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SOFTBALL Cornell’s softball team struggles through a season of rained-out games and learns how to compete with a young squad.
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WOMEN’S L ACROSSE The women’s laxers stand at 3-1 in Ivy play and look to become a more cohesive unit on the field.
BASEBALL Feb. 21
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at Gardner-Webb
Feb. 21 Feb. 22 Feb. 27 Feb. 28 March 1 March 13 March 14 March 14 March 15 March 21 March 21 March 22 March 22 March 29 March 29 March 30 March 30 March 31 April 1 April 4 April 4 April 5 April 5 April 7 April 11 April 11 April 12 April 12 April 14 April 14 April 18 April 18 April 19 April 19 April 22 April 24 April 24 April 26 April 26 April 29 April 29
L 2-3 L 1-2 L 0-3 W 4-3 L 4-5 L 4-5 W 8-6 L 9-13 L 2-7 W 3-0 L 1-2 L 1-2 L 7-8 W 10-1 W 7-5 L 4-5 L 10-6 L 7-23 L 5-11 W 1-0 L 5-8 L 2-14 W 5-4 L 3-7 12 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 12 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 12 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 12 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4 p.m. 12 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 12 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
at Gardner-Webb at Gardner-Webb Seton Hall Hartford Virginia LIU Brooklyn Bowling Green Maine Huntington at Bucknell at Bucknell at Bucknell at Bucknell Yale* Yale* Brown* Brown* at Richmond at Towson at Dartmouth* at Dartmouth* at Harvard* at Harvard* Binghamton Penn* Penn* Penn* Penn* at Siena at Siena Columbia* Columbia* Columbia* Columbia* at Binghamton at Princeton* at Princeton* Princeton* Princeton* Canisius Canisius
March 22 April 4 April 11-12 April 24-26
All Day All Day All Day All Day
GOLF at Blue Devil Spring Shootout at The Met Intercollegiate at Princeton Invitational Ivy Championships
MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING April 4
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April 18 April 25 May 2 May 17 May 29-31
All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day
at Harvard w/ George Washington at Goes Cup at Carengie Cup At Maderia Cup at Eastern Sprints IRA Champships at Mercer, N.J.
MEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING April 4 April 11 April 12 April 25 May 2 May 17 May 31
9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. All Day All Day
at Leonard-Matthews Cup Platt Cup Yale University at Geiger Cup Baggaley Bowl at Eastern Sprints IRA Championships at Mercer, N.J.
WOMEN’S ROWING April 3-4 April 4 April 4 April 11 April 18-19 April 25 May 2 May 17
All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day
Nordic 9 Class of ’89 Points Plate Cayuga Cup at Class of ’75 Cup at Clemson Invitational at Dunn Bowl Parents Cup Ivy League Championship at Camden, N.J.
MEN’S LACROSSE Feb. 15 Feb. 20 Feb. 24 Feb. 28 March 7 March 14 March 17 March 21 March 28 April 4 April 7 April 11 April 18 April 25 May 1-3
L 6-4 W 16-8 W 17-10 W 16-9 L 14-15 W 14-7 W 10-9 (O.T.) W 10-9 (3O.T.) W 8-2 L 9-10 W 12-6 12 p.m. 3 p.m. 1 p.m. TBD
at Syracuse Hobart at Binghamton Albany at Virginia at Yale* Colgate Penn* Dartmouth* at Harvard Canisius Hofstra at Brown* Princeton* Ivy League Tournament
WOMEN’S LACROSSE Feb. 21 Feb. 28 March 4 March 7 March 11 March 14 March 17 March 21 March 29 March 31 April 4 April 11 April 14 April 18 April 26
W 17-8 L 11-12 W 11-5 W 15-7 W 22-3 W 18-12 L 8-14 W 14-6 W 23-6 W 15-7 L 9-10 (O.T.) 3 p.m. 5 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m.
Feb. 27 Feb. 27 Feb. 28 Feb. 28 March 1 March 1 March 15 March 16 March 16 March 22 March 22 March 27 March 27 March 29 March 29 March 30 March 30 March 31 April 1 April 3 April 3 April 4 April 4 April 8 April 11 April 11 April 12 April 12 April 15 April 15 April 18 April 18 April 19 April 19 April 23 April 23 April 25 April 25 April 26 April 26 April 28 April 28 May 2-3
L 10-11 L 3-12 L 3-5 L 0-9 W 7-6 L 4-7 L 0-4 W 5-2 L 4-5 L 5-8 W 9-7 W 4-3 L 2-10 L 4-11 W 11-3 W 12-3 W 10-0 W 13-8 L 7-8 L 0-7 L 3-5 L 0-3 L 10-15 CANCELLED 12:30 p.m. TBD (DH) 12:30 p.m. TBD (DH) 3:00 p.m. TBD (DH) 12:30 TBD (DH) 12:30 p.m. TBD (DH) 3 p.m. TBD (DH) 12:30 TBD (DH) 12:30 p.m. TBD (DH) 3:30 p.m. TBD (DH) TBA
at Temple Albany Colgate at Yale* Binghamton at Columbia* at Syracuse Brown* at California, Berkley at Stanford at Dartmouth* Princeton* Penn State Harvard* at Penn*
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* Ivy League Game
Army Canisius Army Bucknell Canisius Bucknell Saint Francis at Delaware at Delaware at Mt. St. Mary’s at Mt. St. Mary’s Brown* Brown* Yale* Yale* at Morgan State at Morgan State at Mt. St. Mary’s at George Washington at Harvard* at Harvard* at Dartmouth* at Dartmouth* Colgate Penn* Penn* Penn* Penn* Albany Albany at Columbia* at Columbia* at Columbia* at Columbia* Siena Siena Princeton* Princeton* Princeton* Princeton* Binghamton Binghamton Ivy League Championships
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BASEBALL Senior Brian McAfee likes to joke around off of the diamond, but is all business once he takes his place on the mound.
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TENNIS/POLO With the Ivy League stronger than its ever been, Men’s tennis struggles to find wins in league play.
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TRACK & FIELD The track and field teams started their outdoor seasons over Spring Break, when they travelled to California.
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MEN’S LACROSSE The squad stands at 8-3 due, in part, to a strong leadership presence from its group of seniors.
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DESIGN Supplement Design: John Schroeder ’74 Cover Photo Shoot: Michaela Brew ’15 Cover Design: Jayne Zurek ’16, Samantha Briggs ’16, John Schroeder ’74
PHOTOGRAPHY Michaela Brew ’18, Monica Suh ’15, Connor Archard ’15, Michelle Feldman ’15, Kelly Yane ’15
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Red Squad Younger Than Ever TEAM SEES 12 UNDERCLASSMEN AND ONLY SEVEN UPPERCLASSMEN RETURNEES FOR 2015 SEASON By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer
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his spring, the Cornell softball team has high hopes for its season and is excited to see what talent its young squad is going to bring to the field. With a current record of 8-15, the Red has struggled to gain its footing this season after a series of bad weather led to less practice time outside. Additionally, out of a 19 person roster, there are 12 underclassmen, with nine freshmen stepping out in Red jerseys for the first time. Three sophomores, five juniors and only two seniors round out the roster. “Half of our team is freshmen, so we’re very young but also very talented,” said junior infielder Taylor Goodin. While the team may be young, the relative inexperience of the players is balanced by a seasoned coaching staff. Head coach Dick Blood is in his 20th year of coaching the softball team and though he will retire after this season, he remains the winningest coach of a single sport in Cornell history. Under Blood, the program has had 606 wins and five Ivy League titles. With many accolades earned under his tutelage, Blood remains firm in his belief that the players and their well-being are of paramount importance. “Your players a r e the most important thing. A coach cannot let winning get in the way of what is most important. I’ve always asked my players to respect themselves and their opponents,” he said. Blood is joined by associate head coach Julie Platt Farlow and assistants Stephanie Hartquist and Brent Doane. Platt Farlow played for Blood from 1993-97 and joined the squad as an assistant in 2002. While a player, she was two-time All Ivy Second Team Selection as well as the first Cornellian to bat over a .400 in 1996. She was named associate head coach in 2010 and will take over for Blood after this season. Assistant c o a c h Stephanie
Hartquist is entering her third season with the Red since joining the staff in 2013. Before coming to Cornell, Hartquist was an assistant coach at Cortland after a stellar career as a player and four year starter for the Colgate Raiders. She graduated in 2012 and brings a fresh perspective to the Cornell team, as well as an impressive background and her own host of accomplishments. Hartquist earned All-League selections in
team to national finishes every year from 2009-2012. Under such an experienced coaching staff, the team is eager to get its freshmen experience playing on the field. “With the circumstances, we’ve been able to prepare to the best of our abilities and I have really high hopes for this season. Experience is key and we’ll just need to use every game as a chance to get better,” Goodin said.
“I HAVE REALLY HIGH HOPES FOR THIS SEASON. EXPERIENCE IS KEY AND WE’LL JUST NEED TO USE EVERY GAME AS A CHANCE TO GET BETTER.” the Patriot league every year as a Raider and is in the Top-10 for Colgate for runs scored in a career. Rounding out the four person staff is volunteer assistant coach Brent Doane, who coached under Blood for two years in 1999 and 2000 before moving to the head coach position at Tompkins Cortland Community College. There, he was inducted into the TC3 Hall of Fame for leading his
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Senior leadership | With only two seniors and five juniors, the Red is looking to its experienced coaching staff to help lead its young team.
All-Ivy selections, juniors Meg Parker and Michiko McGivney returned to the Red this year. Parker was fantastic both at the plate and on the mound as a sophomore, ranking ninth in the Ivy League for batting percentage and sixth for strikeouts as a pitcher. McGivney was injured for a large portion of the 2014 season, but still earned All-Ivy honors. McGivney said she is excited about the fresh talent in the pitching core. “All freshmen pitchers look great. [I] have high expectations and strong faith in all three of them,” she said. With much returning talent this year, but even more fresh faces on the field, the softball team is focusing on improvement at every o p p o r t u n i t y. Experience for the freshmen who constitute nearly a majority of the team is critical. That improvement will be led by senior captains and infielders Sophie Giaquinto and Clare Feely. The leadership will be supported by five outstanding juniors Weinberg, Parker, McGivney, Goodin and catcher Leanne Iannucci.
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WOMEN’S LACROSSE PLAYERS TO WATCH LINDSAY TOPPE One of three captains for the Red, the senior attacker leads the Red in goals and was named Ivy League Attacker of the Year for the 2014 season. Toppe was also named to the All-Ivy First Team in both her sophomore and junior seasons.
SARAH HEFNER The senior midfielder from Bel Air Maryland holds the Cornell record for single-season draw controls. During her junior season, Hefner earned a spot on the All-Ivy Second Team. She started in 11 games her freshman season.
AMIE DICKSON The sophomore midfielder started in 11 of the 16 games her freshman season for the Red. Before Cornell, she played sports all three season at for her high school, the Hotchkiss School. She hails from Greenwich, Connecticut.
EMILY TRIPODI During her freshman year with the Red, the junior attacker broke the record for assists in a single season. She continued her strong support into her sophomore season and has been vital for the Red in 2015.
RED LACROSSE STRONG FROM THE START
TEAM CONSISTENTLY ENTERS SECOND HALVES IN LEAD
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ith grit and guts, the Cornell women’s lacrosse team has braved snow, sleet, and rain and in position to record yet another historic season. About three quarters of the way through the season the Red is 8-3, with an 3-1 record in Ivy League play. The Red most recently lost to Dartmouth last weekend, 9-10. Although the ultimate goal is to qualify for the Ivy League tournament — the top four teams in the league qualify — head coach Jenny Graap says she uses a pragmatic
“I want the girls to have a sense of pride in our program.” — Head CoachJenny Graap coaching style for her team. “The goal is to have this team progress through season and get better,” Graap said. “Come May, we want to be a powerful and dangerous team.” Cornell’s most disappointing games this season were a 12-11 defeat against University of Albany on Feb. 28 and its most recent loss to Dartmouth. “Albany is undefeated, 6-0. It was a tough loss, but I believe we’ve learned some valuable lessons,” Graap said. “In particular, we need to play full 60 minutes. We had a three goal lead at halftime and they came out quickly during the second half and scored four goals. Cornell had 8-5 in first half.” As any experienced coach would know, the regular season is the time to make mistakes in hopes of not repeating any mishaps. “The lesson learned [is that we] needed to bring energy into second half instead of being complacent with the lead,” Graap said. “With three seniors on team, we are fairly young and lessons like that are crucial for a young team. I would rather learn the lesson early on than later on, during the Ivy Tournament.”
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ers who have been used all over the field. Standout senior attacker Lindsay Toppe is having a career year, leading the team in goals. Part of Cornell’s success this sea- ity to rotate players into different “She’s very specialized in what she son is due to the team’s ability to positions. Adaptability and flexibili- bring to unit. Fantastic leader, great start out the game with a strong ty of athletes. It’s a very high level,” on the offensive” Graap said. “Her attack and tight defense. In every Graap said.“ In all my years, I feel play is indicative of team mindset. single win so far, Cornell has held a confidence comes with players being It’s a cohesive group that will put lead at halftime. The team’s exceladaptable and being able [personal] stats aside.” lent defense keeps most teams Graap said she wants her women to fill in any roles in check during the secthat the team to bond as a team unit and leave ond half and the Red needs. It’s such a Cornell with a true team experience, has found a winning positive because not just an individual career experiformula en route to a the players ence. “I want the girls to have a sense solid season so far. need to be selfSophomore less, team of pride in our program and in goaltender Rene minded first and Cornell,” she said. “I want them Poullott is a stand[have a] willing- to have that team experience out at the position, ness to step in. where they are part of something recently earning the M i d f i e l d e r s greater than themselves. I think Ivy League p l a y i n g athletics provides that unique Defensive Player of a t t a c k e r . opportunity for a group to come the Week. A t t a c k e r s together and have them become a “Rene is having playing mid- team.” According to Graap, this want for a very strong seafield. We son. She’s a rock in have a depth unity on the field is something that the net … vital in that allows her squad has started to achieve this ground balls and us to season. “The team shows all signs of defensive plays,” adapt Graap said. “She’s t o moving into a cohesive team. The intangible have delineated the best quick and looks to teams that I’ve coached,” she said. intercept passes. “The end-point is unknown, but [She] brings an they have potential to make the aggressive mentalmost out of their journey.” ity to the goalThe Red looks to make history keeping position.” different offen- yet again, by hopefully qualifying for the Ivy League Tournament, Although sives.” and ultimately the Cornell’s scorchN C A A ing hot starts are To u r n a m e n t . noteworthy, the Coming up, the real success of the team will take on team comes from RECENT TEAM HIGHLIGHTS Princeton in yet its depth at every • Won games against Stanford and University another Ivy game position. of California, Berkeley. and Penn State in “[One highlight the middle of the is] the depth of our squad • Currently in third place in the Ivy League. week next week. and abilThe Red will finish out the season with league Sophomore mid- games against Harvard and Penn. fielder Amie Dick- Both Penn and Princeton stand at son, senior mid- the top of the Ivy League, with fielder Sarah Hef- Cornell following behind in third BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR ner and jun ior place. These two upcoming games Red on fire | The Red has been commidfielder Abby will be challenging for the Red as petitive in league play, now in third place Hanson are all both teams have proven themversatile play- selves as worthy opponents. behind Princeton and Penn, who are tied for first.
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Chance the Rapper,Magic! to Perform on Slope Day Students express mixed reactions By MICHAEL SOSNICK Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor
SDPB Executive Chair Garrison Lovely ’16 said the board arrived at its decision after considering the approximately 9,000 responses it received from its annual survey. The survey, which Lovely said received about three times more responses this year than last, asks about general student preferences
After more than a few weeks of baited breath and wild speculations, the Slope Day Programming Board finally revealed Thursday that popular hip-hop act Chance the Rapper will be joined by reggae-fusion stars Magic! for the semester-capping event. Since the yearly Slope Day reveal inevitably provokes strong reactions from the student body, we will take a peek at the latest shouts and whispers around campus. Following two consecutive years of rappers — Kendrick Lamar and Ludacris — the choice of a hip-hop headliner was far from shocking. Compared to 2013’s confusion and 2014’s disappointment, the reaction to Chance the Rapper has been overwhelmingly positive. Slope Day Programming Board Executive Chairperson Garrison Lovely ’16 was confident that Chance’s selection would be a hit, calling him “a really obvious choice for us.” “He’s a young and up-and-coming artist, and footage of his recent live performances has been getting us really excited,” Lovely added. Chance, born Chancelor Bennett, wowed fans and critics alike with his second full-length mixtape, Acid Rap, in April 2013. The Chicago native featured on many end-of-the-year lists, reaching fourth on Complex’s “50 Best Albums of 2013.” Pitchfork’s Jeff Weiss called the album, “an attempt to encompass everything … Its genius is that he somehow makes this work.” Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone claimed, “It’s the density of wit, ideas and verbal invention that makes [Acid Rap] one of the year’s defining hip-hop releases.”
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About time | Cornellians crowd into Willard Straight Hall yesterday for the announcement of Slope Day performers.
Slope Day Programming Board received input from 9,000 Cornellians By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Assistant News Editor
Chance the Rapper will headline Slope Day on May 7, the Slope Day Programming Board announced at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday. Canadian fusion reggae band Magic! will be the first opening act.
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their perceptions of their undergraduate experience.” In his letter to undergraduate students, President David Skorton said these survey results “will help faculty and adminCornell’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning istrators better understand how to strengthen the student expereleased the initial results of the Perceptions of Undergraduate rience at Cornell”. Life and Student Experiences survey Marin Clarkberg, director of institutional Wednesday. The survey was open to underresearch and planning, said that the office “We are committed to graduate students from March 3 to 22, and has “only just put our hands on the survey turning around our first asked questions on topics such as academics, results, and it will take some time for us to administration, social life and community. peek at data to students as complete a more systematic analysis.” A total of 4,562 students, approximately “You’ve seen quite early results because 34 percent of the undergraduate population, soon as we possibly can.” we are committed to turning around our responded to the survey. first peek at the data to students as soon as Marin Clarkberg In the releases of previous PULSE data, we possibly can,” Clarkberg said. “Students the Office of Institutional Research and have been so generous with their time in Planning, a part of Cornell’s Division of Budget and Planning, answering our questions, and we feel obliged to let you know said the survey “asks currently enrolled undergraduate students that we’ve heard you.” about their involvement in various academic and extracurricular activities, their interactions with faculty and students, and See SURVEY page 4
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Prof. Joseph Massad, Columbia University, speaks about his latest book, Liberalism in Islam, in Goldwin Smith Hall yesterday.
City of Ithaca Releases Plan to Strengthen Economic Vitality By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor
Earlier this month, the City of Ithaca released an updated draft of its comprehensive plan, which details how to strengthen Ithaca’s economic vitality by diversifying the economy, addressing underemployment and expanding the tax
base. The first iteration of the plan was completed in 1971, and since then it has been amended 14 times to reflect changes in local, national and international trends, according to the City’s website. Economic Diversity
The plan states that the education sec-
tor — which includes Cornell, Ithaca College, Tompkins-Cortland Community College and the Ithaca City School district — makes up the largest portion of the economy, comprising 49 percent of all jobs. This can leave the city vulnerable, according to the report. “Our economy is heavily dependent upon education, and any changes within
that sector can have a tremendous impact on the community,” the report says. The plan suggests changes to make the economy less dependent on the education sector through bolstering other “sizable sectors” of the economy, such as hospitality, healthcare, professional, technical serSee PLAN page 5
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James Forjone, a registered Level Three sex offender, was found wandering near the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and arrested by police Tuesday. The Seneca County Sheriff ’s Office charged Forjone with three felonies — offering a false instrument for filing, failing to report an address change and failing to report an Internet account, according to a release from the sheriff ’s office. Sheriff ’s investigators said Forjorn listed a false moving date when he filled out paperwork announcing that he had moved to Tompkins County, according to the sheriff ’s office. Forjorn also had a Facebook account with a false name
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that was not reported to police, according to the release. According to Cornell Police, Forjone was found near the Johnson Museum at around 11 a.m Tuesday, where he was apprehended by Seneca County sheriffs who were assisted by CUPD. Forjone was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse in 2003 on a victim who was six years old, according to the New York state sex offender registry. He also had a previous conviction of third-degree rape of a victim less than 17 years old, according to The Journal. Forjone is currently detained in the Seneca County Correctional Facility without bail, the sheriff ’s office said. He is due to appear in the Town of Ovid Court Monday. Phoebe Keller can be reached at pkeller@cornellsun.com.
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Farmers’ Market at Cornell Reopens After Winter Hiatus By MOLLY KARR Sun Staff Writer
Despite the gray and chilly weather, the Farmers’ Market at Cornell returned to the Agriculture Quad to begin its fifth year of operation Thursday. Vendor booths lined up behind Kennedy Hall, displaying signs that said “Cornell Bread Club” and “Fat Boy Bakery.” Many booths had sample tastings, which several passing students took advantage of. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Thursday from now until the end of the school year, students and faculty alike can visit vendors like HoneyRock Farms, taste products from the student-run Dilmun Hill Farm and slurp raw smoothies and coffee. “My favorite part of the Farmers’ Market at Cornell is telling people about bees and honey,” said Bill Hiller of HoneyRock Farm, a local honey business which uses its profits to provide financial support for youth outreach pro-
grams. Ella Nonni ’16, co-Social media chair of the market, said the market’s emphasis on locally-grown produce makes for a better consumer experience. “We live in a rich agricultural area, and in a city with a strong focus on small businesses,” said Nonni, who is also a blogger for The Sun. “Shopping at a farm stand and getting to know the people that grow your food is a much more gratifying experience than buying all your vegetables in prepackaged containers at the grocery store.” The Farmers’ Market also invites student-run organizations, including the Cornell Bread Club, to participate, according to Jackie Horn ’16, vice president of the club. “The Market is a really good way to get new members to our club,” Horn said. “We’ve been selling bread at the farmers market since our club began, which was three years ago.” Nonni added that the market’s convenient location makes it highly accessible for students.
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Sweet as honey | A customer tries a sample from HoneyRock Farm at the Farmers’ Market on the Agriculture Quad Thursday.
“Since many students may find it difficult to explore off campus, I believe it’s important to allow them the opportunity to connect with the community on-campus,” she said. Market organizers have worked to make sure that it represents an accurate cross-section of the Ithaca community, according to Market Manager Noa Wesley ’17.
“Ithaca is a wonderful place to cultivate this kind of awareness.” Ella Nonni ’16 “We want our market to fully represent the wonderful food and farming community in the Ithaca area,” Wesley said.” In the future we hope to hold our market on additional days and possibly additional locations.” According to Wesley, the Farmers’ Market first began at Cornell in 2010. “Our market started on Ho Plaza in 2010, and in 2011 we moved to the Ag Quad where we have since been located,” Wesley said. “Our vendor composition has changed throughout the years, and we are always trying to diversify and grow the number of vendors.” By increasing its social media presence, Nonni said the Farmers’ Market hopes to encourage more students to make it a habit to buy fresh produce every Thursday. “We feature our vendors and market events on the market’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages, and we recently started a blog to chronicle our vendors’ stories more in-depth,” Nonni said. “We've also recently begun to host events such as documentary showings and talks from visiting speakers to discuss modern agriculture, sustainable, international agriculture.” Nonni said she hopes students gain a better understanding and appreciation of local farming through the initiative. “We hope to foster a community of students and faculty that are interested in supporting local farmers and artisans, as well as creating a sustainable food supply,” Nonni said. “Ithaca is a wonderful place to cultivate this kind of awareness.” Molly Karr can be reached at mkarr@cornellsun.com.
Cornell Mars Rover Team Advances to Competition Finals By RYAN HUMPHREY Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell Mars Rover project team has been selected to compete in the finals of the University Rover Challenge next month in Utah. The team’s lead, Mahitha Rachumalla ’15, detailed the team and competition as well as their success. Rachumalla said that even though the team is only five years old, its members are students of various disciplines. “We have 36 people currently and we’re organized into several sub-teams,” she said. “There is drive systems, task systems, a computer science team responsible for software and electrical issues as well as science
and business teams.” Rachumalla also said the annual competition, which includes four contests and a presentation, has been “slowly growing.” The team begins each year’s project by reviewing the previous year’s rover in order to learn from past mistakes, according to Rachumalla. She described this year’s rover as “robust and intense.” “August through September we’re reviewing what happened, what we did wrong, and how we can improve,” Rachumalla said. Arpit Sheth ’17, the team’s business leader, said the competition aims to create a rover that could one day perform innovative tasks and cutting edge
research. “The idea behind the competition is to try to create a mock rover that can perform a series of tasks that, if 20 or so odd
as flipping switches, turning valves and screwing things in. Sheth said the rover should be able to do these things “relatively unmanned.”
“I think we have more of an attitude to get ready to win the competition than just make something which is cool.” Mahitha Rachumalla ’15 years down the road we have a manned mission to Mars, could help assist some of those research efforts,” Sheth said. He added that the rover would be capable of picking up an object that weighs about 10 pounds and transporting it from one location to another, as well
Sheth also said a special feature of the rover is its drill, which can assist the investigation of the potential for life on Mars. “This rover can dig into the soil, and we aim to have an onboard pH and humidity sensor and other things that could
detect what the composition of the soil is and note if any of it matches signs of potential life,” he said. Come late May, some team members will go down to Utah to compete in the competition’s separate challenges. Rachumalla said that although the team has been particularly goal-focused this year, it has not given up on the fun of the project. “This year, with the competition-oriented sub-teams ... I think we have more of an attitude to get ready to win the competition than just make something which is cool, which we still want to do too,” she said. Ryan Humphrey can be reached at rhumphrey@cornellsun.com.
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and allows students to suggest potential artists but does not take a formal vote on specific acts. “We do read all the free responses and Chance came up often,” Lovely said. “After that, we took
“We will be coming with the final act in about two weeks.”
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those survey results and took that to our open selections meeting to brainstorm actual artists’ names.” Lovely also addressed concerns that he said arose
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after last year’s Slope Day, when one of the acts allegedly made comments onstage that some students found offensive. “We took some steps to try and address that this year,” he said. “We added a clause to the contract reiterating Cornell’s commitment to diversity on campus, and on the day of the show we will personally speak to each of the artists and remind them that everyone should feel comfortable and safe, and [that] it’s very important to us.” Undergraduate admission will remain free this year while graduate students can either pay for admission or volunteer to work the event, according to Lovely. He said the complete Slope Day lineup will be finalized shortly. “We will be coming with the final act in about two weeks,” he said.
One out of every 10 students who completed the survey won a $10 prize. According to the Institutional Research Office, 448 students were awarded the prize. Of those students, nearly half donated their $10 to Students Helping Students — a program that, according to the Student Assembly, “provides students with grants in cases of family emergencies and unexpected crisis.” Clarkberg said this year’s survey was administered early so as to provide time for the AAU
Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct, which will open next
“Some items are ones that we ask the same way, year after year, to gauge change.” Marin Clarkberg week. Similar surveys have been conducted at Cornell since 1999, according to Clarkberg. She added
the survey is “done in consortium with a number of other peer institutions” and that “we have extensive conversations over time ... to develop the survey.” “Some of the survey questions are items we’ve developed here, and have tested through one-onone interviews with Cornell students,” Clarkberg said. “Other survey questions may come from other schools. Some items are ones that we ask the same way, year after year, in order to gauge change.” Daniel Zimmerman can be reached at dzimmerman@cornellsun.com.
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vices and retail. “By attracting a wide variety of businesses and employers, we will be in a better position to withstand economic fluctuations and prosper during times of economic uncertainty,” the report states. The report also emphasizes that developing new enterprises is pivotal for Ithaca to continue to be the economic hub of Tompkins County. “To remain the economic and employment center of the region, we aim to capture new business growth within the city, including high-technology and knowledge-based businesses and manufacturing,” the report says. “We will foster an environment that attracts and retains businesses and manufacturing [...] that create well-paying local jobs that enable people to live within the city.” Unemployment and Underemployment
According to the report, there is a high poverty rate in the city mainly caused by unemployment and underemployment. “Approximately 14 percent of all families in Ithaca live in poverty, a rate that is markedly higher than those of Tompkins County, New York State, and the [United States,]” the report says. ‘The poverty rate is even higher for families of color and families with a female head of household.” The report states that underemployment is a severe problem in the Ithaca area, with many accepting part-time work when they would prefer full-time positions or being confined to low paid jobs with little opportunity for advancement. Solutions to address these employment problems include expanding employment and job readiness programs, and removing barriers preventing jobs through “the creation and expansion of local employment, particularly well-paying jobs to provide opportunities for all income levels and age groups,” according to the report. The report suggests that this expansion can be achieved through increasing “access to job readiness and skill development programs, particularly for low income residents and young adults” as well as eliminating “barriers to employment such as lack of childcare and insufficient transportation.” The city also hopes to expand occupational training programs throughout the city to improve Ithaca residents’ job prospects, according to the report. A Limited Tax Base
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The plan concludes by expressing hope that implementing these changes will help create a thriving Ithaca community. “We must foster an environment that stimulates diverse employment and housing opportunities while enhancing our quality of life,” the plan says. “Private investment, capital improvements and public services create a community where people want to visit, live, work, play and invest.” Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Student Fashion Spotlights Speaking With Senior Designer Laura Zwanziger ’15 son do you imagine that you're designing for?
BY SEAN DOOLITTLE Sun Senior Writer
Designers at the Cornell Fashion Collective use all sorts of materials in preparation for the 31st Annual Runway Show. One particularly creative designer, Laura Zwanziger ’15, has based her entire collection around knitwear, from sweaters to pullovers and beyond. The Sun visited Zwanziger at her studio to watch her use a knitting machine and ask her some questions about her life as a designer. THE SUN: When did you start designing? How did you end up at Cornell for design? LAURA ZWANZIGER: I started knitting before I started elementary school, and I began sewing when I was thirteen. I have always liked coming up with my own designs because I couldn't necessarily describe how I wanted something to look, but I could make it look how I wanted in a knit or a woven. While I love design, and have known I wanted to be a designer since I was thirteen, I also wanted to study other subjects. I didn't want to give up academics for a design education, and having the education in other topics has ultimately made my designs stronger. SUN: How would you describe your design style? What inspirations should we be able to see in your designs? L.Z.: Designing for the body the way it is, and not how anyone else says it should be is really important to me as a designer. What you wear influences the way you feel, and can affect your confidence. So much of the fashion industry focuses on a single body type that does not apply to most women, and can result in really negative feelings about body image. Promoting positive body image through clothing is something I try to do with all of my designs by taking inspiration from the natural shape and curves of the body that I am designing for, regardless of shape or size. SUN: What are your goals for designing? What type of per-
L.Z.: I am interested in designing for young, professional women, who are always on the go. Clothes have to be functional, fashionable and fit so the wearer can put her best foot forward. I love the effect great fitting and detailed garments can have on the wearer, whether she is at work or out with friends. SUN: I really loved the effort that you and Brandon Wen ’15 went to to create the plus-size mannequins and enable a plussize line. Can you talk a little bit about this and what made it so important to you? L.Z.: Designing for bodies the way they are is really important to me, whether that body is full-figured, petite or tall. There are so many variations in the female form that are really inspiring to me as a designer, and making garments available for these women really impact customers who do not necessarily have exciting options to choose from currently in stores. SUN: You've done a lot of beautiful knitwear in the past. How did you get started with that and what do you love about it? L.Z.: I LOVE knitwear. It started early for me, when my mom started teaching me when I was about four, and is something I have developed because of its influence on how knits make me feel. I love the feeling of a soft sweater, hat or scarf. There are so many spins you can take on what these garments are and what they can do. Knits are also so diverse as a field: you are creating your own fabric, so possibilities are endless, and can be extended further when you start mixing knits with contrasting materials (which you will see in my senior collection!). Taking a garment from the yarn to a finished product is really exciting, and I used Cornell's new knitting machine to develop custom stitches for this collection. SUN: Could you give us a little preview of what to expect at the show? What type of collection are you showing? What are the inspirations behind it/the philosophies guiding it?
L.Z.: My collection is about celebrating healthy, diverse body types. I have focused on five body types: Hourglass, pear, petite, tall and rectangular, drafting knit patterns directly on model's bodies. I find these bodies beautiful and inspiring, and I took inspiration in shape and texture from scoliosis scars, which wrap around the female form and flatter it in different ways depending on the shape of that specific body.
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SUN: Could you talk a little bit about your experience in the Fashion Collective? I don't think a lot of our readers are very clear on what it is/what the experience is like. L.Z.: The Cornell Fashion Collective is a group of fashion designers and management students who work together to put on the amazing show that you should ALL come to on Saturday night! We work to develop our own designs within the organization and present them to the Cornell community. Tickets for the Cornell Fashion Collective’s Annual Runway Show are still available online or from Collective members. The show will be held this Saturday, April 11, at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall. Sean Doolittle is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sdoolittle@cornellsun.com.
A Chat With Senior Designer Blake Uretsky ’15 BY TROY SHERMAN Assistant Arts and Entertainment Editor
Blake Uretsky ’15 has been having quite the semester. A senior in the School of Human Ecology’s Fiber Science and Apparel Design program, she won one of the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund’s four prestigious Geoffrey Beene national scholarships back in January. Her winning design was a line of fashionable maternity clothes that, while looking good, track the mother-to-be’s health. Coming off of that exciting win, she has recently been working on a collection of ski-inspired clothes for the COURTESY OF BLAKE URETSKY
Cornell Fashion Collective’s 31st Annual Runway Show. The Sun had a chance to talk with her about her recent successes, inspiration for creation and her collection for the upcoming show.
take on modest cuts. I also have an appreciation for the quality and attention to detail used in vintage clothing, as it is sometimes hard to find pieces today that have comparable characteristics
THE SUN: How long have you been designing? How did you end up at Cornell?
SUN: You recently received a scholarship for your functional/fashionable line of maternity clothes. Can you talk about your experience designing for and winning that scholarship?
BLAKE URETSKY: My mom taught me how to sew in the third grade, and then I started designing and making my own clothes in high school. When applying to schools I knew I wanted to study fashion design but also have a college experience and have the ability to take classes from a wide range of disciplines. Cornell teaches you how to be a designer of everything, looking at and tackling problems by creating well-designed solutions. Fashion design really encompasses everything and cannot just be looked at through a narrow lens. SUN: What is your philosophy for design? What motivates you? B.U.: Wearability is a big part of my design philosophy and ultimately I want to design clothes that people love and have a desire to wear. It is about the balance between function and aesthetics. I design around classic silhouettes and shapes and provide variations in details and fabrication. As a designer, I draw on details from past times and from menswear, as the clothing I create is usually more unfitted and
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B.U.: Designing clothing around the concept of wearable technology was something very new to me and I didn’t have much previous knowledge regarding the topic, so tons of research and development went into my maternity-wear designs. This was a seven-month process that included research, interviews, design developments, prototypes and presentations to industry leaders. This whole process taught me the importance of the refinement of ideas. Every idea/design I came up with constantly changed and evolved through numerous stages of development. I realized how much time and dedication goes into producing something that is truly successful and ultimately something that you are 100 percent confident in. SUN: Can you tell us a little bit about your collection for the fashion show? What's it like and how did it come to be? B.U.: The name of my senior collection is
called Crested Butte. It is a women’s ready to wear collection for fall/winter. Crested Butte captures the mysterious life of a woman who lives in an opulent yet isolated ski lodge on Mount Crested Butte, Colorado. I have always been really interested in fashion from different time periods as well as different subcultures, [and] I was specifically drawn to the details from the ski wear of the ’50s, as it balances functionality and wearability with aesthetically pleasing designs. I have taken inspiration from vintage ski wear of the 1950s and reinterpreted these pieces in a contemporary way creating distinctly wearable yet visually exciting pieces. The lavish décor and interiors of ski lodges throughout the Pacific Northwest region of the United States guided the surface designs and fabric selections of the collection. I have also taken inspiration from the T.V. series Twin Peaks and the movie The Shining. SUN: How are you going to continue pursuing design after graduation? What's in store for you? B.U.: After Cornell I plan to work for a womenswear designer, then after a little more experience working in the industry I plan to start my own clothing line. Troy Sherman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com.
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Although Chance is a favorite of hip-hop heads and music journalists, casual listeners can still have fun “grooving to the positive vibes,” according to Evan Needell ’15. “The best thing about his music is that it gives you options in terms of what you’re trying to do at the concert, whether you’re trying to dance in the crowd or hang around on the periphery with your buds.” “With this year’s selection, we really wanted to focus on the performance aspect,” said Slope Day Programming Board Selections Director Doran Kianmahd ’15. Kianmahd added that Chance “will even be performing with a live band,” a fact that is getting many students excited. Needell finds that performing with a live band “makes for a more entertaining and engaging performance than somebody just rapping over a studio-recorded track.” Those looking for a bit more substance in their Slope Day headliner shouldn’t be disappointed either. “Chance’s ability to tap into our generation’s collective consciousness and to help us confront difficult coming-of-age questions makes him the perfect act to headline Cornell’s end-ofthe-year celebration,” Matt Harkins ’16 said. Those concerned about never having heard of Chance the Rapper need not remember further back than 2013’s Slope Day headliner, Kendrick Lamar. Lamar was also performing critically acclaimed material, and although his announcement was met with blank stares from many students, he quickly became a household name, with “Swimming Pools (Drank)” being blasted at house parties and Pixel alike. Chance could be the next in a long line of before-theywere-big Slope Day picks, and the Programming Board is giving Cornellians the opportunity to say they saw him first.
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Students were as surprised as a bunny being pulled out of a tophat when it was announced that Chance the Rapper will be introduced by Magic!, the Canadians responsible for the catchy (or incessant, depending on your point of view) smash, “Rude.” Opinions ranged from bewilderment to downright anger, the latter being expressed by Sami Fiorino ’16. “It’s the 150th year and I was expecting Oprah, and the people who sing ‘Why you gotta be so ruuuuude’ don’t really measure up.” Others took a more measured, optimistic tone to the seemingly bad news. “A Canadian reggaefusion band whose notable hit tells the story of a young man’s anguish at having his marriage proposal rejected by the father of his bride-to-be is certainly a surpris-
ing choice for Slope Day, but I, for one, will be willing to give their catalogue a shot and see if they can bring some good vibes to Libe,” said Harkins. Lovely addressed the choice of Magic! more positively. “We think that [Chance the Rapper] has a good vibe for Slope Day, and Magic!’s reggae vibe will definitely compliment him.” Kianmahd added, “We’ve been talking to Chance and Magic!, and both of them are excited to perform together.” Whether or not you’ll miss the “[Noun] for Slope Day” YikYak posts, the end of the erratic guessing is certainly a relief for Cornell students. All that’s left is figuring out whether you’ll fill your precious little free time by complaining endlessly about this decision that you can’t change, by catching up on Chance’s short discography or by finally investing in some sunscreen. The Arts Section can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.
Rothko’s Vision of Depth Within Darkness
t’s hard to believe that only five days ago, we were on Spring Break. I spent mine rediscovering Seoul, South Korea. For the very first time, I visited the Samsung Museum of Art, better known as Leeum. Here, the founder of Samsung’s collection of Korean national treasures is displayed beside the current chairman’s modern art collection. It is not everyday that I get to see a fifth century crown from the Shilla dynasty next to a lithe Giacometti sculpture. Or better yet, a painting by abstract expressionist Mark Rothko surrounded by Buddhist art. The trip back home not only gave me new appreciation of Korean modern art collectors, but also redefined my perspective on Rothko’s timeless color-field paintings. Inside of the museum, I moved from admiring Korean modern art by artists such as the celebrated Lee Jong-sang and Chun Kyong-ja to internationally renowned sculptures by Louise Bourgeois and Jean Arp. However, I was most impressed by the Rothko painting in chairman Lee KunHee’s collection. Or rather, the Rothko paintings in his possession. In the Modern art section of the space, I stood, transfixed by the warm glow of a classic Rothko. The black and orange rectangles hovered over the red background. Like his other color-field
paintings, the canvas stretched from one side of the wall to the other. Although this may sound daunting, Rothko’s large paintings are surprisingly personal. As he intended, the viewer feels like she is in the piece, participating in a two-way dialogue, rather than standing in the corner like a third-party observer. I reluctantly left the area to explore the traditional art collection, starting with the Buddhist art and metal works. The yellow of the cold crowns and small statues paled in comparison to the luminescence of Rothko’s painting upstairs. Robotically, I moved from one bodhisattva representation to the next. Having passed half the room, I
Letitia Chai The Melting Pot retraced my steps back to a dark area between two national treasures. The white label marking the piece looked as if it were levitating in the dimly lit space. This is a Rothko? The gloomy palette of brown, black and navy blue was completely unfamiliar to me. Where were the burning oranges and reds? I moved backwards. The dark colors
wrapped around me, enveloping me in a new and equally unfamiliar way. His shadowy painting, I realized, embodied the intimate exchange between the artwork and the viewer. Remarkably, the overlay of dark over dark contained a depth that was missing in his brighter pieces. On the way back home, I mulled over the confusing context of this painting (Untitled, 1969). Finished only a year before his suicide in New York City, Untitled was a more sensitive expression of emotion than his earlier paintings. Squashed between a sculpture of the Buddha meditating and one of the Buddha reaching enlightenment, the Rothko blended into the spiritual landscape of the traditional art collection. I was reminded of a short clip I had heard on NPR’s All Things Considered about the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. The chapel had opened one year after the painter passed away. Visitors have come from all over the world to see the 14 dark purple and black colorfields. Countless times, viewers have been moved to tears in the space. Many leave notes in the non-denominational chapel’s comment books, responding to previous visitors and leaving words of their own. Like the clip mentioned, the bright palette of his other works often creates a wall between the piece and the viewer, while the dark colors in Rothko’s paint-
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ings transcend any barriers. In a similar manner, the chapel fulfills Rothko’s last wish to create a space where people of different religious and cultural backgrounds can work to understand each other, despite any hostile history. The hidden Rothko gem among Korean national treasures and the stories of those who have visited the Rothko chapel invite us to see a new vision of dark and light, one in which gloomy tones can create a powerfully warm setting. Letitia Chai is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at lchai@cornellsun.com. The Melting Pot appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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— Far Above ’15
A: From 1957 to 1971, Cornell dignitaries, VIPs and the occasional sports team were able to travel via the “Far Above,” a 22-passenger DC-3 airplane. By the time it was sold in 1971, primarily for cost reasons, it had flown around 250,000 miles and carried some 30,000 passengers on its flights. The plane was a gift of trustee Leroy Grumman, Class of 1916, an aerospace engineer who founded Grumman Aircraft, now part of Northrop Grumman. He patented retractable landing gear and stow-wing planes for aircraft carriers and had a substantial influence on the aviation industry. His philanthropy helped fund Grumman Hall on the Engineering Quad and the Grumman Squash Courts. Recognizing the need for a larger and more modern local airport, Cornell University actually opened the current Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport in 1948 as its own private airport. However, ownership transferred to the county in 1956.
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tudent activism is a cherished and unwavering element of Cornell University’s proud, 150-year heritage. Throughout Cornell’s history, including my time as an undergraduate, student activism helped to steer local, regional and national policies for civil rights, foreign policy and social justice. I personally welcome Cornell students who sincerely and constructively question ideas and policies, but what happened on our campus before Spring Break was not that. Immediately before and during the March 26 Board of Trustees meeting, some protesters crossed the line of acceptable behavior. During the closed session of the Board meeting in the Statler amphitheater, approximately 60 protesters did their best to disrupt the proceedings by pounding on walls, standing on tables, screaming obscenities and verbally harassing trustees and university staff. Some of the activists utilized social media to malign individual trustees personally, accusing them of conflicts of interest, questionable ethics and other invented transgressions. Cornell trustees dedicate an enormous amount of their personal time in service of the university. They receive no compensation other than the satisfaction of serving their beloved Cornell, and they are extraordinarily generous donors to the university. Personally attacking trustees with baseless accusations did not open any dialogue or advance any policy goal. It was completely unconstructive and actually created a sense of distance between trustees and students that I have not previously experienced since joining the Board in 2002. Despite the disruption taking place outside the amphitheater, I attempted to engage the protesters in a meaningful dialogue. I was prepared to listen to the students and speak with them about their concerns on behalf of the Board. Yet, when I stepped out of the meeting, I was drowned out by chants and screams. After several attempts at a dialogue, it became clear to me that these activists were not at all interested in constructive interaction. Instead of discussion, the activists chose intimidation, personal attack and disruption of important proceedings. They traded an opportunity for meaningful communication for a disrespectful tirade. The university experience is a learning experience. I urge the entire Cornell community, activist or not, to embrace the spirit of coherent argument and utilize the institutions of shared governance in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Robert Harrison ’76 is the chairman of the Board of Trustees. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.
Q: Why do freshmen all have to read a book together each summer? — We Don’t Even Go Here Yet ’19 A: At Cornell and many other schools, incoming freshmen are assigned a book to read the summer before they begin college. In fact, six of the eight Ivy League schools assigned a book to the Class of 2018 last summer. For Cornell’s Class of 2019, it was just announced that they’ll be reading Slaughterhouse-Five by alumnus Kurt Vonnegut ’44. This marks the 15th year of the New Student Reading Project at Cornell. The initiative began in 2001 under President Hunter Rawlings, one of the key advocates of the North Campus Residential Initiative, which sought to provide a unifying freshmen year experience and community. Not only were all freshmen housed on North Campus together for the first time, but they were also assigned a book to read together — the rather weighty Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond in that first year. The hope was that the reading project would provide a common intellectual experience to help guide discussion among new students. While some may disagree with its efficacy, the books have at least provided a common thing to complain about for many incoming students. The local community and Cornell alumni have also participated in the reading project, so it has served as a broader unifying experience beyond just the freshmen. Q: Did someone really survive a fall into the gorge because of a raccoon once? — Raccoon Hero ’16 A: The story is true. In 1990, a student slipped while walking on one of the Cascadilla Gorge trails and fell more than 75 feet into the gorge. Amazingly, she landed on a raccoon and suffered only a broken wrist and minor injuries. The furry hero unfortunately didn’t fare so well and succumbed to its injuries six months later. Q: Why does House of Cards keep referencing Ithaca each season? — President Underwood ’14 A: Besides the fact that Ithaca is clearly a great place to seek sanctuary if fleeing a deadly political conspiracy (at least according to season two), we think the Ithaca references could be the work of Kenneth Lin ’00, one of the writers for the second and third seasons of the popular Netflix series. If you look carefully, there appear to be two Cornell diplomas hidden on the show as well. The office of U.S. presidential chief of staff Linda Vasquez and the home of journalist Tom Hammerschmidt both appear to be displaying Cornell degrees proudly. Q: What’s the oldest tree on campus?
— Treemendously Curious ’15
A: Cornell actually completed a comprehensive tree inventory in 2009, taking a look at over 7,000 trees on the Ithaca campus. The oldest tree is the 350-year old white oak on Libe Slope below the Gannett building, and the largest tree is a 79-inch diameter pignut hickory, also on the Slope. Another interesting finding was that 24 percent of the campus is under tree canopy and that there are nearly 300 different species. The most common species of tree? Northern red oaks, accounting for more than 10 percent of campus trees. Curious about Cornelliana? Looking for Cornell lore behind a legend? Submit your questions to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Ezra’s Oracle appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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Sarah Parauda ’14 | What’s Up Doc?
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n his talk at the Weill Cornell Medical College on March 5, journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell made the case that we should be measuring the success of our society — or lack thereof — by “capitalization rates.” He defines capitalization rates, or more affectionately, “cap rates,” as “the rate at which a given community capitalizes on the human potential of those in its midst.” More simply put, these days, Gladwell is interested in “what percentage of those who are capable of achieving something actually achieve it.” He skillfully made his case, calmly meandering through anecdotes that ranged from his mother’s unlikely academic success story as the child of a poor, black family in colonial Jamaica, to the embarrassingly low cap rates of America’s sacred football institution, which has quarterback talent prediction systems in place that have allowed names like Donovan McNabb and Terry Bradshaw to populate the bottom slots of aptitude lists. Of course, he punctuated these yarns with cold, hard facts. Last year, there were 35,000 high school students who came from families in the bottom decile in income and managed to score in the 90th percentile or above on their college admissions tests. Only 15,000 of them even applied to a selective school. Out of the 1,600 students who made up Harvard’s incoming class that year, only 15 fell into that same category. He concluded: “We have a scarcity of achievement because we have a squandering of talent.” His bold words resonated with me, one of these bewildered “achievers” who somehow washed ashore with 100 others at Weill Cornell Medical College last August while thousands of applicants (6,111, to be exact) were left stranded at sea. When I heard Gladwell talk of the NFL’s use of the Wonderlic Cognitive Ability test as a clearly flawed measure of quarterback ability, I was reminded of the year I spent toiling away at organic chemistry problems to prove to medical school admissions committees that I was capable of handling the demanding medical school curriculum. Fast forward to seven months into my medical school career: I can safely say that I’ve never had to tackle a medical problem that required me to know what a hydroboration reaction was. I suppose there’s still time. But it saddens me to think of the countless pre-medical students who gave up on their dreams of medical school when the hydroboration got rough. In a country where we desperately need more doctors, we have that same “squandering of talent” Gladwell is describing at each stage of the pre-medical course of study. Our cap rates for undergraduates going on to reach the level of medical education are pathetically low. To be sure, the medical institutions are catching on, with most schools replacing one of the required two semesters of undergraduate organic chemistry with a semester of biochemistry. The AAMC has completed an overhaul of the sacred MCAT structure with its new MCAT2015 debuting next month, adding a “Psychological, Social and Biological Foundations of Behavior” section to the already marathonlength exam. My worry is that this will add yet another bottleneck to an already restrictive system. Gladwell did, however, praise one aspect of medical education that we do seem to get right — the practice of the “10,000-Hour Rule” that he described at length in his book Outliers: The Story of Success. The essence of this rule is that it takes the average person about 10,000 hours of practice to master a cognitively complex task, and that “there’s no such thing as natural talent.” Gladwell remarked: “You are all here because your profession explicitly understands that fact, right? There’s a minimum amount of hours that you need to train to be an effective physician and there is no shortcut. If there was a shortcut, how happy would you be?!” When we allow people to get those 10,000 hours of practice under their belts, we can then capitalize on that mastery. Once we defy the startlingly tiny cap rates and make it to medical school, the odds that we will go on to be practicing physicians are extremely favorable. Here at Weill, we have a 98 percent passing rate of the United States Medical Licensing Exam Step 1, according to the US News & World Report. That is a cap rate to be proud of, for sure. What are we doing right once we get to medical school to allow the cap rates to suddenly skyrocket? I suspect the increasingly common practice of replacing grades with Pass/Fail in the pre-clinical years plays a large role. The parallel in Gladwell’s talk was the example of teacher quality, and how programs such as Teach For America might be the best way to identify teaching talent. By allowing new graduates with minimal experience to teach for two years, Teach for America is essentially grading its young teachers on a pass/fail scale — at the end of the two years, if you “fail,” you can simply move on to a new career, with little consequence. In the same way, the pass/fail preclinical system in medical school provides a “low-stakes” environment — of course at a steep price tag — for students to chip away at those 10,000 hours. Remarkably, it doesn’t seem to impact the quality of the MD that emerges at the other end. At our pass/fail School, US News & World reports that the students average a score of 236 on the USMLE Step 1 — a score that arguably opens the door to virtually all of the competitive residency programs. Cap rates appear to be extremely amenable to trial periods. I’ll conclude with another particularly salient quote from Gladwell: “We’re always in too much of a hurry to draw conclusions about how good people are.” Medical education does a good job of taking its time once its students arrive on campus, but the selection process to get there remains dysfunctional. I look forward to seeing the creative solutions to this problem in the coming years. Emma Parauda is a first-year graduate student in Weill College. She may be reached at sap2021@cornell.edu.
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nsurprisingly, almost everyone I know who is involved in the veterinary profession has pets of their own. Off the top of my head, I can think of people who have up to ten animals — the number seems to increase the further along in the career the person is. So what does it mean to be the pet of a vet? On a daily basis, for me at least, being a vet student has made me intensely paranoid about my own animals. W h e n the cat jumps on the table a n d steals the bones from the chicken wings and runs into a corner growling because he loves them so much, it’s not cute — it’s a terrified sprint to wrestle them out of his mouth before he can swallow them and have his gastrointestinal tract torn up with the sharp edges. If he seems to be spending a fraction of a second more in his litterbox than usual then he’s closely watched for any signs of urinary blockage, and his dinner is always prepared to have the consistency of soup to make sure that he stays well hydrated. I think that I might border (okay, have crossed the line) on being a crazy cat lady, but for the rest of us I think that if not paranoia, our education at least gives us the ability to be more aware of problems developing in our pets. We know what changes to monitor, what the changes mean and the extent of home care we can provide for our animals. On
were veterinarians is one that clients tend to forget when faced with a myriad of difficult decisions and a sick animal. You hear people complain about how veterinarians are only out for money and that many “lack compassion,” and these complaints are incomprehensible to me. No one is in this profession for the money — it is not one that easily allows for the accrual of any kind of wealth. Instead, at least for those of us Our [veterinary] education who are pursuing at least gives us the ability careers to be more aware of working problems developing in directly our pets. We know what with animals and changes to monitor, [and] their peowhat the changes mean. ple, we do it because we love the work and want to make a posyou love. Then, there’s the “vet itive impact on the lives of school curse” — an unwritten both the animals and the peolaw that at some point when ple. I remember that when I you’re in vet school your animal will have some serious dis- was applying to vet school I ease or injury that requires was told not to put a sad story intensive hospitalization. about an animal I had as a There’s definitely truth to it: child who inspired me to want my cat had seen every depart- to pursue veterinary medicine ment in the small animal hos- in my personal statement pital, aside from theriogenolo- because everyone had those gy and orthopedic surgery, by stories and it wouldn’t help to the time I was in my second set my personal statement year. Several of my classmates apart from any of the others. have been in similar situa- This means that these stories tions. Realistically, it’s proba- are a dime a dozen amongst bly more a function of the fact us, which highlights that when that many of us are in vet your veterinarian says someschool at the same time that thing like “I know how hard our childhood pets are this is for you,” they’re not approaching the end of their just empty words, it’s genuine lifespans, but it still forces us sympathy. to evaluate what life is like when you’re the one getting the bad news instead of giving Nikhita Parandekar is a fourth-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary it. She may be reached at I think the fact that we Medicine. nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in were animal lovers before we Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester. the flip side, when something bad does happen and our pets must go in to the hospital for further diagnostics or procedures, the majority of vets I know are unwilling to perform these procedures on their own animals due to their emotional attachment, and will have a colleague perform them instead. Understanding a disease process does not make it any easier to watch when it’s happening to an animal that
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fringe starters and back-of-roster players. If Ivy League schools, like schools such as Duke, Stanford and North Carolina, can provide great education and an above-average sports culture, why can’t Cornell recruit significant nationally-ranked athletes to come here? Why don’t players such as Jahlil Okafor or Karl-Anthony Towns consider taking their talent to Newman Arena? Among the major issues is the stringent recruitment rules that hamper head coaches in the Ivy League. A 2011 article in the New York Times reported that the conference uses an Academic Index (AI) which summarizes prospective recruits’ high school grades and standardized testing. Prospective recruits in the Ivy League, according to the AI, must have at least 3.0 GPA (on a four-point scale) and a combined score of 1140 on math and reading section of the SAT. On top of the academic requirements, the Ivy League does not give athletic scholarships to students, dramatically shrinking the potential talent pool. Elite athletes who come from low-income family and place high value on academics are all but barred from coming to an Ivy League school because they simply cannot afford the tuition, “Cornell isn’t going to win a and, instead, head to school such as Duke, national championship in Northwestern or Stanford. football or basketball While strides have been anytime soon. made in this area in recent years — a 2011 New York Times article reported that Ivy League financial aid packages can sometimes trump scholarships —, there is no doubt that these financial restrictions hinders the conference’s ability to recruit elite talent. The Ivy League also hates the postseason, for some odd reason. The Ivy League is one of two conferences to opt out of the FCS playoffs, citing that the games could interfere with reading period and finals. In basketball, there is no conference tournament for an NCAA berth. And then there are the eligibility rules. The Ivy League prohibits players from redshirting, or taking a year off from sports to save athletic eligibility. Ivy athletes are expected to use their four years of eligibility in their first four years enrolled as full-time students. Students can request a leave of absence to extend eligibility, but the reasons have to be academic and career goal related. These eligibility rules, which are in place to encourage higher academic involvement for student-athletes, led Columbia forward Alex Rosenberg to withdraw from school so he could play a full senior season. It’s the reason why Cornell forward Shonn Miller, who missed his junior season due to a shoulder injury, is currently being recruited by UConn, Illinois, Boston College and Michigan to play basketball next year as a graduate student. It’s why Cornell pitcher Brian McAfee, who missed his junior season to a broken back, is committed to pitch at Duke. Eligibility rules are taking away elite student-athletes from the Ivy League, seemingly defeating its own purpose. Cornell isn’t going to win a national championship in football or basketball anytime soon. That being said, the Ivy League certainly doesn’t maximize it’s full athletic potential by preventing exciting postseason play, not allowing athletic scholarships and forcing students to drop out in order to play out four years for a team in the conference. I’m not saying Cornell needs to turn into Syracuse by fudging grades to get athletes into games, but why can’t the conference lighten up a little bit? Is a little postseason drama really that bad? Joon Lee is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be contacted at joonlee@cornellsun.com. Sports Joonalism appears periodically this semester
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the Top-10 in last season’s meet in the pole vault. Based on last year’s results and its current season record, the women’s track and field team is more than ready for this year’s meet. Like the women’s team, the men’s team also did well in last season’s Bucknell Invitational. During last year’s invitational, senior Rob Robbins earned a new facility and school record with a 248’11” javelin throw. This ranked him second in NCAA. Also, then freshman Mark Tedder almost broke the freshman school record for the 10k. Just nine seconds
short of breaking the record with a final time of 30:13.68, he placed eighth in the IC4A. Cornell’s men’s track and field team had a strong showing in last season’s George Mason Invitational. Though the team will be missing many of its seniors from last year, including the long jump duo of Steven Bell and Hercules Stancil, the team still appears poised to be successful. Both events will start on Saturday, with the Bucknell Invitational continuing into Sunday. Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun.com.
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Women Struggle Through Season of Rain-Outs Another game called off against during second inning Wednesday
The Quakers’ record is currently at 13-6-1. The Red has played two fewer games than the Quakers, due to weather cancellations. Cornell’s record stands at 8-10, including 2-6 in the Ivy League. The softball team has met its match: Ithaca weather. Scoring runs wasn’t a problem for the Red over spring The team suffered another cancellation due to rain and lightning delays Wednesday. The Red was leading Colgate break, and the team looks to carry over the strong offensive 1-0 in the second inning when the game was called off. performance into the Penn game. “Our offense really picked up during Though the cancellation put a damper spring break which was great,” said on a chance to gain momentum, the Red “Our offense really junior Meg Parker said. “We scored 42 is still excited to host Penn at home on picked up during spring runs in 4 games. We just weren’t able to Saturday, according to junior Emily drive in runs when it mattered.” Weinberg. break which was According to junior Leanne Iannucci, Though playing an Ivy always comes great.” a focus in the past weeks has been workwith the weight of post-season behind it, ing on concentration on individual Weinberg said the Red is preparing just Meg Parker plays. like any other game. “We all have to try and slow down “Each game is important,” she said. “[Last week] we didn’t treat Ivy play much different than the the game and focus on every single pitch or play,” she said. “That’s something that coach tries to drill all the time, and rest of our games.” Last time out against the Quakers was in Philadelphia, I agree that it’s essential if we want to be successful. He reitwhen the Red split two games with the home team. The erates that it’s important in high pressure situations if we women lost the first match 9-0 in five innings, but doled want to come through in the clutch.” After the two high-scoring, intense games against the out a 9-0 win of their own in game two. In that game, both junior Meg Parker and sophomore Chloe Pendergast hit Quakers last season, slowing down the game will likely be home runs. Their hits allowed Cornell to pull ahead, scoring key for the Red. If the weather holds up, the game will start at 12:30 p.m. three in the first inning, four in the second and two in the fourth. Junior Michiko McGiveny was three for four at bat. Saturday at Neimand Robinson Field. This year, she remains one of the Red’s top hitters, leading the team in RBIs. Both Penn and Cornell are in the Ivy League South Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at Division, though Penn holds the advantage in the standings. omattyasovszky@cornellsun.com. By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY
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Red at bat | Junior Michiko McGiveny is one of the top hitters for the Red this season, standing at the top of stats in terms of RBIs.
Where Is the Cornell Bishop Earns No. 6 All-Time Talent? For Cornell in Pole Vaulting O TRACK AND FIELD
ver the course of March, I often spent my time procrastinating by watching March Madness games. I’m not a huge college sports fan, but the tournament gets me every single year as I watch my bracket wilt under the trash that is my predictions. When I see schools that are competitive every single year in major collegiate sports, I can’t help but let my head wander to think about what it would be like to go to a place where sports is frequently a primary
(in part) through this very newspaper you’re reading right now. While it surely isn’t reasonable to expect the basketball program at Cornell to compete for the national championship, the school actually has a history of winning NCAA titles in the major collegiate sports. Back in the good ‘ol days, the Red took home national championship trophies for football in 1915, 1921, 1922 and 1939. While men’s basketball has never taken home a national champi-
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Recently, the Cornell men’s and women’s track and field teams have had strong performances on the road.
The women’s team earned first place at the Riverside Invitational and the men’s team came in fourth out of the eight teams in the same tournament. The teams also did well in their next tourna-
Joon Lee Sports Joonalism reason students apply to a school. Of course, I made the choice to come to Cornell, a school that has a relatively colorful athletic history especially in hockey, but it isn’t the same as it at many colleges around the country. This isn’t Duke, a both academically and athletically rigorous school, where you expect the basketball team to be prominent on the national stage every single year. That, however, wasn’t always the case in the Ivy League; the consortium of schools, after all; was initially formulated in 1936, when the schools decided to form a basketball conference and announced the partnership
onship, they did take the Ivy League title from 2008-10 and busted many brackets. The conference, overall, was regarded as one of highest-achieving athletic institutions. Beyond hockey, there is a history of championships and athletic achievement in the major sports at Cornell. If Ivy League schools can provide such amenities to prospective recruits, why isn’t the conference attracting more prominent talent? The only notable Ivy League alumni in basketball is Jeremy Lin; the NFL is littered with some Ivy League alumni who are See LEE page 11
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Goodbye 2014 | Despite the loss of many of last year’s seniors, such as long-jumper Steven Bell ’14, pictured above, Cornell has still seen success throughout the season.
ment, the Stanford Invitational, which occurred during spring break. Both squads will try to carry over the momentum into their next meets. The men’s team has the George Mason and Bucknell Invitationals coming up. The women’s team will just be participating in the Bucknell Invitational. The Bucknell Invitational will take place in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The Cornell women’s track and field team did very well in last season’s Bucknell Invitational, including three event wins, more than 25 Top-10 event finishers, eight ECAC qualifiers and five alterations to the school’s Top-10 lists. Last season, sophomore Kacie Hargett had a personal record of 148’7” for the javelin, which gave her the number two all-time spot at Cornell. Senior Eve Bishop cleared an 11’11 3/4” to place second in the pole vault, which moved her to the No. 6 alltime spot at Cornell. Other players such juniors Alexis Bartholomew and Linnea Fong as well as senior Jennifer Markin placed in See TRACK page 11
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Red Struggles on the Offensive, Drops 17 REMAINS TOUGH ON DEFENSE DESPITE EVIDENT TROUBLE AT BAT By SHANE LEWIS Sun Assistant Sports Editor
at sitting in third place for the team in on- improving base-percentage and batting average, bat. depenH o w e v e r , but leads the team in RBIs. dent on a Cornell will start its division play Cornell’s hitting must more consistent with a four-game series against Penn improve if it wants to offense,” Scorza said.“We startthis weekend. One weekend later, the beat either Harvard or ed swinging the bats better in he first half of the season Red will take on defending Ivy League Yale in a potential Ivy Florida and we look forward to hasn’t been the best stretch of champion Columbia in New York City. League championship building on that.” baseball for the Red. Cornell This will be the best indicator of just showdown. After its series against Columbia, dropped 17 of its first 25 where Cornell stands in the Ivy League. “Our success the Red will face the Princeton games and has only won consecutive Last season the Red was completely this season is Tigers in its last set of Ivy games for contests once against Yale. But that’s shut down by the Lions, failing to score going to the season. Cornell will finish the not to say the Red has not been com- a run in three of the four games. b e season with a pair of home matches petitive. However, Columbia is not as strong of against Canisius College on April a team as 29. These two games are not only last year, the last of the season, but will and the “Our success this season is going to be dependent on a also be the last two home games Red has a more consistent offense.” for the 2015 season. shot in its —Spencer Scorza m a t c h against them. Of its 17 losses, nine have been Overall, the Red has a decent shot to decided by one run. The most “impres- at least play for an Ivy League title. Its sive” of these losses came at the hands pitching squad has been the best in the of a Virginia team that was, at the time, conference and the team is conMONICA SUH / SUN CONTRIBUTOR the No. 1 team in the nation. stantly Pitch on point | Senior pitcher Kellen Urbon and the rest of the “So far, we’ve played in a lot of close, pitching staff for the Red have remained strong despite a tough season. one run games decided in late innings,” said senior designated hitter Spencer Scorza. “Although we have found ourBrian McAfee: All Jokes Aside selves on the losing end at times, I think we have become more comfortable playing in close games, which will help us during Ivy League play.” However, even at more than four games below .500, Cornell is not in last place in the Ivy League’s Lou Gehrig By JOON LEE dugout, McAfee would stroll through, thing that head coach Bill Walkenbach Sun Assistant Sports Editor division. Penn and Columbia both have high five his teammates and sit like has from McAfee since his freshman winning records, standing at 12-10 and nothing had happened. That calm, year, when the righty pitched like a 15-10 respectively, while Princeton has Brian McAfee likes to joke around. even-keeled nature, after all, is what veteran against Princeton and been struggling greatly, only winning The ace of the Cornell baseball team, got him to that point. It’s what got Dartmouth in the Ivy League tournafive of 25 games. Just a couple of weeks described as a prankster by rotation him back to the field after he pitched ment. The mental toughness that into conference play and Columbia and mate Nick Busto, once walked into through the sec- McAfee displayed on the mound with Penn both sport 7-1 records in league Collegetown Bagels with a lobster and a broken back placed the hurler in a play, with Cornell not far behind at 5began tossing it around, igniting the unique category of his own. 3. The Lou Gehrig division is still customers of the local eatery. After a “He’s dealing with, I don’t even winnable. couple of minutes of throwing the know what kind of level of pain, and The Red has been inconsistent lobster around, McAfee walked out, still pitching at an extremely high offensively for most of the season. The leaving the piece of crustacean on level over and over again,” team ranks second to last in the Ivy the ground. Walkenbach said. “He has the League in batting average, stands in Another time, outfielder JD ability to compartmentalize sixth place for runs scored and ranks at Whetsel recalls, McAfee went things and focus unlike anyone the bottom in hits. The squad has around the baseball team’s I’ve ever coached.” shown signs of improvement, however, house with a caulk gun and Scouts view McAfee as a particularly through its performance in glued things to the walls at 3 major league prospect. While the Russ Matt Invitational. The team a.m. These are some of the he’s currently committed to scored 23 runs over the course of four hijinks that the pitcher pulls Duke for a year of graduate games, almost double what it had off that raises the eyebrows of school, McAfee has the potenscored in the first six games of the seahis fellow teammates. tial to be drafted should he son. “It’s something I would declare for the draft following Pitching has clearly been the strong never even consider doing,” his senior season. suit for the team. The team ranks third Whetsel said. “That’s the kind of McAfee’s stellar start against in the Ivy League in terms of hits and stuff that he does.” the Cavaliers only further justifies runs allowed and fourth place for ERA. While McAfee doesn’t take hima potential decision to declare for The unit has held teams to three runs self seriously off the field, he is noththe draft after the season. or less 10 times this season. ing but professional when on the “It proved that my pitching strate“Our pitching staff will always keep mound. gy, my skill set, is able to compete at us in games,” senior infielder Kevin “He’s just a horse of a different the next level, which was exciting for Tatum said. “That’s not our problem. color,” Whetsel said. o n d me,” McAfee said. “It proves that I’ve We need to step up our hitting if we As McAfee stepped off the mound half of his sophomore season and the put the work in over the past 15 years want to start winning games.” in the seventh inning against No. 1 early part of his junior year with a bro- of my life at pitching. It proves to me Pitching standouts for the Red thus Virginia, he had more than held his ken back. McAfee steadily worked his that I’ve done what I needed to do to far have included seniors Brian McAfee own against the best collegiate team in way back into the weight room and, move on to the next level.” and Kellen Urbon, who rank first and the country. McAfee shut down the eventually, on the field. LEENA KULKARNI / SUN CONTRIBUTOR second in Ivy League ERA, respectiveCavaliers to the tune of seven strike“Every day I spent out just made ly. Urbon has 20 strikeouts while outs and no walks, not allowing a run- me that much more hungry to get Calm ball | Senior pitcher Brian McAfee’s McAfee has 28. Junior Michael Byrne ner to advance past second base. calm attitude on the mound has helped him back on the mound,” McAfee said. leads the team with 30 strikeouts. When he walked back to the That competitive nature is somefind success with the Red. Offensively, Tatum has had a solid start,
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Ivy ace | Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams have winning records on their seasons, although the men’s squad has struggled in league play.
Ivy League Strong By JESSIE BROFSKY Sun Staff Writer
One moment at a time. That’s how the Cornell men’s tennis team has been approaching every practice and every match, and it has been paying off. With 16 matches behind them, the men will face the remaining four with the same consistent strategy. The squad currently holds a record of 9-7. After losing its match against Princeton in mid-February, the Red’s ranking will determine whether or not it will get the opportunity to compete in the NCAA Championships. “I think this team is getting better every single practice and we are leaving every practice with a sense of accomplishment,” said head coach Silviu Tanasoiu. However, the women’s team has faced a completely different season. Cornell has played 14 matches but five have been cancelled due to poor weather conditions. The team enters its remaining matches with a record of 8-6. It is always a disadvantage to miss matches because they are missed chances for practice and improvement on the season. C o a c h Stevens has the squad “trying to recreate the competitive atmosphere during practice matches,” said junior Jane Stewart. She also noted that the team did not have all of the experience it wanted under its belt before entering into the Ivy Season. Despite this fact, the squad stands at 2-1 in league play. The men’s Ivy League has improved greatly within the past three years. This strength within the league is evident with two Red Ivy losses in addition to a loss against the Tigers at the ECAC Indoor Championships earlier this season. This improvement in the Ivies is a dramatic change, according to Tanasoiu. “This is the strongest year in the Ivy league in recent history,” Tanasoiu said. “We have all seven teams ranked in the Top-50.” The team has also played against four Big-10 schools this season. Coach Tanasoiu said that beating the University of Iowa and Penn State have been two of the team’s better wins this year. One of the most notable matches for the women came in a win against Yale at 4-0 for the first time since 1997 and a close loss to Brown. The men’s squad has shown consistent improvement throughout the season, which Tanasoiu said he attributes to the players’ attitudes and mindsets. “I think this team is getting better every single practice,” Tanasoiu said. “We are not looking far ahead and are trying to excel in the present.”
Women’s tennis earns its first win against Yale since 1997.
Connecticut, the University of Virginia and Giant Valley, an alumni team. The Cornell women’s and Similar to the women, the men’s polo teams have had men have also greatly strong seasons thus far. With improved over the course of their respective records — the the season. While the Red had men’s team standing at 15-3 a slow beginning to the season, and the women at 16-4 — it has seen many victories at the both teams won two matches a tail-end. The team understands piece at the one another’s USPA Regional weaknesses and Championships plays off each and will advance other’s strengths RECENT TEAM HIGHLIGHTS on to the on the field. National • Two wins at the USPA Regional Most of the Intercollegiate team’s matches Championships. Championships. have been very • Currently competing in Nationals. The women’s close, but the team started its Red has been season out on a able to keep up high note. The its high level of team won its first two matches against the Red three times play throughout every match, against the Maryland Polo before losing to this year’s allowing it perform well in its Club and Skidmore College. squad. The Red’s win in its recent slew of wins. The Red Though the squad lost its next most recent match at the also won its last match at the match against the University of Regional Championships is USPA Intercollegiate Regionals Virginia, the Red kept up its representative of a consistently with a final score of 1-0 against winning streak for the next five strong squad, as the team saw Skidmore College — a small matches, including wins similar results last season. margin, but a win nonetheless. against teams “I believe our team has Similar to the women’s from the team, the Cornell men have shown real growth this season, University of also had a successful season. especially with regards to our The squad competed in ability to play off each other’s matches that started out with unique abilities,” said freshman back-and-forth wins and losses, Kamran Pirasteh. “No one can but steadied as the season stop us this year if we continue went on. The team is cur- on our current path.” Both teams will finish up rently on a 10-match winning streak, including wins post-season play this weekend as they compete at the against teams from Yale USPA National University, West Shore, Championships in the University of Storrs, Connecticut.
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Massachusetts, University of Connecticut and Skidmore College. With back-and-forth play in most of its matches, the Red has won some tough matches this season. One highlight of the season came when Cornell beat the University of Virginia, a team that had saw victory
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Riding home | After successful seasons for both the men‘s and the women’s teams, Cornell polo closes its season this weekend.
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fter a long season spent Indoor ECAC Championships and indoors shielded from the broke a school record. “I think the pole vault group has harsh weather that winter brought this year, the Cornell been fantastic,” Bowman said. “That’s men’s and women’s track and field a really strong contingent of vaulters teams have just started their retreats that we have right now that are going to continue to do well outfrom Barton Hall to stretch their doors.” legs outdoors. The indoor Top Heps perforseason, which began in mances for the December, was full of women includtriumphs and downed freshman falls for both teams. Shannon “I think in genH u g a r d ’s eral the team has jump from done an amazlast place ing job over the to fifth in entire span of the season,” senior said Mina AmickAlexis, one of the four captains of the women’s track and field team. “Unfortunately for us, we didn’t have a great Ivy L e a g u e Championship to kind of showcase that, [but] people KELLY YANG / [were] doing SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER individually well at different times and it No. 1 Red | The women’s team really set us up took first at the Riverside Invitational well for the in California over spring break. outdoor season to kind of bring it together at her race. the right time.” “[Hugard] had a great Heps,” said The women’s team placed fifth at the Indoor Heptagonal senior Zena Kolliesuah, one of the Championships this season. While four captains of the women’s track and the Red also placed fifth at last sea- field team. “She’s a freshman on our son’s Indoor Heps, the team’s 75 team and during her race, she was sitpoint finish this season is still an ting in last place and she just found improvement on last year’s 54 point heart and finished in fifth. It’s inspirfinish. The men’s team was victorious ing to see her run. Being a freshman at last season’s Indoor Heps, but [and] just having that drive to keep failed to defend the Red’s title this working hard is great.” Both the men and the women are season. “After a devastating loss to confident that they will be able to Princeton by 63 points, we will be build on what they have been working taking that loss and using it to fuel on indoors in order to achieve better our motivation for the outdoor sea- results outdoors. Outdoor track and son,” senior men’s tri-captain field varies greatly from indoor comFrancisco Olloqui said. “We are look- petitions. The races are longer and there is a much wider ing to defend our outdoor title from variety of events last year, and we have the necessary included at each talent to do so.” meet. According to men’s head coach “The outdoor Nathan Taylor, the Red has been season is affected by numerous injuries this seaalways realson that have prevented the squad ly exciting from reaching its full potential. because “We had a number of key injuries that’s ‘real right at the most critical time,” he said. “Had we been able to avoid those we would have had more team success.” Despite the second place finish at CONNOR ARCHARD / Heps, sophomore Rudy Winkler put SUN SENIOR in a standout performance, breaking a PHOTOGRAPHER school record with a 68’ 0.5” hammer Hurdling over throw, earning him the title of MVP, hurt | The men’s according to Taylor. Junior tri-captain Max Hairston, squad has suffered senior tri-captain Stephen Mozia and numerous injuries sophomore Grant Sisserson have also this season at been key performers for the Red this critical times, season. All three hold Ivy League according to head records and Mozia and Sisserson went coach Nathan on to compete at the NCAA Indoor Taylor. Championships this season. Mozia finished 16th in the shot put. On the women’s side, the pole vaulters have shown particular promise, according to women’s head coach Richard Bowman. Senior Eve Bishop claimed victories in the pole vault at both the Indoor Heps and
track’,” Bowman said. “We get all of the real track and field events [that] we can’t have inside.” Outdoor track allows more of the Red’s specialty athletes to step up and compete, giving the Red the opportunity to showcase the full scope of its talent. “We’re more of a complete team once we get outdoors,” Amick-Alexis said. Both Bowman and Taylor said their squads include strong athletes for every event. “Looking forward, certainly one of the hallmarks of the Cornell team is that we have good athletes in almost
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its disappointing indoor Heps finish into the determination it needs to succeed outdoors. “We all have what it takes, we’re definitely a championship caliber team and obviously our issue was just not getting it together at the right time,” Amick-Alexis said. “So we’ve started to focus at this loss at the Heps as a huge motivator going into outdoor, knowing that we do have what it takes and we’re in a special situation to have that extra motivation to prove ourselves.” Senior Katie Woodford, one of the four captains of the women’s track and field team, said the squad has been approaching each practice with a purpose and taking things one step at a time. “I think a lot of people have been focusing on smaller goals and trying to keep their bigger goal still in the back of their minds,” she said. The challenge for both teams for the rest of the season is going to put all of their individual achievements together to score big for team. “The coach’s challenge is to get them all there [and] performing at their very very best on the right day,” Taylor said. Overall, the Red is aiming to stay in top form and keep a positive attitude at every competition. “As long as [we’re] healthy and enjoy what we’re doing, it’s going to be a great season,” Amick-Alexis said. Both squads most recently started their outdoor seasons by travelling to California. The men additionally competed in the Texas Relays before heading to the West Coast, where they qualified six for the IC4A.
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Finish Indoor Season Seeking More Wins By ARIEL COOPER Sun Senior Writer every event,” Taylor said. The Red’s main focuses for the outdoor season include the outdoor Heptagonal Championships and the NCAA Regional Championships, according to Olloqui. The men are looking to defend last season’s outdoor Heps title, while the women hope to improve on last season’s third place finish. “Compared to last year, we are off to a rough start,” Olloqui said. “We were plagued by injuries this indoor season, and were unable to defend our indoor title. However, it's not always about how you start the race but how you finish. We are all very optimistic for this outdoor season.” T h e women’s team is looki n g t o turn
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SENIOR LEADERSHIP ALSO TOP-NOTCH T By ADAM BRONFIN
“The face-off unit is unbelievable, one of the top in the nation,” he said, “We’re going to lean on them big time this season. [Massimilian] has been incredible for us. We didn’t he men’s lacrosse team is off to another strong start know what we’d get this season, but they’ve proved to be to its season with signs that the team’s best perfor- everything and more.” The strong performance at the face-off has been huge in mances are still to come. Ranked in the Top-10 in the country, Cornell has already played multiple making Cornell’s potent offense one of the best in the country. Donovan has led the Red in scoring thus far this season ranked teams and stands at 8-3 at the start of the season. Squaring off against the No. 1 team in the nation, with 31 goals. He also is in the lead in assists, just ahead of Cornell’s normally potent offense was held in check, scoring senior midfielder John Hogan. Donovan’s fellow captain and attackman, Lintner, has also been hugely important to the Red’s offense. Lintner tends to position himself “We always go as far as our leaders take to get near the goal and works open for a quick feed a n d us and this senior class is one of the best.” shoot. After starting slow, Lintner has 19 — Head Coach Matt Kerwick goals to his name this season. Buczek, another senior capjust six goals against Syracuse. Senior attackman Dan Lintner and Cornell’s current top scorer, fellow senior attackman tain, leads the squad at midfield. Matt Donovan, were both held scoreless throughout the After scoring 15 goals in the Red’s first four games, he’s game. The Red mustered just one goal in the first half. Bouncing back from the big loss to the Orange, Cornell cooled down, blew out Hobart 16-8, led by Donovan’s five goals and senior w i t h midfielder Connor Buczek’s second consecutive hat trick. Donovan and Buczek, both captains this season, combined for nine goals in the Red’s next game, a 17-10 victory over Binghamton. Traveling down to Texas, Cornell battled No. 11 Albany. The Red scored 10 goals in the first half and tacked on six more, defeating the Greyhounds, 16-9. Albany’s Lyle Thompson, the reigning Tewaaraton Trophy winner, was kept in check all game by senior defender Jordan Stevens. Cornell then traveled down to Charlottesville to take on No. 8 Virginia. After falling behind 15-9 with less than three minutes to play, t h e Red scored five straight goals to get the game within one with 34 seconds to play. Virginia, however, won the ensuing face-off and Cornell was unable to complete the c o m e back. The Red played yet another ranked opponent a week later as the team traveled to New Haven to play Yale. The No. 9 Bulldogs came into the match undefeated but a 9-2 Cornell run in the second half put them away. Due to adverse weather conditions, Cornell did not get a chance to play at home until March 17 against in-state rival j u s t Colgate. The string of games away from Schoellkopf and t h r e e indoor practices proved tough to start the season, but head t o t a l coach Matt Kerwick said he was confident that it would ben- goals in the next efit the team down the stretch. games. He currently “We knew we were going to be road warriors early this t h r e e ted. Buczek, the team’s season, but it’s going to help us, it’s going to pay dividends for has 24 netseason first team Allus. We’re learning a lot as a team and its always challenging lone preAmerican, looks to build on the success to play on the road,” he said. year when he was Ivy League The Red held an 8-4 lead in the third quarter only to from last the Year. watch Colgate score five straight across a period of 15 min- Player of Stevens is the fourth captain of utes to take a 9-8 lead. Lintner one-timed a ball into the cage According to Kerwick, to tie up the game and Donovan finished the game in over- the team. Stevens has played shutdown defense this year, consistently time with an isolation play from behind the net. A face-off win from sophomore Domenic Massimilian getting matched up against the opposing team’s best attackallowed the Red the gain first possession in the overtime peri- man. Night in and night out, Stevens has showed that he od. Massimilian has been stellar this season, winning face-offs deserves the first-team All-Ivy nod that he was honored with at a rate of .664, good for seventh in the nation. Though Buczek admits that the team didn’t quite know what to MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER expect from Massimilian, he said face-offs are one of the Scoring big | Senior attackman Matt Donovan, pictured team’s strongest aspects. above is the Red’s leading goal scorer so far this season. Sun Assistant Sports Editor
last year. Kerwick credits all of the seniors with the success that the Red has found so far. “I can’t give them enough credit, they do all the things well that we want them to,” he said. “We always go as far as our leaders take us, and this senior class is one of the best that I’ve been around.” Despite the team’s success early in the season, Buczek remains critical of the team’s performance as well as his own. “There are games that we thought we played well statistically, but we just didn’t finish the plays, we didn’t score the ball when we had a chance to and we didn’t get timely stop in certain situations,” he said. “Moving forward, we’re just trying to play a full 60 minutes, where, top-to-bottom, no matter what the situation is, we’re finishing the plays and we’re finishing our opportunities and making the best of all 60 minutes.” In terms of league play, the Red has already faced Penn, Dartmouth and Harvard. Cornell was able to notch wins against the Quakers and the Green, but fell to the Crimson most recently on Saturday by one point. Across the rest of the season, Cornell has two other Ivy League teams on the schedule. As far as out of conference games, the Red gets two easier games against Hofstra and just recently won against Canisius College. While the team will likely contend for an Ivy League championship and possibly a National Championship as well, the players maintain that they’re focused on whomever’s up next. The team keeps its sights set firmly on the next practice and the next game. Stevens said the hardest game is whichever school Cornell plays next. But like any new season, there’s optimism in the air. Kerwick said he’s looking forward to seeing the progress of the team. “We’re very excited about this group,” Kerwick said. “They’ve worked awfully hard throughout the year to be a part of this. The team is working extremely hard, representing the school very well and we’re playing some great lacrosse. We’re excited to continue to develop as a team with each week and each contest. Hopefully, we’ll be playing our best lacrosse down the stretch.”
MEN’S LACROSSE PLAYERS TO WATCH MATT
DONOVAN Senior attackman Matt Donovan has been a crucial part of the Red’s offensive unit this season, and has done so since his freshman season. He was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2012 and has won other league awards and Honorable Mention All-Ivy since then.
CONNOR BUCZEK The 2014 First-Team AllAmerican senior midfielder currently has the second most goals for the Red this season, right behind Donovan. The Cincinnati native has been starting in games since his sophomore year and has since been an integral member of the Red’s midfield.