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Jason Molino to take helm as County Administrator..............page 3

Street Beat, the community voice..................................................page 5

Republican View: Think Globally, Act Locally...............................page 6

On the Discovery Trail: TCPL.................................................page 8

Upcoming community read to help babies grow....................page 9

Sposito preps for big finale with Ithaca Lacrosse...................page 16

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By Jamie SwinnertonTompkins Weekly

Back in September, Ithaca High School announced that the performing arts

program would be putting on the musical “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” based on the origin book by Victor Hugo with music from the Disney movie. But after the announcement of the chosen cast, the show was thrown into the spotlight for what has become the controversial casting choice for the female lead, Esmerelda. The choice to cast a white female student as Esmerelda led a number of other Ithaca High School students to write two letters to the editor to Tompkins Weekly, published on Jan. 8, about what they say is “whitewashing” of the show.

Prachi Ruina is a junior at Ithaca High School and the writer of the letter titled “God Help the Outcasts.” She has been an active member of the performing arts program since she was in middle school. In her letter, she details the issues and concerns she has had with the program for several years, well before this particular casting concern. According to her letter, Ruina’s first role in an Ithaca City School District Production was in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” when she was in seventh grade.

“Me and all the other young girls of color were cast as servants to a fairy queen,” Ruina said in her letter. “She was white.”

After parents and local theater members shared their concerns about the casting of the show the district

brought in a well-known local theater professional to direct a different show, “13”. Godfrey Simmons is the art director for Ithaca-based theater ensemble that produces theater that “explores and explodes the social, political, and cultural issues of our time,” according to the website. Simmons made a point to go out and encourage students who had not previously been a part of the program before to audition. The show was double cast, allowing more students to take part. Ruina was cast in one of the lead roles, her counterpart was white. In her letter, Ruina said they had a “great time” working together on the part.

“We decided to write the letters because for years I had this huge experience of being, sort of, pushed in the back because of my skin color, and I had seen multiple kids treated the same way,” Ruina said. “When they decided to do the Hunchback of Notre Dame this year in the high school I thought that this would be my chance to be up

there more, and the opposite thing happened.”

What the students want to make clear is that their issue with the casting choice is not a personal one and they don’t believe the student chosen is not talented.

“She has worked hard to hone her craft and the IHS stage, or any stage, would be lucky to have her,” they wrote in one of the letters, titled Conscious Casting. “Our concern is not with her, but with the fact that in terms of demographics, she is the wrong choice for this role.”

This is not the only example that students, and their parents, have concerning casting in ICSD productions. About two years ago Boynton Middle School put on a production of Disney’s “The Lion King.” Many, if not all, of the characters that could be characterized as “evil”, were cast with children of color, while the leads were cast with white children.

Eamon Nunn-Makepeace, currently a freshman at IHS, is a

black student who was cast as one of the hyenas in the show. His mother, Nia Nunn-Makepeace, who sits on the board of directors of Southside Community Center, and a group of other parents brought their concerns to the musical’s director and Boynton Middle School music teacher Robert Winans, who is also the director for “Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

“My mother went with a group of people for this when I was in seventh grade, so for a production of Lion King at Boynton, to talk about the issues of that musical and they did not – Robert Winans, he did not hear or listen,” Eamon said.

Annabella Mead-VanCort is the writer of the other letter, “Conscious casting,” that was undersigned by 25 other students, including Nunn-Makepeace. Through her mother, Eliza VanCort, the director of The Actor’s Workshop in Ithaca, she has a long and familiar history with theater.

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(From left to right) Annabella Mead-VanCort, Prachi Ruina, and Eamon Nunn-Makepeace are the students leading the charge for change in the performance arts program.

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Jason Molino takes the helm as new county administratorJamie SwinnertonTompkins Weekly

After nearly 10 years as county administrator, Joe Mareane announced in July of 2017

that he would be stepping down from the position. Originally scheduled to leave his position in February of this year, he retired several months early citing medical leave. In December, the Tompkins County Legislature announced Mareane’s successor: Jason Molino, the current city manager for the City of Batavia. Molino’s official start date is Jan. 29. Tompkins Weekly spoke with Molino this month to learn more about Tompkins County’s incoming administrator. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Tompkins Weekly: How has your experience prepared you to become county admin?

Jason Molino: I’ve served as the chief executive officer and the chief fiscal officer for the City of Batavia now for 12 years. Batavia is a full-service city, so we provide water, sewer, police, fire, public works, every service for the most part, and run a workforce of about 140 people. I managed a budget for about $25 million and another $25 million capital budget, and have been able to work through some financial challenges in the past and have been able to manage the budget and manage the operations, work on a variety of different elements all at the local level, anywhere from housing to economic development to community engagement. So, I think the breadth and the depth of my experience has helped me to advance my career and be considered for this position.

TW: Why join local government?

JM: Sometimes I ask myself that question, depending on the day. But it’s interesting, when I was getting my undergraduate degree – I got it in Political Science – and I didn’t really know 100 percent what I wanted to get into, growing up in Saratoga Springs, and my advisor said ‘You know, Albany has a great Masters in Public Administration program.’ Which is kind of the equivalent to an MBA – Masters in Business Administration. I remember looking

at it and I said ‘You know this is kind of a focus on leadership’ and I said ‘I could pursue this and if I wanted to get into the public sector, great, and if not, it would probably still translate into anything I wanted to do.’ So, when I started, Bob McEvoy at the time was the retiring Schenectady County manager and I had taken a class – he was an adjunct – and I had taken a government class with him and after that I was hooked. For whatever reason local government has always appealed to me. It’s always a new day every day. It’s definitely got its excitement, and you’re working toward benefiting the community that you live in, which is always exciting. That’s how I got hooked on local government and have been here ever since.

TW: What made you apply for this position?

JM: Tompkins County has a great reputation across the state of New York. It’s viewed as a leader in government. The departments are recognized as leaders across the state in their area and it’s known as a very progressive area. The legislature is well respected across the state, and the administrator positions is well respected as well. When the opportunity came up, being from New York originally - I grew up in Saratoga Springs – my wife is actually from the Batavia area, and her family lives in the Batavia/Buffalo area, my mother still lives in Saratoga Springs, we said we’d like to stay in New York if that’s possible. Sure enough, this opportunity opened up and it just is very appealing to work for a progressive community, progressive organization with some of the best in the business, so that’s really what attracted me to the area.

TW: What are you looking forward to with this position?

JM: I think first is just getting familiar and working with the legislature. There’s new legislators on board, which I think is exciting. And getting familiar with them and what their priorities are moving forward over the next year. Sitting down with the staff and learning how I can best support them and progress forward the missions of their department. And lastly, just meeting with the community. Ithaca and Tompkins

County is very special in terms of the amount of higher learning institutions that are very influential in our community. They’re important players in advancing the community forward. So, getting familiar with them, understanding what’s important to them. Understanding the other agencies, what’s important to them and how I can be supportive of them and how the county can be supportive in their success long-term.

TW: What are some of the challenges that you expect to face?

JM: I think everybody’s kind of waiting with baited breath over the governor’s budget and at the municipal level, and the city level, the governor’s budget sometimes impacts us. It doesn’t seem to impact us as much at the county level. So, with rumors of excessive deficits at the state level we’re all kind of concerned at the local level as to what that means for us and what we’re going to have to do to react or respond to that. So, I think that may be a challenge. It may not be. We’re all looking to see what comes from it. The county has taken a very progressive approach to alternatives to incarceration in an attempt to try to address the jail variance. Believe it or not, Genesee County is one of the eight communities also in the state that has a jail variance. So, I’m somewhat familiar just with the issue itself. But, Tompkins County is really taking a progressive approach. So, learning those issues. Learning how to advance the initiatives forward that have been funded through this year’s budget, and how to implement the program or systems of implementation, and monitoring them with the right metrics and performance measurements will be exciting to work on. But challenging at the same time. The housing initiatives are I think – again – exciting but a challenge. A lot of the housing market is a challenging market, to a certain extent, with respect to trying to compliment the variety of housing opportunities for residents and how do we further the housing needs assessment we’ve done in

the year 2016, and trying to reach those goals and those objectives in it. So, I think those are some of the initial challenges that will be at the forefront.

TW: What do you want people to know about you?

JM: Local government is my career choice, it’s something that I’m passionate about and for me, coming to a new community like Tompkins County, is very exciting. In terms of being a professional challenge and trying to contribute to a community that’s doing great things. I guess the only thing that I would put out there is that I’m looking forward to really hitting the ground running. Getting out and leading the community members, the agency members, and seeing how I can help them move forward and achieve their mission, their objective and their goals in my role as the county administrator.

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“Our main thing is that we don’t think we should have to do this,” Mead-VanCort said. “This was not something that had to be done. We’re only doing this in response to the fact that adults were not listened to when this happened. My mom, she went and she talked to people.”

After the show was announced in September, VanCort sent an email to ICSD Superintendent Luvelle Brown, Winans, and IHS music teacher Kristin Zaryski, telling them how excited she was that they had chosen “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” as the next musical.

“It’s so incredibly heartening that you chose a play which calls for a Brown girl as the female lead,”

VanCort said in the email. “Not only are there few roles specially written for young women of color, but finding roles which pointedly and thoughtfully address the feeling of being an outcast, as Esmeralda does in her solo “God Help The Outcasts”, is rare indeed.”

But the students say these messages from parents have fallen on deaf ears. Since the letters were printed they have come up with a list of things they would like to see changed in the performing arts program.

“The first thing we think that needs to happen is that we need a different director,” Mead-VanCort said. “That is the number one thing that needs to happen that will then allow these next steps to be followed. So, we would like someone, not Mr.

Winans, to be the director. Someone who has a goal for inclusivity and a goal to make the musical theater and general performance arts programs at IHS as inclusive and as diverse as possible.”

The efforts made by Simmons during the musical “13” have also inspired them, and with a change of leadership, they are also asking for a change in the audition process.

“We would want them to go out and actually recruit more kids of color in the community and also just in the high school because there’s a lot of talent that goes unrecognized,” Ruina said. “And another thing is that we would want them to make the environment more welcoming so there aren’t sort of these cliques of people that get leads year after year.”

The students say that ICSD uses colorblind casting, the practice of disregarding the race or ethnicity of a character when casting, which they say is unacceptable and ends up taking roles away from students of color.

“The district uses non-traditional casting. What this means to us is that we will consider any student for any role,” said Director of Performing and Fine Arts David Brown in an email.

The students are also asking for rehearsals for the musical to be stopped and a new show to be re-cast with multiple leads. Also included in their revised demands is a call for the administration to stop “ignoring and denying that you have created a white centered program run by white adults for the benefit of white children.”

There are other barriers, the students argue, that prevent some students from ever auditioning. One is transportation. Students whose parents work during the rehearsal times might not even try out. In the past, a carpooling system has sometimes been worked out to mitigate this problem, but the students say this doesn’t always happen.

Prior training is another possible barrier. Students who have the time and money for voice, dance, or acting lessons are more likely to try out in the first place. But these are benefits that not all students find available to them. Even the act of auditioning becomes a barrier to some. During

the production of “13” VanCort volunteered her time and expertise to hold an audition workshop to help prepare all of the students auditioning.

“There are so many talented kids out there who have not had the benefit of repetition, in terms of repeatedly auditioning and learning the skillset you need for auditioning,” VanCort said. “So, if you don’t set systems up in place that help those kids to feel confident when they walk into the audition room, you’re basically shutting the door to them before the whole production starts. That’s when I get a little frustrated with terms like ‘opportunity.’ Because no one is going to take advantage of an opportunity if they don’t feel prepared for that opportunity.”

According to Winans, the audition process does include a meeting with all of the auditioning students to help prepare them for the process.

“Whereas many schools choose to have students come with their own music, which can be intimidating, we teach students music from the show at this meeting to use for auditions,” Winans said in an email. “After a general audition, some students are called back and given a chance to read and sing for specific roles. This gives us a chance to call back students who show potential, but may not have the same level of experience as others, and work with them a little to see if they could handle a role. Casting decisions are taken quite seriously and discussed for many hours, or even days, by a committee. Singing, dancing, and acting ability, as well as the chemistry they demonstrate with other students, is all that is discussed, so

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hIstory Street Beat

The word on the street from around Tompkins County

By Jamie Swinnerton

Question: What is your least favorite part of winter?

“The cold.”— Rosa, Ithaca

“The snow.”— Evelyn, Ithaca

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“The cold.”

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“Trying to get out of my driveway after the plows have been by.”

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The Republican View

I was on the radio with Lee Rayburn recently and again an old adage came up, “Think globally,

act locally.” Somewhere along the line I think this has been interpreted incorrectly. While I believe protest is a good thing for a society, without accompanying action it always rings hollow to me and the way it is used today seems more political than an

action to gain a desired result. In short, while a local action, it doesn’t always provide forward motion.

For example, I’m bombarded by folks in Ithaca who say republicans stand in the way of new energy technology and that Global Warming is the greatest threat to the planet; they say republicans are “anti-science” for challenging some of the assertions made about global warming. It’s hard to be lectured by a group though where many do very little in their private lives to combat global warming other than tell people how they’re not doing enough. I invested in solar panels, one of only a handful of local politicians

or activists to do so. We now have another county legislator who also supports action on this issue with her wallet and not just words. It’s not that words are unnecessary, but there are opportunities today that can do more than a march. Is planting a tree that hard? How old is your water heater? Air-source water heaters are a little more, but pay for themselves in savings in about two years.

I’ve been told that natural gas is just as bad as coal. That’s just not true. Is methane released when drilling? That’s likely. Do energy companies try and capture that? Yes, and have greatly reduced that release. Should they be made to? Sure. But let’s not act as if natural gas isn’t preferable over coal. Think if the powerplant had been repowered with natural gas over coal a decade ago instead of the move being blocked by “environmentalists.” How much less carbon would be in the atmosphere today?

Lansing is under a moratorium, endorsed by many outside of Lansing, living in towns not under a moratorium. Those arguing for a continuation of the moratorium say that this will force developers to use alternative heating sources, like heat pumps, effective for certain builds like apartment buildings with over four units, but not every application.

But this begs the question, why are these folks who approve of the Lansing moratorium not pushing for natural gas moratoriums in their own towns and cities? Perhaps Dryden, the City and Town of Ithaca are preparing changes to their buildings codes, but the Lansing moratorium is years old; will these changes be coming soon to these other town and city building codes or is it just Lansing that will carry this torch?

I made the assertion during the campaign that the closing of the salt mine under the lake would raise our carbon footprint. It only makes sense that municipalities get salt from the closest location available. It’s the shipping that adds cost. So, if your closest source closes, naturally you have to get it from further away raising your footprint. Simple and yet, that fact gets in the way of “we’re doing something for the environment! (that will cost jobs for no reason)”

Some municipalities went so far as to join in a lawsuit against the state Department of Environmental conservation based on apples and oranges comparisons to other salt mines and claims that the DEC did not do its due diligence. Much of this information comes from a source that also claims Ithaca Falls, the second most visited park

in Ithaca, has dangerous levels of lead. Does the city also believe this source on that claim? Will they be filing an article 78 against the DEC which has signed off saying the lead contamination has been mitigated and the falls are safe?

Even on housing, something that pretty much everybody agrees Tompkins County needs more of, we see the town of Ithaca banning the construction of two family homes. For many, that’s a starter home. You live in one side, a tenant pays your mortgage. And no, that’s not robbing a tenant. That’s providing housing for someone who doesn’t want to or have the means yet to buy.

I’m not discouraging folks to think globally, but it is challenging when I see folks: working to make their corner of the world better, saving good mining jobs that also save taxpayers money and benefit the environment, making the decision to put solar panels on their homes and barns, supporting transitional fuels understanding that to retrofit Tompkins County to all renewable energy will take decades and in the meantime, it’s better to use cleaner sources, and be told they are not doing enough, when those telling them that are not living by the same standards. Sure, think globally, but act locally.

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East Hill NotesBy Cornell University staff

Author and activist Mitchell S. Jackson is the featured speaker at the Martin Luther King Jr.,

Day of Commemoration, Tuesday ( Jan. 23) at 5:30 p.m. in Sage Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. The annual commemoration brings the Cornell and Ithaca communities together with events centered on King’s service, activism and legacy, and is co-sponsored, in part, by the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC).

Jackson’s keynote, “The Other America II,” builds on a speech given by King in 1967 at Stanford University, in which he addressed poverty and widespread racism as ugly realities confronting the comfortable vision of America as a land of opportunity.

Born in Portland, Ore., Jackson is on the liberal studies faculty at New York University. A prominent speaker and advocate for criminal

justice reform, he has visited prisons and youth facilities in the United States and abroad. He was arrested on drug charges as a youth and served time in prison, where he developed an interest in literature and writing. After his release in 1998, he earned master’s degrees in writing from Portland State University and NYU.

The event is facilitated by the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI) and Cornell United Religious Work, and organized by a committee of campus and community leaders.

“We are hopeful that the event will ensure that the legacy of Dr. King is not forgotten by this generation,” said Rochelle Jackson-Smarr, program manager for community engagement and social justice in OADI. “While some people have memory of King and his impact on their lives, today’s students

may not understand the gravity of his impact on society. Part of this campus-community collaboration is to revitalize Dr. King’s memory in contemporary times.”

Jackson, she said, “is capable of bridging generational gaps and connecting Dr. King’s dream to current events, as an inspiration for all to take action for the community.”

In addition to GIAC, cosponsors of the event include the Latina/o Studies Program, Cornell Prison Education Program, Student and Campus Life, the Greater Ithaca Activities Center and the Multicultural Resource Center.

“There are literally two Americas,” King said in 1967. “One America ... is the habitat of millions of people who have food and material necessities for their bodies; and culture and education for their minds; and freedom and human dignity for their spirits. But tragically

and unfortunately, there is another America. This other America has a daily ugliness about it that constantly transforms the ebullience of hope into the fatigue of despair.”

Noting that despite civil rights gains over the previous decade, “racism is still alive in American society and much more widespread than we realized,” King said: “However unpleasant it is, we must honestly see and admit that racism is still deeply rooted all over America. (And) the so-called ‘white backlash’ … is merely a new name for an old phenomenon. It’s not something that just came into being because of shouts of Black Power.”

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Tompkins Weekly the second and fourth Monday of each month. Mitchell Jackson will be on WHCU’s All Things Equal Tuesday morning at 8:30 a.m.

Signs of SustainabilityBy Adam Michaelides

It is widely reported that 40 percent of food produced in the United States is never eaten.

Most is sent to the landfill where it takes up space and produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Hauling and processing food waste involves the burning of fossil fuels. All of this contributes to climate change.

Tompkins County diverts 60 percent of waste from the landfill through recycling, composting and other innovative programs. To reach their goal of 75 percent diversion, the County has set up over a dozen sites for residents to drop off their food waste. The material collected is taken to Cayuga Compost where it is composted on a large scale. For more information and a list of locations, visit recycletompkins.org/Recycling/Food-Scraps-Recycling or call the Tompkins County Department of Recycling and Materials Management at 607-273-6632.

Food Scrap recycling is growing nationally. BioCycle, a leading journal of organics recycling, reports in “Residential Food Waste Collection Access in the U.S.” that over 5 million households now have access to government-supported, curbside food scrap collection, while 6.7

million have access to drop sites like the ones we have in Tompkins County. California leads the nation with the most households that have access to curbside collection, while New York leads with the most households that have access to food scrap drop off programs.

There is evidence to show that when people compost (or “recycle”) their food scraps, they are more likely to adopt other earth-friendly practices. A 2017 study was published in the Journal of Environment and Behavior by Nicole Sintov, an assistant professor of behavior, decision making and sustainability at Ohio State University.

Sintov and her colleagues were interested in a concept called “spillover,” where one behavior prompts another. They surveyed 284 residents of Costa Mesa, California about their energy and wastewater prevention practices, such as unplugging electronics and taking shorter showers. When researchers compared responses before and after the onset of the city’s composting program, they found that people who began composting adopted more water and energy conservation behaviors than those who did not.

The study demonstrates that composting is tied to other pro-

environment behaviors. If successfully replicated, the phenomenon could be relevant to policymakers. Government programs like curbside food scrap collection could influence the public to adopt other earth-friendly behaviors as well.

The Compost Education Program at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (CCETC) supports County goals to maximize waste diversion. In 2017, in collaboration with the Ithaca Community Gardens and the Freeville Community Garden, the Program established two community compost sites, trained 21 members, and diverted 750 pounds of food waste from the landfill.

Composting at home, or at a more local site like a community garden, helps to divert waste from the trash while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. Finished compost, a valuable soil amendment, is generated for use at home or in the garden.

To increase the number of options for composting food waste, Compost Program staff built sturdy, rodent-proof, multi-bin compost units in Freeville and in the City of Ithaca. We trained 21 residents to become members of the community compost sites. Upon each visit, members logged the weight of their

food scraps. Over one year, community

composters visited the two sites 115 times and deposited a total of 750 pounds of food scraps. They properly layered their wet, nitrogen-rich food scraps with two-to-three times the volume of leaves, sticks and straw. Over time the size of the piles reduced, showing that active decomposition took place. Next year, members will help turn the piles and go home with finished compost.

Beyond the work at the community sites, the Compost Program educated almost 6,000 people in Tompkins County during the 2016-2017 fiscal year (Oct-Sept). Master Composters – the Program’s energetic volunteer workforce – played a big part by staffing education booths, teaching compost techniques at public classes, and organizing our spring Compost Fair.

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On the Discovery TrailA look inside The Tompkins County Public Library

By Eric BanfordTompkins Weekly

The Discovery Trail is a museum-library partnership between eight member organizations that have been collaborating for nearly two decades to help visitors explore nature, science, and culture. Each month, we’ll be exploring one of the sites, highlighting their offerings and taking a look at their impact in the community.

Discovery Trail partners include Cayuga Nature Center, Cornell Botanic Gardens, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell, Museum of the Earth, Sciencenter, The History Center in Tompkins County, and Tompkins County Public Library.

This month we focus on Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL), which has been part of the Discovery Trail since the trail started in 1999.

As a partner organization with the Discovery Trail, TCPL has collaborated on a number of projects with other trail organizations. “We worked with PRI for a Human Origins exhibit and on Darwin Days, Cayuga Nature Center on a kid’s book program and STEAM guest speakers, and with the History Center on a toys exhibit and a Mapping Tompkins County project,” noted Sarah O’Shea, Head of Youth Services. “We’re continually looking for opportunities to partner with the Discovery Trail at any chance.”

Being part of the Discovery Trail has helped each partner’s visibility in the community, building awareness of the many programs available. “It’s arts, culture, museums, all of these things come together on the Discovery Trail,” added Library Director Annette Birdsall. “People use the library as a launching point for finding out what else is available. It begins the circle, and makes people aware of our trail partners and why we are working together for all of

these enriching opportunities.” Each Discovery Trail partner is

matched up with a school grade, and the library hosts kindergartner classes to start off their “Kids Discover the Trail!” (KDT!) adventure. “Hosting the kindergartners is the perfect spot to introduce them to the library, since they’re just starting their formal education, we want them to see the library as an important part of that experience,” said O’Shea.

“It’s a welcoming space for them to create a positive association with the library and its staff members,” added Adelle Leise, Children’s Librarian & KDT! Coordinator. “Hopefully they’ll keep coming back with their families, having them feel comfortable is one of our main goals.”

“We currently welcome all of the Kindergarteners in the Ithaca City & Trumansburg School Districts, about 550 students, for special class visits each year,” added Leise. “Two classes from different schools attend the field trip together and each child is buddied up with a Kindergartener from another class. Together we

celebrate our library, reading, and books! The children also receive a special keepsake copy of Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein, as well as a new library card for continued engagement.”

A nice benefit of KDT! is the feedback that it provides to trail partners from teachers, parents, and the students. “We’re constantly responding to feedback, tweaking our programs, making it rewarding for the kids,” added O’Shea. “And the educators for each trail partner meet regularly and find out what worked at their site, how they solved certain problems. Having that Discovery Trail umbrella over it is helpful to facilitate that.”

“One of our goals is to create equal access to the resources in our community, through KDT!” said Star Bressler, Executive Director of the Discovery Trail. “During their visit children learn about books and how to use the library through tours, stories, songs, and a puppet show. TCPL has played an important role in the Discovery Trail, since our

formation in1999. Janet Steiner, the director at the time initiated the first informal meeting with the partners to share best practices and challenges around programs and funding. The partners realized that collaboration provided increased capacity for programs.”

TCPL has recently gone through a major renovation project, adding new meeting rooms, a dedicated teen center, a DIY makerspace, a learning lab, an office for local historian Carol Kammen, and much more.

“Prior to the opening of the teen center, we saw a lack of space in town for teens to just hang out with no expectations of them buying something,” said O’Shea. “This new space has computers, teen books, teen programming. We’re making strong connections with New Roots and various school groups coming to use the space. In designing the space, we got input from our Teen Advisory Council, so there’s a real sense of

ownership,” she said.The new makerspace contains

3-D printers, laser cutters, an embroidery machine, sewing machines, and recording equipment. Classes and events are planned to teach how to utilize the equipment. “We’re looking to collaborate with Ithaca Generator, the ReUse Center, mentors in the community who can help us in this space,” noted Birdsall. “This will continue to open up how we can reach people to come in and use all of these resources without a cost.”

“The success of our library is really dependent on our community partners, and having a formal organization through the Discovery Trail only makes us all stronger,” concluded Birdsall.

More information about the library can be found at: tcpl.org

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Upcoming community read aims to help babies developBy Jamie SwinnertonTompkins Weekly

This Thursday, Jan. 25, a local literacy enthusiast and a team of medical professionals and

reading enthusiasts will kick-off a community read “Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain” by Dr. Dana Suskind, a professor of surgery at the University of Chicago. Brigid Hubberman has been helping connect the local community to books since she started The Family Reading Partnership, a non-profit organization that promotes early literacy, over 20 years ago. Now she has a new, but similar, cause with her new organization the Children’s Reading Connection. The event starts at 6:30 at The Space at Greenstar.

The concept behind “Thirty Million Words” is relatively simple: when parents talk and interact with their babies in a loving way they are helping the child develop. According to the Thirty Million Words Initiative website, in 1995 a study by researchers Betty Hart and Rodd Risley found that some children heard thirty million fewer words by the time they turned 4 years old than others. Children who heard more words were better prepared for school, had bigger vocabularies, were stronger readers, and got bigger test scores.

“After years of really working so hard to connect babies and children with books, I’m excited about this additional piece of words,” Hubberman said. “Like going back to the foundation of words.”

Although the idea behind the read had been on Hubberman’s mind for years, this initiative really got going after a visit to South Africa where she was part of a forum called “Babies, Books and Loving Words.” When she returned she met up with two friends who also had a stake in helping babies learn and grow: Sue Brower, a clinical instructor and Registered Nurse at Cayuga Medical Center (CMC) Cayuga Birthplace, and MaryAnn Simpson, a retired early childhood speech language pathologist. All of them agreed that more people needed to know about the power of loving words in a child’s development, so they decided they would try to get Dr. Suskind’s books in front of as many people as possible.

“At its most fundamental, parents really have what they need already, their face and their voice,”

Hubberman said. “How do we make sure people know that?”

To start, Hubbarman started to spread the book to influential community members that already are involved with early childhood development. The reaction, Hubberman said, was positive, with specialists telling her they had already become more aware of how they were speaking to the children that they work with.

An extensive Leadership Planning Circle for the initiative includes two neonatologists from CMC, professors from the local colleges, special education teachers from the Ithaca City School Dsitrict, two pediatricians, and community members. All are working as ambassadors of the book within their own circles and fields of expertise, spreading the good word about Loving Words. One of them is Sue Brower, who helped introduce Hubberman to the book.

“I’m trying to get the nurses here – who are pediatric and OB nurses – interested in doing the read,” Brower said. “Then we can come back and say ok, we already are doing a lot to encourage reading to babies, and we’ve already done much over the years – for more than 20 years – of having that as an integral thing in what we teach parents, to read to your baby, and to take this new information and say in addition to reading, just talking.”

Brower has already created

a bulletin board within Cayuga Birthplace that highlights the positive effects of interacting and reading to babies in a loving and positive way. Recent parents have contributed to the board on heart-shaped sticky-notes with the loving words they want their own new babies to hear. Brower wants the words to spread.

“To just be able to think big and think how can we do our part for the beginning of life to get the message to parents,” Brower said. “So, then it gets picked up everyplace else in our community as a norm that that’s just what you do, you talk to children and you don’t have to talk baby-talk to them. And when you are talking to them when you’re trying to teach them you’re doing it in a loving way, rather than a negative way.”

Brower’s colleague at CMC, neonatologist Dr. Ramesh Vidavalur, is also on the Leadership Planning Circle. He said there are multiple ways that they are trying to get the information about the benefits of talking and interacting with a baby to new parents.

“Every baby, when they go home they get a packet of instructions to take care of them,” Vidavalur said. “We can develop a family-friendly information sheet, or something like that, that every parent gets. We can develop AV material. We have a hospital channel that every parent watches before they go home.”

Although the benefits of talking and interacting with a baby have been measured through school performance, Hubberman said the benefits go beyond good grades and test scores.

“This isn’t just about school readiness,” Hubberman said. “It’s about life readiness. And it’s about shaping a child’s very being. This is growing human beings.”

Too often, Hubberman said, brain development is only thought of in terms of intellectual development.

“But the social and emotional part of it are never separated out of the intellectual, the three are always coupled together,” she said. “So, brain development is always heart and mind. That’s what this book does

so beautifully. It illustrates that words are so much more than vocabulary. This isn’t just about vocabulary, this is about everything.”

Vidavalur said studies show that interaction is also good for the health of very young babies.

“There have been a number of studies when they have skin-to-skin contact and the mothers speak to their babies, the variability of the heart rate and the breathing patterns is very minimal when they are with the mom, talking to them,” Vidavalur said. “Rather than when they are staying in the incubator, stuck to the alarms and the monitors.”

This upcoming community read, which will last for 14 weeks (two weeks for each chapter), is just the beginning. Another read is already being organized in Binghamton for later this year. The book will be supplied for free to event goers and community members. Local public libraries, Buffalo Street Books, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and Village at Ithaca will all be supplied with copies for community members to pick it up.

“This is about our future, and when we give babies words it helps them succeed in the world,” Hubberman said. “Including giving them the power to change it.”

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The Right Sort of BeesBy Mariah MottleyTompkins Weekly

Scott Creary has 2,000 pounds of honey in his basement. When complimented on the clarity and

richness of the honey’s flavor, Scott shrugs and says, “the bees do good work.”

Creary owns and runs Entomos Apiaries, whose name comes from the Greek word for insects. A life-long fan, Mr. Creary holds a degree in plant science from Cornell and a master’s degree in entomology from the University of Maryland. He was the director of pest management at the Phipps Botanical Garden and Conservatory in Pittsburgh when he first discovered the joys of beekeeping and learned the craft from a pair of Central Ohio beekeepers with a combined 80 years of experience. Now Scott sells honey to friends and co-workers in passing and at Ithacamade in the DeWitt Mall and

Bramble in Press Bay Alley.What does a ton of honey look

like? Imagine 50 white three and a half gallon buckets, stacked four high and three deep in rows of five.

Beekeeping is much riskier than it used to be. Thanks to globalization, new and deadly parasites threaten hive health, as climate change has instituted the new norm of irregular weather.

July and August of 2017 were unseasonably cool months, with temperatures too low to ripen honey. Creary worried Entomos Apiaries would produce no inventory. However, the unexpected heat wave during the last week in September, however, put the business back in the black. “The bees made a stupid amount of honey,” Creary said, regarding his late season harvest.

Varroa mites, which Creary describes as one of the most dreaded enemies of bee colonies, can cause a 50-90% hive loss in a single season. For a honey business run on a large scale, such a risk factor can be unsustainable.

Following the spirit of his teachers, Creary tries to do more with less. He buys used equipment and says that his biggest investment is in sweat equity.

In addition to brawn, Creary draws on his master’s degree in entomology and Cornell education in plant science to help him navigate the often unexpected challenges of modern “beeking.” In 2014, he returned to the area to manage a company that sold beneficial insects. When the job didn’t work out, he stayed in the area because “the bees liked it here.”

How does he know bees like a place? By the amount of honey they produce. Creary’s bees produce three to four times the amount of honey in Central New York than they did in Ohio, a testament to the diversity and wealth of flowers available here.

Entomos bees are a special breed of bee, in that they aren’t. Instead of being commercially produced from one or two hives, Creary’s bees are “survivor stock,” the descendants of the first hives he purchased back in Ohio, six years ago. The queen bees, when they head out on their mating flights, go where they want to go and do what they want to do, choosing their own mates, instead of being artificially inseminated. The hives resulting from this genetic diversity display the same hybrid vigor found in friendly, capable and long-lived mutt dogs. “I don’t have poodle bees,” Scott explains.

To lessen the impact on native pollinators in the area, Creary spreads his hives out across seven different apiaries in Enfield, Lansing, Freeville, McLean, and Virgil. Each batch reflects the slight difference in the flora from the area where it has been collected. With that different flora comes different flavors – each tastes a little bit different – similar to the idea of terroir in wine.

Harvesting the honey is no small task. Every day, for months, Creary extracts in small batches, before and

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after shifts at Viva Taqueria, where he entertains restaurant goers with his endless supply of Dad-jokes. “Shoot me,” he says, smiling, about the extra work during the honey season.

He also doesn’t wear a bee suit while working his hives, often going shirtless in the heat. The only protection he uses is a smoker, which

keeps the bees from communicating with one another and makes them want to stay close to home. Less protection, Creary says, makes him more careful. He thinks of insects as extensions of the earth itself, and that working with bees provides an opportunity to interact directly with that power. He respects their industry and organization, noting that they are “making a living off the land better than we could ever hope to.”

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But even some ICSD faculty agree with the students. Floyd “Todd” Peterson has been working in the Ithaca school district for over 20 years, created the Boynton Theater Project, and for several years was the director for the school shows. But he has a history in the theater that goes much deeper and further than Ithaca. He is currently a teaching assistant at Belle Sherman Middle School. Nia Nunn-Makepeace was one of his students and remembers his active recruitment of students of color when putting on a production of “The Wiz,” a reimagining of “The Wizard of Oz” with an all-black cast.

Casting issues around race at ICSD, Peterson said, are not new. When he was casting for “The Wiz,” Peterson said he was asked by a music director “Does Dorothy really have to be black?” Peterson gathered multiple other stories of what he saw as biased casting.

“This has been going on for more years than you have been alive,” Peterson said to this reporter. “These kids, these people, have not been able to express themselves because of the system. They have been in a situation where why audition? They only like white people.”

Peterson eventually left the theater program in part due to frustrations with the casting directions he was given and choices that were being made.

“I think we can identify problematic elements around all of these shows,” said Nia Nunn-Makepeace about the casting issues around the shows that her son had been a part of.

After confronting Winans about “The Lion King” Nunn-Makepeace said he defended the choice.

“There’s just this education lacking by a lot of people,” Nunn-Makepeace said. “And yes, maybe there’s a reality of it not necessarily being their fault because our curriculum teaches such racism, it protects whiteness. Because there is this protection there’s this defending of it.”

On Thursday, Jan. 18, several

of the concerned students spoke with members of the administration, including Brown, after the school reached out to the students.

“The district is creating a Collaborative Team made up of students, community, teachers, board members to look at our under represented students and create a system where students feel invited and want to be part of this program,” Brown said in an email. “We will also be looking at the obstacles that children are feeling is preventing them from participating. This will be chaired by The Director of Arts and the Director of Athletics. We believe when students engage in co-curricular activities they thrive in school. We will be looking at better ways to provide our programs for all students.”

Brown said the administration is also looking into more options for student performances. Neither Brown nor Winans commented when asked for a response to allegations of whitewashing, both with this show and past shows.

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Letters to the EditorA Response to Casting and Engagement in ICSD Performing Arts

I am completely sympathetic with the overall cause of inclusion and diversity within the arts

which IHS students recently wrote about and appreciate their speaking out - young people and community involvement is needed to bring about positive change in our schools. However, my experiences with ICSD administration & teachers through involvement in PTA has given me a different perspective on the district and performing arts at Boynton and IHS.

The students who wrote in said the casting of Esmeralda is racist. I disagree based on authorial intent - what the author of the musical or play intends. MTI licenses the show and states no specific ethnicity for any of the parts in “Hunchback of Notre Dame” though they do for characters in other shows when there is authorial intent. They allow for open casting in this musical, Esmeralda included. This is in consideration of the original novel and the myriad of film and stage production interpretations over the years in which performers of all races were featured. It also reflects the diverse background of the Roma people who originated in India and began migrating as early as the 6th century through Eastern and Central Europe, thereby developing a far reaching ethnic background by 1482 when the musical takes place. The Roma were viewed as outcasts and had no tie to a specific home. They were and are persecuted however their skin color varies widely.

The show is based directly on the Victor Hugo novel with songs from the Disney cartoon as stated by MTI. Hugo explored themes of class struggle and discrimination against outcasts – both the Roma and Quasimodo. In the book, Esmeralda is an orphan growing up with the Roma. At the end

she meets her mother, a French woman named Paquette whose affair with a nobleman led to her downfall. Esmeralda (originally Agnes) is told she was kidnapped by the Roma. This background is not included in the cartoon or musical but is important. Esmeralda is Roma through her upbringing not her birth parents. Characters remark on Esmeralda’s great beauty and some make fun of her gypsy dress– but do not comment on skin color. Hugo describes her skin color as golden. When Disney adapted Esmeralda for their cartoon they chose to make her skin darker which was viewed as an attempt to bring diversity to the brand, but they cast white voice actors (Demi Moore & Heidi Mollenhauer) a seemingly contradictory decision.

ICSD recognizes a racial disparity in participation across the district and continually takes measures to encourage inclusion and diversity within extra-curricular activities and in school courses. There are many discussions being had and ideas considered to promote this aim – there has been progress though more needs to happen.

My daughter was involved in the performing arts at Boynton and IHS so I ended up volunteering as publicity coordinator and still do though we don’t live in Ithaca currently. The environment I saw created through chorus, band, orchestra and musicals was one of diversity and inclusion. There were a wide range of students involved representing every race, gender, and orientation with a variety of backgrounds just like the city of Ithaca. The young people developed friendships based on a love of music while respecting and celebrating each other’s differences as they achieved a common goal. This was not a “playground of the white privileged students” as the writers said – it was a gymnasium for every interested student to work hard, engage, and

learn creatively within a diverse and inclusive group supported by faculty who cared deeply and extended themselves daily.

The community so many students thrive in is a direct result of the performing arts teachers encouraging and inspiring students. The team is open, supportive and inclusive with a mission to involve students of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, orientations, body types and abilities in their productions – and numbers steadily are growing. Students with disabilities are welcomed and given any support needed to ensure a positive experience. Directors do all they can to insure money is not a factor in participating by providing instruments and extra coaching where needed, as well as offering scholarships for NYSSMA, spirit t-shirts and field trips to both middle and high school students, as well as making tickets available for families and organizing transportation through car pools and community groups.

The musical castings from past productions show an attention to both diversity and gender fluid casting. There were many leads and ensemble members who were students of color in my memory going back to “Annie” at Boynton and “Catch Me If You Can” at IHS.

IHS productions are highly professional. It is the proving ground for many students who choose to study performing at university. These programs are the equivalent of the most in depth Chemistry or Math courses. Within the school day, Choir is a highlight for so many High School students - even acting is taught at IHS, as the district strives to give all students access to courses that will help them develop their talents to the highest level.

More diversity is needed in performing arts but the same is true across district programs. This is a focus for ICSD as it embraces Dr. Brown’s vision and choice to lead with love. Students need to be in closer dialogue with the ICSD board, administration and teachers to constructively accomplish higher rates of participation. On social media it is easy to react in anger rather than seek communication and cooperate towards a common goal while considering the facts of particular situations. In person communication will always bring us closer to goals of inclusion and avoid one sided dialogues. We all need to research and fact check before we make up our minds on issues.

Expanding performing arts opportunities from elementary through high school would help diversity goals – rather than attack a successful program which serves many students, why not extend the vision of performing arts and create more options just as there are within sports offerings. Last year BJM started a 5th grade musical - hopefully this is continued since interesting students at a younger age is key to continued engagement. An option for voice as well was instrumental lessons would help students develop their skills. There are many possibilities to be considered. From my observation the doors of ICSD are open and they are inviting students of all races to come participate and have a dialogue. I have the greatest respect for the 6000 thinkers who are working together to create an even better school district on a daily basis.

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until March, when the lacrosse season itself comes more into focus. With the dark and cold days that the Finger Lakes area can bring, it can be tough to think of the grassy lacrosse field during the spring, but Sposito has stayed motivated.

“My main motivation is to become what I want to be one day,” said Sposito. “I want to be a top player in Division I lacrosse, so I just think about that every night and push forward with that especially when I don’t want to work out.”

A big priority for Sposito along with the training has been his academics. The senior was already committed to the Division I institution during his junior season

and he has a big plan in store for not only West Point, but what’s he’s going to do after his college years.

“It was pretty much based off of where I want to be after school and after I serve in the Army,” said Sposito on his college choice. “I want to go get my MBA after that, so I think that serving my country and the resume I’ll be able to get after graduating would be a huge accomplishment.”

Before he leaves for West Point this fall, Sposito and the Little Red have some unfinished business on the field. Ithaca won the Class A Section IV Championship for the first time since 2013 last spring and with plenty of experience leaving the team due to graduation, Sposito doesn’t want to take a step back.

“I think we’re going to be young this year,” said Sposito. “I want to make a point to the team that we’re

going to set our goal to win the sectional championship.”

Along with the team goal of returning to the New York State Tournament, Sposito has a goal for himself as well.

“The main goal would be to become an All-American,” said Sposito. “Other than that, I just want to keep playing how I’ve been playing and see what comes of it.”

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when he went 2-1 following victories over wrestlers from Minnesota and Kent State before he lost to then number 16 nationally ranked Grant Leeth of Missouri. Now, Koll is in a fight for the starting spot at 149 pounds with most notably Jonathan Furnas, who has held down the role for the past year or so.

“We have quite a few guys at 149 that are tough wrestlers and are motivated,” said Koll on the weight class battle. “No matter who ends up

in the spot, I know that we’ll have a strong reliable wrestler and I have no worries going forward.”

One advantage that the Lansing native may have is the lack of weight cut he has to go through to make weight at 149. After he had to cut back to 141 last winter, he says that cutting down to 149 for matches feel much more natural.

“For me, to not cut as much weight just improves my strength and conditioning,” said Koll. “I may be a little undersized, but so far it hasn’t been much of a hindrance for me.”

Koll is hoping to be a starter

on the squad when championship season rolls around in March, as the Big Red has a historic streak of titles that he’d like to contribute to once again. Cornell has now won 15 consecutive Ivy League championships, which is the longest streak of titles ever in league history. They also have claimed the last 11 EIWA titles, which is the longest streak ever in the conference.

“I think it’s been said for many years now that this year, whatever year it may be, will be the year that somebody will knock us off the pedestal,” said Koll on the EIWA

streak. “But it hasn’t happened yet, and although people are saying it again this year, we’ll have to wait and see before anything like that happens. I expect history will repeat itself and we’ll stay at the top where we’ve been for the past 11 years.”

Koll and the Big Red will be in action at Friedman Wrestling Center in Ithaca on Saturday when they will host Brown and Harvard in a dual doubleheader.

KollContinued from page 16

By Tim DonnellyESPN Ithaca

Recently on ESPN Ithaca’s Between the Lines, host Tim Donnelly spoke with Denise

Ibarra of the Ithaca College Track and Field Team. Ibarra recently won the 3000m at the Towson Tiger Invitation, an event that included many Division I participants. Here is a snippet of that conversation; to hear the full interview, visit ESPN Ithaca’s on-demand PodCenter at ESPNIthaca.com.

Tim Donnelly: What does it mean

as a Division III athlete to go into a competition with Division I athletes and then come away with that win?

Denise Ibarra: It’s actually a

really cool experience and sensation just because, you know, there is a whole stigma that goes around with the Division I and the Division III athletes. I think it was really cool to

show that Division III has a super competitive side. I’m super proud to be a part of this Division III program that has so often done super well against other Division I schools. I think it is a really neat and cool experience, for sure.

TD: Your time in the 3000m was the second fastest of your career. When you think of how you want to finish the rest of the season, what is the main thing you are trying to accomplish?

DI: My main goal is definitely to, I’ve never competed at the indoor nationals meet for track, I’ve competed in outdoor track and cross

country a couple of times, but never in indoor. So, I would definitely want to qualify for the national championship, but my goal is actually to qualify in the 5000m. So, I would have to hit a pretty low 17’s in order for that to happen. So that is currently the main goal, right now.

– – –Listen to Between the Lines with

Tim Donnelly from 4-5 p.m. weekdays on ESPN Ithaca (1160 AM/107.1 FM) and ESPNIthaca.com.


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Lansing’s Koll and Cornell Wrestling gears up to repeat history

Sposito preps for a big finale with Ithaca LacrosseWill LeBlondTompkins Weekly

While the squeak of the hardwood at Bliss

Gymnasium sounds off during an Ithaca High Basketball practice, there’s some more commotion just down the hallway.

IHS senior Ryan Sposito has been on a tight workout regimen for the past few months that includes lifting three times a week at the gym in Ithaca High School, but that’s not all he’s been doing to get ready for the lacrosse season. The Army commit has also gone over to Cornell twice a week to work on his footwork and stick skills indoors in order to be ready to roll for his final campaign in a Little Red jersey.

Sposito, who had been playing basketball for most of his life, dropped the sport for his final year at Ithaca because he wanted to shift his full focus this winter to being at full strength for lacrosse.

“It was definitely a tough decision,” said Sposito on leaving basketball. “I played basketball throughout my whole life and

dropping it for my senior year was tough, but I just had to think about my senior year of lacrosse and college. I think it’s going to better me by not playing basketball this year because

I want to become more physically fit and even better at lacrosse.”

The program that Sposito is on has been something he has done for a few years now, but he’s never been

able to dedicate as much time to it as this winter with no more basketball. At Ithaca High, he’s had more of a focus on Olympic style lifts, in order to get more assimilated to the type of training he’ll see at West Point, but that’s not the only college style work he’s been doing.

He’s also been working under the supervision of Cornell Associate Director of Athletics for Athlete Performance Tom Howley, as it is an NCAA violation for Sposito to workout under a plan given to him specifically by Army.

“He’s been giving me almost what Cornell does, so I’ve just been basing my workouts off of that,” said Sposito. “Pretty much, my grandpa (Cornell Lacrosse coaching legend Richie Moran) told me one day that he wanted to get me on this plan. So he got in connection with Howley and we met one day and it’s been working out pretty well.”

Sposito will stick on this plan

Photo provided

Ryan Sposity is focusing on lacrosse for his final year at Ithaca High School.

Will LeBlondTompkins Weekly

The college wrestling season is a long and grinding one, but over on Ithaca’s East Hill, the

Cornell Big Red is getting ready for the final stretch run.

Cornell will have dual matches every weekend from now until mid-February in advance of the championship season. The Big Red got off to a 4-2 start in duals after

they went 2-2 in the South Beach Duals, which saw the team head south to Florida for a week.

“To go down and see some sunshine was great for everyone,” said Lansing native and Cornell junior Will Koll. “But we didn’t compromise our training. We saw a lot of quality teams and had a lot of great matches, but then we had some time afterward to enjoy ourselves.”

The local boy has been

working his way back into the starting lineup this winter for his father head coach Rob Koll’s squad. While Koll spent the entire 2016-17 wrestling at 141 pounds, he had to make a change this year.

One of the highest rated recruits in recent memory, Rochester native Yianni Diakomihalis, joined the Big Red this year and he immediately took over the 141-pound starting spot. Diakomihalis has even risen to be

ranked at number one in the country at points this year, so Koll bumped up to 149 pounds.

“For me, moving up to 149 has been a bit of a challenge,” said Koll. “But to go up to that weight actually feels pretty natural and it was nice to get back and compete for my team.”

His first action on the season came down in the Sunshine State

Photos provided by Cornell Athletics

(Left and above) Lansing native Will Koll during a match against Drexel.



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