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As Gannett has bolstered its mental health services in the past twoyears, student demand for these services has risen to meet the increase.Administrators say the continued surge in those seeking counselingcan be partially attributed to new outreach programs, which they sayhave brought about a culture change in student views toward counsel-ing services.

Increased funding from the University, as well as alumni dona-tions, contributed to an $800,000 net increase in Gannett’s bud-get for counseling and hiring staff last year, according to GregEells, director of counseling and psychological services for Gan -nett.

“Every time we’ve expanded the availability of services, studentshave utilized them,” said Tim Marchell ’82, director of mentalhealth initiatives for Gannett. “When you combine that with effortsthat we are pursuing University-wide to encourage students to seek

The A-Line | Cornell Police Sgt. Anthony Bellamy checks the computer in his police car before beginning amidnight patrol on March 31.

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C.U. Police on the Night ShiftSgt.Bellamy sees other side of fraternity parties

Minority Student LeadersDebate New Funding Rules

Despite New Territory, Dem. Congressional Candidates Con!dent

Mental Health ProgsMeet Surging Demand

The leaders of the largestBlack, Asian, Native Americanand Latino organizations oncampus were divided in theirreactions to a new system offunding for multicultural stu-dent groups. While somedescribed the process of its cre-ation as fair, others expressedgrave concerns about the dia-logue leading up to its approval.

In March, the Student

Assembly unanimouslyapproved the creation of theUmbrella Programming Fund, asubgroup of the African LatinoAsian Native AmericanStudents Programming board,which will reorganize the alloca-tion of funds to organizationsunder ALANA.

The UPF will go into effectin time for the fall 2012 bylinecycle, distributing a portion ofALANA’s byline funding among

Despite federally man-dated redistricting that hasplaced Tompkins Countyin a more conservative dis-trict, the three candidatesin the Democratic prima-ry to represent the areathat includes Ithaca inCongress — Leslie Danks

Burke, Melissa Dobsonand Nate Shinagawa ’05M.A. ’09 — said they areconfident in their abilityto defeat incumbent Rep.Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) andcarry the new 23rd con-gressional district.

According to IreneStein, chair of theTompkins County Dem -ocratic Committee, even

though the county is nowin a more conservative dis-trict than it was underRep. Maurice Hinchey(D-N.Y. 22), a Demo -cratic candidate can defeatReed in the fall.

“Our Democratic mes-sage is pretty much thesame,” Stein said. “We saythe same things whereverwe go. We have always

been the party that pro-motes the interests of themiddle class and of work-ing men and women. Thatdoesn’t change whereverwe run candidates.”

Stein noted, however,that the local party has notyet endorsed a candidateand will not do so untilthe middle of May.

“At this point I’m neu-

tral, and I wouldn’t wantto say anything that wouldcast a shadow on that neu-trality,” Stein said.

All three of theDemocratic candidatesagreed with Stein’s assess-ment of the race againstReed. Each also stressedthat the new district

Studying for a master’s degree, caring for histwo sons and supervising the Cornell PoliceDepartment’s night shift takes a toll on Sgt.Anthony Bellamy’s sleep schedule. But he has tostay sharp for when emergencies arise.

A day in the life of Bellamy may involvehours of record keeping and property checks, orit may be punctuated by a crisis that demandsimmediate attention.

Bellamy was in charge of the night shift —

or the A-line, as police call it — in the earlyhours of March 31, when a female student fell14 feet inside the Chi Phi fraternity house,landing on her back and losing consciousness.

When the call came over his radio, Bellamywas supervising another CUPD officer and anEMT as they dealt with a drunk, stumbling stu-dent on University Avenue.

“Let’s go,” he said to a reporter accompany-ing him that night.

The girl — who, her friend later told police,

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Reporter ExtraordinaireJeffrey Gettleman ’94, whoworks for The New York Times,won a Pulitzer Prize for international reportingMonday.

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“This is what we do. We protect thestudents and the staff and the

buildings and the property.”Anthony Bellamy

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With an $11 million gift from Lisa Baker and RichardBaker ’88, Cornell’s real estate program will hire addi-tional faculty and create a more robust curriculum in aneffort to become one of the nation’s top-tier programs,according to John Siliciano ’75, senior vice provost foracademic affairs.

The two-year master’s program currently has a $5 mil-lion endowment and faculty from seven of Cornell’s col-leges and departments — the School of HotelAdministration; the College of Architecture, Art andPlanning; the Department of Landscape Architecture; theDepartment of City and Regional Planning; the InteriorDesign Program; the Johnson School MBA Program andthe Law School.

According to Siliciano, the endowment will allow theprogram to work directly with AAP and the HotelSchool.

“At the same time as Baker is endowing this program,we’re moving it out to the supervision of the deans whoare able to more effectively direct it because their collegesare more involved with it,” Siliciano said. “We’re movingthe leadership to those two colleges as a way of makingsure that it continues to grow in the right way.”

The endowment will specifically pay for physical spacein AAP and the Hotel School, which are expected to col-

laborate and offer a comprehensive set of career and sup-plemental services, according to a University press release.These changes are scheduled to take effect on July 1.

Due to this proposed partnership, students will have“the opportunity to take advantage of all the dynamic realestate exposure and opportunities that exist at the Schoolof Hotel Administration and the natural relationship thatoccurs between real estate, urban design and architec-ture,” Richard Baker said in the press release.

In the press release, AAP Dean Kent Kleinman calledthe gift “transformative.”

“[It] will catapult real estate studies at Cornell to thevery pinnacle of the field,” Kleinman said. “The restruc-turing, combined with the gift, opens entirely new hori-zons for the program.”

According to Siciliano, the gift came at an opportunetime for implementing changes to the program.

“The program has reached a point where it reallyneeds to evolve further,” he said. “In order to make a fullyrobust curriculum, additional financing would be very

important … The program is already very strong withvery good students. This will continue to strengthen itvery considerably. It’s an extremely generous and impor-tant gift.”

The Bakers also gave an additional $1 million to theHerbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

According to Museum Director Stephanie L. Wiles,the money will be used in a collaboration with artist LeoVillareal, whose work includes collections in the Museumof Modern Art, as well as the tunnel walls between theEast and West buildings of the National Gallery of Art inWashington, D.C.

For the Johnson Museum, Villareal will create “site-specific” artwork — art that is specifically tailored to suitone area and cannot be moved without being destroyed— for the ceiling of the museum’s Mallin SculptureCourt, Wiles said. The project is scheduled for comple-tion by the end of next semester.

“We have been talking with the donors and the artistsfor a while and it just was something that came together,”Wiles said. “It’s terrific to be able to provide the widestpossible experience of art to the Cornell campus andcommunity, so I’m very excited to start working on it.We’re very grateful to the Bakers.”

Jeffrey Gettleman ’94, the EastAfrica bureau chief at The New YorkTimes, was awarded a Pulitzer Prizein international reporting Monday.

He was commended for his“vivid reports, often at personalperil, on famine and conflict in EastAfrica,” according to thethe award announce-ment.

Panelists reachedtheir decision after judg-ing Gettleman’s recentwork in 2011 on piracyand famine in Somalia.

Since 2006, Gettleman has cov-ered conflict and the lives ofrefugees in Kenya, Congo, Somalia,Sudan and Ethiopia.

Gettleman has written for TheNew York Times Magazine, ForeignPolicy, The New Republic and GQ,according to a University pressrelease. Additionally, he hasappeared as a commentator onCNN, BBC, PBS, NPR and ABC.

As a student at Cornell,Gettleman majored in philosophywhile playing lacrosse and workingas a photographer for The Sun.

“We in philosophy are thrilledwith the news of Jeffrey Gettleman’sPulitzer Prize and proud to havebeen part of his formative experi-ence at Cornell,” said Prof. ScottMacDonald ’78, philosophy, in thepress release. “It’s always rewardingto see our former students makingextraordinary contributions to theworld beyond Cornell.”

On April 6, 2011, Gettlemanreturned to Cornell to speak abouthis experiences in Africa and aboutbeing kidnapped, along with hiswife, while reporting in Ethiopia. .

Reflecting on a professor’s rec-ommendation to pursue journalismat the lecture, Gettleman recalledthinking it was the “dumbest idea Ihad heard.”

“Who wants to work for a boringnewspaper?” he said, The Sunreported in April 2011.

After backpacking around theworld for a year, however,

Gettleman eventually decided tocontinue his studies in philosophyas a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, hesaid. Before graduating, Gettlemandecided he wanted to become ajournalist.

Speaking to students during hisvisit about possible career options injournalism, Gettleman describedhow his first exposure to reporting

taught him how to “write on adeadline” and “just suck itup.”

“Journalism is very hierar-chical. It’s an old-school pro-fession where you have to payyour dues,” said Gettleman,according to The Sun. “You

try to get both sides –– that’s thebest you can do. But you don’t wantto be a robot, either.”

The Overseas Press Club award-ed Gettleman in 2003 and in 2008for his reporting on an Afghanprison and on human rights abusesin Ethiopia.

Gettleman currently lives inNairobi, Kenya, with his family,according to a University pressrelease.

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Esther Jun ’15 performs on traditional Japanese drums on Ho PlazaMonday to promote a concert for the Yamatai music group.

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By DENNIS LIUSun Staff Writer

Real Estate Program Receives $11M Donation

Gettleman ’94 Awarded Pulitzer Prize

Every May for the past three decades, abouthalf of Yale College graduates leave the Universitywith a degree in history, economics, English,political science or biology — each of which hasbeen a part of the Yale curriculum sinceat least the early 1900s. But over thepast 15 years, Yale’s undergraduate cur-riculum has expanded to include atleast six new interdisciplinary majorsthat combine academic approachesfrom a variety of fields.

Some of these majors, includingmodern Middle East studies and SouthAsia studies, focus on specific geographical areasof growing international importance, while otherprograms — such as ethics, politics and econom-ics; ethnicity, race and migration; and globalaffairs — synthesize different academic fields.

“Just as the scholarship has become deeper andmore interdisciplinary, so the world has becomemore complicated and more international,” saidStephen Pitti, director of the program in ER&M

that was established as an independent major thisFebruary. “The frameworks for studying havediversified and grown and that reflects the diver-sity of today’s world.”

While Yale College has more major programsthat most of its peer institutions, the introduction

of these new majors both accommo-date students’ academic interests andseem to evidence profound changeswithin academia.

“The quest for knowledge isdynamic, never reaching a final state inwhich we can say, we now have all themethods and all the materials weneed,” Dean of Undergraduate

Education at Yale Joseph Gordon said in an emailto the News.

At its Feb. 2 meeting, the Yale College facultyapproved the ethnicity, race and migration pro-gram as a stand-alone major, capping a 15-year-long effort to expand the major.

Yale Adds New Undergrad MajorsBy THE YALE DAILY NEWS

This story was originally published in The Yale DailyNews Monday.

99-Percenters Plan Tax Day RallyProtesters are gathering in the Ithaca Commons today,

National Tax Day, to protest unfair federal taxing policies,according to The Ithaca Journal.

The rally is part of a national day of action across the coun-try to demand higher income tax rates for corporations and therichest one percent of America, The Journal reported.

Fall Creek Fire Damages ResidenceA house fire blazed on East Falls Street in Fall Creek on Saturday

morning, according to The Ithaca Journal.No injuries were reported after the residents safely evacuated and

firefighters saved two pet cats, The Journal reported.

Finger Lakes Land Trust Receives GrantA conservation organization awarded Finger Lakes Land Trust a

$12,000 grant to acquire the right to use 128 acres of land for agri-culture and forestry in Richford, a town in Tioga County, accord-ing to The Ithaca Journal.

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“[It] will catapult real estate studies atCornell to the very pinnacle of the field.”Kent Kleinman

[Gettleman] was commended for his“vivid reports, often at personal peril, onfamine and conflict in East Africa.”

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had consumed five “vodka drinks” that night— was lying motionless on the fraternity’s floorwhen Bellamy arrived. Several other emergencyresponders were already attending to her, andthey soon called for a backboard.

Moments later, when the sergeant went outto his police SUV to get more equipment, thestreet outside was filled with emergency vehi-cles. More Cornell police had arrived, as well asIthaca police, Cornell EMS, Bangs ambulanceand the Ithaca Fire Department. Fire chiefTom Parsons ’82 also briefly surveyed the situ-ation.

The student was soon placed on a stretcher,still unconscious. Looking at the scene, itremained unclear why the student fell andwhether she had been pushed.

Once the student was taken away by anambulance — three different helicopters werecalled, but they were all unable to fly becauseof bad weather — Bellamy’s real work began.

He took pictures of the scene and measuredthe height from which the student fell. Bellamyand other officers spoke to fraternity membersand friends of the injured student, but manywere noticeably drunk and had difficulty givinguseful answers. Police took three people toCUPD headquarters for interviews.

From speaking with witnesses, Bellamy saidthe student’s fall appeared to be an accident.But he added that police cannot rush to judg-ment when collecting evidence at the scenebecause, in the first moments of the investiga-tion, it is often difficult to determine the sever-ity of the situation.

“You only get one chance,” he said, so it isimportant to document everything carefully.

Bellamy has been in the police force longenough to have seen plenty of serious situa-tions. Before coming to Cornell — where hewas an investigator for two-and-a-half yearsbefore being promoted to sergeant two yearsago — Bellamy worked as a deputy sheriff inDutchess County. He also spent time as a vol-unteer firefighter and a part-time police officer.

Bellamy met his wife, who is from SchuylerCounty — to the west of Ithaca — while work-ing in Dutchess County. They each applied tojobs near the other’s hometown, and he got hisjob at Cornell first, so the couple moved to theIthaca area. They now have two sons.

He has worked the night shift since becom-ing sergeant two years ago. He said that the

hours can be tough, especially while caring fora family.

“I’ve lost a lot of sleep, and I think I’ve agedsome,” he said. “My family has gotten used toit a little more.”

Bellamy goes to bed at about 9 a.m. mostmornings, but wakes up at 2:30 p.m. to see hissons get off the school bus.

His difficult sleep schedule is compoundedby the classes he is taking to earn a master’sdegree in public administration.

Bellamy joined CUPD with only an associ-ate’s degree. Soon after joining the department,he worked on a harassment complaint thatinvolved an email sent by an English Ph.D. stu-dent to a professor. After reading the first pageof the email, Bellamy said, he realized he didnot understand it as well as he needed to. Theexperience inspired him to go back to school to

get a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.Now, as he works toward a master’s, he has

to balance schoolwork on top of every otherdemand. For a recent paper, he said he “did thestudent thing” — going to the library rightafter work at 7 a.m. and staying there until 10p.m.

“My wife was pretty mad about that,” hesaid.

But in the early morning of March 30,shortly after the student fell, Bellamy leftthoughts of his family and schoolwork for laterto focus on his more immediate work.

At about 1:30 a.m., he returned to CUPDheadquarters and called the University’s crisismanager on duty that night, Julie Paige. Whena student is injured, Cornell’s crisis managercommunicates with family and friends andhelps ensure University resources are usedwhere they are needed most.

Bellamy explained the situation to Paige. Healso called the hospital in Pennsylvania wherethe student had been taken to find out how theparents could contact the doctors there. Duringthe call, he learned the student was still unre-sponsive.

A problem soon arose: A phone number forthe student’s parents could not be located.Emergency contact information was not listed

on the student’s PeopleSoft profile. Paige founda cell phone number for the student’s mother,but no one answered. Bellamy looked onFacebook and even WhitePages.com, but couldnot find a phone number.

Bellamy eventually called the local policedepartment in the parents’ hometown. Justbefore he was going to ask officers to knock onthe parents’ door — a parent’s worst night-mare, especially at 2 a.m. — the student’smother returned Paige’s call on her cell phone.

The crisis manager was involved, the par-ents were notified and the scene was docu-mented.

“The only thing left to do is typing at thispoint,” Bellamy said at 2:30 a.m. as he beganwriting a report of the incident.

From their interviews with witnesses, otherofficers reported back to Bellamy about what

had happened to the injured student.After several drinks, she and herfriends had been standing on ChiPhi’s second-floor balcony, overlook-ing a dance floor a story below. Thestudent climbed over the second-floor railing to try to dance on a fire-place mantel, witnesses said, and she

fell in the attempt.A few days later she walked out of the hos-

pital, according to one Cornell emergencyresponder, who described her quick recovery as“miraculous.”

Putting in extra effort — finding a hospitalphone number for parents to call, or offeringcounseling to upset witnesses — is part of thejob for campus police officers, Bellamy said.

“I always say to people: It’s not only copsand robbers,” he said, adding that working forCUPD is quite different than his years as adeputy sheriff.

Earlier in the night on March 30, before thestudent fell, Bellamy was driving down CollegeAvenue. A girl stumbled into the middle of theroad with her arm in the air. The sergeantstopped to find out if she was all right, and herfriend said that she was trying to hail a cab, asif she were in New York City.

“Well, let her know she’s not in the Bronxanymore,” Bellamy said as he returned to hispatrol.

“This is what we do,” he said later. “We pro-tect the students and the staff and the buildingsand the property.”

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help … All of these things contribute to increases in utilization.” Fifteen percent of the student body — about 3,000 students —

see counselors at Gannett in a year, and one third visit at least onceduring their time at Cornell, according to Eells.

Eells also credited the increase in students seeking Gannett’s ser-vices to a change in attitude that has removed the stigma of askingfor help to cope with depression.

“It’s been our goal for at least a decade or more to really reducestigma and I think there’s been a lot of people much more engagedon our campus in doing that from President [David] Skorton to[Cornell] Minds Matter to faculty,” Eells said. “I think we’ve reallyengaged faculty in a way we weren’t 10years ago.”

However, some students expressedconcern that the increased demand forthese services might come with pitfalls.

Joanna Chen ’14 said she is some-times unable to schedule appointmentswith CAPS in addition to her regularlyscheduled weekly appointment.

“Sometimes I get the impression that if I wanted to see themmore I couldn’t. Everything seems so busy,” Chen said.

She also said she was unable to schedule appointments when call-ing on a weekend.

“I have an issue with that,” Chen said. “If a student has theresolve to call CAPS, they should be available 24 hours ... Instead,they just transfer you out to someone who can’t help you make anappointment.”

Eells denied there is a problem with students being able to sched-ule CAPS appointments.

“The way our system works is you get a brief phone assessment,and then we’ll look at what’s going on with you and schedule youbased on your level of concern,” he said. “If we talk to someone onthe phone and we think they really need to be seen right away, weget them in right away. So if someone has a serious mental healthconcern, we would get that person in the same day –– and that does-n’t change, no matter how busy we get.”

Although students calling Gannett may not always be able tospeak to their regular counselor, there will always be someone avail-able to speak on the phone, added Vice President for Student andAcademic Services Susan Murphy ’73.

Despite the occasional difficulties she has experienced in sched-uling appointments, Chen said she is happy with Gannett’s coun-seling services.

“I just like going to someone you can talk to even if it doesn’talways help,” Chen said. “It’s a safety net.”

Murphy credited the reduction of the stigma surrounding men-tal health services to the work of new outreach programs that the

University has created in the past two years.“There’s some examples of superb work and really groundbreak-

ing work that we’ve done,” Murphy said. “Our efforts in the out-reach to students directly –– but also to faculty and staff in additionto students –– are often recognized by our peers as among the best.”

These new programs include “Real Students, Reel Stories” and“Notice and Respond: Friend 2 Friend,” as well as its partner pro-gram, “Staying Balanced.”

The three programs focus on preparing freshmen for life atCornell and recognizing when other students need help, and havereceived positive feedback since their inception two years ago,according to Murphy and Carol Grumbach, associate dean for newstudent programs.

“It got an extremely favorable response [among students],”Grumbach said of “Real Students, ReelStories.”

Also important to the University’soutreach efforts have been activitiescoordinated by Cornell Minds Matter,according to Casey Carr ’74, assistantdean of students and CMM’s advisor.Carr said the student group has seen a“huge” rise in its membership in the

past year.Carr also said that in the past two years, she has noticed that stu-

dents are more concerned with their own mental health.“Students are more aware that when they take care of their emo-

tional and mental health that they will be more successful sociallyand academically,” Carr said. “I think that in the past two years, theconversation and dialogue around these issues has become muchmore open and acceptable.”

Despite the recent successes of its outreach programs, theUniversity needs to do more to include graduate students in itsefforts, Murphy said.

“We probably have not done as much in reaching out for ourgraduate and professional students as we have with our undergradu-ates and that’s an area that we’re trying to address in the comingyear,” Murphy said. “We’ve been a little bit undergraduate-focused.”

In addition to reaching out to graduate students, Marchell saidthe University needs to intensify its efforts to help minority stu-dents.

“Given what we know about higher levels of distress among cer-tain subgroups on campus — for example Asian and Asian-American students — it’s important that we continue to pursue ourdiversity initiatives, our commitment to inclusion and reduction ofbias,” Marchell said. “Experiencing bias and feeling marginalized,misunderstood or alienated can exacerbate someone’s risk for a men-tal health problem.”

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“Sometimes I get the impression that if Iwanted to see them more, I couldn’t.Everything seems too busy.”Joanna Chen ’14

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Students Debate Process for Funding Minority Student Orgsthe four umbrella organizations — Black Students United,the Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student Union, NativeAmerican Students at Cornell and La Asociación Latina.

Karin Zhu ’12, vice president of external affairs forCAPSU, sent an email Sunday to members of the minorityorganizations and others in which she blasted what she saidwas a “painful” process for developing the UPF.

Sharon Lau ’12, president of CAPSU — who initially

expressed support for the UPF upon its adoption in March— sent a similar email on Monday. In it, Lau voiced disdainabout the development of the UPF and about the way AsianAmerican students and other students of color at Cornellhave been treated throughout the process.

“I understand the temporal and practical constraints onthe UPF allocation processes and the urgency to allocate themoney before the end of the year,” Lau said in the email.“However, if we do not talk about these unspoken rootissues now, these same issues will continue to play out in thefuture.”

In the email, Lau referenced the S.A.’s denial of bylinefunding — funding provided by the student activity fee —for CAPSU and the proposal of the UPF as an alternatesolution to the financial constraints facing multiculturalumbrella organizations. She said that the UPF structure“creates one in which [people of color] are competingagainst each other over the same pot of money rather thanworking together to better understand and support oneanother.”

The restructuring under the UPF comes after the S.A.rejected CAPSU’s application for byline funding inNovember 2011.

On Sunday, a majority vote by the UPF SteeringCommittee — which is comprised of two members fromeach of the umbrella organizations — determined howmuch money allocated to ALANA would be given to eachof the umbrella organizations, according to MinorityLiaison for the Student Assembly Roneal Desai ’13.ALANA was allocated $2.25 per student, or $30,000 total,of the Student Activity Fee money to distribute to minorityorganizations in this year’s funding cycle.

Desai said that CAPSU will receive 31.9 percent of avail-able funds; Black Students United, 26.1 percent; LaAsociación Latina, 23.1 percent; and Native AmericanStudents at Cornell, 18.9 percent. He said these figures willdetermine each group’s funding for the next two bylinecycles, starting this fall.

According to Adam Nicoletti ’12, vice president offinance for the S.A., the UPF Steering Committee decidedto split 70 percent of the overall funds equally among thefour groups. The remaining 30 percent will be dividedbased on past spending trends and demographic representa-tion on-campus of each group, he said.

According to Nicoletti, funding details had to be fin-ished by the end of the semester in order for the UPF to beimplemented in the fall.

“This was a decision made by a majority of UPF com-mittee members. It obviously wasn’t unanimous,” Nicolettisaid. “We recognize this was not a perfect solution in whichevery person in the committee agreed, but the process we setin place was adhered to. This gives us more time to talkabout non-funded issues of community development.Everyone is very committed to talking about how to bringthe communities together.”

Zhu said in an email to The Sun Monday night that shehas concerns with both the process of developing the UPFand with the UPF itself.

“What needs to be improved is the relationship amongumbrella organizations; the relationship between theumbrella organizations and the S.A.; the dialogue sur-rounding race relations on campus,” Zhu said.

Zhu said she sent her email to the community becauseother representatives at UPF meetings were acting as thoughfunding to multicultural organizations is solely a fundingissue, when in reality it is not, she said.

“The core issues at the table were about power, privilegeand oppression,” Zhu said. “During those meetings, per-sonal feelings and grudges, past histories between organiza-tions and institutional power structures were at play, butpeople refused to acknowledge them.”

Zhu also told The Sun that she believes minority organi-zations are being treated unfairly in how they are expectedto relate to other multicultural groups.

“The UPF implicitly asks minority organizations toplace a value on their own culture and issues, and eachother’s cultures and issues,” Zhu said. “How can the organi-zations do that when they don’t understand each other’s cul-tures and issues? Should organizations even have to dothat?”

She added that the UPF forces multicultural umbrellaorganizations to compete with one another for funds.

“The idea that more money should go to other groupsbecause their issues are somehow more important than oursis front and center, on the table,” Zhu said. “The S.A.swoops into the discussion to try to ‘help’ CAPSU obtainresources, which reinforces the idea that Asians and AsianAmericans are a model minority whose interests align withthe white majority.”

NASAC Co-Chair Dajahi Wiley ’14 disagreed with Lauand Zhu, saying he thought the process for allocatingmoney under the UPF is fair. Still, he noted that Lau raisedlegitimate concerns.

“It’s a starting point ... for funding for umbrella organi-zations,” Wiley said. “Definitely all of the issues CAPSUbrought up are going to remain on the table for communi-ties of color to discuss, and also the broader Cornell com-munity.”

BSU Co-Chair Sasha Mack ’13 said that she thoughtthere were still flaws to be worked out in the UPF.

Still, she said her organization is mostly satisfied with thedistribution of resources among the four umbrella groups.

“Specifically for BSU, the amount we were allotted is notfar from the initial amount we were expecting,” she said.

Rebecca Harris contributed reporting to this article.

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would not present a problem toDemocratic victory.

“I declared my candidacy back inJanuary, before we even knew the districtlines,” Burke said. “It’s definitely truethat the Democrat who wins in the new23rd is going to have to pull Republicanvotes, but I believe I can do that.”

Dobson echoed Burke’s opinion ofthe district.

“This newly drawn 23rd district isgeographically huge, but it’s manageablefor someone who has lived here most oftheir life and understands the demo-graphics and the culture,” Dobson said.

Shinagawa also said he was also con-fident in the ability of a Democrat towin the new district.

“I chose to run in this race because Iwanted to represent the Southern Tierand the Finger Lakes region,” Shinagawasaid. “I’m very confident about the newdistrict because I know the area. It’s awinnable district.”

While none of the candidates wouldcomment on the others by name, allthree said their previous experience andconnections with the region made themthe most qualified to represent not justthe Democratic Party in the election butthe district in Congress.

Shinagawa said that he was the onlyDemocratic candidate with a votingrecord to prove his positions, noting hisexperience on the County DevelopmentCorporation as well as his work fightinghydraulic fracturing.

“For four years I’ve supported frack-ing bans, moratoriums and home rulelegislation,” Shinagawa said. “I’m theonly candidate with actual votes to showthat.”

Dobson, however, focused on her tiesto the area and understanding of the dis-trict.

“Compared to other candidates, I’mfrom the area. I was educated here, I

understand the culture and I work withbusinesses across the Southern Tier tohelp grow job opportunities,” Dobsonsaid. “Tompkins County was put into amore conservative district, but I’m run-ning my campaign to represent all thepeople of the district.”

Burke, like Shinagawa, noted that shehad legislative experience, though shehas not been a legislator before. Burkehas also been involved in civil rightscases that have gone before the U.S.Supreme Court.

“I am the only candidate in this racewho has worked inWashington, D.C.,before,” Burke said.“I was a tax legisla-tion analyst. I spentevery day workingwith members ofCongress on the taxcode. I understand how federal legisla-tion is done.”

As of Monday night, the $113,000raised for the Shinagawa campaignslightly edged out that of the Burke cam-paign which raised $102,000.Fundraising numbers for Dobson hadnot been released as of Monday night.

In terms of endorsements, however,Shinagawa appears to be the clear leader.Shinagawa has received the endorsementof the Steuben and Chautauqua CountyDemocratic Committees, StateAssemblywoman Barbara Lifton,Tompkins County legislature chairMartha Robertson, Ithaca Mayor SvanteMyrick ’09, as well as the Mayors ofJamestown, Fredonia, Dunkirk, Elmiraand Hornell.

Burke has received the endorsementof the Allegany County DemocraticCommittee, but noted that the Schuyler,Yates and Seneca County DemocraticCommittees would not be makingendorsements for the election.

Dobson said that although she hasnot yet received any endorsements, shewas more concerned with the opinions

of the people in the district, as opposedto its politicians.

While the Democratic Party will bepreoccupied with the primary electionuntil June 26, the Tompkins CountyRepublican Committee has alreadybegun the campaign to reelect Reed toCongress.

“We had a meeting with him about amonth ago; he was very personable,”said James Drader, chair of theTompkins County RepublicanCommittee. “The Committee felt verycomfortable with him and while we

haven’t taken an official vote yet, he willsoon have the endorsement of the coun-ty committee.”

For Republicans, the most importantissue resulting from the redistrictingprocess is that while Tompkins Countyis now in a more conservative district, ithas diluted a strong Republican pres-ence.

“The biggest change in this election isgoing to be that [Reed’s] district is not asRepublican anymore. It now includes allof Tompkins County, which is two-to-one Democratic,” Drader said.

Despite the challenge presented inTompkins County, Drader remainedconfident of victory.

“[Reed has] done an exceptional job,”Drader said. “He’s tried to rein in spend-ing. He’s on the Ways and MeansCommittee, which is a strong positionof a freshman congressman. He’s run asa candidate of the people, and he tries torepresent all of his constituent base,whether Democratic or Republican.”

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ON APRIL 3, A MARINE FROM ITHACA, Cpl. Christopher D. Bordoni,died from injuries sustained in a suicide attack in Afghanistan in January. Lastweek, thousands of people lined the highway as his body was transported from theairport in Syracuse to Ithaca for burial. Hundreds of Ithacans stood outside withAmerican flags to welcome this Marine home for the last time.

More than 750 people jammed into the Immaculate Conception Churchdowntown, a testament to the impact that this Marine had on the community.They shared stories about the way Afghani children looked up to Bordoni andabout his fight to stay alive after he was critically injured. To see this outpouringof support from the local community was inspiring.

Witnessing the flashing lights from the motorcade bouncing off the silent facesof a hundred or more people from the Ithaca community who gathered in front ofBang’s Funeral Home stirs feelings of pride. Nothing that we say here can proper-ly honor the sacrifice that this Marine made for his country.

While Ithacans came together to honor this Marine, Cornell remaineddetached from the events of the week. The only thing different on campus was thatthe flags flew at half mast.

Cornellians are fortunate to have avoided direct human suffering that accom-panies the war in Afghanistan. No Cornellian has yet died in the war. However,this fact should not let us slide into ignorance. The war in Afghanistan has claimedthousands of lives, including 72 American soldiers so far this year.

Though Cornellians may disagree on the best course of action to end the warin Afghanistan, the sacrifices of those individuals who have served cannot gounrecognized. Tens of thousands of troops remain stationed in Afghanistan. Someof these are graduates of Cornell and Cornell’s Reserve Officer Training Corps.

It is all too easy to remain disconnected from the reality of the conflict beingfought overseas. This distance renders the war abstract and allows us to forget whatwar really entails. The war becomes perceived only in terms of numbers, politicsand ideas. The outpouring of support from the Ithaca community proves that thisconflict is about much more than that. It is about the individual soldiers who puton a uniform every day.

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Re: “City Honors Slain Marine,” News, April 13

I commend the Daily Sun for the excellent article regarding Corporal ChristopherBordoni, United States Marine Corps. Through its respectful coverage of events such asthe memorial services for Corporal Bordoni, The Sun effectively supports what manyCornell and Ithaca military veterans know is a critical mission: maintaining a connec-tion between the University, the Ithaca community and the military services.

Cornell graduates who entered military service in the 1990’s — such as decoratedMarine Corps Major Rick Gannon, who was killed in Iraq in 2004, for whom aForward Operating Base was named and with whom I served in Cornell NROTC —never imagined that the latter portions of their military careers would take place duringAmerica’s longest war. Service members such as Corporal Bordoni, however, voluntari-ly joined the military in the midst of two wars, knowing that their service was almostcertain to include combat. It is gratifying to see The Sun honor their service for the ben-efit of the Sun’s University and community audiences.

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Texas Congressman and PresidentialCandidate Dr. Ron Paul’s upcom-ing visit to Cornell’s campus on

Thursday, April 19 should be of specialinterest to students of Cornell and everyother college and university. As the pop-ular media begins to focus onNovember’s election contest betweentypical Democrats and Republicans, theRon Paul “Revolution” charges onward,concerned, like most Americans, withthe long-term direction of the country,

not short-term partisan victories. As aresult, Ron Paul’s recent trips to collegecampuses around the country drew notjust Republicans and Libertarians, butthousands of energetic students fromacross the political spectrum, all yearningto hear a candidate with real, authenticconvictions, not simply the approval ofthe political establishment. Or in otherterms — when was the last time aRepublican Presidential Candidate drewa crowd of thousands at UC Berkeley?

As members of the CornellDemocrats, Cornell Republicans andCornell Libertarians, we think that RonPaul’s message deserves our attention asindividuals and college students first,without concern for our political affilia-tions.

For democrats, Ron Paul is aRepublican with whom they share seri-ous concerns about American foreignpolicy under both Bush and Obama.During the runup to the Iraq war, Ron

Paul was one of the few dissenters inCongress during a time when patrioticfervor squelched most criticism. Hispresidential bid in 2008 largely reflectedthe absence of serious public discussionsabout the lack of accountability, military-industrial complex and long-term fiscalconsequences of repeated American mili-tary interventions, epitomized by the2003 invasion of Iraq. Almost a decadelater, Americans are faced with a daunt-ing 2012 federal deficit of greater than

$1.3 trillion and we, as college studentsof the early 21st century, will pay for it.This reflects many democrats’ outragethat recent concerns about deficit spend-ing never seem to apply to American mil-itary expenditures, which amount to awhopping 43 percent of the world’s totalmilitary spending.

For Republicans concerned about thefederal deficit, 2012 CornellConvocation Speaker MichaelBloomberg noted that “Except for RonPaul, none of the presidential candidateshas a credible plan for dealing with thenation’s deficit.” If recent austerity riotsin Greece were not enough of a caution-ary tale, we should consider the long-term consequences of an exploding feder-al deficit, a problem we can’t entrust tothose currently in power. Republicansworry about the party’s future amongyouth and college students, but alsoabout whether their candidates are com-mitted to Constitutionalism, limited

government and American values.Analyzing Ron Paul’s congressionalrecord dating back to the 1970s providesalmost archaeological proof of a lifelongdedication to making true his message oflimited government. We absolutely knowwhere he stands and that he won’t budge.

For libertarian supporters, the RonPaul movement has often brought atten-tion to serious issues long before theirconsequences were clear. A decade ago,few analysts or experts anticipated thehousing bubble, the financial crisis andyearly federal deficits over $1 trillion. Incomparison, Ron Paul warned of thebubble years in advance, when criticsoften dismissed him as the eccentric “Dr.No” for his unflappable opposition toany bill in violation of the Constitution.Since then, Ron Paul’s greatest achieve-ment has been his success in fundamen-tally changing American political dis-course and his ability to illuminate thesubtle connections between social andeconomic issues. Breaking from the sta-tus quo on key issues has not been easy,but discussions about the FederalReserve, the War on Drugs or the limita-tions of American military might are nolonger as eccentric or taboo as they usedto be. Even if his success has been limit-ed in the voting booth, Ron Paul haswidened public discussions enough thatdefending individual liberty is not theimpossible task it once was.

Even so, a steady stream of critics havelabelled Ron Paul as an “idealist” and“unelectable.”

Yet on issues like privacy, marriage,internet freedom and the War on Drugs,Ron Paul’s positions resonate not onlywith most college students, but withAmericans in general. With regard tomarriage, Ron Paul argues that instead ofpoliticizing marriage, government shouldrefrain from defining it, leaving suchchoices to private citizens. Earlier thissemester, a Sun columnist wrote that

Ron Paul’s position on legalizing mari-juana “seems to draw only a small per-centage of his supporters,” despite aGallup Poll from October which found50 percent of Americans in support ofmarijuana legalization. Unlike otherRepublican presidential candidates, whoweighed the political consequencesbefore coming out against the StopOnline Piracy Act (SOPA), Ron Paulopposed SOPA as the inevitable next stepin his consistent defense of internet free-dom.

Yet Ron Paul is not just popular onthose issues: A recent Rasmussen pollshowed Ron Paul ahead of PresidentObama 43 percent - 42 percent.

Even so, questions of electability haveconstrained political discussions for fartoo long. Daunting challenges andtumultuous times often make those inpolitical parties even more certain oftheir own positions and even moreobsessed with ensuring election victoriesat all costs. As a result, valuable opportu-nities for reasonable discussion andmeaningful change vanish, leaving uswith little meaningful dialogue and noprogress. The paradox of Ron Paul is thathe maintains firm convictions, whilebuilding an inclusive “big tent” move-ment with powerful appeal among col-lege students. By forcing us to thinkabout politics outside of typical partylines, listening to Ron Paul provides afresh escape from unthinking politics andpartisan tunnel vision.

It would be too easy to lament that somehow —miraculously — college acceptance rates for the eliteschools have dropped another few percentage points

for the umpteenth year in a row, reaching rates so dis-mally low that you could probably win the lottery beforegetting into Harvard. It would be even easier to cry overour obsession with selectivity and rankings when theymean very little in the long-run.

But these arguments have been so often repeated andmilked dry that both sides — the applicants and theuniversity gatekeepers — have become numb to them.

But what we haven’t talked about is how these lowacceptance rates have brought out the worst in the appli-cants and have come to homogenize our universities.

In a twist of fate nowadays, you have to fit the IvyLeague mold even more in order to separate yourselffrom the rest of the 242,000 applications.

See, the college admissions process is a very exclusivegame and in order to emerge successfully from it, youhave to faithfully play by its rules. And as the collegeapplication process becomes ever more cut-throat, theserules will become ever more finicky and relevant.

We Cornell undergraduates should know since we’vebeen playing it our entire lives. It began the moment weexited our mothers’ wombs. Our parents knew that wewould end up in the Ivy League even before we heardabout it. And from that moment on, it was a rat race towork at the best internships, join the most clubs, playthe most instruments and receive the most varsity let-ters.

It was about faking those smiles for your high schoolteachers to get those shining recommendation letters. Itwas about exaggerating your accomplishments on yourresume by leveraging all your financial resources. Themost egregious example was the parents who spentthousands of dollars to self-publish their son’s manu-script in an effort to label him as a published author.

It’s about showing up at your interview with a fresh-ly dry-cleaned and ironed suit with a handpicked tie

from Brooks Brothers, fawning over your interviewer’sbackground and feigning interest in his experience atYale.

In short, it’s about conforming to their standards,sucking up to those above you, stepping over thosebelow you and swallowing your self-dignity.

And don’t think that once you enter the exclusivegates of these elite schools, you can simply quit. No, itkeeps going even after you receive your college diplomaand the game just getsmore complicated, withmore people to please andmore social ladders toclimb. It’s still about find-ing the administrators andprofessors or the bossesand managers at the top ofthe bureaucracy andjumping on their coattails.

And what does societyeventually receive as the product? It’s gifted with thegraduates from these prestigious institutions — the lead-ers of tomorrow who will eventually be running ourcountry’s banks and hospitals and occupying our politi-cal offices — who have been doggy-trained to pleasetheir superiors and step over their underlings. The moretroubling question that we must ask ourselves is whatthey will do once they finally reach the top.

And that brings us to the problem of diversity. Andthis diversity is different than the one that universitypresidents love to speak about, illustrated by the expen-sive glossy brochures that feature a rainbow array ofminority students surrounding a token white male. Itdoesn’t concern race or religion or sexual orientation.

Instead, it’s about the privileged and the unprivi-leged. This diversity is about the insiders and the out-siders, those who live inside gated communities andthose who live in the inner-cities. And with college loansand tuition soaring, the rules of the college admission

game have become ever more expensive and exclusive,favoring only those who can afford to play by them.

And unfortunately, the statistics reflect this separa-tion and inequality. According to the CenturyFoundation, only three percent of undergraduates from146 selective schools came from the bottom quartile interms of family income. At the University of Californiaat Los Angeles, some 40 percent of the freshman classcame from families earning from than $100,000 annu-

ally.Sure, these universities release mission statements

and create task forces pledging to broaden our universi-ty’s student body and help minorities achieve their goals.But as long as we are choosing from the same pool ofapplicants who could afford to and have lived alongthese commandments their entire lives, the diversity atour top universities won’t change much.

And so the bachelor’s degree, supposedly the societalbulldozer intended to even out all our socioeconomicbumps and valleys, has become just another express lineto even greater inequality. Now, just to become a part ofthe so-called one percent, you already have to be a partof it.

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If you are child of the 90s, there is a good chance you knowwho Kenan Thompson is. Thompson hit teen stardom inNickelodeon’s All That and Kenan & Kel. Now he’s achievedwidespread fame as a nine-year player on Saturday Night Live.The Sun sat down with Thompson after his nostalgic show atBailey Hall on Sunday to talk about the old days, starstruck com-pliments from Tom Hanks and the answer to our country’s eco-nomic woes.

THE SUN: You hold a unique place in our generation’s cul-ture and upbringing. We grew up with your Nickelodeonwork and bridged the gap to adulthood with you on SaturdayNight Live. You really are an icon of our childhoods. How is itlike to be such an enduring figure of this era?

KENAN THOMPSON: It’s great, I mean it was a situation Iended up landing in so I try to own it. Honestly I just try todo the job that is in front of me. Right now, that is SaturdayNight — coming up with sketches, coming up with material.I’ve always been committed to doing good work, so I am gladpeople appreciate that.

SUN: You have weathered the jump from kids’ shows topopular comedy. Do you plan on continuing this for the restof your life?

K.T.: Sure, I mean it’s not the only thing I am interestedin; I grew up doing theater and basic drama, where we wroteour own plays and they were all very downtrodden ... aboutkids with AIDS, stuff like that. They really pulled the heart-strings. I like drama but I like shoot-em-ups too. I just like thebusiness; I like movies. Great TV shows as well — I love Sonsof Anarchy.

SUN: We have to ask: How’s Kel?K.T.: From what I heard, he’s doing alright. He just got

married and my mom went to his wedding. He’s living inCalifornia and still auditioning for individual roles. You know,it’s a tough business. I have been very fortunate.

SUN: You just got married.K.T.: Yeah, I got married in November. [The Sun fawn-

ingly exchanges “Congratulations” with Kenan.] It was fantas-tic. I’d suggest it for everyone.

SUN: Your colleague Seth Meyers came here last month.He was very nice and gracious. Have you ever seen anotherside to Seth?

K.T.: Not really. I have seen him mad; I mean he’ll get flus-tered or whatever but within two seconds he’ll be back to: “So,how are we going to fix this?” He’s just a really cool, nice guy.[SNL] is not a place for assholes, necessarily, because there isso much history there, like “Who do you think you are to bean asshole?” It’s not really that kind of place; it’s a place whereeverybody needs each other, every department needs to be ontheir shit for a live show to happen. A lot of egos go out of thedoor in the beginning, but we grow so close because we spendso much time together and are all under so much pressure andscrutiny, that it draws us that much closer. They are all verysweet people.

SUN: SNL occupies an increasingly political role for a lot of

young people. There are plenty of teenagers and twentysome-things that don’t follow the news, but religiously watch SNL.How do you feel about this shifting audience and does it affectthe way you guys write and play sketches?

K.T.: I know it affects how Seth writes, because he focus-es on the political talk. I’ll do a character because it is funny,but not to drive an agenda, necessarily. But I feel bad rippingon people when they are being genuine — just because they’recrazy and they believe the crazy things they say. I don’t wantto mock them straight-on but rather super exaggerate them.They are crazy, but we are super crazy, so laugh at us and notat that person. That’s a hard line to walk. The best thing [thosemocked] can do is own up to it and use that rock star statusto keep promoting themselves, like Hillary and Bill Clinton.Every President really. Election years are funny years. Thepower is in the hands of the writer.

SUN: What’s your favorite SNL character to play?K.T.: I have a few. I like Lorenzo McIntosh [from “Scared

Straight”]. He has a sketchy backstory. But my favorite skit todo is “What’s Up With That?” It’s fun, super musical and I dolove music. It’s got a churchy feel to it, very down-homey. Wealways get great guests. We had Morgan Freeman and ErnestBorgnine — that dude [Borgnine] is so great, he’s been in thegame for like 90 years but he was so happy and asking,“What’s your name? Nice to meet you! Thanks for havingme!” It is nice to see people like that, famous for such a longtime, and still so sincere. Some people come through fromTwitter fame and act like dickheads for six days and it’s a painin the ass.

SUN: Well, “What’s Up With That” has so far beenemployed eight times. Why is that a go-to sketch for you andthe writers?

K.T.: It’s fun, people like it. It is fun to explore somethingthat is working and see what else we can do with it, to thepoint where Bill Hader plays Lindsey Buckingham and thenwe get the real Lindsey Buckingham. You just do that to seehow the sketch is going to grow.

SUN: What is your craziest encounter backstage?K.T.: They are all crazy. It doesn’t matter who’s on the

show, anybody could be backstage. Tom Hanks pops upall the time like it’s nothing. He’ll call you out by yourname, saying, “What’s up, Kenan, how’s it going? Manthat show last week was great!” I’m shocked, like, “God,stop Tom Hanks, you are the best!” Spielberg has beenaround, even last night for Laser Cats. You’ll see literallyeveryone who is majorly major. Paul Simon is alwaysaround. Paul and Lorne [Michaels] share a backdoorapartment, like literally a back door that leads into eachother’s apartment. They are bestie friends, for real. That’sreally cute, I mean it’s these two historic figures still beingboyish. It’s precious.

SUN: You’ve played Theodore Roosevelt, Herman Cainand Cornel West, so we’re going to go ahead and assumeyou’re an expert on American politics. Our economy is stillsuffering.What needs to be done?

K.T.: They need to fix it! [laughs] When I wake up in themorning and I have my Cheerios, I want everything to befixed!

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Zachary Zahos is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.He can be reached at [email protected]. Gina Cargas is a sophomore in the Collegeof Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at [email protected].

Kenan’s Nostalgic Night at Bailey

Chillin’ WithKenanThompson

Sunday night saw a mostly-filled BaileyHall play host to former child star-turnedSaturday Night Live mainstay KenanThompson, as the sketch comedian extraordi-naire held court for the better part of 90 min-utes.

Thompson, who had just spent the previ-ous evening schmoozing with the likes ofSandberg, Wigg and Sedakis on the SNL set,split his time on the Bailey stage into halves.The latter half served as an open mic sessionduring which the audience peppered theguest with a wide array of questions (thoughquite a few revolved around Thompson’s ear-lier years on Nickelodeon sets). During thefirst 45 minutes, Thompson retold his careerodyssey, from landing his first role inHollywood as the pudgy knuckle-pucker inMighty Ducks 2 to reaching the mecca ofsketch-comedy that is SNL. Seeming to lack

any stand-up routine or prepared jokes,Thompson leaned heavily on the notoriety ofhis early Nickelodeon work to draw favorablereactions from the crowd. And sure enough,the roomful of college students, who hadspent their prepubescent years dieting on thecomedic stylings of All That and Kenan andKel, responded with uproarious applause toeach reference Thompson made to the goldenage of Nickelodeon. The majority of theaudience seemed simply hungry for referencesto Good Burger and impersonations of PierreEscargot, and that is exactly what Thompsonserved them.

In recollecting his journey from anonymi-ty in Atlanta to prominence in Hollywood,Thompson played it safe, refraining fromrevealing anything too scandalous (or overlyinteresting) about his career. One ratheramusing anecdote involved Thompsonrevealing the intimate details of his one-on-one conversation with Bill Cosby on the set ofFat Albert. It was rather neat to discover thatthe perceivably wholesome Cosby advised the

young star to arm himself with another dickin order to handle all the ladies who wouldsoon be coming his way.

The Question and Answer session bettershowcased Thompson’s spontaneity. About20 questions were asked, spanning from thehilariously revealing, “Did you ever do asketch on Nickelodeon high?” (Yes, all ofthem) to the hilariously confusing “Am I theprettiest girl in the whole wide world?”(Which drew a “WTF” reaction fromThompson).

Someone inquired as to how frequentlyKenan talks to Kel. It was slightly saddeningto discover that the two no longer speak toeach other. Sad because it’s quixotic to thinkthe two fictional buddies who partook inhijacks and rampant tomfoolery at the cornergrocery would remain tight into adulthood.Though as we all find out, real life isn’t allpranks and orange soda, which Thompsonunintentionally made apparent by mention-ing that Kel Mitchell auditioned for the spoton SNL at the same time Kenan did.

Thompson’s humor touched a bit on race,as he commented how he was “the new black-ness on SNL” after Tracey Morgan left. Onequestioner dropped the “n-word” (referencingNi**as in Paris), which caused an unsettlingmurmur to fall over the audience, butThompson placated any potential controver-sy by answering the inquiry without hostility(although he did comment that only certainpeople should use that word).

Expecting Thompson to arrive fresh withnew material was a bit unfair considering hehad finished his taxing weekly commitmentjust 18 hours earlier in New York City.Instead, Thompson brought the audience ona nostalgic journey back to one of the onlytime periods that the college-aged crowd wasold enough to feel nostalgic about. And thesentimental crowd got what they came for,though not too much more.

BY BRIAN GORDONSun Staff Writer

Brian Gordon is a sophomore in the School ofIndustrial and Labor Relations. He can be reachedat [email protected].

KYLE KULAS / SUN STAFF

PHOTOGRAPHER

Cheers erupted from the crowd as Raekwon asked “Whohere loves that real hip-hop?” His performance alonebrought Ithaca’s true hip-hop fans out to The Haunt onSunday night, but it was just one of the strong acts thatshowcased the evolution of the genre over adecade.

First up was The Rapper H, a.k.a. HarryEhrlich, a sophomore at Ithaca College. Aftermeeting his roommate, who now doubles as hisDJ, The Rapper H began writing rhymes andpursuing his dream of being an emcee. Despitefirst performing three weeks ago, The Rapper Hhad the crowd bumping to his set, finishing offwith his single “Mr. Saturday.”

Next up was Sammus, a female rapper andPhD student at Cornell. Sammus describes herstyle as “20-credit rap,” and drew a series of“Oooo”s from the crowd with her clever word-play and intelligent lyricism. She descried the pre-occupation with image and “swag” in rap, andeven dedicated a song to real hip-hop as beingindividualistic and free. Backed up by hypnotic,well-crafted beats, Sammus put on one of thestrongest acts of the night, surprising many atThe Haunt with her finale “Mayhem.”

Maino then took the stage, launching into thefeel-good “Million Bucks” while the crowd waved theirhands from side to side. Suddenly his DJ stopped the track,whereupon Maino asked the crowd to “put your hands inthe air if you’ve got someone hatin’ on you, and if you don’thave your hands up in the air, then you a muthafuckin’hater.” With all hands up, Maino had the crowd singingalong to “Hi Hater.”

With the crowd pumped up, Maino demanded thateveryone put their middle fingers up as he performed “NinoBrown” off his new album Day After Tomorrow. The

momentum Maino had worked hard to build up did notstop the crowd from bobbing their still-elevated hands to“Let It Fly.” Saving the best for last, “All The Above” had thecrowd ready for more hip-hop as Maino left the stage.

An unexpected moment during Sunday’s concertoccurred between Maino and Raekwon’s performances,when the crowd sung along to The Notorious B.I.G.’s“Juicy” word-for-word. Besides serving as a barometer for

the crowd’s excitement at this point, it was a reminder thatonly true hip-hop fans were in the building.

These same fans immediately recognized the intro to“C.R.E.A.M.” as Raekwon stormed the stage. All of thetracks off Enter the 36 Chambers were extremely wellreceived by the crowd, and the crowd was more than happyto rap along with Raekwon as he cut into “Ice Cream” fromhis 1995 solo album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx ...

Throwing up Wu-Tang “W”s with their hands, thecrowd gave out a cheer as the intro to “The Mystery of

Chessboxin” came on. Having built up the crowd’s energy,the crowd began their first “Wu ... Tang” chant of the nightas “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin Ta F’ Wit” began. Aftertrading verses with the crowd, Raekwon paused to payhomage to Ol’ Dirty Bastard (O.D.B.). “We miss him,”Raekwon said, before starting with O.D.B.’s famous versefrom “Shame On A Nigga.”

Everyone at The Haunt was jumping to this track, andrhyming along in celebration of O.D.B.’s life andthe decade-long reign of the Wu-Tang Clan. Thecrowd gave Raekwon a good deal of energy duringthe middle of the act and proved their knowledge ofWu-Tang lyrics by rapping along to every track.“Y’all are diehards,” Raekwon said of the crowd atThe Haunt.

“Protect Ya Neck” added to this almost impossi-bly-strong core of Raekwon’s act. Taking the crowdback to 1994, Raekwon laid down his verse fromMobb Deep’s “Eye For An Eye” off The Infamous.Next up was “Verbal Intercourse” from 1995’s OnlyBuilt for Cuban Linx ... , which the crowd respond-ed to by throwing joints onto the stage. “I’m savingthese for later,” Raekwon said.

“Oooo baby I like it rawwww / Yeah baby I likeit rawwww.” The crowd put on their best impres-sion of O.D.B. for Raekwon as he rounded off hisown performance with “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.”Artists on the IceH20 record label JD Era and KofiBlack then came on and performed some hip-hopand R&B material off their own solo albums

respectively. Raekwon returned to the fore to perform his last song

“Triumph.” It was a fitting end to a night of hip-hop thatinvolved the crowd as much as the artists themselves.Raekwon gave some love to his fans before concluding theconcert, “Ithaca, thanks for coming out and showing yoursupport for real hip-hop. Peace.”

Considering Billy Joel and Seth Meyers entertained mylast two visits there, I walked into Bailey Hall lastThursday unusually attentive. No professor’s lecture

can compete with hearing “Scenes from an ItalianRestaurant” live for the first, and likely only, time. By honorof association, I was all ears during Dr. Paul Wolfowitz’s ’65lecture on U.S. foreign policy. Wolfowitz, along withSecretary Rumsfeld, was perhaps the most strident advocatefor invading Iraq, the ignominy of which follows him to thisday. So why the hell did I agree with most of what he had tosay?

I despise where Wolfowitz pushed our malleable countryafter 9/11, and in this column I often insult predominantlyright-leaning political figures like ol’ Ricky Santorum. Butthat doesn’t mean I am not going to listen to what this mantraveled here to say.

As Wolfowitz walked to the podium after a rather rous-ing introduction from Prof. Barry Strauss, history, I forced ascowl and gingerly stabbed my right hand’s fingers into myother palm so as to not approve of his presence and yet notbring contentious at -tention to myself atsuch a Cornell Re -publicans event. It waspretty pathetic. Well, hestarted by praising theopportunities hisCornell education,through its world-classfaculty and commit-ment to diversity, grant-ed him. I stared himdown from six rows back — I convince myself our eyes met— and telepathically told him, “You’re making it really hardfor me to hate you right now.”

He went on to recount the progression of 20th centuryinternational relations and America’s mostly positive role inthat shift — an opinion open for debate on all sides, butthat’s for another column. Basically, I found myself noddingin agreement to his active but non-domineering stance onhow our country, with all its historic and present-day influ-ence, can help steer the Arab Spring, Southeast Asia andIran-Israel tensions to bright conclusions. “Non-lethal aid”in Syria, for instance — “not tanks, but the tools to takedown al-Assad’s tanks.”

While Wolfowitz seemed to acknowledge the failures ofhis Iraq war — or at least that the perception of failure was

just — he asserted that such misstepsdo not justify isolationism. But nor arewe prescribed to dominate the world —the simple calculus in China and India’sgrowth rates prevents that. It is moredifficult than going all in or all out;there’s no “formula,” as Wolfowitz callsit, for finding that middle ground.

I am not here to preach politics oreven to talk politics. There are countlesswriters — many on The Sun — whocan tackle the topic with more convic-tion than I. But maybe that’s the point.The fringe Capitol discourse of todayhas become a blood sport, with little togain from extreme partisanship. As JonStewart and Stephen Colbert demonstrated with measuredvoices during their Rally to Restore Sanity (slash Fear yeahyeah), the silent majority lies in between. We may register asDemocrat or Republican — two parties closer in ideology

than you might think— but we are likelymoderates or variableindependents at heart.Gay marriage? Ofcourse! $500 billionbailouts? Eh, not sosure. Our people needhealth care. But thereare problems overseas,don’t forget them too.

It is funny becausePresident Obama has made a controversial moderate of him-self on that last point, something Wolfowitz was willing tocommend. His handling of Libya’s uprising was acceptable,he admitted, though he was quick to add he didn’t think thesame about the Administration’s role in Syria. Wolfowitzacknowledged Senator Henry Jackson and PresidentsTruman, Kennedy and Reagan as his role models — oneRepublican among three Democrats. Clearly this man is notrunning for higher office.

Oh, you poor reader. You turn to Arts to get away fromall this. This section is supposed to be an escape, howeverbrief, from the real world. I apologize for rattling off mydiplomatic opinions, as innocuous as they may be. I canrelate this to the current state of the arts: The “I only listento shoegaze,” or “I only listen to metal,” or, and this is the

worst, “There’s no good music anymore” camps. If you havesome aesthetic obsession over a certain style, knock yourselfout, but you’ll get exhausted. And to you blind extremistsespousing such lies that “everything sucks,” music / film / arthas always been good and will always be. It is easier to obtainnow more than ever. You obviously aren’t abusing yourbroadband connection.

This column lacks that aforementioned conviction somany more persuasive — and widely read — writers possess.This column is more of a stern shrug. When it comes to dia-logue on this macro scale, I rather dislike such certainty.Consider a little relativism. Consider that even those we callevil, Wolfowitz chief among them, may still offer valuableadvice. Consider that there are no 90-degree angles in nature(quiet, crystallographers): How likely is it that billions ofDNA pairs, forming a organism wholly unique to this uni-verse and a conscious mind seeing the world from an else-where-unseen perspective, will end up constructing a bodybuilt by Democratic or Republican blueprints? The lateChristopher Hitchens, a nuanced independent who wouldchallenge me to a debate over semantics if I labeled him a“liberal” or “conservative,” captured this struggle with brashefficacy:

“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the rightto have it defended against any consensus, any majority, any-where, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees withthis can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.”

The Third Man

ZacharyZahos

Zachary Zahos ’15 is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.He can be reached at [email protected] Third Man runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Patrick Cambre is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Hecan be reached at [email protected].

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A Plea for ModerationSANTI SLADE / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | 13A & ERaekwon Cooks Up Real Hip-Hop at the Haunt

BY PATRICK CAMBRESun Staff Writer

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BOSTON (AP) — KevinYoukilis' teammates came tohis defense Monday after RedSox manager BobbyValentine questioned hiscommitment to the gameand then apologized to histhird baseman.

During an interview airedSunday night on WHDH-TV, Valentine said he didn’tthink Youkilis was “as physi-cally or emotionally into thegame.”

That drew a sharpresponse from DustinPedroia before Monday's 1-0loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.

“I know he plays as hardas anybody I've ever seen inmy life. I have his back andhis teammates have his back,”the second baseman said.

After the game, first base-man Adrian Gonzalez alsosupported his teammate.

“All you can do is tellYouk we love him. All it saysis we have each others’backs,” he said. “We'repulling for each other on thefield and in the clubhouse.We’ve got a strong bond.”

On Monday morning,Valentine said he apologizedwhen Youkilis came into hisoffice and asked for an expla-nation.

“I don’t know if heaccepted my apology,”Valentine said. “It was sin-cere.”

Youkilis had a poor springtraining and is batting .200(6 for 30), but Valentine saidhis comments weren’t aimedat motivating him. After a 2-

for-20 start, he was 4 for 10in the first three gamesagainst the Tampa Bay Rays.He missed Monday’s seriesfinale because of a minorgroin injury.

“I’m more confused thananything,” Youkilis saidbefore the game. “Everybodyknows I go out and play thegame as hard as I can.”

If Valentine’s intent was tohave Youkilis’ teammatesrally around him, it may haveworked.

“I really don't know whatBobby's trying to do, butthat's not the way we goabout our stuff around here,"Pedroia said. “He’ll figurethat out. The whole team isbehind Youk.”

Asked if Valentine wastrying to motivate Youkilis,Pedroia said, “maybe thatworks in Japan” — whereValentine used to manage.

The manager said afterthe game that he spoke toPedroia and “he’s cool. Hesays he gets it.”

Valentine took over onDec. 1 for the more laid-backTerry Francona, who led theRed Sox to two World Serieschampionships in eight sea-sons.

Valentine said that in theinterview he was just answer-ing a question about howYoukilis may be feeling dur-ing early season struggles.

“I don’t think he’s as phys-ically or emotionally into thegame as he has been in thepast for some reason,” he saidin the interview before

Boston’s 13-5 win on Sunday.“But (on Saturday) it seemed,you know, he’s seeing the ballwell, got those two walks, gothis on-base percentage uphigher than his batting aver-age, which is always a goodthing, and he’ll move onfrom there.”

On Monday, Valentinesaid, “I should have beenmore specific. Physical isabout your swing, emotionalis about not being happywhen he doesn’t hit a ball offthe wall.”

Youkilis hit a career-low.258 last season, when he waslimited to 112 games by sev-eral injuries. Going into thisseason, his ninth with theRed Sox, he was batting .289with 129 homers and 550RBIs.

He said he talkedMonday with Valentineabout the manager's com-ments but gave no details.Youkilis said he doesn’t thinkhis passionate approach tothe game has changed.

“I go out and just play thegame. It doesn’t matter oneway or another. There’sthings that happened over theyears with a lot of differentthings in baseball,” he said.“For me it's not an issue.”

Valentine said he doesn'twant Youkilis to think “I wasjabbing at him.”

“I’d be surprised if Kevindidn't know I was totallybehind him,” he said. “We’rebig boys. I think he’ll get it. Ifnot, I'll talk to him a lotmore.”

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according to men’s head coach NathanTaylor.

“It had about 30-35 schools there,” hesaid. “The most competitive schools werePenn State and Bucknell.”

The men’s team saw a number of strongperformances, including eventwins by senior Ken McClain inthe 400 hurdles, senior co-captainDan Hagberg in the 110 hurdles,sophomore Montez Blair in thehigh jump, Peter Roach in thepole vault, and in both the 4x100and 4x400 relays. Freshmanthrower and indoor NCAA finalist StephenMozia placed third in the discus and fourthin the shot put. The 4x100 relay team ofsophomore Chris Bain, junior JedidiahAdarquah-Yiadom, senior Chase Aaronson,and sophomore Kinsley Ojukwu ran a timeof 40.77 for the seventh best time in Cornell’strack and field history.

The women’s team saw five event winsincluding junior Victoria Imbesi in thejavelin, junior Claire Dishong in the polevault, sophomore Devin McMahon in the10k, senior Megan Brown in the 3k, and inthe 4x400 relay comprised of sophomoreRyan Woolley, senior Kelsey Reimnitz, juniorLibby O’Brien, and senior co-captain MollyGlantz. The women’s team saw 19 ECACqualifying marks and seven alterations toCornell’s all time top 10 lists.

With the Heps meet approaching, theteams must continue to progress in order tobe fully prepared to go after the outdoor title.Taylor expressed that he was generally pleasedwith the progression of his team to this pointin the season.

“It’s been pretty good,” he said. “I thinkwe’ve had most of the areas of the team doreasonably well. There have been some excep-tional performances. I’m pleased with the

general progress of the team.”According to McFall, although the team is

not ready yet, they will be by the time Hepscomes around.

“I don’t think we’re ready yet, but we’regetting there and we’re on the right track,” hesaid. “We just need to keep doing what we’redoing, but it’s important not to get compla-cent.”

For some of Cornell’s athletes, the differ-ence between qualifying for an importantmeet or not can be as seemingly minimal asjust a few seconds. Athletes like freshmanmiddle distance runner Jade Williams areworking to cut those seconds off to qualifyfor important meets for their team.

“I’m hoping to get to regionals this year,”she said. “So I really need to knock a secondor two off of my 800 to qualify.”

Bowman offered an interesting perspectiveon how the progression of these teams works.

“It’s a little bit like a puzzle,” he said. “Allthe different little pieces are starting to cometogether, and don’t really have that puzzle puttogether, but each week we have a differentpiece come up and do big things.”

Up next for the Red are two meets thisweekend. Some of Cornell’s athletes will trav-el to the Princeton Invite hosted at Princeton,while the rest of the team will travel to theUpstate Challenge hosted in Buffalo. As thefirst scored meet of the season, Bowman feltthat his team will come closer together.

“This is our first scored meet,” he said.“So I think people will really come together.”

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C.U. Hopes to Win Geiger Cupmore,” Kennett said.

Comparing this race to the team’sperformance in San Diego, he noted“We raced better. I feel like we’re mak-ing some really positive strides.”

Kennett went on to say that “fromwhat I can see, we were under-stroking[Navy] — so taking less strokes perminute. We were matching a lot oftheir speeds; we moved back on themseveral times, which was the first timewe’ve done that. So there were somevery positive things to the race, but westill didn’t quite put all of it together.”

The second Varsity crew, mean-while, finished with a time of 5:49.7,ahead of Syracuse (5:50.4) and Navy(5:54.8). The Freshmen 8 boat alsocrossed the line ahead of theMidshipmen and Orange, coming in at5:49.3 — a full eight seconds fasterthan second-place Navy. Kennett saidthe third Varsity and second Freshmencrews also raced well, despite not win-ning

There was very little wind on theday, which made for ideal racing condi-tions. As Kennett explained, “theVarsity raced the earliest to try to getthe best water, and of course there wasstill a roll on the lake and that actuallydied down as the racing went on, so itwent flatter and flatter — it was great.”

According to Kennett, the heavy-weight squad’s crews have “stayed pret-ty close to the same — a little bit oflineup changes, but that’s it — justguys flipping around in seats to get alittle more chemistry.”

This upcoming weekend, Cornellwill welcome Princeton and Yale —two “really good squads,” according to

Kennett — to the Cayuga Lake Inlet.The Tigers are coming off a loss toperennial powerhouse Harvard, whileYale has been “winning a bunch ofraces,” Kennett said.

“It could be a really, really toughweekend, but a really fun weekend,” headded.

Kennett spoke to the importance ofusing the Red’s knowledge of the Inletto its advantage.

“It’s their home course — if theydon’t take advantage of every turn, ofevery landmark, it’d be crazy. Theyknow exactly where they are, theyshould be able to know where to push.I’d like to think this would be a hugefactor for them,” he said.

Also on Saturday, the No. 4 light-weight team traveled to Princeton,N.J., for a doubleheader against theTigers and Yale Bulldogs on LakeCarnegie.

Cornell edged Princeton in the firstVarsity 8 race by a mere 0.3 seconds toclaim the Platt Cup for the first timesince 2007. The Red also picked upvictories over the Tigers in the secondand third Varsity 8 races, but fell in thefirst Freshmen 8 race by 6.7 seconds asPrinceton went on to win the HarrietCup.

Later in the day, Yale defeatedCornell in the Varsity 8 race for theeighth consecutive season. The Redmanaged one win against the Bulldogs,which came on behalf of the thirdVarsity 8 crew.

Cornell’s lightweight squad willtravel to Boston on Saturday to take onColumbia and MIT with the GeigerCup on the line.

M. ROWINGContinued from page 20

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“All the different little pieces are startingto come together.”Rich Bowman

With the season shortened bythe lockout, this NBA regularshowdown has flown by.

We’ve seen Jeremy Lin overtake TimTebow as America’s hero, Kevin Lovebecome the undisputed best caucasianAmerican basketball player and DwightHoward challenge LeBron’s title as themost villainous player with his ridiculoustrade request saga.

Even more exciting is how the post-season is shaping up. There are legiti-mately at least eight teams who have real-istic hopes of winning the championship— rarely do we have even five teams whoare actual contenders. Let’s take a look athow the NBA playoff picture is shapingup and profile the contenders.

At the start of the year, the Heat werethe overwhelming favorites to win itsfirst title after getting a year to jell, get-ting Udonis Haslem and Mike Millerback healthy and adding veteran ShaneBattier; in fact, 25 of 30 experts onESPN predicted the Heat would win thechampionship. Then the season started.LeBron, Wade and Bosh seem no morecomfortable together than last season,the team never developed a reliable sup-porting cast, and seemed to have forgot-ten how to play on the road (5-8 in thelast 13). With all that said, the Heat isstill one of the most talented teams. Lastyear, it looked even worse heading intothe playoffs and made it to the finals. Youcannot discount the Heat this seasoneither.

Its biggestcompetitor inthe East is theBulls as long asit has a healthyDerrick Rose,it will be scary.As opposed tolast season,when Rose was Options A through H,the supporting cast has developed confi-dence by playing so well with Roseinjured (16-7). The team will still needhim for the playoffs, but its experiencewithout him should provide great confi-dence in the ability to win a champi-onship.

Out in the West, the Thunder are thenation’s sweetheart; the cute, organicallygrown team led by the humble, likeablesuperstar in Kevin Durant. The mediatried to tear apart this team by manufac-turing storylines to create a rift betweenRussell Westbrook the shot-happy pointguard, and Durant, but the team hasstuck together and deflected any criti-cisms. Speaking of Westbrook, he is play-ing angry this year; there is no betterword to describe it. His demeanor andscowl belong to a person who just had adrink splashed in his face — pure,focused anger. As long as Durant,Westbrook, and James Harden do whatthey do, the Thunder will be the favoritesto come out of the West.

Unlike the Thunder, the Spurs werenot supposed to succeed this season atall. Everyone believed that the age andinjury concerns of Duncan and Ginobilicombined with the shortened schedulewould make them a fringe playoff team,much less a contender. Head coachGregg Popovich fixed this problem byplugging in young, unwanted playersaround them and reducing his stars’ min-utes, while never skipping a beat. Thefact that players like Gary Neal (undraft-ed), Danny Green (previously bestknown for giving LeBron James greatpregame handshakes) and KawhiLeonard (rookie) are playing huge min-utes attests to Popovich and the Spurs’incredible ability to scout and develop

young talent. Come playoff time, ifGinobili regains his form and the youngguys play like they have, the Spurs will beone of the most dangerous teams in theWest.

For the Lakers, after losing LamarOdom to retirement (Wait he played thisyear? Can we confirm it was him on theMavs and not an imposter?), the Lakerswere not given much of a chance, espe-cially with Kobe’s aging knees andBynum’s history of injuries. Amazingly,Kobe leads the NBA in minutes played,while Bynum has somehow missed justone game due to injury in this shortenedseason. Bynum has also developed intothe clear-cut second best center in theleague. With bionic Kobe, a dominantbig man, and Pau Gasol still playing nearan All-Star level, the Lakers have a shot atanother championship, as long as Kobe isactually willing to use the talent aroundhim.

After knocking off the Spurs last yearand pushing the Thunder to sevengames, the Grizzlies announced its pres-ence to the rest of the league. As recent asthree years ago, the Grizzlies were thelaughingstock of the NBA. Its transfor-mation into respectable franchise hasbeen completely unexpected, amazingand boy are they scary. They have thebest perimeter defender in the league inTony Allen, a do-it-all center in MarcGasol, scorers Rudy Gay and OJ Mayoon the wing, and are working ZachRandolph — the second best player in

the entire playoffslast year — backinto shape. TheGrizzlies are a com-plete team. It isscared of no oneand everyone hasgood reason to bescared of it.

The Pacers have been the Grizzlies ofthe East; it had a sneaky-good season —it locked up the East’s 3-seed — and alsohave a very complete team. DannyGranger and Paul George are the athlet-ic, talented wings, Roy Hibbert andDavid West provide post defense andscoring and Darren Collison leads theteam at point. However, unlike theGrizzlies, the Pacers simply don’t haveenough talent to compete with the Heator Bulls, which really is a shame.

After being pronounced dead at theAll-Star Break, the Celtics have pulled offa 21-8 record since. Rondo is playingabsolutely amazing basketball, PaulPierce and Kevin Garnett have regainedtheir form, and improbably, second-yearplayer Avery Bradley has developed intoone of the best perimeter defenders and adecent offensive weapon. The Celticsalso have the most swagger in the league;it knows it belongs and believes it canwin and that’s what makes the Celtics thebiggest wild card in the entire league.

With all these great teams and somany injuries in play, picking a team towin it all at this point is throwing darts ata board, but I might as well make a pre-diction on the off chance I get it right:the Thunder will take it all. With playoffexperience from the last two years, Ibelieve its core is finally ready for the bigstage. Durant will finally get his firstchampionship and hopefully, the teamwill be able to shut up the critics ofWestbrook, who I predict will be theclear-cut best point guard in the playoffsthis year. Just don’t bring my predictionsup if the Thunder gets kicked out in thefirst round.

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Albert Liao is a sports staff writer and colunist. He canbe contacted at [email protected]. Playing the Fieldappears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

For Better or for Worse:NBA Postseason Predictions

Albert Liao

Defying gravity | Cornell graduate student Lenore Pipes qualified as the top womanrider for the Collegiate Cycling National Championships on May 4th - 6th.

COURTESY OF LENORE PIPERS

When the competitive world ofwomen’s cycling isn’t enough for Cornellgraduate student Lenore Pipes, she ups theintensity of her training by racing againstthe men.

“I like to race with the men. Last weekI almost got points and [the race organiz-ers] said you’re not supposed to getpoints.”

So while Pipes was allowed to wear anumber and petal past many of the men,points were awarded to the next male tocross the finish line.

Pipes picked up cycling in 2008 whilecommuting to Swarthmore College inMedia from her home in Philadelphia.Encouraged by members of her road bik-ing club, she forayed into the realm ofwomen’s cycling just four years ago.

Now, she is training six days a week andsays, “the hills and the wind make Ithaca achallenging place to train.” Pipes takeslarger rides in the winter months, whichmeans four orfive hours ofriding at a sus-tainable pace.As the weathergets warmer,she is transi-tioning tohigher intensity and shorter rides to fullyprepare for the peak road season, the sum-mer.

When the first year graduate student isnot in the saddle, she can be found inAdam Siepel or Chris Mason’s lab workingon a project to build non-human primatereference transcriptomes (rRNA for thoseof us without a biology graduation require-ment). Pipes is pursuing her Ph.D. in theTri-Institutional Program for Com -putational Biology and Medicine which isa program involving Cornell’s IthacaCampus, Weill Medical College, andSloan-Kettering Institute. “It’s difficult tobalance studying and training, but I amused to it,” said the racer. “My social life ispretty non-existent.”

Over spring break, Pipes travelled toNew Zealand for the Oceania Cham -pionships to represent her native Guam.Disadvantaged by the fact that it is current-ly the peak of the road season in the south-ern hemisphere, Pipes returned disappoint-ed in her performance, but enthusiasticabout future races this spring. “I love somany aspects of racing: the competitive-ness, the tactics, and that the only way toget success is by working harder, and that’sdirectly translatable to your training.”

More recently, Pipes has earned anOlympic Nomination for the women’s

road race in London this summer. Whileshe waits for the final selection of the teammembers in June, she is pursing a fewhigh-profile International Cycling Union(UCI) races to increase her chances ofselection. Coming up are the Grand PrixCycliste de Gatineau and the LibertyClassic at the the end of May and begin-ning of June respectively.

Pipes was competing in the LibertyClassic for the past few years when shelived in Philadelphia but experienced a flaton the final lap last year. “I’m hoping forbetter luck this year. I also did theGatineau race last year and finished 20thso I want to improve on that result.”

When she is not riding professionallyfor the RIDECLEAN/PatentIt.com EliteWomen’s Cycling team, Pipes rides withthe Cornell cycling team and has made ahabit of blowing away the competition.Within the past month, she has broughthome first-place finishes all of her racesincluding the Frozen Toed Opener RoadRace presented by Rutgers Cycling, thePrinceton Jersey Devil Road Race present-

ed byP r i n c e t o nUniversity andthe Lux etVelocitas RoadRace present-ed by YaleB u l l d o g

Cycling which has a hill-top finish.The student athlete’s victories climaxed

with a victory in the Eastern CollegiateCycling Conference’s Women’s A roadrace, a second place time trial finish and asolid showing against the Men’s B field inthe criterium.

Her success on the collegiate circuit hasqualified the top woman rider for theCollegiate Cycling NationalChampionships, where she hopes to repre-sent Cornell on May fourth through sixth.Unfortunately, while the Cycling teampresident deems the competition an excel-lent use of club funds, there simply is notenough money in the budget this year forPipes to go and represent the Red. TheCycling team is technically a Cornell clublike the Ultimate frisbee team and not adivision of the athletic department.

Despite Pipes’ knack for fierce competi-tion, she is very interested in encouragingother college women to start racing, espe-cially at the amateur level. Currently, Pipesis serving as a recruitment officer and said,“We’re definitely looking for more peopleto join the club and go to the races. We’reespecially looking for women at whateverlevel.”

Pipes Takes High IntensityCycling World by Storm

By ROB MOORESun Senior Writer

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“I love so many aspects of racing: thecompetitiveness, the tactics.”Lenore Pipes

Playing the Field

This past weekend 12 members of Cornell’sgymnastics team attended the USAG Women’sCollegiate National Championships inBridgeport, Conn. While Cornell did not qualifyas a team, the individuals that participated tookthe meet as an opportunity to improve and perfectthe routines they have been working on all season.

Day one of the meet consisted of qualifyingrounds, with the participants split into two ses-sions. The top five routines for each session thenmoved on to the final rounds.

Defending champions senior MelanieStandridge on beam and sophomore MelanieJorgensen on bars both qualified for the secondround, along with junior McKenna Archer onvault who set a new personal record for her per-formance. The three were also awarded first teamall- American. Junior captain Ashley Maher andsenior Tiffany Chen both placed sixth in the qual-ifying round, and were honored with second teamall-American status.

At the end of the second day of competition,Cornell finished with three girls placing in thefinals — Standridge in second for beam,Jorgensen tied in seventh for bars, and Archer inthird for vault.

“All in all, everyone did great,” said Maher.“We worked on some upgrades to add more diffi-culty to our routines, and everyone completedthem successfully for the first time … it definitelyhelps us to look forward to next year.”

In order to better compete at the national level,several of Cornell’s team members added extra fea-tures to their routines in order to start their scoresat a perfect 10.0.

Maher and sophomore Elise Kerner bothadded a full twist into their vault routines, andfreshman Sammy VanderPutten added an addi-tional half twist. Sophomore Mackenzie Satoadded a new tumbling pass to her floor routine inorder to start with a perfect score.

“It’s all in the details, and is all very close,” saidjunior captain Sarah Hein. “We hit every routinewe put up, no falls … We’ve been working on per-fecting skills and fine tuning in practice, and ourwork really showed this weekend.”

While this is the first time in several years thatCornell was unable to qualify for the competitionas a team, the results of this meet show a promis-ing future for the Red.

“We went and did what we planned to do, andI’m really proud of that,” said Maher. “Our pre-season starts now … we’re looking forward to get-ting in the gym and working hard every day toperfect our skills so next year make it as a teamagain.”

“It was a great final weekend,” Hein said. “Wehad a lot of fun as a team, it was a great trip andwe represented Cornell well as individuals. If wecarry this mindset on to next season, it will reallyshow, so we’re working to start off next seasonwhere we left off this year.”

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Wrapping up | The Red finished up its season this weekend in Bridgeport,Conn. while competing in the Collegiate National Championships.

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Cornell Closes Season at NationalsGYMNASTICS

By REBECCA VELEZSun Staff Writer

High flying | The men’s track and field team took home six event titles this weekend at the Bucknell Bison OutdoorClassic — including the 400 hurdles, the 110 hurdles, the high jump, pole vault, the 4X100 relays and the 4X400 relay.

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Rapid rowing | The men’s varsity crew lost the Goes Trophy at the hands of Navy, but wasable to snag the Stagg Point Trophy thanks to the second Varsity and first freshman boat.

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MEN’S ROWING

The men’s heavyweight Varsity 8crew may have lost the Goes Trophy toNo. 7 Navy by only two seconds, butthe Red did not come away from theOnondaga Lake Outlet in Syracuse,empty-handed, as first-place finishesby the second Varsity and first fresh-men boats earned Cornell the StaggPoint Trophy.

“I thought it was really good,”head coach Todd Kennett ’91 said ofhis team’s overall performance. “I wasreally happy that a lot of the boatscame up big — far bigger than we’ve

been seeing in some practices. It wasjust a great race day anyway, but thetimes were really solid.”

Saturday marked the second timein as many weeks that the first Varsitycrew faced Navy — the first being atthe San Diego Crew Classic fromMarch 31-April 1. The Midshipmenonce again got the better of the Red,this time by a margin of 5:48.3 to5:50.2. The Orange finished third witha time of 5:52.0.

“The Varsity — I thought — wasbetter than what they’ve been doing,but I still know they’re capable of

By ALEX KUCZYNSKI-BROWNSun Senior Writer

See M. ROWING Page 18TRACK AND FIELD

The outdoor season is in full swing for theRed as the men’s and women’s track and fieldteams are poised to make another run at theHeps title. Both teams are progressing well thisseason now less than three weeks away from theHeps outdoor finals.

This past weekend the Red is coming off astrong performance at the Bucknell BisonOutdoor Classic, where the men’s team claimedsix events and the women’s team won five eventsthis past weekend. Women’s head coach RichBowman was pleased how his athletes performedat the Bucknell meet.

“It went very well,” he said. “This was by far

our best meet of the year. The momentum isbuilding; we had a lot of wonderful things hap-pen.”

Junior middle distance runner Will McFallnoted that a lot of Cornell athletes set personalrecords at Bucknell, something he attributed tothe coaching staff.

“We set a lot of [personal records] so that’sgood looking forward,” he said. “I think it’simportant to attribute it to our coaches. It’s along process that literally begins mid-summerand it’s really starting to pay off now with whatwe’re doing.”

The Bucknell meet had a large field of com-petitors, some more competitive than others,

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDOSun Staff Writer

See TRACK AND FIELD page 18

Rebecca Velez can be reached [email protected].

Red Loses Goes Trophy,Wins Stagg Point Trophy

Men Win Six Events, Women Win Five

Fails to qualify as team, but looks ahead to next season