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The women have proven themselves a worthy opponent, and are poised to make yet another NCAA tournament run.

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SOFTBALL /TRACK Softball knows this season is just one step in the long process, while the track and field program wants more Heps success.

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BASEBALL (21-17, 9-11 Ivy) March 4 March 4 March 5 March 10 March 11 March 12 March 17 March 18 March 19 March 25 March 25 March 26 March 26 March 29 April 1 April 1 April 2 April 2 April 4 April 5 April 8 April 8 April 9 April 9 April 12 April 15 April 15 April 16 April 16 April 22 April 22 April 23 April 23 April 26 April 28 April 28 April 30 April 30

W 5-2 L 7-8 W 8-5 W 7-3 L 4-11 W 9-3 L 7-8 W 3-2 W 2-1 W 5-2 W 11-4 W 7-3 L 0-1 L 2-8 L 1-8 L 4-7 L 2-7 W 6-4 L 1-3 W 27-14 L 5-7 W 9-5 W 2-0 L 0-5 W 6-4 W 8-7 W 12-6 W 9-5 L 7-8 L 0-5 W 2-0 L 0-4 L 2-3 W 10-2 L 7-9 L 5-9 W 5-1 W 13-1

at Navy at Navy at Navy at George Mason at George Mason at George Mason at Richmond Campbell Michigan St. at Bucknell at Bucknell at Bucknell at Bucknell at Penn St. Brown* Brown* Yale* Yale* at Georgetown at Towson at Harvard* at Harvard* at Dartmouth* at Dartmouth* Binghamtom at Columbia* at Columbia* at Columbia* at Columbia* Penn* Penn* Penn* Penn* at Binghamton at Princeton* at Princeton* Princeton* Princeton*

MEN’S TENNIS (21-3, 6-1 Ivy) Feb. 24 Feb. 26 Feb. 26 March 3 March 5 March 11 March 12 March 25 April 1 April 7 April 9 April 15 April 16 April 22 April

W 4-1 W 4-3 W 7-0 W 4-0 L 3-4 W 4-2 W 4-3 W 4-3 L 1-4 W 4-1 W 4-2 W 4-2 W 4-2 W 4-3 W 4-3

Clemson Wisconsin Colgate at Indiana at Memphis at Wichita St. at Oklahoma Drake at Columbia* Princeton* at Penn* at Dartmouth* at Harvard* Yale* Brown*

WOMEN’S TENNIS (15-6, 5-2 Ivy) Feb. 20 Feb. 20 Feb. 26 March 4 March 5 March 5 March 22 March 26 April 1 April 7 April 9 April 14 April 15 April 22 April 23

W 4-3 L 0-7 W 5-2 W 4-0 W 7-0 W 7-0 W 6-1 W 7-0 W 7-0 W 6-1 L 3-4 L 4-3 W 4-3 W 6-1 W 4-1

Wichita St. at Arkansas at Connecticut Penn St. Stony Brook Niagara Colgate Binghamton Columbia* at Princeton* Penn* Dartmouth* Harvard* at Yale* at Brown*

WOMEN’S LACROSSE (11-4, 6-1 Ivy) Feb. 18 Feb. 25 March 4 March 7 March 11 March 19 March 25 April 1 April 4 April 8 April 11 April 15 April 18 April 22 April 29 May 5-7

W 18-6 L 8-9 W 10-4 W 13-6 W 14-11 W 11-10 W 15-6 W 12-9 W 17-3 W 11-8 L 10-11 W 14-12 L 8-11 L 11-12 (2OT) W 13-6 TBD

at Villanova Penn St. at Penn* Colgate at Columbia* USC at Yale* at Rutgers Binghamton Brown* Albany at Dartmouth* at Syracuse Princeton* Harvard* Ivy Tournament

MEN’S LACROSSE (5-8, 3-3 Ivy) Feb. 18 Feb. 25 March 5 March 11 March 18 March 21 March 25 April 1 April 8 April 11 April 15 April 22 April 29

L 10-20 L 8-16 L 6-17 L 18-19 (OT) L 8-17 W 15-6 L 9-10 W 14-5 W 12-9 L 8-15 W 16-11 L 10-13 W 18-17

at Penn State at Hobart Albany Virginia at Yale* Colgate Penn* Dartmouth* at Harvard* at Syracuse Lehigh at Brown* Princeton*

SOFTBALL (13-27-1, 6-14 Ivy) March 3 March 3 March 4 March 4 March 5 March 12 March 12 March 25 March 25 March 26 March 26 April 1 April 1 April 2 April 2 April 3 April 3 April 5 April 5 April 7 April 8 April 8 April 9 April 13 April 13 April 15 April 15 April 16 April 16 Arpil 18 April 18 April 22 April 22 April 23 April 23 April 26 April 26 April 29 April 29 April 30 April 30 May 2 * Ivy League Game

L 6-17 L 2-14 W 9-2 L 4-16 L 5-13 W 8-7 L 3-5 W 3-2 W 3-2 L 3-7 W 8-7 L 4-5 L 1-7 L 4-5 L 4-3 L 2-4 L 1-3 L 0-9 L 1-5 L 8-9 L 3-8 L 5-9 L 1-3 W 12-3 L 4-6 W 7-3 W 5-3 L 3-4 L 6-11 L 6-7 T 4-4 L 3-8 W 9-7 L 0-8 L 3-7 W 2-0 L 1-2 L 0-1 W 3-0 W 9-7 L 0-5 3:15 p.m

LIU-Brooklyn South Dakota Bethune-Cookman Stetson Bethune-Cookman Akron at George Mason Canisius Morgan State Manhattan at Mount Saint Mary’s (MD) Yale* Yale* Brown* Brown* at Marist at Marist at Albany at Albany at Dartmouth* at Harvard* at Harvard* at Dartmouth* Siena Siena at Columbia* at Columbia* at Columbia* at Columbia* Colgate Colgate Penn* Penn* Penn* Penn* at Ithaca at Ithaca at Princeton* at Princeton* Princeton* Princeton* at Syracuse

TENNIS In a historic year, both tennis squads captured Ivy League titles — the first for the women, second for the men.

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BASEBALL Through just his second year as head coach, Dan Pepicelli’s vision is beginning to take shape. Strong veteran pitching has certainly helped.

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MEN’S L ACROSSE /ROWING Jeff Teat and Connor Fletcher showcase a men’s lacrosse freshman class destined for greatnes, while rowing traces its path to resurgence.

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MEN’S L ACROSSE How will men’s lacrosse rebound after two straight losing seasons? Well, an incredibly strong young core helps.

CREDITS EDITORS Zach Silver ’19 Jack Kantor ’19 Charles Cotton ’19 Jamil Rahman ’19 Josh Zhu ’20

DESIGN Supplement/Cover Design: John Schroeder ’74 Cover Photo Shoot: Cameron Pollack ’18

PHOTOGRAPHY Aubrey Akers ’19, Michael Wenye Li ’20, Katie Sims ’20, Adrian Boteanu, grad, Michael Suguitan, grad, Cameron Pollack ’18

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“G

et better everyday.” These three seemingly simple words have elevated the Cornell women’s lacrosse team from being an underdog to a juggernaut.

Led by head coach, Jenny Graap ’86, and assistant coaches Bill Olin and Margaret Corzel, the relentless squad quickly established itself as a force to be reckoned with and earned its reputation as one of the most dominant teams in the nation.

Currently ranked No. 11 in the national polls, the Red has had a season for the books so far and looks poised to continue the trend heading into the postseason. The team’s record (11-4, 6-1 Ivy), is one of the best in program history, and after taking down Harvard on Saturday, ties the 2002 and 2006 squads for the best conference record. It is also the first time the Red won the Ivy League Regular Season Championship since 2006.

Both the 2002 and the 2006 teams made the national tournament, and the 2002 team made it all the way to the NCAA Final Four.

Proving itself on the national stage, Cornell also downed powerhouses No. 7 Penn and No. 6 USC, en route to forging an eight-game win streak and securing a spot in the Ivy League tournament.

Never going down without a fight, the Red has only lost to teams ranked in the top 20 nationally, and three of the four losses were by a onegoal margin.

Statistics like these are impressive for any team, but even more so for Cornell, who graduated a stellar class of eight seniors last year, leaving many wondering if this year’s team CAMERON POLLACK / would be able to mainSUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR tain a national presence.

“Our eight seniors in 2016 were passionate and charismatic,” Graap said.

“Not having their strong personalities was a void which we needed to fill.”

Instead of cowering away from the daunting challenge, this year’s squad rose to the occasion by elevating its play as homage to last year’s seniors’ legacy.

“Last year's senior class showed our team that with hard work and the will and want to win we could accomplish anything,” said sophomore attacker Sarah Phillips. “This message I believe has been the way we have responded this year without them. By playing for those values and being so determined to not only win, but get better every single day.”

“Throughout the fall and winter training, our team had time to gel and time to develop its own signature,” Graap added. “There's a collective will with our 2017 team that resonates and brings confidence to our younger players.”

While the team has improved collectively, many individual players have also taken their game to the next level in order to help the team achieve its goals.

Sun Staff Writer “We have a wide range of players contributing on all sides of the field,” said senior tri-captain attacker Catherine Ellis.

“We have freshmen playing and starting which is awesome and a lot of new people stepping into bigger roles and playing well. Everyone is always pushing the person next to them to get better and I think that's something that is separating this team from others.”

Some of the more notable individual accomplishments this season include Ellis eclipsing the 100 career goals mark, as well as senior goalie Renee Poullott surpassing 400 career saves, becoming only the second player in Cornell history to achieve that feat. Senior tri-captain defender, Caitie Smith,

we are very flexible and we are always incorporating new ideas, new plays and new defenses into practices and games,” Smith said. “We have a really strong bench and can put people in games to really give us a spark.”

When out on the field, the team functions as one synchronized unit, moving together in a coordinated harmony.

The players’ backgrounds, however, are as disparate as the numbers that emblazon their jerseys.

From Tualatin, Ore., to Vero Beach, Fla., the 29-women squad is comprised of athletes from all around the country that have all come to Cornell for different reasons.

Junior midfielder and Rochester native Taylor Reed said that though she “initially wanted to go to college very far away from home,” a visit to campus caused her to “[fall] in love with [Cornell].” She added that “there were so many different academic options” and that the “New York state tuition didn’t hurt either.”

Poullot said that she chose Cornell because “something just felt right” once she visited the campus and because she “really liked the team, [its] core values, the facilities and the coaching staff.”

On the other hand, Smith said that she came to C.U. because she “wanted to try something different” and that she was “honestly unaware of how the lacrosse program was, but willing to give something completely new a try.”

A Cornell Hall of Fame inductee and Red lacrosse alumna herself, Graap brings her own unique background to the team.

“Initially I did not apply for Cornell's opening because I had only four years of head coaching experience, and I was happy living in Fairfax, Va., and coaching at George Mason, a program I started in 1993,” Graap admits. “[Athletic Director] Andy Noel was Picking it back up | For the second straight year, the Red has a instrumental in getting legitimate shot at a deep NCAA run. me back to campus to interview, and also in has also been nominated for the advocating for the investment the department needed to prestigious Tewaaraton Award, make to elevate the Big Red women's lacrosse program.” which recognizes the top laSince beginning her tenure as head coach in 1997, Graap crosse players in the nation. has led the program to two Ivy League titles, two ECAC Demonstrating its incredi- titles and four NCAA tournament appearances. ble resilience and versatility, the No matter their diverse pasts or reasons behind choosing Red has remained calm Cornell, it is clear that the players and coaches are completely under pressure to pull out devoted to the team and achieving their goals of winning the wins from a variety of different situations. Ivy League title and earning a berth to the NCAA tournament.

“I think the driving force behind our team’s success is our Whether it was trailing at the half, only to outscore the opponent 12-1 in the second half — as was the willingness to push each other to get better,” Ellis said. “Our case with Yale — or hanging on to the lead in the final few theme for the season is ‘better everyday’ and we have really minutes of the game when the opponent was coming in hot taken that to heart.”

There are five days until the Ivy League tournament and — as was the case with USC — no situation was able to the Red will no doubt embody its motto by capitalizing on break the Red’s composure.

“I think what is unique about the team this year is that all five opportunities to “get better everyday.”

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Undesirable Pitfalls Fail to Shake Softball

By CAITLIN STANTON Sun Staff Writer

Softball, much like any other team sport, hinges on the individual performances of each of the nine starters and how those performances meld together to make proper gameplay. The tiniest slip-up — anything from a bobbled grounder to a hesitation on the base path — can turn the tide of a game.

That has been Cornell softball’s experience so far this season. After having several games cancelled and a few players out with injuries, the Red had a rocky start to the beginning of its season.

“Although today we have as many wins [nine] as we did last year, I think, although our record doesn’t show it ... we’re much improved, compared to last year,” said head coach Julie Farlow ’97. “I think this year, although we’re not necessarily coming out with the victory, we’re way more in ball games.”

“At least we’re competing, you know?” she added.

Junior pitcher Madeline Orcutt has a similar mentality.

“You can’t really let those [mistakes] affect you; you’ve got to keep moving on and battling as long as you can in the game,” Orcutt said. “As a pitcher … the mistake can be one pitch and the batter can hit a homerun, which is really frus-

trating. But you’ve got to move past it, go onto the next pitch, the next batter … and keep fighting.”

Last year’s numbers told a different story in regards to gameplay. The Red’s 32 losses in 2016 were lost by anywhere from six to eight or, in one case, thirteen runs. There was a lack of competitive play in most games, and it really showed.

“A lot of the upperclassmen have been trying to treat this as a different season and not kind of think about how they’ve done in the past and try to just focus on what we can do now,” said freshman pitcher Lisa Nelson.

This season’s numbers show something else. The nine total wins the team has were each characterized by close scores, often separated by one or two runs. Cornell has spent most games breathing down the necks of its opponents, whether or not they managed to pull out a win.

Obviously, the hard work of the entire team on its defensive and offensive

Track Eyes Heps Success

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Here we go again | The men and women have recently seen

forming well at indoor Heps, but coming up just short of their goals; the This past indoor season, the Cornell track and field men lost to Princeton program faced many challenges. With construction at 147-101, and the women Barton Hall underway, the teams had no use of an indoor tied for fourth. track, and were forced to make do with the circumstances “Losing to Princeton ...

Ithaca’s extended winters might bring. always hurts,” said senior The incredibly resilient men and women commuted captain and 2016 Olympian to Ithaca College all winter until the renovations were Rudy Winkler. “We all took completed late in the season to go along with the usual [it] hard, and [we] have all demands of being an Ivy League athlete. Not having a been training really hard to track to practice on all winter put them at a disadvantage. make a comeback.”

However, when the teams could practice on their Both teams are chasing a Heps home turf once again, they hit the ground running, per- title this spring, and are looking to send as many members as possible to NCAA Regionals.

Each group has been performing well and is in a good position for success.

“So far our season has been pretty • A multi-event athlete, he remarkable,” said women’s junior tri-captain Taysia Radoslav. “We have the depth that a won the indoor and outdoor lot of other teams in the league are lacking.

Heps his junior year.

Our goal is to perform well at Heps and • Represented Cornell at hopefully come out with the win overall.”

Radoslav was a first-time indoor Heps NCAA indoors this year, champion in the 500m this winter, and has along with Rudy Winkler. kept up her momentum. At the Larry Ellis • Shattered schoool and Ivy Invitational in Princeton, she won the 400m hurdles in a season best. The weekend prior, heptathalon record at she won the 400m en route to setting a meet Indoor Heps in 2017. record, and in California, she won the 400 • From Merrillville, Ind. hurdles at both meets the team took part in, which came in back-to-back weekends.

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skills has contributed to these slight improvements in performance between seasons, but a lot of the focus this year has been put on the pitchers.

Cornell now has a four-pitcher rotation: freshman Cora Geunes, freshman Katie Lew, Orcutt and Nelson. Every time these women step onto the mound, they have the chance to take control of the game with every pitch they throw.

And with three of the four being freshmen, this level of competition in college and the responsibility of throwing as perfectly as possible is a lot to take on this early.

“They all hit a speed bump at some point in the season and ideally they would hit that speed bump earlier in the season,” Farlow said. “So if [you] hit that bump again in the Ivy portion of the season, you’ve already experienced it.

[But] when the first time struggling was during an Ivy game, it compounds the issue a little bit.”

success at ourdoor Heps, and look to conntinue that in 2017.

While this is promising, women’s head coach Richard Bowman stresses staying in the moment.

“We still have [some] meets to go [before Heps],” Bowman said. “Sometimes if people get too far ahead of their skis they kind of flip over a little bit. So we don’t want to look too far ahead, we just take what we have one step at a time.”

The men’s team is out for redemption, and to defend its outdoor Heps title. Last year it dealt Princeton a devastating loss, 211-157, and was the first team ever to clear 200 points. Several members from that record-breaking squad return this year as the team’s most reliable point scorers, and the Red can likely count on repeated success from Winkler, senior decathlete Austin Jamerson — who competed at indoor NCAAs with Winkler — and junior high jumper Myles Lazarou.

“I would say that we have the potential and the talent on our team right now to win the championship,” said men’s head coach Adrian Durant. “It’s going to be more about who shows up. All that matters is that when you step on the line or step in the circle, you’re ready to go. If our guys can do this, then it’ll be our victory.”

Both squads head to Heps on the weekend of May 6, hosted by Yale this year. Without any more meets left to fine tune, it all comes down to this weekend to finish the season as a team out strong.

“The key to running well in the championships is having each of the different groups come together and all have great days,” Bowman said. “We’re looking for everybody to have those big breakthroughs so they will have that confidence when we get to the conference meet.”

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most important of her core values, a list that also included diversity, free speech, innovation, academic quality and fun.

Responding to a question about free speech from Anna Waymack, grad, who said “there is a point where speech can inhibit speech,” Pollack was frank in her dissent.

“Here we’re going to disagree and I know we’re going disagree,” Pollack responded. “As soon as you start suppressing speech, you open the question of who gets to decide ... and we know, historically, that never goes well.”

The former University of Michigan provost said it is important to make sure members of disadvantaged groups are given means to fully express their voices, but that authorities should “not damp down the other voices.”

Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine protested and held a die-in at an Israeli Independence Day celebration in Anabel Taylor Hall on Monday, angering many of the event’s student hosts and leading to arguments with Cornell Police who provided security at the event.

The festivities in Anabel Taylor were sponsored

by Cornell Hillel to celebrate Israel’s declaration of independence in May of 1948.

“It’s all about spreading positivity, really just to let people have a good time,” said Cornell Hillel President Brandon Cohen ’18. “We are just here to celebrate the Jewish people having a state, with antisemitism on the rise around the world.”

SJP members distributed fliers that said “the modern day Jewish state was founded on the expulsion of the indigenous population” and marched from Goldwin Smith Hall to enter the event, but were initially stopped by police.

“What I’m saying is that it is a little odd that you’re here to attend an event and everybody is getting ready to pull out a flag,” a policeman guarding the entrance told protesters. “We’re not saying you can’t protest, you’re just going to do it outside because you are not going to disrupt the event.”

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Resolute | Cornell President Martha Pollack speaks to the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly on Monday afternoon; she was was unwavering in support of free speech on campus and committed to improving diversity and inclusion.

Free Speech a Priority for New President

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Two weeks into her presidency at Cornell, Martha Pollack on Monday proclaimed an unwavering commitment to free speech, reaffirmed the importance of diversity and inclusion, and responded to questions about mental health resources, sanctuary campuses and the six active Title IX investigations into the University.

The 14th president’s remarks came during a 30-minute question-and-answer session in front of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and on the heels of a similar meeting with the Student Assembly last week.

Pollack, in a short introduction praising the importance of graduate and professional students, named integrity as the

Cornell Appoints 12th Librarian Tower to Chime Grateful Dead Tunes

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Cornell appointed Gerald R. Beasley on Monday to be the 12th Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at

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Cornell University, where he will oversee a budget of about $64 million and a staff of more than 400 beginning on Aug. 1.

Beasley, who has served as vice provost and chief librarian at the University of Alberta since 2013, will

be in charge of 18 libraries at the Ithaca and New York City campuses as chief academic and administrative officer of the library system.

Beasley, president of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries from 2013 to 2015, was nominated

by Provost Michael Kotlikoff and the nomination was approved by the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees, according to a press release in the Cornell Chronicle. It was not immediately clear when the Trustees approved the appointment.

“Gerald brings a deep understanding of the complexities and richness of academic life and the role of the

library in a modern globally relevant research university,” Kotlikoff said in a statement. “He is a proven administrative leader and recognized scholar, who fosters collaborations across and outside the university.”

A spokesperson for the University of Alberta said he was not able to reach Beasley for an interview with The Sun. “All libraries are striving to keep up with the rapidly changing expectations of students, faculty and staff,” Beasley said in the Cornell release.

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By CHLOE RIPPE Sun Staff Writer

Exactly 40 years after the Grateful Dead rocked Barton Hall in one of their most famous performances ever, The Cornell Chimes will be playing some of the band’s famous songs on Monday at 6 p.m. from atop McGraw Tower.

Liz Field, communications specialist at Cornell Information Technologies and a self-described “Deadhead” said she wanted to commemorate the show at Barton Hall because it was “one of the most beloved shows in the Grateful Dead’s 30-year touring history.”

“I asked the chimesmasters if they would play a song,” she said. “At first, it was a simple request, but I’ve since become the promoter of the event, working closely with The Chimes on setting up the event, publi-

cizing it and handling questions from people on the event page and in the press.”

After Field reached out to Chimesmaster Serim An ’17, Cornell Chimes began planning arrangements for the concert.

“We didn’t have any Grateful Dead music in our repertoire, so we had to spend some time listening to the music and trying to make it work for the chimes, because we only have 21 bells so not every song is possible to play,” An told The Sun, adding that practice would begin on Tuesday.

An and past chimesmasters chose their favorite Grateful Dead songs, some of Field’s suggestions and other hits from the 1960s and See CHIMES page 5

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Bingalee dingalee | The Cornell Chimes will play Grateful Dead songs from atop McGraw Tower on May 8.

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Academy Award-Winning Professor Shares Passion for Computer Science

By CHANCE MASLOFF Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Steve Marschner ’98, computer science, begged his parents for an Apple II in fourth grade so he could write programs on the 8-bit computer, but probably never thought his passion would lead him to recognition from the Academy Awards.

Marschner is renowned for his work with physicsbased animation, which includes difficult tasks such as animating cloth, hair, water “and things that behave according to physics rather than according to their own intention.”

The professor and his colleagues are responsible for writing the code that makes Gollum, the animated character in The Lord of the Rings movies, look more realistic by making his skin appear more translucent.

“When we did that work, we were interested in translucency just as some arbitrary physical effect that was interesting to try to simulate,” Marschner said.

“And we didn’t really realize until after we made the model and were doing some tests with it that it was actually incredibly useful for rendering skin.”

“We developed the math and physics for rendering translucent skin, and lots of [Hollywood] studios adopted this and implemented this,” he added.

Marschner majored in computer science and math

at Brown University before earning a Ph.D. from Cornell, where he worked with Don Greenberg in the Department of Computer Graphics and entered the Ph.D. program largely because he was able to land a job in Greenberg’s lab.

Before returning to the Ithaca campus, Marschner worked for Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Stanford.

When Cornell offered him a position as professor, he said he could not turn down the opportunity to return to his alma mater.

Marschner said he enjoys the opportunities and freedom that academia allows.

“The thing that really draws most faculty — at least at a school like Cornell — to the job is the ability to do research and to find your own problems and be your own boss,” Marschner said.

“In some ways, doing research is not that different in an engineering field like computer science from doing advanced product development … in some company, but a big difference is that you get to pick the problems.”

While the freedom to pursue research questions of his choosing is “one big excitement” for Marschner, he also enjoys working with students.

“Both undergrad and Ph.D. years are a really exciting time of life and it’s fun to work with students and see how far they grow,” he said.

Marschner, who enjoys cooking, hiking and kayak-

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ing outside the classroom, teaches advanced and undergraduate courses in computer graphics as well as Intro Computer Science every few years.

His students are currently working on research projects involving 3-D printing, realistic rendering and simulation of how textiles operate.

“Some people may not think [CS 1110] is exciting because it’s such elementary stuff to a computer scientist, but, on the other hand, I like the idea of showing someone the niftiness of how clever it is the way loops work in a programming language,” Marschner said, “and once you can do this thing once you can do it a million times, and isn’t that cool?”

“I guess I haven’t lost the excitement for these ideas.”

Chance Masloff can be reached at cmasloff@cornellsun.com.

Beneath the Surface Campaign Reveals Internal Mental Health Struggles

By AEYLA EHTASHAM Sun Staff Writer

Beneath the Surface, a campaign depicting people's internal struggles through a series of posters, hosted a gallery on Monday featuring Cornell students, faculty and administrators to advocate for mental health resources on campus.

Cornell Health partnered with the student creators of the campaign to host

the gallery of posters in Willard Straight Hall, which sought to encourage the community to look “beneath the surface” of faces in the Cornell community and to educate attendees on the efficacy of campus resources.

Shea O’Hill ’17 said the event was important for improving the dialogue on campus and offered a different approach to mental health resources on campus.

“It’s really powerful to give student faces to these issues, because you realize

these are your peers and that makes you feel more comfortable addressing mental health,” she said. “This took statistics and humanized them.”

Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean of students, said in a quote written on her poster that it is important to create a dialogue relating to mental health.

“Discussing mental health contributes to a holistic, all-encompassing approach to health and wellness,” she said. “It helps us be in touch with our total

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Scratching the surface | Students observe posters featuring people’s struggles with mental health and available resources on campus.

being.”

The installation launches at a time of high stress and anxiety for many students, according to Sharon Dittman, director for community relations at Cornell Health, formerly Gannett Health Services. The event hosts presented posters with mental health resources, and representatives from Counseling and Psychological Services and Cornell Minds Matter also answered questions during the event.

Sponsors of the event hoped that “in sharing our experience as Cornellians, we can help others know they’re not alone if they are struggling,” according to the Facebook event page. “There are individuals and services to support each of us.”

As attendees walked around the music room and read from the posters on the wall, students shared their experiences in a video playing at the front of the room.

Students depicted in the posters elaborated on their experiences in the video by answering questions about confronting mental health and helping peers with mental health.

“Understanding my own mental health has allowed me agency and context in navigating the world around me,” Samari Gilbert ’17 wrote on one poster.

O’Hill said students should be comfortable having candid discussions about mental health with people they trust.

“I think it’s really important to have with programs like Cornell Minds Matter trying to bring visibility to the concept that it’s okay to have these discussion about mental health and reduce mental health stigma on campus,” she said.

Aeyla Ehtasham can be reached at aehtasham@cornellsun.com.

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Seemingly referencing University of California, Berkeley’s controversial cancellation of a speech by Ann Coulter ’84, Pollack said that people with views “antithetical” to the student body should be allowed to speak on campus.

Campus officials should provide locations for protests, and at times the president should support those protests, Pollack said, adding that Cornell should not restrict people from speaking at events when invited.

Posed a question about gender diversity among faculty members, 32 percent of whom are women, Pollack said improving and sustaining diversity of all kinds is a priority during her time as president.

Pollack said teaching about implicit bias is an important part of forming an inclusive campus and said Cornell needs to “double down on our commitment to diversity.”

When Pollack joined the computer science department at the University of Michigan, she said, “there were more faculty in computer science named Igor than female [faculty] in computer science.”

“Diversity and a celebration of difference” is vital at universities, Pollack said at the beginning of the meeting, adding that it is not only the right thing to do, but also that campuses enjoy “better solutions and outcomes when you have diverse perspectives.”

On several issues, Pollack cited her recent assumption of the presidency in saying she could not yet fully or accurately respond to specific questions.

Asked about the University Assembly’s proposed resolution to make Cornell a tobaccofree campus, Pollack said, “I don’t know enough to speak to that.” After a question on mental health resources, Pollack said she would have to look at Cornell-specific information.

“Every single university has been putting money hand over fist ... toward mental health,” she said, adding that “there’s still a real sense that there isn’t enough.”

During a question about Cornell’s Title IX Office, a graduate student noted that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has more active inquiries into alleged Title IX violations at Cornell than any of the 236 postsecondary institutions under investiga-

tion.

Pollack acknowledged that Title IX compliance is “an enormous issue,” but, referring to Cornell, noted that “You have the most [active inquiries], but you have the most by one.”

The Office of Civil Rights has five open inquiries at two universities, Kansas State University and Indiana University at Bloomington.

“I will be looking really carefully into, what’s your procedure? What’s working? What’s not?

Are you getting things done on time?” she said of the Title IX Office at Cornell. “I don’t know enough today to answer that.”

Asked about sanctuary campuses and whether Cornell will declare itself one, Pollack said that she has discussed the issue and that Cornell will, “at the end of the day, observe the law, but up to the point that there is a legal requirement, ... police will not be acting as [Immigration and Customs Enforcement].”

The City of Ithaca, in February, passed sanctuary city legislation restricting the Ithaca Police Department and other city employees’ actions when interacting with someone who is in the country illegally.

Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner said in March that campus police will only honor civil immigration detainer requests when they are accompanied by a subpoena or warrant.

“Cornell Police will not seek immigration status information of any individual in the course of its law enforcement activities, unless necessary to investigate criminal activity by that individual or required by law,” Zoner said on Facebook.

Pollack, at the meeting, also said she recently spoke with Rep. Tom Reed, who represents the 23rd district of New York that covers all of Tompkins County, and voiced her concerns over a bill he promoted last year that would require a portion of returns from endowments over $1 billion to go toward financial aid.

Reed “understands that I disagree with him and understands, I think, why I disagree with him,” she said. “It does not make sense, from my perspective, to put those kind of requirements on the endowment.”

“I expect I’ll be talking more with him about it in the coming weeks and months,” Pollack added.

Nicolas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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who may never have the chance to visit its beautiful campus.”

Beasley held a leadership position at the Avery ARchitectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University and, from 2008 to 2013, was the university librarian of Concordia University in Montreal.

Beasley is particularly interested in open access to books and architecture and has published and lectured often on both topics.

“Yes, I love libraries,”

he said. “But I also believe they are catalysts for positive social transformation.

Great research libraries provide their users with a rich and rewarding experience, and their collections are an authentic foundation for new knowledge.”

Anne R. Kenney, Cornell’s 11th university librarian, stepped down on April 1 after holding the position for nine years and working at the Cornell Library in several roles since 1987.

Beasley received his master’s degree in English language and literature from Pembroke College, a constituent college of the

University of Oxford, and his master’s degree in library studies from University College London. It was the libraries at Oxford, particularly the Bodleian, that inspired his career path.

“Cornell has one of the world’s great research library systems” Beasley said. “It will be a privilege to serve as its next Kroch University Librarian, and I am very excited by the prospect of working with such an outstanding group of colleagues.”

Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun.com.

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used by some groups are very specific, and to me the term genocide has a very specific meaning,” Sochaczevski, who is Jewish, told The Sun late on Monday night. “There is no genocide occurring in Israel.”

Chowdhury said she was disappointed that police ignored the alleged physical harassment against a member of SJP. “We were really disrespected by the police, who ignored an incident of physical harassment in which one of our members was shoved,” she said.

“We are really disappointed by the way CUPD treated us and are certain it was a result of racism.”

SJP members discussed plans to file two incident reports relating to verbal and physical harassment that allegedly occurred at the event.

Piragash Swargaloganathan, a member of SJP, said the protest did not go according to plan, but said he thinks the group achieved its goal of raising awareness.

“It didn’t go as what we were expecting, but our goal is to ... bring awareness that we need the people who are celebrating this event to be uncomfortable and to confront that they are celebrating a genocide, and I think we did achieve that,” he said.

Chowdhury said the main reason the group demonstrated is to draw people’s attention to what she said is an uninformed campus.

“I think this campus is very ignorant of this issue in general, or if not ignorant, not well informed — intentionally or not intentionally — and drawing attention to this event and its racism and the problems that it ignores is really important to me and others,” she said.

Swargaloganathan echoed these sentiments, saying Cornell tacitly supports what he said is Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land.

“We believe that Palestinian voices throughout the entire U.S. college campuses have been oppressed,” he said.

“We feel the need that this voice also needs to be heard, just as any other community’s voice.”

Many other SJP protesters declined to speak with The Sun when approached for comment.

Cohen, the Cornell Hillel president, said Hillel members have reached out to students who disagree with the group in the past and that many were “not as interested in having a conversation and were more interested in protesting.”

“It would be nice to actually have a conversation rather than just being antagonistic against us,” he said. “We are all Cornell students, we are all here to get experiences in college, and obviously this is a very hot topic, but I think it is important for people to experience different things.”

Organizers eventually agreed to let SJP members into the event once they promised police that they would not protest and agreed to swipe their Cornell IDs. WIthin five minutes of entering, however, four members of SJP held a sign that read “Celebrating 69 years of Genocide” while others handed out fliers. Most members lay down silently on the floor, some covered in flags, as part of the die-in protest.

“The celebration of Israel Day ignores a lot of genocidal histories and ignores a lot of the human suffering that is going on in Palestine right now,” said Hadiyah Chowdhury ’18, an SJP member, adding that “it also appropriates a lot of Arab culture and clumps it together in one weird category that we think is pretty racist.”

Cornell Hillel Executive Director Rabbi Ari Weiss said he was disappointed that the protesters had lied to gain access to the event.

“They said that they were coming as individuals,” Weiss told The Sun. “We asked them if they would protest, they said they wouldn’t, they lied. When they came in, I said ‘Did you lie to me?’ and one member shrugged their shoulders and nodded their head yes.”

Ithaca College students who planned to join the protest were not allowed into the event. Cohen told The Sun that Hillel only wanted Cornellaffiliated people at the event because they have previously had trouble with violent actions by non-Cornell affiliated students at an event in 2014.

At one point on Monday evening, SJP members told police that someone had attempted to push and trip one of their members during the altercation, but the officer said he had not seen anything. SJP members then told the officer that they would file an incident report.

Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner confirmed late on Monday that no arrests were made at the event.

Weiss told The Sun that Cornell Hillel members explicitly conveyed to CUPD that they did not want any force to be used against protesters.

“Because they are students, we have no interest in violence or force, and we will continue to celebrate Israel’s independence because we are proud Zionists,” he said.

After about 20 minutes of protesting, organizers, protesters and the police came to an agreement that the protest would end within 10 minutes.

Protesters stood up and peacefully exited the room around 8:30 p.m.

Nicole Sochaczevski ’20, a member of TAMID Group at Cornell and the Jewish Greek Council, said she was glad conflicts like Monday's occur less often Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs ’19 than on other campuses and believes SJP should have the right to express its contributed reporting. opinion, but added that she was still concerned with the protesters' message. Shruti Juneja can be reached at “The fact that some of the terms sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

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1970 for the concert.

“For this specific concert, I arranged two songs, but there are four other chimesmasters who arranged music specifically for this concert,” she said. “We were all really excited

about how so many people are excited about this event. The Grateful Dead has never been played on the chimes before and there are so many people coming on the Facebook page.”

Field and many others are eagerly anticipating the concert.

“It was such a wonderful surprise to see

that within 24 hours there were more than 1,000 people interested in the event” on Facebook, Field said.

More than 2,500 people have said they are interested in the event on Facebook as of Monday night.

The debut of The Cornell Chimes concert coincides with the release of bootlegged

recordings from the 1977 Cornell show, compiled into a disc set called “Get Shown the Light.”

The recording of the show will be available for download on May 5.

Chloe Rippe can be reached at crippe@cornellsun.com.

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Being my last year at Cornell, I just wanted to say a quick thank you to all whom made it possible. Between my mom, dad, my brother, the C.U. lift drivers, some of the great professors and Student Disability Services, Cornell was an experience I will never forget.

The C.U. lift was a great asset that Cornell has; Mindy and Martha always went above and beyond what they were required to do. Not all C.U. lift drivers really care like Mindy and Martha, and without the C.U. lift, I doubt Cornell would've been feasible.

The professors were a mixed bag, but there were some great ones I will never forget.

Professors like David Mimno, Paul Ginsparg, Hane Aung and Alex Adams never hesitated to help. They always made sure I got the help I needed and made sure the room was accessible for me.

Katherine Fahey from Student Disability Services also helped us continuously throughout the four years, between introducing us to the C.U. lift, changing room locations for accessibility reasons and making sure snow was removed whenever and wherever we needed it to be. Whenever I had a question, was looking for a tutor, needed help with my resume or finding an internship, Katherine Fahey was there to help. It was great knowing where was always a person to ask questions, even if they did not pertain to Katherine’s department, she found who was the correct person to contact.

Lastly, but most importantly I want to thank my parents, Linda and Terry Horgan, as well as my brother Richard Horgan. My parents were always there to take me back and forth to school everyday to get my Cornell education. My brother helped me from the very beginning. Richard was always there to check an essay, help me with my resume and even help me get a job after Cornell. It has not always been easy, not living on campus, having to go back to Ithaca for study periods and office hours, but because of my family, we did it.

Everyone had an important role in making sure I completed Cornell, and for that I say thank you.

Terrence Horgan ’17

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Editorial

A New Bipartisan Beginning THE PAST TWO YEARS HAS SEEN AN UNMISTAKEABLE rise in the level of vitriol in our nation’s political discourse. The election of a deeply unpopular president and the implementation of misguided policies have served only to acidify further the national political conversation. It doesn’t need to be that way on Cornell’s campus. Hopefully, it won’t be.

Last week, Natalie Brown ’18 was elected president of the Cornell University College Democrats. Yesterday, Austin McLaughlin ’18 was elected president of the Cornell University College Republicans. This new generation of campus political leaders has in front of them an important opportunity. In an age of such violent rhetoric, Brown and McLaughlin can set an example for the rest of the student body by working cooperatively to nurture a productive and civil political discussion at Cornell.

For too long, controversy has been the lens through which campus political relationships develop. Whether in regards to guest speakers, ill-advised public statements or simple misunderstandings, a culture of controversy has damaged not just the relationship between the two political parties, but the political discourse in general. It’s time to refocus — Cornell is still an educational institution, and those wishing to educate themselves in politics should not be compelled to act within an antagonistic system.

Both Brown and McLaughlin would do well to heed the words of Maya Angelou: “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” There are causes that unite us across partisan boundaries, concerns that transcend political persuasion. These two organizations, as well as all the students not associated with either, have the same goal in mind: the betterment of Cornell, the Cornell community and the United States of America. It’s a new beginning for Democrats and Republicans alike. Let’s make it a bipartisan one.

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Last month, I attended the memorial service for a Cornell classmate of mine, Robert Cohen ’60. Bob and I met on my first day at Cornell, in September of 1956; and although not close friends, we remained good friends over the next 56 years, until his death last December. Among other things, and perhaps one of the most notable aspects of Bob’s life was his lifelong membership in Cayuga’s Waiters. In that capacity, Bob attended every Cornell reunion, not only those of our class, over the past many years. He and his colleagues provided enormous pleasure and a welcome infusion of Cornell spirit at those events.

Against this personal backdrop, I write to say that I am shocked that the University elected summarily to force the permanent disbandment of the Waiters after so many decades of their contribution to Cornell in providing great enjoyment to alumni and friends of the University. That the Waiters may have engaged in some foolishness cannot be ignored; but the reports which I have seen of the events leading to the disciplinary action which the University has taken, make absolutely no mention that participants were forced to act against their will, or that any injuries occurred.

I think that one of the most important aspects of American life, and particularly college life, involves the voluntary participation in social and communal groups.

Many sociologists have attributed the loss of this involvement to larger problems in our country. If the Waiters did something as absurd as is reported, and if the behavior was clearly violative of some previously and clearly enunciated standard of behavior applicable to conduct on the Cornell campus, that might provide a justification for some type of discipline; but, even in such case, the permanent termination of a voluntary association of Cornell students, when no demonstrable harm derived from the condemned behavior, would not be just.

I write as the member of a family, three generations of whose members have attended Cornell. What has happened is an unjustified manifestation of an in loco parentis approach to the relationship between the University and its students, something which I would have thought had been gone from Cornell since the events of May, 1958.

David B. Simpson ’60

Alex Davies | Have I Got News for You?

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On Contradiction

could spend my final column in The Sun wistfully lamenting the passing of these years spent perched far above Cayuga’s waters, but I’m sure there are others waiting to step into that breach.

My tales are much too inane for general consumption, so a meditation, if it deserves such a term, on my time in this country seems a better choice than bland personal anecdotes. Though I suppose it is precisely the inanity of the anecdotes that makes the profundity of the meditation.

There are things one notices only after having lived in a country for some time.

Small things that tourists would not recognise. One such thing, in this country, is cable TV. In Britain, the medium occupies the margin of culture. The news comes on and then it goes away, to be replaced by some idyllic Crown Abbey or strapping Sherlock Bond.

In America, the news is everywhere.

The Central Park Five; Georgia’s Sixth;

“black male on foot.” The land of ultimate freedom looks into every crevice of a dead man’s life praying to find where he must have gone wrong. Western highways are populated by billboards offering salvation and sin, flickering in the passing headlights. Churches sit opposite crucifixes in flames.

America is at a time of change. The cyclical threat of the Other is shackled to systemic changes that cannot be reversed, no matter what one man may say. Do the ideals on which America was founded apply to all created equal? Whether America sees this as a negation of its heritage or its evolution cannot yet be known.

However, it is the fundamental contradictions upon which America is built that convinces me it must be the latter.

Alex Davies is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at ajd253@cornell.edu. Have I Got News for You? appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Cornell Culture In the Crosshairs M

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know this probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who is reading this, but Cornell can be an incredibly stressful place. Before coming to Cornell, I had heard, like most of you, how intense Cornell could be, but I had never taken the time to really imagine what such an environment might look like. Since getting to Cornell I’ve watched myself and many of my friends become far more stressed than ever before. I’ve heard several people point out that in reality Cornell probably isn’t any more difficult than most other top universities, and much to the chagrin of some of you reading this, I’d have to agree. Yes, Cornell is difficult — we can all agree on that — but the fact of the matter is that a large part of the stress that Cornellians put up with is a result of the culture that we as students have created for ourselves.

The high level of performance that Cornellians feel compelled to achieve encompasses more than just academics. Students must simultaneously demonstrate powerful, almost infallible commitment to their extracurriculars, career planning and social life. The perceived intensity and rigor of our beloved institution has over time permeated every aspect of student life, creating additional expectations that are hard to balance along with one’s own mental health.

It is unreasonable — nearly impossible — to meet such unrealistic expectations continuously for four or five years. Let us not forget that many students face these same expectations while also contending with discrimination, financial instability and myriad other systematic obstacles. Yet so many of us still try to do just that. At what cost do we pursue these lofty goals?

It’s important to be passionate about the things in which you are involved, but when this passion meets Cornell’s intense pressure to succeed, students become cutthroat and only augment the stress of their environment. In this regard, Cornell can be overwhelming. Not only are we extremely focused on performing everything to the best of our ability, but when we need to decompress or rant about life, some of us feel obligated to hold back, too used to having our peers labeled as our competitors. Used to feeling like if we show any sign of weakness we will lose respect in our extracurriculars. Used to feeling like if we say how we really feel we’ll be shunned from our social circles. Used to feeling like if we let up for just a second to think about how fucked our situation is, we’ll miss out on career opportunities.

What if we as students stopped treating each other like competitors or obstacles to our own success? What if instead we started treating each other like collaborators, confidants, friends and human beings...like Cornellians? The sentiments I’ve outlined above may seem very onedimensional, which I think is fair — to discuss the full scope of Cornell’s culture would require a lot more investigation and discussion.

It is worth noting, however, that not all undergraduates feel the need to be the best or meet these ridiculous expectations. At the same time there are a number of other students who feel this pressure and simply manifest their response to it differently. Perhaps most important, however, is the fact that our cutthroat culture is not reflective of Cornell’s alumni community, at least not in my personal, albeit limited experience.

This past spring break two of my friends and I had the honor of attending Cornell’s Asia Pacific Leadership Conference in Hong Kong on behalf of the Cornell International Affairs Society. The APLC is an annual alumni conference that brings together interested undergrad, graduate and post-graduate alumni of Cornell who either work in Asia or have a direct connection to the region through their work.

While interviewing attendees to help create promotional materials for next year, I noticed a stark contrast between the overall vibe of our Ithaca campus and this conference. Suddenly the Cornell façade of infallibility and the need for people to always be the best completely eroded. Where one can expect braggadocious interactions between competitive students in Ithaca, I saw humble introductions and honest conversations between former Cornellians at the APLC. Don’t let me give you the wrong idea. While interacting with alumni it was still abundantly clear that I was surrounded by a number of extremely motivated people, however these people didn’t seem driven out of any sense of obligation but rather because that was what they had decided was best for them.

Throughout the weekend, my interactions with alumni continued to defy the norms I had assumed were prevalent throughout Cornell culture. A large part of the networking was still centered around selfpromotion, however this was a result of the attendees desire to find opportunities to help their fellow Cornellians in whatever manner possible. The respect and compassion that I observed between alumni was not only inspiring, but it made me think differently about the overwhelming environment that many undergraduates know all too well.

Yes, Cornell is stressful. Yes, a lot of this stress is artificially created by the students themselves. But no, you will not be forced to resent this stress or our university for the rest of your life. The Cornell experience is like tough love, and while it shouldn’t be as intense as it is — this is by no means a defense of sacrificing mental health to meet social expectations — it does pay off in the end. Over time, if we all continue to collaborate, look past meeting expectations and remain honest with each other and ourselves, we too will get to enjoy the milk and honey on the other side. Let me put this in a way that may be easier to understand. Being an alumni of Cornell is like being a brother in a frat. Unfortunately for us, we’re all still in our pledge semester.

T. J. Ball is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. Guest Room appears periodically this semester. Send comments and responses to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

Hold the Door

y number one pet peeve is when people don’t hold the door. I don’t mean that men need to chivalrous and hold the door for women they’re trying to impress, or that women need to do the same to prove they’re feminist as hell; I simply mean that everyone (read: everyone, as in including you, mister. I Have Four Meetings in a Row and My Life is More Important Than Yours) must hold the door for everyone.

There are a few reasons why. Firstly, doors are heavy. Have you ever tried open the doors on the ground floor of Gannett? Those things are an arm workout in themselves. Most times, I (and my severe lack of upper body strength) am tempted to use the handicap button on the side that automatically opens the door for you, but it takes forever and everyone rolls their eyes at you for not (wo)manning up and just yanking the door handle.

Secondly, holding the door open for someone else is an excellent show of teamwork. In the few seconds you push the door back open for the person behind you — or, if you’re more committed, hold the door until they catch up — and it’s as if you’re acknowledging the collective struggle the two of you (and the rest of campus) is going through in that moment, even if the pair of you know nothing about each

other. Go ahead, take the few extra seconds to hold the door, and show solidarity in struggling at Cornell.

Most importantly, however, holding the door for the person behind you is just the nice thing to do. It is respectful and kind and takes into account the lives of the people around you, rather than simply your own. Often times, we get a little too caught up in our busy lives on campus — between this meeting and that project team or this class and that group meeting — we forget that there is more going on beyond our schedules. The impression that because we are busy, we are above being kind to others is one that is easy to perpetuate, even if we do not realize we are doing so.

Therefore, in these coming weeks, through the stressful last few weeks of the semester and through the little food and even less sleep period of finals, let’s take the time to care for the people around us. Acing finals, wrapping up a great semester or ending your club tenure on a good note is a high that lasts only so long, and being successful does not exempt us from being kind. So grab an extra coffee for a friend, ask your barista how he or she is doing and hold the door for the person behind you — it’s just the right thing to do.

Hebani Duggal is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Andy Chen ’20 | Guest Room

We’re #1, But for How Long?

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here is a mysticism that surrounds Cornell architecture, even to architecture students from other schools.

You see it in the way people react: What is it like? Do you really never sleep? Do you really live in studio? Is it true that you guys sacrifice a freshmen every year? It is undoubtedly an elusive place unless you or someone you know has been through its program. I was no different. As a transfer student from Syracuse’s B.Arch program I only knew that, for some reason, Cornell is #1. I hope I can now help pull back this curtain from a student’s perspective.

Since 2008, Kent Kleinman, dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has made decisions that have been largely misguided.

During his time so far, he has made large moves. He has: “significantly fortified” and moved AAP NYC to a new location, completed the over $55 million construction of OMA’s Milstein Hall and is beginning to realize the dreaded Fine Arts Library renovation.

Take these gigantic decisions out of his resume though and his time at Cornell has been complacent. He has made no significant changes to any of the curriculum or faculty or overall intellectual infrastructure of the school, because in his defense, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. This attitude, whether he is conscious of it or not, has resulted in a closed feedback loop.

By this I mean that it is not out of the ordinary for faculty here to be Cornell undergraduates and then Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni; in fact this seems to be favorable in the hiring of new architecture professors. Perhaps this has existed long before I have come to realize it, but if that is the case then Kleinman has done nothing to

address this in a profession where diversity is becoming increasingly important. Many lecturers are alumni, many are white and most are male. There is a canon in architectural education from Vitruvius to Corbusier, but there also seems to be a Cornell canon that feeds back in on itself. This is dangerous for a school, because if you grow up in an environment where no one disputes your way of thinking or methodology of working, then you will grow up believing your way is the right

the cost of working with ‘noble materials’ (often in the thousands of dollars), makes such expectations unnecessarily burdensome.

You can understand students’ frustration.

Professors outline expectations for three models and five drawings, assigned on Monday to be delivered on Wednesday. There are also structures problem sets and that essay you still need to write due Thursday before you get to your studio work. Or do you just not do the problem set?

Plagiarize that essay? It might give you a few precious hours to finish those models and maybe get a nap in if you stay on task.

Perhaps this lack of support is intentional to get the most out of the students by pushing them beyond their limits, but if that is the case then it is a severely outdated education methodology.

Looking at the most recent student survey done at AAP, several figures stand out: 70 percent of students are dissatisfied with the transparency of the administration’s decision-making process, 63 percent of students are dissatisfied with their role in that process, 72 percent of students are dissatisfied with cross-departmental interaction despite AAP being an Architecture, Art and Planning school, 76 percent of students dissatisfied with supplies affordability, 56 percent of students are dissatisfied with supplies availability, (“the supplies are wildly expensive and students are rewarded for work that costs more to produce.”) and 50 percent of students are dissatisfied with student mental health and wellbeing consideration. It is evident that despite the promise of a #1 ranked architecture program, Cornell does not deliver.

It takes working nearly every waking moment to stay afloat at the architecture school, never mind attempting to maintain a perfect GPA. way, the only way.

It takes working nearly every waking moment to stay afloat at the architecture school, never mind attempting to maintain a perfect GPA. My studio coordinator this semester provided our class with some great wisdom on the first day of studio that I will never forget — he said that we “better get all our laundry done now because there won’t be any time for that later.” This is a pretty accurate summation of the studio culture at Cornell. It is an abusive relationship with architecture.

You are expected to use “noble materials” in model making.

Accessible materials such as paper, chipboard and foam core will be frowned upon by professors as if you did not put in the same effort if you had done the exact same thing with expensive wood, rockite (concrete) or metal. These materials are often inaccessible to students — the lack of sufficiently stocked supply stores within walking distance, coupled with

Andy Chen is a second-year archcitecture student. Guest Room runs periodically throughout the semester.

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Inspired by Japanese Origami, Scientists Create Self-Folding Machines Assert importance for future biomedical endeavours

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Crafty science l (1) Microscopic origami-machines compared to their life-sized counterparts. (2) Timelapse images of the machines unfolding.

By CHRISTIAN ONG Sun Contributor

In the 1960s, most computers took up an entire room. Faster computers now find themselves on the wrists of people all over the world.

As devices get smaller, humanity seems to be on track to create the sorts of machines that physicist Richard Feynman predicted in his 1959 talk, “Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” Feynman discussed the two main outcomes of technological progression: the miniaturization of information and ultimately, the miniaturization of machines. In order to get a step closer to achieving the second goal, researcher Marc Miskin developed a method for creating machines the size of human cells by taking inspiration from the Japanese art of origami.

Just like folding origami to create PHOTO COURTESY OF MARC MISKIN

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various complex shapes, these machines are capable of folding in on themselves to reproduce many simple shapes. To get a sense of just how small these devices are, about 100 million of these fit on a four inch wafer.

The material used to make this “origami machine” would have to have three properties: high flexibility, the ability to produce large force outputs and be electrically conductive.

Miskin and his colleagues utilized graphene, a material made of carbon that is only one atom thick.

“Graphene is the stiffest, most flexible, most conductive material known to man. It was a natural choice,” Miskin said.

The team started with a layer of graphene and fused it with an equally thin layer of glass, making a complex that was about 20 atoms across.

Though flat when added to water, the

glass layer attempts to flex when Graphene is simply carbon, which is a exposed to natural conacid but is prestituent of the vented from human body. doing so by Miskin, the graphene however, layer. Cutting insists that out a small two major strip of obstacles need graphene to be resolved. though allows The first is the the glass to act sequence of as a hinge, folds that the causing the graphene-glass machine to c o m p l e x fold in on undergoes. itself.

"In princi“ T h i s ple, you could Marc Miskin graphene/glass make just over m a c h i n e 1 million folds works when per square the glass expands relative to the inch. The issue is that they all have to graphene. This can happen when fold at once in our current version and large ions, like acid molecules, enter we are trying to fix that," Miskin said. the glass,” Miskin said.

For more complex shapes such as Miskin believes that such machines those similar to the origami crane, will be important for biomedical you cannot create the end product by applications. making all of the necessary folds at “One of the smallest machines once, there is a sequence of folds that we’ve built is 15 microns across, so a must be followed. Furthermore, tenth of a hair. At that size, you’re though the folding structure of these two times the size of a red blood cell, origami robots has been created, the but a third the size of a nerve cell. If sensors and other devices that would you can build an 8 micron machine need to be attached to this structure and you inject it, it can go anywhere to make more specialized machines in your body,” Miskin said. present some difficulty.

The act of drawing blood allows "Scientists already know how to doctors to analyze blood for the pres- build the key sensors for biology at ence of certain compounds by detect- that size scale. We just don't know ing their average concentration how to package them up in a small throughout the body. With small space and deploy them. But this is machines like these, more localized what the technology we have develreadings of chemical levels in the oped opens the doors to," Miskin body can be obtained. Furthermore, a said. benefit to using graphene as the primary ingredient in these machines is Christian Ong can be reached at that it is relatively biocompatible. cbo35@cornell.edu.

“Graphene is the stiffest, most flexible, most conductive material known to man.

It was a natural choice.”

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Lecture Explores New Approaches To Understanding Dark Matter Evaluates three prevailing theories, suggests dark matter has superfluid-like properties “middle ground” hypothesis argues that dark matter behaves Sun Staff Writer like a cold, collisionless fluid on large scales. This helps In popular science, dark explain the theory of MOdified matter is a hotly discussed Newtonian Dynamics, which topic. With various theories aims to account for the fact regarding its existence and that the speed of stars in galaxinteraction with regular matter, ies cannot be explained solely many scientists agree that these by newtonian mechanics. are some questions that remain Whereas those arguing that unresolved. But thanks to work dark matter is actually just by scientists like Prof. Justin modified gravity would claim Khoury, physics and astrono- that MOND is a law that origmy, University of Pennsylvania, inates from modifying the laws significant of gravity, steps to Khoury underargues that standing MOND is this phea law that nomenon originates are being from the made. As fundamenpart of the tal nature Kieval lecof dark ture series, nature.

Khoury led T h e a talk at superfluid Cornell on dark matMonday, to ter argudiscuss new ment may approaches help to to solving b e t t e r these mysidentify teries. and distinThere is g u i s h significant between evidence galaxies Prof. Justin Khoury for the and galaxy existence of clusters. In dark matgalaxies, ter. A simple example is the there is superfluid movement of existence of bullet clusters. dark matter and MOND These consist of two colliding applies. However, in galaxy galaxies and astronomers have clusters, there is no superfluid observed that dark matter pass- movement of dark matter and es through hot gas without MOND does not apply. slowing down but the gas itself Despite the numerous thewill slow down. ories swirling around the exis“In addition, most of the mass, which is dark matter, is segregated from where most of ordinary matter lies,” Khoury said. “On a cosmic web scale, this does well in fitting with the observations. On a galaxy cluster scale, it also does pretty well. However, when on the scale of galaxies, it does not fit.”

Because of the way dark matter interacts in bullet clusters, Khoury believes that dark matter is collisionless.

Khoury uses the analogy of a political spectrum to describe his argument. On one end of the extreme are “right wing evangelical” thinkers, who maintain that dark matter is “all feedback” and consists of very simple particles. On the other end are the “left wing hippy” thinkers, who say that “there is no dark matter, it’s all modified gravity”. In the “moderate middle,” however, is Khoury’s position, which states that dark matter exists and is a superfluid. Superfluidity is a characteristic property of a fluid which allows it to have zero viscosity and thus, interact in frictionless collisions and maintain its kinetic energy.

Khoury’s theory is not one that is supported by most scientists, who take the “right wing evangelical” view. The

By DARREN CHOW

“In addition, most of the mass, which is dark matter, is segregated from where most of the ordinary matter lies.”

tence of dark matter, Khoury hopes to prove the merits of the theory he propagates.

Because understanding the

existence and interactions of dark matter could provide other insights into our universe, solving this dark mys-

Dark mystery l Prof. Justin Khoury speaks at the lecture.

tery is a priority.

Darren Chow can be reached at dchow@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Raw Appeal of Collaboration

BY ANDREI KOZYREV Arts and Entertainment Editor

On a normal Thursday night it is no surprise to see Milstein Hall bustling with energy. But, on Thursday last week the scene at Milstein was not the typical AAP students with coffees, drawing plot plans or working around the clock to meet deadlines. The Milstein Dome was transformed into a gallery space for RAW Expo III, an annual exhibition of achievements and creative endeavors by Cornell’s student organizations.

“Creative process across disciplines” was the official theme, intended to bring Cornell’s creative community together in one space over a period of just two hours.

The event was organized by Medium Design Collective and fits within the greater objective of the club to promote interdisciplinarity and bring various creative communities out of their bubble via design and dialogue. Medium was founded by Pamela Chueh ’17 and Andres Romero Pompa ’17 in 2015 and since then the collective has worked diligently to connect artists and creatives in Cornell to create a more open and united community. “[The first] RAW EXPO is actually how Medium was founded, our intention was to reveal the design process behind unlikely projects from different backgrounds and by doing so, create opportunities for understanding, connection and future collaboration,”

said Chueh. It was no easy feat. Most creatives at Cornell choose to attend the AAP school or major in Design and Environmental Analysis (DEA), where they are immediately channeled into special degree tracks and physically attached to Milstein, Sibley or other buildings with studio spaces. Their nonacademic acquaintances and interests may very well have nothing to do with the “creative process,” but the nebulous concept of collaboration across disciplines is a difficult task to achieve without consistent initiative.

Collaboration is meant to bring together the best of both worlds, but it is tremendously time-consuming and action-oriented. Medium defined its niche in precisely those terms — it would facilitate interdisciplinarity, dialogue and collaboration among organizations that may have never thought of going to a “design expo.” RAW is the ultimate, yearly expression of Medium’s mission. “Most projects are shown in their ‘finished’ or ‘final’ state. I have no idea how it got there. The iterations, conversations, drafts that it took to get there. Our thought was that maybe, if we revealed that raw process, people from different disciplines could understand the work and the people more and break down disciplinary boundaries,” Chueh added.

This year’s RAW featured over 30 project teams, from CUAppDev to Thread Magazine and Social Business Consulting. Each was given their own

ANDRES ROMERO POMPA (LEFT) AND PAMELA CHUEH (RIGHT) / PHOTO COURTESY OF MEDIUM DESIGN COLLECTIVE

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booth to show visuals, posters and customize their space in a way that reflects the club’s culture, something that Medium organizers intended as a way to unite participants into a collective while preserving their individuality. Medium established the space and set the ground rules — the rest was up to the exhibitors. Cornell Mars Rover brought a full-size, functioning model of their rover, while Daniel Correa ’18 presented a complete redesign of the Statler Hotel’s façade.

The Cornell Daily Sun also participated, showcasing new initiatives in multimedia production, the Photosphere project and ways in which we strive for integrity in factual reporting. The overarching theme of our booth was the inevitable shift of the media landscape toward all things digital. On our table, the physical copy of that Thursday’s edition was juxtaposed with a digital version of City Editor Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs’s scoop of the ILR school hack, featuring animations and graphic design by Sophia Deng ’19, our editor in chief. Videos about the recent Cornell Fashion Collective, a naval ROTC midshipman who spoke about his passion for military service and a campus salads taste-testing flashed on a TV monitor as Juhwan Park ’18,

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our multimedia editor, explained the video-editing process. Karly Krasnow ’17, Sun assistant photography editor, and Angela Lee ’19, business associate for The Sun, presented the Photosphere project. I spoke to visitors about The Sun’s place in Cornell’s community and its ongoing initiatives to sustain student journalism while keeping content and appearance relevant to its audience. I also asked attendees to identify real and fake news headlines, intending to show the difficulty of filtering information in the current media environment.

The tremendous level of creative and organizational liberty provided a lot of options for the participating organizations, but what about the visitors, who had the ultimate authority in the exhibition space? Medium’s answer was interactivity. Attendees were given paper strips of bacon, on the backs of which one could write feedback to teams and then put the “bacon” onto a “feedback plate” in each of the booths. The participating clubs were also advised to devise their own interactive activities, a tactic to draw people’s attention inspired by the Cooper Hewitt Museum. (A sound advice when attendees are bombarded with visuals from all sides). The response from the public was impressive. At least 500 people flowed into Milstein on a Thursday night, all within two hours. Two years ago, “We had no idea what would happen or if people even cared,” Chueh said. After seeing the overwhelmingly positive community response, Chueh and Romero believed they “confirmed our suspicion that design process could, in fact, create empathy and opportunities for collaboration.”

RAW reinforced Medium’s unique positioning among Cornell’s student club scene, working as a much-needed platform to connect both high-profile and obscure organizations who have something to show. It was a success not only as an exercise in collaboration but also as an exhibition of creativity and passion of Cornell’s makers, doers and artists, who sometimes do not receive the spotlights they deserve.

Andrei Kozyrev is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at aak85@cornell.edu.

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Last Call

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magine, for a moment, that you have somewhere between $1,000 and $4,000 to spend on a weekend getaway. Naturally, Instagram posts of your sort-of-friend’s Coachella experience inspire you to invest it all in tickets to the 21st century’s definitive live music event: Fyre Festival.

Organized, in part, by Ashanti backup singer Ja Rule, the event promises a “luxurious” take on festival culture, complete with fine dining and the presence of at least one Hadid sister.

In anticipation, you spend the subsequent months bragging to coworkers about your sure-to-be-great weekend of moshing to blink-182 in the

ence of deflated expectations called to mind another upcoming phenomenon: graduation.

This is, regrettably, my final broadcast as an Arts writer for The Sun. As the pageantry of graduation approaches, undergraduate life has devolved into a series of “lasts”: last French presentation, last in-class essay, last Zeus sandwich, last Slope Day, last chance to talk to someone you’ve admired from afar. Over the generations of Sun writers, the institution of the “last column” has come to mandate a certain amount of self-awareness and reflection, of publicly trying to justify why we spent four years posing as film, music and literature critics. This entire concept, though, seems much less ridiculous when contrasted with the petty showiness of graduaReally Terrible, tion itself.

And Such Small In anticipation of the big day, Portions! seniors have spent months ritualistiBahamas. You tell them to cally checking things off the check out “this guy called Bucket List (or, for some, the Skepta,” who might rap with a 161 List). For the flaky among funny accent but can put us, this has included finally together a great song. Maybe a getting around to Ezra’s big, few of these newfound grime bad swim test — one of the fans even decide to tag along more arbitrary graduation with you, calculating that a requirements. It has also few months’ rent should hard- involved the steady collection ly prevent them from bearing of tassels and pins with which witness to history. to decorate our gowns; and Finally, the day has come. here enters the showiness.

You wake up early to hop on a Those among us who insist on chartered jet from Miami involving themselves in every International Airport to the campus activity, bless their island of Great Exuma, duffel hearts, will feign embarrassbag full of Hawaiian shirts in ment at their MTV, Pimp My tow. You look for Diplo on Robe-style graduation attire. your flight and, not seeing Those in secret societies will him, assume that he must have coyly brandish their gold-platarrived days ago. Upon land- ed pins — or whatever “subtle” ing, though, something imme- reveal they decide upon for diately seems off. The festival Commencement. In the meangrounds sit in ruins. The time, those of us in less elite advertised “rustic, tented regalia will surely fight to spaces” resemble disaster relief repress a petty envy. tents. “Fine cuisine” appears in Of course, graduation the form of untoasted bread should serve as an opportunity and prepackaged Kraft singles. to celebrate these last four The U.S. Embassy soon inter- years, and to take a moment of venes to organize return flights pause before beginning the for attendees of the botched marathon of “real life.” That festival. And still, no Diplo. feeling of accomplishment is Yes, all of this actually hap- not lost on me, and I have full pened, and has proven so ripe faith in my old friend Joe’s for comedy that Seth Rogen ability to motivate us young claims to have pitched a simi- world-shakers during his lar movie idea months before speech. The hype surrounding the whole fiasco. Music festival graduation, though, often puts culture has spiraled for years too much weight on the wrong and Fyre Fest presents a questions. Where are you poignant indictment of late working next year? What will stage capitalism, of good you “do” with your life? advertising’s comic ability to Supposedly, your responses woo starry-eyed consumers. At determine whether life is fine the very least, the debacle cuisine or a pile of sliced bread invites criticism against “Super and Kraft cheese. Try as I Rich Kids” who trash entire might, re-watching The islands for the sake of a few Graduate hasn’t provided many Instagram posts (if you truly answers. love an artist, go see them on The last column, then, protour, kids). In my attempts to vides a valuable opportunity to empathize with these would- look backward rather than forbe festival goers, their experi- wards, to ensure that our expe-

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riences meant more than a collection of pins on a robe. Sure, I’ll tout my Daily Sun tassel come graduation, but I’ve made a conscious effort not to belittle these four years of working alongside a community of likeminded individuals.

In this brave new world of Fyre Festival, what’s so absurd in writing about art?

Most importantly, the last column provides a reasonable

enough excuse for a College Dropout-style outro, so here’s the part with the shout-outs.

To my editors, Andrei Kozyrev ’20 and Katie Sims ’20 — I have full faith in your ability to hold this thing together next year. To Shay “Cool Teen” Collins ’18 and Troy Sherman ’18, you two are genuine dudes and creative inspirations. Jack Jones ’18, I’ll entrust to you coverage of future stories

involving Kanye West, Bob Dylan and all of Jael Goldfine’s ’17 other favorite artists. Jael, you’re the reason I joined this thing, and I’ll always read anything you write. Alright, that’s all I’ve got, folks. Until next time.

Chris Stanton is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at cms459@cornell.edu. Really Terrible, and Such Small Portions! runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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to stay close for most of the game, thanks in large part to three hits and three RBIs from junior right fielder Dale Wickham in his return from injury. The Cornell bullpen yielded four more in the sixth, however, and the Tigers took game one, 9-7.

In game two, junior Justin Lewis gave Cornell a solid start over 5.1 innings, but the Red’s bullpen once again failed to get keys outs late in the ballgame. Lewis left the game with a 4-2 lead, but freshman Colby Wyatt surrendered a three run homer to the first batter he faced in the bottom half of the sixth to give Princeton the lead. The Tigers scored four in the seventh off senior Matt Horton and took game two, 9-5. Sophomore Will Simoneit had his third double of the day in the defeat.

Coming back to Ithaca, the Red needed to win both games to avoid finishing in last place in the Gehrig Division for the second consecutive season. That, coupled with the added pressure of playing on Senior Day, brought out the team’s best, as Cornell earned

two lopsided victories to close out its season.

Junior righthander Tommy Morris took the ball in game three and battled his way through five innings. Giving up just one run on eight hits, Morris worked himself out of jams inning after inning. Down 1-0 in the bottom of the sixth, the Red loaded the bases for the hot-hitting Simoneit, who launched a grand slam over the fence in left center field.

Cornell held onto the lead and won 5-1.

In the Red’s final game of the season, Pepicelli turned to none other than senior Paul Balestrieri for his last ever start. Reminiscent of several of his prior outings this season, Balestrieri was dominant. He yielded just one unearned run on one hit over 7.2 innings.

“Today was really special,” Balestrieri said after the game. “I couldn’t have asked for a better way to go out besides winning a championship.”

Unlike Princeton, the Red had itself a day at the plate. Six multi-hit performances and 18 overall hits powered Cornell to a 13-1 victory. Senior second baseman Frankie Padulo went 4-4 in his final game in a Cornell uniform, Wickham had three more hits and so did fellow juniors Ryan Krainz and Pierre Le Dorze. Sophomore catcher Ellis Bitar was 2-2 with three RBIs on the day.

Though many valuable seniors will depart, Wickham, Krainz and Le Dorze are part of a core group of hitters returning to the team next year.

“We bring a lot of good hitters back,” Pepicelli said. “I think it’ll be a really talented team on the field next spring.”

Senior closer Pete Lannoo recorded the final two outs in the ninth to seal the deal on the 2017 campaign.

After the conclusion of the game, the 12 Cornell seniors took one final victory lap around the bases as friends and family joined them on the field. Although the seniors — along with the entire team — had certainly hoped to continue playing into May, the dominant pair of wins in front of its home crowd left the tightly-knit group with something to be proud of.

“I’ve been getting choked up all day since I’m going to miss these guys a lot,” Balestrieri said as he fought back tears. “This is a great group, a fantastic coaching staff, and I’m really blessed to have had four years here.”

When all was said and done, Pepicelli took a moment to reflect on the soon-to-be graduates.

“It hasn’t been just one senior, it’s been the entire group that really decided to elevate the program,” he said. “They did a phenomenal job of taking us to a higher level. Paul [Balestrieri] is right at the head of that, but they’ve all played an important role in helping us to get where we need to be.”

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com.

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be paramount to building up the program. But a steadfast commitment to the program’s values will underscore the coaching staff’s biggest asset.

Of Cornell, Kerwick said he “truly believe[s] there is no better place to compete.” He is not alone in this belief. This is a message that can resonate with the young stars at the lower levels. The optimism in upcoming recruitment efforts coupled with an incredibly strong finish to the season leads one to believe that some of Cornell’s best days may still be ahead.

With all this confidence in the future, the Cornell coaches are not losing sight of what is right in front of them any time soon. The team stands at a crucial turning point. As the coaching staff makes concerted efforts to improve the team in every way, it needs to continue building on the progress that has been made. Their efforts in this regard will determine what the future truly looks like.

“Nothing can take the place of hard work, execution and upper class leadership,” Kerwick said.

This is indicative of the team’s commitment to one of its proudest mottos, and one that will stick with players, coaches and fans as the team looks ahead: well done is better than well said.

Dylan McDevitt can be contacted at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com. One Point Play appears Mondays this semester.

“We almost beat Princeton three times.”

In the final game of the series, Cornell lost 5-0, but Farlow was excited about how her team performed.

“We’re a young team that is graduating just two players,” Farlow said. “A lot of the players who helped us this year will be helping us again next year.”

Cornell’s young team will hopefully

gain confidence after proving that it has the ability to hang with one of the best teams in the conference.

As Cornell turns its attention to a talented Syracuse team, the Red will need to bring an edge.

“Syracuse is going to be really tough,” Farlow said.

“They’re having a fantastic year and they hit the ball very well so they’ll be a type of opponent that we haven’t seen all year.”

Playing against a talented team like Syracuse late in the season will be a valuable experience for Cornell’s younger players.

A quality performance would provide even more confidence for a team looking to carry over some positives into next season.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

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Season Disappoints, But Future Is Bright For C.U. Lacrosse I CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Finshing strong | While the Red just missed out on postseason play, the team got two wins on Senior Day against the defending Ivy League champion, Princeton.

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Red Ends Season on High Note

Sunday’s double-header sweep secures winning season

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The 2017 season will not have the storybook ending that Cornell baseball’s 12 seniors were hoping for, but Sunday’s doubleheader sweep over defending Ivy League champion Princeton should at least leave them with a good taste in their mouths.

“It’s good to end it on a high note,” said head coach Dan Pepicelli. “It’s nice to be able to do that in front of your home fans.”

After losing three out of four to Penn last weekend, Cornell (21-17, 9-11 Ivy) was eliminated from postseason contention. The team still had five games remaining, how-

ever, and was determined to go out with a bang. Another win over Binghamton in the middle of the week and two of four against Princeton — both wins coming on Senior Day — gave the Red a winning record and some momentum going into the offseason.

The home and away series featured two games at Princeton on Friday and two more Sunday on Hoy Field.

Princeton (12-28-1, 7-13) scored 18 runs on Friday and took the first two games.

Senior Tim Willittes took the mound in game one but was not his usual self. The righthander gave up five runs and five hits in five innings pitched. The Red did manage See BASEBALL page 15

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Red Closes Out Season League Play

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women’s softball battled Princeton over the weekend and secured two wins against the top team in the South Division. The wins were an encouraging sign for a young Cornell team that is at the bottom of the division.

“I was very excited about how we played against Princeton,” said head coach Julie Farlow. “They are going to be playing in the Ivy League championship so to come away with two wins gives us some confidence.”

Although Cornell (13-27-1, 6-14 Ivy) dropped the first game of the series 1-0, freshman pitcher Lisa Nelson was dominant on the mound for the Red. Nelson lasted seven and two-thirds innings and struck out three while holding Princeton (23-18, 15-5 Ivy) to just one run. But Cornell could not muster any run support for Nelson and Princeton won in extra innings.

The second game of the series also featured outstanding pitching from Cornell. Junior pitcher Maddie Orcutt threw seven shutout innings for the Red. Three runs were enough for Cornell to win 3-0.

“We pitched well and played really good defense,” Farlow said. “I thought that was a good way to end the Ivy League season.”

Game three was a slightly different story, with both teams bringing the bats in a back-and-forth game. Junior infielder Megan Murray added three hits in four at bats and also scored and drove in a run. Sophomore catcher Madeline Avery and junior infielder

Rebecca Kubena also had two hits on the day for the Red. Cornell trailed early, but a nine run inning in the sixth inning propelled the Red to a 9-7 victory.

“We’ve had a lot of growth and development over the year and it was nice to put that together and have some positive results,” Farlow said.

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Confidence-boost | The Red split the series against division-leader Princeton heading into the final stretch of the season.

t is said that hardship builds character. This seems to be particularly true in the case of the 2017 Cornell men’s lacrosse team.

Indeed, character is an important component of this program’s history, and the team has seldom found itself without hardship. The trials and tribulations that go into building such a successful program at a prestigious institution have certainly left their marks on this team. What is left behind is a programwide commitment, not

though it is a shell of its former self. Four years ago, the Red was knocking on the door of a national championship, and today, it sits on the outside looking in at the conference tournament.

Such an evaluation is partially true, but it is short sighted.

“Division I lacrosse has changed immensely in the last five years,” Kerwick said. “All you need to do is look at the scores each week. The depth of talent across the country has created so much parity in our game.”

Dylan McDevitt One Point Play only to excellence, but also to resilience.

Cornell lacrosse was built on this resilience.

Optimism and positivity are traits that are profound in its character.

This year was no exception. Head coach Matt Kerwick told me, “As a coach, your goal is to improve throughout the year.”

Despite not being involved in the Ivy League tournament this year, the Red (5-8, 3-3 Ivy) found plenty of success in its quest to turn Kerwick’s words into reality. The Red encountered heavy struggles early this season, dropping its first five contests. After that stretch, the team went 5-3 and was able to boast significant improvement.

The culmination of the Red’s efforts to improve came this past Saturday, when the team downed its biggest rival in No. 13 Princeton, 1817. In one of its most impressive offensive showings of the season, the team reminded us how dominant it can be, and made that tough stretch to start the season feel like a distant memory.

Despite this improvement, at first glance the team looks as

Kerwick’s insight produces a reassuring message for fans of Cornell men’s lacrosse.

As the nature of college lacrosse changes dramatically, a program with such deep character and history is poised to succeed. Recruiting is the biggest challenge that comes with the increase in parity that Kerwick describes. Every year there are more and more programs around the country ready to compete at a high level.

But the Cornell staff has proven its ability to recruit effectively in the ever changing market for high school players.

Take for example the very talented freshmen who joined the squad this year. Despite the team’s shortcomings at times this season, Jeff Teat, Connor Fletcher and Brandon Salvatore have undoubtedly been a bright spot, and it bodes well for the future. These young men represent a core around which to build an offensive and and defensive unit. As the NCAA considers rule changes to the recruitment process, the ability to adapt accordingly will be paramount to buildSee M. LAX page 15

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Women’s Tough Year-Long Journey To Its First Ivy Title

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First time for everything | The women redeemed themselves after just missing out on a title last season.

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The Cornell women’s tennis team entered this season with a clear chip on its shoulder. Last year, the team suffered a devastating loss to Princeton during the final match of the season — a game which clinched the Tigers’ Ivy League title over the Red. But this year, Cornell would not be denied.

“It was frustrating because we came so close last season, but I think that we were able to learn what it took to become Ivy League champions,” said senior Marika Cusick. “From last year’s loss, I think that we became a better team, and we knew that we had to put it all together for this season.”

Entering this season, Cusick and senior Alexandra D’Ascenzo started at the top of a lineup that featured no freshmen. The Red knew that their window to win that coveted Ivy League title was closing.

While the team continued to live by the motto of “take one match at a time,” Cornell struggled early on in the season, dropping two of its first three matches against Oklahoma and Wichita State.

The Red continued its inconsistent play in its first Ivy League challenge of the season. During the ECAC indoor tournament, Cornell lost to Harvard before bouncing back with a win over Princeton.

It was only after the ECAC tournament when the Red finally rounded into season form. Cornell won its next seven of eight non-conference matches as the team headed into Ivy League play.

And the Red would continue to carry its momentum into the beginning of league play, as the women rattled off two victories in a row, including a second consecutive win over Princeton.

But as Ivy League play wore on, Cornell was prevented from cruising to a championship. Two losses to Penn and Dartmouth left the Red with a 2-2 league record, and a realization that the only path to a title would be through winning its final three matches along with some off-days from Ivy League teams.

And that is exactly what happened.

The Red rallied to knock off undefeated Harvard, Yale and Brown to close the season to finish with a 5-2 record. However, Cornell still needed Penn to defeat Harvard during the final day of the season for the Red to finish atop the standings — a feat which the Quakers were able to accomplish an hour and a half after the Red closed out its own year.

“I’m very proud of our team because they learned from last year’s experience, and they were able to use that to their advantage this season,” said head coach Mike Stevens. “It was very rewarding to see them take it one step further this year to win the league.”

And now, for the first time in the program’s 43 years, the Red has finally won an Ivy League title.

“This team is my closest group of friends, and just being able to share this experience with them, and to end my tennis career on this note is the most amazing feeling,” D’Ascenzo said. “It is all you hope for after working so hard over the past four years.”

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Old and new | A combination of senior leadership and influx of young talent provided the foundation to the Red’s title run.

Men Rise Back to Top going to settle for nothing less than an Ivy League championship. However, this year’s expectations were warranted in a notably distinct way from previous In 2011, the Cornell men’s tennis team clinched years: the influx of a markedly talented freshmen class “We’re extremely happy with the freshmen we’ve its first-ever Ivy League championship with a dominant 6-1 decision over Columbia in its season finale. gotten this year,” Tanasoiu said. “They’ve added so Six years later, Cornell is once again sitting atop much quality to our program by locking in and understanding what it takes [to win]. The seniors the Ivy League.

In the aftermath following the nail-biting last set have also really helped them [to buy] into the system which clinched the Red’s Ivy League title last Sunday, right off the bat.”

Freshman Lev Kazakov played a particularly all was well and good. However, lost among the celebration of the championship was the uphill journey prominent role in the Red’s success this year. Entering the team as the number one recruit out of Russia and to this second title.

In a timespan of just six years, the team has now ranked as high as 30 among junior players in the seen itself humbled from the top of the podium — world, Kazakov has seen consistent playing time at falling to the bottom tier of the Ivy standings — only singles.

“Lev is a phenomenal athlete from every single to persevere and come back to win another conferstandpoint and a workhorse who does anything it ence title.

“The team has improved every single year, and I takes to get better,” Tanasoiu said. “He has high aspithink it has culminated with this group right now,” rations to play tennis at the next level, and I think he said head coach Silviu Tanasoiu. “I don’t mean to be has the ability to do so. He’s made an impact right arrogant, but our results this year are not a surprise, away and you can just sense there’s a different type of given the amount of time and effort the team has put energy and quality from him.”

And while one might expect a transition phase into the process and their own development.” from differing styles of Following its international coaching 2011 champiand play, Kazakov has not onship season, the skipped a beat. Playing at Red fell as low as A winning improvement first and second singles the fifth-seeded As compared to 2016, the men’s tennis squad for a majority of the seateam in the eightnotched nine additional wins to improve its son, the freshman has team Ivy league winning percentage from .545 to .875. compiled a 12-5 record conference. and is currently ranked How e v e r, 101 in the nation.

C o r n e l l ’s “There’s definitely a fortunes transition [to make] from would begin Russia to playing in the to turn around in the 2014 season, when the current seniors joined NCAAs, but I’m very happy I could make such a big impact on the team so early playing at first [and secthe program.

“I remember entering the team as a freshman, ond] singles,” Kazakov said. “I have to thank all the there was a large group of us new recruits,” said senior seniors and coaching staff for helping me transition to Bernando Casares Rosa, whose win against Brown Cornell and the team.”

The rest of the freshman class is quite impressive clinched the Ivy title. “At the very beginning, I think many of us weren’t very committed to tennis. as well. Pietro Rimondini and Joe McAllister entered However, Coach Tanasoiu would always tell us to do the program as five and four-star recruits, respectively. the right thing, to ‘trust the process’ … and we began Rohan Sikka was ranked as high as 17th among juniors in the U.K., while Al Hill entered the Red to want to work the right way.”

Under the guidance of Tanasoiu and the talented ranked at 109th in the nation.

However, while the freshman class certainly boasts then-freshman class, Cornell gradually improved year-by-year. The team placed fourth in both the a multitude of talent, the main reason for success 2014 and 2015 seasons before finishing in third last always comes back to the leadership of the seniors.

“Coming in, [the seniors] had a clear vision for year.

“Winning really came naturally after Coach what we could do this year,” McAllister said.

[Tanasoiu] changed the mentality of the team,” “Obviously there’s a lot of talent on the team, but Casares Rosa added. “We started winning games, and they really played a major role in laying the foundait really showed that people can improve and start tion and putting us in a position to win.” playing better by changing their mentality. It all starts To read the rest of this story, please visit www.cornellwith just putting in the work everyday.”

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Trending up | In his first year, Pepicelli’s squad finished with a .368 winning percentage. In 2017, that percentage shot up to .553.

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

On Aug. 10, 2015, Cornell chose Dan Pepicelli as the man to take the reins of its struggling baseball program. Pepicelli had been a coach at ACC powerhouse Clemson for six years and had big plans in mind for his tenure in Ithaca. Less than two years later, his impact on the team is already quite apparent.

The Schenectady native’s first season at the helm was a learning experience. With no time to put together a recruiting class or assemble a coaching staff, Pepicelli had little to work with.

What followed was an up and down year for the Red. The team had big series wins at Bucknell and Wofford, as well as a home sweep of Harvard, but an overall record of 14-24 and 7-13 in the conference left Cornell in the Ivy League’s cellar.

B u t with any new hire, patience is a virtue.

In the offseason, Pepicelli had the chance to bring in a competitive recruiting class, change up coaching assignments and continue to promote his brand of baseball to the program.

“We moved coach [Tom] Ford over to the hitters, I went over to the pitchers and really went back to what I do, and I brought coach [Frank] Hager ‘12 in as our recruiting coordinator,” Pepicelli said.

The team also brought in several new players to fill key holes, like junior transfer Ryan Krainz as the everyday shortstop and freshman Kaleb Lepper as the center fielder.

As for the culture, Pepicelli’s changes were just starting to take hold.

“He wanted us to be what we call a windshield program,” said senior pitcher Paul Balestrieri.

“It’s an attitude that no matter what’s thrown at you, you just keep fighting.”

“He’s really made us accountable and forced us to trust our teammates,” junior Trey Baur added. “When you come up to bat in the seventh inning of a big game and you can’t get the job done, you know your teammate

behind you is going to.”

This year, those changes began to pay off. Cornell fell a couple games short of making the postseason, but its overall record of 21-17 and 9-11 in the Ivy League was a significant improvement. Statistically, the team was vastly improved across the board.

Last year, the Red was last in the league in just about every major statistical category: eighth in batting average at .240, eighth in runs scored, eighth in team ERA at 6.19 and seventh in fielding percentage. This year was a different story.

“This season was clearly an improvement across the board,”

Pepicelli told The Sun. “Statistically, we were a much better hitting team, and our ERA was way down from where it was last year. We’ve shown a lot of improvements, and our wins and losses reflect that.”

The Red batted .295 and pitched to a 4.60 ERA, a far cry from those same statistics last sea-

son.

“Coach Ford has helped us out a lot,” Baur said. “He’ll be the first one to put all the credit on the hitters for what they’re doing, but he deserves just as much credit as we do.”

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Veteran Pitching Paves Way for Rebound Campaign

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

It is pretty simple. You cannot win a ball game if the other team scores more runs than you do. Needless to say, pitching is key, and has been a source of strength for Cornell baseball. As the Red has moved up in the ranks from last year, its pitching has improved in tandem, proving to be a guid-

ing force for a team moving in the right direction.

While Cornell (21-17, 9-11 Ivy) will not reach the postseason, it will end the 2017 season with better results than last year, when the team finished last in the Ivy League with a losing record overall. And in Dan Pepicelli’s second year as head coach — and first as pitching coach — of the Red, his pitching staff has impressed and performed.

Last year, the Red finCAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Gunslingers | In just one year, the pitching staff lowered its overall ERA by almost two runs.

ished the season with a collective earned run average of 6.17. Cornell currently sits in the top half of the conference with respect to ERA (4.60), despite tying for fewest strikeouts per nine innings (6.53).

“We pitch a lot to contact,” Pepicelli said earlier this month. “We don’t have a lot that’s going to blow you away, but we can be successful.”

This pitching staff does not see the game in numbers and figures, which senior relief pitcher Peter Lannoo believes contributes to his team’s success.

“I think staying oriented in process rather than results helps to keep a level head during the season, through success or failure,” Lannoo said. “Different people define success differently, but everyone knows if they are working hard day in and day out. Our pitching staff, and team as a whole, is process-driven and not necessarily resultsdriven, so that when we get in a game situation we can just relax and have fun.”

Fellow senior relief pitcher Matt Horton echoed a similar sentiment that seems to be consistent throughout the pitching staff.

“You can throw a great pitch that gets hit for a home run or you can throw a pitch right down the middle that gets popped up,” the southpaw said. “If you focus on what you can control, you will be much better off.”

Horton and Lannoo have both shined in

the back end of games to secure many wins this season. Horton has posted a .240 opposing batting average in 12 appearances, and Lannoo has recorded seven saves. The starters are appreciative of the help from guys like Horton and Lannoo, knowing if they do their job, they have a strong back end that can close the door.

“In most cases as a staff we've been putting our team in a position to win games,” said senior starting pitcher Paul Balestrieri. “I'm really proud of our bullpen.

We've had some guys in the pen that have really stepped up for us.”

Balestrieri, the workhorse of the Cornell pitching staff with 57.2 innings pitched, has contributed greatly to his team’s ability to stay competitive. The Red’s ace currently stands with a 2.18 ERA, cutting his number from last year (5.51) in half, and then some.

But the competitiveness does not come from simply keeping a game close, but rather from a mentality that this group strives for.

“I think we have had an extremely competitive mindset all season,” Lannoo said.

“Everyone in the pitching staff, from the starters to bullpen guys, is ready to compete and help the team on any given day, and that attitude is a huge reason for our success.”

Despite some disappointing results, including a series loss at home against Lou Gehrig Division champion Penn, the pitching has stayed solid. Cornell averaged three runs allowed per game against the Quakers, including a 2-0 shutout win by junior starter Justin Lewis.

“We have done a very good job at keeping our team in the game,” Horton said. “As long as the game is close late in the game, we have the utmost confidence that our hitters will provide us with runs, and our pitchers will secure the win.”

Cornell fell short of the postseason once again. But the visibly improved results and attitude of Cornell’s pitching staff under Pepicelli show promise for the future of the program.

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JEFF TEAT & CONNOR FLETCHER: Highest Scoring Freshman Duo in Cornell History

Teat and Fletcher Show What’s to Come

By ADAM MASTERS Sun Staff Writer

A young and hungry Cornell Men’s Lacrosse team looked to revive the program a year after placing second to last in the Ivy League. With the addition of 14 freshman, the Red was looking for a fresh start coming off a disappointing 2016 season.

The season has not gone as planned, but no one who has followed the team through this season can doubt the work ethic, drive, or comradery of the Cornell team.

A hard work mentality has been a focus of head coach Matt Kerwick throughout the whole season.

“They keep getting better and believing in one another,” he said.

“The team is working really hard and that is all I can ask for.”

Two newcomers — attackers Jeff Teat, a two-time Ivy League’s Rookie of the Week, and Connor Fletcher — have emerged as the offensive leaders for Cornell this season.

Once they got accustomed to their respective playing styles, the partnership has blossomed into one of the best in all of college lacrosse.

The Teat-Fletcher combo has been showcased in every game of the season, helping them become the highest ever freshman duo after surpassing the the 78 points put up by Rob Pannell ’12 and Roy Lang ’12 in their first years. Not surprisingly, Teat and

Fletcher are the Red’s top point leaders with 70 and 32, respectively.

“We are excited for where we are heading, we have a very young group in our locker room,” Kerwick said.

Teat, originally from Ontario, led The Hill Academy’s team and earned the team’s Lacrosse Award as a senior before coming to Cornell. In his final year at The Hill Academy, Teat was honored as an Under Armour All-America selection, a member of the Team Canada U19 squad and the top

Fletcher had seven.

“It took us a while to get going at the beginning of the season,” Teat said.

“Once we found our spot with

loss in overtime to Virginia, Teat tallied 11 points, the most scored by a Cornell lacrosse player since 1988. Fletcher, who assisted Teat on one of his goals, put up five points himself.

Teat and Fletcher never looked back after that as the pair continued to dominate the Red’s offensive fleet. In the the rest of eight games following the UVA the guys, though, matchup, the duo have put up a comespecially in the bined 78 points.

[Virginia] game, The duo has not only been that's when we great because both Teat and started to feed off Fletcher can put the ball in the back of the net, but also because both players see their relationship as a partnership, “Once we found our spot with the rest of relentlessly passing the ball and finding the highest percentage shot. the guys ... that's when we started to “The big thing for us is just our ability to share the ball,” Fletcher said. “We are able to feed off each other.”

— Jeff Teat feed off each other and finish easy shots.”

The 2017 campaign has been far from perfect, but there is an incredible amount overall recruit in the class of 2020. each other and feel to look forward to. Kerwick refuses to Fletcher, from Newtown, Pa., came to comfortable todwell on the past, and pushes his Cornell after helping the Princeton Day gether.” players to look towards the future.

School secure two Prep B State Undoubtedly, Teat and Fletcher Despite a 19-18 Championships in his sophomore and will continue to be an influential senior years. He also served as the piece of the Cornell men’s lacrosse team’s captain on top of winning team’s future. the team’s MVP award during his “We have to keep moving forsenior campaign. ward and it's about the next play, But while their remarkable abilithe next game, the next practies have been on display week in and tice,” said Kerwick. “[Fletcher MICHAEL WENYE LI / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR week out as of late, the offensive duo and Teat] have done a really took time to get acquainted with their Fantastic frosh | Once Teat and Fletcher good job embracing that. respective playing styles. In the first three found their footing, the duo never looked They show up everygames, Teat had only three points while back as offensive leaders. day and work.”

‘MAKING SURE WE ARE THE FITTEST TEAM OUT THERE’

Rowing Traces Path to Resurgence

By BOBBY MARANI Sun Staff Writer

Building toward races against the nation’s best at the 2017 IRA Grand Finals, the Cornell rowing program has shown that having highly disciplined workers and physically prepared boats regularly leads to success in its spring cup races.

With the Red heavyweights sweeping the Quakers and the lightweights capping off their undefeated cup season with a sweep of Dartmouth last weekend, both teams’ immense training investments have begun to pay race-day dividends. But as history has shown, simply maintaining a relentless training effort does not guarantee gold medal wins and eventual success at the annual Eastern Sprints and IRA events.

Keeping in mind that taller athletes have a direct mechanical advantage over shorter ones in the sport of rowing, recruiting technically-talented, fast and tall athletes during the team’s recruiting process is one of the most important and necessary steps in find-

ing gold for either team. While bringing in talented recruiting classes is a challenge for almost every collegiate rowing coach, it is one critical aspect of the Red’s rowing program that coaches especially hope to continue t o

The process of transforming walk-on students into successful collegiate rowers has become harder in regard to the everincreasing technical aspects and

recruits are now expected to have significant in-boat and race experience prior to arriving at Cornell.

“We no longer can rely on walk-on talent,” said program director and heavyweight head coach Todd Kennett ’91.

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Edge of glory | The rowing program knows the effort to keep itself on top comes at a high price, with much effort needed.

improve and bolster in the coming years.

In past years, the Red — like many programs throughout the country — has consistently relied on walk-on athletes to grow within the program and compete at the varsity level by their final year.

requirements of the sport.

Requiring much more than four years of hard conditioning on an erg machine to compete with the fastest boats in the nation,

“When I was a student, three quarters of the rowers were walk-ons. Today, the speed of the boats is getting so fast that the majority of walk-on athletes just do not have the time to learn the skill in order to compete with recruits who may have

been rowing for years.”

Since Kennett himself was a walk-on to the Cornell heavyweight team during his college years, his comments surrounding the future of recruiting reveal that the recruiting process within the ancient sport is bound for change.

Additionally, when noting the ways in which the Red intends to further build and support better recruiting classes that overarch the entire rowing program, Kennett stressed the important role of alumni. The current boathouse costs around $10 million, much of which came from the program’s alumni and friends.

“Alumni relations are so vital to rowing because of the support they give our program,” he said. “The alumni realize how amazing an experience rowing is, and Cornell rowing today strives to continue to provide the opportunity for athletes to succeed and be the best they can — in and out of the classroom, on and off the water.”

To read the rest of this story, please visit www.cornellsun.com.

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WHAT’S NEXT FOR MEN’S LACROSSE?

STRONG YOUNG CORE PROVIDES OPTIMISM W

By JAMIL RAHMAN

during the recent losing seasons, the 2016 and 2017 teams have comprised of 64 percent and 63 percent freshmen and sophomores, respectively.

“That’s honestly the biggest difference — my eek-in and week-out, there is an unwavering confidence filling the freshman year we had a big senior class, everyone Cornell men’s lacrosse locker room, played, everyone contributed, and same thing with my sophomore year,” said senior a confidence you would expect from Christian Knight. “The senior leadthe seventh-most winningest program in ers, upperclassmen are very imporcollegiate lacrosse history. But for the tant, [and] it definitely helps s e c o n d straight when you have some guys with year, the team experience out on the field.” finished with a Last season, Ker wick losing record and brought in a massive 17missed out on postmember freshman class. season play.

Of the freshmen, three These failures would of them were the be a disappointment team’s top-five scorto any team of any ers, with nowcaliber, but it is espesophomore Colton cially hard for a proRupp leading the gram as storied as Young spark | way with 23 goals.

Cornell’s. One has Classmate Ryan to go back nearly 63 percent of the Bray, who has been 20 years to find 2017 team was plagued with comparable teams underclassmen, injury this year, was record-wise to this setting the stage third on the team one — it is the first for an exciting with points and consecutive losing future.

Clarke Petterson is season since 1997now a captain of the 98, and the first time team, despite only finishing out of the being a sophomore. top-three in the Ivy Kerwick brought in League for two years in a another big, talented row since the pair of years freshman class this year of prior.

14, including stand-out Jeff But a turnaround came ADRIAN BOTEANU / Teat, who was ranked the No. quickly. From 1999 until the SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER 1 freshman by Inside Lacrosse. second week of the 2016 seaKerwick told The Sun earlier son, the Red was ranked for in the season that he was looking for this 210 consecutive weeks. And in that 16-year run, the team posted a win- team to be a more “team-oriented, unselfish [and] ning record each season and missed out on postsea- ball-moving offense” than the 2016 campaign, looking to not put too much of a burden on Teat. son play only three times.

But while Teat has lived up to the hype, it is Current head coach Matt Kerwick came in towards the end of this run, serving as assistant again the freshmen leading the way for the Red. coach during the 2013 season, and was promoted to Teat ranks eighth in the nation in points per game and is fifth in the nation in assists per the head role starting in the 2014 season.

During the first two years of Kerwick’s reign, the game. Teat and classmate Connor Fletcher team came out as co-Ivy Champions and secured have combined to be the highest-scoring spots in both the Ivy League and NCAA rookie combo in the history of Cornell Tournaments during the 2014 and 2015 seasons. lacrosse, and Inside Lacrosse had both Teat While Kerwick was unable to secure a win in post- and defender Brandon Salvatore on the topseason play — going 0-4 in total — it was a promis- 25 Midseason Freshman Rankings, with ing sign that Cornell would continue on the trajec- Salvatore at No. 12 and Teat No. 3. “ W e were a realtory of success. team the But as the past couple of seasons have proven, no ly young t w o team is immune to the cycles of success and failure. p a s t With the recently poor showings from the team, y e a r s , fans and followers alike are left wondering: what is [so] I think happening to the Cornell lacrosse program?

A very prominent issue for the team is relying on there’s its youth. During Kerwick’s relatively successful a 2014 and 2015 seasons, his team was comprised of only 42 percent freshmen and 49 percent sophomores. But Sun Assistant Sports Editor

CHRISTIAN KNIGHT PROFILE • Sat out his junior season due to injury.

• Made double digit saves in 10 of the team’s 13 contests this season.

• Faced career high shots of 542 and made 155 saves.

• Recorded an assist against Hobart this year for first career point.

really good backbone for Cornell lacrosse the next two years,” said senior Marshall Peters. “Now these guys have gotten these experiences, taking these experiences and transferring to tangible leadership roles, they’re going to have to step up and set the tone, but that’s something we [already] preach.”

One of the challenges that faced the young team is trying to put everything together while facing a tough schedule. During the first five games of the season, the team went up against three then-ranked opponents of No. 11 Penn St., No. 9 Albany and No. 13 Virginia, as well as current league leader Yale.

“It takes a little bit of time, obviously you want to be ready out in game one, and we weren't early in the season,” Kerwick said. “[The team has] just continued to learn and improve, they’re an impressive group of freshmen, and there’s a lot of sophomores in there as well that have done a great job.”

But the team has reason to be optimistic of what is to come. Cornell clearly has talented young players, and the signs of the team coming together have been evidenced by the late-season push.

The team finished the season 5-3 since the 0-5 slide, and the numbers for the Red have improved dramatically on both sides of the ball during that run. Cornell gave up an average of 17.8 goals per game and averaged only 10 goals to open the season, compared to scoring 11 and 13 since, respectively. The team also stayed close to UVA, losing a heartbreaking one-goal, overtime decision, and held its own early with No. 1 Syracuse, and beat No. 13 Princeton to close out the season.

And for a team that knows what it takes to be successful, Cornell knows that if it keeps working hard and staying true to the tradition of Red lacrosse, things will only get better.

“I’m not looking too far ahead, but we are very excited about where this program is heading,” Kerwick said. “Obviously we're not where we want to be right now for this season and with our record, but were continuing to improve and that's all we can ask [from] this group. I know the future is very bright.”

“The culture [here] is one thing I wouldn’t trade for the world,” Peters said.

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New beginning | The team looks to avoid a third straight losing season in 2018 and get back to the program’s winning ways.