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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents Student Guide

Arts and Entertainment

Sports

A 44-Page Introduction to Cornell

Because Nobody Can Study All the Time

For When Your Brain Needs a Rest

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

So, you’re a smart kid. Congratulations. But not even you can spend all of your evenings in the library cramming for exams and dreaming of your future Ph.D. From local concerts to groundbreaking interviews with Hollywood icons, Arts and Entertainment is your ticket to college life the way it should be: worry free. The Sun is always front row center with the headliners and coverage of arts exhibitions in Ithaca.

This issue brings you some of the best arts stories of the semester, plus a spotlight of notable Cornell alumni writers, musicians and visual artists.

What is the Ivy League? Nothing more than an athletic conference. It’s just a coincidence that it is comprised of eight of the best colleges in the nation.

Cornell leads the way in what is widely known as the Ancient Eight, setting the bar for all of those lesser schools — like, um, what’s the name of that school near Boston?

Yeah, nobody cares.

Read more about all Cornell sports has to offer on the flip side of this issue — the place where you can always find sports in The Sun.

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find your place on The Hill

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Your guide to the ins and outs of Cornell

ELCOME TO CORNELL! In a few short weeks, you’ll pack the station wagon to the brim with your belongings, say goodbye to Fido and arrive in Ithaca.

All the anticipation will finally be over.

Get ready to kick off what will be the craziest and most memorable four years of your life.

We at The Sun know how you feel — nervous, excited, curious — as you prepare to begin your first year “on the Hill.”

Remembering our own freshman days, we have created this guide for you to read before you arrive on campus to give you the inside scoop on Cornell life.

That is, until you find it for yourself.

New to campus? Of course you are.

Orientation Week will help you find your way.

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Use our map of campus to get around and learn about some of the most important buildings at Cornell.

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We’ll give you some advice about the best places to eat, study and hang out.

Inside, you’ll find information on the organizations you can join and the things you can see in and around the Hill. At The Sun, there never is a quiet day mostly because, with slightly more than 20,000 students, Cornell is rarely quiet.

So come to campus with an open mind. The people you meet, the classes you attend and the activities in which you will immerse yourself will change you, no doubt in ways you never imagined.

And the time will pass quickly — many of us would give anything to reclaim a year or two.

So don’t forget to read The Sun and ENJOY your time at Cornell. There’s no place like it.

— The 132nd Editorial Board

See amazing photos illustrating Cornell throughout the year, taken by our photo staff.

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Check out The Sun’s list of 161 things to do before you graduate, ranging from listening to famous lecturers to seeing a brain collection.

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The Sun’s editors and reporters bring you a guide to life on the Hill. Inside you’ll find information on housing, student activities and orientation. You’ll also find a full-color campus map.

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Managing Editor: Tyler Alicea ’16 News:

Noah Rankin ’16 City Editor Hamdan Al Yousefi ’16

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Haley Velasco ’15 Editor in Chief

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Caroline Flax ’15 Associate Editor

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Caroline Flax ’15 Associate Editor

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Kathleen Bitter ’15 Science Editor

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Kelly Yang ’15 News Photography Editor Connor Archard ’15 Sports Photography Editor

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ABOUT THE SUN

Night at The Sun

By SUN STAFF

Cornell has no journalism major — and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Here at The Sun, we subscribe to the philosophy that one learns best by doing. So it’s no surprise that at the nation’s oldest continuously independent college daily, we think of ourselves as the University’s journalism education. When you arrive on campus about a month from now, The Sun will also serve as your window to the world from our little corner of Ithaca, N.Y. Every day during the academic year, about 15,000 students, parents, alumni, administrators and local residents read the print edition of The Sun; another 15,000 people visit cornellsun.com daily.

And in 2013, The Sun was ranked the number one college newspaper in the United States by The Princeton Review.

The Sun was founded in 1880.

Since then, we’ve built up an impressive record of hard hitting journalism and community service, and we have given generations of Cornellians something better to pay attention to in their 10:10 a.m. classes.

We ’v e also delivered the skills it takes to succeed to a lengthy roster of America’s top writers and business people, jumpstarting the careers of Sun graduates E.B. White ’21, Kurt Vonnegut ’44, Dick Schaap ’55, Oscar Mayer ’34 and Frank Gannett 1898. More recently, The Sun has been home to Pulitzer Prize winners Eric Lichtblau ’87 of The New York Times and John Hassell ’91 of the Star Ledger of Newark. ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap ’91 was a Sun sports editor and NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91 was editor in chief.

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Once you get to campus, you’ll see The Sun every weekday morning in dorms, dining halls and countless other locations. But few realize what it actually means to “put out the paper.” Cornell’s only daily student-run newspaper is a multi-faceted organization that only works because of its members.

Editors spend what some might consider way too much time with one another. They sac-

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The News section — the paper’s largest — tracks and reports all campus life events, local and national issues relevant to you. Every day, the staff is talking to people around campus and conducting interviews in preparation for stories.

Where there’s news, The Sun is there covering it. From President David Skorton to the mayor of Ithaca to exclusive interviews with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 and Bill Nye ’77, “The Science Guy,” the news section has full access.

The Sports section works hard each day to keep Cornell abreast of the newest developments of the sporting world both inside and outside Big Red nation. With game recaps, athlete profiles and commentary on everything, you will always find action on the back page. And do not forget to look for the seasonal pullouts for an indepth look at Cornell’s athletes.

The Arts and Entertainment section is The Sun’s c o o l cre w.

F r o m movie reviews to exhibits at the Johnson Museum to local bands, Arts gives us the backstage pass to all the places to be and be seen.

Hidden behind the news you will find The Sun’s Opinion and Editorial section, a center of raucous campus debate where columnists and community members sound off about local and national issues alike.

The Science section plays a vital role at Cornell — one of the most profound research institutions in the world. Science reporters stay up to date with cutting edge findings coming from Cornell scientists around the world.

The Sun’s Dining Guide is staffed by the most opinionated foodies on campus, boldly braving the best and worst of the Ithaca dining scene and critiquing the newest eateries both on campus and off. Look out for the dining guide every week in Thursday’s paper.

A picture is said to be worth a thousand words, which is why The Sun’s Photo department is so vital to The Sun. Our photographers go to great lengths to ensure that a story is visually represented, even if it means trekking in the rain and snow all over central New York.

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Morning: Staffers read The Sun, go to class (maybe), work on that day’s stories.

The business office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

5 p.m.: Editors arrive at The Sun’s offices at 139 W. State Street, which is a 20minute walk down the hill from

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edit photos. Design staffers work on pages as stories are finalized.

10 p.m.-12:30 a.m.: Breaking news stories come in; finishing touches are made to the paper’s content and design.

12:30 a.m.: The paper goes to bed. Stories, photos and other content are webbed for the online edition. The paper is printed in N.Y., and delivered to newsstands across campus.

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The Sun is much more than a daily printed paper, though. The Sun strives everyday to provide our readers with fresh and engaging content on its website. The Multimedia department works with other departments to produce videos that supplement print

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The Web department works behind the scenes to strengthen The Sun’s online presence and is always there to save the day if the website crashes. They develop new elements of the site, keeping The Sun on the cutting edge of online journalism.

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NEWS

Skorton Leaving C.U.to Head Smithsonian Twelfth president to leave for D.C.after June 2015

By SUN STAFF

A previous version of this story was published March 11.

President David Skorton will step down in June 2015 to become the next secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the University announced March 10.

Skorton, who is also a cardiologist and a jazz musician, will remain in Ithaca and carry out the rest of his term until June 30, 2015. As the next secretary of the Smithsonian Institution — and the first doctor who will serve in the position — Skorton will be responsible for leading a complex including 19 museums, nine research centers and the National Zoo. “I am honored to be chosen to lead the Smithsonian Institution, one of our true national treasures,” Skorton said in a statement.

“The mission of the Smithsonian — ‘The Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge’ — resonates deeply with me and mirrors the collective mission of the remarkably talented community of scholars, students and staff with whom I have had the privilege to collaborate at Cornell these past eight years.”

Skorton’s term has included pivotal moments for Cornell, including navigating the financial crisis, winning the New York City tech campus competition, raising money to build the University’s first new humanities building in a century and launching Cornell’s first massive open online courses. He has also been a vocal supporter of the humanities, writing in a Huffington Post blog in 2011 that he considers them “vitally important to our national life and the security of our nation.”

His leadership over the years has been “stellar,” Robert Harrison ’76, chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, said in a statement.

“When [Skorton] departs next year, he will leave Cornell in a historically strong position, having regained its financial stability, elevated its rankings across key disciplines, increased student access, and greatly expanded its presence in New York City and around the world,” Harrison said. “All of us at Cornell look forward to the next 15 months of David’s presidency as he presides over the celebration of our rich history and helps to prepare the university and his successor for its exciting future.”

John McCarter, chair of the Board of Regents, told the Smithsonian Magazine that Skorton’s advocacy for the arts and humanities, as well as his background as a respected research scientist, make him “an extraordinary fit for the Smithsonian.”

“As a successful president of two universities, David has led complex organizations,” McCarter said. “I am confident David is the right leader for our future, as we stress continuity and aspire to further expand the Smithsonian’s presence nationally, internationally and in Washington, D.C.” A 19-member search committee that includes undergraduates, graduate students, trustees and University employees has been tasked with nominating Skorton’s successor.

Skorton began his term as Cornell’s president in July 2006. Prior to his arrival at Cornell, he served as a faculty member and then president of the University of Iowa.

He earned both his bachelor’s degree in psychology and an M.D. from Northwestern University and completed his medical residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of California at Los Angeles.

The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornell sun.com.

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Sharing school spirit | President David Skorton speaks to students who have come to Schoellkopf Field to watch the Red’s football team take on Bucknell during Homecoming 2011.

President outlines goals for remainder of term

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

A previous version of this story was published March 12.

For the next 15 months, President David Skorton says he will be busy.

Before leaving Cornell in June 2015 to serve as the Smithsonian Institution’s 13th secretary, Skorton said he is going to follow through on the commitments he has left at Cornell — “not because of some contract, but because it’s commitment of the heart.”

“The [campus] climate related to sexual assault is a very important issue that continues and needs to be dealt with all the way to the day where when we no have to worry about sexual assault,” Skorton said.

Skorton said he also wants to do everything he can to “help maintain the excellence that …

draws students” to Cornell.

“The demand for a Cornell education is breathtaking,” he said. “We have 43,000 applicants for this fall’s class of about 3,200 slots.”

In addition, Skorton said the University’s job is to continue to ensure that Cornell remains a

“The demand for a Cornell education is breathtaking.”

President David Skorton viable option for students. It must be able to recruit students based on their “ability and aspiration and not on financial means,” he added.

“Here, the biggest cost to opportunity is the cost of the institution,” Skorton said. “I think the most important thing

we’ve accomplished is to somewhat lower those barriers based on means. We have not brought them all the way down, but we have gone a long distance thanks to the work of many people and the generosity of many people.”

In his remaining months in Ithaca, Skorton said he hopes to not only continue making progress on campus issues but also cherish the time he has left at Cornell. He added that he will miss the beauty of Ithaca, as well as “the spirit of the people” of the community and the students, once he leaves for Washington, D.C. next year.

“I love them. I can’t get enough contact with the students,” he said. “I’ll miss that more than any aspect of the people part of Cornell.”

Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

Next Cornell president should focus on excellence, community, Skorton says

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

A previous version of this story was published March 13.

Although he will not have a hand in choosing his successor, Cornell President David

Skorton said he believes the next president should focus on excellence and the community.

“I think the person hopefully will have a spirit of the community, which is very important particularly in a situation like this where we are such a big part of the community,” he said.

Skorton said the question of who will replace him will ultimately need to be answered by the Board of Trustees.

“The trustees have done a fantastic job several times before, and I have a lot of confidence that they will do so again and that they will involve the campus broadly in the descript discussion of attributes and so on and so forth,” Skorton said.

“We have a fantastic governing board. I know they’ll do a great job.”

He added that if he could leave one piece of advice for his successor, it would be to focus on the “broad nature of excellence” at Cornell.

“I think if anything if any one thing had to be foremost, think about the need for the people who want to come here who want to come here from all over the world,” Skorton said. “Think about serving those people and making it possible for them to imagine a Cornell education and then actually realize that imagined dream.”

Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

JASON KOSKI / CORNELL UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY

All in the mood for a melody | Skorton joined Bily Joel on stage in Barton Hall on Dec. 2, 2011 to showcase his jazz flute skills.

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NEWS

Gannett Health Services to Expand by 2017

By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor

A previous version of this story was published Jan. 31.

With Gannett Health Services currently unable to “accommodate current campus health needs,” the University plans to more than double the overall size of the center by 2017, according to University officials.

The University will expand the center’s usable space from 25,000 square feet to 52,000 square feet and update the facility to comply with current health standards. As part of a $55 million renovation, the expansion will allow space for patients in crisis, according to Sharon Dittman, associate director for community relations at Gannett.

Gannett’s current building, which dates back to 1956, will expand primarily in the back of the building, Dittman said.

Other renovations will include a redesigned lobby area for general information, new visiting and examination rooms and a renovated and relocated entranceway facing Ho Plaza.

The additional space will increase the size of waiting areas, offices and exam rooms, since many existing spaces are too small to accommodate Cornell’s student population, according to Dittman.

On Jan. 29, Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board reviewed the sketch plan for the renovation, which includes a

summary and renderings of the project. The final plan will be reviewed in April, and construction will begin in March 2015 and end in Aug. 2017, according to Dittman.

Dittman said the University has been exploring options to improve the health services facility “since the middle of the last decade,” though the project was originally tabled in 2009 due to the financial crisis.

“The pressures on the Gannett facility had required several health services departments to move out of the building, staff in the building to work in increasingly tight spaces [and] the growing number of patients and clients to crowd into tighter waiting areas, exam rooms and counseling offices,” Dittman said.

According to Dittman, Gannett was last renovated in 1979, when there were 5,000 fewer students, demand per student was lower and there were fewer regulatory compliance requirements.

“The current facility was not designed to accommodate current campus health needs, nor to facilitate the provision of integrated health care services,” Dittman said. “The project is envisioned as a transformation of the university health services facility.”

The project cost will be funded by a “unique partnership among the deans of all of the schools and colleges, the administration and donors,” Dittman

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Gannett unchained | Above: This rendering of the proposed addition to Gannett Health Services depicts a view from Ho Plaza. Below: A site plan depicts the $55 million planned renovations between Campus Road (left) and Ho Plaza (right).

said.

Two-thirds of the project funding will be covered by the colleges and administrative units and are already in place, while the remainder is still being raised through philanthropy, Dittman said. Last July, Cornell Board of Trustees Chair Robert S. Harrison ’76 and his wife, Jane Harrison, donated $5 million to the project, The Sun previously reported.

The project will be completed with assistance and design from local architectural firms Chiang O’Brien Architects and Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects LLP. The co-founder and president of Chiang O’Brien Architects, Grace Chiang ’81, studied architecture at Cornell and has worked on projects for the University since the 1990s.

“Chiang O’Brien Architects is delighted to be working on this extremely important project with

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the University to transform the health center in a way that will allow the physical facility to support their expansive health care services,” Chiang said.

“We are extremely pleased that the University chose us to design this facility for them.”

Dittman said the Gannett staff looks forward to working with Chiang’s firm, as well as the prospect of the renovation in general.

“The entire Gannett team

shares a sense of excitement and gratitude for this opportunity to engage with the architects, the campus community, and our generous benefactors to build a facility that reflects the centrality of health in Cornell’s values and mission,” she said.

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Sees Record Number of Donations During 2012-2013 donations defies the trend of declining donor gifts across the country, Phlegar said. He added A previous version of this story was “optimistic” that participation would “continue to buck was published Feb. 24.

Administrators from Cornell’s the national trend.”

According to Phlegar, the Alumni Affairs and Development Office say there record number of donations — will be numerous positive effects which in the first six months stemming from the record- have this fiscal year surpassed last breaking number of alumni year’s “record” numbers — will donations during the 2012-13 have “a significant impact” on financial aid programs. fiscal year.

“Most alumni make students Cornell saw an 8.4 percent their top prioriincrease in ty for their number of “This trend bodes well d onations,” alumni donors for the majority of Phlegar said. during this time Cornell “This is a trend period, accordthat bodes well ing to a undergraduates.” for the majority University press Charles Phlegar of Cornell unrelease.

The dergraduates, Council for Aid to Education has ranked Cornell who depend on this support.”

In addition to bolstering seventh nationally for gifts received, with $475 million from financial aid programs, administrators said the funds raised from donors.

According to Charles Phlegar, alumni donations will go toward vice president for alumni affairs hiring new faculty and conand development, the money structing facilities, Phlegar said.

According to Joseph Lyons raised in 2012-13 represents “the largest cash total in Cornell’s his- ’98, director of the University tory.”

Cornell’s increase in alumni See DONATIONS page 7

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

NEWS

Cornell Tech Campus Enters First Stage of Development

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By SOFIA HU

Despite the recent cold fronts affecting New York City, construction is expected to stay on schedule.

“We believe the schedule is reasonable and do A previous version of this story was published Jan. not expect any significant delays that would jeopar24. dize the opening of the campus in Summer 2017.

Demolition of Coler-Goldwater Hospital, which Typical NYC weather should not impact our concurrently sits on the site of Cornell Tech’s multi-bil- struction schedule,” Dove said. lion dollar campus, officially began the week of Jan. Once completed, the campus will place an 24, according to Cornell Tech Vice President Cathy emphasis on sustainability and the first academic Dove. building will generate enough energy to run itself.

Since Cornell signed the lease for the Roosevelt In addition, the campus will include a corporate coIsland property with former New York City Mayor location, which will house tech companies on camMichael Bloomberg in December, workers have prepus. pared the ground, built a fence Cornell Tech is documenting surrounding the construction the progress of its construction site and started the interior “We believe the schedule on a blog, so that others can demolition of Coler-Goldwater is reasonable and do not keep track of its progress.

Hospital, according to Dove.

“The purpose of the [webexpect any significant After much anticipation and site] is to keep the Roosevelt planning, Dove said she is excitdelays.”

Island community and other ed about the beginning of coninterested parties aware of our Cathy Dove struction. activities, both current and “The arrival of the first barge future. Thus far we have was particularly exciting,” Dove received very positive feedback said in an email. “Cornell has worked hard to design from those who have accessed the [blog],” Dove the largest voluntary barging program in NYC. We said. are pleased to see it underway.”

In June 2013, Cornell Tech named Forest City The announcement marks another important Ratner Companies the “master developer” of the moment after a series of milestones for the school in first phase of construction, The Sun previously 2013, including the start of Cornell Tech classes in reported. In addition, Hudson Companies and early 2013, the launch of several new degree pro- Related Companies will oversee construction on the grams and the beginning of collaborations with sev- campus’ first residential building, which is expected eral developers. to begin in early 2015.

Early electrical work will begin in the next two Planners predict that the multi-staged construcmonths, according to a summary from the con- tion project will be complete in 2037, however, the struction task force, a body responsible for the con- campus will first open in 2017. Until the Roosevelt struction of the tech campus. Construction on the Island campus opens its doors, Cornell Tech will first academic building will commence this summer. continue to operate out of space donated by The complete demolition of the Coler- Google’s offices in Manhattan.

Goldwater Hospital — which is currently on the site of the future campus — is expected to take at Sofia Hu can be reached at least a year, according to Dove. shu@cornellsun.com.

Sun Senior Writer

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Looking to the future | A rendering of Cornell Tech shows a view of a portion of the future campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. The campus will open in 2017, according to University officials.

SHAILEE SHAH / SUN FILE PHOTO

Free again | A Tompkins County Consolidated Area Transit bus arrives at the Statler Hall bus stop.

University to Retain First-Year Bus Passes

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

A previous version of this story was published May 10.

The University will work to retain free TCAT bus passes for first-year students, President David Skorton announced Friday May 9 to a group of approximately 40 student protesters.

tened to the input from the U.A., students, faculty and staff.

“I believe the Assembly system worked just as it should have … as it usually does,” Blair said. “President Skorton and the Cornell administration have always been closely engaged with the University Assembly on addressing our most chal-

“Returning first-year bus passes is an exciting victory for us, but not the end. We feel that the real win is bus passes for all students.”

Michael Ferrer ’16 Some students — worried that Skorton would not have responded to a University Assembly resolution supporting the passes before the end of the academic year — prepared to stage a “study-in” in Day Hall Friday May 9. The students ultimately did not enter the building because Skorton publically addressed them and announced his support outside.

According to University Spokesperson John Carberry, Skorton said in a message to U.A. chair Jim Blair that he was “determined” to retain free bus passes for incoming students and that the passes would help the University reach its climate neutrality goals.

Blair said he was “pleased” that the administration lis-

lenging issues.”

In addition, Blair lauded Skorton’s decision to inform the students of his decision before the summer recess.

The student protesters said that while they are “optimistic” about Skorton’s announcement, there was “still plenty to be done” to address student concerns on campus.

“Returning first-year bus passes is an exciting victory for us, but not the end,” Michael Ferrer ’16 said. “We feel that the real win is free bus passes for all students, a commitment to meet worker demands in the upcoming contract negotiations and a student-led reevaluation of Cornell’s relationship with See TCAT page 9

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fundraising program the Cornell Annual Fund, the positive effects of this profitable donation year will be felt campus-wide. “[This will] ensure [that] the Cornell experience — for students, faculty and staff in the classroom, laboratory and all over campus — remains exceptional,” Lyons said.

Although Phlegar said Cornell’s ranking in the top ten nationally for donor gifts will “probably not” have an impact on Cornell’s overall national ranking, “real” benefits include increased financial aid, new faculty, support for research and new buildings.

These benefits, in turn, may serve to boost rankings, Phlegar said.

Increased participation constitutes more than just increased donations, with alumni becoming more involved in Cornell life overall, Lyons said.

“When it comes to donor participation, last year was a strong year all around,” Lyons said.

Lyons said that young alumni have been among the most eager to donate. He said the increase in donations from young alumni is due to the 1865 Society, a club for “loyal” donors to Cornell launched in 2013, as well as the Alumni Duff Ball in New York City.

This push in efforts to

engage young alumni is only partially responsible for the large numbers of donations, Lyons said. Several programs have also influenced donor gifts.

“Our young alumni programming, homecoming, and our crowd source funding programs are clearly working,” Phlegar said.

Both Phlegar and Lyons cited Cornell’s upcoming sesquicentennial anniversary as a likely reason for increased alumni engagement.

“I’m optimistic that this increasing number [of donors] is a sign of the growing excitement around the work Cornell is doing and the approaching 150th anniversary,” Lyons said.

“There’s something special

happening at Cornell, from our record number of applications to the Cornell Tech project, and this fall our sesquicentennial celebration begins,” Phlegar said. “From the alumi responding with donations, to

the faculty, staff and students, it’s a wonderful time to be a part of Big Red.” Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

ALICE PHAM / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Ring, ring | Keneilwe Selepeng ’14 makes calls at Cornell Annual Fund’s phone calling event Feb. 23.

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NEWS

Univ.Admits Most Selective Class in Cornell History

KELLY YANG / SUN NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Record number of students apply to join Class of 2018 for enrollment, said in a University statement that Cornell’s reputation as a “stimulating livinglearning community” continues to attract a A previous version of this story was published “highly talented” and “diverse” pool of applicants.

March 27.

“With the university’s sesquicentennial on the An agonizing wait for high school seniors and applicants to Cornell ended at 5 p.m. March 27 horizon, our admitted students are living proof when the University notified 14 percent of its of Cornell’s longstanding commitment to ‘any more than 43,000 applicants that they were person, any study,’” he said.

Those who were admitted represent all 50 accepted to the Class of 2018.

The University’s overall acceptance rate — U.S. states, in addition to Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin which takes into account both the number of early and regular “Our admitted students Islands. With regards to international presence, 78 countries are decision acceptances — marked are living proof of represented within this year’s a record low, down from last Cornell’s longstanding admitted pool. year’s 15.2 percent for the Class The number of women who of 2017 and 16.2 percent for the commitment to ‘any were offered a place in the Class Class of 2016. person, ‘any study.’” of 2018 — 52.6 percent — rose The number of applications from last year’s 51.6 percent.

Cornell received for freshman Jason C. Locke Additionally, the number of admission — 43,041 — was also admits who self-identified with a record high for the University.

This figure represents a 7.6 percent increase from underrepresented minority populations rose to last year, when Cornell received 40,006 appli- 25.7 percent of the total admitted pool from last year’s 24.9 percent, according to the University. cants for freshman admission.

Data indicate that this year’s admissions cycle Students of color comprise more than 46 percent was the most selective it has ever been in the of those accepted to the Class of 2018, the University’s history. Cornell denied 31,235 stu- University said.

Median SAT I scores among those admitted dents admission to the University, versus 28,481 remained constant in comparison to last year, from last year.

A total of 6,014 applicants were offered a according to the University. Both the newly place in the Class of 2018, compared to 6,062 admitted Class of 2018 and the Class of 2017 for the Class of 2017, according to a University saw an average SAT I critical reading score of 720 press release. Cornell also offered 3,133 students and an average SAT I math score of 750. a place on the waitlist, compared to 3,142 from last year.

Annie Bui can be reached at Jason C. Locke, interim associate vice provost abui@cornellsun.com.

By ANNIE BUI

Sun News Editor

Open the gates | Gates Hall sits on the corner of Hoy Road and Campus Road. Bill Gates will visit Cornell in October for the dedication of the building, which opened this year.

Bill Gates to Visit Cornell in October

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

A previous version of this story was published March 20.

Bill Gates, co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation, will visit Cornell’s Ithaca campus Oct. 1 for the dedication of Bill and Melinda Gates Hall — the new home of Computing and Information Science — the University announced March 19.

Charles Phlegar, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said Gates’ visit would be a “real tribute” to the University and to CIS. “[Gates] made a gift to the University because of the quality of our programs in [CIS],” Phlegar said. “We’ve been working with his office for several months to secure a date when he could come for the dedication.”

Though Phlegar said Gates will “definitely” be in Ithaca and on campus on Oct. 1, he said the exact details of the timeline have not been confirmed.

“We will begin to work on that in the months ahead,” Phlegar said.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — of which Gates, his wife Melinda and Warren Buffet are trustees — awarded a $25 million grant toward the construction of the building in Jan. 2006, The Sun previously reported.

Groundbreaking of Gates Hall began in April 2012 and construction is nearly complete, according to a University press release. The building is currently functioning as the home base of CIS, with some faculty members already having moved into offices in the building.

The goal of constructing Gates Hall was to unify the computer science and informa-

tion science departments.

Students studying computer science and information science say they are “highly anticipating” Gates’ fall visit.

“I think [Gates’ visit] will be an event of major significance for the Cornell community, since he is such a powerful figure who created products we all use on a daily basis,” said Valerie Hu ’16, who plans to major in computer science. “I’m highly anticipating his arrival on campus.”

Samuel Chen ’16, a computer science major, said he believes Gates Hall is a valuable gift to the Cornell community as a whole.

“I am excited for the chance to meet a personal hero in the flesh,” he said. “I already spend a significant amount of time in Gates, and I think it’s a great work environment. It’s an honor.”

Other students said they were appreciative of Gates’ involvement in the project. “[I] definitely appreciate what Gates has given us, and this goes beyond the amazing physical amenities the building provides,” said Veena Calambur ’16, an information science major. “His investment has been such a big step in expanding the [information science] department.”

Hu, who works for The Sun’s web department, also said she was “honored” to be able to study in a facility that was sponsored by someone as influential as Gates.

“It shows that he is invested in university education, which is definitely reassuring,” she said.

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

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In Spite of 2013 Ordinance, Students Held Multiple C-Town Housing Rush Persists Protests to Maintain Ordinance:‘Unreasonable pressures on renters and landlords’

By EMMA COURT Former Sun City Editor

A previous version of this story was published Sept. 12.

Despite a law passed in April 2013 that aims to relieve the offcampus housing rush, many say the pressure to sign a lease has simply intensified last fall.

The amendment to the city code that went into effect June 15, 2013 requires landlords provide a minimum of 60 days written notice to current tenants of a residential unit before renewing the agreement, showing the unit to other prospective tenants or entering into an agreement with new tenants.

“There is increasing concern that conditions in the rental housing market are placing unreasonable pressures on renters and landlords,” the ordinance reads.

For many of Collegetown residents and landlords, this has in fact been the case. Several landlords sent out emails over the summer or right when classes began notifying their current tenants about upcoming showings.

Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward) said that the new rental legislation was not intended as a cure-all for the troubles caused by the Collegetown housing rush.

For instance, the ordinance allows the 60 days notice to begin the day a lease begins. If a lease begins in the early summer — many leases begin June 1 or June 15 — then by the time a student moves in in late August, the landlord can have already begun showing the property. Additionally, because a landlord and tenant can mutually decide to waive the 60 days notice requirement, a landlord could potentially write the waiver directly into the lease.

Kerslick acknowledged some of the shortcomings of the law, but said that the legislation was not intended to — and could not, on its own — eliminate housing pressures.

“When [the Common Council] considered the legislation, when we discussed it during the process, it was certainly recognized that by itself, this was not going to change the situation,” Kerslick said. He said both a long term increase in rental housing and educating students about their rights as tenants are crucial to changing the culture of housing at Cornell.

“This is the normal situation right now; it’s that people, as soon as they get back, they start looking for apartments for next year,” Kerslick said. “And that’s because that’s the culture right now, and that’s not going to change overnight with one piece of legislation.”

The law instead attempts to give current tenants some time to live in their new housing before they have to make a decision about re-signing, Kerslick said.

“Again, the encouragement there was to get the landlord to tell you that he either gives you the option to renew the lease for next year or for you to say ‘I’m not interested,’ and so he could then show it to other people,” Kerslick

said, noting that many landlords already follow this policy.

“Landlords say it’s the students that are rushing; students say the landlords are forcing us to sign these leases early. … You can say just let the market decide, but the market’s going in a direction, I think, that’s very unhelpful.”

Kerslick noted that because the legislation went into effect over the summer, the new notice period would not prevent people from coming back this semester and asking to see apartments right off the bat. However, he said, “landlords are … really being encouraged to say ‘I can’t show this for 60 days from the start of the lease period.’”

For many Collegetown tenants, the 60-day waiting period has not protected them in the way the legislation was intended to. Avramis

Rentals sent out a notice Aug. 22, 2013 notifying tenants their apartments would be shown starting Sept. 3, 2013.

Pam Johnston Apartments sent out an email June 27, 2013 telling their tenants that they would give 24 hours’ notice before allowing an outside party to lease a resident’s current unit. At the beginning of September, however, PJ Apartments revoked that policy.

“With it now being September, the ‘mad rush’ of renting season is full force, and therefore we cannot offer a 24-hour notice and we must proceed with a first come, first served approach,” a Sept. 5, 2013 email from Grant Wilder, PJ Apartments’ assistant director of operations, read.

George Avramis of Student See HOUSING page 11

Free TCAT Bus Passes TCAT

recent in a series of protests started after the University Assembly considered a resolution that Cornell’s relationship with would have eliminated the passTCAT in the coming weeks and es. The U.A. ultimately voted in months.” favor of the passes on April 22 Anna-Lisa Castle and sent its recom’14 said she thought mendation to May 10’s protest was Visit cornellsun.com Skorton. an example of the for additional stories While Skorton effectiveness of stu- about the debate over was deliberating his dent activism. response to the maintaing free bus “This is an exam- passes for first-year U.A’s recommendaple of how grassroots tions, students held students. organizing can gener“mock bake ate pressure on represales”and exchanged sentatives to advocate for their cookies for calls to Skorton’s constituents but also how office, gathered over 550 signaactivists can speak directly to the tures on an online petition and administration to demand insti- organized a May Day protest. tutional accountability to the public interest,” Castle said.

Sofia Hu can be reached at The study-in is the most shu@cornellsun.com.

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Tighter Restrictions Force Greek Leaders To Adjust Traditions

supportive by keeping an open dialogue between fraternities to share ideas.

“I think we’ve engaged in a A previous version of this story much more open and honest was published Oct. 21.

With the University impos- conversation with fraternity ing tighter restrictions on Greek presidents,” Tabary said.

The IFC will also revamp its houses in an effort to rein in hazing and dangerous behaviors, event management guidelines fraternity leaders say they have for fraternities this semester to had to make adjustments to make sure they are in line with University policies, according to longstanding Greek traditions.

After George Desdunes ’13 Tabary.

The event management died in a fraternity hazing ritual in 2011, the University enacted guidelines are only part of what a series of policies aimed to “end Foley called a “broader strategic pledging as we know it,” The review” of how the IFC will be updating “antiquated and outSun previously reported.

One of the biggest changes dated” policies to make them made to Greek life since then more in line with the beliefs of has been the shortening of the chapters.

Tabary said he hopes to be new member period, which used to be eight weeks but is now able to provide a small binder to four, according to Felix Tabary every fraternity with the new ’14, the Interfraternity guidelines to communicate the Council’s former vice president ideas clearly.

Lenardo said that although for university and community he would not complain about relations. guidelines being Tabary said that some aspects event of fraternity life — including “unclear,” adhering to the curencouraging new members to rent rules can be “very difficult properly clean the physical and stressful.”

Still pendhouse and ing is the instilling a sense Recruitment, of respect for “The University can do Acceptance, older brothers a better job of Retention and — are “harder counseling new Education task to translate with force’s proposal the new new member educators.” to require livemember educaColin Foley ’14 in advisors in tion process.” every fraternity Other fraterand sorority nity brothers, like Timothy Lenardo ’14, for- house, according to Foley.

Foley said he has been speakmer president of the Sigma Phi fraternity, say they think it is ing with fraternity presidents to probably too early to see any draft an IFC recommendation major effects of the shortened in response to the task force’s suggestion. pledge period.

The IFC recommendation “Many fear that people will be less committed to the house, would not suggest mandatory as they have put little to nothing live-in advisors for houses who into being accepted,” Lenardo currently comply with IFC said. “Additionally, our pledge guidelines, according to Foley. classes are always diverse groups “Our stance is that there is of guys from dramatically differ- already organic mentorship ent parts of campus, and some within the system. If fraterniargue that pledging is the ties are meeting that [criteri‘shared experience’ that bring on], then they’re complying. them together.”

Otherwise, there may be a Tabary said his fraternity, problem to address,” Foley Sigma Pi, received help in said. adapting its new member Foley said he believes the process with the help of a strong Greek system is still “extremely alumni network. He said he is strong” due to an increasing unsure, however, of whether number of students rushing. every fraternity has the resources “I think we’ve had traditions necessary to do the same. in place for a long time that “The University can do a bet- people are making big changes ter job of counseling new mem- to, so it’s not going to be a seamber educators about how to less process,” Foley said. “It’s teach things in a safer way. That obviously going be difficult, but would go such a long way,” I have faith in the chapter presiTabary said. dents to do what’s necessary.”

Former IFC President Colin Despite the changes to Greek Foley ’14 said new member edu- life that have been enforced by cation plans are best looked at the University, Foley said frateron a chapter-by-chapter basis nities are starting to adjust and because some fraternities would reach a point of normalcy. prefer to do it on their own “Pretty soon, we’ll be in a using a strong alumni base or place where the system is susnational fraternity organization. tainable and the University “Our tradition is to be a gov- won’t feel that major policy erning body, but they’re individ- changes need to be made,” Foley ual chapters, so it can be tough said. to apply things broadly throughout system,” Foley said. Dara Levy can be reached at Foley said the IFC remains dlevy@cornellsun.com.

By DARA LEVY Sun Senior Editor

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Grove to Celebrate C.U. Anniversary

Sesquicentennial project to feature a timeline of Univ.history

By JESSE WEISSMAN Sun Staff Writer

DYLAN CLEMENS / SUN FILE PHOTO

High inflation | The Ithaca Renting Company on Dryden Avenue in Collegetown is one of many rental agencies in Ithaca.

University Officials Attempting to Change Housing Culture HOUSING

Continued from page 9

Rentals Ithaca echoed that sentiment in an Aug. 30, 2013 email to his tenants.

“I have had an unusually high and early demand for apartments for next year,” the email from Student Rentals Ithaca read.

Ithaca Renting Company — the same company that, last fall, saw students camping out overnight outside its offices to claim housing — sent a Sept. 6, 2013 email to tenants that began, “although the school year has just begun and you have barely had time to adjust to your new schedules, at the Rental Office we have started

this early in the fall. “[Some] people used to look for housing … in the spring — and now its just escalating, and getting worse and worse,” Kerslick said.

Paige said that since she started working at the University in 1987, she has seen the big lease-signing period shift from January to around late October or November. Paige said that it is only over the last four to six years that she started hearing about the August and September push.

“We are working to shift the culture, which will take some time. We begin our work with first-year students, its not just students already in apartments — students come here hearing

“Students come here hearing from upperclass students saying ‘you’d better find your housing for your sophomore year or you’re not going to have a place to live.’”

Julie Paige our 2014-15 Rental Season.”

“We have received over 300 inquiries for apartment rentals for next year, and even though classes have just begun we have to join the rental market as early as possible in order to stay competitive and secure the best tenants for our buildings,” the email continued.

The penalty for violating the new ordinance is a civil penalty of up to $500, which would be assessed at the discretion of the city prosecutor’s office, according to Kerslick.

“Factors to be considered when assessing the fine would include the number of tenants, number of units on the property, etc.,” the ordinance reads.

Although many students may consider the current housing search to be the norm, Kerslick, as well as Julie Paige, assistant dean of students, said that the rush has not always occurred

from upperclass students saying ‘you’d better find your housing for your sophomore year or you’re not going to have a place to live,” Paige said. “So it’s not just about the landlords, it’s about the culture that has been set, and it’s not unique to Ithaca. I’ve talked to colleagues at other college towns where this has been a culture where the early lease signing is also an issue.”

Echoing Paige’s sentiments, Kerslick said that the new laws were intended not to fuel the housing rush, but rather to give students the time to think.

“There’s always going to be a rush,” Kerslick said. “But the idea was to try and have people get a little bit more information before they make these decisions.”

The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornellsun.

A previous version of this story was published Jan. 28.

As part of Cornell’s sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, in 2015, a commemorative grove honoring Cornell’s history will be built on the top of Libe Slope behind the statue of Ezra Cornell.

The purpose of the landscape project — intentionally set behind Morrill, McGraw, and White Halls, the first buildings built for Cornell’s campus — is to “honor the history and spirit of Cornell for future generations,” said Prof. Isaac Kramnick, government, acting chair of the Sesquicentennial Steering Committee. He said he felt that Cornell’s centennial celebration in 1965 had not left “a permanent mark.”

The grove will feature a timeline of significant events in Cornell’s history along a series of stone benches and walkways, according to Kramnick. Some of the recognized events will include the 33-hour takeover of Willard Straight in 1969 and the University securing the winning bid to build Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in 2011, while room will be left at the end of the timeline for future important events in Cornell history.

In addition, numerous quotes

that “capture the spirit of the University” will be engraved on the benches, Kramnick said.

One of the first quotes along the grove will be an excerpt from the Alma Mater, according to Kramnick. He said he believed that the quote, “far above Cayuga’s waters” is especially fitting, as the grove will overlook Ithaca.

When the Sesquicentennial Steering Committee approved the idea, it appropriated funds and formed a committee that would hold a contest to decide what architectural firm’s design would be picked, according to Kramnick.

The design that was ultimately chosen came from architectural firm Weiss/Manfredi, a firm that has worked on projects including the Museum of the

Earth in Ithaca and the upcoming expansion of the Vet School.

The grove is currently being installed and will be dedicated in October.

Students said they were excited at the prospect of a grove on campus.

“It will be really nice to have a place to sit and to learn a little bit about Cornell’s history at the same time,” said Rachel Kaplowitz ’16.

Emily Kling ’16 echoed Kaplowitz’s sentiment.

“I’d love to learn more about the history of Cornell. …

Getting a sense of its history should definitely be an important part of being a student,” she said.

Jesse Weissman can be reached at jweissman@cornellsun.com.

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Happy birthday | A rendering shows the future sesquicentennial grove with stone benches lining the top of Libe Slope.

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Cornell: Reports of Sexual Assault at 23-Year High

Rise in reports not negative,show more indviduals are getting support,administrator says

By AKANE OTANI ’14 Former Sun Managing Editor

A previous version of this story was published March 23.

Reports of sexual assault have risen to a 23-year high at Cornell, a sign that efforts to educate community members about sexual violence have been working, administrators say.

From 1990 to 2007, the University documented an average of three reports of sexual assault a year; in the 2012-13 academic year, there were 23 reported cases, according to Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88. While editorials, awareness campaigns and lawsuits have warned that campuses are facing a rape epidemic, Cornell administrators say they consider the University’s recent uptick in reports an indication that more students know where they can turn to for help.

“Everyone agrees our numbers [of reports] are likely to go up,” Grant said. “We shouldn’t look at a rise in reports as a negative thing; we should see it as a positive thing because more people are getting support, either through counseling, housing changes, class schedule changes or investigations into the sexual misconduct.”

Grant’s statement may surprise some, who have argued at protests and community events that a campus culture condoning violence against women and minorities is to blame for the uptick in reports. Yet Grant says that, given how underreported sexual assault is, it is unlikely the JA’s office has heard “more than a fraction of cases that might be referred.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in five women will be sexually assaulted during her college years. In the most recent academic year for which statistics were available, just 23 students — out of more than 20,000 undergraduates and graduate students — reported being sexually assaulted at Cornell. Based on what national statistics suggest, if every student who was sexually assaulted reported his or her attack to campus authorities, the University would handle thousands of more cases every year.

But there are nowhere near thousands of cases being reported to Cornell police in a given year. What the discrepancy shows is that “there are a lot of people who are experiencing sexual assault during their college years, whether on campus or elsewhere, that could be receiving support who aren’t because we don’t know about it,” Grant said.

INFORMATION TAKEN FROM CORNELL'S 2007 TO 2012 CLERY ACT STATISTICS.

On the rise | [Top] A graph shows that the number of reports of forcible sexual offenses has increased from three to 17 between 2007 and 2012. Administrators say the rise in reported sexual offenses may not be negative because it shows efforts to educate the community about sexual violence are working. [Bottom] A graph shows the locations of where sexual offenses reportedly occured between 2007 and 2012.

A Perception That ‘It’s Not Happening In Our Backyard’

Since a high-profile string of sexual assaults were reported in fall 2012, the

University has ramped up efforts to educate students, faculty and staff about sexual violence. New students learn about sexual assault and consent during orientation; fra-

ternity brothers train to intervene in risky situations; and faculty and staff are completing a program on eliminating harassment and discrimination in the workplace.

The University has also made controversial changes to its policy on handling sexual assault cases.

“We’re starting to pay a great deal more attention to sexual assault this year than we have in recent years,” said Nina Cummings M.S. ’92, health educator and victim advocate at Gannett Health Services.

Yet in some ways, these efforts — while palpable signs of change in the campus’ rules and culture — are not enough, students say.

“There’s still a perception that [sexual assault] doesn’t happen here — that it’s not happening in our backyard,” said Juliana Batista ’16, former women’s issues representative and incoming executive vice president for the Student Assembly. “There are tons of situations where people who have been assaulted won’t go to the J.A. or police because they don’t want to talk about what happened.”

Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14 went further, saying although she thinks Cornell has made strides in educating the community about sexual assaults, the campus culture seems to remain “one that perpetuates the acceptance of sexual violence and may even encourage it.”

“It’s a culture in which rape and sexual assault, often against women or gender diverse people, are common. It’s a culture in which prevalent attitudes condone, normalize, excuse and encourage sexualized violence,” Lukasiewicz said.

Students’ hesitation to report cases may be exacerbated by the lack of medical professionals on campus who can collect evidence in the aftermath of a sexual assault, said E.E. Hou ’15, president and creative director of the Every1 Campaign, which organizes educational photoshoots about consensual sex.

While Gannett offers counseling, referrals and medical services to students who have been assaulted, students who want to collect evidence to bring their attacker to court have no choice but to go to Cayuga Medical Center within 72 hours of the attack. Because the hospital is miles away from campus and not easily accessible for students without a car, there is an “undue burden on students to get evidence,” Hou said.

All three students interviewed are hoping See REPORTS page 15

Univ.: Abroad Reach to Nearly Double Students, Administrators

Cornell pledges to have half of all undergraduates study abroad by 2020

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

A previous version of this story was published March 4.

Cornell has pledged to have half of all undergraduates study abroad by 2020 as part of its new Generation Study Abroad Commitment, which was signed and launched March 3.

Over 150 colleges from 41 states in the United States have already signed the commitment, according to the Institute of International Education, the sponsor of the initiative. In his 2012 presidential white paper — “Bringing Cornell to the World and the World to Cornell” — President David Skorton said international programs at Cornell have been given “insufficient attention” in

recent years.

“The de-emphasis of area studies as a national priority has been detrimental to the vitality of area studies programs at Cornell and nationally,” Skorton wrote in the 2012

“We definitely need to offer opportunities all over the world.”

Fredrik Logevall paper.

According to Marina Markot, director of Cornell Abroad, the University aims to maintain its historically prominent standing by increasing its focus on international programs.

“Cornell’s strong international standing as a premier worldclass university is also very important, and if study abroad can contribute to this in a small way, it is certainly a goal worth pursuing,” Markot said.

Currently, Skorton said, 27 percent of Cornell students earn academic credit for “meaningful international experience.” The commitment’s goal is to have this proportion of students reach 50 percent.

Fredrik Logevall, vice provost for International Affairs, said it is “crucial” to know what “meaningful” really means for Cornell students.

“It is important that overseas experiences be integrated into the curriculum,” he said.

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Embraces Global Studies

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun Associate Editor

A previous version of this story was published Sept. 18.

More than a year after President David Skorton released a white paper urging Cornell to invest in international studies, University officials say they have seen rising enrollment in not only study abroad programs but also foreign exchange programs.

In the white paper, Skorton says the University’s goal is to have more options for students to have an international experience, “whether through Cornell Abroad, other overseas study programs, well-designed internships or service learning.”

“Our goal should be to ensure that no less than 50 percent of Cornell undergraduates have an international experience by the time they earn their degrees,” he says in the paper.

According to Kristen Grace, associate director of Cornell Abroad, there has been an increase in the number of people going abroad through C.U. Abroad both for the fall semester and for the whole year. It is, however, too early to tell what the enrollment numbers will be for this spring, she said.

“Last fall, we had 101 students, [and] this fall, [we will have] approximately 130 stuSee ABROAD page 14

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Concerns Over Job Market Lead Students to STEM Majors

By JINJOO LEE ’14 Former Sun News Editor

A previous version of this story was published Feb. 25.

Advocates for the humanities have expressed concerns in the past few years about the looming threats to humanities majors in the United Stats — ranging from general concerns about high unemployment rates for humanities graduates to a recent 2013 Congressional proposal to cut 50 percent from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cornell, too, seemed to feel the impact in 2011, when the number of degrees awarded in the humanities plummeted.

Since 2003, the percentage of students with a humanities major in the College of Arts and Sciences fluctuated between 35 to 41 percent, before dropping to 31 percent in 2011. Since then, the percentage of students with a humanities major increased by one percentage point for the Class of 2013.

Meanwhile the number of students with a major in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics field has steadily increased in the last decade, according to figures provided by the University Registrar.

The dip in the number of humanities majors in 2011 may have been partially due to job market concerns, since the decline was correlated with the economic downturn of that occurred in late 2008 — around the time that the Class of 2011 began to declare their majors — according to Tricia Barry, director of communications in the College of Arts and Sciences.

There may be a basis for humanities majors’ concerns about unemployment.

social sciences majors both in the short run and the long run.

Gretchen Ritter, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said that the concerns about the humanities have been exaggerated. Anxieties about the economy have fueled a “narrow, short-term perspective” on careers, she said, citing a recent survey that found that 74 percent of CEOs advocated a liberal arts education.

“A liberal arts education with a strong foundation in the humanities is the education that best equips you for a changing world,” Ritter said.

In contrast to the humanities decline, the number of students in a STEM major increased in the last decade, according to statistics from the University Registrar. In 2013, 38 percent of Arts and Sciences students had a major in STEM-related fields, which was up six percentage points since 2003.

Connor Archard ’15 — who is The Sun’s Sports Photography Editor — said one of the factors that affected his decision to switch majors from psychology to electrical engineering was concern about his career prospects. When Archard attended an engineering career fair his freshman year, he said he was impressed by the number of opportunities available to engineers.

“It seemed like [engineering students] had a lot of interesting prospects, and I didn’t see any of those for myself,” he said.

According to some students, by increasing resources for career planning, the University could keep more students in the humanities.

Olivia Duell ’14, who double majored in English and feminist, gender and sexuality studies, said that while humanities majors are given plenty of academic

COURTESY OF KOETTER KIM & ASSOCIATES

Oh, the humanities! | Klarman Hall, currently under construction, will rise behind Goldwin Smith Hall when completed in 2015. It is the first building dedicated to the humanities approved for construction in over 100 years.

Above: A rendering shows the facade of Klarman Hall from across East Avenue. Bottom Left: A rendering shows the south courtyard of Klarman Hall facing Goldwin Smith Hall. Bottom Middle: A rendering shows the atrium of Klarman Hall. Bottom Right: A rendering shows the south courtyard as seen from the East Avenue level above.

According to data released by the Georgetown Public Policy Institute last year, the unemployment rate for recent college graduates was highest for anthropology and archaeology majors — at 12.6 percent — while the unemployment rate for other humanities majors, including English, philosophy and history, ranged from 9.5 to 9.8 percent.

In contrast, recent graduates with majors in chemistry faced an unemployment rate of 5.8 percent, while math majors faced an unemployment rate of 5.9 percent and engineering majors had an unemployment rate of 7.4 percent.

But long-term earnings reflect better earning prospects for humanities majors. Although humanities and social sciences majors start out earning 84 percent of what professional and pre-professional majors earn, they begin to out-earn from ages 56 to 60, according to a January report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. STEM majors and Engineering majors still outearn humanities and

resources, the college could do more to guide humanities students after graduation.

“It would be so much nicer if [humanities departments] had resources to put current undergraduates in contact with recent alumni for advice,” Duell said. “If this is already a resource, it should be better advertised.”

Archard said Cornell seems to have great resources for students in STEM fields “in terms of getting students to have hands-on experience,” something he said did not seem readily available as a psychology major. Such resources include career fairs geared towards STEM majors — such as the Engineering, Technical and Entrepreneurial career fair — and student project teams in the College of Engineering, which allocates funding and resources to groups of students to pursue their projects of interest.

Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

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Humanities | Goldwin Smith Hall, which houses the College of Arts and Sciences, is a prominent humanities building on campus.

Humanities Students Adopt Additional Minors

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Senior Writer

A previous version of this story was published Feb. 26.

Last semester, Maris Hansen ’16 took six classes — astronomy, French, two courses on finance, one on comparative inequality and one on immigration policy. But only the last two courses went toward her government major; the rest, she said, were for her more “practical” minors in business, international relations and law and society.

“The business aspect came in after long, long discussions with my mother,” Hansen said. “My family agrees that I should study something I truly care about and am passionate about, but they wanted me to also do something practical and employable — something I could fall back on.”

Hansen is not alone. In recent years, Cornell has seen an increasing number of humanities majors factoring in career preparation when deciding on minors, second majors and courses in which to enroll, professors say.

Though the number of students majoring in the humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences has been consistent over the years — 28 percent of students in 1981 and 24 percent in 2013 — the number of students adding minors rose from 180 students in 2009 to 288 students in 2013, according to data provided by the College.

Clara Ann Joyce ’15, a classical studies major, said she decided to also minor in business — in addition to Italian and horticulture — because it is a “practical minor.”

“My parents had always said, ‘you’re a classics major, but you do have to get a job eventually.

What are you going to do with that?’”

Nate Jara ’16, a government major and near eastern studies minor, said he has also tried to make himself more appealing to potential employers in the intelligence community. For Jara, this was by way of taking Farsi, a language that he believes is currently among the most “marketable” in the intelligence community.

“I had to do a language for Arts and Sciences, but in terms of the one I went with, it was a decision I came to after doing research on what’s best for the career field I’m interested in,” Jara said.

Among students majoring in the humanities — including foreign languages, literature, philos-

ophy, religion and anthropology — professors say they have seen an increase in students adding second majors and minors in areas such as business and economics, that students believe are more likely to prepare them for their careers.

This trend is not limited to Cornell, according to Pauline Yu, president of the American Council of Learned Societies, a nonprofit organization that seeks to strengthen relations among humanities scholars.

“In my contact with various programs around the country, I have heard that this phenomenon is very popular with students interested in humanities who want to hedge their bets,” Yu said.

Prof. Annetta Alexandridis, director of undergraduate studies for art history, said she has seen more students in her department double-major in computer science or economics in recent years. Some choose to major in those subjects and keep art history as a minor, which she said is “a way to satisfy themselves and their parents.”

She said, though, that a degree in art history could be attractive even to employers in science, technology, mathematics and engineering fields.

“This mental training with images is something you need in the medical community and in the sciences, and as an economist, where you’re organizing images to be understood,” she said. “Employers want people who can think outside the box.”

Prof. Abby Cohn, the director of undergraduate studies for linguistics, said while the number of majors in her department has stayed fairly constant at about 15 students, they are increasingly adding computer science as a second major.

“That’s one of the areas right out of undergrad where there are a lot of opportunities available,” she said.

Cohn added that there is a concern among professors in the College of Arts and Sciences that more students are adding majors and minors that seem useful, rather thatn focusing on subjects they are truly passionate about.

“Often, students will have one major that is the thing they love,” she said. “The other one is something someone in their family thinks is a good, practical thing to do.”

Sarah Cutler can be reached at scutler@cornellsun.com.

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C.U.Radio Station Moves to C-Town Donation from Keith Olbermann’79 helps studio secure space

at the Cow Palace and somehow made WVBR as special for [them] as it was for us, even in a facility that was ill-suited to the task, inconvenient and every other bad thing you could say about it.”

A previous version of this story was published March 17.

According to Michael Mallon ’14, former senior vice After spending 14 years in what was meant to be a “temporary location” on East Hill Plaza, Cornell’s student-run president of communications for WVBR, the return to radio station WVBR has made the shift to a brand-new stu- Collegetown is vital for the station’s position as a bridge dio location in Collegetown — officially opening for busi- between Cornell students and the residents of Ithaca.

“My favorite part about this station is that it’s symboliness during a ribbon-cutting event on March 15.

“We’ve been operating a bare-bones radio station for the cally located at the bottom of Collegetown,” Mallon said. past 14 years,” said Drew Endick ’14, former general man- “It’s easy to reach for the students but so close to the downager of WVBR. “[The new space] features the amenities of town area — most of our listenership comes from the Ithaca any major corporate radio station, but it has the appeal, population.”

The station’s main new studio, with soundproof walls space and ability to innovate that any college radio station has. This will be a spectacular place to create content and to and a large window overlooking Stewart Avenue, is such an example, he said. learn.”

“This is the perfect way to see Collegetown, to look out According to Endick, the new space at 604 East Buffalo St. — named Olbermann-Corneliess Studios — features over Ithaca, to be a real part of the community, and that’s $60,000 worth of new mixing board equipment. Newscaster something we really lacked when we were on East Hill and political commentator Keith Olbermann ’79 received Plaza,” Mallon said. “We felt very separated — not a lot of naming rights for his large contributions, choosing to com- people hung out at the station when they weren’t on air, and memorate his father Theodore Olbermann, who he cites as that’s something we really tried to fix.”

Besides the new building itself, the capital campaign a primary motivator for his work in media, and former WVBR program director Glenn Corneliess ’79, who died in went toward funding new mixing boards, soundproofing and recording studios, according to Mallon.

1996, in the name.

“Our brand-new “We did at VBR,” Olbermann said of boards rival any major his time at the station. “We plotted our “If I considered what I’d actually radio station in the councareers, we plotted our social lives and given back to WVBR as a percenttry,” Mallon said. “We our dates, and of course, we plotted can actually broadcast against each other. We could not, howevage of my career earnings, I’d still live out of any space in er, have plotted these circumstances, so it owe [it] quite a lot.” the studio. … This is a is truly an honor to me, and it’s been my huge upgrade, because privilege to put [Corneliess’] name on Keith Olbermann ’79 when we started our these studios.” launch two years ago for The East Buffalo Street building was secured in Dec. 2012 in the midst of the $985,000 capital CornellRadio.com, it was a $100 mixer in a basement. Now campaign to overhaul WVBR’s studios, according to Peter it’s a full-fledged station.”

According to Mallon, a large majority of the new studios’ Schacknow ’78, a member of WVBR’s board of directors.

The building was then renovated last summer and most of funding came from WVBR alumni, as well as support from the station’s belongings — which included records, CDs and students. Olbermann was a primary contributor to the camequipment — were moved into the new space over Winter paign and spoke at the ribbon-cutting event from his home, congratulating the students and board members who were Break.

The new location also has twice as much usable space as involved with the transition.

“Congratulations to everybody for pulling so hard, espethe previous space near East Hill Plaza — dubbed “the Cow Palace” due to its association with the New York Holstein cially those who lived amid the cows for so long and kept the Association, a cattle breeding organization — according to voice alive like some sort of medieval cult,” Olbermann said.

“It was the most trying period in [WVBR’s] history, and I’m Endick.

The Cow Palace had been used as a temporary home for honored to have had anything to do with bringing forth a WVBR — and later its sister station Cornell Radio — after new home for the station.”

Though Olbermann was unable to attend the ribbonits previous permanent residence at 227 Linden Ave. was condemned by the city of Ithaca in 2000, Schacknow said. cutting event in person, he said that he has plans to visit the However, due to cramped conditions and significant dis- new studios soon.

“If I considered what I’d actually given back to WVBR as tance from campus, relocation from the Cow Palace became a “top priority” for WVBR, said Schacknow said, who is also a percentage of my career earnings, I’d still owe [it] quite a lot,” he said. chairman of the capital campaign for the new studios.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said at the event that “2005 was my first trip to visit the Cow Palace. To say that I sunk into a deep depression the moment I saw it WVBR has an important role in giving the Ithaca commuwould be an understatement,” Schacknow said. “But I real- nity a positive relationship with Cornell students, which he ly have to hand it to the people who went through four years believes is often lacking.

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Rock and roll | Radio station WVBR moved into its new Collegetown home on East Buffalo Street, pictured above, in March.

“Radio is a deeply personal media. You are able to enter the home, the car, the kitchen, sometimes the bathroom of people all over the city,” Myrick said. “You change [Ithacans’] impressions of Cornell students. When you come into their lives and entertain them you are bringing for a lot of people in the community the only positive interaction with Cornell students.”

Mallon and Endick, both seniors, agreed that though they will not have much time to personally make use of the new building, they look forward to what WVBR and Cornell Radio will be able to accomplish in the new studios.

“This will be our home for the rest of my life, at least,” Mallon said. “This is a place we can keep nice, this is a place we can now afford to take care of. We’re at a place where the leadership of the station is extremely competent, and can take care of the station properly with no qualms.”

Endick said he believes WVBR’s new location is home to “the best college radio studios in the country.”

“It’s sad that I’m leaving this place in about a month and half,” Endick said. “I don’t get to use this space that I wanted to use so much, but I’m happy for all of the students who have access to this space and will hopefully make the best of it. … This space presents an opportunity for Cornell students to have accessible, hands-on training in media communication. This is not something that is very common — not a lot of students want to do it — but for the students that do want to learn media, this is the place.”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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dents. For the full academic year, we had 44 students in 2012-13. This year, we have 45, but our spring numbers are much heavier — [typically around 350 students],” Grace said.

Grace added that even before the 2008 financial crisis — when the number of people going abroad dropped dramatically — numbers for fall semester abroad only approached 117 people. “[After the financial crisis hit in 2008], the number of students studying abroad went way down right away. Since then, [the fall numbers] have been hovering around 100, so to go up to 130 is a big jump,” she said. “Hopefully that will continue with spring as well, but really it’s too early to know.”

The number of graduate and undergraduate students who went abroad and earned credit from Cornell increased from 1,478 in academic year 2010-2011 to 1,773 in 20112012.

However, C.U. Abroad is not the only group that sends students abroad, according to Grace.

“As far as enrollment goes, there are lots of pieces to the whole enrollment picture.

Cornell Abroad is the biggest but not the only one sending students abroad,” she said.

According to Christine Potter, study abroad and exchange advisor for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, there has also been an increase in the number of people who participate in CALS exchange, a way many students in CALS are able to study abroad.

“It’s still too early to say if there will be an increase for the 2013-14 academic year, but yes, in recent years, we have seen an increase, especially in participation in the CALS Exchange,” she said. “Last year, our numbers were up by 30 percent.”

Grace noted, however, that it is “hard to know” what is driving the numbers. “[It is] always hard to know what’s driving numbers like that — the economy is better now than it was, and I think thats a real factor, but the administrative support have been loud and clear, and I certainly hope students are getting that message too,” she said.

Last semester marked the two-year anniversary of the release of the white paper,

which Skorton released on March 2, 2012.

In the white paper, Skorton says the University must pay more attention to internationalization.

“Despite this long history of distinction, in recent years, considering the interdependence of people and nations in the 21st century, insufficient attention has been paid to international studies and international

“All the colleges have been internationalizing.”

Kristen Grace engagement at Cornell,” the paper stated.

Recently, however, Grace said that Skorton’s call has been headed by the colleges.

“All the colleges have been internationalizing, but I would say [President] Skorton’s message has really resonated with faculty and administrators who have interest in international matters,” she said.

Potter echoed Grace, saying that CALS is working to build upon its already “long tra-

dition” of partnering with institutions abroad.

“In the next year, we hope to add an additional 10 partners to our existing portfolio of 21 agreements,” she said. “We’re growing partnerships in Latin America, including Ecuador, as well as building onto our already popular European destinations.”

Potter said the faculty play a large role in the facilitation of international partnerships.

“Whether partnerships flourish out of joint research interests or other academic alliances, our faculty are the champions in identifying international partners that aim to augment our students’ education,” she said.

Grace also said that internationalization has become a larger part of the Cornell experience.

“Where it used to be seen as ‘well why would you ever want to leave Cornell,’ now it’s seen as ‘well this is an important part of undergraduate education, and Cornell should be a part of it,’” she said.

Caroline Flax can be reached at associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Reports of Sexual Opportunities Abroad to Increase Assault at C.U.Have Increased Since 2007 ABROAD

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Administrator: The more students involved in consent ed.,the better REPORTS

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to make reporting sexual assaults easier by convincing the University to hire its own Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, a medical professional specialized in caring for and collecting evidence from victims of sexual assault and abuse. If students can walk into Gannett to have forensic samples taken, they may stand a better chance of bringing their attacker to court or providing evidence to the J.A. “Because evidence in the wake of a sexual assault is so rare, and the burden of proof has recently been lowered due to [Policy] 6.4, a SANE nurse could strengthen the new investigative process by providing an avenue for more evidence,” Hou said. “Allowing survivors to go forward with cases when they wouldn’t be allowed to otherwise … can allow them to psychologically cope.”

Students: Bottom-Up Approach Needed to Fight Sexual Assault

The University’s Council on Sexual Violence and Prevention — formed in fall 2013 by President David Skorton to collaboratively address sexual assault at Cornell — has 48 members on its roster. Just five of those members are students.

The poor student representation on the council is perhaps a symptom of what Hou sees as a significant issue on campus: student leaders not being knowledgeable enough about sexual assault to effect meaningful change.

Even the administrators at the forefront of sexual assault prevention and adjudication efforts say they can only do so much. Students also need to help each other in their day-today lives, Grant said.

“Those of us who are in bed at 10 at night don’t have as strong a pulse on these issues like party life, academic life and extracurricular activities and don’t see firsthand what’s going on in students’ lives just day to day,” Grant said. “The more students who get involved, who say ‘we want people to be respected,’ who expect sexual activities to be safe, fun and sober enough to be consensual … the better.”

It may not take radical steps to get more students actively involved in primary prevention.

Research shows that perpetrators of sexual assault are often a small minority of the population who, in a White House report, were found to admit to committing an average of six rapes each. Perpetrators “offend

multiple times, sometimes because we don’t have systems in place that can easily hold them accountable,” Cummings said.

“If in fact that’s true, we have a large critical mass of students who, by learning about and paying attention to risk factors and watching out for their friends, can make a difference,” Cummings said.

Akane Otani was the managing editor of The Sun’s 131st editoral board. She can be reached aotani@cornellsun.com.

“[They] should include mentoring and facilitated reflection whenever possible.”

Logevall added that Cornell is “taking a global approach,” planning to offer more diverse locations for studying abroad.

“We definitely need to offer opportunities all over the world,” Logevall said. “More can be done to get students off the beaten path.”

Markot said Cornell Study Abroad will implement several steps in pursuing this commitment, one of which is integrating study abroad programs with “curricula of undergraduate majors.”

Skorton cited Cornell’s high fee for study abroad as part of the reason why the number of Cornell students studying internationally are lower than desired, adding that the price is “unaffordable for many.”

“Cornell’s fee for study

abroad, which to my understanding is the highest in the country and more than twice as high as that of any of our Ivy peers, is a significant impediment to study abroad,” Skorton said in the paper.

According to Markot, there will be additional funds allotted to study abroad as part of Cornell’s commitment, which she thinks will affect Cornell “only for the better.”

“Some of the internationalization funds allocated to the vice provost for International Affairs’ efforts have been earmarked for the study abroad initiative,” she said.

Logevall said he thinks an increased effort to emphasize international programs will strengthen Cornell and that it is “imperative” to secure funding for international programs, citing professional reasons for students to engage abroad.

“Cornell graduates will need to be able to navigate nimbly and sensitively as they move into their careers and

enter a more fluid world structure,” he said. “We want our students to be able to compete for the best jobs. Many of these positions will be international.”

Brendan O’Brien, director of the International Students and Scholars Office, said he had similar opinions.

“I certainly support the initiative,” O’Brien said. “I think it’s important that Cornell prepares students for the global workplace.”

O’Brien said the 20132014 academic year has seen an increase in international students — the highest number at Cornell to date — and that the number of students studying abroad should reflect the same trend.

“I think it’s a great thing that Cornell students go and study abroad all around the world, and that Cornell welcomes people from all over the world,” he said.

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

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To the Class of 2018: Now Is Your Chance FROM CLIMBING THE 161 STEPS of the clock tower, to sitting on the patio at Collegetown Bagels with friends, to Homecoming and Slope Day: These are the moments that we will remember from the time that we spent at Cornell. While we spend most of our hours in the classroom, the impact that we make on Cornell and the greater Ithaca community will be the legacy that we leave behind.

As I begin my senior year, I encourage each and every student to step out of their comfort zone. Join a new organization on campus, take a class outside of your major, volunteer for something new — just get out there and try something different. Over the past three years, I have found that the things that I have been most unsure about but tried anyway paid off more than I could have imagined.

Now that you are joining us on the Hill, we advise you to use your time wisely and enjoy every moment, because it truly does go by quickly. Spend an extra hour laying on the Slope or grabbing lunch with a friend on campus instead of studying.

Remember the bonds and relationships that we build are far more important in the end.

While we encourage the incoming class to take embrace every moment, we also challenge you to be better than we could ever be; to be more innovative, creative and inclusive than any other class. Find the problems that plague our campus and work to change them. Leave the Big Red community a better place than ever before. To the Class of 2018, this is your school now, which means you have the opportunity to not only take advantage of everything Cornell has to offer, but also to push for change that will make our university better.

— H.A.V.

W

hat does it mean to be successful? At Cornell there are certain ideas of success that we internalize, and they usually measure success in terms of quantitative productivity and recognition from those in power. No matter how much work we put in, all this effort is invalidated if we are not rewarded with some sort of formal acknowledgment that we have succeeded, whether that is a high-paying job or a diploma. We seem to enter university with dreams that gradually become to be less defined by us and more defined by power.

I’m talking about redefining success, but not in terms of some fluffy, neoliberal sense of self-gratification.

This is not necessarily about finding the “positive” in a failure, but about seeing failure as a kind of s u c c e s s .

Changing the world means defying what is conventionally seen as successful.

This is about learning all the magnificent ways you can fail.

Success seems to be defined more by gaining a stamp of approval from power rather than challenging it. It is building a school in Africa that will do more to advance one’s own career than to eradicate the poverty. It is upholding the status quo, or perhaps tweaking it in ways that are not disruptive.

Assata Shakur said “no one will give you the education you need to overthrow them,” and no one will give you the certification you need to build a new world order that isn’t based in violence and exploitation.

But change happens slowly, and some of the most transformative acts we do in our lives are accumulations of

mundane and immeasurable things.

The way our ideas of success are oriented around a capitalist logic of productivity and quantity then can make us feel like failures if we do not live up to those standards. However, the small and big interventions we make into the status quo, into shattering what is “normal,” are rarely recognized by such a logic. They manifest themselves in less tangible, less visible ways.

It is not measured in grades, in awards, in formal recognitions. It is felt in passing moments and in a shifting atmosphere and in the spaces where your imprint is felt. There is a special kind of value in an invisible impact; it can’t be captured, taken away or reversed. It exists in the conversations we have with each other, in the glimpses of change we hear in each other’s hopeful voices.

I want to think about success not in terms of what is gained, but what is lost.

The most revolutionary kind of education compels you not to learn, but to unlearn — to unlearn everything we took for granted. This country wasn’t founded on values of freedom.

Diversity does not solve racial injustice. Colonialism is not over.

Shedding layers and layers of what we have taken as simple truth is part of a transformative education. But its not one that can necessarily be measured through grades. Its a shattered worldview that becomes a part of us, one we have to reconstruct on our own.

[Success] is not measured in grades, in awards, in formal recognitions. It is felt in passing moments and in a shifting atmosphere and in spaces where your imprint is felt.

Rebecca John graduated in 2014 from the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at rj224@cornell.edu.

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Cornell in Spring

Learning Outside Of the Classroom T

he opportunities available to students at Cornell are numerous. First-year and transfer students, in particular, who have not done so already so, should try to join a club, organization or assist a professor in doing research. There are hundreds of ways to get involved on campus. Participating in such opportunities can enhance your experience at Cornell and simultaneously permit you to give back to the Cornell community. Perhaps, most importantly, such opportunities can enable students to grow in ways that augment learning within the traditional classroom setting.

Cornell University is a large school and joining a club or participating in extra-curricular activities allows you to create a smaller, more intimate community for yourself. Further, every experience outside of the classroom enhances our journey at Cornell. Each new activity you get involved in provides an opportunity to explore emerging interests and meet new friends, whether, for example, it involves a club sport, a pre-professional organization, a Greek fraternity or sorority, student government, writing for The Cornell Daily Sun or conducting research in a lab.

During my time at Cornell, I have been fortunate enough to participate in a number of activities in addition to taking classes. Through these opportunities, I have met new friends, and explored new interests.

Through my past work on the Student Assembly, I have learned a lot about many different cultural organizations that I may have never interacted with otherwise. With

Cornell University is a large school and joining a club or participating in extracurricular activities allows you to create a smaller, more intimate community for yourself. every new person I met through these interactions, I have grown as a person, while still trying to navigate my way through school.

That being said, there are also unique opportunities within the classroom to reap many of the same benefits found outside the classroom. This past summer, as I was creating my fall schedule, I read about a class that I never knew existed: Education 2200: “Community Learning and Service Partnership” (or CLASP).

Students enroll in the course and commit to taking two classes, one in the fall and one in the spring semester.

During that year, Cornell employees and students work together, through learning partnerships. The Cornell students provide learning assistance and tutoring to Cornell staff.

In the program, the Cornell employee sets learning goals and the student assists that staff member in reaching those goals. The goals range from improving math skills to GED preparation to learning new computer skills to strengthening reading or writing abilities. Many of Cornell’s departments have agreed to allow employees to participate in this program for as many as three hours each week. The staff member’s participation is kept confidential and the employee decides whether to share this experience with co-workers.

The semester has just begun, but the CLASP experience has already made students feel like they can make a difference within their community. Likewise, the participating employees feel more connected to the students they work with. I share this story as an example of the possibilities available to all students at Cornell outside of the conventional class setting.

I urge you to seek opportunities that will provide new learning experiences, whether it is through a program such as CLASP or a club of your choosing. Consider searching the student organization roster or course catalogue or speaking with friends and professors for recommendations.

Ross Gitlin is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the undergraduate student-elected trustee. He may be reached at rhg68@cornell.edu.

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To Go or Not to Go: The Great Abroad Debate A

fter one year would qualify me for a then, as I ruminate over on semester swapping lines this dilemma in an mis spent aimless hikes to of the Aeneid with priests attempt to stave off my and from my all-too- in the Vatican City, the paper for Introduction to humble abode in Low Arts and Sciences’ Statistics, I realize that, Rise 7 and another one requirements disallow as much as there is to marked by the dizzying me from studying in any gain from studying rise in self-confidence non-English speaking abroad, there may be that comes from no country. The merits (or even more to lose. longer being a freshman, lack thereof ) of these Perhaps I am simply junior year has finally requirements can form a making ex post facto arrived. Junior year is the diatribe for someone rationalizations to assure pinnacle of the college else’s column, but the myself that I will not experience, when we reality they left me with spend next semester have escaped the trials of was a world map that wishing I was cavorting familiarizing ourselves had been mostly blotted about Europe instead of with Cornell but have out. I could, of course, trudging up Libe Slope. not yet been fully go to England, or infuri- However much I think it exposed to the bleak vista ate my parents by spend- over, I see another side of post-graduation life. ing far too much money to the study-abroad And yet, as I look for- in Australia. But my lim- debate that is never fully ward to (almost) two full ited options had dimmed fleshed out in the feversemesters of fun on the my enthusiasm for study- ish encouragements by Hill, I find a wrinkle in ing abroad so much that our peers and our advithe unfurling map of my I abandoned my investi- sors. What are you missCornell experience: gation before it had real- ing? studying abroad.

It’s a facet of college life that Studying abroad is a remarkable, and we’ve all known about for much perhaps irreplicable, opportunity. But if longer than you have found a home at Cornell, don’t we’ve know be afraid to hold onto it. Our time here, about Rush as we are constantly reminded, is Weeks or preshort enough as it is. lims. It’s a staple of B-grade movies and — for me, at least — a fre- ly begun.

If junior year is, in quent topic of discussion With some of my some ways, the height of among my older cousins. friends already a hemi- our Cornell experience, It’s an adventure, and a sphere away, and so when we have finally seminal mark of our col- many others getting found our niche on camlege years. Now, as I ready to pack their bags, pus, we must all watch many of my best I sometimes worry that I acknowledge the risk friends scurrying all over have voluntarily left inherent in leaving campus to hand in the myself bereft. There are behind life on the Hill at requisite forms before summer programs in such an important junctime runs out, I sudden- London and Rome, and ture. Maybe that risk is ly feel conflicted. the ever-promising com- what makes studying As a student in the promise of the Cornell- abroad so appealing, or College of Arts and in-Washington program. maybe there truly is Sciences, who allowed But none of that can something to the experimy 12th grade A.P. Latin equate to the magic of ence that transforms a class to carry me more studying abroad, of leav- 20-year-old in a way easily across the foreign- ing behind the identity nothing in Ithaca could. language-requirement you have sought to forge But I fear too many of us threshold, I found my for yourself at Cornell shoehorn ourselves into options for studying and seeking out a new this preconceived notion abroad severely curtailed one in a strange and of “college” — namely, a from the very beginning. wondrous place. There is spring semester abroad Unless my now-rusty not much that can sound — without fully realizknowledge of Latin more romantic. But ing the cost of abandon-

ing the world we have come to love.

If you do crave that adventure, and if you have forever envisaged yourself on a semesterlong detour to parts unknown, then bon voyage! Studying abroad is a remarkable, and perhaps irreplicable, opportunity.

But if you have found a home at Cornell, don’t be afraid to hold onto it.

Our time here, as we are constantly reminded, is short enough as it is. Ho Plaza will never be as grand as the Roman Forum, nor will our clocktower ever match the majesty of Big Ben or the Duomo. But the University offers a world of its own to discover, and for these few years it may be in this world — and not in the wide worlds of the “abroad” — where we can find the answers we seek.

J.R.R. Tolkien, the master scribe of far-flung adventures, once wrote, “not all those who wander are lost.” In this junior year, when the wanderers of Tolkien’s imagination are rightfully lauded for spreading their wings and flying from Cayuga’s waters, it is important to remember that the reverse of Tolkien’s quote is also true: Not all those who linger are wrong. Home is where the heart is, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Jacob Glick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Dearest Freshmen: They say that home is where the heart is. Well, here at Cornell, home is where the art is. Well, not really. Your home will likely be in a cramped dorm room with a hairy, awkward roommate who hasn’t yet discovered anti-perspirant. But fear not, wee freshman, for there is an escape: cultural institutions and entertainment options abound on campus and beyond. Sure, it’s easy for it all to overwhelm you. Our advice? Let it. Whether you love electronic music, medieval sculpture or independent film, you can get your fix here, both at Cornell and in the Arts Section of The Sun. To get you started, we’re featuring some of the coolest events the paper covered last year, as well as snapshots of Cornell alumni who have left imprints on our culture today. Dig in and enjoy.

KAITLYN TIFFANY & SEAN DOOLITTLE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITORS

Something L ike a Fairytale

COURTESY OF THE SCHWARTZ CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS

Canterbury Enchants at Schwartz

BY SEAN DOOLITTLE Sun Arts & Entertainment Editor

There wasn’t a single audience member in the Schwartz’s Flex Theatre that was not afflicted when the lights came up after the world premiere of Far From Canterbury.

Something magical happened and I can

hardly explain it. Perhaps it was the collective feeling of being a part of something important, something historical and unforgettable.

Canterbury is almost entirely the brainchild of music major Danny Bernstein ’14, one of Cornell’s greatest artists and success stories in recent memory. Bernstein was

single-handedly responsible for the entire creative development of the musical, from writing the show’s book, lyrics and music.

This would be a near-impossible feat for most playwrights, but Bernstein excels.

After nearly two years of development and writing, Far From Canterbury has finally opened to the uncontainable excite-

The Flaming Lips Light Up Barton

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Sun Arts & Entertainment Editor

On tour promoting their latest EP, The Flaming Lips returned to Barton Hall Sunday night for a reprise of their legendary, on-campus performance in 2010. The show was opened by Lighting Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale’s new project, Black Pus, which began the night with a set of flashy, freeform and pretty trippily chaotic drum and bassfueled stylings.

The Barton Hall audience started out pretty low-key and surprisingly sparse, but filled in quickly while the Lips’ insane stage set-up was put together over the course of a half hour. The delay was met by some audience restlessness — many let out hopeful whoops every time a single light bulb was dimmed or lighted — but the reason for the wait soon became obvious.

The Lips are known for their strange and mysterious origin story (did they really steal their entire first set of instruments from a church?), as well as their eclectic progression through pop, acid-bubblegum and rock sounds, but they are perhaps most well known for their showmanship. Sunday night was no exception, as the show opened with an early, excitement-generating confetti drop, followed

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quickly by a question from front man Wayne Coyne: “I can smell a lot of marijuana being smoked. Is that legal here?”

The Flaming Lips put on a show that is so vividly participatory and visually stunning it nearly felt anachronistic. A far cry from the bare-bones sets and raw energy of modern indie and folk acts, a still further cry from the predictable glitter and strutting-infused routines of pop icons, this was a rock show’s rock show. Coyne began the performance by scaling the side of an enormous glowing structure of orbs and tubes of LED lights to take his place at what looked a strange hybrid between a spaceship and a massive pulpit. Psychedelic images played continuously on an LED backdrop where a full-on throwback to rock n’ roll production’s glory days flashed by. Nervous as I was for the toddlers next to me and for the almost-definitely-chemically-addled ballet dancers at the back of the crowd when the screen graphics turned to quick cuts of wolf fangs and long stills of enormous green eyeballs, the effect was eerie and unnerving. It was perfectly-suited to the stand-out slower numbers like “One More Robot/Sympathy” and “Do You Realize?”, as well as the haunting mid-set performance of “Race for the Prize.”

— Nov. 10, 2013

ment of much of the Cornell community.

A modernized, yet fantastical adaptation of “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales, Far From Canterbury creates a world of its own, in which fairy tales are real and act to inform the masses about important current events.

— April 29, 2014

Adam DeVine at Bailey Hall

BY JAMES RAINIS ’14 Former Sun Senior Writer

Adam DeVine, the high-energy maniac who plays Adam DeMamp on cult Comedy Central show Workaholics, has founded a career based on grossout humor, absurdist pop-culture references and the knifesharp parodization of all things bro. He and castmates Anders Holm and Blake Anderson have developed into a millennial version of the Three Stooges. With Friday evening’s CUPB-sponsored performance at Bailey Hall, Cornell got to experience an Adam DeVine separate — but not entirely different — from the Adam DeMamp character we’ve all grown to know and love.

Bailey Hall — typically the refuge of classical performances,

jazz combos and polite pop fare ranging from Billy Joel to John Legend — saw itself awash in an entirely alien clientele. Replacing the thoughtful grad students, bespectacled music aficionados and cultured professors were a cadre of stoners, fratboys and fratboy stoners.

Adam DeVine’s talent is obvious: Turning jokes as stupid as “If you had no arms, would you wave like this!” into funny, baldfaced and, occasionally, almost touching stories. Though he works best with others — his back-and-forth with Adam Ray was a highlight that featured both comedians at full bore — his joke-writing is nothing to be sneezed at, and the loose, inquisitive way in which he prods his material for a new nuance or fold is indicative of a restless comedic mind.

— March 24, 2014

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ARTISTIC ALUMNI TO KNOW Visual Arts NAME: James De La Vega GRADUATED: B.F.A. 1994 WHAT TO KNOW: This widely-revered, New York-based street artist deals primarily in chalk, creating thought-provoking, aphoristic works that have garnered acclaim not only in the States, but in Italy and Japan as well. De La Vega has, like any worthy artist, been at the center of controversy. Since, legally, his works qualify as graffiti, he has been taken to court and sentenced on vandalism charges. De La Vega, when not working on his next mural, tours the country as a motivational speaker, talking about freedom of expression, art and working in the face of adversity.

NAME: Robert Trent Jones GRADUATED: 1931 WHAT TO KNOW: While at Cornell, Jones took such disparate courses as landscape architecture, public speaking, agronomy, economics, surveying and hydraulics, to pursue a career as a golf course designer. Jones’ work on over 500 golf courses, including Montauk Downs, Augusta National and Cornell’s own Robert Trent Jones Golf Course, earned him a spot in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Jones’ courses have had an indelible effect on the modern game, encouraging risky play and emphasizing tasteful, original aesthetics.

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NAME: Peter Eisenmann GRADUATED: B.Arch. 1955 WHAT TO KNOW: Incoming architecture students are sure to be aware of Eisenmann’s significant contributions to architecture. As one of the leaders of the deconstructivist movement, Eisenmann incited his fellow architects to liberate the form of their works from external references. His works range from convention centers (The Greater Columbus Convention Center) to memorials (The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) and football stadiums (University of Phoenix Stadium).

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NAME: Kurt Vonnegut GRADUATED: Dropped out in 1943 WHAT TO KNOW: If you attended any conventional American high school, odds are likely that you’ve read one of Vonnegut’s works. The author of Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five may have dropped out (to, nobly, join the Armed Forces in the Second World War), but he certainly made his mark as Associate Editor of The Sun, whose office is adorned with more than one of the late author’s quotes fondly recalling his time at the paper.

NAME: Greg Graffin GRADUATED: Ph.D. 1991 WHAT TO KNOW: Graffin came to musical prominence in the 1980s with hardcore pioneers Bad Religion, a group known for its politically charged, incisive lyrics and its wild live shows. As one of Bad Religion’s chief son writers, Gaffin exhibited a musical sophistication rarely seen in hardcore punk. Graffin rounds himself out by not only being a rock and roll frontman, but also a professor of evolutionary biology and a political lecturer.

NAME: E.B. White GRADUATED: B.A. 1921 WHAT TO KNOW: White was as dynamic a writer as you could get. A long-time contributor to The New Yorker, White was also responsible for two classic children’s books, Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. The former Sun Editor-in-Chief co-authored one of the definitive guides to English grammar, syntax and style, The Elements of Style, with William Strunk.

NAME: Steve Reich GRADUATED: B.A. 1957 WHAT TO KNOW: Reich’s work as a composer is highly influential across many genres — artists like Sonic Youth, Brian Eno and Sufjan Stevens cite Reich as an influence.

Reich’s usage of tape loops, minimalist instrumentation and repetition put him in an elite category of modern composers.

Reich was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for his Double Sextet in 2009.

NAME: Toni Morrison GRADUATED: M.A. 1955 WHAT TO KNOW: This American novelist, editor, professor and frequent guest speaker at Cornell is a literary tour de force. Best known for her novels Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved, Morrison has received numerous awards for her literary accomplishments, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved in 1988, a Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.

NAME: Huey Lewis GRADUATED: Dropped out in 1969 WHAT TO KNOW: A strong rock vocalist and a talented harmonica player, Huey Lewis, as the frontman of Huey Lewis and the News, dominated 1980’s radio with his band’s third album, Sports. Lewis also made appearances backing up Elvis Costello on My Aim Is True and playing harmonica on the legendary Thin Lizzy live album, Live and Dangerous.

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UNITARIAN CHAPLAINCY AT CORNELL A gathering of Unitarian Universalists, religious humanists and freethinkers.

RELIGIO

— CORNELL UNITED R

MEMBER G

Meets monthly on the second Thursday at 5:00pm in the One World Café in Anabel Taylor Hall.

First meeting, September 11, 2014

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MEDITATION

Rev. David E. Grimm, Chaplain (607) 379-3738, email: minister@davidegrimm.com Sponsored by First Unitarian Society of Ithaca At the corner of Aurora and Buffalo Streets www.uuithaca.org

The Venerable Tenzin Choesang, CURW Chaplain tc342@cornell.edu

Meditations: Mon. Wed. Thurs.

12:15-1:00 pm Founders Room Anabel Taylor Hall Please contact Tenzin Gephel for information Additional Information can be obtained: Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies 412 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca

607-273-0739 office@namgyal.org

Meditations: Namgyal Monastery Mon. Wed. Fri. 5:15-6:00 pm Meditation Instruction: 4:30 pm 1st Friday of Month Tea Social: 6:00-6:45 pm 1st Friday of Month

The Religious Society of Friends

www.crucornell.edu

Ithaca Monthly Meeting

Quakers Student Welcome Picnic

Saturday, August 30 at 5:30 p.m.

Burtt House Friends Center, 227 N. Willard Way (A3) Rides from Purcell (Jessup Rd. side) (E1) at 5:15 p.m. – Look for the car with FRIENDS sign

(607) 273-5421

Meeting for Worship Sundays 10:30 a.m.

120 Third Street, Ithaca (607) 229-9500 www.ithacamonthlymeeting.org

THE CHURCH OF

JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

CORNELL STUDENT BRANCH

Worship Services

Sunday

11:00 a.m.

114 Burleigh Drive, Ithaca, 257-1334 Latter-Day Saint Student Association at Cornell Classes – Fellowship – Activities Anabel Taylor Hall, Room 320 Advisors: Elder Von and Sister Patty Jolley

Chabad is dedicated to bringing the warmth and richness of Jewish life and tradition to students of all backgrounds. We are your home away from home… the heart of Jewish campus life.

Come for our free home-cooked Shabbat dinner, or for a Torah class. Call for information about Judaism, or just to talk.

For more information regarding Chabad’s programs and activities, please e mail: Rabbi Eli and Chana at: es79@cornell.edu or call: (607) 257-7379 Eli & Chana Silberstein

www.chabadcornell.com

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OUS LIFE

RELIGIOUS WORK —

R GROUPS

Hindu Student Council

Contact: Neha Ratna nr279@cornell.edu Check out hsc.cornell.edu to find out about pujas and weekly bhajans as well as other events we’ll be holding!

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LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY WELCOMES YOU TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 149 Honness Lane Worship at Trinity at 10:30 a.m. Sunday (607) 273.9017

www.trinityithaca.org

Welcome Picnic & Campus Fellowship check out details at: trinityithaca.org Megan Hill: Prof. Mike Thompson: Rev. Robert Foote, Pastor: Karla Terry:

moh9@cornell.edu mot1@cornell.edu rmf93@cornell.edu LSF@trinityithaca.org

Free transportation provided for all events

Help Pack 300,000 meals Sept. 11-13

check out: www.facebook.com/ithacamobilepack

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Ithaca Area SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST SATURDAY SERVICES Worship – 10:45 a.m.

Sabbath School – 9:30 a.m.

Fellowship Luncheon To Follow Services Weekly

1219 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca • Phone 273-5950 DUSTIN HALL, Pastor • www.ithacaSDAchurch.com

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

SUNDAY SERVICE/SCHOOL 10:30AM WEDNESDAY TESTIMONY MEETING 7:30PM FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST • 101 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, ITHACA CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM 117 SOUTH CAYUGA STREET 607-272-1650, MON-FRI 11AM-5PM, SAT 11AM-2PM http://www.christiansciencenys.com/ithaca.html

St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church

120 W. Seneca Street, Ithaca, has regularly scheduled liturgical services on Sundays, feast days, and special saints days.

On Sundays, Orthros begins at 9:00 a.m. and Divine Liturgy at 10:00 a.m.

On special feast and saints days, Orthros begins at 8:30 a.m. and Divine Liturgy at 9:30 a.m.

The meeting times of the Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) is Wednesdays, 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. at ATH and prayer services on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. in the ATH Chapel.

Confessions are heard by appointment. Call Rev. Fr. Athanasios (Tom) Parthenakis at (607) 273-2767 (church) or (607) 379-6045 (home).

Everyone is welcome to attend these worship services and the Orthodox Christian Fellowship on Thursdays at Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH Mass Schedule Mon. & Thurs 12:10 p.m.

Tues. Wed. & Fri. 7:00 a.m.

Saturday 4:30 p.m.

Sunday 8:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

113 N. Geneva St. 273-6121

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Dining Guide

Your source for good food

The Good,The Bad and The Greasy of Campus Food

By ELIZA LAJOIE ’13 Former Sun Blogs Editor

To guide you through Cornell’s “all-you-care-to-eat” meal-swipe dining halls, here is a rundown of the best and worst of Cornell’s dining options.

Okenshield’s You will soon discover that Okenshield’s shares many characteristics with a boyfriend left over from high school: at times, convenient and a little boring, but tolerable because you think there aren’t any better options.

You can disregard the little annoyances — instead of missed dates or bad breath, Okenshield’s offers goopy pasta and endless lines — and the relationship limps along.

Okenshield’s will keep you coming back with hopes of stumbling upon the pad thai, gyros or popcorn shrimp that all make occasional surprise appearances. It’s the only mealswipe dining hall on Central Campus, so there often isn’t much choice. But at least you’ll be able to cheer yourself up with a smile from Okenshield’s flamboyant and infalliblycheerful card-swiper, Happy Dave.

Best Bet: Spinach and artichoke dip, milkshakes.

Risley Dining You’ll find no more dramatic dining venue than Risley’s great hall, under vaulted ceilings and the glow of Harry Potter-esque chandeliers. Food options are generally cafeteria-bland, in keeping with the high schoolstyle food line. But the stir-fry bar and ample dessert table at least will remind you that you’re in college now, and you deserve superior sustenance.

Best Bet: Stir-fry, waffles.

Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery The Robert Purcell Community Center offers the biggest dining hall on North Campus and swarms with freshmen every weeknight.

The enormous array of options will satisfy all diners, from picky eaters — who can resort to pizza or chicken nuggets –— to the more adventurous, who will enjoy sizzling stir-fry from the Mongolian grill. RPCC offers a diverse salad bar, waffle makers and enough sugary cereal to keep you bouncing off the walls all night with your new college pals. Sunday brunch is also a must-try with savory breakfast pizza and giant pancakes.

Best Bet: Mongo grill, pasta of the day.

273-3606 Monday-Friday 9-5 for information about placing your ad in

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Sticky sweet | Waffles are a staple of any sweet-toothed Cornellian’s diet, as they are available in most dining halls and at Waffle Frolic, on the Ithaca Commons.

Appel Commons Appel is the only campus eatery with outdoor dining when the weather is cooperative, so enjoy it while you can! While many options in Appel are the same every day — pizza, salad, pasta with alfredo sauce — there is always a respectable number of other options, from turkey and potatoes to fresh-grilled burgers.

Best Bet: Pineapple cake,

salad bar.

West Campus Intrepid freshmen who venture down the slope into the land of upperclassmen will be rewarded with superior dining in a more homey setting. The dining rooms at Cook, Becker, Rose, Bethe and Keeton each have their own specialties to be discovered, including lots of international options.

HOME OF THE

Pinesburger 1213 Taughannock Blvd.

(Route 89 - 3 miles north of Cass Park) Ithaca, NY 14850

(607)

273-3709

www.glenwoodpines.com

Voted BEST BURGER in Ithaca!

– Ithaca Times Readers Choice

Eliza LaJoie graduated in 2013.

Responses may be sent to dining-editor@cornellsun.com

Ithaca’s Best Bets on Brunch

By SYDNEY RAMSDEN Former Sun Dining Editor

Brunch is the classic all-American weekend pastime. Each brunch-goer has his or her preferred method of brunching. Brunchers who truly take their brunch seriously, however, will seek out the option that provides a decent balance of delicious, abundant food and refreshing (and also abundant) libation. Luckily, Ithaca offers some pretty prime brunch options, no matter what vibe you’re going for on a sunny Sunday morning. When the weather is sunny, there’s no better place to go than the Ithaca Farmers’ Market, which offers a comprehensive sampling of the many flavors Ithaca has to offer.

Café Dewitt, 215 North Cayuga St.

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Additionally, most dining rooms on West have panini makers, so you if nothing else pleases you, whip up a cheesy melt with ingredients selected from ample sandwich and salad bars.

Best Bet: Perogies at Cook, bibimbap at Bethe, fajitas at Keeton.

Tucked away in the Dewitt Mall just adjacent to the Commons, Café Dewitt offers some of the freshest and tastiest brunch dishes in the city. It would be a crime for patrons with a hankering for upscale twists on brunch classics to overlook this downtown gem.

The menu features brunch classics like eggs Florentine and customized fresh-egg omelettes, as well as more out-there plates like apple, sausage and potato hash.

But the real shining star on the menu is the Tunisian plate. This smorgasborg of locally-grown lamb sausage and fried eggs, crispy toast and a side salad with a refreshing drizzle of pomegranate-cumin vinaigrette kicks the classic eggs-and-sausage brunch favorite up a notch or two. The real highlight on the dish is the apricot-carrot chutney, which provides the perfect sweet, tangy offset to the hearty main attractions. The Tunisian plate is a brunch dish that’s truly out of this world.

Stella’s Restaurant, Bar and Cafe, 403 College Ave.

Ah, Stella’s; Collegetown’s answer to the much sought-after upscale restaurant/swanky bar/hip coffeehouse. The College Avenue hotspot offers just about everything under the sun, whether you’re look-

ing for a casual drink, a quick bite or a splurge-worthy dinner. The brunch, though, is equally worthy of a visit. And now that Stella’s offers a bottomless mimosa option for $14 with the purchase of any entreé, brunchers looking for a decent buzz can rejoice. Between sips of your umpteenth early-morning libation, diners can munch on dishes like quinoa oatmeal or the breakfast burrito worthy of a fiesta.

But in this case, there’s nothing wrong with settling for the Hearty Breakfast, a classic breakfast feast of local eggs, applewood smoked bacon, homefries and toast. The Hearty Breakfast may be overlooked on a menu that boasts items like brioche French toast and the “Hamlette” (an omelette with ham, bacon and sausage), but this dish is too yummy to pass up.

Hai Hong Restaurant, 208 Dryden Rd.

Dim sum brunch at Hai Hong is not only perhaps the most underappreciated brunch option in town, but also one of the best ones. One doesn’t typically think of brunch as a feast of dumplings, buns and spring rolls, but now that I mention it, doesn’t it sound amazing? The menu is quite extensive and relatively inexpensive. The dishes are categorized as small, medium and large and priced accordingly. The items themselves range from several varieties of dumplings to sesame balls to taro pies to an assortment of buns. The best bet is to keep it simple (but still delicious) with steamed shrimp dumplings, an order of buns, a couple of spring rolls and a larger, family-style noodle dish. The shrimp dumplings are a personal favorite — the silky dough melts in your mouth and is complemented perfectly by the crunch of the steamed shrimp in the center. With so many exotic items to choose from (and complimentary tea), Hai Hong’s dim sum brunch is your best brunch bet.

Sydney Ramsden graduated in 2014. Responses may be sent to dining-editor@cornellsun.com.

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DINING GUIDE

Collegetown Bagels Is Ithaca Born and Bread

By CASEY CARR ’14 Former Sun Staff Writer

It’s a Saturday morning like every other at Collegetown Bagels: A steady crowd of students navigate around colorful displays of speciality foods and stocked coolers to pick up a cup of Love Buzz to go. Crates of fresh bread are brought in from Ithaca Bakery – airy and voluminous ciabatta, dark and dense pumpernickel, small loaves of sourdough just waiting to be hollowed out and filled with steaming soup; and workers behind the counter in CTB baseball caps move in a flurry to keep up with the stream orders. For anyone connected with Cornell in the past 30 years, the scene is a familiar one.

Known for its quality food, quirky atmosphere and central location, CTB has become an integral part of the the off campus experience for students, professors, parents, townies and alums alike. However, there’s something beyond the colorful chalkboard and inventive sandwich names that keeps generations coming back to CTB. I sat down with two of the owners of CTB, Mimi Mehaffey and Gregar Brous, and discovered that CTB is so much more than a sandwich

shop on the corner; it’s a community-wide family focused on local engagement.

I’d like to first start with the humble beginnings of this little bagel shop. The idea for CTB came from three guys from Long Island who believed that a bagel shop would do well in Ithaca.

After only a year, the trio sold the shop to the owner of Rulloff’s.

Brous, an Ithaca College student and original townie, worked at Rulloff’s at the time. Upon graduation, he bought CTB with the support of his parents and brother, who are still owners of CTB today. Mehaffey, a manager at Rulloff’s and by default a manager at CTB as well, became full time manager at CTB. Brous and Mehaffey ran the original shop from the present-day Bear Necessities location and served the basics: only bagels and cream cheese – tunafish was a monumental feat at the time.

CTB took on a more recognizable appearance to today’s trademark storefront after purchasing Oliver’s Deli and moving into their current, iconic corner location. The expansion tripled the menu and staff of this once small shop overnight. Today, with three different CTB locations and two Ithaca Bakery locations, acquired in 1989, the company employs over 300 members in the community. Mehaffey and Brous maintain that their staff is central to the success of CTB:

CTB serves more than speciality sandwiches and coffees to-go, but also philosophy we can all learn from.

The Sun’s Dining Guide appears in each Thursday issue of The Sun.

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“Our staff is why people come back. They enjoy what they do and the customers that they are waiting on, and the customers have loyalty in return,” Mehaffey said.

Mehaffey ensures that the staff is purposively representative of the greater Ithaca community. With students from Tompkins Cortland Community College, Cornell, Wells College and Ithaca College, just to name a few, and a special effort to hire high school students for their inaugural experience in the work force, as well as the employees who have been working for decades at the company, the staff of CTB is a true cross section of the Ithaca community.

“They have become like family to us and we have become like family to them, and our customers are an extension of that family” explains Mehaffey.

Not only does CTB emphasize a sense of community through its staff, but also through its ingredients. Brous says he is constantly searching for farmers and suppliers within the community and a way to connect the livelihoods of these local neighbors with their

own. “It’s a huge piece of who we are, our connection to the community and our belief in sustainability and what we have to do to keep this earth here for our children and generations after us.”

Whether it’s locally-sourced meat or using nearby farmers for the production of their newest “ancient grains” bread line, Brous and Mehaffey are passionate about the quality of their ingredients and the impact they have on the local community.

The staff and ingredients combine to create some of the most locally-conscious food around. The values of community and family around which CTB centers around are merged in bright colors and block letters on the renowned chalkboard: Names like The Steamin’ Treeman, Taughannock and Stewart Parker are clearly representative of the community of Ithaca. Brous says that “local” was the first big sandwich theme.

The sandwich names, many of which are created by Brous, also represent the family aspect of CTB: The Lindsey, Viva Chelsea and Miles Stone are named after

their children; Sweet Rachel and Jonah’s Jive after their niece and nephew; the Javi after the family dog. Fourteen-year staff member Chris Buck has his own sandwich, The Big Buck, displayed on the board. Customers, too, can create their own concoction and have the opportunity for it to be sold as a special or added permanently to the menu.

For the past 35 years, CTB has succeeded in integrating a local feel that resonates with people from all walks of life and from all parts of the world. In a place as diverse and quirky as Ithaca, it’s rare that a common denominator exists and has the ability to connect such a wide breadth of people, interests and tastes across generations. In Ithaca, CTB serves as that common denominator. With its emphasis on community engagement and family feel, CTB serves up more than speciality sandwiches and coffees to-go, but also philosophy we can all learn from.

Casey Carr graduated in 2014, responses may be sent to dining-editor@cornellsun.com.

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For Shapiro — who was one of Mathews’ main options on the day, catching five passes for 113 yards and a touchdown — this game was especially meaningful, as the junior missed all of last season with a shoulder injury.

“I looked at it as a learning experience. Last season really made me realize how much I missed playing with my teammates,” Shapiro said. “I knew coming into this season that I wanted to be an impact player on the offensive side of the ball, and the chemistry that I’ve built with Jeff, Grant and the offensive line made my contributions last night seem second nature.”

Mathews said he appreciated the work of his receiving core on Saturday, as he was able to complete 15 of 23 passes for 285 yards and three touchdowns.

“Shap is a special talent.

Physically he has great size and body control; mentally, he completely understands defenses and our scheme,” Mathews said. “I think our whole wide receiving unit played well. Grant [Gellatly] had a few big catches on third down, and Lenz and [Luke] Hagy both played big parts.”

Though the receiving core was still a question going into the preseason after losing three starters, the combination of senior Grant Gellatly’s leadership and the talent of sophomore Luke Hagy, Lenz and Shapiro made for a stellar performance in the first game of the season. Hagy chipped in with three receptions for 52 yards and a touchdown.

“Jeff and Grant are great natural leaders both on and off the field and they have done a great job leading by example,” Shapiro said. ‘They are always the first two in the film room and on the field and the last two to leave.

They have really helped the young receivers, including myself, to not only understand the offense as it’s drawn up in the playbook, but also to be able to go out and perform on the field as well.”

Though the offense took credit for four of the Red’s six touchdowns on the day — senior running back Dustin Dillard scored the fourth on a one-yard run — it was the defense that really stood out. After compiling two sacks, one interception and forcing five fumbles, the Red’s defensive unit proved that it could also take part in the offense. Bucknell had no answer for the combination of the slippery conditions and the Red’s pressure — which stifled them for the entire second half.

“Coach Archer has made turnovers our team’s top priority.

When our defense is able to force turnovers it gives us a great chance to win,” Mathews said.

“They had an unreal game; as a unit, they had more touchdowns than the Bucknell offense.”

Senior defensive lineman Tre’ Minor picked up a fumble and ran it back 18 yards for the first of those touchdowns. Only five minutes later, the Bisons fumbled again on a botched fake field goal attempt. Sophomore defensive

back Jarrod Watson-Lewis took advantage, scooping it up and running it back 82 yards for another touchdown.

“Their tenacity and nose for the ball was really apparent and the defensive swarm that coaches have been harping on since the beginning of training camp was seen by everyone last night,” Shapiro said. “I think it was the first time in my career where I wanted the defense to get a turnover and not return it for a touchdown so I could get back out on the field.”

With the 45-13 rout — the second in the past two homecomings — Archer can breathe a sigh of relief as his first of many milestones is finally behind him.

“He has done a great job thus far, and it was a special night for our team and especially for Coach Archer,” Mathews said.

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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or something.

This Week In: Dan Snyder Updates

Give me a second to google that.

OK, apparently he’s the owner of the Washington Redskins. No one cares about the Redskins after last season.

E.B.: Not as a legitimate football team, maybe. As a

Snyder — and his constant toddler-throwing-a-hissy-fit behavior over the Redskins’ name — that’s the real issue at the forefront this offseason.

*Fine, 2012 was alright E.B.: There is no actual until RGIII’s leg fell off, and news here, unless you are Joe Gibbs 2.0 teams blissfully unaware that essentially snuck into about three weeks ago There is no actual news here, the playoffs twice. But Dan Snyder started the unless you are unaware that everything beyond “Washington Redskins those years falls someDan Snyder started the Original Americans where between “trainFoundation” — aka “Washinton Redskins Original wreck” and “slightly less “OAF” — as a Hail American Foundation — painful than the 2008 Maryattempt to keep Lions.” the Redskins’ name and aka “OAF.” L.A.: Sounds like prove that occasionally, Dan Snyder should take under extreme pressure only, he will expend some D.C. sports fan who has Intergroup Dialogue. thought about people not never* lived through a good named Dan Snyder. In this football season, even socase, no news is good news: called savior RGIII lost some Questions, concerns, or pissed off about until the Redskins’ name major points with me after our women’s basketball joke? Send an his handling of the Shanahan email to Scott Chiusano at goes, the Snyder digs stay.

L.A.: Who’s Dan Snyder? situation last season. But it’s sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Grapplers Win 12th Consecutive Ivy Title Despite Team Injuries

By WESLEY ROGERS Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s wrestling team won its 12th straight Ivy League Championship, defeating Columbia, 22-15. With the victory, the Red now has the most conference championships in any Ivy League sport.

In what was one of the closest matches all season, the score remained tied at 15-15 with just two duals left. Juniors Jace Bennett and Jacob Aiken-Phillips then took center stage, defeating their opponents and helping the Red to another Ancient Eight title.

“It was a lot closer than I expected. We had four kids out of the lineup … so I was really nervous,” said head coach Rob Koll. “This is not the best or second to best team in the Ivy League, and they could easily have knocked us off today.”

However, Bennett and Aiken-Phillips made sure that did not happen, shutting out both of their opponents.

“It’s always great to continue breaking records, it’s something we[‘ve] become accustomed to,” Bennett said.

Four key starters were sidelined for the match due to injuries, however the team was still able to come together to pull out the win.

Sophomore Nahshon Garrett and seniors Mike Nevinger and Chris Villalonga got the Red off to a strong start, winning their matches and giving the squad the initial lead. However, Cornell soon lost its head start when freshmen Taylor Simaz and Jake George and senior Craig Eifert lost their respective duals to level out the score.

Both Bennett and Aiken-Phillips explained that while a lot of the pressure fell on them, they were still able to maintain level heads, letting their opponents make the mistakes during their duals.

“I was pretty patient during my match, letting my opponent mess up so that I could score. However, I was very scared when it was tied because I didn’t want to have all the pressure on me,” Aiken-Phillips said.

Furthermore, Bennett said he did everything he could not to let the pressure get to his head, coming out strong and never letting his guard down.

“Like Kyle Dake [‘13] always says, pressure is something you put on yourself; it’s not real. And so I try to remind myself of that often, and so when I walked out on the mat this weekend it was just another day in paradise for me,” Bennet said.

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Four Red Riders Capture Top-10 Titles at Nationals

By ANNA JOHNSON Sun Staff Writer

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Placing on the podium | Senior Georgiana deRham excelled at Nationals.

The Cornell equestrian team finished its season strong at Nationals by clinching several Top-10 places and establishing itself among the best in the country in early May. All four riders qualified to attend Nationals after placing high enough at Zones in April.

After six initially qualfiied, four individual winners excelled at Zones. They included sophomore Chelsea Huss in open fences, senior Cacchione Cup winner Georgiana de Rham in open flat, sophomore Katie Smith in intermediate fences and sophomore Elizabeth Drake in novice fences.

The team finished in third place and thus did not advance to Nationals as a whole. However, the Red did win the region thanks to strong performances that included de Rham winning the Cacchione Cup. This season, the Cornell women secured victories on multiple levels throughout its duration and edged closer than ever before to qualifying to nationals as a team. Albeit narrowly missing the win — and the team qualification to nationals — by just three points at Zones, the Red still took a historic step forward.

Additionally, despite the fact that the Red was not able to take its complete fleet to Nationals, the squad still had reason to celebrate its qualifying four riders. Backed by the entire squad, the selected women came up big with a solid performance to polish off a successful season.

The four qualifiers — co-captain de Rham, Huss,

Drake and Smith — represented the Red thanks to strong individual performances.

Smith nabbed tenth in intermediate fences, and Huss rode to seventh in the open class of the same event.

Drake received an honorable mention, and de Rham finished sixth out of 38 in the Cacchione Cup. De Rham, who sat at 12th in the Cacchione Cup prior to the flat phase, also clinched her own tenth place ribbon before battling six spots higher to reach her final placing in the Cacchione Cup. Her’s was the highest placing in this event in Cornell history.

Competing alongside the nation’s best, the Cornell equestrian team once again rose to the occasion and ended the season on a high note, though the road was not without its difficulties.

The team came together to surmount them, according to Huss.

“We overcame a lot of challenges and excelled past what was expected of us,” she said. “I am so proud of the team and how far we got throughout the year.”

After this weekend’s strong showing, the Cornell women eagerly look forward to next season.

“This team is strong and is going to come back fighting next year,” Huss said.

With another successful season under its belt and a positive outlook moving forward, the Red will be back at it next fall with plenty of fuel for the fire.

Anna Johnson can be reached at ajohnson@cornellsun.com.

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TRACK AND FIELD

Udeme Akpaete’16 Breaks Her School Record in the 400M

By JOHN McGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s and women’s track and field teams competed in multiple different meets across the east coast. The men’s team participated in the New York City Armory’s Collegiate Invitational, the Boston University Valentine Invitational and the Ithaca College Quad meet. The women’s team sent a majority of its athletes to the Valentine Invitational, where sophomore Udeme Akpaete broke her previous school record in the 400m.

At the Armory, senior Stephen Mozia placed first in shot put with a distance of 64’2.5”. The Red also displayed strong performances in the weight throw, with junior Bryan Rhodes placing fourth and sophomore Rudy Winkler placing 11th with a new freshman record of 61’3.5”. Dan Scott ’14 improved to No. 5 alltime in the triple-jump with a leap of 51’1.5” and Montez Blair ’14 placed third in the high jump.

The Red also performed well in its short-distance events, with Bruno Hortelano-Roig ’14 running the fastest prelim time in the 200m and senior Kinsley Ojukwu finishing in the Top-20 in that race.

“The team feels good about its performances. We had some big jumps from Dan Scott and a new freshman record from Rudy Winkler. It’s exciting to see people improving every weekend,” Mozia said. “As a team, we want more though. We are looking for an amazing full team performance, especially with the championship season approaching.”

According to Blair, the team is not becoming overconfident after its recent successes.

“This weekend was not a bad weekend for us as a whole and very good for some, but we are taking this one step at a time,” he said.

“We know it’s a process and we are taking steps to be where we want to be.”

Now the No. 14 team in the nation, the men’s team is not yet content with its national ranking, according to Mozia.

“Our team needs to continue to strive for more. Complacency could hurt us a lot,” he said.

Although the team was scattered across the East coast this weekend, Mozia said it did not affect the team’s cohesion.

“I feel like it did not really affect us as much. We still kept track of each other from afar and it’s nice to feel support from your teammates from far away,” he said.

In Boston, sophomore Grant Sisserson excelled once again, breaking the freshman pole vault record for the fourth week in a row with a jump of 16’6.75”, moving him into the No. 4 spot in Cornell history.

The women also came away from the weekend with some strong finishes in Boston. The Red had 14 runners with ECAC qualifications and 20 athletes with Top-20 finishes in their respective events.

The highlight of the Boston Invitational was Akpaete’s finish in the 400m. She broke her previous school record with an impressive time of 54.02, the fifth best time in Ivy League history.

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

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elcome to the first edition of Around the Gorge: Sun Sports Banter with Emily and Lisa, where we’ll be providing our color commentary on the last two weeks in the world of professional sports, college sports and hobbies like curling or women’s basketball.

We’re not analysts, just enthusiasts: one step above your average Joe fan and about a hundred notches below the “Put It In My

Emily Berman

Jersey (#dirtyjerz), I can turn a blind eye to Pineda’s obvious pine tar use — I mean alleged use. Let’s not forget Jon Lester in Game One of last year’s World Series. We can’t actually call him out on this, I mean… hi kettle, it’s me pot.

E.B.: More like, “hi kettle, it’s me pot, meet frying pan.”

Pineda was up against Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz, who was called out by a broadcaster last

Lisa Awaitey

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ments involve “being a recognizable golfer whose name isn’t Tiger or Phil.”

L.A.: Apparently he owns a shrimping company with some dude named Forrest.

This Week In: The ‘J.K., I’m Not Retired!’ Award

E.B.: Previous notable winners include Brett “Needs To Stay Away From Phone Cameras” Favre, Roger “Pinky

Swear I Didn’t Do Steroids” Clemens, and, of course, Michael “Joining the Wizards Is a Good Idea” Jordan. This time around it’s aquaboy Michael Phelps who has suddenly announced his return, fueling speculation that he’s gearing up for Rio in 2016, despite being 31 the time that competition rolls around (for those of you keeping track, that’s approximately three times the average

age of the Chinese gymnastics team).

L.A.: For those of you keeping track, that’s approximately the second Chinese gymnastics joke this edition.

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This is what you will find in our column: ground-breaking topics like “men in sports,” if we’re feeling feminist, maybe “women in sports,” and if we’re talking about the Olympics there might even be a “babies in sports” discussion, because it’s only two years until we get to breathlessly watch as the Chinese gymnastics team hefts itself out of the cradle and onto the podium.

E.B.: So, “without further ado,” as only the precociously polite kids say these days, I’m Emily Berman, and my gripping background is that I have persevered as an athlete and sports fan despite being everything your average player is not: short, small, pale and Jewish.

L.A.: And I’m Lisa Awaitey — former softball player, present full time napper. Now that our painful introductions are over with, let’s get to the sports.

This Week In Baseball: Pitchers Cheat?!?

‘Shocking’ Updates From the MLB

E.B.: A brief recap: Last Thursday, in the midst of your average Yankees-Red Sox “which team can whine the loudest” contest, broadcasters caught

Golf happened. Or there’s a fannypack and polo shirt convention; the palest guy gets a green jacket.

Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda with what appeared to be pine tar on his hands. The Internet and Twittersphere exploded mid-game, while the benches of both teams either didn’t notice, pretended not to notice or were too busy calling each other names to notice. Pineda later called the totally-not-pine-tar substance “dirt,” while Big Papi, speaking with the kind of candor only allowed to a player whose goofy charm distracts from the fact that he could crush you in one batting glovecovered fist, said “everybody uses pine tar” and shrugged it off as “no big deal.”

L.A.: As one of three Red Sox fans (#redsoxnation) from New

May for possibly-maybe-obviously throwing spitballs. So it was probably wise for the Sox to skip over the whole Pineda issue. The best part of Thursday’s post-game reactions, though, isn’t that people were mad about the pine tar use — they were just mad it was so obvious. The whole situation really sums up baseball’s motto over the last few decades: I don’t always cheat, but when I do, I damn well need to hide it better.

L.A.: I could care less about Pineda, I’m just waiting for the inevitable fall of the Yankees.

Pettite and Rivera retired last year, Jeter and Soriano are both as old as dirt, we won’t be seeing A-Roids this season, Tex is on the DL and I can all but guarantee an Ellsbury injury, which means $153 million dollars down the drain. I’m not bitter about our recent losses; it’s a marathon not a relay. The Rays will win the AL East, Sox will take one of the Wildcard spots; I’m not sure if the Yankees can deliver a postseason run in Jeter’s last year. But you can be sure Pine Tar Gate will be old news come October.

This Week In: Irrelevant Sports

L.A.: Golf happened. Or there’s a fannypack and polo shirt convention; the palest guy gets a green jacket. *Possible related news: There’s a shortage of khaki shorts and Patagonia vests in Augusta, Georgia.

E.B.: The Masters would be a whole lot more entertaining if everyone showed up wearing Bill Murray’s PBR golf pants, which are a thing of bizarre, disturbing beauty. On a different note, though, golf is one of those sports that’s notably divided down gender lines in my family. I can only watch golf in five-minute intervals without feeling the need to switch to something more exciting — say, infomercials — while my dad and brother can slobber at the screen for hours to see which rich white guy can spend the most time standing in one spot and grimacing.

L.A.: It’s the sports equivalent of watching paint dry.

E.B.: Not to take anything away from Bubba Watson, though, whose second Masters win in three years vaulted him into that elite stratosphere of contenders whose accomplish-

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Coming Out in the National Football League W

hen NFL draft prospect and SEC co-defensive player of the year Michael Sam came out as gay to the New York Times, he created quite a stir. Shattering any preconceived stereotypes, Sam played defensive end for the Tigers of Missouri and was a unanimous All-American selection. He was a high motor and hard hitting player. He was always a leader for the men at Missouri, and his teammates loved playing with him. Sam played in the trenches of the defensive line in the best defensive conference in America, the SEC, for a team that almost went to the BCS title game.

When Sam publicly came out and told the world he was a gay man, his teammates gave him universal support. Some of his closest friends on the team said they had known for all four years and had kept it a secret to respect his wishes. Sam came out to the team before his senior year, his best season. Besides this being a tremendous endorsement of coach Gary Pinkel’s abilities, it shows that an adrenaline filled locker room can play and excel with not just an openly gay player, but also an openly gay leader.

Why can’t professional athletes, who routinely describe their teams as families and their teammates as brothers in arms, be accepting as well? How is it that pro football players can play through unimaginable pain and stress, but would not be able to play along side a gay teammate?

However, it is not the players I worry the most about. While Sam’s announcement was met with support from past and possibly future

John Zakour Point Blank teammates, it was also met with comments, as usual, that the NFL is not ready for an openly gay player. Most of the complaints that the NFL is not ready are actually coming from executives and anonymous scouts around the league.

According to Sports Illustrated, who surveyed each NFL personnel member, Sam hurt his draft stock. CBS Sports dropped Sam 70 spots in its draft rankings (I’d love to see the methodology behind that. It is worth noting that that is about how much Da’Quan Bowers’ stock was hurt when he had to deal with extensive medical problems. So being openly gay in the NFL is roughly equivalent to having major knee surgery). I say screw that.

If we keep waiting for the magic moment when 100 percent of the pro sports workforce and management is OK with openly gay players, we will be waiting forever. The reality of it is some people will always be intolerant, and they should be forced to keep up with the times, not the other way around. The NFL, America’s favorite pastime and biggest pro sport, should not have to cater to bigots and the narrow-minded.

The concept of “readiness” is bull anyways. If you are only going to define “readiness” as no one has a problem with it, no one would ever be ready for anything but the status quo. Major League Baseball was not “ready” for Jackie Robinson when he broke the color barrier, judging by the mountains of abuse he took. Of course, the idea of African Americans not being to play baseball is ridiculous today. Yet, last Monday, NBA lottery prospect Marcus Smart pushed a fan he ran into because he was allegedly called a black racial slur (you do the math). In that case, maybe the NBA is not ready for a black player.

Even in 2014, there is at least one fan who cannot get over black people in basketball. Like I said, there will never be a point when everyone is onboard.

If you are only going to define “readiness” as no one has a problem with it, no one would ever be ready for anything but the status quo.

People generally do not want to talk about homosexuality in sports. Part of this is because the locker room culture might be construed as hateful and homophobic. It probably is. The truth is, most people do not believe anything they say on the court or field. When you are competing at the highest levels, you are doing anything to gain an edge. Tempers flare. If you can get your opponent to lose his cool, you are winning.

When I hear people say how much abuse an openly gay player will take, I just ignore it. I think he will be able to handle it. Kevin Garnett, future NBA Hall of Famer, is a notorious trash talker. He uses gay slurs all over the court. But he is not sexist or homophobic (well maybe he could be, but I do not think so). Allegedly, Garnett has talked trash during games about Carmelo Anthony’s wife, Charlie Villanueva’s chronic autoimmune condition and Tim Duncan’s mom dying. These guys just had to deal with it. It is not easy playing pro sports in America. I am not trying to be unsympathetic, but if we use trash talk as a gauge of tolerance and acceptance, we would never get anywhere.

Meanwhile in Sochi, host of the Winter Olympics, homosexuality is considered a crime. What could be a better protest to Russia’s arcane policies than showing that the NFL, the rough and mean testosterone fueled NFL, is a beacon of tolerance the Olympics cannot touch? Come on people; it’s 2014. Let’s get over it.

John Zakour can be reached at jzakour@cornellsun.com.

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David Archer ’05 Secures First Season Victory

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Editor

When quarterback Jeff Mathews ’14 jogged off the field with nine minutes left in the fourth quarter and his team leading 45-13, head coach David Archer ’05 was the first to greet him as he pulled his signal caller in for a hug. After more than half a year of developing a staff and training players, Mathews and the Red had just given Archer his first win as a head coach.

“We know how much last night’s game and our team means to [Archer] and that comes through in the emotion that he displays every time he speaks to us,” senior wide receiver Lucas Shapiro said. “Not only did we want to start off with a win for this team, but also for our new coaches — Coach Archer especially, who has been with the program for quite “I looked at it as a learning some time and deserves experience. Last season really to be the made me realize how much I head coach.” missed playing with my T h e enthusiasm teammates.”

Shapiro mentioned Lucas Shapiro was evident from Archer as he patrolled the sidelines, trying to give his players the energy they needed for a comeback. The Red fell behind early against Bucknell after a 59-yard punt return for a touchdown with 7:20 left in the first quarter. The Bisons then got on the board again just five

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minutes later with a field goal, putting them ahead 100. The more than 15,000 fans in the Crescent weathered the storm that loomed in the Ithaca skies, waiting for a spark in the Red’s offense.

They got it just four minutes into the second quarter, as the Red capped off a 76-yard drive with a 44 yard touchdown pass from Mathews to junior wide receiver Chris Lenz. It was Lenz’s first career reception for the Red and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

The Bison answered with a field goal, though, putting them up 13-7. On the ensuing drive, Mathews hit Shapiro with a 45-yard pass to set up a 38-yard field goal for place-kicker John Wells ’14. The Red never looked back from that point. As the rain continued to fall in sheets against the backdrop of a black sky over Schoellkopf, the defense continued to pour pressure on Bucknell’s quarterback Brandon Wesley ’14, setting up Cornell’s comeback.

“We constantly preach focusing on the next play and

to try to change the game with the next opportunity, and that’s what we did,” Mathews said. “We stuck to what our coaches have been preaching, and it worked great for us.”

Still down by three after Wells’ field goal, and with the ball now in Bucknell’s hands, the defense forced a fumble that was recovered by senior cornerback Michael Turner. Archer was ecstatic as the defensive unit came off the field, running up and down the sidelines to highfive his players.

Just moments later, with less than two minutes to go in the half, Mathews hit Shapiro again, this time for a 30-yard touchdown pass. The senior brought it in with two defenders on him in the corner of the end zone.

Archer watched as the Red gave him his first lead as a head coach, a lead that would remain unblemished for the final 30 minutes of the game.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Cornell Takes Down Virginia in Early Season Matchup

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

Facing a ranked opponent for the first time in 2014, the Cornell men’s lacrosse team passed its important early-season test with flying colors.

The No. 15 Red (5-0, 0-0 Ivy League) used a 9-0 run in the second and third periods to take down visiting No. 2 Virginia (61, 0-0 ACC), 12-9, at Schoellkopf Field.

With the victory, Cornell is now one of only three remaining undefeated teams in Division I lacrosse, alongside Johns Hopkins (5-0) and Maryland (5-0).

“It was a complete team effort,” said head coach Matt Kerwick in a statement to Pressconnects.com. “With the start we had, I was a little bit concerned.”

Virginia struck first with early goals from

James Pannell, brother of former Cornell attackman and 2013 Tewaaraton Trophy winner Rob Pannell ’13. The younger Pannell scored twice, each time in close from the left, before senior midfielder John Hogan scored unassisted to cut the lead to 21.

Another stretch of Virginia goals, however, extended the Cavaliers’ lead to 5-2 with just 2:36 left to play in the second period — a familiar predicament for a youthful Cornell squad that has been plagued by slow starts all season.

“We came out nervous, not handling the ball close to what we’re normally used to,” Kerwick said in a statement to Pressconnects.com. “So we took a timeout, let the guys take a breath … and everybody responded really well.”

Midfielder Doug Tesoriero ’14, the

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Making moves | Cornell men’s lacrosse beat Virginia, 9-0, in an early season outing in the spring.

team’s faceoff specialist, led the Red response which deflected off the crossbar and just seconds later by winning the ensuing bounced into the net to the delight of the faceoff from the center line and finding over 4,000 fans on hand. open attackman Dan Lintner ’14 for a quick Nursing an 11-5 lead, Cornell did just strike to cut the lead to 5-3 with 2:30 to go enough to stall a Virginia comeback in the in the period. By the time the clock hit 2:25, closing minutes, as Donovan’s assist to Cornell had scored again — this time cour- Lintner with under five minutes to go all but tesy of senior attackman Matt Donovan sealed what became a 12-9 final, knocking after Tesoriero won another draw. the Cavaliers from the ranks of the unbeat“Doug jump-started us,” Kerwick said in en. a statement to Pressconnects.com. “He came “The No. 2-ranked team comes in and out the front on two faceoffs in a row … and … we [wanted] to show that we’re going to I think that was a turning point for us.” be a team that’s a force to be reckoned with,” Tesoriero, who finished the afternoon Tesoriero said in a statement to lax12-for-24 on the faceoff, continued to dom- magazine.com. “We wanted to prove to inate the Cavs for possession late in the sec- everyone that ‘This is what we have and here ond. With the Red feeling opportunistic we go.’” with under a minute to go, senior midfieldTesoriero was instrumental for the Red er Connor Buczek raced on another front, as he down the right side and led the team with seven “It was a complete fired a laser into the botground balls en route to a tom left of the net to tie 36-33 advantage on the team effort.” the game at five apiece. afternoon. Aside from Just 15 seconds later, ground balls and Head Coach Matt Kerwick junior midfielder John turnovers — the team Edmonds fed Donovan had 11 in the first period for his second goal of the and just nine for the afternoon, giving the Red a remarkable 6-5 remainder of the game — perhaps the most lead heading into halftime. promising development was the perfor“We were 50 percent on the day in face- mance of sophomore goalkeeper Christian offs,” Kerwick said in a statement to Knight.

Cornellbigred.com. “But it seemed like all Knight, making his first collegiate start, the big ones went our way.” saved 15 Virginia shots, including a crucial Big faceoff wins in the second quarter pair at the end of the first period, keeping were key in restoring the Red’s rhythm to the Red within striking distance. open the third period. Attackman Connor “Christian’s been very steady in practice,” Entenman ’14 scored unassisted two minutes Kerwick said in a statement to into the half and short-stick defensive mid- Pressconnects.com. “I would have been a litfielder Joe Paoletta ’14 added another before tle hesitant to start a freshman against Edmonds hammered in a third consecutive Virginia, but his personality is such that not unassisted goal to tear open the lead. a whole lot fazes him. Sometimes I wonder Aided by a strong clear game from the if there’s a pulse in there.” defense throughout the third, Buczek finished off the 9-0 run with his second and Chris Mills can be reached at third goals of the game — the former of cmills@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell coach to win that many games in a single sport.

Fellow classmate Melanie Jorgensen earned a trip to the NCAA regional tournament, competing on uneven bars.

Even without one of the household names in Cornell sports history, Kyle Dake ’13, the wrestling team managed another dominant season under head coach Rob Koll. The team won its 12th straight Ivy title, the most of any team in any sport in the Ancient Eight. The Red then crowned four EIWA champions and sent seven wrestlers to Nationals. One of them was sophomore Nahshon Garrett, who finished as a National runner-up in his weight class. The biggest story of the year was sophomore Gabe Dean’s upset win over Penn State’s Ed Ruth in the Southern Scuffle. It was a victory that sent shockwaves through the wrestling community and ensured that Dean’s named would be on everyone’s radar for the next three years.

Many in the Cornell community thought the loss of star attacker Rob Pannell meant a rebuilding year for the Red. But head coach Matt Kerwick had other ideas, and his team shocked everyone from the opening gates. A 12-9 victory over then-No.2 ranked Virginia put Cornell lacrosse on the map as a contender for an NCAA title. The team won its first nine games before a three-game skid caused it to drop from No. 2 in the national rankings. The Red suffered a stunning onegoal loss to Penn in the Ivy League tournament, lowering its seeding for the NCAA tournament. But Kerwick’s squad put up a fight against the heavy favorite Maryland, leading for the entire first half before eventually falling, 8-7.

Cornell athletics said goodbye to some prolific names in the senior class this past year, but the talent and promise of the upperclassmen bodes well for the next four years.

Head coach Dick Blood won his 600th career game in April, making him the first

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but the puck came back out and after Lowry worked the puck around, he sent it to McCarron at the top of the left circle.

McCarron’s shot sailed high on the right past the blocker of Harvard netminder Steve Michalek, who had put up several impressive saves through the first half of the game.

MacDonald set up the Red’s next goal as well, breaking into the zone after deftly avoiding an offsides call. Freshman forward Jeff Kubiak picked up the puck and sent it across the slot to classmate Matt Buckles, who fired it past Michalek’s right pad to tie the game with less than three minutes left in the second

frame.

“He was awesome all weekend,” Schafer said of MacDonald. “You see the confidence of that young man grow over the last six to eight games; he’s been outstanding. [He] played a big part in our success over the last 10 games and it’s great to get another threat on the blue line.”

Despite several chances, both teams failed to score in the third period, and senior goaltender Andy Iles came up with several huge saves in the first two minutes of overtime to keep the Red in the game. Iles foiled back-toback attempts by the Crimson, including defusing a Harvard three-on-one attempt, before Bardreau and Lowry were able to combine for the winner.

“You really couldn’t have drawn it up any better,” Iles said. “Probably a little closer than you guys in the stands would have liked, but we fought hard all night. Their kid played pretty well in net, it was just a matter of time before we cracked the seal and finished that game off.”

The Red was put in the highpressure, ECAC-bye must-winor-tie position after dropping Friday’s game to Dartmouth, 10, the night before. It was the first time the Red had suffered a shutout loss to the Green at Lynah since 1960. Despite the loss, Iles earned his place in the record books as the all-time career saves leader, beating former Cornell star and current Edmonton Oilers’ goaltender Ben Scrivens for the mark.

“Anytime you can get compared alongside some of the great goalies we’ve had here, it’s humbling,” Iles said. “It’s something that’s an honor, [but] I’m not trying to worry about the individual stuff right now.”

With the win against the Crimson, the Red secured the fourth place spot in league standings alongside first-seed Union, second-seed Colgate and third-seeded Quinnipiac. This fourth-seed spot secures the Red its week of rest while eight other ECAC teams battle it out in the first round.

“From day one our goal was to win a national championship, and obviously you don’t do that overnight,” Bardreau said.

“You’ve got to take baby steps, and I think this was just one step along the way.”

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Cornell Secures First Round ECAC Tournament Bye

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The officials skated back onto the ice, first a referee and then a linesman. The crowd, which had celebrated so riotously only a minute ago, stood comparatively quietly. Then the refs made the call: the goal was good.

And Lynah roared again.

It was a wild finish to the Red’s biggest game yet this season, as the men’s ice hockey team clinched a firstround ECAC Hockey Playoff bye in a come-frombehind overtime victory over Harvard in Cornell’s senior night game.

“It was a great victory; perfect senior night for those guys in the sense of clinching home ice, beating Harvard in overtime, great crowd,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “[It] doesn’t get much better than that.”Junior Joel Lowry notched the overtime gamewinning goal for the No. 11 Red (15-8-5, 11-7-4) with 36.3 seconds remaining in overtime to hand the team a 3-2 victory over its perennial Ivy League rival.

Senior center and assistant captain Cole Bardreau set up the play, dri“It was a great victory; perfect ving into senior night for those guys in the the zone past sevsense of clinching home ice.” e r a l Crimson Mike Schafer ’86 players and leaving the puck in the crease. Lowry pounced on the uncovered puck, attempting to poke it in and eventually succeeding. The Red’s celebration was cut short after the officials decided to review the play, but Lowry said he was confident on the ice that the play would stand.

“When they were reviewing it, I was pretty sure it was going to count, so I was pretty excited,” he said.

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Crushing the Crimson | The Cornell men’s ice hockey team secured a first round ECAC tournament bye by winning over Harvard on senior night in a 3-2 victory.

“That felt awesome to get our seniors a win on [senior] night — you don’t want to go out on a loss for them, and for us to beat our rivals like that in overtime was huge. It was a really exciting game; [I’m] really proud of the way the guys battled back after going down 2-0. I think that was a really quality win for us.”

If the Red had dropped the game, it would have lost the first-round bye slot to Clarkson, who tied Quinnipiac, 1-1, the same night. If Clarkson had beaten Quinnipiac, the Red would have needed to win, increasing the already sky-high pressure on the bench as the coaching staff attempted to stay up-to-date with the ongoing Clarkson match, while managing the Cornell game at the same time.

“We were getting some updates on the bench that Clarkson and Quinnipiac were tied in overtime, and it took so long we didn’t know whether we were going to have to pull our goalie in overtime to try to go for the win,” Schafer said. “It was a little hairy there, but a great comeback from our guys.”

Harvard notched its first goal only 1:20 into the first period to temporarily silence the sold-out Lynah crowd, which had christened the ice with the customary fish throwing.

With the Red in the box for charging, Harvard forward Sean Malone parked himself unguarded by Iles’ left side and scored an easy back-door goal after being fed the puck.

Harvard’s only other goal of the game also came with the Red on the penalty kill, marking a bad night for the Red’s otherwise reliable defensive special teams play.

“We made a couple of major mistakes on penalty killing, which is really kind of unusual for us,” Schafer said. “It was frustrating that way.”

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Women Icers Take Home ECAC Championship Title Cornell women’s ice hockey clinches second consecutive ECAC championship, its fourth in five years

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

After a frustrating end to its regular season, in which the women’s ice hockey team failed to capture the regular season Ivy League and ECAC titles, the Red roared back in the ECAC playoff series and beat Harvard, 6-4, in the semifinals and Clarkson, 1-0, in the finals to take home the ECAC Championship title. This was Cornell’s second consecutive ECAC championship, and its fourth in five years.

According to defenseman and captain Alyssa Gagliardi ’14, the Red was confident in its ability to win the ECAC and is energized and excited heading into the NCAA National Tournament.

“We kind of had a rough end to the regular season, but we thought we played good games even though we lost,” she said.

“So going into the playoffs, we were a confident group and we knew that if we kept believing, playing the full 60 minutes, playing as hard as we can, and coming together as a team, we’d be able to put together four

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Tough times | Women’s ice hockey failed to secure the Ivy League but managed to win its second consecutive ECAC championship.

solid wins. We’re really excited going into three goals in the second, but to come back the NCAA playoffs next Saturday.” and respond was huge for us,” she said.

The Crimson (23-6-4, 16-3-3) took a 1- “Going into the third, the coach told us that 0 lead in the first period during the semifi- we’ve come back before, and look, I don’t nal, but Cornell (24-5-4, 15-4-3) tied it up care if we win this game 6-5, we’re going to late in the first on a two-man advantage. have to score as many goals as we can and According to Gagliardi, it was critical to make a comeback. We’re really happy with capitalize on that opportunity and even up the way we responded when we were down. the score.

We just never gave up and kept attacking, “We got the five-on-three and we had pucks went our way and we got the win.” almost 1:45 with that advantage, so we The game against the Golden Knights knew we didn’t have to rush it too much,” featured far less scoring, with the game’s she said. “We told ourselves that we had only goal coming from Cornell’s Cassandra time and its didn’t need to happen right Poudrier late in the first. Cornell protected away. For the first and its that lead until the end to didn’t need to happen capture the title.

“We kind of had a right away. For the first According to Saulnier, the minute they were firing it Red needed good offenrough end to the out, but finally we were sive and defensive play to regular season.” able to set up, and luckily, prevent Clarkson’s powerAlyssa Gagliardi ’14 Emily Fulton found the ful offense from scoring. back of the net. So it was “Clarkson is one of huge to tie the game up, the best offensive teams resettle ourselves and refocus going into the in the nation, so to keep them off the second period.” board was huge for us and its a big confiAfter taking a 2-1 lead, Harvard dence booster,” she said. “Obviously we responded with three consecutive goals to had great defensive play but also good take a two-goal lead. Senior forward Jillian offensive play, because we were able to Saulnier scored to trim the lead to one late keep pucks not only out of our net, but in the second, and the Red scored three out of our end as well. Making sure we just unanswered goals in the third to seal the took care of the puck, didn’t panic and win. According to Gagliardi, it was crucial stuck to the little things helped us get the for the Red to shrink Harvard’s lead and job done.” regain the momentum before the end of the second period.

Ben Horowitz can be reached at “I think we were disappointed to give up bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Sports Highlights From 2013-14 Football is led by Archer ’05;women’s swimming and diving see first winning Ivy season since 1992;wrestling wins 12th straight Ivy League title;gymnastics is third at ECACs

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Editor

It was an exciting year in Cornell sports, filled with important personnel changes, Ivy League Championships, ECAC Championships, improbable upsets, dramatic finishes, broken records and even a few Olympic gold medals. Here is a look back at some of the highlights of the 2013-14 school year.

including an exciting overtime win against Marist. The production of the freshman class was a big surprise for Coach Patrick Farmer’s squad, boding well for the future of the pro-

32 attempts and beat Penn for the first time since 1999-2000.

Junior Jenna Immormino set two pool records in a win over Dartmouth and will be an important part of Cornell’s

dard of play that Cornellians have come to expect. The men won the Ivy League title outright and advanced to the ECAC Hockey championship before falling in the semifinals.

Track & Field

Football

Under a new head coach in David Archer ’05, the Red opened the season with a resounding 45-13 homecoming victory over Bucknell. The glee over Archer’s first win did not last long, though, as the team lost its next seven games.

In the process, quarterback Jeff Mathews ’14 broke the Ivy League’s passing record, and then carried his team to two victories to close out the season, one of which was a thrilling one-point victory over Penn. Mathews went on to be signed by the Atlanta Falcons after going undrafted in the 2014 NFL draft.

Soccer

The men’s soccer team could not repeat its Ivy League championship season from 2012, and faltered in conference play. The Red did not get a win in Ancient Eight competition until the second to last game of the season. There was no shortage of individual accolades at the end of the season, though, with five players making the All-Ivy team and senior Patrick Slogic ’14 winning Defensive Player of the Year.

He was also signed to a professional contract with the Rochester Rhinos in March.

The women’s team was much improved after a disappointing one-win 2012 season.

The Red was 7-8-1 overall,

pionship. Alyssa Gagliardi ’14 and senior Jillian Saulnier were both named All-Americans, an honor that was well deserved.

The then Red fell in the first round of the NCAA tournament, 3-2 to Mercyhurst.

There was success for the women’s hockey players on foreign ground as well when four Cornellians won a gold medal for Team Canada at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

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gram. Nine more incoming first-years will join the roster this fall, with the chance to fill in for some of the roles vacated by talented graduates like goalie Tori Christ ’14 and midfielder Rachel Nichols ’14.

Swimming & Diving

The women’s team saw unprecedented success, recording its first winning Ivy season since 1992. The Red defeated Princeton for the first time in

attempt to move up the conference ladder next season.

Ice Hockey

Going to a hockey game is one of the most exciting parts of being a freshman at Cornell, and sitting in a sea of raucous red really makes you feel like a part of something, especially with the annual tossing of fish on the ice in the CornellHarvard game. Both hockey teams upheld the high stan-

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Gymnastics

Cornell finished third overall as a team at the ECAC championships and senior Lexi Schupp won the title on bars.

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Touchdown

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Some highlights of the season were a thrilling 3-2 overtime win over Ivy rival Harvard and goaltender Andy Iles ’14 being named Ivy League Player of the Year. It was an honor that came at the end of a storied four years for the Red’s stalwart netminder.

The women’s were even more successful, surpassing the 500-win mark and winning its second-straight ECAC cham-

There seemed to be a new broken record every other weekend for the track & field teams. Beginning in indoor, senior Stephen Mozia set a new school record and a Nigerian national record in shotput, and has an amazing story to tell about his inspiration. Senior Montez Blair won his fifth All-American honor as a jumper and senior Bruno Hortelano-Roig ’14 set a new Ivy League an Cornell record in the 200. Junior Rob Robbins also set a record in javelin. Unsurprisingly with the dearth of talent on the team, the men won the Heps championship in both indoor and outdoor.

On the women’s side, Cornell placed fifth and third at Heps in indoor and outdoor respectively. Some highlights of the season were junior Udeme Akpaete breaking the 200 m school record and the 4X400 team breaking a Cornell record that had previously stood for nine years.

Seniors Samantha Olyha and Emmy Shearer were also named Marshall scholars, a prestigious academic award.

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Grabbing Goals

Columnist John Zakour talks about coming out in the National Football League.

Menʼs ice hockey clinched a bye in the first round of the ECAC tournament thanks to a 3-2 win over Ivy League rival Harvard on senior night.

The womenʼs ice hockey team won its second consecutive ECAC Championship title.

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Remembering our own freshman days, we have created this guide for you to read before you arrive on campus to give you the inside scoop on Cornell life.

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The Sun’s Cornell glos•sa•ry

Say what?

Studying in the cocktail lounge?

Eating at CTB? Learn what’s what: all the terms you need to know.

AAP: College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Found on the north end of the Arts Quad.

Appel: Appel Commons, one of North Campus’ dining halls, known as the “crown jewel of Cornell Dining.”

Bear Nasties: Affectionate nickname for the greasy, a-la-carte dining facility in RPCC. Big Red: The nickname for all Cornell athletic teams.

Big Red Bear: Cornell mascot. Although the bear is actually brown and not red, Cornellians still look to him for spirit.

CALS: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Also called the “Ag School.”

Big Red Bucks: Points that can be used in a-la-carte dining facilities, such as Bear Necessities, to buy food. Also known as BRBs. CCC: Cornell Concert Commission, the organization that brings big-name bands to campus.

Central: Central Campus, the area between the gorges that includes nearly all of Cornell’s academic buildings.

Chalkings: Announcements written in chalk on the campus sidewalks.

CIT: Cornell Information Technologies, the provider of computer and network services.

Cocktail Lounge: Underground reading room in Uris Library with comfy, sleep-inducing chairs — great for a midday nap!

Commons: A stretch of State Street in downtown Ithaca closed to vehicular traffic.

Go there to find shops, restaurants and many craft and musical fairs.

Cornell Cinema: Sells $4 tickets to more than 300 films a year CTB: Collegetown Bagels, a favorite lunch spot.

CTP: Collegetown Pizza, a favorite latenight munchies spot.

C-Town: Collegetown, the business district of Ithaca located next to campus. There are apartments, shops, restaurants and bars on this stretch.

Dairy Bar: Cornell-operated dairy that serves ice cream, milkshakes and other milk products. Closed for renovations until 2013.

D.P. Dough: A place to order calzones to satisfy those late-night cravings.

Dragon Day: Tradition started by Willard D. Straight 1901, where architecture students build a giant dragon and parade it around the campus before spring break.

EARS: Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service, a free and confidential peer counseling service.

Fishbowl: A glass-enclosed reading room in Uris Library with rows of reading-conducive desks. Perfect for studying.

Freshman 15: Theory that incoming freshmen will gain 15 pounds during their first year in college because of the all-you-care-to-eat dining halls — plus the beer.

Freshmen on the Field: A tradition where all freshmen rush onto the field before the first home football game of the season.

FWS: 1. Freshman writing seminar; you pick your top five choices, and will be assigned one. 2. Federal Work Study, a financial aid program.

Gorges: Ithaca’s claim to fame, leading to the saying, “Ithaca is Gorges.” These rock-lined waterfalls are hard to miss on campus, but swimming in them is dangerous and prohibited in most areas — be careful.

Harvest Dinner: One night each fall semester when local foods are served in Cornell’s dining halls.

Ho Plaza: The area between the Campus Store and the Straight, which often hosts student rallies.

Hotelies: Students in the School of Hotel Administration.

Hot Truck: Found at the bottom of West Campus, the Hot Truck is perfect for a latenight snack. The truck is owned and operated

by Shortstop Deli, which has not changed the menu from the classic subs; look out for the Poor Man’s Pizza (PMP), which made the truck famous.

I.C.: Ithaca College, the college across town from Cornell.

ILR: School of Industrial and Labor Relations, nicknamed “I Love Reading.”

J.A.: The Judicial Administrator determines

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punishments for recalcitrant students, especially those who take more than one piece of fruit out of the dining halls.

JAM: Just About Music, a residential program house.

Libe: General abbreviation for any campus library.

Libe Café: Where great minds meet daily over coffee inside Olin Library.

Libe Slope: A very steep hill separating West Campus from Central Campus. You’ll want to be there on Slope Day ... but otherwise only take the walk when you’re up for a workout.

Louie’s Lunch: Major rival to Hot Truck, found on North Campus between Balch and Risley Halls. Louie’s is the older of the two trucks and serves a wider variety of foods.

Martha Van / MVR: Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, home of the College of Human Ecology.

Morgue: The large study lounge in Donlon Hall, named for its dark, dismal lighting.

Noyes: The student center on West Campus, home to a state-of-the-art gym to rid yourself of the Freshman 15.

Orgo: Organic chemistry. Two words: Fear it.

PAM: Policy analysis and management, a popular major in the College of Human Ecology.

Plantations: Includes an arboretum, a botanical garden and other areas showcasing the fruits of Ithaca’s natural beauty.

Prelim: Any full-length exam that is not a final exam. Known as “midterms” at most other colleges.

Quad: Quadrangle, a rectangular section of campus that houses one of Cornell’s colleges, such as the Ag Quad, the Arts Quad and the Engineering Quad.

R.A.: Resident advisor, the upperclassman in charge of keeping order in your residence hall.

RHD: Residence hall director, the R.A.’s boss. You want this person to be on your side if you’re in trouble.

ROTC: Reserve Officer’s Training Corps, a collegiate-level military organization.

RPCC: Robert Purcell Community Center, one of two community centers on North Campus. It’s home to numerous study lounges, Bear Necessities and a dining hall. Formerly known as RPU. S/U: Pass-or-fail grading that is an option in some courses (satisfactory or unsatisfactory).

S.A.: Student Assembly, a student governing body that has jurisdiction over the student activity fee and makes recommendations to the administration.

Schwartz Center: Home of Cornell’s theatre, film and dance department, which were the target of controversial budget cuts this past year. Located in Collegetown, it hosts many student performances and visiting shows.

Slope Day: An end of the year celebration in the spring when Cornellians gather on Libe Slope, hang out with friends, listen to music and have a few (or more) drinks.

The Straight: Willard Straight Hall, Cornell’s student union, which contains three dining facilities, a study lounge, a ceramics studio, a Cornell Cinema movie theater and registered student organization offices.

SAFC: Student Assembly Finance Commission, in charge of distributing money to registered student organizations.

State Street Diner: A restaurant open 24 hours a day west of the Ithaca Commons. Stop by if you’re looking for greasy, home-style cooking and waitresses who will call you “honey.”

T.A.: Teaching assistants, often graduate students who lead discussion sections for large lectures.

TCAT: Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, the bus company that serves the Ithaca area.

Townie: A local Ithaca resident.

Ujamaa: A residential program house on North Campus focused on African culture.

Wegmans: The massive and hyper-popular supermarket downtown. Great place to shop if you cook for yourself a lot.

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OrientationWeek Eases Transition to Cornell

By SUN STAFF

In mid-August, students from around the world will pack up from summer vacation and congregate in Ithaca, N.Y., where the next generation of political leaders, business tycoons and famous activists will be become part of the incoming freshman class at Cornell University.

During the five-day New Student Orientation, freshmen will be given the chance to not only settle in, but also reach out and explore. The Orientation Steering Committee runs a tight ship of planned activities and events, which give students the opportunity for a positive first taste of Cornell life.

“I think [Orientation Week] is a great opportunity for students to explore the campus before they take that final plunge.”

Nikki Stevens ’11 There are plenty of other options available for students. According to Nikki Stevens ’11, former co-chair of the Orientation Steering Committee, the more traditional events are generally the crowd favorites.

“My favorite event is the Big Red Blowout because it gives a sense of Cornell spirit, and it’s a great chance to hang out with your class,” Stevens said.

Former Orientation Leader Jeff Stulmaker ’11 reiterated Stevens’ enthusiasm.

“I think it’s a great opportunity for students to explore the campus before they take that final plunge,” Stulmaker said of “O-Week.”

Orientation Leaders serve as new students’ guides to campus in the first week and often beyond. They can serve as valuable resources to find quiet places to study, cool places to party and everything in between.

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Move-in day | Family members help their new Cornell student carry luggage across North Campus. There are numerous student volunteers available to help carry luggage and give directions on Move-In Day.

New students nervous about their first day on campus can take comfort in the fact that Emily Krebs ’10, former chair of the OSC, says Move-In Day is often the most exciting and fun of the entire week.

“Move-In Day is always my favorite,” Krebs said. “I love seeing the new students come in.”

During Orientation Week, students will also be broken up into small groups to discuss the Freshman Reading Project. This year’s reading book will be the

novel Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in a Piazza Vittorio. Past titles have included Things Fall Apart, The Grapes of Wrath and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“It’s a very diverse experience,” Stevens said. “We have something for everyone. If you get involved, there’s a lot you can see.”

The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.

For 2nd Year,Consent Education Part of O-Week Programming

By SUN STAFF

In between attending icebreaker activities, information sessions and evening fairs, freshmen at Orientation Week last year did something recent classes did not their first week at Cornell: attend a mandatory event about consent and healthy relationships.

“Speak About It,” a troupe of actors who travel raising awareness of sexual violence, performed skits for first-year and transfer students.

“Probably most of the students there might not have been taking it as seriously as they should because they haven’t been in [a

consent-related] situation like that before,” said Grant Mulitz ’17, one student who attended Speak About It’s presentation. “But there were definitely some people who had been in that situation, and it probably meant a lot to actually know that Cornell is looking out for and educating people with respect to those issues.”

“Speak About It” was announced in May 2013, and according to E.E. Hou ’14, creative director of the Every1 Campaign — a student organization that addresses issues of sexual assault and consensual sex — the workshop conveyed the impo-

ratance of consent in relationships, The Sun previously reported.

Aside from Speak About It, the Orientation Steering Committee welcomed the Class of 2017 and transfer students to Cornell with five days of academic and social events. These events continued through the start of classes into Welcome Weekend, which consists of events such as picnics, movies and ClubFest.

Last year’s orientation centered on international and travel themes, titled “Where will Cornell take you?”, according to Sarah Jones, assistant dean for new stu-

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Barton bananza | Freshman line up in Barton Hall to get free Cornell gear, play games and to meet new people as part of O-Week nighttime alternatives.

dent programs.

According to David Rosenwasser ’18, the orientation groups provided a good environment for meeting other new students.

Like previous years, “the way the orientation groups were set up with everyone in my group being from my college was a great opportunity to meet more students in a smaller setting,” Rosenwasser said.

The orientation groups also provided students with an orientation leader, who students say were helpful easing the transition to Cornell.

“My Orientation Leader led icebreaker activities that were a lot of fun and also made us a food map of places to eat around campus, which is really useful,” Samir Sherali ’17 said.

In addition to orientation group activities, both required and non-mandatory events had high rates of attendance, Jones said.

According to Cornell University Police estimates, Convocation had approximately 9,500 people in attendance, while 3,400 attended Cornell Essentials — where students could hear from upper-class students and alumni about transitioning to Cornell. Two thousand eight hundred of the 3,282 students in the Class of 2017 attended First Night activities on the Court-Kay-Bauer quad.

OSC members also focused on improving the experience for transfer students, according to Jones. These programs included paintball, trivia night, ice skating

and a casino night, among other events.

In addition to activities with his orientation group, Sherali said he enjoyed magician Tim Gabrielson’s Saturday performance after the Great Migration — an annual tradition where new students walk from North Campus to Barton Hall for a performance.

“He got the crowd involved, and the entire performance was fun. He called people up and would do tricks with them while making jokes,” Sherali said.

The performance had a large turnout and provided freshman with an option other than going to parties, according to Sherali.

“Barton Hall was pretty full. It seemed like everyone who didn’t go to Collegetown was there,” Sherali said.

According to Jones, both the performance by Black Violins and the Silent Disco on the Arts Quad were well-attended and wellreceived.

Another goal of Orientation Week programming is to introduce students to Cornell’s academic community and community in general.

Rosenwasser said the programming was “much better executed” than expected.

“It was nicely done, not obnoxious, and less cliché than it could have been,” Rosenwasser said.

“No one seemed to mind spending an hour there, even though it was mandatory.”

The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell History Through the Eyes of The Sun

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early one-hundred-fifty years ago, the governor of New York State signed Cornell University’s charter, establishing the university that its founder, Ezra Cornell, would later describe as “an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”

While The Sun was not established until 15 years after the University, the publication has continuously followed the University and has kept Cornellians informed for over 130 years.

In honor of the University’s sesquicentennial — or 150th anniversary — we are showcasing some of The Sun’s front pages that showcase what many would call some of the defining moments of the University’s history.

‘Without any apology for our apperance’ | The Sun’s inagural issue was published on Sept. 16, 1880, fifteen years after Cornell’s charter is signed and 18 years after the signing of the Morrill Land-Grant Act, which allowed states to establish a university with the purpose of benefiting the state.

‘Precautions Lacking’ | In April 1967, a fire at the Cornell Heights Residential Club — which is now the Ecology House on North Campus — killed eight Ph.D. students and a professor. The following day, The Sun published a story on its front page [left] about the lack of fire safety precautions in University residences. To this day, the cause of the fire is unknown, although following the event, Cornell invested in fire safety measures across campus.

“Cornell’s Stand In Face of War to Be Revealed” | The day after the Pearl Harbor attacks on Dec. 7, 1941, the front page of The Sun [above] featured various Associated Press wires regarding World War II and the attacks. Cornell President Edmund Ezra Day issued a statement the following day, telling Cornellians to stay “at their jobs” until more definitive information regarding the country’s role in the war was provided. Throughout the war, Cornell was greatly disrupted — men were called to enlist in 1943, and The Sun became a weekly known as “The Cornell Bulletin.”

Cornell’s capitulation | Forty-five years ago, approximately 100 black students took over Willard Straight Hall and ejected Cornell employees and visiting family members from the building. The following day, April 20, 1969, students emerged from the Straight with rifles. Marking the end of a decade full of racial tensions, Cornell was divided. Tensions ultimately culmnated with the resignation of its president and the future establishment of shared governance on campus. Right is The Sun’s extra edition announcing the takeover.

Rawling’s seven point plan | On Oct. 8, 1997, President Hunter R. Rawlings III announced his plan to move all freshmen housing to North Campus and all upperclassmen housing to West and in Collegetown. The following day, The Sun [above] led with the headline “All Frosh to North.”

Rawlings plan lead to the construction of Mews and Court-Kay-Bauer Halls, as well as the West Campus housing system.

The land grant university of the future | In December 2011, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Cornell won the city’s Applied Sciences competition, which granted the University the right to build a new technology campus on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan.

Cornell is thought to have won the bid after Stanford University, Cornell’s rival throughout the competition, dropped out and billionaire Chuck Feeney ’56 donated $350 million to the University for the campus. The Sun reported on the announcement during Cornell’s winter break and published the news online, with the print version [right] making its debut at the start of the spring semester. The campus is set to open in 2017 with a full buildout of the campus to be completed by 2037.

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Taking a Bite Out of the Big Apple: Cornell’s Future in New York City Cornell Tech Over the next two decades, Cornell will expand its footprint in New York City on Roosevelt Island, the site of its new technology campus, Cornell Tech. While the campus is set to open in 2017, the full buildout will not be complete until 2037. Before demolition began this year to make way for Cornell’s new campus, The Sun’s editors had the opportunity to tour the island to see Cornell’s future.

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North Campus Dorms Ready for Class of 2018 Clara Dickson Hall

By SUN STAFF

In the 1900s, the Cornell student body was housed entirely in fraternities and boarding houses — no real dormitories existed. According to Cornell: Glorious to View, a history of Cornell written by Profs. Carol Kammen and Walter LaFeber, history, Andrew Dickson White, Cornell’s founder and first president, believed students should live on their own. Clearly, times have changed. Now required to live on campus, the Class of 2018 arrives at Cornell with a plethora of housing options, ranging from traditional residence halls — described below — to more specialized program houses.

Balch Hall

Balch Hall, an all-women’s residence, was constructed in the 1920s as the second dormitory on North Campus, according to Cornell Then and Now by Prof. Ronald Ostman, communication.

Generations of Cornellians and architectural trends later, Balch’s Gothic style and ivy-covered exterior continue to exude a timeless and classically collegiate character.

“Balch is one of my favorites. The rooms are uniquely shaped, and the dormer windows are beautiful on the fifth and sixth floors,” said Karen Brown, director of marketing and communications for Campus Life.

The rooms in Balch are also the most spacious of all the North Campus dorms, according to former residential advisor Doug Weinberg ’08. Another big plus: Most rooms have a sink, either in the room itself or connected to an adjacent room.

Named after A.D.White’s mother, Clara Dickson Hall has also held the unusual nickname, “The Big Dick,” according to Weinberg. The dormitory was originally intended to house only females, but is now is co-ed. Almost 500 students can fit in this five-story dormitory, the largest in the Ivy League, according to former residential advisor Mazdak Asgary ’08. Not quite so conveniently, however, Dickson has only four bathrooms per floor.

Clara Dickson Hall is also full of single rooms, a rarity for freshmen at most colleges. Many rooms stand on long hallways with lounges in the middle.

Court-Kay-Bauer Hall

Opened in 2001, this residence conveniently features the air conditioning other dormitories lack. While Ithaca does live up to its reputation of frigid winters, cool air is definitely welcome on those first few humid days of school. Such small perks have given the dorm its nickname, “Court Resort.” As one of the most modern dormitories, CourtKay-Bauer Hall also boasts brightly painted walls and comfortable common areas.

But all is fair, or pretty fair, in dormitory life, as the rooms in the Court-Kay-Bauer Community are also known to have walls that are almost paper thin, according to Weinberg.

Mews Hall

Along with Court-Kay-Bauer, Mews Hall represents the latest in dormitories on North Campus. According to Asgary, the structure and facilities of the building closely mirror that of Court-Kay-Bauer Hall.

Mews also contains 22 lounges, including the spacious, semicircular Lund Lounge that

overlooks Rawlings Green.

Traditional activities include a male talent show, ice skating, and a trip to the United Nations. Mews residents also enjoy convenient proximity to Appel Commons, one of two community centers on North Campus.

students,” Brown said.

Constructed at a time of high economic inflation, the Low Rises were built to be long-standing, according to Brown. A typical suite consists of one bathroom, two double rooms and two single rooms.

Mary Donlon Hall

In the midst of rural Ithaca, High Rise 5 and Jameson do their best to stir up a bit of urban life with their architectural styles intended to resemble city living. Their organization is very similar to that of the Low Rises, also with suites “designed to foster interactions within the community,” according to Brown.

The most distinctive feature of the High Rises is arguably their Sky Lounges. Located on the top floor of each building, they provide an unparalleled panoramic view of North Campus.

Some say that Donlon Hall is “thongshaped,” a description somewhat fitting considering its reputation for being a social dormitory.

“Donlon is uniquely situated because of the way the rooms go off into wings.

Residents all have to go into the middle for social activity,” Brown said.

The majority of the rooms are doubles on co-ed corridors. While most bathrooms are single-sex, there is an occasional co-ed one.

Socializing may be a constant for life in Donlon, but the dormitory also has a recently-renovated library on the first floor. The library was repainted and recarpeted, according to Brown, and serves as a quiet and convenient retreat for some serious studying.

Low Rises 6 and 7

Step inside the Low Rises and you’ll feel like a rat in a maze. Winding corridors and unexpected turns are the norm in these dormitories. But at the time the buildings were constructed, the Low Rises’ small, somewhat isolated suites were a novel proposition.

“The emphasis on building small communities was considered to be a wonderful approach in residential living. The Low Rises were planned from the beginning to serve as an asset in our quest to foster diversity and interaction among and between our

High Rise 5 and Jameson

Townhouse Community

Living in the Townhouses is basically like sharing an apartment. Built in 1989, each has two double rooms and a bathroom — but also a sizable dining room and living room, not to mention a kitchen. While most agree the Townhouses are more secluded than the rest of the North Campus dormitories, their location also makes for a quieter, more private environment. Bus stops located right outside the community come in handy for avoiding the long walk to Central Campus.

Despite being on the periphery of North Campus, Townhouse residents are still fully able to participate in all that college life entails.

“Residents have access to the Townhouse Community Center [and] also have easy access to Robert Purcell Community Center, just across the street,” Brown said.

ALINA LIU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Archway | Balch Hall, an all-female dormitory, sits at the front of North Campus, welcoming freshmen through its central arch. Balch is one of the many North Campus dorms to house first-year students.

Program Houses Help Students Pursue Their Passions

By SUN STAFF

All Cornellians, including freshmen, may apply to live in program houses, the majority of which are located on North Campus. The houses allow students with an interest in a particular theme to live together.

Akwe:kon (pronounced “Agway-go”) is dedicated to Native American heritage. Its 35 residents share an interest in Native American culture, family and community. Many Akwe:kon members take part in an annual smoke dance and pow-wow, which also draws members of the greater Cornell and Ithaca communities.

Ninety-six students with a passion for the environment can

choose to live in the Ecology House. Typical events include environmental discussions, hikes and kayaking trips.

The Holland International Living Center, more commonly known as HILC, is home to foreign students as well as those interested in global, political, economic, social and cultural issues.

Members of HILC have the opportunity to learn about other countries without leaving Cornell.

Some of the center’s programs include international affairs discussion groups, ice-cream hour and talent shows.

Music lovers at Cornell can choose to live in Just About Music, known appropriately as JAM. The 144 residents range

from students who enjoy listening to music to students who sing or play musical instruments.

Members of JAM can take advantage of the house’s pianos, drum set, CD library, practice rooms, concert stage, recording studio and weekly listening parties.

The only program house situated on West Campus is the Language House, located in the Alice Cook House. The Language House is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors hoping to become fluent in Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin or Spanish. Members watch movies, celebrate holidays from their target language’s countries and take trips to cities such as Montreal or New York City.

Fifty-seven students interested in Latino culture live in the Latino Learning Center, or LLC, located in Anna Comstock Hall. Each week, in an event called “Café Con Leche,” students discuss issues facing Latino people across the world.

Students hoping to learn about other cultures may decide to live in the Multicultural Living Learning Unit, known as McLLU and pronounced “McClue.” This program house is located in Clara Dickson Hall, a freshmen dormitory.

Members of McLLU celebrate diversity by holding presentations and festivities centering on their assorted backgrounds.

With 190 residents, Risley Residential College for Creative and Performing Arts is one of the

largest program houses on campus and has its own dining hall. Risley is also home to recording and video-editing studios. Some of the programs Risleyites host each year include concerts, shows and art exhibits.

Ujamaa — pronounced “oo-jama” — is home to 140 students who share an interest in black history and culture. The name Ujamaa comes from a KiSwahilian word that roughly translates to “a community that works together as a family.” The house also focuses on advancing the academic and professional goals of its residents. Ujamaa’s members engage in discussion, hold dances and work with many off-campus social-action groups.

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CITY GUIDE From the outside it’s hard to understand the allure of the city Cornell calls home. But Ithaca, with all its quirks and eccentricities, has plenty of opportunities for exploring, playing and having fun.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

The heart of downtown Ithaca is called the Commons. Three city blocks in the center of downtown were made into a pedestrian mall in the 1970s, and the Commons is now full of stores and restaurants worth trying. The Commons is currently under construction for renovations, which are slated to be completed in late November. Once finished, the new Commons will feature various new ammenities, better lighting and a more accessible central walkway. During construction, however, all of the stores are still open. Retail options include everything from jewelry stores to bookstores to head shops. Restaurants are the Commons’ prime attraction, and they serve up food ranging from Mediterranean to Thai.

Though there are many great dining options, a couple restaurants have become icons for Cornell students. Moosewood Restaurant, which made its name in the ’60s with its world-famous organic vegetarian cookbook, sits on Seneca Street and still serves the same cuisine. Glenwood Pines, on Route 89 near Taughannock Falls State Park, serves what it calls the world famous Pinesburger and provides nice views of Cayuga Lake. Viva Taqueria on the Commons offers dine-in and carry-out options for those needing a fix of Mexican cuisine.

If you are into museums, a few notable ones are nestled within Ithaca’s tree-lined boundaries. The Sciencenter on Route 13 is geared toward younger kids, but still provides fun exhibits for the college-aged crowd. The Museum of the Earth, located on Trumansburg Road, is part of the Paleontological Research Institution and features a lot of cool fossils and dinosaur bones. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, just off the Arts Quad, houses works by the masters and also features a rotating list of exhibits. For bird lovers and nature enthusiasts, Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology provides a fun, educational experience.

ANDY JOHNSON / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Ithaca Commons Redesign

DESIGN RENDERING COURTESY SASAKI ASSOCIATES

Buttermilk Falls

Though most still call it by its old name, the Pyramid Mall, The Shops at Ithaca is the biggest mall in town, attempting to fulfill your fashionista desires. The Shops also feature a recently renovated movie theater.

Often touted as the mall everyone goes to when they realize Pyramid Mall doesn’t fulfill their needs, Destiny USA — more commonly know by its previous name the Carousel Mall — in Syracuse is the largest mall in New York State and has more stores than you could ever imagine.

Skiing was probably not the reason you chose Cornell, but Greek Peak, just 30 minutes away in Cortland, is the best ski area in the region. And with a special deal, you can get student-priced season passes for less than the regular price. The Ski and Snowboard Club provides weekly shuttles to Greek Peak for part of the winter.

Of course, it’s more than likely you were lured to Cornell by the natural scenery. One highlight is the Taughannock Falls State Park, which features falls that are higher than Niagara. Buttermilk Falls is also a majestic location. Closer to campus, Cornell Plantations contains acres upon acres of greenery and walking trails.

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Ithaca Farmers’ Market

In terms of grocery stores, there’s Wegmans, which is a supermarket, but so much more.

Those not from around New York may be surprised at its size and the amount of readycooked food available. Though Wegmans — located on Route 13 — is a 15-minute drive from campus, it’s not unusual to see Cornellians flocking there on evenings and weekends.

Several wineries line Seneca and Cayuga lakes, providing fertile ground for wine tours.

One must be 21 to sample the wines, so it’s more usual for upperclassmen to take excursions into wine country. But for those of age, the wine region — often compared to Napa Valley in California — is worth a visit.

Right off Route 13 on Steamboat Landing is the Ithaca Farmers’ Market, where local vendors sell delicious food, wine and seasonal produce. Open April through December on Saturdays and Sundays, it is a destination worth checking out, whether you are environmentally conscious or not.

Throughout the year, the Commons plays host to a number of different celebrations where students and residents co-mingle. In October, Apple Fest brings orchards and entertainers downtown, and participants sample every type of apple concoction you can think of. In February, Chilifest turns the Commons into a bustling fair filled with aromas from local restaurants that bring their A-game chili to be taste-tested. And in the summer, Ithaca Festival celebrates Ithaca, and all its quirks, with a parade and entertainment around town.

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Best Place to Grab A Cup of Coffee: COLLEGETOWN BAGELS Does Collegetown Bagels even need a blurb? As much a part of the Cornell Saturday morning, Tuesday homework crunch and Friday late-night as Central Perk is of Friends, or that hometown pizza place was of your American Graffiti adolescence, it’s the place for non-Starbucks coffee (am I right? That stuff is acid water).

Also, coincidentally the place for pastries shaped like mice, sandwiches named after mythical creatures, smoothies named after comic book sound effects and a variety of Ithaca-themed apparel that it’s impossible to believe that anyone buys. Cut that hangover with a pizza bagel and a black cup of joe, ace that prelim on three shots of the best espresso in C-town, impress the visiting ’rents with the wholesome side of your weekend debauchery — Collegetown Bagels is the most versatile eatery in the 607.

— Compiled by Kaitlyn Tiffany KELLY YANG / SUN NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

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THIS IS CORNELL, and this is Ithaca. We curse it for its multitude of inclines and frequent snowfall. We praise it for its vibrant, quirky surroundings and natural beauty. Yet we often fall so deeply into the routine of papers, projects and prelims that we tend to forget about it altogether.

The Best of Cornell, a collaboration between the Social Media, Arts and Entertainment, and Photo departments of The Sun, aims to spotlight a few of the noteworthy attractions of Cornell and the city of Ithaca. We present to you the results of this year’s Best of Cornell survey, in which over 500 of our readers have cast votes in over 20 categories.

This list is by no means exhaustive; we hope to stimulate discussion and thought. But most of all, we hope this compilation will inspire a newfound appreciation for all that Cornell and the City of Ithaca have to offer.

Place to Spend Your BRBs: STATLER

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Best Grocery Store: WEGM ANS The Finger Lakes’ pride and joy (raise your hand if you’ve claimed to see Danny Wegmans out on Canandaigua Lake on the family yacht), Wegmans has not only been voted the best grocery store in Ithaca, it has also been named the best grocery store in America. What’s not to love? Their generic brand is so good, you can’t even taste the savings; just listen to them jangle around in your wallet. There are live lobsters to look at, free samples to get between pay checks off of and they have stretch breaks for their employees!

Not to mention the bulk candy section, which still looks like a shot of Willy Wonka & the ZACH STEELE / SUN ADVERTISING MANAGER Chocolate Factory, no matter how old you get, and the absurdity of their beer selection. Born and bred in the Northeast? Wegmans is as much a part of your identity as hating the New England Patriots. An out-of-towner? Your first Wegmans trip is as consequential as your first … anything. It’s a rite of passage, and seeing someone experience Wegmans for the first time is like watching an international student at the re-screening of Titanic last year.

— Compiled by Kaitlyn Tiffany

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Choosing where to spend your precious BRBs is a difficult decision. Beyond buying your unfortunately necessary Monday morning Skinny Vanilla Latte and your regrettable late night mozzarella stick order, the choice of which eatery is worthy of your parents’ hard earned money takes some serious consideration. Good thing there’s the Statler.

Safely partitioned from the world of official Cornell Dining, the Statler brings a welcome alternative to the student body’s general dining experience. Because honestly, between the salads at Terrace and the Miyake sushi at Mac’s, how can you not spend all your BRBs at the Statler? The sheer variety of options that Statler holds for your dining pleasure is only rivaled by the quality of their meals.

You can always trust the phở to be steaming hot, the pesto alfredo sauce to be deliciously creamy, and the enchiladas to be extra cheesy.

Basically, you cannot go wrong.

— Compiled by Elizabeth Sowers

Place to Visit: BUTTERM ILK FALLS

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Given all the gorges in Ithaca, it’s near impossible to remember the name of every waterfall in the area. However, the name of this state park conjures up mental images of falling pancakes, so it wasn’t that hard to commit to memory.

Buttermilk Falls is one of those magical places that reminds you Ithaca isn’t terrible all the time.

A mere 10 minute drive from Cornell University, it’s a beautiful location for hiking, camping, or a pleasant picnic by the water. Weather dependent, of course.

So before you graduate, befriend someone with a car, head to Buttermilk Falls, and take some obligatory profile pictures with nature. Just don’t caption aforementioned profile picture with “Ithaca is Gorges,” because we all know that already.

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Student Clubs Cater to Varied Interests A sampling of Cornell’s wide array of extracurricular activities

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If your schedule has not been sufficiently crammed with lectures, work, parties, meals and sleep, you might want to look into joining a club to fill those few extra minutes each week. Cornell has a niche for virtually every interest, no matter how esoteric. Whether you’re an aspiring guitarist or an expert knitter, it is likely you will be able to find a group of like-minded students with whom to share your passion. Below is a sampling of some of the more prominent clubs on campus.

Political and Activist Groups

The Cornell Democrats and the Cornell College Republicans represent the two major political parties on campus, each engaging in its own brand of activism and spreading awareness of political issues.

A number of other campus groups focus on more specific political issues.

Amnesty International’s Cornell chapter promotes awareness of human rights abuses throughout the world through a series of campaigns, each of which publicizes a specific area of injustice.

Music and a Capella Groups

Cornell offers dozens of outlets for those looking to express their musical creativity. You won’t be able to turn a corner the first couple weeks of class without seeing a flier for an a capella tryout or a chalking pointing you in the direc-

tion of band auditions. The University chorus, jazz ensembles, symphonic band, marching band, symphony orchestra and glee club are all open to the musically inclined. The Hangovers and Cayuga’s Waiters are two of the University’s best-known a capella groups, although there are more than a dozen for prospective members to choose from, each with a unique style.

Passionate about music but not one for singing? The Cornell Concert Commission organizes most of the major musical events that happen on campus, having brought such big-name acts as Phoenix, M.I.A, Kid Cudi and Lupe Fiasco in recent years. Or, check out the Fanclub Collective, which hosts independent and local acts such as Interpol and the Microphones.

WVBR is a popular rock radio station that serves the entire Ithaca area and is staffed largely by students. Volunteers receive free training on the station’s equipment and can get on the air as disc jockeys, sportscasters or newscasters.

Publications The Cornell Daily Sun is the campus’ daily newspaper, but there are other publications, too. The Cornell Review offers conservative commentary on local and national issues. Its liberal counterpart is The Cornell Progressive.

Had enough political commentary? Lighten up with a copy of the Lunatic, Cornell’s own humor magazine. The bi-annual publica-

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tion features a variety of articles and comics, ranging from the satirical to the downright absurd.

Comedy and Drama Groups

For students who want to spend their years at Cornell in the spotlight, the Risley Theatre group gives members the opportunity to participate in all stages of a dramatic production. Whether you’re looking to act, direct, choreograph, construct sets, manage sound or create costumes, it’s likely Risley Theatre can use your skills.

The comedy troupe Skits-OPhrenics puts on several sketch comedy shows each year and plans to hold auditions for new members this fall. If you’re in the mood for a more off-the-cuff style of humor, check out the Whistling Shrimp, Cornell’s improv comedy group.

Governing Groups

Each year, dozens of budding student politicians vie for seats on Cornell’s student governing body, the Student Assembly. The S.A. meets weekly in Willard Straight Hall to discuss issues and pass resolutions on behalf of the student body, addressing topics that range from Cornell’s public image to Slope Day regulations.

For those with political ambitions on a larger scale, the Cornell Model United Nations gives students the opportunity to represent a country at a mock meeting of the U.N., with awards for those who engage in the most persuasive debate.

The Panhellenic Association,

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Break it down | Members of Bhangra, an Indian-inspired dance group, perform in Barton Hall.

Multicultural Greek Letter Council and the Interfraternity Council are the main governing bodies of the Greek community, which includes more than 60 chapters and encompasses 30 percent of the student body. The three councils arrange social, educational and recreational programs, as well as establish and enforce guidelines for Cornell Greek chapters.

Academic and Miscellaneous Groups

If you found yourself inspired by the Mars rover missions, you can take part in your own cosmic exploration with the Cornell Astronomical Society.

Fed up with classes? Take your frustration out in the Cornell Debate Society.

Looking to get your inner nerd on? Head on over to the Chess

Club’s meetings to practice checking your mates.

Or, for a more kinetic style of dance, try your hand at Bhangra, an Indian dance group.

The Cornell Baking Club welcomes all of those with a passion for the culinary arts. A relatively new student group, the baking club holds monthly meetings to discuss recipes and techniques and plans to host guest lecturers and trips to local bakeries during the coming year.

There’s also the Baja SAE Racing Team, which designs and races a new decked-out car every year. The team is responsible for all aspects of designing, building, testing and even financing the project.

Also be sure to attend Cornell’s student activities fair in September to check out the hundreds of other student groups on campus.

One Third of the Big Red:The Greek System

By SUN STAFF

With a third of Cornell students in one of nearly 70 Greek chapters on campus, the Greek system is a major part of Cornell’s social life.

From the very start of their Cornell careers, students encounter members of Cornell’s Greek society who help freshman move into their dorms, volunteering as “movers and shakers.”

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Helping out | Volunteers involved in Greek life help transplant trees at the Ithaca Children’s Garden.

To protect incoming freshmen from bias, Greeks cannot promote their houses to incoming freshmen. Unofficial rush for males, however, starts immediately as fraternity members, in particular, encourage the new students to come to parties at their Collegetown annexes — houses where many of the brothers of the same fraternity live — in order to recruit new members.

Based on Greeks’ participation in Orientation Week, freshmen may perceive them as a group of community volunteers who hold parties with free alcohol. This perception holds some truth — community service is a major aspect of Greek life. Many of Cornell’s Greek chapters participate in Ithaca-based projects, such as the Tompkins County Task Force for Battered Women.

Social events are also a large part of the Greek experience, with chapters planning their own parties, formals and football tailgates.

Cornell’s Greek system also

allows students to emerge as leaders within their respective chapters. Elected officers must run meetings, organize events and handle finances. Chapter presidents must learn to motivate their members, treasurers must handle complex budgets and recruitment chairs must carry out strategic recruitment campaigns.

Despite the leadership skills that the Greek system fosters, some incoming freshmen may worry about how their academic performance will be affected if they decide to join a fraternity or sorority.

Many chapters hold study hours and give out awards or scholarships to members for outstanding academic achievement.

Each spring, individual chapters are honored for academic excellence by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.

In the past, freshmen traditionally had their first experience with the Greek system through open parties, but new rules implement-

ed last year have reduced the ability of freshmen to attend these kinds of events. Freshmen are now banned from open parties, regulated at the door by the use of scanners that read student ID cards.

IFC rules prohibit the consumption of hard alcohol during registered events, so all alcohol served at fraternity parties should be in the form of beer or wine.

To get a true sense of Greek life, freshmen can choose to take part in Spring Rush 2015. All fraternities and sororities participate in spring recruitment, in which freshmen can talk with members about Greek life in a more relaxed and intimate setting.

Rush differs for men and women. Sorority rush follows a strict schedule in which potential new members visit every sorority. For men, rush is more casual, as freshmen can choose the houses they want to visit and interact with brothers in a much more relaxed setting.

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An Introduction to Cornell’s Libraries

Uris Library

By SUN STAFF

Cornell is home to more than a dozen libraries. With so many to choose from, where you decide to study just depends on what you’re looking for. Each study area at Cornell has a personality of its own.

Uris

Uris Library has been dubbed “Club Uris” by students who see the humor in the fact that, on any given Sunday through Thursday night, the Cocktail Lounge is the place to be.

Uris Library is connected to the clock tower. Along with Olin, it has hundreds of thousands of books available, as well as carrels and places to study. Uris Library is open 24 hours a day, Sunday through Thursday. That’s right: Students can make their party rounds and then get right back to Club Uris for after-hours studying.

With 24-hour access, who needs to pay rent? Just bring a sleeping bag!

Olin and Kroch

For those looking for more of a lounge than a club, Olin Library may become your library of choice. Although not in use at all hours of the night like its neigh-

bor Uris, Olin still keeps its doors open until 2 a.m. Olin has other draws as well.

It is one of Cornell’s main research libraries, complete with its own periodical room. The Amit Bhatia Libe Café on the main level is home to the Iced Skim Sugar-Free Vanilla Latte (dubbed The Long Island by the café’s employees) and the best chocolate brownies in the Finger Lakes.

The decor in Olin is also newer and more comfortable than at Uris. But here’s a tip: Get there early. On a Saturday morning, one may find a line of eager students waiting to get the best spots by the window. Attached to Olin is Kroch Library, which houses the Asia Collections and the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Any noise above a whisper is frowned upon in Kroch Library.

Mann

One of Cornell’s primary libraries is Mann Library, which serves the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Human Ecology. Mann sits on the far side of the Ag Quad. Its ends-ofthe-earth location, made worse by Ithaca’s cold winter weather, makes studying at

Mann Library too much of a trek for some students, but many others recommend its spacious halls for this very reason. Maybe it’s worth the trip just to get a tasty drink or treat from Manndible Café in the front lobby. However, the café does not take Big Red Bucks.

Engineering

Carpenter Hall houses a 24/7 study space. As you would expect, it has a very large computer lab. (And librarians are available for research help via the virtual library.)

Law

With its beautiful arched ceiling, the Law Library in Myron Taylor Hall has been compared to Hogwarts castle.

Beware: All those serious law students like their quiet.

Catherwood

Catherwood Library, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations Library, located in Ives Hall, is a daytime hotspot with new furnishings.

Nestlé

The students in the School of Hotel Administration may spend much of their time in “real world” learning situations, but they need to study, too. The Nestlé

Library in Statler Hall’s Marriott Student Learning Center has assembled the largest collection of hospitality academic resources in the world, and it has a more social atmosphere than the usual study spaces.

Fine Arts

The Fine Arts Library can be found on the third floor of Rand Hall, and it’s open until 11 p.m. five days a week. It offers the greatest concentration of resources on some of Cornell’s more creative fields: the practice and history of art, architecture, and city and regional planning. AAP students can borrow tons of equipment for multimedia production and presentation, like cameras, tripods, light kits, backdrops, digital audio recorders, speakers, microphones and more.

Off the Beaten Path

Though some specialized spaces such as the Physical Sciences Library were closed due to budget cuts, remaining facilities include libraries for Africana studies, management and math. In Lincoln Hall’s Music Library, one can peruse resources and listen to musicians from the Beatles to Tupac Shakur.

Gannett Serves Student Body’s Health Needs

By SUN STAFF

Oops! Did you just sprain your ankle tripping over all the stuff you’ve crammed into your new dorm room? Are thoughts of the infamous “freshman 15” keeping you up at night? Is beginning college finally the right time to quit smoking? Do you suspect you might have the flu? Welcome to Cornell.

The next four years will, for the most part, be an exciting and rewarding experience, but what you probably want to know right now is where you can get a refill for your allergy medication.

Before you start to panic, here’s a quick overview of the health and psychological services available at Cornell. Keep this in mind so you know where to turn when the mid-

night pizzas start to take a toll on your body, and so you know that there are many resources to help you when the stress and pressure of being a college student becomes too much to handle.

Cornell’s one-stop shop for health problems is Gannett: Cornell University Health Services.

Located on Ho Plaza, Gannett is the primary care provider of medical services for all enrolled students, as well as other members of the Cornell community.

Gannett provides many services ranging from allergy treatment and immunizations to general medical health care.

The health care center can also provide you with information and listings for Ithaca-area doctors such as dentists and optometrists.

Gannett can conduct most X-ray

examinations as well as most of the laboratory tests that may be prescribed by your doctor during a medical visit. A newly renovated pharmacy is located in the building so that you can fill your prescriptions on campus.

Through its Sports Medicine program, Gannett provides primary care services to all Cornell athletes.

Gannett also provides physical therapy services for members of the entire Cornell community.

In addition, Gannett offers many services to take care of your sexual health needs, programs to help smokers quit and an extensive array of counseling and support services.

In order to handle the increased need for health services on campus, Gannett will expand its footprint by 2017.

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Big Red doctors | The Gannett Health Center on Ho Plaza offers medical services and health counseling to the Cornell community.

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Hidden Treasures at Cornell

An insider’s guide to unique opportunities inside and outside of the classroom

By SUN STAFF

The following is a guide to intriguing things that you won’t want to miss learning about during your time on the Hill.

Relationships 101

Ever wonder what went wrong in that last relationship or worry about how the sex has gone bad after a few months? Or wake up on a Sunday morning and lament, “What was I thinking last night?”

Next time you have these questions, turn to Human Development 3620: Human Bonding instead of those relationship crib sheets, Cosmopolitan and Maxim.

Students Drink for Credit

Once a week for two hours, around

out that you might wear, or carry, or use as part of dress,” said the collection’s curator, Prof. Charlotte Jirousek, textiles and apparel.

Inside the Particle Accelerator

Something is buried under Cornell’s playing fields. Fifty feet below the surface of the earth, next to Wilson Lab, there is a ring-shaped tunnel roughly half a mile in circumference. Here, scientists work day and night to unlock the secrets of the universe.

Sound like an urban legend or the plot of a science-fiction movie? It’s not.

It’s the Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics’ particle accelerator.

The LEPP, once known as the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, opened soon after World War II. It has gone through several different phases over the

Ithaca in 1871. Rulloff was convicted of beating his wife and daughter to death as well as poisoning his sister-in-law and niece. Rulloff ’s Restaurant and Bar in Collegetown is named after him.

Rare Manuscripts

A journey through time to the year 2000 B.C., is still beyond the scope of modern technology. However, seeing clay tablets from 4,000 years ago only requires a journey to the library.

The Rare and Manuscript Collections in Kroch Library is open to everyone and includes tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing as well as handwritten manuscripts from the medieval period, an original copy of the Gettysburg Address and everything in between.

According to the Cornell University Library website, the collections consist of “400,000 printed volumes, more than 70 million manuscripts and another million photographs, paintings, prints and other visual media.”

The collection is also home to the Cornell University Archives, which documents the history of the University and the Ithaca area.

Ancient Artifacts

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Professor Nye | Bill Nye ’77 sits in the office of Prof. Jim Bell. In an interview with The Sun, Nye discussed the Mars Pathfinder and his undergraduate experiences at Cornell. From 2001 to 2006, Nye served as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ’56 Professor at the University.

700 Cornell students will get credit for imbibing alcohol.

No, this isn’t a cheap trick by the School of Hotel Administration to increase enrollment.

The students are enrolled in the Hotel School’s two-credit Hotel Administration 4430: Introduction to Wines, and they are probably not getting drunk on the six one-ounce wine samples they get in class.

Lecture topics include flavor components in wine, how to pair wine and food and wine etiquette.

Collection for the Fashion-Conscious

Many college students spend a lot of time thinking about their clothing. But even though they may spend hours searching for the right outfit to wear to a job interview or party, they only see the outfit as part of their wardrobe. In the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, however, clothing has become a part of history.

The costume collection currently hosts approximately 9,000 items.

There is a significant ethnographic collection featuring traditional dress from many different parts of the world as well as a textile collection featuring quilts, tapestries and wall hangings.

However, the majority of the collection is fashion-related. It features clothing dating as far back as the 18th century up to modern times.

Basically, it’s “anything from the skin

years, and the current facility was constructed in 1979.

The particle accelerator runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week with the exception of maintenance and improvement periods. The cost of energy, maintenance, equipment and staff salaries is covered by an annual budget of approximately $20 million.

At this point, students who don’t know much about physics are probably asking what all this means.

Prof. David G. Cassel, physics, associate director of LEPP, was more than happy to answer that question.

“It accelerates particles,” he said with a smile.

Your Very Own Brain Collection

The display of human brains, particularly those identified with specific individuals, evokes a variety of reactions: horror, distaste, curiosity and fascination.

Experiencing this first-hand only involves a short trip to Uris Hall’s second floor, where a display case features Cornell’s Wilder Brain Collection.

The collection, which at one time featured 1,600 animal and human brains, was established in the 1880s by Dr. Burt Green Wilder, Cornell’s first zoologist.

The University stopped accepting additional brains in 1940, and at present, only 70 remain.

One of the brains on display is Edward Rulloff ’s, a man hanged in

With air raid curtains from the 1940s hanging in the windows and decorative pillars left over from the museum that once occupied its place, McGraw 150 is itself a part of history.

The décor is fitting for a room that currently houses Cornell’s anthropology collection. The collection, which has existed in some form since 1868, contains artifacts from all over the world and spans roughly half a million years of human history.

The collection was started by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White and was once housed in a natural history museum at Cornell.

According to Prof. David Holmberg, former chair of the anthropology department, when the museum closed some time during World War II, its displays were either moved to other areas or put into storage.

What hadn’t been claimed by the Johnson Museum or the geology collection then “came under the responsibility of the Department of Anthropology,” Holmberg said.

Science Guy

Although he’s currently most fond of evolutionary biology, Bill Nye ’77 keeps the periodic table close to his heart. Or at least close to his hip, where he always carries a credit card-sized version of it around in his wallet.

Although the public knows him best for his television show Bill Nye the Science Guy, Nye served from 2001 to 2006 as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of ’56 University Professor. During that time, students could spot Nye cycling around campus — his preferred form of transportation — on a bike borrowed from Prof. Jim Bell, astronomy.

After the two met in a chance encounter, Bell invited Nye to become a visiting professor and they have w o r k e d together ever since.

Nye periodically visits

Cornell to guest lecture and meet with students.

Nye still holds high regard for his alma mater. In an interview with The Sun in 2005, he lauded the University’s strengths in a number of areas.

“Cornell planetary science is as good as anybody — we’re exploring Mars. The mathematics department seems as good as anybody’s. And another thing: Ezra Cornell, whoever he was, wanted to have women here from the get-go, and the other institutions that we compete with were not that way at all. And I think that tradition of ‘any person, any study’ is still around,” he said.

Magical Mushrooms

Fascinated by fungi? Take one of Cornell’s most popular courses, Plant Pathology 2010: Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds.

Taught by Prof. George Hudler, plant pathology, the class, which focuses on how mold and fungi have impacted social and political structure throughout the course of history, has been featured in Rolling Stone.

Despite the seemingly esoteric nature of the topic, the course has grown primarily through word-of-mouth and its accessibility to non-scientists.

Secret Garden

Although its peak season runs from May to September, the Cornell plantations remain open from dawn to dusk throughout the year. Visitors can picnic, hike or play in any of the plantation’s 14 gardens. Some classes even take field trips to examine the beautiful plants.

For those who want to know exactly which flowers and trees they are passing, free guided tours take place in the gardens during certain months.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

161 steps up McGraw Tower, next to Uris library, is the home of the famous Cornell chimes. Chimesmasters play concerts on the 21 chimes three times a day. During these times, visitors are welcome to walk up and request a song. The afternoon concert typically closes with the Alma Mater, while the nighttime concert ends with Cornell’s Evening Song.

At the beginning of each semester, there is a competition in which new chimesmasters are selected.

Chimes concerts also take place to mark special occasions, and people can pay for additional concerts, such as during weddings at Cornell’s Sage Chapel.

Between concerts, a machine makes the chimes go off to mark time every 15 minutes from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m.

Pensive | John Cleese — the famed Monty Python actor — often visits Cornell to dole out his sage advice.

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Street Food at Cornell: Two Trucks. Two Legacies.

One Delicious Debate.

By SUN STAFF

With all members of the freshman class living on North Campus, Louie’s Lunch sees many young faces lined up expectantly awaiting a sandwich, milkshake or cup of coffee.

Concurrently, since the upperclass students who decide to live on campus are primarily in dorms on West Campus, the Hot Truck does a good deal of business with older Cornellians. As a result, a long-standing food truck rivalry — one that is almost exclusively limited to students as opposed to the two businesses’ respective proprietors — is tinged with complicated class loyalties, in addition to food preferences.

Loyalty

But this rivalry is a strange one. As if it weren’t odd enough to have drunken students waiting in the chilly Ithaca pre-dawn for a bite of a meatball sub, many students hold fast

HISTORY: Though many people seem to believe that the Hot Truck is older, Louie’s Lunch has, in fact, been serving the Cornell community since 1918. Of course, at that time the establishment didn’t have anything even remotely close to the menu it has today and was not actually a truck.

It wasn’t until the early 1920s that Louie’s moved into a truck.

Louie’s still bears the name of its first proprietor, who took a cart around the North Campus area selling sandwiches to hungry members of the Greek community. Since that time, the truck has become a mainstay of the intersection at Thurston Avenue and Wait Avenue. In the past, the truck used to visit various locations, but for the sake of convenience, it has remained in its current position for longer than just about anyone can remember. Indeed, that stretch of curb looks awfully naked during the winter break and over the summer when Louie’s isn’t in service.

THE EATS: Unlike the Hot Truck, Louie’s offers a lot more than subs — complete with milkshakes, coffee, breakfast sandwiches, condoms and cigars, Louie’s business depends on a lot more than its sandwiches. Louie’s also offers a variety of sandwiches, including standard parms, and it can also whip up a grilled cheese and some french fries, if that’s your pleasure.

to their favorite truck with an almost admirable, albeit strange, persistence. This loyalty even found its way into an a cappella song a few years back — a song that many of us have heard time and again. The Cayuga’s Waiters bit goes like so: “Louie’s Lunch kinda sucks / Wait in line at Hot Truck” over a blend of vocals singing the harmony to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Though it’s obvious who the Waiters prefer, the reference is telling.

It seems Cornellians hold fast to their favorites, even when it comes to whose chicken parm they like better.

After some polling, it became clear a few years ago that sophomores and freshmen preferred Louie’s Lunch to the Hot Truck. Conversely, juniors and seniors were more likely to reply that Hot Truck was their preferred late-night source of what some call “drunk food.”

So, with our bellies full of parmesan cheese and our notebooks filled with items from the menu, we are proud to bring you a rundown of each of these Cornell legacies.

HISTORY: Bob Petrillose was the man behind the innovation known now as the Hot Truck (which still bears his name). Petrillose operated the truck, at that time called Johnny’s Pizza Truck, from 1960 until 2000 when he sold it to the owner of the Shortstop Deli located downtown on Seneca Street. The original name came from Petrillose’s father, Johnny Petrillose, who opened Johnny’s Big Red Grill. In fact, the truck was initially an extension of that restaurant, but over the years became a more specialized entity of its own. The original menu was much more conventional than the one that graces the side of the truck today. Instead of “PMP,” the menu read “Hamburger” and “Hotdog.” Since its sale in 2000, the truck has undergone few changes. Petrillose has since died, but the Hot Truck continues to serve up the same classic dishes. Although a City of Ithaca regulation passed in early 2014 would have cost the Hot Truck guaranteed access to its traditional location, a subsequent revision allowed “heritage” food trucks like Louie’s Lunch and the Hot Truck to retain their long-standing spots.

THE EATS: One of the most interesting things about the Hot Truck is the menu. It is also one of the things that makes grubbing at the Hot Truck such an experience. Instead of ordering a meatball sub or a chicken parmesan sub, people walk up to the window and say “MBC” or “Gimme a CSC.” Though Petrillose himself was responsible for a good many items on the menu, students also play a big role in determining what’s available at the Hot Truck.

BEST BETS:

BEST BETS:

Philly Cheese Steak Chicken Parmesan Cajun Fries Mozzarella Sticks BBQ Beef Chef Salad

PMP (poor man’s pizza — bread, sauce & cheese) Ho-Ho (a PMP with hot ham, swiss & mushrooms) INDY (link sausage, mushrooms, onion, sauce & cheese) WTF (any random sandwich; it’s a gamble with this one) HSC (hot sausage & cheese)

THE SUN’S PICK: Egg and cheese breakfast sandwich with hash browns

THE SUN’S PICK: CSC Garden&Grease Hot&Heavy (chicken breast, sauce, cheese, lettuce, mayonnaise, crushed red peppers and garlic)

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Enter the Dragon: Architects Unleash a Beast

By MOLLY O’TOOLE Former Sun News Editor

It was 1 p.m. the day before Spring Break, and campus seemed as silent as the steadily falling snow subtly frosting the arts quad. The bells of McGraw tower, glowing green the night before, began to peal, breaking the quiet concentration of the Cornell campus. Their song seemed a calling, as winter jacket, hat and scarf began to emerge from every building, path and corner in greater numbers. What brought these people together, to stand so patiently on a deserted day in the spring snow?

The answer was not long coming. From between Olin and Uris Libraries a crowd of people spilled out onto the undisturbed snow of the Quad. And they kept coming.

And coming. Soon, students, townspeople, faculty and security formed a lively parade marching through campus.

Suddenly, a skeletal structure reared its head — here, whether on a clear spring day or in the midst of a winter weather watch — the infamous mascot of Cornell’s annual Dragon Day comes out of its cave in Rand Hall, to wreak havoc every spring for the past hundred years. Dragon Day is a tradition dating back more than 100 years at Cornell. According to the University Archives, though the first date is not exactly known, the Dragon Day tradition was begun by the equally infamous Willard Straight class of 1901, who himself was an architecture student.

“From his early [days] as a freshman, he developed a reputation as a prankster, leader and developer of class unity,” states the Archives.

Straight believed there should be a day set aside specifically for the architecture students, a “College of Architecture Day.” A man known for making ideas into reality, Straight chose St. Patrick’s Day. Evidence in a letter to Straight’s widow as early as 1920 shows the struggle between administration and students regarding the festivities. In the past it has forbidden Dragon Day for a variety of reasons, mainly safety-related. The conflict with the administration regarding the tradition, though, is not as prominent today.

As the dragon made its way through the quad to a taped-off area in front of Sibley, the parade spread out and gathered around, enveloping the beast. The structure stood impressively — it required over two dozen students, dressed in white jumpsuits, to maneuver its flexible parts by means of a structure of metal rods, which they held onto as they pushed the dragon along the parade route. The dragon itself was created entirely of bamboo and rope, bound together in a simple but impressive design.

The length of the dragon’s body, arranged in this way, appeared to be bare bamboo bones, like the skeleton of an ancient Jurassic beast come to life and broken loose from a museum. Architecture students in fine array ran circles around the beast, which lay silent and steadfast, awaiting its fate.

Cries of “dragon, dragon!” and “give me a d!” permeated the otherwise quiet atmosphere, with the exception of beating drums that gave the experience a feel of tribal sacrifice. One almost felt sorry for the creature.

Representatives of the Cornell Police

and Ithaca Fire Departments could be seen mingled amongst the students, much to the latter’s delight. Authorities were taunted throughout the process, but there was a general air of good humor.

Kathy Zoner, chief of Cornell Police, has overseen the festivities for many years.

She explained that the process that goes into the event is not the work of one day but many weeks of planning, working closely with the architecture students to ensure overall safety. She described the day as a success, due to a lack of injuries.

“If there were any, they were self-inflict-

ed,” she laughed.

She emphasized that a safe atmosphere is to the greatest benefit of all.

Onlookers began trickling away as firemen put the hose to the blackened remains of the once-great beast. Perhaps they went to warm up and regain feeling in their frozen extremities, or perhaps they went to get started on further beginning-of-springbreak celebrations. Regardless, it was clear as smoke furled into the gray sky that the spirit of the dragon, and of this campus, cannot be quenched, and some traditions, like Dragon Day, never die.

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ROAR! | The Dragon Day festivities that occur every spring are some of the most anticipated events on campus.

The Evolution of the Slope Day Tradition at Cornell

By SUN STAFF

For most of the year, the steep hike from West Campus to Central is considered a nuisance on the way to class. Yet at the end of the school year, Libe Slope is transformed into the venue for Slope Day, Cornell’s beloved end of the year celebration.

Each year, the Slope Day

Planning Board works hard to select the entertainers, whose identities are kept a closely guarded secret until about a month before the big day. For this reason, trying to guess the performers has become a favorite activity for many Cornellians waiting for classes to end.

The tradition traces its roots back to 1901, when it was

known as Spring Day. The celebration morphed to Spring Fest before coming to its current incarnation: Slope Day. Unlike the festivities students have enjoyed in recent years, Spring Day hosted attractions like fire-eaters, snake-charmers, cowboys, Indians and sailors on the Arts Quad. Spring Day was known as one of Cornell’s first

THE NEW YORK TIMES

No longer just a dream | Nelly, the hip-hop artist of many students’ youths, performed as the headliner on Slope Day in May 2011.

excuses to cancel class in the name The next incarnation of Slope of mass debauchery.

Day, known as Springfest, apThe original springtime car- peared in the late 1970s. nival originated because of More changes to Slope Day financial strains to the Uni- occurred in 1985 when the legal versity Athletic drinking age Association. To Recent Slope Day Performers changed from save the Big 18 to 21.

Red’s sports After the 2012: Taio Cruz, Neon Trees teams, drama drinking age and The Wailers clubs and mu2013: Kendrick Lamar, Hoodie changed, the sical groups University Allen and 5&A Dime organized a stopped serving 2014: Ludacris, Matt and Kim benefit concert alcohol at the and 3LAU in the event, though Commons. students showThe event struggled at the box ed up with their own. office, but managed to inspire “In the years that followed ... an impromptu parade to draw a number of students were treatattention to the concert. ed for alcohol related emergenThe performance was so well- cies,” said Tim Marchell ’82, attended that both the concert director of mental health initiaand the parade were repeated the tives at Ganett Health Services.

In response to the emergenfollowing year, and the celebration before the show raised more cies, the University attempted to money than the production. end Slope Day in the early From then on, Spring Day 1990s. As an alternative, a University-organized event was became a campus-wide custom.

At the brink of the first World offered on North Campus.

War, many Cornellians believed Since 2003, Slope Day has that they had celebrated their last maintained a new format that Spring Day. However, after includes live entertainment.

For years, Slope Day was held World War II, the celebration returned with the moniker on they last day of classes. But begining this past school year, “Spring Weekend.”

Due to protests and unrest Slope Day was held the day after that plagued the University in the last day of classes due to the early 1960s, the celebration changes in the academic calendar. was canceled in 1963.

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Big Red Ambition: 161Things Every Cornellian Should Do Compiled from student responses to an e-mail survey in 2005; updated 2014. ! 1. Make the library into your bedroom and have sex in the stacks ! 2. Finally meet the dazzling Denice Cassaro ! 3. Go to the Cornell-Harvard men’s hockey game and throw fish on the ice ! 4. Sing along to “We didn’t go to Harvard” with the Cayuga’s Waiters ! 5. Sled down Libe Slope during a snow storm ! 6. Take Hotel Administration 4300: Introduction to Wines ! 7. Streak across the Arts Quad ! 8. Take Psychology 1101: Intro to Psychology ! 9. Test out Olin Library’s musically calibrated steps by throwing stones on them ! 10. Attempt sake bombing at Plum Tree or Miyake in Collegetown ! 11. Order ice cream at the Dairy Bar ! 12. Climb the rock wall in Bartels Hall ! 13. Listen to a full chimes concert from the clock tower and guess the songs played ! 14. Order the same thing off the Collegetown Bagels menu all four years ! 15. Register for classes during Freshman Orientation, then switch out of every single one by the time Add/Drop ends ! 16. Wear flip-flops to class in January ! 17. Go to the Fuertes Observatory on North Campus and gaze at meteor showers ! 18. Have a snowball fight in May ! 19. Milk a cow ! 20. Skip class to play frisbee on the Arts Quad ! 21. Bury a bottle of Bacardi on the Slope. Dig it up on Slope Day. ! 22. Pick apples at the Cornell Orchards ! 23. Attend the Apple Festival on the Commons ! 24. Flirt with your professor ! 25. Bomb a prelim ! 26. Ace the next one to save your grade ! 27. Attend Hotelie prom ! 28. Meet Happy Dave from Okenshield’s ! 29. Turn your face blue from screaming at midnight before the first finals ! 30. Get heartburn at the Chili Cook-off on the Commons ! 31. Enjoy Ithaca’s two months of warm weather — spend a summer here! ! 32. Go to a Shabbat dinner at 104 West (CornellCard it) ! 33. Watch the AAP students parade down East Avenue on Dragon Day ! 34. Enjoy corn nuggets at The Nines ! 35. Build a snow penis or count how many you see around campus ! 36. Dress up and view The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Risley ! 37. Take a class you think is impossible just for fun ! 38. Go on a wine tour ! 39. Kiss on the suspension bridge at midnight ! 40. Sleep through your alarm for a 1:25 class ! 41. Shop at the Friends of the Library Book Sale ! 42. Get out of a University parking ticket ! 43. Buy an Ithaca Is Gorges t-shirt, then get sick of wearing it and buy a variation (Ithaca Is Gangsta, Vaginas Are Gorges, Ithaca Is Long Island...) ! 44. Learn the “Alma Mater,” “Evening Song” and “Give My Regards to Davy” ! 45. Attend an opening at the Johnson Museum of Art ! 46. Smuggle food from the dining hall and run for your life as they try to get back your stolen cookies ! 47. Do the Walk of Shame ! 48. Have dinner at a professor’s house ! 49. Get wasted at a professor’s house ! 50. Take a #selfie with President David Skorton ! 51. Play a game of tag in the Kroch Library stacks ! 52. See a play in the Schwartz Center ! 53. Rush the field at the last home football game of the season ! 54. Start your freshman year pre-med. Graduate as a Hotelie. ! 55. Gamble at Turning Stone (try not to lose money) ! 56. Watch dancers fly through the air at a Bhangra show ! 57. Have a midnight picnic in the Cornell Plantations ! 58. Wait in line for half an hour for a salad at the Terrace ! 59. Ignore any and all “No Winter Maintenance” signs … slip and fall on the icy stairs ! 60. Sit in Libe Café when you have no work to do and watch the worried studiers down gallons of coffee ! 61. Write an angry letter to the editor of The Sun ! 62. Go to Wegmans on a Friday or Saturday night ! 63. Explore the secret underground tunnel between Uris and Olin libraries ! 64. See the library’s Rare Book Collection ! 65. Pretend you are Harry Potter and study in the A.D. White library (looks like Hogwarts) ! 66. See the brain collection in Uris Hall ! 67. Eat at Taverna Banfi (formerly Banfi’s) and charge it to CornellCard ! 68. Buy beer at Jason’s in Collegetown and charge it to CityBucks ! 69. Take PAPL 2010: Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds ! 70. Take part in a psychology experiment ! 71. Take an unplanned nap in a library ! 72. Take over a building ! 73. According to legend, watch a virgin cross the Arts Quad and then witness A.D. White and Ezra Cornell shake hands ! 74. Live through an Ithaca blizzard and tell your friends how you survived frostbite ! 75. Throw a flaming pumpkin into the gorge ! 76. Play co-ed intramural innertube water polo ! 77. Spend all your lectures figuring out the day’s crossword. While sitting for the final, wish you had taken notes instead. ! 78. Hook up with your T.A.

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Order a PMP at the Hot Truck Play trivia at Ruloff’s on Sunday nights Play again on Monday at Chapter House Make a fool of yourself at karaoke at Loco on Tuesday Hit up Group Therapy on Wednesdays at Dunbar’s Go bowling at Helen Newman Lanes Hand out quartercards on Ho Plaza Drive your car up and down Libe Slope or Ho Plaza Have a friend’s parents take you out to eat at John Thomas Steakhouse or Boatyard Grill 88. Eat a chicken parm sandwich from Louie’s Lunch 89. Eat breakfast at 2 a.m. at the State Diner 90. Males: Get thrown out of Balch Hall 91. Hook up with a freshman 92. Go skinny dipping in a gorge 93. Walk to the Commons and back 94. Go to an a cappella concert 95. Go ice skating at Lynah Rink 96. Instagram the cherry blossoms in the spring 97. Sell back your books; use money to buy alcohol 98. Drink bubble tea 99. Eat a Pinesburger 100. Walk to a fraternity party with your entire freshman floor 101. Go to a fraternity party as a senior; convince yourself you were never one of them 102. Get lost in Collegetown during Orientation Week 103. Get negged at a bar because the bouncer is actually friends with the person whose I.D. you are using 104. See a foreign film at Cinemapolis 105. Eat mongo at RPCC 106. See a concert at Barton Hall 107. Gain the freshman 15. Pay $145 for a gym membership and don’t go 108. Eat brunch on North Campus 109. Do your Freshman Reading Project before you graduate 110. Fail your swim test, just for kicks 111. Tailgate for homecoming 112. Be a model in the Cornell Fashion Collective’s annual fashion show 113. Host a prefrosh 114. Request a song to be played on the clock tower 115. Get guilt-tripped into giving blood 116. Get asked if you are pregnant at Gannett (males and females) 117. Drink with your R.A. 118. Make a chalking; weep when it rains that night 119. Sing drunk on the drunk bus 120. Meet Bill Nye ’77, “The Science Guy,” and give him a hug 121. See how long you can go without doing laundry 122. Go on a road trip to Canada, flirt with the border patrol, smuggle booze back 123. Try to order pizza from a Blue Light phone 124. Go to the sex shop on the Commons 125. Get drunk on Slope Day, run into Vice President Susan Murphy ’73 126. Complain about the Slope Day headliners 127. Get tapped for a secret society 128. Go to The Shops at Ithaca Mall, realize it is severely lacking, then drive to Carousel Mall in Syracuse 129. Lose a friend over signing a lease in Collegetown 130. Run out of BRBs in March; live off campus events’ free food for the rest of the year 131. Walk holding hands around Beebe Lake 132. Visit the Sciencenter 133. See Yamatai bang it out at Pulse 134. Get J.A.’d for urinating on the Law School 135. Hook up with someone randomly and then see them every day afterward 136. Go to a coffee house in JAM 137. See how many people you can cram into your dorm room 138. Watch people play Dance Dance Revolution in Appel 139. Write dirty messages with rocks in the gorge 140. Ride a horse at Oxley Equestrian Center 141. Ring the giant bell in the Plantations 142. Crash a political rally on Ho Plaza 143. Do the COE ropes course 144. Attend a show at the State Theatre 145. Prank call the CIT HelpDesk 146. Wake up at 7 a.m. for CoursEnroll; realize that your choice classes are full anyway 147. Ski at Greek Peak 148. Take a night prelim near the vet school, walk back in the dark 149. Trespass on Alumni Fields 150. Ask Ezra’s Oracle a question 151. Take the BASICS program 152. Walk to class in the snow, uphill both ways 153. Buy a Cornell-grown apple from a vending machine 154. Furnish an apartment entirely with items from the Dump & Run 155. Eat at each dining hall at least once 156. Ask for an extension on a term paper 157. Take part in Holi and get colorful 158. Pull an all-nighter in the Uris Library Cocktail Lounge 159. Tell a professor what you really think of his/her class 160. Attend a Sun organizational meeting: Go to cornellsun.com for details 161. Climb all 161 steps to the top of McGraw Tower

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IthacArts

Your guide to culture around campus — and beyond So. You’re in college. In Ithaca. What to do now?

When prelims, lab reports and snow aren’t getting you down (read: seldom), there’s a lively arts scene right outside your doorstep to keep you sane.

From barn-burning bashes in Barton to art appreciation in the Johnson, there’s something for every taste. Cornell may be known for its cows and gorges, but it’s no slouch when it comes to music, theater, film and fine art.

And don’t forget the turf around The Hill. Ever since it made an appearance in Homer, Ithaca has been an arts-obsessed little town, with a local music scene bursting at the seams and a host of other cultural offerings to keep the hippies, hicks and Hillsters entertained. So make use of your time here, hit the town and remember — grades may last a semester, but art lasts forever.

— The Arts Section

Show Promoters

Concert Venues The State Theatre

Central Campus

The State is Ithaca’s very own Fillmore, MSG and Royal Albert Hall, all rolled into one. A cinema following Ithaca’s brief tenure as the Hollywood of the East, its ornate interior has recently played host to the likes of The Avett Brothers, Fiona Apple and Bobby McFerrin. Kathleen Madigan, Ira Glass and Electric Hot Tuna are just a few of the acts slated to stop by this year. Be sure to get your tickets early.

There might be track and field equipment on the floor and ROTC classrooms may serve as backstage, but Barton is a bona fide big star attraction. Ever heard of Ke$ha, Passion Pit or Jon Stewart?

They’ve all stopped by the last few years, and Barton Hall is the undisputed king of campus venues, with a capacity around 5,000 and ... interesting acoustics. One other quirk: most shows are on Sunday nights — the track team gets Barton on Saturdays.

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Central Campus If you want to hear the sweet sounds of the Cornell Symphony Orchestra or the thoughts of Nobel Prize winners such as Elie Wiesel and Toni Morrison, then Bailey’s your best bet. The classroom for some of Cornell’s largest classes doubles as a venue for more subdued performances.

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Cornell Concert Commission The heavy hitters in the campus concert scene. They’re the ones responsible for the big blowouts at Barton (Nas, Avicii, etc.) and the early fall show on the Arts Quad. Now you know where your Student Activity Fee goes.

Fanclub Collective The Lennon to CCC’s McCartney and a home to Cornell’s wanna-be Brooklyn hipster crowd, Fanclub brings in bands before they’re cool and offers an oasis of originality in the desert of Cornell’s musical conformity. Think Real Estate, HEALTH and Shonen Knife. If you get it, you get it.

As with all things arts-related on campus, Risley Hall is right in the thick of the concert scene, hosting smaller acts like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart in years past, while welcoming Cornell’s own singers and songwriters to rock their halls. Risley also plays host to student productions, and is home to the annual showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Downtown & Collegetown For a more intimate live music experience, be sure not to miss the thriving bar music scene around town. The Nines in Collegetown regularly features Cornellians, while The Chapter House on Stewart Ave. is a second home for many of Ithaca’s superb home-grown bands. The Haunt (702 Willow Ave.) constantly hosts acts small and large, including Raekwon and Rusted Root.

Watering holes like Felicia’s Atomic Lounge (508 W. State St.) book acts throughout the year.

The Slope The epicenter of madness and debauchery on campus. At least for one day a year. The headliner last year was Ludacris, joining an already impressive roster that includes Snoop Dogg, Kanye West and Drake. It gives you somethng to look forward to during the long, cold winter.

Slope Day Programming Board They only put on one show a year, but don’t call them lazy: these cats work year-round to throw Cornell the biggest and baddest party around, and the music’s just half of it. Feeling woozy? Thank your lucky, Slope Day Programming Board stars that there’s free water (and port-o-potties) within crawling distance.

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The home of Cornell’s Theatre, Film & Dance Department Campus-produced plays, musicals, movies and dance performances are put on throughout the fall and spring. Last year’s season included Titus Andronicus and In the Middle of the Night.

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North Campus Risley’s drama-oriented denizens give Cornell plenty to laugh, cry and think about, offering everything from nights at the circus to period-faithful reproductions of Don Giovanni.

Other Theaters

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Even with all of the campus offerings, there’s a thriving drama scene in the city of Ithaca. The Kitchen Theatre (417 West State St.) offers classical and modern productions year-round and the newly renovated Hangar Theatre (801 Taughannock Blvd.) performs for those lucky enough to stay for an Ithaca summer. Speaking of which, the Ithaca Shakespeare Company puts on Shakespeare in the Cornell Plantations in July.

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Art Galleries Johnson Museum

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The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University’s own fine art museum located conveniently on the Arts Quad, has a prolific collection of contemporary and historic works of art, including many Asian artifacts. The temporary galleries change almost monthly and the Johnson frequently hosts events and lectures related to the works shown.

Less known is the fact that the Johnson owns many more works than it can show at any given time: hidden in the archives are more Hokusai prints, original Rembrandt plates and the paintings of abstract expressionists like Michael Goldberg. These works are available for viewing to students — an awesome privilege — and can be seen by making an appointment with a curator. Also, once a year, the History of Art Majors Society, a student run group, curates a show accompanied by essays and interactive exhibits.

Hartell Gallery, Sibley Hall

Central Campus

Architecture students are notoriously mysterious, always locked up in Rand Hall producing God knows what. Hartell Gallery is a little known way of sneaking a peek at the architecture curriculum; nestled under the dome in Sibley Hall, the (spatial) center of the AAP community hosts a range of exhibits throughout the year. During mid-terms and finals, stop by to see the studio works of students pinned up — not just drawings of buildings, but frequently hand-built models and constructed work.

Tjaden Hall

Central Campus Cornell conceals a small but productive discipline in the fine arts within its College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

While you’re in Ithaca missing the big shows at big city museums, the two galleries at Tjaden Hall put on constantly changing exhibits throughout the year — a glimpse into the current discourse on campus. In years past, exhibits have offered anything from huge plaster casts of bulging bodies to delicate paintings of Iraqi aerial landscapes. The Olive Tjaden Gallery and the Experimental Gallery are open during the week; check at the AAP registrar’s office for a schedule of shows.

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Architecture Milstein Hall

Central Campus Nope, that’s not a U.F.O. — Milstein Hall, designed by Pritzker prize-winning architect Rem Koolhas and conceived as the home to Cornell’s esteemed architecture program, is a dazzling and starkly modern architectural marvel. The 47,000 square foot building, which officially opened in August 2011, is the first new building to be dedicated to Cornell’s Architecture, Art and Planning program in over 100 years.

Architectural highlights of the structure include the glass-encased “upper plate,” which cantilevers almost 50 feet over University Avenue (in laymen’s terms: it looks like it’s floating), and the lower-level dome, which supports both the auditorium’s raked seating and the stairs that lead to the studio above. Even if you’re not an architect, you owe it to yourself to pay a visit to this prestigious structure and sit on one of its colorful globes.

Cube House

Makarainen Road One of the few really beautiful works by a Cornell architecture grad in the Ithaca area, Simon Ungers’ minimalist cube is located out by Route 79 near Ithaca College. A pristine concrete box surrounded by acres of wilderness included in the property, the house stands as a tribute to the beauty of old school modernism in all its glory — stark, individualist and monumental despite its small scale. S. Ungers ’80 was the son of the late O.M. Ungers, who taught at Cornell and whose works abroad have influenced generations of designers. Borrow a friend’s car and drive up to Makarainen Road, near South Hill to creep around.

Johnson Museum

Central Campus

Beyond being the home to a prolific art collection, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is a complex an interesting space designed by Pei Cobb Freidd Partners — whose most famous architect is I.M. Pei. Situated at the end of the northern row of the Arts Quad, the Johnson Museum functions as a viewing device for the lake and the landscape. The building has distinct and interesting spaces on each floor, starting with café on the bottom level (a picturesque place to grab a tea), moving up through the big courtyard in the middle and the panoramic conference room on the top floor — each of which is highly designed in terms of light and material. A stark contrast to the historic decadence of the other buildings on the Arts Quad, the architecture of Pei’s Johnson Museum deserves its own look.

Carl Sagan’s Study

900 Stewart Ave.

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When crossing the Stewart Avenue bridge from North Campus’ Fall Creek Road towards the West Campus dorms, you will see a two-faced work of architecture that is shrouded in mystery. On the North Campus side, the building displays a modernist façade — a pure white plane with a cut opening. Looking across the gorge from the West Campus side, the building, flanked by Rockledge fraternity, appears to be the gateway into an Egyptian tomb. The late Carl Sagan, legendary Cornell astronomer, renovated the former meeting place of the senior honor society Sphinx Head into his study and part-time home. Designed by the late Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente (a protégé of Le Corbusier and one-time Cornell professor) and his wife Ann Pendleton, Carl Sagan’s cliff-edge study is a structural and formal marvel.

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Film

Central Campus

No joke: C.C. may just be the best college movie theater in the country. Billing itself as a “year-round film festival,” it screens a frightening number of feature films, documentaries and shorts from the megaplex and places you’ve never even heard of, making every one of us a potential cinema expert.

Showings are usually in Willard Straight Hall or Uris Hall. Do yourself a favor and make it a regular stop — there are multiple films a day and a constantly changing lineup, and the live talks by directors and music-accompanied silent films are just icing on the cake. Seriously, you’re lucky.

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Cinemapolis

Regal Cinemas

120 E. Green St.

Pyramid Mall, 40 Catherwood Rd.

A gift from silverscreen gods, this Ithaca fixture screens independent, foreign and mainstream films on a daily basis. If you do not make at least a couple trips here come Oscar season, consider yourself behind the curve.

And you thought college meant never going to the mall again. But if you absolutely must see the midnight debut of the next Twilight flick, hoof it over to Regal, home of the Hollywood blockbuster and normal release schedule.

Need more arts? Craving extra culture? Read The Cornell Daily Sun Arts Section, printed five days a week and featuring the best of campus music, film, fine arts and all that other good stuff.

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1. Be a farmer for the afternoon at a Dilmun Hill Student Organic Farm work party.

An entirely student run, organic farm, Dilmun Hill is located on Route 366 (Dryden Road), just across from Judd Falls Road, near the Cornell Orchards. The farm practices sustainable agriculture and provides produce for places on campus like the Manndible Café.

The farm hosts weekly work-parties on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 7 p.m. and invites everyone to experience the latest in sustainable agricultural practices, support the farm, join their community and go home with fresh produce.

If visiting the farm seems like a bit of a journey, visit Dilmun Hill’s on-campus farm stand on Wednesdays from 3 to 5 in front of Mann Library (on the Ag Quad) and inside the library lobby on rainy days. They will also be at the Farmers’ Market at Cornell this fall on Thursdays between 11 and 3.

Market Garden Manager Issac Isaac Arginteanu ’12 said, “I started out knowing nothing about agriculture and farming and now I’m a manager. It was my introduction to something I’ve become very passionate about.”

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Stargazing | Visit the Fuertes Observatory to star gaze or watch a meteor shower.

5. Take a midnight trip to the Lab of Ornithology’s sanctuary.

2. Check out the 200,000 species in the Cornell University Insect Collection.

The Cornell University Insect Collection includes more than seven million insect specimens representing about 200,000 species, or roughly 20 percent of the World’s described insect fauna. The collection is housed in approximately 16,500 drawers held within in a climate-controlled facility located on the second floor of Comstock Hall on Cornell’s central campus.

Because it is a research facility, visits to the CUIC are limited and need to be planned in advance. Prospective visitors or students interested in conducting research at the facility should contact curator James Kenneth Liebherr at jkl5@cornell.edu.

The CUIC also participates in the annual Insectapalooza celebration — a one day insect fair with educational exhibits for all age groups, from children to adults. Insectapalooza typically takes place at the end of October.

Founded in 1915, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation and conservation of birds. The lab is not on campus, but is easily accessible by a shuttle bus that stops at Corson-Mudd Hall (across from Trilium) at 8:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:45 p.m., and 4:45 p.m..

The lab is located in Sapsucker Woods, and guided bird walks through Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary are offered for beginners on Saturdays and Sundays from April to September.

The Johnson Visitor Center at the lab is home to a large observatory with chairs, telescopes, and bird feeders, interactive exhibits, a world-class collection of bird art and sculpture and the Macaulay library — the world’s largest archive of animal sounds and video.

Admission is free, and the visitor center is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.on Saturdays, and 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. The sanctuary, however, is open every day from dawn to dusk.

4. Go stargazing at the Fuertes Observatory.

Fuertes Observatory is located on North Campus near

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Scintillating Science Classes Former Sun Senior Editor

Classes Abroad

Biology 2650: Tropical Field Ecology and Behavior in Kenya –– During winter break, students travel to Kenya to study tropical tropical biology, ecology, and behavioral ecology.

Riku Moriguchi ’13 participated in the course this year. Moriguchi said, “It’s probabl one of the greatest things I’ve ever done in my life.” He explained game drives –– which entailed driving vans through Savannah in the middle of the night with flashlights –– as the best part of the experience. Students also have the opportunity to work on three different research projects.

For Fun

Food Science 4300: Understanding Wine and Beer –– The science version of the Hotel School’s Wines class allows students to understand what flavor chemicals produce certain tastes — like smoky wines and hoppy beers. One catch: you have to be 21 to enroll.

Horticulture 2010: The Art of Horticulture –– This experiential class allows students to use plants and gardens as art. Students can use photography, watercolor and botanical illustration methods. Alli Hoffman ’12 said, “It was a great course, and a wonderful change from the monotonous days of schoolwork and lectures.”

Natural Resources 3250: Forest Management and Maple Syrup Production –– This hands-on class teaches students multi-purpose ways to manage forests, including how to make maple syrup.

Human Ecology

Human Development 3620: Human Bonding –– Why are we attracted to certain people and not others? Human Bonding explores attraction, jealousy, loneliness and attachment among other topics.

Sarah Spiro ’13 said, “Everything was just so incredibly true to your own relationships. When people tell me about problems with a boyfriend or girlfriend I actually find myself thinking through the nine stages of a breakup,”

3. Check out the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Synchrotron.

Slightly larger than a football field, the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) has a 768 meter circumference and the capability to send electrons and positrons flying at 99.9999995 percent of the speed of light.

CHESS provides state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation facilities for research in physics, chemistry, biology, and environmental and materials sciences and attracts 500-600 scientists, graduate and undergraduate students each year.

Researchers at CHESS always welcome student volunteers to participate in research and experiments, and even observe 24 hour CHESS runs. CHESS is located in Wilson laboratory on Route 366 & Pine Tree Road.

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Helen Newman Hall. The observatory houses several small telescopes, and a larger, 12-inch refractor telescope with a mechanical tracking mechanism that is operated by weights, like a grandfather clock.

Though the observatory is no longer used for research purposes, it is used for introductory astronomy classes, and is open to the public.

The Cornell Astronomical Society runs public viewing nights at the Fuertes Observatory on every clear Friday night during the semester from 8:00 p.m. until midnight, if sky conditions permit.

Getty dirty | Becky Hume ’11 plants seedlings at a Dillmun Hill Organic Farm work party, where students gather to do farm chores each week.

Research

Congratulations on your acceptance to Cornell, one of the nation’s finest research institutions. Science is organized knowledge and Cornell University offers a diverse set of scientific study. My advice to you is to make curiosity your key. Question everything, figure out how things work and begin to explore and discover. Cornell has so much to offer to the inquisitive student. These are the same halls where Carl Sagan pondered the Cosmos and where Bill Nye began as a budding Science Guy. They were both curious--you should be, too. So feed your curiosity by reading the Science Section every Wednesday and learn about the science happening around you everyday.

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Woods, is a world leader in the appreciation and conservation of birds.

Nutritional Sciences 1150: Nutrition, Health and Society — Prof. Levitsky, nutritional sciences, writes songs about the digestive system and cooks meals for the whole class. This course teaches students about how to stay healthy in the world of late-night munchies and sleeplessness. Perhaps it can even help keep off the freshman 15.

Jacob Christ ’13 took the course as a freshman and said, “He [Levitsky] did a good job of putting it in a holistic sense and making everything applicable to the real world.”

Maria Minsker can be reached at mminsker@cornellsun.com.

Katerina Athanasiou can be reached at kathanasiou@cornellsun.com.

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Bird watching | The Lab of Ornithology, located in Sapsucker

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Top Five Famous Science Alums First Female Ambulance Physician: Dr. Emily Barringer 1897 At the turn of the 20th century, women had won the first skirmishes of their battle for admission into medical schools, but for many female physicians the struggle to receive further hospital training continued. One such woman who made a lasting change in the fight for equal practice in medicine was Emily Dunning Barringer 1897 the first woman ambulance physician.

Barringer was born in Scarsdale New York on Sept. 27, 1876, graduated from Cornell in 1897, and went onto the Cornell University School of Medicine earning her medical degree in 1901.

Upon graduating from medical school, Barringer applied for an internship position at Gouverneur Hospital in New York City, but was denied despite receiving the second-highest grade on the hospital’s qualifying exam. Up to that point no woman had ever been accepted into that hospital’s post-graduate surgical training program, and it was apparent by her rejection that the Gouver neur Hospital wanted to keep it as such. But Barringer was BARRINGER 1897 determined, and the following year she applied again with support from political and religious figures, and was accepted.

The male interns at the hospital, upset at the idea of practicing with a woman, unsuccessfully petitioned against her appointment. Despite the sexism, Barringer succeeded in completing her residency and became the world’s first female ambulance surgeon.

In 1943 she became a vice-chair of the American Women’s Hospitals War Service Committee of the National Medical Women’s Association (later the American Medical Women’s Association) where she spearheaded a campaign to raise money for ambulances and surgical equipment to aid war stricken Europe.

As vice-chair she also lobbied successfully to allow women to hold positions in the Army and Navy Medical Corps during World War II, rewarding them the same military benefits available to men. After World War II, Barringer continued her work advocating woman’s suffrage and contributing to the progress of women in medicine.

Inventor of Heimlich Maneuver: Dr. Henry Heimlich ’41 Dr. Henry Heimlich ’41, M.D ’43, the man behind the maneuver, was born February 3, 1920 in Wilmington, Delaware. Heimlich first described the procedure in an informal article called “Pop Goes the Café Coronary” published in June 1974 in the journal Emergency Medicine.

The term “café coronary,” Heimlich explains, comes from the frequent occurence when a person chokes to death on food in a restaurant and is not helped by onlookers because they are confused as to what to do, thinking the person is suffering from a heart attack.

Heimlich’s method became widely publicized as an important addition to the emergency care procedures appearing in journals like the Journal of the American Medical Association HEIMLICH ’41 and became popularly called the “Heimlich maneuver.”

Heimlich’s theory behind his technique was that the quick abdominal thrusts applied to the victim produces “artificial coughs” by compressing his abdomen below the level of the diaphragm. These coughs force air out from the lungs, dislodging the obstruction caught in the trachea and expelling the foreign object out through the mouth.

According to the Heimlich Institute, since its introduction the Heimlich maneuver has been credited with saving more than 50,000 people, including actress Elizabeth Taylor, sports broadcaster Dick Vitale and Former President Ronald Reagan. The maneuver was even endorsed by Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop in 1985 as “the only safe method for saving a choking victim.”

Although in recent years Heimlich has received much criticism for his work, and the American Red Cross made revisions to his choking prevention methods –– the Heimlich maneuver has been widely regarded as the gold standard for treating a choking victim for more than three decades.

Mother of Cytogenetics: Barbara McClintock ’23 Barbara McClintock ’23, botany, M.A. ’25, Ph.D. ’27, was uncommonly reticent about her revolutionary research in cytogenetics. At the time she was working, the science community viewed genetic material as static and unchanging, and McClintock’s work on genes and chromosomes flatly refuted that view.

McClintock became hooked on genetics in 1921 after taking the University’s only undergraduate genetics course, taught by Prof. C. B. Hutchison, plant breeding. That same semester she took a cytology course taught

by Prof. Lester W. Sharp, botany, and developed a lifelong fascination with the genetic content and expression of chromosomes.

At a time when women could not major in genetics, McClintock obtaining advanced degrees in botany and remained at the University to study maize cytogenetics. Maize was popular in early genetics research because each kernel is a product of a separate cross, and it has ten chromosomes producing easily observable traits.

McClintock followed her research to the University of Missouri at Columbia, the California Institute of Technology, wartime Berlin (1933-1934) and, finally, to Cold Spring Harbor’s Carnegie Institution of Washington for 26 years.

In 1983, McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of mobile genetic elements and became the first female individual recipient in that category.

At Cold Spring Harbor, she studied two genes, called controlling elements, responsible for mutations in maize pigmentation. The element close to the pigmentation gene acted as a switch gene, and the element further away on the chromosome in turn acted as a rate gene for the switch gene. These two controlling elements were termed “jumping genes” because they could move along the chromosome or to different chromosomes in a process known as transposition.

McCLINTOCK ’23 McClintock is an undisputed giant of cytogenetics, but she is certainly also a giant within the realm of women in science. For a scientist who once found it impossible to receive tenure, she went on to become the third woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the first woman to serve as president of the Genetics Society of America.

Inventor of the Chicken Nugget: Robert Baker ’43

Everyone’s Favorite Science Nerd: ‘Bill Nye the Science Guy’

The next time you order chicken nuggets off the kid’s menu just for the crayons, you have a University alumnus to thank: Robert Baker ’43. He quickly moved from his orchard roots to poultry, eventually earning the title of “Chicken Einstein” from the New York Times for the more than 50 chicken products his lab developed.

When Baker left Pennsylvania State University in 1957 to join the University’s faculty in poultry science and food science, he brought with him what became known as his famous Cornell chicken barbeque sauce. He and his family served the specialty for more than five decades at the Baker’s Chicken Coop at the New York State Fair.

There’s the story of how the first family visited in 1999, and Baker’s daughter Reenie presented them with a basket of New York State apples to which President Clinton remarked, “Those apples look good, but where’s the chicken?”

BAKER ’43 Baker mastered the science of extracting all meat from poultry carcasses and reshaping it into everything from chicken nuggets to poultry hot dogs (or chicken franks, or bird dogs, if you prefer). The breakthrough in the development of the now ubiquitous bite-size chicken pieces was his method of keeping the breading attached to the nuggets during frying. He also used previously-discarded parts such as backs, necks and skin to make chicken baloney, chicken salami, chicken pastrami, chicken steak, chicken ham and chicken chili.

Baker’s work extended beyond the realm of new ways to process chicken to the naming of these products and their packaging and transportation. In 1970, he founded the University’s Institute of Food Science and Marketing, and together with Prof. Emeritus Joseph Hotchkiss, food science, he revolutionized chicken shipping. Their modifications of atmosphere and vacuum packaging are still in use today.

In science class, “Bill Nye the Science Guy” was one of the few educational videos worth staying awake to watch. Nye ’77, mechanical and aerospace engineering, had an infectious goofiness and was the rare adult who asked aloud “How does it work?” –– a question that is a permanent fixture in some young minds.

Nye accepted a job at Boeing after graduation, then started performing late-night stand up in Seattle before leaving, and left Boeing to pursue comedy full time.

NYE ’77 Nye combines his humor and intellect to increase the level of scientific literacy in the American public.

As a kid, when he wasn’t taking apart his bicycle to see how it worked, Nye was immersed in the space program. As an adult, Nye remained an avid bicyclist, finishing first in the Cannonball 300, a day-long 300-mile bike race from Seattle to Spokane. He now serves as the executive director of the Planetary Society.

Nye remains connected to the University through the Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of ’56 Professorship, and in 1998, was invited to a University meeting about the Mars Rover missions. Ned Nye, Bill’s father, was a sundial enthusiast, and when he caught a glance at the solar panel-powered calibration targets for the high-resolution panoramic cameras, he saw a striking resemblance to sundials.

Both rovers were outfitted with sundials and inscribed with the motto of “two worlds, one sun.” A subsequent EarthDial project encouraged people to install a global network of sundials, much in the spirit of public involvement.

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College Unions:Student Athletes,Now Student Employees

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n March, the Chicago district of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern football players qualified as employees of Northwestern University and had the right to form a union. This is the first step of many in challenging the ruling hand of the NCAA and its growing power over the world of college sports. The misconception being thrown around by the media, and the NCAA itself, is that Northwestern players are fighting to be paid. Rather, the ruling shows that they already are paid — in the form of their scholarship — and deserve a chance to represent themselves and establish workers’

bation (there are currently 10 such programs), and thus jeopardize these profit centers, the NCAA has held an untouchable power over athletic programs. The revenue lost by not attending bowl games and losing scholarships for their football team is a sacrifice that affects these schools where they feel it most: in their wallets.

The fight to allow college football players to unionize is being led by Kain Colter, Northwestern’s quarterback. His focus is on the distinction of “student-athlete,” which is a term the NCAA invented to try and avoid the gray area being confronted by Colter and the Northwestern football

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The NCAA, the governing body for college athletics, was formed in 1906 as a nonprofit association, and is currently made up of 1,281 institutions. As college athletics have grown in popularity, the NCAA has been unable to adapt to the changing scenery. Top athletic programs earn more than $100,000,000 in revenue each year from ticket sales, media deals and various other avenues that come back to the athletic program and university.

Ultimately, if there is no help provided to student-athletes with such high expectations, something will give, and Colter’s point is that, as it currently stands, the “student” part of “student-athlete” is what suffers.

With its ability to put programs on pro-

team.

The main point of their argument is that the scholarships they receive act as payment for their performance. In order to receive their scholarship, they have to play football. In order to play football, they have to be healthy and abide by team rules that are outside the realm of what is required of a normal student. The fact that their scholarship depends on these circumstances, they argue, would legally make them employees.

The long-held argument of universities and the NCAA alike is that college athletics are enhancements to the regular student life. With only one percent of college athletes playing professional sports, the emphasis should clearly be on the “student” and less on the “athlete,” but the demand-

ing intensity and competitive nature of college athletics often skews this distinction.

What makes Northwestern the right school to confront this issue is that it is a school that has never received any sanctions from the NCAA, meaning it represents a “best-case scenario.” Northwestern, admittedly, is not a football powerhouse, and if the conditions presented by Colter constitute employee status, it can be reasoned that similar, if not more egregious, circumstances would apply to other schools.

Last fall this tenuous balance was thrown into the spotlight when Ohio State backup quarterback, Cardale Jones, tweeted the following: “Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS.” Jones is not alone. Players have previously come forward about cheating on entrance exams to meet minimum standards, being steered off of their intended course path so as to keep a lighter load during their season, and worse, graduating from four-year universities without being able to read — all of them were considered “student-athletes”.

This disconnect between what is being shown to us in the media and what the NCAA is choosing to believe is staggering.

Colter is not advocating for athletes to be paid, because this ruling agrees that their scholarship already constitutes payment.

He is calling for a much needed reevaluation of how athletes are treated and how their scholarships depend on their performance. He highlights the fact that student athletes are asked to pay some of their medical bills out of pocket (and are not compensated for long-term injuries), that the 40-hour week that football requires makes

it hard to put being a student first and other academic and welfare issues that conflict with the NCAA’s preached intentions.

This is a step in the right direction. Do I think that all football players will join unions and be paid in the future? No, I don’t. What I do think is important is that this case will set the precedent for players to force the NCAA to come to the table and have honest discussions about the circumstances that face today’s student athletes and create better methods for protecting player health and success. The nuances of what it means to have a scholarship have long been unaddressed, and Colter’s push to unionize will give students much needed representation in bargaining for their “job security” and “worker’s compensation” when injuries affect their ability to play. While the uninformed population took to social media saying that Northwestern was trying to “ruin football,” I would argue that they are focusing their attention on the NCAA, which undeniably needs change.

Northwestern University is appealing this ruling, and this case will most likely be tied up in court for years to come. The first stone was thrown, though, and the NCAA will have to answer some of these questions and inconsistencies. Ultimately, if there is no help provided to student-athletes with such high expectations, something will give, and Colter’s point is that, as it currently stands, the “student” part of “student-athlete” is what suffers.

One thing is certain; today, and every day, I am proud to be a Northwestern fan.

Annie Newcomb can be reached at anewcomb@cornellsun.com. She was the design editor of The Sun’s 130th board.

Huber’12,Hagberg’12 Create Storage Squad Moving Company Former Cornell track and field team members create start-up company to help students move

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Editor in Chief

Nick Huber ’12 and Dan Hagberg ’12 came to Cornell with the same plan as many athletes — to run track for four years, graduate and move on to professional jobs. Little did they know that one summer, in 2011, an opportunity to help some friends would arise out of nowhere and would shape their careers after graduation in a different path than most of their ILR classmates.

“We started in the summer of 2011 at Cornell and it was kind of a last second start. We realized that a lot of our friends were looking for summer storage in the Ithaca area and we had a lease for our apartments and we weren’t going to be in town. So we filled up our rooms and locked our doors with all of our friend’s belongings over the summer,” Huber said. “Then we got serious about it for the next year.

That’s when we built our website, got our insurance, rented a warehouse and we ended up storing for about 250 clients in Ithaca.”

The small-time operation, now called Storage Squad, worked so well that summer that the two student-athletes looked to continue it into the following year. Balancing running, being senior captains, ILR coursework and the startup of their company,

the duo was more than busy. But that didn’t seem to stop them in the slightest.

To add to their list of accomplishments, as they finished out senior year, the two combined for multiple Cornell schools records, as well as Ivy titles and National finishes.

In his final year with the Red,

“We really take pride in our customer service.”

Nick Huber ’12 Huber finished fourth in the 110 hurdles, fifth in the high jump and again claimed a title by winning the decathlon with a school-record 7,632 points at the Outdoor Heps, earning him a spot in the NCAA Championships. He placed 11th in the country and left Cornell as the school record holder in the pentathlon (3,707), heptathlon (5,550) and decathlon (7,632).

“I ended up having a lot of fun with track. I came as one of the last guys who was recruited on the team. I was a hurdler, but then I got to Cornell and with training and my teammates around me, I got a lot better. I ended up with four school records at Cornell and was a twotime All-American,” Huber said.

“That kind of really boosted me

in entrepreneurship. It made me better in leadership and more confident in my social skills and my abilities on and off the track.

It was one of the best things that has ever happened to me.”

Hagberg’s journey was just as impressive, as he won the 60meter hurdles championship at the Indoor Heps. At the Penn Relays, he took 21st in the 110meter hurdles in 14.42 seconds.

He then won the 110 hurdles at the Outdoor Heptagonal Championships and was sixth in the 110 hurdles preliminaries at the IC4As. Hagberg also earned a spot in the NCAA East Regional in Jacksonville, Fla., but did not compete because it conflicted with Cornell’s graduation. His 60-hurdles best of 7.98 seconds is the second-best time in school history. He also has the fifth-best 110 hurdles time at Cornell with a time of 14.21 seconds.

“Track was an amazing experience. I absolutely loved it. It really made you focus on time management and those skills. It was very big for us. Instead of having that downtime to go and watch T.V., Nick and I would be working on Storage Squad. It personally developed my leadership skills a lot,” Hagberg said.

“Nick and I were both captains of the team and it helped learning how to manage people.”

As both Huber and Hagberg walked across the stage and

received their Cornell diplomas, the duo was ready to continue their operations full-time and make entrepreneurship part of their daily lives.

“Right now, we moved to Chicago where we work on the business full-time and have an office here,” Huber said. “We have 25 big schools and about 20 secondary schools which are in the same cities as our main schools … [Overall] we will probably have around 150 employees this season.”

Since its start in 2011, Storage Squad has expanded from initially just Cornell to 46 schools all over the country.

“We want to be more efficient than any other company and we

want to be able to charge lower prices than any other company.

We really take pride in our customer service. We answer phone calls in the middle of the night,” Huber said “Anybody who calls our customer service hotline gets Danny or myself. Things like that keep our overhead down, so we are able to get more security and charge less for the service and service more clients.”

Heading into the future, the team consisting of Huber, Hagberg and their Storage Squad crew have endless possibilities for expansion and growth of the company.

Haley Velasco can be reached at editor in-chief@cornellsun.com.

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Packing up | Nick Huber ’12 and Dan Hagberg ’12 created a company together to help students move more easily.

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My View on Parents,Teachers and Fleeting Careers T he New York Times wrote a feature on Saturday about 79-year old Charles Granby, a basketball coach at a New York City public high school who is retiring after 45 years on the court. On Wednesday, Roy Oswalt announced his retirement, and a few hours later, beloved Yankee captain Derek Jeter said that the 2014 season would be his last.

Undoubtedly just a coincidence, the close proximity of these three retirements nevertheless got me thinking about careers — both prolific and disappointing — and their inevitable endings. But more than that, I guess it

where even our flat-brimmed hats, squeezed tight over our eyes, couldn’t keep it from blinding us.

Dad was more inclined to read the newspaper at baseball games, or even to fall asleep if he had had a long day at work. His knowledge of the game was so minimal that it became a legend in our neighborhood, one where sports was your ticket into the intricate network of street-corner mobs and stoop-side hangouts.

While my friend’s dads were coaching our parish baseball and basketball teams, my dad was taking us to the Museum of Modern Art. Instead of watching SportsCenter together before bed, he read to me.

I remember I was about nine years old when my dad

Scott Chiusano Who’s on First? got me thinking about my dad.

My dad has been a high school English teacher for almost as long as Granby has been a coach. After 35 years, and with more and more Catholic high schools in New York City shutting their doors, he too has started to consider retirement.

Unlike Granby, though, I am not sure my father has ever stepped foot on his school’s basketball court. And if I told him I was mentioning his name alongside Derek Jeter’s, he would most likely say, “Oh Jeter, the football player, right?”

When anyone looked into the stands and saw the man buried behind a stack of papers and wearing glasses that were held together with a rough tape job, they knew that was my dad.

It is a known fact in my family that my brother and I got our passion for sports from our mom. She was the one who took us to the park and rebounded when we practiced our jumpshots; she was the one who threw us diving catches until the sun was at that point in the sky

realized his efforts to derail my love for sports were futile, so he did his best to feign interest.

Instead of keeping his head buried in the New York Times for the full extent of a basketball game, he would look up periodically. One time he did this at halftime. I just happened to be going in for a warmup layup at the break, and when my dad saw it go in, he did what he had seen countless other fathers do over the years. He got up and cheered. It was pathetically comical to see him standing in the bleachers, looking around and wondering angrily why no one else was cheering for his son.

Next to him, my mom had her face buried in the paper he had cast aside.

I never let him know it, but I wouldn’t have had him any other way. It made me proud to know that my dad was the only one in the stands who thought that playing second base meant you stood on the base, the only one who thought of halftime as an intermission. When anyone looked into the stands and saw the man buried behind a stack of papers and wearing glasses that were

held together with a rough tape job, they knew that was my dad.

Only when I got older did I realize how truly lucky I was to have a dad that did not care about sports. There was no pressure when I played, no one to hold me back or push me too far. He was never disappointed in me, because he didn’t even know if I was playing well or poorly. It is so much easier to enjoy something when you have someone who understands your passion, but leaves it for you alone. My mom may have introduced me to sports, played them with me and watched them with me, but it was my dad who let me love them.

In our basement, next to countless embarrassing baby pictures of my brother and I, my dad keeps a huge poster board that one of his classes made for him, with personal notes from each student. It is sometimes difficult to have parents who are teachers (my mom is as well), when you realize they have affected the lives of so many people other than yourself. It is a selfish thought, because sometimes we expect our parents never to step out of that exclusive and binding circle of parenthood.

But they do. And I am eternally grateful to both of my parents, for showing me that being a parent is hard, but being a teacher is even harder.

One of Granby’s colleagues said this about him: “Granby’s fellow coaches will miss him, but we won’t miss him half as much as the kids who will no longer have an opportunity to be coached by him.” Careers are fleeting, like the satisfying feeling of making a diving catch before you realize there’s a man on second base.

There are generations of young baseball players to come that will only know the lore of Derek Jeter; they will practice his signature hop-throw from deep shortstop without ever having seen him do it. And there are generations of students who will miss out on Charles Granby, who will miss out on my father. One can only hope that those lucky enough to experience their guidance, their wisdom and their love can one day learn to appreciate it. I know I finally have.

Scott Chiusano can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com. He is the current Sports Editor and writes a bi-weekly column.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING

Women’s Swimming and Diving Finish Seventh at Ivies

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s swimming and diving team competed at the 2014 Ivy League Championships, with the Red finishing the meet in seventh place overall. Cornell ended the competition with an overall score of 662 points. The score represents the third highest overall total in the history of Cornell’s program. The Red also broke 11 program records over the course of the weekend.

Individually, the competitors on the women’s swimming and diving team produced strong performances. Several members of the roster achieved personal bests during the meet and were able to put themselves in a position to score for the team. The Red, which finished 6-3 in the dual season including the program’s first ever win over Princeton, carried the momentum from one of its most successful dual seasons in recent memory into the Ivy championships, according to junior Bethany Douglas.

“The meet couldn’t have gone better.

We scored our third highest ever team total score which was the perfect ending to our season in light of our incredible dual-meet season,” Douglas said.

Freshman Currie Murch Elliot swam the fourth fastest 1650 free time in Cornell history with a 17:01.47, while senior Sarah Schlichte beat her season personal best by 33 seconds, finishing in 17th place with a time of 17:04:55.

Billy Murch Elliot also had a top finish for the team in the 200 back with a time of 2:01.79. The finish was also the fourth best in Cornell history.

According to Douglas, the Cornell

women’s swimming and diving program took significant steps forward this season and was focused on team success.

“This season was unreal in terms of how many records were smashed and how many best times were broken,” she said. “Everyone really came together to swim for the Big Red rather than themselves which led us to our super successful winning record this season.”

Douglas said she was pleased with the outcome of the season, highlighting the moral boost that some of the victories gave the team. She also emphasized that the Red would not rest on its laurels, but would use the sustained rise of the team as inspiration for the coming season.

“We’re excited that we achieved so much this year which will give us a huge confidence boost going into next year,” Douglas

said. “We’ll keep training and keep building.

Started from the bottom now we’re here.”

After a successful dual meet season and a strong performance in the Ivy championships, the Red has finished 2014 on a high note, which bodes well for the future of the program.

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

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“Regardless of the results this season, I’m just happy to have been able to play with an incredible group of guys.”

In Final Match, The Red Beats Columbia,3-0

Jake Rinow ’14

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Editor in Chief

That’s a wrap for this year’s men’s soccer fall season.

Cornell finished its 2013 season with a 3-0 win over Columbia in a Saturday night game that bid farewell to the six graduates — Kurtis Teskoski, Jake Kirsch, Patrick Slogic, Stephen Reisert, Jake Rinow and Ben Williams — who will be departing the Hill.

“Winning my last game of college was really special to me,” Rinow said. “I don’t think I will ever forget it.

Spending four years with this team was such an incredible experience.”

The 7 p.m. game started with some back-and-forth movement from both teams. The action moved at the 22nd minute when a foul on Slogic led to a goal from freshman forward Vincent Brunetti, notching the first point of the night and of Brunetti’s collegiate career.

Play in the first half ended with Cornell sitting on top of Columbia, 1-0, and the forward momentum being dominated by the Red. As the second period got under way, the Red continued to keep momentum going forward into the Columbia half.

Junior Ben Feldman added another notch to Cornell’s belt as he hit the ball into the right side of the post for the first goal of his collegiate career. The goal came after senior Conor Goepel crossed the ball, but Brunetti could not get there in time. The ball ended up heading to Reisert, who knocked it back in the box for Feldman to capitalize on the failed clear.

The third of the trio for Cornell came in the 68th minute when senior forward Devin Morgan grabbed the ball from the opponent, which allowed freshman Sebastian Scales to grab the win for the Red. After following a season in which the Red won the Ivy League, the team finished out the fall 8-5-4 overall.

“Regardless of the results this season, I’m just happy have been able to play with an incredible group of guys,” Rinow said.

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Bend it like Beckham | Jake Rinow ’14 and the rest of the Cornell squad finished out the season with a 3-0 win over the Columbia Lions.

With the six seniors graduating, the Red will be losing a class with a 35-17-15 record throughout the four years of play marking the winningest Cornell men’s soccer class since the Class of 1999 finished its time on the Hill with 39 wins.

“I will miss the guys on the team. They are such an

eclectic group of people that I’m likely to never meet there such again. I can’t say enough about how special these guys are to me,” Rinow said.

Haley Velasco can be reached at editor-inchief@cornellsun.com.

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along the way. Was once dubbed by Sport magazine as “The Electric Pear.”

Presented with the 2012 Spirit of Tewaaraton Award.

Newman Arena: Home of the Red basketball and volleyball teams. Also site of occasional wrestling tournament.

Located in Bartels Hall.

Nieuwendyk: Joe ’88. NHL Rookie of the Year for Calgary 15 seasons ago with 51 goals. Took faceoffs for the Dallas Stars until he was traded to the New Jersey Devils to win a third Stanley Cup in 2003. Cornell MVP in 1987 and a NHL All-Star. He has also won the Conn Smyth and Olympic gold. Still owns a house on Cayuga Lake. Saw his No. 25 retired at Lynah Rink on Feb. 26, 2010.

Noel: Andy. Current Cornell Athletic Director. Daily Sun favorite. Who doesn’t love Andy?

Olbermann: Keith ’79. Returned as an energetic and colorful anchor of ESPN’s SportsCenter after his second tour of duty on MSNBC. His previous time on ESPN made it the cultural phenomenon it is today — so popular that it can get away with the “Who’s Now?” tournament. Master of the guttural “He put the biscuit in the basket.”

Enjoyed the limelight at Fox. Made headlines back in 2009 when he

engaged in a verbal spat with conservative political commentator Ann Coulter ’84 (who we like to forget even went here) over the value of his CALS degree.

Pennsylvania: Slimy Ivy rival in Philadelphia. It has strong athletic teams and questionable recruiting ethics. Learn to hate them. They’re ruthless, bad sports and play to win at whatever cost — even if it means throwing toast on the football field.

And they call themselves Quakers.

Pidto: Bill ’87. Yet another Cornellian now at ESPN. Princeton: Yawn. Nickname: Tigers.

Location: New Jersey, but fields topnotch basketball and lax teams anyway.

Has won more Ivy League titles than any other school with its shady recruiting.

Redman: Cornell wrestling mascot.

Has been known to randomly show up at men’s basketball games. Identity unknown.

Sarachan: Dave ’76. Former head coach of the Chicago Fire, an MLS team. Led Red booters to two NCAA bids in his final seasons at the helm.

Two-time All-American at Cornell.

Schaap: 1. Dick ’55. Highly acclaimed newsman who died in 2001.

Veteran sports journalist, author of numerous books, sports correspondent for ABC News and host of ESPN’s Sports Reporters. Oh, and he was also

once the editor in chief of The Sun. 2.

Jeremy ’91, ESPN. Followed in dad’s footsteps and is currently correspondent for ESPN’s Outside the Lines. Also, former sports editor at the Sun. Came to Ithaca prior to Cornell’s Sweet 16 matchup with Kentucky to report on the men’s basketball team. “In Ithaca, New York, Jeremy Schaap, ESPN.” So legit.

Schafer: Mike ’86. Men’s hockey coach who steered his team to ECAC tournament victories in his first two seasons, then to the squad’s first Frozen Four appearance in 23 years in his eighth. In his 10th, 2005-06, guided the Red to a 22-9-4 record in which the team came a goal away in triple overtime against Minnesota from making the Frozen Four. Fans greeted him then and now with chant, “Kill, Schafer, Kill.” Completing his 19th season behind the Cornell bench in 2013-14, he has coached the Red to the NCAA tournament nine times.

Schoellkopf: Stadium which houses football, men’s and women’s lacrosse teams. Nice view of Ithaca and most of Central New York on clear days on the Crescent side. Artificial playing surface has been called “the Cadillac of turf systems” but has seen its last days at Schoellkopf, giving way to the new wave FieldTurf which debuted last season.

Smith: Dayna. Twelve-year coach of

the women’s basketball team. Like many other Red coaches, made her way over from Penn. The winningest coach in the history of the program.

During her time as head coach, Smith’s players have earned 21 All-Ivy honors, including one Ivy League Player of the Year award and one AllAmerica selection.

Tanasoiu: Silviu. Romanian-born head coach of the men’s tennis team who has led the Red for the last three years. Led his young squad to a 10-15 record and multiple All-Ivy League Second Team selections in the first season.

Taylor: Nathan. Coach of the men’s cross country and track teams. Came here from Penn, obviously a big improvement for him. His track record proves it: The Red won the Heptagonal Championships in eight of the last 11 years, including 14 of the last 22 combined Indoor and Outdoor Ivy League titles.

Yale: Mediocre Ivy misfits. Not really good at any sport, but what else can you expect from a school in New Haven? Also called the Bulldogs and the Elis. By the way, what’s an Eli? Zawislan: Jaro. Fifth-year head coach of the men’s soccer team. Used bad-ass Polish accent to guide the Red to its third consecutive undefeated season last year after the team won the Ivy League in 2012.

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Colin Hayward-Toland’s Story: Surviving Cancer,With Some Help From C.U. Friends

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Colin Hayward-Toland ambles over, pauses in front of me and presses a goldfish cracker into my open palm. Surprised at his boldness, I squeak a highpitched “thank you” to the energetic six-year-old, accidentally sing-songing the words in that peculiarly condescending way adults sometimes speak to children. Nonplussed, Colin sidles over to the reporter beside me, who politely asks for a goldfish and receives it with enviable grace.

It’s a rather impromptu media gathering at Lynah rink, and even if he is too young to participate in interviews, Colin is still the star of the show.

Under his mother’s watchful eye, he wanders with a distinctively crooked gait around the upper corner of the bleachers, palling around with his older brother Aidan and tapping on various recording devices.

That Colin is able to move around so willfully is a remarkable achievement on its own; that he is simply alive is both the biggest surprise and the biggest blessing of all.

Colin, who is a regular sight around Lynah after spending the season as the youngest member of the men’s ice hockey team, is already a cancer survivor before the age of seven, and has nearly reached the five-year point that is such a milestone in cancer survival rates.

“He’s in remission now, he’s gaining his strength back, he’s even on the ice now from time to time skating,” said Colin’s father, Ian Hayward ’04, beaming as he spoke about his recovering son. “It’s really amazing to watch Colin grow up around this group of big brothers that he’s got on the Big Red hockey team.”

Hayward is chatting with the media about his son’s participation in Team IMPACT, a program that pairs sports teams with children facing life-threatening chronic illnesses. As one of the Sun’s hockey beat reporters, I jumped on the chance to cover the story. Colin’s tale, from his diagnosis, to his recovery, to his involvement with the team, is a story with distinct parallels and connections to the heartaches I’ve seen my own family endure.

In 2009, Colin was taken to the hospital on his second birthday and diagnosed with ependymoma, a rare type of brain tumor. Three years earlier, my cousin Kayla — whose parents were in the Class of 1990, the same year as Colin’s mother, Tamiko Toland — had received the same diagnosis. Although St. Jude lists ependymoma as the third most common kind of brain tumor found in children,

only 200 new cases of ependymoma are diagnosed a year among all segments of the population.

The ependymoma community is so small, indeed, that a later conversation with the family revealed that my cousin’s parents and the Hayward-Tolands participate in the same ependymoma listserv support group and have communicated before. It was a connection that surprised me, although in hindsight I should have guessed. To have two children diagnosed with ependymoma with parents from the same class year is a striking and saddening coincidence.

Due to the location and of aggressiveness ependymoma tumors, the

there’s no way I could even imagine [seeing] him participate and be able to not just be around people, but to interact with them. The littlest things are milestones for my family.”

Colin’s world expanded these past few months at the recommendation of a psychosocial director at a cancer retreat in Maine, who suggested Team IMPACT to his parents. The family, which lives locally in Ithaca, was matched with the Cornell men’s hockey program, much to the delight of Hayward.

“I was really excited when I found out it was a Cornell team because I’m an alum and my

Siblings are an often-overlooked casualty of childhood cancer, and Hayward said the Red’s actions were especially meaningful. At the suggestion of head coach Mike Schafer ’86 and assistant coach Topher Scott ’08, Aidan has his own personal jersey to go along with Colin’s.

“Here’s something really cool — Topher and coach Schafer came to me and said, ‘how about we get a jersey for Aidan?’ And just to tell you, for all the years we’ve been going in and out of hospitals, siblings sometimes have it really tough,” Hayward said. “[It] means so much to me as a parent because I get to see both my kids here, participating, and not have one feel like he’s left out.

COURTESY OF THE HAYWARD-TOLAND FAMILY

Speading the love | Colin Hayward-Toland (center left) and his brother Aidan have become a part of the men’s hockey team’s extended family.

surgery to remove the cancer often leaves patients with severe physical impairments. In the five years after my cousin’s diagnosis, she remained the whip-smart, poetry loving, please-can-weread-one-more-chapter-before-Igo-to-bed girl she always was, even as she fought the debilitating effects of her major brain surgeries. She passed away two years ago March 8, at the age of 12, just under two months before her double Bar-Bat Mitzvah with her older brother was scheduled to take place.

In Colin’s case, the effects of his treatment were so severe that he spent long periods paralyzed, surviving only with a tracheostomy tube. He permanently lost his right-side hearing and suffers from vocal chord paralysis, but in an extraordinary turnaround he has relearned to walk, regained much of the control of his facial nerves and will potentially be able correct his currently impaired speech through years of therapy.

“I remember in 2009 sitting in a hospital room in New York and thinking of the ultimate worst, which is having to consider hospice,” Hayward said. “And

wife is an alum, and the rest has been great. Colin enjoys seeing the guys — he really looks up to them. I don’t know if they’re inspired, but Colin’s a pretty amazing little boy.” — Ian Hayward ’04 “[Colin] loves to play around,

“He’s in remission now, he’s gaining strenght back, he’s even on the ice now from time to time skating.”

Ian Hayward ’04 he’s a rough and tumble little guy, so I think hockey’s perfect,” Hayward said. “I was really excited when I found out it was a Cornell team because I’m an alum and my wife is an alum, and the rest has been great.

Colin enjoys seeing the guys — he really looks up to them. I don’t know if they’re inspired, but Colin’s a pretty amazing little boy.”

In a generous move, the team embraced not only Colin, but his brother Aidan, 10, as well.

That was so nice of them to extend their offer.”

As Hayward talked about the program, he frequently mentioned the idea of perspective, saying he hoped the players are able to take something away from their experiences with Colin just as his family has benefited from spending time with the team.

“It’s got to be a grueling schedule, a grueling practice schedule; as a student I can’t imagine having done all [that] and studying on top of that. For these student athletes to take time and embrace my family and make my kids feel that much happier, that’s awesome,” Hayward said. “I have to think that this is going to carry beyond their hockey careers into their everyday life, that they will gain some perspective from having a kid like Colin [around].”

Hayward’s words struck a chord somewhere in my schooladdled brain, and later that day I searched the Internet for an article I remembered reading after Kayla died. She had worked with a program very similar to Team IMPACT, called the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, and spent a

season with the American University women’s basketball team. She sat courtside at nearly every home contest, and the team never lost when she was on the sidelines cheering them on.

The article, which ran in the Washington Times three months after she passed away, quoted the coach and several team members about Kayla’s time with the team, detailing their experiences and echoing sentiments closely related to what Hayward said he hoped Colin’s presence would accomplish.

“I think [she] gave us perspective,” American coach Matt Corkery told the Times. “She brought a kind of light into the program in a completely different way that we would not have had a chance to experience otherwise.”

Scott, who has been significantly involved with Colin’s participation with the team, noted that he thought the Red’s relationship with the Hayward-Toland family had been immensely rewarding for the team in a similar manner.

“It’s great having Colin around,” Scott said. “The guys, in a weird way, kind of look up to him. He’s been through a lot in his life, and the boys have learned a lot from hearing his story and seeing him, how much he’s getting better and everything.

Everybody loves having him here.”

Colin has his own locker room with the team, and a bright red label inscribed with the name “Hayward Toland” marks his spot in the room.

Both Scott and Hayward described Colin’s initial interactions with the team as subdued, but that he gradually lost his timidity and became just like one of the boys.

“He was pretty shy at first, but as soon as he kind of got to know us and get a little bit more comfortable, he’s really opened up and you really see his personality,” Scott said. “He’s a feisty little guy and that represents everything that we want to be about. He’s in there, he’s got no qualms of saying hi to everybody and giving knuckles and hi-fives and everything. It’s great to see him open up to our players, and at the same time our players really enjoy having him around.”

As the media session wound to a close, Hayward and Toland let Colin enter the locker room to say a brief hello to the athletes, who had just wrapped up practice. A chorus of bropitched “heyyys” greeted his entrance, and it took nearly 10 minutes for his father to extract him.

He didn’t want to leave.

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.

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Slope suggestions | Senior linebacker Tre’ Minor says 50 Cent is one artist he would like to see for his final Slope Day.

Sports Editor and 10 Questions Columnist Haley Velasco sat down with linebacker Tre’ Minor ’14 to talk about everything from jambalaya to Ke$ha.

1. You are a senior on the football team. What has Cornell football meant to you over the last four years?

Cornell football has been a great experience for me. Over the last few years, I feel like I have given so much. I have played with a lot of people and met a lot of people. I feel like Cornell football has been like a family to me. The coaches, the players and everyone that I have met is a family.

2. You are from South Carolina.

What’s your favorite thing from home?

I just love my mom’s cooking. I can’t even pretend like that’s not the best thing. I like to cook myself and my dad used to have his own restaurant. So when I go home, there is like so much food everywhere; I just eat. It’s amazing.

Do you have a favorite thing that she makes?

Everything. Both my parents can cook very well. When they come up here, they cook.

What are you known for cooking?

I cook jambalaya a lot.

3. You are the middle child in the family. Can you talk about your sisters and growing up?

It’s actually not as crazy as you would

think it is. My older sister and I are really close, and she has been my best friend every since I was a little kid. And my little sister came in and she is the exact clone of my older sister. She is five years younger than me and seven years younger than her. I miss them all the time. But I talk to them all the time. We have an ongoing group message and we just talk.

4. Tell us about your nicknames.

What do the other guys call you?

Well, Brett [Buehler] actually has the weirdest nickname for me ever. Brett calls me Jermaine. And I have no idea

“Cornell football has been a great experience for me.

Over the last few years, I feel like I have given so much.”

Tre’ Minor where Jermaine comes from in my name, but you know, Brett calls me Jermaine.

amazing, and I just put on the hip-hop station and jump around.

The question is, are you a Ke$ha fan?

I listen to Ke$ha every once in a while. I didn’t go to the concert because we have football on Sundays.

No glitter for you guys?

Glitter is pretty cool every once in a while. Not on me. But on other people.

6. Where’s your favorite place to eat on campus?

I love Synapsis. Synapsis is amazing.

What do you get at Synapsis?

I get smoothies. I get the pizza.

Synapsis smoothies are delicious.

7. If you could trade places and be on any women’s athletic team at Cornell, which one would you choose?

I want to say [ice] hockey, because they are sweet and they always win. They are amazing. The women’s track team is also great.

5. If we were to open your beforethe-game playlist, what would we find?

It’s a lot of stuff right now. I listen to “Versace” by Drake. I listen to Kid Ink. Whatever it is, it’s loud.

Do you think that you could keep up with them?

Not if I was a girl. I am kind of fast for a boy, but I am not that fast. They are really fast. Maybe some field hockey?

I could see myself playing some field hockey.

So that’s a must?

It has to be loud — and iTunes radio recently since iOS 7 just came out. It’s

What about field hockey appeals to you?

It’s on turf and that kind of relates to football.

8. If you could pick anyone to be your last Slope Day act, who would it be?

I feel like everyone would have an amazing time if we got 50 Cent.

Everybody loves 50.

9. After this, what are your plans professionally?

I am thinking of going to grad school. I want to make prosthetic limbs — like knee replacements and hip replacements and that kind of stuff.

What spurred that interest?

My godfather at home owns his own prosthetic company, so he knows a lot of people. I shadowed him as a youngster and I kind of feel in love with it ever since.

10. You have seven games left as a part of Cornell football, what does that feel like? Are you getting a bit sentimental?

Not yet. I am trying not to think about it but it’s like an ongoing countdown. I think I have like 52 days left. It’s crazy. It means so much to me to be able to play here and everything is so special.

Senior Night is going to be amazing and the last game will be more special. That countdown feels like it is going so fast and school is going so fast. I can’t even imagine that it’s going to be over.

Haley Velasco can be reached at editor-in-chief@cornellsun.com.

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The Sun’s Sports glos•sa•ry

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You better start reading.

Arena: Bruce ’73. Played lacrosse and soccer for the Red. Former coach of the U.S. men’s national soccer team and current head coach of the MLS’s L.A. Galaxy. Member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Bartels Hall: The athletic facility formerly known as Alberding and the Field House.

Unfortunately, the Alberding family no longer felt the need to fork over the big bucks — enter Mr. Bartels.

Barton: Barton Hall, the cavernous main gym.

Big place where ROTCs hang out, also headquarters for powerhouse indoor track teams and the location of many Cornell final exams. Originally built as an airplane hangar, it is the former home of hoops squads.

Batie-Smoose: Melissa. Current head coach of the volleyball team. Southern Miss graduate who still ranks in the Top-10 on the school’s career list for solo blocks and total blocks.

Baughan: Matt. Golf coach, who has been leading the Red for the past 15 seasons. Also has the honor of being head teaching pro at Cornell’s beautiful Robert Trent Jones golf course.

Beckwith: Paul. Entering his 20th year as the head of the gymnastics program after coaching the team to fourth place finishes in the USAG Nationals and the ECAC Championship in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

Belkin: Home of the Cornell squash teams located behind Reis Tennis Center. Expect big things from the top-notch international courts.

Bettman: Gary ’74. First commissioner of the NHL. Known to show up at Lynah Rink to take in a game every now and then. All three of Bettman’s children have attended Cornell.

Big Red: 1. A type of chewing gum. 2. The nickname for all Cornell athletic teams. Go Big Red! Big Red Bear: Cornell mascot. Although the bear is brown, not red, students still hold it dear and often pass it in the crowd at football games.

Blood: Dick. Nineteen-year coach and engineer of the emergence of Cornell softball as a regional power. The winningest coach in a single sport at Cornell in the more than 125 years of athletics at the institution.

Boothe: Kevin ’06. Anchor of the offensive line during his Cornell career, opening lanes for Red backs. Drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft, won a Super Bowl with the Giants in 2008 and 2012.

Brown:The color of dirt, but also an Ivy school that doesn’t believe in grades or sports. Best team is football. Officially nicknamed Bears, but the students still call themselves Bruins — their old nickname. Still, as the saying goes, if it’s Brown, flush it down.

B.U.: Boston University. Hockey rival that pulled out of the ECAC in the ’80s with several other teams to form Hockey East. Inspiration for the all-purpose cheer “Screw B.U., [insert opposing team here] too!”

Clubs: Enjoyable organizations that can’t get funding to join varsity ranks. Rugby and ultimate frisbee are two of the most prominent and successful. Occasionally covered in The Sun. Columbia: League doormat in virtually every sport. Does not even have men’s lacrosse or hockey teams. In the 1980s, the football team broke the all-time NCAA record for consecutive losses.

Although it has improved of late, the school would throw a parade down Broadway if it actually won an Ivy title. Added bonus: Opponents can laugh at the light-blue uniforms.

Cornell: Glorious Ivy League university — perhaps you’ve heard of it. Nationally notable in men’s basketball, wrestling, men’s and women’s hockey and men’s lacrosse, among others.

Courtney: Bill. Fourth-year head coach of the men’s basketball team. The former Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason assistant couldn’t quite repeat the Sweet 16 showing the Red had in 2009, but who could blame him. That kind of magic doesn’t happen every year. He says the best is to come, though. Get pumped.

Crew: Grueling year-round sport. Has perhaps the most underrated athletes at Cornell. Who else could endure severe hand blisters or 5 a.m. runs down to the boathouse for two-hour practices in 30-degree weather. Pain is their life’s blood. That said, rowers are widely-considered to have the best bodies on campus.

Cullen: Terry and his late father Bob, that is.

Father-son team that coached the Cornell sprint football team “forever” and guided the Red to

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countless CSFL titles. In 2006, the Red achieved League title and another NCAA berth in 2006. perfection for the first time since Purple Rain was Grumman: Old squash courts. In high demand popular, going 6-0 en route to a national champisince they can be used for racquetball as well. onship.

Harvard: Smug Ivy League school loaded with Dartmouth: Ivy foe strong in women’s basketmoney, squash courts and stuffy egg-heads. Topball, men’s soccer and ice sculpture. Small school, ranked rowing, swimming and hockey teams. but with proper nourishment could become a Nicknamed Crimson — the bastard child of the full-grown university like the rest of its Ivy pals. color red and poop. Also, introduced the world to Nicknamed the Big Green, a name stolen from the Winklevoss twins. Yuck. the children’s movie of the same title.

Helen Newman: Original headquarters of Davy: Fight song, played after Cornell scores in Cornell women’s athletics, now North Campus’s any game the Big Red Band bothers to attend, home to pickup basketball games, an indoor except for basketball where it plays it whenever it swimming pool and a state-of-the-art fitness cencan at its own obnoxious decibel level. George M. ter. Also houses one of the premier bowling alleys Cohan stole the melody from “Give My Regards on campus or in Ithaca for that matter. to Broadway.”

Hoy: Home of Cornell baseball. First man to Derraugh: Doug ’91. Returns for his tenth seahit one over the formerly big right field fence was son as head coach of the women’s hockey team.

Lou Gehrig, according to legendary historian and He guided the Big Red to the national title game sports writer Kenny “The Haunter” Van Sickle. in his fifth season and back-to-back-to-back The second — again according to Kenny — was NCAA Frozen Four appearances in 2010, 2011 George Bush, Sr., in his Yale days, before he and 2012 moved on to better Devoy: Mark and Julee. things. In less important Husband-and-wife team matters, the field understarting their eleventh seawent a $3.25 million renson coaching the men’s ovation before the 2007 and women’s squash season and in 2008 was teams, respectively. named the top road destiDryden: Ken ’69. nation in the Ancient Three-time All-American, Eight in a poll of the perennial All-Star and league’s coaches.

Stanley Cup netminder I.C.: Ithaca College, the Montreal for the school on the other Canadiens. Found his real hill. Division III kingpin calling practicing law, in just about every sport. however. He was named Nicknamed the Bombers, the general manager of possibly because of an the Toronto Maple Leafs affinity for cheap Ithaca in 2004 and inducted into bars. the College Sports Jessup: Principal Information Directors of intramural fields located America Academic Allon North Campus. Poor America Hall of Fame in drainage, bright lights, May 2005. His No. 1 was lots of bad bounces.

COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS retired and lifted into the Karn: Todd. Heading rafters of Lynah Rink in In a league of his own | In 40-plus years as a into his fourth year as the journalist, Dick Schaap ’55 excelled both in print 2010. head coach of the equesECAC Hockey League: and broadcast media. trian program. Assumed Eastern College Athletic the reigns after 12-year Conference Hockey League. Large coordinating head coach Chris Mitchell traded his day job to organization overseeing collegiate sports up and become the Director of Riding at Randolph down the eastern seaboard. More specifically, the College. major college hockey league that Cornell calls Kerber: Chris. Lightweight crew coach since home. Gives schools like Union and St. Lawrence 2008. Led the team to a 4-3 record in head-toan excuse to feel smarter. head races during his first season.

Eldredge: Dave ’81. Best polo coach in the Kennett: Todd ’91. BMA. Coach who estabcountry. Need proof? In 2008, the men’s team lished lightweight crew dynasty — leading the overcame its underdog status to reach the nationsquad to three consecutive national champial finals, where it lost. In 2011 and 2012 the onships before becoming the heavyweight crew’s squad fell to the Cavaliers in the final and semififearless leader in 2008. Enjoys putting his team nal rounds of the national championship, respecon the erg machine before sun-up. tively. Also holds down the fort for the women’s Koll: Rob. Long-time, legendary wrestling squad, which earned its 13th national title in coach and former All-American, Koll has picked 2011. up where previous coach Jack Spates left off. His Farmer: Patrick. Third-year women’s soccer team has won the Ivies 15 times. Led Kyle Dake coach. Hopefully this former National Soccer ’13 to his fourth individual national champiCoaches Association Coach of the Year can help onship last year. the Red improve from its 7-8-1 season.

Lucia: Joe. Brutally honest men’s swimming Faithful (a.k.a. The Lynah Faithful): Half-crazed coach for 27 years. Has the unenviable task of Cornell hockey fanatics who never miss regular or charting his guys to the head of the Ivy waves. postseason home games. Climb and bang on Lynah: Lynah Rink, cradle of Cornell hockey Plexiglass and throw newspapers, garbage and fish fanaticism. Recently-renovated to add 464 seats at opposing players. Don’t like Section O, or the to the 3,836 person capacity. Where legends are referee Dupree (the one with the bad eyes). born and opponents’ dreams are crushed.

Friedman Wrestling Center: State-of-the-art Marinaro: Ed ’72. The best player in Red footfacility featuring practice and match space, weight ball history. Appeared on the cover of Sports rooms, offices, study rooms and locker rooms.

Illustrated on November 1, 1971 and was feaSite of two-time national champion Travis Lee’s tured in a fall 2007 issue. After a brief stint in the ’05 135th collegiate victory — a new Cornell NFL, he followed in the footsteps of another forrecord — on February 18, 2005. Benefactor is mer great — “Broadway” Joe Namath — and Stephen Friedman ’59, President Bush’s former tried his hand at acting. chief economic advisor.

McKee: David ’07. Hockey goaltender Game (a.k.a. The Game): Cornell vs. Harvard, rewrote the Cornell record books in only three hockey style. Action on the ice nearly paralleled in seasons. Then packed his bags and signed with the stands. People throw fish (and in one instance, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks of the NHL. He an octopus) at Harvard players. People used to tie now plays for the Dallas Stars’ minor league chickens to the net between periods, but the team.

ECACHL stepped in recently. People swear a lot.

Moore: Charles H. ’51. Former Cornell track In between all this, the Red and Crimson play star and athletic director. Two-time Olympic some great hockey. We laughed, we cried. A must medalist and former world record-holder in the see.

440-yard hurdles.

Graap: Jenny ’86. Seventeen-year women’s Moran: Richie. Hall of Fame lacrosse coach. lacrosse coach who helped the women’s laxers to a Took Cornell to the NCAA playoffs countless turnaround season in 1998. She took the team to times, winning three national championships the Final Four in 2002, garnering Coach of the Year awards. Led the team to its first ever co-Ivy See GLOSSARY page 37

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President will step down in June 2015, following sesquicentennial

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

Cornell’s 12th President David Skorton will leave Cornell in June 2015 to lead the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the University announced Monday.

Skorton will serve as the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution — which is the world’s largest museum and research complex — beginning on July 1, 2015, following Cornell’s sesquicentenni-

al celebration, according to the University.

“After we all celebrate Cornell’s sesquicentennial, we will carry with us the enduring spirit of Cornell and its remarkably talented community of scholars, students, staff and alumni with whom we have had the privilege to collaborate during these past eight years,” Skorton said in an email to the University community.

His appointment was approved by the See SKORTON page 4

Students: President Skorton brings ‘authentic leadership,’ ‘interdisciplinary spirit’ to Cornell

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Nine years | David Skorton will step down as President of Cornell University in June 2015 to lead the Smithsonian Institution.

Upon learning that President David Skorton will depart from Cornell in 2015 to become the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, students across campus said Skorton has brought a breadth of achievements to the University during his time as president.

Seth Lutsic ’17, freshman representative for the Student Assembly, said Skorton has worked closely with the organization and its initiatives to improve student life on campus.

“His accessibility to students has proven that he is a dynamic advocate who genuinely cares for the diverse needs of the Cornell community,” Lutsic said.

“President Skorton’s departure to

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Mister President | President David Skorton talks to students during the 2011 Homecoming weekend.

the Smithsonian is a once-in-alifetime opportunity, and I know that he will again supercede

expectations.”

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Warming up

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wide policy regarding receiving academic credit for internships, but instead allows colleges to determine their own The decision made by Columbia guidelines, according to Steve Shaum, University on Feb. 21 to stop providing assistant director of Career and academic credit for internships has Academic Support for the College of prompted discussion Agriculture and Life on campus regarding “I can imagine changes Sciences. the various internship “Cornell as a whole happening here policies of Cornell does not have a policy colleges. regarding internships at Cornell.”

Columbia joined for credit, but rather, Rebecca Sparrow universities including it’s up to each individHarvard, Yale and ual school, and perNew York University last month in cit- haps up to each individual department ing labor concerns as the impetus for within that school,” Shaum said. policy shift, according to The Columbia The decisions by Cornell’s peer instiSpectator.

See CREDIT page 5 Cornell currently has no university-

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Alex Eacker ’15 catches a pass from his teammate as the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee Club practices on the Arts Quad Monday afternoon.