If a friend doesn’t respond to yourFacebook messages this week, he or she maybe one of more than 100 Cornell studentswho have pledged to disconnect from tech-nology for three days. The commitment ispart of a social experiment by CU [dis]con-nect, a student-led project that aims toencourage face-to-face contact on campusand beyond.

Participants have vowed to spend threedays without cell phones, Facebook or anyother social media platforms and to activelyparticipate in face-to-face conversation,according to Rudy Gerson ’15, founder ofthe project and a Sun columnist.

“Our goal is to see what happens whentechnology is out of the picture — fromchanging how we see ourselves to noticingmore things on the way to class,” Gersonsaid.

The event, which will run fromWednesday to Friday, will include severalevents during which participants will discussthe impact of technology and social media ontheir lives and community. According toGerson, CU [dis]connect is working withCornell Minds Matter, the College of Artsand Sciences, the Department of Science andTechnology Studies, Coffee Hour, the AskBig Questions fellowship program, a fellow-ship that supports those who promote civildiscourse on campus and the StudentAssembly to fund, promote and oversee theevent.

The project’s goal is not to discourage theuse of technology or social media entirely, butto encourage students to reevaluate their rela-tionship with technology, according toGerson.

“We’re not anti-technology or anti-email.We just want to look at the effects of hyper-connectivity, especially in regards to smartphones,” Gerson said.

Around 100 Cornell students have signedthe online pledge, and many others have

expressed views sympathetic to the group’sgoal of promoting conversation on campus,according to Gerson.

“I think CU [dis]connect is a great idea.It’s remarkable how often we pass each otherand fail to say ‘hello’ or even offer up a smile.I’m guilty of it too. ... Being able to discon-nect from your phone and email — even ifonly for a few hours — can help you feel way

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Debate Weighs Pros, Cons of Greek System

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Debaters talk about exclusivity, sexual assault, binge-drinking in Greek system

The Greek system, which one inthree students at Cornell are membersof, has recently come under scrutinyfor its association with binge drink-ing, hazing and sexual assault. In lightof the controversy surrounding theGreek system, the Cornell Forensics

Society host-ed a public

debate Tuesday questioning whethersororities and fraternities have donemore harm than good for Cornell.

Moderated by members of theCFS, the debate featured two sides: apro-Greek side whose members con-sisted of leadership within the Greektri-council — the InterfraternityCouncil, Panhellenic Council and theMulticultural Greek Letter Council— and an anti-Greek sidethat consisted of stu-

dent leaders advocating campus inclu-sion and women’s issues.

While the anti-Greek side arguedthat the system exacerbates binge-drinking, sexual assault and exclusivi-ty, the pro-Greek side argued thatthese issues are not exclusive to theGreek community.

“Cornell is really not reflective ofthe average Greek system,” said Alan

Debating | Student leaderssit on a panel to debate theharms and benefits of the

Greek system.

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By SARAH SASSOONSun Staff Writer

More Than 100 Students Vow to Ignore Phones for Three Days

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Marisa Smith ’13 tells a student about the Cornell Farmworker Program, a program dedicated toimproving living and working conditions of farmworkers, at the Social Justice Career Fair Tuesday.

Farmworkers and justice

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Call-in CampaignFor Arrested GradsMobilizes Activists

After Nancy Morales grad and Omar Figueredograd were arrested last month for refusing to answerquestions about their citizenship status, a phonecampaign urging Cameron county’s district attorneyoffice to drop the charges — which the campaign’sorganizers say are “trumped up” — has mobilizedover 100 callers.

Morales and Figueredo were arrested inBrownsville after they refused to answer a borderpatrol agent’s question about their citizenship status.Figueredo was arrested for failing to identify himself,resisting arrest and obstructing a passageway, whileMorales was arrested for interference with publicduties, a class B misdemeanor.

The two students, who are U.S. citizens, saidthey refused to answer the agent’s question notbecause they did not have documentation, butbecause they wanted to put up an act of civil resis-tance against what Figueredo called “an unautho-rized form of intimidation and harassment that hasbecome naturalized and normalized in the borderregion.” They were released on bond on Mar. 26.

Those who participated in the call-in campaignsaid they thought the charges against the two stu-dents should be dropped because the arrest epito-mized racial profiling and harassment in the borderregion.

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Man in Cookie MonsterCostume Arrested

NEW YORK (AP) — A man dressed as the CookieMonster has been accused of shoving a 2-year-old in NewYork's Times Square and has been charged with endanger-ing the welfare of a child.

Queens resident Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez was arrestedSunday afternoon. He was arraigned Monday on chargesincluding aggressive begging. He didn’t enter a plea.

A Connecticut family posed for a photo with the mandressed as the “Sesame Street” character. Police say hedemanded $2 but the family refused to pay. A criminalcomplaint says the man shoved the toddler and yelledobscenities at the family.

Circus Elephant ShotIn Drive-by Shooting

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a RinglingBros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant was hit by abullet in a drive-by shooting in Tupelo, Miss.

Circus spokeswoman Melinda Hartline says the ele-phant was not seriously hurt Tuesday. She says no otheranimals were harmed.

The elephant, Carol, is part of a circus in town for aseries of performances. The Asian elephant was in an out-side area of the Tupelo BancorpSouth Arena.

Police Chief Tony Carleton says a vehicle drove pastthe arena about 2 a.m. and fired into the area. Police areinvestigating.

Sheep Employed to MowLawn in France

PARIS (AP) — Will tourists soon see flocks of baaingsheep at the Eiffel Tower and bleating ewes by NotreDame cathedral?

That could be the case, since Paris City Hall thisweek installed a small flock of sheep to mow the lawnat the city’s gardens, replacing gas-guzzling lawnmow-ers.

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Members of the Planning andEconomic Development Committee pre-sented a new plan for form-based code —zoning with the aim of creating attractivedevelopments that better meet communityneeds — Tuesday at a CollegetownNeighborhood Council meeting.

According to Megan Wilson, a cityplanning department staff member, form-based code focuses on ensuring high qual-ity construction in the Collegetown area,transitioning from lower to higher densityin the central core of Collegetown,enhancing green space in the area and pro-moting walkable neighborhoods. The newplan is simpler than previous versions ofthe code.

The plan divides Collegetown into sixdistricts: fourresidential andtwo mixed usedistricts, witheach districthaving specificguidelines fornew construction.

“Significant redevelopment is not men-tioned [in the plan]. We want to protectthe character of the residential neighbor-hood,” Wilson said. “All four residentialdistricts have a maximum height of threestories. It’s a hybrid code, form-based aswell as the traditional code used. We wantto provide property owners some options.”

The plan will be voted on by theCommon Council in the summer after it

has been presented tothe public, accordingto Wilson.

A l d e r p e r s o n sEllen McCollister’78 (D-3rd Ward)and Graham Kerslick(D-4th Ward) spokeabout the revisedplan at the meeting.

“The originalplan included fourelements — paymentin lieu of parking, anincentive height dis-trict, form-basedcode and design —and we’re now justfocusing on one, theform-based codes. The minimum parkingrequirements, and the other points of the

original planhave a hugeimpact, but wewanted to takeit off discus-sion,” Kerslick

said. “It was a breakthrough to break thesecomponents up.”

McCollister echoed Kerslick’s senti-ment, saying that the code revision “turnedout to be an incredible opportunity.”

Still, the plan is lacking in some aspects,according to McCollister.

“The remaining obstacle or disappoint-ment is having to take out the idea ofincentive zones. It was a dream for a lot ofus to provide incentives for a mixed-used,year-round Collegetown environment,”

McCollister said. The original plan pro-posed providing incentive zones, areas inthe city where developers can create struc-tures that are tax-exempt.

Monica Moll, a Collegetown landlordand board member of the LandlordsAssociation of Tompkins County, echoedMcCollister’s views on creating incentivezones for property owners.

“It would provide citywide improve-ments. The historic district has somethingextremely similar,” Moll said.

Tom Hanna ’64, chair of the East HillCivic Association, suggested variousimprovements that could be made to theform-based code plan.

“Home ownership should increase inCollegetown, affordability should bereflected in our plans, [and] pocket-parksare needed; we need to target the kind of

population we’re looking for and anticipa-tions for its development,” Hanna said.“Development should make[Collegetown] a year-round retail commu-nity.”

Tessa Rudan ’89, a member of thePlanning and Development Board, saidthat community feedback would be takeninto account as the city considers theform-based code plan.

“Looking at this historically, takingthings out [of the original plan] was a gooddecision. Some of these changes do makesense, but I think the idea is to stay onmission, and to proceed from there,”Rudan said.

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Dancers preview their upcoming spring show, Pao Bhangra, Tuesday on Ho Plaza.

Walk into the clubMixed Reactions to NewC-Town Zoning ProposalCommon Council will vote on code this summerBy KEVIN MILIANSun Staff Writer

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun.com.

“Significant redevelopment is not men-tioned in the plan.”

Megan Wilson

The inspiration for “Dr. TProject: A Cornell Hitchhiker'sGuide to Culture” — a weeklymeeting that teaches studentsabout pop culture — first cameabout when Prof. ShawkatToorawa, near eastern studies,tried to help students grasp newconcepts in class by connectingnew material to pop culture.

When students were unfamil-iar with the pop culture refer-

ences Toorawa made, he beganto tease his students, saying heneeded to teach another class,“Everything Professor ToorawaThinks You Should Know butYou Don’t.”

“It is possible to be seriousand to be a scholar and be inter-ested in things that people don'tthink are serious,” Toorawa said.

Three years ago, Toorawabegan to teach that very class;now, every Tuesday, for precisely26 minutes, Toorawa lecturesabout three cultural things he

thinks students should knowthat day. This week’s topics wereAntonio Machado, a Spanishpoet, Changi, an area at the east-ern end of the island ofSingapore and The Parallel Lines,an album by Blondie.

“Something that is fun to donow has become a satisfying andvery important thing to do,”Toorawa said when speakingabout conveying general culturalknowledge to students.

Exposure to different culturesis something Toorawa is familiar

with. Toorawa was born inEngland, but raised in Franceand Singapore. He went to aninternational school, and aftergraduating, he chose to move tothe United States instead of tak-ing what he said was the conven-tional route of going back toEngland to pursue his career.

“In most of the world, youhave to begin a specific course.... I didn’t know how to choosewhere to go. It h o u g h tabout it and Idecided Iloved litera-ture andwanted tolearn a newl a n g u a g e .One [lan-guage] that Iknew was very hard and interest-ing was Arabic,” Toorawa said.

When Toorwa enrolled inUniversity of Pennsylvania as anundergraduate, his advisor sug-gested he take intensive Arabicbecause he would learn the lan-guage faster. By making thisdecision to plunge into Arabic,Toorawa paved the path towardhis future career.

Toorawa said that same advi-sor — who he described as anEnglishman who rode his bike toschool — served as a role modelto him. One day Toorawa askedhim, “How does someonebecome like you?”

His advisor’s answer was,“Major in Arabic, get a Ph.D inArabic [and] get a job inArabic.”

Toorawa followed his advi-sor’s advice, but took somedetours along the way.

Toorawa went to college in1981 and left school 16 yearslater. While trying to completehis Ph.D, he went back andforth between the U.S. andMauritius Island, where his fam-ily lived.

He taught in the only univer-sity in Mauritius Island until

2000, whenhe returnedto the U.S.for his jobi n t e r v i e wwith Cornell.

A tCornell, hewas hired toteach Arabicliterature, his

dream job. Toorawa teachescourses such as NES 6723: TheArabian Nights: Then and Nowand NES 4727: New York, Paris,Baghdad: Poetry of the City.

Toorawa said he encouragesothers to assume a teaching rolein the Dr. T Project. Toorawasays students, graduate studentsand faculty can also share threeinteresting things on Tuesdays,adding that President DavidSkorton has been a guest in hisseries.

“This is not about me orthings I think are important; it isabout someone who says theseare cool things,” Toorawa said.

Prof. Toorawa: Dr. T Project Teaches Students About ‘Cool Things’By LUCY MEHRABYANSun Staff Writer

Pop (culture) quiz | Prof. Shawkat Toorawa converses with members of the Ithaca community Tuesday.

PETER PAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“It is possible to be seriousand to be a scholar and beinterested in things people

don’t think are serious.”Prof. Shawkat Toorawa

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“Allowing border patrol to question people about their legalstatus in an airport where they already have to identify them-selves if they want to board a plane is unnecessary,” saidEsmeralda Arrizon-Palomera grad, president of DREAMCornell. “It instills fear in communities that are already heavilypoliced.”

Arrizon-Palomera added that the two students’ decision tonot answer questions about their citizenship status was a “deci-sion to resist harassment from the border patrol” and was “rightand necessary.”

Catherine Jung ’13, another participant in the call-in cam-paign, said the border patrol agent’s questioning near theMexico-U.S. border was an example of racial profiling.

“Why are we so intent on kicking [out] ‘Mexicans’ but notthe ‘Canadians’? Is it because people associate Mexico with dark-er skin tone and equate this with [being] not American?” Jungsaid.

Prof. Paula Ioanide, comparative race and ethnicity studies,Ithaca College, said that after watching the arrest of her friendsthrough the livestream video, she “went into organizing modeand asked everyone I know [to call the Brownsville airport andthe Brownsville Police Department].”

After Ioanide found out what the charges were and whereMorales and Figueredo were taken after their arrest, she and fel-low organizers set up a call-in campaign to get the chargesdropped.

Ioanide said she was exasperated by the fact that refusing toanswer the border patrol agent’s question led to Morales andFigueredo’s arrest.

“When we exercise our [right to not answer a border patrolagent’s question], this is what happens?” Ioanide said.

Orlando Lara M.F.A. ’11, another organizer of the phonecampaign, shared Ioanide’s exasperation.

“I had no idea the police would step in to arrest withoutwarning,” Lara said.

Although many calls were made to the district attorney’soffice, Lara said many call-in participants’ calls were deferred toa federal agency, even though the arrest and subsequent charges

were criminal and had nothing to do with federal agencies.“[The D.A.’s office] is trying to tell people that they don’t

have the charges in their office and that they should call the fed-eral agencies. ... Sometimes they’d say [call the] Border PatrolAgency, sometimes they’d say Immigration CustomsEnforcement,” Lara said.

As of Tuesday, however, the D.A.’s office started to accept thecalls instead of referring callers to federal agencies, according toLara.

Virginia Raymond, a lawyer based in Texas, said Morales andFigueredo’s case is interesting because it highlights the contra-diction between the application of immigration law at the bor-der and the rights that the U.S. constitution guarantees.Raymond said some immigration practices at the border violateconstitutional rights, including guarantees of freedom of speech,prevention of unreasonable searches and seizures and equal pro-tection.

In most cases, Raymond said, the conflict between immigra-tion law and the constitution is not challenged because whenquestioned by a border patrol agent, “most U.S. citizens wouldusually say, ‘yeah, I’m a citizen.’”

She said the two students were courageous for exercising theirconstitutional rights because they called attention to the dis-crepancy between immigration law and constitutional rights.Raymond said she has not personally seen any cases where U.S.citizens refused to answer border patrol agents’ questions.

“We haven’t had many U.S. citizens in a non-criminal con-text that I know of challenging immigration law and borderpatrol practices because most people just go along for the sake ofconvenience,” Raymond said. “We use the privilege we have asU.S. citizens. We don’t challenge the privilege and see the injus-tices that others must endure.”

Figueredo said that the case brought up issues “that peoplelive with on a daily basis but aren’t conscious of.” The studentshas been in Texas since last week and are still figuring out detailsof how to get back to Ithaca.

“Since last Tuesday, all we wanted to do was go back toIthaca,” Figueredo said.

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She has not seen many U.S. citizens challenge immigration law

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more integrated into the Cornell community,” saidCristina Lara ’14, who said she will be participating inthe event.

Some students say they feel that social media andtexting can actually facilitate friendship by overcomingphysical distance and inconvenience.

“Many assume that the use of phones and socialmedia inhibits meaningful conversation and relation-ships, but I say that in many ways it does exactly theopposite,” Mark Yoon ’16 said.

Others felt the project was simply infeasible for theaverage Cornell student.

“It makes sense in the context of social media, butmany Cornell students need to check their email foracademic and professional purposes,” ThoraBjornsdottir ’14, said.

If the project proves to be popular with Cornellstudents, Gerson said he hopes the three-day eventwill blossom into an annual tradition.

“We’re waiting to see the reaction, but personally,I’d like to see it become a yearly event. But it won’thappen if the buzz isn’t there. We want to see thatsomething’s been gained from it all,” Gerson said.

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Workman ’13, former executive vice president of IFC. “Iwould say the Greek system [at Cornell] is headed in anextremely positive direction.”

Workman said the Greek system and the leadershipwithin it provide a means to regulate issues such as bingedrinking and sexual assault that are prevalent on campus.

“The Greek system is the place where individuals canfeel safer because of the leadership structure,” Workmansaid. Workman said the leadership structure within theGreek system assumes responsibility for the safety of itsmembers at its events, a leadership structure that he saysdoes not exist at other student-hosted parties.

The issue of diversity and inclusion within the Greeksystem was prevalent throughout the debate.

In response to the assertion that the Greek system isracially exclusive, Juan Carlos Toledo ’13, Tri-CouncilLiaison and a sports writer for The Sun, argued that theUniversity, IFC and Panhellenic councils work to makethe system as inclusive as possible.

While anti-Greek panelists argued that it is unfair thatMGLC chapters do not have houses while IFC fraternitiesdo, Toledo said the lack of housing was not a diversityissue, but an issue of a lack of strong alumni funding.

“MGLC fraternities and sororities are much younger.... Our alumni network is not large enough to permit forthem to donate to us directly,” Toledo said. “[It’s not that]the current Cornell system is discriminating against thesechapters. ... The University is always opening up possibil-ities for funding [for the MGLC].”

Toledo, along with other speakers on the pro-Greekside, also stressed the leadership opportunities that beinga part of the Greek system allowed him.

“I would not be the kind of leader or person that Iknow I am had I not become Greek,” he said.

In retaliation, Michelle Huang ’14 said while the pro-Greek side “tries to argue there is something unique aboutGreek membership that facilitates leadership ... I thinkthat leadership happens not because of Greek membershipbut in spite of it.”

Several issues were hotly debated, but the issue ofexclusion remained the primary concern of the anti-Greekpanel.

Although Workman and Carli Van Holmes ’14, presi-dent of the Panhellenic council, stressed that joining aGreek organization is a process of self-selection, Huangargued that the individuals who self-select to enter intothe system usually fit a certain socioeconomic criteria.

“Females who feel that they cannot afford to buy thenice clothes that you need for rush simply don’t rushbecause they don’t feel like it’s a space where they belong,”she said. “The system is inherently exclusionary.”

The debate triggered several different responses fromaudience members, both Greek and non-Greek, elucidat-ing that the issue continues to remain a controversial one.

Van Holmes stressed that the Greek community con-tinues to make changes and improvements accordingly.

“The Cornell Greek community is incredibly open todialogue and self improvement,” Van Holmes said.

Cornell Greek Leaders Say System FostersLeadership, Diversity and Philanthropy

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CORRECTIONSA previous version of a sports spring supplement article Tuesday, “Red Heads

Towards Improvement,” incorrectly quoted Kristen Towne ’13 as saying, “We are bet-ter than anyone else.” In fact, she said, “We know better than anyone else what we arecapable of.”

An article in the sports spring supplement Tuesday, “Rowers Open With Six StraightWins,” contained text for a story about the women’s lacrosse team. In fact, the articleshould have been about the women’s rowing team. Additionally, the headline shouldhave read, “Women Look for Positive Results in the Water.” The correct article can befound on Cornellsun.com under that headline.

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A SandstormOf Memory

Matt Hudson | Red in the Face

Massachusetts was a film screenedfrom my kitchen window,breathing frost around the

white frames pockmarked by ballisticacorns, declarations of war from angrilychattering squirrels. A male cardinaldefended his perch from a grackle,offended red wings flapping againstblack feathers and spraying flakes of oldsnow scattered with fallen sunflowerseeds. The bird feeder, forest green paintpeeling from under its tarnished copperroof, was a cottage hung from a shep-herd’s crook, plunged deep into thefrozen burial grounds of long-dead daf-fodils. It waslike GrandC e n t r a lStation or awatering holeon theSerengeti, anexus of hol-l o w - b o n e dchaos atwhich food,like the pull and warmth of the sun, keptall things in balance. A shameless voyeurwith arms folded slackly over a half-fin-ished crossword, I ran my coffee-burnttongue over stubborn toast crumbs,watching nuthatches and sparrows flitaround gridlocks of dogwood twigs. Wewere neighbors then, I suppose, chainedto a single moment like a breeze caughtin a landscape painting. Nostalgia struckmy cheek with a soundless slap, and inthat moment shared through the windowpane, I thought that, maybe, humans arebirds with memories of broken wings.

The past is a dull butcher’s knife, butit pricks like a sewing needle; it is amaze of warped mirrors that reflect aconstancy of self-paradox. Memorykneads history like Play-doh, moldingit into abstractions until we can onlyrecognize the original shape by pressingit back into the yellow plastic container.All the world’s a kindergarten class,hopelessly mixing up the color-codedcaps until what’s left is either a pastiche,formless blob or, quite possibly, modernart. Of course, like cake batter or a shirtfresh from the drier, what craves ourattention most is that which isn’t per-fectly smooth. Old pain snags our fin-gers like imperfections on glass, as if theonly constant in the amorphous Play-doh lump of memory were what we’drather not remember. Injured sensitivi-ty and buried trauma chain us to theground like anchors weighed on sinkingships. When a bird fears its broken

wing has not healed, it huddles into itsplumage and refuses the reassuring callof the wind and the rustling applause ofdried leaves. Are we so different?Memory can be a cage, a vicious sand-storm preventing us from moving onwith our lives because we can’t see pastthe walls of blasting salt and stone.

I was departing for New Hampshirein mid-October years ago, hefting agym bag onto my shoulder as I bid mymother farewell with a half-hug and asmile. She stopped me as I turned,already missing me as she asked me notto say ‘goodbye.’ There’s a sort of final-

ity to it, car-rying a sadsugges t ionthat oncepaths split,they willnever againrejoin. “Seeyou soon.”“Until wem e e t

again...” There’s a promise in thesewords, a pinky swear firm with hope. “Imiss you.” Maybe memory hurts mostwhen words mean something, whencalling ‘goodbye’ to Grandpa through ascreen door in Cortland is a finale, apermanent FIN stamped in ink andpunctuated by Stage IV colon cancer.Sometimes it’s difficult to rememberwonderful things. It’s as though we passthrough life like green lights and onlytake notice when traffic chokes andslows to the arrhythmic frustration ofoverloud horns. But, perhaps, the mem-ories of ordinary things, pleasantbecause they just were, move usthrough the sandstorm like a tailwindblowing in the direction of our travels.

That crossword remained unfin-ished, and my mind kept working tan-gents about old poetry I’d written onsnowfall and mating chickadees at theAudubon Society. Lingering thoughtson the directionless sway of my lifephased out, old confusion giving way tomemories of the boardwalk snappingturtle and autumn leaves tearing theserene edges of the Northampton pond.From there, I moved onward. And, inpassing through the sandstorm, I swearI could hear the wings of robins soundthe breath of spring.

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.

Memory can be acage, a vicious sandstorm preventingus from moving on with our lives.

De!ning diversityTo the Editor:Re: “OH: Diversifying the Greek System,” Opinion, April 8

I’m writing in regard to Monday’s op-ed “Diversifying the Greek System,” writtenby Don Oh. I believe that this piece makes clear that the author made no effort tounderstand neither the Greek System nor diversity at Cornell.

In his piece, Oh laments the lack of diversity in the Greek System after a briefinteraction with students on a sidewalk. Upon seeing this group of “more than 100drunken individuals in funky clothing,” he concludes “they must come from someobscure Midwestern college in the middle of nowhere. I felt sorry that they wouldn’tget to learn from peers with divergent cultural upbringings.” While I do not under-stand his need to inform us that college-aged students were drunk (gasp), or his adhominum attack on the Midwest, what is most troubling is his assumption that racialhomogeneity prevents cultural learning. Diversity is not just about race; it’s also aboutdifferent backgrounds and experiences. I fundamentally disagree with Oh’s belief thatindividuals within a single race cannot learn about diversity from one another.

Furthermore, Oh owes an apology to the numerous individuals in fraternities thatidentify as minorities. Oh contends that while fraternities are supposedly open to all,“there is an asterisk that reads: Asians: must not have any accent; Blacks: must be fromboarding schools; Gays: must act straight and keep their sex lives behind the door?”In making this claim, he disregards all minority students within the Greek Systemwho do not fit the stereotypes Oh presented and have no less experienced the strug-gles associated with being a minority

I have gay brothers who have taken me to gay bars in Manhattan. I have a broth-er from Korea that brought me to his naturalization ceremony. And another brotherfrom Dubai who has taught me more about the Middle East than any class at Cornell.And yet, if Oh were to look into the windows of my so-called “Jewish” house or see agroup of us on the streets of Collegetown, he would likely again assume that we werea single-minded, homogenous group. There is no doubt that my house could do moreto be diverse, but to say that we have an environment that in anyway discourages eth-nic and racial diversity is simply false. Oh’s lack of understanding regarding the cul-ture within the Greek system is evident.

It is possible for diversity to exist even among individuals who share the same race.If we as a community fail to acknowledge and explore the diverse set of beliefs andexperiences that we are surrounded with on The Hill, regardless of the racial make upof the particular groups we interact with, we fail to experience the full diversity of thisschool. In no way am I attempting to discredit the fact that the University and its stu-dents need to be more racially inclusive, but we must also not forget that diversity cantake many shapes and forms.

Geoffrey Block ’14

AKANE OTANI ’14Managing Editor

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Letters

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7OPINION

Life is complicated. As Cornellstudents, we all have busy lives.I’m a Ph.D. student in engi-

neering, and my schedule is alwayspacked with research, teaching, writ-ing and meetings, not to mentionmy non-academic pursuits. So whensomething comes along that simpli-fies life — something that shakes theworld, filtering out the things thatare truly important to me — I bite.I try it out and sometimes, I get tolike it. And if it’s something that Ireally like, I become dependent onit. Over the past seven years, I’vebecome addicted to Google Reader.It scours the Internet and feeds methe stories I’m mostinterested in, whetherit’s an article abouthow Facebook’s API ischanging or abouthow the New YorkGiants’ roster willchange in the off-sea-son.

Imagine my disbe-lief then, when oneday I loaded it and was greeted withthe message, “Google Reader willnot be available after July 1, 2013.”

Yes, Google announced last weekthat Reader, the hugely popular webplatform that aggregates stories viathe ubiquitous RSS web format, willbe going offline. This has promptedpublic outcry fueled by many likeme who swore by it. People lovedReader for its superb functionalityand its minimalistic interface. A2012 LifeHacker poll suggested thatRSS junkies rated Reader as the bestplatform for web feeds, winning outover competitors like Apple’s Reederand Feedly.

So why is Reader shutting down?If it has such great traction and is sowildly popular, how can Google pos-sibly even consider closing the ser-vice?

Google’s public answer is thatReader infringes on the privacy of itsusers. Like other tech corporations,Google has had serious issues relatedto user privacy brought up by tech-nology regulators and policymakers.Reporting for AllThingsD, Liz

Gannes writes:“[T]he shutdown wasn’t just a

matter of company culture and big-ger priorities ... Google is also tryingto better orient itself so that it stopsgetting into trouble with repeatedmissteps around compliance issues,particularly privacy.”

Those words — compliance andprivacy — are the ultimate scourgesof any tech lawyer. But is Googlereally just taking Reader offlinebecause they’re concerned aboutensuring the integrity of user infor-mation? In short, the answer is aresounding “no.” Privacy problemsare costly for a company like

Google, who recently coughed up $7million to settle claims that StreetView cars were violating privacy. Tonavigate matters like this, Googleemploys an army of highly-skilledtech lawyers — not a cheap thing todo. The legal team has to be on theball at all times, mitigating mishaps,battling ongoing cases in the courts,anticipating future risks and config-uring a risk-managed business strat-egy.

Meanwhile, Google’s businessfolks are primarily concerned aboutmaking a penny off of Reader. As apublicly traded company, they needto ensure shareholder profit. If theopportunity for future monetizationdoesn’t exist for a product, thenGoogle won’t invest much in it. Thepayoffs for providing a service likeGoogle search or Gmail come fromtargeted advertising. That entailsusing data analytics to infer userinterests, preferences and beliefs,and then providing the frameworkfor an advertising market so thatthird parties can target subsets of theuser population in ad campaigns.

Somewhere along the line — pre-sumably, after extrapolating the eco-nomics of that market frameworkinto the future, and after studyingcompliance law closely — Googledecided that keeping Reader onlinedoes not make business sense.

However, there’s a sentimentamong Reader users, including me,that despite Reader’s difficult avenueto monetization, Google should stillprovide the service. After all, it was-n’t always a $100 billion company.Would continuing to provide Readerwithout a monetization mechanismreally hurt Google all that much inthe long-run, especially when Reader

gives people so much utility?An article in the Economistsuggests that the infrastructurerequired to provide Reader isso cheap that it should be pro-vided free of ads. Critics havealso taken to Twitter: “‘Usageof Google Reader has declined’= tons of people using it forsync, but we can’t put ads inthat,” and “Google’s Q4 profit

was only $2.89bn so of course theyneed to trim some fat and closeGoogle Reader,” write @ttscoff and@peterc.

In the end, the demise of GoogleReader teaches us a valuable lesson:We must not blindly trust that techcompanies provide their servicesstrictly for the benefit of their users.If there is no view to monetization,then a product will eventually closeshop and cause grief for millions.Choosing tech services with this inmind can save endless time andeffort. Just ask the millions ofentrenched users who now need toswitch to a new platform and rebuildtheir feeds from the bottom up.ourdiverse identities. As James Baldwinsaid, “It is the failure to care that liesat the core of this system of controland every caste system that has exist-ed in the United States or anywhereelse in the world.”

Ilove popping zits. Whiteheads, blackheads, zits onmy face, zits on my back. When I feel the pricklingof a pimple protruding I am elated. Picturing the

pus, I palpitate with pleasure, relishing its arrival withall the eagerness of a child on Christmas morning. Ifsomebody else has a zit it is impossible for me to lookthem in the face without having the urge to approachthem, arm outstretched and ready to squeeze theoffending pustule between my thumb and index finger.My previous girlfriends have been forced to suffer atthe hands of my odd inclination, my wandering fingersgoing not to unhook their bras but to burst blackheadsfrom their back’s blemishes. It is, to be blunt, an addic-tion. One that I fully admit is any combination of odd,weird, gross, perverse and outright depraved. For what-ever reason, I get a rush from this eruptive hobby,savoring each rupture and scavenging for more oppor-tunities to satiate my addiction. The more secretionthe better as I become particularly elated when a spurtis longer or bigger than expected. Perhaps it is a formof obsessive compulsion but I simply cannot help thisact of expulsion.

I am not sure from which of Freud’s fivestages of psychosexual development

my predilection for excision emerges, but I can assureyou that it is not limited to zits and pimples. When Iwas younger, this urge manifested itself in nose pick-ing. My toddler self could rival any 49-er in his huntfor gold and the underbelly of my bed was caked withboogers like gum under a high school desk. Now, as anolder and more mature picker, I am forced to be sub-tler with my gushing desires, needing to conform toviews of human decency. Often, I am quietly disap-pointed when I Q-tip my ear without removing anycerumen and so I delay my swabbing to maximize theearwax. Scabs and dry skin are picked and peeled likeclementines; lint is uprooted with ecstatic zeal. Justlast week, I felt the familiar tingling sensation while Idug deeper and deeper into my iPod’s headphone jackwith a bent paperclip, pulling out dust and muck thathad lodged itself there.

I feared I was alone in my habit, that if myfriends only knew what sort of depraved individualthey kept in their company they would surely expungeme from their lives like a particularly juicy cyst. Butfortunately, we live in an increasingly interconnectedage and some quick googling assured me that I was farfrom alone. I found countless forums and blogs of peo-ple gushing over their inexorable inclination to pop. Ieven found an entire section in the content aggregatesite Reddit that was devoted to “popping.” There, userspost videos and photos of particularly delicious dis-charges, delighting over each eruption and reveling inrelished revulsion at what many people might considervile and disgusting. While I will admit to watching a“popping” video every once in a while, with the samesatisfaction and disgust that one might have for videosof car crashes and nut shots, there is something deeplyunsatisfying about them. It felt like somebody else wasplaying a fun video game while I just had to watchsilently. I don’t want to watch other people experiencethis visceral sensation because its not really a voyeuris-tic activity. This is a hobby that requires touch, feeling,anticipation and a climactic moment of euphoria. Inshort, it’s a weird inclination that’s my own, howeverknowing that there are others like me out there, whoyearn to expel juices from the acne, makes me feel a lit-tle bit less like a weirdo. I definitely still am — but soare you. You just haven’t written a column about yourgross fetish.

EmbraceThe Urge

Dipayan Ghosh Ph.D. | Guest Room

Dan Rosen | Smell the Rosen

For whatever reason, I geta rush from thiseruptive hobby,savoring each rupture.

Dipayan Ghosh is a third year PhD. in theCollege of Engineering. Feedback may be sentto opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Roomappears periodically this semester.

News Withdrawal:The Demise of Google Reader

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.

Over the past seven years, I’vebecome addicted to Google Reader.It scoures the Internet and feeds me

stories I’m most interested in.

Commentof the day

"An unsettling departure from academic freedom?” The Leftall too frequently confuses liberty with entitlement.Researchers are free to conduct whatever research theywant, the only difference now is that the American people arefree to not pay for it if it doesn't benefit them.

Travis CuvelierRe: “EDITORIAL: Limiting Restrictions On Scholarly

Research,” Opinion,published April 9, 2013

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In a packed theater on the first warm Monday of theyear, a rapt audience watches ice melt. Cheers or snorescould reasonably follow, but this audience sits in captivat-ed silence. The film is Chasing Ice, the subject is climatechange and the evidence is entirely cinematic.

Aside from director Jeff Orlowski, the man responsiblefor many of the documentary’s images is its star, JamesBalog. This nature photographer studied science at theUniversity of Colorado, but since he sees “the modernworld of science [as] all about statistics and computermodeling,” Balog works in the artful medium of photog-raphy. After shooting a popular National Geographic coverstory on melting glaciers (“The Big Thaw”), Balog estab-lished the Extreme Ice Survey, a study that fuses art andscience to visualize the effects of anthropogenic climatechange. The task Balog and his crew set themselves seemssimple — to take photos of glaciers with secured, time-lapse cameras — but faulty technology, violent weatherand Balog’s own health present enough trials to make for,at the very least, a brisk 75 minutes.

The time-lapse montages present the most naked andarresting — “beautiful” would also be apt — evidence ofglobal warming I have seen yet. It is a shame the filmmak-ers think the James Balog’s story even stands a chance.Balog, who was in attendance at Monday’s CornellCinema screening and answered questions afterward,engages through his work, and Orlowski would have beenwise to let that work speak for itself instead of padding the

film with footage of Balog spend-ing time with his family, gettingknee surgery, etc. The resultingmelodrama plays like networktelevision programs, or the autobi-ographical sections of AnInconvenient Truth that your biolo-gy teacher fast-forwarded through.It all diverts the narrative from thereal protagonist: Earth. This is notnecessarily Balog’s fault, as theresponsibility lies with the film-makers to legitimize the materialat hand. But there is a whole mon-tage of Balog making theCNN/NBC interview circuit, andone shot in particular of a studiomakeup artist brushing up Balog’sface — weren’t we talking about melting glaciers?

We were, and the images, whether still, moving ortime-lapse, redeem this film from its dips into bathos ornarcissism. I wonder what any global warming denierscould possibly say after witnessing them, but who careswhat Sean Hannity thinks, anyway. There is a spectacularsequence where a glacier the size of lower Manhattan“calves” (separates) off its surroundingfjord, and the cameras just watch. Thevoice-over jumps back in too early formy cinema vérité tastes, but the highresolution digital camcorders show usicebergs three times taller than theEmpire State Building rolling for-wards and backwards, or, in one stom-ach-churning shot, soaring miles outfrom the water and then submergingonce again. The five-minute episode sells the whole movie,although, as Balog was quick to remind us in the post-screening Q&A, over 4 million people have already seenthe video, for free on YouTube (one of them, unknowing-ly, being me last December).

After the film, Balog proved to be as aphoristic, rugged-

ly handsome and self-promoting in person as on screen. Imean that last adjective in good humor, for Chasing Ice hasearned its fair share of honors, including a White Housescreening on April 22, and Balog made a point in listing asmany as his prepared notes could accommodate. In all seri-ousness, though, Balog peddled some real nuggets of wis-dom, especially in his survey of the people who should

worry about global warming: “Ifyou eat food, breathe air, drinkwater or pay taxes, climate changeaffects you.” He also addressed thehybrid nature of his work when hesaid, “The combination of art andscience reveals what one cannot doon its own.” When you realize thatthe footage of crumbling glaciersrepresents only a microcosm of an

escalating global trend, what is revealed is not so much anumber or idea but the urge to let loose all the expletivesyou know in the direction of your nearest Congressman.

8 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 A & E

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.

As I stood in the doorway of the con-cert hall, I unknowingly began to speak torenowned jazz guitarist StephaneWrembel, who recently showcased hisworld-class talents at Ithaca’s CarriageHouse Café. He was heading back to NewYork City the next night, to my home-town of Brooklyn (Wrembel and his bandfrequent the hipster areas of the borough,playing shows mainly in Park Slope andWilliamsburg, not in my more conserva-tive neighborhood of Bay Ridge). With ashow that was supposed to start at 8 p.m.,and the time being just that, I thought hewould politely excuse himself to go onstage. Instead, he led me downstairs for animpromptu interview, in a very Frenchaccent.

When I realized who it was I wasspeaking to, I asked the musician todescribe the genre of his music, to whichhe answered, “That’s a long explanation.”And he wasn’t joking. Ten minutes later, Ihad learned Wrembel’s music was a mix-ture of classical, jazz, rock, blues, Indianand anything else you could think of. But

he made the distinction quite clear: Hisstyle incorporates all of these, but is noneof them. Wrembel explained that he sawhimself as a shaman. Experiencing hismusic is like going on a journey; it is avisual experience as much as an aural one.Considering he wrote the both themes forWoody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and VickyChristina Barcelona, this explanationmakes perfect sense. All of his perfor-mances aspire to put a certain image inthe audience’s head, just as scores functionin films.

As a world class musician who con-tributed songs to multiple AcademyAward-nominated films. I wondered whatStephane Wrembel was doing in thesleepy town of Ithaca. But Wrembel hadbeen coming here for years — 15, in fact.Calling Ithacans “cool people,” Wrembelwas happy to come here as many as threetimes a year. With Ithaca College andCornell, he explained, there was “lots ofscience and stuff floating around, not tomention Carl Sagan’s ghost.” Wrembel’ssong “Voyager” is a tribute to the lateastronomyl professor Dr. Carl Sagan.

When Wrembel’s bandmatesstarted signaling to him from across the

room, I knew I had to wrap things upquickly. So Wrembel left me with somewords for my fellow college students:Embrace “the cannibal inside” — live outour passions by acting on instinct, ratherthan overthinking. These, of course, arewords to live by at a place like Cornell.

As Wrembel began his set, we foundourselves in New Mexico with a songaptly named “The Voice of the Desert.”Right away, it was clear Wrembel was in aclass all his own. His fingers moved in aflurry of passion and grace. Even if youcould not visualize the images associatedwith the songs, watching Wrembel’s handswas entertainment enough. Next, wemoved to Japan with a song called

“Tsunami.” Strangely enough, Wrembelhad never been to the country but hadcomposed the piece based on the disaster.

Wrembel has a pretty strong fan base inIthaca, seeing as he’s been here so manytimes. Mia Park Ph.D. has seen Wrembelmultiple times. “His shows are very simi-lar,” said Park. “There’s so much passionand they’re all genuine.”

Wrembel plans to return to theCarriage House soon. And for a mere 20dollars, he’s an act you can afford to see,but can’t afford to miss.

Midnight in Ithaca:Stephane Wrembel at the Carriage House Café

Ashley Popp a sophomore in the College of Artsand Sciencces. She can be reached at apopp@cor-nellsun.com.

BY ASHLEY POPPSun Staff Writer

A Beautiful and Inconvenient Truth

CornellCinema

Zachary Zahos

PHOTOS COURTESY OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

COURTESY OF STEPHANE WREMBEL

Iwrite these words on Sunday, about 72hours after the news broke, and it will takearound the same amount of time for this

finished column to find its way into the paperyou are holding or the website you are brows-ing. Six days is an eternity in the world of op-eds, but it’s barely enough time to digest theNew York Times alert that lit up my phoneThursday afternoon: “Roger Ebert, LongtimeFilm Critic, Dies at 70, Chicago Sun-TimesReports.” I was just starting to study for anaccounting prelim I had later that evening,and it’s putting it lightly to say that I was inno mood to hit the books. For many of us,this is a celebrity death without precedent.

President Barack Obama summed upRoger’s legacy in an official White Housepress release, surely the first for any late moviecritic: “For a generation of Americans …Roger was the movies.” While I would amendthe statement by making “generation” plural,the essence remainstrue. Roger changedhow we, the generalpublic, went to themovies. Watchingmovies was nolonger sufficient —you had to thinkabout, talk about,even yell aboutthem, as he andGene Siskel did on TV for over 20 years.Their passion exposed art house, independentand foreign films to a worldwide audience,and Roger’s accessible reviews provided aroadmap for all those who felt in over theirhead. For Roger, insight did not requireobfuscation, and elitism did not equal goodtaste. Star Wars and Indiana Jones were notbelow consideration, for they were and aretreasures of cinema alongside Badlands,Nosferatu and Vivre Sa Vie.

These disparate films all met Roger’sstrongest writing in The Great Movies, a seriesthat has filled three published books and

might furnish a posthumous fourth. Movingpast his famous “thumbs up, thumbs down”rating system and the legendary one-liners hehurled at trash like Armageddon, we findRoger to be a critic of great nuance and opti-mism. In The Great Movies, he took a magni-fying glass and a mirror to classics and hiddengems alike. He would scrutinize a scene’s com-position and lighting in one paragraph andreflect on themes like death (Gates of Heaven),being (Persona) and greatness (Amadeus) in thenext. Even as he broke down the most con-founding films, his words remained personal,brilliant and unpretentious. Look no furtherthan his essays on The Tree of Life, 2001: ASpace Odyssey and La Dolce Vita, three of hisfavorite films of his that now align with myown. It was his praise that inspired me to seethem, think about them, see them again andpurchase their posters that now stare at mefrom the walls of my room.

Then you have his more recent reviews,like his write-up on Synecdoche, New York,which might as well be the most beautifulpiece of film criticism ever written (andwhich I shamelessly ripped off for my Perks ofBeing a Wallflower review last year). On hisblog, he talked politics, love, science, religion,memory — everything, really. These themescarried over to his bustling Facebook andTwitter accounts, platforms not accustomedto Roger’s sincerity and original wit. (A mem-orable tweet: “To a friend uncertain aboutmoving: Every city you move to already con-tains friends of a lifetime you have not yet

met.”) Staunchly lib-eral yet disdainful ofpolitical correctness,Roger adhered to norules but his own,which he alwaysadmitted were subjectto change. His wordswere not some holytruth so much as true— to himself, his feel-ings and his engagedand unironic world-view. What otherpublic figure won hisfame and fortunethrough honesty, lev-elheadedness andcommon sense?

I regret nevermeeting Roger, a manI knew so well. Mymom reminded meover spring break toreach out to Rogerand express my grati-tude, but after a half-hearted attempt at find-ing his email address, I abandoned this simpletask. What would I even say? Besides, I willgraduate in a couple years, and then I canmake movies or write about them with Rogeras a peer, though certainly not an equal. And,before that, I will find the time to go to hisannual Ebertfest, at least, when it doesn’t con-flict with school…

So, yeah. This loss cuts deep. Roger ignit-ed my love for the movies. Roger tackled theissues of his time, and all time. Roger inspiredthe world in his open struggle with cancer.Roger loved Chaz, his wonderful wife. Rogerwas a presence. It is fitting that he titled hislast blog, published two days before his death,“A Leave of Presence.” In it, he announcedthe return of his cancer, his resignation fromday-to-day reviewing duties but also his

excitement “to do what I’ve always fantasizedabout doing: reviewing only the movies Iwant to review.” I had the bitter fortune ofreading it the day before he died, and I left acomment that ended with the note, “I lookforward to sharing many more movie-watch-ing years with your prose guiding the way.”

In retrospect, I realize that “years” waspushing it, considering his ailments. Thenagain, I consider the blog’s last line, the wordshe might have known he was parting us with:“I’ll see you at the movies.” If he meant whatI think he meant, then, Roger, I’ve been see-ing you for years.

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.

Remembering Roger Ebert

NILS AXEN / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

While she may come from a small town south of Houston,Christina Aguilar ’13 is a metropolitan girl with an edgy fashionsense. She thinks that the statue of Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quadwould look more regal in a top hat. This April, at the 29th AnnualCFC fashion show, she will debut her “contemporary, stark andfluid” senior collection,“Turbulence.”

THE SUN: So let’s talk a little about why you chose to be aFiber Science and Apparel Design major.

CHRISTINA AGUILAR: Initially, I didn’t know why I wanted togo to college and what I wanted to do, and I applied to a lot ofdifferent majors. I visited here before I came and I really likedthe program. I kind of liked the dynamic between the students.I know that at a lot of other schools it seems like a really harshand competitive environment among design students, but hereit just kind of seemed like a big family, and I like that.

SUN: What other programs did you apply to if you weren'tsure about fashion design at first?

Aguilar: I did really various things like business major, engi-neering … an assortment [laughs]

SUN: Wow, a lot of diverse talents there. So tell me: Who’syour favorite designer and did they inspire your senior collectionin any way?

C.A.: I have a lot of different designers who I admire … rightnow, one of my favorite designers is Ann Demeulemeester. Ireally like the silhouettes of her clothes. I feel like I can alwaysrelate to her aesthetic and her lines; her stuff ’s really beautiful.

SUN: How would you describe your own sense of fashion?C.A.: I’m really into super modern, contemporary fashion

— clothes that are a little experimental. I think that the clothesI design are pretty much date-wear, but with a twist, a little bitedgier. I’m interested in producing basics [with] silhouettes a lit-

tle exaggerated. [They are] clothes that you wouldn’t find any-where.

SUN: To those who don’t know, can you explain what thesenior collection is?

C.A.: With Cornell Fashion Collective, if you're a fourthlevel, which means you've been doing this for four years, you’reallowed to show 11 looks and 11 models … most people have abit fewer than that. Basically, you conceptualize this collectionfor the whole year and you work on it the whole year. It doestake a long time because you have to have fittings … some peo-ple do a lot of experimentation with their own fabrics.

SUN: So what’s the typical day like during this busy time?C.A.: [Laughs] I’m pretty much nocturnal right now, it's

pretty crazy. I know a lot of people do stay [in studio] manynights. I’m personally really good friends with the janitors herebecause I see them all the time.

SUN: So let’s talk about your collection. What’s it called?C.A.: My collection is called “Turbulence.” I was interested

in doing a line of basics — pieces that I would wear and [that]I thought would be sort of the building blocks of a wardrobe.But I wanted to play with movement, lines and silhouettes.[For] some of my pieces, when the model’s walking in them,they might move or shift. I like the idea that when you’re walk-ing, the forms can be sort of distorted.

SUN: What’s the hardest part of your design process fromidea to creation?

C.A.: I guess the hardest part for me is getting what [I] wantin 3D forms. I feel like I draw a lot. I’ll draw all these shapes andthen when you’re actually having to pattern that in muslin, itjust gets really complicated. I think the hardest part is getting thedesigns you have in your head to manifest in real life.

Sun: Are there times when you had a design that becamesomething totally different when you actually started creating it?

C.A.: [Laughs] Yeah, I think that happens all the time.

SUN: Do you have one standout item from your collectionthat you’re going to save for last?

C.A.: You should come to the show and see!

SUN: The media portrays the fashion industry as really harshand cut-throat, a la The Devil Wears Prada. Is there some truthto that?

C.A.: I think there are definitely some pretty intimidatingcharacters, but it’s not always like that. As long as you go in andyou’re motivated and you work hard, you’ll be fine. There mightbe some people who are just mean, but I haven’t encounteredanyone like that.

SUN: So what would you say to people who don’t normallyfollow fashion to entice them to come to the fashion show?

C.A.: You don’t have to know a lot about fashion to enjoy it.We’ve been working really hard, there are a lot of talenteddesigners who are showing, there’s going to be a lot of greatmodels walking in it … It's going to be great fun, it’s always agreat show.

KATHERINE CARRENOSUN Staff Writer

Katherine Carreno is a sophomore in the College of Arts andSciences. She can be reached at kccarreno@gmail.com.

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Prof. Rachel Bean, astronomy, was oneof the 40 U.S. researchers chosen to bepart of the Euclid mission, which willattempt to map the geometry of the darkuniverse. The mission, led by theEuropean Space Agency, was named inhonor of the Greek mathematician, Euclidwho is considered the father of geometry.

According to Bean, the idea behindthis mission is to complete a census of thegalaxies in the universe dating back to thetime when the universe was one-third thesize it is today.

Such a census is performed by studyingthe light emitted by these galaxies. Someof the galaxies emitted light a long timeago, but it takes a significant amount oftime to reach Earth due to the great dis-tances between galaxies.

Studying these light signals givesresearchers like Bean a snapshot of theuniverse when the light was emitted.

The Euclid mission is looking to pickup light signals from galaxies both nearand far and will be working primarily inthe optical and near-infrared wavelengthsof light. For this purpose, a telescope 1.2meters in diameter is scheduled to belaunched in 2020.

Some of the key questions this missionseeks to answer are about the number anddistribution of galaxies in the universe, theevolution of the universe in the past few

billion years and the creation of the uni-verse.

The researchers involved in this mis-sion will study the optical signals to esti-mate the position of the galaxies.

Light stretches as it travels, since theuniverse is constantly expanding. Thisstretching leads to a phenomenon called“redshift” in which the wavelengths shiftto the longer wavelength region of thespectrum, or the red side. The longer thelight travels, the more the light stretches.By studying the amount of redshift in thelight signals from a galaxy, we can estimatehow far the light has travelled and hencethe position of the galaxy.

Researchers are looking to use two dif-ferent techniques for this purpose. Thefirst one, photometry, involves studyingthe color of the light emitted by galaxies.The amount of light emitted by the galax-ies in the “redder” band of wavelengthswill be compared to the amount of light inthe “bluer” band of wavelengths to esti-mate the amount of redshift.

The second technique to be employedis spectroscopy, which involves looking atthe spectra of specific atoms. Each atomor molecule emits light at specific wave-lengths, both in the lab or anywhere in theuniverse. But due to the redshift of thelight as it travels across the universe, thewavelength of the light detected from dis-tant atoms will be larger than that of thewavelength from atoms measured in thelab. By measuring the difference in wave-

lengths in the spectra, the amount of red-shift can be estimated.

Most research uses only one of thesetechniques, but the Euclid mission willincorporate both, since the formermethod will provide a quicker estimate ofthe position of the galaxies, enabling thestudy of more galaxies, while the lattermethod provides a more precise measure-ment.

The cosmos is not only made of visiblestars, however, but also of dark matter anddark energy. Dark matter and dark energyare estimated to comprise 95 percent ofall the mass and energy in the universe.Dark matter is invisible matter which doesnot interact with light but is known to beaffected by gravity.

Evidence for the existence of dark mat-ter comes from studying the rotation ofstars around galaxies: these stars rotatefaster than expected, hinting at the exis-tence of dark matter.

Dark energy, on the other hand, can bethought of as an anti-gravity phenome-non, the evidence for which comes fromthe fact that the universe is expanding atan accelerated rate, which is contrary toEinstein’s postulation that the universeshould be contracting due to gravitationaleffects. This missing piece of physics wascoined “dark energy.”

To study dark matter and energy, theEuclid mission will map the properties ofgravity in the cosmos by looking at howthe passage of light is distorted due to

gravity as it passes through the cosmostowards Earth. This technique is calledgravitational lensing and is sensitive to allmatter and energy in the universe, includ-ing dark matter and dark energy.

Bean will be co-leading one of the tasksof the Euclid mission by applying thisgravity survey to test gravity on cosmicscales.

Bean will use Cornell’s institutionalmembership at a ground-based LargeAperture Synoptic Telescope (LSST) facil-ity located in Chile to survey half the skyand provide measurements of the cosmosthat will be complementary to the Euclidmission.

Bean will also lead a group of scientistsin the LSST Dark Energy Science collab-oration, which works on how to test fun-damental theories with observations. Inparticular, she will be working on translat-ing theories that motivate dark energy,such as the particle physics model, to whatwould be expected in galactic observa-tions.

“Astronomy, at the moment, is seeing arenaissance in the sheer amount of datathat is coming in and the ties between the-ories and observations. Observations arereally driving how the theories are devel-oping, and this is an extraordinarily excit-ing time for students interested in thisarea to get involved,” Bean said.

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Euclid Mission Studies GalaxiesBy SRINITYA ARASANIPALAISun Contributor

Prof. Rachel Bean to participate in European space mission

Srinitya Arasanipalai can be reached at sa588@cornell.edu.

Galaxy gazing | Scheduled to be launched in 2020, this telescope will allow the researchers on the Euclid mission to study galaxies and dark matter. Prof. Rachel Bean, astronomy, wasone of the 40 U.S. researchers chosen to join this project led by the European Space Agency.

COURTESY OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY

12 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 SCIENCE

Golf is returning to the Olympics in2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Prof.Frank Rossi Ph.D ’91, horticulture, is thelead agronomist creating this golf course.

Today, he may responsible for the Rio2016 course, but Prof. Rossi’s fascinationwith grass began at an early age, when hefirst started to push a lawn mower. His pas-sion led him to pursuing a career as a golfcourse superintendent and eventually, aprofessor of horticulture.

“I have literally been a student of thisplant my entire life. I felt like a light wentoff one day – I literally had no aspirationsto be a scientist. But along the way, I real-ized that I had particular skills and talentsand interests that lay beyond just the main-tenance of golf courses, and more in theoverall study of the system. I think at theheart of it I’m a biologist,” Rossi said.

20 years ago, Rossi and a group ofundergraduate students convened as thefirst pioneers in researching sustainable turfmanagement. However, the topic has onlystarted garnering attention in the past fiveyears.

Now, Rossi’s research focuses on devel-oping environmentally responsible man-agement systems for turf grass areas, suchas lawns, golf courses and sports fields. Heaims to grow the same quality of grass butwith less “stuff,” such as pesticides, water,etc. Not only is his research environmen-tally-friendly, it is also economically-friendly, as people do not need to buy asmany products to sustain the same turf-grass.

“Let me give you an example. Midterms– you’re studying, you’re grinding, you’reanxious. And what happens? You getstressed out, you encounter a germ and you

get sick. If you take melatonin or some-thing natural, you’re still studying butyou’re not getting sick. This is what we dowith turf. You culture that system so that itdoesn’t get so sick it needs an antibiotic,”Rossi said.

Rossi helps culture turfgrass system bychoosing the right grass, fertilizing proper-ly and using alternatives to synthetic pesti-cides. By building a stronger plant systemto begin with, the grass will be less likely toneed pesticides to remain healthy.

Because nobody had ever explored turfsustainability from a broad perspective,Rossi traveled across the globe talkingabout his research. According to Rossi, hisresearch program has been “wildly success-ful” in reducing pesticide and fertilizer useall around the world.

On one golf course on Long Island, onwhich he has been working for the past 14years, Rossi and his team have cut pesticideuse by 85 percent while maintaining thequality and appearance of the grass.However, to get to this point, his teamfailed in some initial stages. In the first fewyears, the grass died as they completelyremoved the pesticides that had been main-taining the health of the grass system forthe past 70 years.

“When you pull out the chemicals thatkeep the diseases away, the population ofplants collapses. And then we figured thatwe wouldn’t be able to do it without spray-ing anything,” Rossi said. They ultimatelydecided to minimize the amount of pesti-cide sprayed, as well as to use an organicpesticide derived from plant and fungusproducts.

Not only does Rossi work on sustainabledevelopment, he has also worked as a pri-vate consultant for several major projectsinvolving turfgrass. He played a significantrole in the creation of Lincoln Center’s

rooftop park, Yankee Stadium’s field, theRio 2016 Olympic Golf course and manymore.

In making Lincoln Center’s rooftoppark, Rossi faced challenges in designing alightweight soil that would still supportturf and in finding grass that would workin that environment. Although the rooftoppark is not the most energy-efficient sys-tem, Rossi said, it is sustainable in a differ-ent sense – from a social perspective.

“For something to sustainable, there arethree prongs: environmental, economicand there’s a social perspective, whichincludes the social benefit from a turf area.I can tell you, people love that lawn. As weand our population become more urban-ized, the value and importance of green

space is greater. It has so much social valuethat maybe the input is warranted,” Rossisaid.

Ultimately, regardless of where his pri-vate consultant work will lead him, Rossisaid he hopes to continue the dialogue inturfgrass sustainability that he helped initi-ate.

“What I think we’ve done is we’ve creat-ed a foundation for a long term conversa-tion in our industry about how we need tobe more efficient with our resources. Wewere poised here to be a leader of that con-versation because we’ve always been work-ing on it,” Rossi said.

By CAMILLE WANGSun Staff Writer

Prof. Frank Rossi GrowsBetter Grass

Genetic diseases can be curedusing synthetically-produced pro-teins and knowing how apathogen’s proteins bind to DNAcan help create these cures. In

2009, Prof. Adam Bogdanove,plant pathology and plant-microbebiology, and his research team atIowa State University, discovered“a mechanism by which bacterialproteins specifically recognizeDNA targets,” a discovery thatallowed him to be named one of

nine runner-ups for ScienceMagazine’s “Biggest ScientificBreakthroughs of 2012.”

The biggest breakthrough ofthe year, according to ScienceMagazine, was the discovery of theHiggs Boson.

Bogdanove's research involvesstudying how bacterial plantpathogens – microorganisms thatcause diseases in a host – injectproteins called “transcription acti-vator-like effectors” into plant cellsduring the infection process.According to Bogdanove, the pro-teins are then transferred into thenucleus, at which point “they findsequences in the genome that arespecific to each individual effec-tor.”

Basically, proteins are strings ofamino acids, each of which have aspecific shape, analogous to Legoblocks.

According to Bogdanove, justas Lego blocks need to fit perfectlyin order to stay firmly attached,each individual protein also latchesonto a location in the genome thathappens to fit its specific shapeperfectly. These TAL effector pro-teins can activate the expression ofcertain genes and ultimately alterthe host cell’s biology.

The implications of activatinggenes are significant. Every cell inthe body contains the samegenome, so why is the functionali-ty of a hair follicle cell differentthan the functionality of a kidneycell? Each type of cell activates adifferent set of genes, so by alteringthe activation of genes, the func-tions of a specific cell could be

completely distorted. TAL effec-tors, for example, distort the plantcell function in ways that benefitthe pathogen.

Additionally, Bogdanove notesthat “there are circadian rhythmsto our gene expression.” Thesecycles cause the pathogen tosecrete hormones into our bloodstreams which make controlsleepy-ness or hunger, as well asmany other functions. By alteringthe activation of genes, these cyclescould be disrupted.

Bogdanove was also involved indiscovering that “at least one classof pathogens have figured out howto alter gene expression in plantcells to benefit the pathogen.”

One example of thesepathogens is Bacterial Blight ofRice. During infection, the bacte-ria inject a TAL effector, whichactivates a certain gene in ricewhich encodes a protein that trans-ports sucrose.

“The pathogen teases the cellinto secreting sugar into theapoplast, or extracellular space,”Bogdanove said. This sugar secre-tion becomes food source for thepathogen.

Bogdanove’s largest discovery,however, was the determination ofexactly how TAL effector proteinsrecognize where to bind in thegenome. Within each sequence of34 amino acids in a TAL effector,Bogdanove noticed that the onlydifferent amino acids are the 12thand 13th spots.

Using a computationalmethod, Bogdanove and his teamdiscovered that “the way these pro-

teins recognize the sequence ofDNA bases to bind to is exactlythe 12th and 13th amino acids,which are different in every aminoacid sequence within a protein.”

They hypothesized that each setof those two amino acids calls outa single nucleotide in the DNA. Bypulling out just the 12th and 13thamino acid positions of eachsequence, only the specificsequences are encoded which allowthe protein to know where to bindto in the genome.

The most important result ofBogdanove’s discovery that aminoacid sequences in proteins are thesame except at the 12th and 13thpositions is that researchers cannow create a protein that binds toa particular DNA sequence.Unlike how pathogens harm thehost, scientists can now find pro-teins that could bind to certainlocations of the genome in order tobenefit the host.

Another important applicationof Bogdanove’s research is thedetermination of the functionalityof certain genes. Using TAL effec-tor proteins fused to DNA-cuttingenzymes, scientists can break thegenome at a certain location to tar-get a certain gene and see theimplications of disabling that spe-cific gene.

Future research may focus ongenetic disorders such as cysticfibrosis, which is caused by specif-ic genes which can now possibly betargeted and eliminated.

By AMIT BLUMFIELDSun Staff Writer

Runner-Up Scientific Discovery of theYear

Camille Wang can be reached at cwang@cornellsun.com.

Growing Green | Prof. Frank Rossi, horticulture, designs sustainable turf for events acrossthe world including the golf course at the 2016 Olympics and Yankee Stadium.

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

Amit Blumfield can be reached at ablumfield@cornellsun.com.Protein pathogens | Protein effectors bind to DNA to infect a host cell.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — What does it all mean?That’s the question facing spelling whizzes across the country, who

learned Tuesday that they will have to know the definitions of some ofthe those tough words they’ve been memorizing in the dictionary. Forthe first time, multiple-choice vocabulary tests will be added to theannual Scripps National Spelling Bee.

“Changes are not a surprise, but these changes are massive,” saidMirle Shivashankar, whose daughter, 11-year-old Vanya, is among thefavorites after finishing tied for 10th last year. “It came as a shocker. ...We’re going to have to change the way we prepare a little bit.”

The changes will make it easier to nail down the nine to 12 com-petitors who make it to the final round, which will look the same as ithas for years to prime-time TV viewers, with spellers taking turns untilonly the champion has avoided the familiar doomsday bell. The changesdo add a wrinkle to the televised semifinals, however, as even the bestonstage spellers could find themselves eliminated from the finals if theyperform poorly on the multiple-choice test.

“I’m on an email group and we talk about spelling, and a lot of thereturning spellers were really, like, shocked, and they were surprisedabout the change that’s happened,” Vanya Shivashankar said. “But it’sgoing to be really cool and fun to see how the bee will be because it willbe spelling and vocabulary.”

Executive Director Paige Kimble said the changes were driven by thedesire to reinforce the competition’s purpose — to encourage studentsto improve their spelling and broaden their knowledge of the language.

“What we know with the championship-level spellers is that theythink of their achievement in terms of spelling and vocabulary beingtwo sides of the same coin,” Kimble said.

Vocabulary has been a regular part of the bee during its 87-year his-tory, but it’s always been the spellers asking for the definition to helpthem spell the word.

Now the tables will be turned, with the spellers taking a computertest that looks like something from the SAT. A sample question provid-ed by the Spelling Bee reads as follows:

“Something described as refulgent is: a) tending to move toward onepoint, b) demanding immediate action, c) rising from an inferior state,d) giving out a bright light.”

The correct answer is d.The vocabulary tests will take place in private rooms and will not be

part of the television broadcasts, but they will count for 50 percent ofthe point totals that determine the semifinalists and finalists.

“In the long run I think it’s a change for the better because it testsspellers’ all-around knowledge of the word as opposed to just thespelling of the word,” said 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali, also one ofthe favorites after finishing third the past two years.

But what about right now? Arvind and the rest of the 281 spellers inthis year’s bee now have less than two months to change their studyhabits ahead of the May 28-30 competition near Washington.

“I’m just going to review all the words for their meanings one moretime, if I have enough time,” Arvind said. “But it’s going to be a littledifficult to adjust to this right now.”

Shivashankar, who coached daughter Kavya to the 2009 title andnow coaches Vanya, said he thinks there’s a good purpose behind thechanges, but he wishes they had been announced at the start of theschool year.

While Shivashankar was concerned about the anxiety the changescould add to an already nerve-racking competition, his daughter alreadysounded ready to tackle the challenge.

“We’re just going to try to our best and understand the words more,”Vanya said. “Before we were studying the roots, and now we’re using theroot to understand what it means, which we kind of did before, but wehave to spend more time on each word, understanding every single partof it.”

While the finals format remains unchanged, the televised semifinalswill have a different payoff. Spellers will continue to be eliminated ifthey misspell on stage, but there will be only two semifinal rounds. Theresults of those rounds will be combined with the computerized spellingand vocabulary tests to select the finalists.

The issue of determining the number of finalists has been problem-atic in the past because of the need to fit the bee into its allotted broad-cast slot. Parents and spellers were upset in 2010 when officials abrupt-ly halted the semifinals in the middle of a round because spellers werebeing eliminated too quickly.

The bee, working with its television partners, usually prefers to havenine to 12 spellers in the finals. That will be easier to accomplish nowbecause the bee can take the spellers with the most points, with wiggleroom to account for ties.

“Previously, we just knew that we were going to spell until we had areasonable number of children to bring into the finals,” Kimble said.“Now we have some definition around how that happens.”

Kimble said she’s open to the idea of having the vocabulary test takeplace onstage in future bees, but she wants to try the computer formatfirst and see how it works.

The national bee waited until all the regional bees were completed tomake the announcement so that everyone would start on equal footing.The national bee will supply materials and suggestions to help local beesintroduce a vocabulary test next year, Kimble said.

“In the long run, it’s pretty good, right?” said Srinivas Mahankali,Arvind’s father. “But in the short-term for the competitors right now, Ithink it’s a little more complicating, definitely.”

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SPORTS16 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, April 10, 2013

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers University is pledging to get to thebottom of how a basketball coach who kicked and shoved players andused gay slurs as he yelled at them was allowed to stay on the job — andto make sure the same thing isn’t happening in other sports.

The university said Monday that the school’s Board of Governorswould meet Thursday to discuss hiring an adviser to report on what wentwrong with Mike Rice.

University President Robert Barchi said that employees are goingthrough video of practice sessions from other sports to see if any othertroubling behavior needs to be rooted out.

The scandal has had far-reaching implications on the university’s ath-letic department.

Rice was fired on April 3, a day after a video of him at practice wasmade public. Athletic Director Tim Pernetti later resigned, as did anassistant basketball coach and the university’s top in-house lawyer.

On Monday, the university chose former dean Carl Kirschner to serveas acting athletic director while a search is conducted for someone to fillthe job permanently.

There’s been widespread anger over the video, which was presented touniversity officials in November by a former basketball program employ-ee who last week sued the university, claiming he was let go because hewas a whistle-blower. A person with knowledge of the situation by whorequested anonymity because the investigation has not been made pub-lic, has told The Associated Press that the FBI is looking into whether theex-employee, Eric Murdock, unlawfully asked for money in exchange fornot making the video public.

Gov. Chris Christie said at a news conference Monday that Rice need-ed to be fired promptly and that his antics cost him credibility with ath-letes and their families.

“What parent would let this animal back into their living room to tryto recruit their son after this video?” he asked.

Christie also said that he wants to know why Rice was not fired evenbefore the university knew about the video of his behavior at practice.

That’s a question that the investigation being commissioned by theuniversity could look at.

Questions of who knew what about Rice’s behavior and when, andwhat they did about it, are likely to loom large as the investigations con-tinue.

On Monday, Christie said anyone who knew about the behavior pre-viously and did not act to oust Rice was in the wrong. He criticized thereaction of those who knew about it and did not fire the coach monthsago, when the video was given to university officials and viewed by — atleast — Pernetti, university interim counsel John Wolf and ChairmanMark Hershhorn of the university Board of Governors’ athletics commit-tee.

In a statement released by his lawyer late Monday, Hershhorn said hedid call for Rice’s firing on the day in early December that he watchedthe video. He said he told Pernetti that if the video was authenticated,Rice needed to be immediately terminated. Contrary to his recommen-dation, Hershhorn said, the university chose to discipline Rice instead oflet him go.

The Rutgers administration would not comment on Hershhorn’saccount of events.

Meanwhile, a group of five Democratic members of the stateAssembly made a half-dozen requests for information from RutgersMonday under the state’s Open Public Records Act.

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comfortable to play the gameagain.”

According to Koehler, anotherfactor may have been the weatherconditions and the setup of thetournament.

“We played both rounds in oneday, and we started out at 8:30 inthe morning in 35 degree weatherand 20 mph winds,” Koehler said.“We didn’t really have that muchtime to practice the past week withthe weather [in Ithaca], so we werekind of rusty and didn’t have theconfidence. I think everybodyimproved in the second round, so Ithink, at the point as a team, we’regetting better with every round.[Right now], at the beginning ofthe season, we just need to get repsin and gain the confidence we needto compete.”

The Red did perform better inthe second round, improving theteam’s total combined score by 28strokes. Junior tri-captain CarlSchimenti showed the mostimprovement, shooting an 83 inthe first round and a 71 in the sec-ond. Freshman Brandon Eng alsoimpressed, improving from an 83to a 76.

Looking ahead to next weekend,the Red will continue its season atthe Princeton Invitational, whereCornell will face much of the samecompetition it did at the YaleSpring Opener.

“I know a lot of Ivy Leagueteams will be there — I think atleast six — so we’ll get some moreexperience against them,” Koehlersaid. “A lot of the same schools [atthe last] tournament will be there,too.”

A factor working in the favor ofthe Red next week is their familiar-ity with the course, as four of thefive starters have played atPrinceton before, while none hadplayed at the Yale course last week-end.

“Four of the five starters haveplayed that course, so we know thecourse pretty well; there’s nothingtoo complicated about it,” Koehlersaid. “Last week, none of us hadplayed the course before, and it waskind of a quirky course. This com-ing week, the course is [straightfor-ward] and I think our game match-es up pretty well.”

After playing poorly in the firsttournament, the Red now knowsthat it has to improve and preparebetter for tournaments, which itplans to do starting this week.

“The first tournament was goodfor us because it showed us howunprepared we really were,”Koehler said. “We didn’t play ourbest, but after that [showing], weknow that we didn’t take the rightsteps to prepare. You can onlyblame so much on the weather; weneed to blame ourselves and we justneed to be better prepared for thisupcoming tournament. This week,the weather looks good, so we’re allgoing to try to get out there andplay a lot of golf out and regain thatconfidence we need.”

Although the season has juststarted, the team recognizes howthey only have a couple weeks leftin the season — the spring seasonthis year is just four tournaments infour consecutive weekends.

“We just need to keep movingforward because spring season is soshort,” Koehler said. “Three moreweeks and it’s the Ivy LeagueChampionship; we just need tokeep improving week by week, get-ting more confidence in ourselvesand as a team to do well and hope-fully by the time the [Ivy LeagueChampionship] roll around, we’llbe at the top of our game.”

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On Friday, the gymnastics teamtravels to the Gold dome inShreveport, La., where it will partici-pate in the USAG Nationals againstseven other teams in a three-day event.

“USAG Nationals is the nationalgymnastics championships for the Top-8 teams in the country with sevenscholarships or less,” senior McKennaArcher said. “Qualification is based oneach team’s [regional qualifying score,]which ise s s e n t i a l l ytheir averageteam score forthe season.”

C o r n e l lwas the sixthto qualifyamong a field of13 hopeful teams competing for a spotin the championships. With a regionalqualifying score of 192.240, the Redjoined the ranks of Bridgeport, TexasWoman’s, Air Force, Seattle Pacific,Penn, Brown and host schoolCentenary.

Leading the pack for Cornell isjunior all-around Melanie Jorgensen, atwo-time USAG All-American.Jorgensen, who was named USAGnational champion for bars as a fresh-man, scored a RQS of 9.795, whichranked her fifth on bars. Archer, seniorSarah Hein and junior Elise Kerner willalso look to give a strong showing forthe Red, as all three were 2012 USAGAll-Americans.

Having missed qualifying for theUSAG Collegiate nationals as a team in

2012 for the first time since 2000, theRed is focused on performing well as ateam and advancing to the final round,according to Archer.

“Our goal is to have everyone hitduring prelims and qualify to teamfinals,” she said. “We have a strongteam and huge potential, so I’m excitedto see how far we can go this weekend.”

Not going to USAG nationals as ateam last year ended a string of 11 con-secutive seasons in the Top-8 for

C o r n e l l .The Redhas fin-ished in atleast sixthplace everyyear, andp l a c e d

Top-4 every year from 2006-10. TheRed captured a share of its first USAGnational title during the 2009 season.

On Friday, the eight teams will bebroken down into two sessions of fourteam each, where teams will competehead to head to see who will progress tothe final round. The top two finishersin each session will advance toSaturday’s team finals. Also competingon an individual level are gymnastsfrom Lindenwood, SouthernConnecticut, Temple, West Chesterand Yale. One Sunday afternoon, thehighest qualifiers from Friday will com-pete for individual USAG Nationaltitles.

Better luck next time | With only a couple weeks left in the season,the Red realizes it must turn things around to end on a better note.

OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Practice makes perfect | The Cornell gymnastics team competes for a USAG Collegiatenational team title Friday against seven other teams.

KYLE KULAS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Red Prepares for Rest of SeasonGOLF

Continued from page 20

GYMNASTICS

Cornell Gymnasts Head toUSAG Collegiate Nationals To Close Out Team Season By LAUREN RITTERSun Senior Writer

Lauren Ritter can be reached at lritter@cornellsun.com.

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.

“USAG Nationals is the national gymnastics championships for theTop-8 teams in the country.”McKenna Archer

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THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, April 10, 2013 19SPORTS

Cornell Leads the LeagueThanks to Four Ivy Victories With Two League Games Left

As the middle of the Ivy Leagueschedule comes about for mostof the Ancient Eight men’s

lacrosse teams, every game played is nowcritical for each school’s chance at win-ning the Ivy League title and an automat-ic bid to the NCAA tournament at theend of the month.

Last weekend, Cornell, now No. 1 inthe Ivy League, took down Harvard in14-12 showdown that came down to timeon the clock and executed attempts byboth teams.

The first 45 minutes of that game hadCornell struggling to win faceoffs (5-of-19), coming up short with shot attemptsand seeing little production from its mid-fielders (two goals, one assist).

However, the game turned around inthe final 15 minutes, as the Red was ableto take home the victory againstHarvard.

The Red is now currently the leader inthe league with a 4-0 record thanks towins against Harvard, Dartmouth, Pennand Yale so far this season.

No. 2 in the nation, Cornell, will headto Syracuse today to face off against No. 8Orange in an intense, annual upstate bat-tle.

The next Ivy competition that the Redwill engage in is on April 20 againstBrown and then Princeton on April 27 tofinish out regular Ivy League play.

— Compiled by Haley Velasco

His highness honored |For the second time this season,

senior attack Steve Mockwas named Ivy League

Player of the Week.

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Center stud | Sophomore midfielder Connor Buczekprovides power in the center for the Red as the team

heads to Syracuse tonight.

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Back in action | Afteran injury last season,

senior attack Rob Pannellreturned to the field

for Cornell.

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

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After not playing in an official match or tournamentsince October, the golf team looked very rusty in theYale Spring Opener, the first tournament of the spring.The Red finished last in the 13-team field, with its fiveplayers shooting a combined score of 644 in the two-round tournament. Villanova placed first with a com-bined score of 583, 9-strokes less than its nearest com-petitor.

The Red started off poorly in the first round, withall five players shooting at least an 83. Some of this wasdue to the team’s nervousness in starting the spring sea-son, according to junior tri-captain Max Koehler.

“Everybody was jittery on the first few holes,” hesaid. “After hitting a few big shots, you settle down andregain the confidence in yourself and make it more

The men’s polo team finished theregular season on a high note with acommanding 25-14 win over theMaryland Polo Club on Friday at OxleyEquestrian Center. Although thewomen also had a final regular seasongame scheduled for the weekend, the

team’s matchagainst theB a l t i m o r ePolo Club wascancelled, sothe womentook theweekend offfrom competi-tion. Bothteams arespending theweek in Texasgearing up forthe upcomingn a t i o n a lc h a m p i -

onships.The men had previously played the

Maryland Polo Club in early Novemberand captured a 21-6 victory. Followingthis latest win, the Red extended its winstreak to six games. The team’s last losswas a narrow 23-24 defeat at the handsof No. 2 Colorado State in the semifi-nals of the Bill Field Invitational in mid-November. The No. 3 Red will faceColorado State again on Thursday inthe first round of the national champi-onship tournament held in Brookshire,Tex.

The women had been set to play theBaltimore Polo club on Sunday in arematch of the March 1 game betweenthe two squads that ended in the Red’sonly defeat of the season. Last week’sgame against UVA was also cancelled,meaning that the women are headinginto the national championships this

week without having played a competi-tive match since the regional champi-onships more than two weeks ago. TheNo. 1 women’s team will face theWestern regional champions Wash -ington State on Wednesday in the firstround of the tournament, a matchupthat the Red is favored to win.

If the men’s team and women’s teamadvance past the first round, the teamswill both likely face the defending cham-pions UVA in the finals. The Cavaliersare ranked No.1 for the men, while theCavalier women are ranked No. 2,behind only Cornell. In last year’snational tournament, the women lost totop-ranked UVA in the finals by a scoreof 17-13, while the men dropped to theCavaliers in the semi-finals, 28-10.

The Cornell women’s rowing team lostthe chase for this year’s Cayuga Cup toYale on Saturday. Ever since 2003, whenCornell created the Cayuga Cup for thewinner of the Varsity eight race, these twosquads have fought hard for the title. Yale(No. 10) ultimately dominated Cornell(No. 18) in four of five races to reclaimthe Cup for the first time since 2010.

Cornell’s varsity eight crossed the fin-ish line with a time of 7:08.5, trailingYale’s 7:03.6 finish. The Red’s second var-sity eight, varsity four, and varsity 4 B allfell in its races by a large margin of near-ly 10 seconds each. Cornell’s third varsity

eight, however, crossed the finish linewith an impressive time of 7:35.3, whileYale’s squad brought up the rear with a7:41.5 finish.

The Red’s loss to Yale was especiallydisappointing coming from such a suc-cessful 2012 season. Cornell won its first-ever Cayuga Cup in 2011 and came backin 2012 to steal the cup from the bull-dogs again in back-to-back victories.Cornell was also a NCAA Championshipparticipant last year.

Nevertheless, the Red has a lot ofpotential and will not let the loss to Yalegive way to waning morale among thesquad. Rather, the Red is taking the lossand channeling it into positive energy asthe crew gears up for the Class of ’75 Cupthis weekend and aims to conquer toughopponents Princeton and Radcliffe.

“We know we’re capable of a lot morethan last weekend’s results against Yale. Anew fire has been sparked on the teamnow, though,” freshman AnnaKastenberg said. “We’re using this weekto build off what we learned last week-end, train even harder, and focus on beat-ing Princeton and Radcliffe.”

The rest of the squad echoesKastenberg’s sentiments and plans towork even harder to improve and hope-fully reap the benefits as the season pansout.

“We are using the Cayuga Cup asmotivation to win this weekend. We havea lot of raw power and are just workingon figuring out the best way to be effec-tive with it in the boat,” freshmanTheodora Misthos said. “All of us arestaying positive and working diligently tobe the fastest crew out there on race day,so it’s all very exciting.”

The Red will welcome Radcliffe andPrinceton to the Cayuga Lake Inlet thisSaturday at 8:30 a.m. to battle for theClass of ’75 Cup.

Golfers StruggleDuring Opener

Riders Head to NationalsCornell Rowers RelinquishRights to Cayuga Cup to Yale

Upward and onward | Junior Carl Schimenti and the rest of the Cornell golf team hope to come back from a tough seasonstart at the Yale Spring Opener and to improve for the remainder of the season.

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

Ready to rumble | Both the men’s andwomen’s polo teams head to the nationalchampionship tournament this weekend.

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERBye bye, trophy | The Cornellwomen’s rowing team gave up theCayuga Cup for the first time since2003.

XIAOYUE GUO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

By ALBERT LIAOSun Staff Writer

See GOLF page 17

After a cancella-tion, the womenhead straight intoNationals. As forthe men’s team,the Red facesColorado State inthe first round ofthe nationaltournament.

By EMILY BERMANSun Staff Writer

C.U. to compete in national tourney this weekend

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

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULERSun Staff Writer

Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

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