03-05-13

Vol. 129, No. 103 TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013 ! ITHACA, NEW YORK

The Corne¬ Daily SunINDEPENDENT SINCE 1880

16 Pages – Free

Partly Cloudy HIGH: 32 LOW: 27

Justice KeepersCornell law professors andstudents have created a clinic to assist juveniles thatface life sentences.

| Page 3

News

The Speech DilemmaNicholas Kaasik grad weighsin about the difficulty ofnaming or not naming thespeaker of derogatoryspeech.

| Page 6

Opinion

Weather

Art? Truth? Morality?Emily Greenberg ’13 says theart of the film Zero DarkThirty lies in the grey areabetween fact and fiction.

| Page 11

Arts

TrampledFor the first time in theirotherwise undefeated season, the women’s poloteam lost last weekend.

| Page 23

Sports

SHAILEE SHAH / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Pedro Barbeito, an artist who has been showing his work all over the world, presented his recent piece atMilstein Hall on Monday.

Showing it off

Students gathered outside Day HallMonday to present handwritten letters toPresident David Skorton calling for theUniversity to divest its endowment funds fromthe fossil fuel industry.

Jake Leiby ’16, co-president of Kyoto

NOW!, said the letter-writing campaign wasplanned in accordance with “March Forth:National Divestment Day of Action,” a nation-al event that occurred Monday and called forcollective action on divestment.

The small gathering at noon outside DayHall was arranged so that people could presenttheir letters to Skorton together, according toLeiby. He said he hoped more students would

show up with letters throughout the day. The letter-writing event Monday was sup-

posed to run last week but was postponed dueto weather, according to Anna-Lisa Castle ’13,a sponsor of the divestment resolution andmember of Kyoto NOW!.

“While only a few people were able to make

Housing WebsiteCrashes, DelayingSelection of Rooms

Students Deliver Letters to Skorton, Demand That C.U. Divest

Five Star Urgent Care celebrat-ed its grand opening in IthacaMonday, promising shorter waittimes than hospitals to the Ithacacommunity.

The Ithaca center — one ofthree Five Star Urgent Care facili-ties in the country — has been inthe works for about six months,said Dr. John Radford, the com-pany’s founder and owner.

“We felt, looking at the num-ber of people in the population,

See HOUSING page 4

Five Star UrgentCare FacilityOpens in Ithaca

By DANIELLE SOCHECZEVSKISun Staff Writer

By SARAH CUTLERSun Staff Writer

See DIVEST page 5

See CARE page 4

Students found themselves without housing for the next yearafter Cornell’s online housing portal experienced major technicalproblems Monday, the first day of the housing lottery. Studentswere unable to select rooms, and in some cases, their signed housecontracts were nullified.

The housing portal became inoperable due to “unforeseentechnical issues,” according to a notice on the Cornell Housingwebsite. An email was also sent to students with similar informa-tion and an apology from the University Monday evening.

In response to the technical complications, the housing selec-tion process will be delayed by 48 hours until the problem hasbeen resolved, according to the housing website notification.

Barbara Romano, director of residential and event services, andCarlos Gonzalez, assistant director of residential and event services,said that the system was inexplicably overloaded with studentactivity about 10 minutes into the beginning of the housing selec-tion.

“There are typically 200 to 250 students online at any onetime, and not usually more than 350 on at once,” Gonzalez said.“At some points, there were three times as many students online.The system was not expecting such an overload.”

According to Romano and Gonzalez, the portal only givesaccess to students who have assigned timeslots at that moment, soit is unclear why so many students were able to use the website.

“We’re still figuring it out, and this is a very serious problem tous,” Gonzalez said. “We’ve never experienced anything like this in

By LAUREN AVERYSun Senior Writer

JOY CHUA /SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

With a $50,000 grant from Google, four Cornellprofessors will transform their class into a massiveopen online course, or MOOC, enabling them tooffer the course to countless students worldwide forfree, according to the University.

The course, ‘Six Pretty Good Books: Explorationsin Social Science,’ is taught by Prof. Stephen Ceci,

human development, Prof. Jefferson Cowie, labor his-tory, Prof. Jeffrey Hancock, communication and Prof.Michael Macy, sociology.

According to Macy, because of its integration oftechnology and emphasis on student participation,the course is already well-suited to become a MOOC.

“We already use Skype to allow students to meetwith the authors of the books,” he said. “And we have

Google Will Fund Cornell MOOC‘Six Pretty Good Books’ to be available to the public for freeBy JONATHAN SWARTZSun Staff Writer

See MOOC page 5

Moving forward | President David Skorton has said thatMOOCs will “facilitate the dissemination of knowledge to unprecedented numbers of people.”

Editor in Chief Rebecca Harris ’14

The Corne¬ Daily SunINDEPENDENT SINCE 1880

ALL DEPARTMENTS (607) 273-3606

Postal Information: The Cornell Daily Sun (USPS 132680 ISSN 1095-8169) is published byTHE CORNELL DAILY SUN, a New York corporation, 139 W. State St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.The Sun is published Monday through Friday during the Cornell University academic year, withthree special issues: one for seniors in May, one for alumni in June and one for incoming freshmen in July, for a total of 144 issues per year. Subscription rates are: $137.00 for fall term,$143.00 for spring term and $280.00 for both terms if paid in advance. First-class postage paid atIthaca, New York.Postmaster: Send address changes to The Cornell Daily Sun, 139 W. State St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.

Business: For questions regarding advertising, classifieds, subscriptions or deliveryproblems, please call from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday.News: To report breaking news or story ideas, please call after 5 p.m., Sunday-Thursday.

139 W. State Street, Ithaca, N.Y.SEND A FAX (607) 273-0746

THE SUN ONLINE www.cornellsun.comE-MAIL [email protected]

Business ManagerHank Bao ’14

VISIT THE OFFICE

2 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 DAYBOOK

TodayDaybook

Crisis in Mali: The Conflict and theInternational Response

4:30 - 6 p.m.,G64 Kaufmann Auditorium

Goldwin Smith Hall

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters7:15 p.m., Cornell Cinema

C.U. Music: University OrganistAnnette Richards

8:00 p.m., Sage Chapel

Perkins Prize Ceremony Information4:30 - 6 p.m.,

Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall

Saree Makdisi, “Making EasternWestern”

4:45 - 6:15 p.m.,G64 Kaufmann Auditorium,

Goldwin Smith Hall

Mark Bittman on Conscious andMindless Eating7:15 - 8:45 p.m.,

Bethe House Common Room,Hans Bethe House

Tomorrow

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Today

since 1880

The Corne¬Daily Sun

wWw.CorneLlsun.cOm

PUPIL POETRYcornellians write verse

“Foreigner”She stood silently staring, her reflection both an enemy and an ally.

The world spun around her loud as the rage of thunder that strikes fear in the hearts of theweak.

Nothing would save her in a world annihilated by deceit.

Their voices converge into an indissoluble white noise that breaks through her shield Until its pieces collapse, like a battering ram, too forceful.

Their voices were strong yet their eyes spoke louder. Severance was strategy while they locked away acceptance.

Alone she stood, mute to the world that had once welcomed her; It cast its bright, shiny smile on her yet withdrew the token as soon as she relished its

comforting glow.

Who speaks of belonging in the world of silent souls For which the box is too small,

And the size does not fit?

— Clemence Bernard !15

Students may send poetry submissions to [email protected].

In a high-tech world withconstant communication —where purchases and importantdecisions can be made with thepush of a button — understand-ing how people arrangesequences of events can be com-pelling. As such, when Cornellresearchers investigated the valueof the age-old concept of “savingthe best for last,” they were ledto interesting conclusions.

A recent Cornell study pub-lished in Psychology and Agingreported that as people age, theirtendency to save the best for lastdecreases.

The study — which aims tounderstand how people of dif-ferent ages arrange sequences ofevents over time — is based onan approach based on the “real-ization that people do not selectevents in isolation from eachother, but create streams of expe-riences over time,” according toProf. Corinna Loeckenhoff,human development.

“When creating sequences,younger people tend to beginwith the negative and end withthe positive. ... With age, peopleare more likely to interspersepositive and negative experi-ences,” Loeckenhoff said.

Gregory Eells, director ofcounseling and psychologicalservices for Gannett Health

Services, said the study results“make sense developmentally.”

“For older people, there’s nota lot of time left. When you’reyoung, you are laying the foun-dation for the rest of your life,and that requires delaying grati-fication,” he said.

Loeckenhoff co-authored thestudy with Andrew Reed Ph.D.’11 and Skye Maresca ’11.

According to Loeckenhoff,the team directed two studies inwhich about 90 adults wereshown a series of photos withpositive, negative or neutral con-tent and asked participants tochoose the order in which theywould like to see them. Theyounger adults preferredsequences that began with nega-tive photos and ended with pos-itive ones. This preference, how-ever, decreased with age, as olderadults chose sequences in whichdifferent types of photos wereinterspersed throughout thesequence, Loeckenhoff said.

The study has important the-oretical implications, Loecken -hoff said, adding that althoughadditional research is required tofully understand the mecha-nisms behind the order of pref-erences, differences in the per-ception of “time horizons” ––how people perceive length oflife –– appear to play a role inthe study. Time horizons varywith age, and younger adults,who saw their future as “wide

open,” were more likely to savethe best for last, whereas olderadults with more limited hori-zons preferred balancedsequences, she said.

“Saving the best for last” is atrend Eells said he notices inmany students he sees atCornell. When considering stu-dents who may sacrifice sleep tostudy before an exam, Eells said,“our psyches need variability.”

Rachel Samuel ’16 said shecan relate to the study’s findings.

“I do agree with the studybecause if I’m doing somethingfun, I’ll enjoy it less if I knowthat I have work that I should bedoing. I always get so muchmore satisfaction when doingthings as a reward for getting allthe hard things out of the way,”she said.

Aly Stein ’13 echoedSamuel’s sentiments, noting therelevance of the study to her cur-rent experiences as a senior.

“By the time senior year rollsaround, seniors tend to scurry tocomplete all of the ‘161 Thingsto Do.’ We feel that, in someways, the end is nearing and thatwe have so much left to do,” shesaid. “We put things off untilthe end because of having somuch work, but by now I knowI personally have re-prioritized.”

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 3NEWS

TIANZE PAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Guest speaker Ben Fino-Radin, a digital conservator for Rhizone ArtBase,speaks at the A.D. White House Monday about digital curation in the firsttalk in a new series titled “Conversations in Digital Humanities: Exploringthe Intersections of Digital Technology and Cultural Understanding.”

Let’s get digital

On behalf of 37 juveniles in SouthCarolina who have been sentenced to life inprison without parole, Cornell law studentsand professors are working to abolish sen-tences that may constitute “cruel andunusual punishment,” according to Prof.John Blume, law.

In August, Blume and Keir Weyble, anadjunct professor of law, founded theCornell Juvenile Justice Clinic, a clinic thatassists juvenile defendants facing life sen-tences, because, according to them, juvenilesentences of life without parole should bedeemed unconstitutional.

Even after the U.S. Supreme Court caseof Miller v. Alabama, which upheld the rul-ing that sentencing juveniles to life withoutparole is unconstitutional, juvenile offend-ers in South Carolina still serve life withoutparole sentences, according to Blume.

“[Miller v. Alabama] called into questionthe life without parole sentences that werehanded down to 37 South Carolinainmates. The sentencing procedures wherethese kids got sentenced to life withoutparole did not look anything like the sen-tencing hearing in a capital case,” Blumesaid.

Blume said he found the South Carolinacases particularly unfair because the judgesin these cases made a decision after hearing— on average — less than five minutes ofan argument. Additionally, he said, thejudges did not take into account any back-ground evidence other than their reason forconviction.

As a result, Blume said he recruitedWeyble to create a juvenile justice clinic to

address the problems he observed in SouthCarolina’s judicial system.

“These kids have a powerful story to tell,and the judge should know and take theminto consideration. We are not saying thatthey shouldn’t be punished, but in calibrat-ing the right punishment, the judges shouldknow more,” Blume said.

Blume — whose investigation focusedon five juvenile offenders in particular —said each of the five seemed to have exten-uating circumstances that should have beenfactored into their sentence: one juvenileoffender was mentally retarded and sexual-ly abused, two had mothers who abusedalcohol and drugs and another was a firstgeneration immigrant whose father died ofgangrene, a condition in which the bodilytissues die and decay.

“So in our ‘Legal Wishlist,’ the first goalwould be to have life without paroledeclared cruel and unusual punishment forany juvenile. If we don’t get that, the secondthing we have asked for is that even if lifewithout parole is a sentencing option, all ofour clients are still entitled to new sentenc-ing hearings,” Blume said.

These new sentencing hearings shouldtake into consideration the juveniles’ back-ground stories and mental states in thesame way a capital case does, Blume said.

Five third-year Cornell Law School stu-dents participated in the clinic during thelast academic year, and each were pairedwith one of these five juveniles to learnmore about their cases and personal histo-ries. They traveled to South Carolina lastyear to visit the juveniles and met with theirfamily members, coaches and teachers,according to Blume.

One student on the team, Suzy

Marinkovich law, said she learned how toemphasize with and interact with theclients.

“I think you learn pretty quickly thatyour approach has to be really friendly andnot ‘well, I’m a lawyer.’ You wouldn’t comein with a suit on. Part of it is just having arapport with them,” Marinkovich said.

Katherine Ensler law, another studenton the team, also said she had a similarexperience working with clients.

“The biggest challenge was learning howto at least try to minimize [the barriersbetween our different backgrounds], butthey definitely exist. I think we’ve all haddifferent types of ways to work to get toknow the families better and create envi-ronments where we can function the bestwe can to help our clients,” Ensler said.

Though the law students said they hopejudges would take into consideration theinformation they learned when and if they

reassess their sentences, Blume said heexpects resistance to their efforts.

“I think the biggest challenge at themoment is probably judicial resistance tothe idea that you can’t tell a really bad kidfrom a kid who did a really bad thing.Many judges think they have better insightinto human nature and character than theyprobably should have,” Blume said.

Despite the resistance, Jessica Hittelmanlaw, another student in the Cornell JuvenileJustice Clinic, said the opportunity to workon this project was refreshing.

“It’s exciting to be able to work on anissue that’s so fresh legally,” Hittleman said.“The Miller decision just came down andalmost immediately, we were working on it.It’s pretty cool as a law nerd.”

By ASHLEY CHUSun Contributor

JOY CHUA / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Visiting lecturer Elizabeth Shuhan performs the flute at Barnes Hall Monday night as a partof the C.U. Music series.

Blowing in the wind

Ashley Chu can be reached at [email protected].

Cornell Study Says Older PeopleLess Likely to‘Save the Best for Last’By LAUREN BERGELSENSun Contributor

Lauren Bergelsen can be reachedat [email protected].

C.U. Law Profs, StudentsWork for Juvenile Justice

the past.”Initially, Romano and

Gonzalez said that they hoped tofix the issue within 24 hours, butan email Monday night stated itwill now take 48 hours to resolve.

According to Gonzalez, bothstudents and the Housing Officehave expressed anxiety about thecrash.

“Some students haveapproached us, and they are con-cerned and surprised. We sharetheir concern and stress,”Gonzalez said. “Overall, though,

students have been great and veryreasonable in working with us.”

Some students, including KentChan ’16, were surprised to findthat although they had signedtheir housing contracts before thecrash, the contract had been can-celled.

“My friends and I were done at5:20 [p.m.], and we had signedour contracts. By 5:30 [p.m.], Ilearned that the housing portalhad shut down and that my con-tract was void,” Chan said. “I amreally frustrated. ... Shuttingdown the housing portal was theright thing to do given the techni-cal issues, but cancelling every-

thing was not.”Other students echoed

[Chan’s] sentiment, saying theissue was surprising.

“It is pretty ironic becauseCornell has such tech prowess,but we still have to wait [48]hours to fix the housing portal,”Avinash Murugan ’16 said.

Students also noted the lack ofinformation about the the issueand when it would be fixed.

“I feel like the informationthey gave us in the email and onthe website was insufficient andnot very clear,” Chan said. “It didnot explain what the problemswere or why they made such a

drastic decision to close the hous-ing portal and cancel the con-tracts.”

Some students said they areafraid that the problem will occuragain later in the housing selec-tion process.

“The email that the HousingOffice sent was delayed, and itdidn’t have any information abouthow it will be fixed. I’m reallyafraid that this will happentomorrow, and that everythingwill be pushed back even farther,”Murugan said.

4 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 NEWS

Students Voice Frustration at Housing Portal New UrgentCare FacilityWill OfferDecreasedWait Timethat Ithaca could use additionalwalk-in services and urgent careservices,” Radford said.

The company had receivedword-of-mouth feedback fromhealthcare providers in the com-munity that there had been “log-jams” with the number of peopleneeding care, he said, adding that“some of it’s a gut feeling” aboutwhat areas need another health-care provider.

“There was a definite need for[urgent care],” said Dr. LouanneTenkate, Five Star Urgent Care’sregional medical director, whowill work at the Ithaca center.According to Radford, there isonly one other urgent care centerin Ithaca — Cayuga ConvenienceCare.

Compared to hospital emer-

gency rooms, Five Star centersoffer “significantly lower” ratesand wait time, according to thecompany’s website. Additionally,Five Star Urgent Care aims tomake its centers customer service-based, Radford said.

“People value their time, soour average wait time is 15 min-utes to be seen by a provider, andyou’re in and out within 45 min-utes,” he said. “Compare that toan emergency department, whereyou’re lucky if you’re seen withinan hour.”

Urgent Care centers like FiveStar manage “urgent but not toourgent” conditions like respirato-ry infections, lacerations anddehydration, according toTenkate.

At any time of the day, theIthaca center will be staffed witheither a physician or a physician’sassistant, she said.

Five Star has two other loca-tions in Big Flats, N.Y. andJamestown, N.Y. and will open afourth location in Syracuse, N.Y.this spring.

In Big Flats, the Center seesbetween 40 and 50 patients a day.Its difficult, however, to predicthow much traffic the Ithaca cen-ter will experience, Tenkate said.

Tenkate also said the staff forFive Star centers look forward tohelping the community.

“We want to make it conve-nient for students to come downhere and get great care,” she said.

HOUSINGContinued from page 1

Lauren Avery can be reached [email protected].

CAREContinued from page 1

Sarah Cutler can be reached [email protected].

“People value their time,so our average wait timeis 15 minutes to be seenby a provider, and you’rein and out within 45minutes.”Dr. John Radford

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 5NEWS

MOOC to Teach ‘Engaging’ Booksdeveloped a system for peer assess-ment to help students recognizetheir strengths and weaknesses intheir ability to articulate theirunderstanding of the books.”

Although the University hasrecently decided that it will join aMOOC consortium in the nearfuture, Google will support —both financially and technologi-cally — the MOOC version ofSix Pretty Good Books, Macysaid. The course will be offeredonline through Google’s CourseBuilder platform, according to aUniversity press release.

According to Provost KentFuchs, after submitting a winningproposal to Google, the Cornellprofessors were granted the fundsto enable them to rework theircourse into a MOOC.

“I’m really pleased that thesefaculty put in the effort to write awinning proposal to Google,”Fuchs said. “This is a wonderfulopportunity to share the …University course with theworld.”

The course is part of theUniversity Courses initiative, aseries of classes designed to teachstudents to think from the per-spectives of multiple disciplines,according to Macy.

“The course was the originalmodel for the University Courses[initiative] created in 2010 …which called for courses thatinvolve team teaching across disci-plines that might provide a more

unified and shared educationalexperience for Cornell undergrad-uates regardless of major,” Macysaid.

Emily Decicco ’16, who tookthe course last semester, highlight-ed the importance of using tech-nology in lectures.

“The author was projected ona giant screen in front of you [onSkype] and you got to ask him orher your personal questions aboutthe book, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” she said.“Sure, you could email them, butto Skype in with New York Times’best-selling authors is unbeliev-able.”

According to Macy, the courseis modeled after ‘Great Books’courses offered in the humanities;however, unlike the humanitiescourses, the books examined inthis course are contemporary.

“[The books] are highly engag-ing, thought-provoking, accessi-ble, important, and written bysome of the world’s most promi-nent and influential social scien-tists and science writers, includingSteven Pinker, Duncan Watts,Robert Frank, NicholasChristakis, Malcolm Gladwelland Dan Ariely,” Macy said.

Decicco said that the course’sbooks intrigued and entertainedher.

“The books you read are booksthat you would choose to read inyour free time,” she said. “To getan academic perspective on it —from so many different peopleand the actual authors — addedso much to the books and made

the course unlike any other.”Decicco said that as a MOOC

— with a potentially massive anddiverse enrollment — the coursewould offer the students whoenroll an enhanced academic andlearning experience.

“The course would lend itselfwell [as a MOOC], because Ithink the more opinions and dif-ferent types of people with differ-ent interests that you can get intodiscussions is huge,” Decicco said.“The books we read would reallylend well to that kind of discus-sion.”

According to Macy, mostMOOCs to date have been intechnical fields such as computerscience or math. Macy said thathe hopes and expects to see morecourses in the humanities andsocial sciences.

“We hope to blaze the trail formore courses to follow, both atCornell and elsewhere, especiallyin the social sciences,” he said.“Google has transformed the abil-ity of humans across the planet tofind the answers to questions, andI think they see MOOCs as animportant new contribution tothat mission.”

In a Forbes piece publishedJanuary, President David Skortonsaid that “by providing free accessto anyone with an Internet con-nection, MOOCs facilitate thedissemination of knowledge tounprecedented numbers of peo-ple.”

MOOCContinued from page 1

Jonathan Swartz can be reached [email protected].

Letter Campaign Continuesthe rain date[Monday], we haveplanned to have let-ters from aroundcampus coming into Skorton,” Castlesaid.

The organizersof the divestmentletter-writing cam-paign have reachedout to several indi-vidual leaders andcampus organiza-tions, such asC o r n e l lOrganization forLabor Action andthe Women ofColor Coalition,who have commit-ted to write toPresident Skortonthis week, Castlesaid.

“While we’re stillwaiting to hear backfrom some individ-uals and organiza-tions, we know thatthere will be a largecross-section of theuniversity and sev-eral unique perspec-tives represented aspeople from acrosscampus,” Castlesaid in an email.

Castle also saidthat the organizerswill be tabling at

different locationson campus thisweek and will pro-vide materials sopeople can sendcards to Skortonsaying reasons whyCornell needs todivest.

These individualmessages will bedelivered toSkorton at the endof the letter-writingeffort, after sup-porters of divest-ment have had achance to “say theirpiece,” according toCastle.

In an interviewwith The Sun onFeb. 15, Skortoncalled on “studentsto make their case,[and] put out theirpoints of view” onthe issue of divest-ment. The studentswho had writtenletters did just that,Leiby said.

The studentsgathered outsideDay Hall said theybelieved strongly indivestment andwanted to make a“personal connec-tion” through theirletters.

“My letter waswritten so I couldbe more personal

with PresidentSkorton and the askof the resolution,”Leiby said.

The StudentAssembly passedResolution 32:Toward aR e s p o n s i b l eEndowment, onFeb. 7, resolvingthat Cornell divestfrom the fossil fuelindustry by the endof 2020 and rein-vest 30 percent ofthese funds in sus-tainable companiesby 2030.

The letter-writ-ing initiative in thedivestment cam-paign comes afterthe S.A. passedResolution 32.

The studentswho delivered theirletters on Mondaywere escorted up toSkorton’s office inDay Hall by amember of theCornell UniversityPolice Departmentand an event man-ager who works forC o r n e l lCommunications,according to Leiby.

DIVESTContinued from page 1

Danielle Sochaczevskican be reached [email protected].

OPINION

Letters to the editor may be sent to [email protected].

Letters should be no longer than 250 words. Please include anevening phone number and your graduating year if applicable.

All opinions welcome.

This week, a new group of editors and managers assumed the responsibility ofguiding this paper over the course of the next year. Our predecessors broadened thescope of this organization’s mission, delivering content to our readership in new andinnovative ways. We intend to do the same. I am honored to have some of Cornell’sgreatest minds alongside me on the 131st Editorial Board as The Sun continues tomove into uncharted digital territory.

In the last year, we introduced live-streaming video, bringing campus eventsstraight to your screens. We doubled our production of multimedia content, pub-lishing several videos per week on our website. For the first time, we trained our tra-ditionally print-based staff to shoot videos on the spot and edit them for immediateturnaround. Although we have continued to bring you a quality newspaper eachmorning, we are no longer limited to our daily print edition.

We look forward to pushing forward even more exciting developments during ourtenure, keeping you informed in immediate and interactive ways on campus, inprint and online. In the months ahead, we will be revamping our blogs site; increas-ing our coverage of entrepreneurship at Cornell; and bolstering our social and mul-timedia presence on the web.

For the past year — indeed, for the past 132 years — we have striven to main-tain integrity, accuracy and relevancy in the content we deliver to our readers.Although The Sun is evolving in many ways, that foundational charge will remainpreeminent under our watch. You represent our most loyal followers and our tough-est critics. While we cannot promise that you will support every decision we make,we can pledge that every one will be made with our readers in mind. I hope to hearfrom many of you this semester; my door is always open.

— R.L.H.

Exploring Uncharted Territory

From the Editor

IN THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT ASSEMBLY, thechoice could not be more clear. Ulysses Smith ’14 is the most qualified, dedicatedand engaging of the three candidates by a significant margin. He has articulatedhis accomplishments and outlined his plans for the Cornell community with elo-quence and passion, leaving no doubt that he is the right man for the job.

Since Smith joined the S.A. his freshman year, he has sponsored the most reso-lutions of the three candidates. He served as the S.A.’s first vice president of out-reach and is currently its first vice president of diversity and inclusion. Throughhis work in those roles, Smith has demonstrated his commitment to outreach andhis ability to build and maintain relationships with his constituents. In one of hismost significant pieces of legislation, Smith more clearly defined the roles of theS.A.’s college representatives. The resolution raised the bar for required outreachby mandating that representatives hold a minimum number of meetings with col-lege deans and students each semester.

If Smith is elected president, we will be excited to see him follow through onthe goals he has outlined in his platform. We support his fresh approach toUniversity-wide diversity initiatives, as well as his ideas for late-night safety andprogramming in response to recent sexual assaults and racial attacks. Additionally,we stand behind Smith’s desire to standardize byline funding and decrease the sub-jectivity that has plagued the process in the past. His experience with two previ-ous allocation cycles will be a valuable asset going into another byline fundingyear.

Though Stephen Breedon ’14 would also be qualified for the job, we havefound that his use of buzzwords in describing past and promised initiatives has notbeen accompanied by concrete ways in which he would enact tangible change. Wemust also note that Jay Lee ’14 declined The Sun’s invitation to interview as weprepared to determine our endorsement for this position. While it is certainly Lee’sprerogative to do so, we are also struck by his decision not to participate in sever-al candidate debates and forums that took place on campus this past week.

We firmly believe that Smith’s skill set, experience and passion for bettering ourcampus make him stand out not only in comparison to the other presidential can-didates, but among Cornellians across the University. Our one reservation is thatthis passion could make it difficult for him to fulfill the president’s necessary roleof serving as a moderator in divisive conversations within the S.A. Nonetheless, weare more than comfortable with choosing a leader whose zeal for making a differ-ence at Cornell is his most obvious weakness.

Ulysses Smith’14 for Student Assembly President

Editorial

WORKING ON TODAY’S SUN

DESIGN DESKERS Megan Zhou ’15Zach Praiss ’16

PHOTO NIGHT EDITORS Shailee Shah ’14 Michelle Fraling ’16

NEWS DESKERS Jinjoo Lee ’14Caroline Flax ’15

SPORTS DESKER Ariel Cooper ’15ARTS DESKER Arielle Cruz ’15

NEWS NIGHT EDITORS Lauren Avery ’15Sarah Cutler ’16

Assessing The Sun’s journalistic integrityTo the Editor:

RE: “Cornell Student Found Dead at Watermargin Cooperative Wednesday Night,” News, Feb.27

The past few days have been extremely difficult for Watermargin and the rest of theCornell community. The ideal way to handle a situation of this severity is never clear, butthere is no excuse for the manner in which The Sun has chosen to cover this tragedy.

The Sun’s coverage served only to heighten emotional distress, not only amongWatermargin residents, but across the entire Cornell community as well. We strongly believethat the reporters of The Sun abused their journalistic privileges that night by prematurelyposting an article on their website. The headline “Body Found at Cornell Cooperative” leftman Cornell students to speculate and panic when they deserved to find out in a more con-siderate and persoanl way. Meanwhile, members of the Watermargin community have feltrushed to personally contact those who knew and loved Joe before they read about it in TheSun.

The sensational nature of the text and image included in the final story was unnecessaryand further exacerbated the emotional distress in our community. We believe the tabloid-like image and inappropriate story was insensitive to the reality of this situation and itsimmediacy to many, if not most, members of the Cornell community. The coverage lackedjournalistic integrity in its misleading and unfortunate portrayal of this grave and seriousloss.

Upon contacting The Sun with our concerns, we received a letter that expressed condo-lence, but dismissed our complaints in a callous and patronizing manner. Even though TheSun is an independent paper, it does not exist independently of the Cornell community.Themanner in which its journalists and editors investigate and report stories impacts notremoved subjects, but peers and friends, and their words therefore carry a greater and morepersonal weight among this large, yet integrated University community.

The coverage of this tragedy has been a disgrace to the nature and spirit of The Sun itself,as a student publication, by forgoing its responsibility to the hearts of the students it serves.Now is the time for all of us, the members of The Sun along with the entire Cornell com-munity to stand together in respectfully acknowledging and grieving the loss of our amaz-ing, talented and dearly loved friend.

Rebecca Ashby-Colon ’13, Morgan Michel-Schottman ’14, Royce Novak ’13, PreslavaStaneva ’13, Sonny Penterman, grad, Jenny Zhao ’13, Zolzaya Enkhbayar ’15, Andrea

Alfano ’14, Natanya Auerbach ’13, Casey Minella ’14, Carlos Higgins ’14, MollyBeckhardt ’14 and Clara Scholtz '15, members of the Watermargin Cooperative

Letters

The Corne¬ Daily SunIndependent Since 1880

131ST EDITORIAL BOARD

AKANE OTANI ’14Managing Editor

AUSTIN KANG ’15Advertising Manager

HALEY VELASCO ’15Sports Editor

ALEX REHBERG ’16Multimedia Editor

REBECCA COOMBES ’14Design Editor

ZACHARY ZAHOS ’15Associate Managing Editor

LIANNE BORNFELD ’15News Editor

JINJOO LEE ’14News Editor

ARIELLE CRUZ ’15Arts & Entertainment Editor

SYDNEY RAMSDEN ’14Dining Editor

EMILY BERMAN ’16Assistant Sports Editor

ARIEL COOPER ’15Assistant Sports Editor

HANNAH KIM ’14Assistant Design Editor

LIZZIE POTOLSKY ’14Outreach Coordinator

SID SHEKAR ’15Online Advertising Manager

LEO DING ’14Human Resources Manager

HANK BAO ’14Business Manager

LIZ CAMUTI ’14Associate Editor

ANDY LEVINE ’14Web Editor

RACHEL ELLICOTT ’13Blogs Editor

DAVID MARTEN ’14Tech Editor

SHAILEE SHAH ’14Photography Editor

EMMA COURT ’15City Editor

CAROLINE FLAX ’15News Editor

SAM BROMER ’16Arts & Entertainment Editor

SARAH COHEN ’15Science Editor

BRYAN CHAN ’15Associate Multimedia Editor

SCOTT CHIUSANO ’15Assistant Sports Editor

MEGAN ZHOU ’15Assistant Design Editor

BRANDON ARAGON ’14Assistant Web Editor

ANNA TSTENER ’14Marketing Manager

ERIKA G. WHITESTONE ’15Social Media Manager

REBECCA HARRIS ’14Editor in Chief

A s Washington’s oddstratagems todestroy American

economic recovery reachnew heights, it is high seasonfor bashing political leader-ship. Beyond the sequesterand the President’s realiza-tion that he cannot pull off a“Jedi mind-meld,” the airappears thick with incompe-tence and paralysis in Japan,India and Europe. In arecent piece for theAmerican Interest, WalterRussell Mead makes his pes-simistic case, contendingthat the “American elite isnot alone in its inconsequen-tial futility and its lack ofstrategic vision.” Mead exag-gerates these problems andmisattributes their source.Furthermore, the historicalepisodes he sees as inspira-tion for solutions probablycontributed to today’s politi-cal paralysis.

Mead’s critique of mod-ern leadership extends wellbeyond the traditional seatsof power. Bureaucrats, uni-versity presidents, the headsof mammoth non-profits areall attacked for being con-fined thinkers, perpetuallyseeking a hollow consensus.His heroes, however, are asmall coterie of post-WorldWar II statesmen — “men”like Adenauer, de Gaulle andTruman. Leading civil soci-eties that were “sobered bywar and depression,” thesemen were able to lay founda-tions for economic prosperi-ty and political stability for

years to come. Whileinstantly appealing for itsnostalgia, this picture glossesover the constrained actionsof his heroes. Reading Mead,one would never worryabout de Gaulle’s costlydithering over the French

decolonization of Algeria orTruman bypassing Congressearly in the Korean War.More confusingly, manyinstances of deep politicalstagnation today can betraced to the kind of leader-ship Mead is so partialtoward. Describing Europe’spolitical scene as a “man-made disaster,” he appears topin the blame on Germanchancellor Helmut Kohl’s ill-conceived dash for the Euro.This attempt at Europeanintegration, however, is justthe kind of grand gesturethat Mead’s argument wouldotherwise valorize.

In chastising modernleaders for their indecision,Mead insists that humanattitudes can dramaticallyand inexplicably change. Heimagines a sudden, ratherarbitrary tipping pointsomewhere in the late 1980swhen leaders started having

trouble comprehending riskand, my favorite, became“bad at estimating probabili-ties.” It remains unclear whythe minds of the politicalelite suddenly became bad atdoing things that psycholo-gists now tell us humans

have been bad at doing for awhile. I would argue thestory of increasingly con-strained political and eco-nomic power, if true to thedegree Mead suggests, isactually derived in large partfrom the slowly erodingpower of the institutionsthat these leaders are a partof.

In a more systematicanalysis of the diffusion ofpolitical power that ran inThe Washington Post,Moises Naim proposes threereasons for this phenome-non of diffusion. Anexpanding global middleclass, increasing migrationand mobility and a norma-tive shift in attitudes in favorof “individual freedoms andgender equality” haverestrained traditional seats ofpower. Naim suggests thatthese trends are behindmany unpleasant impasses,

including tarrying on deficitreduction in the U.S., theEuropean Union’s incoher-ent economic policies andthe lack of a global climatetreaty. On the whole, howev-er, he rightly contends thatthese changes cannot be con-demned as universallyunwelcome. Naim discussesin some detail the effects ofincreasingly diffused politi-cal power including reducedcivilian tolerance of militarycasualties, shorter averagetenures for CEOs and warierstock markets that punish oildrilling firms more harshlyfor spills. While each phe-nomenon has its downsides,they are not worth lament-ing as unambiguously asMead does.

I am no starry-eyed fan oflegislators in D.C. or backhome in New Delhi. I donot think, however, that theyare, en masse, substantiallydifferent human beings thanthe ones who occupied thoseseats decades ago. They livein a different world withgreater constraints on theirauthority, guided by lessthan perfect incentives.Their reduced ability topush an agenda, moreover,may actually be very wel-come.

Though it may be a surprise to many of you, I amhappy to report that I did indeed surviveFebruary ... but barely. Two weeks ago I wrote a

controversial article about Black History Month inwhich I called for an end to the tradition, and forBlack History to be a lesson that is taught throughoutthe year. I thought people would read the article andunderstand that I was demanding more, not less.However, to my chagrin, that was not the case. Therewere many responses to my article ranging from a let-ter to The Sun to several Facebook statuses thatappeared in my newsfeed. One thing I quickly noticedwas that they all seemed to make the same point.

As Cameron F. Younger pointed out in his letter,“Remembering the origins of Black History Month,”black history has been distorted throughout the yearsand as a result cannot be taught with world history.However, I simply ask, has anybody reasoned thatteaching it in its own month allows for it to contra-dict world history? Think about it. If black historywere taught with world history, the contradictionswould force the issue, and something would have tobe done to realign the two. Of course, if “BlackHistory Month” no longer existed, it would take a lotof work to teach the struggles of African-Americanscorrectly. However, it would be well worth it. Wemust realize that Black History Month was not creat-ed as an end game but a stepping-stone, and now thatit is taught in schools, it is the time to take that ideafurther.

I also would like to point out that Younger stated hewrote his letter “simply to shed light on the other sideof Thomas’ claim that black his-

tory is irrelevant.” I want to state that I in no wayclaimed that black history was not important, and thatif somehow I did, I would like to apologize. As acolumnist, I always run the risk of being misquoted orsimply misunderstood. It is easy to deny the truth inwhat I’m trying to convey if someone can interpret mywords in any way he or she sees fit. However, thispushes me to do a better job of expressing mythoughts.

In a Facebook post regarding my last column,someone stated that, as a columnist, I am “an ever-present voice that objects to anything widely cele-brated by people, just because.” I agree that I dooften find myself at odds with many things that arewidely accepted. However, I believe that this is oftenbecause things that have existed for a long time areoften accepted without so much as a second thought.I attempt to question everything, and as a resultmust accept nothing at face value. Also, I feel as if apart of my job is to seek controversial topics, notonly to pique the interest of my readers, but also tohelp play a role in the evolution of society. I knowbeyond a doubt that I will not promote change bywriting articles that nobody disagrees with. Thus, Iwould like to thank those of you that disagree withme for proving to me that I am achieving at leastsome of my goals.

I must also admit that at times I enjoy being in theminority when arguments arise. Nonetheless, do notexpect me to argue a certain way simply because it isthe voice of the minority — the cause must be just andthe argument must be sound. If you think that some-thing you believe is a view held by few or that it oppos-es a widely accepted ideal, do not be afraid to shareyour belief. I encourage you to email me if you haveany opinions that you think I might agree with.However, if you accept every widely-accepted ideal atface value or are too afraid to voice your opinion, justremember it’s not me, it’s you.

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 7OPINION

Optimal Restraint

My AmbitionzAs a Writah

I agree that I do oftenfind myself at odds with many things that arewidely accepted.

Deon Thomas | It’s Not You, It’s Me Nicholas Kaasik | Public Editor

I am no starry-eyed fanof legislators in D.C. orback home in NewDelhi.

Kirat Singh is a junior in theCollege of Arts and Sciences. Hemay be reached at [email protected]. Evaluating theDiscontents appears alternateTuesdays this semester.

Deon Thomas is a sophomore in the School of Industrial andLabor Relations. He may be reached at [email protected]’s Not Me, It’s You appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Kirat Singh | Evaluating the Discontents

The Sun’s recent cover-age of the unwel-come remarks of a

speaker at a campus Muslimprayer service brings up abroader difficult questionwhen it comes to identifyinga derogatory speaker andcalling out the speaker forwhat was said. On the onehand, naming a homopho-bic and sexist speaker servesas a way to shame a speakerfor his or her unwelcomeremarks. On the other hand,if a speaker is an establishedprovocateur a la theWestboro Baptist Church orsomething along those lines,naming a speaker merelyprovides more free publicityfor sexism or homophobia.

Further complicating theeditor’s job in determiningthe appropriate way toreport on derogatory speechis that the role of the newssection is primarily to reporthappenings and to saveopinions for the editorialpage. But the editor mustchoose one way or the other,and neither choice is com-pletely objective.

If this wasn’t complicatedenough, the editor must alsoconsider the reputation ofthe witnesses. Absent a Sun

reporter attending the eventand taking notes, the editormust rely on secondhandaccounts of what transpired.If the witnesses mischarac-terize what happened, andThe Sun subsequentlynames the speaker, theseawful remarks are tied withhis or her name in print butalso, and perhaps moredamagingly, on the Internetfor all posterity. The Sunrisks slandering the speaker,and may even face a libelsuit. While the risk of a suc-cessful libel suit against TheSun is low, and The Sun hasinsurance against such suitsin any event, the reputationof the newspaper and thereputation of the speaker isstill at risk.

So what is an editor todo? In this particular case,the sources for The Sundeclined to identify thespeaker, and in so doingmade this decision for them.But what should editors doin a different situation, inwhich the speaker’s identityis known to the reporter andthe editor? Should the editorwait to identify and namethe speaker before publish-ing the article? I don’t thinkthere’s a clear right or wrong.

Either choice has its ownmerits and risks.

The editors should con-sider a balancing test if TheSun encounters this type ofdecision in the future. Theyshould weigh the intentions,reputation and veracity ofwitnesses, as well as whethernaming the speaker will sim-ply provide free publicityand attention to an unwel-come cause. If the speaker’sreputation is that of aknown provocateur who islikely seeking attention forhis or her bigoted agenda,the editor should considerminimizing the free publici-ty of journalism by decliningto identify the speaker.Alternatively, if the speakeris engaging in conductunbecoming of their reputa-tion — which is perhapsmore common when he orshe is an established memberof the Cornell community— naming that speakerholds the speaker moreaccountable for his or herwords.

Some will argue thatsuch a balancing test defiesthe journalistic principle ofobjectivity in the news sec-tion. This is not persuasive.The decision to publish a

speaker’s name, in order toincrease the newspaper’seffectiveness as an account-ability mechanism for hate-ful speech, is an editorialone.

To some degree, all newscoverage is shaped by edi-tor’s opinions on what isimportant and what is notimportant. All news organi-zations must decide whatcontent to include andexclude, and it would benaïve to think that thesedecisions can be made insome purely objective man-ner. The newspaper shouldavoid serving as a free ampli-fier for derogatory speechand must avoid being a will-ing puppet of provocateursseeking to take advantage offree publicity. Just as thespeaker is free to say what heor she pleases, so too is TheSun free to decide on whatto report.

Giving Publicity to Derogatory Speech

Nicholas Kaasik is a second-year law student at CornellLaw School. He assigns andedits submissions for BarelyLegal. He may be reached [email protected] Public Editor columnruns monthly on Tuesdays.

T 8 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013

T THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 9

10 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013

In case you haven’t heard, Zero DarkThirty was nominated for five AcademyAwards and four Golden Globes. You

might not have noticed, however, the politi-cal and journalistic quibbling over the film’saccuracy in portraying the lead-up to BinLadin’s death.

As Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scottnoted in The New York Times, much hasbeen made of the historical accuracy (or lackthereof) of recent films like Lincoln, DjangoUnchained, Zero Dark Thirty and Argo.However, rather than dwelling on fact-checking details themselves, Dargis andScott raised broader questions about therelationship between art, morality and truth:“Is art supposed to make us better people,give us moral instruction, work toward thesocial good, or exist merely for our personalpleasure? Above all, does it have to be true?”

In asking whether art should be true,Dargis and Scott ignore a key point:Even if art wanted to be truthful, itcan’t. Art is always a representation.Even when the artist tries to be“truthful,” his subjectivity alwaysemerges — even if he is a realistpainter or a so-called documentaryphotographer. No matter how realis-tic the painting might appear, it isalways an illusion, or the artist’sinterpretation of the scene beforehim. Likewise, a photographer doesn’t needa darkroom or Photoshop to insert his sub-jectivity. Just by taking the picture — crop-ping this but not that, allowing more or lesslight to enter — he has already turned it into

a representation.Perhaps Dargis and Scott should have

posed the question in a slightly differentway, asking not whether art should be true(it cannot) but whether art should try to betruthful. Certainly, in painting a portrait forexample, the artist can choose to approxi-mate the subject’s color and proportionsrather than veer towards abstraction.Likewise, there is a large range of possiblephotographic manipulation, Photoshopeffects being at the extreme end of the spec-trum. In the same way, Zero Dark Thirty caneither stick to or abandon the historical factsat its disposal. So, to rephrase Dargis andScott’s question, should art try to be true?

Yes — just not in the way Dargis andScott define it. To them, “true” is synony-mous with “factual” and “historically accu-rate.” While I agree that “true” portrayals ofhistorical events would include factual and

historically accurate information, they donot necessarily have to.

Art is a slice of an incomprehensible uni-verse, something that makes reality morerelatable. Sometimes, historical accuracy and

fact-checking helpartists cut theirslice. Other times,such literalnessinterferes with amore relatabletruth. Impressio-nists, for example,abandoned realistpainting to moreaccurately repre-sent the propertiesof light. Likewise,a cubist self-portrait might be more truthfulthan a snapshot showing just one expressionat one point in time. The goal is always toshow us something new, something we had-n’t noticed before, about the reality we’vetaken for granted.

The danger is not that these films aban-don facts or historical accuracy for that morerelatable, more meaningful truth. The dan-ger is when films claim a degree of historicalaccuracy (as Zero Dark Thirty does). Thedanger is when the government, working topromote order, monopolizes the informa-tion (sometimes for good reasons of nation-al security), and the journalists, working tosell newspapers, spin the information totheir liking. The danger is when we can onlyget our facts from film, when Mississippionly remembers to ratify the 13thAmendment after watching Lincoln. Thedanger is when we can’t tell the differencebetween fact and fiction, between film andreal life.

For me, the most chilling aspect of Zero

Dark Thirty (and there were many) was thisinability to tell the difference between “filmtruth” and reality. Thinking back two yearsago to Bin Ladin’s death, I tried to comparethe movie's portrayal with what was report-ed on the news. I did lots of Googling andcomparing. But in the end, there was infor-mation I would never know about thoseevents, photos I would never see and I wasleft with only the movie’s portrayal to fill inthe gaps.

That’s the art of the film — that it cap-tures the gray area between fact and fictionpost 9/11. It feels “true” in a way a histori-cally accurate film could not. It feels like2003 again, when Bush announced thatwe’d found WMDs, and everyone just nod-ded because there was no way of knowingotherwise. We filled in the gaps then too.

Greener on theOther Side

Emily Greenberg

Emily Greenberg is a senior in the Colleges of Artsand Sciences & Art, Architecture and Planning.She can be contacted [email protected]. Greener on theOther Side appears alternate Tuesdays.

The Myth of Truth in Art

Gregory Crewdon: Brief Encounters is an inspiringdocumentary film by Ben Shapiro on the life and workof acclaimed contemporary American photographer andYale faculty member, Gregory Crewdson. The title ofthe film is taken from a theater sign of the very last pho-tograph in a long series called “Beneath the Roses,”which features photographs of life in small towns inupstate New York and other locations in New England.Crewdson is known for his large, complex, theatricaland staged photographs of small-town life, usually por-traying ordinary people and marginal characters.

Crewdson grew up in Brooklyn as the son of a psy-chiatrist whose practice was in the basement of the fam-ily townhouse. As a child, Crewdson was intrigued bythe mystery of what was happening in that basement,and he has continued to explore an enigmatic under-standing of everyday life in his mature work. He wasalso inspired by an exhibition of the photographs ofDiane Arbus whose unsettling portraits of misfits inordinary life had a powerful effect on him at a youngage. From her art, he realized that photography is notsimply a documentary medium; it can also be psycho-logically complex and indeterminate in its narrative.

After some academic difficulties in college, Crewdsontook up photography in earnest, and has now become acritically acclaimed photographer, represented by majorgalleries and featured in museum exhibitions. TheHerbert F. Johnson Museum is currently exhibiting oneof the photographs in his “Beneath the Roses” series.

Each photograph in “Beneath the Roses” is a culmi-nation of Crewdson’s lengthy production process. First,Crewdson explores various small town streets for a set-ting. However, some of his photographs are not realizedin an actual location, but in entire houses and roomscarefully reconstructed with controlled stage design.Each photograph requires a full-scale production teamsimilar to a small film crew. The successful realization ofeach photograph depends on cranes and lifts, massivelighting rigs and a careful search for proper clothing,furniture and other props.

In the film, Crewdson comes across as an easy-goingperson, but it is clear that he is obsessive about gettingevery detail right. In his outdoor photos, he goes as faras having a pickup truck release fog and mist before tak-ing a photo at dusk, simply to capture the right envi-ronmental quality of light.

Every photograph depicts “ordinary” people per-

forming everyday tasks. These chosen “actors” arenot idealized models, but ordinary locals with sag-ging bodies, bad teeth and blotchy skin. A make-up team has to dress and prepare each actor beforehe or she assumes a still pose. Then Crewdson’steam takes about 50 large format photographs ofthe same scene, with minor variations in lighting,exposure and actors’ poses. Later, he works with apost production team to digitally combine the bestparts of his takes and construct a final, large-scalephoto.

Crewdson achieves an aesthetic in his resultingphotos that is uncanny and disturbing. Each feelsvery familiar. They appear to be ordinary views ofunremarkable individuals in a small town, butbecause he controls the lighting and the placementof actors and props very carefully, it somehowsimultaneously looks like an artifice — a frozenstaging of a living narrative. Because the pho-tographs are printed on very large pages, one can-not help but notice every detail in each photo —peeling wallpaper, grimy windows and the alienat-ed looks on the faces of the actors. The pho-tographs are of ordinary scenes, but their artificeand transformative light also provide a feeling ofgrace. “For that instant, my life makes sense,”Crewdson noted with a wry sense of humor.

Crewdson’s careful construction of his pho-tographs renders them closer to paintings thandocumentary photographs. As much as his workwas affected by other photogrophers such as DianeArbus, Crewdson is equally inspired by Hollywoodstaged theatricality. For one photo, Crewdsonwent as far as recreating the entire bathroom fromPsycho. This layering of art, historical and cine-matic references adds complexity to Crewdson’sphotos and makes them more akin, if anything, toabstraction. If you are looking to be creatively

inspired, don’t miss Brief Encounters.Brief Encounters will be shown on campus on March 5

at 7:30 p.m. at the Schwartz Center.

BY REHAN DADISun Staff Writer

Rehan Dadi is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and LifeSciences. He can be reached at [email protected].

ZANDER ABRANOWICZ / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ZEITGEIST FILMS

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | 11A & E

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

GregoryCrewdson:

Brief Encounters

12 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013

I Am Going to Be Small by Jeffrey Brown

ACROSS1 Politicos Reagan

and Paul5 Do some healing9 Mallorcan seaport

14 Lit sign in a darktheater

15 Operatic song16 Regions17 Playground

frolicker18 Singer called the

“Godmother ofPunk”

20 Not getting anyyounger

22 Mozart’s “Cosìfan __”

23 Misdemeanor26 Reheat leftovers,

in a way30 “Bambi” doe31 Pep rally yell32 Grabbed at will34 Triangular Indian

pastry37 Bufferin targets38 Set in opposition

to41 Land, in Le Havre42 Puts into office43 Enthusiastic reply

to “Who wants icecream?”

45 Classical lead-in46 Involuntary sign of

nerves49 Color for a

panther?50 One given to bad

language54 Movie reviewer

Roger56 China’s Zhou __57 Finishing the

18th, say62 Caplet or gelcap63 Dentist’s insertion64 Where the clergy

sit, in manychurches

65 Mayberry boy66 It’s found in veins67 Tiny time div.68 MADD ads, e.g.

DOWN1 Put on a new

cassette2 Roughly 21% of

the atmosphere3 “La Femme __”

4 Angioplastyimplant

5 “You are here”document

6 Timeline time7 Capone cohort

Frank8 Factual tidbit9 Yesterday’s

tense10 Azerbaijani’s

neighbors11 Welcoming

wreath12 Welcoming floor

covering13 Bit of fire

evidence19 Adherents: Suff.21 Danced wildly24 Amounted (to)25 __ Island27 Weapons from

Israel28 Mild-mannered

fictional reporter29 L.A. Times

staffers33 Exemplification34 Ump’s call35 Erie Canal

mule36 Athlete’s

promoter

38 Mani partner,salonwise

39 Laundry room tool40 __-deucy41 Advice at the

track44 Pop one’s cork?46 Blooms from

bulbs47 Home to Firenze48 __ rellenos:

stuffed Mexicandish

51 Church keyboard

52 Sporty car roofs53 Seuss’s “Hop __”55 Difficult situation57 Pollutant banned

by Cong. in 197958 www address59 On top of

everything else60 Employ61 Investigator,

slangily

By Mel Rosen(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 03/05/13

03/05/13

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword PuzzleEdited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

[email protected]

Mr. Gnu Travis Dandro

Up to My Nipples by William Moore ’12 and Jesse Simons grad

Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau

COMICS AND PUZZLES

9 8

7

6

2 5

7

4

5

3

8

1

6

7

4

2 6

5 3

4 5

C

Sun Sudoku Puzzle #11 days ’til breakFill in the empty

cells, one numberin each, so that

each column,row, and region

contains thenumbers 1-9exactly once.

Each number inthe solution

therefore occursonly once in each

of the three“directions,”

hence the “singlenumbers” implied

by the puzzle’sname.

(Rules fromwikipedia.org/wiki

/Sudoku)

****Beautiful luxury 2 bedroom aptsNew renovation, high end finishes

Tons of space and privacyNext to Cascadilla Gorge

****Contact us to schedule a tour

607-277-0910www.pjapts.com

PARKINGRIGHT BY CORNELL

227-0557 OR 273-6864

ParkingCollegetown

Available Now607-277-1234

PRIVATE ROOMSwith or without bathrooms

Fully furnished, utilities includedKitchen and laundry facilities on-siteFree internet and shuttle to campus

Fitness center, pool table, TV lounges www.ithacastudentapartments.com

[email protected]

PARKINGNow Renting for 2013-14

Limited Spaces for Spring 2013Assigned Spaces

607-272-3000www.ithacarenting.com

****Spacious 2 and 3 bedroom apts,

starting at $750 per person, includes free parking & all utilities.

****Huge 1 bedroom apts,

can house 2 people for $600 per person, includes free parking & all utilities.

****607-277-0910

[email protected]

***************GRAD STUDENTS 2013-2014

1, 2, 3 Bedroom Apt. & Rooms.In Fall Creek,

Utilities, Laundry, Parking.JIM CARROLL 273-7373

[email protected]***************

1-Bedroom / StudiosAmazing NEW luxury units. Rent incl heat. Incredible view, floor-to-ceiling windows,

elevator, gym, laundry on-site, trash removal, right next to campus,

307-309 Eddy St. Off street parkingavail nearby. Call Nick 607-256-3778

or [email protected]

*************************PAM JOHNSTON APARTMENTS

COLLEGETOWNStudios to 18 Bedroom Mansion

607-277-0910www.pjapts.com

[email protected] New Beautiful

Renovations Completed.Tours available M-F

11am-6pm or by appointment.Available for 2013-2014.

************************

23 PARKING

25 ROOMS FOR RENT

26 APARTMENTFOR RENT

CLASSIFIED AD RATESAds are accepted at The Sun‘s office at 139 W.State Street downtown, by phone or e-mail.Deadline: 3:30 p.m. at The Sun‘s office on theday preceding publication. Monday’s dead-line: Friday, 3:30 p.m. at The Sun office.

Standard Rate: $3.40 per day for first 15words, 32 cents per day per word thereafter. 5or more consecutive insertions, $3.15 per dayfor first 15 words, 30 cents per day per wordthereafter.

Commercial Rate: $5.20 per day for first15 words, 33 cents per day per word there-after. 5 or more consecutive insertions, $5.00per day for first 15 words, 31 cents per day perword thereafter.

The Sun is responsible for only one day makegood on ads.

[email protected]

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 13

NOW renting. Apartments without hassle. Hudson Heights Apartments are locatedon South Hill, 8 minutes from Cornell. Prices start at $610/month. Rent in-cludes: furniture, all utilities, parking,garbage and recycling. There are twolaundry facilities on the premises and thebus route is on the block. Contact Tonyfor an appointment: 607-280-7660 oremail [email protected].

COLLEGE AVE1 BEDROOMS AND STUDIOS

********NORTH CAMPUS

ONE BEAUTIFUL 2 BEDROOM [email protected]

607-272-3389

N-E RESIDENTIAL AREA 2013-2014

5/6 BEDROOM, 2 1/2 BATHS,HUGE LIVING, DINING,

KITCHEN, FAMILY ROOM &MORE. $1500 PLUS.CALL 607-272-0781,

908-334-3665 OR908-635-8009

Now Renting 2013-20141 Bedroom Apartments to 10 Bedroom

Houses. View our selection at certifiedpropertiesinc.com

Certified Properties of TC Inc273-1669

HOUSES, APTS, PARKING1 & 2 Bedroom

Collegetown - College Ave,Linden Ave, Dryden Rd, Bryant Ave.

607-330-2442Office at 307 College Ave.

[email protected]

312 College AveCollegetown’s Best Address

Beautifully Furnished Studio, 1 Bedroom, 2 Bedroom & 3 Bedroom units.

Professionally managed on-site offeringsuperior customer service. Fitness Center,Media Room Streaming Netflix in High-Defon a new 100” screen, Study, Laundry,Lounge. Garage Parking Available. FreeHi-Speed Internet. Ideally Located in theHeart of Collegetown.Office Open M-F 9-9; Sat 10-5; Sun 11-4.

273-9777 or 312collegeave.com

400 College AvenueCollege Town’s Finest

1 & 2 BedroomLuxury Apartments

Located in the Heart ofCollegetown

Beautifully Furnished and Finished,Elevator, Gym, On-site Laundry,

Trash Removal, Available Off-street Covered Parking.

Heat and Hot Water Includedwww.studentrentalsithaca.com

(607) 277-3767

NEW 3 BR. APARTMENTSWalk to campus

10 or 12 month leaseCall 607-227-4167

Don’t have a roommate?Can’t afford to live alone?Two Bedroom Apartments

Available for ShareCollegetown Terrace Apartments

and Casa Roma [email protected]

607.277.1234

College Ave.4, 5 or 9 Bedrooms

Laundry. Parking Available.315-559-9029 or607-748-1129.

Quality, Affordable,Convenient!

1 & 2Bedroom Apartments

Parking, Laundry, Utilities!(214) 289-5134(607) 273-7368

www.IthacaApartmentRental.com

Casa Roma Apartments111 South Quarry Street

Studios, 1, and 2 bedrooms AvailableHeat & Hot Water IncludedFree High Speed Internet

and Fitness CenterCovered Parking Available for a fee

office@ithacastudentapartments.comwww.ithacastudentapartments.com

607.277.1234

Ithaca RentingApartments, Parking

Central CollegetownSuperb Panoramic Views

Modern Elevator Buildings

Collegetown Center151 Dryden RoadConcierge ServiceStudio, 1, 2 BRs

Collegetown Plaza111 Dryden Road

New Fitness RoomStudio, 1, 2, 3, BRs

Collegetown Court208 Dryden Road

Super Convenient, Exceptional ValueStudios

www.ithacarenting.comRent Smart. Live Well.607-272-3000

Visit our Rental Office119 Dryden Road

6 Bedroom Blair St

2 kitchens, 3 bathrooms, 2 living rooms,2 dining rooms, 6 large bedrooms. Fully

furnished. Laundry & Parking on premises.607-339-1137

COLLEGETOWN APARTMENT2013-2014

STUDIO AND 1-BEDROOM.FURNISHED. HUGE APTS.

CALL 607-272-0781,908-334-3665 or

908-635-8009 FOR DETAILS

Collegetown Terrace ApartmentsBrand New Apartmentsin Lower Collegetown!

Apartments Available Immediatelyand for the ’13-’14 academic year!

Studios and 1 bedrooms2 and 3 bedrooms with two baths

Heat, Hot Water & High SpeedInternet Included

Stackable Washer & Dryer in most unitsCovered Parking Available for a fee.Novarr-Mackesey Property Management

www.ithacastudentapartments.comoffice@ithacastudentapartments.com

607.277.1234

Amazing Luxury 4-BRAmazing NEW luxury unit.

Rent incl heat. $1095 per person.Incredible view, floor-to-ceiling windows,

elevator, gym, laundry on-site, trash removal, right next to campus, 309 EddySt. Off street parking available nearby.

Call Nick 607-256-3778 or [email protected]

26 APARTMENTFOR RENT

27 HOUSEFOR RENT

26 APARTMENTFOR RENT

C O R N E L L S UNTH E

Ohio State, has fallen off since but with the return of Ryan Kelly, theycould be the most popular choice. Miami has emerged as a fun choice aswell and their dominance over the ACC gives reason to believe theycould win it all, but they also lost by 15 to a below .500 Wake Forestteam and have no NCAA Tournament experience on the squad. To sumit up, there is no clear-cut favorite to win it all, and no one is a sure betto reach the Final Four, a fact that is both good and bad for college bas-ketball.

It’s good in the sense that this tournament has the potential for anabsolutely ridiculous amount of upsets. At this point, it’s safe to say thatno team is safe from a quick first or second round elimination, whichshould make the first weekend incredibly exciting. The unpredictabilityof the NCAA Tournament is what makes it such a unique event, and thisyear will likely be full of Cinderella stories. In my opinion, Belmont,Middle Tennessee, Creighton or several others will undoubtedly makeruns to the Sweet Sixteen or Elite Eight. These teams and the stories thatcome along with them will captivate college basketball fans around thecountry later this month.

The negative about this parity though is it that favorites create polar-ity, and polarity draws interest. For example, whether you are a die-hardDuke fan or a Duke hater, you’re going to watch when they play. Upsetsare nice as long as it’s “David vs. Goliath,” but as soon as it becomes“David vs. David,” the interest wanes. Seeing schools like MiddleTennessee take on the Duke’s of the college basketball world is superblyentertaining, but watching Middle Tennessee play a random school fromthe A-10 that’s a No. 8 or 9 seed and just got hot at the right time isn’tnearly as interesting.

The question one must ask when looking at this season in collegebasketball and the parity that has taken control of the sport is, how didwe get to this point? Why are the “big schools” not dominating like theyusually do? The answer to this question is threefold. First, there are justmore quality Division 1 basketball players today than there were 20 oreven 10 years ago. Basketball has not just grown in the United States asa sport but has taken leaps and bounds internationally, and manyschools are taking advantage of the global talent pool. Secondly, theplayers at smaller schools who are less athletically gifted are taking moreand more advantage of the three-point line. The three-point shot is thegreat equalizer in basketball, and having several proficient shooters whocan heat up at the right time makes any team, regardless of any other fac-tors, dangerous. Thirdly, and probably most importantly, is that the bestplayers in college basketball are heading to the NBA after only one sea-son. When the NBA changed their draft rules in 2005 to ban highschool players from going straight to the NBA, many thought it wouldbe a good thing for the major college basketball programs, as they nowwould be able to retain the best prep talent. This belief is true in yearswhen the “one-and-done” players are actually really good. A recentUniversity of North Carolina study showed that teams with “one-and-done” players tend to make it 0.75 rounds further in the NCAA tour-nament. However, because of this, major programs have become morereliant than ever on these “one-done-players.” In a season like this one,when the talent of the nation’s collective freshman class was sub par, themajor programs have been struggling and parity is inevitable.

Like it or not, that’s where we’re at heading into March Madness. Iknow we still have the conference tournaments to play, but it’s unlikelythat in such a small window anyone will solidify their resumé to thepoint where we can be totally comfortable picking them to advance tothe Final Four. I filled out an Accenture match play tournament brack-et a couple weekends ago with my friends, and to my chagrin, my brack-et was completely and utterly destroyed by the massive number ofupsets. I never knew golf was so unpredictable, and I wasted my timebecause of it. With March Madness, I promised myself I’m not going tomake the same mistake, especially this season, and I urge you to do thesame. Be careful, as we could be in for one of the wackiest, chaotic ver-sions of March Mayhem in a while.

14 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 SPORTS

March Madness Will Be‘Chaotic and Unpredictable’

SMITHContinued from page 16

Alex Smith can be reached at [email protected].

The men’s team, which hadthis past weekend off, is backin action next weekend whenit plays the Baltimore PoloClub on Friday. Eldredge saidhe hopes the men will be ableto learn from the women’sloss this past weekend.

“After the women lost, Isaid to [the men], ‘That’s

what I’m afraid is going tohappen to you guys,’ ” hesaid. “Hopefully, they’regoing to be able to learn fromthe lesson of the women. Iexpect the team to be a verysimilar type of thing to thegame we had with the women— if we stumble, they canbeat us.”

Men’s Team Hopes to LearnFrom Women’s Mistakes

Emily Berman can be reached [email protected].

POLOContinued from page 16

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 15SPORTS

The women’s basketball team experienced aweekend of individual accomplishment, butafter being swept by Yale and Brown, Cornellhas now lost eight of its last nine games.

The Red (11-14, 3-8 Ivy) entered the gameagainst Brown (9-17, 3-9) Friday after havingwon its last two games against the Bears ongame-winning plays by senior forward ClareFitzpatrick.

Cornell began the game cold, shooting justunder 26 percent from the field in the first half,while Brown was able to convert on 45 percentof its shots for a halftime score of 24-17.

The Red stepped up its shooting efficiency inthe second half, however, and junior guardStephanie Long caught fire from three-pointrange.

“When we need a three, we can count on[Long],” Fitzpatrick said. “She’s what got us backin the game.”

After trailing by nine with just 1:17 left toplay, Long drained two three-pointers in twoconsecutive possessions to cut the score to three.Though Brown was ultimately able to hit its freethrows and finish the game with a 58-51 victory,Long’s performance shows how important shewill be to the Red as a senior leader next year.

“Obviously she’s going to be a [really] impor-tant part of what we do next season [as someone]who is smart and savvy,” head coach DaynaSmith said.

The Red returned to action against Yale (12-14, 7-5) Saturday, falling again by just sevenpoints. Neither team could establish a substan-

tial lead until the end of the first half when theBulldogs went on a seven-point run to take an11-point lead.

Cornell fought back after halftime, openingthe second period with a six-point run and even-tually taking a two-point lead with 8:32 left inthe game. The push was led, in part, by seniorguard Stephanie Lane who recorded the firstdouble-double of her career and scored a career-high 20 points.

“Spencer had an amazing game. She was agreat point guard. She distributed the ball,”Fitzpatrick said. “She’s faster than most playersin the Ivy League.”

Junior guard Allyson DiMagno also had aproductive game. Her 13 rebounds helped herset the school record for rebounds in a season.

“Obviously she’s been someone that we’veneeded to rally on all season,” Smith said.“When she doesn’t have a double-double, it’s anoff night.”

Despite Lane and DiMagno’s terrific perfor-mances, Yale went on another run to close thegame and win 71-64.

The Red will play at Dartmouth Tuesdayevening to battle the Green in a game that waspostponed due to Winter Storm Nemo.

According to Smith, the team will need toperform the way it did against Yale in the secondhalf when it gets to Dartmouth.

“We had a very good second half against Yale.We finally broke out of our shooting woes,”Smith said. “We just want to get back on thecourt.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Falls to Yale, Brown

Third time’s the charm | Junior guard Stephanie Long shot two-threepointers in the Red’s loss to Brown on Friday.

ENOCH NEWKIRK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

By SKYLER DALESun Staff Writer

Skyler Dale can be reached [email protected].

PLEASE RECYCLE Paper • Glass • Plastic • Cardboard • Aluminum

Sports 16TUESDAYMARCH 5, 2013The Corne¬ Daily Sun

It’s a Crazy Year In College BasketballGonzaga is number 1. Let

me clarify that again.Gonzaga University, the

Jesuit school located in Spokane,Washington with less than 5,000students, now officially features thepremier basketball team in all ofthe land. Not Kentucky, notDuke, not UCLA, not any of thetraditional Big East powers, or anyof the other fifty or so major con-ference schools that pour millionsof dollars into their basketball pro-gram each year, but Gonzaga. I’mnot trying to take anything away

from the Gonzaga program as Igive them all the credit in theworld for claiming the top spot inthe polls. But their rise signifiesthe parity in college basketball thathas defined this season more thanany other.

With March rolling around, it’sthe time of the year that most fansstart searching for teams with justenough experience, reliable guardplay, defensive prowess, andmomentum to fill their Final Fourand lead them to glory in theirESPN pool. But unfortunately,finding those teams this year isgoing to be particularly difficult.For a while we thought Indianawould be a lock, but every timethey seemingly start to turn thecorner they trip over their own

feet. This could not have beenmore evident last week with theirloss to Minnesota. This may havebeen only one loss, but it was thethird time they lost as the No. 1ranked team and the way TrevorMbakwe dominated Cody Zellerin the paint should inspire fear intoanyone counting on them to win itall. On paper they seem like themost complete team, but if Zellercan’t find a way to play tougherand they don’t find a way to getVictor Oladipo the ball more, anearly exit is becoming an increas-

ingly strong possibility. The bright news for Indiana

fans though is that every otherteam is in a similar place. Gonzagamay hold the No. 1 spot now, butthey’ve feasted off an easy WestCoast Conference schedule andhaven’t been forced to navigatetough opponents consecutively,something they’ll have to do in thetournament. Kansas is a likeablepick and definitely has the talent towin the championship, but theinconsistent play of point guardElijah Johnson could lead to theirimpending doom. Duke, whichstarted the season on fire with winsover Kentucky, Louisville, andOhio State, has fallen off since but

See SMITH page 14

AlexSmith

Guest Column

TRACK AND FIELD

After a very emotional Heps meet at Harvard, the Redheaded back into competition this past weekend. The men’steam competed in the IC4A finals and the women’s teamcompeted in the ECAC finals, both hosted in Boston.

The men’s team finished second overall behind Universityof Connecticut at the IC4As, which men’s head coach NathanTaylor said he was content with.

“I was satisfied with our performance knowing that we hadgone to the well the week before and held out some of ourguys from competing,” he said. “UConn having the weekbefore off was an advantage for them. We didn’t double guysup like we normally would.”

Taylor also said that his team had some fantastic individ-ual performances.

“[Junior] Tommy Butler was certainly one of the big ones,”he said. “[Senior Bruno Hortelano’s] performance was great,[and senior J.D. Adarquah] was fantastic. J.D. ran the secondbest 60m ever by an Ivy League athlete; Bruno ran the best200m ever ran by an Ivy League athlete.”

Taylor spoke about how old the IC4A meet is, and howmuch of an honor it is for the athletes to place there.

“It’s the oldest collegiate track meet in the country,” hesaid. “It predates the NCAA, and for the first few years it wasthe national championship meet. There are about 97 Division1 teams in the IC4A. Anyone who places is named All-East.”

Notable men’s performances included a 1-2 finish in the

high jump by Butler and junior Montez Blair, respectively.Sophomore Stephen Mozia finished second overall in the shotput, and junior Steven Bell finished third in the long jump.

The women’s team finished in fifth place in the ECACs,which head coach Rich Bowman noted was the best theycould do in that moment.

“We performed as good as we could have,” he said. “Noteveryone went to the meet after the Heps [last week]. It was abig emotional letdown after the Heps, so we didn’t mandatethat everyone go. There wasn’t anyone who went there whodidn’t do a very good job.”

Bowman also pointed out that some of his best athletesdid not compete in the meet.

“Some of our best athletes didn’t go,” he said. “So [the fifthplace finish] shows the depth of our team. Those that camesurely took it very seriously.”

Bowman explained that for the athletes who do not quali-fy for the NCAA Finals, the ECACs is the next best meet.

“It’s the next level,” he said. “A lot of the athletes we havecan’t make the NCAA meet, so [the ECACs] is like our finalmeet. The team atmosphere isn’t really there, so it’s really achance to show what you can do as an individual.”

Notable women’s performances included senior KateRosettie finishing third in the 5K and senior Claire Dishongfinishing fifth in the pole vault. Senior co-captain VictoriaImbesi also finished fifth overall in the shot put.

Red Takes Second at IC4A Finals

POLO

Better, faster, stronger | Senior Bruno Hortleano ran thebest 200m ever ran by an Ivy League Athlete this weekend.

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The women’s polo team lost its bid for an unde-feated season this past weekend after dropping an18-16 decision to the Maryland Polo Club. TheRed now stands at 8-1 at home and 11-1 overall,with just three weeks remaining until the regionalchampionship tournament.

The Baltimore-based MPC, which is made upof a mix of high school students and older players,was the Red’s first non-collegiate opponent.According to head coach David Eldredge ’81,while the MPC played a typically excellent game,the Red could have come out on top if the teamhad been more focused.

“[The MPC] totally met the expectation I had— that was something I was expecting out of

them,” he said. “On the flip side, had we been ourfocused, normal self, I believe we could have wonthis game. We had our opportunities [and] theywere there; we gave them away with simple sloppymistakes.”

This matchup was the Red’s first game in morethan a month due to a horse virus in Cornell’s barnthat forced the cancellation or postponement oftwo home games. The time off — which was sim-ilar in length to the break the team took forCornell’s winter recess — affected the team’s per-formance, Eldredge said.

“We weren’t mentally ready heading into thisgame,” he said. “On the plus side, the girls cameout of it with the whole attitude of ‘I wasn’t ready,I know I wasn’t ready [and] that is never going tohappen again.’ That’s really the attitude I want outof them.”

Senior co-captain Ali Hoffman, junior co-cap-tain Kailey Eldredge and freshman Anna Winslowstarted for the Red. The fourth core member of theteam, freshman Devin Cox, sat out this weekenddue to a sprained medial collateral ligament.

The first chukker started slowly for the Red,who fell behind 3-1 in the first few minutes beforetying it up 3-3. MPC went on a four goal run inthe second chukker to make the game 7-3, but theRed managed to find the goal again and the halfended with the Red down, 8-6.

A strong opening in the third chukker saw anenergized Red squad capture a slim 11-10 lead, theteam’s only advantage during the game. MPCfought back with four unanswered goals, however,to end the third with the Red behind, 14-11.Despite outscoring MPC 5-4 in the fourth, theRed was unable to overcome its deficit anddropped the match, 18-16.

“They went out at a little too easy of a pace, andtheir focus wasn’t as good as it had been at othertimes in the year,” Eldredge said. “In some ways,I’m kind of happy this happened, because it’s goingto make it evident that it’s not just a cake walk.”

Although the team had been scheduled to takeon Colorado State next weekend, the game wascancelled due to high travel costs. Instead, thewomen will play either a club from Virginia or aclub from Toronto.One stride behind | Although the Red outscored MPC

in the fourth chukker, the team still lost by two points.

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDOSun Staff Writer

C.U.Trampled by MarylandBy EMILY BERMANAssistant Sports Editor

See POLO page 14

Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at [email protected].