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Blaze Destroys Chapter House

None harmed in Tuesday morning Stewart Ave.fire

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By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Editor

Smoke billowed from the 400 block of Stewart Avenue Tuesday as an early morning blaze destroyed a multi-story complex housing the iconic Chapter House pub and a neighboring apartment building.

No injuries were reported in connection with the incident, according to the University. As of Tuesday evening, the University said that at least 44 students were displaced.

The fire broke out after 4 a.m., according to Lt. Thomas Basher, public information officer for the Ithaca Fire Department.

Responders who came to the scene following a 911 call at approximately 4:30 a.m. found “heavy

Early morning blaze | Firefighters try to quell a raging fire on the 400 block of Stewart Avenue early Tuesday morning.

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Alumni mourn loss of nearly century-old Collegetown bar

By SOFIA HU Sun News Editor

Before Tuesday’s fire ravaged the Chapter House, it seemed like the decades-old pub would stay open on Stewart Avenue for years to come — if not forever.

Alumni and current students alike, however, mourned the establishment’s destruction, caused by a blaze that also displaced at least 44 students living in adjoining apartments and kept fire-

single story block, likely constructed in the fighters busy for several hours. early 1900s, accordThe popular watering to Christine ing hole first opened “You’d never imagine O’Malley, preservain the mid-1920s as something like a fire could tion services coordiJim’s Place, according nator for Historic to Corey Ryan Earle actually bring down the Ithaca, Inc. A tai’07, associate director Chapter House.” lors’ shop, tobacco of Student and Young shop, pool hall and Alumni Programs.

Bill Howard ’74 confectioners preThe buildings on ceded and shared 400-404 Stewart Ave., where the Chapter House stood, began as a the space with the establishment.

The earliest advertisement found of Jim’s Place dates back to January 1928, when the restaurant placed a small corner ad on the second page of The Sun promoting its “regular dinners every night, 50 [cents].”

A year later, it claimed with another advertisement that “the food we serve is the best obtainable. Service always satisfactory.”

Jim’s Place began serving alcohol several See CHAPTER HOUSE page 5

Students displaced by fire see outpouring of community support

By REBECCA BLAIR

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After the Stewart Avenue fire displaced at least 44 students Tuesday morning, members of the Cornell and Ithaca communities came together in an outpouring of support, finding alternate housing for students as well as organizing fundraisers and clothing drives.

Though the Red Cross said in a press release Tuesday that a majority of the displacements are permanent, at least a dozen residents should be able to return to their apartments at some point.

All displaced residents will be provided with “comfort kits with personal hygiene items, and vouchers See STUDENTS page 5

Before and after | Left: Crews work about 6 a.m. yesterday to extinguish the two-building fire on the 400 block of Stewart Avenue. Right: In the blaze’s aftermath, fire and water damage to the iconic Chapter House, and the adjacent house’s demolition, are depicted at about 7:20 p.m. last evening.

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For the fourth consecutive year, lightweight crew won the Platt Cup. | Page 16

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Crocs Shoe Tracks Help Link Alaska Man to Burglaries FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Crocs plastic shoes left tread marks that helped link a 22-year-old Fairbanks man to downtown burglaries, authorities said.

The owner of a building where some break-ins occurred provided surveillance footage to police, who posted it on the department’s Facebook page. Roland Huntington Grace name was among several mentioned by tipsters, according to authorities.

According to the court documents, Grace wore Crocs during a police interview and the shoes matched the tread pattern found at the scene.

Grace faces charges of burglary, theft and criminal mischief in connection with the burglaries reported earlier this month, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper reported.

Grace was in custody Tuesday at the Fairbanks Correctional Center. Online court records do not have an attorney listed for him. Charging documents say Grace admitted to the burglaries.

The owner of The Crepery reported on April 1 that someone stole about $400 from a cash register after breaking into the restaurant. A minister at the Church of Christ reported April 2 that someone stole about $30 after prying open several locked doors. Another burglary at The

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Crepery was reported April 3, with $5 in change taken. A worker at the art gallery across the hall told responding police that there was a burglary at that shop as well, and that $1,000 of artists’ jewelry was taken.

According to authorities, two necklaces matching the description of jewelry taken from the gallery were recovered from Grace.

Ex-College Worker Claims Boss Made Her Watch ‘Chick Flicks’ LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A woman who worked briefly for the president of a Maine college has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the school, alleging she was expected to play tennis, jog and watch “chick flicks” with her female boss.

Sarah Hulbert, of Auburn, wrote in her complaint that she was treated differently from her male co-workers during her time as an executive assistant at Bates College in Lewiston.

The Sun Journal reports that the 59-year-old Hulbert worked for Bates President A. Clayton Spencer for a little longer than a month in the summer of 2012.

Hulbert is seeking damages, back pay and other costs.

A Bates spokesman said in a statement that “the college strongly disagrees with the allegations” and will defend itself in court.

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Terry Mingle:Student-assisting, guitar-playing birdwatcher

By BENEDETTA CARNAGHI Sun Staff Writer

Terry Mingle, the undergraduate student services assistant for the College of Human Ecology’s Division of Nutritional Sciences, says she has loved music all her life, a passion she has pursued throughout her 25 years at Cornell.

“When I was in first grade I had a music teacher come in with a guitar, versus the traditional piano,” said Mingle, a Cortland native.

“She was kind of a hippie ... I was intrigued by her and I thought [to myself], ‘I want to do that.’”

Mingle said when she graduated from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania with a degree in music merchandising, she never expected to work at a university.

“A lot of people were not hiring females at that point,” Mingle said. “I wanted to work for a recording studio because that’s where I had done my internship and I couldn’t find anything, so I took a job at Cornell.”

Mingle — whose sister was working at Cornell at the time — began working in the photo library for Cornell Publications. Since then, she has worked in a variety of departments throughout the University, including the food science department, College of Veterinary Medicine and the Lab of Ornithology.

In 1996, Mingle said she began volunteering at the

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Lab of Ornithology’s recording studio, helping Steve Kress with a more than 30-year old course in spring field ornithology.

Mingle said she also volunteered for Project FeederWatch, an annual bird identification program led by the Lab of Ornithology. Shortly after, Mingle

began working at the Lab, participating in a variety of projects.

During her 12 years at the lab, Mingle said she became the webmaster for conservation group National Audubon’s Project Puffin. The project attempts to restore puffins to islands in the Gulf of Maine, she said.

Her work on the project has been wide-reaching, as she not only helped design and maintain the website but also taken trips to the islands, developed promotional e-newsletters and created a Facebook profile for the project’s “spokespuffin.”

Though Mingle said she no longer works for the Lab of Ornithology, she continues to devote time to

the project on weeknights and weekends.

However, Mingle said she also loves her current position in the Division of Nutritional Sciences where she helps undergraduates with a variety of issues, including course enrollment.

“I really enjoy my work here,” Mingle said. “I have approximately 750 students to take care of. … I set up their classes, and I help them enroll.”

Throughout her years at Cornell, Mingle has pursued her musical passions, playing in her own bands, working as a D.J. for the Cayuga Radio Group and helping to broadcast Cornell sports games.

Mingle said she and her husband, a fellow Cornell employee, played together in a band called Nasty Habit.

“We were a hard rock and metal 70s/80s tribute band,” Mingle said. “We did get to play for some cool shows and open for bands like Jefferson Starship.”

The band played in New York state and Pennsylvania, according to Mingle. But following its end in 2005, Mingle and her husband started a band called Blue Monday.

“My husband and I have been in Blue Monday ever since and we have been doing some interesting stuff with that too, but it’s winding down now,” said Mingle, who has sung and played the keyboard, rhythm guitar and flute for over three decades.

Mingle said her biggest personal accomplishment was landing her job at the Division of Nutritional Sciences.

“I am in a place where I really enjoy being — and since many working people spend more time at work than they do at home, that is important,” she said.

Between her day job and nearly constant musical commitments on nights and weekends, Mingle said her many passions have kept her busy.

“Free time is hard to come by, but it’s all a lot of fun for me,” she said.

Benedetta Carnaghi can be reached at bcarnaghi@cornellsun.com.

Students Split Over Clinton,Rubio as Presidential Candidates Marco Rubio announces presidential run a day after Hillary Clinton officially launches campaign

most-traveled Secretary of State in our country’s history,” Ham said. “She has dedicated her life to public service and will While leaders of the Cornell Democrats continue to be a strong voice for all expressed their excitement about Hillary Americans.”

Eric Pesner ’15, president of the Clinton’s announcement Sunday that she will run for president in 2016, members of Cornell Democrats and a columnist for The Sun, that Clinton’s “universal” “No one else in either party vision will help her gain support from comes close to matching her Americans. in terms of qualifications or “No one else in either party comes vision.” close to matching her Eric Pesner ’15 in terms of qualificaCLINTON tions or vision,” Pesner said. “Her the Cornell Republicans discussed the vocal leadership on important issues such need for strong party organization in order as women’s rights, environmental protecto support the conservative opponents tion and economic opportunity will earn her the support of a majority of opposing her.

Jared Ham ’15, vice president of the Americans. I will be very proud when we Cornell Democrats, said he is “ecstatic” will be able to watch Hillary Clinton being about Clinton’s announcement, citing her sworn in as our nation’s first woman presprior experience as one of her major qual- ident.”

The Republican party must unite to ifications for the position. “[Clinton] is extensively qualified for become more effective than they have in this position, having served as Senator for previous years, according to Mark our great state of New York and as the LaPointe ’16, first vice chair of the Cornell

By OLIVIA LUTWAK

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Republicans.

Clinton.”

“She is undoubtedly a strong candidate “He is willing to flip flop on important for the Democratic nomination, and I feel issues to appease his Tea Party conthat many people on both sides were antic- stituents,” Pesner said. “His scattershot ipating the moment to come,” LaPointe record on immigration reform, for examsaid. “Her candidacy puts a demand on ple, shows how poor a president he would the Republican party to organize its plat- be.” form and candidates more effectively than “His youthful and optimistic they have done in the recent presidential vision of America’s potential is races.” what the party needs to have LaPointe said he believes it is “difficult in a presidential candidate.” to predict” which Mark LaPointe ’16 candidate will receive RUBIO the Republican party nomination.

“I see a handful of strong contenders — LaPointe disagreed, however, calling namely Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, and Scott Rubio’s candidacy “a great step for the Walker — but there are certainly others Republican party.” candidates such as Ted Cruz and Dr. Ben “His youthful and optimistic vision of Carson to look out for,” LaPointe said.

America’s potential is what the party needs The Republican field currently consists to have in a presidential candidate,” of three official candidates: Marco Rubio, LaPointe said. “He also has gathered supRand Paul and Ted Cruz. Rubio officially port in key factions that could definitely launched his campaign for the presidency give him an advantage in the elections.” a day after Clinton’s announcement.

Pesner said he believes Rubio does not Olivia Lutwak can be reached at have “nearly as much experience as Hillary olutwak@cornellsun.com.

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Atlanta Teachers Get Jail Time in Cheating Scandal ATLANTA (AP) — All but one of 10 former Atlanta public school educators convicted in a widespread conspiracy to inflate student scores on standardized tests were sentenced to jail time Tuesday, and the judge called the cheating scandal “the sickest thing that's ever happened in this town.”

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter had delayed sentencing by a day and encouraged all to negotiate deals with prosecutors. But only two agreed to deals. In both those cases, Baxter followed the state’s recommendations: He gave a former teacher a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew at home for one year and a former testing coordinator six months of weekends spent in jail. They’ll also serve five years on probation.

Despite their lawyers’ pleas for probation and community service, the remaining eight received harsher sentences, ranging from one to seven years in jail. They are expected to appeal and will be free on bond while the appeals are pending.

A state investigation found that as far back as 2005, educators from the 50,000-student Atlanta school system fed answers to students or erased and changed answers on tests after they were turned in.

Evidence of cheating was found in 44 schools with nearly 180 educators involved, and teachers who tried

to report it were threatened with retaliation.

In 2013, 35 educators were indicted on charges including racketeering, making false statements and theft. Many pleaded guilty before the trial, and some testified at the months long trial. The jury acquitted one of the 12 former educators who went to trial and convicted the other 11 of racketeering.

“This was very, very remarkable, to have the judge sort of give the defendants a second chance,” said University of Georgia law professor emeritus Ron Carlson. “The thing that maybe was a little surprising was the reticence of the defendants to step forward and do that.”

Bob Rubin, who represented former elementary school principal Dana Evans, said the decision to turn down the deal wasn’t hard for his client.

“She couldn’t say something that wasn’t true," he said, referring to the insistence by the prosecution and the judge that the negotiated deals include an acceptance of responsibility.

Those who took the deals — former teacher Pamela Cleveland and former testing coordinator Donald Bullock — waived their right to appeal. They also agreed to accept responsibility, reading aloud a statement apologizing to students, parents and the court.

German Nobel Literature Laureate Guenter Grass Dies Monday at 87 BERLIN (AP) — Guenter Grass was to Germany what William Faulkner was to the old American South: The bard, scourge and pathfinder of a society ruined by moral disgrace and humiliated by military defeat.

For much of his adult life, the Nobel-winning writer held the rare status in the literary world of both national historian and inventor. Grass, who died Monday at age 87, often angered his fellow citizens by reminding them of their shared Nazi past.

But through language of renewed freedom and lyricism and stories that were surreal yet recognizable, he also assumed the even greater challenge of imagining what they might become.

“His literary legacy will stand next to that of Goethe,” German Culture Minister Monika Gruetters said in a statement following the news of his death.

Grass’ first and most famous novel, “The Tin Drum,” came out in 1959 and ranks with Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” as a modern, international classic and as a mini-encyclopedia of a country’s state of mind.

Combining naturalistic detail with fantastical images, Grass captured the German reaction to the rise of Nazism, the horrors of the war and the guilt that lingered after Adolf Hitler’s fall. The book follows the life of Oskar Matzerath, the boy in Danzig who is caught up in the political whirlwind of the Nazi rise to power and, in response, decides not to grow up. His toy drum becomes a symbol of this refusal.

“There are books that open doors for their readers, doors in the head, doors whose existence they had not previously suspected,” Rushdie once wrote, citing “The Tin Drum” as a youthful rite of passage.

Iran and Russia Make Trade Deal MOSCOW (AP) — Russia said Tuesday that it would be at least six months before it could deliver the S-300 air defense missile system to Iran, but the Kremlin confirmed that a barter deal to supply Russian goods in exchange for Iranian oil was already being implemented.

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed his move in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, telling him that Israel shouldn’t be worried about the “purely defensive” weapon.

The United States criticized Putin’s decision on Monday to lift a five-year ban on delivery of the missile system, which would give the Islamic republic’s military a strong deterrent against any air attack.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest also said a Russian-Iranian barter deal would raise serious concerns and could interfere with sanctions that the United States and other Western nations imposed on Iran over its nuclear program.

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Iconic C-Town Pub Dates Back to 1920s

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CHAPTER HOUSE Continued from page 1

Back in the day | Pictured above is the Chapter House in 1988, approximately two decades after the establishment changed its name from Jim’s Place. Since its beginnings in the 1920s, THE Chapter House has evolved through the years, from restaurant to ice cream parlor to pub.

Fire Destroys Stewart Avenue Buildings At least 44 students displaced from apartments after Tuesday blaze FIRE

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fire” coming from the Chapter House complex and an apartment building directly to the north, located at 406 Stewart Ave., according to an IFD release. The Cayuga Heights and Lansing Fire Departments aided in battling the blaze.

One occupant of the apartment next to the Chapter House was unaccounted for until approximately 8 a.m., according to Basher. Officials initially did not know if the individual was in the building or home at all, but it was later discovered that he or she was out of the country at the time of the fire.

Students displaced by the blaze were taken to Barton Hall Tuesday morning, where the Office of Student and Academic Services worked to find housing accommodations, according to a University official.

Crews continued to fight the flames hours after the initial fire began. The roof of the building containing the Chapter

House collapsed at around 7 a.m.

At a press conference at approximately 8 a.m., Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said both buildings involved were a “total loss.”

“This is a very sad loss,” Myrick said. “Losing something that meant so much to so many people … is terrible.”

Myrick added, however, that he was relieved no lives were lost during the fire.

Mike Niechwiadowicz ’68, deputy building commissioner for the City of Ithaca, said there would be “significant work in [the Chapter House building] with all that water that was put in there.”

As of Tuesday evening, Stewart Avenue remained closed between State Street and Campus Road. A crane was also present at the site around 7 p.m., demolishing the apartment complex next to the Chapter House.

Annie Bui can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

Cornellians Mobilize to Aid Displaced STUDENTS

drive to raise money and supplies for the displaced residents on Ho Plaza Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of for clothing, shoes, bedding and linens” this week. according to their needs, the release “We were informed that monetary said. donations … academic supplies, techLocal landlord John Novarr will pronology items, clothing, towels, bedvide housing for all the permanently ding, etc. are all most needed,” said displaced students through the end of Bridgette Aumand ’15. “We will be the semester, according to the accepting all of these items at the University. drive. We will also have art supThe displaced residents will “This overwhelming outpouring plies for students to write encouralso see support from various aging notes to those affected by of support will hopefully institutions within Cornell, the fire.” according to the Division of The online campaign had continue for those affected.”

Student and Academic Services. raised over $5,300 at the time of The Cornell Store made a onepublication, reaching just over a Juliana Batista ’16 time donation to each displaced quarter of its total $20,000 goal. resident consisting of a t-shirt, a Throughout the day on sweatshirt and sweatpants, and Tuesday, Cornellians took to Cornell Dining Services has given each Yang added that students who lost social media, as well as other platforms, resident an undisclosed number of Big all their possessions will be eligible for to express their sympathy with those Red Bucks. the entire $2,000, while students who affected by the blaze.

Additionally, Gannett Health experienced partial losses will likely “The outpouring of support across Services has worked to help two stu- receive $300. campus including clothing drives, dents replace lost medication, the “Once we are aware of their needs, GoFundMe fundraising platforms, letTatkon Center and Uris Library have we can probably get [the money] to ters of support and donations is incredoffered to loan laptops, the registrar them within 24 hours,” Yang said. ible to see the solidarity across our provided one-day bus passes and the “They money is all present, it is just sit- community,” said Juliana Batista ’16, Statler Hotel donated yogurt and juice ting there waiting to help out some- S.A. executive vice president. “This the morning of the fire, the division one.” overwhelming outpouring of support said.

Cornell Mortar Board hopes to offer will hopefully continue for those The Student Assembly Financial Aid additional support to all the displaced affected.”

Review committee has also pledged to residents through a fundraising camsupport the displaced students finan- paign they initiated on social media Rebecca Blair can be reached at cially with its emergency action fund, Tuesday. The board will also host a rblair@cornellsun.com.

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according to Franklin Yang ’17, chair of the committee.

“We do have an emergency action plan for situations like this,” Yang said. “[Requests for assistance] will go directly through the financial aid office, and then we will directly deal with the crisis managers in providing the funding, up to a $2,000 cap per student.”

years after its opening, but stopped doing so until the end of Prohibition in 1933. When the liquor started flowing again, Stewart Avenue residents circulated petitions arguing that the establishment was an “evil influence to student morals and also a public nuisance,” The Sun reported in 1934.

Despite the residents’ attempts to have the State Liquor Authority close Jim’s Place, it remained open to become the iconic landmark it is today.

Jim’s Place also suffered a 1950 grease fire that created “heavy smoke” but only “minor damage to the stove,” The Sun previously reported.

In 1965, then-owner Frank Willis changed the establishment’s name to the Chapter House, according to Willis’ niece, Mary O’Connell ’74.

The Chapter House proclaimed its name change with an advertisement in the The Sun’s issue for Cornell’s 1965 centennial. “We’ve come a long way,” the ad states.

“I loved the Chapter House,” O’Connell said in an email to The Sun Tuesday. “It had a special meaning for me growing up in Ithaca and as a Cornell student. My siblings, cousins and I knew every nook and cranny of the place.”

Since then, the Chapter House has undergone several iterations. In the 1970s and ’80s, it was a common hang-out spot for fraternity and sorority members, but when the legal drinking age increased tp 21 in 1985, the establishment briefly went out of business.

The Chapter House re-opened as an ice cream parlor, but alcohol proved better for sales and the establishment began serving alcohol again in the late ’80s. Until the late ’90s, it brewed its own beer on site and in New Jersey. Though its brewing operation has since stopped, the Chapter House boasted an extensive beer menu with 49 taps.

Nearly 90 years since its birth, the Chapter House had evolved into a popular haunt for graduate students and remained a mainstay Collegetown bar, even as other legendary spots including Dino’s and Johnny O’s shut their doors.

Throughout those years, many evenings started or ended at the Chapter House, said former Sun senior editor Bill Howard ’74.

“Even to old alumni, it seems as if the Chapter House was always there,” Howard said. “You’d never imagine something like a fire could actually bring down the Chapter House.”

Alumni expressed deep fondness for the iconic landmark, recounting memories of its various iterations.

“Lately, the Chapter House has become a great venue for local music and touring acts, with some really packed and memorable shows,” Mark Anbinder ’89 said.

The establishment served as a “landmark gathering spot for generations of Cornellians and Ithacan,” according to Anbinder, who is also a web communications manager at Cornell.

“Everyone knows where it is, and everyone could sit down at one of the tables, and as the groups grew and shrank over the evening, people moved around and made room,” Anbinder said.

The Chapter House’s destruction leaves a dark spot in the Collegetown night scene, students lamented.

“I feel dead inside,” said Jason Jones grad.

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

50 cents | Jim’s Place — renamed the Chapter House in 1965 — placed this ad, advertising its dinners, in a January 1928 issue of The Sun.

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THE LOSS OF THE HISTORIC CHAPTER HOUSE PUB on Stewart Avenue struck a chord with alumni, students and Ithacans alike, both on campus and social media, on Tuesday. Galvanized to help those in need, students, faculty and staff across campus stood behind our approximately 44 displaced peers by providing an outpouring of support and resources. As the campus has often done in times of tragedy and discomfort, Cornellians have shown their devotion to supporting other students, demonstrating the University’s principle of fostering a caring community.

Throughout the day Tuesday, the community rallied behind those individuals displaced following the multi-building blaze that destroyed two buildings on the 400 block of Stewart Ave. After learning that all residents of the structures were safe and accounted for, the University moved to provide resources to the students, including Big Red Bucks and clothing from The Cornell Store, while Ithaca landlord John Novarr will house the individuals for the remainder of the semester.

Additionally, Cornell Mortar Board will hold a drive Wednesday through Friday gathering clothing and donations for the displaced students. These are just a fraction of the ways Cornellians and Ithacans are working to assist those affected by the blaze.

The events following this tragedy to the Cornell and Ithaca communities show this institution’s commitment — from both students and the University — to promote a sense of community on the Hill through ensuring that those affected continue to feel secure on campus. The work done by students and Ithacans to help those affected by the fire, as well as the bravery shown by first responders at the scene Tuesday, is commendable and should be recognized by all. In supporting the displaced students, we urge all able Cornellians to consider aiding those affected by the fire.

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here really is nothing quite like a nice, long drive. From the ebb and flow of the radio reception to the humming of the motor, gas station pit stops and parental phone calls, spending some time on the road affords a soul cleansing respite from one’s daily routine and worldly pressures.

The value of the American drive has been well documented in literature and pop culture — Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is the most influential work that comes to mind. I won’t promise to romanticize the drive to Ithaca as eloquently as Kerouac’s beat generation masterpiece. But rather, I at least hope to give a first-hand account of my personal experiences and thoughts travelling to and from the 607.

Originally, I spent most of my trips to Cornell on the Shortline bus, avoiding confrontation with others at all costs. As I developed into a seasoned Shortline passenger, I became skilled at implementing passive strategies to secure a whole row for myself. Sometimes I would place my backpack in the seat next mine and put on a stern face to create a “diligent Cornell student” persona that no casual stranger would want to spend four hours next to. Other times I would listen to my music obnoxiously loud while other passengers were boarding.

Irreparable ear damage was surely a fair price for more legroom. I reasoned that unless a fellow Jay-Z aficionado wanted to nod along to a muffled, yet discernable, Empire-State of Mind all the way to Ithaca — Ithaca State of Mind anyone?

— these Shortline patrons would look elsewhere for a vacant seat.

Once all the other empty seats were taken — an unfortunately inevitable occurrence most rides — a poor passenger would be left with the uncomfortable task of approaching me and motioning towards the last seat. Making sure to give an ever so slightly audible sigh and move my bag, I would comply and ambivalently welcome them to my row. Sure, I was an entitled seat snob back then. But can you blame me? I am a firm believer in personal space, and for the price of a roundtrip ticket from New York to Ithaca, an extra 10 inches of width and 5 inches of depth to the seats would go a long way towards customer satisfaction and public health.

Now, with the luxury of a four passenger 2006 Honda Accord, my trips to Ithaca can be as exclusive and personal as my heart desires. Choosing compatible passengers for the four-hour journey to Ithaca is a rigorous and competitive process. Hordes of friends and distant acquaintances vie for a spot on my blue chariot. In the days before the start of each break, I anticipate a sudden influx

of texts from these applicants and take note of their offers for “20 dollars of gas,” “good conversation” and “music selection.” Ultimately, the same cast of characters is granted entrance and what ensues during this private car ride is wholly different than during my musty, allergen ridden freshman year bus rides.

Whereas Shortline trips were noteworthy for the occasional rowdy passenger who actually got off at the Binghamton or Monticello stops, my current trips to school are partly memorable for their lengthy talks, transitioning from timely gossip and chit-chat about formal dates to existential quarter-life crisis type questions. Beyond stimulating talks, though, I understand why I celebrate the nuances of the car ride more so than the bus.

In the spirit of opening day and the beginning of the 2015 MLB season, I’d like to compare the car ride to a baseball game.

Just as baseball has so adequately captured the spirit of the true American sport, the car ride has come to define the relationships, conversation and reflection inherent to a lengthy state of movement.

The car is like a baseball field — the front houses the infield and the back seats, the outfield. The driver and passenger, like the pitcher and catcher, set the pace of the game that is the car ride. They decide what radio stations to put on — Hot 97 — the topic of conversation, and whether it’s time for a 7th inning stretch.

Alternatively, the lethargic backseat passengers are left to doze off in the metaphorical outfield, easily snoozing during a conversational lull or staring into the distance. There are no winners are losers in this game, but there are positive and negative outcomes — speeding tickets, flat tires, skepticism about a driver’s reluctance to use cruise control and argument over whether it is appropriate to tip the gas pumper in New Jersey are some key low points. Positive outcomes include good snack distribution amongst passengers, efficient organization of a tight trunk and coordinated excretory systems, to minimize bathroom stops.

While there are some downsides to driving on your own to school — such as the sense of impending doom while approaching a state trooper and rushing to monitor the speedometer before its too late — overall, I greatly enjoy these trips. In the frantic, hurried nature of our daily lives, it can be refreshing every once and a while to step back and take the field.

I ... hope to give a first-hand account of my personal experiences and thoughts traveling to and from the 607.

Philip Susser is a junior in the College of Human Ecology. He can be reached at pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.

CORRECTION An April 14 news story, “Former Sigma Alpha Epsilon President Files Lawsuit Against Insurance Company,” incorrectly stated that Daniel Adams, Eric Barnum’s ’13 attorney, was a 2012 graduate of Cornell. In fact, he is not an alumnus of the University.

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Teresa Kim |

Let It Byrne

Skimming The Surface

y roommate is teaching me how to swim. When I say that to people, they mostly respond incredulously, “You don’t know how to swim?!” But the truth is that I do, just on an extremely cursory level. As in, I passed my swim test, but probably couldn’t successfully complete more than those three lengths of the pool. As in, I haven’t quite mastered the art of breathing, in air or in water, and frequently feel like I’m drowning when I do happen to find myself in a swimming situation.

I grew up in a lake community, and from basically birth until fifth grade, every summer I was forced to take swim lessons. My sister, because she complained constantly and refused to get in the water at many of said lessons, was made to take supplemental lessons at the local Y, so that she could attain the swimming proficiency necessary for my mother to read a book on a beach blanket instead of constantly watching us at the water’s edge. I, on the other hand, quietly went about my swim lesson business, completeling what was required of me and nothing more. Because the lessons were usually taught by local teenagers, who wanted to be there perhaps even less than my 10-year-old self did, we spent many of the lessons treading water for what seemed like hours, as they chatted

I truly believed that I would become, if not an expert, extremely knowledgable in one field. College seemed like a time to specialize, to learn deeply rather than broadly. on the docks about whatever mystical nonsense teenagers discuss.

This is all just to say that I am perfectly proficient at not drowning, but the finer elements of swimming escape me. So, I am trying to learn.

As the date of my graduation too rapidly approaches, I’ve been thinking about what Cornell has taught me. In many cases, these lessons are real and profound. However, in many other cases, I have learned, as I did in my elementary school swimming lessons, how to do just enough to get by.

When I was a high school senior, looking forward to my future at college, I truly believed that I would become, if not an expert, extremely knowledgeable in one field. College seemed like the time to specialize, to learn deeply rather than broadly, to move toward expertise. Instead, I have learned how to start studying the day before a test and still get an A. I have learned which classes and which professors require participation and attendance, and which read directly from the textbook during lecture. I have mastered this environment, while mastering shockingly little actual content. The other day, I was talking to my friend, an English major, who expressed the same sentiment. She thought she’d be reading all of the classics of modern literature, leaving Cornell with a complete and total background in her field. Instead, the past four years were full of late nights finishing essays that could have been better if done at 4pm rather than 4am, discussion sections pretending to have read the chapters assigned for that week, entire papers written on books never completely read.

When I studied abroad in Paris, I took a film course, and everyone in my class was a film major. In the university system there, students only take classes in their major, so each person in the course was a sophomore studying film, and had taken all film classes, with all film majors, for the past two years. They had watched every film we discussed in class, whereas I had only seen or even heard of a couple. They could point out the style of certain directors, cinematographers, actors, from a three-minute clip. But when I talked to them about what I was studying, or anything else — theatre, history, biology — they had almost nothing to contribute.

So, while the past four years have been challenging, mentally taxing years, during which I actually did a significantly lower portion of my readings than I will readily admit to anyone, I have learned broadly. I took a philosophy class on religion, some theatre classes, a few anthropology ones, some math, some human development. I will be the first to admit that today, I could not pass a test in any of these topics if my life depended on it. But still, at one point I could have. And more than the content of any of these courses, I was exposed to so many different ways of thinking and communicating.

Different professors and students in different disciplines solve problems in different ways, think in different patterns and even write papers in drastically different styles. It has been a pleasure to be a part of so many of these thought processes, even in a small way, and I don’t regret that I learned so broadly: depth will come. For now, against all of my expectations, I might have received a liberal arts education.

Sarah Byrne is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She be reached at sbyrne@cornellsun.com. Let It Byrne appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Her Meneutics

Lessons We Have Not Learned

verywhere we go, we year’s dealings in the Middle seem to be inundated East have also put our national with the number 150. inequalities in check in regards This three-digit number beck- to anti-Semitism. And then ons us to celebrate and com- there’s Indiana’s Religious mend the successes of this insti- Freedom Law that has quickly tution and the many luminaries become a topic of great conwho have read and pondered in tention since it was legalized these very classrooms. From the earlier this month with another moment I read my acceptance backwards step for American letter to my final strides during progress, progress that has mitmy last semester here, “sesqui- igated its meaning tremendouscentennial” has been written on ly in the past year. It’s a backevery message directed towards wards step for all religious, or this year’s graduating class, even nominally religious, every University-sponsored Americans.

I want to position all of event, every piece of garment in the Cornell Store (and every- these issues together — not to thing else in there for that mat- qualitatively compare the ter) and the ridiculously large Jewish experience with the experience, the and stratospherically-priced Black diploma frames in the store as Arab/Palestinian experience well — as if our diploma didn’t with the Jewish experience or cost us an arm and a leg at all maybe even the red America already. “150” has shown itself experience with blue America’s in almost every shape, form and — but to say that, as a hashtag (#150events) — and in Cornellian, these are all issues this flood of sesquicentennial that we should all be thinking markers, we become numb about and working through, towards how we should be real- especially as we approach not ly thinking about the last 150 just the sesquicentennial celebration of our University’s years.

Now, there’s much to cele- charter day, but the sesquicenbrate. Cornell has given so tennial of a war that was fought much to the world in the last to better the current and future 150 years. And as cynical as experiences of all of America’s most of us usually are a b o u t Cornell’s insti- As we’re surrounded by tutional prob- sesquicentennial flags which lems, we can’t denote our achievements, I want to discredit the many laudable ask you to think of our nation’s feats of the shortcomings. many academics and alums who have inspired us to marginalized.

And Indiana’s Religious apply to Cornell in the first place (It was Nabokov and Nye Freedom Law is the most recent who sealed the deal for me). example of social regression and But there’s more that has hap- of a hindrance towards the pened — or rather hasn’t hap- national reconstruction that is pened, — in the last 150 years already severely lagging. Much of the nation seemed repulsed that can’t be celebrated.

Today is April 15, 2015. at hearing this news; but it isn’t General Lee surrendered to the to say that there is also a much Union at McLean House on too large group of people in this April 9, 1865. And five days country who feel compelled to later in the same year, John legitimize this piece of legislaWilkes Booth passed through a tion.

In “Interview With a sad excuse for a presidential bodyguard and fired a shot into Christian,” New York Time’s the head of one of the most Ross Douthat asks why it is beloved thinkers and influential that some Christians can’t simleaders of American history. ply bury the hatchet with issues With the win at McLean and of race and marriage, the the death of the leader that Christian (who remains anonyspurred the win, the country mous) responds, “It’s not that was still scrambling to fight for simple. The debate about race individual rights, liberty and was very specific to America, freedom.

Yes, the modernity, the South. (Bans on Reconstruction Amendments interracial marriage were generhad paved the way for the pro- ally a white supremacist innotection of slaves and their vation, not an inheritance from human and citizen rights. But Christendom or common the country was still in need of law.)”

But the Religious Freedom further construction and amendments to our perspec- law does not necessarily put the spotlight on the issue of white tives.

I don’t need to remind you supremacy, rather on moral why this brief history lesson is supremacy. The Christian in needed in light of Ferguson and the interview says that the the ripples of national and clearest biblical metanarrative is international discussion it has about male and female. But as a created in the past year. Last Christian myself, I disagree

with this rather reductive interpretation of this metanarrative only because there is an even clearer metanarrative in the Bible that he/she is overlooking.

In his epistle to the Romans, Saint Paul famously writes, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 8:23). The entirety of the Bible encapsulates the great metanarrative of God’s acceptance of all peoples — for there “is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female” with God (Galatians 3:28).

Throughout the Bible, God is clear about the fact that he scorns adulterers, crooks and cheaters as well through the numerous parables and illustrations. But we all know that the religious freedom law is not really out the get the adulterers, crooks and cheaters of society. The law is a contortion of Biblical truths to create a flimsy excuse for religious freedom; the law instead reeks of homophobia.

I am of the school of thought that believes evangelicals have gotten a lot of undeserved censure over the years.

However, there is a reason why so much of the country has lost its appetite for outward religious piety, especially when it is used to sugarcoat an undercurrent of narrow-minded hate and discrimination.

As we’re surrounded by sesquicentennial flags which denote our achievements, I want to ask you to think of our nation’s shortcomings. In Lincoln’s final public address a couple days after Lee’s surrender, he said: “Unlike a case of a war between independent nations, there is no authorized organ for us to treat with. No one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.

We simply must begin with, and mould from, disorganized and discordant elements.”

We remind ourselves of history to contextualize our current struggles. As individuals, we are all mustering and moulding a better version of ourselves from discordant elements. In a similar spirit, this nation is still undergoing reconstruction. It may be hard to see with the many skyscrapers that make up our nation’s many grand cityscapes; but at the bottom lies many foundational problems that need fixing.

Teresa Kim is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tkim@cornellsun.com. Her Meneutics appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

ASTRONOMY

MICROBIOLOGY

Science ArounD Ithaca

James Stevenson grad, Profs Test For Possibility of Life on Saturn’s Moon JIM WILSON / THE NEW YORK TIMES

By REEM KHONDAKAR Sun Staff Writer

Though it is located more than 800 million miles from the Sun, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might be the next best bet for life in our solar system.

According to Ph.D. candidate James Stevenson grad, Titan not only boasts well-below freezing temperatures but also has one of the most similar terrains of all the planets and moons in our solar system to Earth.

“The whole system is more Earth-like than any other planet or moon that we have seen,” Stevenson said. “The only real difference is that it is a different liquid that is moving around.”

According to Stephenson, that liquid is methane — and comes in lakes and rivers just like water on Earth. Other similarities, such as an atmosphere predominantly made of nitrogen, has led to research focusing on whether or not life could be supported on Titan.

Most recently, Stevenson workedwith

Prof. Paulette Clancy, chemical engineering, and Prof. Jonathan Lunine, astronomy, to create a membrane that simulates life on the distant moon. Their their findings were published in Science Advances in

made solely of the elements known to exist on Titan: hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen.

Unlike cell membranes found on earth, which are made of polar phosphate heads and hydrocarbon tails, the azoto-

“The whole system is more Earthlike than any other planet or moon that we have seen.”

James Stevenson grad

February.

Using a tool called molecular dynamics simulation, Stevenson created what he calls an “azotosome,” a cell membrane

some is made of polar nitrogen heads and hydrocarbon tails. According to Stevenson, it is approximately the size of a small virus. The nonpolar tails of the azotosome face the nonpolar environment of Titan, while the polar nitrogen heads “interlock” together, Stevenson said.

Stevenson said it was crucial to account for

found the flexibility of the azotosome to be similar to the flexibility of a cell membrane on earth.

“You would expect the stiffness to be much greater, but it turns out that the weak interactions in the azotosome balance with the low temperature, so you get something that acts like an earth cell membrane,” Stevenson said. “That blew me away.”

Nevertheless, discovering a membrane that could exist on Titan does not necessarily mean that life truly exists there, according to Stevenson.

“There are three things necessary for life: encapsulation, an energy source and the ability to reproduce,” Stevenson said.

While the process of reproduction is still a mystery, Stevenson said it is possible that life on Titan could be consuming hydrogen as an energy source — analogous to how animals consume oxygen.

Investigating the properties of life on Titan could advance the potential to go out and find life there, according to Stevenson.

“We are hoping there will be another NASA mission to Titan,” Stevenson said.

According to NASA, the proposed mission is called the Titan Mare Explorer and would sail in Titan’s methane seas, sampling them for organic life.

“Depending on what type of chemistry we think there is, we can put different instruments on this mobile chemistry lab,” Stevenson said.

By accurately predicting

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Membrane model | The cell membrane known as an “azotosome” was created to test whether life could exist on Titan. Each specimen measures nine nanometers in diamater, about the size of a small virus.

Titan’s unique environment — methane rainstorms, no oxygen in its atmosphere and extreme cold — when creating the model.

Given that Titan’s surface temperature is 94 Kelvin, approximately onethird of Earth’s surface temperature (290 Kelvin) the stiffness of a cell membrane on Titan would be predicted to be exponentially larger than Earth’s, according to Stevenson. Yet to his surprise, his investigations using molecular dynamics simulation

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what kind of life exists on Titan, the researchers can send the right instruments on the next NASA mission, advancing the possibility of actually seeing what life — if it exists — is like on Titan.

Reem Khondakar can be reached at rkhondakar@cornellsun.com.

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Science Around Ithaca Undergraduate Research Fair Wednesday, April 15, from 1 - 5 p.m.

Willard Straight Hall Undergraduate research opportunities from across campus will be represented at tables in Willard Straight Hall.

— Noah Rankin

Engineering the Symbiotic Signalling Pathways of Cereals

Natural Areas Academy: Dig In! Saturday, April 15, from 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Nevin Welcome Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Rd. The Cornell Plantations’ Natural Areas Academy invites those who are passionate about protecting natural areas to a series of workshops focused on activities such as creating a rain garden, invasive species control, native plants and site preparation. Pre-registration is required.

— Noah Rankin

Wednesday, April 15, at 4 p.m.

B25 Warren Hall Prof. Giles Oldroyd, a plant scientist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England, will deliver a seminar discussing how signalling mechanisms and nitrogen-fixing capabilities of legumes can be transferred to cereal crops, aiding small-holder farmers in places such as SubSaharan Africa.

— Noah Rankin

The Young and the Restless Stars Thursday, April 16, from 4 - 5 p.m.

105 Space Sciences Building Delivered by Prof. Lynne Hillenbrand, astronomy, California Institute of Technology, this talk will focus on young stars, which are associated with regions of recent star formation that can be studied across “almost the entire electromagnetic spectrum.”

— Noah Rankin

Yeah, We’ve been around a long time

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

The Original Sun Staff

To Bee or Not to Bee? That Is the Question Tuesday, April 21, at 7 p.m.

Lot 10 Bar and Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St. Ithaca’s Science Cabaret will be hosting an interactive discussion about honey bee declines and the underlying causes of “colony collapse disorder” at Lot 10.

Prof. Bryan Danforth, etymology, will talk about his research on wild bee diversity and the role of wild bees in agricultural pollination.

According to Science Cabaret’s website, a “sweet treat” will be provided at the free event.

— Noah Rankin

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Devil Inside Netflix: Daredevil Season One

BY MARISSA TRANQUILLI Sun Staff Writer

I have sustained a certain belief for the past few years that, as superhero companies, Marvel is the king of the big screen while DC dominates the small screen. Marvel has adopted a step-wise, highly crafted methodology to their filmmaking. It’s gotten to the point where they can pull off movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Big Hero 6 and still hit the nail on the head. DC seems to be rushing the whole Justice League franchise, but their small screen servings have been stellar: Arrow, The Flash, Constantine, Gotham. In terms of TV, Marvel’s Agents of Shield and Agent Carter just weren’t on the same level as the DC masterpieces.

On Friday, my system of beliefs was turned on its head when Netflix released a 13-episode season of Marvel’s Daredevil, which serves to remind us what true superhero cinematography is supposed to be.

Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) is a lawyer who works with his partner Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) to defend the improperly accused. By day, he uses the law to protect the innocent. By night, he evades the law to punish the guilty as the vigilante hero Daredevil. He uses no magic hammers, bows and arrows, iron suits or guns. Daredevil, a fighter in every sense of the word, tends to stick to sticks and his fists. And, to top it off, he also happens to be blind.

This handicap, however — having been given to him by a vat of toxic waste — is perhaps his greatest strength, because it heightens his other senses to a terrifying degree.

The beauty of this show, however, does not lie in its genre or its origin story. It comes from its storytelling, cinematography and acting. The opening credits were the first thing that struck me with Daredevil’s haunting beauty. The music, building as it goes, evokes emotion that I have never felt in an opening credit scene. The violin- and piano-heavy piece calls upon sadness, an aspect of horror and a chilling tension building throughout. This music plays over a red-screened background upon which dripping red wax figures are created in the air: A blind judge, a melting city, a suspended bridge, a weeping angel turned away from a church and the figure of Daredevil himself.

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The next part of the show that struck me was the caliber of acting. Cox, known for movies such as Stardust and The Theory of Everything, takes the twisted vigilante to a level which the likes of Stephen Amell of the show Arrow could only dream of. Cox neither overacts nor underacts: He is on point with every aspect of Matt Murdock as well as Daredevil. The supporting cast rallies behind him without a single weak link. Boasting seasoned film actors such as Ayelet Zurer and Rosario Dawson, the entire cast shined. And then there was Vincent D'Onofrio in the role of crime lord Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin. Season one was just as much as origin story for Kingpin as it was for Daredevil. His motivations, dealings, backstory and evolution were touched upon nearly as much as those of Matt Murdock, and D’Onofrio made the character.

At first, I spent the season disappointed in Matt Murdock’s lack of romantic involvement. It took me a while to realize, though, that our hero’s singleness was purposeful. Murdock was not yet in a place where he could healthily or even plausibly maintain a semblance of a relationship.

However, Romantics in the audience shouldn’t fear, for there is in fact a central relationship to the plot. It is masterfully accomplished, vital to the show’s plot and something that has truly been missing from almost every superhero saga to date: A love story for the villain. Historically, the villain may be allowed to kidnap women, lose a loved one and go insane or have underlying romantic motivations, but no villain ever gets his own love story. That is, until we see Kingpin’s in this first season.

Daredevil also masterfully deals with dramatization.

With thirteen hours of wiggle room, the show manages to dramatize when need be while keeping you from feeling like you are watching The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Most of the time, the drama means violence, and a lot of it. There are killings, beatings and fights, most of which are primarily hand to hand combat, leaving us with very few out and out shootings.

Lives are seldom finished off by a quick neck snapping. Rather, it’s all heads in car doors, stranglings, heads bashed against walls and knives in the eye.

It is a dark, troubling show at many points.

There are many fight scenes that

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are amazingly choreographed and skillfully filmed throughout the series, but the hallway fight scene at the end of episode two will leave you breathless. It one-ups every other fight in terms of cinematography and choreography. It is so powerful for two main reasons. The first is what’s left unseen. The fight transitions between a hallway into two subsequent rooms, while the camera never leaves the hallway. As Daredevil can teach us, what is not seen can have a far greater impact than what is. The second is the humanity given to Matt in this fight. Injured and exhausted coming in, he constantly leans against the wall or lays on the ground when his opponents are down for a few seconds. He ends the fight by landing a final punch, tripping over an unconscious body and falling off screen. His fighting style itself changes as he tires in the most human way possible, something I think other heroes tend to forget.

Then there is the question of morality first raised in episode two: Dangling a man off a building, Daredevil whispers, “I need you to know why I’m hurting you. It’s not just the boy. I’m doing this because I enjoy it.” Of course the hero says this to get a rise out of the man he is torturing, but the idea of Matt needing to hurt people, trying to figure out where the line is, isn’t entirely left alone. This question of morality, and those of internal, external and spiritual conflicts, are explored throughout the show. And that is Daredevil.

I have spent the last six years or so of my life believing that I knew superheroes. I thought that I truly understood superhero films and TV series. Until now, though, I didn’t realize what had been missing. Daredevil isn’t a superhero show: It is a genre defining, gritty, haunting new chapter in television.

Marissa Tranquilli is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at mtranquilli@cornellsun.com.

Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival:

COURTESY OF DAN SMALLS PRESENTS

The first ever Ithaca Pan Asian American Film Festival will be screening films by, for and about Asian Americans at Ithaca College between April 20 and 24. Plus, it’s free!

You Can’t Take It With You: Ithaca College Theatre will be wrapping up the 2014-15 season with the Pulitzer Prize winning You Can’t Take It With You. The show runs till April 25, and tickets can be purchased online.

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A Royal Mess: E!’s The Royals

BY RADHI PARIKH Sun Staff Writer

E!’s first scripted drama follows a fictitious and scandalous royal family. It comes as no surprise, as E! already has one famous series about a royal family living their life in the public eye in the era of social media: Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The Royals’ creator, Mark Scwahn, is most famous for creating One Tree Hill. Royals is meant to be a soap opera about the Royal Family. And, following the general lax rules of soap opera reality, almost anything can happen. That is, as long as the audience cares about the characters.

Unfortunately, it is really hard to do so. The show loves the juxtaposition of public duty against private life. The first few minutes of the premiere open with the playboy Prince Liam sleeping with the daughter of the head of security (or as the Queen calls her, “The Help”). Princess Eleanor creates a drunk spectacle and ultimately falls off of a table at a nightclub, leading to her “vagina being on no less than the cover of four tabloids.” The episode then takes a sharp and sad turn — Prince Robert, the family’s oldest son, is killed. Prince Liam is now in line to be the next King of England.

It’s a good twist, but Prince Robert feels like a plot device rather than a character. A good soap opera would allow for this family to grieve, but the Queen, King, Prince and Princess seem to be fine, as though a distant cousin, not a core member of their family, has died.

While Robert’s death would have been a perfect place to explore the concept of public and private lives with respect to how people mourn, the writers struggle to flesh out the characters in a way that makes them seem believable. The Queen (Elizabeth Hurley) continues to insult her living two children as they sit in the limo on the way to their brother’s funeral. There’s no understanding as to why this family is so awful to each other, and the audience feels isolated because of how little the characters seem to like each

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other or themselves.

Elizabeth Hurley is brilliantly cast at the matriarch and Queen. She has the right looks and demeanor.

Unfortunately, that is where the good news ends. She is obviously having fun delivering her zingers, but neither Hurley nor the writers have done a good job of characterizing her as anything other than an icy bitch. You get the sense that Queen Helena is supposed to be a character with whom you should sympathize, but her treatment of her children, her husband and the people is so atrocious that it’s difficult to sympathize with her. The Queen doesn’t

n’t drink tea, but instead dirty chai with soy. This is perhaps the only thing we learn about her over the course of 5 episodes, and it is her only defining character trait.

Patterson and Moseley have terrible chemistry, which is unfortunate because their relationship seems to be the heart of the series. Patterson is by far the worst actor in the series; she’s too earnest and unbelievable. Liam’s ex-girlfriend, Gemma, also makes a return. She’s conniving, calculating and beautiful, much like Queen Helena. However, there’s something about her that seems redeemable.

Regrettably, every time a glimpse of this redemption is seen, she says something terrible and all progress that has been made with the character is lost.

Princess Eleanor is Liam’s twin. She’s an alcoholic, drug-addicted and sad person, even before her brother’s death. At times her unhappiness with her life is extremely difficult to relate to and she can come off as a spoiled brat with no talents. However, it is subtly shown that she is quite intelligent and possibly even kind. Of all the characters, she seems to be the least flat. She grabs the most humane moments of the show, like that in which her father tells her that he sees greatness in her and not to medicate it away, and later where she sits at her brother’s grave and sobs.

For a show that really wants to focus on the juxtaposition of the private/public life of stars, they forget to show us their public life. The reason it’s so fun to follow the actual royal family is because they are COURTESY OF E! so perfect and poised and you have to turn to the need to be likable, but she at least needs to be understand- tabloids for any signs of chaos in their lives. Royals’ characters seem to conduct themselves in public as they do privateable, and we are supplied with no motive for her iciness.

Her husband, King Simon, is quiet, reserved, kind and ly, making it hard for the audience to remain interested.

The show has been green lighted for a second season sad. He is the only character who seems to be a decent human being. This would seem like a nice break from the already, giving the actors and writers time to work on makrest of these royal pains, but it actually makes him stand ing the characters more likable and interesting. Royals has out when he doesn’t interact with the rest of his family in a lot of work to do before it becomes a staple guilty-pleasure show. a convincing way.

Prince Liam (William Moseley) is our classic irresponsible playboy prince. He’s sleeping with an employee, Radhi Parikh is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Ophelia (Merritt Patterson). She’s half American and does- Relations. She can be reached at rparikh@cornellsun.com.

Firemen and Firemovies

irefighters are among my favorite men and women in this world. They are not only kind and wonderful people who rescue cats from tall trees, but they risk their lives for us on a regular basis. We were all reminded of that early on Tuesday when the Ithaca Fire Department did just that, and the entire Cornell community could not be more thankful. I live around the corner from The Chapter House, and while I am sad that my favorite Collegetown bar will not be serving drinks in the near future, I am incredibly grateful that no one was injured in the fire that struck the 400 block of Stewart Avenue.

Howard classic. Backdraft is not the most profound film, but it’s action-packed and entertaining. Fun fact: It’s the highest grossing movie about firefighters. There also used to be a Backdraft ride at Universal Studios Hollywood which I thoroughly enjoyed long before I knew it was based on a movie. If you haven’t seen it, you probably should.

Roxanne, 1987 I don’t know if I would really qualify Roxanne as a firefighter movie, but it is fantastic and Steve Martin does play a firefighter. So I’m including it. Roxanne is a modern adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac (which, if you weren’t forced to read it in middle school, there’s a pretty good movie of with Gerard Depardieu.) Steve Martin plays a firefighter with a huge nose and an Carrot Top equally huge insecurity about said nose with a crush Confessions on a woman named Roxanne (Daryl Hannah).

In honor of these fine men and Martin therefore allows some other dude women, I’m going to do the only thing I to use his love letters in order to woo can as a columnist for the Arts & Roxanne. Shenanigans ensue.

Entertainment section of this paper: Recommend five firemen-themed movies Rescue Me, 2004-2011 This binge-worthy television show and TV shows that you should watch as you begin procrastinating all the final stars Denis Leary, who is a wonderful and hilarious human being and actor. If projects and papers that loom ahead. you doubt this, watch his interviews with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, Backdraft, 1991 I mean, there couldn’t really be a list of and listen to his hit song “Asshole.” firefighter movies without Backdraft. It is Rescue Me is primarily a drama about the first one that comes to mind on the the lives of a group of New York City topic, and for good reason. Kurt Russell, firemen, but it does a wonderful job of Robert DeNiro and one of non-Alec balancing the harsh realities of the lives Baldwins, are all fantastic in this Ron of post-9/11 firemen and the dark com-

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edy that Leary does so well.

The Firemen’s Ball, 1967 This Czech comedy, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is about a group of firemen in a small town in former Czechoslovakia attempting to put on a beauty pageant. The film was banned for its allegorical commentary about the communist regime, but even outside the politics of Firemen’s Ball, it’s a hilarious movie about which Roger Ebert wrote, “This is a very warm, funny movie, and perhaps the best way you could spend an evening in a theater just now. It is a relief to find a director who doesn't force his material, who trusts us to understand what's funny without being told.”

Seconded, Roger.

Ball of Fire, 1941 Okay, so this one is not actually about fire or firemen in any capacity, but I feel like I can sneak it in this list because of the title. Whatever. I’m a second semester senior, and therefore stopped caring long

ago. Ball of Fire is an amazing movie and everyone should watch it. In it, Gary Cooper plays a nerdy lexicographer who wants to study the modern slang of sassy night club singer “Sugarpuss” O’Shea, played by the effervescent Barbara Stanwyck, whom he winds up hiding from the mob. It was written by Billy Wilder, also responsible for Some Like it Hot and a litany of other excellent films.

Ball of Fire may not have anything to do with firemen, but it will lift your spirits after you remember that you won’t be able to meet your friends for a beer at Chapter House anytime soon. At home, or another establishment that serves alcohol (sparkling cider for those of you under 21 of course), raise a glass to the Ithaca Fire Department and all the people and cats whose lives they protect.

Julia Moser is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com. Carrot Top Confessions runs alternate Fridays this semester.

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SPORTS

Winkler Sets School Record for Hammer Throw Red Defeats C.U. athletes perform well across the board in invitationals at Bucknell,GMU

By RACHEL CHERNER Sun Staff Writer

This past weekend, the track and field team left Cornell to compete in the Bucknell Bison Spring Classic and the George Mason Spring Invitational. The men’s team performed well to record 14 IC4A qualifiers, a school record in the hammer throw, a Bucknell facility record in the discus and an all-time Top-10 school performance in the 1500m.

In throwing, sophomore Rudy Winkler qualified for IC4A’s and broke the school record for the hammer on his fifth throw and again on his sixth throw, hitting 214’ 3”. In the discus event, senior Stephen Mozia broke his own facility record with a throw of 191’9”. No competitors were within 20’ of him.

For distance events, the 4x800 team placed fifth with a time of 7:51.53. Junior Ben Rainero earned No. 5 in all-time school history in the 1500m event, placing fifth overall with a time of 3:45.81, qualifying for IC4As. In the steeplechase, freshman Dom DeLuca placed fourth, qualifying for IC4As. Sophomore David Taylor placed sixth in the 10,000 with a personal record of 30:12.16 and an IC4A qualifica-

tion while fellow sophomore Zack Israel earned his first IC4A qualifier by placing 16th.

Senior Keith Rayburn and sophomore Grant Sisserson placed first and second in the pole vault, respectively with a mutual clearance height of 15’ 2 3/4”.

In their Saturday competition at the George Mason Spring Invitational, the men also had some high scoring marks including sophomore Wynn Curtis’s performance in the 110m hurdles, finishing third in the finals. In the 400m hurdles, sophomore Jordan Sherwood placed sixth.

Senior captain, Francisco Olloqui ran 49.88 in the 400m event, while teammate James Gowans placed 11th in the 800m with a time of 1:52.49. In the high jump, freshman Myles Lazarou and junior Stephen Afadapa placed second and third, respectively, at 6’ 8 1/4”.

The women’s team stayed at Bucknell for the weekend’s competitions, collecting four event wins, 25 Top-10 event showings, 11 ECAC qualifiers and two alterations to the school Top-10 lists in the 4x100 and 4x400.

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Junior Claire DeVoe began the weekend on a positive note by earning first in the 3000m steeplechase with her seasonal best time of 10:29.08. On Saturday morning, the 4x100m quartet of sophomore Adrian Jones, junior Udeme Akpaete, senior co-captain Zena Kolliesuah, and senior co-captain Katie Woodford ran 45.57 to win by over one second and earned the second best performance in school history.

After the 4x100m, senior co-captain Elyse Wilkinson claimed a victory in the 800m, running a seasonal best 2:08.97.

Freshman Shannon Hugard earned second place in the event running a personal record of 2:09.81.

In the final event win for the Red women, Cornell closed out the meet with a Bucknell facility record by over three seconds in the 4x400m. The line-up of Katie Woodord, Kolliesuah, Wilkinson and Akpaete ran a 3:36.26, good for fourth alltime in program history.

Up next for the men is the Sam Howell Invitational at Princeton. Both teams have the Upstate Challenge Saturday.

Rachel Cherner can be reached at rcherner@cornellsun.com.

Brown,Falls To Yale U. in Close Match W. TENNIS

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under the pressure. We need to just play freely and take it one point at a time, and not worry about the outcome of the match as much.”

According to Cusick, the Red looks to continue to develop and bring a new level of intensity and competition into each and every match.

“In order for your team to be even more competitive, we need to continue working hard in practice, as well as keeping the same level of intensity that we have been showing in our matches,” she said. “I feel that our enthusiasm and passion makes us an even stronger team.”

“This season has been really exciting. Obviously it’s a big turnaround from last year’s Ivy League season,” Tanenbaum said. “Overall as a team, we’re just having a lot of fun going through the process together and win or lose everyone is giving it their all. There’s not really much more you could want from a team.”

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Women Split Ivy League Games

Strong performance in doubles matchups helps Cornell beat Brown fought so hard and, although we lost the match, it was a really awesome match to watch and be a part of.”

Junior Jane Stewart also complimented the Red’s This past weekend the Cornell women’s tennis team effort in the game against the Bulldogs.

“I think everyone worked really hard out there and the competed at Brown and then again the following day at Yale. The Red (9-7, 3-2 Ivy) split the weekend with a 4- deciding match was determined in a third set, indicating 3 win over Brown and a 4-3 loss to Yale. Both matches how close the competition was,” she said. “I think we all were incredibly close with the Red in contention for each learned a lot for our last two Ivy matches and I think our and every point. The women’s tennis team continues to loss to Yale will inspire us in both remaining matches. look like a force within the Ivy League, according to We're increasingly hungry.”

The attitude and determination of junior captain Dena this year’s team is unmatched, according Tanenbaum. to sophomore Marika Cusick. The “I felt that the team com- “Our team competed really well women have a fierce determination and peted really well. Away this weekend at Brown and its evident in their results thus far this matches are always tough, Yale. I feel that all of our hard year. [especially] adjusting to the “Our team competed really well this other team's atmosphere and work throughout the year is weekend at Brown and Yale. I feel that crowd,” Tanenbaum said. “I showing in our performances.” all of our hard work throughout the thought everyone handled it year is showing in our performances,” really well. Brown was obviMarika Cusick Cusick said. ously a good win for us and it Against Yale, the Red started with a was nice to get the clinch win in doubles, but was unable to complete the victory early before fifth and sixth singles went on.”

“In the Brown match, the turning point was Marika dropping four of six single matchups.

“I think we need to keep up the energy and positivi[Cusick's] winning the first set against [Brown’s Hanna] Camhi in a tiebreak,” said freshman Lizzie Stewart. ty,” Jane Stewart said. “We’ve been strong in doubles, but “Marika has played Hannah so many times and has we need to have that same dominance in singles. We have struggled in the past. Winning this close set gave Cornell to start out our singles matches playing aggressively and maintain that even when the sets become tight. I think the momentum.”

In the match against the Bears, Stewart was able to we could all improve our confidence in the close matchsuccessfully seal the Red’s win over Brown with a victory es.”

Tanenbaum said she agreed with Stewart. in the No. 4 singles.

“We just need to focus on the mental aspect of the The match against Yale was close, but eventually, game and dealing with pressure,” she said. “A lot of times Cornell couldn’t hang on for the victory.

“Yale was a really tough match, but we fought hard to the matches are really close and evenly matched talentthe end. It was a tied match with one court still on, wise, and what it comes down to is who stays cooler which makes it really exciting and nerve-racking,” See W. TENNIS page 14 Tanenbaum said. “Alex [D’Ascenzo] played so well and

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MEN’S TENNIS

Cornell Sweeps Brown, Beats Yale 5-2

By JESSICA BROFSKY Sun Staff Writer

The Red’s last two wins against Brown and Yale put it in a three-match winning streak going into its final two Ivy matches against the Quakers and the Tigers. The win against Brown, 7-0, this past Saturday marks the first time in nine years that Cornell has swept an Ivy victory. The team had last achieved this on April 8, 2006, in a match against Dartmouth. This is the first time all season that Brown has lost a match 7-0.

“It felt great,” said senior Sam Fleck said on beating Brown. “It’s very rare to beat an Ivy team 7-0 as the matches are usually very close. It was certainly a thrilling win for everyone.”

Against Brown, senior Alex Sidney and sophomore Chris Vrabel won their matches in straight sets. Sophomore Bernardo Casares Rosa and junior Stefan Vinti won their matches in tiebreakers.

Cornell played Yale on Sunday and beat the Bulldogs, 52. Vrabel had his 13th consecutive win of the season in singles. This also marked the Red’s first outdoor match of the season and its third consecutive Ivy win.

“It was great to play outside against Yale,” Fleck said, who won in straight sets at No. 1 singles. “It was our first outside match of the season and we all really enjoyed it. We didn't let the change of conditions affect us — we did well to take it in stride having barely trained outdoors all year.”

Not only was this match outside, but the Red also played in Ithaca on its home court.

“We had a great atmosphere in both matches,” Fleck said. “We managed to bring quite a lot of friends and family to the match and the support really helped. It definitely positively affects us and negatively affects the opposition.”

The Red will travel to Philadelphia on Friday for its match against Penn and will then return for the final home match of the season. The team hopes to once again take advantage of its home court advantage.

“Hopefully we can draw even bigger crowds to our final home match against Princeton on senior day as we push for an NCAA tournament bid,” Fleck said.

The team is looking to add two more wins to its streak.

Though Fleck said he acknowledges the wins will be tough to accomplish, he added that the team has been training very hard all season for this.

“We played Princeton earlier this year and lost in an extremely tight match so we are definitely looking for revenge there,” Fleck said. “We will take it one match at a time, however, as we know Penn is a tough opponent, too . . . We’re hoping to make it five straight wins to close out the season this weekend.”

Jessica Brofsky can be reached at jbrofsky@cornellsun.com.

The Growth Of Competitive Eating DUBNOV

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following the events at the Nathan’s contest in 2001, when a 130-pound Japanese man named Takeru Kobayashi smashed the previous record of hot dogs eaten by doubling the record from 25 to 50. A star was born, and so was the premier competitive eating content. For six consecutive years, Kobayashi took home the championship and became a household name for his maniacal eating ability.

In 2007, a new star was born. A construction engineer from California by the name of Joey Chestnut burst onto the scene of competitive eating after he beat Kobayashi at the Nathan’s contest. Since then, Chestnut, who has become, in some sense an American hero, has taken home the hot dog crown and the world record of 69 dogs in 10 minutes.

From year to year, the competition has evolved. New competitors come onto the scene

Don’t get me wrong, it is a lot of fun to watch people race to shove food down or kick back and watch some Man vs. Food their stomachs but let’s reserve the label of a sport to real sports. and the rules are revised to create a better spectacle. Events for all different types of food types pop up across the world and the best eaters travel to those places to take their stab at the title.

However, with the growth of competitive eating as a “sport,” many safety concerns have come up. Obviously the extreme consumption of any food or beverage is harmful, but what makes it even more worrisome is that competitive eating “athletes” have to go to extremely dangerous depths to be the best at what they are good at.

To train to become the best at competitive eating, the participants needs to learn how to control one basic human body response. A regular gag reflex is expected to occur when a person consumes too much food too quickly. It is the natural response to warn a person that consumption levels of the food are dangerous.

After overcoming that initial reflex, the “athletes” have to train by consuming unhealthy amounts of food. Studies have shown that longtime competitive eaters live with elevated cholesterol and blood pressure levels.

Additionally, ulcers and stomach paralysis are common to occur to these competitors.

Competitive eaters can be considered to be like other athletes in the sense of their extreme training techniques to reach the highest podium. However, the nature of the training is not healthy and damaging. That’s why the “sport” of competitive eating should be called into question.

Is competitive eating a sport or an entertaining spectacle? I would argue that it would be best to leave the sport label to true athletes.

The same goes for activities like gaming, which some people confuse for sports. Additionally, competitive eating has roots in American culture. It has come a long way from county fairs to being a part of the celebration on the birth of the nation. However, is it constructive to have such displays of gluttony associated with the American sports culture? Don’t get me wrong, it is a lot of fun to watch people race to shove food down their stomachs or kick back and watch some episodes of Man vs. Food, but let’s reserve the label of a sport to real sports.

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Ivy League sweep | Cornell men’s tennis blanked Brown by winning all seven of its matches.

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.

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LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING

Lightweight Crew ContinuesWinning Ways

By HANNAH NOYES Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s lightweight rowing team came out of this past weekend with two more wins to add to an already successful season thus far. The men finished at a strong first place over Princeton to win the Platt Cup for the fourth straight time. Additionally, the men took to their boats Sunday morning for a regatta against Yale University. The team finished first in all six races against the Bulldogs.

The team has been one of Cornell’s best teams so far this season with 10 wins out of the last 12 races, according to head coach Chris Kerber.

“I think we were looking for a strong performance from top to bottom,” said senior captain Ray Richhart.

“We really pride ourselves on the depth of our team and it's always a good sign when we can come away from a weekend like this with wins in every boat.”

Winning is not a new feeling for the team; Richhart and fellow senior captain Christopher Rogers, recall last season’s championship title. According to Rogers the mentality of a front-running team gives Cornell an edge when participating in races.

“Winning races each week is just part of a training cycle that is preparing us to make another run at a League Title and National Championship in May,” he said.

For every sport, each season is different. Injuries and new members of the team fluctuate from year to year.

Luckily, the men on the lightweight team know their positive past performances have worked and that they can learn from their mistakes.

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Cruising to victory | The Red won its 10th race this season by taking the Platt Cup over the weekend.

“My boat, the second varsity, learned a tough lesson from a really bad race on Saturday against Princeton,” Richhart said. “I was really proud of the whole crew for internalizing those lessons and laying down a really solid piece against a very quick Yale crew on Sunday, which is a big boost for our confidence in that boat going forward.”

Overall, the men seem to be on the best possible track for a repeat of last season’s championship title. The rowers and coaches alike said they see victories in the future.

“Our early season speed is promising considering just two weeks on the water,” Kerber said. “We are eager to continue making progress as we prepare for the Geiger Cup and Baggeley Bowl.”

Aside from talent and hard work, the Red has one

more quality that sets them apart from its competitors.

“Since we’re coming off a national championship and a points trophy win at the Eastern Sprints last year, I think the biggest strength that we’ve had all year is our confidence,” Richhart said. “We know that if we can replicate the urgency and the drive that fueled us all spring last year, we have the talent and the preparation to make it onto the medals stand in every boat class in May. I couldn't be more excited.”

Next week, the men will pause in their season for a bye, but will continue their quest for victory the following weekend, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Geiger Cup against MIT and Columbia.

Hannah Noyes can be reached at hnoyes@cornellsun.com.

GYMNASTICS

Cornell Finishes Season at Nationals Bourgeois, Molotsky, Gage all place in Top 10 of their events

By JOEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s gymnastics team rounded off its 2014-15 season with an impressive performance a t USAG Collegiate Nationals on friday evening. All of the Red’s athletes competed in the first session of the competition, and though there were a number o f high finishes, none managed to secure a place in the event finals and USAG AllAmerica status.

One of the Red’s most impressive performances came from sophomore Alexandria Bourgeois, who scored 9.725 on vault to finish seventh.

Sophomore Elana Molotsky matched that score on bars to place seventh. Freshman Joy Gage also had a strong competition finishing eighth on the beam with a JASON NATHAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Raising the Bar | Sophomore Elana Molotsky placed seventh on the bars by scoring 9.725 at the Nationals.

9.650. “ We had a lot of great performances from seniors to freshmen alike,”

said Molotsky. “It was great to see the freshmen succeed at such a high level of competition and see the seniors cap off their careers with amazing routines. We also had four to five competitors on every event which created a great showing for Cornell.”

The Red was coming off the back of a great team-wide performance at the 2015 ECAC Gymnastics championship, where the team recorded its eighth consecutive meet over 190.000 to finish sixth. Cornell finished the day with a team score of 191.225, the fourth-highest team score of the year for the Red. The women took the time between competitions to focus on perfecting the finer details of their routines, according to Molotsky.

“To prepare for this competition we all focused on the details. We had three weeks between ECACs and Nationals and we used this time to work on the small things that would separate us from the top competitors if we did not fix them,” Molotsky said. “Since we were going as individuals instead of as a team, we tried to encourage everyone to train how they needed to feel comfortable and confident at the meet, as well as support each other.”

The effort showed as the women performed very strongly at USAG Nationals, held at the Palestra in Philadelphia. Just behind Bourgeois on the vault was junior Alicia Bair, who managed 9.675, good for 12th, while junior Sarah Schupp also qualified for the event.

Molotosky’s seventh place finish on

the bars secured her second-team USAG All-America honors, while freshman Courtney Spitzer was 20th and junior Julohn Teixeria was 27th. Freshman Anna Huang also competed.

On the beam, behind Gage, junior Kaylie Cronin was 19th, with senior Christine Wong, Huang and Spitzer also taking part.

Finishing off the meet on the floor, Gage finished highest from Cornell with 16th, while senior Samantha VanderPutten was 22nd, Teixeira 24th and Molotsky 26th.

“There were a few falls and some wobbles throughout the competition,” Molotsky said. “Although this is not what we wanted, the team was very supportive and since everything was individual for us, those who fell moved on to their next event or simply moved on to helping out our teammates.”

This competition marks the end of Cornell’s season. Throughout the season the Red strived to perform at a high level, with notable wins at the Big Red Invitational and in individual meets against Temple and SUNY-Cortland.

“Given our unexpected circumstances with surgeries and sicknesses, I think that our season went fairly well. I really think that this meet capped off our season really nicely, and gave our seniors one last chance to compete,” Bourgeois said. “What this team has done an amazing job of is always having each other’s backs and supporting everyone until the very end. Also, the enthusiasm and determination lasted through the entire season, and I can’t wait to see what happens next year.”

Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.

Eating As a Sport?

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very July 4 since 1972, crowds of hundreds gather in Coney Island in Brooklyn for the annual spectacle of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. It is a 10minute test of concentration, strength and willpower. People stand and cheer from a close proximity and judges overlook each contestant as the hot dogs are swallowed at a rapid pace.

Nikita Dubnov Nik’s Knacks In more recent years, the most prominent sports network in the United States, ESPN, has covered the festivities in a manner of a celebratory and patriotic sporting event. But, how exactly is the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest a sport?

Let’s start with the history. People need to eat. People also sometimes need to show their dominance over opponents. These two concepts come together nicely to form competitive eating. The first publicly held competitive eating events have been linked to the early 20th century, where local country fairs in the United States would hold events like pie-eating contents for the enjoyment of the general public.

Since those days of playful competition, the “sport” has come a long way. Today, competitive eating has many elements of other major sports in the United States. There are official rules, sanctioning organizations, primetime events and stars of the sport. The popularity of See DUBNOV page 15