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The baseball team won game three of its series against Princeton last weekend. | Page 16
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After 2012 Alumnus Death, City to Repair Gorge Path
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Construction will likely conclude in 2015 By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer
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Melody So ’16, Sheridan Wakimoto ’16 and Sydney Selznick ’16 participate on Ho Plaza yesterday in an Alpha Chi sorority jewelry trunk show to raise funds for domestic violence awareness.
Planning for a project to improve the uppermost portion of a walkway along the north rim of Cascadilla Gorge will begin this summer, with construction likely to end in 2015, according to City of Ithaca Transportation Engineer Tim Logue. Discussions over the safety of the walkway — which extends along the top of the gorge between Stewart Avenue and Linn Street’s intersection with University Avenue downtown — began when Alan Young-Bryant M.A. ’07 Ph.D. ’11 died after accidentally falling from the pathway into the gorge in December 2012, according to Logue. “There was quite a bit of discussion after the gentleman fell,” Logue said. “It certainly brought the attention to the condition of the walkway, all the way from the top down to the bottom.” The project — allotted $51,000 for engineering, construction and inspection by the See GORGE page 4
Affirmative Action‘Necessary’for Colleges,Student Leaders Say By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor
In the light of last week’s Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action case — in which the Supreme Court decided a state law that prohibits affirmative action at state universities does not violate the Constitution — Cornell students said they believe affirmative action is
necessary for colleges across the country. On April 22, the Court upheld a Michigan constitutional amendment that bans affirmative action in admissions to the state’s public universities in a 6-to-2 ruling, according to The New York Times. The justice’s decision said that Michigan’s law is protected by the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Cornellians Raise Awareness of Sexual Violence Through Photo Campaign By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer
Students across campus are spreading awareness against sexual assault this week through a series of photo shoots for the Every1 Campaign, an organization that seeks to increase awareness of consensual sex and sexual violence. According to Shuangyi Hou ’15, president and creative director of the Every1 Campaign, the idea to use a photo series to spread consent awareness began with group founder Leah Salgado ’12 in
Student Assembly President Ulysses Smith ’14 said he believes the ruling was an instance of when “the Court got it wrong.” “In a few years, hopefully it will look back and correct this decision if Congress does not act first. This is yet another blow to the many efforts that have been made to See AFFIRMATIVE ACTION page 4
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spring 2012. “I think the problem was that we saw a lot of these efforts being targeted only at particular communities,” Hou said. “We felt like a lot of it ... wasn’t really reaching a wider audience, so [Salgado] had the idea to do these photo campaigns that pull people from a wide variety of communities and backgrounds across Cornell and then put them on Facebook.” Salgado said the campaign has matured over See CAMPAIGN page 4
Ithaca Man Still at Large After Shooting Downtown Monday Police are searching for a man who reportedly fired multiple gunshots and injured an individual in downtown Ithaca Monday evening. At approximately 7:39 p.m. Monday, Ithaca Police said they received multiple calls regarding gunshots fired near the intersection of South Plain Street and Cleveland
Avenue. Upon arrival on the scene, officers determined that a victim — who sustained two gun shots — was transported to a local hospital. Police have identified the suspect as Ithacan Clifton McBean and said in a press release that McBean “should be considered armed and dan-
gerous.” According to police, the shooter and victim knew each other. Police are urging those with information relevant to the investigation to contact the Ithaca Police Department. — Compiled by Tyler Alicea
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Yunah Kang ’16, Delight Mungoma ’15 and Cassandra Palladino ’15 talk to students yesterday about their organization, Cornell FootPrints, which supports children’s education in Africa.
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Exhibit Depicts Students’ Mental Health Struggles Photo campaign features Cornellians
By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer
Cornell Minds Matter celebrated the opening of an art exhibit called “Faces of Mental Health,” a photo campaign depicting the identities and mental health struggles of Cornell students, in Willard Straight Hall Tuesday. Saadiya Mutawakil ’14, president of Cornell Minds Mattr — a student-run organization that works to decrease the stigma associated with mental illness — said the exhibit shows each participant in two portraits displayed side by side. She said one portrait depicts a struggle they experience and the other portrays their identity separate from their stresses, worries and concerns. “Whatever struggles you are facing, they don’t define who you are,” Mutawakil said. “Only you have the power to define who you are.” Alana Seixas ’14 — who has been a member of Cornell Minds Matter since her freshman year — said she has only recently started to open up about her experiences with mental illness, but that participating in the project was a “fitting way” to conclude the year. “[Mental illness is] a hidden problem, so if we’re able to have a photo campaign where we come out about what we have and kind of celebrate it and celebrate other parts of ourselves,” she said. “[It’s] a great thing.” Other campaign participants also said they faced the struggle of concealing their feelings. “You may seem like you’re doing well on the outside, but internally you could be really struggling with some things,” Joshua Grider ’14 said. Grider — a former member of the Cornell football team — said the notion of “what it means to be a man” often made it difficult to discuss how he was feeling.
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Power of positivity | Alana Seixas ’14, right, views her photo at the opening of Cornell Minds Matter’s Faces of Mental Health Exhibition at Willard Straight Hall Tuesday.
“Showing your emotions is seen as weak, especially in how people they all look up to and respect just have the same … problems that everyone faces,” Kabir said. the football locker room,” he said. This universality of mental health is at the heart of Although Grider said his former teammates are unaware about his participation in the campaign, he Cornell Minds Matter, according to Mutawakil. “A statement that we use a lot in this organization is: said he plans on reaching out to them and telling Head Not everyone has a mental illness but Coach David Archer ’05 about the we all have mental health,” Mutawakil “awesome exhibit.” “Whatever struggles said. “[However,] I think a lot of times “Mental health is such an important you are facing, they people forget that everyone’s going topic,” Grider said. through struggles. It’s important for us Ihsan Kabir ’14 agreed with Grider, don’t define who to be aware of everyone’s struggles and but said he believed more has to be you are.” be a support system for everyone.” done to decrease the stigma associated The exhibit is scheduled to remain with mental health. Saadiya Mutawakil ’14 in the Willard Straight Art Gallery until “I think we always talk about supMay 16, and Mutawakil said she hopes port[ing] [mental health] initiatives but … I think as students we need to do more to back up the exhibit will return next semester. “[During] my senior year, I wanted to do something that talk and really take action to show that we’re okay with talking about our own mental health issues,” Kabir that would remind the Cornell community that everyone is fighting for something,” she said. “I want people said. “I thought this was a very cool way to do it.” In order to “speak to a wider audience,” the exhibit to know that we all have struggles.” showcased a diverse group of successful members of the Cornell community, according to Mutawakil. Talia Jubas can be reached at “I think it’s important for everyone around to see tjubas@cornellsun.com.
Rutzen’87 Discusses Restriction of Peaceful Civilian Assemblies By ASHLEY COLLIS-BURGESS Sun Staff Writer
Douglas Rutzen ’87, president and chief executive officer of the International Center for Not-forProfit Law, discussed the ways authoritarian regimes restrict peaceful civilian assemblies and associations in Goldwin Smith Hall Tuesday. Rutzen said most authoritarian regimes do not allow for the
formation of any type of peaceful group, whether it is a student association or environmental group. “Sometimes in Washington we hear that the antidote to authoritarianism is the passage of legislation,” he said. “But as we all know far too well, the law can either be a shield protecting human rights or a sword to undercut them.” He said Libya under
Moammar Gadhafi’s rule is an example of a country with barriers against civil society. “In certain systems — although it may seem alien to us in the United States — [the formation of groups] are simply banned [and] criminalized,” he said. “In fact, under Gadhafi’s Libya, the death penalty was imposed if you formed an unregistered group.” He said several countries,
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Political pioneer | Douglas Rutzen ’87 speaks about civil society in authoritarian countries as part of the Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series in Goldwin Smith Hall Tuesday.
including Russia and Britain, are rights or the rights of the disusing counterterrorism tech- abled,” he said. niques to restrict peaceful organiAccording to Rutzen, people zation and citizen dissent. are gathering in assemblies all “We’re seeing a number of over the world — whether physirestrictions that arise for the jus- cally in a city or through the tification of counterterrorism,” Internet — and are arousing fear he said. in authori“Sometimes tarian govit is just “We’re seeing a number ernments clearly an that create attempt to of restrictions that arise barriers restrict disagainst civil for the justification of sent.” society. He said counterterrorism.” “What that even the we’re seeing United States Douglas Rutzen ’87 around the has particiworld is that pated in countries are these counterterrorism move- converting citizens and squares ments through its placement of into that traditional Greek definNelson Mandela on a United ition of an agora — a meeting States terrorist list after he left his place, an assembly,” he said. “In presidency in South Africa. response, an increasing number “You can check in, but you of governments are coming down can never leave,” he said. “It liter- with agoraphobia.” ally took an act of Congress to He said the modern era is get Nelson Mandela removed remarkable due to recent develfrom the terrorist list because of opments in increasing transhis previous affiliation with a ter- parency between civilians and rorist organization.” states. Rutzen added that some “It is really an amazing time in countries create laws that strip which [we are living] because I organizations of resources to think the cornerstone concepts of ensure the government is never civil society and the fundamental challenged. relationship between citizens and “In Ethiopia, they recently the state are being developed.” passed a law that says you can’t receive more than 10 percent of your funding from any other out- Ashley Collis-Burgess can be side source if you want to pro- reached at mote women’s rights, children’s acollisburgess@cornellsun.com.
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Over 200 Cornellians Partipate in Every1 Campaign CAMPAIGN
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the years, and the organization has focused on how to be more direct and deliberate with the images and messages they want to convey through the photo shoots. “We started the first photo shoot with maybe 40 people — now over 200 Cornellians have participated,” Salgado said. “Every1 is growing.” Hou said the organization’s use of social media resulted in a “multiplier effect,” where students tagged in campaign photos would raise campaign awareness on Facebook by allowing their friends to “like” and share the photos. However, Salgado also said she hoped that for some people, the photo series would encourage them to take more action beyond simply “liking” the photo. While the Every1 campaign has already conducted several other photo shoots in order to raise awareness, each photo shoot has had a different theme, Hou said. According to Hou, the organization wanted to pose several questions surrounding consent with the upcoming cam-
paign that included “What happens when alcohol is involved?” and “What happens when someone is too inebriated to consent?” Hou added that the organization would then only use the photos of the 87 participants who are currently signed up if they had attended a mandatory discussion on the issues at hand as the participants become “informal spokespeople” in the movement against sexual assault. “We want everybody in the photo campaign to be a bit more educated than someone who hasn’t done it to issues pertaining to consent and sexual assault,” she said. Discussion leader and set designer Bridgette Wunder ’14 said the discussions she has led so far in the campaign were “absolutely different” than the discussions that took place in the past. “I think there is definitely more awareness on campus now and there are more people who are concerned and realize how much of a problem sexual assault is and exactly what consent is,” Wunder said. The Every1 campaign has also been involved in several other initiatives on campus beyond photoshoots, according
to Hou. Earlier this semester, Hou said the organization released a short video that explored how consent may be gained through the use of body language and physical signals. Other policy initiatives that the group has taken include a push for the appointment of a sexual assault examiner at Gannett Health Services and a proposal to include a clause in all student organizations that pertains to sexual violence and harassment. Through the photo campaign, Hou said the organization hopes to increase visibility for issues of sexual assault and sexual consent and to create a foundation to enact other changes on campus. “The purpose of the campaign is really to send a message from one student to the rest of the student body about what consent really requires and looks like,” she said. “I think the reason we try to do that is because we want the issue of consent [and] the related issue of sexual assault to stay on everyone’s minds.” Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.
Project Seeks to Increase Safety Smith ’14: Court‘Got It Wrong’ Of Walkway Above Cascadilla Gorge
made is because people are a little deceived by the people who criticize affirmative action and believe, correct many of the inequities for many reasons, that affirmative and inequalities that persist in action is no longer necessary and this nation today, especially in that it’s actually hurting other demographics that are trying to regard to race.” According to Smith, the get into college,” Banks said. Smith agreed, also noting the Court did not properly assess its responsibility as a federal body to “misconception” that affirmative “protect all peoples of the United action only benefits racial minoriStates,” and instead framed the ties when it can also serve other groups. entire case around states’ rights. “The fact of the matter is that “The Court frames this case as affirmative only about action actually whether or not “Affirmative action benefits poor, states can, and in actually benefits poor, white males what manner, more than any prohibit race- white males more than other group,” he conscious admis- any other group.” said. “This is sions policies,” not necessarily a Smith said. Ulysses Smith ’14 bad thing. The “What the Court seems to scoot around is the ques- point of affirmative action is to tion of whether or not and how help groups that have been tradithe federal government can inter- tionally slighted and marginalized in this country get a better chance vene in such matters.” Amiri Banks ’17, co-president at succeeding, and to shield them of the organization Students from acts like Michigan's Proposal Working Ambitiously to 2.” Smith and Banks both emphaGraduate, said that while he does not have an issue with this partic- sized that at the current time, ular court decision, he hopes that however, racial disparities do exist opponents of affirmative action in education and affirmative action programs can alleviate some examine why they are against it. “I feel that the decision was of the problems. “I don’t think that in 2014 we’re at the point where we can afford — just as we’re finally making strides and beginning to integrate diversity at a very basic and respectable level at a campus like Cornell University — to take away the opportunities of a lot of people like me, to be where I am right now,” Banks said. Smith echoed Banks’ sentiments. “It is silly to think that we can simply declare that race does not matter and everything will be okay,” he said. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Continued from page 1
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weeks,” he said. The whole project will likely take approximately two years, including approximately six Common Council — will address mainte- weeks to create a railing and one to two nance problems “along the first property” on months for concrete work, according to Logue. Stewart Avenue, according to Logue. “Setting up the work zone is one of the “We did look at a number of different alternatives on how to address this area, including more complicated parts,” he said. Logue added that the City is “leaning looking at the entire length,” Logue said. “The final decision from Council was just to fund towards” hiring an outside engineer for design work, particularly for the new this part, close to the top of railing because the City does Stewart Avenue.” “The sooner we can not currently have the The project will not affect resources. private property or widen the make the gorges more Logue said the city would pathway, according to Logue. accessible, the better.” most likely hire a local engiHe said the highest priorities neer if the individual has for construction work are fix- Steven Smith “good value and good qualifiing the concrete paving and cations,” however he said he installing a new railing. “There’s a lot of broken concrete, and the cannot guarantee that the construction — if railing is certainly old,” Logue said. “We’d put out to bid — would go to a local compawant to make sure that the rock underneath ny. Alderperson Stephen Smith (D-4th Ward), the sidewalk is satisfactory. Currently, the pathway is open to pedestri- who represents Collegetown, said he thinks it ans and is not dangerous due to a fence that is important to maintain Ithaca’s gorges. “I think the sooner we can make the gorges Public Works secured along the walkway, more accessible, the better,” Smith said. according to Logue. Logue said the City is still in the initial stages of planning the project. “We’re hoping to make our decision on how Zoe Ferguson can be reached at we’re going to do the project in the next few zferguson@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1
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More Student Involvement In Sexual Assault Prevention Policies ON MONDAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED that the White House released guidelines with the hope of increasing pressure on universities across the nation to battle sexual assault on its campuses. At Cornell, reports of sexual assault have risen to a 23-year high, The Sun reported March 19. The Sun believes that our university has made solid beginning steps to combat sexual assault on the Hill — such as the University’s Council on Sexual Violence and Prevention — and we applaud the government for pledging resources to stop students from being sexually assaulted, but ask for more student input regarding this issue in future governmental suggestions. The recommendations — from the task force President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden named the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault — provided suggestions on how universities should handle sexual assault such as collecting anonymous surveys to ensure that cases of sexual assault remain confidential. Additionally, the Office on Violence Against Women said in a press release that they plan to award approximately $400 million in grants to provide states, tribal governments, educational institutions and victim service providers with resources to address sexual assault and domestic violence. However, the guidelines do not seem to cover the student aspect of dealing with sexual assault cases on campuses. As we said in an editorial in March, we looked to last fall when President David Skorton created the Council to address sexual assault at Cornell. The Council has 48 members on the roster, five of which are students. We commend the administration for taking positive steps to fight this problem by providing avenues for conversation. We also applaud student programs that focus on preventing sexual assault, as well as educating students on campus — such as Wingman 101, the Every1 Campaign and Cayuga’s Watchers — but we do not see the same involvement from students in the policy-making and procedural side. We question why more student involvement still has not been included on more formal administrative committees as the University looks to make changes with how we deal with sexual assault and its prevention. We believe that preventing sexual assault is a serious concern and that universities across the nation should be taking active roles in creating solutions. However, we believe what these proposed solutions lack are the voices of students. How can a governmental task force talk about sexual assault against students without having students on it? How can Cornell’s Council on Sexual Violence and Prevention be a voice of the students if there are a minimal number of students involved? We don’t believe they can.
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learned everything I need to know about in the Windy City before boarding the progress and developed an immense Colorado-bound California Zephyr. It was appreciation for the airline industry my first time in Chicago, and maybe somewhile bent-over in a Denver-bound Amtrak what embittered by my lack of REM sleep bathroom, vomiting up my sorry excuse for and the fact I was so hungry I think my a dinner at 4 a.m. somewhere in the middle stomach was literally devouring itself for of Nebraska. food, my overall impressions of the city were My friend Ethan and I had decided that this: Oh, it’s cold and gray here, too. After a after we finished our Fall semester finals, we visit to a very large department store, decked would meet up in New York City for a few out in Christmas decor, and a hot dog (Chidays and then board a train at Penn Station city, right?), we got our bags from the rentto begin our railroad odyssey back home to ed storage lockers and boarded the new Colorado. I figured cross-country train trav- train. This time, Ethan and I found seats el was something you had to try at least once together. The journey was going pretty well, — kind of like eating nothing but canned and we enjoyed watching the American corn for five straight days just to see what midwest unfold before us in the glasshappens, gastrointestinally speaking. We domed observation car. Soon enough thought it would be something of an adven- though, the sun set and the countryside ture or at least make a decent story; we had again fell into impenetrable darkness. We these romanticized ideas that the journey returned to our seats as the train slowly would be like stepping back in time — that grinded to a halt. An Amtrak employee, riding a train would be the fine dining five- who seemed less than enthused about his course meal equivalent to the greasy, fast- job, informed us that we were at the food, microwaved, facon-topped cheese- Mississippi River, and the conductor was burger of an airplane. We weren’t necessarily unsure if the bridge was up or down for wrong; it just turns out five courses of sitting crossing. An engineer (not the Duffield in a box on wheels kind) had to get as it slowly rolls off the train and across the pick at the ice in I’m glad I made the American countrythe switch to side in the middle lower the bridge 36-hour journey on the of the night with — you know, like motion sickness a 1920’s problem. Amtrak. But there’s a and newly discovWe were right: reason we have airports, ered claustrophobia The railroads were really is not that just like travelling and I never have to do appealing. And the back in time. Wright brothers Eventually, we it again. made a super good started rolling double-bacon again, and Ethan cheeseburger. dozed off next to me. I was not so lucky; the Ethan and I boarded the train late. We hotdog from that afternoon didn’t exactly had been catching up with a high school jive with the bag of pretzels and 7-Up from classmate of ours who goes to Columbia and that evening, and the rolling of the train set lost track of time. Once we had finally made in motion a battle between my brain’s urge it from the Upper West Side to Penn to suppress nausea and my body’s urge to Station, most of the train’s passengers had declare a fire-drill and get everything out. already boarded, forcing my friend and me My brain and some controlled breathing to separate. I slunk into an aisle seat, pleased helped stifle the imminent vomiting for a with the amount of legroom I was working few hours as I drifted in and out of conwith, next to a young man who used hair gel sciousness, but eventually I needed to get to pretty liberally and was listening to a heavy the restroom and expel the contents of my house beat at roughly the same volume I stomach into the train’s small metallic toilet. would expect in a dingy nightclub. That’s when I started thinking about Unfortunately, It soon became clear this was progress. Not long ago, train travel was the the only song my new travelling companion only way to get across America. Before that, listened to. it was wagons and oxen. To get a message to Sitting in a train car for 18 hours by someone in Europe required a weeks-long yourself with nothing but an outdated and journey in a wooden ship that used the stars already-read copy of Sports Illustrated to to navigate. As I blew chunks rolling in a occupy yourself affords a lot of time for get- box across Nebraska, I was struck by how far ting lost in your own headspace. Soon after we have come and how much we take for the sun went down (which was early, as we granted. Sometimes it is important to take a were making this trek in December), my step back and realize how extraordinary it is thoughts started to get kind of interesting. we can use lightwaves to transport music, we “What if ants think they’re our pets and feel can beam a bunch of zeros and ones into a crippling sense of betrayal when we squish space to send someone a drunken text mestheir friends and family in front of them?” sage and we can turn a knob to get clean “The world would be a really interesting drinking water. I’m glad I made the 36-hour place if people were like fish and floated to journey on the Amtrak. But there’s a reason the top of the atmosphere when they died.” we have airports, and I never have to do it “People would probably think I am a really again. I would recommend everyone pukes weird individual if they were able to hear my in a train car bathroom at some point in thoughts right now.” That was basically their lives. It really helps to put things in what I dealt with until I fell into a weird, perspective. exhausted limbo state, suspended somewhere between sleep and consciousness. Christo Eliot is a junior in the College of Engineering. Fortunately, the train pulled into Union He can be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale Station in Chicago around 10 a.m. the next of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate morning, giving Ethan and me a few hours Wednesdays this semester. CORRECTION An April 29 news story, “At Faculty Forum, Professors Discuss Issues Next President Will Face, Including Fiscal Sustainability, Faculty Turnover,” incorrectly said Spencer Stuart was a member of the Presidential Search Committee. In fact, it is the name of the firm assisting the University.
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OPINION
Sarah Byrne | Let It Byrne
The Five Best Things About 2014 (So Far) T
his is my last column of the semester, but it’s not the end of the year. I don’t care. I’ll just do a year-so-far list instead of year-end list. No one is safe from my attempts to reduce days and weeks and months of existence to a trite, five-item list. Even though I’ve been away from Cornell this semester, thanks to the constant Facebook updates I feel like I’ve been there for every prelim, every sleepless night, every breakdown and every victory. Some of the items are things that I sadly did not experience along with the rest of our country, but I’m pretty sure they were fairly popular. Most of them are things that pertain almost exclusively to the weirdly eclectic-but-homogenous demographic that is college students. And all of them are reasons I can’t wait to get back to in the United States, because there is nowhere else in the world that I’ve been where people are more unabashedly enthusiastic about their interests, no matter how bizarre. So, here’s the list: 1. Frozen : Okay, okay, Frozen came out in November. BUT it only really became popular over winter break, and it only really became freakishly popular during 2014. So it counts. Anyway, this is the movie that brought us “Let It Go,” which I would venture to say is the most covered song on YouTube and in girls’ cars across the country. Never before has a Disney song so accurately captured the #YOLO #IDGAF culture of our generation, while still managing to be inspirational and applicable to any and every situation. Also, between Elsa and Katniss, braids are becoming popular while remaining super low maintenance, and there’s nothing bad about that. 2. Cupcake Vending Machine: By the end of last year, I sincerely
Even though I’ve been away from Cornell this semester, thanks to the constant Facebook updates I feel like I’ve been there for every prelim, every sleepless night, every breakdown and every victory. thought the cupcake trend was, at long last, dying down. They’d become ridiculously overpriced without really getting any better, and it seemed like New York was finally reaching its carrying capacity of adorably quirky cupcake shops. Then, all of a sudden — when hope was almost lost — in came the cupcake vending machine, the white knight of the cupcake empire. Suddenly, the cool thing to do in New York (based on recent Facebook statuses from my NYC friends) is wait on line for, like, two hours for a machine to give you a cupcake that you could get in a store in less than 10 minutes. Here, I would like to admit defeat to the cupcake industry, which has once again created a meaningless but insanely popular product, the cupcake itself being the first. 3. Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show : I just know that Jimmy Fallon is the nicest guy in the whole world; here’s how I know. First of all, everyone loves him. I understand that the media controls what we know about stars, but no one has ever said anything bad about him. Secondly, and more importantly, he is now hosting one of the most popular talk shows ever, and just seems to be genuinely in a constant state of shock and joy over this fact. If you haven’t yet, I encourage you to watch his first episode on The Tonight Show. He’s still as talented as ever, but you can just tell he’s living his dream. There are also about 500 different celebrities on in the hour of the show. He might be the most wellliked person ever. 4. Mobile Printer: I came across this recently when I was browsing items on Kickstarter. It’s a little machine, probably about the size of a computer mouse. You can send it documents from your phone or your computer, then you just put it on a piece of paper and it prints them! If this is not the future, I do not know what is. Plus, it’s about time printers joined the 21st century; Olin got some new printers last semester and they were still larger and heavier than a small child. 5. Cornell Realizing How to Entertain Us: I am super excited about this one, and I hope that the trend continues into next year so I can enjoy it. I will admit that Ludacris would not be my first choice for Slope Day, but I am super jealous that I will not be there to get drunk to all of the songs that I knew in middle school. And Ed Helms is speaking at graduation! Finally someone a) whose name I actually recognize, and b) who will probably give a funny speech. I’m from New Jersey, but even I don’t want to see Cory Booker talk for half an hour. We go to Cornell; have you heard of it? I’d say it’s shaping up to be a great year, despite the fact that many of us are currently in the midst of the yearly crisis I like to call The Amazing Race: Summer Internship Edition. You can do it! (I’m not sure if we can, but my mom tells me she’ll love me even if I don’t get a research position.) And if you end up running around getting someone’s coffee in Manhattan this summer, at least you can stop and get a cupcake on the way. Sarah Byrne is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She be reached at sbyrne@cornellsun.com. Let It Byrne appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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“Class of 2014: Silences Resolution 72 with an indefinite table, no questions asked. Class of 2018: Voices their concerns online by calling administrators about the TCAT system before even getting to campus. ... Maybe the Class of 2018 is the class to stir up campus politics after all.” A Cornell Student Re: “GLICK | Ready for Hillary, but not for the Revolution: Cornell’s Crisis of Politics,” Opinion published April 29, 2014
Samantha Weisman | A Weisman Once Said
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Game of Thrones and Rape Culture
lthough I had no that it “becomes consen- Cersei. In his scene with intention of mak- sual by the end.” He Cersei, she is made to ing “A Weisman explains, "The consen- look like the worse perOnce Said” into a televi- sual part of it was that son, so that we sympasion column, once she wraps her legs thize with Jaime. I am again, something impor- around him, and she’s not suggesting that tant has happened on holding on to the table, when someone is raped TV that I think can have clearly not to escape but they automatically an impact on our cam- to get some grounding become a better person, pus and our culture. As I in what’s going on." It is especially someone as have said before, media extraordinarily trouble- cruel as Cersei, but this has an immense power some to me that this scene implies that we — and I would argue director believes that should feel bad for the responsibility — to holding onto a table rapist instead of the vicaffect change and implies that she tim. Again, this is rape impact beliefs. The past approves of what is hap- culture: A character two episodes of HBO’s pening to her. While the commits a horrible Game of Thrones truly writers’ and producers’ crime (morally, if not illustrate the media’s role intentions may not have legally in Westeros) and in rape culture and been for Jaime to rape faces no repercussions, made me incredibly her, the fact that this which forgives rape and angry — and thus, here director — and also pardons rapists. we are. Some may argue that actor Nikolaij CosterIn the April 20 Waldau who plays this scene and its subseepisode, “Breaker of Jaime, according to the quent consequences — Chains,” Jaime interview — think that or lack thereof — does Lannister forces himself holding onto a table not contribute to rape on and rapes his twin sister and former lover, Cersei, while As long as rape culture is they are stand- present on influential shows ing next to their son’s dead body. like Game of Thrones, it will While the scene be present in our culture, and is meant to be disturbing on subsequently, our campus. many levels, according to book series author after verbally protesting culture, since Game of George R. R. Martin, implies “saying yes,” Thrones takes place in a the scene in the books means that they do not fictional, medieval-like was consensual. In the understand what con- world. However, one of novel A Storm of Swords sent is, or how to express GOT’s most acclaimed — which I have not it to a vast, susceptible strengths is depicting read, but I read the scene audience. This is rape relatable problems and this comes from — culture: This attitude relationships in a differCersei argues initially, excuses and condones ent world. A show that and ultimately consents rape. illustrates the human to the unsettling sexual In this past week’s experience, regardless of encounter. In the episode, “Oathkeeper,” the world it takes place episode, Jaime physically since I have not read the in, influences how peoforces Cersei onto the books, I expected Jaime ple view our own world ground, despite her ver- to face some repercus- and our own experibal and physical sions for his actions. ences. Saying that protests, and rapes her. Instead, in addition to Jaime’s actions are not She never verbally con- not facing any conse- relatable to our own culsents as she does in the quences whatsoever, ture is not only wrong, books, and, in my opin- Jaime was actually made but an insult to the show ion, she never physically even more likable in this itself. expresses consent either. episode. He appeared as As long as rape culWhat I find most a “good guy” in each of ture is present on infludisturbing about this his scenes: He offers to ential shows like Game scene is that the director help his brother, he of Thrones, it will be preof the episode Alex sends Brienne off to find sent in our culture, and Graves did not think and protect Sansa and subsequently, our camthat the scene was rape. he even appears heroic pus. Several columns last In an interview, he says when speaking with week, including Julius
Kairey’s initial column that denies the existence of rape culture, and a few poignant responses in the form of letters to the editor, illustrate that rape culture is certainly present at Cornell. As long as people are writing columns that denies the existence of rape culture, it exists. While a fictional sexual assault in no way equates to the seriousness of real ones — such as the ones Julius Kairey claims happen less frequently than to one in four women — the attitudes displayed in the Game of Thrones’ portrayal of it represent the ones present in our culture, too. Game of Thrones made a mistake when they accidentally portrayed a rape, and then made the rapist into a sympathetic figure — furthering the existence of rape culture by excusing and denying sexual assault. We should learn from this mistake, and work toward a culture in which rapists are not only punished for their actions, but work for one in which attitudes about rape and consent are based on an educational and healthy sexual environment. The media plays a vital role in informing people about consent and what it means; if GOT fails to adequately portray consent in it's fictional world, then these harmful attitudes will persist in our real world today.
Samantha Weisman is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She may be reached at sweisman@cornellsun.com. A Weisman Once Said appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
8 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, April 30, 2014
REsearch
Ornithology
NeuroScience
Two Cents: Undergraduate Research By KATHLEEN BITTER
What area was your undergraduate research in? More specifically, what was the project?
Sun Science Writer
This week in Science we talked to professors about their research experiences as undergraduates and advice they have for current undergraduates seeking to get involved in research. Prof. Ken Kemphues, molecular biology and genetics, studies the genetic basis of development. Prof. Ellis Loew, veterinary biomedical sciences, studies the ecology and evolution of vision.
What would you say was the most valuable thing you learned from undergraduate research? That I could do it and that I enjoyed it. I also got some advice relating to applying to grad school. ––– Prof. Kemphues PATIENCE!!
––– Prof. Loew
How closely related is your undergraduate research to what you study now? Only moderately related. I wished to study developmental biology. —Prof. Kemphues It relates only in the broadest sense in that it dealt with sensory physiology and electrophysiology. ––Prof. Loew
I worked in a lab that studied endocrinology using amphibians as model organisms. In particular, I studied the biochemistry of the secretion of the hedonic glands of the red-spotted newt. The male rubs the female's nose on this gland, which is on the side of his head, and as a consequence, her behavior is modified. She follows the male around the pond picking up the [sperm packets] that he deposits. I discovered that the secretions contained [a certain type of protein]. This earned me co-authorship on a publication. ––– Prof. Kemphues I did a small project on electric fish when I was a senior at UCLA. However, it did not involve a thesis.
How did you first get involved in research? I answered an advert for somebody to build some lab equipment for a professor at UCLA. I would watch him work and he would tell me what he was doing. After a bit I decided that academia was the life for me! –– Prof. Loew I requested to do volunteer work in a few labs and kept asking until one of them took me in. ––– Prof. Kemphues
––– Prof. Loew
What is one piece of advice you have for undergraduates looking to get involved in research? Do not undertake a project in which you have no inherent interest or emotional attachment. You should enjoy what you are doing and gain satisfaction from it. Too often students decide that doing some kind of research will beef up their application for professional school and take on a project just because the professor says yes. –– Prof. Loew
What initially drew you to your undergrad research area or project? See the answer at right — the professor said yes. ––– Prof. Kemphues Opportunity and the desire to understand how our senses provide us with the information we use to construct our views of the world. –– Prof. Loew
Don’t let a narrow research focus restrict your choice of laboratories. The main thing is finding a lab with a supportive environment that will allow you to learn whether you really want to go into research. If you can find that and a lab doing something you already think is cool, great. But if a research career is for you, then almost any project will become interesting once you become involved. ––– Prof. Kemphues
Cornell Bird Cam Captures Hawk Chicks By KATHLEEN BITTER Sun Science Editor
On Sunday, two new faces appeared on the Lab of Ornithology’s live stream of a Red-tailed hawk nest on campus, huddled beneath their mother’s feathers. On Tuesday morning a third newcomer joined them. The red-tailed hawk chicks are the third year of Big Red and Ezra’s offspring to be caught on camera, according to Charles Eldermire, the Bird Cams Project Leader at the Lab of Ornithology. Big Red, the female of the pair, laid three eggs this year, according to the Lab of Ornithology. Red-tailed hawk eggs take four to five weeks to incubate before they hatch. Big Red and Ezra have produced three eggs each year since the camera was first set up in 2012. Eldermire said the Lab of Ornithology has been aware of a pair of Red-tailed hawks living around Robinsom Alumni Fields on Central Campus for several years, but the Lab is not sure if this was the same pair of hawks every year, or if they were always Big Red and Ezra. In 2012, the Lab of Ornithology installed a camera that live-streamed footage of the hawks’ nest in the spring before Big Red started laying eggs. “This pair seemed very unperturbed by our presence,” Eldermire said. Since then, the hawks have changed their nest location — moving over a few light poles on the athletic field, Eldermire said — but the Lab of Ornithology has moved their camera to stay focused on the nest and the new chicks each spring. According to Eldermire, the Lab of Ornithology first started streaming live
COURTESY OF CORNELL LAB HAWK CAM
Happy hawks | Two of the three eggs in Big Red and Ezra’s nest hatched Sunday. The third egg hatched Tuesday morning. The nest can be viewed live on the Lab of Ornithology’s Hawk Cam. The Lab of Ornithology also streams live footage from the nests of owls, ospreys, great blue herons and albatrosses.
footage from birds’ nests in 1998 as part of a program called “NestCams.” Since the technology was not yet available for high-quality video streaming, the camera would upload a still image every 30 seconds for volunteer citizen scientists around the world to annotate as part of observational studies, according to Eldermire. With improvements in both cameras and Internet speeds over the past few years, the Lab of Ornithology has shifted
the focus of its bird cams from citizen science to public education, Eldermire said. “The idea at that point was we need to get as many people who can watch this as possible to watch it,” he said. “We need to try and make it beautiful, we need to try and make it sound good, [and] we want to try and provide a place for people to interact and talk about birds, all rolled up into one so that essentially it’s like going birding with a giant group of people.”
Eldermire said the feeling the bird cams are trying to replicate is that of finding a bird’s nest by chance in the outdoors. “I think almost anyone who’s ever found a nest like that has felt this little flame of excitement,” he said. “It’s like ‘ooh, I just saw something secret, and special and important.’ With these cameras what we’ve tried to do is let everybody have that feeling.” According to Eldermire, the Lab of Ornithology has several other live streams of birds’ nests, including a barn owl nest in Texas, an albatross nest in Hawaii with a three month old chick, an osprey nest in Missoula, Montanta, a great blue heron nest in Ithaca and the bird feeder outside the visitor’s center at the Lab of Ornithology. According to Eldermire, a major goal of the bird cams is to democratize the ability to observe birds up close in their natural habitat. “The discovery takes place whether you’re a student of birds, a long-time scientist or brand new to the world of birds,” he said. By allowing anyone with access to the Internet to see wild birds up close, Eldermire said, the bird cams are also promoting education and understanding of nature, a goal of the Lab of Ornithology itself. “The birds tell that message much more powerfully than we can,” he said. Eldermire said the red-tailed hawk nest and other bird nest streams can be viewed at cams.allaboutbirds.org. Kathleen Bitter can be reached at science-editor@cornellsun.com.
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SCIENCE
Sandy Chan ’15 Studies the Effects of Aspirin on the Brain By EMILY HAGEN
COURTESY OF SANDY CHAN ’15
Sun Contributor
Sandy Chan ’15 says most days she can be found in Weill Hall, where she studies the effects of aspirin as a blood thinner. Chan, a Cornell Biology Research Fellow and McNair Scholar, does her research in the lab of Prof. Chris Schaffer, biomedical engineering, and Prof. Nozomi Nishimura, biomedical engineering, investigating whether or not it causes increased bleeding in the brain when blood vessels rupture. Microhemorrhages are small bleeds in the brain that become more common as humans age, according to Chan. They contribute to cognitive decline and dementia. Chan said that physicians often prescribe aspirin, in small and frequent dosages, to older people as a way to minimize the incidence of blood clots. Older people are more prone to serious health issues related to blood, such as heart attacks and CHAN ’15 strokes, because of their weakened blood vessels. Chan said that blood thinners are effective in preventing the formation of blood clots and ruptures in the brain. However, they have potentially harmful effects, according to Chan. The purpose of Chan’s research project is to determine if blood thinners, such as aspirin, cause an increase in bleeding in the brain. According to Chan, the role of chronic aspirin administration on the frequency and severity of microhemorrhages remains unidentified. Chan said she performs this research on mice, rather than on humans, because conducting the research requires invasive surgical procedures. Despite this, Chan said she does not believe this is a limitation in the research design. “I think using mice as a model is the best we can do right now,” Chan said. “I think that mice have brains close enough to those of humans so that what we find with mice can be applied to humans.” Chan said she first performs a surgical procedure on each mouse while it is under anesthesia. She then removes a piece of the mouse’s skull, which allows her
Bad blood | These photos show before (left) and after (right) of a blood vessel in a mouse brain that has hemmorhaged. Sandy Chan ’15 studies the effects of aspirin on brain microhemorrhages by looking at how they occur in mice that have been treated with aspirin and those that have not had aspirin. to look past the skull to see more parts of the brain. Chan gives half of the mice aspirin for three days in a row by providing them with a solution of water and aspirin. Then she images the mice’s brains through a technique called two-photon microscopy, which allows Chan to view the brains in 3-D. Chan said she uses a laser to pop arterial blood vessels in the mice while looking at them under the microscope. This causes bleeding in the mice’s brains, which imitates the microhemorrhages that occur in humans. Chan records how far out the blood extends by measuring the diameter and area of the collection of blood in the mice’s brains. Chan said she learned these specific techniques over the course of a year from a graduate student who was involved in the research lab at the time. According to Chan, Morgan Brophy M.S. ’13 provided her with comprehensive training. Chan said she has since become more independent — she currently conducts most of the experiments by herself. As a Biological Sciences major, Chan said she has had to learn a lot about the engineering procedures and technology involved in completing the research when she joined the lab at the start of her sophomore year. “I’m not an engineer, so everything in the lab was shocking and new,” Chan said. “However, my lab did a really great job teaching me. They were all really good mentors.” Chan said her interest in joining the SchafferNishimura lab was piqued during her first visit to its
COURTESY OF SANDY CHAN ’15
Surgical setup | The device on the table is a stereo tax that holds a mouse’s head steady while Chan performs surgery to allow her to image the mouse’s brain at a later date. Chan examines how microhemmorhages happen in a mouse’s brain depending on whether it has been given aspirin.
facility. She said that one main factor in her joining was the other people who work in the lab. Chan not only wanted to get involved in a lab that matched her academic interests, but would also make her feel comfortable, she said. “I knew I was very interested in the brain and neurobiology, so I thought the lab was a good way in,” Chan said. “I also thought the atmosphere was very friendly and that I could see myself in the lab, which was really important to me.” Chan said she believes that a warm sense of community is created among all the lab members working in the lab. “I know all the grad students pretty well and most of the undergraduates,” she said. “You really get to know the people who come a lot, and it’s a fun place to be.” Nevertheless, Chan said she has confronted many challenges while conducting the research on blood thinners. She said she often encounters problems with the technology used in her research because the intruments she uses do not always work properly. In addition, Chan said she needed to figure out a way to balance her academic work with her research work. She created a class schedule that would allow her to do both because getting involved in research was important to her, she said. “Although I am in the lab all the time, I don’t consider being here work. It’s not like I have to memorize material for a prelim,” Chan said. The research project on mice is not yet finished, but Chan said she hopes to finish it by the end of the summer after collecting more data and preparing for the publication of the project’s findings. Based on the data that she has compiled thus far, Chan said there is no significant difference in the amount of bleeding in the brain between the mice that were administered aspirin and the ones that were not. Chan said she believes that this will be the ultimate finding of the project as well. The applications of the research project are significant in that the findings provide information about blood cells as well as information regarding the way blood behaves in the brain, according to Chan. Chan plans on graduating a semester early in December. She said she hopes to attend medical school to pursue an M.D. and Ph.D. dual-degree, although she is unsure of her specific area of study, given her diverse interests in biology, engineering, immunology and hematology. Not only has Chan obtained knowledge about the brain and performing surgical procedures, she said, she has also gained meaningful lessons and skills from her research. “I think the most important thing that reach teaches you is resilience and patience,” Chan said. “Research shows you that yes, your experiment can fail, but that there will also be a time when it works brilliantly. Often things don’t work out so you have to be patient until they do.” Emily Hagen can be reached at esh73@cornell.edu.
A&E
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Oculus: The Psychological and the Illusory Note: This movie is not Mirrors. It is not a Mirrors remake. It is very different from Mirrors. Full confession time: Horror films are not exactly my forte. I may or may not look over my shoulder for one to 1000 days after seeing a horror film, just to be sure I am not being attacked by a supernatural entity. When I saw the trailer for Oculus, however, something told me I should make an exception. It might have been my inner Whovian forcing me to watch anything starring a former companion, or it may have been fate pulling me to one of the most mind-bendingly twisted amazing movies I have ever seen. Luckily, I saw the film with two horror movie buffs so I can say with certainty that Oculus is, in fact, something special. The film is all about illusion and perception; it centers on a mirror: an antique mirror with a disturbing and bloody history. An extension of the short film of the same name, the plot unfurls in two different storylines, occurring 11 years apart. The first is the story of Marie and Alan Russell (Katee Sackhoff and Rory Cochrane), a young couple who have moved into a new house with their children, Kaylie (Annalise Basso) and Tim (Garrett Ryan). 11 years later, the grown children Kaylie (Karen Gillan) and Tim (Brenton Thwaites) have returned to the house where their childhoods were torn apart to confront the cause. The past 11 years has treated them differently, however. At 10, Tim was found by the police to be guilty of his father’s murder. Evidenced by the death of their mother, Tim was quite obviously employing self-defense. As a child babbling about a demonic mirror and a being a minor who went through a horrible tragedy, Tim grew up in an institution where he was to come to terms with the reality of that night and his actions. Kaylie, however, was placed into foster care, no doctors to tell her what truly happened or did not happen the night in which her parents both died. Her life obsession becomes the mirror both children blamed for their parents death. After years of preparation, facts and statistics, she begins hunting down the mirror, planning for the final confrontation with the supposed supernatural
object, hoping for her brother at her side as she does so. She tropes that we come to look for. There is no serious overset plans and backup plans — separate power lines, alarms the-top CGI or extended, gruesome scenes, nor does telling them when to eat, a fiancé that calls every hour, cam- writer/director Mike Flanagan try to fill the film with eras filming the entire evening and a contingency scream-worthy mirror shatterer if they should die and fail to reset a moments. timer. Oculus is psyThe mirror, however, feeds on life force and prochological. The duces illusions. It never directly harms the people mirror operated that it kills; rather, it distorts their reality so far that based on powerthey cause unspeakable harm to themselves and ful illusions and others without seeing any inconsistencies with their its greatest illulives. For instance, as Kaylie goes through the histosion is taking ry of the mirror she the audience details an instance in along for the which the mirror ride. It becomes Oculus resides with a bank. a question of Directed by Mike Flanagan A teller at the bank how much you murders another can trust your Starring Karen Gillan, person and then memory, how Brenton Thwaites proceeds to chew much you can COURTESY OF RELATIVITY MEDIA through an electritrust your eyes cal wire on her own — how are you to defeat the object which dictates accord. Another your reality. woman uses a hamI think the mixed reviews coming out about Oculus mer to individually are due to certain audiences misunderstanding what shatter all of the place this movie holds. It is not for someone who wants bones in her body, except, of course, those in her right arm to scream in their darkened living room and receive a fright which she needs intact to wield the hammer. without thinking. You aren’t going to get that kind of bang As the film progresses, the illusions become more and for your buck. Oculus is about thinking — the more you more intricate. The mirror delves deeper and deeper into think and engage, the more strongly it will affect you. It is the minds of the characters until no aspect of what they psychological horror that works to break you down, slowly experience or the audience sees can be trusted. Characters building the illusory nature, the last 45 minutes acting as are taken by the mirror in entirety, becoming illusory ver- the culmination of this engagement. Even as someone who sions of themselves and embracing the horror as reality: “I is going to look over my shoulder approximately six times have met my demons and they are many. I have seen the as I walk down the dark hallway tonight, I find that I truly Devil and he is me.” engaged with and thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It is horThe film, of course, employs the camera techniques ror on a different playing field, one that is worth experiencunique to the horror film industry and includes some dis- ing whether you are a horror fan or not. turbing, horrifying images. For an amateur such as myself, I was fairly shaken up. Anyone can tell, however, the true Marissa Tranquilli a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She horror and power of the film does not lie in the horror film can be reached at mtranquilli@cornellsun.com.
Tomas Barfod
Wisdumb
Baths
“True To You”
“Backwards”
“Ocean Death”
By James Rainis
By Mike Sosnick
By Sam Bromer
I know that ever since Owl City’s “Fireflies,” Postal Service comparisons have been reserved for bedroom pop artists critics want to deride for being too cute, but don’t you remember how intimate Give Up was? With a majority of electronic artists shooting for bleacher-packing anthems or weed-enshrouded haziness, Tomas Barfod’s “True To You” is refreshingly low-key. Starting from a grounding synth note, the track becomes a heartwrenching ode worthy of playing in the credits of a John Hughes film. “Love is like a weather balloon,” sings guest vocalist and Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys, with all the lovelorn straightforwardness of Secretly Canadian label-mate Jens Lekman and the ethereal sounds of prime-era Boards of Canada. Barfod’s upcoming effort is, like the Postal Service’s classic, also a command, albeit a much more vulnerable one: Love Me. Sparse, simple and otherworldly, “True To You” is bound to be the makeout jam of choice for indie kids whose electronic music fascination began with heady ambient atmospheres rather than dub-step’s dirty wubs. Rhys’s vocals are buried in the mix, so you have to lean in to hear him, and it evokes a diary-like closeness missing from so much big-tent house.
Hailing from spoken word roots, Wisdumb’s Giovanni Quattrochi aims to synthesize hip hop’s boldness and pop’s listenability with his native craft’s lyricism and articulation. The Trinity College dorm room artist’s latest track, “Backwards,” couldn’t be farther from the frat rap of his alma mater’s most famous hip-hop alum, Sammy Adams. Originally imagined as a spoken word piece, “Backwards” sinks into the dream pop groove of its sample, Tame Impala’s “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards,” as remixed by SayLouLou. Quattrochi’s spoken word background is evident in his wordy, obscure lyrics, but he boasts enough rap chops to avoid becoming marblemouthed in his complicated flow. As expected for a self-released bedroom piece, the production of “Backwards” is a tad rough around the edges, but his vibrant musical ideas shine through. The track’s effortless blend of distorted, intense lyrics, rhythmic delivery and ethereal pop speaks volumes about Wisdumb’s bright future, which will be showcased on July’s Trin Fire E.P.
“Ocean Death,” the latest release from the Los Angeles-based producer and perpetual downer Will Wiesenfeld’s electronic project, Baths, draws us deeper into this artist’s morbid soundscape than ever before. In many ways, the track is the natural heir to his 2013 EP Obsidian, which turned Wiesenfeld’s bout with e. coli into a glitchy, contemplative staring contest with Death. Yet, while “Ocean Death” retains many of that album’s best elements, it also manages to make Bath’s existential ponderings friendly for the clubs (though only the most hipster ones). The track, the opener of a yet-to-be-released EP of the same name, is built upon familiar architecture: Full of eerie falsetto and the rapid, irregular heartbeat of Wiesenfeld’s rhythmic arrangements, one can immediately deduce that this is a Baths creation. But this release abandons the inwardsearching frustrations of Obsidian. There is a sense of peace here, or at least, of resignation. “Ocean Death” washes over you like a wave — and once it pulls you out to sea, it’s impossible to get back to shore.
James Rainis is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.
Mike Sosnick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.
Sam Bromer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com.
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The ’70s Horror Movie ‘Cannot Be Saved’ KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor
British horror house Hammer is back with an homage to their days of grandeur — The Quiet Ones is a classic tale of ghosts, cults and scientific error set in the 1970s and filled with aesthetically-pleasing but mind-numbing stock characters. Jared Harris stars as an Oxford University professor who seeks to “cure mankind” by proving that possession and poltergeists are a manifestation of the human mind. He is aided by two ambitious student research assistants (Erin Richards and Rory Fleck-Byrne), a dopey, doe-eyed cameraman who serves as Harris’ moral foil (Sam Claflin) and an even dopier, but objectively lovely and “haunted” (as is the new sexy, according to Tumblr) subject (Olivia Cooke). In the scant 12 hours since I saw John Pogue’s The Quiet Ones, I’ve developed a checklist for generating a satisfying horror movie. That’s right guys, I’ve turned myself into a horror expert in less time than it takes to get certified for food service management in Texas! Nevermind that the last horror movie I saw in theatres was 2012’s The Chernobyl Diaries starring Jesse McCartney and radioactive bears! Get ready for some wisdom. First thing’s first: the title. Figuring out the mystery behind a horror movie title is almost as thrilling as finding out whodunit. The “aha!” moment of The Ring is not when flip-flop boy gets the watery axe, it’s when we see the well lid close and notice the ring of light that is visible when you’re trapped inside your cylindrical grave, ripping your fingernails off on the stones and just feeling all that mineral build-up in your hair (amirite?). The Quiet Ones is still a mystery — a random Oxford University library-goer confronts our blank-as-Kleenex protagonist (Claflin) at one point and asks, “Have you become one of the quiet ones?” with no further elucidation and then saunters off. The issue does not come up again. The title works better if you assume it’s meant to be ironic — a fair 90 percent of this movies’ scares come from loud noises, whether that be screeching, shattering, scratching or the Hawkwind-heavy soundtrack. The second obligation of a good horror movie is how convincingly it follows through on its promise of being “inspired by actual events,” “based on a true story,” “names changed to protect the innocent,” et cetera. Horror is just more fun when it’s real (this is why I voluntarily believed my father’s claim that Fargo was a true story up until 2012). The Quiet Ones is indeed based on the Philip Experiment of 1972, in which a group of Toronto researchers used classic seance rituals and little actual scientific equipment in an attempt to document the exit of a poltergeist from a human body. The Philip Experiment was
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widely regarded as a load of garbage — it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page! — and definitely didn’t result in any of the bathtub-boiling, prison-tattooing, ghost-fucking hijinx that arise throughout the course of The Quiet Ones. The third requirement is a riveting library research scene — you know, that montage in which an earnest dogooder brings us to our denouement via their un-foreshadowed ability to read 16 dusty, old, thousand-pluspaged books in one sitting. Grand ones happen in Se7en, Silence of the Lambs and The Amityville Horror (the 2005 remake starring Ryan Reynolds, hey!) — the audience pieces together the puzzle with a gutwrench at the same time as the protagonist (“Katch ‘em, The Quiet Ones kill ‘em, gosh the refrigerator magDirected by John Pogue nets, guys! Guys!”). Starring Jared Harris, Sam The library scene in Claflin The Quiet Ones is obligatory, vague and when cameraman Brian presents his findings to the group we’re still confused. In fact, the whole scene was confusing because I don’t think it was ever directly implied that any of these scientists actually knew how to read, or what a library was, or how university research works, or really anything about scientific method, ethics or practice (Jared Harris’ character yells “No! No doctors!” enough times for it to be a drinking game). Last, but not least, a good horror movie has a solid human element — you have to love Kevin Bacon before he gets the samurai sword through the abdomen in an absolute refutal of basic physics or the scene doesn’t mean anything. The Quiet Ones’ attempt takes the form of some serious sexual tension between the bright-eyed cameraman and the dead-in-the-eyes 19-year-old subject of the experiment. The two exchange a handful of sentences, Jane cracks one “I’m possessed, lol” joke and at one point she wears an adorable green romper and adorable rain boots while adorably watching a frog leap around an adorable pond, so I guess it’s love. The other lab assistants, Krissi (Richards) and Harry (Fleck-Byrne) are parodies of one-dimension and could probably have been played by cardboard cut-outs. Scratch that, we need to
watch Krissi walk up some stairs in booty shorts. The Quiet Ones’ main accomplishment is plucking the least important elements of the remains of many other more successful projects and genres — the one-dimensional, naive good-boy who is apparently the only person above felonies of coercion was recently in The COURTESY OF Hunger Games: Catching Fire (the HAMMER FILMS shirtless one, oy vey); the chain-smoking, comic book villain who abandons his sanity in deference to a narcissistic belief in his own scientific genius had a stint on Mad Men two years ago (as, ironically, the spook who haunts Don Draper’s new office); those two other guys are definitely extras from the unreleased third live-action Scooby Doo and most of the plotlines and classic horror tropes are ripped directly from the decade this film takes place in. As pastiche, it almost works — classic horror tropes such as the isolated country home, the creaking stairs, lots of religious undertones, a ’70sappropriate fascination with cults and love triangles and a permanent haze of chain-smoking to color the cinematography will be satisfying for those who remember the heyday of poltergeist vs. exorcist. Scientific experiment gone wrong, due to one man’s obsession or one girl’s underestimated power is a nice throwback as well, to the time when psychological experiments were just revealing man’s biggest failings and faith in the underlying humanitarian ethos of science had been corroded (see the Stanford experiment, or, you know, the atomic bomb). In all, The Quiet Ones is horror camp at its least ironic and its most clunky — the homage is clear but the intention is not. Maybe the team dialed back on the costly scares because they worked on a smaller budget or maybe they were trying to toss us back to a time when horror put plot over punch, but either way they didn’t follow through on story trumping flash — doling out trite dialogue and a dull slog of a narrative. If in search of the adrenaline-rush that even B-level horror movies are meant to provide, your money would have been better spent over at Cinemapolis for Lars Von Trier’s ode to the Talking Heads, Willem Dafoe and rape-and-revenge. Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.
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he boy loves music. He does not have the words to describe this love, nor does he know many words at all. He just listens to what his parents play in the car, at home, on the patio. He plays some of these songs, by ear, on the family’s grand piano, takes music lessons and learns the alto saxophone. He grows up and curates his own playlists, filled with songs his family and friends cannot stand. He loves this music and likes that he does not have to justify this love with words, even now. To him, music just is. Meanwhile, he watches movies. He loved Star Wars as a kid because, sheesh, how can you not. He enters high school with a curiosity to catch up with the rest, so he looks to the IMDb Top 250. He checks out Platoon, Fight Club, Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator — guy flicks. He cannot believe how much blood and guts he sees. He knows these are not horror movies, where such cheap “splatter” is expected. He is watching serious stuff, with real carnage and no discernible continuity errors. He lets himself be taken away by the experience of these movies, with their breathless battle scenes, plot twists and Hans Zimmer soundtracks. He declares a movie to be the best ever made if it gives him uncountable goose bumps by the end. He finishes watching a movie and knows, like that, whether he loves it or hates it — especially if he hates it. He hates movies that bore him or do not “make sense.” He hates movies that do not show their violence in slow motion, limbs-flying glory. He also
plays a lot of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare around this time, by the way. He goes to college. He realizes how wrong he was, though not before falling asleep during a few silent films. Okay, he realizes how wrong he was and still sleeps through some silent films since he always manages to watch them at like three in the afternoon in a stuffy room with comfy chairs and always insists he does not need coffee,
inter-textual reference to tie everything together. He often fails to unite all these strands when transcribing an argument to print, but at least he feels this whole mental process has gotten easier. He cannot watch the movies he once loved without jamming them through this intellectual crucible. He concludes, with arrogant certainty, that some of these movies, like American History X, are jejune, melodramatic slogs. He is relieved to see Total A Lover’s Quarrel Recall again and discover a With the World deliberate, gleeful deconstruction of action movie tropes. He is incredibly since his love of cinema will valiantly get happy to report that Non-Stop, the latest him, sans chemicals, through the classics. Liam Neeson anti-AARP advertisement, is But he loves the classics. He loves the not only badass but also an intelligent and purity of this kind of storytelling, which measured commentary on post-9/11 securitreats plot as a means to engage with themes ty. He knows, now, that some of this entryand not the other way around. He picks up level cinema is genius and much of it is overon some radical ideas, on religion, suicide, rated crap. He takes comfort in that. sex and so on, these filmmakers subtly and He enjoys what once bored him. He persistently floated without bucking the would rather sit through a four-hour docustrict censorship codes of their time. He mentary about University of Cali Berkeley takes notice of how Hitchcock moved his than that new Spider-Man movie, though he camera or how Kurosawa arranged charac- cannot and will not resist the chance to spin ters within a frame or how Murnau laid stupid jokes out of the latter. He appreciates images on top of one another. He does not the artists out there who see things that projust “take in” a movie but searches, while voke them and probe back, whether through watching it, for a system of form, theme and documentary or fiction modes. He watches
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Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up and wraps his head around the fact that perhaps the greatest movie he has ever seen was made for less than Simon Pegg’s Star Trek Into Darkness salary. He cherishes the original, coherent philosophy behind such a film. He esteems, above all else, how filmic the work ultimately is, unable to be replicated in another medium or summarized in a Wikipedia article. He demands more and forgives easier, like when a film meets those demands only halfway. He believes that effort, effort to elevate thought and raise questions, is what makes the world a progressive and livable place. He sees this as the highest function of film, due to its narrative, humans-tellingstories nature. He continues to love music, all this time, without devising some elaborate theoretical framework in which to place it. He needs some time off, when he can just close his eyes and see something beautiful for what it is. Zachary Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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grabbed the lead for good in the fourth with Giaquinto’s threerun homer to center field. Princeton added another run in the bottom of the fourth, but
senior infielder Jenny Edwards’ RBI double in the sixth brought the game to the final 8-6 win for the Red. Sunday featured two close losses for Cornell. The Red opened the first game with a strong first inning, taking a 2-0
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Hitting big | Senior Christina Villalon scored the only two runs for the Red in its opening game against Princeton on Saturday.
lead after one. Those were to be the team’s only runs of the game, however, Princeton’s two-run fourth inning and one-run fifth gave the Tigers a 3-2 victory. Princeton quickly took the lead in the final game of the weekend, notching an RBI double in the first and a home run and a two-RBI double in the second, for a 4-0 lead after two. The Red never recovered, and despite a small late offensive surge dropped the match, 5-2. “We have struggled to hit in RBI situations,” Blood said of the team’s recent losses. In particular, the Red has struggled to pull out wins in close games. Of the Red’s last 14 games, five of those have been one-run losses and only one has been a one-run win. Onyon, who threw pitches in all four games, including the opening shutout where she held off Princeton completely, saw success starting in the 2-0 win and the 3-2 loss and serving as relief for the other two games. Over the season, Onyon led the Red pitching squad and maintains a 3.04 ERA and an 11-10 record. “Onyon was very tough this weekend and provided [us with] opportunity to win in each contest,” Blood said. “Her roles as a starter and relief pitcher were equally important.” Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.
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Rowers Fall to Both Princeton And Yale in Cup By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell heavyweight rowing team was back in action this past weekend as they raced for the Carnegie Cup against Yale and Princeton. Despite starting the race off in winning fashion, the Red could not continue its success and ended up placing third overall in the race for the cup. Despite losing out on the Carnegie Cup, sophomore Stephen Markham said he was happy with the improvements made by each boat. “Our rowing across the board is steadily improving. You can see the margins between the boats diminishing during practices as the speed of our whole team increases,” he said. After the fourth varsity boat began the competition with a first place finish, the Red was off to a dream start. Crossing the finish line ahead of Princeton by a significant amount of time, the men set the tone for the rest of the race. Continuing the trend, the third varsity boat finished its race also ahead of both Princeton and Yale, claiming the second win of the day for Cornell. “Those boats constantly force the first varsity eight to get faster and faster,” said sophomore Michael Tarnapoll of the third and fourth varsity boats. For the first time this season, the second varsity boat competed in a 1,000m race, finishing a fraction of a sec-
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Rowing ahead| Cornell’s third and fourth varsity boats were both able to capture victories this weekend in the Carnegie Cup against Princeton and Yale. ond behind second place Yale. “They showed that they have real speed,” Tarnapoll said of second varsity rowers. “People shouldn’t be surprised to see them do some impressive things in the next few races when they connect the first and second halves of their race.” In the final race of the day, the varsity eight race, the Red fell behind its Ivy League opponents and finished in third. Yale took home the Carnegie Cup, defeating the Princeton boat by three seconds even. Despite the loss and tough weather conditions, the young varsity eight competed well, Markham said. “The varsity executed [its] race plan and raced well
against higher seeded Yale and Princeton,” he said. “The prevailing headwinds proved difficult for all of the crews on Saturday.” This weekend the heavyweights will travel with the other two programs to Dartmouth, where they will look to make their presence felt. “We definitely won’t be forgetting about the Carnegie Cup results coming into this weekend and hopefully that will fuel some great racing,” Markham said. Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at tmaggiohucek@cornellsun.com.
Red Sweeps First Set Against Princeton,Splits Next One Cornell and Princeton compete in a 14 inning game on Sunday, finishing with a win for the Red BASEBALL
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The Red came out in game two with its offensive struggles against Columbia now a distant memory. Junior Nick Busto took the hill, recording his best start of the season, going seven innings and allowing just one earned run while striking out six. Cornell’s lineup gave him just enough support, scoring one run in the first and then three in the sixth to hold off the Tigers, who had taken a 2-1 lead in the fourth. Sophomore outfielder Jordan Winawer continued his hot streak, going three-for-three with an RBI and two runs. Junior outfielder JD Whestsel and Plantier also chipped in a hit and an RBI apiece. Freshman reliever Paul Balestrieri gave the Red two one-twothree innings out of the pen to shut the door on Princeton.
After sweeping the first doubleheader, the Red had a day of rest before traveling to Princeton on Sunday for the final two games of the Ivy League season. The Red sent junior starter Brent Jones to the mound for game three, which turned into a rollercoaster ride of a game. Jones gave up one run in the bottom of the first, but was dominant after that, allowing just five hits and striking out seven in eight innings. “[Jones] has just continued to develop throughout the year,” Cruz said. “It has definitely been fun to watch him throw.” Princeton’s starter Michael Fagan silenced the Red’s offense through the fourth inning, but Karl came through once again in the fifth to tie the game on a solo home run. The score stayed that way for the next six innings, with solid relief pitching by both squads that pushed the game into extra innings. Karl came through again in the top of the twelfth with another solo blast
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Striking out Tigers | Junior pitcher Brent Jones threw for the Red on Sunday against Princeton, striking out seven players in eight innings and only allowing five hits during that time.
that gave the away team a one-run lead. But the Tigers answered immediately in the bottom of the frame, when a Red error allowed a runner to second, who would eventually score to tie the game. Freshman Scott Soltis then came in out of the pen and was able to get out of a bases loaded jam to keep the game alive. “[That] took a lot of poise from our pitching staff,” Cruz said, “We were behind in the game from very early on, but Brent settled in and “Taking our last Ivy Karl came through twice weekend is just an extra to keep us in bonus that reminds us of the game.” Neither what we can do as a group.” team could push a run Chris Cruz across in the 13th, but the Red finally broke through in the 14th, with Whetsel coming in to score on a balk and D’Alessandro scoring on an errant pickoff throw. Senior Connor Kaufmann came into the game in the bottom of the 14th with the winning run at the plate and sent the next three batters down in order to secure his first save of the season. “In those situations, we are confident that we will do something to put ourselves in a situation to take the lead and win the game,” Cruz said. Sophomore starter Michael Byrne struggled in the series finale, allowing four runs in five and two thirds innings on the mound. The Red chipped away at the lead in the late innings, but could not find the big hit, eventually falling, 5-4. Cruz had two RBIs in the game and Winawer and Whetsel both had two hits. Friday’s sweep of Princeton also marked the last games on Hoy Field for the Red’s seniors. Cruz acknowledged that getting two wins on that day was especially meaningful. “It definitely means a lot to myself and the other seniors on the team. Having my last game at Hoy is definitely something that snuck up on me, as these past four years have flown by,” he said. “Being able to go out and take our last two on the field feels good. Taking our last Ivy weekend is just an extra bonus that reminds us of what we can do as a group.” Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.
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BASEBALL
Red Tops Princeton in Last Ivy Series of Season
By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Editor
Game three of the baseball team’s series with Princeton this weekend was a marathon, 14 inning affair. Yet the Red was able to come away with the win, guaranteeing an over-
all victory in its final Ivy League series of the season, after taking the opening doubleheader Friday. Coming off of a sweep by Columbia the weekend before in which the Red was shutout in three of four games, the bats finally came back to life against conference opponent Princeton. The Red pounced on the Tigers from the start,
Sweeping Ivy | Junior designated hitter Ryan Karl helped the Red throughout the weekend, beginning Friday when he contributed three runs to Cornell during the first inning of its first of four games against Princeton.
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putting four runs on the board in the first inning of game one. Senior infielder Ryan Plantier drove in the first run and junior designated hitter Ryan Karl blasted a three-run homerun to give the home team a comfortable cushion. “[That inning] definitely helped out and took some pressure off the hitters,” said senior outfielder Chris Cruz. “As a group, we had been struggling, so to see some runs on the board for us was great for our confi“We knew what we dence.” Junior pitcher were capable of and Kellen Urbon were looking to pull made his second start of the season, everything together.” going four strong Chris Cruz innings without giving up a run. after However, allowing two in the fifth and one in the sixth, Cornell’s lead was down to one. Junior Matt Hall put some insurance runs on the board in the bottom of the sixth with a two-run double down the line, giving the home team a 6-3 lead. Princeton scored one more in the top of the seventh, but senior shortstop Tom D’Alessandro made a diving play in the hole and bounced up to throw the runner out, giving the Red the 6-4 victory. Cruz said that getting the first victory of the series was important to bringing the Red back to a winning mentality. “We knew what we were capable of and were looking to pull everything together to pick up a win,” Cruz said. “[We] just wanted to show ourselves we could piece everything together.” See BASEBALL page 15
Knight Wins Fifth Straight Rookie of the Week Award Freshman lacrosse M e t r o p o l i t a n player and goalkeeper Baltimore, first-team for the Red, Christian All-MIAA and Varsity Knight, became the Sports Network second lacrosse player Defensive Player of in Ivy League history the Year under his to win five men’s belt, Knight proved lacrosse Rookie of the himself as a successful Week awards. and talented high This accomplish- school lacrosse player. ment, which he shares After lettering for with junior attackman three seasons in Matt Donovan, came lacrosse and serving as a f t e r team capKnight had tain his an impressenior year, sive game Knight in goal joined the against Red this Princeton season for S a t u r d a y. his freshKnight man year earned 16 and has KNIGHT saves playc o n ing in the net against tributed much to the the Tigers, the eighth team’s overall success. time this season he He is a student in the recorded double digits College of Agriculture in this statistic. and Life Sciences. Additionally, he is After his careerranked No. 10 in the high 16 saves this past nation for saves. weekend, which Knight came to helped the Red earn a Cornell from joint Ivy League Baltimore, Maryland, Championship title where he played on along with the the Boys’ Latin Harvard Crimson, the lacrosse team, as well team can hope to see as the varsity football much future success and basketball teams. from the young goalie. — Compiled by With awards such as Anna Fasman MVP, first-team All-
SOFTBALL
Red Splits Series Against Princeton Women sweep first set of games, but fall to Tigers in the next two By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor
“Runs did not come easy second match. Junior on either day,” said head infielder and catcher Sophie coach Dick Blood, reflecting Giaquinto hit a two-RBI on the team’s offensive per- double down the left field line in the formance. top of the “Oppor“Runs did not come first to tunities easy on either day.” open the knocked, scoring, but we did Dick Blood followed not answer by sophoo f t e n m o r e enough.” After the pitchers’ duel catcher Leanne Iannucci’s that characterized the first RBI single for a 3-0 lead game, both teams got on after the first half of the first The Tigers the board early in Saturday’s inning.
answered all three runs with three of their own in the bottom half of the inning, leaving the score knotted at 3-3 after the first inning of play. After a scoreless top of the second for the Red, Princeton took the lead in the bottom of the inning with a two-run home run. The Red moved within one in the third with a sacrifice fly from Villalon, then
Six innings into the opening contest of the softball team’s four-game set with Princeton this weekend, Red pitcher, senior Alyson Onyon, had thrown a scoreless game. But less fortunately for the Red, so had its opponent, Tigers pitcher Shanna Christian. The deadlock was the longest, scoreless stretch in See SOFTBALL page 14 any Cornell game this season, but senior infielder Christina Villalon made sure the Red found its way onto the board. Up at bat in the top of the seventh, Villalon crushed a two-run homer to right center to post the only runs of the game, handing the Red a 20 victory to open the weekend. Later that Saturday, the Red, now 18-26 overall and 8-10 in league play, came out on top again in a duel with the Tigers (1726, 9-11) for the team’s first one-day sweep since a set against Brown in early April. Sunday’s games turned out less positively for the Red, however, as TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO the Tigers found their footing and claimed both close Pitching to win | Senior pitcher Alyson Onyon was able to hold the Tigers to a scoreless seven innings in the Red’s first game in its series against Princeton Saturday. contests.