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Before Roosevelt, C.U.Debated Other Tech Campus Sites Admins first toured different locations By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor
On March 4, 2011, a team of high-ranking Cornell administrators gathered in lower Manhattan, walked two blocks south and boarded a ferry. With less than two weeks until their
Although Cornell is now wed to Roosevelt Island through a 30-year contract, the matrimony was far from inevitable. initial proposal was due in the high-profile tech campus competition, University representatives were meeting with New York City officials to visit prime real estate. Surprising, perhaps, is that their destination was not Roosevelt Island — the small
strip of land between Manhattan and Queens on which Cornell will construct its $2 billion applied sciences campus — but Governor’s Island, a smaller island just south of Manhattan. Although Cornell is now wed to Roosevelt Island through a 30year contract, the matrimony was far from inevitable, according to emails and documents about the tech campus recently obtained by The Sun through a Freedom of Information Law request. In fact, when first considering where to propose its new school, months before submitting the final tech campus proposal, the University may not have even considered Roosevelt Island a potential suitor. On Feb. 8, 2011, the documents show, New York City officials hosted an event from 6 to 8 See TECH CAMPUS page 7
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State of the art | Though it considered other locations in New York City, the University plans to build an applied sciences and technology campus on Roosevelt Island.
NYU to build applied science campus in Brooklyn By DENNIS LIU Sun Staff Writer
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a partnership Monday with New York University and the Polytechnic Institute of New York to construct a 460,000 square foot applied science research institute in downtown Brooklyn. Known as the Center for Urban Science and Progress, the campus will be the latest addition to Bloomberg’s Applied Sciences NYC Initiative, which seeks to infuse New York’s economy with collaborative research between
universities and businesses to spur technological growth, according to a press release. The campus will be built on 370 Jay Street over the next five years, transforming the address into “a cutting-edge center for research and science that will give another huge boost to our city’s economy,” Bloomberg said at a Monday press conference. “Just like the Cornell-Technion campus, [CUSP] will spin out new startups, create new jobs and drive innovation for years to come,” Bloomberg said. See NYU page 7
Graduate Assembly Votes Down Slope Day Proposal
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Darrick Trent “Nighthawk” Evensen grad is re-elected graduate student trustee Monday. | Page 3
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Tom Moore ’14 emphasizes the benefits of learning outside the classroom, even if it requires occasionally skipping class. | Page 9
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A resolution to recruit a Graduate and Professional Student Assembly liaison to the Slope Day Programming Board, and to create a joint GPSA and SDPB working group, was rejected Monday by the GPSA, which questioned the necessity of continuing conversations about Slope Day funding. Resolution 18 –– proposed by incoming Student Assembly President Adam Gitlin ’13 and S.A. minority representative Roneal Desai
’13 –– aimed to identify ways the event could be made more valuable to the graduate student community. The GPSA turned down Resolution 18 by a vote of 10 no to 1 yes. GPSA Executive Vice President Nicole Baran grad said that she did not want to spend additional time discussing a topic that had “distracted [the GPSA] from discussing other issues like graduate professional development resources.” The resolution also recommended that the GPSA Appropriations Committee raise its
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SDPB allocation for the fall of 2013. Discussion between the GPSA and SDPB began in November, when the GPSA chose to raise its allocation of funds from the student activity to SDPB to $3.50 despite the SDPB’s request for $6, causing the SDPB to consider forcing graduate students to buy tickets for Slope Day. Slope Day proposed a compromise in which it would accept GPSA funding and charge graduate students a reduced ticket price of $7,
Record-Setting Late April Snowfall Hits Cornell Campus
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Brian Gordon ’14 chronicles Justin Bieber’s journey through Cornell Days, from meeting Denice Cassaro to seeing Cayuga’s Waiters in concert. | Page 11
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Cornell students and faculty were surprised early Monday morning by a record-breaking six inches of April snowfall that weather services failed to predict. “Everyone was caught off guard,” said Joseph M. Lalley ’94, the
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University’s Senior Director of Facilities Operations. Even at 4 a.m., the storm was still not in the forecasts of Accuweather.com and The Weather Channel, he said. By that time, one Cornell plow had already been out in the streets for three hours, Lalley said. According to Jessica See SNOW page 4
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Darrick Trent “Nighthawk” Evensen grad was re-elected as graduate student trustee in last week’s trustee election. Evensen defeated Chavez Carter grad with 1,288 votes to Carter’s 963 votes, according to final election results posted Monday by the Student Assembly. The elections were held from Monday, April 16, through Wednesday, April 18. Evan Cortens grad, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly said that Evensen’s previous experience as trustee will serve him well in his second term, which will last two years. “He has the experience necessary to get things done in a job that is often about knowing who to speak to about what, EVENSEN GRAD Cortens wrote in an email. “His relationships with President Skorton, Vice President Murphy, Chairman Harrison, and so on, will, I'm certain, ensure that the student voice at Cornell is heard loud and clear.” Undergraduate trustee Alex Bores ’13 echoed Cortens’ optimism for Evensen’s term. “Darrick was incredibly helpful to me on the Board. I look forward to having him as a partner for another year,” Bores said in an email. “We have worked well on issues ranging from student access to the Board to Collegetown housing.” In Evensen’s previous term, he said he strove to improve both diversity on campus and students’ mental health. “My work on the Trustee Task Force on Student, Faculty and Staff Diversity over the last two years has contributed to the administration’s decision to create and fill several new positions on campus that are directed toward increasing Cornell’s focus on catering to a diverse community,” Evensen said. During his previous term as graduate student trustee, Evensen said he dedicated himself to improving gorge safety –– a commitment he plans to extend into his second term. “I serve as one of two students … on the University Gorge Safety committee tasked with implementing the recommendations President Skorton has approved for improving gorge safety,” Evensen said. He has also expressed support for restructuring the Greek system. “Ever since my first Board of Trustees meeting in October 2010, I have voiced to trustees and senior administrators the importance of self-governance in the Greek system,” Evensen said. In his next term, Evensen said he will use his established relationships with trustees and senior administrators to continue to improve communication between the Board of Trustees and students and to create a more environmentally sustainable campus. “I will continue to work with the leadership of the Board of Trustees to integrate students into discussions and presentations at trustee meetings so that student perspectives can be heard on a wide range of issues,” Evensen said. Evensen emphasized that he intends to collaborate with a variety of people on campus. “Much of my work will not be pressing certain issues that I have identified are important, but rather, working to develop and then implement other great ideas that my trustee and administrator colleagues identify as part of our vision for Cornell,” Evensen said. Rebekah Foster can be reached at rfoster@cornellsun.com.
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Environmentalist Slams Oil Industry By BYRON KITTLE Sun Staff Writer
Peter Matthiessen, one of the first environmentalists to examine the potential effects of global warming, spoke out against the oil industry and the lobbying efforts of big oil corporations, such as Exxon and Shell, on Tuesday. Matthiessen, who has been awarded three National Book Awards and has written more than 30 fiction and non-fiction works, spoke about the effects of oil drilling and climate change in and around Northern Alaska on both the environment and indigenous people. President David Skorton introduced Matthiessen as a leading voice speaking out against environmental exploitation for more than half a century. “Peter might be called the Pete Seeger of environmental writing,” Skorton said. “Or, as some of us believe, Pete Seeger might called the Peter Matthiessen of environmental singing,” he said, referring to the 92-year-old folk singer, who is also an environmental activist. Matthiessen focused mostly on his exploration of the National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. In 1989, Matthiessen said, a bill was being moved through Congress that would have opened part of the National Wildlife Refuge for drilling. “They almost had it ... It looked like it was done until November 1989,” Matthiessen said. “Until something happened
... the Exxon Valdez spill,” that emptied about 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound. Though continued efforts to drill were suspended in the wake of the ensuing public outrage –– including the passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which banned ships with a history of oilrelated accidents from operating around the Arctic Ocean –– Matthiessen said Shell is currently lobbying to return to Alaska in order to tap off-shore deposits. According to Matthiesen, Shell has promised that it could contain 95 percent of any potential spill. However, it acknowledged it could take several months to respond due to poor weather conditions and freezing cold water on the Beaufort Sea above Alaska. In contrast, only 58 percent of the oil from the Exxon Valdez spill was removed, and only three percent of the oil from the 2010 rupture of the well below the Deepwater Horizon rig was removed. Aside from the effect oil drilling itself has on Alaska, Matthiessen said the secondary effects of global warming are causing environmental degradation that is harming wildlife and native people. One example he highlighted was the reduction in ice thickness along the coast. Thinning ice, he said, has caused an increase in drowning deaths of polar bears. Matthiessen came to Cornell as this year’s Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecturer.
The Iscol Lecture is one of the most prominent environmental events on campus. Past lectures have brought speakers such as award-winning journalist Bill McKibbin and NASA’s James Hansen to Cornell to speak about the environment. Mark Lawrence, the web and communication manager for Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, said that the lecture series seeks out keynote speakers that will be accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of their level of scientific literacy. “Peter Matthiessen was one of the earliest writers to talk about climate change back in the late 1950s ... so that’s very exciting for us,” Lawrence said. “This will reach and interest students as well as other members in the community ... it’s not just the science end of it, but it’s the humanist end.” Prof. Nelson Hairston, ecology and evolutionary biology, who served on the committee that selected Matthiessen to speak, said that Matthiessen’s writing made him a unique choice. “He brings a humanist’s perspective to the lecture series that is a bit distinct from past speakers,” Hairston said. “If you look at the list of past speakers, you will see the wide diversity of people, professions and passions represented. It has been our goal to bring as interesting and lively a speaker to campus as possible.” Byron Kittle can be reached at bkittle@cornellsun.com.
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Northeast Regional Climate Center, the storm was the largest single day snowfall this late in the year since record-keeping for Ithaca began. Late season snow storms are not infrequent in Ithaca, according to Prof. Arthur T. DeGaetano, earth and atmospheric sciences. April snowfalls of around five inches occur once every four or five years, he said. Prof. Benjamin Garcia, English, said that his expereiences living in Ithaca back up the statistic. “You think it’s not going to happen. Like this one, I thought, ‘Oh, wow it’s really not going to, we’re going to make it past April without this happening,’ but
nope,” he said. Most Cornell students said they were not surprised by the late snowfall. “At this point I’m so desensitized to extreme weather patterns that it’s just like ‘oh, Ithaca –– you again,’” said Lanny Huang ’14. Lindsay Omichinski ’13 echoed this sentiment. “The snow wasn’t that big of a surprise for me,” she said. “There were a couple of surprise snows my freshman year, though not as late in the semester as this one, and Ithaca weather is always so fickle. I guess I just expect the unexpected.” The latest measurable snowfall to occur in Ithaca was on May 10 in both 1966 and 1977, Rennells said. According to DeGaetano, this year’s mild winter was not responsible for the
storm occurring so late in the season but played a role in lessening the accumulation of snow and causing it to quickly melt. According to an email from Lalley, Pete Salino ’79, the University’s Director of Grounds, estimated that Monday’s snow removal cost $35,000, lower than normal in part due to warmer temperatures. The mild winter and the unexpected nature of the storm both delayed the reaction of the University and many municipalities to the storm. Usually, Lalley said, the University has time to announce the night before whether campus will remain open or will close. This time, Cornell did not send out the announcement that the University would remain open until 6 a.m. Tuesday morning. Lalley said that the decision to keep the
University open was largely based on TCAT’s assessment that the weather was not perilous for drivers. Most main roads in the area were “fairly cleared” by 7 a.m. Monday morning, according to DeGaetano, who drove to work at that time. He said that at 7 a.m., Routes 13 and 366, as well as most roads on campus, were already clear, but that the back roads were “a bit slick.” Other professors boasted that travel was not too difficult. “The snow was not a problem [for me] … The roads were clear,” said Prof. Christine Sparfel, French. Sparfel said, “We’re backsliding towards winter, it seems.” The Sun’s News Department can be reached at news@cornellsun.com
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but the GPSA turned this down in March, declaring that Slope Day could either accept their funding or charge graduate students, but could not do both. Baran said that she would not prompt the GPSA to adjust the $3.50 in student activity fees it has recommended to give to SDPB. “This resolution will change nothing,” Baran said. “The [$3.50] … was made after generous consideration. I am proud of the work that the GPSA has
done in this dispute, and I am ready to move on.” However, Desai disagreed, saying that he hoped that the working group would increase collaboration between undergraduate and graduate students. “We identified a disparity in the value that grad students saw in Slope Day and the value that undergrads saw in Slope Day, and hoped to find productive solutions to what [SDPB] can do for grad students to make it a University-wide event,” Desai said. “I think that there is currently a discrepancy where both sides are losing.”
Gitlin said that he hoped that the working group would promote more productive discussion. “We wanted to re-frame the discussion with Slope Day and GPSA leaders as looking at it not as the turbulent discussions that occurred over the past year, but rather as a longer-term relationship between Slope Day and GPSA,” Gitlin said. “At the end of the day, we want to make Cornell a better university for students, not [just] for undergraduates.” Should the SDPB reject GPSA funding, SDPB will
charge graduate students to attend on Slope Day in 2013. According to GPSA President Evan Cortens grad, all available data suggests that accepting the current funding proposal would be in the best financial interests of the SDPB. “Ultimately, it is a debate about money,” Cortens said. “I think that the GPSA has made them a very good offer in $3.50, and it is more money that they will get than if they decide to charge tickets. SDPB needs to decide whether or not they want to make more money and continue to admit grad students as
is or turn away grad students and make less money. And that’s their decision.” Cortens stressed that, despite the rejection of Resolution 18, discussion between the GPSA and SDPB will continue. “While this resolution didn’t pass today, it doesn’t necessarily close down any dialogue,” Cortens said. “We’re certainly waiting to hear what the Slope Day committee is going to decide.” Elizabeth Kussman can be reached at ekussman@cornellsun.com.
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The new institute is expected to pump more than $5.5 billion into the local economy and create 7,700 jobs in 30 years, according to Bloomberg. The Center will open its doors to its first class of students in Sept. 2013, according to a statement from the Bloomberg administration. Before the institute is completed in 2017, CUSP will lease space in the MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn to house its classes, according to the press release. Classes will begin in the fall of 2013, and the completed institute will eventually employ 50 full-time faculty and researchers and over 500 master’s and Ph.D. students. NYU will finance the $60 million relocation of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York Police Department — which currently occupy the site — while the city has promised up to $15 million in public funds and tax breaks to offset costs.
Rather than demolish the current MTA center in Brooklyn, NYU will remodel the building through a “high-tech, high-performance facade system using recycled materials,” according to a university press release, which added that the remodeling will promote sustainability. It will also use low-energy heating and cooling systems to achieve LEED Gold certification. “This is a proud day for NYU,” NYU President John Sexton said at the press conference. “Today, all of us who care about this city and its role in the future know that we have to build into the DNA of this city –– the notion of it as an idea capital. Today, the 21st century is here. And it’s here in the place … that’s the center of the world.” The deal between NYU and city officials comes just a few months after Bloomberg announced the construction of a tech campus on Roosevelt Island with Cornell and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. In December, Bloomberg announced that after a yearlong competition, Cornell, in partnership with The
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p.m. in a wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to explain the Mayor’s vision. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks were served, and afterward, the museum offered its collegiate guests an optional tour of a Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel, in the Greek and Roman galleries. Cornell skipped the artwork, but did participate in two group site tours for potential tech campus locations: the Navy Hospital Campus at the Brooklyn Naval Yard and the Farm Sanctuary in Staten Island. While much of the focus on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s tech campus competition has centered on what the universities stand to gain, several New York City neighborhoods had perhaps as much at stake. On Monday, Bloomberg announced that New York University, in conjunction with other universities, will build another tech campus at 370 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn. Until at least January, the Brooklyn Naval Yard — an old industrial complex in north Brooklyn — had been pursued by Carnegie Mellon University as the location of its own bid for an applied sciences campus in New York City. The site clearly held some appeal for Cornell as well. In an email Friday, Provost Kent Fuchs confirmed that the Brooklyn Naval Yard had been a site the University had looked into before ultimately rejecting the location. He also confirmed that the University had explored the Governor’s Island site before deciding that, like the Naval Yard location, it was not the ideal location of Cornell’s tech campus. “We decided that Governor’s Island and the Brooklyn Naval Yard were great sites for a campus that might start 10 or 20 years from now, but not one that needed to start as soon as possible,” Fuchs said, adding that if the site is still available then, the University might be interested in creating a tech campus at those locations. Now, however, the main drawbacks of those alternate locations are their lack of access to consis-
tent transportation and local housing, Fuchs said. He noted that Governor’s Island only has intermittent ferry access to Manhattan and no train or bridge access. “Access to Governor’s Island in particular will improve over the next 20 years, and will be at that time be a good site for a campus, but not yet,” Fuchs said. By contrast, Roosevelt Island provides immediate access to transportation and local housing, Fuchs said. It is also closer to the Weill Cornell Medical College — an important factor for the University, Fuchs said. Despite Fuchs’ expressed concerns about the Brooklyn Naval Yard and Governor’s Island, as late as May 2011 the University said it was amenable to other possible sites for the tech campus. “We are open to considering alternative locations that the City might propose that would require less capital investment by both NYC and Cornell,” Provost Kent Fuchs wrote in an email to Seth Pinsky, president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, in May. “Location is critical — a successful location must be integrated into the fabric of the City, have excellent subway access and … provide proximity to and be a destination for industry and customers critical innovation.” Additionally, in an email sent from President David Skorton to Pinsky in November, Cornell expresses its willingness to expand to the Brooklyn Naval Yard as a “satellite commercial location.” “While we think there is value to having some commercial space proximate to the academic space, we strongly support the notion of helping companies that are ready to expand find affordable space in New York City and are open to the establishment of a satellite location at the Navy Yard,” Skorton wrote. “As discussed in our proposal, we see Queens and particularly Long Island City as a great location for spin-off companies, given its proximity to and strong transportation connections to the NYC Tech Campus.” Jeff Stein can be reached at jstein@cornellsun.com.
Technion, beat out 17 other institutions to win the right to build a $2 billion tech campus on Roosevelt Island. “We are excited to learn that NYU and its partners will be joining the effort to realize Mayor Bloomberg’s vision to place New York City at the vanguard of innovation,” President David Skorton said in a press release Monday. According to Prof. Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of CornellNYC Tech, it became apparent during Cornell’s tech campus bid that the city would be selecting more than one school to contribute to Bloomberg’s applied sciences initiative. “New York City has this amazing economy and amazing potential,” Huttenlocher said. “I think that the city could support a number of schools, looking at various aspects of technology and technology commercialization. The more the city becomes a magnet for attracting the best students and the best faculty across a number of schools, the better,.” During the press conference, Sexton announced the University’s selection for the
new institute’s director, Steven E. Koonin, the former Undersecretary of Energy for Science and Provost at the California Institute of Technology. The research institute will attract talent from other universities such as Carnegie Mellon University, the City University of New York and the University of Toronto, according to a NYU press release. Bloomberg added that the city is still in negotiations with other academic institutions, including Columbia and Carnegie Mellon, regarding his applied sciences initiative. “We’re hopeful that we’ll be able to find ways for them to realize their proposals, each of which envisions building campuses in other locations around the city,” Bloomberg said. “We want to build more of these exciting schools.” Akane Otani contributed reporting to this article. Dennis Liu can be reached at dliu@cornellsun.com.
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it’s downright alienating. So once we get the chance to pick whom we spend our time with, we avoid diversity whenever we can. We retreat from heterogeneous classrooms to the clumps of people who think and live and socialize like us. There’s a lot to be said for finding a community of people who understand you. When the world is intimidating, you need people who already know how to support you. But if the goal is to make everyone feel comfortable, why do we talk about diversity as important and valuable? Is there truly something to be said about surrounding ourselves with people that think differently than we do? If so, diversity must be so much more than just a question of filling our classrooms with the
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AS NEW YORKERS CAST THEIR VOTES in the Republican Presidential Primary Tuesday, The Sun endorses Mitt Romney as the best remaining Republican in the race. Ron Paul, whose refreshing honesty is no match for his disqualifying radicalism, and Newt Gingrich, whose snide and condescending act tired months ago, represent two unacceptable options for the Republican Party. This nomination race has at times seemed like a plot hatched by late-night political comedy shows to provide them with priceless fodder. Whether it was Rick Perry’s inability to recall which federal agency he would like to eliminate, Michele Bachmann claiming that the HPV Vaccine caused mental retardation, Herman Cain boasting about how many women he didn’t sexually harass, Newt Gingrich’s moon base or Rick Santorum being considered a viable candidate despite his extreme social conservatism, this nomination battle has varied from the absurd to the farcical to terrifying, and back again. It is telling that the only candidate who appeared to be mostly free of the sheer preposterousness that seemed to define so much of the race, Governor Jon Huntsman, the former Ambassador to China, never made so much as a blip on the Republican radar. In an address in New York City this past week, Huntsman spoke to the foreign policy stances of his former opponents for the GOP nomination by saying, “I don’t know what world these people are living in.” Even Huntsman, a proven conservative, questioned the legitimacy of the Republican race. Huntsman is pro-life, pro-guns, pro-free trade, pro-vouchers for public schools and is adored by the conservative-libertarian think-tank the CATO Institute, and even still, he recalled thinking to himself during the first Republican debate, “Is this the best we could do?” The Republican primary process has resigned us to a former governor of Massachusetts who, at his heart, is a politician’s politician. Romney is too scared to tout his healthcare reforms as Governor of Massachusetts — even though they have proven largely successful. His plan to reduce the deficit includes cutting taxes 20 percent across the board. A decade of the Bush tax cuts leads us to question the argument that tax cuts will somehow improve the United States’ budget outlook. Romney also proposes increasing defense spending which, along with his tax cuts, would drastically increase the deficit. He claims that he will offset and exceed these spending increases by slashing tax deductions. Yet, in a stunning display of chutzpah, he refuses to say which ones he will cut. Romney’s convenient position-taking, which manifests itself in stunning about-face changes seemingly every week, does not give us confidence that he will be the type of politician to push for something he feels is necessary but politically inopportune. On issues ranging from abortion to health care mandates, Romney has shown a willingness to conform with whatever direction he believed the political winds were blowing. In conclusion, we are disappointed that the Republican Party did not present the American people with a candidate whose rigidity was at least slightly more pronounced than that of a rubber band. Instead, we are left with a pandering technocrat as not only the presumptive front-runner, but also the only candidate remaining who could even conceivably be trusted with the presidency.
First World Problem asked for another short Asian American, preferably with a mild-to-moderate case of social awkwardness, and whose idea of a good time is to stay in with some wellwritten science fiction (and maybe bake some cookies). What I was looking for was familiarity. I wanted someone who was the same as I was, someone who would instantly understand me. I was instead matched with a tall brunette studying Fiber Science and Apparel design, exhaustingly social, completely unlike me and the best roommate I could have asked for. We are radically different people, but by the end of the year I had a friend in someone that started out as a completely foreign stranger and learned a lot about myself in the process. What I was unwittingly handed by the Housing Office, oh-so-very-long-ago, was a lesson in the value of diversity. It’s easy to wave away diversity as just another buzzword, something Day Hall passes down every once in a while to make sure our campus appears politically correct. And honestly, diversity is not something we generally seek out. Diversity is uncomfortable. Diversity is awkward and stressful. Rapport is much easier with people from your own ethnic and social background, the kind of people that instantly understand your jokes. It’s not fun when someone doesn’t get you, and sometimes
right colors. What do we give up when people are allowed to ignore the people unlike them? Let me ask this in a slightly different way. What happens when you fill a fraternity house with only aggressive males and stir in an uninhibited culture of heavy drinking? Or combine a systematically caution-averse culture with oil rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico? This is not a criticism of the Greek system, or of any system in particular. This is a criticism of the way we talk about diversity as game of ethnicity and enrollment, rather than a larger culture of getting people to operate out of their comfort zones. If our campus is truly committed to diversity, we must aggressively break up the lines we draw to divide ourselves from others — and break up existing institutions, if need be. Every department, ethnicity, team and house has its own culture of the best and the worst. Sometimes the results of distilling a culture are terrible and tragic, and visible enough to splash their way onto news headlines. More often, we simply walk away as stunted people.
Deborah Liu is a junior in the College of Engineering. She may be reached at deborahliu@cornellsun.com. First World Problem appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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How Dangerous Is Bieber Fever? C
ornell came down with “Bieber Fever” last week, and there was no cure in sight.
After a less than reputable website published an “exclusive” interview with the teen singer suggesting he was joining next year’s freshman class, students and local news outlets were abuzz at the possibility that Bieber was coming to Ithaca. In one day’s time, the interview garnered almost 100,000 hits and more than 10,000 “likes.” And if the Facebook activity serves as any indication, it seems clear that many actually believed (beliebed?) that Bieber was bringing his talents to the Hill. Dare I ask, what might this ordeal say about our society and culture? For starters, the Bieber spectacle speaks to the extent to which many are willing to believe almost anything that’s reported, no matter the absurdity of the source or the claim. In an age in which anyone can publish a story online and video editing can work wonders, the public’s credulity can prove dangerous, especially when the subject matter is more serious than whether one “Daniel Salkony” was able to score an exclusive with Justin Bieber. Now more than ever, arriving at the truth requires serious and critical thought. Increasingly, though, it seems like serious and critical thought, along with any semblance of nuance, are things of the past. And if there’s one place where the limits of such thought and nuance will be tested, it’s the election campaign, which is about to kick into full swing. Already, it is clear that social media, flashy videos and catchy sound-bites will be used to target young voters. In an age when some of the smartest students in the country believe J-Biebs is making his way to Cornell, I can’t say I’m terribly confident about the youth’s ability to parse fact from fiction, election politicking from huge distortions of a candidate’s record.
The Bieber spectacle is also indicative of the limit of our collective attention spans. As the Facebook statuses about Justin became suffocating, I couldn’t help but think back to the last Facebook bonanza, Kony 2012. As Brian Stelter wrote in The New York Times a few weeks ago, the Kony campaign illustrated just how quickly stories can go from viral to practically invisible. Consider that of the more than seven million hits on Kony’s Wikipedia page, five million came in the first three days of the campaign alone. By way of contrast, the page now attracts fewer than 15,000 views a day. I’m confident the Justin Bieber rumors will suffer a similar fate, and that in a few weeks time, virtually no one will remember that Justin Bieber was going to Cornell for all of two minutes. Let us all breathe a collective sigh of disappointment. That said, the shortening of our collective attention spans often has disastrous effects on the way we interact with our world. Big issues, important issues — issues unlike whether Justin Beiber is in fact attending Cornell — require long attention spans. They do so, not only because of their complexity, but also because of the historical baggage that invariably accompanies them. Want to understand our economic woes and how to move forward? You’ll have to understand what happened in the lead up to 2008, to say nothing of Keynesian and anti-Keynesian economic thought. Never has there been a time in history in which so many people have had such widespread knowledge of causes, issues and concerns. At the same time, though, it seems like the knowledge is increasingly and stupefyingly superficial.
Finally, that 100,000 people invested such intense interest in a bogus article about Justin Bieber is saddening. Mind you, I enjoyed the rumor as much as the next person. But to read people actually debate why Justin would or would not go to Cornell in online forums, and get seemingly irate about it, offered a new perspective on the debacle. At some point one has to ask: Have we nothing better to do with our time? Are there no more important issues? When older generations write about the coarsening of our culture, surely this is some part of what they have in mind. A higher education, it seems, should be a call to resist “Bieber Fever:” it should be a call to think deeply and
Nathaniel Rosen Bringing It Home critically, to differentiate truth from fiction, facts from hitherto unproven assumptions. A higher education should be a call to engage with meaningful issues on a meaningful level and to dedicate significant time to doing so. A higher education should be a call to struggle with difficult and “big” questions — and to act. Can a higher education be all that? “Never Say Never.” Nathaniel Rosen is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at nrosen@cornellsun.com. Bringing it Home appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
Skip Class; Learn Something A
s the semester draws to a close, I look back and try to take stock of what I've learned this year. I wander deeper and deeper into the dark, strange swamp of academia; I hear my words twist themselves into incomprehensible jargon; I feel my head fill up with — well, whatever this stuff is that’s filling up my head. This place increasingly feels like a game unto itself, an elitist club separated from the real world as much by its irrelevance as by its inaccessibility. These doubts have increasingly driven me off-campus in search of an education. I don’t want this to seem like a wholesale
Social change has pretty much never been achieved in this country without some hardcore agitation, usually violent. We like to focus on the non-violent movements, but historically speaking, events like riots really, really matter. Without violent expressions of rage by the oppressed, Scott argued, the oppressor tends to keep oppressing. If he had said those words in his lecture, the Q+A could have been wonderfully contentious. Scott offered a strong and troubling challenge to accepted pacifist doctrine. We could have had real conversations about the real world. But we didn’t. The lecture was so
Tom Moore What Even Is All This? condemnation of the education I'm receiving at Cornell. My professors are always giving me shiny new concepts with which to poke the world, and for that I am grateful. But this Ivory Tower does a really good job at divorcing the “knowledge” it produces from the world that its knowledge supposedly describes. Take, for example, a lecture given a couple weeks ago by guest lecturer James C. Scott. If he had given his lecture in non-academic English, it would probably have gone something like this:
wrapped up in the academic code that Scott's message was softened and made non-threatening. That’s right: Through the magic of academia, he made riots seem soft and nonthreatening. I sat in the audience decoding the lecture, learning how to reproduce the code so that my lectures, too, could one day mean nothing. It’s not fair to simply blame the professors, though. As I said, professors give us concepts with which to poke the world, and it is arguably our job to go out and do the poking. If we're actually passionate about what we’re
learning (and we are passionate about what we're learning, right guys? Right?), then our leisure time should be spent, at least in part, playing with what we’ve learned, using our education to converse about the real world. Call me naïve, but as an incoming freshman, I actually imagined that I would find this sort of meaningful intellectual discourse at Cornell. I imagined that on weekends, people would hang out and have intelligent and informed conversations about things that matter. Within the first couple months of freshman year, I came to understand that the Cornell student body, like the broader American public, is dominated by an intensely anti-intellectual culture. A wall of apathy stands between schoolwork and leisure time, and most Cornell students greet any attempt to mix the two with active hostility. There are definitely Cornell students out there who are passionate about what they learn and would love to talk about it, but cultural spaces within which that kind of conversation can happen are few and far between on the Cornell campus, since we’ve trained each other to believe that fun necessitates intoxication and loud music. Intellectual discourse outside of class isn’t impossible here, but it’s definitely not mainstream. To look at what most of us do with most of our weekends, you’d think we’re trying as hard as we can to forget the week. We're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for this playground, and apparently most of us care so little about what we study that we'll only talk about it, only think about it, when coerced by an authority figure. So come Monday, we lock ourselves into rooms where people with letters after their
names spoon-feed us what passes for knowledge, and we practice vomiting it up for the next person down the line. Maybe occasionally we go out and do “research,” whereby chunks of the real world are translated into incomprehensible academic jibberish and added to our hoard of “knowledge,” i.e. the library. Sitting in the stacks on the seventh floor of Olin, I feel like a dragon atop a massive pile of jealously guarded treasure. All that being said, I’ve learned a lot this year. For all I object to the hierarchical, encoded, self-referential nature of academia, I love college, I respect many of my professors and some of my classes really have helped me more fully understand the world I live in. Somewhere between Cornell’s dual cultures of useless hyper-intellectualism and useless anti-intellectualism, there is real knowledge on this hill. But as long as that knowledge stays on the hill, it is nonsense. The moments of the past year that have most transformed me, as a student, as an activist, as a human, have not come in lecture halls, but in diners and in forests and in jail and, perhaps most importantly, in public spaces. I’ve been reminded, time and time again, of what should be obvious: If I want to understand the world around me, I need to get the hell off campus and start having good conversations with the people around me. Every once in a while, this means skipping class to learn something.
Tom Moore is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at tmoore@cornellsun.com. What Even Is All This? appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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The Johnson Museum’s new exhibit, titled Age of Discontent: German Expressionist Works from a Private Collection, is an exciting display of prolific, creative collaboration. Opened on April 7, Age of Discontent studies German artist groups Die Brücke (The Bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) and other individual expressionist artists of the early 20th century. The exhibit presents not only a significant movement in art history, but also commends the advancement of the University’s art museum. In 1970, Cornell’s A.D. White Museum, the precursor to the Johnson, was the first in the country to exclusively display the work of Die Brücke. Now through the current exhibition and its addition of art from the Der Blaue Reiter group, the museum shows an expansion in their German Expressionist art collection and overall development. To appreciate the exhibit, it is imperative to familiarize yourself with the historical background of the groups and their motives, as well as their lasting influence on art history. The Die Brücke group — initially comprised of artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl, and later, Emil Nole, Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller — formed through friendships brought together by a university and their shared radical viewpoints on art. The members aimed to liberate themselves from traditional art through the creation of a new type of artistic expression. Their 1906 manifesto stated
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that they desired “to achieve freedom of life and action against the well-established older forces.” They anticipated that, through a different approach of creating art, they could bridge the past and the present — therefore resulting in the name of their group, Die Brucke (The Bridge). Their collective style used themes of figural distortion, bright colors, emotional rigidity and inspiration from the primitivism movement. For those that are unfamiliar, primitivism is Western art movement that finds inspiration from prehistoric ages and incorporates those visual forms and motifs into their work. A common example would be Pablo Picasso’s art which draws inspiration from African art and incorporates primitive motifs such as tribal masks. Die Brücke expressed reverence to former German artists Albrecht Durer and Matthias Grunewald by reawakening older media such as woodcutting, dry-pointing, etching and lithographing, and adopting it as their main way of creating. Art created by these various forms of printmaking were shown in the exhibition, along with the more common media of oil paint and pencils. The Der Blaue Reiter group also was inspired by primitivism and emotion, with special emphasis on spiritual truths. The name of their group came from a title of a Wassily Kandinsky painting who, along with Franz Marc, originated the group. Although the exact reason of their name is not entirely understood, it was thought that blue was a color of spiritual significance to Kandinsky. While both groups are known for their pivotal roles in German expressionism, individual artists — such as Kathe Kollwitz, Leo Mediner, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee and Oskar Kokoschka — who are not necessari-
ly members of the movement are also associated with it. Accordingly, even these extraneous artists were foci of the exhibition. A lot of the expressionist artwork contains physically distorted figures. Exaggeration of a feature was an artistic tool used to more obviously express an emotion. The figural distortions, simplicity and lack of attempt at realism in the drawings calls to mind modern newspaper comics. Most of the work conveyed strong dark emotions, frequently of pain, grief and sadness. In expressionism, the importance of emotion overrides accurate representation of the world. For example, a still-life painting placed more emphasis on the emotional quality expressed through color rather than the actual manifestation of these objects in a three-dimensional setting. With close examination of the work in the exhibit, it is easy to find the slight expressive distinction between artists. Yet the arrangement of the exhibition prevents the viewers from examining only one artist instead of the whole. If there are multiple pieces by one artist, they are intertwined throughout the other works instead of grouped together. This mixed arrangement conveys the importance of German expressionism as a whole and its overall achievement, rather than the progression of the individual artist. Age of Discontent is on display in the Johnson Museum until July 29. Samantha Myers is a freshman in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be contacted at sam479@cornell.edu.
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Girls and the Anti-Heroine
BY JASON GOLDBERG Sun Staff Writer
If you surfed the Internet at all over the past month, you could not avoid the downpour of hype over HBO’s new half-hour comedy, Girls. Journalists and bloggers could not stop talking about Lena Dunham, the 25-yearold indie-filmmaker who scored a deal under Judd Apatow and HBO to direct, write and star in her creative vision: the story of spoiled Hannah and her New York City tribulations when her parents cut off her finances. First labeled as the younger, modern, more realistic Sex and the City, the show has evolved into an indie-blogger’s darling. Virtually every single critic was raving about the first few episodes up to a month before it premiered (see its 87 score on the often-strict Metacritic.com), and 1.1 million eyes were glued to the television on April 15 at 10:30 p.m.. But then something strange happened. The comments sections of popular television sites exploded with criticism for HBO, Dunham and Girls. “Why should I care about this selfish person?” the Twittersphere asked. Forum users bashed Dunham for projecting her privileged upbringing as a relatable life for all young New Yorkers. Some comments even mocked Dunham’s physical appearance during the pilot’s explicit sex-scene. Suddenly the critical hit of the year became the most divisive show in HBO’s history. After seeing the first two episodes, I can declare that Girls is a fantastic show. Honest, clever and brave, it is unafraid to give its protagonists real, human flaws. It is masterfully directed and wonderfully acted by Dunham.
So why has it gained so much heat from the public? Most of the criticism is downright sexist. The comments made about Dunham’s non-model body stem from a society that expects every woman to look like Megan Fox. People seem to take issue with imperfect female protagonists in comedies. These commenters should understand that Dunham is writing Hannah as an anti-hero and
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not as someone who should be admired — rather, as someone who should be understood. The best protagonists on TV in the past decade are people with weaknesses and imperfections (Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White). We are supposed to dislike some stuff Hannah
does. Her shortcomings are there to help us see our own. However, people do not like to see a flawed, female antihero in a comedy — look at the heat that quality, femaleled comedies such as Enlightened, The Big C and Nurse Jackie receive. There is definitely a gender issue at hand. As for the argument that the show fails to act as a mirror of the realistic struggles of 23-year-old in America, I do not think that the show is aiming to represent every girl, nor does it need to. While it is vital that television aim for diversity among its characters, it is a little baffling that Girls is suddenly being singled out as the biggest perpetrator in this media crime. Plenty of shows reveal the small, privileged, white echelon of society (Mad Men, 30 Rock, Friends, How I Met Your Mother) and these are rarely criticized for their narrow portrayal of urban, American life. The hype that has been attached to Girls has somehow led many people to believe that Dunham is trying to be the voice of her generation (a phrase that is even used to mock Hannah in the pilot), when she is actually not trying to do that at all. The upper-middle class struggles that the educated Hannah faces are nowhere near as bad as most Americans have it, and in spite of this, the show does an excellent job at treating her as a selfish, immature and foolish girl. Is Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm any different? It is just TV. But it is good TV, at that. That it shows a small sect of society is nothing new and should not be criticized. Instead, viewers should appreciate Dunham’s clever writing and honest portrayal of feminine struggle. Let Girls pave the way for flawed female characters. Jason Goldberg is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jgg57@cornell.edu.
Justin Bieber: Diaries of a Future Cornellian We’ve all heard the rumors by now, and they’re true. International pop sensation Justin Bieber will be attending Cornell University in the fall. Through means he’d rather not divulge, this columnist was able to secure Bieber’s private journal. The following entries detail Bieber’s experiences during his first official visit to Cornell this past weekend. Friday Afternoon: Arrival
Not going to lie, I thought Ithaca was one of the boroughs. Whatever, it’s only four hours out from the City. Yeah it’s remote, but what better place to hide a baby mama and my kid … I mean what baby mama? What kid? Whew! That was a close one. Maybe I can get one of those bearded farm people I saw driving in to take me to the City in their little carriages. I’m digging that type of throwback taxi service. Seriously, those carriages and beards are adorable. Not to mention their little outfits. Nice touch Ithaca. Saturday Noon
Cornell is totally better in a lot of fields. Seriously, screw Harvard. I never wanted to go there anyway Saturday Afternoon
Signing autographs for athletes at Schoellkopf. It’s taking forever … the football team has so many coaches … Had to cut the signing session short when some Mens’ Laxers get a bit too handsy near the end. Know your boundaries. People up at Cornell are hilarious. A woman told me a good one today about there being a major called ILR. I know it’s “any person, any study,” but there have to be limits right? Right? But seriously, what major does someone who has never taken a class before choose? AEM? Got it. Saturday Night: Party Time
Looking to get my grind game on. Get non-accepted from three frat parties. My four bodyguards are really a drag on my girl-guy ratio. Weak shit. Where all my ladies at? Justin wants somebody to love.
Checked out the freshmen dorms on North. Mews Sunday Morning seems pretty fucking nice. Getting swarmed by packs of girls at each dorm I go to. Casual. Though when I walk OMG! OMG! OMG! I just met Denice Cassaro. So through Balch Hall, none of the girls even try to touch real. Never have I met someone with that level of pasme. Weird. sion for “Scrabble Night.” Reminds me of how passionLooking to get my lunch game on. Told Statler ate I get for all the songs my people write for me. So I Terrace is the place to be. There’s a huge line of girls agreed to perform at the next Karaoke and Krafts Mixer. waiting there. Wait, am I holding an autograph session? How many people does RPCC Multipurpose Room 3 Nope, they’re waiting for a salad. A salad. It’s like they hold anyway? Hopefully under 5,000, cause I want a just invented the thing here. Same goes for frozen more intimate venue for this show. Either way, I just yogurt. I’m so starving though. I offer a private concert knocked off #2 on the 161 things to do. Think I’m to any girl who lets me take her place in line. No one gonna head to the Olin Stacks and knock something budges. else off that list. That’s right folks, I’m going to take an I’ll be honest — unplanned nap in a Cornell wasn’t my library (#71). Wait, first choice. I got a what were you thinknon-acceptance from ing? Ewwww, that’s Harvard last month. gross. Get your head I never use the rout of the gutter word; I think it sets Cornell. I’m saving precedence for failmyself for you. Get Off My ure. Weak people get It’s tough being the Lawn rejected. Justin only celebrity here. Bieber gets nonWhere’s Hermione at, accepted. anyway? Wrong Ivy? I still can’t believe I didn’t get into Harvard though. Damn, I wanted to hop on that. Apologies for the vulMy common app essay said everything any college garity, but come on, we all saw the movies. From the would ever need to know about me. “I’m Justin Bieber.” fifth one on, Emma Watson makes Selena Gomez look How good is that essay? It’s succinct, no typos and it like Flora Rose. And where’s Franco? He has to go here. accurately conveys the unique message that I’m Justin He takes classes everywhere. flippin’ Bieber. Hey Harvard, how many times has I keep hearing Slope Day is a big deal here. Taio Cruz Usher been featured on your hit songs? Yeah, that’s what is performing? The name rings a bell. I think he wanted I thought. I’m not bitter though. Harvard sucks. to work with me on a song a few years back, which was
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cute of him to want. And Neon Trees? I love that electronic hipster shit. “Polish Girl” is my jam. Sunday Afternoon
Just met with Cayuga’s Waiters. They laughingly told me I won’t make their group, but whatevs. I can probably make another group, right? And if not, I can always form my own group. Or just buy a group that already exists. Yeah that’s it. I’ll buy Cayuga Waiters and rename them the Waitresses. Be warned Waiters. You mess with fire, you get burned. BTW, I’m totally ditching Selena once I hit these slopes. I said I was doing college “the right way,” and that’s why I’m going to dump my beautiful Hollywood girlfriend for the fine women of Cornell. Selena might have the looks, but these Cornell babes got smarts. And they all look more attractive the longer and longer I’m here. How’s that work? I think I even saw a slightly tan girl on the Arts Quad earlier! P.S. J-Biebs is loving all the yoga pants. Keep ‘em coming ladies. I’ll be seeing you again soon. Brian Gordon is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com. Get Off My Lawn runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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erratically and, in my opinion, is one of the biggest reasons why Pittsburgh made such an early exit from the playoffs. Fleury was supposed to be Pittsburgh’s saving grace in net; however, an embarrassing 4.63 goals-against average and .834 save percentage scream anything but impressive. No wonder it’s hard to convince hockey fans that your team is capable of bringing home the cup when your goalie is dead last on the GAA leader board. While I feel that goaltending is a major make-or-break aspect of most games, the goalie should really the last defense. Throughout the series, I wore my Evgeni Malkin jersey proudly. The alternate captain really carried the Penguins at times in the regular season, especially when captain Sidney Crosby was side-lined with those never ending, concussion-like symptoms. Malkin led the team in points (109), goals (50), assists (59) and game-winning goals (9) heading into the post-season. I expected big things from the center, but when all was said and done, Malkin contributed just eight points to the Penguins’ playoff efforts, with three goals and five assists. Crosby contributed the same — a far cry from what was expected from the once-best player in the league. While the final goal count was a close 30-26 in favor of Philadelphia, I would have liked to see the numbers a little higher thanks to Geno and Sid. If it weren’t for Jordan Staal, I’m pretty sure that the Flyers would have easily swept the Pens in four games. While the Penguins skated around impersonating the Canucks, whose championship dreams were also unexpectedly dashed, in Games 1-3, the Flyers were solidifying themselves as a contender for the 2012 Stanley Cup. As much as I hate to praise the Flyboys, I will give credit where credit is due. It’s no wonder that the Flyers are entering round two when they have players like Claude Giroux, Danny Briere and Bryzgalov on the ice. While Bryzgalov is nowhere near perfect, I think he defended more consistently than Fleury — disregarding Game 4, as it was clearly a fluke. Giroux and Briere proved that solid stick work and focus can make all the difference. Briere also proved that he is capable of finishing the series playing at a high level of intensity, despite a cheap shot by the Penguins’ James Neal.
The Flyers also outclassed the Pens, as much as it pains me to say it. For me, sportsmanship is one of the most important aspects of a game. So, whether your team is winning by 10 or losing by 10, you go out there, play the game as it was meant to be played and accept the final results. Philadelphia has been known for being a brutish gang since the glory days of hockey, when they were nicknamed “The Broad Street Bullies.” So, expecting the series between the Flyers and the Penguins to be nice and civil was naïve. I thought that the Flyers would live up to their bad boy reputation; however, I was surprised when it wasn’t the Flyboys taking the cheap shots, but rather the Penguins. I have some very strong opinions when it comes to fighting and hockey, so when I saw Neal’s hit on Giroux, I was less than pleased. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think he deserved more than a one-game suspension. Charging someone has a place — that place is a bull ring, not a hockey rink. As for Arron Asham’s stick to the “throat” against Flyers’ center Brayden Schenn, that fourgame suspension was deserved. Dan Bylsma must be so proud. I hate that my team did not make it to the next round, just as much as I hate that the Flyers did. However, I really feel that at the end of the day, the better team advanced. Like I said before, I will always stand by the Penguins, but I think that sometimes being a fan means recognizing that your favorite team isn’t perfect 100 percent of the time. The Penguins will need to go back to the drawing board and see what worked, what did not work and what can be improved on. The boys have 12 months to get their act together and prove that they deserved to make the playoffs. As the competition was bound to be heated on the ice, I decided to make a small bet with a friend before the playoffs began. I promised to wear his Bryzgalov jersey for a week, if the Flyers won in four, but he would have to wear my Crosby jersey for a week if the Penguins swept the series. Luckily, the Penguins weren’t swept, so I only have to wear the jersey for a day. However, while I stand by orange and black are not my colors, I’m a woman of my word. Also, Chris, dinner is on me. I guess things could always be worse. I could be a Canucks fan. Lauren Ritter is the Sun Sports Editor. She can be contacted at lritter@cornellsun.com. Five for Fighting appears periodically throughout the playoffs.
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Both Men and Women Fall To No.1 UVA at Nationals Hoffman expressed similar sentiments that the team had fought hard to the end. “We realized there was so little time left Coming close to victory, it was a success- and we weren’t out of it completely at that ful national tournament this past week for point. We really rallied together and gave the Cornell polo teams. The women’s team them a pretty good run for it at the end,” she was named national runner-ups on Sunday said. With the high level of competition, the as the squad finished second to No. 1 Virginia, with a final score of 17-13. The game became very quick and aggressive, posmen’s team lost to Virginia, who went on to ing difficulties for Cornell. “The team was very fast and physical, so win the national championship in the national semi-finals, 28-10. In the first I think a lot of the time our attention was round, the women defeated California Poly taken to make sure they weren’t getting that Tech, 20-12, and the men redeemed an ear- hit on the ball that would send it down the lier season loss against SMU, winning 28-19. arena for them,” Hoffman said. “It was a difThe faceoff against UVA proved to be a ferent type of game and I think it took a litfast paced and back-and-forth game. The tle while for us to adjust to it.” However, the women posed more of a first chukker ended in a 3-3 tie, with both teams adding three goals by the half to make challenge to Virginia than the Cavaliers expected. the score 6-6. “I think they came out with the expecta“Going into the second half when we were keeping the game very close, within two tion that having played us earlier in the or three points, they were making a few more semester we weren’t really going to pose mistakes and we were starting to push them much of a challenge, but we really fought it out of their comfort zone and away from the out,” Stern said. The women had started the path to the plays they would usually make,” said senior championship on Friday, facing off against captain Ali Hoffman. The Cavaliers were able to score a three- Cal Poly Tech. The Red dominated on the point goal in the middle of the chukker, scoreboard the entire game, continually putting Cornell at a four point deficit head- increasing its lead with every chukker played. ing into the fourth chukker. During the However, the Mustangs playing style was diffourth Virginia came out quickly, grabbing a ferent than Cornell normally faced. “The game itself was just a different style of play, it was a “We finished strong, which is an bit scrappier than I’m used to,” Stern said. “It wasn’t as open as awesome feeling.” it wasn’t moving as fast as the UVA game.” Amanda Stern “Their entire game plan was pretty much to stay glued to six goal lead. The women answered back us,” Hoffman said. “It was difficult for within three goals, but there was not enough Kailey and I to work around that because it time, and Virginia scored once more in the was like a shadow moving with us, we were getting caught on them and it definitely last few moments of the game. “We finished strong, which is an awe- slowed down the play a lot.” The men represented Cornell’s first some feeling,” said senior Amanda Stern. “It’s pretty bittersweet knowing it was my last appearance in the tournament, playing on Wednesday afternoon against SMU. The game, but it was a really good game.” By ANDREA SIELICKI
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Regional battle | Sophomore Kailey Eldredge (above), junior Amanda Stern and senior captain Ali Hoffman lead the lineup on Friday against west regional champion Cal Poly at Oaxley.
Red never lost the lead it held from the end of the first chukker, keeping the Mustangs at bay by four goals or more the entire game. At the half, the men were up by nine goals, 156. During the fourth chukker, Cornell’s lead got to as high as 13 goals before SMU climbed back to lose by nine. The men had previously lost to SMU by two goals earlier in the season. “It was definitely a redemption,” said junior captain Branden Van Loon. “The team really wanted it and we felt like we needed to prove we deserved to be at nation-
als. The guys were definitely ready to go out hard.” On Friday, the men took the field again against Virginia. Although the end result was a loss, it was a more successful effort than the previous season matchup against UVA, according to Van Loon. “As overall the team was working better, we had a more complete game,” he said. “It was a good building off point for next year.” Andrea Sielicki can be reached at asielicki@cornellsun.com.
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egory. The Quakers (16-20, 7-9) did get the best of the Red in the final game, though. Jumping out to an early lead, the Quaker offense put up three runs in the first two innings off freshman starter Brent Jones, who went 4.2 innings. The Red did not go down easy, but came roaring back in the top of the sixth with three runs off a double by Hager, a reach-on-error by Lee and an RBI single by sophomore Ben Swinford to tie the game. The bullpen combination of freshmen Nick Busto and Houston Hawley was able to keep the Quakers off the board until the bottom of the seventh, when they scored an unearned run to win the game. “At that point we had already take[n] three games from Penn,” Lee said. “The infield wasn’t the best … I don’t think the loss is in any way misleading.” Because Cornell recorded three more wins this weekend and Princeton dropped three games to Columbia, the Red can now take a three game lead in the Lou Gehrig Division of the Ivy League into the final series next weekend. The squad only needs one win against the Tigers
in order to clinch its second division title since 1993. “We’re aware that one is the magic number,” Lee said. “Obviously taking things one game at a time is the biggest thing, but we’d love to go take three or four games from [Princeton] and carry some momentum into the [Ivy Championship].” On the other side of the conference, Dartmouth (17-15, 11-5) sits atop the Red Rolfe Division. The Ivy League team with the best record at the end of conference play hosts the Championship series. The Red also has a tiebreaker on Dartmouth, because it swept the season series, meaning the squad could also clinch home-field advantage with a few wins this weekend. “Having [home-field advantage] would be huge for us,” Lee said. “It looks like Dartmouth will win the other side and playing there is somewhat hostile and they play really well at home. Making them make the seven or eight hour drive down to us and having our fans behind us would give us a big advantage.” Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.
-sons. The Varsity 8 crew bested the Lions by seven seconds, finishing with a time of 6:11.4 to 6:18.6 — well-ahead of third-place MIT (6:41.4). Cornell’s second Varsity 8 crew also picked up a win over Columbia, while the Red’s two Varsity Four boats went Nos. 1-2 in the Fours race, with seven seconds separating the two crews. MIT’s A team finished 14 seconds behind
Cornell’s B squad in the Fours event to claim third place. The Red’s Freshmen 8 boat finished with a time of 6:37.8 to defeat the Engineers (6:42.5) and Lions (6:54.0). Cornell’s lightweight squad is on the road again next weekend, as the Red travels to Hanover, N.H., to race the Dartmouth Green for the Baggaley Bowl. Alex Kuczynski-Brown can be reached at AKB@cornellsun.com.
Matt Moulson ’06 Named Finalist For Lady Byng Memorial Trophy On Monday, the NHL announced that New York Islanders left wing Matt Moulson ’06, a former Cornell hockey player, was one of the finalists for this year’s Lady Byng Memorial Trophy. The award is given each year “to the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability,” according to NHL.com. Moulson was one of three players selected as finalists based on their strong offensive seasons as well as their minimal time in the penalty box. He is up against Florida Panthers defenseman Brian
Campbell and Edmonton Oilers right wing Jordan Eberle. The Professional Hockey Writers’ Association votes on a winner, which is announced at the NHL Awards show on June 20. Moulson only spent six minutes in the penlaty box this season. Eberle was the only other player in the leauge to spend less than 10 minutes in the box. Moulson is the first player since Paul Kariya to have single-digit penalty minutes while also scoring at least 30 goals. — Compiled by Dani Abada
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Cornell Sweeps All Competition, Home and Away By ALEX KUCZYNSKI-BROWN Sun Senior Writer
The men’s heavyweight and lightweight rowing teams went a combined 8-0 on Saturday, as both squads swept their competition to earn the Carnegie Cup and Geiger Cup, respectively. The heavyweights welcomed Princeton and Yale to the Cayuga Lake Inlet, with the Varsity 8 crew finishing with a
time of 6:00.7 ahead of the fifth-ranked Tigers (6:04.6) and similarly-ranked Bulldogs (6:11.3) to pull off the upset. “They were ranked a lot higher than us, so [in terms of ] poll ranking, it was an upset; to me, in terms of what the guys were capable of all year ... it’s not a surprise to me that we were able to generate that kind of speed,” said men’s heavyweight head coach Todd Kennett ’91. Senior co-commodore Jim Voter echoed this sentiment, explaining that “according to the rankings, we were the
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Pushing ahead | The heavyweight Varsity 8 boat finished with a time of 6:00.7, ahead of both No. 5 Princeton and No. 5 Yale
underdog in this race. We knew we were competitive, and we knew that if we had the right race, we could beat them.” Voter said that racing at home holds a distinct advantage for the Red, in that the team knows how to break up the course and determine ahead of time how hard it can go for each distance. “It gives us a slight advantage, but all the other crews get here a day early so that they can try to make the racecourse their own — so it’s the same disadvantage that we’d have if we went to Syracuse,” he said. “That’s sort of the nature of this regatta — that the home team has that advantage,” Voter added. As far as Saturday’s race-day conditions were concerned, Voter said that the previous day’s weather forecast had predicted a tailwind, and that his crew had trained in anticipation of a tail push, which will generally make the racecourse faster and necessitate a different rowing style. “It was a little bit of a shock when we got down here and saw that the wind had shifted on us and we were going to be rowing with a headwind,” he said. “But it seemed like we were able to re-focus ourselves and take advantage of that.” “[Rowing] is an outdoor sport, so you’re always thinking about those kind of things anyway, and we had practiced a little bit earlier in the week for the headwind ... as we got closer and it looked like it was going to be a tail[wind], we got more and more specific with that,” Kennett said. The men’s heavyweight skipper added that the team did have “a back-up on a few things,” and just before the Varsity 8 boat launched he spoke to the crew’s strokeman [senior Kevan Zadeh] and coxswain [junior Ryan Anthony] about making a few tweaks without significantly altering the race plan. The No. 4 Cornell lightweight team, meanwhile, traveled to Boston, Mass., where the Red swept No. 7 Columbia and No. 11 MIT on the Charles River to claim its fifth Geiger Cup in as many years, and its seventh in the last eight sea-
in an upset on Saturday.
Penguins Start Summer Early There are some things in life that are unwanted, though not necessarily unexpected. I experienced that rather unsettling feeling on Sunday afternoon, when the Pittsburgh Penguins lost Game 6 to the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round of the NHL playoffs. While many Flyers fans called the series weeks ago when the two
the biggest bragging rights in the NHL. While I chose to ignore it, the writing was on the wall in Game 1 of the series, when the Penguins blew a three-point lead in the first period. Despite that incredible 10-3 win in Game 4, I don’t think that the Penguins ever possessed the focus necessary to advance to the next round. So, the Flyers
Lauren Ritter Five For Fighting Pennsylvania rivals faced off, I held fast to the hope that the pressure of the playoffs would inspire the Pens to play to their full potential. Sadly, I was mistaken. While I will always be most decidedly a Pittsburgh fan, I have to say that I am disappointed that the Pens’ playoff run ended so soon. Like many others, I feel like the team failed to play to its full potential, which ultimately cost it the opportunity to continue on the road in pursuit of the Stanley Cup and
outplayed, outlasted and, dare I say, outclassed the Penguins. After blowing the threepoint lead in Game 1, it is hard to argue that the Pens were playing their best hockey. Coming into this series I wrote a column where I said that I would put money on Marc-Andre Fleury being a more reliable goalie than the Flyers’ Ilya Bryzgalov. Instead of being the underrated brick wall in net like I had predicted him to be, Fleury played See RITTER page 14
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Red Performs Well Against Penn By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
The Red took three games from Penn this weekend in Philadelphia, Pa., dropping the last game of the series, 4-3, in the bottom of the seventh inning. Solid pitching carried the team, as it only surrendered nine runs in four games to the Quaker offense. After throwing the baseball team’s first completegame no-hitter since 1969, sophomore hurler Connor Kaufmann has continued his dominance on the mound. This weekend he blanked the Quakers in the third game of the series, pitching a complete-game, three-hit shutout to carry the Red to a victory. “Connor has been our go-to guy,” said senior catcher Brandon Lee. “He gives us an opportunity to win, because we know he’ll get out there and throw strikes.” The sophomore only walked one batter in the game and struck out six, 3 CORNELL i m p rov i n g 0 P ENN his record to 6-1. He is 39 CORNELL 0 with a .66 ERA in Ivy 5 PENN L e agu e starts. “We all expected this to happen this year,” Lee said about Kaufmann. “He showed some promise pitching some innings as a freshman and now he has really blossomed.” In Kaufmann’s shutout, the Red (27-11-1, 13-3 Ivy League) scored its only three runs with two outs in the first inning. With runners on second and third, senior shortstop Marshall Yanzick scored on a wild pitch, and then senior Frank Hager brought home senior outfielder Brian Billigen with a double. Lee then followed up with an RBI single that plated Hager. It was all the help Kauffmann needed as he continued to send the Quakers back to the bench, allowing only one Penn runner to reach second base.
The squad also got solid starting pitching performances in the first two games by senior Rick Marks and freshman Brian McAfee. Marks allowed five hits and no runs in 6 innings and McAfee gave up three runs on nine hits in 7.1 innings. Freshman Kellen Urbon shut the door in both games, recording saves eight and nine on the season and setting a program record in that catSee BASEBALL page 15
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Reliable red | Sophomore pitcher Connor Kaufmann pitched a complete-game, three-hit shutout on Friday.