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After two years without a building to call home, studentsand faculty in the Department of Natural Resources herald-ed the reopening of Fernow Hall Tuesday.

The building, which was shut down for renovations in2011, now has a rain garden to control stormwater runoff,a garden terrace for use by the faculty and staff and solarpanels for renewable energy, according to CornellSustainable Campus’ website.

Since construction on the building began in May 2011,the natural resource department had been scattered acrosscampus. Administrative and faculty offices were housed innearby Bruckner Lab, graduate students conducted researchin Rice Hall and undergraduate students took courses in a

variety of classrooms on the Agriculture Quad and as far asBardfield and Riley-Robb Hall.

Prof. Paul Curtis, natural resources, said that Fernow’sclosing resulted in a less than ideal setup for faculty.

“I was in Bruckner in the basement in a small room witha small window that couldn’t open,” Curtis said. “It’s nice tohave fresh air, and [Fernow] is amazing. Bruckner was func-tional; we met our needs, but it’s much better in the newbuilding.”

Samantha Dean ’12, who was a natural resources major,said that while Fernow was closed, many of her requiredclasses were held in one room in Warren Hall, which shedescribed as “basically Satan’s armpit because it has zerowindows and the thermoregulation capabilities of a camp-

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The Hangovers, an all male a capella group serenades the Society for Women Engineers at a semi-formal banquet in ClarkAtrium Tuesday afternoon.

Sing-alongs Survey DefendsEducation inThe Liberal Arts

Fernow Hall met with enthusiasm from students, professorsBy KEVIN MILIANSun Staff Writer

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Natural Resources Bldg.Opens After 2 Years

Despite facing seemingly limited job prospects,students graduating with a broad academic back-ground and a variety of skills may be more appeal-ing to employers than students with a narrower aca-demic focus, according to a recent survey conductedby the Association of American Colleges andUniversities.

The AAC&U surveyed 318 employers in theU.S. last January about college graduates with eithertwo or four-year degrees. 74 percent of business andnonprofit leaders said they would recommend thatstudents obtain a 21st-century liberal arts education“in order to prepare for long-term professional suc-cess in today’s global economy,” according to thestudy.

Echoing the AAC&U survey’s message, RebeccaSparrow, director of Cornell Career Services, saidthe specificity of a student’s course of study is not asimportant as a student’s professional skill set.

“With my experience of talking to employers,they are looking for people with a range of skills anda solid academic background,” Sparrow said. “It isall about finding the right mix between your acade-mic training –– where you learn how to learn –– andthe other skills that you will develop and take intothe workplace.”

While some careers require applicants to have amore specific academic background, such as com-puter science or mechanical engineering, thoseoptions “not the bulk of jobs by any means,”Sparrow said.

Still, students in more specialized majors at theUniversity — such as those in the School of HotelAdministration or the College of Engineering —should not be concerned about being overshadowed

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Throughout the Israeli-Palestinian con-flict, which has been marked by violence andbitter diatribe, many have questioned whetherpeace is even possible in the Middle East. At apanel Tuesday, however, two speakersexpressed hope that Israel and Palestine canreach a resolution by engaging in meaningfulnegotiations with each other.

The talk, sponsored by the Cornell IsraelPublic Affairs Committee, touched on thefeasibility of the two-state solution — whichwould create an independent state of Palestinealongside the state of Israel — and the needfor negotiation between both sides.

The goal of the discussion was to “shedmore light and less heat on these issues,” saidDavid Makovsky, director of the WashingtonInstitute for Near East Policy Project on theMiddle East Peace Process and a pro-Israelactivist.

“We want a solution that gives dignity toboth sides,” Makovsky said.

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RainHIGH: 66 LOW: 34

Wanted: VolunteersSlope Day organizers have lessthan two weeks to recruitabout 200 more volunteers toensure that the event runssmoothly.

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Ghaith Al-Omari, executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine, discusses theprospect of peace in the Middle East at a panel Tuesday evening.See MIDDLE EAST page 5

Panelists Call for Solution to Con!ict in Middle East“We need to approachdifferences as hurdles,not as opportunities tofling mud onto theother side.”Ghaith Al-Omari

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Cops: Men Toss Dead Groundhog, Grouse

Into Pennsylvania Bar BROOKVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Police in one western

Pennsylvania town are investigating a case of bar kill: agroundhog and a grouse, both dead, tossed into a tavernby unsatisfied customers.

The (Dubois) Courier-Express reports that the ani-mals were tossed into Bill’s Bar hours apart Sunday inBrookville, about 70 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

Brookville police Chief Ken Dworek tells TheAssociated Press that the suspects are an underage manwho was refused service at the bar and another who wasturned away because of “an alcohol problem.”

The chief says such use of animals is a fairly commonproblem in Brookville. He says, for example, “a guy willget in an argument and put a dead squirrel on his girl-friend's doorknob, that kind of thing.”

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GIRARD, Pa. (AP) — Police have cited a 42-year-oldPennsylvania woman for disorderly conduct after shecalled 911 requesting a divorce and police assistance tomake her husband leave.

Troopers say the woman called just after 1 a.m.Saturday asking that officers be sent to her home in Girard

Township in northwestern Pennsylvania.Police say they explained to the woman, whom they are

not identifying, that a divorce is a civil matter and thatthey could not make her husband leave the residencebecause no crime had been committed.

Instead, police have cited the woman for disorderlyconduct and misusing the Erie County 911 system.

Kansas Woman MeetsCircus Tiger in Bathroom SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A central Kansas woman like-

ly won’t remember her first circus for the clowns or perfor-mances — it’ll be the tiger in the bathroom.

The big cat had escaped briefly after its turn in the ringSaturday at the Isis Shrine Circus in Salina. Staff membersblocked off the concourses at the Bicentennial Center asthe tiger wandered into the bathroom, where one of thedoors was blockaded.

About that time, Salina resident Jenna Krehbieldecided she needed to use the restroom. When shewalked in the door that hadn’t been blocked off, shefound a tiger standing about 2 feet away, The SalinaJournal reported.

“You don’t expect to go in a bathroom door, have it shutbehind you and see a tiger walking toward you,” Krehbielsaid.

Chris Bird, manager at the Bicentennial Center, saidthe bathroom was only 25 feet long.

“Once she saw the tiger, I’m sure she knew to go theother way,” Bird said. “Overall, it was a scary, surrealmoment. I am glad no one was hurt or injured.”

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Starting in Spring 2014, students will be able to travel tothe Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in Southern India for thesemester to learn about biodiversity conservation, sustain-able environments and livelihoods.

“The plan is for the Nilgiri Field Learing Center to growinto a vibrant program that engages people from very dif-ferent places, cultures and life experiences,” said LesleyYorke, the program’s communications lead. “I believe thatthe knowledge we need to solve problems comes not onlyfrom academia and not only from the community, but inthat creative place where people from those traditions meetand learn from one another.”

The Field Learning Center will have five Cornell under-graduates, five students from India and five communitymembers learning and researching together, according to theprogram’s website. Cornell faculty members will teachthroughout the semester, which is divided into three-weekmodules.

The three subject areas covered in the semester includethe impacts of biodiversity on nutrition and traditionalmedicinal systems, the effects of urbanization on the biodi-versity of the Nilgiri reserve and an examination of systemsof governance for effective conservation, sustainable envi-ronments and livelihood generation, according to the pro-gram’s website.

Cornell partnered with The Keystone Foundation — anorganization in India that works on environmentally friend-ly projects in indigenous communities — to establish theprogram.

Dr. Pratim Roy, director of the Keystone Foundation,brought the idea of a field learning center where academicprofessionals, students and local community could cometogether to learn when he came to Cornell a few years ago.

Among the people who have played a central role in col-laborating with the Keystone Foundation in the develop-ment of the program are Prof. Neema Kudva, city andregional planning, who is Cornell’s faculty lead on the pro-ject, and Yorke. The core faculty members involved in theproject are Prof. Anurag Agrawal, ecology and evolutionarybiology, Prof. Rebecca Stoltzfus, nutritional sciences, Prof.

Andrew Willford, anthropology and Asian studies and Prof.Steven Wolf, natural resources.

Mohit Nair ’13, who is the program assistant for theNilgiris Field Learning Center, visited the site this past win-ter.

“The site was nothing like what you imagine India tobe,” Nair said. “It is a beautiful, serene location in the hillsof the Nilgiris, a two-hour drive from the nearest airport inCoimbatore –– a beautiful escape from the typical, crowdedcity scene that epitomizes most of India.”

At a recent information session for the program held inMann Library, one of the attendees, Jessica Sparling ’13 saidshe was inspired by the potential of the program.

“If I weren’t about to graduate in May, this is undoubt-edly a program that I would apply for. The program formatis [a] rare opportunity for students to interact with and learnfrom other students, experts, individuals and non-profitworkers while engaging in service work,” Sparling said.

The program is unique because it includes aspects of ser-vice-learning to ensure that students have experiences withtangible learning outcomes, according to its organizers.

Yorke said the program hopes to achieve a service-learn-

ing environment by emphasizing learning by doing, foster-ing learning from the interactions between people of differ-ent life experiences and teaching students problem-solvingabilities through practical application.

“I hope that we will generate knowledge that benefitslearners of any age, that we engage in research projects thatmake a difference to the communities in the Nilgiris andthat we create an engaged learning and research programthat others will want to emulate,” Yorke said.

Sparling said she thinks many students will be interestedin the program.

“If you are an adventurous, open-minded, compassion-ately curious student who is willing to push themselves faroutside their comfort zone to live, work and study alongsidetheir international team of colleagues, this project is defi-nitely worth investigating. It is such a unique and marvel-lous opportunity; it makes me wish I was a year younger!”Sparling said.

With about 230 volunteers signed up,Slope Day organizers have less than twoweeks left to reach their goal of doublingthe number of volunteers who will help outat the event.

Slope Day Chair Yang Zhao ’13 said thevolunteer shortage is fairly typical, addingthat “every year, we are pretty low until thelast week.”

Mason Brody-Carney ’13, who hashelped oversee the event’s entire volunteerforce for the past four years, echoed Zhao’ssentiments.

“Usually, there [are] about 100 peoplewho know they are volunteering. I guessyou have about 300 people [sign up] oncethey find out about [the need for volun-teers],” Brody-Carney said.

Despite the consistent lack of confirmedvolunteers leading up to Slope Day, Brody-Carney said volunteering help man theevent appeals to many students who wantto enjoy the tradition but “don’t necessarilywant to go and drink.”

Brody-Carney said he wants to recruitenthusiastic volunteers, adding that theslope could be inadequately surveyed if peo-ple feel obligated to help.

“We want people who want to volun-teer,” he said.

April Schneider ’13, who has been aSlope Day volunteer in the past, said shehas enjoyed being a part of the event’s suc-cess.

“Personally, I enjoy Slope Day way morewhen I have a constructive part in puttingon the program. ... It feels good to be able

to help people at least in a small way,”Schneider said.

The committee aims to recruit 400 to500 volunteers in order to ensure the eventruns smoothly, according to Ashwin Raja’14, leader of the team of Slope Day volun-teers who are responsible for the event’senvironmental sustainability.

“You always want man power on the dayof the event. ... The more volunteers thereare, the better the experience is for every-one,” Raja said.

Student volunteers encourage attendeesto eat and drink, distribute water, pick uplitter and watch out for people in need ofmedical attention, as well as work at variousstations in SlopeFest on Ho Plaza, accord-ing to the Slope Day Programming Boardwebsite.

Raja said the volunteers are split intoshifts and teams, adding that the aim is tohave about 80 people on the slope at anygiven time.

The volunteering team also helps cleanup after the event.

Brody-Carney explained that with anadequate volunteer force, all of Libe Slopecan be cleaned in 10 minutes after theevent, adding that “that is what we are mostfamous for.”

Zhao said the SDPB has also made sev-eral improvements in how the event is con-ducted, including creating a new app forthe iPad that will mark where people are introuble.

City police expressed dismay Mon -day that the man accused of shootingan Ithaca Police officer in October wasnot found guilty of attempting to inten-tionally kill the officer.

On Oct. 12, IPD Officer AnthonyAugustine was shot while pursuing asuspect on foot who was accused ofstealing a vehicle on West Hill.

According to a statement from IPDreleased Monday, while Booker wasfound guilty of shooting Augustine,there was a hung jury on the most seri-ous charge brought against him:attempting to intentionally kill a policeofficer.

In the statement, John Barber, act-ing chief of the IPD, said the “hungjury on the most serious charge is ablow to the men and women who serveand protect our community, but it willnot bend our commitment to providingthe citizens of Ithaca with the best pos-sible service.

Augustine survived the shooting“thanks to his will to survive,” but is stillin recovery, Barber said in the state-ment.

“The courage that Officer Augustinehas displayed in refusing to allow evil toprevail since that fateful night inOctober is the epitome of what the IPDstrives to achieve each day,” Barber said.

–– Compiled by Caroline Flax

Court: Shooter of IPDOfficer Not Guilty ofIntentional Shooting

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Oliver Schneller, a German composer, gives a talk on his research and his works at the Composers’ Forum Tuesday after-noon at Lincoln Hall.

The music manC.U. BiodiversityProgram in IndiaTo Launch in 2014By LUCY MEHRABYANSun Staff Writer

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President David Skorton talks with students from the Class of 2013 Tuesday at a receptionin the Statler Ballroom.

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Students Debate Value of Liberal Arts Education

by students with broader majors in the job market ifthey concentrate on honing their skills, she said.

“In certain specialties, there are a lot of job oppor-tunities right now, such as in computer science. ThoseCornell students should feel pretty good about theirjob prospects,” Sparrow said. “At the same time,though, they have to be concerned about developingthese other skills. Even if you are a great computer sci-entist, if you don’t have great communications skills,you’re not going to be of value to your employer.”

Like Sparrow, Mark S. Savage, director ofCooperative Education and Career Services for theCollege of Engineering, said students in more special-ized fields, such as engineering, should not make theireducational focus too narrow.

“Overall, I think well rounded[ness] is probablygood and attractive to most employers,” Savage said.“In most cases, even in engineering roles, mostemployers would prefer someone who is well-round-ed rather than someone who just wants to sit at acomputer screen and crunch numbers.”

By obtaining both professional skills and a bal-anced education, students in more specific fields ofstudy can broaden their career search and enhancetheir job prospects, Savage said.

“I think professional skills are some of the reasonswhy our engineering students are sought after in posi-tions outside of technology because they can bringskills related to analyzing and solving problems, whileoffering some facility with numbers and in using tech-nology tools. Most employers view those as usefulwithin their organizations,” he said.

Some Cornell students, such as Brian Harwitt ’15,an applied economics and management major and anEast Asian studies minor, argued that, despite the sur-vey’s findings, a liberal arts education is not the mostimportant factor to an employer.

“I believe that a recruiter will hire someone whothey believe is smart and has good perspective,” hesaid. “That doesn’t necessarily mean that I have to bea liberal arts major or in the College of Arts and

Sciences.”Other students agreed with Harwitt, saying the

usefulness and quality of a Cornell student’s academ-ic background — rather than a liberal arts education— is what is most appealing to an employer.

“Depending on the industry, I think the idealgraduate has a range of relevant academic interestsand experiences. The key is relevance,” said EvanMcElwain ’14, an economics and Asian studies dou-ble major. “With rising tuition costs and stagnantemployment rates, I am not sure a dual degree in arthistory and communication will make a graduate veryemployable, no matter how diverse their interests maybe.”

Some students, however, disagreed, saying theintensive curriculum within other colleges at Cornellmakes pursuing a liberal-arts education as outlined inthe survey extremely challenging.

“In my opinion, it is incredibly hard to get adiverse engineering background in the College ofEngineering because there are only six allotted spacesfor liberal arts classes in your schedule to graduate.That’s essentially all the space you have, so it is reallyhard to branch out,” Karen Martin ’15, a mechanicalengineering major, said.

Despite some students expressing concerns aboutrequirements inhibiting them gaining a broad educa-tion, Cornell Career Services administrators said stu-dents with more specific majors should not be moreconcerned about their job search. Other componentsof their job application, such as extracurricular activi-ties, can show employers that they have a wide rangeof interests, Savage said.

“Oftentimes, employers love students fromCornell because they see them as being more well-rounded than those from some of our peer institu-tions, regardless of their major. Our engineering stu-dents, for example, are able to do the hard engineer-ing stuff, but are also active in activities on campusand downtown. They are often well-rounded even iftheir major is specific,” Savage said.

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Julia Parrish ’14 bemoaned the fact that Fernow hadbeen closed for an extended period of time.

“It’s sad [Fernow] was closed for most of my undergrad[years] because it is the place where all the naturalresources majors could go to hang out and bond, and wenever got that opportunity,” Parrish said.

Now that the building has reopened, students will havea “place to congregate,” which Parrish said will “[do] a lotto increase enthusiasm and excitement for the majorbecause putting everyone together creates synergisticexcitement.”

The renovation of Fernow Hall was necessary becauseit was an “old building that was in need of renovations tomeet current needs for the department,” said SarahGould, business administrator for the Department ofNatural Resources. Gould said the newly renovated build-ing would please students and faculty members.

“We had very nice space in Bruckner Hall, smaller, andnot private, so it makes people a lot happier having theirown building,” Gould said.

Gould said that because Fernow Hall is a historicbuilding — it was built in 1915 — there were certainrestrictions on how it could be renovated. However, ulti-mately, modern additions that were necessary were able tobe made, according to Gould.

“We only had one staircase and no elevator, but nowwe have an elevator and more stairs. [Also,] the old build-ing didn’t have air conditioning,” Gould said.

The renovated building boasts four floors and twoclassrooms, a 25-person classroom and a 50-person class-room that is built as a modern extension to the historicbuilding.

“The new classroom is a light-filled, glass-walled build-ing. It looks different from Fernow to stand out as sepa-rate structure,” Gould said.

Funding for the renovation comes from the StateUniversity Construction Fund — funding from New Yorkthat supports capital projects — which is also fundingrenovations for Stocking, Warren and Rice halls, accord-ing to Gould.

Fernow Hall is also in the process of acquiringLeadership in Energy and Environmental DesignCertification, a standard for environmentally friendly

buildings. According to Gould, the building is looking fora gold certification.

To help ensure that the building was environmentallysustainable, “during the demolition process, the waste wasdiverted from landfill, and so it was used in other ways,”Gould said.

Additionally, “materials used are sourced locally in theregion, all the wood trim was taken out, refinished andput back ... and the systems in the building are also green,having an efficient heating and cooling system,” Gouldsaid.

Dean said she looks forward to returning to Cornelland seeing the improvements to Fernow.

“As much as I loved the old Fernow — moose head andall — I’m happy that the new Fernow [Hall] will better fitin with the sustainable atmosphere that surrounds every-one in the department,” Dean said.

Faculty and staff are currently in the process of movingtheir offices back to Fernow Hall, according to Gould.

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Ghaith Al-Omari, executivedirector at the American TaskForce on Palestine and a pro-Palestine activist, agreed withMakovsky, saying the role of theUnited States should be to createan environment that does notcontribute to conflict betweenIsrael and Palestine.

“We have a common objec-tive,” Al-Omari said. “We need toapproach differences as hurdles,not as opportunities to fling mudonto the other side.”

Makovsky said both Israel andPalestine have an intense histori-cal attachment to Jerusalem, afactor that forms the root of theconflict.

“The differences aren’t asmuch as part of the policies butthe politics between each coun-try,” Makovsky said. “The goodnews is the gaps have been nar-rowed. In the end, the land mustbe shared, so we need a solutionthat is civil and fair.”

Al-Omari said that althoughpolicymakers are beginning tosee the “contours of the solution”— the creation of two separatestates coexisting side by side —the current political environ-ment has not allowed this situa-tion to be realized.

“I’m a believer that the situa-tion in Palestine and Israel is likea bike; if you stop moving, youfall over,” Al-Omari said. “Weneed to continue to promoteprogress.”

Makovsky addressed publicopinion’s role in creating thedivide between the opposingviewers.

“If you ask one side if they arefor the two-state solution, they’ll

say yes, but are convinced thatthe other side opposes it,”Makovsky said. “Often, the pub-lic doesn’t know what is happen-ing on the other side. You haveto deal with the gut fears; youneed an acknowledgement fromthe other side that changes arebeing made.”

According to Makovsky, lead-ers of both Israel and Palestinehave to focus on the power ofpublic opinion.

“Leaders felt like they gotburned when they got too farout ahead,” Makovsky said.“The public has to lead the lead-ers.”

Al-Omari said that althoughthe “the loudest voices are theangriest voices,” both sides mustnot get caught up in mudsling-ing; instead, they must focus onthe negotiations between thetwo countries.

“Negotiating is not aboutanger; it’s about the goal,” Al-Omari said. “Nothing workswithout positive messaging.”

According to Al-Omari,negotiation fuels progress, butthis progress has to be mutuallybeneficial.

“As a negotiator, you arealways taught to get your party

the best deal,” Al-Omari said. “Ihave learned that if you don’treach a honorable agreement,then your victory will be mean-ingless.”

Makovsky said that interac-tion between Jewish Americansand Muslim Americans couldhelp improve relations betweenthe groups.

“During a 10-day springbreak, they could work side-by-side, spending five days buildinga playground on the Jewish sideand five days building anotherplayground –– this time on thePalestinian side,” Makovsky said.

Before the panel, both speak-ers said the goal of this dialogueis to show students that the twosides can engage in a civil discus-sion.

“There is more at stake in thesolution than in perpetuatingthe conflicts,” Makovsky said.“We both want to be part of thesolution and not part of theproblem.”

Al-Omari agreed. “Peace is in the interest of

everyone,” he said.

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In support of changes to Cornell’s sexual assault policyTo the Editor:Re: “Administrators, Profs Clash on Sexual Assault Policy Changes,” News, April 23

After yesterday’s news article about the Daily Sun Dialogues on Cornell’s new sex-ual assault policy, we are compelled to express how and why changes to the policyare needed, and express our support for the changes.

The need for changes to this policy result from the “Dear Colleague” letterissued by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, which gave theUniversity Assembly (U.A.) and the University an opportunity to revise the policyto meet compliance standards, as well as improve it as a whole. To this end, the UA,Title IX team and a collection of students have been working with all concernedparties to reform Cornell’s existing policy to balance the rights of the accused withthose of the accuser, maintain the integrity of the review process and bring thisarrangement into compliance with Title IX to eliminate discrimination based ongender. After a year of review by the UA Codes and Judicial Committee and theUA, with continuous input by concerned parties, Policy 6.4 — a pre-existing stan-dard applied only to faculty and staff — was reapplied, pending many revisions, tothe entire Cornell community to reform the judicial process in an alleged case ofsexual assault.

The proposed changes exclude students not directly involved in the case from thedecision process. This would create a safer environment, as it would allow the victimto feel secure in sharing details and would prevent the student’s peers from makingpremature judgements. Second, the inclusion of written reports in review procedurescreates a less intrusive method of determining facts so that the accuser and accuseddo not feel violated. In this system, there would be no adversarial hearings; chal-lenging questions directed at both parties would be posed, ensuring the integrity andfairness of the entire fact-finding process. Additionally, each step in the investigationmust be completed within a precise timeframe to ensure a thorough and expeditiousresolution, as necessitated by Title IX.

The lowering of the burden of proof has been a contentious topic and has con-tinued to spark questions about the rights of the accused at yesterday’s debate. Weacknowledge that many equate lowering the burden wih increasing the possibility offalse convictions, however, three things must be kept in mind: 1) The burden ofproof is in conjunction with a thorough investigative process; 2) Statistics show thatmost cases at Cornell are resolved through mediation before a decision is made madeusing a standard of evidence; 3) Both parties’ right to be heard would be enhancedby the opportunity to review information gathered during the investigation andcould be used to address any inconsistencies, thereby, also making the process moretransparent. These elements empower both parties to share their experience in a safeenvironment, while ensuring safeguards are in place to prevent false convictions.Ultimately, these recommended changes — which we believe level the playing fieldbetween the accuser and accused — mitigate barriers preventing victims from seek-ing judicial help.

In summary, we firmly believe these reforms to be in the best interest of the entirecommunity, as the proposed reform allows for a more transparent, expeditious andfair process when dealing with such sensitive but complicated matters.

Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14Student Assembly, VP Internal of Operations

Anisha Chopra ’13Student Assembly, At-Large Representative

Eric Silverberg ’14President of Cayuga’s Watchers

Colin Foley ’14Interfraternity Council President

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On Monday, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 declared that the City of Ithaca will notinvest in the fossil fuel industry as long as he is mayor. A city press release lauded theEarth Day announcement as rendering Ithaca “the first east coast city and second cityin the world to agree to divest its financial holdings in fossil fuels.” But is divestment— “to rid oneself of something that one no longer wants or requires” — accurate ter-minology here? Since the city has no existing investments in fossil fuels to begin with,we think perhaps it is not.

It is easy enough for the City of Ithaca to swear off investments in an industryupon which its government does not rely. While the city’s choice is symbolic, theUniversity’s would not be. Cornell’s chief investment officer, A.J. Edwards, told TheSun last month that withdrawing from the traditional energy sector would have “amaterial impact on the return of the endowment and its contribution to the operat-ing budget of the University.” We wonder whether Myrick — who has repeatedlycalled upon Cornell to increase its financial contributions to the city — would as eas-ily make the decision to divest if Ithaca’s economic stability was dependent on fossilfuels.

We do not mean to diminish the positive nature of Myrick’s announcement. Weacknowledge the admirability of the city’s willingness to engage Ithaca’s young andfoster activism in the local community. Furthermore, the emphasis on investing insustainable enterprise is an important takeaway. Cornell, and all universities thatinvest in traditional energy, should continue to explore viable alternatives to fossilfuels. When these environmentally-friendly investments become more competitive,Cornell should absolutely re-consider a policy of divestment.

In the meantime, the “hope that the city’s decision will influence divestment cam-paigns at Cornell University and Ithaca College,” as noted in the city’s statement,oversimplifies the complex reality of this issue. It cheapens Cornell’s fiduciary respon-sibility to maintain a robust endowment to fund academic programs, financial aidand other services for its students. If the University, like the City of Ithaca, had noexisting investments in the fossil fuel industry, it too would surely “divest” withouthesitation.

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THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7OPINION

At the start of our final semes-ter at Cornell, worried thattime was running out to

check everything off our collegebucket lists, we attended the CornellAlumni Leadership Conference inWashington, D.C. From themoment we entered the hotel, wewere overwhelmed with enthusiastic,excited alumni. They were eager tounderstand how to improve studentlife on campus, and wanted so badlyto hear our individual stories andshare their own.

The people we met and came tolove during our time onthe Hill molded ourCornell experiences.Some may argue that thisis not unique to Cornell,but we disagree.Cornellians are uniqueand the conferenceproved just that; webonded with the enthusi-astic alumni in atten-dance through shared experiences ofambitious endeavors, social activi-ties, difficult classes and the some-times, unbearable weather. The peo-ple we met at Cornell were there fora reason, and they chose Cornell fora reason; that binds us together asCornellians long after graduation.

At CALC this year, my first as analumnus, I (John) found myself imi-tating the generations of Cornelliansthat I had met the previous year. Iwanted to spend most of my timewith current students, learningabout campus and their plans for thefuture. I sat in on sessions like theone Vice President Susan Murphyran on the current state of theUniversity. As an alumnus, I mentorstudents and have been back to cam-pus multiple times to speak andadvise students on global health.

Cornell alumni have taught methe importance of giving back to stu-dents so that I can be someone whoimproves Cornell life for undergrad-uates. Perhaps the gift I gave toCornell this year will help fund a stu-dent’s summer abroad experience,

impacting his career choice. Or per-haps the extra time I spent preppingan undergrad on the phone for aninterview will help her get acceptedto her dream medical school. It isthrough these efforts, passed downto the next generations ofCornellians, that we can maintainthe essence of Cornell for the Classof 2017 and beyond.

As the brilliant KaterinaAthanasiou ’13 pointed out in apoignant column recently, senioryear goes by too fast. In my lastmonths as a student, I (Olivia) spent

each moment drinking in time withmy friends, the sun on the quad andlazy afternoons at CTB. GraduationDay was magical, but it came andwent, as did the summer. Soon, wewere months into our jobs, fully sup-porting ourselves for the first time,and desperately missing The Hill.

For the first few months afterleaving campus, I was still in a stu-dent mindset, hoping that this apart-ment in New York City was justtemporary and that soon, I’d be backat my beloved Cornell. But now, astime progresses and I begin to iden-tify as an alumna, I’m LOVING it.There are countless opportunities foralumni to reconnect and contribute,and the reunions are incrediblysweet. Last month, we were amongthe 400 young alumni at the firstever Alumni Duff Ball. Joined bytrustees and staff in the Cornell-themed Bowery Hotel, we chatted,caught up and danced the nightaway. And the sweetest part? A por-tion of every ticket went to VP SusanMurphy’s Student Life Fund atCornell. Those dollars went to stu-

dent programming, supporting ini-tiatives from club sports teams to theIntercultural Center and makingcampus more dynamic for you, thestudents.

Did you know that 86 percent ofCornell’s $1M+ donors gave theirfirst gift in the first five years aftergraduation? Most of those initialdonations were small, no more than$20. The Tech Campus is about tobreak ground on Roosevelt Island,thanks to Mr. Feeney’s incrediblegift, but he couldn’t always give$350M away. I encourage you to lis-

ten to your SeniorClass Campaign class-mates and give, evenjust a little. Your dollarstruly add up and thesense of pride you’ll feelafterwards will over-whelm you. In addi-tion, give your time —mentor younger stu-dents, volunteer, come

back for Reunion Zero and stand tallin your soon-to-be Big Red Alumnistatus.

What’s important to remember isthat once your physical time on TheHill is over, it doesn’t mean you’llever actually leave. A part of us willalways belong to Cornell, and wehope you’ll join us in doing every-thing possible to give back and makethe Big Red experience extraordinaryfor each incoming class. We, thenewest alumni of Cornell, are nowthe supporters of the University thatencouraged us during our most for-mative years. Each new building,endowed professorship, undergradu-ate scholarship and sponsored event— those are OUR dollars and ideas.

Enjoy every last minute of thissemester, seniors. At the end of theday, remember that we’re so fortu-nate to have something so amazingto miss.

My freshman year, on Slope Day, I was graced with theopportunity to see a truly inspiring artist, a voice for ageneration and a cultural icon. Yes, I am of course talk-

ing about Drake, the former wheelchair bound Degrassi starturned Bob-Dylan of rap. Now, as my graduation nears and mytime as a columnist comes to an end, I must defer to his lyricalgenius, as only he can reassure me of the decisions I have made.“What am I doin’? What am I doin’?/Oh, yeah, that’s right, I’mdoin’ me/I’m doin’ me/I’m livin’ life right now, man/and thiswhat I’mma do ‘til it’s over.” Pure poetry. If the Romans had“Carpe Diem,” then I guess we have YOLO.

But on a more serious note, while Drake might makeRebecca Black look like William Butler Yeats, I do somewhatagree with his sentiment. Over the past year as a regular colum-nist for this paper, I have tried to give an authentic image ofmyself; my quirks, my interests and my honest opinions. I amgraduating this May and my bi-weekly column, along with myCornell tenure, has come to a rapid but inevitable end. My col-umn’s moniker has been “Smell The Rosen,” a slight pun on myparticularly Jewish name. When I first came up with the it, Ithought of it as nice introduction to thelightheartedness that I planned to

embrace within my column; to show that I do not take myselfparticularly seriously and, thus, neither should you. However, Iquickly realized that I wanted my column to be an outlet for notonly my thoughts, but also my fears and odd desires. Sometimesthe Rosen smells nice, having bathed that morning andscrubbed himself thoroughly. Sometimes the Rosen smells notso nice, like when he just came out of yoga, didn’t have time toshower and gets awkward glances at the Green Dragon before heis politely asked to leave.

Hopefully my past twelve columns have exemplified thisdesire for authenticity, running through a vast gambit of stylesand subjects that I felt the urge to comment on. I do appreciatethe opportunity I was given to exercise my thoughts, howeverweird or personal they might be, as well as what the opportuni-ty to inject into my writing what some commentators havedescribed as “my feeble attempts at humor.” I never imaginedthat I would feel comfortable enough to share my intimate fearsof my future, or of my aging father, but I put myself out there,and was able to keep doing so because of the acceptance of myreaders. Receiving the comments and emails after the columnabout my father is one of my most treasured experience atCornell. People who I had never spoken to before or who didnot even go to this school wrote to me, telling me their own sto-ries and that my words struck a chord for them. However, whilethese personal columns seemed to be the best liked, as well asthe most circulated, I am equally proud of the silly and nonsen-sical columns I wrote, which made some laugh and others scoffin disgust. Both kinds reflect genuine characteristics of mythoughts, and it would have been deceiving to have portraymyself solely as a serious man with good taste.

Since this is my last column, however, I find it necessary tounload a disjointed list of some final thoughts. First, theIsrael/Palestine related columns in The Sun need to stop. Theyare almost all unequivocally nauseating, biased and unproduc-tive. Second, I challenge anybody to read through one ofPresident David Skorton’s emails and take away a single tangiblething said. They are all long, administrative exercises in noth-ingness and seem to hedge every possible bet they can. Pleasebegin to state tangible accomplishments, or just stop emailingus all together, Skorton. Third, fresh-take sushi is an abomina-tion matched only by the slop that is served at Okenshield’s.Fourth, it is very odd to me that the Cornell bookstore nolonger sells, ya know, books. Fifth, people need to start going toCornell Cinema. It really is a treasure that is unfortunately unat-tended, despite its cheapness and its quality selection of films.Finally, I would like to thank all of my readers and my esteemededitors Liz and Ruby. It’s been great. I’ll smell you later.

So Long andThanks for All the Fish

Olivia Moore and John Rhee | Guest Room

Dan Rosen | Smell the Rosen

Hopefully my past twelvecolumns haveexemplified thisdesire for authenticity.

Olivia Moore and John Rhee graduatedfrom Cornell in 2012. Feedback may besent to opinion@cornellsun.com. GuestRoom appears periodically this semester.

One Year Out

Dan Rosen is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He maybe reached at drosen@cornellsun.com. Smell the Rosen ap pears alternateWednesdays this semester.

Enjoy every last minute of this semester, seniors. At the end of the

day, remember that we’re so fortunate to have something so

amazing to miss.

“ I demand that the City of Ithaca divest from all ethically questionable andmorally objectionable corporations. No investments in firms with ties to tobacco,alcohol or phameceuticals. No investments in firms supplying any components tothe military. No investment in firms making any raw components necessary in themanufacture of guns. No investment in firms connected to corporate farming. Noinvestment in firms that serve meat products in their cafeterias. No investments infirms without a wholly unionized workforce. No investment in firms without a fleetof electric vehicles powered solely by solar power. No investment in firms that haveever utilized Citizens United or donated to political campaigns. No investment intofirms turning any kind of profits or enriching ‘the 1%.’”

GranolaRe: “Mayor Svante Myrick '09: City of Ithaca to Join

Movement for Divestment,” Opinion,published April 22, 2013

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SCIENCEHorticultureConservation Human Development

While puppies are not an uncommonsight, there’s something special about aBeagle-Labrador Retriever mix named

Klondike: he is the result of the com-bined effort of the Cornell Center forWildlife Conservation and theSmithsonian Conservation BiologyInstitute.

What makes Klondike so special?

When he was only eight to sixteen cellsbig, Klondike was taken from his biolog-ical mother, flash-frozen for a period oftime, and transplanted into a surrogatemother when she was able to carry thepregnancy.

Klondike is the first successful resultof this procedure in the western hemi-sphere, showing exactly how difficult andpoorly understood the canine reproduc-tive system is.

“We really know very little about theirreproduction,” said Prof. AlexanderTravis, reproductive biology. “It’s an areawhere there’s still so much to be done.”

Travis is interested in being able tofreeze embryos as part of conservationefforts in many endangered species ofwild dogs. The key to maintaining aspecies is preserving its genetic diversity,which can be difficult when animals arein captivity.

Canine species in particular have a setsocial order within their groups, andmoving an animal from one zoo toanother for breeding can cause stress thatwill prevent successful breeding andpregnancy, according to Travis.

Having embryos frozen doesn’trequire transporting grown animals,allows for the preservation of the geneticmaterial of deceased animals and alsoallows the embryo to be implanted assoon as a surrogate mother goes intoheat.

According to Travis, researchers arecurrently unaware of what triggers ovula-tion in a dog, but with frozen embryosready to go at any time, conservationistscan impregnate a dog as soon as she’s bio-

logically ready. “The same technologies could be used

in veterinary care of pet dogs,” Travissaid. It would allow dog breeders to get asmany puppies as possible from their bestdogs, he said.

The next step in the process of under-standing and being able to manipulatecanine reproduction would be successfulin-vitro fertilization, which, according toTravis “has never been done in a dog.”

In order to accomplish that, however,there are still many puzzles to be solvedon both the sperm and the egg side ofreproduction. The differences betweendog reproduction and that of other mam-mals are still being identified and workedout.

Jennifer Nagashima ’09, the grad stu-dent who worked on the project to createKlondike, is one of the first students ofthe new Cornell-Smithsonian JointGraduate Training Program. She dividesher time between a project inWashington D.C. and a project atCornell, both of which relate to caninereproductive biology.

“It’s nice to have a partnershipbetween an academic institution and agreat conservation organization becausethey each bring different things to thetable,” Travis said.

Currently, there are only two graduatestudents enrolled in the program, Travissaid, but they are looking to get the wordout to anyone interested in doing gradu-ate work in conservation biology.

8 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Breakthrough in Canine ConservationBy KATHLEEN BITTERSun Senior Writer

Klondike cells | Klondike was flash-frozen when he was between eight and 16 cells.This new technology could have major implications for canine conservation.

COURTESY OF PROF. ALEXANDER TRAVIS

Horticulture students eyed thepile of dirt hesitantly. Were theyreally going to turn this into acouch? Despite their reservations,after three hours of shoveling andhard work, students were sittingon the newly constructed sod sofaon the agriculture quad underwarm sunlight and blue sky.

This project, constructed bythe class Horticulture 2010: Artof Horticulture, is one of themany ways in which Prof. MarciaEames-Sheavly, horticulture,aims to use interaction withplants to help students engage intheir creative process.

Although she does not con-duct scientific research, her pas-sion lies in helping students useplants as a source of self-expres-sion through a focus on teachingand outreach.

“What I’m really interested inis how students engage in the cre-ative process and the ultimateimpact on their well-being,”Eames-Sheavly said. “As you canimagine, someone is workingwith plants and they’re doingsomething they [may have] neverdone before – often they can feelreally good.”

The huge impact of the plantworld on human life inspiredEames-Sheavly to incorporate artinto horticulture as a medium forself-expression and development.

“We really rely on plants forabsolutely everything – every sin-gle thing, from our food andclothing, to shelter, and some-times people forget that,” Eames-Sheavly said. “Reconnecting stu-dents with the plant world anddiscovering the myriad ways fromfood to art to teaching other peo-ple to engage with plants and gar-dens … there’s a lot there.”

She began her career inCooperative Extension beforemoving back to Cornell; her cur-rent leadership position withCornell Garden-Based Learningfocuses on children and youthgarden education.

Eames-Sheavly is also a water-color artist. She incorporated herpassion for the plant world andthe art world into developing the“Art of Horticulture” universitycourse that connects these twosubjects.

“You talk about horticulturebeing the art and science of culti-vating plants, and it occurred tome that we didn’t really have acourse that focused on the arts,”Eames-Sheavly said. “What I

really enjoy about [horticulture]is that it’s not just drawing orpainting, it’s also the full expres-sion of the ways in which plantscan be used to creatively inspireour lives.”

In the hands-on classroomexperience taught by Eames-Sheavly, students explore plantsas a subject and as a form of art.Eames-Sheavly said she hopesthat students can “grab ontosome kernel that impacts themfor the rest of their lives,” regard-less of whether that impact is inhorticulture or not.

By choosing to make a con-crete leaf, students may discover apassion for working with con-crete. Through the written reflec-tion process used in her class,they may fall in love with writing.Regardless, finding an activitythat inspires passion may ulti-mately result in a lifelong partici-pation, demonstrating the power-ful learning component of horti-culture.

In addition to teaching,Eames-Sheavly also works in out-reach through a garden-basedlearning program. She workswith educators, such as teachersgrowing school gardens or com-munity members who want tobegin community gardens.

Through such interactions, sheand her outreach team havedeveloped a number of educa-tional resources, and they havespoken nationally about theirwork.

Gardens and plants can notonly help inspire a long-term par-ticipation, they can also help peo-ple reconnect with their lives andwith the plant world.

“We’re beginning to raise peo-ple indoors,” Eames-Sheavly said.

“There are just so many concernsaffiliated with that. But when wethink about the most pressingissues of our time, such as fight-ing obesity, food safety, sustain-able energy – all of that can beginliterally in your backyard, as youstart a garden and become moreand more involved in the envi-ronment.”

By CAMILLE WANGSun Staff Writer

Prof. Marcia Eames-Sheavly Teaches ArtThrough Horticulture

Creative crops | This sod cow is only one of the many projects createdby students in Prof. Marcia Eames-Sheavly’s Art of Horticulture class.

COURTESY OF PROF. MARIA EAMES-SHEAVLY

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

Kathleen Bitter can be reached at kbitter@cornellsun.com.

SCIENCE THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9

“Children are like little sci-entists,” according to Prof.Tamar Kushnir, human devel-opment, who studies the emer-gence of knowledge in youngchildren in the Early ChildhoodCognition Laboratory. Herresearch investigates how chil-dren develop a variety of cogni-tive abilities, ranging from theirunderstanding of cause andeffect to how they choose reli-able sources of information.

Kushnir’s research functionsin a broad theoretical frame-work that views learning inyoung children as a kind of sci-entific discovery. Like scientists,children ask questions and col-lect data through play. Childrenalso rely on other people forinformation and trust otherswho provide reliable informa-tion, just as scientists collabo-rate and share their work.

“Science is a collaborative,social institution,” Kushnirsaid. “I’m interested in howchildren learn from others andabout others.”

Kushnir conducted an exper-iment that demonstrated howchildren were able to identifyreliable sources of informationand use this knowledge in theirunderstanding of cause andeffect.

Young children, approxi-mately three to four years ofage, were shown a puppet show.

One puppet was unable to usetools to fix broken toys, but wasable to identify the names of allthe tools; he was deemed the“labeler.” The other puppet wasable to fix broken toys using theavailable tools, but was not ableto label the tools; he wasdeemed the “fixer.”

Children were able to assessthe skills of these puppets anduse this knowledge in a series offollow-up tasks.

When children were asked tochoose a puppet for assistancein labeling objects, childrenchose the “labeler” more oftenthan they did the “fixer.”

Likewise, when childrenwere prompted to ask for helpin fixing broken toys, they weremore likely to choose the “fixer”as opposed to the “labeler”.

“My work aims to show thatchildren will approach informa-tion in a sensible way,” Kushnirsaid. “They know that there isboth good and bad informationout there.”

Learning is divided into cat-egories: informal and formal.The learning that occurs fromages three to four is informallearning that happens sponta-neously.

Formal learning is schooling,which comes at a later time.Kushnir emphasizes the impor-tance of providing rich environ-ments with many informallearning opportunities at ayoung age.

Kushnir's lab partners with

the Sciencenter as part of theNational Living Labs Initiative.Researchers are integrated intothe exhibit, gathering data anddisseminating findings to par-ents.

Kushnir is also designinginteractive educational materi-als for young children and theirfamilies as part of an advancedseminar in conceptual develop-ment.

“That’s a great environmentfor young children to get a sensethat science is fun,” Kushnirsaid. “Childrens’ museums andscience museums are all educa-tional experiences outside the

classroom. They are importantfor engaging children’s scientificcuriosity from a young age andcontinue to be important aschildren enter formal school-ing.”

Kushnir’s research hasimportant implications for earlychildhood education. At youngages, children learn with theirbodies and the way they interactwith the environment throughplay.

“Children need an environ-ment of trust and love, and theyneed a space to work and play,”Kushnir said.

Many important executive

functions, such as impulse con-trol, task-switching, and work-ing memory, are not learned inthe classroom, but rather duringtheir experiences in the world.

“Let them go,” Kushnir said.“If you provide children with arich environment, they will playand they will learn. We must setup this environment for them.”

Kushnir is teaching HD1511 Human Development:Infancy and Childhood in theFall of 2013.

By NICOLAS RAMOSSun Senior Writer

Studying Childhood Learning

For vegetable lovers, having a big bowl ofsalad for a summer dinner comes with apotential risk. If not completely consumed intime, the romaine lettuce will wither andturn yellow in just a few hours. According toProf. Susheng Gan, horticulture, it is possible

to extend the freshness of leaves through thediscovery of the genes that trigger tissueaging.

The terminal phase in a leaf ’s life, knownas life senescence, is a genetically pro-grammed active degeneration process duringthe life of the plant. Plant senescence occurswhen there are not enough resources for theplant to continue growth, so the plant

decides to end its leaves’ life cycles to reduceconsumption of nutrition and support neces-sary growing tissues.

Such a “suicidal” process is more compli-cated than it sounds. The purpose of senes-cence is future regeneration. Leaf senescenceis like a recycling process. The proteins aredegraded and the amino acids are stored forthe new leaves in the next growing season.

“If you look carefully at the leaves in thefall, you will notice that the vascular tissue oneach leaf is the last part to die,” Gan said.“Without the veins, materials cannot betransported during senescence.”

During the mobilization of leaf senes-cence, about 10 percent of plants’ genes areactivated, each with different functions. Oneof Gan’s main projects is to figure out, at themolecular level, how senescence genes areregulated.

“If the whole senescence process is adrama,” Gan said. “What we are doing is tofind the director of the drama, the masterregulator gene, from whom we learn quicklyhow the drama works.”

Learning about the mechanism behindsenescence helps scientists control the masterregulator gene. From there, they may be ableto remove its function, disable the subsetgenes, and delay the senescence process.

“This is like the army,” Gan said. “Whenthe commander is removed, his soldiers don’tknow how to fight.”

Gan has already found one of the masterregulators in leaf senescence – called AtNAP.It is a protein that controls the flow of agroup of genes. After AtNAP is removed, theleaf longevity of rockcress, the model plantused in Gan’s research, increased up to 50percent.

Gan and his lab translated this discoveryto other plants. The same gene-removal strat-

egy was applied to the soybean plant, whichis genetically similar to rockcress.

The result was dramatic – without thegroup of counter genes, not only was leaflongevity of the soybean plants extended, butthe senescence of its underground root nod-ules was also delayed. This allowed the rootnodules to fix more nitrogen into the ground.

“This is very important because the fixednitrogen supports plant growth,” Gan said.“Meanwhile, it fertilizes the soil, forming sus-tainable agriculture.”

According to Gan, his lab aims to findmore master regulator genes to prolong leaflongevity.

“The reason we especially focus on leaflongevity, is that the leafs’ function is likemanufacturing – everything in a plant madefrom the leaf,” Gan said. “Delaying leafsenescence boosts the yield and biomassaccumulation.”

Gan’s discovery also applies to food secu-rity and food preservation. For the vegetablelovers, Gan’s research provides a possiblesolution to wilting lettuce.

“As we know, old people are more vulner-able to pathogens than the youth,” Gan said.“The leaf is like us. As the leaf started to turnyellow, it became more vulnerable topathogens. The post-harvest pathogens pro-duce toxins that harms humans.”

Once leaf senescence is under control,harvested vegetables can be preserved freshfor longer without deterioration or genera-tion of post-harvest toxins.

In addition to research, Gan shares hisknowledge of senescence with students inHorticulture 4250: Postharvest Biology ofHorticultural Crops, in the spring semester.

YIDAN XUSun Contributor

Living longer | Prof. Susheng Gan studies genes that control senescence, or aging, in plants. COURTESY OF PROF. SUSHENG GAN

Prof. Susheng GanStudies Plant Longevity

Social science | Prof. Tamar Kushnir, human development, uses an experimental device known as a blicketbox with a toddler at the Sciencenter in Ithaca.

COURTESY OF PROF. TAMAR KUSHNIR

Nicolas Ramos can be reached at nramos@cornellsun.com.

Yidan Xu can be reached at yx285@cornell.edu.

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As I made my way to my seat, I scanned the crowdof Ithacans that had come to see Buddy Guy perform atIthaca’s State Theatre on Sunday. As excitedas I was to see a legend perform — for, asJimi Hendrix once said, “Heaven is lying atBuddy Guy’s feet while he plays guitar” — Iwas also a bit discouraged. The audience wasmostly elderly, and judging by the faint butomnipresent post-4/20 fragrance, it con-tained a sizable number of smoked-outtownies. I sat down and my row-mate gaveme some disconcerting advice: “Don’t evenfart — the guy in front of you is a prick.”There seemed to be only one consolation: nocell phones would be waved in my face.

But when Guy strolled out, sporting a

cream Stratocaster and shaking his face like a bulldogwiping spit, the crowd erupted. He was a ball of rawenergy and untamed bad-assery. I had seen WarrenHaynes and Government Mule at the State previously,but as wild and technically proficient as Mule’s band is,Buddy Guy seemed more even more unhinged and evenmore alive — an incredible feat for a man of 76 years.

The opening song, the slow burning, “Damn RightI Got the Blues,” is from Guy’s 2005 release of the samename, though it would have fit in perfectly in one ofthose booze filled blues clubs of the ’40s and ’50s — itwas an almost stereotypically bluesy song. From Guy’smuttering repetition of the words, “I got the blues,”just about an infinite number of times to his gutsy,wah-wah pedal-infused solos, the song riled up theroom and set the mood for the night.

As the opening jam died down, Guy looked out intothe audience and, like a dirty-mouthed Pope, told us,“It took a long fuckin’ time to bring me back.” Itamazed me that someone who has performed for over ahalf-century could even remember coming to a smalltown so far from his birthplace in Louisiana. Growingup as a cotton picker, Guy later told the crowd, henever could have imagined being where he is today.Watching him on stage, with a wry smile on his faceand an adoring crowd at his feet, I couldn’t imaginehim anywhere else. He looked down as the piano riff ofMuddy Waters’ “Hootchie Cootchie Man” filled theroom. “I wanna play something so funky you can smellit,” he growled. I wasn’t sure if it was the weed, but Iwas pretty sure I already did.

The riff continued as he tapped morse code tremo-los on the high-E, then moved tenderly into the verse.

It was like he was seducing a fine woman — he didn’twant to move too quickly. His solo erupted on thehigher registers of his guitar until, at one point, his abu-sive bends went too far and he snapped the string.Without even blinking, and only saying a subdued“fuck,” he made use of the other five strings before hisroadie brought out an identical Strat. “That’s the great

thing about the blues,” Buddy said. “If youmake a mistake, you can fix it.”

As the night proceeded, Buddy used everytrick at his disposal — he played with histeeth, he held the guitar like a machine gun,he pressed the guitar against his chest andcaressed it. During one song, he even walkedout into the audience (accompanied by aguard of course — Ithacans are dangerous).It wasn’t gimmicky. It was showmanshipfrom a master of the art form.

As funny as he often was, though, BuddyGuy is also a serious blues historian. Overthe course of the night he explored everynook and cranny of blues music. He coveredsongs by Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, JohnLee Hooker and Junior Wells — artists heplayed with during his tenure as a studio gui-

tarist at Chicago’s legendary Chess Records. He alsoplayed classic cuts by artists like Eric Clapton andMarvin Gaye. The most incredible part about all of thisis that he had played a hand in the creation or perfec-tion of just about every one of these songs, whether hewas an influence on the artist, a contributor to the trackor had actually played with the artist.

A master storyteller, Buddy told emotional tales andclever anecdotes — fragments of memories thatmatched the music in quality and wisdom. At onepoint, he paused to discuss the Rolling Stones’ influ-ence on American blues music — and his own influ-ence on the Stones. At another, he told the story of hisdiscovery on the streets of Chicago when he was just apenniless musician with stunning talent. The storieswould be cliché if he were not the reason those clichésexist.

Near the end of the night, Buddy looked wistfullyinto the audience. “You don’t hear blues on the radioanymore,” he said, “ but if you call me, I'll play it foryou.” It was a comforting statement. As long as BuddyGuy is around, the blues will never die.

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The Blues Will Never Die

Why did ___ do it? It’s a question wealways ask after heinous acts of vio-lence. We never reach an all-

encompassing answer, or even one that helpsus sleep easier at night. But, damn, do we try.

As the talking heads on television push thewhy behind the Boston Marathon bombings,let us consider the more practical question ofhow. Capitol Hill blames the scourge of massviolence basically on three things: 1) access tomilitary-grade weapons, 2) mental health and3) violent entertainment media. None ofthese factors address why a human beingwould deliberately and brutally terminate thelives of those he or she has never met, buteach contributes to an environment wherethis violence can occur — including itemnumber three.

Most social liberals would disagree withme on this one, especially those who spend asmuch or more time talking about movies as Ido, but how can vio-lent movies, televi-sion and videogames not somehowinfluence thethoughts and expec-tations of those whoengage with them?What effect does“finishing” youropponent in MortalKombat or taking a gun-mounted chainsaw toanother character’s flesh in Gears of War haveon the player, particularly when both actionsare dutifully rewarded? How does theremorseless slaughter of hundreds of LatinAmerican soldiers in The Expendables notreflect our desensitization to violence, if notour cultural prejudices? Why are the zombiebeheadings in The Walking Dead so … awe-some?

We live in a culture saturated with violentimages, to the point where on-screen violencehas become a prerequisite for entertainmentsuccess. Some blockbusters feature less terror

and more humor than others — compareIron Man to The Dark Knight — yet all mustinclude a few show-stopping action scenes,where enemies are dispatched in novel, unse-rious, CGI-intensive ways. Why do we loveaction scenes so much? Why do we take thepresence of violence, however trivialized, as agiven in popular movies? Why do the charac-ters in these movies, TV shows and videogames never stop to question these viciouscycles? Why do those who do, like the pro-tagonists in Fargo and Spec Ops: The Line, findthemselves in movies and video games con-sidered outside the mainstream?

With the summer movie season upon us,these questions should be asked now morethan ever. Almost all of the films to bereleased over the next few months make noattempts to be anything more than mindlessentertainment, reliant on primal sensations

and overworked images that assault the eyesand brain in their own violent ways. Surely,most viewers will ignore the thematic similar-ities between the post-apocalyptic trifecta ofOblivion, After Earth and Elysium and choosea victor dependent on which boasts the slick-est action scenes. The video game industryrelies on cool, non-stop action, an unfortu-nate obsession that has effectively kept themedium as a whole from achieving any desig-nation as art. Recently, the independent gamescene has been distancing itself from this cul-ture, delivering titles like Journey, where play-

ers unravel a story without harming othercharacters. But the industry remains in Call ofDuty mode, selling playable Michael Baymovies for $60 a pop.

Violence sells, of course. Maybe there is aninnocuous undercurrent to this obsession, inthat most people would never dream ofkilling another human, and thus see violentmedia as a form of innocent escapism, as aportal into another life with different desires,stakes and priorities, like that of a superhero.Yet where is the line between healthy cathar-sis and numbing overexposure? Did ThePassion of the Christ really need to show thebladed whip tearing apart Jesus’ skin in orderto convey its message? Did The Hangover PartII really need scenes with exploding pig car-casses and severed fingers? Did ModernWarfare 2 really need a mission where theplayer massacres droves of innocent civiliansin an airport? “Mature” rating or not, isn’tthat game marketed, with tremendous suc-cess, to prepubescent boys?

This column reads more like a list of

rhetorical questions than a rigorous argumentagainst this new, violent media landscape.The biggest problems boil down to the sim-plest questions, questions that most popularmovies, television shows and video gameshave forgotten as of late. We, the ordinary,non-fiction masses, must concern ourselveswith the question of how: How did this hap-pen? How can we stop it in the future? Wecan find answers to these questions.

However, if we want to keep this carnageaway from our world landmarks and elemen-tary schools, we must also favor the mediathat asks the question of why: Why did thisbloodshed occur? Why does it continue? Wecall this type of media “art.” Art may not pro-vide answers to all of our questions, but itgives us moments of pause, reflection andgrace, moments where hate and violence goto die.Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the Colleges ofArts and Sciences. He can be reached atzzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel Withthe World appears alternate Wednesdays.

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Sydney Ramsden is a junior in the College ofAgriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached atdining-editor@cornellsun.com.

Mike Sosnick is a freshman in the College ofArts and Sciences. He can be reached at msos-nick@cornellsun.com.

James Rainis is a junior in the College of Agricultureand Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cor-nellsun.com.

Daft Punk“Get Lucky”

With all of Daft Punk’s futurism — theirmindful manipulation of machine music andtheir metallic identities — it’s somewhat surpris-ing to find that they are “ambivalent” abouttheir place as the godfathers of the modernEDM movement. One look at Skrillex’s impres-sive stage-show, replete with giant cyborgs,seizure-inducing lights and the sounds of vomit-ing Super Nintendos, surely indicates that thefuture the robotic duo foretold is finally here,right?

Maybe we read Daft Punk all wrong. Theyaren’t some sort of Philip K. Dick novel, pre-dicting the end of music as we know it. “We’vecome too far to ignore who we are,” Pharrellsings on “Get Lucky,” the first single from DaftPunk’s upcoming Random Access Memories. Andwhat Daft Punk is is this: lithe grooves, choicecollaborations (both Pharrell and dance-funkguitar legend Niles Rodgers kill it here) andpaeans to long nights out in pursuit of drinksand fornication. The ’70s disco vibe of “GetLucky” is timeless; until the signature vocoderbreakdown, one might mistake it for a subduedEarth, Wind and Fire track. Perhaps Daft Punkaren’t futurists as much as they are retro-futur-ists, but that really doesn’t matter. What doesmatter is that we’ve been given a dance track sureto be the soundtrack of the summer, and we bet-ter be damn sure we use it (ir-)responsibly.

Starting with a few calm strikes of apiano and a tender moan, James Blake setsthe scene for a living, breathing, evolvingtrack with “Overgrown.” The title track ofhis latest LP is classic Blake. “Overgrown’s”only constant is a drum beat in standardtime, while shimmering piano and full bassfall on the rhythm in a calculatedly sporadicmix. The eclectic sounds ebb and flow overtime, eventually building to a head of glori-ously fuzzy noise at the end, as the pianofinally overtakes the percussion. As Blake’ssignature mix of R&B and trip hop tends todo, the song continuously twists, contortsand unravels itself as it transfers energyfrom emotion to emotion.

Blake’s characteristically warm, passion-ate voice is as present as ever on“Overgrown.” Never wavering in volume,the heady vocals in the beginning getlooped as the track reaches its chaotic finish,and by then they have artfully blended intothe mélange of sounds and rhythms.Although Blake solemnly informs us that“time passes in the constant state,” at theoutset of the track, he clearly tries to dis-prove that claim through the metamorpho-sis in “Overgrown.”

James Blake“Overgrown”

MGMT“Alien Days”

It’s hard to believe that MGMT hasn’t putout new material in over three years — not sinceits sophomore LP back in 2010. But ourfavorite Wesleyan grads have quietly crept backonto our radars with the release of “Alien Days,”an unsurprisingly bizarre, trippy sci-fi odyssey,appropriately released on a certain holiday(April 20th’s Record Store Day, of course). Thetrack appears on the band’s upcoming self-titledthird record, and if “Alien Days” can tell us any-thing about what’s to come, it’s that MGMTwon’t sound all that different than the polarizingCongratulations. “Alien Days” is neither catchynor upbeat. It’s long, heavy on acoustic guitarand synth arrangements and is essentially theopposite of the stuff on Oracular Spectacularthat catapulted the band into popularity. And,yeah, it’s pretty weird — it opens withVanWyngarden’s vocals which have been spedup so much he sounds like a little kid. During asynth solo over fuzz bass VanWyngarden’s voiceis sometimes unrecognizable as he turns in hissignature falsetto for a deeper register. The trackis further proof that after abandoning the col-lege-party-friendly sound of OracularSpectacular, MGMT continues to come into itsown as a couple of skilled composers who justwant to nerd out and make kooky psychedelicrock. When MGMT comes out later this year,we will definitely be in for a treat.

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Knicks’J.R.Smith Wins Sixth Man of the Year AwardGREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — J.R. Smith won the

NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award Monday after turninga role he didn’t want into one of the strengths of the NewYork Knicks’ first division championship team in nearlytwo decades.

Smith received 484 points, including 72 first-placevotes, from a panel of 121 writers and broadcasters. TheClippers’ Jamal Crawford finished second with 352 points,getting 31 first-place votes.

Smith averaged 18.1 points in 80 games, all off thebench. He had 29 games in which he scored 20 points as areserve, tying Crawford for the NBA lead.

The 6-foot-6 swingman wanted to start, but said heaccepted it fairly quickly once coach Mike Woodson toldhim he would be a reserve.

The New Jersey native had by far his best NBA season,helping the Knicks to their first Atlantic Division titlesince 1994.

“I just wanted to show everybody that I could be a teamguy and it’s all about the team,” Smith said at a news con-ference attended by his family, teammates and coaches.

Smith helped the Knicks to their most victories sincethey went 57-25 in 1996-97. New York is the No. 2 seedin the Eastern Conference and leads the Boston Celtics 1-0 in their first-round playoff series.

It’s the second individual award in two years for theKnicks, following Tyson Chandler’s Defensive Player of theYear honor last season. Smith joins former Knicks sixth-man winners Anthony Mason in 1995 and John Starks in1997.

Despite not making a start, Smith was one of theKnicks’ most important players. He played more than 40minutes seven times and was often their only scoring threat

behind Carmelo Anthony.“Couldn’t have happened to a better guy,” Woodson

said. “I’m so proud of him, in terms of buying into whatwe wanted him to do earlier in the season. And it startedthis summer. I wasn’t going to start him, coming into thisyear, and I knew that. And he bought in. He didn’t like it,but he bought in. And it couldn’t have happened to a bet-ter person, because he put in the time and he worked hisbutt off to get to this point, and he got rewarded for it. I'mhappy for him.”

Crawford seemed to be the favorite for most of the sea-son before Smith overtook him with his strong play downthe stretch. He had three straight 30-point games fromMarch 26-29, the first time that was done by a reservesince Milwaukee’s Ricky Pierce in 1990.

“I more credit it to winning,” Smith said. “We’ve hadguys hurt, it just so happened I was one of the guys thatstepped up and tried to get us through the tough times thatwe had.”

Crawford said he and Smith exchanged congratulatorytexts.

“I can’t say I was shocked because I started seeing whereit was going over the last few weeks,” said Crawford, whothinks he and Smith have different roles with their teams.

“He is the second guy over there after Carmelo,”Crawford said. “I’m just a piece of the bench.”

Golden State’s Jarrett Jack finished third, followed byKevin Martin of Oklahoma City and Ryan Anderson ofNew Orleans.

Smith joined the Knicks in the middle of last seasonafter returning from China, where he had signed duringthe lockout. But it wasn’t until the middle of this seasonwhen he finally learned to stop settling for erratic jumpers,

instead taking smart shots.“The opportunity was there,” said Anthony, a former

teammate in Denver.“They asked me what I thought about him, I told

them we’ll be fools not to go get him. At that point intime he was the only thing that was out there, he was try-ing to get out of China, and we had to go get him. I’dplayed with him for mostly all my career so I know whattype of person he is, I know what type of player he is.And this right here was almost like a second chance forhim.”

Smith came to the NBA out of high school in 2005 andadmittedly made a number of mistakes along the way. Heclashed with coaches and pleaded guilty to reckless drivingin a 2007 auto accident that killed his friend, spending 24days in a New Jersey correctional facility and getting sus-pended by the NBA for the first seven games of the 2009-10 season.

“I’ve been to known to make so many mistakes I haven’tbeen making recently,” said Smith, thanking his veteranteammates and Woodson for helping him. “Just keepingmy head, mentally on the court and off the court.”

Teammate Kenyon Martin said the 27-year-old Smithhas “grown up a lot.”

“I played with him a lot of years in Denver, he was stilla kid then. He’s become a grown man,” Martin said. “Ithink he’s got better people around him, which is huge,and he’s learning. He’s learning on the fly, that’s all you cando is keep learning each and every year you’re in theleague.”

The award is sponsored by Kia Motors, which willdonate a 2014 Kia Sorento to the J.R. Smith YouthFoundation.

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NEW YORK (AP) — An empty armory is set tobecome what’s being billed as the world’s largest indoorice skating center, Mayor Michael Bloombergannounced Tuesday in his latest bid to expand the BigApple’s claim on superlatives.

A block-long brick castle of a building in a working-class Bronx neighborhood, the Kingsbridge Armorywould become a $275 million suite of nine ice rinks,under a plan backed by former New York Rangers starMark Messier and figure skating Olympic gold medalistSarah Hughes.

The plan points up Bloomberg’s ambition to leave alegacy of think-big projects, and it’s poised to resolve ayearslong, sometimes divisive debate over what to dowith the historic armory and what the city’s poorest bor-ough would get out of it.

“Allowing this armory to remain empty and stand asa symbol of the abandonment that once plagued theBronx was simply unthinkable,” Bloomberg said as hestood in the chilly, vaulted, four-acre-plus expanse thatwas the armory's drill floor.

“The Bronx is building,” he added, a riff on HowardCosell's famous line, “the Bronx is burning,” utteredduring a 1977 World Series game at Yankee Stadium todescribe a fire nearby. The line came to encapsulate theborough's urban blight of the time.

The plan envisions turning the 1917 building into ayear-round ice-sports hub, attracting both hobbyistsand professionals. Organizers project 2 million visitors ayear at the attraction, where one rink would be flankedby 5,000 seats for hockey tournaments and ice shows.While the neighborhood is not usually thronged withvisitors, the project includes a 480-car garage and is

right by a subway station.But backers also are emphasizing elements aimed

squarely at local residents, including a planned after-school program, 50,000 square feet of “communityspace” with details to be defined, and a promise to paythe facility's estimated 260 workers at least $10 an hour,an issue that sank an earlier plan to turn the armory intoa shopping mall.

The center could “give hope and optimism to manykids in this area,” Messier, who was the team captainwhen the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1994.

“This is a facility that will attract some of the great-est athletes in the world, both figure skaters and hockeyplayers,” said Hughes, who took gold at the 2002Winter Games, adding that “I also see it as a foundationfor this community’s future.”

A number of other big projects have sprouted in theBronx in recent years, including the new YankeeStadium, which opened in 2009; the Fulton fish mar-ket, which moved from lower Manhattan in 2005, anda shopping center that's being converted to a suburban-style mall. There are almost 2,000 more businesses inthe borough now than there were a decade ago,Bloomberg said.

About four miles north of Yankee Stadium, the 1917building is a Romanesque-style sprawl of turrets andcrenellations. It’s on the National Register of HistoricPlaces. It hasn't been used for military purposes sincethe 1990s, though it has at times been rented for filmshoots and used for city storage.

The shopping mall plan emerged in 2008 butfoundered the next year, when the City Council voted itdown amid concerns about how it would affect local

businesses and how well its own workers would be paid.Community groups said the mall, which was to get citytax breaks, should pay employees at least $10 an hour.Bloomberg and the developer said that wasn’t realistic.

The episode contributed to the City Council's 2012decision to set a “living wage” of $10 an hour foremployers that get at least $1 million in city subsidies.

The mall was to offer more than four times as manypermanent jobs, but Bloomberg said the ice facility like-ly “will provide more services to the community.”

The banker and hockey fan leading the ice centerdevelopment group, Kevin Parker, said it proposed the$10-an-hour pay rate from the start. His plan, endorsedby various local officials, was chosen from six proposalssubmitted last year.

The other finalist, Youngwoo & Associates, proposedan urban-style shopping center. A representative didn’timmediately return a call Tuesday.

The ice center developers will pay to build their pro-ject, with no tax incentives or other help from the citybeyond the $30 million it has spent on environmentalcleanups and repairs, city Economic DevelopmentCorp. President Seth Pinsky said. The developers willpay rent, part of it based on 5 percent of the facility’sgross revenue, estimated at $1 million or more a year,the agency said.

Now in his last of a dozen years in office, Bloomberghas relished sweeping redevelopment plans, from theNew York Nets’ new stadium — part of the biggest pro-ject in Brooklyn's recent history — to an ultimatelyfailed bid to build a football stadium on Manhattan’sWest Side. Last fall, he unveiled plans to build theworld’s largest Ferris wheel on Staten Island.

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The women’s rowing team came homewith a strong finish at this past weekend’sClemson Invitational in Clemson, S.C.The Clemson Invite, hosted by the No.14-ranked Tigers on Lake Hartwell, wel-comed opponents who are currentlyranked in the CRCA Top-20.

On Saturday, No. 19 Cornell earnedvictories in the first two races of the day,defeating powerhouse schools, such asDuke, Miami, Oregon State, Tennessee,Michigan State and Penn, with a time of6:35. In the second varsity eight, the Redcrossed the line with a time of 6:40.8,beating the same opponents once again.

The novice eight then continued theRed’s hot streak with a second place fin-ish and a time of 7:07.7, just fallingbehind Michigan State. Throughout therest of the races, the squad pushed for-

ward which continued to result in strongfinishes. In the evening races, the secondvarsity eight team claimed the best fin-ishing time for the Red of 6:25.8, justfalling a couple seconds behind UCLA toclaim the first place finish. By placingahead of Penn in four out of the fiveraces, which both teams competed in, theRed brought home the Class of ’89Points Plate for the fifth-straight seasonon the first day of the Clemson Invite.

Cornell finished off the invitationalwith a third place finish in the first varsi-ty eight of the day with a time of 6:49.3,falling just 2.6 seconds behind Louisville,who placed first. Going up against toughschools such as Duke, Michigan Stateand Oklahoma, the Red was looking foranother remarkable finish to put theteam on top and snagged a first place fin-ish in the second varsity eight with a timeof 7:09.7, beating both Clemson andLouisville, who placed ahead of the Red a

couple races earlier. The women’s rowing team will con-

tinue its rise to the top later this week,facing both Brown and Columbia on

Saturday in Providence, R.I.

Rowers Triumph OverHighly Competitive Field

Rowing in the deep | The women’s rowing team was victorious against Duke, Miami,Oregon State, Tennessee, Michigan State and Penn at the Clemson Invitational.

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Red Runners PrepareFor Upcoming Penn Relaysthe biggest spectacles in the world oftrack and field.

“We are running just the best kidson the team,” he said. “We’ve gotabout 30 men and 30 women makingthat trip. The Penn Relays is one of thebest spectacles in the world of trackand field. There’ll be 125,000 specta-tors, 15,000 athletes from over 300colleges and well over 1000 highschools.”

Bowman said although the PennRelays give his team the opportunity tosee great competition, they can betough, especially before the Heps meet.

“Penn Relays has always been ameet where you take some time out ofthe team score and really get somegood competition,” he said. “It’s hardto travel down there and then turnaround and travel the next weekend to

the conference meet.”Bowman also spoke about how the

season is going in the right directionfor the most part.

“The process is to get to the end ofthe season and have your team at fullhealth,” he said. “In most of the cases,we’re moving in that direction. Wehaven’t had the best weather, but we’vedone all the training we need to pullthat all together.”

Competing at the Penn Relays is anhonor for athletes. The athletes will seethe best competition from all aroundthe county, according to Taylor.

“Going to the Penn Relays anddoing well is a great accolade and greatpreparation for the Heps,” he said.“Every good track program in thecountry will be there.”

a matter of us coming back next yearand coming back with all the horseshealthy and all the players healthy.”

At nationals, the No. 1 women’steam finished as runner-ups to No. 2UVA after a shootout loss in thefinals. The No. 3 men’s team’s seasonended in the semifinals after a loss toNo. 2 Colorado State eliminated theteam from the tournament. In a sur-prising twist, Colorado State thenlost in the finals to first-time champi-on Westmont college, the No. 4 seedwho advanced to the finals by top-ping the defending championCavaliers in the other semifinalsmatchup.

Despite not taking home anynational titles, Eldredge said he wasproud of the individual awards the

team claimed at the tournament,even if the teams did not have theirbest performances of the season at thetournament.

“For the men’s team, it could havebeen a better day for us — it wasn’t abad day, but we could have had a bet-ter day in the semifinals,” Eldredgesaid. “At the same time, I can be veryhappy. …Kailey and [freshman]Anna [Winslow] both received all-American honors for their play atnationals, [and] Nik Feldman tookhome the sportsmanship award,which is something that is very mean-ingful at nationals — it shows thespirit and kind of attitude we try toput out.”

played on Saturday, and eachpaid tribute to the previousweek’s events. True heroeswere honored and victimsremembered. And then, peo-ple who were not fromBoston had to represent theircity and fans.

A common cliché insports is playing for your city,but for Boston teams playingthis week, it is the truth.Much like the Mets andYankees after 9/11, Bostonplayers had higher expecta-tions thrust upon them.Everything they did was ofelevated importance.Daniel Nava’s gamewinning three runhomer for the RedSox is now consid-ered “heroic” or thestuff of legendsinstead of just anoth-er home run. Bostonathletes had to repre-sent the city, even if itwas only their professionalhome, and become true rolemodels.

At Fenway, the greenmonster is now “BostonStrong.” For the game onSaturday, The Boston RedSox uniforms had “Boston”emblazoned on them,eschewing the traditional“Red Sox.” David Ortiz, aDominican Republic native,gave an emotional talk beforethe game, where he said,“This is our f—ing city.” Butmore than players can repre-sent a city. Neil Diamond,who showed up by his ownaccord, led the singing of“Sweet Caroline” (a Fenwaytradition) in person beforethe bottom of the 8thinning. Later that inning, theRed Sox took the lead for

good.The Boston Bruins and

Pittsburgh Penguins openedwith a pregame ceremonypaying tribute to theWatertown PoliceDepartment. But the mostdramatic ceremony occurredwhen the Sabres played theBruins last Wednesday.Before the game, the crowdsang the National Anthem inunison. This was a totallyimpromptu moment, andlikely the start of a newBoston tradition. After thegame, a close shoot win forthe visiting Sabres, bothteams saluted the homecrowd. This was the idea of

Thomas Vanek, the starAustrian forward for theSabres. As Vanek told theBuffalo News, echoingOrtiz’s sentiment, “Eventhough they play in that city,it doesn't matter whereyou're from. Buffalo, mycase Europe, or whatever.Everyone gets affected by it.”

Before the tragedies inBoston, a Knicks Celtics firstround matchup was beinghyped. Old divisional rivals,there was talk about eachteam’s “hatred” of the other.But then it was gone. In NewYork, “hatred” of Boston wasshelved. There was no hatredof anyone in Boston. NewYork and Boston, two rivalsports bases, stood together.During a Yankees game,Sweet Caroline was played.

During the song, the score-board displayed “New Yorkstands with Boston,” and“pray for Boston.”

The Boston Celticsopened their playoff series onthe road in New York atMadison Square Garden.But the teams still had a cer-emony. The Celtics wore apatch proclaiming “BostonStands as One.” BothCarmelo Anthony and PaulPierce spoke and Pierce actu-ally received cheers in NewYork, a rarity to say the least.Anthony remarked howNew Yorkers understandtragedy and sadness and gavehis full support to Boston.

But then the gamestarted. All of asudden, the pleas-antries were gone.Every time Piercetouched the ball onoffense, he wasbooed. Thingswere normal. TheCeltics were defeat-ed, but as Pierce

said before the game,“Boston will rise and runagain.”

In Boston and around theUS, eventually things willreturn to normal. Thesepregame ceremonies willstop, even if tradition wasborn out of them. WhenSweet Caroline plays atFenway Park, it’ll just be arecording that gets cuts offbefore the inning, not NeilDiamond. Soon enough, aBruins, Celtics, or Red Soxgame will feel like just that— a game. That’s ok. That'snormal. But for now, it’s allpart of the healing process.

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Soon enough, a Bruins, Celtics,or Red Sox game will feel justlike that — a game. That’s ok.That’s normal.

Players take home individual awards

WOMEN’S ROWING

With the national championships over and theofficial season complete, the men’s and women’s poloteams will engage in a more relaxing competition thisweekend at its annual alumni game.

The match will feature current players againstgraduated players, and serve as a send-off to the ath-letes in the senior class.

“Every year, it’s kind of a celebration,” head coachDavid Eldredge ’81 said. “It’s also partially a senior’sgame where our seniors who are graduating go off andget to play their last time.”

The graduating seniors can also look forward togetting dunked in the horses’ water tank as part of apolo team tradition. Notable leaving seniors includecaptain Ali Hoffman for the women and captainBranden VanLoon for themen, but bothteams can lookforward to nextyear’s incomingtalent. On themen’s side, theteam is gaining an experienced polo player from Peru,while on the women’s side, Emma Eldredge will joinolder sister Kailey — the team’s leading goal-scorerwho served as captain this season alongside thedeparting Hoffman — under their father’s coaching.

Reflecting on the season, David Eldredge said hewas pleased with the team’s first-semester play andnoted that the horse virus that swept through the barnduring the spring season made second-semester playmore difficult.

“It ended up that [in] the fall, we were especiallyhappy with how both teams performed,” he said.“The spring was very challenging for both teams onthe whole, because we had the interruption with thehorses getting sick. …That really threw a kink in tothe works as far as for us having that continuitythroughout the whole entire year. It’s something thatwe hope for the future that doesn’t happen — it’s just

The Red was back in action this past Friday, taking onBuffalo and Binghamton in the Upstate Challenge and

building upon its outdoor campaign with a focus on cap-turing the Heps title, hosted by Princeton from May 4 - 5.

Tallying 143 points to Binghamton’s 101 and Buffalo’s85, the men’s team won the meet with 11 event wins and13 IC4A qualifying marks. Men’s head coach NathanTaylor was pleased with the way his team performed.

“We moved the meet from Saturday to Friday,” he said.“[It] ended up being a great move. We didn’t run every-body in the meet. Some guys were taking the weekend off,but I was pleased with how a lot of guys did. Our[4x100m] team ran very fast. The [4x400m] team ran veryfast. The sprinters all ran very well. [Montez Blair] was out-standing as well.”

Notable performances included the 4x100m tandem offreshman Ryan Hynes, senior co-captain J.D. Adarquah,junior Bruno Hortelano-Roig, and junior Kinsley Ojukwuwinning in a time of 10.45, junior Montez Blair winningthe high jump clearing 7’2.25”, and junior HerculesStancil winning the long jump with a leap of 24’3.5”.

The women’s team tallied 164.5 points to Buffalo’s117.5 and Binghamton’s 95 to win the meet with ten eventwins and 8 ECAC qualifying marks. Despite the weatherconditions during the meet, women’s head coach RichBowman felt that his team took everything in stride.

“I was really pretty pleased with it,” he said. “Becausewe rescheduled the meet, we weren’t really sure what wasgoing to happen. We did it on Friday and I think the kidsdid a great job competing. The conditions were okay. Itwas difficult for a lot of them to adjust in the situation, butI think they did a great job.”

Notable performances included senior co-captainVictoria Imbesi winning the javelin with a throw of149’10”, senior co-captain Ailish Hanly winning the highjump clearing 5’7.25”, senior Claire Dishong winning thepole vault clearing 12’8.25” and freshman Udeme Akpaete

winning the 400m in 55.66.Up next for the Red is its last weekend of competition

before the Heps, during which the men and women willboth travel to the Penn Relays hosted at Penn as well ashost the Big Red Invite at home.

Select members of the team will have the opportunityto compete in the Penn Relays, the oldest and largest trackand field competition in the United States, hosted annual-ly since April 21, 1895. According to Taylor, this is one of

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Four by four | Junior co-captain Bruno Hortelano-Roig finishedon top in the 4x100m tandem along with three of his teammates.

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Cornell Men and Women StormPast Buffalo and Binghamton

Straight shooter | Senior co-captain Victoria Imbesi tookfirst place in javelin with a throw of 149’10” on Friday.

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As much I love sports, Iget sick of some of itsworst aspects. Media

coverage can be awful as ittries to hype up rivalries anddrum up interest. In reality,as fans, we have a lot in com-mon with our rival fans. Tobe rivals, we need to havecommon experiences, closegames and shared values. As

sports fans we can lose sightof this. But when tragedystruck in Boston, the mediagot it mostly right. We werereminded of why we lovesports and were providedwith some great games. Fanscame together over a com-mon bond. True heroes werehonored, people got togetherto watch a game, and thingsbegan to return to normal.

I’m not from Boston, and

I won’t try to sell you on anytenuous connection I have toBoston, but that’s not impor-tant. Everyone was affectedby last week’s events. What isundeniable is that sports canbe part of the healingprocess, as they help thingsreturn to normal. Sportswon’t bring back anythingthat was lost, but they help

by being an escape. But morethan that, they bring peopletogether. The crowd atFenway was said to be thelargest gathering in theBoston area after themarathon. And people wentnot only there to watch theRed Sox, but also to be partof something greater.

All three Boston teams

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Riding into the sunset | Senior captain BrandenVan Loon will depart from the Red after this season.

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“Every year, it’s kind ofa celebration.”David Eldredge ’81