Following violations of state sanitationcodes in February, two Statler Hotel eateries— Taverna Banfi and Terrace Dining Hall —

have taken steps to improve their sanitationpolicies, said Thomas Gisler, executive chef ofthe Statler Hotel.

Banfi was cited by the Tompkins CountyHealth Department for storing toxic chemicalsin a way that increased the potential for the

contamination of food. Terrace was cited forstoring potentially hazardous foods above 45degrees Fahrenheit, according to the citation.

Richard Adie, general manager of theStatler Hotel, said the official violation cita-tions were less serious than they appeared tobe.

“The violation made it sound like toxicdeadly chemicals were on the food preparationline,” Adie said. “[In reality,] they found a canof Lysol spray in a room service storage area. Itinadvertently got there and was immediatelyremoved. It should not have been placed there;we were in violation [of the rules].”

Adie said that at Terrace Dining, twocheeses were stored at 48 and 51 degrees F,when they must be kept at 45 degrees orbelow. When brought to the staff ’s attentionduring the inspection, the cheese was immedi-ately cooled to resolve the issue, Adie said.

Gisler said the reason the cheese had atemperature above the regulation level wasbecause it was at a higher temperature whenit was delivered to the restaurant. He addedthat Terrace has implemented new changesin response to the citations, such as takingtemperatures on the loading dock and stor-ing cheese in a metal container that betterholds the temperature below 45 degrees.

The Sun met with Cornell NYC TechDean Daniel Huttenlocher and VicePresident Cathy Dove during their visit tothe Ithaca campus in March. The adminis-trators discussed the future of the tech cam-pus and its sustainability.

THE SUN: Has there been any progressmade toward the creation of any of thenext degree programs at the tech campus?

DANIEL HUTTENLOCHER: In terms ofprograms, there is one overriding guidingprinciple for us, both with faculty hiringand with launching with programs —

and frankly withstudent recruitingalso — which is toprioritize qualityover everythingelse. … Rather thancommitting to par-ticular time sched-ules, we’re focusedon committing toexcellence. Thatsaid, we want to move as quickly as wecan without compromising quality … So

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Two months into their first semesterat Cornell NYC Tech, the eight gradu-ate students in the school’s beta classhave been getting a taste of what life inthe entrepreneurial world is likethrough working on industry projectsand participating in informative work-shops.

Students chose entrepreneurial pro-jects — whichwere proposedby companiesthat studentswill work withthroughout thesemester — towork on justdays after thetech campus’ first classes began in lateJanuary, according to tech campus DeanDaniel Huttenlocher.

Companies proposed one or twoprojects that students would be able towork on, Huttenlocher said. There wereapproximately 30 projects proposed,according to Cathy Dove, vice presidentof the tech campus. Students’ projectswill be revealed at the conclusion of thesemester.

“The idea of this structure is thatwe’re using the companies to bring thereal world nature of the problems to thetable, but we’re having this done in theUniversity context where we still knowhow to guide the students,”

Huttenlocher said. “It’s an on-campusexperience with a company,”

In their proposal, companies saidwhat they thought the final outcome ofthe project would be, as well as how thecreation of intellectual property will behandled.

Most of the companies working withstudents are either those that wereinvolved in the process Cornell workedon to earn the right to build the campusin New York City or those that have had

close workingrelations withHuttenlocher orGreg Pass, chiefentrepreneurialofficer of thetech campus,Hutten lochersaid.

He added that, in the future, a moresystematic approach for how companiescan propose ideas for students to workon will be established.

In addition to having a traditionalfaculty advisor, each student enrolled inthe Master of Engineering Program inComputer Science also has a mentorfrom the tech industry, Huttenlochersaid.

“I think it’s great for the companiesand for the students to have this kind ofengagement,” he said.

Students have also been exposed tothe entrepeneureal aspect of their cur-

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Umpteen speedy televisions perused two sheep, then umpteen tickets towed Jupiter, and Dan untangles five progres-sive orifices. Umpteen quixotic aardvarks annoyingly bought two Macintoshes. Umpteen bureaux tickled twoextremely putrid botulisms. Paul sacrificed one lampstand, then Jupiter marries the very quixotic pawnbroker. Fivepurple poisons laughed, yet umpteen chrysanthemums kisses five aardvarks. Batman noisily untangles oneJabberwocky. Two Macintoshes laughed, then one extremely schizophrenic Jabberwocky drunkenly untangles twosheep, however Quark telephoned umpteen obese Jabberwockies. Five irascible botulisms slightly lamely auctionedoff the subway, and five chrysanthemums easily untangles one mostly speedy Klingon. Five dogs drunkenly perusedMinnesota, however the mats ran away cleverly, although one partly progressive subway quite comfortably sacrificed

Weird Newsof the Week

Operation Should ReduceTexas Tiger’s Arthritic PainWYLIE, Texas (AP) — A vet hopes groundbreak-

ing surgery has relieved the arthritic hip pain of a 13-year-old Siberian tiger at a Texas sanctuary.

Tacoma is one of the 66 big cats at the In-SyncExotics Wildlife Rescue and Education Center in sub-urban Dallas.

President Vicky Keahey says Tacoma has sufferedfrom hip dysplasia for two years. The pain started toaffect him four months ago when he stopped exercis-ing and his hind leg muscles began to wither. All hedid was sleep.

Dr. Toby Willis operated on Tacoma last week, cut-ting the nerves that carry pain impulses from his hipto his brain. Willis says the procedure, which hasnever before been performed in the U.S., shouldensure the aging cat has less pain.

Medical Marijuana FacilityPartners With Rapper

OTISVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan medicalmarijuana facility is partnering with a member of theGrammy-winning rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony tocultivate and distribute a new strain of medical marijuana.

The Green Oasis and Stanley “Flesh-N-Bone” Howsehave agreed to work together on “Phifty Caliber Kush,”which they say has a noticeable floral taste and is an effec-

tive pain reliever.The Flint-area dispensary’s owner, Anthony Butler,

calls the new pot strain “the best of the best.”Flesh-n-Bone Global executive Michael “Tony B.”

Bernardi tells The Flint Journal that Howse hopes theproduct can provide relief for any qualified, verifiedpatient.

Michigan voters approved marijuana for some chronicmedical conditions in 2008.

Vatican’s CommunicationsSite Runs Batman Story

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One of the Vatican’s mainTwitter accounts and the website of its communicationsoffice were running stories about Batman on Thursdaywith the headline “Holy Switcheroo!” — raising concernsthey might have been hacked.

But two Vatican officials said the site hadn’t been hacked,and that the reason for the unusual posting was an “inter-nal system failure” due to a non-native English speakerposting the story on the website.

The story was from the Catholic News Service. It has asits headline: “Holy Switcheroo! Batman has grown bitter,more vengeful with the years” and details the evolution of the Batman comic franchise

“Admittedly some people might have been thrown offby the headline,” said Greg Burke, a Vatican communica-tions adviser. Once a story is posted, he explained, it gen-erates an automatic tweet on the office’s Twitter handle.

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The University was awarded its sec-ond gold Sustainability Tracking,Assessment and Rating System score — atitle designating it one of the most sus-tainable campuses in the nation —March 8.

STARS is a voluntary, self-reportingsystem that measures the sustainabilityperformance of colleges and universities.

Dan Roth, associate director for cam-pus sustainability, said the rating is calcu-lated using the institution’s assessment inthree categories: Education andResearch, Operations and Planning andAdministration and Engagement.

The University’s score rose since lastyear’s STARS assessment, according toRoth.

Careen Arsenault, sustainabilityadministrator for the CampusSustainability Office, emphasized thatthe rating is intended to help spreadinformation about sustainability at dif-ferent colleges.

“STARS is considered to be a ratingand not a ranking, focused on sharingsustainability performance informationamong other colleges, universities andwith the general public,” Arsenault said.

One factor that contributed to theincrease in the University’s points withinthe education and research category wasthe official implementation of theEcoRep Program this year, according to

Arsenault. The program appoints student“EcoReps” who educate their peers onways to live more sustainably throughinformation sessions and other program-ming, according to EcoRep’s website.

Since 2010, the University has alsoreduced its greenhouse gas emissions byseven percent in a continued effort tobecome climate neutral by 2050, accord-ing to Arsenault.

The University has also increased par-ticipation in employee sustainability edu-cation programs and bolstered studentinvolvement in community service,Arsenault said.

Kyu-Jung Whang, vice president ofFacility Services, said the STARS ratingexemplified Cornell’s dedication to sus-tainability.

“I think [the gold rating] says a lotabout the level of commitment thatCornell has towards sustainability giventhese tough economic times,” Whangsaid. “A lot of things have been put onhold, but we’ve still been able to attain ahigher score because of the amount ofenergy conservation that we’ve beendoing on campus.”

Representatives of the CampusSustainability Office said they plan toimprove the school’s STARS rating in thefuture as well.

“We will continue to make improve-ments in water and energy conservationefforts across campus, green operationsand maintenance of our buildings,increased educational opportunities and

research efforts and engagement of ourcampus community in sustainable behav-iors,” Roth said.

Over the past two years, the STARSinitiative has rated 243 institutions. Ofthese institutions, none have received theplatinum rating — the highest possiblerating — and only 45 have achieved thegold rating. The rest have attained silver,bronze or reporter ratings, according toSTARS’ website.

“The next level that Cornell is strivingfor is platinum, where a minimum scoreof 85 [points] is required,” Roth said.

Roth and Whang said they hope theUniversity will eventually achieve aPlatinum rating.

“We are still striving for platinum,and we will continue to do everything wecan do to be one of the first schools toget to platinum,” Whang said. “We stillhave a ways to go, and the gap is still rel-atively wide, so we will have to work real-ly hard to get to platinum.”

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New Plan Sets ‘Strong Forward Direction’ for Graduate CommunityThe Graduate and

Professional Student Assemblyapproved the graduate and pro-fessional community initiative— a plan detailing projects tobenefit the graduate and profes-sional student community —Monday. The plan targets fre-quent graduate student con-cerns including housing, advi-sors and community.

According to GPSA VicePresident Nicole Baran grad, thedocument is an update of the2007 GCI, which was describedas a “needs assessment” for theGraduate School. The initiativeis a strategic plan, whereas the2007 document was “more of avision statement,” she said.

“[The initiative] both sum-marizes the needs of our com-munity and makes specific rec-ommendations for what can bedone to improve graduate and

professional student life,” Baransaid.

The initiative includes eightsections ranging from careerresources and mental health tofamily services and transporta-tion. GPSA President MitchPaine grad said GPSA represen-tatives endeavored to put thedocument together in a “collab-orative, comprehensive andstrategic way.”

“I would bet that those stu-dents who do take the time toread the document will find thatwe actually have captured theirexperience — their struggleswith their adviser, anxiety aboutfinding a job after graduation[and] challenges finding anapartment in Ithaca,” Baransaid.

Paine said one objective ofthe initiative is to work toward apartnership with the StudentAssembly to push the Universityto allocate more funds to theOff-Campus Housing Office

and help graduate students findhousing.

As for on-campus housing,the initiative calls for changes tothe two main graduate housingoptions, Maplewood Park andHasbrouck Apartments, inresponse to concerns aboutroom allocation and the cost ofparking for residents, Paine said.

One particular objective ofthe initiative, converting thefood service area in the Big RedBarn to a coffee shop, aims tocreate a more interactive andcomfortable atmosphere forgraduate students to gather,according to the document.

Max Spector grad said thiswould be a welcome addition tothe Big Red Barn’s InternationalCoffee Hour event onThursdays. In addition, he saidthe cafe environment itself pre-sents a comfortable alternativeto his department’s facilities.

“[Having a coffee shop]would be nice, since, [as a com-puter science major] there arefew places to collaborate in thecomputer science buildings,”Spector said.

According to Baran, one ofthe biggest challenges through-out the process of revising andreworking the 2007 documentto better fit the current needs ofgraduate students was “[learn-ing] how to listen to studentinput and translate that experi-ence into specific actionable rec-ommendations.”

The GPSA will spend theupcoming months distributingthe document to the communi-ty and discussing the specificrecommendations containedwithin the initiative withadministrators. On April 8, the

initiative will introduce a reso-lution to form a GPCI WorkingGroup, a sub-committee con-sisting of relevant administra-tors and students who willimplement the initiative.

“My goal is to distribute thedocument as far and as wide aspossible,” Paine said. “I wantevery dean to have seen it, everydirector of graduate study andall members of the administra-tion who work with graduateand professional students tohave the [initiative].”

Both Baran and Paine saidthey expect the initiative to bewell-received by the administra-tion, and they hope that mem-bers of the graduate and profes-sional student community alsotake time to read the document.

“If the administration usesthe document to improve thegraduate and professional stu-dent experience, then we havedone our job,” Baran said.

Administrators also expressedoptimism about the plan.

“The GPSA leadership hasspent quite a bit of time con-sulting with administrators, andas a result, it is both visionary,while at the same time, its goalsare arguably realistic,” saidDean of Students Kent Hubbell’67.

Susan Murphy, vice presidentof Student and AcademicServices, said, however, that theplan will encounter economicconstraints.

“It is an ambitious agenda ina time when our resources, espe-cially financial resources, arevery constrained. Nevertheless, Ilook forward to working withthe GPSA to support their workon the goals that fall within

their purview and to considercarefully the requests of theadministration,” Murphy said.“It sets forth a strong forwarddirection.”

Resolution | Graduate and Professional Student Assembly members pre-sent a new strategic plan for the community at a meeting Monday.

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Drug Possession In Residential Facility

An individual wasreferred to the JudicialAdministrator on St. Patrick’sDay for unlawful possession ofmarijuana on Forest Park Lane,according to the CornellUniversity Police Department.

Grocery Store TheftAn officer was dispatched to

a P&C Fresh Thursday inresponse to a report involvingtwo unknown individualsstealing groceries. The com-plaint is still under investiga-tion, according to CUPD.

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A student reportedbeing harassed over the phonefrom a known individualFriday, according to CUPD.

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riculum through talks with various industrymembers. Rather than having a traditionalweek of classes, the tech campus’ curriculumhas been condensed into four days — lastingMonday through Thursday — with Fridaybeing a practicum day, according toHuttenlocher.

Dove described the practicums as “fabulous”and said they were giving students “amazinginteractions.”

Each of the workshops is lead by a person orgroup from the tech industry and lasts abouttwo to four hours, according to Huttenlocher.Some of the speakers have included membersfrom the design firm IDEO, attorneys who dis-cussed intellectual property protection and apanel of early stage entrepreneurs.

“[The practicums] tend to be things wherepeople are sharing experiences or spending acouple of hours in a workshop teaching somespecific skills,” Huttenlocher said. “Those havebeen going great.”

Various organizations have also been under-standing and helpful to the tech campus’ cause,Huttenlocher said.

In late February, a $2.5-million graduate fel-lowship was established by James and MarilynSimons, the founders of the SimonsFoundation, to provide financial assistance forstudents at the tech campus.

Currently, about two dozen industry part-ners have been working with the tech campusthrough the student projects and practicums,according to Huttenlocher.

Dove also said Google — the host of thecampus’ current home in Manhattan — hasbeen incredibly supportive of the school.

“Google has been amazing, and that reallyreflects on how important they think this ini-tiative is,” she said.

In addition, Dove said in a statement to theRoosevelt Island community that students havealready forged connections with industry part-ners.

“It’s been an exciting and rewarding coupleof months as both the students and facultyjumped right into exploring the new academicmodel that we’re introducing at Cornell Tech,”she said in the statement.

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Adie said the Statler appreciated the health departmentinspections, which are randomly conducted. The inspec-tions, he said, help maintain food safety in the Statler’sdining establishments.

“We look forward to these health inspections becausewe learn from [them]. [They] keep us on our toes,” Adiesaid.

After the violations, he said, the facilities were re-inspected two weeks later and were cleared. Adie said theStatler uses the HazardousAnalytical Critical ControlPoints, a system of safetyprinciples that help preventfoodborne illness.

Banfi and Terrace are clas-sified as high-risk facilitiesbecause both conduct fullmenu preparation; as a result,they are inspected twice ayear, according to CarolChase, senior public health sanitarian for theEnvironmental Health Division of the County’s HealthDepartment. Factors that are considered during inspec-tions include the “temperature of food, the way it isprocessed [and] the way it is cooled and reheated,” shesaid.

Chase said Banfi and Terrace have both violated sanita-tion codes in previous years.

“They’ve had some improper cooling issues and barehand contact with food over the last five years,” Chasesaid. She said that most of the issues arose from errors inthe production process that the inspections helped to cor-rect.

Chase said minor violations like these are common in

high-risk facilities, adding that, generally, Cornell eaterieshave high quality preparation methods.

“Cornell seems to do a really good job in training peo-ple and keeping them standardized,” Chase said.

Both Gisler and Adie expressed disappointment overthe recent violations, saying they always hope to achievehigh quality in their eating establishments.

Gisler also posted an article from the Ithaca Journal cit-ing the violations on a bulletin board in the main kitchenof the Statler as a way to encourage staff to maintain safe-ty.

Gisler said both Banfi and Terrace take extensive pre-cautions to ensure food safety, saying that, forexample, “even if the pizza is kept at 140 degrees,we discard it every 45 minutes for quality andsafety.”

Adie added that the Statler establishmentswere also inspected Tuesday by a private compa-ny. He explained that the Statler uses this com-pany to maintain standards, saying the inspec-tion is very rigorous and supplements theTompkins County inspection. This company vis-its four times per year.

Adie said the precautions were taken in the interest ofsafety, as “we [couldn’t] live with ourselves if we knew wewere doing something that would make the public sick.”

Some students who frequent Terrace Dining did notseem concerned about the violations.

“My mom owns a restaurant and temperature is a bigthing, but three degrees isn’t a big deal,” Sarah King ’15said.

Another student echoed King’s sentiments.“Honestly, I don’t think I would change my habits,”

Michelle Wan ’16 said.

Tyler Alicea can be reached attalicea@cornellsun.com.

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Students Unconcerned by Statler ViolationsSTATLER

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in addition to the current program thatwe launched in January, we do plan tolaunch one or two additional degree pro-grams in the Fall of 2014. It’s a little toosoon to say exactly what yet because it’sreally going to depend to a large degreeon faculty hiring. For the Fall of [2013]we’re continuing the computer scienceM.Eng. that we started with the betaclass in January.

SUN: Is that still going to be aroundeight students?

D.H.: Oh, no. So for the fall, we hopeto have a more regular cohort, whichagain is going to be driven by quality. Soit’s hard to say exactly how big it is, butideally it would be somewhere aroundthe 20-student range. Given the numberof faculty we have, we don’t want to scaleit too quickly, but again, that will be dri-ven by applicant pool more than any-thing.

SUN: Another question we had wasabout environmentalism and sustain-ability. Obviously that is a big focusgoing in for the tech campus in itself,but I think our question is more aboutGoogle’s headquarters. Is there a focuson sustainability in those classrooms?Are you focusing on reducing emissionsthere?

CATHY DOVE: The space we’re in is ina building Google owns in Chelsea. …We’re short term tenants there ... so we’vedone the little things we can in our space... things like making sure the lights gooff at a certain time and [trying to] min-imize utilization of energy in that space.What we’re really focused on is Roosevelt

Island, of course.SUN: Regarding the environmental

aspect of the physical campus onRoosevelt Island, what exactly is in theworks?

C.D.: We have had and continue tohave really significant aspirations forthe first academic building to be [a]net-zero [energy building]. What net-zero means is that we generate moreenergy over the course of the yearthan we actually consume. That still isour goal. We called it aspirational atthe time and I still call it aspirational

because it is extremely challenging toget there. We believe we would be thelargest net-zero building on the eastcoast, if not in the entire country.We’re looking at multiple differenttechnologies that will get us there. …Some of the technologies that we’recurrently looking at and have builtinto our plan [include] solar arrays.… In addition, we plan to have anumber of geothermal wells on cam-pus.

SUN: They’re very expensive, as Iunderstand, to implement.

C.D.: Yes, but it is something wethink is important to do. A third tech-

nology which is actually still in theevaluatory stage is tidal power. Thereare tests going on in the east river rightnext to our campus, so we think thiswould be a fabulous thing to do. Dayone, we may or may not be at net-zero,but over time, the goal is to be at net-zero.

SUN: You mentioned the admissionsprocess is a shorter process. What exactlyis involved in applying to the tech cam-pus?

D.H.: It’s only for the beta class that[the admissions process] was shorter. For

this next fall, we’re running a regularadmissions cycle.

SUN: So did the beta class have a dif-ferent application?

D.H.: Nope. It’s exactly the same.The way we're doing admissions rightnow is that Cornell now offers twoM.Eng. degrees in computer science. Ifyou go to the Cornell grad school appli-cation site, … it says computer scienceM.Eng. Ithaca, [and] computer scienceM.Eng. New York City. It’s the exactsame application that anyone applyingto graduate school at Cornell fills out.For the New York City program, we aredoing something a little different in our

admissions process which is that oncewe have evaluated people’s applicationsin terms of the academic quality, we’reactually scheduling interviews withthose who meet our academic qualifica-tions. In addition to having outstand-ing academic credentials, we want stu-dents who are passionate about usingtechnology to do something in theworld to make a difference. We need totalk to them about what their passionis. You can sort of see it in a writtenapplication, but it’s better to have aconversation.

SUN: When you’re fundraising for thecampus, how challenging is it to competewith the sesquicentennial fundraisingand to attract alumni?

D.H.: I wouldn’t use the “compete”word. I think that the excitement aroundthe tech campus and around Cornell andCornell’s visibility is exactly the kind ofthing that can and should and will makethe pie bigger for Cornell when it comesto development. So I really view these ascomplementary in a lot of ways. A bigpiece of what we’re doing at the techcampus is of and for New York. That mayexcite a Cornell alum who maybe hasn’tbeen as excited to contribute to Ithaca,but may also excite people who aren’t apart of the Cornell family, but are reallycommitted to New York. … My view isthat to be most successful here, weshould be making the Ithaca fundraisingeasier and raising more money for thetech campus. So far, the data is support-ing that.

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Rise of theCalloused Foot

Matt Hudson | Red in the Face

“No, no, you’re broke; save thatmoney for coffee. Deal withit, Matt.” Fighting my way

down North Meadow Street felt like tak-ing right hooks from Ivan Drago, yet Isomehow started laughing in spite of myfrozen cheeks and brittle, stupidly glove-less fingers. Even as the wind whippedminiature hailstones and salt grains at melike a petulant kid flinging LEGOs at hismother, I was in crippling hysterics.“Good grief, you’re a cheap bastard,aren’t you.” With lips chapping in realtime as the raw cold made a watery, tear-ful mess of my eyes, I must have lookedevery bit theoveremotion-al drunk,casually stum-bling down amajor road-way threehours to mid-night. The“joke” is thatI saved 10 bucks on a cab ride to TheHaunt. So all’s well, yes? Maybe.

Lost somewhere in my thoughts,probably caged up with a confusedenvironmentalist and a half-eatenpeanut butter sandwich from ShelSilverstein, there’s a whiny Luddite cry-ing for an end to tech supremacy.“Buses bad, feet good.” Not much of apersonal mantra, but it saves me $200on a yearly TCAT pass and serves toillustrate a meager point: The truth doesnot resemble itself. Why is charity wed totax incentives? Why is dolour such abeautiful word? Water erodes solidrock, Helga Pataki bullies Arnold andall existence is a massive paradox of sur-face and depth.

Regarding taxis and buses, the wis-dom of convenience isn’t necessarilywise. Admittedly, in the land of eternalwinter where the slopes are an algebrateacher’s wet dream, walking, much likethe sky, is hardly bright. Yet I will neverwillingly board a local bus. Why? In part,paid transportation reflects a sort of cul-tural ambivalence; we spend not for butrather to expedite experiences, to passover them with apathy and maybe anunder-the-breath groan. On thoseexceedingly rare days when Ithaca isactually blue and not just a pared down,lighter grey locked in a losing battle withthe sun, walking is pleasant. On thoseexceedingly common days when torrentialdownpours and hurricane force windssmugly remind me that I lost my umbrel-la during Sandy, it’s somehow still pleas-ant. The little Zen Buddhist meditatingin the basement of my brain, perhaps nottoo far from the Luddite, would speakagainst the transient value of ridingbuses. “It is like tracing pictures on the

surface of a river,” he might say, under-standing that money is better spent onthe composition of experience, of pho-tographs that remind us “we were there”long after we departed.

Gingerly stepping away from“Gandhian anti-bus manifesto” territo-ry, we may find a greater pattern knitinto our cultural patchwork quilt.Opportunity has been fine-tuned into acommodity, bought and sold like oil,goat cheese and insufficient quantitiesof coffee beans. We pour money intonovas like Coinstar machines, watchingemptily and bleary-eyed as they pass us

by withp r a c t i c e ds t o i c i s m .What we areleft with is areceipt and alost memoryof things wemissed, yetwe foolishly

continue to expect that throwing moneyat things will somehow make themmeaningful. How lazy of us!Acquiescence is defeat, indolent andblasé. Experience, by marked contrast, isactive and unstructured; it is a Sundaymorning Doonesbury suddenly bleed-ing out of the panels and into thenewsprint. Though only a letter apart,be not fooled! Expedience is not experi-ence.

Naturally, fast food and public trans-portation are well justified. McDonald’sshamrock shakes are (magically) deli-cious, and the TCAT system is often nec-essary for those of us plagued with thegrating regularity of distant uphill com-mutes. If life were a breakfast cereal, we’dlikely call it Time Crunch (now withberries!), so the sacrifices made by gloss-ing over well-cooked meals and hikes upEast Buffalo may be worth it. But gorg-ing ourselves (heh) on convenience oftenmeans missing things like expertly fengshui-ed flecks of parsley and gruff home-less men muttering slurred nonsense asthey sip on long-empty cans ofBudweiser. In the spirit of what I see aswisdom that appears unwise, then, I willcontinue walking. I’d rather feel the windthan watch it steal hats through a win-dow on the 30 line, even if it meansoccasionally checking my nose for signsof frostnip.

(The beautiful irony, of course, is thatI ultimately paid 10 bucks for my group’scab ride home from The Haunt.)

Matt Hudson is a sophomore in the College of Arts andSciences. He can be reached atmhudson@cornellsun.com. Red in the Face runsalternate Wednesdays this semester.

I’d rather feel the windthan watch it steal hats through a windowon the 30 line.

This paper doesn’t grow on trees.Send your 250-word letters and 850-word guest columns toopinion@cornellsun.com.

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 7OPINION

As the class of 2017 is acceptedand students begin to hear backfrom internships, graduate

schools and employers, conversationssurrounding merit and affirmativeaction seem to be almost inevitable.With this conversation comes the prob-lematic rhetoric that people of colorand women are taking the hard-earnedspots of white men who may haveworked harder. I will never forget thefirst time someone told me that I didn’tdeserve to be accepted into Cornell. Ihad proudly posted a picture of myselfin a Cornell 2013 T-shirt on Facebook,and it took no time for a so-called“friend” to message me saying,“Congratulations on being accepted,Ashley; I told you being black wouldhelp you get in.” What this personmeant to say was that I only got intoCornell because I was black, that I did-n’t deserve to be accepted andthat I took his spot. At thetime, my 18-year-old self did-n’t have the language torespond to the backhandedcomments challenging myqualifications. This articlearticulates the words I wish Icould have spoken.

The affirmative action nar-rative dominating the media impliesthat the policy began in the 1960s withPresident Johnson’s initiatives to benefitpeople of color. The reality is that affir-mative action began long before this.Since this country’s founding, whitemen have received affirmative action byinstitutionalizing laws that elevatewhite men and push down anyonewithout the right pedigree. In order todiscuss affirmative action, we mustacknowledge the history that many pre-fer to overlook. In 1862, TheHomestead Act was passed to prefer-ence white men gaining access to land.The act allowed the federal governmentto steal Native American land and give160 acre homesteads to white maleapplicants at no cost. Descendents ofthese white men continue to live on theland that has been passed downthrough generations. Then there wasthe G.I. Bill, which predominantlybenefited white veterans. According toscholar Ira Katznelson, the law wasdeliberately designed to accommodateJim Crow and was not enforced by thegovernment but by “white communityofficials, businessmen, bankers and col-lege administrators” who enforced

racist practices. Then, of course, therewas slavery, lynching, the mass geno-cide of Native Americans, housing andschool segregation (which continues inpractice today), internment camps, dis-enfranchisement, mass incarcerationand much more, which were institu-tionalized to push down entire classesof people. In order to even engage in adialogue about affirmative action, wemust acknowledge these histories andthe way in which their oppressive lega-cies still remain.

Affirmative action, as we know ittoday, recognizes that an Americanmeritocracy is a lie. It seeks to rectifyinstitutional injustices and acknowl-edges that certain people were given anunfair head start because of their race,socioeconomic class or gender. This isnot reverse racism, a term invented bythose in power to invert the con-

cept of racism for the benefit of whitepeople — reverse racism does not exist.Racism is about power, and we contin-ue to live in a white supremacist society;affirmative action acknowledges this.

However, affirmative action is com-monly depicted in the media as placingunqualified people in spaces that theyare not qualified to be in. It’s depictedas people of color and women of all col-ors taking a white person’s spot. In theFisher v. University of Texas case cur-rently being heard by the SupremeCourt, Abigal Fisher argues thatunqualified students of color wereaccepted in her place. The facts sur-rounding the case indicate that, of thestudents admitted to the University ofTexas with lower test scores and gradesthan Fisher, five were Black or Latinoand 42 were white. Nevertheless, Fisherattacked the five black and Latino stu-dents because mediocre white studentsare OK, but mediocre students of colorhave no place at the university. After all,only in the U.S. can a mediocre whiteman who graduates at the bottom of hisclass and speaks with incorrect gram-mar become president of the UnitedStates.

It is a misguided assumption to pre-sume that students of color, womenand those of lower economic back-grounds accepted into places likeCornell aren’t qualified. Despite com-mon misconceptions, those who bene-fit from affirmative action have excelledin the opportunities presented to themdespite the institutional roadblocks thathave come their way. I, myself, am abeneficiary of affirmative action andI’m just as qualified as my peers whowent to expensive private schools andtook science classes in state of the artlabs. I just didn’t have the same oppor-tunities as some. While many maythink I unfairly benefited when apply-ing to colleges because of the color ofmy skin, the reality remains that whenI sit next to my white peers, the worldwill continually paint me as the lessqualified student and, when I graduate,

the less qualified profes-sional. Opponents of affir-mative action take advan-tage of this sentiment inorder to further their ownagenda. However, in thisargument, they show theirown biases and provide evi-dence for why affirmativeaction must still exist.

I am not arguing that affirmativeaction is a perfect system, and in orderto be effective it must consistentlyevolve with changing paradigms ofrace, gender and socio-economic status.In many ways it is just a band-aid, butwe are not yet in a time when the band-aid can be taken off without furthercementing the fruits of oppression, ascountless disparities across racial, gen-der and socioeconomic lines still exist.To say that we no longer need affirma-tive action is to trivialize and disguisestructural and institutional barriers thathave existed in the past and continuetoday. Thus, in order to move towardequity in America we must commit tohonest dialogue and to caring acrossour diverse identities. As James Baldwinsaid, “It is the failure to care that lies atthe core of this system of control andevery caste system that has existed inthe United States or anywhere else inthe world.”

During my tenure at Cornell, which will end thisMay, I have had the good fortune of being able toattend numerous talks and concerts that have both

enlightened and entertained me. Music acts like theFlaming Lips, Phoenix and Nas and speakers like ElieWiesel, Jon Stewart and Louis C.K. are among many high-caliber events that have enriched my Cornell experience.They embody some of the perks we all get for attending(and shelling out for) an Ivy League education. This semes-ter, with the announcement of Kendrick Lamar as our SlopeDay performer and Cory Booker as the convocation speak-er, I was particularly surprised and impressed by these for-ward thinking and somewhat unconventional choices.

However, in the days following both announcements itseemed that many were unhappy with these choices andwere particularly vocal about it, whether around campus, onFacebook or in this paper. “Who even is Kendrick Lamar?”“Ugh another politician? And who cares about Newark?”Cries like these seemed to be fairly common, and I began towonder if there was even a choice for Slope Day or convo-cation that wouldn’t attract constant complaints and cyni-cism. In all likelihood, there isn’t, but I still feel it necessaryto make the case for both of these choices and to combatsome of the attitudes that I view as unfounded and unin-formed.

One of the main complaints leveled against KendrickLamar as a Slope Day pick was that, unlike the previousSlope Day performers, he was unheard ofand not a “star.” This is of course patent-

ly false. Anybody who is at all cognizant of current rapknows who Kendrick Lamar is and how he is one of themost prominent and up and coming rappers in the game. In2012, his album, Good Kid M.A.A.D City, was placed at thetop of Album of the Year lists for numerous publications,including Pitchfork, Complex and Rolling Stone. MTVnamed him the “Hottest MC” in its annual list, ahead ofmore “famous” artists like Nas, Drake and Kanye (but whoknows about MTV, anyway). Slope Day artists have tendedto be of the rap genre of late and Kendrick Lamar would beon any remotely hip-hop-aware person’s short list of currentrappers. Honestly, I was surprised that the Slope DayProgramming Board chose an artist who has both radio play(songs like “Swimming Pools” were undeniable hits) and isambitious in both his style and content. Lamar can be whatyou would call a “conscious” rapper, in the likes of TalibKweli or Mos Def, whose lyrics are personal, thoughtful andintrospective (something I’m not sure you could say aboutTaio Cruz).

Cory Booker could also face the charge that he is a rela-tive unknown, simply a mayor of a rundown New Jerseycity. But again, this is a fallacy, and anybody who is remote-ly politically aware would know who he is. Booker, likeLamar, is a rising star on the political stage. He is a socialmedia maven, with 1.4 million Twitter followers and iscompletely changing the way in which politicians functionand relate to people in the age of social media. He is, in alllikelihood, going to be the next Senator of New Jersey andis already being groomed to run for the President of theUnited States (comparisons to Obama run rampant). He isalso somewhat of a folk hero, saving his neighbor from aburning building, reducing his Mayoral salary and fre-quently donating his numerous speaking fees (includingCornell’s) to charity. Compared to the bland and insipidpoliticians who have spoke here these past few years, CoryBooker is a breath of fresh air — a politician who representsthe future of politics in the 21st century.

I am sure that in 2004, when Kanye West came to per-form at Slope Day, there were many who complained aboutthis nobody who had only released one album. But nowthose same people can exclaim, with hipsteric glee, “I sawKanye before he was cool!” This is the opportunity we haveto catch a rising star in both Kendrick Lamar and CoryBooker, to see these two figures who in a few years will betitans in their fields. You can say many things about yourCornell experiences, but cool will rarely be one of them.This is a chance for us Ivy Leaguers to maybe be a little cool,so enjoy it, because either way, you’re paying for it.

Catch aRising Star

Ashley Harrington | Dancing in the Margins

Dan Rosen | Smell the Rosen

This is the opportunity we have to catch arising star in bothKendrick Lamarand Cory Booker.

Ashley Harrington is a senior in the Collegeof Arts and Sciences. She may be reached ataharrington@cornellsun.com. Dancing inthe Margins appears alternate Wednesdaysthis semester.

The Unspoken Words ofAn Af!rmative Action Bene!ciary

Dan Rosen is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.He may be reached at drosen@cornellsun.com. Smell the Rosen ap -pears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

I will never forget thefirst time someone toldme that I didn’t deserveto be accepted to Cornell.

Commentof the day

“When you are young and well educated, as you are at Cornell, you have many oppor-tunities to choose from. If you have a good idea of what you want to do, you can set prioritiesand make choices accordingly. If you are in a long-term relationship, your significant other’spriorities will affect yours. As you get older, your priorities may change and you may have feweropportunities, but they may be better opportunities. Every choice you make has opportunitiesassociated with it, and the choices you don’t make involve sacrificing opportunities. You can’tdo everything, but you can do well with, and enjoy, what you chose to do.”

John RandallRe: “SCHAIN: The Road Not Taken,” Opinion,

published March 26, 2013

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Prof. Michael Ashkin, art, manufactures landscapes incorrugated cardboard. Architecture Is for Creeps, Prof.Ashkin’s show at Milstein Gallery, looks like a sea ofmarooned, battered buildings. It’s hard not to feel pensivewalking through the labyrinth of lean wooden beams andgrimy white blocks. Projected diagonally, the beamsintrude upon the viewer’s passage. Atop the blocks sitminute structures made of slim wooden sticks or crum-pled cardboard. Staggering wildly, the structures appearto be on the verge of collapse.

What holds things together? Prof. Ashkin not onlyposes that question, but also hints at several possibleanswers. The hand of the artist is apparent, and the mate-rials used for each work are undisguised. Yellowish gluehas been hastily slathered onto one swaying, hut-likestructure. Close by, a circle of cardboard rectangles con-fers conspiratorially, with the help of generous quantitiesof masking tape. These materials supply enough fodderfor lengthy debate. Recycled cardboard, for instance,recalls questions of value, regeneration and transience.

Prof. Ashkin sketches out the idea of a familiar form,tempts the viewer to fill in the blanks, and then throws inthe occasional surprise. The result is that the viewer isrepeatedly forced to question his or her own judgment.Fir strips, held in place by clamps, take the form of a chair(or rather, the outline of a chair). Clamped to one of thechair’s outstretched arm is a tall beam. The beam, whichrises skyward, has been abruptly broken. The jagged tip,an obvious mark of violence, shocks.

What appears to be a watchtower (or a factory build-ing, fire hydrant or air traffic control tower?) is easilyestablished as the exhibition’s central motif. Almost tooquickly, symbols of surveillance flood the viewer’s mind.One instance is Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s All Along theWatchtower, featured in the Johnson Museum’s Lines ofControl exhibition in Spring 2012. Kaabi-Linke airbrushpainted a hulking shadow of a watchtower on the gallerywalls, leaving the rest to the viewers’ imagination.

At Prof. Ashkin’s show, the watchtower lurks andlunges, hemming the viewer in on every side. There is anaerial view of the tower, rendered in the all-too-familiarcolors of warning signs — black duct tape against a yel-low background. The tower, as seen from its side over thecourse of a day, has also been incarnated in a trio of blackand white duct tape renderings. Looking at the canvassesfrom left to right, the viewer sees the black tape encroachupon the white with increasing ferocity. There is also acardboard model of the watchtower, whose meticulouslyfashioned balcony beckons to the viewer.

Other suggestions of violence and surveillance lendthe gallery a brooding air. Crouching by the tall windows,and almost blending in with the concrete floor, is a six-sided black box. On an opposing wall, silver duct tape hasbeen elaborately layered on corrugated cardboard to forma vaguely mirror-like surface. The metallic grey surfaceglints in the afternoon sunlight pouring in through thegallery windows. The pseudo-mirror invites the viewer tostare, but ultimately frustrates the viewer with its opacity.Nearby, scraps of cardboard rolled in paper resembleplump, cartoonish cigarettes, which recall ClaesOldenburg’s garishly painted sculptures of everyday con-sumer goods. Pressed tightly together, with the aid of a

black band, and accompanied by a fuse-like stick, thecardboard rolls resemble some kind of explosive.

Prof. Ashkin is a veteran chronicler of urban waste-lands, and his meditations have taken on myriad forms, asglimpsed at his shows at Secession in 2009, and theJohnson Museum in 2010. In 2003, Prof. Ashkin exhib-ited black-and-white photographs depicting New Jersey’seconomic wastelands. Artforum critic Michael Wilsonhas described Prof. Ashkin’s Untitled (New JerseyMeadowlands Project), which focused on decaying indus-trial parks and threatening chain link fences, as “perverse-ly beautiful.” That description also seems apt forArchitecture Is for Creeps.

Architecture, in the words of philosopher SusanneLanger, is “the total environment made visible.” That isprecisely what Prof. Ashkin succeeds in doing — he artic-ulates the urban wasteland from nearly every conceivableview, drawing inspiration from multiple sources, includ-ing aerial photographs and video games. The resultantlandscapes, a fusion of fiction and nonfiction, cannot eas-ily be placed. Torn between the familiar and the unfamil-iar, the viewer is left disoriented and displaced. Is Prof.Ashkin perhaps evoking amnesia, or placelessness, as atestament to marginal, forgotten places? Perhaps. As T.S.Eliot muses in The Waste Land, “You cannot say, or guess,for you know only / A heap of broken images, where thesun beats.”

Architecture Is for Creeps will be on display at MilsteinGallery until Apr. 12.

Daveen Koh is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art andPlanning. She can be reached at dkoh@cornellsun.com.

DAVEEN KOHSun Staff Writer

PROF. MICHAEL ASHKIN’SARCHITECTURE IS FOR CREEPS

What Holds Things Together?

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PHOTOS BY MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

While I would rather dedicate this col-umn to the great films I watched over springbreak (In the Mood for Love, Hitchcock’sNotorious and Shadow of a Doubt, et al) or myfresh takes on late 2012 fare (consider me anapologist for Life of Pi, but not for HolyMotors), I will, for once, try to look forward.My sole trip to the multiplex last weekwas tosee Oz: The Great and Powerful, an abysmal,unlikable mess that, naturally, will at leastdouble its $215 million budget in ticket salesbefore it leaves theaters. The summer movieseason has effectively begun.

With that, I would like to examine notthe movies but the people who watch thesemovies. Below, I present the four types ofsummer moviegoers, in a digestible (andadmittedly lazy) list format. Keep in mindthat these broadtypes can easily over-lap with one another— in particular tothose adjacent.

THE MASSESHollywood cares

only about thisgroup, by far thelargest demographic,from March toSeptember of every year. I cannot speak on itsbehalf, and I admit that, today, there are fewpeople completely dispassionate about allmovies. But you could say films “dumbdown” over the summer in order to appeal tothis crowd. That is not necessarily a bad thing— the world would be pretty bleak if allmovies were as serious and demanding asAmour, and there is something serene aboutknowing what type of movie you’re in forwith the cost of tickets these days.

The majority of summer moviegoers pick

up buzz from mainstream publications andtelevision shows or commercials, not to men-tion from the previews that precede the othermovies they go see. The ubiquity of RottenTomatoes means that even those who consid-er themselves apathetic to film can still makea reasonable judgment, based on aggregatecritic scores, on what movie they will go see.

THE IMDB CROWDSkewed young, male and white, this rising

and influential demographic demands actionfilms with at least a little bit of substance, orabout as much as a comic book can provideas source material. While not everyone in thisso-called crowd frequents the Internet MovieDatabase, the popular website collects thisgroup’s opinion in its “Top 250” list, wherefour Christopher Nolan films rank in the Top

5 0and The Lord of the Rings trilogy populatesthe Top 20. The website hosts messageboards where users can debate over the end-ing of Inception or order Pixar films from bestto worst. In real life, these people like to talkover the merits of what made a movie goodor bad (there’s not always an in between) orat least have a firm opinion on what theythought of a film.

I find this group to be overly concernedwith plot and its minute mechanics, like plot

twists, continuity and unan-swered narrative questions.Nolan succeeds with thisgroup for this very reason.Nonetheless, “The IMDbCrowd” holds a lot of swayin Hollywood these daysand at least brings somethought to the moviegoingexperience. Without them,there would be no Star TrekInto Darkness or Man ofSteel this summer, and thatwould be just awful, would-n’t it ...?

THE CRITICSProfessional critics do

not solely represent thisgroup — far from it, actual-ly. Those who favor the movies crammedinto the late-year Oscar season make up aperceptive community of summer moviego-ers; these people love movies, and they wouldgo crazy not to see any for months on end.

While they may not care for the MichaelBay swill that attracts so many others, “TheCritics” do see value in the occasional summerflick. The Bourne films, District 9 and,depending on whom you ask, Prometheusworked for them. For this group, part of thefun of the summer movie season is in findingthat unlikely genre film and defending itsstrengths, without irony, to all who will listen.

THE CINEPHILESWhile plenty of “The Critics” will also

rightly call themselves “cinephiles,” there is astark difference that separates them from thereal McCoy: These people don’t even watchsummer movies. Sure, they are enjoyingmovies during the summer, but at art houseand repertory cinemas like New York’s IFC

Center or L.A.’s Egyptian Theatre, not at thelocal multiplex. These are also the types whomake a big deal of their home theater system,but just when you expect them to take thespeakers for a ride with some Top Gun, theywhip out The Criterion Collection Blu-ray ofDays of Heaven and harp on and on about the“grain” and “beautiful black levels.”

Basically, they are not the intended audi-ence of most, if not all, of the films comingout of Hollywood, which studios don’t mindbecause there are relatively few of them, any-way. They may scoff at the praise you heapon the last Harry Potter movie, but, oh boy,Kino just re-released Metropolis on Blu-ray inits full-restored condition using a long-lostsource print found in Argentina, and you justgotta see it.

Katelyn Ridgeway ’13 believes that the comfort of a gar-ment is as important as its look. A Fiber Science & ApparelDesign major, she specializes in outdoor lifestyle sports-wear: soft shell pants, digital print swimsuits and even soc-cer uniforms. While this senior will be showing a collectionin this April’s Cornell Fashion Collective, she’s not afraid towear a sweatshirt on campus or in studio. Unsurprisingly,her pieces balance beautiful details with an organic, com-fortable feel.

Katelyn hails from outdoorsy San Diego. Growing up,she drew clothes and read her mom’s Vogue. In high school,her parents placed her in the California College of the Arts(CCA) summer program for fashion design and illustrationto see if she was serious about the actual work behind fash-

ion. Fortunately for Katelyn and her parents, she was. She came to Cornell specifically interested in the Fiber

Science & Apparel major, which allows her to play with thekinds of materials and fabrics involved in outdoor apparel.At Cornell, she’s been able to balance studio classes likeactive sportswear studio with a diverse range of othercourses like marketing, art history and philosophy, whichhave informed her artistic vision and her business sense.Over four years, Cornell has taught her the ways to turnthe designs she has in mind into the pieces she has at herdesk.

“Cornell has really helped me to define who I am as adesigner,” says Katelyn. In her own words, she createspieces that are “simple [and] sort of subdued with some-thing interesting about them.” In her fashion, she aims toflatter and comfort the wearer. She hopes that those whowear her clothes do not transform into someone else, butinstead feel comfortable and flattered by the garment. Asan exercise in one of her classes, she was asked by her pro-fessor to describe herself as a designer in three words. Shechoose quiet, beautiful and Arinyuna.

The final “adjective” is the name of her senior collectionfor the Cornell Fashion Collective. In the AustralianAboriginal language, Arinyuna means “toward that place”or, alternatively, a many-mile journey. She came up withthe name while studying abroad last spring in Australia, anexperience that has come to form the inspiration for herentire collection. As an activewear designer, she’s attractedto landscapes, which she photographs and puts on a boardin her studio. Her wall is covered with photos taken onhikes at places like The Blue Mountains, Gervis Bay and ina tiny town immersed in the wilderness called Maringo.Her board is also full of pictures of the aboriginal people,men in casual trousers and black and red cockatoos. Shehopes that her line “embodies the functionality of [her]clothing” but also her “own journey” being abroad.

When she’s translating her vision into a piece, she“think[s] about what [it] is that [she] likes in a certain pho-tograph” before asking herself the question, “How can Itranslate that into a garment?” In a recent design, for exam-ple, she created a black shirt dissected across its back byhorizontal slits; she based the design on a picture of an abo-riginal man with a scar down his back.

While the show provides an opportunity to see and cre-ate work for a portfolio, Katelyn says it’s most important asa way to demonstrate what she’s learned. “Personally, myparents don’t see much of my work,” Katelyn explained.

“When I go home I don’t necessarily bring my workhome. I might have some pictures. This is very exciting forthem because they get to see everything I’ve learned in fouryears ... in a huge show on a runway, modeled with music.”

After she graduates, Katelyn will be looking for a job inthe outdoor apparel industry, with companies likePatagonia, North Face and Columbia. In the near future,she will design freelance for the Spartan Race with twoother students and pitch ideas to Reebok in hopes of com-ing out with more design work for her portfolio. Katelynalso recently won a scholarship from the YMA FashionScholarship Fund. Ultimately, Katelyn hopes “to have [her]own brand or line.”

To Katelyn, aspiring designers “need to be very savvyabout how to present [themselves],” and should have “avery singular feeling about [themselves] so that peopledon’t get confused.” With creative inspiration, a focusedwork ethic and a growing business savvy, Katelyn is cer-tainly a designer with a clear idea of how to translate fasci-nating ideas into beautiful — and functional — pieces.

MEREDITH JOYCESun Staff Writer

Meredith Joyce is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.She can be reached at mjoyce@cornellsun.com.

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the Colleges ofArts and Sciences. He can be reached atzzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel Withthe World appears alternate Wednesdays.

A Lover’s QuarrelWith the World

ZacharyZahos

Four Faces of Summer

NILS AXEN / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

STUDENT FASHION SPOTLIGHT:Katelyn Ridgeway ’13

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SCIENCEChemical Engineering Health and Nutrition

Prof. Lynden Archer, directorof chemical and biomolecularengineering, has always beenenamored by polymers.

“I remember, as an under-graduate, deciding to do poly-mers in my first semesterbecause the person who taughtme my first chemical engineer-ing course was a polymer scien-tist, and he had so much funmaking polymers,” Archer said.

Archer went on to obtain hisbachelor of science degree inpolymer science in 1989. Thiswas the period right after the oilembargo in the U.S. – some-thing that led to him having astrong awareness about beingsmart in using scarce oilresources.

“If you were going to usethose resources to make materi-als, you wanted to make the bestpolymer material possible andthis cut my imagination,” hesaid. Archer has stuck to work-ing on polymers ever since.

The basic push of hisresearch is to synthesize andstudy polymers which are chem-ically attached to surfaces suchas silicon or germanium.

According to Archer, themotivation for his work camefrom the fact that although purepolymers can be designed forany application, and theirbehavior is well understood, theinteractions between polymersand a surface or substrate is notwell studied even though suchinteractions are common innature.

Archer’s research group stud-ies polymers attached to a 1-Dpoint in order to make branchedstructures, a 2-D plane to createslippery surfaces and 3-D

nanoparticles to create materialscalled NOHMs, or nanoscaleorganic hybrid materials, whichcan be used as electrolytes inbatteries.

The synthesis of these 3-Dtethered polymer materialscalled NOHMs is one of his lab’slargest discoveries. NOHMs arepom-pom looking hybrid struc-tures of the best low-cost andlightweight organic polymerchains tethered to the best ofinorganic nanoparticles like sili-con dioxide.

The traditional way to syn-thesize these materials is to pro-duce the organic and inorganicparts separately and mix them,but this does not result in ahomogeneous mixture at themolecular level. Archer’s labworked on synthesizing thesematerials using a bottom-upapproach to ensure homogene-ity at the molecular level.

Archer said his 12-year olddaughter coined the termNOHMs, which she said soundslike “gnomes,” when he wasstruggling to come up with acatchy name for these materials.

“I like to think of NOHMsas a hybrid of hybrids, whereevery building block is ananoscale hybrid,” he said.Archer’s group has since tackledvarious questions about thephysics of the behavior of thesepolymers and their applications.

One interesting physicalattribute of these 3-D systems isthat they act like a fluid undercertain conditions. According toArcher, one would expect thenanoparticle-polymer hybrid tobe suspended in some kind ofsolvent to result in these fluidlike properties, think about thevarious blood cells suspended inthe plasma or the solvent ofblood, but these hybrid materi-

als are actually self-suspendedwith no solvent.

Currently, Archer is involvedin making better battery systemsusing NOHMs.

“The lithium-ion battery sys-tems we are enamored withtoday are essentially a holdoverfrom mobile technology, it’sreally no surprise when they arenot as successful for cars andlaptops that require more ener-gy,” Archer said.

Every battery system has apositive terminal called a cath-ode; a negative terminal calledan anode and a solution or elec-trolyte which helps ferry theelectrons from the anode to thecathode through electrochemicalreactions. Lithium batteries em -ploy a lithium anode which iscapable of sparing one electronper atom.

One of the major problemswith using metallic anodes inbattery systems, Archer said, isthe formation of tree like struc-tures called dendrites uponcharging and recharging the bat-tery. These short circuit the bat-tery, causing safety and perfor-mance issues.

According to Archer, hisgroup is currently working onmodelling these dendrite forma-tions and designing battery elec-trolytes using NOHMs to pro-vide a porous media to controlthe dendrite growth.

Creating better battery systemscapable of storing large amountsof energy can lead to green solu-tions because these systems aid instoring energy produced fromrenewable energy sources forfuture use, Archer said.

“Most people tend to forgetthat green technology is sustain-able only if it is economicallyviable,” Archer said. However,according to Archer, the prob-

lem with using lithium batteriesis that there is not enough lithi-um available in the world toreduce usage of fossil fuels byadopting batteries. Any increasein the demand for lithium forbatteries will also drive up theprice of lithium because of itslimited availability.

Aluminum, on the otherhand, is the most abundantmetal in the Earth’s crust.According to Archer, aluminumhas the advantages of cost, nat-ural abundance and also hasthree electrons to spare com-pared to lithium’s one whichmakes it seem like the perfectsolution. But aluminum also hasthe same dendrite problems aslithium, and the aluminum ionsare bulky, which increases itsshuttle time in the electrolyte.

“We are on the right pathand I predict that in the nextfive years, aluminum will becompetitive with lithium at leastin cost and performance,”Archer said.

Archer is also the co-directorof the King Abdullah Universityof Science and Technology –Cornell Center for Energy andSustainability. The center wasset up with a $25-million grantprovided over five years byKAUST and has several partneruniversities as its collaborators.

“The nice thing about col-laboration is that there is a nicefeedback loop and a dynamicexchange of knowledge inresearch is critical,” he said.

According to Archer, suchcollaborations also help focus onthe applications of polymer

materials, which led to thefounding of a company calledNOHMs Technologies in Ithaca.Archer is the founder and a tech-nical advisor of the company.

“Without deliberately con-necting our research work onthe fundamental side of poly-mers to these applications, suchbusinesses would not be possi-ble,” he said. NOHMs Tech -nologies commercializes batterysystems using lithium-sulphuranodes with NOHMs as a partof the electrolyte.

Until this year, Archer alsotaught Chemical Engineering3230: Fluid Mechanics.

“I live the best life one couldever live because I do so manydifferent things in any given dayfrom interacting with studentsin the lab and interacting withstaff as a director, but interactingwith young [undergraduate] stu-dents is really special,” he said.

Even though research inchemical engineering hasevolved over the years to study-ing systems at the molecularscale, Archer believes the oldadage that “chemical engineersare glorified plumbers” stillstands true.

“To understand the plumb-ing or the fluid mechanics of apolymer system, it is reallyimportant to study, at a funda-mental level, how the polymersinteract with each other andwith the surfaces of the pipe,and this leads back to where itall started for me,” he said.

By SRINITYA ARASANIPALAISun Contributor

Srinitya Arasanipalai can bereached at sa588@cornell.edu.

Prof. Lynden ArcherResearches Polymers

COURTESY OF PROF. LYNDEN ARCHER

Producing polymers | Prof. Lynden Archer, chemical and biomolecularengineering, studies polymers which are attached to various surfaces.

COURTESY OF PROF. LYNDEN ARCHER

Noteworthy NOHMs | Nanoscale organic hybrid materials are polymers which are attached to 3-D nanoparti-cles. These materials can be used to create better battery systems capable of storing large amounts of energy.

One-hundred feet above the ground onthe ladder-like steps of a canopy walk,eight Cornell students and one professorclung to the surrounding ropes as theyslowly inched forward.

But the canopy walk was merely onestop in their week-and-a-half long trip.These Cornellians were not in Ghana for awinter break vacation. Instead, theysought to identify key health concerns inGhana and implement projects to addressthem by speaking directly to nativeGhanaians.

Members of two Cornell groups, BigRed Relief and Cover Africa, visited vari-ous sites in southern Ghana to speak withlocal residents, assess their needs and comeup with new, sustainable projects.

Big Red Relief aimed to implementprojects which address issues on generaldisease prevention and nutrition, whileCover Africa focused more specifically onmalaria.

“Instead of having preconceivednotions of how we want to help [theGhanaians] fix the problems, we wantedto hear what they had to say about theirissues. We decided that listening to theirconcerns, their challenges and their day-to-day lives was the most valuable thingthat we could take from our trip,” saidJuhi Purswani ’15, co-president of CoverAfrica.

Through open forums and individualinterviews, the students spoke to a numberof Ghanaians to determine how to besthelp the communities they visited.Although the two groups travelled togeth-er, their agendas differed and they con-ducted separate interviews.

“The stories were really powerful, and alot of them were really emotional – it wasso magical that they were so open to us,having just met us 10 to 20 minutes earli-

er,” Purswani said. When Big Red Relief spoke to the com-

munities, they discovered that the peoplefaced a variety of diseases. Such ailmentsincluded sexually transmitted diseases,typhoid, yellow fever and many more.According to Madhvi Deol ’13, theGhanaians also face widespread malnutri-tion and weight problems because of theirunbalanced diet.

“Eating the food myself and knowingthe balance of food inspired a nutritionfocus [for the trip]. The Ghanaian diet hasa lot more focus on carbs and proteinsthan vegetables and fruits. They do eat

[vegetables and fruits], but the propor-tions are really off,” Deol said.

Cover Africa explored malaria. At thesites the students visited, they observedthat open gutters and pollution con-tributed to the breeding of mosquitoes andspread of malaria. They also saw that a lackof mosquito netting also plays a factor inspreading malaria. Cover Africa is current-ly fundraising to buy more mosquito netsto combat the spread of this disease.

Now that the students have a bettersense of the communities’ needs, theyhope to develop projects this upcomingyear. When they revisit the sites next win-

ter break with a new group of students,they aim to implement such projects,rather than merely assessing the situation.

“[The Ghanaians] really trusted us tobring these stories back to Cornell and tospread them among all our colleagueshere. I hope to harness that passion andenergy to go back and learn more. Now,we’re just in the process of figuring outwhat to do with all these narratives, howto put it together and create a great part-nership,” Purswani said.

By CAMILLE WANGSun Staff Writer

SCIENCE THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 13

Going to Ghana | Eight members of Big Red Relief and Cover Africa traveled throughout Southern Ghana to assess local health and nutritionneeds. This year, they will use what they learned to create sustainable projects in Ghana to address these concerns.

Students Identify Health andNutrition Concerns in Ghana

COURTESY OF MADHVI DEOL ’13

Community concerns | Two student organizations, Big Red Relief and Cover Africa, held open forums and conducted individual interviews with local residents to determine how best to helpeach community they visited in Ghana.

COURTESY OF MADHVI DEOL ’13

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Jeter Out for Start of Season,Joins Rodriguez, Teixeira onNew York Yankees’ Disabled List

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) —Yankees captain Derek Jeter isresigned to starting the seasonon the disabled list for the firsttime since 2001.

Jeter is undergoing treat-ment for his sore left ankle,still recovering from surgerylast October. His last gameaction came as a designatedhitter Saturday in a minorleague exhibition.

“Of course, it’s disappoint-ing,” Jeter said Tuesday. “I toldyou guys all along the goal wasto be ready on opening day,and I didn’t reach it. I ran outof days. I pushed to try to getthere opening day, and it didn’twork out. But I’ve still got tobe ready for the majority of theseason.”

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) —Even Brian Roberts couldn’tbelieve the performance hedelivered to help end Denver’s15-game winning streak.

Starting for only the sec-ond time, the rookie doubledhis season high with 18assists, Ryan Anderson scored23 points and the short-hand-ed New Orleans Hornets beatthe Nuggets 110-86 onMonday night.

“It’s crazy to fathom, hav-ing 18 assists,” Roberts said.“Guys play years and don’thave that many assists.Somebody pointed out I hadmore assists than they had as ateam. For me to come out inmy second start and do that isjust a testament to my team-mates making shots.”

And to Roberts’ workethic, too. He never had 10assists in four years at theUniversity of Dayton, wherehe was more of a scorer than afacilitator. Then he spent fiveyears trying to make an NBAroster before hooking on withthe Hornets last summer, re-working his game to becomea pass-first player.

11 of those passes turnedinto assists in the first halfalone against the Nuggets,who finished with four fewerassists than Roberts. Hebecame the 20th rookie tohave 18 assists or more andthe first since Darren Collisondid it for New Orleans in2010.

“I’ve had to grind and justfight to be on the team just tomake an opportunity formyself,” Roberts said. “It’ssomething I know I don’t takefor granted. But without myteammates making shots, it'snot even a discussion.”

Anderson was five of 11 onthree-pointers, and theHornets sank 14-of-25 threesoverall. Darius Miller, startingin place of injured shootingguard Eric Gordon, was fourof five behind the arc and had16 points as seven Hornetsscored in double figures.

New Orleans won its thirdin a row and was in control allthe way. The Hornets led bynine at the end of the firstquarter, by 21 at the half andby 18 entering the fourth.

Danilo Gallinari had 24points for the Nuggets, whowere without starting pointguard Ty Lawson (right heelinjury) for the third consecu-tive game. Denver lost for thefirst time since Feb. 22against Washington aftermatching its 1969-70 ABAteam’s record of 15 straightvictories.

“We played a bad game andthey played a great game,”said Nuggets point guardAndre Miller, who had ninepoints and six assists. “Wewere constantly taking the ballout of the basket and gettingfrustrated. Our game plan wasto trap the ball, and theirpoint guard found the openman. They outplayed us andoutworked us at both ends.”

The Hornets answeredevery Nuggets run, the last of

which closed the gap to 96-84when Kenneth Faried hit atough bank shot and wasfouled with 6:07 left. NewOrleans’ Anthony Davis fol-lowed with two free throws,Darius Miller drained a face-up three-pointer and Davisleaped high to jam in arebound follow, extending thelead to 103-84.

The closest Denver camein the second half was 67-58after a 16-4 spurt midwaythrough the third quarter. Butthe Hornets’ Roger Mason Jr.immediately hit back-to-backthree-pointers, and NewOrleans was up by doubledigits the rest of the way.

This one was never close.The Hornets went ahead

25-11 in the first quarter, get-ting back-to-back, wide-openthree-pointers from Andersonto cap the early run againstthe sluggish Nuggets. No onepicked up Anderson, who ledthe NBA in three-point bas-kets last season, when he shotfrom straightaway on the firstone. Denver left himunguarded again as he madeanother three the next timedown the court.

The Nuggets’ winningstreak was well on its way toending.

“We didn’t really talk aboutthat too much,” Roberts said.“We had a lot of stuff goingon in here in this lockerroom, so we didn’t want toworry about streak busting oranything like that. We justwanted to come out and playtogether.”

Denver missed Lawson,who had averaged 21.8 pointsin his last 18 games, muchmore than New Orleansmissed starting point guardGreivis Vasquez or Gordon.

“He’s important to usbecause he makes everyoneelse fit,” Nuggets coachGeorge Karl said. “These lastthree games we were thinkingwe are better than we are. It’shuman nature.”

Wilson Chandler returnedfor the Nuggets after missingtwo games with a left shoulderinjury and finished with 11points. Faried added 13 points.

Gordon, who is tied for theteam lead with 16.5 pointsper game, sat out with a soreleft ankle. Vasquez sat outwith a sprained left ankle afterstarting the first 70 games.

Roberts, who added 13points for his first double-double, and Miller, who wassix of seven from the floor,excelled in their absence.

“A lot of times this yearwe’ve let teams come backafter we got ahead of them,”Darius Miller said. “We didn’twant to do that tonight. Theywent on a great run and hadus on our heels a little bit, butwe bounced back.”

Most of Miller’s basketscame off of passes fromRoberts.

“It doesn’t happen if he(Roberts) doesn’t work hard,”Hornets coach MontyWilliams said. “He works histail off.”

New Orleans Hornets SnapDenver Nuggets’ 15-GameWinning Streak in Easy Win

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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — A nationalpoll of sports fans reveals that a distinct minoritysupports paying college athletes but nearly halfthink top college coaches should be paid as muchor more than their professional counterparts.

Additional results from the poll conducted bythe Marist College Center for SportsCommunication and the Marist Poll found that95 percent of fans want college athletes to attendclass and 67 percent — up 12 points from lastyear — largely believe that college athleticsdepartments regularly break NCAA rules.

“People think even more so than ever that col-leges cheat all the time,” said Keith Strudler,director of Marist's program. “That was driven bya couple of high-profile scandals this year — theHarvard and Miami cases. The Harvard one kindof struck at the core.”

Harvard issued academic sanctions againstapproximately 60 students in February who wereforced to withdraw from school for a period oftime in a cheating scandal that involved the finalexam in a class on Congress. Some athletesbecame ensnared, including two basketball teamco-captains.

The Marist survey asked six questions: if col-lege athletes should be paid; if college coachesbreak the rules during recruiting; if the NCAAshould expand the men’s basketball tournament;if college coaches should be paid as much as procoaches; if top college athletes should have toattend class like other students or be allowed tofocus only on sports; and who should be heldresponsible when athletes get in trouble — ath-letes, coaches, or college presidents?

Respondents to the poll released Tuesdayappeared satisfied — 77 percent — with the cur-rent size of the NCAA men’s basketball tourna-ment, while 70 percent would hold athletesresponsible for their transgressions, not coaches orcollege presidents.

Despite the professional aura that surroundsthe NCAA basketball tournament, sports fans pre-fer to maintain some semblance of amateurism,particularly when it comes to compensating theathletes that play big-time college sports.

Of 754 sports fans in the survey released

Tuesday, only 21 percent said they’d like to see topcollege athletes paid a stipend or salary beyondtheir scholarship, while 72 percent believed ascholarship alone was enough compensation.

So, despite the discussion about paying collegeathletes, public opinion doesn’t seem to supportthe idea, and the trend seems to be going evenfurther from it.

“I have expected that, over the years, peoplewould start to recognize the athletes work veryhard and it’s kind of an unstable, unpaid laborforce, and you would start to see those numberscreep up a little bit more,” Strudler said. “And wesaw kind of the opposite happen this year.Overwhelmingly, people thought that a scholar-ship was all that people really deserved.

“Increasingly, people seem to want to kind ofbuy back into this myth of amateurism.”

Strudler also said he thought people wouldwant student-athletes to go to class but didn’texpect that total would be 95 percent.

“It’s almost as if they want to ignore some ofthe glaring realities of major college sports,” hesaid.

The poll found that 45 percent of sports fansthink college coaches should be paid as much asthe pros. That’s up from 39 percent last year,though 51 percent still feel they should receiveless. That’s significant considering the nearly $2million difference in average salary between NBAcoaches and top college men’s basketball coaches.

Strudler said he was surprised by the amountof dissonance people seem to have.

“On the one hand, they don’t want to pay ath-letes and they think that everyone’s cheating,”Strudler said. “But on the other hand, they wantto pay their college coaches as much as the pros.They want to professionalize it on one hand andreward the coaches, but on the other hand theyseem really, really willing to penalize the athletesand not compensate the athletes.”

The overall survey, the second year for thisstudy on ethical issues in intercollegiate athletics,included 1,233 adults and was conducted March4-7. Adults 18 years of age and older residing inthe continental United States were interviewed bytelephone.

Sports Fans Reject Idea of Paying CollegeAthletes, Believe Scholarships Are Enough

Junior fencer April Whitney and freshmanfencer Angelica Gangemi traveled to SanAntonio, Texas, this past weekend to representCornell in the NCAA Fencing Championships.

After day one of the championships, Gangemifound herself in eighth place, followed byWhitney in 16th place. Gangemi finished thetournament in 14th place, while Whitney tookthe 17th spot.

Coming out of the Northeast regional compe-tition, the largest and strongest of the fourregional competitions, both Gangemi andWhitney finished within the top 15 in foil.Gangemi, who came into the regional as the 11thseed, finished in sixth place overall with Whitneyfinishing close behind in 12th place. Based onthese strong performances at regionals, both girlswere chosen to advance and compete in thechampionships this past weekend.

On the first day of competition, Gangemi andWhitney found themselves competing againstone another.

“It’s always nerve-wracking competing againsta teammate,” Gangemi said. “We know eachother’s strengths and weaknesses. April is a reallytalented fencer and a good friend, so competingagainst her is difficult.”

Gangemi finished with overall 11 victories inthe championship for strong conclusion to herrookie campaign.

“It was exciting — my goal was to be able togo to regionals, and to make it to theChampionship was amazing,” she said. “I hopeto go back and improve my results in the years tocome.”

Whitney, who has competed for Cornell sinceher freshman year and has previously participat-ed in two NCAA championships, finished with atotal of nine wins under her belt. Together,Gangemi and Whitney lead Cornell to animpressive 19th place team finish.

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 19SPORTS

I win, you win | Freshman Angelica Gangemi finishedwith 11 victories, while April Whitney claimed nine.

OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The Cornell softball team headed south toFlorida for Spring Break to compete in a totalof 14 games in eight days.

Cornell participated in the South Floridainvitational on March 16 and 17, facing offagainst five schools. The Red then went on toplay double-headers at Bethune-CookmanUniversity, Stetson University, JacksonvilleUniversity and Manhattan College. The squadalso competed against the University of SouthFlorida in a single game match up.

The Red kicked off day one of the SouthFlorida Invitational with games against thedefending Northeast champion, RobertMorris University, and the reigning Big Southchampion, Radford University.

The Red defeated RMU, 3-2, but fell toRadford, 7-5. In the RMU game, the Redscored one run in the fourth inning and tworuns in the sixth to establish a two run leadgoing into the seventh inning. RMU ralliedand scored one in the seventh, but the squadheld its ground and prevented RMU fromtying the game.

In the second game of the day againstRadford, Cornell fought a tough game fromstart to finish. Cornell was off to a good startwith a 2-0 lead, but fell behind 5-2, and tiedit at 5-5 in the sixth inning before slipping inthe extra innings to hand RMU the win.

Cornell opened its second day of the invi-tational with three contests, beginning withQuinnipiac. Parker was 3-for-3 with two dou-bles, a home run, four RBIs and three runs.Although the Red fell to Valparaiso, 3-4, inthe second game, freshman Michiko

McGivney showed a stellar performance andhomered again. Erin Belles was also a keyplayer with a flawless 2-for-2 execution. TheRed finished the day off on a high note with awin against Boston College.

Cornell then travelled to Daytona, Fla., thenext day to face Bethune-Cookman in a dou-ble match up. In the first game, the Red start-ed strong with a 6-0 lead after four and a halfinnings. Bethune-Cookman fought back withthree runs, but it was not enough and the Redtook home the win. The second game wasmore challenging for the Red, who quicklyfell into a three-run deficit at the close of thesecond inning. The squad made two runsshortly thereafter, but would not go on tofully bridge the gap until the seventh inning.Cornell later made five more runs to capturethe victory.

The Red took on Stetson next and lost inboth games, the first by a score of 3-10 andthe second by a score of 6-7. Cornell hopedto end its losing streak in its games againstJacksonville, but could not pull through andlost both, 0-8 and 4-5.

The Red then matched up against USFBulls and was defeated 0-5, handing the Redits fifth consecutive loss. The Bulls’ fourpitchers brought home the win for USF, asthey all scattered five hits and three walks andstruck out 10.

The tide finally turned for the Red as thesquad went on to defeat Manhattan in bothgames. The Red fought hard to bring homeboth victories: the first, 4-3, and the second,16-6.

What break? | During the Red’s trip to Florida, the team played as manyas three games in one day.

LOWELL GEORGE / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULERSun Contributor

Sydney Altshculer can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

Gangemi takes 14th place; Whitney follows at 17thBy ANNA FASMANSun Contributor

Anna Fasman can be reached atsports@cornellsun.com.

Following Regional Titles,Red Heads to UVA forCompetitive Match-Upthree of our awards for thingsjust states how good we’ve beenin this regionals and this year.This is voted on by all the teamsin the reigion as well as USPAofficials. It’s something you lookat and youtake as ahigh com-p l i m e n twhen your[peers] voteyou in thatstrongly.”

Both themen andw o m e n ’ steam willhead down to Charlottesville,Va., to take on UVA this week-end. The women have beaten theNo. 2 UVA team twice this sea-son, including in a victory in thefinal of the Bill FieldInvitational, while the men suf-fered one of their two losses ofthe season to the Cavaliers backin October.

“The game this weekend isgoing to be more similar to thecaliber of team’s we’ll be playingagainst [in the national tourna-ment],” Feldman said. “Playing ateam that may be slightly better

than [Colorado State, the Red’sfirst-round opponent in thenational tournament], is onlygoing to help us out.”

Eldredge said that next week-end’s game against UVA will helphim decide how he will set thewomen’s lineup for the nationalchampionships.

“ T h e r e ’ sfour girls thatare all verys t r o n g — i t ’swho ends upplaying best,”he said.“Maybe we doa rotation ofp l a y e r s .Maybe we justfind out who

has more success against theVirginia squad and we just gowith that.”

Eldredge added that the gameagainst UVA will help the teamout.

“It’s a huge bonus for us tohave this game in this comingweekend,” he said. “It’s an infor-mative thing for us — it allowsus to strategically plan better [forthe national tournament.”

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SOFTBALL

FENCING

C.U. Competes at Championships

Red Kept Busy Over BreakWith 14 Games in Eight Days

“It’s a huge bonus for usto have this game in thiscoming weekend.”

David Eldredge

Sports 20WEDNESDAYMARCH 27, 2013The Corne¬ Daily Sun

The women’s rowing team will competein its first race of the season at the IthacaInvitational Saturday.

The Red has been ranked in the top 20in preseason polls for the past three years,and it is ranked No. 15 in this year’s presea-son polls. Under the leadership of seniorcaptains LeighArcher and ShellyTremaglio, as well ashead coach HilaryGehman, the squadis looking to comeout strong in everyboat.

The team aims totake its land speedand translate that to its boat speed to con-tinue its season goal of posting a successfulfinish in the Ivy League Championship, fol-lowed by an invitation to the NCAA nation-al tournament.

“This spring, our focus is pretty simple:Go fast,” Tremaglio said. “Last year wasCornell women’s rowing’s best performanceever. We’re looking to keep the intensity

high, be competitive in the Ivy League andhopefully gain another invitation toNCAAs.”

The Red posted a 7-5 record last year enroute to a fourth-place finish as an IvyLeague team, second place finish as an IvyLeague Varsity Eight and 13th place finish atthe NCAA nationals.

The team hopes that hardcore wintertraining will lead to an improved perfor-

mance this season.Despite the cold, theteam says it has been tire-lessly and consistentlypracticing over springbreak preparing for itsupcoming races.

“We had an awesomewinter training season,”Tremaglio said. “We did

a lot of hard work in the weight room. Ournumbers headed into this spring season arebetter than they’ve ever been. We’re all excit-ed about all the PRs but still cognizant that,in our sport, we ultimately prove ourselveson the water, not in the weight room or onthe erg.”

The rowing team looks to finish thisweek’s invitational as a start to their highly

anticipated season this year. “I think the goal is to work out any kinks

before our first official race against Yale,”Tremaglip said. “We’re hoping to use therace to prepare mentally for the rest of the

season and to test our speed on our homecourse.”

By MARISSA VELASQUEZSun Staff Writer

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

I’m on a boat | After a long winter of indoor training, the women’s rowing team will competein its first race of the spring at the Ithaca Invitational scrimmage March 30.

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

The men’s and women’s polo teams took home theregional titles this past weekend at the regional cham-pionship tournament held at Oxley Equestrian Center.The men crushed Brown University, 32-2, on Fridaybefore topping UConn, 28-12, in Sunday’s final; thewomen beat Harvard, 29-8, on Saturday before ridingto an easy victory over Skidmore, 27-4, in the finals thefollowing day. The women’s win was the team’s fifthconsecutive regional title.

The victories in the regional competition guaranteeeach team an automatic bid to the national champi-onships in mid-April. The women currently stand asthe No. 1 seed for the national tournament, while themen head into the championships at No. 3 behind No.2 Colorado State and No. 1 UVA.

The men’s victory in the final over UConn this yearcomes after last season’s one-goal loss to the Huskies inlast year’s regional final. In last year’s game, the Redheld the lead for the majority of the game, but lost afterUConn scored a flurry of goals in the final chukker.UConn graduated its entire starting lineup, however, sothe team the Red faced this year was entirely new.

“There’s nothing much to compare to last year’steam, [last year’s team] was really spectacular altogeth-er,” junior captain Nik Feldman said. “But they had agood team this year; they especially took us by surprisein the first half.”

Although the men had beaten the Huskies handilyearlier this season, the match started slowly for the Redas it fell behind 2-1 early. The team ended the firstchukker up 7-4, but fell behind 9-8 in the secondchukker before rallying to finish the half leading 10-9.

Regular started Nick Steig sat out the first half for

the Red due to a stomach illness and was replaced bysenior Connor Pardell. Steig entered the game for thesecond half and the Red quickly sped ahead of theHuskies, although head coach David Eldredge ’81 wasquick to praise Pardell’s play.

“Connor did very well in the first half,” he said. “Hewent out and did himself proud. He did very well forhimself and the team.”

Feldman noted that UConn’s mindset going into thegame may have aided the Huskies’ strong first half per-formance.

“I think the mentality going into the game was thatwe weren’t worried, and they had nothing to lose,” hesaid. “They went full-out. They did an excellent job —hats off to them.”

In the third chukker, Cornell topped UConn 10-1and added eight more goals in the fourth for the com-manding final victory.

The women’s team, which is currently undefeatedagainst collegiate opponents, easily won both games onthe weekend. Eldredge said he was pleased with theteam’s play.

“I was quite happy with how they performed,” hesaid. “We went into it feeling confident winning andgetting the bid, but at the same time, you never wantto take anybody for granted. You can’t go in andhalfway it.”

In the final against Skidmore, the women took a 9-1 lead in the first chukker and added four more in thesecond chukker for a 13-1 half-time score. The Red led18-3 after the third chukker, then outscored theThoroughbreds 9-1 in the final chukker. The Redrotated senior captain Ali Hoffman, junior captainKailey Eldredge, and freshmen Devin Cox and AnnaWinslow throughout the game, with each one playingthree chukkers. Cox led the team with 10 goals, whileHoffman followed close behind with nine tallies.

Besides first place, the team also took home manyawards at the tournament. Senior captain Branden VanLoon, Feldman, Steig, Hoffman, Eldredge and Cox allwere awarded Northeast Regional All-Star honors.Women’s alternate Beth LeBow took home the RegionSportsmanship award, and the team also won someBest Pony and Best String awards.

“I’m very happy. Obviously, we went into it feelingpretty good about things,” Eldredge said. “Taking

Moving on | Winning the regional titles secures both teams a spot at the national championship tournament, which will be heldin Texas in April. Prior to the national championships, both teams will travel to UVA to take on the highly skilled Cavalier squads.

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

By EMILY BERMANSun Assistant Sports Editor

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WOMEN’S ROWING

Rowers to Open Spring Season With Ithaca Invitational Scrimmage

“Our numbers headed intothe spring season are betterthan they’ve ever been.”

Shelly Tremaglio

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Red Captures Regional Titles; Players Honored