitability of the CALS curriculum, which prepares students by equipping them with the skills the host countries need, to the Peace Corps’ mission, according to Skorton.

“Students in CALS learn specific ways to analyze and approach complex agricultural problems in difficult contexts,” said Marshall McCormick grad, the Peace Corps’ Cornell recruiter and returned volunteer from Madagascar and Zambia.

The Paul D. Coverdell Fellows program stipulates that, upon return, volunteers continue utilizing the skills they used abroad to contribute to domestic cities in need, according to its website.

“Internships in underserved communities will be an integral part of each recipient’s degree, allowing returned Peace Corps volunteers to bring the skills they acquired during service back home to make an impact in the United States,” Skorton said in a press release.

The program will allow the returning Cornell students to use their skills in their respective fields to serve the greater Ithaca area, while providing financial assistance for their studies, Skorton said.

Talia Jubas can be reached at tfj23@cornell.edu.

Teresa Shoatz, the daughter of Maroon Shoatz — who has spent 39 years in the United States prison system, including nearly two decades in solitary confinement — visited Cornell Thursday as part of her countrywide tour promoting her father’s book, which advocates on behalf of those who are discriminatorily incarcerated and against social injustices in the prison system.

“The warden placed Maroon in solitary confinement because of his beliefs. He is a believer, a leader and a teacher,” Shoatz said.

“His main education piece is to rearrange the mindset of folks who commit petty crime and end up in prison, so when they are released, prison doesn’t become a revolving door for them –– almost like a prison education program.”

Shoatz said her father, who was a member of the Black Panther Party, was imprisoned after the party carried out an attack against the Philadelphia Police Department that was motivated by the department’s armed attempts to destroy the party’s resistance. The 1972 incident left an officer dead, and despite Maroon’s professed innocence, he was arrested and placed in the Philadelphia prison system.

Shoatz emphasized the importance of teaching young people about the injustices that can be perpetrated by the prison system.

“I wanted to open the minds of young folks [from college] before they are released back into their communities, areas and workspaces, helping them to acknowledge the present day prison system. As students, you are devoid from the outside world. You have these fresh new grains because your focus is on the college,” said Shoatz.

Carrie Freshour grad said she organized the event to make Maroon Shoatz’s story more wellknown.

“We wanted to bring awareness to Maroon’s life and work

and his unjust political imprisonment. On a larger level, we wanted to get the word out about his work against the prison system,” Freshour said.

Freshour also said that Maroon Shoatz’s book was an entryway to discussing the disproportionate extent to which minorities are imprisoned in the United States.

“It’s depressing; the criminalization of people of color is an issue that we hoped to bring attention to here at Cornell,” Freshour said. “Men of color make up 60 percent of the prison population, while only constituting 30 percent of the entire U.S. population. This is even reflected on a local level with the Ithaca Police Department.”

Mariamma Kambon grad echoed Freshour’s sentiments, and said that it is important to bring light to injustices perpetrated in the United States prison system.

“It is a stark reminder that while we are busy outing fires in far away places, our own neighbors are burning,” Kambon said.

“Can we truly, legitimately, point fingers across international borders about human rights violations, when we ignore them within the borders of this nation? The system of mass incarceration, especially with its ugly taint of color and class prejudice, is the civil rights issue of our time.”

Maroon has since been moved to State Correctional Institution Mahanoy, a level-four solitary confinement prison, an improvement on his previous level-five imprisonment at State Correctional Institution Greene, according to Teresa Shoatz. She said the movement to rally support behind Maroon and to shed light on the injustices of the U.S prison system will continue.

“The biggest part is to make people aware [of] who Russell is.

He shouldn’t be forgotten and is still on the front line of activism within his community,” Teresa said.

Jordan Jackson can be reached at jcj65@cornell.edu.

In remembrance

Brush Fires Strike Tompkins County

Following a series of brush fires over the weekend and on Monday, local officials reminded the community of the outside-burning ban that remains in effect through May 14, The Ithaca Journal reported.

Top-Tier Graffiti Artists Come to Ithaca

Forty-five top graffiti artists collaborated to paint all four sides of the Cornell University Press building on Cascadilla Street this weekend, The Ithaca Journal reported on Monday.

Jury Selection Begins In Police Shooting Trial

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Jamel Booker, 23, who is charged with attempted first-degree murder and several other crimes in connection with the shooting of Ithaca police officer Anthony Augustine, The Ithaca Journal reported.

Tompkins Democrat to Announce Congressional Candidacy

A Tompkins County Democrat will officially announce his or her candidacy for the 23rd Congressional District on Thursday, The Ithaca Journal reported.

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Clad in black, students walk in silence down Ho Plaza Monday as part of We Walk to Remember, an event commemorating the Holocaust.

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sible so that all of these businesses on the Commons can stay open and continue doing business for the entire time the construction is happening,” Myrick said.

“We’re going to phase it so that the obstruction is as minimal as possible.”

The city was able to secure funding for the project through a comprehensive package comprised of federal, state, county and city funding, along with $500,000 of private funding from the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, according to DIA Executive Director Gary Ferguson.

Securing the funds for the project was a difficult process, according to Ferguson. He said that the project was the result of “ten years of talking and five years of planning.”

“Up until a few months ago, most people did not believe that this project would move forward at all. It was too difficult, too big and too expensive,” Ferguson said.

Myrick said that the city was finally able to secure the funds necessary for the project thanks to the efforts of elected representatives. According to Myrick, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) were instrumental in the City of

Ithaca receiving $4.5 million in funding from the federal government.

The city also received $1.8 million in state funding, according to Myrick, for which he thanked New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), executive director of Empire State Development Kevin McLaughlin, and State Senator Tom O’Mara (R).

“If we didn’t get that, and if we didn’t get that last year right when we needed it, we truly wouldn’t be here,” Myrick said.

In many ways, Ferguson said the redesign project mirrored the creation of the Commons 40 years ago, which he said “defined and branded Ithaca for a generation ... brought twenty years of prosperity, spurred new development and made Ithaca a walkable city.”

Myrick also said that the redesign project would be instrumental in revitalizing downtown Ithaca.

“Here we are at the center of our city and the center of our county. ... We are here at the cultural, social, political hub,” Myrick said. “If this is not successful, then our county will not be successful.”

Robin Tropper-Herbel, executive director of the Community School of Music and Arts, which is located in the Commons, described the redesign as “terrific” and said that she was “really looking forward to a revitalized Commons, once it’s done.”

Tropper-Herbel said the long-term benefits of the

redesigned Commons outweigh the short-term inconveniences of construction.

“It should be a minimal amount of changes to traffic, and I know that there will be plenty of accommodations for pedestrians so that businesses will be open and thriving,” Tropper-Herbel said.

Jim Dennis (D -15th District), chair of the Budget and Capital Committee of the Tompkins County Legislature, agreed that the Commons was in great need of renovations.

“I think it’s a great idea, and it was sadly needed for a long time. The Commons needed to get rebuilt, and I think it was a big effort on the part of many mayors,” Dennis said.

Dennis added that, during the construction of the Commons in the 1970s, the disruption may have caused fewer people to come downtown and as a result, many stores went out of business.

“I believe that what they’re going to have to do is make sure we don’t lose businesses,” Dennis said. “The city has to really do a good job promoting the idea: ‘Come on down. Watch us build. We’re open and ready for business.’”

Gabriella Lee can be reached at gdl39@cornell.edu.

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Historically, conservatism has been popular when it makes an emotional or intellectual connection with the voters, according to Cupp. To gain votes, Cupp said that the party needs to allow the best commu-

nicators to “rise to the top” and eliminate pervading biases.

“Politics is about perception: right now, [the Republican party is] not high-minded or socially connected.”

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Cuomo Says Overhaul Of N.Y. Ethics Needed Again ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Days after federal authorities rocked New York politics with an announcement of more “rampant” corruption cases, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that solutions abound to fix Albany’s intractable ethical lapses.

But he isn’t releasing any remedies yet in his call for another overhaul of ethics laws and enforcement in two years, and so far he won’t order a powerful corruption commission to investigate state politics as his father, Gov. Mario Cuomo, did in 1987.

“The governor will be proposing a comprehensive anti-corruption package that addresses longstanding inequities,” said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi. “These are separate and distinct issues from the 2011 law to reform the operations and oversight of state government.”

Cuomo in a radio interview didn’t say how his new overhaul would be different from his ethics reform two years ago, or other ethics reforms four years before that.

Those who have regulated state government say the latest rhetoric follows a pattern over decades following scandals where, despite numerous press announcements, reforms came up short.

The former state ethics and lobbying watchdogs say Albany continues to avoid focusing on the root causes of corruption. The regulators said in interviews that Albany must break down political hurdles so people can run for office without making concessions to party bosses, and state officials must begin to report suspicious behavior of colleagues.

Former state ethics board Executive Director Karl Sleight said that in his experience it was “very unlikely” that a state official would report concerns about another state official's ethical behavior.

“It’s a collegial environment,” said Sleight, who led the 2006 investigation into former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi that resulted in one of Albany biggest corruption convictions. “They all go through the same political battles of getting themselves on the ballot. There’s a certain collegiality that develops, and I think it transcends party labels.

“The larger issue is how to attract quality candidates with the right moral compass and improving ballot access for those people,” Sleight said.

He said public-spirited citizens can be dissuaded from politics if they are first required to make donations to party bosses, diminishing the pool of top candidates.

“At the end of the day, crooks are crooks,” Sleight said. “It doesn’t matter what ethics law you pass. If you are willing to take a bribe, you take a bribe.”

The former state lobbying executive director said governors and legislatures focus on new ethics laws in press conferences, while the small stuff that foster what Cuomo as attorney general had called a “culture of corruption” goes untouched.

“It starts with gateway violations, just like drugs,” said David Grandeau, now an attorney representing lobbying clients.

He said the culture is fostered by routine abuse of legislators' "per diem payments, friends and family on the payroll, abuse of campaign funds for non-campaign purposes, and they go from there."

Grandeau blames his frequent target, the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics created under Cuomo’s ethics overhaul two years ago, which replaced another board created four years before under the ethics overhaul of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

“That’s why these guys do it. They get away with it,” Grandeau said.

“This is the governor’s responsibility.”

Cuomo said he’s had private discussions with legislators on his ideas.

“It’s very hard to do it piecemeal ... the better way to do it is to reform the overall system,” Cuomo said Monday. “Even good people in the system will say the system doesn’t work.”

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Following Sexual Harassment Scandal, State Assemblyman Will Run for NYC Council Seat NEW YORK (AP) — Tarnished by a sexual harassment scandal, a state assemblyman who lost much of his political power in Albany has filed to run for a New York City Council seat, the city Campaign Finance Board said Monday.

Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a Democrat, officially filed paperwork for a bid for a Brooklyn council seat he has been said to be considering for months, despite the harassment allegations and a series of health problems.

His assembly office directed calls to a number for his political committee; the calls were answered and then cut off, and no one “[Lopez] shamed immediately himself and the responded to a text mesAssembly, and he sage. would do the same in The onceinfluential the City Council.”

Lopez lost his Antonio Reynoso job as Brooklyn Democratic party boss and was stripped of his Assembly leadership role last year after allegations emerged that he had sexually harassed female staffers, which he denies. Two claims were secretly settled for $103,000, using taxpayer money.

The state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics investigated the agreement. The findings were filed with the Legislative Ethics Committee but haven’t been disclosed. Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, appointed as a special prosecutor, is investigating.

The investigation gripped the state political scene last summer with tales of a groping assemblyman and a confidential, publicly funded settlement sanctioned by powerful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Protesters and some politicians, including Silver, urged Lopez to

resign, but he refused, saying his constituents should get to decide who should represent them.

They did, re-electing him in November to the seat he has held since 1984.

Silver has said that he regrets making the secret June deal but that the accusers requested it.

Lopez, 71, was diagnosed with leukemia in 1993 and announced in 2010 that he had esophageal cancer. He said in February that he had pneumonia for the second time in nine months, his mobility was limited and his health was “deteriorating.”

Still, talk circulated of a possible council run, especially after a panel that draws council district maps crafted one last fall that popped his block into the district he’s now filed for — currently held by term-limited Democratic Councilwoman Diana Reyna — rather than the less politically appealing district where he’d been. The maps were redrawn after criticism.

It’s possible to run for a district from outside it, but a successful candidate would have to move in.

Also, in New York, an elected official can run for another elective office but cannot hold both offices at the same time.

Last week, Lopez registered a council campaign committee with the state Board of Elections.

Lopez’ expected City Council bid has ignited outrage from women’s advocates and from an opponent, Antonio Reynoso, who is Reyna’s chief of staff.

Local chapters of the National Organization for Women held a rally last week to endorse Reynoso, saying Lopez would be unfit for office.

Messages for Reynoso weren’t immediately returned Monday, but he told the Daily News last week that Lopez “shamed himself and the Assembly and he would do the same in the City Council.”

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Limiting Restrictions On Scholarly Research ON MARCH 20, THE U.S. SENATE PASSED the Coburn Amendment, which prohibits the National Science Foundation from funding political science research unless it promotes U.S. national security or economic interests. This move is alarming for a number of reasons. There will be damaging cutbacks to political science research.

Additionally, the new criteria for evaluating research proposals will restrict the breadth of the discipline. Given the seemingly political motivation behind its passage and its potential harm to the study of political science, we believe the Senate was remiss in passing this amendment.

The NSF is critical to political science research in the U.S., funding 61 percent of all research in the discipline nationwide. At Cornell, one in five of all external political science grants given to graduate students and faculty are awarded by the NSF. The impact these restrictions will have on this academic field could be devastating. Yet political science funding accounts for less than .01 percent of NSF’s total budget allocations. Given the already small scale of political science research funding, the move seems to have been made with politics, rather than economics, in mind. The arguably symbolic shift in priorities the Coburn Amendment will achieve does not justify the negative impact the policy will have on political science research in the U.S. The Senate’s decision to support only research that promotes U.S. interests is an unsettling departure from academic freedom. Though the country faces tough economic times, those hardships cannot and should not be solved by a governmental dictation of what research American scholars ought to pursue. Decisions made about funding allocations at the micro-level should be made by scientists, not politicians. The “promoting national security or the economic interests of the U.S.” requirement for NSF funding not only undermines the autonomy of our nation’s scientists, it also threatens to cause a chilling effect on scholarship in the U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) may be right in saying that the NSF has failed to responsibly allocate taxpayer funds to critical research projects. Perhaps they have, as he argues, failed to properly manage their priorities in awarding grants. Nonetheless, a more targeted and narrowly-tailored approach to holding the NSF accountable would have been far more appropriate. Instead, the Senate has dealt a painful blow to political science research in the U.S. in order to make a political point.

It’s Not Me, It’s You

“H

ow are we ranked 15th by U.S. News when we’re better than Dartmouth?” “Did you hear that we have the number one ranked Collegetown in the nation?” “I wonder what our fraternity will be ranked after rush week?”

In light of these questions that I often hear around campus, I have my own: Why does the average Cornellian so often find him or herself asking these questions when they should be asking “why do I care?” This obsession with rankings is quite frankly an epidemic on campus, as far as I’m concerned. And I, for one, am a proud member of those infected. I can tell you where each of my favorite sports teams is currently ranked in their respective power rankings. The Ravens?

Number One. The Nationals? Number One. The Heat? Number One. The Capitals? My only disappointment at number 15. I must also admit that I was never interested in baseball until the Nationals began performing well last season. This obsession with rankings even affects me when I’m shopping, as I make sure to check with Consumer Reports before buying any electronics.

Likewise, college rankings were a large factor for me when applying to colleges. I knew in advance I would be crushed if I was forced to attend a school outside of the “Top 25 Colleges” on U.S. News’ National University Rankings.

Rankings are my guidelines and without them, quite honestly, I would be lost.

As an ambitious individual, what more could I want than to be the best at what I do? Rankings seem to provide that possibility — if I want to be the best I can always aim for that top spot on any list.

Everything is being ranked these days, as everyone from sportscasters to college experts try to compare the merits of every person, place or thing. For example, not only are NBA teams ranked, but now, before each season the top 500 NBA players are ranked on ESPN. Not only are the top universities ranked, but now the individual schools within them are ranked. Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management was recently ranked third on Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Best Undergraduate Business Schools” (our AEM majors can happily pat their backs). However, some rankings out there are quite ridiculous, and probably unnecessary, such as Maxim’s Hot 100 which, as it proudly states on its website, whittles down the list of the thousands of beautiful women in this world to simply the best of the best.

This brings me to the most important part of this column: The implications of this ranking phenomenon must be discussed. We must ask ourselves: What are

these rankings doing to us? I believe that they cause a bit of unhealthy competition. Colleges must now think about every decision they make in terms of rankings, especially when it comes to admissions. The fact of the matter is the more competitive admissions are, the better one’s ranking and the more money the school will eventually generate. Not only do these rankings influence the decisions the University makes in the present, but they also they have the ability to determine the future results as well.

On a smaller and more personal level, I believe these rankings have the ability to define our preferences, as opposed to letting us come to decisions on our own.

For example, on Maxim’s Hot 100, Katy Perry took the top spot in 2010. From then on out, I considered her to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, although I had thought nothing of either her looks nor her musical talent beforehand.

Lastly, I strongly believe that rankings can stifle creativity. These lists force those considered near the bottom to emulate the behavior of those above them.

Because rankings are based upon a certain criteria and oftentimes there’s only one road one can take to master the criteria, a school that pushes the envelope in terms of forward-thinking teaching, may not be considered at the same level as Harvard or Yale, whose traditions are ... traditions. This “cookie cutter” cycle leaves little variety or creativity and in my opinion, is often rather biased.

When cast in such a light, rankings can seem like a potentially dangerous commodity. I could easily envision other individuals accusing the Illuminati of creating rankings and spreading their popularity, nonetheless I will grudgingly deviate from doing so. As a solution to this ranking epidemic, we could begin to seek internal motivation for everything we do, however this is easier said than done. I often think about what my definition of success is and I often find that success is having the most money, being the most famous, having the most influence and achieving the most accolades. Basically, my definitions of success require other people’s approval in one way or another.

It is my goal and hope that I can seek more internal ambitions and break away from a world telling me what is the best and worst preference. Those of you that are content to give into your obsession with rankings and never quite seem to find happiness, never forget that it’s not me, it’s you.

Deon Thomas is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at dthomas@cornellsun.com. It’s Not Me, It’s You appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Evaluating the Discontents

Aiding Inclusive Development T

he United Kingdom recently became the first member of the G-7 countries to pass an esoteric milestone by spending over 0.7 percent of its gross national income on foreign aid. That fact, combined with the rapid growth fueled by an oil and minerals boom across the African continent, has sparked renewed interest in the debate over whether foreign development aid should be reduced. In a recent piece for CNN, development specialist Bob Geldof makes a persuasive case for the continuing need for aid. I argue that in addition to issues like persistent poverty in pockets of the region and unacceptably high maternal mortality, aid is needed because the African growth trajectory will systemically create losers. These losers will require the United Kingdom to get some company at the top.

The case for drawing down aid rests on the continent’s recent growth spurt. A McKinsey report charting this growth shows that natural resources generated over 30 percent of African GDP in the 2002-2008 period. Moreover, this industry was the fastest growing, expanding 24 percent in the same time period. The retail industry, which comes in second, grew 13 percent. Chinese demand drives a significant proportion of this growth. In addition to being a customer for oil and minerals, China has invested heavily in infrastructure with a view to guaranteeing its supply of resources.

Even though six of the 10 fastest growing economies over the 2000-2010 period were from Africa and growth rates there are expected to trump those in Asia in the coming decade, the case for aid remains robust. First, the growth remains unequal.

Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria might be galloping, but the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Accomodating those marginalized by extractive industries and export-led growth requires intelligently targeted aid. and the Central African Republic remain mired in conflict. As mentioned above, certain demographic indicators like infant and maternal mortality remain stuck at unacceptable levels.

More interestingly, however, is that even in the fastest growing states, the growth is creating losers. Accommodating those marginalized by extractive industries and export-led growth requires intelligently targeted aid. In countries benefiting from recent Chinese investment in mineral and food production, the degree of local involvement in the new industries in highly contested. Proponents of Chinese investment point to increasing ratios of local to Chinese workers at these industrial facilities as well as Beijing’s diktats to improve the “working skills of local youth and women.” Taken at their strongest, these arguments still leave room for skepticism on three counts. First, the involvement of locals remains at the lower levels of the industrial hierarchy. Second, extractive industries by nature tend to exclude certain groups, most notably women.

Finally, the pace and type of industrialization has led to large scale environmental damage which hurts those who once depended on those ecosystems for their livelihood. To refuse to consider the connections between the continued havoc the oil industry wrecks in the Nigerian delta and continued attacks on its workers, is to ignore those marginalized by the country’s economic boom. These are not jabs solely at Chinese investment in the region. Although he is excessively optimistic in his assessment of the actions of Chinese firms, Qu Xing is right to point out the counterfactual in last week’s Financial Times. The interest of Western firms, he said, is also “oil, oil, oil and nothing else.” The biggest actors in the Nigerian oil industry, for instance, are Shell, Exxon and Total.

Aid, then, has a role to play in assisting, training and empowering those who are unlikely to ever benefit from this growth phenomenon. This is not a blanket critique of the growth strategy described here, but a call to recognize the role aid plays in making that growth inclusive. The money needs to be carefully spent and backed by rigorous empirical testing. Geldof cites an example of aid done wrong in Turkana, Kenya, where a community attuned to eating goat meat and with an unreliable electricity supply was provided a giant fridge to store fish. Similarly, in their bestseller from 2011, Poor Economics, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee provide numerous other examples of the local context making or breaking an aid intervention. Harnessing that knowledge, aid needs to fill the old gaps and new chasms that economic growth in Africa will create.

Kirat Singh is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at ksingh@cornellsun.com. Evaluating the Discontents appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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A View From the Other Side

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ast year, I was tired of Cornell. I had seen too many professors berate their students after giving tests with means in the 50s. I had watched tuition rise again and again, even as funding for my classes and research kept shrinking. The administration was hollowing out the Greek System, more concerned with the University’s liability than the actual safety of their students. Meanwhile, Collegetown was steadily becoming a slum where empty storefronts and boarded-up windows were constant reminders of better years gone by. To say the least, I was ready to get out.

And then I did. My big graduation weekend came and went. I listened to Mayor Michael Bloomberg speak under the hot sun, walked through Schoellkopf in front of thousands and bid farewell to all my old friends. I sold any book I could find, along with about five iClickers. The next day, I had my last sandwich at CTB — Jonah’s Jive — and packed up my bags. I hit the road and didn’t look back.

In the months that followed, I found myself thinking about my time in Ithaca nearly every day. I eventually came to terms with the fact that many of my frustrations were not unique to Cornell and would have arisen regardless of which school I attended.

Nowadays I tend to dwell on favorite memories — walking around the gorges in the fall and meeting my girlfriend

on North Campus during freshman year. I wonder what I might have done differently if I were to go through it all again. With this new perspective, I find that all I want to do is come back. Indeed, distance makes the heart grow fonder.

The transition from college to the “real world” is not easy, and I’ve had dozens of conversations on the topic with family and peers in the short time since I left. We talk about the challenges of keeping in

Having read to this point, you’re probably now terrified of life outside of college. Yet, no matter your trajectory upon leaving Cornell, you have a great deal to look forward to. Trust me.

Your degree will astonish you with its power to change both opportunities and perceptions. You can move beyond the abstractness of the lecture hall and apply concepts for practical purposes. Your friends will become leaders across the country,

Your degree will astonish you with its power to change both opportunities and peceptions. You can move beyond the abstractness of the lecture hall and apply concepts for practical purposes. touch and what everyone is doing with their lives. My friends often text me about their long work hours or the fact that TPS reports are real.

One had to clean up kindergartner poop.

Another learned that taxes were taking away almost 50 percent of his income.

I can fortunately say that medical school has shielded me from many of these experiences.

Each day I wake up and go to classes. I still sit in auditoriums, waiting to fill out Scantrons, and live in an on-campus dorm. Several of my classes overlap with ones from my years on the Hill; for the briefest of moments, I occasionally forget that I am so far away.

entering industries ranging from fashion to banking, engineering to law. Perhaps best of all, you will get to live vicariously through them — talking to my friend about his job at Raytheon is definitely cooler than talking to him about his fluid mechanics problem set.

It is truly difficult to describe all of the impacts of graduation in such a short space.

Nonetheless, I will leave you with some brief words of wisdom from the other side. Juniors and underclassmen, you have plenty of time left, but it will disappear faster than you will realize. I could tell you a million different things to do with that time; however, the 161 list is

far better than anything I could ever come up with. The one recommendation I have is that you take advantage of the incomparable breadth of offerings at Cornell. If you major in chemistry, you can still take “The American Presidency” or “Intro duction to Painting.”

English students can enjoy “A Survey of Jazz,” and anthropologists can study the “Biology of the Honey Bee.” Course enrollment may be miserable and your computer may freeze every time, but you will find few occasions in life that allow you such freedom to discover any aspect of the world around you.

To the seniors, I know that you are on your way and likely contemplating the path ahead. In doing so, please do not make the same mistake that I did.

Do not wait until months after you leave that special place to reflect on its meaning to you. Take a few moments each day to look around, to stop on Ho Plaza and to see the sun set behind the clock tower just one more time. You may not think much of it now, but, when you get to where I am, you will be the better for it.

Nathaniel P. Morris graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2012. He is currently a first year student at Harvard Medical School.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Dark They Know Well: Spring Awakening at Ithaca College

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BY MEREDITH JOYCE Sun Staff Writer

When I got to Clark Theater at Ithaca College on Friday night, I expected a musical — something with good music and a melodramatic plot. Instead, Spring Awakening was an experience, something refreshing and personal. Based on Frank Wedekind’s play Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy, which was first performed to shock in 1906, Spring Awakening was converted to a rock-musical for Broadway in 2006. Starring Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele, the musical won eight Tony Awards.

This month, Ithaca College students performed the musical.

Spring Awakening is set in late 19th century Germany, when a group of teenage school mates balance their rigorous educational training, familial expectations and confusing sexual desires in a bourgeois society based in emotional denial and repression. In the throes of emotional confusion, Wendla Bergmann (Sara Charles) starts a relationship with the rebellious Melchior Gabor (Coleman Hemsath) and nervous Moritz Stiefel (Johnny Shea)

grapples with sexual conflict and passing his exams.

The results are confusion, stress, love, sex, suicide, pregnancy and ultimately death. The musical goes out of its way to shine a light on taboo subjects like mas-

turbation, familial abuse and abortion. Structured in two acts, Spring Awakening moves between dark and revealing narrative and emotion-filled alternative rock ballads.

Director Norm Johnson took an entirely fresh take on the musical. The staging at Clark Theater, where the

show was performed, is unique — the audience sits surrounding the stage on all four sides. As a result, no one in the audience was ever far away from the actors on stage — I was personally bumped by two of them. I was close enough to see Wendla tie Martha’s (Celeste Rose) dress on the sides of the theater and Melchior whispering the words of a song, which only increased the intimacy of the performance. The attention to small details like the chalking on the ground and purposeful costume choices down to the sock, gave the musical a realistic feel on a microcosmic level. I felt more like I was watching a movie than attending any musical production I’d ever been to.

The intimacy that the staging created was especially important in the scope of the Spring Awakening’s sensitive themes. This musical felt truly alive, each characters struggle was real. This production did it right. Acting shouldn’t be about creating a distance or an image: It shouldn’t be about setting the actors on a stage above everyone else and keeping audience at a distance. Musicals should be like this one — concerned with expressing something complicated, honest and intimate with skill and practice.

The stories of the characters in Spring Awakening are ones that anyone can relate to. The tragedy of a character’s demise and the way we watch what unfolds in the aftermath is fraught with both happiness and intense sadness. In one of the darker subplots, a girl is forced to admit that her own father sexually abuses her. The moment raised questions of friendship, intimacy and asks why we express so little of our strongest feelings.

Spring Awakening holds its middle finger up at society over a soundtrack of wailing guitars and catchy melodies. It shows that the darkest elements of sexuality can be a rewarding despite its taboo nature and that fear may be even darker than the problems we may face.

I never saw the Broadway run of Spring Awakening, but I can say that this version was clear, clever, well paced, interesting and well staged. The combination of the story, the acting, and the theater make it what theater should always be: an experience.

Meredith Joyce is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at mjoyce@cornellsun.com.

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Although the Anonymous 4 have been singing for over 25 years, to hear them is to experience what feels like centuries more. The current lineup of this all-female vocal quartet (two of its original members have moved on to other projects) consists of Ruth Cunningham, Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, who presented Marie-Marion: Motets & Songs from 13th-century France to a packed Sage Chapel audience last Friday night. Motets formed the bulk of the program, each built around Old French and occasionally Latin texts. The latter were mostly dedicated to Marie (the Virgin Mary), who along with an earthly counterpart, Marion, was the main protagonist of the evening’s dedications. The presence of both Marie and Marion made for a creative pastiche of the divine and amorous. The singers augmented this with a selection of plainchant standards, and solo renditions of the trouvère (troubadour) love songs to which the grander settings often alluded.

Fans of the Anonymous 4 will be familiar with their classic program, Love’s Illusion. While in the first section the focus was on courtly love, here a deft mash-up of sacred and secular themes formed the backbone of a dramatic and sometimes-prurient corpus. The motets were complex in their own right, with two or three voices singing from entirely separate texts over a wordless “tenor” line. The selections came from The Montpellier Codex, compiled in the south of France circa 1300. Paring its 315 motets down to an hour-long “best of ” was certainly no easy task, but the end result was nonetheless intuitive and sure.

The flowing nature of the program was such that

sparkle of execution amid a landscape of maidens, shepherds and holy visions.

The concert culminated in a final juxtaposition of the two “Marys,” who came to represent the fullness of consciousness, the depth and shallowness of human concern in the forest of life. For indeed, the Anonymous 4 achieved a verdant sound. Their blends, at moments uncanny, allowed single voices to rise and fall with the tide, such that the ringing qualities of each could shine through. Of those qualities we heard plenty in the solo chansons: Cunningham’s roundedness; Hellauer’s sweeter, raspier blush; Genensky’s sharper, earthy tone; and Horner-Kwiatek’s fair, supple lilt. In each was the flutter of a genuine medieval heart.

We might compare these ancient settings to contemporary popular songs, for in them were brief, simple introductions, engaging riffs and satisfying conclusions. That being said, we must remember that the motets especially were considered avantgarde for the time(s) in which they were composed. Either way, it is refreshing to know that one can still be privy to such splendor in concert, navigating its mazes as if they were our own, held only to the standard of our adoration, unadorned. Keeping true to their name, the talented songstresses of Anonymous 4 presented melodies without discernible authors, a dynamic that might seem as disPHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ANONYMOUS 4 AND CORNELL UNIVERSITY tant from us in this age of intellectual property as the Old French in parsing of individual pieces seemed as unnecessary than as it does now. Moods ranged from forlorn to joyful, which much of this music was sung. Whatever the lanbut were always flavorsome. If any distinction can be guage, we could not help but be fascinated. made, it is that the most secular passages were often also the most restless. Staggered rhythms and the occasional Tyran Grillo is a graduate student in the College of Arts and unexpected change in pitch attested to the singers’ Sciences. He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.

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our computer screen is the new Chelsea.

Thanks to art-tech venture Dot Dash 3, you can now visit art galleries from the comfort of your home with just a few clicks — preferably while still wearing pajamas. According to an article last month in Artinfo, Dot Dash 3 (the name references the three dots and dashes for “art” in Morse code), is like a “video game for art collectors,” a virtual exhibition space where artists can sell their work and situate it within a gallery design of their choosing.

The site allows viewers to enter virtual art shows for individual artists. Along with images of the work situated in a gallery space, each show contains a description, an artist biography, information about specific pieces and prices for specific pieces.

The project departs from traditional galleries and traditional art sale websites in several important ways: First, unlike other websites for selling artwork, Dot Dash 3 shows what the individual pieces would look like installed, as if in a real gallery space. However, the artist does not have to adhere to existing dimensions like they would in a traditional gallery.

They instead get to design a new space entirely. Although the current shows all simulate traditional white cube gallery space, the site provides the option of creating other virtual spaces for the work, as

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the owners of the company pointed out to Artinfo. In addition, the site is artistdriven, cutting out the traditional middleman dealers in both on and offline venues. Dot Dash 3 screens interested artists before allowing them to create a virtual show. When pieces are sold, the site takes a commission and donates a portion of that commission to fund artist residencies.

The site has important consequences for how we think about galleries. On the one hand, Dot Dash 3 democratizes the gallery by bringing it to a wider audience.

Now, you don't have to be in the same geographic location as a work to see it.

Moreover, going to see work in person is a commitment. With Dot Dash 3, those with a more casual interest can view art without investing time and energy in doing so. In addition, the site shows the

Emily Greenberg Greener on the Other Side work of artists who don't have dealers and would not be able to show in traditional galleries, something which could potentially bring more attention to underrepresented artists and styles of work. At the

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same time, the site could encounter some of the same problems that books are having in an age of self-publishing: Good art becomes a needle in a haystack; hard to find as you dig through the slush pile.

The site also impacts the way we separate artwork from galleries and paintings from wall. In traditional galleries, the space does not change. Usually the artist creates pieces first, then figures out how to display them in a gallery, which is considered a neutral. In contrast to the traditional gallery, which encourages us to think about artwork as objects on a wall or in a space, Dot Dash 3 allows the whole (virtual) space to figure into the work — an approach more akin to installation art. And yet, it is precisely this kind of art that is so poorly suited for Dot Dash 3. Installation art, by definition, requires that we move through it and that we experience the entire space.

Dot Dash 3 does not allow you to experience the work bodily or texturally.

However, Artinfo argued that it might be a good “space” for experiencing digital, multi-media work. Although I agree

that such works are probably better suited for virtual environments, I'm not sure they need to borrow traditional notions of physical space. Why imitate a gallery if the work is best experienced online? A more suitable space would not need to reference the gallery, but would instead take advantage of characteristics natural to the web. Although the owners claim the artists can design non-gallery spaces for their work, they continue to frame space as something physical and material.

A virtual exhibition space should be just that: A space for virtual work, not a replica of a traditional gallery space. We have enough white cubes.

Emily Greenberg is a senior in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences & Art, Architecture and Planning.

She can be contacted at egreenberg@cornellsun.com.

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Despite their unbelievable potential, I’ve never been in love with the Upton brothers as ball players. They strike out too much, struggle in the batting average department, and Justin seemed like too much of a complainer in his stint with the Diamondbacks. On the other hand, I think a change of scenery for both of them and getting to play with each other might spark them to career years in 2013. Paired with another ultra-talented

outfielder in right fielder Jason Heyward, it would particularly fun and not all that surprising to see this trio finally reach their full potential. If they do, and the Braves starting rotation comes through like it usually does, I believe the Braves will find themselves winning their first title since 1995. They’ll have to contend with the Nationals in the NL East and the Giants, Dodgers, Reds, and Cardinals will all present tough hurdles in the NL, but the combination of having Kimbrel at the back end of your bullpen, three dynamic outfielders, a young slugger in first baseman Freddie Freeman, and the reliable Dan Uggla at second, will make the Braves baseball’s best team in October.

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next weekend at the Reis Tennis Center in Ithaca. This will be the Red’s first home game of the Ivy League series. The team will face the Bulldogs, 2 p.m. on Saturday, followed by a game against Brown at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

The women’s team similarly defeated Dartmouth, but lost to Harvard. The team played its match against the Green on Friday at the Reis Tennis Center and won 4-3 but lost 6-1 to the Crimson on Saturday, taking the team to a 12-2 record for the season so far and a 1-2 record in the Ivy League.

Although the team lost three of its singles matches against Dartmouth at the No. 3, No. 5 and No. 6 positions, senior Sarah O’Neil won her match at No.1, 6-2, 6-4, junior Ryann Young defeated Dartmouth’s Janet Liu at No. 2, 6-0, 6-1 and freshman Dena Tanenbaum secured her match at No. 4 6-0, 6-2. The team played well in its doubles matches as well, secuing two

wins. The third match at No. 2 doubles did not finish.

Cornell was unable to hold off the Crimson on Saturday with only two wins for Red — the first being at No. 2 doubles with senior Christine Ordway and Tanenbaum winning 8-6 and the second being freshman Laila Judeh winning her singles match at No. 5 6-2, 7-5.

“Dartmouth was a really good win,” Tannenbaum said. “We knew coming into the Ivies that it would be very competitive and [the] matches would be tough, but most of our losses were by a very close margin. We all know that the matches could have gone either way. Harvard, of course, was a tough loss. It’s the tiny details that make a difference and we are learning from our loss — talking about things that went wrong and what we can use to play better. Playing against Yale and Brown should be fun and all of us are really excited to get back out there.”

Deeya Bajaj can be reached at dbajaj@cornellsun.com.

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After splitting its start to the Ivy League season, the Cornell softball team came into this weekend ready to face tough opponents Harvard and Dartmouth.

Both have notoriously strong programs, according to junior Christina Villalon, so the Red came into the weekend ready to face two trying opponents.

After dropping its first game against Dartmouth, Cornell was able to fight back and earn a win against the relentless Green. The Red held on to three run leads in the first, second, third and fifth innings, however, Dartmouth was able to catch up and eventually surpass the team. In the seventh inning, the women were able to tie up the score and, after a long ten inning game, earn a win against their taxing opponent. Junior pitcher Alyson Onyon pitched for all ten innings and did not give up any hits in the last four, allowing the Red to come out with the win.

On Saturday, Cornell started its first game against Harvard with an impressive 5-0 lead. However, after Harvard was able to score seven straight runs, Cornell had to fight to gain the lead once again. In the sixth inning, the Red was able to tie up the game after a double hit by junior Christina Villalon drove in a run and an error made by the Crimson allowed for a second run, tying the game up at 7-7. The women were able to score three more times in the final inning, winning at Harvard 10-7.

However, game two did not end as well for the Red. What started off as a 42 game with Harvard in the lead ended abruptly in the fifth inning when the Crimson was able to score seven runs, finishing the game earlier than expected with a final score of 11-2. Beforehand, Cornell fought hard, taking the lead at various points throughout the game, but ultimately, the team fell short of the win in a heartbreaking culmination to its second game.

“Of course it is frustrating to split games because one timely hit can change the entire ballgame, but we are happy with the wins that we have been able to come away with,” said Villalon.

Villalon had a strong day at bat, scoring two runs and hitting two doubles and three RBIs in the first game against Harvard.

Despite the rocky start to league play, the team is “optimistic for the rest of the season,” she said. “Offensively and defensively, we are ready to take on the rest of the Ivy League.”

Overall, Cornell finished the weekend with a 5-5 record in Ivy League play and a 15-17 record for the season. The team will take on the Orange in Syracuse, N.Y. this Wednesday.

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

We have a pitcher | Junior pitcher Alyson Onyon pitched all ten innings of the Red’s

Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

victorious game against Dartmouth, not giving up any hits in the last four innings.

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both Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout had last year, it’s hard to imagine someone else breaking into the fray and stealing the AL MVP award in 2013. However, while Trout and Cabrera may individually have the best odds of winning the award, there is still a host of other viable candidates who collectively stand a better chance. This is because for Cabrera to win the award he’ll have to convince a stubborn group of writers that he deserves to enter the rare air of back-toback winners. For some reason, writers tend to avoid voting the same player MVP in consecutive years and it has only been done 11 times in the history of baseball.

For Trout, the difficulty in returning to the top of the MVP race will come from more advanced scouting reports and simply proving that he’s here to stay. There’s no debate that what Trout did last year was remarkable, as he posted one of the best seasons ever regardless of the fact that he was a rookie. But the true test of his prowess will come this year as he’ll now face pitchers who know his strengths and weakness better and he’ll have the burden of expectation riding on his shoulders. I predict Trout will still have a phenomenal career but would not be surprised by a slight drop in pro-

duction in 2013. The main competitors for these two are Robinson Cano of the Yankees, fresh off a World Baseball Classic MVP Award, the always consistent Albert Pujols of the Angels, the constantly improving Adam Jones of the Orioles, and the newly acquired Jose Reyes of the Blue Jays.

2. There will be more Yankee bashing this year than any other year in the history of baseball.

This might come off as a tad extreme being that the Yankees have existed for more than a century, but backing up my argument is the new age of social media where there are simply more platforms to bash the Yankees in. Be it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or in person, every non-Yankee fan will take as many swipes at the Bronx Bombers as possible during the first few months of the season as their many weaknesses are exposed. Being a Yankees fan myself, I am ready to embrace the verbal thrashing as a mere consequence of being really good for the past 18 seasons. I am also willing to admit that the 2013 Yankees have the potential to be one of the worst teams to cheer for in all of Major League Baseball. They not only are sending out a makeshift lineup that more resembles a retirement com-

munity than a group of fearsome sluggers, but they have zero young potential on their roster. If you’re not going to be good you might as well have some exciting youngsters that fans can watch develop over the years. I mean even the crosstown Mets have some top prospects now. Please! Please!

Please! Derek Jeter, Curtis Granderson, and Mark Teixeira get healthy soon and miraculously save the season.

3. There will be more close division races this year than in any year of recent memory.

Since the new Wild Card rules that were implemented last season do not guarantee teams a spot in the Division Series, there is an added emphasis for each team to win their own division. Making this all the more exciting is that there are more teams that could actually win their division this year than any year I can remember. In the NL West the Dodgers are loaded with their team of highly paid superstars, but the defending champion Giants can never be counted out, and the feisty Diamondbacks, Rockies, and Padres shouldn’t be forgotten about either. In the NL Central the Reds look to regain the top spot, but the Cardinals are always contenders and the Brewers just added Kyle Lohse to pair with Yovani Gallardo, forming a deadly one-two punch in their rota-

tion. The NL East features the dynamic young Nationals with phenoms Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg competing against the newly united Upton brothers in Atlanta. The AL West might be the most stacked of all the divisions with a lethal Angels lineup starring Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton, and Mark Trumbo, an Athletics team that won 95 games last year, a Rangers team that’s made two of the last three World Series, and an upstart Mariners team that’s improving fast. The AL Central might be the most boring of the races as the Tigers seem to be the dominant team but the Royals traded for James Shields over the winter in an effort to make a run this year, and the White Sox always seemingly put together solid seasons.

Finally, in the AL East all five of the teams could legitimately take the crown. The Yankees and the Red Sox are surprisingly the biggest long shots with slowly depleting rosters, but it’s not inconceivable that Jeter and Rivera or Ortiz could make one last run. The Rays acquired super prospect Wil Myers in the offseason and with a healthy Evan Longoria may be the favorites.

The Orioles qualified for the playoffs with a magical run last year and look to build on their recent success. And the biggest splash of the offseason came up north where the Toronto Blue

Jays have added Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson, Melky Cabrera, and Emilio Bonifacio and seem poised to contend now. Who said there’s no parity in baseball?

4. The New York Mets will come out as the big winners of the their offseason trade with the Blue Jays.

I applaud the Blue Jays in their efforts to try and win now and I think they’ll have a fine season.

Yet the fine season they’ll have will be more a result of the trade they made with the Florida Marlins than the one they made with the New York Mets. In the trade with the New York Mets, the Blue Jays acquired last year’s NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey. This may sound great in theory, but Dickey is 38 years old, had never had a season in his career like his last one, and is already off to a mediocre start in 2013. Plus the Blue Jays had to give up elite catching prospect Travis D’Arnaud and the high upside Noah Snydergaard to get him. In D’Arnaud and Snydergaard the Mets have a player who could become the face of the franchise for years to come and a top flight arm who can develop into a quality starter or be flipped for a player who can help them contend sooner. I do believe See SMITH page 13

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Red Rows Into Season Strong

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

This past weekend the men's rowing teams kicked off its season with competitive races. The lightweight team enjoyed some success in its matchup against Harvard and Penn in Pennsylvania, while the heavyweight team struggled in its season opening races against Harvard in Massachusetts. Both teams will use this past weekend's races to learn from and build boat speed for future competitions.

The heavyweight team’s matchup against Harvard ended with the Crimson winning three of the four races, including the varsity eight, second varsity eight and third varsity race. The Red did manage to edge the Crimson in the freshmen eight race by almost three seconds. Harvard proved to be a talented opponent, finishing ahead of the Red's varsity eight by 20.6 seconds and finished 12.4 seconds ahead of the Red in the second varsity race as well.

The results of Saturday's competitions illuminated many areas that the team needs to improve upon.

“Saturday's racing was eye-opening in terms of realizing that we have a lot of speed to gain throughout the rest of the season,” senior coxswain Ryan Anthony said. “The varsity boats have a lot of potential for improvement and can continue to get faster throughout the season if the right changes are made.”

Early in the season, it is difficult for teams to find a rhythm and work together as a unit. Anthony stated that the the biggest improvement the team needs to make is building upon the unit’s ability to work together.

“In general, the team needs to improve on unity and efficiency,” he said. “The key to some great crews is not only are they all together in sync, but they row efficiently so that all work exerted is used to drive the boat further.”

The Red does not have another competition for two

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Pulling through | The heavyweight team lost three of its four races to Harvard on Saturday, but hopes to use its time off to better prepare for its upcoming competitions.

weeks, so there will be plenty of time during training sessions for the team to optimize boat lineups and improve as individuals and as a team.

“In the next two weeks it will be vital for every person to continue to improve individually, but more importantly to integrate those improvements into helping the whole boat pick up speed,” Anthony said. “Teamwork is going to be essential and we will keep testing out different lineups of people until we find the best combinations possible.”

The lightweight team managed to keep the Matthews Trophy for the 19th straight season with a varsity eight victory over Penn. Harvard, who was not eligible for the Matthews Trophy, won the varsity eight race over the Red and the Quakers, as well as the second varsity race and second freshmen race. The Red did manage to win the third varsity race by almost 12 seconds over Harvard, and a large margin over Penn. Penn finished last in every race besides the first freshmen eight race in which the Quakers finished 2.3 seconds faster than the Red.

The Red finished the varsity eight race 2.7 seconds behind the Crimson, which for senior Jonathan Chamberlain was a positive outcome for the first race of the season.

“Our team had a strong showing for our first league race of the season,” he said. “Harvard is one of our fastest opponents and the result showed we are right there with them.”

This weekend's competition helped bolster early season confidence in the Red going into the team’s next races. The teams will take on Princeton on Saturday and Yale on Sunday. The Red will look to use the confidence to bring extra intensity to practice sessions in order to build upon its early season successes.

“We just need to bring a little more racing intensity and apply the confidence we gained to this weekends racing,” Chamberlain said.

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

Five Bold Predictions Men and Women Split Matches For Baseball Season Against Harvard and Dartmouth L TENNIS

ast week, I had the tough decision of whether to ride the March Madness wave that has been sweeping the sports world or venture off and preview Opening Day of

predictions. Some of these might come off as out there, but bear with me and recognize that the 162 game baseball season is truly unpredictable, unique, enchanting,

Alex Smith Guest Column the baseball season. Being caught up in all of the hoopla following an extremely exciting Sweet Sixteen/Elite Eight weekend, I decided to go with college hoops. However, since baseball is a personal favorite pastime, I’m going to use this week’s column to have my own pseudo belated baseball preview.

Unfortunately, I can’t go through all 30 teams in the span of one article and discuss their prospects for the year, so instead I’m going to tackle this gigantic task through five bold

and completely and utterly awesome! I apologize if I’m coming off as overly enthusiastic, but after the great weather we had this past weekend it’s finally starting to sink in. It’s actually baseball season!

1. Someone other than Mike Trout or Miguel Cabrera will win the AL MVP award.

With the unbelievable record-breaking seasons that See SMITH page 15

By DEEYA BAJAJ

Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s tennis team has a game tally of 12-6 for the season and 1-2 in the Ivy League matches after this weekend. The team won its first match of the weekend in New Hampshire against Dartmouth on Saturday April 6th, but lost to Harvard in Massachusetts the following day.

The victory against Dartmouth marked the first Ivy League victory for the Red with a 5-2 win. Cornell lost its first doubles match but won the next two doubles matches, 9-7. In singles, the Red lost only two matches at No. 1 and No. 6 against the Green.

The team did not fare so well against Harvard, currently ranked No. 18 by the Intercollegiate Tennis

Association. Its only successful match was a 6-4, 6-4 win by sophomore Jason Luu in the No. 5 singles matches. The team lost the first two doubles matches, and the third played by Cornell sophomores Kyle Berman and Sam Fleck did not finish.

“It was a solid weekend overall, [but] unfortunately we didn’t play as well as we would have liked to against Harvard,” sophomore Sam Fleck said. “But we’ve taken positives from our match against Dartmouth and look forward to playing

against Yale and Brown, especially because we get to play at home. We just have to take the rest of the season match by match and really come together as team.”

The Red will play against Yale and Brown See TENNIS page 14

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In it to win it | Sophomore Jason Luu won his No. 5 singles match 6-4, 6-4, against Harvard on Sunday.

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ROWERS OPEN WITH SIX STRAIGHT WINS

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Senior Writer

After winning six straight to open up the 2013 season, the Red (6-3, 2-2 Ivy League) are in a small funk, losing the last three games.

Ranked No. 14 in the nation, the Cornell women’s lacrosse team had a promising start to the campaign despite the recent struggles. With the season more than half over, the Red looks to improve on its 11-5 record from last year.

“We are not satisfied with where we are right now,” senior captain and defenseman Kate Ivory said.

“We know how much potential we have, and our recent failures are going to drive us to stay disciplined and learn from those mistakes so we can continue to improve.”

It has been a tale of two seasons for the Red, especially in Ivy League play. The team started off with a 17-12 victory against Harvard and a 14-7 drubbing of Columbia. Sophomore attacker Lindsay Toppe was the star of both games as she combined for eight goals and five assists in the two games. Her career-best game came on March 2, against the Crimson when she recorded nine points.

After the 2-0 start in the Ivy League, the Red lost two consecutive games. In two incredibly close games the Red lost, 12-11 (OT), to Penn and 12-10 to Princeton.

On the road in Philadelphia, Cornell did not give up easily as they scored seven second-half unanswered goals to force an overtime period. Leading the Red’s surge was Toppe with four goals, and junior midfielder Amanda D’Amico and senior captain and attacker Caroline Salisbury with two apiece. Also instrumental in the comeback was sophomore goalkeeper Carly Gniewek, who relieved starter goaltender senior Courtney Gallagher, and made seven key saves and allowed just one goal in the second half. Despite the individual performances, Penn was able to shut down the Red offense in the overtime and win 12-11.

In Cornell’s last game, a 12-10 loss to Princeton, the team again failed to come all the way back.

They trailed 12-8 and two late goals

by Cornell with 9:07 left would not be enough to overcome the Tigers.

Sophomore midfielder Sarah Hefner led the Red with three goals, which extended Cornell’s streak of having at least one player record a hat trick to 32 games.

“Leadership is huge on this team,” Ivory said. “And it is really important in the success of our team. We have a lot of leaders in each class, which makes for an interesting team dynamic.”

The play of the underclassmen this year has in fact been one of the Red’s strengths. Toppe leads Cornell with 31 goals and 40 points. D’Amico is second with 22 goals and junior attacker Rachel Moody is fourth with 11.

Adding to the play of the underclassmen, the steady performance of captain Salisbury has provided a strong example to the younger players of what Cornell lacrosse should look like. She has played all nine games and is third on the team in goals scored with 21. She is also second on the team in points with 27.

Reflecting on the season so far, Salisbury mentioned the team’s games against Penn St. and UNC as important non-Ivy League games the team has played this year.

The March 13 victory against Penn St. was perhaps Cornell’s most impressive victory. Cornell defeated the No.7 ranked Nittany Lions, 13-12, in double overtime.

D’Amico scored five and Salisbury scored three including the game winner in the comeback. Cornell trailed, 11-7, 15:03 in the second half before scoring four unanswered, two by D’Amico.

In its March 20 contest against No. 3 UNC, Cornell was leading, 10-7, late after a 6-0 scoring streak starting the second half. The Tar Heels, however, ended the night on a 4-0 run and were able to sneak off with the lead. The loss was Cornell’s first of the year, and the team has not won since.

“We played well against Penn St. and UNC and we in all the games we play,” Salisbury said. “The next few weeks we have one game a week and it will be important to have more practice to focus on what has been lacking and focus more on our

mistakes. We just have to figure out how to get over that hump.”

Cornell has five games remaining, two of which are against Ivy League rivals, Brown on March 12 and at Yale on March 20. The remaining non-conference opponents are at Syracuse on March 16, Binghamton on March 23 and Boston on March 27.

“We have to remain giving it our all every single game,” Ivory said. “We have a lot of confidence in each other in our abilities and that creates a unique bond that is important for success.”

Golfers Ready for Spring Matches

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After a bumpy fall season, the golf team is back in full swing with matches each weekend in April leading up to the Ivy League Championships on April 26.

The Red last played officially as a team at the Ivy Match Play event back in October. Although the Red fell in the first and third rounds to Princeton and Penn, respectively, the team took a memorable 3-2 victory over Harvard in the second round.

Freshman Brandon Eng, who claimed Cornell’s first match play victory at that tournament, said that he sees room for improvement from semester to semester.

“I thought we definitely could have been stronger,” he said. “As for me, it was my first semester at Cornell, and it was my first semester playing golf for Cornell — it was interesting having to balance all the things I was doing. In terms of how the team played, I thought my teammates played well. I think I can definitely improve in the spring semester.”

Junior Carl Schimenti added that the Red started the fall season strong and hopes to start the spring semester in a similar fashion.

“I think our best tournament was our first, the Cornell Invitational [ i n which the Red t o o k third out of 13 teams],” he said. “From there, we fell off a little bit. This spring, we’re looking to return to form and be in the top five in spring tournaments.”

Although the team does not hold organized practices in the winter, many of the players attempted to hit balls at least twice a week into indoor nets in order to practice the long game, Schimenti said. He added that the team will likely need the most work with putting and chipping.

“Definitely when you’re coming back in the spring, when most of us have time off, the short game tends to be a little rusty,” he said.

The team’s first official match of the sprinwas the Yale Spring Opener where the team placed in 13th. But the team headed down to Florida over spring break to take Princeton and Dartmouth in a semi-formal tournament. Many of the players finished matches, but the final groups were rained out so no winner was declared.

“I thought we did really well in our matches over spring break,” Eng said. “They were friendly matches, but I thought we played pretty well. … I’m

The Red looks to three matches in April for Championship run.

pretty confident with how we’re doing so far.”

Schimenti labels Princeton as the Ivy frontrunner, but notes that Penn, Harvard and Yale all have strong squads for the Red to c o m p e t e against. He added that each Ivy team has a good shot at taking home first at the Ivy League championships.

“The Ivy League is actually pretty even … it’s wide open, there’s no one t e a m that has a bunch of best players,” he said.

The Red’s three matches in April leading up to the championships are important on their own, but also provide good preparation for the championship tournament, Eng said.

“We want to go out and do our best at as many of the tournaments as possible,” Eng said. “[But] The Ivy League championship is definitely the most important tournament. If we don’t come out on top during our matches before that, we still want to use them as good practice and experience OLIVER KLIEWE / before SUN SENIOR Ivies.”

PHOTOGRAPHER FORE! | The golf team plays matches every weekend during the month of April with the hopes of winning Ivies.

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By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

team. The Ivy League and Eastern Sprints League are shaping up to be very competitive, with many talented teams in the mix. Accroding to Zadeh, the Red should benefit from the competition and hopefully be prepared to remain competitive in the postseason.

“We definitely have grand final potential at both the

boats last season it should not be difficult to find talented rowers to fill the first varsity boat. Last season the second varsity boat won silver and the third varsity boat won gold at the Eastern Sprints Championship, while the fourth varsity boat went on to win a silver medal at the IRA national championship regatta.

The heavyweights are looking to build upon their successful 2011-12 campaign this season. Under head coach Todd Kennett ’91, who in his four years at Cornell boasts a 31-7 record, the Red hopes to add success to the program’s storied history. Last season the heavyweight team finished with a 6-1 record, a 10th place finish at the Eastern Association of Rowing Championships and a ninth place finish at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships.

Highlighting last year’s season was a sweep of Princeton and Yale in a regular season match at home.

This year’s team returns five letterwinners and four members of the varsity eight. Senior captain Kevan Zadeh leads a group of four seniors who are returning Senior captain Taylor Black knows that the depth as members of the varsity boat. Zadeh, a two time Eastern Sprints and the IRA grand final,” Zadeh said.

The lightweight team is coming off of a season in within his team should make the competition for the member of the varsity eight is joined by senior coxswain Ryan Anthony, senior Chris Massey and which it experienced successes from the varsity boats. all of the varsity boat seats very tough.

“All members of the team are highly talented and senior Jim Rectenwald, another two time varsity eight This year’s team, led by head coach Chris Kerber, will member. Last season the Red returned 8 of the 9 mem- look to build upon the achievements from the 2011- motivated.,” Black said. “This makes the competition bers of the varsity boat including two national team 12 season, which saw many of the varsity boats com- for every seat very tight, especially when it comes to the pete and win medals in postseason competition. Last varsity eight. This can only benefit us in the long run, members.

This year the varsity boat returns only four mem- season the varsity boat won several key meets against as this level of inner squad competition pushes each bers, despite the drop off in experience, Zadeh said Princeton, Columbia and MIT, it also finished sixth in member of the team to continuously improve.”

Not only will the depth from last year’s team help that he sees no difference in the teams physical form. the Red succeed this year, but the team is “In terms of experience we’re a little bit less building upon the values that were experienced, but in terms of strength instilled in the program since and focus its better than last last season. year,” he said.

“This year’s team This season the has built upon members of the the determisecond and nation, third boats aggression are going a n d to have hunger to step of last up and y e a r ’s comteam,” pete for Black spots in said. “A the varsity core group boat. Since of upper class the Red has men has been dribeen faced with ving the team to reach injuries to rowers in for new benchmarks on key roles this season, the and off the water. As a team, we seniors have focused their TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO are never satisfied and know attention on assuming leadwhat no matter how good a pracership roles and helping the Spirited squad | The men’s heavyweight varsity eight squad only returned four members tice or a race is, there is always speed to be team persevere through the adversity. this season but seem ready to makeup for potential defecits in competition. gained.”

While the senior class is leading the With some serious inner team competition for the younger members of the team, many seniors have taken advantage of the opportunities to step into roles the Eastern Sprints and fifth at the IRAs. The success- varsity spots and some senior leadership on the varsity es of the second, third and fourth varsity boats helped boats, there is plenty of potential for the team this seawhere they can compete for the varsity eight spots.

“I think there has been strong leadership coming lift the team to a fourth place finish in the Jope Cup. son, but Black said that he is aware that potential can This season the Red returns four members of the only take the team so far, and execution will ultimatefrom the senior class this year,” Zadeh said. “A lot of guys from the second and third boat that are seniors varsity boat. Returning for their senior season on the ly determine how the team competes this season.

“Across the program we are showing good speed and are stepping up and making a push to be in the top varsity boat are John Redos and Jonathan Chamberlain. Joining them will be juniors Gabe Fort have the potential to do very well, but potential can spots.”

Even though this year’s team is not returning as and Eddie O'Neill, who were also members of the var- only go so far [or] fast,” Black said. “Ultimately, our success will be determined by each boat’s ability to exemany letterwinners and experienced veterans as last sity eight last season.

With such talented second, third and fourth varsity cute effective and aggressive races every weekend.” year, there are plenty of potential leaders for this year’s

“Across the program we have good speed and have the potential to do very well.”

— Taylor Black

MEN ’S ROWERS TO WATCH THEO PRITZ Sophomore Theo Pritz rowed in the open four during his rookie season and helped the crew to a first place finish in the Petite Finals at the 2012 IRA Championship. He is going to be one of the standouts for the Red this season.

COLE PAPAKYRIKOS Senior Cole Papakyrikos rowed in the second varsity eight during his junior season and helped the crew to a fourth place finish at the 2012 EARC Sprints and a second place finish in the Petite Finals at the 2012 IRA Championship.

CHRIS MASSEY Senior Chris Massey rowed in the varsity eight during his junior season, helping the crew to a third place finish in the Petite Finals at the 2012 IRA Championship and a fourth place finish in the Petite Finals of the 2012 EARC Sprints.

TAYLOR BLACK Senior Taylor Black is the lightweight captain and served as a part of the second varsity eight during his junior year, helping the team to a silver medal at the 2012 EARC Sprints.

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By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

After winning six straight to open up the 2013 season, the Red (6-3, 2-2 Ivy League) is in a small funk, losing the last four games. Ranked No. 14 in the nation, the Cornell women’s lacrosse team had a promising start to the campaign despite the recent struggles. With the season more than half over, the Red looks to improve its 11-5 record from last year.

“We are not satisfied with where we are right now,” senior captain and defenseman Kate Ivory said. “We know how much potential we have, and our recent failures are going to drive us to stay disciplined and learn from those mistakes so we can continue to improve.”

It has been a tale of two seasons for the Red, especially in Ivy League play.

The team started off with a 17-12 victory against Harvard and a 14-7 drubbing of Columbia. Sophomore attacker Lindsay Toppe was the star of both games as she combined for eight goals and five assists in the two games. Her

On the road in Philadelphia, Cornell did not give up easily as they scored seven second-half unanswered goals to force an overtime period. Leading the Red’s surge was Toppe with four goals, and junior midfielder Amanda D’Amico and senior captain and attacker Caroline Salisbury with two apiece. Also instrumental in the comeback was sophomore goalkeeper Carly Gniewek, who relieved starter goaltender senior Courtney Gallagher, and made seven key saves and allowed just one goal in the second half.

Despite the individual performances, Penn was able to shut down the Red’s offense in the overtime and win 1211.

focus on what has been lacking and focus more on our mistakes. We just have to figure out how to get over that hump.”

Cornell has five games remaining,

“We have a lot of confidence in each other ... and that creates a unique bond that is important to our success.”

— Kate Ivory

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careerbest game came on March 2, against the Crimson when she recorded nine points.

After the 2-0 start in the Ivy League, the Red lost two consecutive games. In two incredibly close games the Red lost, 12-11 (OT), to Penn and 1210,to Princeton.

would not be enough to overcome the Tigers. Sophomore midfielder Sarah Hefner led the Red with three goals, which extended Cornell’s streak of having at least one player record a hat trick

In Cornell’s last game, a 12-10 loss, to Prince ton, the t e a m again failed to come all the way back.

T h e R e d trailed 12-8, and two late goals

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Making moves | Salisbury and the Red hope to continue momentum for the rest of Ivy League play.

to 32 games.

“Leadership is huge on this team,” Ivory said. “And it is really important in the success of our team. We have a lot of leaders in each class, which makes for an interesting team dynamic.”

The play of the underclassmen this year has in fact been one of the Red’s strengths. Toppe leads Cornell with 31 goals and 40 points. D’Amico is second with 22 goals and junior attacker Rachel Moody is fourth with 11.

Adding to the play of the underclassmen, the steady performance of Salisbury has provided a strong example to the younger players of what Cornell lacrosse should look like. She has played all nine games and is third on the team in goals scored with 21. She is also second on the team in points with 27.

Reflecting on the season so far, Salisbury mentioned the team’s games against Penn St. and UNC as important non-Ivy League games the team has played this year.

The March 13 victory against Penn State was perhaps Cornell’s most impressive victory. Cornell defeated the No.7 ranked Nittany Lions, 13-12, in double overtime.

D’Amico scored five and Salisbury scored three, including the game winner in the comeback. Cornell trailed, 11-7, 15:03 in the second half, before scoring four unanswered, two by D’Amico.

In its March 20 contest against No. 3 UNC, Cornell was leading, 10-7, late after a 6-0 scoring streak starting the second half. The Tar Heels, however, ended the night on a 4-0 run and were able to sneak off with the lead. The loss was Cornell’s first of the year, and the team has not won since.

“We played well against Penn St. and UNC and we in all the games we play,” Salisbury said. “The next few weeks we have one game a week and it will be important to have more practice to

two of which are against Ivy League rivals, Brown on March 12 and at Yale on March 20.

The remaining non-conference opponents are at Syracuse on March 16, Binghamton on March 23 and Boston on March 27.

“We have to remain giving it our all every single game,” Ivory said. “We have a lot of confidence in each other ... and that creates a unique bond that is important for success.”

W. LACROSSE PLAYERS TO WATCH CAROLINE SALISBURY Salisbury was namd Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week, made second team All-Ivy and made the Ivy League Tournament All-Tournament Team last season.Salisbury finished the year tied for the team lead with 44 goals.

CHELSEA ROWE Rowe was a valuable attacker for Cornell last year, playing in 14 games and starting two. She finished the 2012 season with nine goals and an assist for 10 points.

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C.U. SPLITS IVY LEAGUE GAMES SO FAR THIS SEASON

RED HEADS TOWARD IMPROVEMENT

By SCOTT CHIUSANO

Belles, the Red was able to produce some offense in a 5-0 loss to a tough USF team.

“In our last game, against USF, one of the After almost three hours on Niemand- best teams in the country, we had a lot of hits Robinson field on March 30, the Red suf- and they didn’t shut us down completely,” fered a gut-wrenching 7-2 defeat in 13 she said. “We got runners in scoring position innings in its first Ivy game of the season so that was a good place to start, and the next against Yale. The squad then lost another game we went into extra innings so we extra inning heartbreaker just a few hours resolved to turn it around.”

It looked as though the Red were prelater, marking the first time in recent memory that the Red has dropped its first two pared to do just that. Returning home from sunny Florida, the squad swept a doublegames of the Ivy League season.

However, the Red bounced back with header with Manhattan, winning the first two wins against Brown and splits at both game, 4-3 in extra innings. Junior hurler Harvard and Dartmouth. Now 4-4 in the Alyson Onyon went the distance, allowing Ancient Eight and 14-16 overall, the Red — just six hits and three runs in nine innings which has won four consecutive Ivy League while striking out four.

“After those two wins, everyone was feelSouth Division titles and five conference ing good and as far as hitting mechanics and defense and “We know that we are better than anyone things like that, I was pretty confielse and what we’re capable of.” dent we could bounce — Kristen Towne back,” said senior catcher Kristen Towne.

However, the team’s back-to-back losses championships under head coach Dick Blood — has some ground to make up in its to Yale momentarily crippled its turnaround, before it was able to come away with an 8-5 quest for another divisional crown.

The Red started to improve its play in victory over Brown.

Though the losses were a tough break for mid-March with three straight wins over Boston College and Bethune-Cookman, but the Red, there is a long Ivy season still ahead, then hit a rough patch and lost five straight. and the team has a wide variety of weapons “We had a really difficult schedule over that will carry it through.

Onyon, the staff’s ace, is a workhorse on spring break,” said senior Erin Belles. “We were up against some teams we knew we the mound, starting 15 of the team’s 25 might not be able to beat, but would chal- games so far this season. She leads the Red in wins with eight and ERA at 2.84. Rounding lenge us going forward.”

Pitted against some top Florida teams like out the rotation are junior Sammy Roth and Stetson, Jacksonville and USF, the Red was freshman Meg Parker. In her first year with unable to come away with a win, but was at the Red, Parker has earned eight starts on the hill. the same time not over“Meg is a freshman; one of our three whelmed by the compepitchers, and she’s been getting much tition. Two of the better as the season goes on,” losses — one to Towne said.

Stetson and one Parker is not the only underto Jacksonville classman who has made an imme— were by diate impact on the team, accordonly one ing to Belles. run, and, “We have a lot of freshmen that according are prepared to take on some startt o ing roles and some filling roles as substitutes,” she said. “They are hitting the Sun Assistant Sports Editor

to its limits. ball pretty well.”

“I’m very excited because I know what Freshman Michiko McGivney has started 16 games in the outfield, hitting .308 with the program has accomplished and we know better than anyone else and what four homeruns, two of which came we’re capable of,” she said. over spring break. Freshman “We have confidence Emily Weinberg is also hitting that we can win .338, and when not on the another South mound, Parker has Division crown, chipped in on offense we just have to as well, hitting .329 play to our with a team-high strengths.”

18 RBIs. With a roster made up of only two seniors, the younger players have been pushed into larger roles.

However, as one of the two seniors, Towne said that the apparent youth of the team is not something she is concerned with.

“I think we’re actually stronger than last year because the juniors are a very large class and have been doing very well hitting at opportune times,” she said. “They’ve been around the block, they know the Ivy season and they’re not wide-eyed not knowing what to do, so the youth is not a worry.”

Junior Christina Villalon is leading the team in batting average at .403 with 16 RBIs. In 72 at bats so far this season, she has only struck out twice. Junior Lauren Bucolo has also been a steady source of offense. She is third on the team at .361 and is coming off an Ivy League Co-Player of the Week honor.

Though Belles and Towne TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO have the ever-taxing job of leading a young team, they have not let this get in the way of Onward and upward | Onyon looks to lead their own play. Towne is hitting .328 with a the team to more Ivy success this season. team-high nine doubles.

Belles — who finished last season hitting just .205 — is now second on the team at .375. As a senior, this turnaround has been especially significant for her.

“It’s really important for CHRISTINA me to focus on doing the best I can [with my] opporVILLALON tunities and trying to hit the Junior Christina Villalon looks ball as best I can, especially with people in scoring to be a threat for the Red as she position,” she said. batted .248 with six doubles “But I think what and two home runs to go along with 17 RBI and matters most at the end of the seven runs scored in 36 contests, including 34 starts, day is whether as well as batting .311 with 13 RBI in 14 Ivy we come out games, posting a solid .367 on-base percentage. with wins.”

As seniors, ALYSON Belles and Towne are well aware of the standard of ONYON success Cornell’s softball program has upheld under The junior pitcher, Onyon, Blood. However, rather earned second-team All-Ivy than feel pressured by the accolades, after going 14-5 history, Towne said it motiwith a 2.74 ERA and 117 strikeouts in 151.0 vates her to push the team

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To the wall | Towne looks to knock one deep for the Red.

innings of work. Her 14 wins ranked tied for third in the Ivy League and her ERA and strikeout total was fifth-best in the league.