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Students lay still on the ground outside Day Hall to protest the University’s decision to not divest. | Page 3
Student films will make their debut at Cornell Cinema on May 12.
Men’s lacrosse is playing in the semi-finals of the Ivy League Tournament this weekend. | Page 15
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C.U.Continues Push For Faculty Renewal By RUDY YODER Sun Staff Writer
Facing the largest wave of retirements in its history, Cornell is aiming to hire about 67 new faculty a year through its decade-long, $100 million initiative to replace half of its faculty, according to Dean of Faculty Prof. Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66, astronomy. The goal of the initiative, called Faculty Renewal, is to steadily hire about 800 new faculty members before half of the University’s current faculty members over the age of 55 retire, according to Peter Lepage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In order to support the initiative, the University will seek to raise donations; half of the $100-million will come from donors, while the rest will come from a “simple of resources for “We decided to take every allocation faculty salary,” according to Linda Glaser, staff bit of loose money we had writer for the College of Arts and Sciences. and put it into hiring.” As of May, the Dean Peter Lepage University has already received $39 million in gifts from donors supporting faculty renewal, according to John Siliciano ’75, senior vice provost for academic affairs. The arts college, the biggest college at Cornell, is seeking to support 20 sesquicentennial faculty fellows, according to the college’s website. The arts college’s push to rapidly hire new faculty highlights a challenge the University has been facing in recent years: replacing retiring faculty with new hires despite facing economic constraints. According to Lepage, after the 2008 recession, the University was forced to cut the number of new faculty hires by 50 percent. At the same time, the University was facing a retirement rate that was double of what it was in the 1990s. “We have the oldest faculty we’ve ever had,” Lepage said. “When I joined the faculty in 1980, only 20 percent of the faculty was over the age of 55. Now, it’s 50 percent.” Although the University continues to cope with lingering effects of the financial crisis, hiring new, quality faculty members remains a priority for Cornell, according to Lepage. See FACULTY page 4
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Monopoly | Eight landlords own almost two-thirds of all housing in Collegetown, public records show. For an interactive web graphic with more details, visit cornellsun.com.
C-Town Housing Market Scrutinized Eight landlords control almost two-thirds of area’s housing By JEFF STEIN Sun Senior Writer
Eight landlords collectively own about $153 million in Collegetown property — or almost twothirds of all housing in the area — according to an analysis of public records conducted by The Sun. Two of those landlords — John Novarr and Jason Fane — each own more than $38 million in property, records show. The other six — the Avramis Family, Travis Hyde, the Lambrou Family, Pam Johnston, the Lower Family and Matoula Halkiopoulus — have a wide range of assessed property, from Avramis’ $21 million to Halkiopoulus’ $5 million, according to the figures. Taken together, the landlords own 4,013 of an estimated 6,110 bedrooms in the area. 1,559 of those are owned by John Novarr, whose mammoth Collegetown Terrace project has significant-
ly expanded the stock of student housing. These numbers do not prove that Collegetown real estate has become increasingly consolidated in the hands of a few landowners, as several observers of the market suspect. But they do speak to the stakes of the Collegetown housing market and illustrate the extent to which Cornell students’ rents are valued. “There’s a heck of a lot of money to be made here,” said Common Council member Ellen McCollister ’78 (D-3rd Ward). The statistics used for this analysis are derived from several sources. The number of occupants was calculated using the City of Ithaca Building Department’s directory, the estimated value of each property was taken from the Tompkins County Department of Assessment and the propSee LANDLORDS page 5
Hiring of Residence Hall Director Sparks Outrage Among Students
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Students perform Thursday at the Korean Language Program’s fourth annual end-of-year Korean Festival. Apart from musical performances, the event also featured Korean cuisine.
Members of the Latino community expressed discontent at an event Thursday over the way in which a new Residential Hall Director of the Latino Living Center was hired, saying they feel students did not have a chance to give input in the process. Angel Keen, previously the RHD for the Multicultural Living Learning Unit, was appointed RHD of the LLC without any other applicants or student input involved in the process, according to Marti Dense, Latino Studies Program Director. According to Residential Programs Assistant Director Kristyn Bochniak,
Keen’s hire was conducted in the way it was due to concerns about timing and a lack of external candidates for the position. Still, Joe Burke, Director of Residential Programs, said he invited students to speak with him in a phone conversation during finals week about concerns over the way it was conducted. Burke was not at Thursday’s event for medical reasons, though several students expressed a desire to present him with their concerns. Additionally, at the Meet and Greet, which was hosted to allow students to meet Keen, Keen voiced her passion for the RHD position. “For me, the first semester is going to See RHD page 4
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Today Slope Day 2013 Noon - 5 p.m., Libe Slope Teen Dating Violence: Measurement and Outcomes 2:15 p.m., G87 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Games of Money and Status: How Best to Incentivize Work 3:30 p.m., 655 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall Bayer Lectures on Polymer Chemistry 4:40 - 6 p.m., 120 Physical Sciences Building
News, “Hundreds March to Ithaca Commons to 'Take Back the Night,'” Monday Speaking about a man expressing remorse about committing rape at the event “I wanted to say, ‘If you want to end the problem, make a statement and turn yourself into the police. Just because he felt bad about it, doesn’t mean that a crime didn’t happen.” Amanda Nichols ’14
News, “Cornell Mulls Changes to Policy on Protests, Permits,” Wednesday Speaking about the new permit policy proposed by the University Assembly “I’m in favor of the proposed change because I think it speaks more strongly to freedom of speech because it says that no permit is required. … The University police can be in the same place to make sure both sides can speak in a civil way.” Prof. Randy Wayne, plant biology, member of the U.A. Codes and Judicial Committee
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Opinion, “Reflecting on a Year of Change,” Tuesday Speaking about his life at Cornell over the past two years and the “real world” “As we careen towards yet another Slope Day, the world on the far side of Kendrick Lamar and Hoodie Allen beckons to us. It seems unfair that, as we skip and stumble through our college years, the “real world” does not pause for us to catch up.”
12th Annual Zeppy Run 9 a.m., Cornell Plantations Yamatai Presents Pulse 2013 7 p.m., Bailey Hall
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2nd Annual CUCVM Annual Dance Collective Spring Showcase 7 - 8:30 p.m., James Law Auditorium, Vet School Tunescape with Nancy Spero 7:30 - 11 p.m., Appel Commons
News, “Forum Addresses Change to Policy On Sexual Assault at Cornell,” Thursday Speaking about the necessity of a diverse reviewing board for sexual assaults “Victims and perpetrators are drawn from the student population and student culture, whose language, meanings and mannerisms are unique. Students should be on panel to advise members of panels of what is exactly being said because it isn’t always one hundred percent clear.” Prof. Dan Brown Ph.D. ’81, animal science
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Play dead | Students pretended to lay lifelessly in front of Day Hall Thursday to urge the University to divest from fossil fuels.
Students Stage‘Die-In’ to Encourage Univ. to Divest students are both serious and sincere about divestment. “I hope our message is clear: students Two-dozen students lay still on the are coming from all over campus and we ground in an hour-long “die-in” in front want to be taken seriously by the adminof Day Hall Thursday to pressure the istration,” Castle said. Skorton, however, wrote in a column University to divest from fossil fuels. The flash-mob was hosted by Kyoto for The Sun on April 15 that eliminating NOW!, a student-run organization that University investments in fossil fuel advocates for action on climate change industries would not be feasible due to and promotes awareness about the reper- the negative impact it would have on the cussions of investing in the fossil fuel endowmen. “Divesting a large and successful porindustry. Participants pretended to be dead victims of climate change and fossil tion of our endowment portfolio could jeopardize the delicate balance we have fuel extraction at the die-in. “We’re representing those that are achieved,” Skorton said in the column. negatively affected by supporting the fos- “Returns on the endowment provide sil fuel industry,” said Anna-Lisa Castle roughly 11 percent of Cornell’s operating revenues.” ’14, one of the event’s organizers. Members of the demonstration handCastle expressed the importance of ed out pamphlets to holding the University onlookers. K.C. Alvey accountable for mak“It’s a broad student ’12, a field organizer ing socially responsible movement, and we’re not with the environmeninvestments. organization “The administragoing to forget about it tal 350.org — a global tion has said that they over the summer. ” environmental organiare prepared to get zation that fights serious about socially Aubree Keurajian ’15 against climate change responsible invest— discussed the issue ment, so we want progress updates and to know what with inquiring observers. “We’re calling upon Cornell to live up efforts are being made,” Castle said. “We want them to be transparent in regards to to its mission of sustainability and divest from fossil fuels. This is an urgent crisis a responsible endowment.” During the protest, participants play- requiring immediate attention,” she said. The organizers also stressed that they ing dead held up posters with quotes from various student groups that support will not abandon efforts to divest despite the University’s rejection of the Student divestment. “The students are holding up parts of Assembly resolution in support of a letters that 25 student groups wrote sup- responsible endowment. “We still believe this is a huge issue,” porting divestment,” said Aubree Keurajian ’15, vice president of Kyoto Keurajian said. “We have a lot of passion behind this cause — it’s a broad student NOW!. Thursday’s demonstration continues movement, and we’re not going to forget student-led efforts throughout the spring about it over the summer.” Castle echoed her sentiments, saying semester to ask the University to divest. For instance, throughout March, stu- that the organization will continue its dents and organizations delivered hand- divestment efforts throughout next year. “Not only are we not going to give up written letters advocating divestment to come fall, we also want the administraPresident David Skorton. Although Skorton has said that the tion to keep its promise. One of the University has no plans to divest a large biggest things that the administration has portion of its endowment from the fossil emphasized is that they want to continue fuels industry in the “immediate foresee- dialogue, so we want to see infrastructure able future,” Keurajian said students will for dialogue,” Castle said. Participants indicated that they will remain persistent in their efforts to prevent the University from what she said not cease protesting and pressuring the was indirectly supporting climate change. University until it divests. “I think it’s very clear to the adminis“Our cause is the divestment of our endowment from the fossil fuel industry. tration that we’re not stopping. We won’t Our purpose with this demonstration is rest until we divest,” said Amanda to show President Skorton and the stu- Sajewski ’16, a participant in the demondent body that just because he said no to stration. divestment in the immediate future, doesn’t mean we’re going to stop,” Keurajian added. Castle said she hopes the demonstra- Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at tion will indicate to the University that amehrotra@cornellsun.com. By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA
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Speaking Thursday at Cornell, Patrick Kennedy — former Congressman of Rhode Island and a mental health care reformist — addressed the stigma and treatment of mental illnesses. During his term, Kennedy, the son of late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), authored the Wellstone-Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 — a bill that requires health care plans to provide treatment for mental illness comparable to what they provide for physical illness. Addressing students, Kennedy spoke of the importance of the bill in the U.S. today. “The bill says that the brain is part of the body,” Kennedy said. “The bill says that you have to treat it like any other illness. Today, we don’t treat mental illness; we wait until it becomes a crisis.” Kennedy compared the treatment of mental illness to the treatment of a degrading physical illness, saying that the mental illness treatment is so delayed, it is comparable to “waiting until you have stage-4 cancer –– 30 days from dying, you introduce chemotherapy.” “We all know that this is a pressing health care issue,” Kennedy said. “Mental health is a chronic disease that need to be looked at in the same way as diabetes or cancer.” Kennedy said mental health is not a “character issue; it’s a chemical issue.” “It’s not about bad people needing to get good, it’s about ill people trying to get well,” Kennedy said. According to Kennedy, the state of mental illness is currently at an “epidemic” level, but no one wants to directly address it. “Nearly 38,000 Americans take their lives every year — that’s twice the number of people who are murdered,” Kennedy said. “Whenever someone is murdered, you hear about it, but when someone commits suicide, it’s hush-hush. We have more of our military [personnel] who take their own lives than die in combat.” Mental health care reform needs to address both the stigma surrounding the disease and implement preventative measures, according to Kennedy. “Not only am I the the sponsor of mental health bill, but I’m also a consumer of mental health services,” Kennedy said. “I’ve been hospitalized many times in my life for bipolar disease and addiction, but never got any health care after I left the hospital. I wasn’t able to sustain recovery.” Today, according to Kennedy, health care now includes the primary care and secondary care systems necessary for treating diseases, physical or otherwise. “I hope that my children will grow up in
a world in which mental health is not stigmatized. This will only happen when mental health is integrated into physical health. When I go to the doctor, I get a check-up, neck up.” The future of mental health lies within neuroscience, according to Kennedy, who co-founded One Mind for Research, a nonprofit organization which attempts to eliminate stigma, transform policy and allocate resources for brain disease research. “The brain is the last medical frontier,” Kennedy said. “It’s the most exciting exploration of our generation. We have the tools to explore the mind like never before instead of going to outer space, we need to go to inner space.” Kennedy said that mental health will touch everyone to some degree. He added that, when issues with mental health touch society, everyone will want the “system of care to address this issue the same way it does leukemia.” “It may not be your mother or father with Alzheimer’s now, but they may have it in 10 years,” Kennedy said. “It may not be your brother or sister now, but it may be their children down the road.” Ultimately, mental health is a “force multiplier,” Kennedy said. “We completely disregard our mental health in this country,” Kennedy said. “It’s our key to unlocking our potential. It’s the key to everything.” Emma Jesch can be reached at ejesch@cornellsun.com.
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Minds matter | Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy discusses mental health Thursday.
Burning Question What Slope Day shenanigans do you have planned for tomorrow? “Seriously, I just want to make it past the opening act without accidently taking a 5-hour nap again.” –– Power Napper ’15 “With the tolerance of a hamster, I’ll be spacing out my drinking ... a lot.” ––- Lightweight ’14 “Pour up (drank), head shot (drank), sit down (drank), stand up (drank).” –– Kendrick Wanna-Be ’13 “I would like to lay back and absorb the tunes of two budding young artists. Is there a problem here?” –– Buzzkill ’16 –– Compiled by Lianne Bornfeld
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“We decided to take every bit of loose money we had and put it into hiring to try to hire not just 28 people a year to replace people who were disappearing for whatever reason but try and hire another five or six people a year using bridge money,” he said. Instead of hiring faculty as faculty retire, the University, then, hopes to hire new faculty three or four years ahead of expected retirements. “We try and find temporary funding to support them,” Lepage said. The initiative to hire new faculty has been largely supported by existing faculty on Cornell’s campus, Burns said. “We want a lot of money put into this in order to bring in the best colleagues that we possible can. If you ask almost any faculty member, they would much rather have better colleagues than better buildings,” Burns said. The University faces a challenge as it pursues faculty renewal, however, because within the last two years, the market for faculty has become increasingly competitive, Lepage said. “I think a lot of other universities have older faculty right now. … There will be a lot of competition, and that will cause a lot of universities to pick off faculty that have already been hired,” Lepage said. Burns echoed Lepage’s sentiments, describing
the process of hiring new faculty at the University level as being “extraordinarily competitive.” An additional difficulty the University faces when hiring new faculty, Burns said, is that some current faculty do not want to retire yet. “For me, and I think this is true of a lot of people, teaching and interacting with students and colleagues, it’s what I love to do,” Burns said. “It’s my right, and so why should I give it up?” Still, Lepage said, this is a very exciting time for the University. “There will be a lot of new courses that one has never heard of that have never been taught before,” Lepage said. “Some of them will be completely different takes on old subjects, and some of them on subjects that have never been offered before. … You should see more of this now during these years with so much turnover.” Lepage added that Cornell’s last wave of huge hires was in the 1960s and 70s. “Cornell doubled in size every fifteen years, both student body and faculty, for its first hundred years, and then in the 1970s, it stopped growing, and that is why we have the heavy retirements now,” Lepage said. “So that last batch of hiring was in the 60s and early 70s, but actually, it was the end of a hundredyear process of growing Cornell from a tiny acorn to an oak tree.” Rudy Yoder can be reached at myoder@cornellsun.com.
New RHD of Center:‘I Want to Listen’ LLC
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be a learning opportunity to see what students have done for the community. ... I’m very willing to learn,” Keen said. “I don’t want to step in and change what [members
of the Latino community] have. I want to listen and possibly help implement what the students envision for the 2013-14 academic year.” Some students at the Meet and Greet, however, said they were upset by the way in which the hir-
ing process was conducted, saying they did not have a chance to voice their opinions about the position. “With Mark [Houlemarde], we had a chance to review his resume and interview him before he was See LLC page 5
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erties of each landlord were found on the landlords’ websites. Occasionally, since several properties are technically owned by LLCs rather than individual landlords, The Sun used public documents to determine the landlord behind certain property acquisitions. The number of total beds in Collegetown comes from a recent census estimate updated to include the effect of the Collegetown Terrace project. John Novarr
1,559 BEDS; $43,213,000 IN ASSESSED PROPERTY Though a native Ithacan, John Novarr is relatively new to the Collegetown housing market. His ascent marks a challenge, city officials say, to the grip of several of the older landowning families in Collegetown. “Relative to the families that have owned land for decades, he’s new,” McCollister said. Novarr served in Vietnam. When he got back, he realized “I didn’t want to work for anyone else again,” he said in an interview with The Sun. It seems unlikely that he will. With his major Collegetown Terrace development still under construction, John Novarr and his associates will own 1,559 beds in Collegetown. That is more than double the number owned by Fane, the landowner with the second highest number of bedrooms. “Every day I see people building Collegetown Terrace, and it’s like Christmas,” Novarr said. Novarr’s Collegetown Terrace originally ran into opposition from city residents. In response to these concerns, Novarr revised several aspects of the developments’ exterior — a decision that won plaudits from some city officials. Novarr also has plans to develop the property lot formerly occupied by The Palms, he told The Sun in 2012. Jason Fane
739 BEDS; $38,368,000 IN ASSESSED PROPERTY “Scoundrel, or Scapegoat?” A “ruinous monopoly.” He “has a history of keeping his properties vacant.” These quotes — taken from Sun opinion columns
and local news blogs — illustrate the media’s sometimes antagonistic relationship with Jason Fane, owner of some of the most lucrative properties in Collegetown. Many of these complaints stem from Fane’s alleged unwillingness to lease out some of his most central — and, to many students, important — spaces. 330 College Ave., the former Green Café Lot, remains the most prominent example. At the bustling center of College Avenue and Dryden Road, its continued disuse has mystified city officials and students. Fane’s Masonic Temple, in a key location by the Commons, has also remained inexplicably unfilled, despite a local non-for-profit’s attempt to buy the property in 2012, according to The Ithaca Journal. But for every prime piece of real estate that Fane has not rented out, he has many more apparent cash cows. His major strip of properties on Dryden Road include Collegetown Center, Collegetown Plaza and Collegetown Court. Not counting his many properties outside Collegetown in Ithaca, Fane owns more than $38 million in assessed Collegetown real estate. Avramis Family
438 BEDS; $20,898,000 IN ASSESSED PROPERTY One of the oldest of the major Collegetown landlord families, the Avramises own a broad swath of property on Linden Avenue, College Avenue, Catherine Street and elsewhere in Collegetown — totalling slightly over $20 million, The Sun’s analysis of property data shows. Compared to John Novarr, who has often directed his efforts toward massive new building developments, the Avramis family has largely maintained the structure and size of its properties. There are exceptions, however, as George Avramis pushed forward new housing at the northwest corner of the College Avenue and Dryden Road intersection, the site of the Collegetown Starbucks, early in the 2000s. Bill Avramis, the father, owns the majority of the family’s property. His son George, however, has purchased multiple valuable buildings in Collegetown of his own. Jeff Stein can be reached at jstein@cornellsun.com.
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officially announced,” said Oscar Correia ’14, outgoing co-chair of La Asociación Latina. “In this case, none of us were able to meet Angel [Keen] before [her hire] was made official. I think that the process should always involve considering more than one candidate. This year, [Residential Programs] went too far.” Correia drew a parallel between the Latino Living Center’s situation and the outcry provoked in 2009 over the replacement of Ken Glover, a former Ujamaa RHD who was abruptly replaced after serving as RHD for the residential hall for 20 years. “I’m surprised that Residential Programs didn’t learn from their mistakes in the
past, because they saw how the community was outraged by the process,” Correia said. The RHD of the Latino Living Center has an especially critical role in the Latino community, according to Nicolas Ramos ’15, an R.A. at the LLC. “Something that’s unique about program houses, specifically the ethnically based program houses like the LLC, is that there’s a general community on which the house is based upon,” Ramos said. “The LLC is like a hub to the Latino community here at Cornell. It’s very important that the RHD gets to know the community very well in order to serve as that central point for the community to gather around.” Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.
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Poem | Haley Conover ’14
Slope Day Tribute ’Twas the night before Slope Day, when all through the frats All the bros were a-stirring in their letter clad hats. The Keystones were set by the bedside with care, In hopes that sweet Slope Day soon would be there. The freshman were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Kendrick danced in their heads. And I in my Co-op and with a little night-cap, Had just settled down for a pre-Slope Day nap. When out on the street there arose such a clatter, I stumbled from bed to see what was the matter. Down to the porch I flew like a flash, To find that Slope Day had come at long last. While some professors held class just for show Even the Asians seemed to gain a pink glow. When what to my wondering eyes should appear, But an ambiguous shot, and some really crap beer! But oh Captain and Crown with Bud and Grey Goose! The mixers and and mix-ups and bad jungle juice! To the brim of the cup, fill it up tall! Now drink it down! Keep it down! Drink it down all! As birds must travel at the weather’s strict will, So too were we drawn to that slope of a hill. Some did not make it, they were down for the count, But this did not stop us from climbing the mount. And then with some static, I heard from the stage The counting and huffing of a sound check engaged! As I drew up my head, and was turning around, On the stage came Kendrick, with a great musical bound! He was dressed all in swager, from his head to his glasses, And he danced with fine ladies, shaking their asses. A torrent of lyrics were flung from his throat, And the mosh thronged drunkenly, a stage-guarding moat. But finally he finished, and some were near sober, While the hot mid-day sun had caused burning all over. So slowly and stumbly the students they rose, And went to their houses for an afternoon doze. But fear not dear students, it will come once more! When no one cares that you’ve puked on the floor. May you all enjoy your drunken delight, Happy Slope Day to all! And to all a good night!
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Rudy Gerson | Rooting Around
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s I sit here in my house down on East Buffalo Street wondering how exactly to write my last column of the semester, I’m completely blanking. It’s 2:33 a.m and I’ve got nothing. What could I possibly write that will be at all comparable to the Slope Day festivities? Frankly, we are all pretty exhausted. With the end of the semester in sight, we have all stressed out over prelims, organized programs for our various student groups and generally worked our asses off doing whatever it is that each of us do. We’ve enjoyed (or endured) late night after late night, whether we were drinking hard with departing friends, chilling hard in this beautiful spring weather or studying even harder to make up for the previous two. As the end of the semester approaches, I can’t help but ask myself: “What is this all for?” Why have I deprived myself of sleep nearly every night for the past two weeks only with today, Slope Day, shining gloriously at the end of the tunnel? Why do we all deprive ourselves of sleep and physical wellbeing so that we can work so hard, especially during these last few weeks? We must be doing it all for the grades, right? Of course, a night out with your best friends is way more enjoyable than a night of intense focus and tedious work. Perhaps we often choose work over play because we know our grades will stay with us for some time, while a night out will be soon forgotten. I know that sounds cynical, but hear me out. If we are only here for the grades and the slip of paper waiting for us after four years and 120 credit requirements, what would happen if we removed grades completely? Take yesterday, for example. I awarded myself an A in a class. In History 1955: No Gods, No
For everyone coming back to Ithaca next year, I urge you to try and choose at least one class that fuels your child-like curiosity. Masters, Histories of Anarchism, all students are given the opportunity to assign themselves their final semester grades, as long as all assignments are turned in, regardless of the quality. I’m being serious. How’s that for an alternative grading system? By the rational choice model, used by economists and most other elite sectors of American society, one would predict that students in the class would do little to no work because the final letter grade is what we are all working toward, isn’t it? Well I can tell you, I did more of the readings for that class than I did for an upper level government class (well, that might not be saying much). Regardless, many of my fellow classmates admittedly did none of the readings, never went to a lecture, bullshitted all the work and also awarded themselves As. According to a semester’s tuition, we in the class spent $6,058, some wasting time and (our parent’s) money, precisely $233 per hour. If we could, would many of us just buy a solid grade for $6,058 per class? And if we all were responsible for our final grades, would we as Cornell students work as hard as we do to cram our brains with so much knowledge? Or would we just phone it in? I am sure the answer is different for every student. However, I would hope that, without grades, we would all choose classes that spark our interest a little more than they currently do. We would be able to cater to our intellectual passions if we were only doing the work for our own growth, not the letter at the end of the semester. Maybe we would begin to view our education in a completely different light. For everyone coming back to Ithaca next year, when add/drop rolls around this summer, I urge you to try and choose at least one class that fuels your child-like curiosity. I know we still have some innocence beneath our lofty career aspirations. For graduating seniors, I’m sorry, no more add/drop for you. I will miss those who are departing to enjoy the “real” world. It’s been my pleasure to become close friends with many of you this year, some a little later than I would have preferred. Hopefully, you’ll return in a year from now to relive the glory days. I’ll be here with open arms. In any case, see the rest of you next year. I’m praying my sexy Associate Editor, Liz will upgrade me to a mid-week column. Of course, I may have to just step up and replace the two departing sex columnists. Only time will tell. [Editor’s Note: Flattery will get you far. But it won’t get you a mid-week column. Sorry, Rudy.] Rudy Gerson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached a rgerson@cornellsun.com. Rooting Around column runs alternate Fridays this semester.
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Comment of the day “The group of predominately wealthy, white men continued to state: ‘We feel marginalized; before people even get to know us they make unfair judgements based on their position in society versus ours, something that excludes us from certain types of social interaction. We feel oppressed based on our identity, the system is against us.’ The irony was lost on all of them.” Gui Re: “Cornell Fraternity Members: Greek System Has Been ‘Greatly Mischaracterized’,” News published May 2, 2013
Puja Patel | Barely Legal
Sexual Assault Policy Takes a Turn for the Worse T
itle IX has been in the news types of misconduct cases which a lot lately. A few weeks range from theft and marijuana ago, a group of 37 students possession to rape. Through this filed suit against Occidental process, the University is trying to College, a small liberal arts college fulfill its legal obligations to proin Southern California, alleging vide a safe environment free of stuthat the university failed to protect dent harassment while simultanestudents from sexual violence on ously providing an avenue of campus. One student claimed that recourse and closure for survivors. her rapist — another student who However, these goals not only was found responsible for rape by often conflict with each other, but a college disciplinary panel — was required to write a Maybe the survivors in these ten-page book cases really are satisfied by report and senthese agreements. Or maybe tenced to ten hours of commuthe system we have in place nity service. just isn’t working. To comply with Title IX obligations, a university must adopt policies to prevent sex- also create a University policy that ual assault on campus and to benefits no one, and just doesn’t ensure that the school will be pre- make sense. Two recent changes to Cornell’s pared to respond appropriately should an assault occur. Cornell’s sexual assault policy illustrate this judicial administrative procedure problem. The University has is capable of achieving these goals recently lowered the standard of in theory, but has so far fallen proof in sexual assault adjudications from “preponderance of the short. As of late, the Judicial evidence,” to “more likely than Administrator has been under not.” This renders the University tremendous pressure to ramp up standard lower than those of both and civil cases. support mechanisms for survivors criminal of sexual assault. In response to the Proponents defended the change 2012 Labor Day weekend sexual citing that gathering evidence in assaults and in the wake of a sexual assault cases is difficult. Cornell athlete’s well-publicized This reasoning fails to make sense arrest for sexually assaulting and does little to help survivors another student, the University who decide to report sexual has been forced to reevaluate its assaults. By lowering the burden of methods of addressing sexual vio- proof, the policy essentially turns lence. However, recent attempts to disciplinary hearings into a process revise University policy show an where survivors relate their experialarming trend that threatens to ences to a panel of their peers and strip disciplinary hearings of legit- professors, who, in turn, side with imacy and infringe on the rights of whichever side seems “more likely.” the accused. Although this process makes it In an attempt to adhere to its Title IX obligations, the easier for survivors to prove their University has conflated conflict- case, in the long run, this process ing goals into the existing discipli- will strip meaning of on-campus nary system for misconduct. The determinations of sexual assault Judicial Administrator handles all or rape. As a result, the survivor is
stuck in an unsatisfying situation where a panel acknowledges that a sexual assault “more likely than not” occurred, but where the accused is only subject to punishments ranging from warnings, reprimands and community service to suspension and expulsion. Even more shocking is the University’s announcement that it plans to replace oral hearings with a three-part process that will involve written rather than live testimony. This not only infringes on the accused’s the Sixth Amendment right to face his (or her) accuser, but also violates basic evidence rules. The American legal system requires live testimony by witnesses so that the jury can determine the veracity of the testimony. Supporters of this change cite that victims may be less likely to report rapes because of fear of confronting the accused. The University has made positive strides in protecting students by providing more forums for students to air their grievances, for its attempts to revise its sexual assault policy and by planning to start an Orientation Week event that addresses consent. However, at Cornell, only six sexual violence cases have gone before hearing boards since 1999 because most of the complaints have been resolved by written agreements. Maybe the survivors in these cases really are satisfied by these agreements. Or maybe the system we have in place just isn’t working.
Puja Patel is a fourth-year law student at Cornell Law School. She can be reached at pp344@cornell.edu. Barely Legal appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Students Take Films to Cornell Cinema
On Sunday, May 12 at 7:15 p.m. in Willard Straight hand-cranked camera. Working with celluloid is a Theater, students who participated in Film 3770: Intro to rarity among student filmmakers, and necessitates 16mm and Digital Filmmaking and Film 4780: Intermediate constant care and precision while shooting. The Film classes will have their final projects screened at Cornell reason is three minutes’ worth of film can cost Cinema. This semester’s crop of movies is of an uncommon around $20 to develop, which means a director variety. can only afford precious few takes, particularly Projects in the Intermediate class this semester range from a when paying for them out of his own pocket. black and white neo-noir shot on actual film with a Bolex cam- Larkin had this to say about the filming process: era, to an incisive documentary on the little-known jobs the “A whole lot of planning [went into it]. A whole people of Ithaca perform in the wee hours of the morning. lot of calling people I’d never met and asking for Other projects include a dance video with manic energy and an favors out of the goodness of their hearts. A whole exploration on the nature of insomnia. Even more interesting lot of worrying whether I'd made a mistake while are the stories behind the making of these productions, and the handling the 16mm film. It’s a miracle everything ideas that inspired them. came together as well as it did.” “To understand insomnia better, I researched about its variWhile most of the students chose narrative ficous symptoms and treatments. I also spent more time crafting tion pieces as their form, there are several docuthe mis-en-scene, since the visual is equally important to the mentaries from this class that will also be gracing content,” says Keima Udoka ’14, who made a fiction piece on a the screen. Joyce Wu ’13 produced Five AM, which is, in her character struggling with sleeplessness. Many narrative film- words, “a documentary that chronicles activities happening in makers in the class, including Udoka, have cited auteurs as the Cornell community between five and seven in the morndiverse as Stanley Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Quentin Tarantino, ing.” Wu added, “I made this film because I was looking to porand Christopher Nolan among their creative influences. When tray a side of Cornell that people rarely get to see … I have a it came to her film, Udoka new-found respect for all of the people who regualso drew on influences larly start their days when the rest of us are still from her life, explaining, asleep.” The people Wu interviewed for her doc “the idea was inspired by a include workers on a dairy farm who care for cows, couple of friends of mine members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who had recently experion campus, and employees at Collegetown Bagels. enced some form of George Moujaes ’14 also created a documentary, Cornell only his had a more music video-type vibe. He had insomnia. I was also interested in the subject of Cinema this to say about it: “My film is about queer perfordreams and wanted to mances, existences and politics. I was inspired by incorporate the two subjects into a narrative.” Her film was shot the experimental setting of my Intermediate Film class as well as in color and digitally, as were all the other projects in the the strong ethical concerns raised in my Feminist Theory class.” Intermediate class, with one exception. When it came to the making of the dance portion of his movie, Ryan Larkin ’14 edited his film, Masquerade, by hand on a which, as full disclosue, I was involved with, one of Moujaes’s table, after shooting it in black and white on 16mm film with a chief concerns was getting the movements up close in the frame.
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The choreography for the dance routine, performed by Moujaes himself and three other dancers, was also very elaborate. “[We] practiced choreography to encourage materialism and kinetic expression in the LGBT social community,” he says. Other projects from the Intermediate class include a piece about a librarian, and a narrative that explores the relationship between a man and the Father at his church. There is also a fiction piece about a girl who struggles to fit into her community, and finds solace by paining, as well as a mashup composed of five well-known directors’ filmmaking styles applied to the same trivial scenario. There are nine filmmakers total in the course, which is taught by Tara Nelson and guided by the technical expertise of Randy Hendrickson, who is in charge of all the filmmaking gear. 16mm and Digital Filmmaking students are presenting equally promising final films at the same exhibition, which is shaping up to be a memorable event. Tickets can be purchased at Willard Straight and cost $5.50. Mark DiStefano is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msd97@cornell.edu.
After Cornell, an Epilogue
nds are bittersweet things. I remember the first time I turned the last page of one of my favorite books of all time, Watership Down, back when I was 12 or so. Sitting on a chair at home while a warm afternoon wind blew into the house from an open balcony door, thinking of the ensemble of characters whose adventures I had vicariously experienced, I felt a melancholy pall settle into the pit of my chest. The book, however, had ended with such grace, aplomb and finality, while promising the continuity of the inner narrative universe that existed within its pages, that I couldn’t help but feel a sense of cathartic release. For a while, however brief, I had been the caretaker of these characters’ lives and adventures. My mind, reading the words on the page, gave them existence and significance, and brought them into the full color of the imaginary. And having finished the book, I found that I, as caretaker, was freeing them from the bindings of my mind’s cage; I was giving them space to forge their own narrative paths in the collective imaginary of their existence. Like the hundreds of thousands of readers before me who had loved the book and its characters, I was propagating their myth, carrying a tiny torch to ensure that their grand exploits would never be forgotten. That’s why, unlike some readers, I never re-read a book immediately after I finish it. It seems to me that these characters need their space. Whatever fictive realm they reside in, they deserve that fleeting rest before being called upon to reenact their tragedies or farces for the world stage. Like Frodo, Hazel and Gordon Freeman, these characters deserve their convalescence in the annals of the unwritten and the
implied. To me, only the best works of literature are worth re-reading, because their narrative complexity reveals multiple layers of meaning and subtext to be uncovered with each successive dive into their depths. In order to plumb these depths, the characters of these books must arise from their peaceful poststruggle lives and replay the roles that made them who they are. Re-reading a beloved novel till its pages are crinkly and dog-eared is its own kind of pleasure, but that magic of the first time properly reading a wonderful book is a fleeting sprite and, to me, can never really be re-captured a second time. In that way, books are like life. I remember the first time I walked around Cornell, the first meal at Appel, the first classes in Uris Hall. I remember the wonder and grandeur of its buildings on first sight. I was awed at the first sight of the crimson leaves of fall dancing on the first steps of Goldwin Smith Hall on a sunny day in autumn. I look back with fondness at the long conversations with friends
Colin Chan Armchair Aesthetics while sitting at the corridors at Clara Dickson Hall, or the first touch of snow on my gloved hand in December, the first look through the telescope at Fuertes to gaze at the bright clusters of stars in the bitterly cold winter sky, the first article appearing on The Sun. As the years in Cornell wore on, those experiences mellowed and took on new meanings, variances
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and flavors as they were iterated in a hundred different social interactions and serendipitous instances, but the wonder of that first time, that first impression, was something that was gone forever. But I’m content to let these experiences live on in the higher strata of reality in which they now, presumably reside — the heaven or hell of memories and rose-tinted reflection. Each experience is like a book, once open but now closed, and each book is a chapter in the vast anthology of my life, that I am doing my best to write and read. I’m graduating this spring, in case the metaphor wasn’t shoehorned enough into these preceding paragraphs. As the book closes on Cornell, there is already another book in the process of opening, another grand chapter in the adventure of life. One that will occur a continent away, in a place of desert scrub, orange groves and constant sunshine. Will this next chapter be as life-defining as this one has
been? I don’t know. I suspect so. But insofar as Cornell is a chapter in my grand anthology, I like to think that in the closing of this particular chapter, some part of me, some element of my essence lives on at Cornell, like the characters of a book after its conclusion. And when I’m elsewhere, slogging on my next intractable thesis or walking down tree-lined avenues or writing for whatever other publications I’m bound to join, I’d like to imagine that in some, ineffable way or form, some part of me is easily taking a stroll through Cornell on a sunny day on campus, without a care in the world, while the primroses are beginning to bloom.
Colin Chan is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at cchan@cornellsun.com. Armchair Aesthetics appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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Congratulations to the participants of the 2013 Cornell Urban Scholars Program!
Back row: Luis Martinez, MRP Candidate in City & Regional Planning and TA, CRP 3310; Joseph Quandt, Urban & Regional Studies (Class of 2015) *deceased; Richard Kiely, Director, of Engaged Learning + Research Middle Row: Donna Cao, ILR (Class of 2015); Georgia Sommer, Human Development (Class of 2014); Emily Sleasman, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Class of 2014); Mari Giurastante, Anthropology/City & Regional Planning (Class of 2015); Eliana Rodriguez, Sociology (Class of 2015),;Esthefania Rodriguez, Biology & Society (Class of 2014); Daniel Muniz-Garcia, ILR (Class of 2016) Front Row: Annaclaire DiIanni-Miller, Sociology/Spanish (Class of 2015); Haley Jones, Human Development (Class of 2015); Melanie Perten, Human Biology/Health & Society (Class of 2014); Jillian Harmon, Development Sociology (Class of 2015); Isabella Herold, Animal Science (Class of 2015) Missing from photo: Melissa Giangrande, ILR (Class of 2016); Alysia Wiener, Biology & Society (Class of 2014) Advocating for NYC’s children, families and communities, the Cornell Urban Scholars Program – a collaborative program between Engaged Learning + Research and the Public Service Center - introduces freshmen, sophomores and juniors to the urban problem-solving and community-building efforts of New York City’s most innovative non-profit and government agencies serving low-income children, families, and communities. The primary purpose of this program is to encourage Cornell University undergraduates to pursue public careers with agencies engaged in direct service and policy change efforts affecting low-income children, families and communities upon graduation. The NYC service-learning internship experience includes a 3 credit pre-field preparation course (CRP 3310 – Social Justice and the City) taught by Richard Kiely, Director of Engaged Learning + Research and Adjunct Professor in City and Regional Planning; orientation to the NYC region and its family and neighborhood development organizations; 8 weeks paid professional internship with trend-setting nonprofit and public agencies serving children and families; weekly internship seminars focusing on NYC public policy issues related to children, families and neighborhoods; opportunity to earn 3 additional credits by producing a publishable policy paper in the Fall semester following the summer internship experience; 50% housing subsidy at a student residence facility (92nd St. Y at http://www.92y.org); mentoring by a graduate student participating in summer research; and NYC field trips to community-based agencies serving low-income families and communities. For more information about the Cornell Urban Scholars Program, please contact Engaged Learning + Research (engagedcornell@cornell.edu) at (607)254-4240 or the Public Service Center (cupsc@cornell.edu) at (607)255-1148.
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SPORTS
MEN’S LACROSSE
No.2 Red Battles No.15 Princeton in Ivy Semifinal
By SKYLER DALE Sun Staff Writer
After concluding its season on Saturday with a win over No. 15 Princeton, the No. 2 men’s lacrosse team (12-2, 6-0 Ivy) will
rematch the Tigers (8-5, 3-3) this Friday in the semifinals of the Ivy League Tournament. Cornell’s offense clicked last weekend, scoring 17 goals as the team outplayed Princeton on the ground.
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“I thought we played hard. We won a lot of ground balls,” said sophomore midfielder Connor Buczek who, in addition to three other players on the Red, was recently selected to the first-team All-Ivy League. Senior Attackman Rob Pannell, who was also first-team All-Ivy selection for the fourth time in his career, was named Ivy League Player of the Year for the third time. No other lacrosse player in Ivy League history has ever reached this milestone. Because of Pannell’s unprecedented success, Princeton (8-5, 3-3) is likely to focus on limiting his production this weekend. “I think they’re going to guard me, particularly, in a different way [and] throw a lot of different defenses at us,” Pannell said. While the Tigers will try out some different defenses on the Red, Pannell acknowledged that his team will also have to be wary of Princeton’s potent offense. The Tigers are second in the conference in goals per game, behind only Cornell. “I think that stopping their offense is key,” Pannell said. “[They have] a very dangerous offense.” Princeton is looking at a do-or-die game this weekend against Cornell. According to
Pannell, a loss would eliminate the Tigers’ chances of making the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament. “They know that they have to win two games. They’re playing for their postseason lives right now,” he said. Pannell also said that Princeton might have an advantage this weekend because of its ability to correct its mistakes from last week’s loss. “I think it’s always nice to have played a team [so] you kind of know them already. I guess you have some confidence going in against them when you beat them,” he said. “But I think that’s more of an advantage to the other team that lost, [which now has the chance] to correct things.” While Princeton is perhaps more in need of a win this Friday, the Red will be motivated by the hope of giving its seniors another chance to play on home turf. “Hopefully we rally the crowd on Friday and have an opportunity to have our seniors a chance to play on Schoellkopf again [two nights later],” Buczek said. Skyler Dale can be reached at sdale@cornellsun.com.
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ACROSS 1 Tricky stroke 6 Don’t deny 11 Fr. address 14 Belief of more than a billion 15 It’s tossed 16 Jets coach Ryan 17 Watts of “The Impossible” 18 Supporter #1 20 Hip-hop Dr. 21 Carp 23 Word with power or panel 24 Supporter #2 27 In transit 28 Chosen groups 29 Fiber source 31 Portable digs 32 Traveling Wilburys cofounder Jeff 33 Nancy Drew’s guy 34 Sherpa’s sighting 37 Clichéd film assistant 39 Volume control? 42 Old-style shade 44 Minnesota’s St. __ College 48 Wood protectors 50 Prison in 1971 news 52 “I __ stupid!” 53 Supporter #3 55 Like wall phones 57 Come to __ 58 Abbr. used for brevity 59 Supporters 1, 2 and 3 61 Asian capital 63 Shakespearean adverb 64 Aces 65 It may be historical 66 Deg. for Tim Whatley on “Seinfeld” 67 Things found around the house 68 Nephew of Donald
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)
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis DOWN 1 Outlook 2 In most instances 3 Red liqueur 4 “The Lord of the Rings” Hobbit 5 Political fugitive 6 Chest chambers 7 Hang on a line 8 Landlocked European country 9 Qualifying suffix 10 Consequently 11 Magic Eraser spokesman 12 Mishmash 13 Put to vigorous use 19 Bite 22 Hwys. 25 One who may object: Abbr. 26 Egg foo __ 30 Former Prizm maker 32 One who can see what you mean 35 Appraisal no. 36 Overflow 38 Scholarshipoffering federal gp.
39 Inhaled, with “down” 40 Had a big hit 41 Moves quickly 43 Leads 45 As good as ever 46 Salon solvent 47 Where you might be with this puzzle’s 59-Across?
49 Embittered 50 N.L. city 51 Pledged, in a way 54 Continues 56 Unrestrained indulgence 60 Portfolio letters 62 Lettered Bklyn. thoroughfare
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SPORTS
Nick Wade Track & Field A record-breaker since his freshman year, distance runner Nick Wade’s successful final season was highlighted by his sub-four-minute mile performance in February, the first Red runner ever to break that barrier. In addition to second-team all Ivy honors, Wade was also named the Co-Track Most Outstanding Performer at the Indoor Ivy Championships later that month.
Luke Tasker
Katie Kellner Cross Country
Position: Wide Receiver
Football
Cross country star Katie Kellner has so many impressive collegiate running achievements, it’s almost impossible to pick out a highlight, so Kellner chose one for us back in September: her Olympic-qualifying-level performance in the Stanford Invitational 10K last April. In her senior season, Kellner finished first among Cornell runners in all but two races and was named the women’s MVP for her efforts.
Tasker ranked 22nd nationally in receptions per game (5.8) his junior year, earning him an All-Ivy Honorable Mention award. His 832 receiving yards that season ranked seventh all-time in a single season at Cornell. At the end of this season, Tasker signed as a free agent with the San Diego Chargers.
Beverly Yang
J.C. Tretter Fencing
Saberist Beverly Yang has been a force on the fencing team since her freshman season, in which she posted the Red’s best finish at the NCAA tournament with a 17th place showing. Yang served as assistant captain her sophomore and junior seasons and as one of two captains during her senior season. Yang led the saber squad with a 14th place finish at the NCAA regional tournament her senior year.
Women’s Lacrosse
A Second-team All-Ivy selection two years in a row, attack Caroline Salisbury shattered the Red’s single-season record for draw controls with 48 in her senior season. She finished her final season with 33 goals and nine assists, making her the third-highest pointscorer on the team.
Women’s Soccer
Forward Maneesha Chitanvis served as the Red’s leading scorer in her sophomore, junior and senior campaigns. After two consecutive seasons with All-Ivy League Honorable mention awards, Chitanvis was named to the All-Ivy Second team in her senior year. She ranks 10th in program history with 16 goals.
Position: Forward
Men’s Hockey
After leading the team with 14 goals this season, Miller became the program’s first three-time leading scorer since Matt Moulson ’06. He was named to the All-Ivy League First Team and the ECAC Hockey Third Team this year. Miller also set a career high in points this season with 33.
Position: Second Base
Baseball
A stalwart presence at second base for the baseball team the past four years, Peters leads the senior class in every major offensive category. He led the team in triples with two this year, and earned an All-Ivy League Honorable Mention award his junior year, helping the Red to its first Ivy League Championship and an NCAA Tournament berth.
Leigh Archer
Errick Peck Position: Forward
A unanimous All-Ivy League First Team Selection this year, Tretter was also named a third team All-American by Beyond Sports College Network and The Sports Network. After a successful senior campaign, Tretter was drafted in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. He flies out to Green Bay on May 9th.
Brenton Peters
Maneesha Chitanvis Position: Forward
Football
Greg Miller
Caroline Salisbury Position: Attack
Position: Offensive Line
Women’s Rowing
Men’s Basketball
After sitting out his entire junior season due to injury, Peck made a big impact on the team his senior year as the third highest scorer on the team with 9.7 points per game. His strong season earned him an All-Ivy League Honorable Mention award.
An All-Ivy Second team selection in her junior season, varsity eight rower Leigh Archer’s achievements are all the more notable considering she walked onto the rowing team her freshman year never having rowed before. This season, Archer has already earned first-team Mid-Atlantic All-Region Honors.
Johnny Gray
Nick Sachvie
Position: Guard
Men’s Basketball
A student manager turned two year starting guard, Gray was second on the team in scoring his senior year with 10.0 points per game. He was also sixth in the Ivy League in scoring his junior year in his first season as a starter. Gray also earned All-Ivy Honorable Mention at the end of that season.
Men’s Squash Sachvie held down the top spot for the Red as a senior. He posted an 11-8 record, earning himself his third Ivy League honor. He mae it to the quarterfinals of the CSA’s Individual Championship, where he lost to Princeton’s Todd Harrity.
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SPORTS
Steve Bosak
Rick Pflasterer Position: Goalie
Men’s Soccer
Weight Class: 184 pounds
Wrestling
In the men’s soccer team’s best year since 1996 thanks to an Ivy League title and an NCAA run, Pflasterer started every game in goal for the Red. In his time in the net, he broke the school record for wins in a season with 15 and his goals against were below 1.00.
After suffering a tough injury in the beginning of his senior year, Bosak rallied and won the EIWA title at 184 pounds. Bosak earned his third first-team All-Ivy honor and came in third at NCAAs this year. He also won the NCAAs in his junior season.
McKenna Archer
Steve Mock
Position: Vault/Beam/Floor
Gymnastics
Position: Attack
M. Lacrosse
Archer set a school record in vault with a 9.9 at the 2012 USAG Collegiate nationals, which helped her earn All-America honors for the first time. She finished third during the individual finals with a two vault average of 9.8875 and was the runner-up on beam.
Senior attack Steve Mock was nominated for the 2013 Tewaaraton Trophy this season and currently ranks second in the nation in goals per game (3.46) and 13th in points per game (4.08). He was an honorable All-Ivy selection a year ago.
Erin Belles
Kristen Towne
Position: Outfield/Catcher
Softball
Belles has played 115 games, including 79 starts in her four years with the Red. She is a career .302 hitter and has hit 17 long balls. She ranks in the Top-10 at Cornell in career slugging percentage (.530) and on-base percentage (.399).
Jaime Laird Squash Laird was named the women’s team MVP after ranking 19th in the counrty this season. She is a two-time CSA All-American. In her senior campaign, she was 12-5, tying her for the team lead in individual victories.
Sarah O’Neil Tennis A two-time team MVP, O’Neil anchored the No. 1 spot in singles for the Red, finishing her senior season with a 9-6 record. She was also 7-1 against non-conference opponents.
Clare Fitzpatrick Position: Forward
W. Basketball
Fitzpatrick earned her second All-Ivy Honorable Mention award this season after finishing her senior campaign with 12.4 points and 4.9 rebounds per game.
Emily Kowalchik Event: Open
Equestrian
As a senior captain, Kowalchik qualified for regionals in open fences/flat. She was an Ivy League champion in open flat and placed third in the Cacchione race.
Position: Catcher
Softball
A three-time All-Ivy pick and two-time first-team selection, Towne ranks fourth among Cornell’s all-time leaders in doubles with 42. She is also seventh in fielding percentage (.987), eighth in total bases (269) and eighth in homeruns (19).
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MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR:
Kyle Dake
By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor
FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR:
Laura Fortino
By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
After four years of tremendous accolades and lasting memories, the Lynah Faithful will say goodbye to three-time All American and Ivy League Player of the Year (2011), Laura Fortino. Fortino made an immediate impact on the Red in her freshman campaign, recording 13 goals and 21 assists on the season. She was second in the country in scoring among all defensemen. Fortino’s stellar play throughout the season earned her first-team All American honors, making her the first Cornell women’s hockey player ever to do so. “Even as four years has gone by, that honor still makes me speechless,” Fortino said. “It’s such a prestigious award to be given and I was very humbled as a freshman to be recognized.” Only a rookie that season, Fortino said she was unsure of what to expect out of collegiate level hockey, and her teammates gave her the support she needed to excel. “I can’t thank my teammates enough for making me the player I am today,” Fortino said. “As a freshman, I didn’t really know what to expect, I didn’t even know that award existed. To understand now the significance of that award, it’s unbelievable.” Though Fortino’s next three years playing on Lynah rink were just as successful, she still considers the Red’s trip to the Frozen Four her freshman year to be her fondest memory. After starting off that season with two losses to Mercyhurst, the Red went on a tear,
winning 14 conference games and eventually beating Clarkson in overtime in the ECAC championship to advance to the NCAA Tournament. “[I still remember] that entire year, the frozen four run that we had, making it to the final game and going to triple overtime. Even though we lost, I enjoy that moment like we won it,” Fortino said. “We weren’t even projected to go anywhere, and to make it to the top was just a whirlwind of an experience.” In her senior season, Fortino helped the Red to another ECAC championship. Her strong defensive presence led the Cornell defense to the secondfewest goals allowed in the ECAC. However, the team’s season ended with an overtime loss to Mercyhurst in the first round of the NCAA tournament. In addition to leading the Red throughout her four years, Fortino also played for both the U18 and U22 Canadian National teams. She won a silver medal for Canada at the IIHF World Championship this March. Though Fortino’s time at Lynah has come to an end, her career as a hockey player is still in full swing. Fortino will head to Calgary in May for fitness testing and orientation, hoping to earn a spot on the roster for Canada’s Olympic team. “It’s always an honor and a privilege to represent your country, especially for women,” Fortino said. “There is no NHL or higher leagues, so it’s basically for the love of the game.”
As graduation approaches, Cornell wrestling bids farewell to the eight seniors exiting the program. Amongst those talented athletes is senior Kyle Dake. Not only is he a captain of the Red’s squad, but he made history this March as the first wrestler to ever win four national titles in four different weight classes. “He has had a huge impact [on the program]. He has made history,” said junior Mike Nevinger. “[Aside from] his accomplishments, he is [also] a great leader and will help out anyone on the team.” Upon entering Cornell, Dake was ready to leave it all on the mat at 141 pounds. That year, he took home the NCAA title, as well as Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a handful of other awards. The freshman looked promising for Cornell as he dominated the competition. “When I first met Kyle, he came off as aggressive and loud and sometimes obnoxious,” said senior co-captain Joe Stanzione. “As I grew and lived with him and trained with him, you come to realize that he is an intense person and really is always looking out to do the right thing. He is a great kid.” After winning the national title at 141, Dake decided to move up a weight class to 149 pounds for his sophomore season. At this weight, he was named EIWA Wrestler of the Year, was a First Team All-Ivy Selection and won the NCAAs for the second time. Dake also earned the Peter J. Floros Memorial Award as the team’s Most Valuable Wrestler and was named to the NWCA All-Academic Team. But his success was not only apparent on the mat; his dedication and hard work were obvious to his teammates and
his opponents as he continued showing them what he could do on the Hill. “Kyle, [in a way] defines Cornell wrestling and what we are all about. He lives and breathes it every day,” Stanzione said. “That’s what our program tries to teach and he is the perfect example of a Cornell wrestler.” After winning two National Championships and moving into his junior season, Dake was ready for a new challenge — 157 pounds. He was the first wrestler to ever win three different weights in three years that season, but that was not enough for the junior. That year, he finished with a perfect 35-0 record and snatched his 100th win in a match in the NCAA finals. After the strength and dedication he proved during that season, he was named co-captain, along with seniors Steve Bosak, Joe Stanzione and junior Mike Nevinger. “Kyle and I both started as freshman. [We] have different styles, but he is always pushing the limits. Being co-captains with him has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life,” Stanzione said. In his final season at Cornell, and in yet another weight class — 165 pounds — Dake defied all odds and battled to win his fourth national title. Not only was he the first wrestler to win four in four weights in Division I collegiate wrestling history, he was only the third to win four ever. His triumphant season granted him the honor of winning the Hodge Trophy, as well as being named the Outstanding Wrestler at the NCAA tournament. “Our hopes for Kyle are to see him with a gold Olympic medal draped across his chest,” said head coach Rob Koll. Haley Velasco can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com. MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Lauriane Rougeau
Rob Pannell Men’s Lacrosse
Women’s Ice Hockey
This season, Pannell became the first men’s lacrosse player in the history of the Ivy League to be named the conference Player of the Year three times. He also became the third player in conference history to be selected first-team All-Ivy all four seasons.
In her last season on the Hill, Rougeau won the ECAC Hockey Best Defensemen Award for the third consecutive season and was named to the conference’s First Team, as well as the Ivy League First Team.