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Class of 2017 ‘Enriches Cornell’

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Officials say incoming class is one of most diverse in history

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor

This article was originally published online on Aug. 16.

As the Class of 2017 counts down to its arrival on the Hill, University officials are lauding what they say is among the most diverse freshman classes in Cornell’s history.

“The Class of 2017 enriches Cornell in our pursuit of new knowledge and engagement with the many facets of the world,” said A.T. Miller, associate vice provost for academic diversity.

The 3,282 students make up Cornell’s third largest freshman class ever. They hail from 48 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico PRES. SKORTON and 51 countries.

Students of color make up 40.8 percent of the class, according to the University. In comparison, in 2011, they made up 36.4 percent of the freshman class.

The percentage of self-identified African-American students is also up, increasing from last year’s 5.8 percent to 7 percent; meanwhile, the number of biracial, multiracial

and non-Hispanic underrepresented minority students increased from 2.2 to 2.4 percent, according to the University.

The Class of 2017 also has a greater percentage of international students than previous classes. This year, 11.3 percent of freshmen are international students, compared to last year’s 9.8 percent.

Miller said the diversity of Cornell’s student body “means everyone at Cornell will benefit from a wider range of life experiences and perspectives on the world.”

“I would say that one of the main reasons anyone goes to a university rather than learn online or read at home is all the dynamic interactions and exchange of ideas with people who think about or know different things,” Miller said.

The University received a record number of applications this year. Vice Provost Barbara Knuth, noting increased competition in Cornell admisisons in recent years, said in a University press release that “the increases in both [the] number of applications and yield are notable, signaling that applicants and admitted students see the value of a Cornell education.”

Caroline Flax can be reached at cflax@cornellsun.com.

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Skorton: Humanities,Social Sciences‘Critical’to Higher Ed

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer

This article was originally published online on Aug. 15.

For once, there’s good news for English majors. Cornell President David Skorton

joined Yo-Yo Ma, George Lucas and other prominent Americans in a report earlier this summer that declared the humanities and social sciences are “critical” for a modern education.

“We are both strong advocates for science and technology, but we believe that the social

sciences and humanities are critical components of a 21st century education — and a sound investment in our collective future,” Skorton and fellow report collaborator Norman Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin, said to USA Today in June.

“They are part of the main act.”

Although technical skills are highly sought after, both the business and academic worlds are looking to hire people based on their abilities to innovate, think critically and work with a range of people — skills that a humanSee HUMANITIES page 7

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Cornell Tech Launches MBA

By EMMA COURT Sun City Editor

This article was originally published online on Aug. 14.

Cornell Tech has launched a new MBA program that University officials say will be unlike any existing business program in the world.

The University begun accepting applications for the program on Aug. 7. The yearlong program will take place at both Cornell Tech’s temporary campus in Chelsea and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in Ithaca, with students starting classes in May in See MBA page 4

This article was originally published online on Aug. 20.

In 2012, Sen. Mark Kirk ’81 (R-Il.) helped launch Entrepreneurial Idol, a now-annual competition designed to spur innovation and found local business startups in Illinois. The success of the program in a state that is not usually associated with entrepreneurship encouraged Kirk and Chicago State University organizers to hold the competition again this year.

Sun Editor in Chief Rebecca Harris ’14 and Tech Editor David Marten ’14 sat down with Kirk and the contest’s inaugural winner, fellow Cornellian Sherrod Woods M.Eng. ’95, to chat about the pair’s shared home state, alma mater and involvement in what they describe as Chicago’s growing tech scene.

THE SUN: Senator Kirk, tell us about Entrepreneurial Idol and

your involvement with the project.

SEN. MARK KIRK ’81: Well, it started with the idea that to fix Chicago, we have to have an African American entrepreneurial class. In the South Side of Chicago, we have … too much violence, and we needed a success stor y.

Sherrod was that success stor y.

Sherrod SEN. KIRK ’81 happens to be the best guy to look up to as a person who’s been working in a high-tech sector, who’s very productive. I was happy that out of the 114 applicants, he won the competition, and that we could provide $10,000 in startup capital to [his healthcare management company], 3 Net Wise.

SUN: What was special about Sherrod’s entry?

M.K.: The neat thing about his technology — [a portable ECG heart monitor] — is that it really improves patient care. …

These patients are going to be much better off. [Additionally], because of 3 Net Wise … costs to taxpayers will be cut. That’s what Sherrod has come up with, as an individual entrepreneur. … We have the story of a man who invented a product that saves lives and improves patient care and that is entirely created on intellectual capital. Having heard from Sherrod, heard the pitch, I know why he won the competition. 3 Net Wise sold itself.

SUN: How would you say your Cornell education influenced your respective work on this initiative and in general?

M.K.: I feel that I’ve never worked as hard in my life as I did See ENTREPRENEUR page 6

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LA Riots Will Headline Free Concert Choice of D.J. as headliner mirrors previous years’ selections

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limited to about 15 percent of ticketed Barton Hall shows, the organization decided on LA Riots, Schwartz said.

This article was originally published online on Aug. “We really thought [LA Riots], specifically, would 6. be a good spot [for] where our price range and the D.J.-producer LA Riots will be bringing his tech- concert’s general appeal intersected,” Schwartz said. no house beats to a free concert on the Arts Quad Although LA Riots has produced original tracks during Orientation Week, the Cornell Concert such as “The Drop” and “Lift Off,” the D.J. is perCommission announced Tuesday. CCC also haps more well known for his remixes of songs by announced that D.J. Fareoh will open for LA Riots major artists like Lady Gaga, Tiesto, LMFAO and on Aug. 31.

The Ting Tings.

The EDM remix artist Schwartz said he expects LA began with two men but is now “That is actually so sick. I’m Riots will draw a large audifronted alone by Daniel Linton. excited to see LA Riots, and I ence, as previous Orientation In past years, the Orientation didn’t even know there was Week concerts have had more Week concert has brought than 9,000 students in attengroups such as The Cataracs, going to be a concert during dance.

The White Panda and Super O-Week.”

“We’re hoping to get as Mash Bros. to campus. many students out as possible,” CCC Executive Director Meredith Keller ’17 Schwartz said. “We really want Peter Schwartz ’14 said LA to get incoming freshmen Riots was chosen for EDM’s excited about going to an event current broad appeal, and that he thinks it is a show on campus with everyone else in their class — and that most of the student body will appreciate. one that has more of a communal spirit."

“It’s something that anyone looking to dance, Meredith Keller ’17 said she is looking forward to show up and have a good time can have fun with,” he attending her first concert at Cornell. said.

“That is actually so sick,” Keller said. “I’m excited Although LA Riots is the latest of several elec- to see LA Riots, and I didn’t even know there was tronic music artists to perform during Orientation going to be a concert during O-Week.

Week, Schwartz said all genres of musical acts — ranging from country to rap — were considered. Dara Levy can be reached Ultimately, due to CCC's budget for the event being at dlevy@cornellsun.com.

Sun Staff Writer

At least three overlapping accidents in Ithaca on Saturday evening stretched the resources of the city’s emergency responders and required a neighboring fire department to be put on alert, according to the Ithaca Fire Department.

In downtown Ithaca, a bicyclist had to be airlifted to a Pennsylvania hospital after being run over by a truck. He suffered severe leg trauma, as well as more minor injuries, according to an IFD press release.

Around the same time, a man who was One hiker’s foot was hiking near Ithaca impaled by a piece of Falls fell, and a piece of metal pierced his metal and he had to be foot. The man was rushed to a local via transported stretcher to Cayuga hospital.

Medical Center with the metal object in place. Firefighters had to aid emergency room doctors with cutting and removing the object, the press release said.

Over the course of the same evening, “what [IFD] crews were left” responded to calls that reported smoke emerging in Collegetown.

Firefighters cleared out the smoke, which was caused by burnt food, and reset the alarm system.

“All Ithaca Fire crews were tied up with these events and Cayuga Heights [Fire Department] were placed on stand by to help cover other calls as needed,” the press release said.

Saturday’s evening was not the first time the city’s fire department reported seeing resources strained in order to respond to multiple incidents. Since a budget crisis forced Common Council to cut the number of city firefighters by two, fire department officials have said they have struggled to maintain adequate staffing levels.

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun.com.

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Students and alumni at Yale University are calling for the administration to take stronger disciplinary action against perpetrators of sexual misconduct, The Yale Daily News reported Friday. Yale released a report last month documenting 61 new cases of sexual assault and harassment, the largest number of cases since the University began issuing such reports, and students and alumni are enraged, according to the Daily News.

Harvard University has put forth a new interim protocol for searches of Harvard email accounts following a scandal involving administrators searching the emails of 16 resident deans in the spring.

The interim protocol requires “any searches of Harvard email accounts that take place before existing policies are reformed ... be thoroughly recorded and subject to the approval of an accountable administrator,” according to The Harvard Crimson.

Two hundred Brown University students gathered Thursday to counter-protest against the Westboro Baptist Church’s protesting the start of Rhode Island’s recognizing same-sex marraige, according to The Brown Daily Herald.

Dartmouth University students were up in arms when the price of a meal plan for the fall increased by 4 percent to offset costs of an enlarged college operating budget, The Dartmouth reported Tuesday. Students expressed concern they would be paying more for the meal plan than they recieve in Declining Balance Accounts, Dartmouth’s version of Big Red Bucks.

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C.U. was ranked directly below Yale University and the University of California at Los Angeles. the third year in a row by the Academic Ranking of World Universities in August.

Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley were ranked the top three universities in the world this year. Among the top 10 ranked universities, two — the University of

Cambridge and the University of Oxford — were non-U.S. institutions.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities was launched in 2003 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Responding to the criticism of college rankings skeptics, the university has said that its own ranking system differs from others because it determines universities’ strengths through “objective indicators,” including the number of university faculty who have won prestigious prizes and the number of articles university researchers have published in academic journals.

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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C.U.Deans: New MBA Program Is‘Exciting’ MBA

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New York City for the fall and spring semesters.

Although the Johnson already offers an MBA program that trains career-switching students in “general management,” Johnson Dean Soumitra Dutta said the curriculum of the new MBA program has a different focus: creating “business leaders for the digital economy.” The program will have a smaller selection of courses than the University’s existing MBA program and prepare students to be leaders in the technology industry, he said.

“If you look at most business schools, the curriculums were designed … typically in the last century for a way of doing business and a generation that is quite different. Things have changed quite dramatically in terms of how technology is changing the face of business and innovation,” Dutta said. “I don’t claim we have all the right answers, but I hope we’re able to experiment, learn and be agile … [to help us] not just in New York but also help us innovate in programs in Ithaca.”

In contrast to Cornell Tech’s Masters of Engineering program, which launched in January with a class of just seven students, the new MBA program will initially be made up of around 35 to 40 students, according to Dutta. In the next five to eight years, the University hopes to draw as many as 60 students to each pro-

gram’s class, Dutta added.

“We are introducing a new product into the market; there’s no other similar product in the market … so we’ll see how demand materializes,” Dutta said. “It depends on how the market takes off.”

Like the M. Eng program, the new MBA program will require students to work closely with the high tech industry.

“The very idea of Cornell Tech is interdisciplinary,” Huttenlocher said.

Students in the M. Eng and MBA programs will also find themselves collaborating with each other, working together on project teams to mimic the way business and technology leaders come together in real life, Huttenlocher said.

Another unique feature of the new MBA program is the way its classes will be designed, Dutta said. Rather than taking semester-long courses, students will enroll in classes that only last a few weeks to create “more condensed learning experiences.”

The new program’s crosscampus learning experience, collaborative classroom environment and condensed courses will be fundamental to what Dutta said he hopes becomes the MBA learning experience of the future.

Above all, one word kept coming up as Dutta and Huttenlocher described the Cornell Tech MBA program: “Exciting.”

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun.com.

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Yosemite Takes Steps To Protect Sequoias From Fire

GROVELAND, Calif. (AP) — Fire crews are clearing brush and setting sprinklers to protect two groves of giant sequoias as a massive week-old wildfire rages along the remote northwest edge of Yosemite National Park.

The iconic trees can resist fire, but dry conditions and heavy brush are forcing park officials to take extra precautions in the Tuolumne and Merced groves.

About three dozen of the giant trees are affected.

All of the plants and trees in Yosemite are important, but the giant sequoias are incredibly important both for what they are and as symbols of the National Park System,” park spokesman Scott Gediman said Saturday.

The trees grow naturally only on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada and are among the largest and oldest living things on earth.

The Tuolumne and Merced groves are in the north end of the park near Crane Flat. While the Rim Fire is still some distance away, park employees and trail

crews are not taking any chances.

The fire was well into the northwest corner of the park, the U.S. Forest Service said.

More than 5,500 homes are threatened. Four were destroyed, though officials say the number could go up once they can safely assess burned areas.

Jessica Sanderson said one of her relatives gained access to the family’s property in Groveland, just 26 miles from the park’s entrance, on Saturday and was able to confirm their vacation cabin had burned to the ground.

The family saw firefighters on a television news report a day earlier defending the cabin.

“It’s just mind-blowing the way the fire swept through and destroyed it so quickly,” said Sanderson, who’s been monitoring the fire from her home near Tampa Bay, Fla. “The only thing left standing is our barbeque pit.”

The Rim Fire has burned 202 square miles — an area about the size of Chicago. It started in a remote canyon of the Stanislaus National Forest Aug. 17.

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when I was at Cornell. … I learned how to study that hard and work that hard. … Someday, I hope engineering students at Cornell will study what Sherrod has put together.

SHERROD WOODS M.ENG. ’95: I would echo those sentiments. …

One thing that really helped me [was] the rigor of the program, especially the masters in electrical engineering program, [because] I had to come up with something novel. And so the project I worked on was a portable electronic ECG monitor to monitor patients with

heart arrhythmias. … It required a lot of research and coming up with a novel approach, and because of the rigor of going through hours of coursework and research, I think it helped to shape my mind in terms of being able to look at a problem and look at it differently from others who had approached the same problem.

SUN: Sherrod, what made you decide to enter the competition? And now that you’ve won, what’s next for 3 Net Wise?

S.W.: I thought it was a great opportunity to have our product

vetted by the community, determine what the business community especially would think of our product. Shortly after we won the

“A business of your own is not just higher income — it’s respect and confidence and self-assuredness.”

Sen. Mark Kirk ’81 competition … we started working with the Healthcare Consortium of Illinois. We submitted a proposal with the consortium;

they engage in contract negotiations with the state. We hope to have a contract negotiated and signed at the end of August. That would mean for us we’d [get started] in late September.

We’ve attracted a lot of good attention so far.

SUN: It seems that more and more Cornellians are getting involved with similar initiatives. What’s your reaction to Cornell’s growing presence in the tech scene?

M.K.: I talked to New York officials about [Cornell NYC Tech], and it seems exciting, and that Cornell will be the right

institution to spark that innovation. In the case of this competition, it was a completely open competition, and I didn’t know what school people had gone to. I was very proud when Sherrod won. When I first met him after, and I asked him, “Where’d you go to college?”, he said, “Cornell,” and I just about spit up my food.

SUN: When people talk about tech startups, places like Silicon Valley, and more recently New York City, often steal the limelight. Do you think more of a startup culture might be emerging in Chicago and Illinois?

M.K.: Chicago is becoming a more interesting place for innovation, with companies just exploding. We’re [already] home to the largest airline, to the University of Chicago … That tradition of innovation is, I think, the key to higher income, especially when it comes out of a recognized African American figure like Sherrod, who is someone people can emulate and look up to as an example. … If you have the right idea to bring to the market … you can have a business of your own, and a business of your own is not just higher income — it’s respect and power and confidence and selfassuredness.

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ities education can provide, Skorton and Augustine said.

“Colleges need to make a more compelling case for liberal arts education and then make sure they are delivering what they promise,” Skorton and Augustine said.

“Science is essential — but science alone cannot make the tough decisions that impact us as humans.”

The committee that wrote the June report, the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, was formed in 2011 in response to Democratic and Republican lawmakers’ requests to develop strategies to improve education in the humanities.

The resulting report, called “The Heart of the Matter,” stresses three goals: to “educate Americans in the knowledge, skills and understanding they will need to thrive in a twenty-first-century democracy,” “foster a society that is innovative, competitive and strong” and “equip the nation for leadership in an interconnected world.” The report states that the U.S. needs to focus its energies into the humanities and social sciences in a way that parallels a recent surge in attention to science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

In light of both the report and Skorton’s affirmation of the humanities and social sciences, students at Cornell reflected on the various ways the recommendations could translate to University policies.

Lisa Liu ’15, a Student Assembly representative for the College of Arts and Sciences, said she thinks it is important that Cornell’s graduation requirements continue to include taking courses in the humanities.

“Cornell’s system of promoting required humanities classes for graduation, especially in the College of Arts and Sciences, is extremely efficient in producing educated, well-rounded individuals,” she said.

Liu, who is a double major in chemistry and biology, said she believes STEM fields and the humanities, while different, can coexist and even work together successfully.

“Science and technology help propel the future, but research is useless if one does not consider the applicability and benefits to life,” Liu said. “The humanities and STEM fields go hand in hand.”

Noah Tulsky ’16, another Arts and Sciences representative for the S.A., said he feels like that some of his peers look down on the

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humanities. often taught in smaller, more inti- dents can get good jobs too.”

“When I first arrived at mate classes than the sciences.

“Look at a bunch of the partCornell, I remember telling some“Humanities thrive in a small ners at a place like McKinsey, and body that I intended to major in classroom setting that encourages you'll find quite a few philosophy history, and immediately the per- students to ask questions and and history majors,” Tulsky said. son responded by asking what I debate; lectures don't necessarily In a competitive job market, it planned to do with that,” Tulsky cut it,” Tulsky said. would reassure humanities stusaid. “As someone who had always Programs at Cornell such as the dents if the University highlighted valued the principle more of its humanities stuof learning for the dents'’ career paths, he “I was actually upset to learn that said. sake of learning, I was actually upset to According to Prof. Tim so many freshmen were learn that so many Murray, comparative literthinking from such a freshmen were ature, director of Cornell’s thinking from such Society for the Humanpre-professional perspective.” a pre-professional ities, an education in the perspective even in humanities remains a great Noah Tulsky ’16 their first day of colvalue for not only students lege.” but also universities.

Although many of his peers are Society for the Humanities and Humanities faculty regularly teach taking courses that adhere to a spe- College Scholars, as well as the ris- four to five courses a year across cific career path, Tulsky, a double ing of Klarman Hall — a new the country, while science faculty major in government and eco- building for the humanities — are may teach just one or two because nomics, says he plans to “take a “huge steps in the right direction” of their research obligations. number” of broad English, history for the humanities, Tulsky added.

“Universities rarely recoup the and philosophy classes before grad- He said, however, that he wishes high costs of labs and buildings uating. Tulsky said he believes it is the University would “really pub- maintained by the sciences,” important that that humanities are licly show how humanities stu- Murray said. “So in response to

which disciplines are a ‘better value’ for students, the answer is fairly clear.”

Murray said that the interactions students have with their peers and their professors in small classrooms is one of the biggest benefits of a humanities education.

“Students will find that they are much more likely to respond to calls of in-class professors and peers to raise the standards of their thinking and creativity and to profit from suggestions for improvement than they would, say, in the context of online learning platforms,” Murray said. “I hope that [humanities students] will come to value their classroom experiences at Cornell as breeders of exciting thinking between your peers and professors [and] as arenas for the development of critical writing skills, as well as creative research tools.”

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

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Helping the Poor Die Rich

he constitution of almost every democracy contains the infallible promise of “dignity in life and death” — a commitment followed more in the breach than in observance. One remarkable man at Cornell, however, is trying to deliver the promise galley-west: tackling dignity in death for all, before concerning himself with life. Though this is an “against-the-trodden-path” approach, it is logistically feasible.

Granting dignity in life to everyone is a herculean task.

There are a deluge of obstacles in any potential reformer’s way. The people they seek to help often lack political will, or are victims of poverty, violence, illiteracy. However, ensuring another person dies in peace requires something each one of us can provide: Compassion.

Comprehensive medical assistance delivered with a sense of honest compassion is the nucleus of palliative care: a harbinger of change in medicine. This is exactly what Dr. Balasubramaniam (“Dr. Balu” in Ithaca and India) works tirelessly to create every summer break. He tries to instill a sense of compassion, divorced from pretense and precariousness, to

For once, students’ radii of concern extends beyond prelims, frat basements and Slope Day. Cornell students. For once, students’ radii of concern extends beyond prelims, frat basements and Slope Day. The Global Health Program that Dr. Balu leads empowers students simply by convincing them that they can help a man or woman die peacefully; that can enrich the lives of those who have experienced abject poverty in their final and most significant days.

The palliative care units established by Dr. Balu and his organization, Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, extend holistic medical, psychological and spiritual care to those who are chronically ill and poor — usually cancer patients. More often than not, the patient is the only earning member of his or her family. As a result, a mother who is suffering may exacerbate her own condition with the stress of not being able to support her family anymore. The goal of Dr. Balu’s program is to relieve the patients of this additional stress.

When a rich business magnate is chronically ill, he makes his arrangements through wills and whatnot, spends time with his or her loved ones and passes away gracefully. Why then, must a poor man die with depression? Simply because he does not have the financial prowess to assure himself that his loved ones will survive without him? SVYM helps poor and bed-ridden cancer patients with care at their homes, free of cost.

However, this is not to say that palliative care hastens or postpone death — it simply makes it less draconian. Palliative care is essentially a multidisciplinary approach and requires the contribution of sociologists, policy makers, pre-meds, prelaws and basically anyone who has a functional heart and mind. The kind of work Dr. Balu does is particularly commendable considering the social stigma associated with several terminal diseases in India — a stigma that is ridiculous but real. Children of patients are often shunned and the patients are considered dead in spirit even before they actually die.

We, as Cornell students, are at the perfect threshold in our lives to help this cause — to help the poor die rich. A few students who took part in the Global Health Program at Mysore this year have already started to move this cause forward and, as a result, 60 patients and their families have been saved from lives worse than death. The principle is to start small and never be constrained by limits. This is a plea to the Cornell community to help us make this cause limitless by making it your own. Cornell University is a laboratory of leaders, teachers, artists, sportsmen, engineers, creators, stunners but, most importantly, people who truly care about somethings beyond building their resumes.

Aditi Bhowmick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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et me preface this by saying that’s mission is the instruction of the Greco-Roman mystery cults of that I am not a member of any individual in any field but that Antiquity. In other words, the our University’s greek sys- rejects more than four out of five core of the Hellenic tradition, with tem. I’m simply not cut out for it. applicants.

Nevertheless, the its symbols, its rites, its secrets, are Instead of mixers and formals, I University is founded upon liberal irrefutably pagan. prefer to spend my time brooding principles of reason and tolerance.

Framed in these terms, Christoin the dark with a bottle of some- One could even say that these liberal persecution of quasi-pagans thing as strong as my feelings of principles form its “gospel.” Now is hardly a new phenomenon. self-loathing. In other words, I’m there’s an interesting choice of Liberalism is a totalizing force that an outsider, or perhaps an asocial word. seeks to expunge any and all vesalcoholic, maybe even an eccentric As a number of thinkers tiges of intolerance via conversion schizoid. But I digress. I did not (including British philosopher to the one true faith. The Greeks choose the Greek life, and the John Gray) have demonstrated, found their societies upon the Greek life certainly did not choose one can draw a straight line in premise of exclusion, and thus will me. To borrow a Woody-ism, I terms of intellectual lineage from always find themselves in the wouldn’t join any frat that would the Protestant Reformation, crosshairs of liberal critique. have me as a member. through the Enlightenment to Equality cannot be achieved so There are a number of rather modern-day Liberal Progressivism. long as these illiberal enclaves of superficial reasons to scorn Greek Bright-eyed utopianism descends individuals, reveling in their life: The comdemonstrable superip u l s o r y ority, exist. Similarly, debauchery so the City of God canIn our microcosmic world, is there necessary to its not be brought about identity that the so long as the suburbs such a thing as a right to be left idea of a dry frat of Sodom and alone? Could President Skorton wash becomes a howlGomorrah orbit it. ing absurdity; The heathens must be his hands of the whole ordeal, the traditional converted, banished provided he scrubbed hard enough? sex roles that it or cleansed in holy reinforces (and fire. the crowd hisses In practical terms, viciously at the “OPPRES- from the Millenarian early the heart of the matter is this: In SION!”); the fact that you don’t Christians, who awaited the arrival our microcosmic world, is there have to join, but can’t quite forget of the City of God on Earth. such a thing as a right to be left that it exists; and perhaps most Augustine attempted to reframe alone? Could President Skorton stinging to the psyche of the GDI this quest as an inner, spiritual wash his hands of the whole critic is the fact that, by nearly struggle the believers must over- ordeal, provided he scrubbed hard every measure, the members of the come. However, the Protestant enough? I’m sure that some sort of most prominent of these organiza- Reformation rediscovered this legal witchcraft could be cooked tions are undeniably better than apocalyptic yearning for an end of up to institute a separation you. They’re prettier, richer, more time (my god, sounds like between Church — I mean — muscular and more socially com- Fukuyama already), and insisted School and Frat, but could the petent; they have more (and prob- that man could help bring it institution’s conscience permit ably better) sex than you do, and about. It was this inspiration that such a thing? A look at the histoare likely to be more successful in led cults of crazies like the Puritans ry of liberalism provides a clear life than you will. But it would be to set off to found New Jerusalem. answer: No. Totalizing worldviews too easy to write off condemnation With the secular humanist coup are antithetical to basic negative of these Olympians by chalking it that thrust God out of the picture liberties. The meek have indeed up to jealousy. No, the fundamen- entirely, modern Progressives were inherited the Earth, and none shall tal antagonism goes much deeper. born. oppose them. Progress marches Before we get into that, I must In marked contrast, fraternal on. again digress. Cornell University organizations at American univeris an inherently progressive liberal sities owe their origins to Masonic Zach Pierce is a senior in the School of Industrial institution in spite of its elite sta- societies. Despite the Christian and Labor Relations. He may be reached at tus. Hilarious paradoxes abound decals that have been grafted to its zpierce@cornellsun.com. Fear and Loathing when one considers an institution surface, Freemasonry harks back to appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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BY DAVEEN KOH Sun Staff Writer

“Architecture has nothing to do with the various ‘styles’,” Le Corbusier famously argued, and everything to do with “the masterly, correct and magnificent display of masses brought together in light.” His vision was adroitly realized

by I.M. Pei, the architect behind Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art. Pei’s design is alluringly articulated in “JAMuse,” a photographic essay by architect and photographer Alan Chimacoff ’63. The exhibition, now on view at the Johnson’s Gold Gallery, is one of two shows the museum commissioned to mark its 40th anniversary. “Post More Bills,” a selection of exhibition posters on display at the Johnson’s Opatrny Gallery, offers a succinct but fascinating survey of the range of shows presented at the Johnson and its predecessor, the Andrew Dickson White Museum.

In 1964, prompted by the White Museum’s lack of gallery space and fire protection, the University announced plans for a new art museum. Chiefly funded by a $4.8 million donation from wax magnate and trustee emeritus Herbert Fisk Johnson ’22, the art museum’s presence was “to be felt more on campus than ever before,” the Johnson’s founding director Thomas Leavitt said shortly before the 60,000 square feet, nine story building opened in 1973.

Prof. Kenneth Evett, art, was not alone in praising the project for rehabilitating Cornell’s “philistine” image. The Johnson has since grown bigger and bolder, while remaining open to all free of charge, welcoming over 80,000 visitors annually. The museum’s much-needed new wing, designed by John Sullivan III ’62, a member of the original building’s design team, opened in 2011.

“JAMuse” elucidates how “the structure is a work of art … a sculpture in and of itself,” said Nancy Green, the exhibition’s curator and the Johnson’s Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of European and American Art, Prints and Drawings 1800 to 1945. Lushly shot in black and white, Chimacoff’s photographs eloquently evoke the communion between interior and exterior. We see how, rising far above Cayuga Lake and Libe Slope, the Johnson Museum exults in the play of light and shade. Long bands of windows punctuate the building’s surfaces, accentuating the flow of lines and allowing light to circulate within the museum’s galleries. The fifth floor cantilevers over the second floor Mallin Sculpture Court, carving a voluminous void in the concrete; the museum becomes a window, framing sweeping views of the luminous streets that lie below. The museum’s new wing is depicted on more abstract terms; the photographs are fragments of lines and light.

The museum has a very strong presence, much of which can be attributed to its materiality. Unadorned concrete characterizes the building, inside and out. This is a trait Chimacoff highlights relentlessly. Close up shots of the museum’s cratered exterior are juxtaposed against gallery walls composed of wizened concrete. What results is a startling continuity of experience.

“JAMuse” is a witty investigation of scale. Chimacoff’s “tapestries,” each a tiled assemblage of a single photograph,

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underscore the building’s cubist heritage. The tessellations resemble carpets from afar, but on closer inspection reveal moments of a visitor’s experience of the museum — a painting glimpsed through interlocking walls or a sliver of a spiral staircase.

Photographed from various vantage points around Ithaca, the museum assumes different characters. We are drawn into a guessing game, which Ms. Green likened to “Where’s Waldo?” In several pictures, the Johnson lurks discreetly behind dense foliage and pylons. The museum is dwarfed in a photograph dominated by a rotund mass of trees, with drooping branches that echo the stately masts of nearby sailboats. When perched above an impervious band of trees and a sloping, sun-scorched roof, the museum assumes an authoritative air. It’s oddly surprising when the museum emerges from beyond Cornell’s magnificent stone buildings, or the pensive silhouette of the A.D. White statue on Arts Quad.

If the omnipresence of the Johnson sounds strangely familiar, look at the display of works from past exhibitions, specifically Hokusai’s landscape prints. Mount Fuji’s stillness abides in every scene of “Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji,” iconic for its rendering of nature’s sacred beauty.

While “JAMuse” examines the Johnson’s architecture, “Post More Bills” reflects on the spectrum of shows held at the Johnson and its predecessor. While many posters record significant events, others capture the moods of bygone eras or are simply fun to look at, said the Johnson’s Registrar Matt Conway, who curated “Post More Bills.” One of Conway’s favorites is a 1954 poster advertising an industrial design exhibition that included Olivetti typewriters, also at the White Museum. A number of posters stand out for their exuberance, particularly the boldly colored, star studded posters for “Social Comment in America,” a 1968 exhibition of contemporary American sculpture held at the White Museum. Another especially energetic poster, with spirited Bauhaus lettering

and charged strokes, advertises “Directions in AfroAmerican Art,” the Johnson’s first major exhibition and collaboration with Cornell’s Africana Center.

Both the Johnson and White Museums were instrumental in the development of the Earth Works movement, which embraced spirituality and ecology but rejected commercialism, and found expression in massive landscape interventions in the ’70s.The White Museum was the site of the landmark “Earth Works” exhibition curated by Willoughby Sharp. Robert Smithson, who participated in the 1969 show alongside such artists as Robert Morris and Hans Haacke, returned to Cornell for a solo exhibition at the Johnson in 1980. The aptly minimalistic poster, bearing black words on a cream background, is commandeered by a majestic aerial view of Spiral Jetty. Smith’s 1970 masterwork is a sweeping swirl of black basalt and mud, stretching into the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

It seems appropriate that the Johnson Museum rests on the site of the ill-fated Morse Hall, presiding over the “sacred ground” of Libe Slope and lending Arts Quad much-needed closure. Art museums can be seen as rituals, as the art historian Carol Duncan wrote. They do not just resemble temples and palaces in terms of architecture; they are spaces in which we seek a state of exalted contemplation, and we hopefully go away feeling enlightened and nourished.

Such spaces are more necessary than we might think. They are the still points of our turning world, to apply T.S. Eliot’s wise words: “Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”

“JAMuse” is on view at the Johnson Museum’s Gold Gallery through Sep. 1. “Post More Bills” is on display at the Opatrny Gallery, in the New Wing, through Jul. 21.

Daveen Koh graduated from Cornell in May 2013. She can be reached at dsk226@cornell.edu.

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Arts Around Town LA Riots

Soul Mates

7 p.m. on Wednesday The Arts Quad

Streaming online until the end of August Readers’ Theatre Website

D.J. and producer Daniel Linton, known to fans as the man behind Los Angeles-based EDM project LA Riots, is no stranger to danger. This summer, he skydived into his D.J.-set at Montauk’s “Day and Night” festival. More recently, he dared contribute a track to the summer’s most thoroughly mediocre film, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Now, he will brave a trip upstate to headline Wednesday’s Arts Quadrager. Riot gear is optional.

Written and directed by The Readers’ Theatre’s own Ann Marie Cummings, Soul Mates is a play about the meeting of love and technology. It’s also about the meeting of Paul and Evette, a television actor and book editor respectively, who meet online. But what may be the best part of this new play is that you don’t even have to leave your room to enjoy it. As part pf the theater’s Summer Play Program, Soul Mates can be watched on the Readers’ Theatre website (www.readerstheatre.com) until the end of August. A 10 dollar donation is suggested, but not required. So next time you queue up your Netflix, a.k.a tonight, take a minute to check out this play.

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Instead of hitting another house in Collegetown on Tuesday, make your way down to 1013 W. State St., also known as the Just Be the Cause Center and the former Ithaca Paint Building. Ithaca Underground, one of many local music organizations in Ithaca has assembled a hip-hop lineup for the night that looks pretty promising. Both Sammus and Sapience are Ithaca natives, and Sammus has already had gigs opening for artists like Raekwon and Open Mike Eagle and was recently featured in an indie music spotlight by Around the Way Hip Hop. So make your way down to the Commons for a night while it’s still warm out and get familiar with your resident local artists. You will (probably) be happy you did.

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ear Freshmen (and Transfers too): Hello! I hope you have had an exciting weekend that has proved all your snobby friends from home who go to NYU and say that nothing ever happens in any place that isn’t New York wrong.

If you’re like me, however, and spent the first couple days of O-Week freshman year playing Bananagrams and Apples to Apples (which is totally fine, those were some good times) and a small part of you thinks those snobby friends might be right, I am here to guide you through what is actually an extremely artsy/entertaining community. I am officially an upperclassman now, so that means I know what I’m talking about (ish).

My biggest piece of advice for you artistically inclined youngsters (I know you’re only two years younger than I am, okay?) is to get involved in arts on campus. I’m not advising all 5,000 of you to join a cappella groups, although if that’s your thing, go for it. The people who do it seem to enjoy themselves.

Sign up for like a bajillion (four or five) things that appeal to you — whether it’s singing, playing an instrument, acting, sketch comedy, whatever. Audition for stuff. If you don’t get in, no one will remember you, and if you do, great! It’s super easy to drop a club halfway through the year if you don’t like it, but not so easy to pick one up if you find you have spare time.

You should also go watch a non-arch a cappella concert, a Whistling Shrimp (improv comedy) show, plays at Risley and other student performances, even if you’re not close personal friends with a performer. Some of your peers are really talented (some are not, but you should smile, say they were great and pray they don’t drop out of school to audition for The X Factor anyway).

I personally am not a particularly talented

vocalist, but obviously I enjoy having a role in arts on campus, so I’ve gotten involved with some groups that plan and produce shows: Cornell Concert Commission and Cornell University Program Board (like CCC but for speakers and comedians). CUPB is my second favorite thing about Cornell (#1 goes to the Farmer’s Market — mostly because of the Cambodian food). If you have strong opinions about bands, comedians or speakers you want to bring here, I encourage you to join one or both. Or, if that’s too much pressure for you, you can simply attend the frequent concerts and shows we put on (like the free LA Riots concert coming up this Saturday on the Arts Quad!).

Between Cornell Cinema, Regal Cinemas and Cinemapolis, the film junkies among you should do a little dance of appreciation about the number of movies one can see in Ithaca.

advantage of the fabulous Cornell Cinema. It’s right on campus so you really have no excuse not to.

Regal Cinemas doesn’t need an explanation. It’s at The Shops at Ithaca Mall. You can take the bus. It’s handy if you need anything at Target and want to see the new Twilight movie (are there more Twilight movies, or are we done with those?)

Cinemapolis, down in the Commons across the street from Urban Outfitters, plays smaller movies that don’t make it to Regal, and it’s wonderful. I especially recommend checking out Cinemapolis because it gives you a chance to leave the North Campus bubble and explore downtown. Also, there is no shame in seeing a movie by yourself.

The City of Ithaca has cool artsy things happening literally all the time: things like local musicians at the Farmers’ Market (the Cambodian food is really good), on the Commons or at various fests i.e.

Porchfest, Applefest, Chilifest.

Porchfest happens in September and features a ton of diverse bands playing on porches in the pretty, old residential neighborhoods near downtown. The latter two fest are self-explanatory and delicious.

There are also plays, art shows, concerts, comedy at the State Theater, The Haunt, Ithaca College and elsewhere.

My last and possibly most important tip is to READ THIS SECTION OF THE NEWSPAPER. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told by peers, professors, strangers, my parents, that they read The Sun every day, but they skip Arts (which is pretty rude to tell someone even if it’s true). It’s a short section, it’s usually a fun read and we inform you about all the amazing arts and entertainment related shenanigans that I’ve

Julia Moser Carrot Top Confessions Cornell Cinema plays a mix of newer movies, classic movies and some really obscure titles that you can sound super smart and interesting talking about later. This week, five of the movies they are playing rank highly on all those lists of the best movies ever that I know most of you usually just laugh and nod when they are referenced, but have never actually seen (Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Citizen Kane and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.) Take

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forgotten to mention (of which there are plenty because there’s a lot of artsy stuff happening here and I only get about 900 words to cover the major bases.) I know it’s pretty Andy Bernard-y of us to keep reminding everyone, but The Sun is the #1 college newspaper in America. That paper includes this section, and you should read it.

Julia Moser is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com. Carrot Top Confessions runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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make for an exciting beginning to the season, because each of the incoming freshmen are capable of competing for significant roles in the team immediately.”

New field players include Kailey Joyce, Taylor Wright, Shanay Fischer, Aimee Tavzel, Ellie Crowell, Dempsey Banks and Meera Marhoefer, while Dana Daniels and Kelsey Tierney are the new goalkeepers.

“Having been the first class to be entirely recruited by head coach Patrick Farmer, they know what he expects without any surprises,” defender Morgan Zaidel said. “[They] are on board to put in 110 percent effort all the time, a mentality that we greatly need, and coming to us from good club programs, they also have strong technical abilities in each of their respective positions.”

Last season, the squad finished last in the Ivy League division with a 1-14-1 overall record and a winless 0-6-1 Ivy record. “[It is] both as a team and a personal goal to decrease the number of goals other teams score on corner kicks and set plays, as well as finish our season at at least .500 and in the top half of the Ivy League division,” Zaidel said.

Preseason training for the Big Red started Friday, giving the team only a couple of weeks to prepare for the opening season.

“Players come to preseason almost 80 percent game fit because our preseason is three weeks shorter than the other D1 schools we play earlier in the season,” Zaidel said. “We must spend our short time together, before our exhibition match, on the ball and understanding how our new teammates play so we can be more cohesive.”

In the next few weeks the team will work tirelessly to be as prepared as possible for the beginning of the season. The first official game is an away match against Sacred Heart on Sept. 6.

“It will be an intense couple of weeks for the players,” Farmer said.

“I think that they will all see that they can be on the forefront for changing the Cornell women’s soccer program and are excited to get started.”

Marissa Velasquez can be reached at mvelasquez@cornellsun.com.

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ume and intensity.”

Going into the upcoming season, the Red looks poised for success. With Hortelano-Roig’s senior year left, the Red has a tremendous amount of leadership, as well as another strong recruiting class coming in. Incoming freshman Rudy Winkler, a high school hammer throw record holder, and hurdler Jordan Sherwood both qualified to compete this summer in Pan Am Junior Championships in Medellin, Columbia.

“I feel great motivation to slam down this year as the most successful to date,” Hortelano-Roig said.

“I’ve had fun training and competing in Spain this summer, but I love being at Cornell and training in this winning environment. The Cornell track and field team is a family that looks out for one another, and as a senior I feel a responsibility to make sure younger athletes are motivated and committed to making this team greater than it has ever been.”

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“This summer I’ve learned many valuable lessons,” he said.

“Some of those lessons were technical and meant to help me train better and become faster. I also learned how to keep cool even under the highest pressures of the World Championships. But the most important lesson I learned was that anything is possible, as long as you believe it is.”

He added that success in highlevel competitions is not solely reliant on physical fitness.

“Competing among the fastest men in the world has made me realize that the step from amateur running to international success is relatively small, and that it really is mostly mental fitness that defines success,” he said. “So if you believe that you will make it, and you work hard enough to make it, there is really nothing stopping you.”

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

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This fall, twelve former Cornell athletes — including six AllAmericans — will be inducted into the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame. The inductees hail from a wide range of sports, including wrestling, women’s polo and even an all-around athlete who competed with the football, track and field, tennis, wrestling and rowing teams.

The All-American inductees include women’s lacrosse player Sarah Averson ’03, men’s lacrosse player Ryan McClay ’03, women’s polo player Taylor McLean ’03, men’s ice hockey player Doug Murray ’03, men’s track and field member Carl Shields ’75 and wrestler Clint Wattenberg ’03. The remaining inductees are men’s tennis player Michael Halperin ’01, women’s track and field member Katy Jay ’03, football player Mike McGrann ’88, baseball player Erik Rico ’02, softball player Nicole Zitarelli ’01 and multi-sport athlete Win Osgood Class of 1893, who participated in football, track and field, tennis, wrestling and rowing.

Many of these athletes set records that are still in place well after their time with the Red ended. Averson, a two-time All-American, is tied for second in team history with 138 career goals. McClean was the first Cornell player in any sport to win four national championships, and she was also named one of the top freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior athletes by The Cornell Daily Sun. Many of these athletes set Shields threw Cornell’s best all-time records that are still in place hammer throw of 202-0 at the Meet of well after their time with Champions in 1975, the Red ended. while Wattenberg is ranked second all-time at Cornell with 113 wins.

In 2000, Halperin was the first Cornellian to win the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Region I tournament. Jay set many records during her career, with outdoor records for the 100-, 200- and 400-meter events, and indoor records for the 60-, 200- and 400-meter events.

Rico, a two-time unanimous All-Ivy player, was Cornell’s first Ivy League Player of the Year in baseball. He set school records for career batting average with .362, slugging percentage with .599, triples with 18 and total bases with 303. Zitarelli, a starting pitcher for softball, is second in Cornell history in ERA, wins, saves, appearances, starts, complete games, shutouts, innings pitched and strikeouts, behind Cornell Hall of Famer Julie Westbrock.

The inductees went on to earn spots on both national and international teams after they left the Red. Averson was the first Cornell women’s lacrosse player to receive an invitation to the U.S. Development Camp. McClay had an eight-year professional career in Major League Lacrosse with the New Jersey Pride and the Boston Cannons. Murray’s career with the NHL is still active — he has played for the San Jose Sharks and the Pittsburgh Penguins, and most recently signed a contract with the Montreal Canadiens. Murray entered the 2012-2013 with 452 career NHL games, ranking third all-time for former members of the Red behind Joe Nieuwendyk and Kent Manderville. Wattenberg wrestled in the 2004 Olympic trials, finishing third at 195 pounds, and Rico was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in 2002.

These outstanding athletes will be inducted into the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. 21. The 36th annual ceremonies will be held on Campus. After the new members have been inducted, the membership of the hall will total 555.

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Runner Competes on World Stage

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

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Record breaker | Hortelano-Roig’s 20.47 second 200-meter dash time set new Cornell and Spanish national team records.

The Red’s own Bruno Hortelano-Roig ’14 set the standard high for track and field in an international competition this summer, breaking both Cornell and Spanish national team records along the way.

Hortelano-Roig started off this summer competing in Tempere, Finland for his native country of Spain at the European Under 23 Championships. Hortelano-Roig’s fifth-place finish in the 200-meter qualified him to compete at the IAAF World Championships, which were held in Russia in mid-August.

At the World Championships, Hortelano-Roig competed as part of the 200-meter dash and 4X100 relay.

Although he and his teammates missed advancing to the semifinals of the relay by less than a tenth of a second, their time of 38.46 was good enough for a Spanish national team record. He also broke the Spanish team and Cornell team’s records with his 20.47 second performance in his heat of the 200-meter dash. Although he did not advance to the finals in this event, Hortelano-Roig’s performance led to his selection to complete in the 200-meter dash at the Stockholm Diamond League meet this past Thursday, where he finished with a time of 21.15 seconds.

After breaking the record for the 200-meter dash in Moscow, Hortelano-Roig now holds the Cornell record in

the 200-meter indoor and outdoor and in the 400-meter indoor and outdoor. Hortleno-Roig attributes his time working with Cornell coaches to his success.

“The training I’ve received from coach Nathan Taylor and coach Adrian Durant has been critical to my athletic development this year,” he said. “After a great preseason and NCAA season, my summer was set up extremely well, and I was able to use this inertia to carry me through the summer months. My main training happened while I was at Cornell, and my workouts in Spain were essentially to maintain the form I had achieved.”

Although he has been racing for Spain, Hortelano-Roig is still practicing and training under Cornell sprint coach Adrian Durant and Head Coach Nathan Taylor. He said that while no college meets quite reach the high level of the World Championships, meets such as HEPS and the NCAA Regionals allow him to practice running under pressure.

“It’s this competing under pressure during the university season that has helped me get a feeling for the pressure felt on the world scene,” he said. “I would consider [college competition] as mental training. The physical training is almost the same, except I focused more on recovery and rest during the weeks leading up to the World Championships, while at Cornell I focused more on volSee TRACK & FIELD page 24

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C.U.Looks to Build on 2012 Record

Red prepares for season-opening tournament at Newman

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Following a season in which the volleyball team posted its highest win totals since 2008, the Red aims to continue its success under the direction of second-year head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose.

The team finished last season with a 9-16 overall record, four wins better than the Red’s 5-21 2011 campaign. The Red’s sixth-place Ivy League finish last year tied its highest Ivy finish since 2009.

Senior Sierra Young, who is currently training at both outside hitter and libero, said that Batie-Smoose’s year with the team created a bond with the athletes that will help the Red in its upcoming season.

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Bouncing back | Last season, the Red posted its highest Ivy League finish since 2009.

“[Batie-Smoose] had a fall and spring to train us how she best thinks we’ll be successful and knows us better as players both on and off the court,” Young said. “The team now has had a chance to understand her expectations and develop a stronger coach-player relationship.”

The Red kicks off its season with a tournament at Newman Arena against Buffalo, Iona and Bucknell. The Red is a combined 27-7-1 against those three squads, although the team has lost its last two matches against Buffalo. Last season, the Red opened its season at 0-3 after a tough three-game tournament in Colorado left the team still searching for its first victory.

“Starting off with a home tournament is very exciting for us,” Young said. “We’ve historically played well at home, and I know the team is very fired up to show everyone in Newman Arena how hard we have been working this past year. Although we do treat every opponent equally, starting off at home adds a little extra motivation to work even harder during preseason and the first couple weeks of practice.”

According to Young, one of the team’s primary concentrations early in the season has been on the defensive side of the game.

“One of our main focuses this season so far has been defense,” she said. “I’m excited to see how we’ll improve in this area because when our team funnels our focus on an aspect of the game, it can improve drastically.”

Despite losing players such as middle blocker Ana Vanjak and setter Lucy Zheng, the Red returns secondteam Ivy selection Rachel D’Epagnier and honorable mention Breanna Wong. Setter Kelly Reinke, who was ranked second in the Ivy League in assists per set and as well as second in service aces per set, also returns to the team.

The Red added six freshmen in the off season, including one setter, two middle blockers, two outside hitters, and one player that has experience both at setter and right side.

“The freshman so far have been great; always ready to jump into drills, they work hard and are talented,” Young said. “It's been a fairly seamless transition gelling as a team on the court and I know they will be a great addition to Big Red volleyball this season. Us returners are all excited to see the positive impacts they'll have on the team as the season moves forward.”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.

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Clean slate | After going 1-14-1 last season, the team is aiming to place in the top half of the Ivy League this year, defender Morgan Zaidel said.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Red Welcomes Nine New Players to Squad

By MARISSA VELASQUEZ Sun Staff Writer

With the new season just around the corner, the women’s soccer team says it is set to turn itself around from a tough 2012 season.

Although the Red lost seven players to graduation, including dynamic forward Maneesha Chitanvis, the team

is adding eight freshman and one transfer for the upcoming season.

“I feel the recruiting class will bring a strong competitive mentality to the team and is capable of providing a significant number of starters right away,” head coach Patrick Farmer said. “It will See W. SOCCER page 24