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Vol. 128, No. 132 MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 ! ITHACA, NEW YORK
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Benevolent AlumnusJohn Swanson ’62 M.Eng ’63,donated $10 million to theCollege of Engineering to support student project teamsand academic initiatives.
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Rainand SnowHIGH: 42 LOW: 35
OpinionNot Mr. Nice GuySebastian Deri ’13 says that thedefault, safe line — “You’re sonice” — is hardly a complimentin his eyes.
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News
Swept AwayThe Avett Brothers’ showSaturday, which sold out twomonths ago, pulsed with energy, much to the delight ofthe band’s fans.
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Arts
Weather
Sports
Ready, Set, WrestleKyle Dake ’13 won four matchesat the U.S. Olympic WrestlingTeam Trials in Iowa City, Iowa,this weekend.
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From left to right, Alex Quilty ’15, Lauren Bamford ’12 and Katelyn Pippy ’15 act as Princeton, Gary Colemanand Kate Monster in Risley Theatre’s production of Avenue Q on Saturday.
It sucks to be me
Despite opposition from students, the University CalendarCommittee will present its proposed changes to the academic calendar— including two new vacation days in the spring and shortening stu-dents’ exam and study periods — to the Faculty Senate for a vote inMay.
If the changes are passed by the Faculty Senate, the Universitywould add two vacation days in February; condense the exam studyperiod from seven days to four and exam week from eight days to six;shorten Senior Week from seven days to three; and change theWednesday before Thanksgiving from a half day to a full day off.
Additionally, Slope Daywould fall on a Wednesday,rather than a Friday.
The Calendar Com -mittee — a coalition of fac-ulty, students and staff —was established in 2010 and
tasked with revising the academic calendar for the first time since1984, according to Prof. Jeff Doyle, plant biology, chair of the com-mittee. Doyle said that the committee’s primary goal is to alleviatestudent mental health concerns.
Both of the committee’s undergraduate members — StudentAssembly President Natalie Raps ’12 and Geoffrey Block ’14, S.A. at-large representative — said they do not support the committee’s pro-posal. Yet its other members overwhelming did; the committeeapproved the final version of the proposal with a vote of 8 to 1 to 1.
The Slope Day Pro gram -ming Board has five days torecruit an additional 250 volun-teers for Slope Day — or LibeSlope may be silent and emptyof concert-goers come May 4.
“If we do not have enoughvolunteers, then there won’t be aSlope Day. No stage, no music,no event, no nothing,” saidDylan Rapoport ’12, chair ofSDPB’s POSSE — people orga-nizing and supervising slopeevents.
The shortage of volunteersis especially troubling thisyear, Rapoport said, becausethe number of people neededto staff the event has increasedfrom 400 to 500 since lastyear.
“Our recruitment ends onFriday and we have about 250signed up so far,” Rapoport said.“We’ve got to double recruit-ment in a week.”
The number of volunteersneeded has increased due to adramatic rise in attendance atSlope Day over the last fewyears. While 13,974 peopleattended Slope Day in 2010,about 17,500 attended last year,
according to SDPB records.“[Every year] there is more
trash, more water to hand out,more of everything. More peo-ple coming means more volun-teers are needed,” said AshwinRaja ’14, leader of the team ofSlope Day volunteers responsi-
ble for environmental sustain-ability.
This year, SDPB also needsmore volunteers in order toextend the area it will help cleanafter Slope Day. The board plansto send volunteers to clean notonly the fenced-off area on Libe
Slope, as it has in previous years,but also the space spanningThurston Bridge to Col -legetown Bagels. Rapoport saiddoing so will enable SDPB tosave money it would have
As the University prepares to hire a hugenumber of professors, candidates will face dif-ferent degrees of review for tenure at Cornell,depending on their teaching ability, experienceand the caliber of their former institution.
Junior faculty — untenured professors — atthe University often have to wait about sixyears before they are reviewed for tenure. Butwhen hiring new faculty, Cornell does not have
a defined process for determining which candi-dates receive tenure, according to JohnSiliciano ’75, vice president for academicaffairs.
“There actually isn’t a policy” on grantingtenure to newly hired faculty, Siliciano said,“because we have to make judgments based onvery individual circumstances.”
Siliciano said that if faculty are hired “later-ally” — to the same position they held at
As Calendar Advances,Student Reps.DissentFaculty Senate to vote on changes in May
New Profs Face Tenure Review
Time Running Out as Slope Day Searches for Volunteers
Last call | Members of the Slope Day Programming Board warned that if it does not recruit enough volun-teers, Slope Day may not occur this year.
TINA CHOU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
By ERIN ELLISSun Staff Writer
By CAROLINE FLAXSun Staff Writer
By JINJOO LEESun Senior Writer
“I feel that students didn’thave enough of a voice.”Natalie Raps ’12
See TENURE page 5See CALENDAR page 4
See SLOPE DAY page 5
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The cold weather continues into Tuesday with gloomy,cloudy skies. Expect to wear a rain jacket outside.
Hi: 44° Lo: 38° Partly Cloudy
Wednesday will be on the warmer side, so expect to seesome sunshine. It still won’t be quite warm enough tolaze around on the slope and play frisbee.
Hi: 44° Lo: 33° Showers
This week a wet Thursday comes your way as Ithacaweather continues to keep you guessing.
Hi: 41° Lo: 31° Rain and Snow Showers
Friday will be cold with icy winds, so think twice beforestepping out of your room.
This week brings cold winds and a lot of rain after last week’s unexpected warmth. Prepare to carryyour rain coat everywhere, and if possible keep that umbrella at hand too. Today, expect the temperatures to dropa little with downpours and gloomy skies; usual Ithaca weather after an unusual week of sun and fun.
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Lo: 34° FRain
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With a $10 million gift fromJohn A. Swanson ’62 M.Eng.’63 the College of Engineeringwill expand undergraduateopportunities in both academicsand student organizations.
According to a Universitypress release on Thursday, half ofthe gift will be used to fundengineering project teams —student-run organizations thatdesign and build products, suchas race cars and water purifica-tion systems, that emphasizepractical aspects of engineering.
The donation will also beused to create a director positionthat will oversee the projectteams, according to Prof. Alan T.Zehnder, mechanical and aero-space engineering, associate deanfor diversity and faculty develop-ment.
“There would be someonewho would be able to advise theteams more closely, give moreoversight in terms of safety andresponsibility,” said Zehnder,who is also a faculty advisor forthe Cornell UniversityAutonomous UnderwaterVehicle team. “The overall pro-ject team program will be onfirmer grounds … It’ll make surethat this project team processand experience will be availablefor a lot more students down theline.”
The decision to appoint anew director comes after theFormula Society of AutomotiveEngineers project team — whichbuilds and races cars for anannual competition in Michigan— was put on a two-month pro-bation following multiple mem-bers’ complaints of excessivestress. According to Prof. MarkCampbell, director of mechani-
cal and aerospace engineering,the engineering college has beentrying to improve leadershipamong project teams.
Other uses for the moneymight include payments for pro-ject teams’ supplies and travel-ling fees, Zehnder said.
“It’s a great thing to happen,and I’m really looking forwardto seeing how it will be imple-mented,” said Matt Byrne ’12,the team leader for FormulaSAE. “If money is given directlyfor the teams to use, that wouldbe a huge help … It would prob-ably go towards facilities, equip-ment, new machines — thingslike that.”
Currently, teams receive morethan $200,000 in sponsorshipsfrom companies every year,according to the press release.Swanson’s gift will give projectteams — which provide studentshands-on experiences in engi-neering — more stability infunding, according to LanceCollins, dean of the college.
“These teams provide stu-dents with not only the technicalchallenge of designing and
building a complex system, butthe opportunity to work withothers from different disciplinesand to get entrepreneurial, man-agement and financial experi-ence that will inspire some to goon to create startups,” Collinssaid, according to the pressrelease. “Thanks to [Swanson]’sincredibly generous gift, theseteams will no longer have to relyon uncertain funding from com-panies and other sources thatfluctuate year to year.”
Many project teams currentlyuse software designed byANSYS, Inc., a company thatSwanson founded in 1970 andwas CEO of until it was sold in1994, according to the press
r e l e a s e .A N S Y S ,w h i c hd e v e l o p seng ine e r -ing simula-tion soft-ware anda s s i s t steams indevelopingand testing
their projects.Swanson said that his deci-
sion to donate to the college waslargely motivated by the beliefthat an undergraduate engineer-ing education — paired withexperience working on teamsand producing products —helps create well-prepared engi-neers.
“It’s a very good thing for us,”Zehnder said. “It demonstratesthe commitment being made bythe college and John Swanson tokeep hands-on experience andlearning available for engineer-ing students and other studentsas well.”
The other half of Swanson’sdonation will be used to fund
additional academic initiatives.Three million dollars will be
used to establish the John A.Swanson engineering under-graduate scholarship fund,according to the press release.The remaining $2 million willhelp fund the AcademicExcellence Workshop, whichhelps augment student educa-tion through peer-facilitatedgroup work, and theEngineering Learning Initiativesprogram, which enables under-graduates to work alongsideCornell faculty members.
“Engineering can feel tomany students to be an intenseand aggressive program,” saidProf. Graeme Bailey, computerscience, another faculty advisorfor CUAUV and a member ofThe Sun’s Board of Directors.“All that we can do to help stu-dents to not only survive butdevelop both the nerdy and thepersonal skills to carry them for-ward into their careers is critical-ly important.”
Men are 16 percent more like-ly to speak in class than women inYale Law School courses, accord-ing findings in a study released bya Law School student group lastweek.
The group, Yale Law Women,replicated a study of genderdynamics it conducted at theschool in 2002. The 93-pagestudy — which included inter-views with 54 of 83 non-visitingfaculty members,observations of stu-dent participation in113 sessions of 21 LawSchool courses and asurvey of 62 percent ofthe student body —found that women are1.5 percent more like-ly to speak up in class now thanthey were 10 years ago, amongseveral other observations. Themajority of students and facultyinterviewed by the News saidgender imbalances are an endem-ic problem in the legal professionand are not unique to the LawSchool, though many were disap-pointed by the lack of substantialimprovement over the decade.
“What we found is that partic-ipation by women in the class-room has improved, but the rateis very slow,” said Fran Faircloth,a Yale Law Women co-chair forthe study. “If we continue at thesame rate, the gender gap won’tclose until 2083.”
The report, titled “Yale LawSchool Faculty and StudentsSpeak Up about Gender: TenYears Later,” assesses students’interactions with faculty both inand out of the classroom, andcompiled recommendations onhow to minimize gender differ-ences in the Law School commu-nity based on survey and inter-view responses.Recommendations to facultyinclude practicing more “consci-entious classroom management”— for example, waiting for fiveseconds rather than calling on thefirst student to raise his or herhand — while recommendationsto students include being moreproactive in interacting with pro-fessors.
Law School professor LeaBrilmayer, who has taught at Yale“off and on” for 30 years afterbecoming one of the first femaleprofessors at the Law School, saidshe found the study depressingbecause it contradicted her feelingthat gender dynamics at theschool have improved in recentyears. Brilmayer pointed to sever-al institutional changes she saidcontribute to her attitude, includ-ing the greater prevalence ofwomen on the faculty, all of
whom she describedas “first-rate intellec-tual heavyweights.”For the 2011-’12 aca-demic year, 22 out of104 Yale Law Schoolprofessors werewomen, according tothe survey.
The majority of studentsinterviewed attributed the resultsof the study to historic genderinequalities within the legal pro-fession.
Jennifer Skene, a Yale Law stu-dent who served as a faculty inter-viewer for the report, said shefeels legal education often perpet-uates an “image of the dominantmale lawyer.” Though she saidthe problem is systemic ratherthan created by a specific set of
people at Yale, she added that theissue leads some women to feelinsecure.
Skene added that she feelssome males at top law schools arelikely to be more confident thantheir female counterparts — areality she said is evident at YaleLaw School.
“There’s very much this malein-group here,” Skene said. “Andif you’re in that, you’re very muchat the top of the world. This istrue in the [first-year] class — Ifeel it’s very fratty and very insu-lar, even more so than the LawSchool itself.”
Some students and facultyinterviewed by the News said thestudy highlights differences intemperament between the gen-ders.
Yale Law student FionaHeckscher said some womenmight be more inclined than theirmale counterparts to fully processtheir thoughts before speaking upin class. Rather than encouragewomen to participate more fre-quently in the classroom, shesaid, the report should promptsome male students to “stepdown a little bit.”
KYLE KULAS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Yamatai, a student group that practices a form of Japanese drumming called Taiko, gives an energetic perfor-mance at its annual PULSE concert in Bailey Hall Saturday night.
Marching to their own beat
SWANSON ’62
By KAITLYN KWANSun Staff Writer
“[Project] teams will no longer have to rely onuncertain funding ... that fluctuate[s] year to year.”Lance Collins
Kaitlyn Kwan can be reached [email protected].
Alumnus Gives $10MTo C.U. Engineering
Yale Law School Battles ImbalanceAfter Study Reveals Gender GapBy THE YALE DAILY NEWS
This story was originally publishedin The Yale Daily News Friday.
Ron Paul Stirs Lynah FaithfulRepublican presidential candidate Ron Paul drew a crowd
of more than 4,000 to Lynah Rink on Thursday, where hespoke to a fired-up audience in a town hall-style rally. Heimplored supporters to join him and defeat the “tyrants” and“enemies of liberty” he said are destroying America.
Cornell Partners With Major NGO on Global ServicePresident David Skorton spoke on Wednesday about the
new CARE-Cornell venture, which he touted as the “first-ever” partnership between a major non-governmental organi-zation and a single university. The initiative will provide sup-port for agricultural development projects aimed at impover-ished female farmers.
— Compiled by Utsav Rai
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While Raps said she supported theadditional break in February, she “doubt-ed” that the benefits of the vacation dayswill offset the drawbacks of a condensedexam week.
Under the proposal, the last day ofspring classes would fall on a Wednesday,followed by a four-day study period.Exams would run from Monday toMonday — occurring over the span of sixdays, instead of the current eight.
According to Doyle, the committeefaced a “trade-off ” between adding vaca-
tion days in February and shortening thestudy and exam periods.
“We looked at every angle and realizedwe couldn’t meet the minimum requireddays of instruction and bring in a break inFebruary without making cuts to the examperiod,” Doyle said.
Doyle also noted that the UniversityRegistrar’s new system of schedulingexams would “greatly reduce the likeli-hood” of students having back-to-backexams. An algorithm will be used to coor-dinate exams based on students’ schedules,rather than on the days and times classesmeet, he said.
Block agreed that the new algorithmwould be “effective” in minimizing someof the added stress of the condensed examperiod. Still, he lamented what hedescribed as an outcome in which theCalendar Committee only “met the mini-mum” of the S.A. members’ requests.
The committee met most of the S.A.’srecommendations: a study period with aminimum of four days; at least eight daysof exams; an additional break in the springsemester; and a full day off on theWednesday before Thanksgiving.
However, Raps and Block expresseddiscontent over the committee’s refusal toaccommodate some of their other recom-
mendations, such as a studybreak in the middle of the examperiod.
“I felt that students didn’thave enough of a voice,” Rapssaid.
While Raps and Block saidthat the weekend currently oper-
ates as a “natural break for most students,”the proposed changes would move theweekend to the very end of the exam peri-od, rendering scheduled exams largelyuninterrupted.
Doyle said the committee neglected toadd a break in the exam period because, hesaid, the Registrar’s new algorithm will beable to effectively shield students fromback-to-back exams.
If the University schedules an uninter-rupted block of exam days as proposed bythe committee, students will have fewerback-to-back exams, Doyle said.
Still, Block also said he was was “very
upset” that the calendar committee failedto allocate four days for Senior Week pro-gramming.
“[Raps] and I really wanted to preserveSenior Week. We’d met with the SeniorWeek committee, who told us they need-ed at least four days of programming,” hesaid.
Raps also pointed to what she said weretwo major flaws with the CalendarCommittee’s decision process: the fastpace of negotiations, and her sense thatundergraduate students’ concerns werenot taken seriously enough.
“I wish we had more time and a moreeffective way of dealing with student feed-back,” Raps said.
However, Doyle countered Raps’claims that the process of reaching a finalproposal was rushed.
“This process started two years ago andwe’ve been over all the arguments. I know[Raps] wanted to discuss it more, but Idon’t think there’s much more to discuss,”he said. “We’re not going to get a bettercalendar, given the constraints we have.”
However, “there was no streamlinedmethod of communicating with stu-dents,” according to Raps. Throughoutthe process, the committee relied on theS.A. to act as a middleman between thecommittee and the student body.
“I wish there had been follow-up com-munication after the proposal had begunto be distributed and talked about serious-ly. While targeted groups were contacted,the undergraduate students on the com-mittee had hoped for more effective andstreamlined communication to all under-
graduate students,” she said.Doyle noted, however, that the group
publicly aired its objectives in March 2011and released its preliminary recommenda-tions this spring.
“It’s not like we haven’t solicited [stu-dent] input,” Doyle said.
Prof. William Fry Ph.D ’70, plantpathology, a non-voting member of thecalendar committee, said he believes thecommittee’s recommendations “are thebest that we can do.”
“Recognizing the diversity of con-stituencies and diversity of needs of thoseconstituencies, the committee's recom-mendations are a compromise that createsa better calendar than our current one,”Fry said.
Raps said she predicts that since Frysupports the calendar committee’s finalproposal, the Senate will likely follow hislead and vote to approve the recommen-dations.
Still, Fry said he could not forsee howthe Faculty Senate would vote.
“Obviously, the faculty are a diversegroup of people, and I'm certain that fac-ulty have very diverse reactions,” Fry said.
Block said he thinks his and Raps’ dis-sent could play a factor in the Senate’sdecision next month.
“I think there is going to be significantcontroversy [in the Faculty Senate], espe-cially since neither [of the CalendarCommittee’s] undergraduate studentsvoted in favor of the proposal,” Block said.
‘I Don’t Think There’s Much More to Discuss,’ Prof SaysCALENDAR
Continued from page 1
“There was no streamlined method ofcommunicating with students.”Natalie Raps ’12
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another university of comparable caliber — they areguaranteed tenure. Rather than undergo an extensivereview process, they may need to simply wait forapproval by a committee of faculty; the dean of the col-lege; and the University Provost before being grantedtenure.
“They know it, we know it … We’re hiring them asa tenured professor,” Siliciano said. “In that case, theonly thing that process is doing is complying with[University] rules. It’s just a bunch of little formalities.”
But Prof. Adam Smith, anthropology, who came toCornell from the University of Chicago last fall, said hehad a different experience.
“When they hired me here, it was basically proba-tionary,” he said, describing his past year at theUniversity as “going through the exact same process [ofreview for tenure] all over again.”
“In effect, to come work at Cornell, you have to giveup your tenure and your position,” Smith added.
Smith said that most candidates who come toCornell on the condition that they be reviewed again fortenure assume that the process will be a relativelysmooth one, assuming they meet the University’s stan-dards.
“You already made it through the hiring process, sothe process of tenuring and promotion shouldn’t be allthat difficult,” Smith said.
Like Smith, Prof. Tom Sider, philosophy, said thatnew hires who had tenure at their former university arelikely to receive tenure once he or she has agreed towork at their new institution.
Although one does have to be “technically” reviewedagain for tenure, “I’ve moved a couple times since I’vegotten tenure [and] it’s usually very unlikely that youwould not be successfully re-renewed,” Sider said.
In addition to hiring some faculty “laterally,” theUniversity sometimes hires people as full professors whowere considered junior faculty at their former institu-tion.
According to Prof. Ron Ehrenberg, industrial andlabor relations, although Cornell likes to “grow our owntalent” by promoting and encouraging the developmentof junior faculty, it will occasionally offer tenure to tal-ented, young faculty from other institutions.
“If there’s a young star at another university, we cantry to pre-empt what his or her university is doing andsee if we can get their tenure promoted early,”Ehrenberg told The Sun in March.
For instance, Sider said his wife, Prof. Jill North, phi-losophy, was “coming up” for tenure at the college sheworked at last spring when she was both hired and giventenure by Cornell.
“She didn’t have tenure previously, and so that’s abigger deal,” Sider said, adding that the tenure processwas “done before we got here.”
The University offers faculty from other institutionstenure upon being hired if they are identified as a “tar-get of opportunity,” said Prof. Charles Brittain, classics,chair of the Department of Classics.
“If we identify that person as the best person in thesearch, when we offer them a job, it [also] means thatwe want to offer them tenure,” Brittain said.
Siliciano said, however, that the decision to offerearly tenure to a faculty member remains under the dis-cretion of the department in which that candidatewould teach.
“Those [decisions] are always based on the depart-ment’s assessment of whether the person is ready tocome up under Cornell standards,” he said.
For instance, according to Siliciano, a candidate whocomes from a university with lower standards can “fallbackwards” and have to undergo a more extensivereview to be granted tenure at Cornell.
“The amount of process you’re typically going to seeis proportional to the amount of uncertainty we haveabout [the hire],” Siliciano said.
One of the most common examples of such a tenureprocess, according to Siliciano, involves candidates whofocus primarily on research and have less teaching expe-rience. Although the candidate may be hired, he or shewill only be considered for tenure once their depart-ment has evaluated their teaching abilities.
“We want to see them up close,” Siliciano said.Although some professors may find an extended
tenure process nerve-wracking or frustrating, Brittainsaid that waiting to give tenure — especially for candi-dates who primarily focus on research — is beneficialfor the University.
“That’s a good way of getting the best people … [andmaking] sure they put effort into teaching,” Brittainsaid.
spent on hiring people to clean these areas.“If we clean it ourselves, we can put this
money into bringing better artists,” he said.Additionally, according to Rapoport, volun-
teers will man a new “Eagle Outpost” in theoverlook of Uris Library that faces the slope —where they will spot students on the slope whoare sick, injured or need medical attention.Volunteers will also distribute water to SlopeDay attendees using special backpacks that canhold between 40 and 50 water bottles.
Slope Day may have evolved over the years —
for instance, 2003 was the first year that thefences were erected around the slope — but vol-unteers have been crucial to making Slope Daypossible for the past decade, said MelissaBenhaim ’12, vice chair of SDPB.
As SDPB runs out of time, Rapoport empha-sized the importance of community involve-ment.
“What makes Slope Day such a special eventis that it exists only because of the collectiveefforts of students, staff and faculty across cam-pus,” Rapoport said.
Tenure Review for New Hires Often a ‘Formality,’ Prof Says
Slope Day Organizers: More VolunteersMeans More Money for Performers
TENUREContinued from page 1
“In effect, to come work at Cornell, youhave to give up your tenure.”Prof. Adam Smith
Caroline Flax can be reached at [email protected].
SLOPE DAYContinued from page 1
Jinjoo Lee can be reached at [email protected].
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THE UNIVERSITY IS CURRENTLY WORKING to find permanent sources offunding to maintain levels of spending at the Gannett Health Center that were increasedin the wake of the string of student suicides in 2010. In March 2011, a year after the sui-cides, Cornell increased Gannett’s funding by $1 million through a combination of one-time donations and University funding. The added funding is quickly running out.
Rather than letting the added funding expire after nearly a year and a half without agorge-related suicide, Cornell is continuing to make this issue a priority by finding sourcesof permanent funding for counseling services. At an institution like Cornell with so manycompeting demands, it is commendable that the University is making this effort to ensurethat a cluster of deaths never happens again.
This money will go toward maintaining counseling positions that will help theUniversity better serve students in distress. With the $1 million, the University created sixcounseling positions. These counselors provide crisis intervention, counseling, outpatientpsychiatric care, outreach, and referral services to Cornell students. These positions areimportant, especially since there has been a surge in demand for these services in the pastseveral years.
However, expanding counseling services, while necessary in the short term, only dealswith the symptoms of the root problems. Until the University can address the underlyingproblem of stress, it will always be looking for more money to finance these expensive pro-grams. At the same time that the University looks for sources of alternative funding forthese counseling positions, it must strive to create a climate where there is less of a need forthese positions in the first place.
The University has taken several steps that aim to address underlying causes of stress.The Faculty Senate passed a resolution that encouraged professors not to assign work overbreaks, and the University has been working to redesign the academic calendar to add morebreaks. These moves, if successful, will bear the largest results, not result in substantial costs,and do not come with the cost of compromised academic quality. However, these steps arestill incomplete.
Another way to change the climate that is still not finalized is creating a curriculumwhere the quality and relevance of coursework is stressed above the quantity. A year ago,Provost Kent Fuchs, Vice President of Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy ’73and Dean of Faculty William Fry Ph.D. ’70 asked deans and chairs to look at curricula andmajors and determine appropriate academic workloads. “There’s a place for actually reduc-ing stress yet increasing how much the students learn,” Fuchs said. However, we questionto what extent faculty and deans have been held accountable to this charge.
The availability of counseling services and support that the community has provided tothose in distress are steps towards changing the climate, but they deal largely with the symp-toms. While searching for more funding for these mental health problems, the Universitycannot lose focus on the underlying problems pervasive at Cornell.
Treating the Root CausesFor Mental Health
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This is going to be my last column forThe Sun. I hope that my columns havebeen enjoyable, thought-provoking
and not excessively insufferable over the courseof this year. I had originally intended to closeout the year with some big profound state-ment about the meaning of life or the purposeof education or something like that, but whenI opened up my computer today I found thatmy column was, bizarrely enough, alreadywritten.
What greeted me was a page of uncapital-ized free-verse poetry, followed by a short notereading simply “see if the university crowd
likes this — a. iii.” I have no idea who or whatthis piece’s mysterious author is, but it some-how felt wrong to not let them get their workout into the open. If the author is who they saythey are, it’s somewhat unlikely that they willbe able to read their work in print, but still, Ihope their message can reach someone whoneeds it.
does the poetic urge lie in the genesor does it in the soulmy soul has been passed aroundbandied about barteredi once was a vers libre bardso were my dad and my granddadmy granddad s soul was transmitted to the
body of a cockroach and so was minei don t know what happened to my dad smaybe a wood louse
this green ivy league life is not what a roach isused to
though there are plenty of crumbsyou college kids and your cheetos doritos and
the likenot as if i m complainingthe air is fresh and the soil is dampand there are plenty of dark warm places to
crawl into
today i met a caterpillarwho said to me that he was a person of some
importancethat there was no low hanging leaf safe from
his incisorsthat the trees of ithaca were scarred forever
from his culinary adventuresbut he also confided in mehe was worriedall of the caterpillars who had previously held
his title had mysteriously disappearedwas there some sort of caterpillar killer on the
loose
some young upshot jealous of fortune andfame perhaps
i hadnt the heart to tell himthe day beforei d met a butterfly who had told mein her youthshe used to fancy herselfqueen of all the leaf eaters
butterflies and you folks may be drawn tofluttering around high places
but not mei prefer to stay where the soil is moistand the crumbs are plenty
i couldnt tell you why i thought it would be agood idea
to hop among all these keysor to think that a poor little roachhad anything to a bunch of educated typesbut here i am
archy iii
Could it have been that a cockroachcrawled up to my room in the middle of thenight and, by jumping on the keys, typed outa work of free-verse poetry? It certainly isn’tunheard of. In the 1910s and 20s, a New YorkEvening Sun columnist named Don Marquispublished what he claimed was the poetry of acockroach that typed by jumping on the keysof his typewriter — a cockroach who, curious-ly enough, was named Archy. Perhaps thatoriginal Archy was the granddad that our mys-terious poet spoke of, and the “archy iii” thatleft this poem on my desktop was simply fol-lowing in his ancestor’s footsteps. All I knowis that the little fellow was much more elo-quent than I ever could be.
I think it’s good, then, that I close out mytime as a columnist with a message from some-one like Archy III. It’s good to remember that,no matter how big we think we are, we aren’tfar from being insects. Furthermore, if we real-ize this, maybe we can realize that insects havesomething to tell us, even if they can’t work theshift key on the keyboard.
It’s been wonderful writing for The Sunover this past year, and I hope everyone has agreat summer! And next time you see a cock-roach, take a minute before breaking out theRaid to ask him if he’s written any poetry late-ly.
With ApologiesTo Don Marquis
Aidan Bonner is a junior in the College of Arts andSciences. He may be reached at [email protected]. The Weather Report appears alternateMondays this semester.
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THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, April 23, 2012 7OPINION
Last Thursday, I sat in Lynah rink with a few friends,and had a typical Lynah experience. Anyone who hasventured to those sacred wooden bleachers has heard
and seen a lot of the same things I heard and saw.The pep band played a rousing rendition of some songs
I didn’t recognize, the crowd started an “asshole” chant inresponse to an outsider’s presence, people who are otherwisecalm and reserved were jumping up and down screaming atthe top of their lungs and (perhaps most familiarly) my butt
fell asleep. Remarkably enough, I was not at a hockey game;I was at a political rally for Congressman Ron Paul.
Dr. Paul (the program made sure to inform us that he’s adoctor who has delivered over 4,000 babies, pointing outhow no other major presidential candidate has the baby-delivering skills necessary to lead the free world) is runningfor the Republican nomination. Dr. Paul will not win thenomination battle, and I don’t believe he will run as a thirdparty candidate. The official Republican NationalCommittee delegate count has Dr. Paul with 26, comparedto Mitt Romney’s 573. Furthermore, Ron Paul’s son, RandPaul, is a Senator from Kentucky with national ambitions ofhis own. If Dr. Paul runs as a third party candidate, he willalmost certainly act as a spoiler to Mr. Romney (think whatRalph Nader is alleged to have done to Al Gore in 2000,only on a larger scale). The implications for Rand Paul’sfuture ambitions would be calamitous if Dr. Paul were per-ceived as responsible for President Obama defeating Mr.
Romney. I’ve been to a lot of political events in my time. One can
always expect a mix of passion and curiosity in the crowd.That was certainly the basic dynamic for Dr. Paul — I sawa lot of people in the crowd who seemed to be curiousCornellians interested in what a Ron Paul rally looked like.We hear about him on The Daily Show, why not check itout in person? That was more or less my rationale forattending the event.
What surprised me wasthe rest of the crowd, thepassionate Ron Paul sup-porters. They wore shirtswith slogans like “Ron PaulRevolution” written onthem, varying from studentsto grandparents, and every-thing in between.
By and large, the crowdseemed respectful. However,
there was an unmistakable air of hostility that permeatedLynah. Before the speech started, a man holding up an antiRon Paul sign became the victim of the aforementioned“asshole” chant. I chuckled at the typical Lynah atmospheretransitioning so seamlessly over to the Republican nomina-tion race.
That’s when things got weird. A Ron Paul supporterripped the sign out of the hands of the protester, and vio-lently tore it up. The crowd roared its approval.
One of Dr. Paul’s core principles is restoring theConstitution. I had hoped that Dr. Paul’s loyal supporterswould pause to think about that whole “freedom of speech”thing in the document they’re so quick to fawn over.
Yes, this was Ron Paul’s event, and if he didn’t want aprotester there, it’s completely within his right to have himremoved. Having said that, the howl that went up in thecrowd as the sign’s remnants were strewn about gave mepause.
As the rally continued, and the crowd jeered the “tyrants”and “enemies of liberty,” against whom revolution needs tobe waged, I detected that same sense of hostility. The peo-ple sitting around me hung on every single one of Dr. Paul’swords, and his amiable delivery began to contrast more andmore with the escalating passion of the crowd.
Dr. Paul is a curious political character. As a bleedingheart liberal, I disagree strongly with his views on econom-ic liberty, especially the deregulation of our economy. Thatbeing said, his views on personal liberty, like repealing thePatriot Act, appeal to me in a way that has always made methink quite fondly of Dr. Paul.
His passionate campaigning has held a mirror up to boththe Democratic and Republican parties. Liberal-Democratslike myself have been forced to consider just how willing weare to ignore President Obama’s, at best, shaky record ondomestic civil liberties. Conservative-Republicans have hadto consider just how passionately they should continueadvocating for smaller government, all the while defendingthe seemingly endless money-pit that is the national defensebudget.
As I got up to leave, I tapped on the shoulder of the mid-dle-aged man who sat quietly next to me through the courseof the rally. I asked him if he would support either Mr.Romney or President Obama if Ron Paul was not on theballot this November. He quickly responded “No.” He thentook a pause, and politely told me, “they’re both clowns.”Looking at the farcical and contradictory nature of the cur-rent state of electoral politics, it is hard to fervently disagreewith him. However, watching Thursday’s crowd lose its shitin response to the rare sight of a solicitous politician, it’shard to say that we deserve much better.
Ron Paul Revolution
There are few insults worse thanbeing called “nice.” Not that Idon’t want people to think I’m
kind; what I mean is that if someone wereasked to describe me and they responded“he’s nice,” it would sting worse thanbeing called a callous misogynistic asshole.Because “nice” is the bland default opin-ion you have of loose acquaintances andpeople you haven’t ever met — a general,barely-valenced, non-descriptive, mini-mally approving, almost, if not entirely,uninsightful descriptor. Maybe not terri-ble if said by someone who barely knowsyou. But uttered from the lips of a closeracquaintance, friend or confidant, noth-ing could be worse.
Yet, at times, I think we are all tooquick to be exactly this — nice.
Bill Maher ’78 has a running gag on hisshow where he describes Mitt Romney asthe “least interesting man in the world.”Perhaps particularly acute in Romney, Ithink this nearly comical strategy ofadopting the most acceptable opinion,equivocally backing out of it if need be,being terrified to embrace any opinion tooextreme and too scared to make any strongdefinitive statement — aside from ones soobvious as to be meaningless — is a terri-ble illness which afflicts not only Romneybut a great many politicians. And whatdoes Maher attribute as the cause ofRomney’s and by extension other politi-cians’ glorious blandness? It, he says, is“what you get when you place a premiumon never offending anyone and only say-ing what’s safe.”
This to me is the essence of the behav-iors that would lead us to be described as“nice.” It is the outcome of the easy andcomfortable process of taking the sum ofeveryone’s opinions and attitudes, averag-ing them and then adopting all the resul-tant averages, with perhaps some slight
modification, as your own attitudes andopinions. So what it really means to be“nice” is to be boring. Bland. Uninsightfuland uninteresting. And it makes us unpro-ductive and unconstructive.
It chokes us, constrains us, limits usand confines us within an ever shrinkingneatly zoned-off area of acceptability.Venture outside it and who knows whatthe punishment might be.
In fact, I can’t help but think that thestudent leaders on campus today who willbe the politicians of the future are going tobe the most bland, boring, nice ones whowere active but never took an extreme,interesting, radical or definitive stance onany major issues, tip-toeing around, neverdeviating from the group average by morethan half a standard deviation. How elsewould you survive your Senate confirma-tion hearings?
Aside from an objection to this, inprinciple, as fundamentally dishonest tooneself and disingenuous to others, thereare two problems with this behavior inconsequence. First, when we become soconcerned with being nice we often endup with a collective view that is a distort-ed version of all our individual privateviews. And second, it means we end upwasting a lot of time debating the wrongissues and asking the wrong questions.
The most concrete illustration of thisfirst problem is evident in a study done byDeborah Prentice and Dale Miller atPrinceton. They examined students’ atti-tudes in a setting in which we are particu-larly concerned with niceness. A socialone. Specifically, they studied students’attitudes about drinking. They had stu-dents rate their own comfortability withalcohol, then estimate what (a) theirfriends and (b) the average Princeton stu-dent would put down as their comforta-bility with alcohol. What they found was
that their overall estimate of the averagePrincetonian’s comfort level was higherthan their overall estimate of one’s friends’comfort level, which in turn was higherthan self-ratings of students’ own comfortlevels. Of course, only this last category isthe actual average Princeton student’scomfortability with alcohol. However, aconcern with niceness leads us to misper-ceive each other’s attitudes. Doubtless,this is true in a host of other domains. (Infact, social psychologists have a name forthis phenomena: pluralistic ignorance.)
This misinformation is a problem initself, but it in turn leads to a second larg-er problem. If our concern with nicenessmakes us misperceive people’s real views,then we have a fundamentally distortedperception of reality, making our debates,discussions and behaviors distorted too.With drinking for example, it means weargue over whether to go to Pixel orChapter House, instead of whether wewant to go out drinking at all. Morebroadly, it leads to policy debates and con-flicts which aren’t wide enough and areoften about the wrong thing entirely.
For example, in the aftermath of theDesdunes tragedy, there was a lot of dis-cussion about how to change the Greeksystem, but little discussion was had in theway of whether we wanted it at all.
On an even larger scale, before the sub-sequent wars in the Middle East, we
debated whether getting involved in themwas a relevant retaliation for theSeptember 11th attacks. However, fewpeople — I can only remember DavidFoster Wallace asking it in an article in2007 — debated whether any kind ofretaliation in response to these attacks waslogical or justified. He made the pointthat we accept the 40,000 deaths ondomestic highways as the price of havingthem. So, he wondered, would it be equal-ly “monstrous” to regard those “killed inthe atrocities of 9/11 not as victims but as
democratic martyrs, ‘sacrifices on the altarof freedom’” — what if we “chose toaccept the fact that every few years,despite all reasonable precautions, somehundreds or thousands of us may die inthe sort of ghastly terrorist attack that ademocratic republic cannot 100-percentprotect itself from without subverting thevery principles that make it worth protect-ing?”
These are the types of questions wearen’t asking. Not because they’re notimportant and not because we aren’tthinking them, but because we’re all beingtoo damn nice.
Sebastian Deri
Thought Crimes
Sebastian Deri is a junior in the School of Industrialand Labor Relations. He may be reached at [email protected]. Thought Crimes appears alternateMondays this semester.
Noah Karr-Kaitin is a junior in the School of Industrial and LaborRelations. He may be reached at [email protected]. PlainHokum appears alternate Mondays this semester.
NoahKarr-Kaitin
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Don’t Be Nice Now
8 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, April 23, 2012
Here in the West, we are constantly flooded with images ofa conflict-ridden Africa. Film after film portrays the continentas a land of war and disease — a place that we privilegedWesterners must aid and pity. It’s a clichéd and massively falserepresentation, yet films of this nature remain the status quo.
Kimi Takesue’s 2011 documentary Where Are You TakingMe? is not one of these films. Rejecting almost every tradi-tional element of documentary filmmaking, Where Are YouTaking Me? is a stunning and accurate portrayal of dailyUgandan life. On Tuesday night, Takesue will bring thisaward-winning documentary to Cornell Cinema for a screen-ing and discussion with Prof. Iftikhar Dadi, History of Art.
Commissioned by the Rotterdam Film Festival, Where AreYou Taking Me? seeks to explore and understand the nation ofUganda, as well as the alienating phenomenon of cross-cul-tural travel. Between the long, static shots, dialogue in anuntranslated local language and the near-invisible hand of thefilmmaker, this experimental documentary brilliantly disori-entates the audience to an extent that would make Brechtproud.
“The film is a journey of discovery and surprise,” Takesuesaid. “It has a certain jarring aspect which is that you neverreally know where you are going. I’m trying to recreate the dis-orientation of cross-cultural travel and I’m trying to addresssome of the issues involved in creating cross-cultural represen-tations.”
A film lacking a protagonist, a narrative and even a spe-cific purpose, Where Are You Taking Me? remains strictly obser-vational, placing the viewer in a position of constant uncer-tainty. Familiar shots — extended close ups of emotive faces,chaotic urban streetscapes, crowded flea markets — are com-pletely decontextualized with incredible success. In a sea ofdocumentaries that beat you over the head with a moral or callto action, Where Are You Taking Me? is a breath of fresh air.
“I went into this piece without an agenda or a set of expec-tations,” Takesue said. “I knew I didn’t want to make a film
that focused on the horror of war or atrocitiesor AIDS. I had been inundated with thesekinds of images in relation to Uganda andAfrica — but that’s not to say I went in tryingto create a positive representation, I just didn’twant to focus on any sensational subject mat-ter.”
This approach is particularly successful inthe invisibility of Takesue’s part in the film.Where Are You Taking Me? is not a tale of aWestern filmmaker’s triumphant discovery ofUganda, nor is she set up as the benevolentsavior revealing the horrors of African life.Instead, Takesue remains a distant travelerwhose only goal is an honest portrayal ofUganda. It’s this approach that renders the film so evocative.
Filming everything from a hair salon to a weightliftingcompetition, Takesue explores everyday scenes that are sur-prisingly familiar and relatable — after all, is there anythingless extraordinary than a young boy in a Harry Potter shirtwatching his peers breakdance? Yet she also addresses Uganda’slocal film culture, creating a friction between reality and fic-tion that further disorients the viewer. In one scene, we seepeople breaking rocks in a quarry in what appears to be a stan-dard documentary scene. Yet as the scene progresses, we real-ize that a Ugandan filmmaker is present and the quarry is sim-ply the setting for a local fictional film that uses a real placeand real people. By providing context at the end of this andseveral other scenes, Where Are You Taking Me? superbly playson the audience’s sense of reality, as well as its expectations.
“There are these multiple layers of a film within a film,”Takesue said. “It also plays upon our own stereotypes. You seethat scene and consider it one way, but in fact there’s thiswhole other layer, this creative enterprise with filmmakers andartists as well.”
Her frank portrayal of the local art and film scene is large-ly effective. The average viewer does not associate Ugandawith artistic endeavors or filmmaking; he or she sees the coun-try as a nation rife with disease and war. Takesue seeks to
replace these sweeping generalizations and horrific imageswith familiar realism that tells its own story.
“I’m interested in letting the images speak for themselves,”she said. “I wanted to recreate the experience and rhythms oftravel by immersing the viewer in a place where they’re askedonly to observe. There are points where you’re excluded fromthe action.”
Only once does she delve into one of the heavier aspectsof Ugandan life. Near the end of the film, Where Are YouTaking Me? features zoomed-in shots of faces that stare direct-ly into the camera as the subjects discuss their experiences withwar. It’s a rare moment of clearly directed action, and itsuniqueness makes it all the more affecting.
In all, Where Are You Taking Me? is less of a driven exami-nation of Ugandan culture, and more a meditation on its rep-resentations. It’s not a film for everyone — the lack of narra-tive and protagonist may well prove too jarring for some audi-ences — yet Takesue achieves her goal of reflecting the natureof cross-cultural travel while providing a realistic portrait ofUgandan culture. This is an excellent and refreshing film froma director you won’t soon forget.
When the Avett Brothers announced thatthey would be adding the State Theatre totheir spring tour, as a special thanks to thetown that had always been there for them,tickets were sold out months before the show.The venue might be small for a band that iscurrently headlining music festivals likeBonnaroo alongside with Radiohead andoccupying concert halls like New York City’sTerminal 5. On Saturday night, however, theIthacan crowd did not seem in any wayunworthy of the band nor did the AvettBrothers seem too grown up for the venue.The only thing that was missing, unfortu-nately, was their bassist, Bob Crawford.
The brothers, Scott on banjo and Seth onguitar, kicked off the show with “TheLowering,” one of the more heart wrenchingnumbers off the album Four Thieves Gone. Itwas a good choice for an adoring audience thatcould appreciate both an older song and a slow-er start. However, the band quickly showed offits versatility by transitioning into two of itsmore upbeat and catchy numbers,“Paranoia inB-Flat Major” followed by “Tin Man.”
What is most apparent live, and whatmakes the Avett Brothers stand out, is its ded-ication to its audience, which may largely bedue to the brothers’ small town beginnings.Before either hit album, Emotionalism or Iand Love and You, the brothers were knownfor staying for hours after their concerts, untilthey had talked to every waiting fan.
They still bring this singular ardor to thestage today, and this could be seen in songs like“Salina” and “Ballad of Love and Hate,” both off
of the Emotionalism album. The audience sangevery word of both songs, and jeered playfullywhen Scott despairingly sang the lyrics, “NewYork quit calling / New York leave me be.”
The audience was truly diverse. Therewere beer drinking college kids standing nextto daughters sitting on their father’s shoul-ders. But old or young, locally grown or not,they were all united in their love for the band.When Seth started performing “Ballad,” as asolo acoustic act, audience members hushedone another, until the theater was almostmagically silent. All that could be heard wasSeth’s voice, practically at a whisper, and thecrowd singing in turn. The only interruptionwas when someone screamed, “I love youSeth!” causing the audience to cheer for sec-onds straight, and forcing Seth to vamp. Thissong was definitely the emotional highlight ofthe evening. I saw many a tear and slowdance, and my heart stopped a little when
Seth blew the crowd kisses as the song ended.Directly after Seth’s solo, Scott came out
so that the brothers could duet on the songs,“Bella Donna,” “Sanguine” and “Just a CloserWalk.” They whispered surreptitiously toeach other, and then started playing in sync,still facing one another. Each took turns atmelody and harmony, with Seth laughingwhen he messed up and Scott coaxing outsolos from his banjo. It was like observing oneof the brothers’ personal jam sessions, and itseemed as if they were no longer aware thatthe audience was there. It was touching thatband could, and would, share this moment ofbrotherly enchantment with the audience.
The band returned with cellist Joe Kwon,opening with the upbeat song “Go To Sleep,”followed by “Gimmeakiss,” and the titular, “Iand Love and You.” Seth took a turn at thepiano for this song, and Scott, for the firsttime without an instrument, held three fin-
gers up, one by one, at the lyrics, “Threewords that became hard to say / I and Loveand You.” The audience followed suit, towhich Scott tantalizingly yelled, “We lovecoming here and we love coming back,” andlater, “see you guys soon.”
They closed with “Kick Drum Heart,”which they performed on electric guitar andbass. The audience saw a glimpse of Seth’sability to rock, and of all of the band’s songs,this one had the greatest disparity betweenthe live and album version — not to knockthe recorded track. But there is nothing likefeeling the kick drum echo around the theaterand through your chest after the lyrics, “My,my heart’s like a kick drum.”
Of course, the audience saw right throughthe band’s planned ending, but it playedalong, screaming for five minutes straight,until the brothers came back for an encore.They played four more songs, including“January Wedding” and “Talk OnIndolence.” The latter was electrifyinglyempowering, especially when they started toscream the lyrics, “Because we had to!” Seth,who started out with a tambourine and gui-tar, threw both backstage to a crew memberso that he could concentrate on screaming.The images of a guitar flying across the stagein wild abandon, Scott standing on a drum tosing and Joe Kwon playing his cello high inthe air (which, being a cello player myself, Iknow is no small feat), is the best I can do tocapture the energy of the song that ended atwo-and-a-half hour, phenomenal and mag-netically charged night.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Clio Chang is a sophomore in the College of Artsand Sciences. She can be reached at [email protected].
ARTS& ENTERTAINMENTMasters of Emotionalism
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Gina Cargas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. Shecan be reached at [email protected].
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Three days, four venues, sixshows, 20 comedians and unlimitedlaughter. This three-day festival fea-tures 20 of the best up-and-comingcomedians in North America as theyjoke it out for the title of the FingerLakes Funniest Comedian and anational headlining feature show.
Not only will you be able to watcheach set, you’ll also be able to vote foryour favorite comedian, count yourvotes among those of the judges andthe comedians to find the country’snewest talent.
— Alice Wang
Finger Lakes Comedy FestivalThursday to Saturday, Various Locations
Well, this is it. One final blowoutat Castaways will close out the venuefor good. And what better bands thantwo Castaways veterans, JohnBrown’s Body and The Sim RedmondBand. J.B.B. has been touring theworld since 2003 with their “FutureRoots Music” — or reggae rhythmswith hip hop, dubstep, electronic, skaand funk influences.
Likewise, S.R.B.’s unique blend ofroots-rock, Afro-Caribbean and reg-gae music continues to rise on theglobal front since their inception as aband ten years ago. While both bandshave toured and reach people from allover the world, they return to theirbase of Ithaca for one final headliningshow.
— Alice Wang
Final Show at Castaways 9:30 p.m. on Sunday at Castaways
For a triumphant close to their 50thseason, the Ithaca Ballet graces the StateTheatre with two performances of thestunning masterpiece, Swan Lake. Thefirst ballet of esteemed Russian compos-er Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake is truly avisual symphony — blending sumptu-ous choreography, a commanding scoreand the age old story of forbidden lovefor a gorgeously poignant result.
Composed in 1875, the ballet tellsthe story of Odette, a princess cursed toremain a swan for the rest of her life byan evil sorcerer. The lush musical score,familiar to most, and the intricate foot-work makes this ballet one of the mostbeloved of all times.
— Sarah Angell &Lubabah Chowdhury
Most of the time, I do not show my emotions. Thisis blatantly untrue: I have the worst poker face ofall time and it is very easy to discern what I am
thinking about based on my facial expressions. That said, itis true that I rarely am brought to the point of tears by any-thing: especially not movies. I think I am the only person onthe planet who does not cry at the end of A Walk toRemember. However, there have been a few rare moments inmy life when something I watch does cause me to have apowerful emotional response during which I start crying likea small child. Not all of them are sad tears, and some of themare really silly and I have no explanation for why they affectme so much, but here they are: the five moments on screenthat make me want to curl up in a ball on my bed with abucket of cookie dough and sob.
1. Up. Literally the second that movie starts playing, I tearup. After the opening sequence I sniffle and calm down a bit,but then about three quarters of the way through, the old manflips through the second half of the photo album, and thewaterworks resume. Sometimes even the thought of themovie gets me going. In high school, my friend Bre wouldstart describing the plot of Up just to elicit my tearfulresponse. She would say, “and then they look up at the cloudsand they all look likebabies, but…” Before shecould finish, my facewould be all contorted,my nose red and lower lipquivering.
As Tajwar Mazhar ’13,Marcela Cabello ’13,Michael Cirillo ’13,Suzanne Donovan ’13and Chris Cassano ’14 allsaid in unison, “I cry everytime I watch Up!” So apparentlyit’s not just me.
2. Wall-E. Pixar just gets to me apparently. Wall-E does-n’t affect me the same way that Up does. I only cry at the partwhen EVE is reviewing the security tape footage of Wall-Etaking care of her. It’s just so cute. Senior year of high school,we watched Wall-E as a class, and of course I was unable to
prevent myself from doing an unintentional impres-sion of the girl from Mean Girls who just has a lot ofemotions. There are consequently a number of real-ly attractive pictures of me crying my eyes out at achildren’s movie at the age of 18 that I am sure willcome back to haunt me at some point when I am offdoing something important in the world.
3. Waitress. If you haven’t seen this movie, youneed to. Immediately. It’s an adorable tale about awaitress (Keri Russell) who makes the most amazinglooking pies and is trapped in an abusive relationshipwith Elton from Clueless or Detective Cyrus Lupofrom Law & Order (Jeremy Sisto). The pies in themovie are enough to bring one to tears. I get so hun-gry watching that movie, hearing her recite therecipes for “Marshmallow Mermaid Pie,” “Falling inLove Chocolate Mousse Pie” and “Baby Screamin’ ItsHead Off In the Middle of the Night & Ruinin’ MyLife Pie.” Anyway, at the end of the movie (I’m notspoiling it because everyone knows there’s going to bea happy ending), there is a happy ending. Specifically,Keri Russell kicks Earl (Elton) out of her life, and it justdelights me. And I start crying. I get a really creepy weird look
on my face that is a combination ofsmiling and crying at the sametime. So I just end up looking real-ly confused and conflicted andagain just not terribly attractive.
4. Bridesmaids. I love ChrisO’Dowd a lot in that movie. He isactually my perfect man. He is sonice to Kristen Wiig, and he isfunny and Irish. I love him and Ihave no qualms about saying that. It
is therefore unbelievably painful for me to watch Kristen Wiigsay that their night of fun was a mistake when all he wanted todo was help her rediscover her passion for baking (apparentlydesserts trigger a lot of emotions for me). At that point in thefilm, which I have probably seen upwards of eight or ninetimes, I both start crying angrily and yelling at the screen,“What’s wrong with you Kristen Wiig? He’s so perfect!” (In
case you’re wondering I did not do this any of the three timesI saw Bridesmaids in theaters last summer. I’m not that weird).
5. The Michelin commercial in which the Michelin manfinds his dog. I’m not quite sure what this says about me, butevery time that commercial comes on the air, you can counton me to start sobbing. The plot of this commercial, if it canbe called a plot, is that the Michelin Man off-roads it on adark and stormy night looking for his dog (complete withwhite fat rolls just like his owner’s). He gets out of the carlooking worried, but then the dog runs up into the Michelinman’s arms, licking his face. I don’t really know if the com-mercial can be called a success, because it doesn’t really makeme want to buy Michelin tires, but it does make me want tohug my dog, or any dog. I think that they should replace theSarah McLachlin SPCA commercials with this one – proba-bly more people would donate to the SPCA because theywon’t have that annoying song stuck in their heads forever.
Julia Moser is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She canbe reached at [email protected].
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VANCOUVER, BritishColumbia (AP) — Jarret Stoll beatCory Schneider with a wrist shot at4:27 of overtime to give the LosAngeles Kings a 2-1 victory overVancouver on Sunday night, knock-ing out the top-seeded Canucks infive games in the Western Conferencefirst-round series.
Stoll scored from the left wingafter a turnover at Vancouver blueline. The forward skated in on a 2-on-1, but took the shot himself, pick-ing the top-left corner aboveSchneider's blocker.
Brad Richardson tied it for LosAngeles at 3:21 of the third period,and Jonathan Quick made 26 saves.
Henrik Sedin opened the scoringfor Vancouver with a power-play goalin the first period.
Schneider made 35 saves in histhird straight start after RobertoLuongo lost the first two games.
The Kings will play the second-seeded St. Louis Blues in the secondround.
The Canucks dropped out in thefirst round after leading the NHL inregular-season points for the secondstraight year. Last season, they lost toBoston in Game 7 of the Stanley Cupfinals.
Vancouver's new second line ofRyan Kesler, Alex Burrows and MaxLapierre made a quick impression.Burrows fed Kesler from behind thenet about a 90 seconds in, but Quickstopped the center's shot from theslot.
The Canucks then ran into earlypenalty trouble and didn't get anoth-er shot for 6 minutes before Lapierreput one on Quick. Vancouver killed
penalties to Dan Hamhuis and Sedin,but couldn't get its power play goingon its first advantage.
However, with Sedin double-shifting, the Canucks capitalized onthe second when the Vancouver cap-tain put in a cross-ice pass from twinbrother Daniel Sedin with 5:56 left inthe period.
The opportunity came afterHamhuis kept Mike Richards' clear-ing attempt in at the blue line.
Schneider preserved the leadwhen he stopped Anze Kopitar on abreakaway in the dying seconds of thefirst period. Kopitar put the reboundoff the post as time expired.
Both goaltenders stole the show inthe second period as neither teamcould score.
In the early going, Schneiderstopped Kopitar's first shot andDustin Brown on the rebound as theKings outshot the Canucks 6-0 in thefirst 4:11.
Later, Schneider robbed Richardson a rebound, snaring the puck withhis catching glove. With just over 2minutes left in the second, Quickstymied Daniel Sedin on a breakaway,lowering his right pad to block a snapshot. Sedin slammed his stick againstthe glass in frustration as he went tothe bench.
Richardson drew the Kings evenin the third, tapping in a pass fromDrew Doughty. Doughty deked andcircled around the Canucks' KeithBallard and passed the puck back toRichardson from the end line. It wasthe first goal of the series forRichardson, who missed the firstthree games while recovering from anappendectomy.
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The women’s rowing team met mixed results againstNo. 10 Brown and No. 18 Columbia on Saturday in itslast home race of the season. In the first-ever DunnBowl, the No. 16 Red fell to the Bears in three of fiveraces and topped long-standing rivals Columbia in allbut one.
In the varsity eight race, the Red started out strong,initially taking the lead over both the Bears and theLions. However, Brown pushed ahead about halfwayinto the race, taking advantage of its position on theinside of a turn to get in front of Cornell. According tosenior Anna Psiaki, the Red may have been surprised bythe Bears’ early advantage.
“We were ahead of them and we were a little thrownoff,” Psiaki said. “Even though we went into the racewith the mentality that we would beat Brown, we need-ed a little more confidence and drive.”
Senior captain Steph Lohberg says Brown’s competi-tive mindset and drive ultimately gave the Bears an edgeover the Red.
“Brown knew we were going for them,” she said.“They just decided not to let that happen. I definitelyrespect the amount of heart they put into the racing.”
Though the Red finished just 2.3 seconds behind theBears, Cornell left Columbia in the dust. Despite a his-tory of surprise defeats to the Lions, the varsity eightcame in a hefty 8.2 seconds ahead.
“I think that everyone was just over losing, in a way,”Lohberg said. “A lot of our boats had never beatenColumbia and we realized that this was one of our lastshots.”
A tight race in the second varsity eight ended withCornell in a close third, just 3.4 seconds behind Brown.Meanwhile, the second varsity four led its sole competi-tor Brown by 29 seconds, while the third and fourth var-sity eight boats fell to Brown.
In the varsity four race, Cornell topped both Brownand Columbia by a massive margin. Clocking in 10.2
seconds in front of the Bears and 20.5 seconds ahead ofthe Lions, the Red cruised to a victory that Lohberghopes will help the Red’s chances at NCAA qualifica-tion.
“The margin the varsity four has was awesome,” shesaid. “That will definitely help us a lot in the rankings… The fact that we beat Columbia shows that it’s any-one’s game and most boats were closer to Brown thatwe’ve ever been before.”
Both women hope that this weekend’s results willincrease the Red’s confidence going into the first-everIvy League Championships in May. Due to a recentchange in the NCAA qualification system, this is thefirst year that an Ivy League Championship will takeplace. The NCAA plans to instate a new conferencequalifier system wherein the winning team from eachconference will automatically advance to the tourna-ment. Remaining schools will battle for at-large invita-tions.
“This race gave us the confidence that we are defi-nitely faster than Columbia,” Psiaki said. “It shows thatwe can be in the top three, if the not the top two or eventhe best Ivy.”
The squad also celebrated its 13 graduating seniors
with a post-race ceremony in which their junior team-mates prepared speeches, cupcakes and a rap. Accordingto Lohberg, a large number of senior parents also trav-eled to Ithaca for the Red’s last home race.
“Our class is really tight and a lot of us came intogether as walk-ons,” Lohberg said. “We were just thisbunch of girls that didn’t know how to row at the begin-ning, so we all feel this sense of a bond that you sharestarting from scratch together, even with the recruits.We’re a pretty big class and a lot of the girls live togeth-er, so it was kind of a sad day afterwards.”
Despite a bittersweet day and mixed results, the Redis looking ahead to its last regatta of the regular season,the Ivy League Championships, and, hopefully, theNCAA tournament, Lohberg said. Cornell will take onNo. 19 Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. on Saturdaybefore traveling to Camden, N.J. for the Ivies on May13.
“We need to have absolute confidence and moredrive for the rest of the season,” Psiaki said. “We need toknow that we can make the NCAAS and that we reallyare more secure in that spot than in past years.”
Not far behind | The second varsity eight boat ended its race against Brown and Columbia in a close third place, coming injust 3.4 seconds behind Brown.
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No. 16 Red FallsTo Bears in First-Ever Dunn BowlBy GINA CARGASSun Staff Writer
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Heading into the finalweekend of Ivy League play,Cornell’s softball team is tiedatop the Southern Divisionafter dropping three of fourgames to Penn on Friday andSaturday. Next weekend’sseries against Princeton ispivotal, as the Red is on thehunt to win its third straightdivision championship.
Despite dropping thefirst three games, the Red(20-20, 11-5 Ivy League) sal-vaged the final game of the
series Saturday afternoonwith a 5-0 victory. In the firstthree games, the Quakers(27-15, 11-5) managed tomaintain the upper hand,winning 5-2, 9-6 and 9-2,respectively.
“We saw exactly what wewere expecting from Penn,”said senior captain andinfielder Erin Keene. “Theywere a great team and I thinkwe battled hard the wholeweekend.”
Sophomore pitcherAlyson Onyon earned her10th win of the seasonSaturday afternoon, while
scattering five hits and strik-ing out six in the completegame shutout.
“Onyon pitched a greatgame for us in the finalgame,” said senior captainand outfielder Katie Watts.“Her performance was keyin holding up our offense.”
The three-run first inningprovided the Red withenough offense fire to lastthe entire game. SophomoreJenny Edwards was three-for-four in the game, withone homerun and two runsscored.
“With a win in the lastgame, we’ve kept ourselves inthe race for the southerndivision,” Keene said. “So,next weekend should beexciting.”
At 11-5 in the IvyLeague, Cornell and Pennare in a dead tie for the lead.Cornell plays at Princeton(14-27, 8-8) next weekend,while Penn plays Columbia(12-29, 6-10).
“We had put ourselves ina great position by having an11-1 Ivy record going intothis weekend,” Watts said.“We will need to be able toget our offense going earlyagain next weekend and have
consistent defense to keepour hopes of a title alive.”
The Red has experienceda successful campaign upuntil this point in the season,featuring offensive stand-outs. Overall, Cornell leadsits division in team battingaverage with a .270 clip.Cornell also leads the Ivies inhomeruns (41), coming insecond only to Harvard intotal hits (299). Edwards istied for the league-lead inhomeruns with eight, andjunior catcher Kristen Towneleads the league with doubles(12).
Before the final Ivy show-down against Princeton, theRed has its final tune upseries on April 25 againstneighbor Ithaca (20-11).
“As always our mid-weekgames are a good opportuni-ty to work on our mechanicsand just play solid softball inpreparation for the week-end,” Keene said. “At thesame time, we’ve struggled towin during the week, so it isgoing to be especially impor-tant for us to focus on play-ing to win against Ithaca.”
Red Splits Series; Onyon Earns Shutout Against Penn
Scott Eckl can be reached at [email protected].
She’s out | Sophomore outfielder/catcher Christina Villalonhad an RBI single in shutout against Penn in game two of theseries on Saturday afternoon.
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Having had lost to thegold medalist last June inthe quarterfinals of theU.S. World Team Trials,the wins may be indicativeof Dake’s improvement incompetitions outside ofcollegiate wrestling.Moreimprovement might comewith more experience withfreestyle wrestling, whichis somewhat differentfrom collegiate folkstylewrestling.
“It’s kind of likeswitching from baseball tocricket,” Dake said.
While Dake still needsto continue to improve inthe ranks of freestylewrestling if he hopes tomake the 2016 Olympicteam, some might nowconsider his dominance inthe world of collegiatewrestling unrivaled afterhaving beaten DavidTaylor of Penn State onSaturday. Both wresterswent undefeated this sea-son and were the NCAAchampions in their respec-tive weight classes, 157and 165 pounds, respec-
tively. Yet Taylor, who alsowon the Hodge Trophy —given to the most domi-nant college wrestler of theyear — was dominated byDake in a consolationround match-up at theTrials. Dake took the firstperiod, 5-0, before pin-ning Taylor at 1:28 in thesecond to win the match.What made the match-upeven more compelling wasthe fact that the two havebeen friends for a longtime.
“We talked a littlebefore, wished each othergood luck and then afterwe talked a little bit andjust said good job, con-grats,” Dake said.
The two first met onthe mat in the 2000 OhioTournament ofChampions, and theirmost recent meeting was afreestyle championshipmatch-up at CadetNationals in 2006 whichTaylor won.
Dake Wrestles FriendIn Consolation Match
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Sports 16MONDAYAPRIL 23, 2012The Corne¬ Daily Sun
Strong Second Half ResultsIn Win Over Visiting Bulldogs
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
After a tough first half,where the women’slacrosse team witnessed astandout performancefrom Yale goaltender ErinMcMullin, Cornell dugdeep and used its speedand quickness to score12 goals in the secondhalf, overcoming thestruggling Bulldogswith a score of 17-9.The game had extrasignificance for theRed, as the team honoredits seniors for playingtheir last game in Ithaca,as well as members of the2002 Final Four team.
The win over Yale putsthe Red in an excellentposition to clinch a berthfor the Ivy LeagueChampionships, as theteam has one gameremaining against Brown.If Cornell can defeat theBears, the Red will mostlikely be the No. 3 seed inthe tournament.Saturday’s win was thefifth in a row against Yale,which gives Cornell awinning record at home.
“We knew the Yalegame was a must-win forus,” said senior midfielder
Shannon McHugh. “Wecame out of the gates a lit-tle lethargic, but we defi-nitely stepped up ourgame in the second half.”
Although Cornelldominated in the firsthalf, the team could notfind a way to score, andheaded into the locker
room with a 5-4 lead.“It was a combination
of a great goalie and usjust not playing to ourpotential,” McHugh said.“We weren’t convertingany of our shots.”
In addition to aninability to score, Yaleprovided some pressurefor Cornell on the defen-sive end, as the Bulldogsconverted on all fourshots they took in the first30 minutes of the game,leading to junior goal-tender CourtneyGallagher entering thegame.
However, as frustratingas the first half was forCornell, the second halffared much better, as the
Red saw a strong perfor-mance from senior attackJessi Steinberg who, inher last game atSchoellkopf Field, scoredfive goals and had oneassist. In addition,Cornell got two-goalefforts from freshmanmidfielder Sarah Hefner
and sophomore mid-fielder AmandaD’Amico.
“We just took bet-ter shots in the secondhalf,” said seniorattack Olivia Knotts.
“We came out with a tonof energy in the secondhalf, and, because of that,we had more chances ongoal.”
Cornell will faceBinghamton on Tuesday,before traveling to faceBrown to close out theseason.
“We are really excitedto play a non-conferencegame againstBinghamton,” Knottssaid. “They are a teamthat always comes to play,and we expect the game tobe very competitive.”
By NICK RIELLYSun Staff Writer
None of the Red grapplerslooking to wrestle at this sum-mer’s Olympic games inLondon managed to earnspots on the U.S. NationalTeam this past weekend; how-ever, junior Kyle Dake certain-ly made his presence felt.Dake along with Red team-mate, senior Frank Perrelli,earned wildcard spots to com-pete at the U.S. OlympicWrestling Team Trials in theFreestyle division this week-end at Carver-Hawkeye Arenain Iowa City, Iowa. Also look-ing for a bid was Mack Lewnes’11 who had qualified byvirtue of his performance atthe Men’s Freestyle Olympic
Trials Qualifier last December. While Perrelli and Lewnes
each only won one match,Dake won four. But with onlyone spot in each weight classup for grabs, Dake’s four winsonly earned him a third placefinish in Saturday’s challenger’sbracket and fourth overall at74 kg (163 pounds). Afterwinning his first two matchesof the day, Dake lost in thechallenger’s semifinals to vet-eran World Team memberTrent Paulson 0-2, 1-0, 6-0.
Paulson then lost toAndrew Howe — the eventu-al runner-up at 74 kg thisweekend. Howe won the chal-lenger’s bracket, but lost abest-of-three match-up toreigning world freestyle cham-pion Jordan Burroughs, who
will represent the U.S. inLondon at 74 kg and is con-sidered the best chance theU.S. has to win a gold medalin wrestling.
“I was a little bit disap-pointed. I didn’t really accom-plish what I wanted to, but itwas a good experience, and I’lldefinitely be ready in thefuture,” said Dake, who nowhas his sight set on the 2016Olympics.
In the consolation bracket,Dake beat Nick Marable forthe second time on Saturdayto earn a third place finish inthe challenger’s bracket.Marable was a gold medalist at74 kg for the U.S. at the PanAmerican games last May.
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Wrestlers Fall Short at Olympic Trials
Rain clouds threatened to spoil Senior Dayat Schoellkopf Field on Saturday afternoon, asthe men’s lacrosse team hosted the BrownBears. In hopes of defending its nation-best15-game win streak, Cornell appeared tostruggle offensively throughout the contest,eventually losing to Brown, 10-9. Accordingto head coach Ben DeLuca ’98, the Red mademistakes across the board, which contributedto the team’s second loss of the season.
“[We are] disappointed in the effort thatwe put on the field tonight for our seniors,” hesaid. “Don’t think that we came out with a lotof energy. We certainly weren’t very focusedand made some foolish mistakes across theboard — defensive end, offensive end. Someof our stick work wasn’t very sharp.”
Despite having the upper hand in shots,ground balls, won faceoffs and balls cleared,the Red (9-2, 4-1 Ivy League) struggled tofind the back of the net in the first half of thegame, recording only threegoals compared the fivethat Brown (6-7, 2-3) man-aged to put away.According to senior mid-fielder Chris Langton,Cornell was having troublemastering the basics on thefield.
“We just didn’t do the little things that wedo day to day off the ground,” he said. “It’s avery important aspect of the game and it did-
n’t go our way.”Langton put the Red on the board less
than a minute into the game, scoring his firstof two unassisted goals for the day. Juniorattack Connor English responded a sevenminutes later, notching his first of two goalsfor the day. Brown answered with a four-goalrun before junior attacker Steve Mockresponded with his first of two goals for theRed. Earning Cornell’s only hat trick for theday, junior attack Max Van Bourgondienscored his first goal in the third period, bring-ing the Red within one point, 6-5. Mockevened the game out, 6-6, two minutes later,before Brown pulled ahead for the second offive times in the contest.
Despite a late fourth-quarter goal by VanBourgondien, which tied the game, 9-9,Brown secured the 10-9 win with just fourseconds remaining on the scoreboard. The lossagainst Brown marks only the second timethat Cornell has lost this season.
“I talked to the guys in the locker roomafterwards; this is a feeling that we haven’t felt
in a quite while and it’sgoing to be one that Ihope our guys keep in aportion of their heartsand understand that it’snot something that weare going to dwell on,”DeLuca said. “It’s a bittertaste and it’s very disap-
pointing, especially knowing the potential ofour team and what we’re capable of doing.”
Learning from the mistakes made in the
game against Brown will help the Red as itbegins to prepare for this weekend’s gameagainst Princeton — the last of the regular sea-son.
“The bottom line is that I don’t think ourteam deserved to win today and that’s disap-pointing and certainly squarely on my shoul-ders as head coach,” DeLuca said. “Movingforward this is a very motivated group gettingready for the Princeton Tigers.”
One area that Cornell will need to focus onis creating more scoring opportunities by the
net. According to DeLuca, there is some con-cern about the Red’s defense.
“I think we are concerned about a lot ofthings,” DeLuca said. “I think we are con-cerned about the way we defended. I’m verydisappointed by the way we defended. …There were some scrambled and unsettled,broken plays that [Brown] took advantage of.”
MEN’S LACROSSE
Defending the home turf | Sophomore Andrew West made 10 saves in goal against Brown inSaturday’s tight, 10-9 loss on Senior Day.
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Get ’er done | Kyle Dake placed third at the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team Trials held in Iowa City.OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Lauren Ritter can be reached at [email protected].
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