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Wolfowitz’65 Speaks About Iraq War Critics By EMMA COURT Sun Staff Writer
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Ithaca native Bordoni sustained fatal injuries in Afghanistan By CHRISTA NIANIATUS Sun Staff Writer
U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Christopher D. Bordoni, a 2008 graduate of Ithaca High School, was just two weeks away from returning home from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan when
he sustained fatal injuries from a suicide bomber on a motorcycle. Throughout the week, 21-year-old Bordoni was remembered and honored by family, friends and community members as a young man who embodSee MARINE page 4
Paul Wolfowitz ’65 assailed those who said President George Bush lied about the War in Iraq in a speech at Cornell on Thursday. “I really do believe a lot of damage was done to our country and to our position in the world by a line of irresponsible criticism of the War in Iraq,” said Wolfowitz, who is widely considered the chief architect of the war. While Wolfowitz acknowledged that some criticism of the war was legitimate, he excoriated those who maintained that Bush deliberately misled the American people. The deputy secretary of defense from 2001 to 2005 under President George Bush and the president of the World Bank from 2005 to 2007, Wolfowitz also said that Americans must be vigilant in remedying the world’s wrongs. “We can’t afford to leave the world alone,” Wolfowitz said. “You say, ‘It’s none of our business; let the world take care of
itself.’ But it’s not going to.” Opponents of the Iraq war have vilified Wolfowitz for, they say, his gross underestimation the difficulties the American invasion posed. Since war was declared, the county has been torn by sectarian violence, nearly 5,000 American service people have died and thousands more Iraqi civilians have lost their lives, families and homes. While recognizing that the wars in Af ghanistan and Iraq l e d Americans to question their role in the world, Wolfowitz WOLFOWITZ ’65 warned that people “take that questioning much too far.” “[I] understand why nobody wants another Iraq, but not everything is another Iraq or Afghanistan,” Wolfowitz said. Still, he emphasized the necessity of taking pride in America’s foreign policy accomSee WOLFOWITZ page 5
NYC Official Will Oversee Building of Tech Campus
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recent significant project in Sun Staff Writer the city,” Vice President of CornellNYC Tech Cathy With several notable pro- Dove said in an email. “We jects already under his belt, are thrilled to have someone Andrew C. Winters, found- of his caliber on our team.” ing director of New York Winters will be responsiCity Mayor Michael ble for overseeing the planBloomberg’s Office of ning and construction of Capital Project Dev- the campus, which is expected to consist of more than two “We are thrilled to have million square feet by its projected date someone of [Winter’s] of completion in caliber on our team.” 2037, according to a University press Cathy Dove r e l e a s e . Additionally, as a net-zero energy elopment, will lead the technology hub, the tech development of Cornell’s campus will have more than New York City tech cam- 700,000 square feet of pus, the University an - building space. nounced Thursday. Winters’ This space is expected to has worked on the New achieve at least a silver York City High Line –– an Leadership in Energy and elevated linear park on the Environmental Design rating, lower West Side –– and the according to the press release. reconstruction of Lower The LEED rating, which is Manhattan. administered by the U.S. “[Winters] has tremen- Green Building Council, will dous experience and has led or been involved in every See TECH CAMPUS page 5
Weeding Out
The Hydrilla Task Force discussed plans Thursday to eliminate a dangerous plant from Cayuga Inlet. | Page 3
Flair for Business
Students will have the opportunity to develop their entrepreneurial skills in the newly-opened PopShop. | Page 3
Opinion LUKE SHARRETT / THE NEW YORK TIMES
Blame Game
Lynah Rink on April 19, five days before the New York State Republican primary.
Jonathan Panter ’12 discusses the importance of taking responsibility for one’s actions.
Ron Paul Will Speak at Lynah
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Ron Paul faithful | Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will speak at
By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor
Ron Paul is hoping a different kind of faithful will be drawn to Lynah on April 19, when the Republican presidential candidate will speak at the repurposed Cornell rink. Cornell Republicans Chair Raj Kannappan ’13 confirmed Thursday that Paul, whose libertarian nonconformity has
drawn the adoration of college students nationwide, will hold a town-hall style forum at the University five days before New York State’s Republican primary. The announcement came the same day a poll from Rasmussen Reports found that Paul would hold a onepoint edge over President Barak Obama, 44 percent to 43 percent, in a general
election contest. Paul, 72, is planning to attend rallies on 30 college campuses nationwide, according to The New York Times. Far behind the delegate count of presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, Paul “remains mostly an afterthought, electorally — a candidate pushing a message more than a candidacy,” See PAUL page 4
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From the Heart
The Sun praises Aurora Guerrero’s film as genuine and realistic. | Page 8
Sports Home Field Advantage
The baseball team prepares to face off against Columbia this weekend at Hoy Field. | Page 20
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Opinion, “Bring Cornell to the World, But Electively” Wednesday
Shakespeare: Battle of the Sexes 4:30 p.m., Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Colombian Economy in a Changing World: Present and Future 4:45 - 5:45 p.m., 233 Plant Science
Speaking about President Skorton’s plan to increase students’ international experiences The promotion of international experiences is well-intended but ignores financial implications, the disparate nature of Cornell Abroad programs and the benefits of spending eight semesters on Cornell’s campus. Jon Weinberg ’13
Science, “At C.U Obama Official Lectures on Science for Energy,” Wednesday
A Night at Hogwarts 5 - 7 p.m., Risley Hall
Speaking during a lecture entitled “Science for Energy” on April 2 “We need to do some drastic things, otherwise, we’re going to have New York City underwater.”
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News, “Students Mull Methods to Curb Alcohol Abuse,” Tuesday
Design Tactics and the Informalized City 8:30 a.m - 6:30 p.m., Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall
Speaking about student led efforts to combat high-risk drinking “It is interesting to examine the social culture of different schools. It places a lot of what we are doing in context with the larger college drinking problem” John Mueller ’13, at-large Student Assembly representative
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News, “City on Pace for Record Low Snowfall,’” Monday
Science and Engineering Fair Noon - 4 p.m., Engineering Quad
Speaking about the lightest snowfall in Ithaca’s recorded history “We cannot attribute this winter to global warming however, this winter is typical of the type of winters we expect to see in the next 50 years due to global warming,”
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Herbicides ‘Only Choice’ in Tackling Hydrilla, Experts Say By SOPHIE LIN Sun Staff Writer
In conjunction with Cornell Plantations, a panel of local environmental experts led a discussion on Thursday to update community members on current efforts to combat hydrilla –– an invasive weed that is threatening the survival of other species in local waters by both blocking their access to sunlight and removing oxygen from the water. First spotted last August in the Cayuga Inlet, hydrilla is suspected to have been introduced to Ithaca’s waters by cross-water contamination from an unknown source and is now threatening to spread deeper into the Great Lakes’ water networks. Identified by its toothy leaves, the aquatic weed is known for its resistance to eradication measures due to the resilient, underground part of its stem. In one of the first effective measures to contain the invasive species, the inlet was closed off to boaters in October, according to Roxy Johnson, the City of Ithaca watershed coordinator. According to Johnston, hydrilla was observed in 2011 to be spreading in the waters around the Farmers Market, Cascadilla Creek and the Cornell Crew Boathouse, among other locations. After confirming the spread of hydrilla in areas around the Inlet, the Department of Ecological Conservation allocated $800,000 for measures to protect Ithaca’s ecosystem from invasive species. Early in its response, the Hydrilla Task Force –– the pri-
mary action group formed to combat the ecological crisis –– emphasized that pesticide would only be used in limited circumstances. However, an unsuccessful attempt in October to send divers to manually remove the aquatic plant through specialized vacuum tubes is suspected to have worsened the situation by allowing the hydrilla to further propagate. According to Johnston, after the ineffective efforts to manually remove the material, there is “only one choice left,” which is the use of herbicides, namely Fluridon. “We are expecting an herbicide treatment maybe sometime mid-May to mid-June,” said Sharon Anderson, a member of the Hydrilla Task Force. During the event, the panel assuaged fears of human health dangers of Fluridon, citing successful results in the handling of hydrilla in other states. However, the panel stressed the importance of funding to fully research the specific impacts of both the hydrilla and herbicide on Ithaca’s ecosystem. “This is probably an eight-year battle. The timeline to try to eradicate this is long,” Anderson said. “We’ll be trying to monitor [the hydrilla] all throughout this summer and throughout this fall … For all we know, last year, it could have gotten into Seneca Lake.” Anderson explained the rapid spread of hydrilla. “[Johnston] used the analogy of cancer,” Anderson said. “You have cancer, you treat it, you hopefully get it, but you always keep looking and testing if it comes back.
Student Entrepreneurs Set Up Shop By TAJWAR MAZHAR Sun Staff Writer
The PopShop, a student-run space for Cornellians to gather for entrepreneurial collaboration and free popcorn, opened this week on Dryden Avenue in Collegetown. The shop, sponsored by Entrepreneurship@Cornell — a University initiative designed to entrepreneurship promote across all colleges and departments — was founded by a team of students with the motto “stop by, start up” and the vision of helping students turn their ideas into companies. “Cornell is great in that it has seven undergraduate colleges and that there are smart people in all of them,” said Jeremy Blum ’12, one of the shop’s founders. “However, the coordination between them isn’t as great as it could be, especially when it comes to entrepreneurship.” The shop’s narrow, 1,100 square feet — which Jesse McElwain ’13, one of the shop’s founders, called an “awkward space” — allows for a low rent on a monthly basis. The walls sport magazines and shelves of books, ranging from tech digests to Steve Jobs biographies, for inspiration. There is a table with a whiteboard surface covered in writing in the center of the room and a drop-down screen for presentation in the back. The PopShop also offers free popcorn for students to snack on while they work –– a feature referenced by the shop’s name. McElwain said the idea for the PopShop originated in February at the start-up career fair, after a conversation with John Jaquette, director of entreat Cornell. preneurship Following the announcement of the tech campus, he and Jaquette determined there was an increased interest in startups among students, McElwain said. “It became really clear that we wanted to work together to
make sure that we could bring together the students’ own ambitions and motivations into the limelight to say that this is really important and this is something we can be really good at –– and we are good at it,” McElwain said. He added that after speaking with students at Cornell, he found a consensus that there was no ideal space to foster collaboration on entrepreneurial projects between students in different disciplines. “What they were really looking for is a space where people all across campus, from all different disciplines, can come together” not just to talk about problems, but to actually solve them, McElwain said. A central goal of the PopShop is to change the way that people think about issues, moving from theoretical thinking to practical applications, according to Dylan Pancer ’12, another founder of the shop. “The proposition that this space makes is that whatever you’re interested in, whatever you’re passionate about can be the basis of a new project, a new business, a new company,” Pancer said. “Often those projects can be the tools that are the most … immediate way to make change.” James Muna ’12 said he is using the space to further Bora Wear, the apparel company he
started in November. Proceeds from the apparel line will go toward an orphanage in Kenya for HIV-positive children. Originally from Kenya, Muna said he hopes that his business will ultimately employ people from the country to generate economic opportunities. He added that the environment of PopShop has been beneficial in developing his brand. “I ran into another guy who is doing something similar with African fabrics and laptop cases,” Muna said. Blum said he has enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with fellow students in the Popshop. “I’ve been interacting almost exclusively with people I don’t interact with on a daily basis, people that are not engineers,” Blum said. “Working with that wide range of people has been really great.” Pancer said the team plans to hold events, such as dinners and seminars, to draw more students to the space and encourage expanded participation in what he said was an initiative that is unique to Cornell. “Surely, people are having conversations like this on college campuses everywhere, but by positioning it here, there is a mechanism to actually act,” Pancer said. Tajwar Mazhar can be reached at tmazhar@cornellsun.com.
Hydrilla will be like that.” Additionally, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 stressed hydrilla’s disastrous ecological consequences. “We can’t allow this thing to keep growing,” he said. “The future is at stake.” Along with environmental procedures by the local agencies to control the infestation with herbicide, the panel highlighted proposed measures to engage the entire community in the effort. These efforts will include workshops to train individuals to spot hydrilla and 12 boat stewards to educate boaters in the lake. Johnston stressed the need to “tell every individual possible” about hydrilla. Additionally, a group of Cornell students enrolled in an independent study communications class are working with the task force on a strategy to tackle the hydrilla project. “I’m really thrilled with their involvement,” said Anderson, who works to involve Cornell students in various environmental projects in the community, including the hydrilla project. Johnston emphasized the importance of the task force’s efforts. “We are the gateway to the Great Lakes, so it is important that we win the battle,” Johnston said. Sophie Lin can be reached at slin@cornellsun.com.
Me llamo llama
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As part of an event held by the Association of Peruvians at Cornell, students pet a llama on Ho Plaza Thursday.
Rick Santorum ended his quixotic bid for the presidency on Tuesday. During the campign, he earned the respect and criticism of many along the way. How will he use his newfound fame? “Getting on the Kiss Cam at Phillies games.” — And Then He Kissed Me ’13 “Rick Santorum has like 20 kids. I have a hard time believing he’d pull out of anything.” — Snark Attack ’14 “I heard he’s headlining Filthy/Gorgeous next year.” — Jealous Slope Day Programmer ’14 “He’ll end up on Fox. Definitely Fox.”
— Realist ’13
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Creative space | The recently-opened PopShop on Dryden Avenue provides students to develop their entrepreneurial talents.
— Compiled by Dan Temel
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Slain Ithaca Marine Commemorated by Community MARINE
“It was the biggest thing I’ve ever seen come out of this community,” said Ithaca resident Mike Babbitt. “It was incredible. Everyone just came out in full force.” On Tuesday, a train of Bordoni’s family, law enforceied the values of the Marine Corps. “We saw him grow up his whole life,” said Peter ment officers, firefighters, officials from the New York Massicci, a close friend of Bordoni’s father. “He was a very State Department of Environmental Conservation and athletic kid that excelled at things; when he put his mind members of the Patriot Guard –– as well as other commuto something, he did it, and he did it full boar. It’s just the nity members that joined along the way –– accompanied Bordoni’s body from the Syracuse Airport to his Ithaca kind of kid he was.” According to Massicci’s wife, Nancy, until they received home, according to Julie Holcomb, Ithaca city clerk. Van Benschoten, who participated in the motorcade, news of his injury, Bordoni’s family had been eagerly makadmitted it was difficult for him and the other firemen to ing plans for his return. keep their composure in the Another family friend, face of such a strong showing Andrew Stern, spoke to “He was a true Marine ... He had every by the community. Bordoni’s dedication to the “We saw on Route 81, in Corps. Bordoni was a member attribute the Corps has.” the northbound lane, a man of Bravo Company, 1st Stern Andrew who could barely walk,” Van Battalion, 6th Marines. Benschoten said. “He stopped “I talked to [Chris] after his car and stood at attention. his first tour,” Stern said. “He was a true Marine: the pride, the professionalism, the com- It was incredibly moving.” According to The Ithaca Journal, the crowd that had mitment to the duty of the Corps. He had every attribute gathered outside of Bangs Funeral Home fell silent upon the Corps has. He walked it, he talked it, he lived it.” Friends said that Bordoni had long dreamed of becom- the motorcade’s arrival. On Wednesday, community members and friends gathing a Marine. Ithaca assistant fire chief Guy J. Van Benschoten recalled a conversation in which he asked ered to express their condolences to the Bordoni family at Bordoni’s father about his son’s plans for after high school. Immaculate Conception Church on North Geneva Street. “I don’t know if you noticed,” said Ithaca resident “Tim told me ‘he wants to be a Marine,’ not ‘join the service’ or ‘join the military,’” Van Benschoten said. “He Vinny Giordano, “but most people at funerals, they walk wanted to be a Marine and to be the best possible Marine.” in and walk out. These people walk in and they stay.” By that afternoon, the line waiting to enter the church The news of Bordoni’s death deeply affected Ithaca and the surrounding communities. There was an outpouring stretched far down the street, as community members of support, with a motorcade returning Bordoni’s body to poured in. “I think you’re going to see tonight that crowd will just his family this Tuesday. Community members commented on the unprece- get bigger and bigger to come and pay their respects,” said Ithaca resident Charles Heath. “The ultimate thing is to dented size and scope of this week’s memorial events. Continued from page 1
give your life, and we’re very proud of him and his family.” Outside the church, members of the Patriot Guard stood at attention holding American flags. “Their job is to stay with the family and protect the family for all military funerals,” Holcomb said. Flowers adorned the sanctuary located near the entrance of the church. To the left of the flag-draped casket was a portrait of Bordoni; behind it, the U.S. Marine Corps flag and the U.S. flag were displayed. Two Marines stood guard on either side of the casket at all times. As mourners returned to Immaculate Conception Church on Thursday morning for Bordoni’s funeral, the line to enter again wrapped around the block. As about 60 members of Bordoni’s company entered the church, the crowd clapped as they passed by. The church was filled to capacity, with several people standing along the walls when seats were no longer available. “There wasn’t a dry eye in the house, including mine,” said Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09. Family and friends then proceeded to a private ceremony at Calvary Cemetery. A 21-gun salute was fired and the flag, meticulously folded 12 times, was presented to Bordoni’s widow Jessica, with the stars of the flag pointing toward the sky. Performing these traditions throughout the funeral services was an honor for the Marines in Bordoni’s company, according to Staff Sergeant Jonathon Parsons. “To us, every Marine is a brother,” Parsons said. “[Bordoni] went to war with us, and we are going to bring him [home].” Christa Nianiatus can be reached at cnianiatus@cornellsun.com.
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according to The Times. A petition started by the Cornell Republicans to bring Paul to campus garnered about 1,500 student names, according to Kannappan. “He draws huge crowds at every university he goes to. It just makes perfect sense to bring him to campus,” Kannappan said. Speaking to a crowd in Fort Worth this week, the Texas Congressman affirmed that he has no plans to exit the race, even after Romney’s most plausible contender, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, suspended his campaign Tuesday. “They ask me if I’m going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change,” Paul said, according to The Miami Herald. Kannappan said that it was this quality of Paul’s — his occasionally dyspeptic scorn for the status quo — that had elicited such fervent support among youth activists. “A lot of college students are disillusioned with politics in general, and he’s bringing something different to the table,” Kannappan said. “He speaks from the heart.” Jeff Stein can be reached at jstein@cornellsun.com.
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conservation as well as the sustainability of the materials and practices used in its construction. The University has announced plans to begin construction in 2014 and to open the campus’ first building in 2017. According to Dove, Winters’ work for the city will not “change the role of the city in our project at all.” “[Winters] will be employed by Cornell,” she said. “We will continue to work closely with the city as we were before.” Robert K. Steel, New York City deputy mayor for economic development, echoed Dove’s sentiment. “It has been a privilege to work with [Winters], and I am confident that [he] will bring the same vision, talent and energy that he brought to the Bloomberg administration to Cornell and Roosevelt Island,” he said in the press release. Winters said he is excited to begin his position at Cornell. “The CornellNYC Tech campus has captured the imagination of New Yorkers as a way to elevate our position in the world of technology and to provide a promising new direction for the city’s economy,” he said in the press release. “It will be very exciting to work on such an important project in the service of a world-class institution like Cornell.” Winters will begin his new position in May. According to the press release, he has worked for Bloomberg on projects worth almost $2 billion in public investments, several of which have won awards for their design and innovation. Some of Winters’ past projects include the revitalization of Coney Island and the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Additionally, prior to working for Bloomberg, Winters was the vice president for planning, design and development at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, a company was created after the Sept. 11 attacks in an effort to rebuild and develop the affected neighborhood. “Winters led the planning and execution of many of Mayor Bloomberg’s most important and lasting economic development projects, and we are thrilled that Cornell has chosen him to help lead the implementation of one of the most ambitious economic development initiatives anywhere in the world,” Steel said in the press release.
leadership role in a new and powerful world, even though other countries will catch up to us, in relative and even absolute terms,” Wolfowitz said. “We won’t be able to play a role if we don’t restore the dynamism and innovation that characterizes our economy.” Before the lecture, Cornell Republicans Chair Raj Kannappan ’13 said in an email that Cornellians could benefit from Wolfowitz’s talk, despite their likely political differences. “The vast majority of faculty members in the social sciences — and students too — at Cornell
plishments. “It’s important for Americans to take credit for what we’ve done so we have the self-confidence to face the future,” Wolfowitz. Though Wolfowitz is widely acknowledged to be a neoconservative, he said he held different political views during his years in Ithaca. “I was a Democrat when I was growing up here and when I was here at Cornell,” Wolfowitz said. “Back then, Ithaca and Tompkins County were Republican territory. Things “It is critical that the U.S. continue to have changed since then.” Wolfowitz emphasized the uncertainty play a leadership role in a new and that foreign affairs developments lent his powerful world.” college years. “October marks the 50th anniversary Paul Wolfowitz ’65 of an event I remember clearly from my sophomore year of Cornell,” Wolfowitz said. “During the Cuban Missile Crisis ... for are either left-of-center or moderate when it almost a week we all lived in fear. The U.S.-Soviet comes to politics,” Kannappan said. “Wolfowitz confrontation raised the possibility that civiliza- will provide a bold and coherent conservative outlook on the world and how America should protion as we knew it might be destroyed.” Wolfowitz spoke about the political and eco- ceed in order to secure its national interests ... nomic developments the world has undergone Whether Cornellians agree or disagree with him, since his years in college. He discussed the expan- they will surely learn something about the world.” Wolfowitz alluded to the political differences sion of democracy in Asia, Latin America and Africa, and the way economic growth has expand- between him and his audience, but suggested that this is simply a part of the Cornell experience. ed beyond Anglo-Saxon countries. “Cornell is committed to diversity and the “In the 1980s there was enormous pessimism about the prospects of the developing world,” motto, ‘I would found an institution where any Wolfowitz said. “But we don’t hear too much person can find instruction in any study,’” Wolfowitz said. “Cornell has a commitment to about that anymore.” Wolfowitz said that American leadership intellectual diversity ... diversity of ideas is the played a key role in these world developments, greatest source of creativity and innovation.” and that America must continue to play an active role in foreign affairs. The News Department can be reached at “It is critical that the U.S. continue to play a news-editor@cornellsun.com.
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ost Americans cope with the tumultuous consequences of the 2008 financial crisis by seething over movies like Too Big to Fail (2011) and Inside Job (2010). While movies do a good job derailing Wall Street and U.S. Government and promoting such backlash as America’s current Occupy Wall Street movement and the “government is taking over” mantras, they neglect to show the solutions America needs to revitalize the
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A call to end the fraternity system To the Editor: Re: “When a Hazing Goes Very Wrong,” The New York Times, April 12 Finally, the New York Times has done what The Sun has never produced: indepth coverage of a hazing incident, holding the guilty parties accountable for their actions and describing — in gripping detail — the night a series of irresponsible decisions resulted in death. The 3200-word magazine story began with kidnapped frat boys bound with zip ties being fed alcohol. It ended at a morgue. Many hazing incidents occurred during my four years on East Hill. Some resulted in chapters closing their doors, but none led to any sort of revolutionary change in greek life and the way Cornell deals with fraternity chapters. Many will blame hazing deaths on alcohol and quickly point out that underage drinking occurs well beyond the Greek system. This is certainly true. But it takes a particularly strong brand of daftness to dismiss the potent groupthink that occurs in a house of 40 self-selected jocular males as a necessary element in these lethal incidents. If Cornell wishes to curb hazing, it must recognize the merits of diverse, co-ed housing, where the aggressive and risk-prone are balanced by the timid and thoughtful. This is the whole point of college — putting a diverse set of bright, young students together to learn from one another. The Greek system is at best an impediment to this process. At worst, it destroys lives. Munier Salem ’10 Former member of The Sun editorial board
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economy and move forward. The economic downturn has led to a weakened labor market and shifts in government spending (largely cuts in state funding). As a consequence of these woes, more students have turned to college and confront an increasingly staggering student loan debt. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency created during the financial crisis, found that student loan debt surpassed $1 trillion late last year and is on the rise. Just to get a sense of what young students are facing, a public fouryear university costs on average $21,000 per year and a four-year private university averages $36,000 per year. Two-thirds of the graduating class of 2010 owed an average of $25,000 and more than a quarter of them are already falling behind on their payments. How does this affect our future economy? Most argue that education is a great investment because it allows you to attain those higher-paying jobs and offset student loans in the long run. The issue is that those “higher-paying” jobs are often misleading and remain held hostage by the very people the backlash crowd so fervently opposes. Rather, as more people head to college due to the recession and assume larger loans, they may not all find the lavish careers to offset their high student loan debt. Consequently, graduates in their 20’s find themselves straddled with debt and unable to make their first housing downpayment, get married or qualify for mortgages, further slowing the growth of our economy and society. When I attended a Harvard Business School (HBS) event a few months back, I spoke around this issue of student loan debt. I pitched the need for more programs to alleviate student loan debt and propel our society forward because, with those debt constraints loosened, students will have a greater ability to pursue their professional, and even domestic, goals. I expected such a pitch to be warmly welcomed by a group of driven and ambitious students that were more than likely currently accumulating their own student debt at HBS. Instead, a round of murmuring disagree-
done right alleviating student loan debt can work well to hedge against this irresponsibility. A proper student-loan alleviation program should not guarantee a full-repayment of the loan, but facilitate a networking and a marketing space where students can advocate for their strengths, abilities and interests to respectfully earn donations towards alleviating their debt. The model needs to be designed as a reward system — not a risk-sharing system — for those who work hard and wish to achieve high. It is crucial then that we distinguish financial responsibility from financial burden. Financial responsibility for a student is good and it helps a student grow. Financial burden, however, happens when unnecessary and unprecedented expectations, such as the rising cost of tuition, are placed on students who have the least access to financial support relative to their peers. It is financially responsible to begin a donationfacilitation platform that shares the weight of this burden while also leveling out the playing field for all students, regardless of socioeconomic background. The term “moral” in moral hazard refers to an individual’s disregard for the moral implications of his or her choice in that he or she will choose a riskier option, when he or she has the incentive to do so, that is more beneficial to him or her but inherently inefficient for society as a whole. However, a correctly targeted student-loan amelioration model does not have to compromise the moral of a student’s action. Instead, the program can be used to incentivize students to become more financially efficient, and therefore less morally hazardous, by eliminating society’s riskier choice. The riskier option is allowing indebted students to enter the labor force with high debt that not only could lead to long-term financial instability, defaults and even bankruptcy, but also depression, low-psychological morale and an inevitable increasing burden on our federal government.
Sara Cullen is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She may be reached at skc42@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.
CORRECTION A news story Thursday, “Faculty Criticize New Calendar Plan,” incorrectly attributed a quote to Prof. David Delchamps, electrical and computer engineering. In fact, the statement was made by Prof. Jack Freed, chemistry and chemical biology.
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Lessons to Be Learned I
’ve done a lot of dumb things in my life. Probably one of the dumbest was the time I strolled through Hezbollah territory in Beirut, just to see what it was like. It was definitely a dangerous mistake to go there, since Hezbollah frequently kidnaps foreigners. But I’d probably go back again, because it was a fascinating place — and, since I escaped untouched, I did-
day, walking on the beach, I found little canisters that had washed up from the display. Some had remnants of gunpowder in them, so I pocketed them without my parents’ knowledge. Back at home, I emptied the canisters onto a piece of newspaper and let the gunpowder dry out. Later, trying to ignite it, I thrust a lighter into the middle of the pile — and within two
Jonathan Panter The Storyteller n’t learn my lesson. We all do dumb things — for fun, thrills, on impulse or out of desperation. What’s hard to understand is why we do the same dumb things over and over, even though we know they’re risky. Often we don’t learn our lesson until we suffer the consequences. I remember a time that I almost lost my hand in a gunpowder explosion. When I was maybe 12 or so, I loved fireworks and played with any I could get my hands on. One year, my family went to Disneyworld and we watched a fireworks display that was launched from a barge on a little inlet. The next
seconds, was thrown backward by a three-foot diameter fireball. I didn’t realize what had happened to my hand until I looked down at it. The explosion had blown the skin and nails off three of my fingers. Without my father’s prompt medical attention, I would probably be skillfully typing this story with a pinky, ring-finger and stumps. I never played with fireworks again. To this day they still frighten me. It took that horrifying moment, and that gruesome injury, for me to develop a healthy fear of explosives. The dozens of risks I had taken before that inci-
dent, in which I didn’t get hurt, taught me nothing. It was only from fear and pain that I finally learned. So we all do dumb things, but at least sometimes we learn something from the experience. The real tragedy is when it is too late to learn, when the damage is permanent, when someone dies from his mistake. In those horrible cases, we as friends, relatives and bystanders cannot see any silver lining in the episode. The “lesson” came too late; it wasn’t fair. We don’t even want to admit that there was a lesson, since then we are blaming the victim. We are saying he made a mistake — and what does that accomplish? He’s dead anyway. And because our loved one is not around to learn his lesson, we play the “blame game,” to find comfort somehow, to rationalize the irrational. It’s not compassionate to place responsibility upon one who cannot admit his error, so we look elsewhere for a lesson from the tragedy. We blame the environment in which the tragedy occurred. It’s all so terribly sad. Sad for the students, whose lives were cut off during their prime, and sad for the parents, who are left only with photographs where a human being once was. So whose fault is it? Whose fault was my accident with the fireworks? Well, it wasn’t the gunpowder’s fault, that’s for sure. Maybe it was my parents’ fault, for not stopping
me from getting the gunpowder. But they didn’t know I snatched it off the beach and they couldn’t search my room constantly. Maybe it was Disney’s fault, that some of the fireworks malfunctioned and left gunpowder residue. Better yet, maybe it was the government’s fault, for not passing a law to prevent companies like Disney from allowing fireworks to malfunction. But the truth is that I got burned because I played with fire. Thank God my injury was not worse — but if it had been, the blame would still be mine. To be sure, people do not live in a vacuum — we are all somewhat products of our surroundings and culture — but culture does not coercion make. It’s tough to be wrong, and it feels crass to blame a victim. But if we take blame out of the hands of individuals and relegate it to an environment then we deny free will. Because in the end, we are all parts of a larger environment, and if you can use that environment to absolve a mistake, then you can use it to absolve a crime. And in that world, that dangerous territory, there are no “lessons to be learned,” not even for those who survive to learn them. Jonathan Panter is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jpanter@cornellsun.com. The Storyteller appears alternate Fridays this semester.
The Benefit of Gaining Experience Before Committing to a Career I
was talking to my brother Joe the other day about graduation, his and mine. You see, in May, Joe, his twin sister Jackie and I will all be graduating: Joe and Jackie from college and I from law school. Jackie’s got it all figured out; she has known since day one of college what she wanted to do when she got out and has gone after it. Joe, like many college students, is unsure of where he wants to go next in his life. He is filled with inspiring words he has heard over his 16 years of formal education and ready to put those words into action, but he isn’t sure how. And I know how he feels. Seven years ago I was in the exact same position and the choice I made led me here, to Cornell Law School. As a government major at my college I knew that I was interested in the law and in politics, but I wasn’t ready to commit three years of my life (and a hefty amount of debt!) without being sure that law school was the right decision for me. As my time here at Cornell Law winds down, I know now that I made the right choice and that I owe it to my experience in AmeriCorps. Through the AmeriCorps program, I worked at a legal aid office in southeastern Massachusetts, splitting my time between two departments. I did some community outreach and organizing around educational issues, and I assisted the housing attorney with her caseload. The housing work was particularly interesting (and relevant to this column) because it gave me some realworld insight into what it was like to be a lawyer. After some training, my supervisor would hand me a file and the case would be mine and so would the opportunity to make a difference. In the housing department, the bulk of the cases I worked on involved clients who had applied for public housing assistance, whose applications the local housing authority denied and who sought to challenge the denial. Often times the housing authority based these denials on a person’s prior criminal history without looking more carefully at the situation. Sometimes a charge might be something minor or unrelated to being a good tenant; sometimes the conviction would be quite
old or the charge was actually dismissed; and sometimes the client would have taken steps in the meantime to address the issue. The best part of working on these cases was that a law degree wasn’t required, at least at the early stages. So, after I was trained, my supervisor would hand me an intake file, say “I think you can handle this one” and leave me to work. I would handle the entire case, interviewing the client, researching the relevant issues, drafting demand letters, negotiating with the other party and ultimately arguing for my client. Even though it was an administrative proceeding and not an actual court proceeding (so there were far less evidentiary or procedural formalities), I got a taste of what it was like to craft arguments and apply law to facts to further my clients’ claims. I even won a positive result for a few of the clients, which was a great feeling. I tell this story, though it probably stretches to the outer bounds of “Barely Legal,” for two reasons. The first is to suggest that for many college graduates, working for a year or two (or in my case, four) between college and graduate or professional school is a good idea. Taking four years off between undergrad and law school gave me some great advantages. As a practical matter, it helped to fill me out as a candidate for law school and for summer internships. Interviewers always ask about my AmeriCorps experience and, among other things, I think it shows them that I have carefully considered my choice to become a lawyer and that I have an idea of what that entails. Working for legal aid, I was able to see what being a lawyer was really like, even if it was only a small slice of the legal profession. Also, working in the public sector and for the state legislature, I was able to rule out some other career paths I was contemplating at
the time. The second reason I tell this story is to encourage people, like Joe, who are graduating or will graduate similarly undecided about what to do with their lives to seek out public or nonprofit sector jobs. Even outside of the legal field, programs like Teach for America, the Peace Corps and other AmeriCorps programs are just a few of the opportunities available to get involved and
Matt Bohenek Barely Legal make a difference in the community. In my case, I found meaning in giving back to the community where I grew up by working for some of the more disadvantaged members. My first year out of college, I made a difference in the lives of many people and in return I gained serious, hands-on life experience. Of course, there are many Jackies in the world, who know exactly what they want and are ready to go for it. But for those of you that are more like Joe, I encourage you to pursue opportunities after graduation that will allow you to gain valuable experience and insight into a career path that might be a good fit for your interests and skills. Programs like AmeriCorps offer these opportunities, with the added bonus of getting involved in, and working to better, your community. That is what I plan to tell Joe.
Matt Bohenek is a third-year law student at Cornell Law School. He may be reached at mtb99@cornell.edu. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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Something to Say
Filmmaker Aurora Guerrera discusses love, class and ethnicity GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer
If you’ve spent any time on Hulu recently, you might recognize Aurora Guerrero. Dressed in all white as she journeys from South East Los Angeles to Sundance, the emerging filmmaker is the face of the seemingly ubiquitous Bing commercials. But Guerrero — a recent Sundance alum who writes, directs and produces her own films — is much more than the thirty-second break in your 3 a.m. 30 Rock marathons. Last night, she brought her critically acclaimed film Mosquita y Mari to the Schwartz Center for a free screening and Q&A session. Mosquita y Mari follows two young Chicanas as they traverse the difficult terrain of puberty. Yolanda, a straight-A student and archetypal good girl, encounters Mari for the first time when she watches her steal from a neighborhood market. Just 15 and already struggling with issues of class, immigration and their own sexual identities, Yolanda and Mari are drawn together in a tale of first love that Guerrero says is based on her own adolescence. “I was inspired largely by a friendship I had when I was young,” she said. “It had haunted me for many years because it was something that was never talked about between myself and my friend.” Mosquita y Mari’s storyline could have easily turned cliché if not for its foundation in reality. The girls’ relationship is conveyed through prolonged glances, intimate caresses and all that goes unsaid. Guerrero steers clear of the trite conventions of her form, avoiding the dramatic confessions and too-perfect resolutions that plague firstlove films. Instead, she offers a stunning portrait of two queer Chicanas coming of age together, a story she believes the world needs to hear. “When I started sharing the story with people around me, I realized it was a relationship that a lot of people could relate to,” Guerrero said. “Especially because of that grey area we experience in our friendships, the invisible line between friendship and romance.” Although Mosquita y Mari primarily deals with queer, Chicana and immigrant issues, the film’s message remains surprisingly universal. The film avoids making any sort of political statement, providing instead an evocative tale of young love to which any audience can relate. “Because I didn’t focus on coming out, but rather on the transformation of the girls, I feel that the film became more universal,” Guerrero said. “A lot of people in my
screenings have spoken to how the piece resonates with them and takes them back to a time of awkwardness and confusion. People lose sight of the fact that it’s between two girls.” Yet in addressing the intersection of same-sex attraction, ethnicity and class, Mosquita y Mari tackles a major issue in contemporary film and entertainment: the exclusion of the queer brown female. “I don’t think mainstream media has opened up the doors for queer people of color at all,” Guerrero said. “The only queer brown person I’ve seen on primetime COURTESY OF FILM START GROUP
television is the girl from Glee, Santana. That’s all we have and even then she’s riddled with a lot of stereotypes.” Nevertheless, Guerrero believes we’re headed in the right direction. 2011 brought the release of two independent films that featured non-Caucasian LGBT women — Pariah and Circumstance. The fact that Santana exists
at all is also a sign of progress. And now, following its triumph at Sundance, Mosquita y Mari is another leap forward on the path to success. Set and filmed in Huntington Park, Los Angeles, Mosquita y Mari is very much a community film. Both its content and its production intimately engage with the East L.A. environment. Shots of vibrant local businesses and fuzzy SoCal sunlight hitting car windshields are sprinkled throughout the film, creating a sense of setting so thorough it’s nearly palpable. But this community, as well as Guerrero’s larger social network, provides much more than the film’s backdrop. They are also the source of its funding. After fruitlessly seeking funding for over three years, Guerrero and her team turned to Kickstarter, a popular website that hosts fundraising campaigns for artists and community projects. Each project sets a monetary goal and solicits donations — which they only receive if their goal is met. At the time, most Kickstarter campaigns aimed for a couple thousand dollars, with the ambitious rarity seeking tens of thousands. The Mosquita y Mari team wanted $80,000. “We’d had little success with funding because I didn’t want to cast big stars and I didn’t want to compromise the story,” Guerrero said. “When we built the campaign, the head of Kickstarter thought we were crazy … but why aim for under $80,000 if we can’t make the movie with less?” Miraculously, the campaign met its goal, with $35,000 coming in during the last 48 hours. Guerrero claims the key to the project’s success was her team’s outreach to the Latino community. Contacting a wide variety of Latino bloggers and Spanish-language newspapers, Guerrero also involved her friends with “access to middle class Latinos” who had money to donate, something her network of artists and educators did not have. “Aside from the money, what we ended up having was a very enthusiastic community,” she said. “This movie is theirs. It’s not Hollywood’s and it’s not a big financer’s. It’s theirs.” Really, this sense of community holds the key to Mosquita y Mari’s success. Realistic and expressive in every scene, Mosquita y Mari is a breath of fresh air from overproduced and whitewashed Hollywood films — and so is Aurora Guerrero. Gina Cargas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun.com.
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Xip Xop and It Don’t Stop
It comes as no surprise that music has the power to influence people and inspire revolutions. The social and cultural reformations of psychedelic music in the U.S. during the 60s and that of punk rock in the U.K. and Australia during the 70s can attest to its far-reaching powers. And while the ability to unite throngs of people under a common banner is probably the most obvious power of music (why else would millions pay to watch their favorite performers in concert and base friendships according to similar musical tastes?) we don’t realize the power music has over us, I’d argue because most of the radical voice is lost or goes unnoticed. The messages we seek according to the radio are something along the lines of “I got hangover Ooo-aah / I’ve been drinkin’ too much for sure!”Unless it calls for the mobilization of youth towards a nation where everyday is Slope Day, it’s not revolutionary (even if I’d like to vacation in such a nation). Such songs are about having fun as the youth in the U.S. are allowed to. Kids being kids; nothing radical here. Carry on. I was reminded of the true power of music after viewing documentaries by Simón Sedillo, a community rights event organizer and documentarian. Sedillo showcased two of his documentary films, Oaxaca en Resistencia (Oxaca in Resistance) and Quando Una Mujer Avanca (When a Woman Advances) at the Schwartz Center last Tuesday. His films focus on the consequences of government corruption in Oaxaca, Mexico, primarily the marginalization of the indigenous communities. These impacts are, however, not all bad as the indigenous communities are finding new ways for their voices to be heard, mainly by banding together. Sedillo’s films let us in on the ways that music can unite communities. In this case, San Jarocho, the traditional music and dance of Oaxaca that sounds and looks like a faction of Flamenco, finds an unlikely partner in the urban U.S. infiltrator of rap and hip-hop, or Xip Xop as it is expressed in the documentary by its Mexican fans. Here is a case of the old and the new harmonizing to produce a single voice loud enough for the qualms of the sidelined Mexican communties to be heard, and this is just what Sedillo and Manovuelta’s films aim to do. “Other NGOs will mention how they move in and empower a community. We stress that the community empowers itself,” said Sedillo. Political messages and notes of social reform are mentioned in San Jarocho, as heard in the line “I like lime and I like lemon / But I don't like [President]
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Felipe Calderón.” Equally as empowering are the lines of local rappers such as Mare Advertencia Lirika, simply known as Mare, whose story and present vocation are the focus of Sedillo’s newest film, Quando Una Mujer Avanca. A self-proclaimed Zapotec Indian M.C. and feminist, Mare transforms her own method of self-expression into a musical devise which she and the youth of her community admire. Through postive messages in rap and hip-hop, she says, teens can become aware of the issues at hand and contribute to change. This Mexican M.C. stresses a sense of Cornell community over individualism which she deems unnatural. However, she is going Cinema against the notion of individualism that focuses on acqiring material wealth and benefits for the self. Thid view seems to have been infiltrating the indigenous communities. This sense of individualism is counterproductive to Mare and Sedillo’s unification efforts. The fact of the matter is, in her environment, Mare is an individual. Her raps mention seemingly radical subjects such as the church as a mind-control tool and women’s empowerement. The Catholic Church, in her mind, is one of the biggest brain-washers in Mexico. It tells followers, especially its female patrons, to conform to the way things are because God willed for things to be as such. Clearly, Mare sees the state of her fellow indigenous community and the roles of its women as the way things are that need to change. In our standards, Mare would be conceived as a “modern
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woman,” an independent thinker who aims to be self-sufficient and rejects the general understanding of the members and roles needed to constitute the typical family. If some roles and ideals need to be contested for true mobilization of the marginalized classes, then there is a sense of a need to modernize indigenous societal ideals with the reality of the governing world. You can’t become a player in the game without accepting some of its rules. Sedillo’s films don’t really touch on what factions of indigenous life must be sacrificed in order to gain a place in the imagined “new” polity of Mexico — one different from its reality where the rich, light-skinned elite hold the power and the resources for education. But the films do tell us that the marginalized have the potential to reform the governing society, as evident in the 2006 protests when a 1.2 million strong coalition of poor Mexicans and indigenous peoples protested in the streets of Oaxaca. It’s refreshing to see a substantial movement of people who believe that music should be purposeful and serve the people who listen to it. People like Mare and Sedillo don’t just want to “make it” for themselves. That sense of individualism is absent in their work. What they want instead is for their communities to make it and step out of a position of poverty and inequality that is not inherent in their identity as some would have them believe, but rather is imposed upon them by governing elites. In Oaxaca, they are inciting change through Xip Xop, and as the saying goes “it don’t stop.” Katherine Carreño is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at kcarreno@cornellsun.com.
Crossing the Red Sea A
s I’m sure many seniors can sympathize with, my life had recently been taken over by work: final touches to my thesis, plans for next year, etc. Thankfully, though, the hard times are over. I turned in my thesis on Monday and got back a bit of the free time (and sanity) my life had been lacking. And now that these requisite self-congratulations have been made, I return to bring you the best of Cornell’s DVD collection. The only problem is that, with all my work, I haven’t found much time for procrastination. Read: watching movies. In fact, the one of the only movies I’ve seen of late is The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 epic retelling of the biblical exodus story. It’s a movie I end up watching almost every year, and has become a family favorite due to its hilarious excesses. So partly due to convenience, but mostly due to an inexplicable love for this corny classic, it’s this week’s pick. The movie offers every stereotypical aspect of a modern-day action flick, wrapped up in shiny 1950s G-rated packaging and topped off with some of the funniest “special effects” ever witnessed. (Though its original viewers would have disagreed with this analysis; the
movie took home that year’s Academy Award’s prize for Best Visual Effects.) When I said earlier that the movie was “epic,” I meant it in every sense of the word. Moses (Charlton Heston) is chiseled and at times so tanned he looks sepia-toned. Pharaoh –– played by Yul Brynner, who took some time off of being King of Siam to rule ancient Egypt –– is an angry, eyebrow-raising villain. And the Queen of Egypt Nefertiri (Anne Baxter) shines in elaborate, gilded headdresses. Even the small characters or extras have a certain gravity to them. The Ten Commandments is an unapolo-
Hannah Stamler The Basement Tapes getic big-budget studio creation. And, in turn, it is unapologetically for entertainment’s sake –– not religion’s. The melodramatic dialogue and action-filled sequences serve to wow audiences, not to yield converts. Those who have Exodus’ passages memorized should not expect an “accurate” representation. But as Cecil B. DeMille’s reputation might
suggest it is a great Hollywood glitz-ing and glamorizing of a rather grim story. The story is a very serious one: a tale of struggle, strife and self-discovery. Here though, it plays out rather more like a series of action and romance scenes, with the booming voice of God sometimes echoing down to keep the story on track. Why devote an entire day to watching a movie like this? A more appropriate question might well be: why not? The movie is less a movie than a spectacle, only to be appreciated in its gilded entirety. A more apt way to describe the viewing experience would be to compare it to a theater show. The movie in fact begins with an overture, and only ends over three hours later, with a sweeping shot of the vast desert. (ABC, which aired the film this year, actually managed to extend the duration of the film to over five hours, with commercials.) The film is a relic; it is overly dramatic,
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unnecessarily long and completely lacking in nuance or caution. But, by the same token, it seems aware of these facts. Cecil B. DeMille was not one for subtlety, but he sure knew how to entertain people. The library owns a copy on VHS, which in an odd way might be the best way to watch it. The fuzziness and faded colors probably add something to the old-timey feel. Or, you could opt instead to get the new DVD set through Borrow Direct and feel the full force of restoration, which makes that plague-ridden Nile really pop. Hannah Stamler is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hstamler@cornellsun.com. The Basement Tapes appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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Giant’s Wilson Squeezes Out of Another Jam DENVER (AP) — As strange as this may sound for a reliever, Brian Wilson actually finds comfort in chaos. The hairier the situation, the more the San Francisco closer with the distinctive black beard bears down. Wilson worked his way into a very sticky situation on Thursday, only to escape with his first save of the season in a 4-2 win over the Colorado Rockies. The adventurous 32-pitch final inning was just another day on the mound for the reliever who always seems to load the bases before going to work. "It's not like I want to pitch in that situation," Wilson said. "But when I do, I feel like I've been more successful than not." The starters have come to trust that everything will turn out all right. After pitching a gem, Madison Bumgarner retired to the clubhouse to watch the final outs on the flat screen. Even when the Rockies scored a run off Wilson and had the bases loaded, Bumgarner never felt his win was in jeopardy. "I wasn't nervous at all," said Bumgarner, who held the Rockies to four hits and a run over 7 1-3 innings. "He's been in that situation plenty of times and knows how to get out of it." Wilson's outing got off to an inauspicious start when he surrendered a double to Troy Tulowitzki and a single to Michael Cuddyer. A one-out single from pinch hitter Jason Giambi loaded the bases. Pressure? Hardly.
After all, this is Wilson, who led the league in saves when the Giants won the World Series in 2010. Even his manager expects a little drama before the final out is recorded. "It's Willy's way," Bruce Bochy said. But this seemed a little different. Wilson appeared to tweak his left ankle midway through the inning when he planted his foot on a pitch. The trainers came out to check on him and Wilson quickly brushed them away. After a warmup toss, he proclaimed himself good to go and then walked Tyler Colvin to bring in a run. That prompted another visit from Bochy. With two outs and the tying run on second, Wilson got Marco Scutaro to fly out to right. See, no problems. "I was able to preserve the win," Wilson said. "It was nice to get that first 'pressure' situation out of the way. Not that any game is different, or any game has more pressure than any other. But it's nice to get the first one under your belt." Especially given the way Bumgarner (1-1) threw against the Rockies. The left-hander took a nohitter in the sixth, before Colvin broke it up with a one-out triple. He was going up against ageless wonder Jamie Moyer (0-2), who made his major league debut before Bumgarner was even born. The age difference of 26 years and 256 days between Moyer and
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Squad Falls to Binghamton Out to Even the Series, Red Hosts Big East BASEBALL
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“I don’t think we’re looking into the loss too much,” Lee said. “Midweek games are sort of like an extended practice for us.” Although it was unable to stage a comeback against the Bearcats, three of the Red’s wins in Ivy play last weekend against Brown and Yale were come-from-behind victories. Against the Bulldogs, the Red scored a combined seven runs in the last inning of the two games. According to Lee, though, it has not been the work of one hitter, but the entire team has been involved in scoring
runs. “More than anything, it’s been our general attitude,” Lee said. “We understand one guy’s going to get on and we’ll manufacture runs in whatever ways we can.” The Red will need to continue that against the Lions this weekend, if it hopes to remain at the top of the Ivy League. “There’s an expectation to win,” Lee said. “We’re in extremely high spirits, and we’re continuing to practice hard every day.” Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.
Red Honors Six Seniors on Sunday SOFTBALL
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“Playing four games in a row against the same team is a difficult thing to do,” Keene said. “And winning all of them will be especially difficult. It will be hard to maintain focus and keep winning throughout the weekend.” The Red’s offense has steadily improved over the last few games, significantly raising the team’s batting average. With an offense led primarily by freshmen and sophomores, the team batted .321 with 15 homeruns over the last nine games, increasing its season average to .259. Freshman and Ivy League Rookie of the Week Linda Laeufer leads the offense with a batting average of .309, while Keene and sophomore Lauren Buccolo are tied at six homeruns for the team lead. “Our offense is pretty hot right now,” Keene said. “Against Columbia, I think hitting the ball and seeing the ball are the most
important things.” According to Blood, the Red hopes to continue its offensive success in spite of a couple of tough losses to Syracuse this week. The Orange took an early lead in both games and easily glided to victory, taking the first game in six innings, 10-1, before defeating the Red again that night, 8-1. “The games we played against Syracuse on Wednesday gave us the opportunity to face some tough pitching,” Blood said. “Hopefully we can use those games to prepare for the weekend. And obviously our Ivy League schedule has prepared us as well.” In training, the squad has focused on defensive and offensive basics in preparation for the fourgame series, Keene said. “We’ve been working a lot on our defense and communication, just working a lot on mechanics,” she said. “Basically fundamentals, offensively and defensively.” Sunday not only marks
the last home game of the season, but also the Red’s annual Senior Day. The squad will honor the contributions of its six seniors — Keene, Morgan Crawley, Erica Gaeta, Lauren Marx, Jenna Stoller, and Katie Watts. These six women have led Cornell to a four-yearrecord of 122-65-1, as well as three Ivy League South Division titles, two Ancient Eight wins and one spot in the NCAA tournament. While the celebration will be a major part of this weekend, Keene says the Red is trying to focus on the games. “I’m trying not to think about it,” she said. “But it’s exciting. We have a great group of seniors that have been together for all four years. But everyone knows the task at hand and that’s number one no matter what else is going on off the field.”
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After dropping an Ivy contest to No. 6 Dartmouth, 12-10, last weekend, the No. 15 women’s lacrosse team will be tested again on Saturday against No. 11 Loyola-Maryland. The Greyhounds (8-3, 4-0 Big East) are undefeated in a tough Big East division that sports powerhouses like No. 13 Georgetown and No. 6 Notre Dame. Loyola defeated the Irish, 17-11, earlier in the season, a team to which the Red (7-3, 3-2 Ivy League) fell during its spring break trip to Florida. Loyola’s powerful offense will pose a definite threat to the Red’s efforts to get back in the win column after its conference loss last weekend. The Greyhounds average 12.27 goals per game and only allow 9.64. Leading the attack is Marlee Paton, who has 27 goals and 20 assists on the season. Helping her out on the offensive end is Annie Thomas, who has tallied 21 goals and 16 assists. The Red has a chance to even the overall series with Loyola, which has the advantage at 3-2 going into Saturday’s matchup. The first two times the teams met during the season, the Red was victorious, but the Greyhounds have taken the last three straight contests. Last sea-
son, senior attack Jessi Steinberg’s four goals and two assists were not enough, as the team fell, 14-8. Steinberg, who leads the team with 33 goals and 15 assists and fellow senior attack Olivia Knotts will have to play important offensive roles against the tough Greyhound defense. Knotts has scored 27 goals and handed out 13 assists on the season. The matchup will be a hometown rivalry for a few members of the team, who live within just half an hour of Loyola’s Baltimore, MD campus. As the squad continues to perform well on the field, it has been doing big things off the field as well. At the team’s “Pink” games last Saturday, the Red raised more than 2,000 dollars towards breast cancer awareness. Supported as well by the men’s lacrosse team, the two squads collected donations and sold Tshirts. The players also wore pink jerseys during the game. After facing off against Loyola this weekend, the Red will host Syracuse at home for a mid-week, non-conference matchup on Tuesday. — Compiled by Scott Chiusano
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The Cornell women’s rowing team is primed to compete at the University of Virginia Invitational this weekend. With 9 teams participating in the event, the Red will face Clemson and San Diego on Saturday and Virginia and Minnesota on Sunday. “Everyone’s racing each other, it will be a great test of speed,” said head coach Hillary Gehman. “We’ll be able to compare our results to other schools and get a good idea of where each boat stands.” The Red recently competed in the Class of ’75 cup against Princeton and Radcliffe. Though the outcome deviated from what the team expected, the Red performed better in the Cayuga Cup. “We had disappointing results in the morning – we didn’t perform to our potential,” Gehman said. In the Cayuga Cup last week, the Red defeated Yale in the first Varsity A, and the scores were very close in the second and third Varsity A. Earlier in the season, the Red started off strong by
“We’d really like to show our boat speed and to have a solid race in every boat.” Hillary Gehman bringing home all four races on the Onondaga Lake Outlet against BU and the tournament host, Syracuse. The team defeated BU in both the first Varsity eight and the second Varsity eight, each by a significant
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amount of time. The first Varsity eight defeated the Orange by over nine seconds with a time of 6:46.2 and the second Varsity eight swept BU by over twelve seconds with a time of 6:57.1. The third Varsity eight and Varsity four raced Syracuse, also winning by significant margins. The latter won by a significant margin of 18 seconds and finished with a time of 7:48.4. Gehman’s expectations for the tournament this weekend include the desire to win, especially if the the team can row at top form. “I want us to perform to our potential,” Gehman said. “We’d really like to show our boat speed and to have a solid race in every boat.” The University of Virginia is currently the No. 1 ranked women’s rowing team. “It’ll be a tough competition,” Gehman said.
The Red was ranked No. 14 in the latest coaches poll. “Its exciting for us,” Gehman said. “We hope to push into the Top-10.” Gehman added that rowing is a team effort, and when asked to point out individuals that are expected to step up this weekend, she noted that it is hard to pick out an individual in a boat. Even so, she said that the coxswains play a significant part in the outcome of the race. “Coxswains play a pretty big role,” Gehman said. “[Senior] Judy Amsalem and [senior] Jeannette Friedman are our Top-two coxswains. They’ll take charge of the crew and lead them.” Tina Ahmadi can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.
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were highlighted by, among other events, an exhibition game against the Buffalo Bisons of the International League, featuring an 18-year-old outfielder named Johnny Bench; a no-hit game pitched by Larry Rafalski against Hartwick in 1968 and coming within one game of reaching the NCAA District playoffs in 1969. My claim to fame was leading the 1969 pitching staff in appearances and earned run average. In the Spring of 1969, sitting on a stone bench in the Arts quad overlooking Libe Slope and the city of Ithaca, Karen, an Oneonta student and my future wife, and I were discussing how nice it would be to someday return to the area and live here. Forty-one years later, we moved into a house in Lansing and that dream came true. Karen had taught elementary school for 20 years in the Smithtown, Long Island school district and I had retired from the Suffolk County Probation Department after 26 years. I had also spent two years in the U.S. Army, having won my only lottery to date — the Draft
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Lottery during the Vietnam era. One of the things I hoped to do upon my return to Ithaca was to contact Ted Thoren, the Cornell legend who had recruited me for baseball. I was surprised to hear that Ted was still around and even more surprised when we spoke over the phone. His recall was amazing and he agreed to my lunch invitation, provided we wait for the weather to warm up — something that could take a long time in Ithaca. While waiting for warmer weather, Karen and I attended Cornell baseball games. We were told that Ted attended some of the games and hoped that we might run into him; however, we never saw him at any of the games, and before I decided to renew my invitation for lunch, Ted passed away. We didn’t always see eyeto-eye, but, as I’ve gotten older, I realize that there would have been no Cornell experience in my life without him. Watching last year’s baseball games was interesting, to say the least. Hoy Field is nothing like I remember. Where in the world is Bacon Cage? Where did this parking garage come from? There is artificial turf, an announcer and music? Where do they keep the water bucket with its com-
munal ladle that would occasionally freeze over during the course of a game? However, the enthusiasm and youth of the players was impressive. The experience of watching these games carried over to this season. The team seems much improved and the level of enthusiasm is even greater. Unfortunately, the weather has been pretty much the same. Karen and I sat through the cold and wind of the first game against Harvard on March 31. The next day, it was a little colder and had the added element of rain. Watching a game in Lynah Rink is cozy by comparison. As a result, I attended the game against Dartmouth solo. I watched the first few innings from the shelter of the parking garage and realized that something unusual was developing. Cornell pitcher Connor Kaufmann had not given up any hits. I moved to my favorite spot in the stands behind home plate. As a former pitcher, I believe one can only truly appreciate what is being thrown from that vantage point. Kaufmann was throwing hard and seemed to be in complete control of his pitches. By the fifth inning, my excitement grew as it dawned on me that I had been in this
situation 44 years ago. Larry Rafalski, fellow pitcher for Ted Thoren, threw the first nine-inning complete game no-hitter in Cornell baseball history. I was about ready to jump out of my skin when Kaufmann retired the last hitter and threw the second complete game no-hitter in Cornell baseball history. The realization of what I had seen elicited overwhelming emotion that I did not expect. After the game, I introduced myself to Kaufmann and informed him of his accomplishment. In a gracious, polite and humble manner, he thanked me for the congratulations and stated that he was not aware that he was only the second Cornell pitcher to accomplish this feat. I walked away with a tremendous feeling of nostalgia, pride and wonderment. Could I have ever exhibited as much class as Kaufmann when I was his age? This experience has moved me to the point that I wrote to Rafalski — a person with whom I have had no contact since 1969. As I write this, I anxiously await his response. It’s great to be back! Jim Piersanti ’69 was a former pitcher for the Cornell baseball team.
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Red to Face Columbia at Home
By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
After sweeping its first Ivy League weekend series in 18 years, the baseball team returns to Hoy Field for a seven game home-stand. Already more than halfway through the season, the Red has only played five games at home. “It’s always nice to play at Hoy,” senior catcher and captain Brandon Lee said. “With the good weather, people like to come out and get on the other teams, which always gives us an advantage.”
“Columbia always has a solid ball club, they’ve returned some starting pitching.” Brandon Lee The Red (21-7-1, 7-1 Ivy League) sits atop the conference, one game over reigning Ivy champions, Princeton. This weekend the team will take on Columbia (13-16, 5-3) in a fourgame series. The Lions are tied for third in the conference with Penn, and are only two wins behind the Red. The series will be an important one in determining the race for the Ivy title as it enters the final stretch. “Columbia always has a solid ball club,” Lee said. “They’ve returned some solid starting pitching, but we’ve just got to go out there and take the first game.”
Columbia’s rotation has been effective this year, led by seniors Pat Lowery and Harrison Slutsky, who boast 3.25 and 2.92 ERAs respectively. Slutsky has been used mainly as a reliever, but has appeared in nine games, allowing only eight earned runs. Lowery has started six games and leads the team with 27 strikeouts. After getting only three starts in his freshman season, sophomore David Speer has also stepped up. He is 3-0 in six starts with a 3.82 ERA. Offensively, the Lions are led by junior outfielder Dario Pizzano, who is hitting .333 with 22 RBIs. Fellow outfielder Nick Ferraresi brings power to the lineup, leading the team with three homeruns and 12 doubles. Although the Red has only one loss in conference play, the team dropped a mid-week, non-conference game to Binghamton on Wednesday, 6-4. It was only the Red’s third loss in the last eleven games. “[Binghamton] threw a new person every inning against us, which made it difficult for our hitters to make adjustments,” Lee said. The Bearcats’ combination of eight different hurlers kept the Red hitters off balance, and they were only able to muster up five hits. Even sophomore Chris Cruz’s towering two-run homer in the sixth inning could not make the Red bats come alive. Freshman Nick Busto got the start and pitched three scoreless innings, but the bullpen was unable to hold onto the lead, allowing five runs to the Bearcat hitters over the final three innings. See BASEBALL page 17
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Cruz control | Sophomore slugger Chris Cruz hit his team-leading ninth homerun of the season in the loss to Binghamton on Wednesday.
Repeating History: Baseball’s No-Hitters I t was 1965 and my senior year of high school when the Cornell University baseball coach said that he was interested in having me come pitch for him and that I might be eligible for scholarship assistance. I had
but I asserted my rights under the team’s no-cut policy — another mistake and another story. Once the football season ended — as well as my shortlived football career — it was time for baseball practice.
Jim Piersanti ’69 Guest Column MONICA SUH / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
already applied to Lehigh and Bucknell because financially the Ivy League was out of the question; however, with the scholarship help, the idea of attending Cornell was a winner — especially for someone from the relatively small town of Hamburg, N.Y. A discussion with my high school guidance counselor resulted in the conclusion that, since I liked math and science, I should apply to the Engineering School. That turned out to be a huge mistake, but that’s a story for another time. Upon arriving on campus, I immediately joined the freshman football team, coached by the same man who had recruited me for baseball. He made it clear that he did not relish the prospect of a baseball recruit being injured playing football,
Bacon Cage was the first stop. About the size of the infield and with a dirt floor, there were baseballs flying in every direction. The upperclassmen were doing their thing and we freshmen were becoming acquainted with each other. The freshmen pitchers included Larry Rafalski, Eric Shafnisky and myself. Another freshman was the biggest infielder I had ever seen, a super nice guy named Ken Dryden. There was a rumor that he was also a pretty good hockey player. Hoy Field was somewhat nondescript with home plate at the northwestern corner and a huge set of bleachers that never seemed to have more than a dozen fans watching the games. My four years of playing Cornell baseball See GUEST COLUMN page 19
Sophomore slugger | Infielder Lauren Buccolo has six homeruns and 17 RBIs on the season, tying her for the team high with senior infielder and captain Erin Keene.
SOFTBALL
Squad Fights to Stay Atop Ivy Standings By GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer
Following a doubleheader loss to Syracuse on Wednesday, the softball team looks to extend its lead in the Ivy League South Division this weekend. The Red (16-15, 7-1 Ivy League) will take on Columbia (9-22, 3-5) at Niemand-Robison Field in a four game series beginning Saturday afternoon. This weekend will mark both teams’ first games within the Southern division. The winner of the last three
South division titles, the Red is currently atop the conference table. Penn and Princeton are tied for second, while Columbia rounds out the bottom of the division. Despite the Lions’ standing, head coach Dick Blood believes they will nonetheless pose a significant challenge. “Columbia is very athletic,” Blood said. “They’ve been running the bases well and have a good hitting average — they are all around a good ball club.” Columbia is batting .259 as a
team and has hit a total of six home runs. After losing two games to Harvard last Friday, Columbia swept Dartmouth in a doubleheader on Saturday to close out its play against the Ivy League North division. Furthermore, senior captain Erin Keene says the four-game format will pose an additional challenge. The Red split its fourgame series against Columbia in 2011, falling in both games on the second day. See SOFTBALL page 17