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A plan to increase student, faculty and staffdiversity by giving responsibility to leaders ofthe University’s colleges has been circulatedamong top administrators on campus and isin its final planning stages, according to ViceProvost for Undergraduate Education Laura
Brown. “Each college has its own priorities and its
own strategic planning around diversity,”Brown said. “We didn't want to meddle inwhat they thought was appropriate. It willlook different from college to college.”
The new approach –– called “TowardNew Destinations” –– was announced byPresident David Skorton in an email to theCornell community on Feb. 15 and will gointo effect starting in the next academic year.
Over the course of the next year, each col-lege dean and vice president will be expectedto choose five specific goals from a “menu” of16 to work on during the course of the acad-emic year, according to Brown.
Options include increasing certain types ofdiversity, “increasing engagement for a targetgroup” and supporting career development.The deans and vice presidents will report to
Skorton and ProvostFuchs at the end ofthe year, according toBrown.
“If you announcebroad goals, it’s reallyhard to hold anyoneaccountable," Brownsaid. “This gives eachof them the opportu-
nity to highlight five goals, report back anduse those as target points.”
Brown also said the new policy allows eachcollege to create its own approach to improv-ing diversity, while still maintaining a systemof accountability.
The new diversity priorities were createdby the University Diversity Council, a groupcharged with promoting diversity throughout About one year ago, outside the Elks Club
on Green Street in downtown Ithaca, 22-year-old Jamel Booker allegedly pulled out a longsilver revolver as he got to his feet. He had justbeen punched and knocked to the ground byRussell “Poon” Blackman, who reportedlyincensed Booker by dancing with certainwomen in the club.
A friend of Booker’s, who is unidentified incourt papers, apparently urged him to strikeback.
“Kill the motherfuckers! Kill the mother-fuckers! Give me the gun; I will do it,” theman reportedly bellowed.
According to the prosecution, Bookerrelented to this demand. On April 8, 2011,they say, Booker shot Blackman multipletimes in the torso, and one bullet grazedBlackman’s face. Police say Booker later fled toFlorida, where he remained until February2012, when he was caught by Ithaca Police.
Blackman survived, but Tompkins CountyDistrict Attorney is charging Booker, who isknown as “Mel,” with attempted murder,
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ATTEMPTED MURDER TRIAL
• APRIL 8, 2011: Jamel Bookerallegedly shoots Russel Blackman.
• JUNE 2011: After being indicted,Booker reportedly flees to Florida.
• FEB. 9: Booker caught by policein hotel in Ithaca.
• FEBRUARY 2012: The D.A. chargesBooker with attempted murder.
• MARCH 30: Booker files defensebrief contesting charges.S
Diversity Plan Delegates
“If you announce broad goals, it’sreally hard to hold anyone accountable ... Each college has itsown priorities ... around diversity.”Laura Brown
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Students Mull Methods to Curb Alcohol AbuseContinuing an effort to combat high-
risk drinking, four Cornell studentsattended a conference at DartmouthCollege this weekend in which groupsfrom five Ivy League universities dis-cussed the different practices theyemploy to mitigate dangerous behaviors.
The conference, dubbed the secondannual Ivy Student Summit for AlcoholHarm Reduction, spawned from lastyear’s Dartmouth Collaborative, an ini-tiative organized by the National CollegeHealth Improvement Project. As part ofNCIP, representatives from 32 colleges
across the country met to discuss harmreduction as it relates to alcohol con-sumption, according to Melanie Herman’12, one member of Cornell’s group.
Herman said that, unlike the firstconference, this summit focused solelyon the input from Cornell, Dartmouth,Princeton, Harvard and Columbia inorder to address the similar problems thatthese institutions have faced in recentyears.
“It is interesting to examine the socialculture of different schools. It places a lotof what we are doing in context with thelarger college drinking problem,” said at-large Student Assembly Rep. JohnMueller ’13, another member of the
group that attended the conference. “Weare building connections with studentswho are trying to tackle the same issueswe have here, each with our differentnuances.”
While students at the event primarilybrainstormed ideas for reducing high-risk drinking rather than making tangibleproposals, the five schools dissectedwhich plans have worked best and worstat each school, according to Herman. Italso gives Cornell an opportunity to tai-lor policies to our own culture and socialenvironment, she said.
“In terms of Cornell versus
Car Crash Victims Identi!ed
Ithaca Police releasedthe names of the peopleinvolved in the fatal caraccident that occurredSunday on Route 13.
D o m i n i q u eSlaughter-Smith, 20,from Fairburn, Ga., andIthaca resident Prince J.Griffith, 21, died aftertheir car collided roof-first with a utility pole atthe intersection ofCascadilla and NorthFulton Street at approxi-mately 3:54 a.m.Although the Ithaca FireDepartment and person-nel from Bangs
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Two other passengersin the vehicle — Ithacaresident Rakim D.Slaughter, 24, and IsiahMack, 19, fromBrooklyn, N.Y. — weretransported to traumacenters Sunday after theaccident, the report stat-ed. As of Monday, Mackhad been released from ahospital in Sayre, Pa.Slaughter remained hos-pitalized in critical condi-
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While police are stillinvestigating the cause ofthe accident, they saidthat “it is known that thespeed of the vehicle wasone factor in the cause ofthis crash.” Police saidonly one vehicleappeared to have beeninvolved in the accident.
The crash left streetsigns for Cascadilla andNorth Fulton Streetdented and a torn pow-erline loose on theground.
Day Hall report allows colleges to choose own goalsBy EMMA COURTSun Staff Writer
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In a contest called “Racefor the Space,” theDowntown Ithaca Alliancewill pick the contestantswith the best business pro-posals and reward themwith, along with otherincentives, one year of freerent in space in downtownIthaca, including on theCommons.
The Downtown IthacaAlliance is holding thiscompetition for the firsttime to encourage businessin Ithaca’s downtown,according to Vicki Taylor,associate director of theDowntown Ithaca Alliance.
According to Taylor,other cities across the coun-try –– including West PalmBeach, Fl. –– have launchedprograms to help prospec-tive entrepreneurs start andmaintain their businesses.These successes inspired theDowntown Ithaca Allianceto sponsor the Race forSpace to encourage the revi-talization and retention ofnew businesses in down-town Ithaca.
In addition to free rent,the incentives offered to thewinners of the contestinclude a one-year advertis-ing package in The IthacaTimes; design services, busi-ness planning and market-ing assistance; and quarterlymonitoring visits by a teamof Downtown IthacaAlliance business operationsexperts, Taylor said.
Taylor said that theDowntown Ithaca Allianceis looking for entrepreneursto submit plans for busi-nesses that could fit in wellwith current businesseslocated on the Commons.
Submissions for the con-test were accepted untilMarch 15, and the winnerswill be able start their busi-nesses by the summer,Taylor said.
Taylor believes that theCommons’ strengths makeit an optimal place fornumerous business invest-
ments. “People often don’t real-
ize the diversity of thedowntown [area] and whatthere is to offer,” Taylorsaid. “You can buy gro-ceries, you can buy clothingfrom Urban Outfitters toindependent boutiques.And it’s a place where, ifsomebody has an entrepre-neurial spirit, they can real-ly succeed.”
After reviewing the vari-ous business proposals, theDowntown Ithaca Asso -ciation Business Reten tionand Development Com -mit tee will select the com-petition’s finalists, who willbe asked to submit formalbusiness plans.
After submitting theirformal proposals on April26, the Downtown IthacaAlliance will assist contestfinalists with advice andtechnical support. The win-ners of the contest will beannounced on May 1.
Taylor expressed excite-ment about the future ofthe downtown area.
“We have $108 million-worth of projects ... toredesign the Commons intoa more open and modernspace …. to create a highquality pedestrian mall anda community gatheringspace, build new apartmentbuildings, new retail, newhotels, office spaces withinthe next few years,” shesaid.
Taylor said she hopesthat the contest will encour-age Cornell students tobecome more involved inthe design and planning ofthe downtown area.
“If the students are inter-ested in talking about busi-ness plans and opportuni-ties in downtown, theyshould certainly get intouch with us, not even justthrough this project,” shesaid. “Every year we havebusiness recruitment andretention. If they have anidea and want to getinvolved, they should comeand talk to us about it.”
Jordan Lim ’14 said he
found the incentives offeredby the competition appeal-ing.
“Since setting up a busi-ness not only involves get-ting a rent space for free fora year but also having agood business plan to sus-tain it, quarterly monitor-ing visits by a team of busi-ness operations expertsseems very attractive,” Limsaid.
However, Lim said hewas disappointed with thelack of publicity about theevent.
“I think it is a goodevent,” Lim said. “If I’dknown about this earlier, Iprobably would haveapplied for it with a groupof friends … But I don'tthink they are doing a greatjob advertising about thisopportunity.”
Enrico Bonatti ’14, asemi-finalist in the “BigIdea Competition” byEntrepreneurship atCornell, which accepts sub-missions for business ideasthat deal with social or envi-ronmental issues, said hebelieves students have achance to be successful in acompetition like Race forSpace.
“I definitely think thatCornell students have thepotential to achieve greatthings, and if this programwas customized appropri-ately, it could help studentswith a strong entrepreneur-ial drive to be successful,”Bonatti said.
Taylor emphasized theneed to keep talent in theIthaca area.
“We don’t want to seeeverybody just come hereand leave and take theirsmarts all over the world,”Taylor said. “There are lotsof opportunities right herein their own backyard. Theyknow the market; they havebeen students here for how-ever many years. Theyknow what their peers arelooking for.”
With the help of a $650,000 gift fromrecently deceased Prof. Emerita Helen L.Wardeberg, education, Mann Libraryand the College of Agriculture and LifeSciences –– which will each receive halfof the donation –– will be makingadjustments to improve their services forthe Cornell community.
According to Eveline Ferretti, MannLibrary public programs administrator,the library’s half of the donation will beused to establish the Helen L. WardebergFund. The fund will be used to strength-en Mann’s collections by purchasingmore books and supporting other libraryservices.
“The giftcomes in at a verytimely moment forthe library becausewe are right nowvery focused onstrengthening thecollections in away that’s neces-sary for students and faculty,” Ferrettisaid. “We want to make sure we have acollection that truly meets the needs ofeveryone here … and is more accessibleto the public.”
Wardeberg, who died in 2011, servedas chair of Cornell’s Department ofEducation from 1968 until her retire-ment in 1986. Although Ferretti andMary Ochs ’79, director of MannLibrary, said they did not knowWardeberg personally, they were honoredto receive the gift on behalf of the library.
“It’s gratifying and great to be a part ofher legacy,” Ferretti said.
According to Ferretti, the library wasnotified about the donation about amonth ago.
“We were thrilled to get the informa-tion about the gift,” Ochs said. “We havea reputation for having a very strong agri-culture, life sciences and human ecologycollection, and to have an emeritus facul-ty member make that kind of contribu-tion is a real boost to having that kind ofcollection continue to be available.”
Ferretti said that the donation arrivedat a particularly beneficial time due tothe recent increases in the cost of journaland database subscriptions. Because thesecosts make up between 80 to 90 percentof the library’s “flat” budget, which doesnot vary from year to year, they have “puta pinch on our ability to make sure ourcollection continues to grow the way itneeds to for future generations,” she said.
“We see these trends, we realize thatwe have to do something and now thelibrary has kicked off a campaign toincrease support,” Ferretti said. “If youdon’t pay attention to [those trends], youend up having to compromise the quali-ty of your collections … It was in thebeginning of starting this work when thegift came in and it was perfect timing.”
Additionally, themoney will fund“ Pa t r o n - D r i v e nAcquisitions,” a pilotprogram aimed atmaking books morereadily available atMann. According toFerretti, the program
will allow students and faculty to selectand purchase books not availablethrough the library catalogue. Electronicversions will become available immedi-ately, and print books will arrive within aweek.
“It’s a gift like this that allows us todevelop in new and innovative ways,”Ferretti said.
The other half of the donation will beused to support scholarships for theCALS transfer students, according to aUniversity press release.
“This is such a fitting legacy for awoman who dedicated her life to educa-tion,” CALS Dean Kathryn Boor ’80said in the press release. “Her gift willensure that Cornell can continue to bethe new opportunity university for tal-ented students regardless of means — inparticular those who begin their academ-ic careers elsewhere and enrich our col-lege by transferring here.”
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Tyran Grillo grad gives a presentation at the Cornell Store about the recent publication ofhis book, “Murder in the Red Chamber,” which he translated from Japanese to English.
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Spacing out | Winners of the “Race for the Space” contest will earn space in The Commonsfor their business as well as free rent for one year.
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Tompkins Rated Second HealthiestCounty in New York
A recent statewide survey listedTompkins County as second in terms ofpersonal and community health factors,The Ithaca Journal reported.
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“It’s gratifying and great tobe a part of [Wardeberg’s]legacy.”Eveline Ferretti
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Cornell. This council includes fiveUniversity employees with previousexperience advancing diversity in high-er education.
Brown said that these employeeswill report to administrators on theprogress made on specific goals of theinitiative. She said this collectiveapproach garners the opinions of morepeople on campus and thus allows forbroader professional expertise.
“It’s an approach that accepts howdiverse Cornell is and doesn’t try tocentralize it in one person,” Brownsaid.
Toward New Destinations targetsdiversity through four principles:composition, engagement, inclusionand achievement, according to a sum-mary of the document released to TheSun.
According to Brown, “composition”refers to the diversity of theUniversity’s demography, whileengagement refers to whether minoritymembers on campus are joining andstaying involved in social and profes-sional activities on campus.
Brown said that “inclusion” consid-ers the degree to which diverse mem-bers of the campus community aremade to feel welcome. “Achievement”addresses issues such as the academicsuccesses of underrepresented individ-uals and their rates of admission tohonors programs.
“It’s not only about how manyunderrepresented individuals youadmit and how many graduate,”Brown said. “We want to knowwhether they’re doing as well in termsof academic performance, participatingin honors programs, study abroad ––all the things that our most successfulstudents participate in. We want themto be achieving as much as any stu-dents that are here.”
Brown also said that in the future,Toward New Directions will become apublic document to increase awarenessof the initiative.
“It creates a public planningprocess that the whole communitywill understand and it foregroundsfor the leadership a regular occasionwhere we will meet and talk aboutthe University-wide process,” Brownsaid. “It gives us a way of comingtogether, integrating the things we’redoing and make progress in a collec-tive way.”
Alexander said that she hopesToward New Destinations will providemomentum for advancing diversity atCornell.
“This is a marathon, and not asprint. It will evolve over time,” shesaid. “It will help us take honest assess-ments as to where we are and what weneed to address … We have to startsomewhere and get the programrolling.”
assault and two counts of criminal posses-sion of a weapon.
Booker has since responded to the alle-gations. In a defense brief filed March 30in Tompkins County Court, his attorneydecried what he called the prosecution’s“inadmissible and incompetent” attemptsto build a case against his client.
Thomas Kheel, Booker’s lawyer,emphasizes in the documents that Bookerwas never found with a weapon. Kheel saysBooker will contest all the charges againsthim.
“No weapons were ever found linkingthe defendant to the crime,” Kheel writes.“The evidence presented to the GrandJury was legally insufficient to establishthat [Booker] committed the offensescharged in the indictment.”
Moreover, Kheel claims that the witnessaccounts used to connect Booker to thecrime may have been unfairly solicited.
“The identifications of [Kheel] areequivocal and were suggested to the testi-fying witnesses,” Kheel says.
Documents obtained by The Sun mayindicate that Kheel was correct to assumethat police were looking for evidence tovalidate their assumptions.
According to an account provided byone Ithaca Police Department officerwhose name has been redacted, BrittanyGreen was a friend of Blackman’s who waswith him the night of the shooting. Whenthe officer arrived at the hospital whereBlackman was being treated, Green saidshe was willing to discuss the event further,according to the police report.
However, when presented with severalphoto arrays of potential suspects, Green“stated she was unable to identify anyonewithin.”
“As Green viewed the arrays, I sensedthat she could identify the responsibleparty, but did not want to become
involved,” the officer states — an assess-ment Kheel and Booker may contest incourt.
An account provided by RonaldMcClure, who says he saw the shooting,also suggests police may have, as Kheelalleges, suggested who the assailant was towitnesses.
Police asked McClure if Booker was“the same person who is in your math classat [Tompkins Community College] andthe same person who you saw shootRussell.” Still, McClure did, apparentlyunprompted, pick Booker out of a photoarray.
Unlikely to help Kheel’s argument,however, is Booker’s apparent attempt toescape arrest.
After a Tompkins County Grand Juryindicted Booker in June 2011, he “fled” toFlorida, according to Ithaca Police.
“Information was established that fol-lowing the indictment Booker had fled toFlorida, where he went into hiding toavoid apprehension,” police stated in apress release at the time of his arrest.
On Feb. 8, police were notified thatBooker was in the Ithaca area. A team ofinvestigators and officers then entered alocal hotel in which Booker was stayingand took him into custody without inci-dent.
The prosecution also notes that thiswas Booker’s 13th arrest. He also has twoyouthful offender adjudications, one mis-demeanor conviction, five “violation-levelconvictions” and one bench warrant on hisrecord, according to the documents.
The identity of the man who toldBooker to shoot does not appear in courtdocuments. Green, however, told policethat he was a 6’0” “light skinned” blackman with “pulled back” braids. McClure,the other witness, also describes the man asa “light skinned black male with braids.”
Ithaca Man Contests Assault ChargesBOOKER
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First item of business. If someone says “Ihave three prelims next week,” what’sthe first response that pops into your
head? Well, there are really only two types ofresponses. “Oh man, that’s awful, I’m so gladI’m not premed / an engineer / a hotelie /double majoring / an English major / gradu-ating early / prelaw, you guys have it so muchharder than the rest of us,” or “Well, I hadthree prelims AND two papers in a weekonce.”
Second item of business. If someone says“I’m so tired, I had to pull an all-nighteragain,” what’s your reply? The range ofanswers is, again, binary. Either “You’re socrazy, I never have enough work to pull anall-nighter,” or “Well, I’m pulling my secondone in a row tonight.”
If you didn’t know these items before,congratulations! Provided you picked the
second response in both scenarios, you arenow qualified to converse like a Cornell stu-dent. If someone’s already given you thememos on “Let me tell you how much alco-hol I drank last weekend / plan on drinkingthis weekend” and “Do you think s/he’s intome?,” you are also fully qualified to partici-pate in, oh, some 70 percent of the conversa-tions that are happening on this campus atany given time.
Snark (mostly) aside, I’d like to use my700-word soapbox to focus on the first bit ofthat paragraph up there. I have heard manyphrases used to describe this lovely place, andamong the first I heard — right after “pres-sure cooker” — was “stress competition.” Myesteemed colleague Will Spencer commentedrecently that Hotelies and Engineers alikeonly seem to know how to have one conver-sation, the one that revolves around howridiculous their schoolwork is. And oh, I amnot about to contradict. (And not justbecause I sit in staff meetings with him).
If you feel the need to talk constantlyabout how difficult your schoolwork is,please pick one of the following options.
1) You’re smart and good at school, andyour coursework is legitimately difficult. Youalso require constant external affirmation tofeel good about yourself, and it’s kind ofannoying.
2) You’re smart, but you’re not very goodat school. Your coursework is legitimatelydifficult. You require constant external affir-mation about your intelligence to compen-sate for your grades, and it’s kind of annoy-ing.
3) You’re pre-med, and everyone thinksyou’re annoying. I’m kidding! I’m kidding.Not all pre-meds are annoying.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please. You allattend, for what it’s worth, the *cough* USNews-ranked #15 university in the nation.The largely arbitrary crapshoot called under-graduate admissions means that you’re asmart and talented person who won (or lost)the lottery. So, let us dispense with thenotion that a game of academic mine-is-big-ger-than-yours is either necessary or foolinganyone. For one, it makes you look needy.Talking like you have something to prove
does, in fact, make people suspect that youhave something to prove. For another, it’sspecifically this sort of attitude that has cre-ated the Cornell pressure cooker environ-ment.
An intensely competitive environmenthas created this collective campus fear ofadmitting any academic or personal weak-ness, and we’ve all seen what kind of toll thattakes on people. Talking about all the workwe have to do to a fellow student who is qui-etly struggling to find the will to get out ofbed every morning isn’t just insensitive, it’sselfish in the worst way. We’re all human. Weall have egos that need to be stroked. But inthe end, the distribution of prelim grades isgoing to look roughly normal anyways, andno one is going to care that you ONLYended up at the mean because you had SOmuch other work to do. On the other hand,people are going to care that you made themfeel like a piece of crap about only getting themean, because they studied really hard for it.So, Big Red, campus that I love, please takethat chip off your shoulder. We’ll all be bet-ter for it.
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ON WEDNESDAY, THE FACULTY SENATE will consider changes to the acade-mic calendar that would add vacations in the middle of the semester to break up longperiods of classes and improve mental health. This benefit would come at the expense ofone of Cornell’s most revered traditions: Senior Week. The changes that are being con-sidered will change the culture of the campus and must be debated and vetted extensivelywith students. The Faculty Senate must wait for formalized student input before makinga decision.
Senior Week is the seven day period immediately following the end of finals, leadingup to Commencement. The calendar committee is proposing to shorten Senior Weekfrom nine days to three and shorten exam week from 13 days to eight. These changeswill create a two day break during President’s Week and add two extra days to springbreak. By giving students time to relax in the middle of the winter and prelim season, thecommittee hopes that students will receive serious mental health benefits.
While there are benefits that come with this new calendar, they come at the expenseof Senior Week. These seven days are important for seniors, as they bid farewell to theirfriends and reminisce about their time on the Hill. This week frames their time atCornell, giving seniors a positive experience that they will remember into their years asalumni. Senior Week is part of the Cornell culture and a tradition that is widely knownand remembered by members of the outgoing class. In order to properly weigh the extentof the cost that this change would have, more formalized input is necessary.
So far, student input on the calendar has been limited. It is concerning is that the chairof the Calendar Committee said in March that it would only make “informal” efforts toconsult with non-committee members. The deliberations should rely on more than justthe input from the two undergraduate students that sit on the Calendar Committee. Asimple measure to formally gauge the opinions of students would be to send out a sur-vey. However, even this basic measure has not been taken. More time for deliberation andcompromise would help to ensure that everyone is best served by the changes.
Additionally, the recommendations put forward by the committee are an imperfectcompromise. It seems that there are other options that could still be considered that maydo a better job of satisfying the most people. Though finding this balance is difficult, wequestion the stress-relieving benefit that comes with adding another two days to springbreak, compared to the benefit that these days could bring elsewhere in the calendar.Adding one of these days to study week as a rest day could have huge mental health ben-efits, and adding the second to make Senior Week four days would help preserve thisCornell tradition.
While building this proposal, the University has worked to manage a large number ofconstraints. It seems, however, that the Committee is desperate to reach the finish lineon this project when more consideration is warranted. Aside from adding a Labor Dayholiday last year, the last time the calendar was changed was 1984. Such a potentiallylong-lasting change requires more time and input.
CompromisingOn the Calendar
Editorial
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7OPINION
Two weeks ago, in response to a col-umn I wrote about walking bare-foot as a revolutionary act, a reader
made this comment on The Sun website:“As someone who grew up in a devel-
oping country, I find this article to beextremely naïve and ill-advised, written bya privileged boy from a well-to-do familywho has white-guilt about his family’sfinancial comfort.”
The reader is absolutely right, butdoesn’t go far enough. I’m not just a priv-ileged boy from a well-to-do family; I’malso a heterosexual, an American and, per-haps worst of all, a consumer. I own a cellphone, a laptop and endless other bits of
plastic crap which we, as a society, haveconvinced each other we need.
“White-guilt” doesn’t begin to coverwhat I have. As a wealthy, straight, white,male American consumer, my lifestyle isbuilt upon violence against humanity andviolence against the earth. The violence ofmy privilege is the fundamental premiseupon which my political and social con-sciousness is built. If you don’t accept thispremise, nothing I write will make muchsense to you.
So if I am, in fact, the oppressor, whatbusiness do I have writing an opinion col-
umn? Do we really need more input fromthe patriarchy? Doesn’t the voice of theoppressor already fill the room every timea black child is murdered without conse-quences, every time a 12-year-old Chinesegirl works herself to death to assemble thetoys I think I need, every time theAmerican Empire kicks over a sovereignnation in my name?
How do I justify driving my Prius fromCornell University to New York City sothat I can march down a street and chant,“We are the 99 percent”? Every time theword “revolution” passes my white lips,the words of the late, great Gil Scott-Heron come to mind:
“The irony of it all, of course, is whena pale-faced SDS [Students for aDemocratic Society] motherfucker dareslook hurt when I tell him to go find hisown revolution … Your great-grandfathertied a ball and chain to my balls andbounced me through a cotton field, whileI lived in an unflushable toilet bowl, andnow you want me to help you overthrowwhat?”
As a white activist, I get this a lot.What does a white liberal weekend revolu-tionary know about police brutality?
What gives me the cultural authority toquote the poetry of Gil Scott-Heron? Andwho the hell do I think I am?
Well, I’m me. I don’t really have anyother options. I was born with this skincolor, with this ancestry, with this gender,with this trust fund. Whatever objectionsI may have to consumerism, I was borninto this economy. However abhorrent Imay find war, I was born into the countrywith all the guns, and the belligerence touse them.
So, I’m me, and injustice is injustice. Ican’t change the circumstances of mybirth. I can’t go back in time and convincemy ancestors not to keep slaves or stealNative American land. I can’t snap my fin-gers and rid the world of racism, sexismand heteronormativity. I can’t single-handedly stop industrial capitalism fromraping the planet to death. I wish I could,but I can’t.
Here’s what I can do:1) I can shut up. I can accept that the
color of my skin and the depth of mypockets make me ineligible to even utterthe word “oppression.” I can spend my lifeplaying backgammon and trying to drownmy white guilt in tea and crumpets. I canleave reform and revolution to those “cul-turally authorized” to fix the world.
2) I can keep talking. I can accept accu-sations that I “don’t get it,” because insome ways I probably don’t. I can try mybest, given my limited and problematicperspective, to point out and fight againstinjustice whenever and wherever I see it,and to stand in solidarity with thosewhose struggles I perceive as righteous.
As an oppressor with a conscience, I am
confronted with a choice between silenceand what some would call hypocrisy. I’llchoose hypocrisy every time.
If you want to disregard what I saybecause of the color of my skin, the socialclass of my parents and the atrocities ofmy great-grandparents, that’s your prerog-ative. I don’t have the authority or thedesire to ask anyone to ignore the violenceof my privilege. Telling me to shut up isthus absolutely legitimate.
That being said, when I see somethingI think is wrong, I’m going to make asmuch noise about it as possible, even atthe risk of sounding “naive and ill-advised.” If this makes me a hypocrite, sobe it. After all, plenty of white liberals par-ticipated in the Civil Rights Movement,and despite Gil Scott-Heron’s completelylegitimate accusations of hypocrisy, Ithink the white liberals helped theMovement considerably. It was, in part,their privilege, rooted in a racist system,which empowered them to battle theforces of racism.
Similarly, privilege grants me access toeducation. If we don’t use the tools thateducation gives us to look outside of ourown privilege bubbles, then higher educa-tion is a criminal misallocation of society’sresources and an inexcusable circle-jerk.For better or for worse, privilege grants mea louder voice than most. I’m going to usethat voice to cry bloody murder wheneverI get the chance, especially when theblood is on my own hands.
Tom Moore is a sophomore in the College of Artsand Sciences. He may be reached at [email protected]. What Even Is All This?appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
In Defense of Hypocrisy
TomMoore
What Even Is All This?
In response to a letter from the Department ofEducation, when a student is accused of sexual assaultor sexual harassment, Cornell may no longer try them
under the Campus Code of Conduct, which provides arobust set of protections for the accused modeled afterthe criminal justice system. Instead, they would be triedunder University Policy 6.4, which strips away many ofthese protections and also uses a lower standard of proof.Advocates of these changes, including the Women'sResource Center, hope to create a system friendlier to sex-
ual assault victims and more likely to bring the guilty tojustice, which by itself is certainly an admirable goal.
However, before anyone signs off on these changes,one critical question must be asked: How many innocentpeople must suffer to ensure that the guilty are brought tojustice?
While the intentions behind these proposed changesare admirable, the basis for these changes is fundamental-ly and irrecoverably flawed. It seemingly assumes that theaccuser is the victim. But if that were true, why would weeven need any sort of trial in the first place? These mea-sures would make complete sense in a counseling sessionprovided by the Women’s Resource Center, but they makeno sense in a trial incorporating changes advocated by theWomen’s Resource Center.
At times, one wonders if those proposing the changeshave even considered the possibility that the accused mayin fact be innocent. For example, while banning cross-examination and lawyers may create a friendlier environ-ment for an accuser who is also a sexual assault victim, ifthe accused is innocent, how will he or she have any hope
of exposing the holes in the accuser's story without across-examination or a lawyer trained to find these holes?
Those who oppose these changes do not oppose vic-tims' rights, they merely recognize that in the case of afalse conviction, it is the accused, not the accuser, who isthe real victim.
Furthermore, past experiences at Cornell and otheruniversities suggest that such concerns are practical andnot just theoretical. Unfortunately, under UniversityPolicy 6.4 and similar policies at other universities, all
records are kept confi-dential, meaning that ifabuses of due processoccur, an outside entitywill not even be able toknow that said abusesoccurred, much lessadvocate against thoseabuses.
However, Prof.Maas, who was tried forsexual harassmentunder a special
Professional Ethics Committee instead of the Code ofConduct, challenged his conviction in court, which mademany of the confidential trial records public as part of thelawsuit. The book The Shadow University gives an excel-lent account of his trial on pages 296-300; here are someof the highlights (or perhaps lowlights):
While a single column would not provide enough•space to list all the problems with the rules of conductand evidence, this quote from the trial's chair will suc-cinctly summarize them: “We have to make the rules aswe go along.”
Even though Prof. Maas’ career was on the line, not•only was he not allowed a lawyer, but he also was notallowed to have a law professor as an advisor because hewas “too much of an expert.”
Not only could Prof. Maas not cross-examine his•accusers, he was not even allowed to be in the same roomas them so as not to upset the alleged victims. No pre-sumption of guilt there!
That Professional Ethics Committee sounds eerilysimilar to University Policy 6.4. Sadly, these sorts of prob-
lems pervade not just Cornell, but many other universi-ties. At the University of North Dakota, Caleb Warnerwas convicted of sexual assault and expelled from the uni-versity, even though police, looking at the same evidence,charged the accuser with making a false report to lawenforcement. Even then, it still took a year and a half andpressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights inEducation before UND would reinstate Caleb. And ofcourse, who can forget the Duke lacrosse scandal? Therape and sexual assault of a woman by three lacrosse play-ers led to the cancellation of the lacrosse season, the fir-ing of the lacrosse coach and a national uproar about sex-ual assault … until it turned out the accuser's story wasfalse.
Not only has the Foundation for Individual Rights inEducation clearly opposed this letter as expected, a letterwhich may have even violated the law by ignoring therequired notice and comment procedure, but theAmerican Association of University Professors has statedthat this letter contradicts their RecommendedInstitutional Regulations on Academic Freedom andTenure. At Cornell, The Sun quoted one law professor assaying the faculty of the Law School generally agrees thatthese measures are Orwellian.
Nonetheless, deputy University counsel Nelson Rothhas stood his ground, advocating the legal necessity ofthese changes. From a risk management and legal liabili-ty point of view, he may be right. But when fundamentalrights are at stake, should there not be more importantconcerns than legal liability? Is Cornell a university orjust a mere corporation?
In light of the clear and convincing evidence againstusing University Policy 6.4 to handle sexual harassmentand sexual assault cases, and the rights at stake which aremore important than legal liability, I would recommendthat the University Assembly and President Skorton keepin mind the “counsel” in deputy University counsel: Youshould always listen to counsel, but you do not alwayshave to follow it.
Ensuring Legal Protection for All
Mike Wacker ’10 is a former Sun columnist and former Sun AssistantWeb Editor. He may be reached at [email protected]. GuestRoom appears periodically this semester.
Mike Wacker ’10
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In recent years, a torrent of gimmicky films have attempt-ed to distinguish themselves from the already burgeoningfilm population: note the surge in 3D, found-footage andmeta-films. Unfortunately, films cannot survive on gim-micks alone. Thus, we have a dichotomy of films — onesthat use gimmicks for the sake of being gimmicky (the waya hipster might strive for originality for originality’s sake)and those that are truly original and happen to utilize a gim-mick. Director Gabe Torres’ Brake is the latter. Brake is acontained thriller: almost the entire film is set within thetrunk of a car.
Secret service agent Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) wakesup at the back of a car — actually, he wakes up in a glasscontainer at the back of a car. Overhead, a timer repeatedlycounts down to ominous zeroes, at which point somethingbad always happens. It’s soon revealed that Rein’s captorswant to extract top secret information from him like thepresident’s bunker location and codename. Rein’s tormen-tors use increasingly painful methods — one of theminvolves bees.
Many critics have compared Brake to Rodrigo Cortes’2010 film Buried. Admittedly, both films have similarities.The most obvious of these is that both spend the entirety ofthe movie in a box as the protagonist is interrogated by ter-rorists. Less obviously, both films contain political under-tones that suggest some frustration with the American gov-ernment. But the similarities end there
While Buried was a slow and unrelenting descent intoone man’s desperation, “Brake is basically an action film in abox,” Torres said. True, both films are about men in boxes,but in context Brake is actually a thriller about national secu-rity, resting on one man’s strength to adhere to an oath toprotect the president. Along the way, we get a series ofthrilling sequences through the power of suggestion. Thereare the usual plot devices — Reins is give a CB radio andalso manages to get a cell phone halfway through the film.
But the brilliance of the film liesin its subtle mechanisms. “Ourgoal was to create the illusion ofmotion,” Torres says.
Director of photography JamesMathers manages to bring theaction occurring outside the vaninto Reins’ trunk with some cre-ativity. Mathers’ camerawork is sur-prisingly fluid, moving from staticshots to violent hand-cam ones forcar chases. He also uses barely per-ceptible light shifts to imply move-ment outside the car. Also notableis the sound editing, which is mostlaudable during the film’s car chas-es.
But perhaps the best part of the contained-thriller gimmick is the sense of paranoia it instills in theaudience. The number of things that are overtly suggested,such as car chases and shootouts are equaled by the numberof covertly suggested ideas. And this is by far the best use ofthe box in Brake. While the contained thriller may simply bea penny pincher’s way of creating an action film, it playsdirectly towards the paranoid thriller genre by withholdinginformation from the audience, leaving it as disoriented asthe character inside the box.
The last stand-out performance, the only performance inthe colloquial sense of the word, is Stephen Dorff ’s perfor-mance.
When asked about his choice of actors, Torres said, “Nota lot of actors would have taken on this movie cause every-thing hangs on them. If the movie fails, the failure hangs onthe actor … I knew Stephen wouldn’t be afraid of taking onthe camera by himself.”
Dorff has been known to take on interesting films, espe-cially distinctly indie titles. In the recent past, Dorff hasstarred in an unrelentingly stoic film — Sophia Coppola’sSomewhere. Despite some complaints about the actual film,Dorff ’s performance in the film was decidedly true to the
ennui of celebrity life. From Somewhere to Brake, Dorffshows off the full spectrum of his talent.
As Reins gets pushed to the edge, he releases more andmore rage; these scenes involve sustained kicking andscreaming. In the wrong hands, these scenes would havekilled the film which already requires a high suspension ofdisbelief. But luckily, Dorff goes beyond the call of duty andserves as the reality anchor through what is, in retrospect,quite the fantastical plot.
Brake is a triumph of low-budget filming; it captures allthe intensity of a regular Hollywood film. In the sea of filmsreleased this year, Brake is surely one of the more uniqueones. It deserves to be experienced purely based on thismerit.
“I’m really proud of the way it turned out. I wouldn’thave changed anything about [Brake],” Torres said.
Torres is an avid supporter of the independent filmindustry. He will be conducting Question and Answer ses-sions at screenings of Brake at Cinemapolis on April 13 andApril 14.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Kyle Chang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He canbe reached at [email protected].
ARTS ENTERTAINMENT
KYLE CHANGSun Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | 9A & E
COURTESY OF GABE TORRES
It is difficult to think of a more ubiqui-tous instrument than the piano. It graces theliving room of many families, is featured incountless concertos, and it is safe to say thatthe majority of us have taken lessons some-time during our lives, with varying degreesof success. To some, the piano evokesChopin’s passionate nocturnes andBeethoven’s powerful concertos. Others pre-fer Gershwin’s jazz stylings. But very few ofus would consider the piano to be an impor-tant component of rock music. Rock pianistMarco Benevento will challenge this percep-tion during his concert at The Haunt thiscoming Friday.
Benevento started out as many piano stu-dents do: “I took lessons as a kid for awhile,” he tells The Sun. “It was your basickid lesson thing — learning how to read,playing through lesson books, etc.” His lovefor rock bands such as The Beatles and LedZeppelin began in middle school; it was alsoduring this time that he met drummer JoeRusso, with whom he later released severalalbums. By high school, he was already com-posing his own music; he graduated fromthe Berklee School of Music in Boston in
1999. Making full use of the musical oppor-tunities that technology such as synthesiz-ers, four tracks and effects pedals affords,Benevento has become, according to AllMusic Guide, “... a musician so original thathe can ultimately only be judged against hisown standard.”
A self-described “professional capturist,”Benevento’s music is upbeat and smile-enducing, using musical patterns that arefamiliar, but never dull. His piece “The RealMorning Party” begins with a shufflingdrum beat that is the perfect accompani-ment to the shuffle out of bed that the bestof us succumb to on a Monday morning.The simple tune catches one unawares;before one knows it, the blasé morning feel-ing has given over to enthusiastic head-bop-ping and shoulder-shaking. “Now They’reWriting Music” is a perfect example ofBenevento’s innovative use of synths com-bined with a nostalgic piano melody thatcan’t help but pull on the heartstrings. Whenasked what inspire these pieces, Beneventowrites that “the inspiration for writing musiccomes and goes. Sometimes I sit down at thepiano and just want to watch my fingersmove and play whatever it is that comes tomind and not really think about a verse oran intro or a solo section for a song that Iwant to write … Maybe I'll remember it,
maybe I won't, butmost times inspi-ration for a songcomes by surprise.I find as a song-writer that the bestway to ‘compose’ asong is to figureout how to ‘cap-ture’ that momentwhen you are notthinking andinspiration flowsthrough you.”
If his music videos are anything to go by,Benevento’s performance will be a treat. Thevideos that accompany his songs are colorfuland playful; “The Morning Party” featuresmany pairs of hands making shadow pup-pets and dancing feet, as well as a keyboardthat plays itself. The quirky cuteness is abalm for those who have become desensi-tized by overly-flashy music videos featuringscantily clad girls and strobe lights. Theflashing clock and the combination of ani-mation with live action shots featured in theaccompanying music video to “Now They’reWriting Music” enhances the dream-likequality of the piece. “Playing for a live audi-ence is simultaneously the easiest and rough-est thing to do,” Benevento writes. “You are
supposed to be having a good time — likethe audience — yet you have to provide thegood time for them … So there is a sense ofresponsibility … Plus you are playing yourown music so it’s pretty revealing at the sametime.”
“I’d say that after 15 years of performingI finally feel like I can put on a good show,”he modestly asserts. Whether you’re a long-time fan or a newcomer, Benevento’s perfor-mance is more than likely to be a “goodshow” and provide a “good time.”
Lubabah Chowdhury is a sophomore in the Collegeof Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at [email protected].
LUBABAH CHOWDHURYSun Staff Writer
Now He’s Writing Music COURTESY OF MARCO BENEVENTO
Thinking Inside andOutside the Box
COMICS AND PUZZLES10 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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of victory was less than a second,but we bounded back to beatYale,” Gehman said. “We broughtback the Cayuga Cup, which wasreally exciting.”
According to Gehman,Saturday’s races proved that theRed still has a lot to work on if it
wants to be competitive at thisyear’s Ivy League Championships.The Ivy League Championshipswill pit Cornell against everyteam in the Ivy League, includingPrinceton, and is extremelyimportant for determining whichteams will be invited to this year’sNCAA tournament.
“We will work on sprints,among other things. The first
Varsity Eight boat needs to workon their start,” Gehman said.“Conditions played a little bit of arole [on Saturday], so we’ll con-tinue to practice in wind. Wehave to be able to deal with what-ever Mother Nature throws atus.”
guys we’ve got.”The Red traveled on Sunday to
New Haven, Conn. to competeagainst Yale (6-22-1, 0-8-0) in a dou-bleheader. The Red began the firstgame of the series on top, due in partto Whetsel’s infield single thatbrought Tatum home from third.Peters than singled to the right sideto drive in Swinford and put Cornellon the board early.
Yale finally got one in the fourthand pulled ahead with two more inthe sixth — the latter comingunearned on Cornell’s only error ofthe game. Sophomore ConnorKaufmann pitched into the sixthinning before retiring the mound tojunior pitcher Houston Hawley,who recorded the final five outsagainst the Bulldogs. Hawleyincreased his personal record to 2-1for the season. The victory ended anine-game losing streak for the Redat Yale Field.
“We have excellent hittersthroughout the entire lineup, weplayed excellent defense [and the]pitchers are doing a great job keep-ing us in the game. Basically, it was awhole team effort that sparked ourvictory over the past couple ofgames,” said Peters.
In the second game at Yale Field,Lee was 3-for-5 with a double, whichled to him scoring the game’s firstrun on Yanzick’s double bagger inthe third. Yale responded with tworuns in the fourth, but Cornell cameback to tie the game up on seniorBrian Billigen's solo home run toright in the sixth — his fifth of theseason. Billigen hit a two-run triplein the seventh. He was 2-for-4 withtwo runs and three RBI in the game.
The game was tied again after theeighth, leading the Red to the fourthstraight game in which Cornellpushed runners across home plate inthe final frame. Whetsel reached sec-ond on an error, then third on a wildpitch. Yanzick’s bunt single scoredWhetsel. After Billigen walked, Cruz
hit a single to right to score Yanzick.After entering the game as a defensivereplacement in the eighth,D’Alessandro hit a two-run single foradditional runs over the Bulldogs.
“This weekend was unreal. Imean we really don’t expect [tosweep the weekend],” he said. “But,we started off with a good comebackwin and then we just kept it rolling.”
Cornell is riding a seven-gamewinning streak heading intoWednesday’s game againstBinghamton at Hoy Field. The gamekicks off a seven-game home stretch,which includes the start of divisionalplay and four games againstColumbia at home next weekend.
“Every game matters, but I reallywant to see us beat Columbia andtake it to them,” D’Alessandro said.“Everyone on our team is very tal-ented and I feel like the combinationof all of us together will help us suc-ceed in the coming weekends.”
Rowers Unable to Grab Class of 1975 CupW. ROWING
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Alex Gatto can be reached at [email protected].
BASEBALLContinued from page 16
Haley Velasco can be reached [email protected].
Talented Team Suggests Future Success
Greening Awaits Playoffs
happy.”After playing for Cornell,
Greening moved on to play forthe Binghamton Senators — theAHL affiliate of the OttawaSenators, who drafted the for-ward in 2005. Greening said thathe originally did not think thathe was going to be selected, butmuch to his delight and surprisehe received a phone call duringthe 7th round saying that he waschosen.
“Binghamton was great forme. … It gave me a chance toplay with some top players,” hesaid. “I felt like I was learninghow to be a professional and howto play the game.”
During his time inBinghamton, Greening was partof the 2011 team that made arun for the Calder Cup. Enteringthe competition seeded last,expectations were not high forthe Senators, according toGreening. Binghamton faced theManchester Monarchs in thefirst round.
“That was definitely an inter-esting and fun experience,”Greening said. “We were the lastseed and we just squeaked ourway into playoffs and I remem-ber I didn’t know what was goingto happen. In the first round, wewere down 3-1 in a best-of-sevenseries and we ended up winningthe next three games in overtime.We won the last two games onthe road in Manchester.”
Binghamton ended up claim-ing the entire series, beating the
Portland Pirates, CharlotteCheckers and Houston Aeros.Playing for Charlotte at the timewas Greening’s former Cornellteammate Riley Nash. Greeningsaid that playing against formerRed icers has been a fun experi-ence.
“It’s a lot of fun. I’ve playedagainst [Ben Scrivens ’10] a cou-ple of times this season. He actu-ally made a really good stopagainst me in preseason. We werejoking about it afterwards and Iwas really hoping I could scoreon him so I could get braggingrights,” Greening said. “I got toplay against [Riley] in his secondprofessional game, which wasnice and he got his first profes-sional point against us, but I was-n’t on the ice, so he doesn’t getbragging rights that he scored onmy line.”
This week Greening will playin his first NHL playoffs, as theOttawa Senators faceoff againstthe New York Rangers beginningon Thursday.
“That is going to be a lot offun because Cornell is well repre-sented in the city. I’ve been get-ting a lot of texts from guys whoare actually Rangers fans —threatening to keep me up allnight,” Greening said. “It’s all ingood fun ... It’s my first NHLplayoffs, so I don’t really knowwhat to expect, I’m basing myexperience on what I wentthrough with the playoffs lastyear with the AHL. I’m reallyexcited.”
GREENINGContinued from page 16
Lauren Ritter can be reached [email protected].
Heat and hurt horses posedchallenges for Cornell this pastweekend in College Station, Texas,where the men’s and women’steams played Texas A&M; howev-er, the unfavorable circumstancescould not holdback the Red.The men (10-7)and women(12-5) both rode past the Aggies,10-7 and 13-10, respectively.
The Aggies and the Cornellmen started out on equal footingsafter the first chukker, scoring fourgoals apiece. In the second
chukker, Cornell made somerearrangements on the field andwas able to secure a lead, makingthe halftime score 7-5.
“We were making some excel-lent defensive plays,” said headcoach David Eldredge ’81.
The men held onto the lead inthe third chukker, finishing with a
score of 10-7.This scorebecame the finaltally, mainly due
in part to two A&M horses beinginjured with no replacement hors-es available. The game ended onechukker early.
On the women’s side, Cornellcame from behind to win in the
fourth chukker. The first chukker,like the men, ended in a tie, 3-3.The Aggies took the lead by half-time, putting the Red in a four-goal deficit. The third chukkerwas a defensive battle, as eachteam only scored one goal; howev-er, the women were still downentering the fourth chukker. Thesquad finishedstrong by shuttingout A&M withseven goals, finaliz-ing the game’s score, 13-10.
“I think we out-hustled themin the fourth chukker,” said seniorAmanda Stern.
Eldredge said that the women’sgame proved to the team that it iscapable of coming from behind towin a contest.
“The girls didn’t let up or getbothered by beingdown four goals,” hesaid. “They cameback very strong andshowed themselvesand made it obviouswe’re never out of thegame at any point;you can always turn it around.”
The women’s Texas A&Mteam will be traveling to Ithaca thefollowing weekend to compete inthe national tournament alongwith Cornell, so both teams wereholding back in the weekend’scontest, according to senior cap-tain Ali Hoffman.
“We treated it as a warm-upgame, since neither team wantedto go out super intense since the[national] rankings are out,” shesaid.
The arena in College Station,being much bigger than OxleyEquestrian Center, added anotherelement to the game.
“It wasreally good toplay in anarena larger
than ours,” said senior captainBranden Van Loon. “There was agrowth in adaptation to playingstyles, we were able to change ourplaying style without changingour core playing strategy.”
The larger arena also causedthe score to be lower than it nor-mally is for games played in Oxley,
which made the game more defen-sive than normal, according toVan Loon.
“There was so much moreroom to play and much morespace for people to make gooddefensive plays,” he said. “Ourtypical Cornell off-wall plays weredifficult to make. The openness of
the game pushed us to increaseanticipation of long balls.”
Another factor that the teamsrarely face in Ithaca is the extremeTexan heat and humidity; howev-er, Hoffman thought the womenhandled it well.
“Many timeouts were called sowe were able to rest ourselves; weadjusted very well to the heat, andI think it’s a testament for ourtraining and how hard we’ve beenworking,” she said.
The games were Cornell’s firsttime down to Texas A&M thisseason, so adjusting to the newhorses was a necessity for theteams.
“I was pleasantly surprised withthe quality of the Texas A&Mhorses; there were definitely somethat posed a challenge, but they
were great overall,” VanLoon said.
Hoffman added thatthe new horses were not anexcuse to ride or play poor-ly.
“No matter what we’remounted on we need to be
able to respond, so this was goodexperience,” she said.
Next up for the Red is a weekof practice before the nationaltournament, hosted by Cornell,that starts on April 18.
The men’s heavyweight rowing teamrebounded from its questionable perfor-mance in last weekend’s San Diego Classic,sweeping all six of its races at the 25th annu-al George Washington Invitational Regattaon Saturday. The Varsity 8 crew bestedGeorgetown by a narrow, 1.1-second marginbefore topping UC San Diego with a time of5:32.60 to 5:58.00
“The first race I wasn’t really excited about— I thought they did parts of it well, but Ididn’t think they executed the whole thing aswell as they could have,” said head coachTodd Kennett’91. “The sec-ond race ...they went a lotfaster. So it waslike ‘Wow,okay, now we’restarting to get the result we were looking for’— the second race I felt a lot better about.”
Cornell’s second Varsity 8 and Freshman 8crews also won their races againstGeorgetown and and UCSD.
According to Kennett, the differencebetween racing against one other team versusfive other teams simultaneously — as the Reddid last week — is negligible.
“To me, rowing is still about the perfor-mance — you’re making your boat go as fastas it can; there’s nothing you can do to theother boats other than psych them out by get-ting ahead,” he explained.
This Saturday, Cornell’s heavyweightsquad will travel to Syracuse, N.Y., to take onthe Orange and Navy — the latter of whichbeat the Red twice in San Diego. Navy headcoach Rick Clothier is currently in his 37thand final year of coaching — a fact that has
not gone unnoticed by his team. “The Navy guys are sort of [trying to] ‘win
one for the Gipper,’ so to speak. They’re try-ing to make their coach really proud, and it’spretty obvious,” Kennett said.
Meanwhile, Syracuse defeated Cornell’s Acrew in the Varsity 4 event in the fall, whichshould go a long way in making for a “reallyhot [upcoming] weekend,” according toKennett.
“Every boat is going to be really highly-contested, and I think we’re going to have tohit our best to be able to win these races,” hesaid.
Back in Ithaca, the No. 5 Cornell light-weight squad started its spring season on a
high note,defeating Pennin the firstVarsity 8 raceon Saturday toclaim theMatthews Cup.
The Red was also awarded the Leonard Cupfor best team performance against the visitingQuakers and Harvard Crimson.
The day’s races featured strong showingsfrom the second and third Varsity crews,which topped Harvard by a 16- and 20-sec-ond margin, respectively. The Crimson edgedout the Red in the first Freshman 8 race —6:08.0 to 6:12.2 — though Cornell did fin-ish ahead of Penn by an identical four-secondmargin.
Like the heavyweights, the lightweightteam will be away from the Cayuga LakeInlet this Saturday, as the Red travels toPrinceton to take on the Tigers and visitingYale.
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Peas in a pod | The lightweight rowing team was awarded the Leonard Cup for the bestteam performance against the visiting Penn Quakers and Harvard Crimson on Saturday.
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Heavyweights Sweep AllSix Races at Invitational
MEN’S ROWING
By ALEX KUCZYNSKI-BROWNSun Senior Writer
Alex Kuczynski-Brown can be reached [email protected].
Bigger barn | According to captain Branden Van Loon, playing in thelarger Texas A&M arena gave the Red an opportunity to grow and adapt.
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“I think it’s a testament for our trainingand how hard we’ve been working.”Ali Hoffman
“To me, rowing is all about performance —you’re making your boat go as fast as it can.”Todd Kennett ’91
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Coming out of a split withCanisius on Wednesday, the Redheaded on the road for an Ivy bout,playing doubleheaders againstBrown on Saturday and Yale onSunday. The Red entered the week-end well prepared and ready fortough challenges against fellowmembers of the Ancient Eight.
Cornell (21-6-1, 7-1-0 IvyLeague) travelled to Providence,R.I. to sweep Brown (4-19-0, 2-4-0) in a doubleheader. The morningface-off ended in a 10-9 win for theRed, after continuing into extra
innings. Cornell ended the day witha the nightcap, finishing off the daywith a second win, 12-5, against theBears.
In the first game, Cornell andBrown were tied, 9-9, forcing thegame to continue into 11 inningsbefore Cornell could close and grabthe victory. One of the standoutplayers for the game was sopho-more Tom D’Alessandro, who hit athree-run homerun and then scoredthe go-ahead run in the 11th thanksto a perfectly executed bunt, whichturned into single. Junior BrentonPeters also helped D’Alessandromove around in the 11th, after suc-cessfully laying down a sacrifice
bunt, which was followed by agroundout from senior MarshallYanzinck and a single through thegap by freshman J.D. Whetsel. Thecombination of the four actions wasexactly what theRed needed tosnatch the winfrom the Bears.
“It was crazy.Every time thatwe put a run onthe board, theywould come back and respond,”Peters said. “We were able to fendoff their spurts. They got their lead-off hitter on nearly every extrainning that we played. With that,
usually you score [during] thatinning, but we were able to cometogether and keep them from doingany damage until we put up someruns and shut them out.”
Going intothe nightcap, theRed grabbed asecond winagainst Brown,12-5. During thegame, Cornellhad 16 hits — its
second-highest total in a game thisseason next to 20 against DelawareState on March 18. Freshmanpitcher Brian McAfee improved hisrecord to 4-0 by pitching seven
innings, letting up only eight hitswhich resulted in four runs.
On the offensive front, Peterswas a standout for the Red, pickingup five hits, along with batters sixthrough nine — including fresh-man Kevin Tatum, sophomore BenSwinford, Lee and Whetsel hittingtwo a piece.
“We come to the field with acertain type of swagger and weexpect to win every game,”D’Alessandro said. “Even thoughthe games were close, I always feltlike we were going to win becauseof the type of team we have and the
The women’s rowing team racedPrinceton, Radcliffe, Columbia andYale last Saturday, losing the Classof 1975 Cup to Princeton, butdefeating Yale to claim the CayugaCup. The No. 16 Red raced No. 6Princeton, Radcliffe and Columbiaat Lake Carnegie, N.J. in the morn-ing, before traveling to Derby,Conn. to face Yale in the afternoon.
Princeton swept four of the day’sfive events, defeating Cornell by 6.8seconds in thefirst VarsityEight race andby 8.7 secondsin the secondVarsity Eightrace. The Red’sbest finish ofthe morningcame from the Varsity Four A Fleetevent, where Cornell placed secondbehind Radcliffe with a time of8:39.8. Saturday morning provedto be a struggle for the Red, but theteam recognized that there are cer-tain areas that it needs to focus on,according to head coach HilaryGehman.
“We didn’t maximize our boatspeed in the morning,” she said.“We have things to work on.”
The Class of 1975 Cup is anannual competition betweenCornell, Princeton and Radcliffe,which is decided by the winner ofthe first Varsity Eight race. The Redhas only won the Class of 1975
Cup once, during its 1983 season,while Princeton has won the Cup21 times and Radcliffe has won 13times. Despite this history, the Redwas optimistic about its chancesgoing into Saturday’s race, accord-ing to Gehman, and remains opti-mistic about its chances againstPrinceton in the future.
“Princeton proved that they arefast, but they are beatable,” she said.
The Cayuga Cup proved to be aradically different matchup. TheCup was created in 2003 as a racebetween Cornell and Yale’s first
Varsity Eightboats; however,the recordbetween thetwo schools isnot nearly aslopsided as theClass of 1975Cup. Cornell
was able to claim the crown lastyear, and returned to Connecticuton Saturday to maintain its posses-sion of the Cup.
Though Saturday afternoon washighlighted by close races, the Redwon the Cup by a narrow margin of3.2 seconds, racing a 6:18.2 toYale’s 6:21.4. Cornell eventuallylost to Yale in the second VarsityEight, second Varsity four, andthird Varsity Eight events; however,the Red rowed past Yale in the firstVarsity Four event by going a7:17.2 to Yale’s 7:23.7.
“In four of our races, the margin
Rock the boat | Women’s rowing claims Cayuga Cup with win over Yale,despite losing the Class of 1975 Cup to Princeton.
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Team Sweeps Ivy Foes Brown, Yale in Weekend Road Trip
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C.U. Claims Cayuga Cup
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Greening ’10 Talks Life in ProsAs the NHL playoffs begin on Wednesday,
Cornellians may recognize a familiar face among theOttawa Senators’ lineup. After graduating from theCornell men’s hockey program less than two yearsago, Colin Greening ’10 has transitioned from theworld of collegiate hockey into the professional ranks.Playing in every game during his career with the Red,Greening compiled 55 goals and 63 assists for a com-bined 118 points, tying him for 33rd all-time atCornell. While premiere hockey was a major con-tributing factor for Greening when he was first scout-ed by Cornell, it was not the school’s onlyselling point when he made the decision.
“[What] I wanted most in a schoolwere great hockey [and a] great school —and neither of them was more importantthan the other,” Greening said. “Well,maybe hockey was the most importantone, but hockey, academics and greatfans. I knew that I was going to enjoy it,so that’s what brought me to Cornell.”
The former Red forward was a leaderfrom the first day he laced up at Lynah rink.Greening recorded a team-leading 11 goals during hisrookie season. He also had three two-point games,two three-point games and two game-winners by theend of his first year. This was the same year thatGreening notched his only Cornell career hat-trick ina 6-0 win against Dartmouth on Feb. 28, 2008.Appearing in all 31 games for the Red, Greeningshowed his passion and commitment to the team —something which was apparent when he served as thefirst sophomore alternate captain under head coachMike Schafer’s ’86 tenure.
Stepping into greater leadership positions over thenext two seasons — serving as captain during bothhis junior and senior years — Greening took hisgame to the next level, moving towardsbecoming oneof college hockey’s premiere power forwards. He
scored four game winners and eight power play goalsas a junior, which contributed to his career-high 15goals and established him as a key player in the powerplay unit. It was during his junior year that Greeningsaid he scored his favorite goal of his hockey career —one that came in double overtime in the ECACHockey semifinals against Princeton.
“It was one of those shots that was just labeled forthe top corner,” he said. “It was a straight shotthrough, and I remember I was so exhausted at theend of the shift and mustered as must strength as Icould and shot as hard as I could, and it ended upgoing top shelf on [Princeton goalie Zane Kalemba’10]. I still think back to that game and look back to
that goal with fond memories.”Greening finished his ultimate season
with the Red on an equally strong note.“My most favorite experience [with
the Red] was winning the 2010 ECACchampionships,” Greening said. “I tellpeople this a lot because each year itseemed like we took little steps to getthere. We just worked so hard to get tothat point. I know my freshman year welost in the quarterfinals, and my second
year was in the semifinals. Third year was in thefinals, and finally in my fourth year, we won theECAC championship. So, it was a culmination offour years worth of work put into something. It wasnice to finally get rewarded for it.”
Greening also was honored with the prestigiousLowe's Senior CLASS Award as the top senior schol-ar-athlete in college hockey.
“[Winning the award] was pretty special becauseit not only encompasses being an athlete and theclassroom … it’s an award for being an all-aroundperson and that I pride myself on,” Greening said.“That was a really big deal for me because I had a lotof family members and friends voting … When final-ly I got the call that I won the award, I was pretty
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“Princeton proved thatthey are fast, but theyare beatable.”Hilary Gehman
Moving up | Colin Greening ’10 traded hislocker in Lynah for a spot on the Ottawa
Senators’ lineup, joining the NHL franchiseafter his senior season with the Red.
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By LAUREN RITTERSun Sports Editor
GREENING ’10