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More than three months after testimony emerged accusing Ithaca Police Lt. Marlon Byrd of aiding drug dealers, no details about the city’s investigation into the accusations have been released. Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 insisted this week that the investigation is continuing, but declined to discuss “I have not been given any he what actions are being information of substance” taken or when the regarding the investigation. inquiry may be completed. “I can assure you the Lt. Marlon Byrd conclusions of the investigation will be made public once it’s complete,” Myrick said in an email. “I can’t talk about an investigation that is in progress.” But Byrd, who has remained on the job except for a one-day administrative leave in January, said that he has not been interviewed or told anything in connection with the inquiry. “I have not been given any information of substance” regarding the investigation, he said. Similarly, Sgt. Bryan Bangs — who testified in 2010 that he See IPD page 4
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Man Charged With Beating H.S.Student By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor
A 36 year-old male was arrested and charged Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a high school student outside the State Theatre, a block away from the Commons, according to an email from
Mayor Svante Myrick ’09. Michael Frey of Millport, N.Y., reportedly beat the 16-year-old student from the New Roots Charter School after one of the wads of paper students were shooting at each other stuck to the rear See NEW ROOTS page 5
The Wailers Will Take Slope Day Stage Rules Reduced By MANU RATHORE Sun Staff Writer
The Wailers, a Jamaican reggae group known for being Bob Marley’s former band, will be the opening act for Taio Cruz and Neon Trees on Slope Day, the Slope Day Planning Board announced Wednesday. The band accepted its offer Tuesday morning. The Wailers last graced Cornell in 2003, when they performed at Bailey Hall the week after Slope Day. “We were looking out for acts within our budget and so The Wailers’ name came up within our list of possibilities ... We thought it would be in accordance with our mission to get the widest variety of genre on Slope Day, to get something that will appeal to everybody,” said Sam Breslin ’12, selections director of SDPB. The band was formed by the remaining members of Bob Marley and The Wailers after Marley’s death in 1981. “It’s a Bob Marley band and after 1981 they have still been touring and playing a lot of classic Bob Marley stuff like Three Little Birds,” Breslin said. “They are playing at Ithaca College the same day, so it really couldn’t have been
more perfect.” SDPB decided to book The Wailers in part because reggae artists rarely perform at Cornell, according to Noelle Cornelio ’12, chair of SDPB. “I am pretty sure that the last time we had reggae show was when the Wailers performed [in 2003],” she said. “We hope that reggae would attract a new kind of crowd.” According to Breslin, The Wailers will play “all of Bob Marley’s classics,” diversifying the line-up and providing a “great, chill vibe” for people as they arrive at the Slope. “While I can’t guarantee a
Bob Marley hologram, I can guarantee a great performance and vibe,” he said referring to the hologram of the deceased Tupac Shakur that was projected at Coachella last week. Marley and The Wailers have sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, according to the band’s website. British pop singer and rapper Taio Cruz will headline this year’s Slope Day. Pop rock band Neon Trees will also be an opener. Manu Rathore can be reached at mrathore@cornellsun.com.
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Patricia Kim ’14 explores the pros and cons of taking a semester off from the stress of Cornell. | Page 7
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After the University banned the consumption of alcohol during rush week this year, fraternities witnessed a large decrease in overall alcohol consumption in the spring 2012 recruitment period. However, the decline was accompanied by a trend in rush events shifting to off-campus venues, according to data released by the Interfraternity Council Thursday. According to surveys administered by the IFC to students who rushed and joined fraternities this semester, 72.6 percent of students reported that they did not drink any alcohol during rush. By contrast, 32.9 percent reported not drinking in 2011. Furthermore, students reported that hard alcohol consumption and excessive binge drinking — characterized as ingesting more than seven drinks in a single night — were drastically lower than the amounts reportedly consumed during the previous two rush weeks. “Not only are fewer students See IFC page 5
Sydney Ramsden ’14 describes her very first trip to the Ithaca Farmers Market, giving the local gem a rave review. | Page 10
Arts Hitting the Pavement
James Rainis ’14 explains why Pavement’s 20-year-old record Slanted and Enchanted is one of his favorite classic rock albums. | Page 11
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The ultimate frisbee team will head to Saratoga Springs this weekend to compete in the regional championships. | Page 18
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President David Skorton’s signature has sealed a year-long debate over how to resolve allegations of sexual assault against students in compliance with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational institutions. Skorton approved the University Assembly’s Resolution 7 Wednesday, affirming the decision to treat accusations of sexual assault or harassment cases against students in the same way as those made against faculty, staff and student employees. Skorton’s approval of the resolution was announced in an email to Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14, chair of the UA, on April 22, according to a press release Wednesday. “Students are very much in favor of the UA having a strong voice in the changes that will be made to Policy 6.4,” said Lukasiewicz. The UA passed Resolution 7 with a vote of 11 to zero, including 2 abstentions, on April 10. The last open meeting that the UA held was well publicized, according to Lukasiewicz, so anyone could attend, give feedback and receive information about the issue. The resolution, which will shift the existing investigative procedure for cases of sexual violence by students under the campus Code of Conduct to the procedure outlined in University Policy 6.4. The policy is currently applied to faculty, staff and student employee cases and the change to include students has been hotly debated by the UA, its Codes and Judicial Committee, faculty and student leaders since April 2011. Skorton said that “sound arguments have been advanced by both proponents and opponents of the change,” and that he has been “gratified by the measured and deliberate consideration given to this consequential issue,” according to the press release. Alan Mittman, director of the Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations, defended the shift to Policy 6.4. “I’m confident from the way that the process has worked with reviews of sexual harassment cases against faculty and staff that it should work equally well with claims against students to fairly, effectively and promptly resolve such claims,” Mittman said. Under the new system, laywers will not be allowed to advocate for the accuser of the accused, and the standard of proof will be lower than it is for other offenses. Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant ’88 said she also supports Resolution 7. Lowering the burden of proof for sexual assault cases will encourage more victims of sexual violence to file complaints, Grant said. Grant acknowledged the concern expressed by opponents of the change that an increase in allegations of sexual assault will result in more students being falsely accused or found in violation. Still, she said she is optimistic about the effects the change will have on assault investigations and that she is glad that the debate is finally resolved. “At times, I felt impatient,” Grant said. “But at the same time, because our system values shared governance, it is important that the decision goes through this process.” After a year of deliberation since the Department of Education issued a “Dear Colleague letter” to U.S. colleges and universities — which Cornell administrators argued required the University to make immediate changes to its process for dealing with sexual assault accusations — Skorton expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the debate, according to the press release. “I am convinced that shifting offenses involving sexual harassment and sexual assault to Policy 6.4 will strike the appropriate balance between the complainant and the accused, will provide a fair and expeditious process for resolution of complaints alleging these offenses, and will appropriately address legal mandates under Title IX,” Skorton said. Danielle Sochaczevski can be reached at dsochaczevski@cornellsun.com.
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Candidates for Congress Debate Jobs By MATTHEW ROSENSPIRE Sun Staff Writer
grants spread around the state.” Danks Burke, however, said that the Farm Bill — the primary agricultural and food policy tool for the federal government — treats small farms and large agribusinesses the same. She said that in Congress she would push for separate treatment of the two. “Small farms are operating in a completely different system than large agribusiness,” Danks Burke said. “We need to look at subsidies and tax incentives to make sure they reflect that difference.” Shinagawa focused on the need to extend the Cooperative Extension System, which is part of the Department of Agriculture and has an office at Cornell University due to the University’s landgrant status. Cornell Cooperative Extension aims to improve communities in New York State through university-based research in areas of agri-
Tompkins County Democrats gathered at a forum Wednesday night to hear the three Democratic congressional candidates for the New York 23rd district speak and address community concerns. While the candidates covered issues across all areas, an unofficial consensus soon developed that one issue trumped all others: jobs. At the forum, which was hosted by the Tompkins County Democratic Committee, the three candidates — Leslie Danks Burke, Melissa Dobson and Nathan Shinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09 — each answered questions from a moderator, the audience and, briefly, each other. Danks Burke attacked Rep. Tom Reed (R – N.Y. 23), the incumbent congressman, for his what she said was his lack of progress on jobs. “Jobs are definitely the most important issue in this election,” she said. “[Look at] President Obama’s infrastructure plan. “Jobs are definitely the most important The president wants to build roads, issue in this election.” bridges and railroads and we have people who are skilled in those areas out of work Leslie Danks Burke in this district, but Tom Reed voted against the transportation bill. That is a culture and food systems, according to its website. vote against working people.” “The Cooperative Extension helped end the Shinagawa agreed with Danks Burke’s emphasis on the importance of creating jobs in every county Dust Bowl,” Shinagawa said. “I’m in favor of expanding that as well as looking at grants and subin the district. “I am the only candidate in this election who sidies.” Additionally, all three candidates expressed conhas a record of creating jobs locally,” Shinagawa said. “The County Development Corporation has fidence in their ability to beat Reed in the supported both Cortland Produce and the Ithaca November election should they receive the Beer Company.” Shinagawa helped bring $56 mil- Democratic Party’s nomination. “I think whoever runs against Representative lion in new investment to Tompkins County while working for the County Development Reed needs to appeal across party lines. I actually had Republicans circulate petitions for me because Corporation, he said. Shinagawa added that his experience in the they believed in my message,” Danks Burke said. Dobson noted her proximity to Reed’s homeTompkins County Legislature led him to focus on jobs and economic development not only in the town, the City of Corning. “I think it’s important to note that county but throughout the Southern Tier. Dobson also stressed her commitment to keep- Representative Reed never carried his hometown,” she said. “I’m from that area and I have no doubt ing jobs in New York and creating new ones. “Creating job opportunities is an issue across that I can carry areas like that.” Shinagawa announced that his campaign has the state and across the nation, and should be everyone’s priority,” Dobson said. “At a federal been endorsed by the Working Families Party, as level, we can implement tax incentives to keep his- well as by several mayors and county Democratic parties. toric industries here.” “People thought that a Tompkins County resiOne point that all three candidates agreed on was that American workers in the manufacturing dent couldn’t win, but I’ve proven that wrong. I sector face unfair competition from China, have support from nine mayors and numerous whether due to currency manipulation or to that organizations across the Southern Tier,” he said. Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said he was pleased country’s lax safety and labor standards. All three were also adamant about the need to with the results of the forum. “As an elected official who counts on his [conprotect the jobs of New York’s small farmers. Each candidate’s specific policy recommendations, how- gressional representative] to deliver for Ithaca and as a Democrat, I was extremely impressed with the ever, differed greatly. Dobson stressed that changes in agricultural caliber of the candidates and the tenor of the distechnology that will lead small farmers to need cussion,” Myrick said. increased government assistance. “Farming has become a high-tech industry,” Matthew Rosenspire can be reached Dobson said. “It’s a matter of getting loans and at mrosenspire@cornellsun.com.
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not know anything about the inquiry. “The media reports are the only time I hear or learn of anything regarding the investigation,” Bangs said. He declined to discuss the investigation further. The allegations against Byrd became public on Jan. 13 when The Ithaca Journal published documents from a 2010 arbitration. In the documents, several witnesses testified that Byrd, an IPD veteran of 20 years, gave narcotics dealers information about pending drug investigations — including the times and locations of drug raids — and held substances for them. The witnesses included a convicted drug dealer as well as several IPD officers. Police reviewed the same claims in 2008 and cleared Byrd of any wrongdoing, but testimony from Officer Bob Brotherton in July suggested high-ranking IPD officers began working around Byrd for fear he would tip off drug dealers. The city launched a new investigation in January after the accusations became public. “These are serious allegations,” Myrick said in a statement in January. “We must get the facts straight.” Earlier this week, Myrick emphasized
that the city’s investigation is continuing. “We’ve got some very good people working on our behalf to get to the bottom of these very serious allegations,” he said. However, one official whose statements have previously cast doubt on Byrd’s integrity said that he was not aware of any investigation in progress. “I have not been interviewed by anybody regarding an ongoing investigation,” said the official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. Other officials whose allegations formed the basis for the city’s inquiry did not respond to requests for comment. Ithaca Police Chief Ed Vallely defended Byrd when the allegations became public in January. He told The Journal that he was “confident that Lt. Byrd’s name will once again be cleared.” This week, Vallely did not respond to a request for comment about the investigation or about whether he continued to support Byrd. Byrd was placed on administrative leave for one day in late January. He quickly returned to work after a “personnel assessment” determined that the lieutenant was “fit to continue in his responsibilities” pending further investigation, Myrick
announced Feb. 1. Although several officers raised questions about Byrd’s conduct, the veracity of the allegations against him remains unclear. The accusations all stem from the 2010 arbitration of officer Chris Miller, who claims IPD racially discriminates against white officers. Miller also filed a lawsuit against IPD in spring 2010 for $17 million, claiming he suffered racial discrimination when Byrd was promoted to lieutenant instead of Miller. To further his claim, Miller said that Byrd should not have defeated him for the lieutenant promotion, in part because Byrd is a “poor police officer.” Miller and other officers, all of whom are white, testified that they had reason to believe Byrd had assisted drug dealers. In interviews with The Sun in March, several city officials and community leaders said that Byrd, a black officer who was born and raised on Ithaca’s south side, is being targeted primarily because of his connection to the city’s black community — a community whose relationship with IPD is often marked by tension, antipathy and sporadic violence, they said. Michael Linhorst can be reached at mlinhorst@cornellsun.com.
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window of Frey’s van, Myrick said. Frey then exited the vehicle and allegedly beat the student so badly that he required several stitches and may have lost consciousness. Frey, who is being charged with assault in the third degree, was released Wednesday on an $100 bail. He was identified in police radio reports as a white male. The race of the victim has not been released. Local resident Devlin Laurenson said that he saw the teenager shooting rubber bands — which Myrick said were being used to launch the wads of paper — on the corner W. State Street and N. Geneva Street. He also witnessed Frey get out of the van and punch the boy several times in the face. “He was bleeding from his mouth, stumbling — it looked like his jaw got busted,” Laurenson said, adding that Frey soon jumped back into the van and sped off. “I just couldn’t believe it.” Laurenson said that the boy’s friends then picked him up and, supporting him on each side, carried him back to the New Roots school. Myrick said police soon caught the man, who radio reports indicate was wearing a “gray sweatsuit with some sort of tattoo or marking under his eyes.” “I'm happy to report that IPD responded immediately and apprehended the suspect before they got more than three blocks away in their van,” he said. Though she did not see the assault, Jenny McGuire, owner of an antique store on the block, strongly criticized Ithaca Police for failing to protect her and the neighborhood, adding that the safety of the street had deteriorated. “It’s a really rough block … I’m not at all surprised; it saddens me, but I’m not surprised,” McGuire, who owns Bluebird Antiques, said. She said she recently had her store broken into with a crowbar, regularly hears reports of crimes in nearby stores and believes the presence of a “loud, swearing crowd” makes it difficult for local businesses to thrive. These problems were exacerbated when an Ithaca Police Officer named Eric, who usually patrolled the block was reassigned, McGuire said. “God I miss him — he was such a presence … If there was a mob of intimidating people on the block, he’d make them move on,” she said. She said that incidents like these also sadden her and make her doubt the future of the neighborhood. “I think downtown Ithaca is going to hell in a handbasket,” she said. Jeff Stein can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
drinking, but even for those that are, they are drinking much safer,” said Alex Rawitz ’13, IFC vice president for recruitment. Still, the number of survey respondents who said they attended off-campus rush events increased from previous years. Sanders said this trend, which may be indicative of a response to stricter rules, will need to be further examined. “We are very happy with the results, but we have to be realistic in knowing that it wasn’t a completely dry rush,” Sanders said. “The lack of open parties and drinking during events at chapter houses caused an increase in people going to Ithaca or even further out of town.” The surveys were created and administered by the IFC to track changes in rush week activity after new University rules were handed down at the end of last year. The data was analyzed through the Dartmouth Collaborative, an initiative created in 2011 to reduce high-risk drinking at colleges throughout the country. The IFC has stipulated that the reported decrease in alcohol consumption could be attributed to new rules that discouraged drinking at night during rush week, according to IFC president Chris Sanders ’13. In September, the IFC approved an altered rush week schedule in response to University demands. For the first time, contacts — where chapters visit potential members at their dorm rooms — occurred on Wednesday night from 10 p.m. to midnight to decrease the number of opportunities for nighttime events. “Smokers,” or open house events, were made dry and moved from daytime to Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6 p.m. to midnight. “The IFC tried to find ways in which we could offset trends of parties ending up in Collegetown,” Sanders said. “People ultimately started drinking later in the night, so there was much more time to cut down on drinking opportunities.” Despite the overall decrease in alcohol consumption, some
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fraternity members acknowledged that drinking did occur outside of fraternity houses during rush. “In our house, we took extra precautions to be in compliance with the new rules. But at the same time, we took precautions to fall under the radar and get our rushes away from campus oversight,” said one fraternity president who insisted upon anonymity for fear of judicial repercussions. Rawitz said he believes the IFC will be able to solve the relocation of rush events to off-campus venues over the next few years once upperclassmen have graduated. “Older brothers who witnessed wet rushes” are set in their ways, Rawitz said. “The only reason people drank was because students had certain expectations of fraternities. As the status quo changes, chapters will realize that no one expects to drink, so we can shift most events back to our houses.” Rawitz cited the increase in students who rushed this year as a reason to expect increasing acceptance of the new rush process, which he said will remain permanently dry going forward. “Last year, when we were debating the future, half of the IFC said rush numbers would go down because students would be turned off by not drinking,” Rawitz said. “The other half said it will make frats more exclusive by providing prospective brothers with fewer options. If they do in fact want to join a house, they will do so to experience a fraternity for all of the non-drinking related aspects of the Greek system.” Sanders said the IFC has not yet developed a concrete plan to reduce off-campus drinking during rush week but that the issue will be addressed more in the coming months. “We had some very positive trends this year. We want to see how we can continue these upward movements,” Sanders said. “But with everything else that has been going on this semester … we haven’t yet had any in-depth conversations on the issue.” Harrison Okin can be reached at hokin@cornellsun.com.
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y column is entitled Casual WTFery. At some point you might have pondered what the hell that even means. Quite simply, it’s the most accurate description of my life that I could come up with. If you’re skeptical, keep reading to see how I got to be so casually WTF. I’ve already told you all about the escapades of my baby bottom, and after starting out with a minor shitocalypse you know that it can only get better from there. Maybe it was middle school that did it. Although I know preteen years suck for just about everybody, it was particularly awful for me. Tall, chunky, super bookish, with a vague mullet, braces / retainers and going through a goth phase all at the same time is certainly enough to make a social pariah out of just about anybody. It was at this point in my life that I accidentally microwaved my retainers, which coincidentally made them erupt into flames and caused a very weird phone conversation with the dentist’s office. The receptionist laughed so hard that I could barely get a word in. Apparently not only am I a pediatric record holder, but I’m also infamous at the dentist’s office. I’m pretty sure they use my story to console girls who destroy their orthodontics in less badass but more fixable ways. On a separate note, I did synchronized swimming in seventh grade. I like to bring that shit up in Never Have I Ever because who the hell else do you know that has ever synchronized swam? Exactly. It could also be my family. Any of my Twitter followers are sure to recognize my hashtag #theDeans because I tweet about their weirdness all the time. When I describe #theDeans to people, I generally refer to us as domesticated rednecks, but sometimes “nuts” works its way in there too. Whether it’s my grandfather kicking a cop in the balls during a diabetic reaction, my uncle giving my brother frozen deer testicles for Christmas, my Grammy asking if I’ve “sexted” anyone lately or telling me my ethics paper topic sounds “bullshittable,” my mom describing to me how she’s been teasing my brother about the size of his “package” or my other grandfather microwaving my cousin’s stuffed toy to dry it off only to have its voice box explode 30 seconds later, #theDeans just serve to make me think that ridiculosity is genetic and I got the lion’s share of the outrageous genes. Normal conversations in our house go something like this: “Well, I don’t get the difference between a chicken and a pig.” “Mammals have TITS AND FUR DAD. Tits and fur.” Or the occasional misunderstanding of Will Smith lyrics: “Huh? Eatin’ chickens with it?” “No Dad. That would be ‘gettin’ jiggy with it’.” Maybe it’s just that Cornell allows my unique brand of nerdy-weirdo-with-socialskills to flourish. There was freshman year when I got J.A.’d at a drag party in the townhouses and awkwardly had class with one of the officers who wrote me up (it was totally worth it for the BAC card, thanks BASICS!). There was the night sophomore year when my bra fell out of my pocket in C-Town only to resurface on the front steps
of my friend’s house. Soon after that I dyed my hair — along with my entire body and Eco House bathroom — pink. My butt was dye-striped like a Lisa Frank zebra for at least a week. There’s also the day last year when I accidentally sat on a frozen possum for 10 minutes in the middle of a blizzard. I believe the possum encounter happened around the same time that I got a six-minute mohawk in a mens’ bathroom for a scavenger hunt. And then there’s last fall when I blacked out for the first (and only) time and woke up to four simultaneously sprained fingers (try explaining that to Gannett) after having apparently bitch-slapped a door. Somewhere in this timeline I ended up standing on the streets of downtown Philly in my underwear and was forced to fake an orgasm on stage at
Sam Dean Casual WTFery Drag Bingo … twice. This semester has been no less WTF, involving the surprise acquisition of a vibrator named Rumbleroar, a giant meat needle and multiple piñatas. With the exception of the J.A. and finger accident, I was totally sober for all of this. What that says about me, I’m not really sure. I’ll leave it up to you to decide. I hope I’ve cleared up any questions about where Casual WTFery comes from, because even armed with the above paragraphs, you still don’t even know the half of it. And with that, I’d like to give a shout out to #theDeans who are just now finding out that I tweet about them all the time, that all my friends think they are hysterical, that I own a vibrator and that I got J.A.’d freshman year. Super thanks to Ruby and Dani for letting me write about some ludicrous subjects and for choosing me as an opinion columnist even though I wrote about Power Ranger porn in my application (seriously). If you’ve ever emailed my sun email, thank you for making me feel almost famous. Mad props to the Lynah Faithful who now sing the words to MYOC. Muchas gracias to The Melon Stand for being enabler and to Eco House for saving me from what was almost a heinous apple bobbing incident. Holla at my boss Dave who has only fired me a mere seven times, and my favorite conscience Sarah who accepts nearly every crazy-ass thing I do with an impossibly straight face. Last but not least, cheers to the Big Red Horn section, who put up with my excessive talk of bodily fluids and so much more. All I can hope for now is that Ruby replaces me with someone equally as zany; someone who is never going to give you up, let you down, run around or desert you. The verdict? Stay crazy, stay casual, use the Force and always keep a little WTFery in your lives. Sam Dean is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She may be reached at sdean@cornellsun.com. Casual WTFery appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
CORRECTION A news article printed Wednesday, “Professors’ Salary Rise Outpaces Inflation,” incorrectly stated that Cornell’s average full-time faculty salary increased 2.5 percent from 2011, outpacing the rate of inflation. In fact, the average salary for “full professors” — faculty at the highest rank of the University, and not just any full-time professor — increased 2.5 percent, and that number was below the inflation rate of 3 percent. The article also stated that the average salary increase for full professors was 2.8 percent. In fact, it was 2.5 percent. Due to an editing error, the headline of a news story Wednesday, “Blue Light Sees Record Number of Calls,” was incorrect. In fact, while the number of requests made did increase by a significant amount, the program has been used more frequently in the past.
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ately, I’ve been sorely tempted by the thought of taking a semester off. As a matter of fact, there was a point during spring break when I was on the verge of calling my parents and telling them that I couldn’t possibly make it until the end of this semester, and would they please book a flight so I could get the hell out of here right now, fast. I couldn’t make that phone call because really, I had nothing to say. There was nothing wrong, nothing legitimately substantial underneath my springtime angst. I was getting tired of the stressful monotony, which bade ill for my work ethic; which bade ill for the benign academic
too, at one point, felt a certain turbulence in his college career. He felt the trembling of the impending tide of decisions that would sweep him off his feet and lead him to a place that he feared he would despise. A certain animosity in his social surroundings further troubled him, and he felt drained of the drive that he perceived daily in the morning rush of the coffee-clad student body. A semester of respite was what he wanted to take, and take it he did. The first two months were spent with youthful vigor, working long hours and playing longer ones. The subsequent months, which I pieced together from a series of irate texts from my mother, were dedicated to reaching record-breaking levels in World of Warcraft, cracking at a college text or two, tasting for the best brand of fried chicken that South Korea had to offer and face- palming on his bed, worrying about life. In due time he returned to colBetter on Paper lege, rosy and eager, cleansed of the devilish distractions that had plagued him so and filled instead with a sense of urgent purpose to finish what he had started. It must have been wonderful, and he assures me that it was. I imagine it to have felt like how I would feel on days of playing hooky during senior year of high school, which soon came to an end on account of my mother’s creative exhaustion. There are, after all, only so many illnesses that a person can be afflicted with within a certain period of time without it all summing up to a terminal condition. But on those precious days off, I would look at the clock, and feel it tick for my classmates but not for myself. Each tick would mean one less minute of a double period of chemistry and
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mediocrity that I tried to maintain; which bade ill for my general happiness with life, which largely depended on my academic performance regardless I put in the effort or not. I pictured the phone call. My mother would be sitting on the couch on the other hemisphere, teeth clenched and listening to her daughter’s first world problems, restraining herself from turning her teacup into a projectile. You feel tired and down? I see. Really? That’s all? This too shall pass, they say; and that too, passed. And here I am, musing about the road not taken, the road that in all likelihood will not be taken. Was it my brother that had instilled such fancies? He
one minute closer to the bell that would be their cue to shuttle onto Bartleby and his perplexing preferences. While they did just that, my time was free to spend however I pleased. To those that began reading this piece expecting a persuasive stance on taking time off from college, I do apologize. The pros and cons list on the subject can be found on Google. Pros and cons put aside, it is safe to say that there is a general suspicion to taking time off from college. Unless it is for a very good reason, such as taking a lucrative job, internship or a medical condition, it feels superfluous and lazy. There is the fear of the dissolution of friendships, of running behind everybody else. The nature of one’s monetary relationship to the university — that is, being indebted to it, is a further reason to not postpone graduation further. And then there’s the danger of the semester off becoming the catalyst to one’s adding to the statistic of college dropouts as opposed to being one to self- discovery and renewal. I ran through all of these cons in my mind, over and over again. Suffice to say, I talked myself out of my angst, and stayed this spring. And will most likely be attending this fall. But still. Summer is dawning, and it’s that time of year where everyone’s sick and tired of work and ready to leave, yet still scrambling to finish well and find internships and planning exam preparations over the summer. This atmosphere of worn exhaustion seems to be good enough an excuse to wonder vapidly whether it would be the end of the world to take a semester off to do whatever. Patricia Kim is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at pkim@cornellsun.com. Better on Paper appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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riends, readers and awkwardly estranged lovers, my time brightening your Thursdays has come to an end. What follows here is my last ever column to appear in The Cornell Daily Sun (provided I pass History of Rock and Roll and graduate). As I looked back and reflected on my experiences in preparation for writing a meaningful column, I realized that on the Grand-Scale-ofProfoundness, anything I could say would rank far below even-a-teeny-weeny-bitprofound. On top of that, you have probably already read goodbye columns and will undoubtedly read several more before the final breath of the semester. With these sentiments in mind, I sent my initial, sappy, poor-attempt-at-something-meaningful rough draft to a lonely island somewhere in cyberspace where hopefully it will never be recovered. I thought that a better way to cap off my long and distinguished career as a journalist (haha journalist … yeah, right …) would be combining all aspects of my columns into one. So here it is, a bulleted / numbered list of controversial complaints mostly about nothing too important.
• Some people think quarter cards and quarter carders are annoying. I happen to really like quarter carders (it has nothing to do with the fact that I have quarter carded and understand how difficult it is to be rejected by everyone). I use quarter carders as a game. The game has two versions. Version one: Try to get as few quarter cards as possible. Version two: Try to get as many as possible. The game has strict rules, paths across Ho Plaza to Willard Straight must be relatively direct; no excessive weaving to avoid or gather quarter cards is allowed and if you are offered a
quarter card, you must take it and be polite about it. The key to winning is timing and level of approachability. Time your walk so you pass a quarter carder as they are handing a card to someone else or are free and you can accept a card. Appear approachable and smile if you want a card. If you are playing to get as few as possible I recommend putting your head down and headphones in. • I have heard that women find awkwardness endearing. I’m not sure I believe this is true. How come whenever I trip up the front steps of Willard Straight I don’t brush myself off to find five women fawning over me? • I think it would go a long way to improving mental health on campus if professors started using different colored stars to grade papers and tests. The colors could correspond to grades. An A would be a gold star; a B would be a silver one and so forth. This way even if someone failed and got a red star they couldn’t feel bad, because they had a star on their paper. Who doesn’t feel happy with a star on their paper? • The best super heroes are the ones who can fly. They are significantly cooler if they have wings. The problem is that the only flying superhero with wings that I can think of is Storm, and she is a woman. This wouldn’t be a problem except I plan on one day spontaneously turning into a preexisting superhero. When this eventually happens I would really prefer it if I could remain a man. Maybe my best option is one of the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz. • Lately I’ve noticed that no one looks happy when walking to class. I have made it my mission to cheer them up, so I have tried smiling at random people. I haven’t
received many return smiles. I can’t decide if people just don’t see me, or if my semiforced smile comes off as creepy. Judging by the fact that I haven’t become an invisible superhero yet, my bet is on the latter. • It always surprises me when someone tells me that they are bored. First, I don’t really care. Only boring people are bored. And second, I am mildly insulted that when you are hanging out with me you are
Anyway, I am currently accepting applications. Qualified applicants should possess the following qualities: two first names, attention to minute and unimportant details, the ability to expand on ideas that warrant no further expansion and an innocence when it comes to racial issues that could be construed as mildly racist by those that don’t know you. Those with email signatures need not apply.
Will Spencer Tripping Up Stairs bored. Have you read these columns? I’m not boring 6.5 days a week. • I think that instead of chanting “OoooLayyyy Olay Olay Olay,” at soccer games, it would be better if everyone just sang Shots by LMFAO. • An ad was published listing the new members of the Sphinx Head Secret Society. What confuses me is that if I know who is in it and that it exists, is Sphinx Head much of a Secret Society? It seems about as secret as the society of people that can be found drinking on my couch on a given Saturday. We just don’t have a cool name. • My editor, Ruby, told me that I could recommend a successor to have this amazing gig next year. Trust me, you want this prestigious position. Several women (yes, more than one) have told me how great I am (when I say “I” I mean my column and when I say “great” I mean adequate).
• As I look back on my tenure with The Sun (I know I said I wasn’t going to be sappy and retrospective, I promise this is the only one. [Ladies, I always keep my promises.]). I realize that being published has inflated my head to enormous proportions. Which I think is actually okay, because now I fit into adult hats and can stop shopping in the kids department. • I have always wanted to write a haiku in my column but never had the guts to ask my editors if it was appropriate. But since this is my last column ever I dare someone to try to stop me: Writing for The Sun sure has been a lot of fun Peace readers! I’m done. Will Spencer is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at wspencer@cornellsun.com. Tripping Up Stairs appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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COMICS AND PUZZLES
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ACROSS 1 Party boss? 5 Bunks, e.g. 9 Lavish meal 14 Wine-growing region 15 Neural conductor 16 ’80s-’90s legal drama 17 Frustrated crossword solver’s cry 20 Kindle competitor 21 Chew toy material 22 Scholarship, e.g. 24 Spits out, as a DVD 27 Small beef 28 Move through muck 30 Brand at Williams-Sonoma 31 Little songbird 34 Frustrated crossword solver’s cry 40 Kindergarten rejoinder 41 Kan. hours 42 Hacienda honorific 43 Frustrated crossword solver’s cry 46 Formula One racer Fabi 47 Enzyme suffix 48 Spirited horse 49 Shriner hat 52 Two-time Bond portrayer 55 Ph.D. seeker’s exam 56 Keys at a bar, perhaps 59 Onetime larva 61 Relieved crossword solver’s cry 66 Nice states 67 Co-star of Tom in “Angels & Demons” 68 Telethon request 69 It may be roja or verde 70 Shirts with slogans 71 Walkout walk-in
Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name. (Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)
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38 Baseballer married to soccer’s Mia 39 Diving bird 44 Mountain warble 45 Takes another look at, as a cold case 49 Small winds 50 Musical with the song “A New Argentina” 51 Divided into districts
53 Till now 54 Rapa __: Easter Island 57 “Peanuts” cry 58 She met Rick in Paris 60 UPS deliveries 62 Carry a balance 63 Brush-off on the brae 64 Reproductive cells 65 Homespun home
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DINING GUIDE
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Dining Guide
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The First Taste of Spring By SYDNEY RAMSDEN Sun Dining Editor
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I have a confession to make: Until Saturday, I had never visited the Ithaca Farmers Market. Shameful, I know, especially for someone as obsessed with food as I am. Prior to my visit, the Ithaca Farmers Market had been nothing more than a myth to me: a bustling outdoor market full of students and local hippies alike, featuring the finest and freshest homegrown ingredients, snacks and meals, not to mention the multiple vendors of arts and crafts. From what I had heard, frankly, I just never understood the fuss made over the market and why it was so adored. Farmers markets are all over the place; what makes this one so special? Journeying to the Ithaca Farmers Market is even on the list of the 161 things every Cornellian must do. Every person who asked me if I had made the trek to the market, and to which I replied “No,” returned with looks of shock and amazement. But alas, my entire freshman year and first semester of sophomore year flew
by, and I still had never attempted to visit the coveted destination. This past weekend, however, my Ithaca Farmers Market-less streak was reversed when my friend and her parents offered to give me a ride to the elusive location. I was finally on my way, and despite hearing so much about it, I still did not know what to expect. When we arrived and stepped inside the pavillion, the praise I had heard from so many people was confirmed: I had missed out on this place for far too long. As soon as we stepped under the roof, I was taken aback by the market’s charm and quickly realized why everyone speaks so highly of it. To my right was a baked goods vendor complete with a massive brick stone oven, neighboring a dim sum station. To my left, a local chutney vendor offering jars of the oddest but most delicious combinations of flavors; who knew that mustardmango jam could be so tasty? And look over there, a local bluegrass band jamming to the delight of the shoppers and spectators. I was sold after seeing for myself what everyone had told me. Perusing the seemingly endless
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path of vendors selling homemade jewelry, beautiful plants and bouquets, freshly baked goods and exotic cuisines, we settled on the much talked-about Khmer Angkor Cambodian food station. Spicy and hearty Cambodian cuisine is certainly an unconventional breakfast choice, but we just could not resist peanut-sprinkled egg pancakes filled with rice noodles, chicken, bamboo shoots and mango topped with a smoky peanut sauce or a crunchy, deepfried vegetable cake. It wasn’t exactly the typical morning cup o’ Joe and buttered toast, but it was a refreshing change from usual breakfast fare that whisked our
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taste buds away to a faraway land from the comfort of a picnic bench alongside Cayuga Lake. Our hunger satisfied and our taste buds jolted awake, we made our way back inside and browsed the multitudes of vendors, mesmerized by the offerings of local goods and lovely handmade trinkets. When we came upon the Chutney Fever station, we couldn’t help but sample some of the chutneys, no matter how full we were from our Cambodian feast. From the tart date-cranberry chutney to the intriguing curried banana chutney, we were overwhelmed by the explosion of tanginess each jar had to offer. We continued our quest for sweet treats when we came upon the Just Desserts station with heaps of baked goods, fresh loaves of bread and a wood fired oven that baked cheesy flatbread pizza to order. We treated ourselves to rich hazelnut-espresso brownies and vegan rosemary olive bread that both made the perfect rainy afternoon snacks. We just had to make another stop before our departure from the market to share a warm and crispy flatbread pizza that oozed with fresh mozzarella and basil. To make my first Ithaca Farmers Market excursion com-
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plete, my friend and I ventured to the Littletree Orchards station, which served all things fruity and sweet: cider doughnuts, fruit butter, flowers and, our choice, hot apple cider. The toasty little cups of the fresh, sugary cider warmed us right up on a chilly and wet afternoon. Clearly, I have been won over by the charm and overall deliciousness of the Ithaca Farmers Market, and I can now undoubtedly call myself a fan. But there’s something else about the market that my friends and classmates failed to describe to me, perhaps because it is simply indescribable. From what I witnessed on Saturday, the Ithaca Farmers Market isn’t just a gathering spot for local vendors to sell their homegrown goods to fellow foodies and college students; it’s a place that attracts people from Ithaca and the surrounding area, uniting us all under our shared love for food and togetherness. The Ithaca Farmers Market brings us all together under one roof to share an experience that could only happen in a place like Ithaca. And that’s really what food is all about, isn’t it? Sydney Ramsden can be reached at food@cornellsun.com.
THE HEIGHTS CAFÉ and GRILL
– Ithaca Times Readers Choice
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Live entertainment in our PIANO LOUNGE Thurs.-Sat. at 6 p.m.
Community Corners • 903 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 257-4144 • www.heightscafe.com Cocktails, Lunch, Dinner • Private dining room available Reservations suggested
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Jack White Blunderbuss
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It’s no secret that White strives to emulate the greats before him, namely the man himself, Bob Dylan. Blunderbuss is, of sorts, White’s version of the mother of all breakup albums Blood on the Tracks; the women about whom White sings have undeniably scorned him and left him in the dark, but he’s willing to admit that he’s just as much to blame for the physical and emotional pain inflicted on him. Blunderbuss, which features a predominantly female backup band, is uncompromising in its viciousness and even turns gruesome. On the jazzy, organ-tinged opener “Missing Pieces,” a woman rids White’s blood-drenched body of all its limbs. On the mellow lead single “Love Interruption,” White yearns for love to “stick a knife inside me and twist it all around.” The sinister, riff-heavy “Freedom at 21” has White begging a woman to “cut off the bottoms of my feet / Make me walk on salt.” But then on “Hypocritical Kiss,” White turns the fault on himself, even if reluctantly: “And I know that you’re mad at me / But if you’re thinking like that, I think you’ll see that you’re mad at you too.” Then on the title track, he’s just downright sad, mourning a “romantic bust a blunder / turned explosive blunderbuss.” It’s this expression of love’s inexplicable juxtaposition of outward brutality and crippling helplessness that makes Blunderbuss such an effective record; White exhibits an unquestionable maturity that can only be attributed to his own sorrow. No longer does he sing about schoolhouse pals on the playground learning their ABCs. Of course, it’s impossible to write about a Jack White album without addressing his guitar work. Throughout his tenures with The Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather and now as a solo artist, White has become synonymous with
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effortless electric guitar mastery that has launched him into iconic status (three words: “Seven Nation Army”). But in a surprising move, perhaps in an effort to detach himself from his public persona, White’s signature sound is seldom heard here. Except for the Stripes-esque “Sixteen Saltines” and the delightfully bouncy Little Willie John cover “I’m Shakin’” (on which White declares with mischievous glee “I’m noy-vuss”), much of the guitar on Blunderbuss is acoustic, often void of the screeching, gritty slide guitar solos that have characterized so many of White’s songs in the past. Keys make up for the lack of guitars to an unexpectedly refreshing and pleasant result. The piano-driven “Trash Tongue Talker” is a swinging homage to ’60s blues rock a la the Rolling Stones and “I Guess I Should Go to Sleep” is a barstool sing-along, the most deliberate straight-up blues effort on the album. This is mostly untouched territory for White, but only he could navigate it with such fearlessness and ease. You’ve got to hand it to the guy; after spending a solid 15 years on fans’ and critics’ radars, White is one of only a handful of artists who still manages to stay fresh and shake things up with each musical outing, good or bad (we haven’t forgotten your Insane Clown Posse collaboration just yet, Jack). Blunderbuss is everything we could have expected from White, but at the same time, it’s nothing we could ever have anticipated. The album’s brilliance comes out of nowhere and floors us after each listen — an undeniable sign of a true artist. Sydney Ramsden is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at sramsden@cornellsun.com.
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A Eleni Konstantopoulos Yann Tiersin arrives back on the music scene with his seventh studio album Skyline — one year since his previous offering Dust Lane. Yes, the mastermind behind one of the most memorable scores of all time (to French film Amélie) has returned with a nearly-immaculate musical endeavor. The multi-instrumentalist Tiersin has developed his idiosyncratic sound over the years by favoring instruments such as the piano, guitar, xylophone, violin, synthesizer and, surprisingly, the typewriter in his compositions. When combined, these sounds create intensely moody, multi-layered musical pieces that harness the dreamy quality of a symphony orchestra. The melodies and lyrics produce achingly beautiful sounds, the kind that you feel vibrating in your bones. The death of his mother and close friend definitely contributed to the tone of Dust Lane, albeit Tiersin underlines that the album was imagined before the tragic event. People seeking the same musings on death will not come across them in Skyline. Tiersin strays from morbid notions, his lyrics invoking lighter emotions. In a way, these songs act as tethers, allowing for our minds to escape the mundane reality. Have no fear though, the album can just as easily ground the reader before their imagination flies too far following the lows and highs of the songs. “Another Shore,” the first song off the album, is a beautiful introduction to Tiersin’s whimsical melancholia. A waterfall of bells weaves in and out of the notes of his acoustic guitar. Next, electronic sounds announce the arrival of the elec-
tric guitar as sounds explode. The repetitions become more and more intricate as they are meticulously built upon. Suddenly, towards the end of the song, the bass clarinet signals the final crescendo. There is precious little information about the meaning of the songs from the actual composer. The number of interviews Yann Tiersin has conducted regarding his new album is close to zero (granted, the album was only released recently). However, the artist has commented on “I’m Gonna Live Anyhow” as being a meditation on enjoying the small pleasures of life before you reach the inevitability of death. The repetition of the phrases “I’m gonna live anyhow” and “I’m gonna live until I die” throughout the the song generates an oddly comforting atmosphere. Somehow, despite the bleakness of the message, the accompanying electric guitar and melody contrast with the isolation invoked by the lyrics. “Monuments” is by far the most popular song of the album. It resembles the Tiersin that everyone has come to know and adore. The acoustic guitar and the multitude of bells create a soft, lulling tone before the drums and voice lazily make an appearance. Towards the final moments of the song, the listener suddenly realizes how the musical structure has been quietly built upon, layer by layer, using a variety of sounds. The complexity of the various levels goes by unnoticed, underlining the level of skill required to pull these kinds of subtle modifications; such is the craftsmanship displayed by Tiersin.
On the other hand, there is the fifth song of Skyline “Exit 25 Block 20,” the complete opposite of “Monuments” and quintessentially experimental. To be quite honest, I quite don’t know what to make of this song apart from the fact that it features barking and screaming. I believe its positioning in the middle of the sequence is intentional. It appears that Monsieur Tiersin doesn’t want us getting extremely comfortable just yet. The frantic pace of the song coupled with the animalistic sounds is sure to startle the listener. No matter, the song surprises again when towards the end it acquires a distinct structure, coaxing the listener back with ease. One of my personal favorites is “The Trial.” A soothing mixture of acoustic guitar and the xylophone, the ensuing lyrics seem at odds with the music: “Someday my girl, in your mirror / Darling, you will face the trial.” The juxtaposition of the music and lyrics creates the perfect environment to allow individuals to wander with their thoughts. Because foremost, Yann Tiersin’s experimentations allow listeners to create their own stories, long after the music has died in their ears. His music urges you to follow your dreams as emotions guide the way. At the end of the road, I dream of another album from Yann Tiersin. Eleni Konstantopoulos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ekonstantopoulos@cornellsun.com.
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here is nothing like a good concert. The swell of the whirling harmonic dip, or an instrumental change. The iconcrowd, the ringing in your ears and the surreal quality ic whistling in “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” is of it all is like nothing else — it’s as if the band is replaced with a vibrant, jazzy saxophone. Humming in singing and talking only to you. “America” is substituted by a smooth keyboard (and again, a There are so many concerts that I, as a nineties baby, have soulful brass section); the vocal harmonies take a higher pitch missed. Why couldn’t I have been born in 1949 or something? and a freer form, making it a far more effectively passionate I would have gotten groovy at Woodstock. I would have rolled statement. In fact, many of the harmonies go to a high pitch my eyes as girls fainted at Shea Stadium. Or I would have just when they go low in the prior recordings, making the sound cried and fainted myself, overcome by The Beatles. I would much freer and more passionate. And basically every classic have even been a glassy-eyed Cornell student rockin’ out to has its tempo changed, making it an entirely new experience. the Grateful Dead in Barton Hall at that infamous concert in Slowing down “April Come She Will” accentuates how truly ‘77. But there is one concert that I lament missing most of all sad the song is, turning a folk song into a heart-wrenching bal— Simon and Garfunkel’s concert in Central Park in 1981. lad. Speeding up “Mrs. Robinson” and making the vocals From this concert comes my favorite album of all time. more staccato opens the show with an edge. They truly showIf you’re sane, you know that Simon and Garfunkel are case the way they play with genre when they combine the Paul amazing. I’ve spent many hours listening to them and trying to Simon’s “Kodachrome” with Chuck Berry’s Motown hit comprehend how they can construct such perfect harmonies. “Maybelline.” These are not two songs that you would assume I’ve wondered how make an amazing medley, but the marthey can weave such riage of these songs is one of the most evocative emotional bumpin’ unions in musical history. I can webs with their only imagine how delighted I would be if lyrics, and how they I were sitting in Central Park and they hit can just do everyme with that surprise. thing right. Before I That’s another thing that’s so special heard this album, I about this album. The joy and spirit of This Album Will didn’t think it was the album are palpable. Simon and Change Your Life possible for them to Garfunkel know exactly what to say to be any better. But I rile up a crowd. After singing an impaswas wrong. Simon sioned “Homeward Bound,” a delighted and Garfunkel are, in fact, better live than they are in record- Paul Simon addresses the audience, “It’s great to do a neighings. This concert is not simply a regurgitation of their music: borhood concert!” Going back to their New York roots and It is Simon and Garfunkel reuniting for the first time after part- sharing their love for the city with fellow New Yorkers, its no ing ways; it is taking their eclectic style and turning it into a mystery why the crowd goes crazy at this moment. The same bona fide rock and roll concert; it is dialogue and social back- thing happens during Art Garfunkel’s beautiful rendition of story. This concert is epic. And on a simpler level, it is two Gallagher and Lyle’s “A Heart in New York,” a love song to the incredible musicians turning out jams like never before. In this city. And yet, it’s not all sugary sweetness from the poet and recording, Simon and Garfunkel take their clean, graceful the one-man band. In the rebellious spirit of the decade, music and transform it into a stampede of joy and life. Simon makes a sarcastic shout out to the then mayor Ed Simon and Garfunkel are anything but static. Their music Koch, with whom many were unhappy. He also quips about can sound like folk, like gospel, like blues, or something that people out there raising money for the city by selling loose transcends a label. The Concert in Central Park takes their style joints: Such a quintessential hippie concert remark, and one of and delivers it in full force, but with more passion and varia- the things that makes it so candidly perfect. tion than ever before. Every song has a new jazzy riff, a This album is a relic; it’s an exemplification of an iconic
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moment for music that captures the captivation of half a million people together in Central Park. Hearing all those people on the tracks is amazing, because when the music makes emotions swell, the crowd swells with it. Things like the band messing up during “The Boxer” and giggling make them seem so real. Simon and Garfunkel’s music has a certain ethereal elegance when recorded. It is breathtaking. But hearing them perform in such an uncharacteristically raw and passionate way is mystifying. What’s special about their performance at this concert is that the sound is so unquestionably alive and honest; it’s a parade of joy and serenity and heartbreak. It’s a moment in history, suspended in time and handed to us on a silver platter as a transcendental experience. While the album is limited to sound, the music is enough. Paul Simon said, “I hope we’re blasting Central Park West and Fifth Avenue pretty much away!” And that they did. This album is and will always be my favorite escape to a great night where everyone was feelin’ groovy. Sarah Finegold is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at sfinegold@cornellsun.com.
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n the grand pantheon of classic rock records that exists in every music obsessive’s mind, Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted awkwardly stands out for a myriad of reasons. Slanted, which celebrated its 20th anniversary earlier this month, does not adhere to standard rock tropes. There’s no grand political message a la Bob Dylan or The Clash; there’s no groundbreaking sonic exploration on the level of The Beatles or Pink Floyd; hell, there’s not even the sort of antiestablishment ethos that colored the famed independent releases by Minor Threat or Sonic Youth. Still, without any sort of grand calling card, it regularly places among the Greatest Albums of All Time and is often cited as one of the most influential records ever released. But, without all the trappings emblematic of a Seminal Rock Record, how does it become classified as such? Music journalists past and present have long been beholden to mythos more than anything and, as far as that arbitrary benchmark is concerned, Pa v e m e n t had it in spades. Originally conceived as the recording project of high school friends Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg (otherwise known as Spiral Stairs), Pavement’s early releases showed promise, but not enough to prepare the world for their debut. Slanted and Enchanted was not an organic creation; it was put together in the studio by Malkmus, Spiral and 40-year-old hippie drummer Gary Young, whose timing was so bad that the
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band’s tour manager, Bob Nastanovich, had to help him keep time. By all means, this should have been a foolish post-adolescent misstep by a bunch of overeducated, undermotivated nerds. The weird thing was: it rocked. Not in the way that you’d think it would, though. From the jumbled opening solo of “Summer Babe (Winter Version),” this was a record rife with languid tempos, fractured guitar melodies and oblique lyrics that hardly mean anything. The DIY ethos of American hardcore was being turned on its shaved head: Pavement somehow made a definitive statement by creating the aural equivalent of shrugging. Malkmus wasn’t tired of your abuse; he just wanted to know if you could treat it like an oil well. Slanted is often praised for its lo-fi aesthetic amid the overblown, slickly produced altrock that dominated MTV at the time, but it became clear that this wasn’t an aesthetic decision made to alienate a potential audience Irresponsible (leave that to Listening the everantagonistic Jesus and Mary Chain) or a mode of capturing the effusive brain waves of the band’s resident savant (Guided by Voice’s Robert Pollard, ladies and gentlemen). Despite their threadbare presentation, these cats had traditional songwriting chops hiding underneath all that tape static, a sense of genuine songcraft that is on par with anything produced, ever. Parsing the lyrics, a near-impossible challenge at first, becomes easier over time: “Trigger Cut” has its
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redemptive salvo of “I’ll be coming back today;” “Conduit for Sale” sounds like somebody vomiting their notes from AP Euro whilst in the throes of a particularly harrowing nervous breakdown; and “Here” is the last dance at the indie rock prom, threatening to break out into revelry but maintaining its solemn sense of space with lines about bad jokes, the elusive nature of success and, of course, the oft-quoted (but never understood) couplet: “Painting portraits of minions and slaves / Crotch-mavens and one-night plays.” Most of all, though, Pavement taught a whole bunch of kids that you didn’t need to be cool to put out a record. They had bad haircuts, went to good schools, dressed in khakis and gasp didn’t take themselves seriously. They let their friends goofily yell on their records (“No Life Singed Her”), let in snippets of victory lap jams (the “Wounded Kite” jam at the end of “Trigger Cut”) and built in false starts to their songs (“Fame
Throwa”). The whole lo-fi thing became a big deal, too. These days, nobody dares let recording quality get in the way of their artistic ambitions. Slanted and Enchanted is a manifesto for the type of people who roll their eyes at the idea of manifestos. An anonymous wise man once said, “The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.” Likewise, Slanted and Enchanted is, at its heart, a document of democratization. Listening to it just lets you know that, fuck it, man; you can do this, even if it’s a little rusty around the edges. As an Italian male was said to say: “Between here and there is better than either here or there!” James Rainis is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com. Irresponsible Listening appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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win with them on the mound.” As the third inning turned over, the Red sent up senior Marshall Yanzick to the plate, who flew out to right field. Billigen then ended up poking one to the pitcher to make the second out of the inning. Sophomore Chris Cruz struck out lunging for the final out of the inning. “I think the two guys that had the biggest impact on the game [today,]” said Walkenbach. “Were Brenton Peters and Mike Kazley. Mike did a great job of settling things down on the mound. After Eric Upton got us out of a tough situation in the second, but Mike Kazley threw the next three innings of scoreless, hitless ball and really settled things down. Brenton Peters came up with some big hits today that put us back into the ballgame.” The fourth inning started off with a hit to third resulting in the first out and a strikeout for the second. The third out was a dink to the shortstop that caused the Red to once again head to the plate to hit. Senior Frank Hager started the bottom of the fourth off with a double to right field that was narrowly missed by Binghamton’s outfielder. With Hager on second, freshman Kevin Tatum ended up walking. This put two ducks in a row, Lee put up an out, which resulted in a man on first and third. Swinford struck out, which brought up Whetsel who ended up walking, to grab
the Red another run to make it 5-3. Peters then doubled to grab another run for the Red, reducing the margin by which the Red trailed, to 5-4. Thanks to a wild pitch during Yanzick’s at-bat, the Red snuck in another run to tie everything up, 5-5. An additional wild pitch placed Yanzick on first and allowed Peters to score, putting the Red in the lead. Billigen flew out to end the inning with Cornell in the lead, 6-5. The Bearcats then came out in the fifth looking to capitalize on opportunities, but after a quick inning, the Red returned to bat in the bottom of the fifth. Cruz struck out for the second time that day, which brought up Hager who flew out to first. Tatum came up next and singled to left to bring up Lee. Lee then singled to right to bring speedy Tatum home for the seventh run for the Red. Swinford followed but Lee was thrown out at second before Tatum could complete his at bat. As the sixth rolled around, senior Jeeter Ishida came to the mound. He forced three quick outs for the Red. After a quick pitching change for Binghamton, Swinford flew out to center. Followed by Whetsel who flew out to right and then Peters who struck out for the third. In the seventh, the Red had another pitching change as it brought in junior T.J. Parthemer to give it a go. He grabbed the first thanks to a fly-out to second and a pop out to right for the second. Parthemer then walked one and then struck the last one out swinging.
The Red then grabbed two more insurance runs in the eighth to give Cornell the victory over Binghamton, 9-5. Cornell heads into the weekend with a doubleheader at home against Princeton on Friday and then a doubleheader on the Tigers’ home field on Sunday. Cornell now heads the Gehrig division with an 81.2% record of winning, while Princeton follows closely behind with a 62.5% record. This may seem like a wide margin; however, three games separate these Ivy foes heading into future competition and the race to be Ivy champs is culminating in the next few weeks. “In any situation where you have the chance to clinch … the challenge is staying in the moment and trying not to think about the end before you have gotten there. We keep reminding our players to focus on what is in front of them and not get ahead of themselves mentally. It has been working for us all year and we expect to do the same this weekend,” Walkenbach said. “[The] team goals are to win an Ivy League Championship and get to NCAA Regionals … I want to play in the College World Series with this team. I have made the best friends in the past four years and I want to spend as much time as I can with these guys before I have to graduate,” Billigen said. Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.
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the way you are. Any fun stories to share about them? J: Our dads are pretty similar. At school my dad used to pace the sidelines of my games, and he always goes on the opposite side, and it’s always been bizarre. And then we came to Cornell — her dad does the same thing. But I play attack, and she plays defense, so they pace on separate sides. C: And then they cross at halftime — you know, talk about the game strategy points, and then continue on. J: They get pretty intense. This is for every game? C: Yep, every game. Do they ever share their opinions with your coach? C: Oh yeah ... J: ... Jenny [Graap ’86] has sat on my dad’s lap before. Are they both former lacrosse players? J: My dad played two sports in college, but lacrosse was always new. But he has the athletic mindset, so he thinks he really knows what he’s talking about. C: My dad played baseball, so I think he’s upset that nobody in our family stuck with that sport. 9. Jessi, I’m told you wear a helmet because “you’re special.” C: That’s true. [laughing] J: I am special. People really like to hit me in the head. During games or just in general? J: Oh, all the time. One of my teammates threw a ball at my face, so I had to wear a men’s helmet before. I have gotten a few concussions ... if I get one more I’m done, so I have to wear it. And it looks super cool. 10. Any nicknames besides “Caressi”? Like Cacki, why are you called “Puke”? C: That stemmed from an incident sophomore year. I don’t think it needs to be explained — the nickname is pretty self-explanatory. J: I don’t really have any. “Steiny.” That one makes chills go through my body. Alex Kuczynski-Brown can be reached at akb@cornellsun.com.
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their face[s],” Mitchell said. “I think we went in with a positive attitude and we kept that up all day even though the results weren’t what we wanted,” echoed Fink. The Ivy Show was the Red’s last opportunity to show as a team. All that remains is nationals in Raleigh, N.C., which will take place next week. Only senior Bronwyn Scrivens and freshman Georgiana de Rham qualified to compete. For the rest of the team, this season has come to a close. “It was a disappointing end because it was our last show as a whole team,” Kowalchik said. “It was kind of the same feeling as zones … we were doing our best and we were riding well and we just couldn’t catch a break.” Although the result wasn’t what the team had hoped for, there are no bitter feelings, they said. “I’m very proud of every one of them,” Mitchell said. “It was a great team effort.” Ariel Coooper can be reached at acooper@cornellsun.com.
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C.U.Ultimate Frisbee Heads Cornell Focuses on To Regional Championships Future National
By REBECCA VELEZ Sun Staff Writer
This weekend the Cornell Ultimate team will travel to Saratoga Springs to compete in the Metro East College Regional Championships. The Cornell men’s team, the Buds, has a long-standing reputation as being one of the top teams in the nation, and is hoping to continue its success this year. The Buds were founded in 1973, and are the longest continuously running ultimate program in the country. Over this time the team has qualified for nationals 16 times — three times in the last three years. This weekend is the second of three qualifying tournaments that make up the road to nationals. Two weeks ago the team competed in Conference Championships, earning a second place spot and a place at Regionals. 16 teams from New York, Connecticut and New Jersey qualified for this weekend’s tournament, with the winner moving on to play at nationals in Colorado at the end of May. There are 21 players on the Buds roster this year, who come from a variety of backgrounds. “Tryouts are the entirety of the fall,” explained senior captain Adam Salwen. “The focus is on fundamentals, as we have a mix of new players who have played in high school as well as those who only played other sports.” “More and more players are coming in with high school experience,” added Neil Butler ’11. “More high schools have ultimate programs, which is translating to a better level of play at the college level.” The team is coached by grad Colin Gottlieb, who played for Colorado when that team won the National title and has also captained one of the country’s elite club teams. As well as recruiting rookies, the Buds’ reputation attracts graduate students who played as undergraduates, and are looking to continue playing ultimate. Despite the range of experience, all of the players’ dedication to the team is apparent. “Every year a lot of players join club teams over the summer and into the fall,” Butler said. “It’s a higher level of play and a big time commitment, but a great way to improve. We have alumni that are playing on some of the top teams in the nation.” Until recently, club teams were the highest level of play for ultimate. The recent creation of a professional ultimate league, however, has caused controversy among the ultimate community. “There are two Cornell alums in the newly formed pro league, the American Ultimate Disc League,” Butler said. “[The league] had a pretty good opening day…it’ll be interesting to see what happens with it.” All eight Ivy League schools support both men’s and women’s teams, with Princeton, Columbia and
Yale all competing this weekend in the same region as Cornell. “We usually beat them pretty handily,” Butler said. “Last year, we were also able to beat Harvard at nationals.” The Buds played in four tournaments in the spring season before competing at Conference Championships. “Our first was Queen City Tune Up in North Carolina,” said captain Bo Li ’11. “We had a tournament in Philly, one in Georgia, and one at UConn.” “For spring break, we drove down to Georgia for the tournament, and then spent the week in South Carolina for training,” Salwen said. “ It’s a great chance to get a lot of ultimate in. Spring break is fun, you can quote me on that,” he added. The team has struggled with injuries this year, with many of the starting players having to sit out at least one tournament this season. The Buds’ loss in the finals against Buffalo at Conference Championships was the first time since 2008 that they had not placed first at the tournament. “Our biggest competition this weekend should be UConn,” Butler said. “But now we’re also seeking to avenge our loss against Buffalo.” Li said the team hopes, “to have everyone healthy again for Regionals this weekend,” Li said. “As nationals fall on the same weekend as Cornell’s graduation, all of our seniors have skipped graduation for the last three years. We’re hoping to continue that tradition,” he said. Cornell’s B-team was also able to qualify for the regional tournament this weekend. “The Shake is Cornell’s mens’ B-team,” explained senior captain Dan Coll. “But it differs from most B-teams in that we maintain a competitive atmosphere and travel to play other A teams in the area.” This is the second year that the Shake qualified for regionals. Last year the team placed higher than any other B team in a regional tournament in the country. “We have such a good A-team that our B-team is held to better standards,” added senior captain Andrew Turgeon. “This leads to better overall playing, and we’re able to compete at the same level as most A-teams.” The Shake competed at Conference Championships in the developmental league two weekends ago, and its success there earned the team the right to play at DI regionals this weekend. “At Conferences we rolled through all the Bteams in the area,” Coll said. “We’re looking forward to making another showing at Regionals.” Rebecca Velez can be reached at rvelez@cornellsun.com.
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Szymoniak ’12 said. “It’s never an easy race, whether the team is ranked at the top or bottom. We don’t take anything for granted.” The varsity 8 season currently has a record of 4-2, with wins against Columbia, MIT, Penn, and Princeton and losses against Harvard and Yale. Szymoniak said that the season has been through ups and downs, and though the Red had a big loss to Harvard at the beginning of the season, it built up speed to defeat Columbia and MIT in Boston last Saturday. “We have some good momentum going into this weekend,” he said. In all the Saturday races, the ultimate goal for the Red has been to prepare for the league championship. Szymoniak said
“We have some good momentum going into this weekend.” Michael Szymoniak that the team does not really approach any matches differently because the sport is very internal. He said the Red produces its own speed, a variable usually independent of the actions of other teams. “We use the regular season and the dual matches as a gage of speed and testing, perfecting, and optimizing our race,” Kerber said. A total of 10 schools compete in the league championships, which require the team to modify strategies to encompass precision and perfection. Kerber said the racing mechanisms are altered for the league championship due to the mechanical change from two boat races during league races to five boat races during the championships. “You have five crews that you’re facing when you compete, and you have to execute it perfectly,” Kerber said. “When everyone’s pushing for the finish line, anything can happen. That’s what makes the league races so extraordinary.” The Red is looking forward to the opportunity that the league race this weekend brings and the upcoming league championships to show the team’s skills. Though finals week is approaching, Kerber said the Red still puts in maximum effort toward the championships. “The guys get really excited,” said Kerber. “The league championship is really the ultimate test, and the guys rise to the occasion. It’s definitely going to test our skill and our race acumen at the highest level.” Tina Ahmadi can be reached at tahmadi@cornellsun.com.
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CACKI HELMER & JESSI STEINBERG
By ALEX KUCZYNSKI-BROWN Sun Senior Writer
For this penultimate edition of 10 Questions, senior writer Alex KuczynskiBrown ’12 sat down with women’s lacrosse players and co-captains Cacki Helmer ’12 and Jessi Steinberg ’12 — otherwise known as “Caressi.” They discussed the origin of their joint Twitter account, their Dunkin’ Donuts obsession, what it means to “sweat like a Helmer,” blankets that are pillows, and the habit both of their fathers have in common. 1. Starting with the obligatory question: as seniors, Saturday was your last game at home. What are you going to miss most about your Cornell lacrosse careers? Jessi: I think just the team in general — everyone’s pretty goofy and funny, and there’s some pretty awesome people. Cacki: And home games are fun; we get the marching band, and even this past game [Tuesday at Binghamton], we said how quiet it was after every goal, because we’re just so used to so much noise out there ... not having that is weird. 2. What gave you two the idea to combine your names, first of all, and then to make a joint Twitter account (@CaReSSiHeLMBERG)? C: I think it was our other captain last year [Libby Johnson ’11]. It was the three of us, and we were the two juniors. I mean, we’ve had every class together since freshman year, because we’re in the same major, same minor. And it just came to us one day — we were in the library all day, just us together, and we decided to start Twitter. J: It was new, so we were like “well ... ” C: “This will be funny” ... J: ... but we didn’t want to be serious about it, because we didn’t really know what it was. We were like “we’ll just do it together.” And we needed the clever name, so it kind of fit. I’m told that Jessi — you got a new Twitter — that signifies your break-up. Is there any validity to this claim? J: Yeah, you know, I got made fun of pretty bad from home friends [Cacki laughing], and they said that I had to split from her ... C: [interrupting] I was pretty bitter about it. J: ... and make my new identity. I mean I still use both accounts, but I had to become my own person. [Cacki laughing] So the combined Twitter still exists, but not to the extent it did before? J: Yeah ... C: Over the summer it was tough because we were in totally different places, to tweet together. J: So she would be tweeting about things that I really didn’t care about, and then I was like “uhh your Twitter stuff is just bringing me down.” You alluded to this earlier — how has having identical class schedules worked out for you guys? C: It’s actually pretty great, because we’re both very good at different things, so both of us together — we’re like a power couple in the classroom. [both laughing] J: We’re a couple. We’re the typical “B” students, so we do just enough to get a good grade, but not enough to do anything crazy. Well I’m told you also kind of have this love-hate relationship, because Cacki you’re very anal about things, and Jessi you’re always telling her to relax. J: Yes, she’s a little high-strung, and I’m a little too relaxed. C: I have certain times, where we have
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to leave for class at 1:12, to make a 1:25 — just, you know ... I don’t like to be late. J: And be the first ones in class, for no reason. But I still go with her, I follow her. 3. Let’s talk about pre-game rituals — any particular favorites? [thinking] C: Dunkin’ Donuts J: Yeah ... we’re big Dunkin’ people. C: We pretty much get Dunkin’ before every class that we go to, if we go. And practice, and games. How many times would you estimate you go to Dunkin’ Donuts in a week — or even in a day, for that matter? C: Sometimes twice a day. [laughing] J: It’s not uncommon to do twice a day ... sometimes if we skip class, and we had just gotten some, we need a pick me up before practice. C: Probably seven [times a week]. Do you always get donuts, or something else? C: I try things out sometimes, if there’s something new. J: I make her get the weird stuff ... like the blueberry-pancake-waffle-sandwich. I don’t eat that stuff, I make her get it just to see what it looks like. Jessi, do you have any plans to go out with the drive-thru man who recently asked for your number? J: Yeah, you know things have been getting pretty intense recently. He asked for my number — I didn’t give it to him, but I’m thinking within the week I’ll muster up the courage to give it to him. Going back to pre-game rituals — they told me I might have to pry to get this — but apparently yours involves waxing in some capacity? [both laughing] J: I mean, sometimes my best games have come from a pre-game wax. So if I have to do it before the Ivy League tournament, I’m not opposed to it. C: “Look good, feel good, play good.” J: It relaxes me. Is there somewhere in particular that you like to go? J: Nope, not really. I’ve been to two places here — both are top-notch. I’ve always been nervous to get any kind of waxing done in Ithaca. J: Yeah, I did it last summer for the first time, and the first time’s very painful. C: I did it once, and that was enough
Sister sister | Seniors Jessi Steinberg and Cacki Helmer talk about graduating and their last game, as well as their identical class schedules, and their mutual love for the men’s lacrosse team.
for me. J: If you keep doing it it’s not bad, you gotta keep at it. 4. I guess this question is more directed at Cacki: what does it mean to “sweat like a Helmer”? [both laughing] C: I just think it’s a sign of hard work, and passion ... intensity. My sister was on the team with me last year, and we both got a reputation for getting pretty sweaty — whether we’re in the weight room or on the field, or just in the locker room. J: She lifts a lot of weights. C: Something about those teagles really brings it out. So what’s the easiest way to reach this level of sweating like a Helmer? J: Literally you can just look at her — it’s a responsive thing, it’s not that hard ... one armpit sweats more than the other, though. C: The right arm. I think it’s because the muscles are bigger on that side. Is it true that the men’s lacrosse team has also started to use this catchphrase? C: Apparently, I think it started last year a little bit once it came out in one of the other 10 Questions. It kind of got around — it was pretty embarrassing. 5. Jessi, I’m told there is one thing you can’t sleep without. Care to tell us what that is? J: I have a pillow ... C: It’s a blanket. J: It’s used as a pillow, so I call it a pillow. C: ... but it’s really a blanket. What kind of blanket? J: Just a regular blanket [Cacki laughing] — it looks exactly like a pillow! C: It’s soft and cozy, and she uses it as a pillow. J: I don’t like when the sun is in my eyes, so on bus trips I wrap it around my face. C: Oftentimes it’s just over her head. J: It’s pretty embarrassing. How long have you had it? J: It was my crib blanket, and then I started using it as a pillow when I was older, as embarrassing as that is. 6. If you could be any animal, what animal do you think you would be? J: I’ve been told I look like an orangutan, so ... I like to party with those monkeys.
C: I think I’d like to be a bird. [both laughing] J: You’re so peaceful. C: So I could fly above everything. J: “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.” [both laughing] Well that’s interesting, because some of your teammates seem to think you both exhibit cougar-like tendencies. C: Oooohhh. Do you care to explain that? C: I think that’s self-explanatory. [both laughing] J: I mean ... C: Everybody does it. J: It keeps you young. Not that this has anything to do with cougars, but on the subject of animals, Cacki — did you recently get a new puppy? C: Did I get a puppy? Yeah, someone told me to ask about your new puppy, unless that’s a euphemism for something else. C: [laughing] No, I don’t have a puppy. I just ... J: She has a ... boyfriend. C: [laughing] He treats me very well. 7. I understand you two love lax boys — or so I’m told — and have been known to date many of them. Are we talking Cornell laxers, or any type of lax boy? J: I don’t know what they’re talking about — I have never dated a lacrosse player. [Cacki laughing] Is that a personal rule that you will not ... ? C: She’s lying. J: I just don’t like what they’re talking about. I never have, and I never will. Do you guys hang out with the men’s lacrosse team? C: Too much. J: A little too much, yeah. It’s only natural that it happens. What about you? What’s your opinion on lax bros? C: We just have the same philosophies of life, and live lacrosse. J: “Live, lax, love.” C: Yup, it’s just easy to get along with them. 8. One of your friends said that your parents are some of the most interesting/unique/awesome people ever — and that it’s no wonder you guys are See HELMER AND STEINBERG page 20
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Red Defeats Binghamton
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By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Editor
Splitting a doubleheader with Penn, Cornell prepared for victory in yesterday’s game with Binghamton. The Red flipped-flopped with the Bearcats for the lead throughout the game. At first, the Red grabbed an early lead. Then in the second, the Bearcats took charge but from the fourth inning throughout the rest of the game, Cornell domineered and closed the game to steal the win thanks in huge part to the dominance of their pitchers. In the first, Cornell (28-11-1 Ivy) jumped out to an early lead against Binghamton (15-17), grabbing two runs off of three hits. Heading into the second, freshman pitcher Roberto Suppa walked the first two, let up a single and hit a batter to start off the inning. The second single of the inning pushed the Bearcats to 2-1. An easy hit to third gave the Red its first out. A wild pitch led to the Bearcat’s second run against the Red, tying the score up. A double to left from Binghamton put the Bearcats in the lead, 5-2. Freshman pitcher Eric Upton then replaced Suppa on the mound to give it a go. Upton struck out his first batter and then a hit to third finished off the defensive part of the second inning for the Red. “We got off to a quick start, we got two runs on the board in the first,” said senior Brian Billigen. “Our starting pitcher had trouble finding the zone, but we all just kind of picked him up, like we always do, and he bullpen had like
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Pushing ahead | Senior Marshall Yanzick, along with the rest of the Cornell team, overtook Binghamton yesterday in an upand-down grudge match that came down to solid pitching and capitalizing on offensive pushes throughout the game.
six innings of no-hit balls.” In the offensive part of the second, senior Brandon Lee struck out, soon to be followed by a pop out by sophomore Ben Swinford. Freshman J.D. Whetsel turned it around and hit a double to the left field fence. Whetsel advanced to third on a wild pitch, as junior Brenton Peters forced the third out with a hit to the second baseman. Junior Mike Kazley came to the mound at the start of the third inning to have a go against Binghamton and sat them
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down with a quick and easy inning. “[The pitchers] have been fundamentally important to our success this year. Our starting rotation is the reason we are where we are. We have been consistent since day one,” said head coach Bill Walkenbach. “We are in a really good spot with our starting rotation and we are just excited every time we go out there, because we know we have a chance to See BASEBALL page 14
MEN’S ROWING
C.U.Finishes Show Season Cornell Looks Ahead to By ARIEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer
The show season came to an end Sunday for the equestrian team with a second place finish at the Ivy Show. The season started off strong — the Red was nearly undefeated and won its region — but the end was not quite what the team had been hoping for. However, the squad gave it its all and did what it could to perform to the best of its ability. “It wasn’t a stellar day, but we did everything we could,” said head coach Chris Mitchell. “The results are disappointing but the way that they rode and the way that they handled themselves was not at all.” Since there is no clear way to earn points in horseback riding, it is a very subjective sport.
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Finishing the season | The Red ended this season as it placed second at the Ivy Show.
While the team rode well, its performance was not quite reflected in the results. “There was a lot of great riding [but] we didn’t always agree with what the judge was thinking,” said senior co-captain Katie Fink. Mitchell also didn’t see eye-to-eye with the judge. “It’s a completely different perspective [from] where the judge is sitting and where you’re sitting, so you could see something and the judge could miss it or visa versa,” said junior co-captain Emily Kowalchik. “Our level of riding wasn’t reflected in the ribbons,” Fink said. Despite the judging disagreements, the Red still managed to finish second as a team. The squad scored a total of 38 points, falling eight points behind Brown but 12 points ahead of Dartmouth. “It was pretty wide at the top,” Kowalchik said. “We definitely got second; it wasn’t close.” Brown will be competing at nationals as a team, so it was certainly a tough competitor. “It feels better to be beat by a team like that,” said Kowalchik. Still, it has been three years since Cornell has won the Ivy Show. This year, the Ivy Show was co-hosted by Yale and Columbia at Yale’s home barn in Connecticut. Typically, the host team has a slight advantage because it knows the horses better than its competitors. Yet this did not seem to help Yale, according to Kowalchik. The squad came in fifth place with a score of 21 points. The show was a milestone for sophomore Grace Bradshaw and senior Caroline Rusk. Both competed in new divisions for the first time — Bradshaw in novice flat and Rusk in open fences. Bradshaw won her class, while Rusk placed sixth. The Red also had five reserve champions. “I’m very proud of the girls for the way they stuck together and kept going with a smile on See EQUESTRIAN page 17
Last League Race of Season
By TINA AHMADI Sun Staff Writer
The men’s lightweight rowing team is primed to compete in its last league race of the season this weekend. Racing in a duel match against Dartmouth, the Red ultimately plans to use the race as preparation for the Eastern Sprints, its league championship, on May 13. Michael Szymoniak ’12, coxin of the varsity 8, said that having a race every Saturday has allowed the team to track their progress and see if they are going forwards or backwards in terms of performance. Head Coach Christopher Kerber echoed this sentiment. “We race every Saturday in April, and each of these prepares us for our league
championship in May and ultimately our national championship on June 2,” Kerber said. Kerber and Szymoniak said the competition this weekend will be a challenge, but serves as a useful tool for assessment and improvement. According to the U.S. National Rowing Poll released yesterday, Dartmouth is currently ranked second in the league and the Red is ranked fifth. Szymoniak said that the outcome of crew races is subject to a great deal of variability from race to race, regardless of a team’s ranking and abilities. “I would say it’s going to be a close match start to finish,” Michael See M. ROWING page 18
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League rivalries | Cornell will compete in its last league race of the season this weekend, against Ivy foe Dartmouth to prepare for League and National Championships.