This September, after joining theTau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, the for-mer pledges of Sigma Alpha Epsilonwanted to host a traditional SAE eventcalled the “White Party” in their newhome. But University administratorsinterfered and, threatening punish-ment, effectively prevented TKE fromhosting the event, according a

University memo obtained by The Sunin January.

Several months later, after TKE waskicked off campus for the alcohol-relat-ed hospitalization of a freshman, stu-dents formerly affiliated with SAEagain wanted to host the White Party.This time, however, the event fellbeyond the jurisdiction of the Greeksystem, and the party occurred inCollegetown Saturday night.

Although it has been more than a

year since SAE was kicked off campus,vestiges of the fraternity and its broth-erhood maintain a visible presence oncampus.

The Interfraternity Council execu-tive board discussed Saturday’s WhiteParty on Tuesday, according to IFCPresident Chris Sanders ’13. It con-cluded that since the students are notin the Greek system, the IFC “can’treally do anything about it,” he said.

Ken Babcock ’13, vice president forjudicial affairs for the IFC, added thatholding the White Party was not nec-essarily a violation of IFC or Universitypolicy.

“From what I’ve been told it’s justguys who were once affiliated having aparty at their annex — or their apart-ment — which they’re entirely entitledto do,” Babcock said, adding that theIFC is not “tasked with governingthem any longer.”

Still, the activity could pose a dan-ger to student safety, said Travis Apgar,associate dean of fraternity and sorori-ty affairs, who emphasized that he hadno personal knowledge of the WhiteParty’s occurrence.

“It’s a threat to people’s safety ifthey’re taking these parties elsewhere,”Apgar said. “Our expectation is that

Tough times TKE | Cornell revoked its recognition of Tau Kappa Epsilon for at leastthree years in January.

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Drink for the masses | The owners of Northside Wine and Spirits, likeother liquor stores, stocked up in anticipation of Slope Day.

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Students often brag about their pre-Slope Dayblackouts, but a power outage probably wasn’twhat they had in mind.

Boomboxes fell silent in much of lowerCollegetown Thursday night as a severe thunder-storm knocked out power to thousands of peoplein the Ithaca area. Party-goers had difficulty find-ing the best parties without the telltale thumpingof a bass to guide them.

On Eddy Street and on the Commons, manydarkened businesses closed early, but some, espe-cially restaurants, found ways to keep their cus-tomers happy.

In Souvlaki House, customers were eating bycandlelight. The owner, Peter Papachryssanthou,said it was only the second time in his 41 years onEddy Street that he had to bring out the candles.

“It’s romantic,” he said with a smile. But mostof his customers were ordering their dinners to go,he added.

Joe McKnight, who works at Big Red Barber

After Cuts, Dept. SavesCritical Languages

Liquor Stores PrepareFor Slope Debauchery

On Friday, Collegetown willbe teaming with scores of excited,drunken Cornellians eagerly

anticipating the festivities on theSlope. Although for businesses,operating in the middle of thetumult could be a nightmare,

With Provost Kent Fuchs’ short-term funding of “critical lan-guage” programs slated to end at the beginning of next semester,individual departments have searched for funds to keep their pro-grams alive. Although the fate of all 11 critical languages remainsunclear, using previously saved funds, one department — AsianStudies— will support several South and Southeast Asian lan-guage programs for the next few years, according to Prof. WalterCohen, comparative literature, the Senior Associate Dean of theCollege of Arts and Sciences.

After the U.S. Department of Education slashed 40 percent ofits funding to critical languages –– lesser-known languages thatare of national importance –– in 2011, Fuchs funded 90 percentof the shortfall for this year. Now, however, that funding is run-ning out.

Prof. Tamara Loos, history, director of the Southeast AsiaProgram, said that the University determined that the SoutheastAsia program had the capacity to temporarily sustain its criticallanguages using its endowment from the Mario Einaudi Centerfor International Studies.

Because the Southeast Asia Program would be able to, in part,make for the Department of Education’s budget shortfall withthis endowment, the University decided not to provide addition-al funding to the program to help it cope with the budget cuts,Loos said.

Loos said, however, said that the program will attempt “tokeep our languages alive for as long as we can.”

“The bottom line is we’re rearranging how we spend our currentendowments to try and make [the funds] spread out for the next two

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Science, “The Science Behind Solar Storm,” WednesdaySpeaking about magnetism on the Sun and the Earth“In the Earth, magnetic poles are permanent for long periods of times, like tens of thousands of years, butin the Sun polar rearrangement happens in an 11 year period known as the Sun cycle,”

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News, “President Skorton Tells Activists to End ‘Hyperbolic Claims,’” ThursdaySpeaking about on-campus activism in a letter to the Sweatfree Cornell Coalition“When you issue ‘demands for action’ and make hyperbolic claims, it undermines the very relationshipyou, my administrative colleagues and I have worked so hard to establish.”

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The same week that students debuted theirCornell signature beer, Ezra Red, Cornell FoodScience researchers unveiled a tasty, Cornell-brand creation of their own — Big RedCheddar.

Robert Ralyea M.S. ’98, a senior extensionassociate in the Department of Food Science,led a team of local cheese makers to create a newwhite cheddar cheese, made with all-naturalingredients, milk from the Cornell dairy and anew aging process.

In order to create the cheese, the team stud-ied various bacterial cultures and their agingprocesses. After coming up with three differentcheeses, 30 test tasters — local experts, connois-seurs and University researchers — sampled allthree and voted on their favorite at a tasting onApril 24 in Morrison Hall.

Cornell Big Red Cheddar will be sold at theCornell Store and Cornell Dairy, and will beused in food prepared by Cornell Catering,Cornell Dining and the Statler Hotel, accordingto May Chinavanichkit grad, an intern in thedepartment.

According to Jason Huck, plant manager forCornell Dairy, the dairy will begin sellingCornell Big Red Cheddar when Cornell Dairyfacilities reopen this December.

In September 2010, the College ofAgriculture and Life Sciences began construc-tion on a $105 million building project to reno-vate the 86-year-old Stocking Hall. The endeav-or will replace the college’s dairy processingplant with a new facility that provides improvedresearch and production space, and refurbish theaging laboratories and classrooms of the histori-cal building.

According to Ralyea, a growing market forArtisan cheeses in New York State encouragedthe Food Science Extension to hold workshopsfor local cheese-makers in collaboration with theNew York State Cheese ManufacturersAssociation. He said the idea for creating acheese exclusive to Cornell was inspired by DaveBrown, a former senior extension associate inthe Department of Food Sciences who died in2008 and, who according to Ralyea had always“dreamed of doing something like this.”

Ralyea said he decided in November that itwas about time Cornell invented its own cheese.

“One night, I thought, who better to make ahand-crafted cheese for Cornell than the foodscience department at Cornell?” Ralyea said.

The team began the process of creating thecheese last fall.

“Our target aging period is six months, so wehad to wait it out, all the while flipping cheeseevery four days for even aging,” Ralyea said.“We looked at various bacterial cultures andtheir nuances: benefits, drawbacks, culture char-acteristics and how they react over time duringaging.”

As to what is special about the new agingprocess, Ralyea called it “the ‘top secret’ secretbehind Big Red Cheddar.”

In addition to creating the cheese itself, theteam behind Big Red Cheddar has also beguncreating business model for distributing thecheese. Chinavanichkit was responsible fordeveloping the project’s business plan.

“The two main questions I have to answer asI compile this business plan is ‘how much doesit cost?’ and ‘how much do we need to pro-duce?’” Chinavanichkit said in an email. “I metwith potential customers [and] distributingpartners to get an estimate of their mild cheddarcheese usage. We also had to find out what pricepoints they are looking at so we can match[them].”

Chinavanichkit, who had no prior experiencein designing a business model, became involvedafter she showed interest in the project whileworking on an independent study with Ralyea.

“The project is challenging because there isno set guidelines for what I have to do … Ithink that this experience is very reflective ofwhat many start-up business owners have to gothrough,” Chinavanichkit said.

One challenge specific to the business ofcheese-making is timing orders correctly, shesaid, which the Cornell team tackled by prepar-ing enough cheese to sell for the first fewmonths well in advance.

“In order to make sure we have enoughcheese to meet demands, we have made sure thatwe produce enough cheese six months inadvance,” Chinavanichkit said.

She said she anticipates the team will sellabout 4,200 pounds of the cheese in the firstyear alone, according to a University pressrelease.

“It has … been really rewarding to be a partof a project from the start and see it grow,”Chinavanichkit said in a press release. “[CornellBig Red Cheddar] will launch in Nov. 2012 andI can't wait to see it on the shelves.”

Kit Dobyns ’13 and Folajimi Fowose ’12won this year’s Big Idea undergraduatebusiness competition, hosted byEntrepreneurship@Cornell in April, from apool of 100 contestants. The pair walkedaway with a prize of $3,000 for their inven-tion, which allows soda bottles to be used aslight sources in developing countries.

Their entry, known as CapLight, is aLED light, a popular light source, that canreplace the cap on a two-liter soda bottle.According to Dobyns, soda bottles filledwith water and inserted into the roof arecommon sources of daytime light in ruralcommunities that lack electricity.

Fowose and Dobyns had the idea forCapLight when they witnessed the shortageof lighting in sub-Saharan Africa firsthand.

“I’ve taken two semesters off to travel insouthern Africa and I also grew up going toan African church, so Jimmy and I bothhave an interest in African culture,”Dobyns said. “The soda bottles filled withwater were something I was exposed to inTanzania. While I was there, I worked onthis idea of replacing the cap with a light,and that eventually became our innova-tion.”

For Fowose, the inspiration to createCapLight came from his experiences grow-ing up in Nigeria, where in some parts ofthe country, electricity was scarce.

“I lived in Nigeria up until I was aboutage 13, and even in the parts where elec-tricity was available, it wasn’t stable,”Fowose said. “In the northern parts that aremore rural, there just wasn’t any form oflighting at all. Being from there and know-ing people there, it directly affects me.”

The water in the bottles scatters sun-light, and though these “liters of light,” asDobyn called them, are effective during thedaytime, they cannot provide lighting atnight or on cloudy days. CapLight canreplace the cap on soda bottles at night orwhen the sun is not visible, and it can bepowered by solar power, a car battery, amotorbike battery or a household battery.

According to Dobyns, although theproduct was built with a focus on Africa,CapLight could be used in any region thatstruggles with lighting problems. However,he argues that it would be most effective incommunities that already use the soda bot-tles for daytime lighting.

“You could technically use it anywherewithout electricity, but the one caveat ishow culturally acceptable it is to insert atwo-liter bottle into your roof in that area,”Dobyns said. “I don’t know that we’re real-ly in a position to expand CapLight toplaces where they don’t put two-liter plasticbottles in the roof just because some placesmay not be comfortable with that.”

Carlos Castro grad, an eLab fellow atEntrepreneurship@Cornell and a mentorfor the groups that are competing in the

event, said that effective business proposalsin competitions such as Big Idea require theteam to be resourceful and determined.

“To be successful, you need to do what-ever it takes. You have to juggle becauseyou’re a student here, and you’re trying tolaunch an idea or a business, so it is allabout being scrappy, very dedicated andcommitted, while finding a way to get thejob done,” Castro said. “Even if you hit astumbling block or a hiccup in your busi-ness, you find a way to get past it.”

According to Castro, Dobyns andFowose were successful in their proposaldue to their high enthusiasm and openresponse to feedback.

“Their energy was really capturing.They really believed in that idea, and theywere able to present it very well throughtheir demonstration,” Castro said. “I thinkit was a combination of them being dedi-cated, being open to feedback, and having aproduct that solved a world problem, and Ithink people could identify with it.”

This energy allowed Fowose andDobyns to overcome the challenges theyfaced during this process — like designingand constructing the technology forCapLight with little prior experience.

“Neither of us are engineers. Thoughthis is something that we’re interested in,we just don’t necessarily have the technicalknowledge to develop a product that wouldbe useful,” Dobyns said. “We had to con-sult a lot with engineers. We had an under-

standing of the culture and the market, butnot necessarily the technology, so that wasthe biggest gap.”

Dobyns and Fowose said they plan tospend most of their $3,000 prize on manu-facturing their product and the rest ondeveloping a stronger organization struc-ture and distribution strategy. In additionto studying the science behind CapLight,the next steps include manufacturing moreof the devices to distribute, accordingFowose.

“We have to make more prototypes. Weonly have two of what we have, and also interms of the technicality of it all, we’ve gotto ask a lot of scientific questions,” he said.“We’re an Africana Studies and an ILRmajor, so in light of that, we’re hoping tofurther research those questions.”

The team said that the Big Idea compe-tition was meaningful because it allowedCornell students to address social problemsthat are important to them.

“The range of ideas was really broad,and I think that it speaks to the level ofentrepreneurship that Cornellians display,”Fowose said. “Besides that, it was a learningprocess, so it wasn’t just us as competitors.We’re hoping that with the funds we’veattained and the exposure, people will real-ize that there are ways to effectively createsocial change.”

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Students celebrated the end of classes on Thurday by organizing a Nerfgun flash mob in Duffield.

Stick ‘em up

The Slope Day forecast is calling for scattered showers. What willyou do if it rains on Slope Day?

“I can’t miss Taio Cruz. That is five dollars of my student activity fee.”

— SAFC ’14

“I’ll watch from my room. West Campus has the best view ofthe Slope on campus.”

— Baker Pride ’14— Compiled by Dan Temel

C.U. Develops Signature CheeseBy CAROLYN KRUPSKISun Staff Writer

Lauren Avery can be reached at lavery@cornellsun.com.

Students Win Prize for Creating Innovative New Light SourceCarolyn Krupski can be reached at ckrupski@cornellsun.com.

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years, but after that we need theadministration to kick in somefunds,” Loos said.

To help supplement the SoutheastAsia program’s endowment, Prof.Fredrik Logevall, history, director ofthe Einaudi Center, said that theseprograms might ask the provost for“bridging funds” –– which wouldclose the gap between programs cov-ered by Asian Studies and the down-sized DOE funding for the upcoming

year. “Even with the welcome Asian

Studies decision, there will still be ashortfall,” Logevall said. “Therefore, Ianticipate we will be making a request[to the Provost] again this year.”

Although it is still uncertain if theprovost will provide aid to any pro-grams, Prof. Daniel Gold, Asian stud-ies, director of the South AsiaProgram, said the number of lan-guages offered by the University willremain constant.

“I think for the moment, this year,next year, we’re stable, in terms of the

languages being taught,” Gold said. The endowment for the Einaudi

Center, however, is not a permanentsolution, according to Gold.

“We hope that, eventually, we willget this thing sorted out and we’ll findnew sources of funding,” Gold said.

Since the DOE cuts will remain anissue for the Asian Studies departmentnext year, Cohen said the use of savedfunding next year will be a trial runfor the University. Although it willstill keep the programs running forthe next few years, the funding struc-ture will not be permanent.

“For next year, it isgoing to be more of aspit-and-chewing gumkind of operation, butwe’ll be okay next year,and possibly the yearafter,” Cohen said.“But that’s not a solu-

tion.” With the stability of these pro-

grams largely undecided after the nexttwo years, some professors questionedwhether language teaching will remaina long-term priority for the University.

“There are lots of people compet-ing for a very small amount,” Loossaid. “[The administrators] really needa lot more if they want to includeunder the rubric of ‘internationalstudies’ all of these different kinds ofobjectives.”

Loos added that language programsare relatively inexpensive to maintainas compared to other institutional ini-

tiatives, such as the Tech Campus inNew York City.

“The amount it would take to sus-tain these programs is minimal bycomparison –– really it’s embarrass-ingly small –– but the administrationhas yet to commit them,” Loos said.“If they put their money where theirmouth is and are really supportive oftheir flagship programs … they aregoing to really need to look hard attheir priorities.”

According to Cohen, theUniversity has “a vested interest inkeeping a wide range of languages.”

In the future, however, Cohen saidthat the way the University willrespond to both University and DOEbudget cuts is still uncertain.

“For the next year or two wereprobably okay, after that it’s muchmore uncertain, and I don’t think thatthe University’s economy and financeswill be totally back by then,” Cohensaid.

While Cohen acknowledged thatthe fate of the University’s critical lan-guage programs remains uncertain, healso said that budget constraints couldhave an impact on other programs aswell.

“So there will be some tricky deci-sions, not just in languages, but in awhole lot of areas over the next fiveyears.”

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“There will be some tricky decisions,not just in languages, but in a wholelot of areas over the next five years.”Prof. Walter Cohen

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Collegetown liquor stores said they areready to face a surge in customers.

Many store owners said that, leadingup to Slope Day, they simply orderedextra stock, hired a few additionalemployees and enjoyed the increase insales.

Karl Kernan, manager of TriphammerWine and Spirits, said the store “obvious-ly [does] a little bit more business” asSlope Day approaches. The store sees anincrease in sales for both its spirits and its“lower-end sparkling wine,” whichKernan called “a favorite for the day.”

“In preparation for the day, we stockup on those things and bulk up staffingfor Thursday and Friday,” Kernan added.

Kernan said that Triphammer Wineand Spirits typically experiences a 20-per-cent increase in sales in the days leadingup to Slope Day.

Like Kernan, Dana Malley, the gener-al manager of Northside Wine andSpirits, said that her store tries to “makesure we have enough stock of items wethink people might be looking for.”

She also stressed that as students floodthe store to purchase alcohol, it is impor-tant to enforce the legal drinking age.

“The main thing is really to be vigilantabout the IDs. We really need to be care-ful there,” Malley said.

Collegetown liquor stores are not theonly places that find themselves busyboth in the days leading up to Slope Dayand on the day of the actual event.Representatives from several restaurants

and eateries also said that they experiencea notable increase in sales.

Albert Smith, the owner of the HotTruck, an eatery on West Campus, andShortstop Deli, a store on the Commons,said that once the festivities on the Slopewind down, people flock to the two loca-tions to eat to their hearts’ content.

“Once they’re out, they pretty muchstay out, so once Slope Day breaks up, wehave a big Truck night and the Deli alsohas a great night,” Smith said.

Meanwhile, Yogurt Crazy, the fledg-ling frozen yogurt spot on CollegeAvenue that opened in March, appearedto be readying itself for its first Slope Day.

“I know that April 20 was our biggestday [so far], and we’re expecting thatSlope Day is going to be bigger thanthat,” said Jasmine Alger, a salesperson atthe store.

To gear up for Slope Day, YogurtCrazy will have “everyone … who workshere” working on Slope Day, Alger said.

She also said that the store ordered“triple [their usual] stock” for the day.

Despite the frenetic atmosphereevoked by Slope Day — and the hordesof Cornell students packing into stores tomake their necessary purchases before theevent — Collegetown retailers do notseem worried.

“It’s something we encounter [and]experience every year … and I think forthe most part, customers are very friend-ly and very easy to accommodate,”Malley said.

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“I’m glad I went to the bathroom before taking my clipper to his hair,because it would have been ugly,” McKnight said.

McKnight — who, like many other business owners, closed shop andstood outside his store — pointed across the Commons, where atSammy’s Pizza, he said three of his customers were sitting in the dark,waiting for the power to be restored.

“They’re coming back for their haircuts after the power comes back,”McKnight said.

Back in Collegetown, students who had planned to spend the nightbefore Slope Day playing drinking games suddenly found it difficult toland their pong ball in their desired cup — they blamed the darkness,not their intoxication.

“The power went out, but the party goes on,” one student exclaimedwith a hint of stoicism.

Apart from the house parties, the power outage disrupted someUniversity activites.

A Cornell Special Conditions alert that was emailed to the Universitycommunity at about 9 p.m. stated that “numerous facilities off campusin the City and Town of Ithaca are without power.”

At around 9 p.m., about 2,765 — or 6.45 percent — of customers inTompkins County were without power, according to New York State

Energy and Gas.But by 10 p.m., power had been restored to nearly everyone in the

county. Music returned to the parties in Collegetown, and the rain andlightning moved beyond Ithaca.

Chrissy Boyd, Akane Otani and Liz Camuti contributed to this report.

Michael Linhorst can be reached at mlinhorst@cornellsun.com.

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they’re taking these parties elsewhere,” Apgar said.“Our expectation is that the students would under-stand the decision that was made, [though] theymay not like it or agree with it.”

Although stressing again that he did not know ifthe White Party took place, Apgar said its recur-rence would revive administrators’ fears of the high-risk drinking culture that he said was identified inTKE.

“TKE’s recognition was revoked because of theirrepeated high-risk behaviors around the use of alco-hol. If members of that organization were a part of

sponsoring or hosting a party like the White Partyin Collegetown, I think it would speak to our con-cerns for their consistent high-risk behaviorsaround alcohol,” Apgar said.

When a student was hospitalized after a TKErecruitment dinner on Nov. 11, administratorsfaulted TKE for reportedly failing to ensure thesafety of a highly intoxicated individual — the sameoversight that officials say led to the death ofGeorge Desdunes ’13, who was in SAE, last spring.

Apgar added that maintaining these traditionscould delay the fraternities’ return to campus. SAEhad its recognition withdrawn for at least five yearsand TKE had its withdrawn for at least three.

“I would find it unfortunate that they would notvalue the membership they had in those organiza-tions and jeopardize those organizations’ ability tocome back in a timely manner,” Apgar said. “Thedecision to revoke recognition was absolutely war-ranted because these folks no longer deserved toreap the benefits of recognition.”

Babcock noted that the former members of thefraternities are not allowed to break certain rules —although the enforcement mechanism for theseprovisions is not clear.

“If we remove a chapter from campus, one of thestipulations is that they can’t function as a fraterni-ty, they can’t wear their letters on campus, can’t real-ly do anything that promotes the fraternity on cam-pus,” he said.

Former members of the fraternities — who didnot respond to requests for comment — appear todisagree, however.

Sanders confirmed that the brothers have wornbracelets reading “free TKE’ since before they gotkicked off-campus.”

Administrators first became concerned with thepersistence of SAE’s tradition and legacy when theylearned that the fraternity’s former pledges decidedto join TKE, according to the memo, which wassent from Apgar to Susan Murphy ’73, vice presi-dent of student and academic services.

They were reportedly “assured these new mem-bers had no interest in continuing the SAE cul-ture,” the report states. That belief was first dis-abused, however, when the University discoveredTKE planned to have SAE’s White Party in the fall,according to the memo.

The memo notes that, in a meeting with admin-istrators, fraternity leadership agreed to cancel theevent, terminate plans they had to “induct ‘little sis-ters’” and work with the TKE national organizationtoward building TKE “traditions that the commu-nity could support, as opposed to adopting SAEtraditions.”

Despite these promises, “it became clear in thatmeeting that SAE’s former members, those whowere fully initiated and have no affiliation withTKE, have significant influence on TKE as an orga-nization,” the report states.

Rebecca Harris contributed reporting to this article.

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This time of year is making me a little nostalgicbecause it was always my favorite part of life as anundergraduate. It’s finally May, the last of the snow

is done with (probably), the bugs aren’t really out yet andit’s Slope Day week which means one last push before funand friends and finals. While the first three are still true(with an emphasis on the probably for the snow…), westill have class for another couple of weeks so it’ll be a lit-tle while longer until I can go outside and lay on the grassand enjoy May in Ithaca. Anyways, while I was reminisc-ing about Nelly and senior week and graduation (all ofwhich I seem to remember more clearly than what Ilearned in school last week), I started to think about howI viewed school differently back then than I do now.

There was really only one main shift in my attitudetowards school when I was an undergrad. First semesterfreshman year, I was struck by the novelty of the wholeconcept that I was only accountable to myself and no onewould stop me from skipping class if I wanted to. Fairlyquickly however, I realized that I was paying a lot of moneyto go to class and should probably not let it go to waste.And that was pretty much how I viewed school for the restof college. I signed up for classes I was interested in whichgave me incentive to study and I would say that I had afairly enjoyable academic career. (Maybe minus Orgo. Ithought I would love orgo but I could never find a con-vincing reason to memorize everything they wanted us toknow.)

So when I started vet school I thought I had the wholeCornell student thing down. I was, after all, a professionalstudent now, and how different could it be from what Ihad been doing for the past four years? As it turned out, itcould be a lot different. I went into the first set of examsthinking a little too much like an undergrad. There’s apoint in studying when you know you’ve probably studiedenough to be at least one standard deviation above thecurve. Unfortunately, there are no curves in vet school, and

studying like that just doesn’t cut it.This left me doubting all of my study habits, which I

really shouldn’t have. There are two things I wish I hadknown before vet school, and one of them is to haveabsolute faith in your study habits because you’ve spent 16years developing them. (The other is to start studyingfrom day one because no one is going to tell you what youneed to know which usually means you need to knoweverything). So I started trying everything people were rec-ommending — studying in groups, drawing on a white-board more, drawing less,going to the library, makingflashcards — much of whichwas kind of a waste of timeand left me stressed and notenjoying school like Ithought I would.

I came to second semes-ter armed with the studying-from-day-one and maintain-ing-study-habits knowledgeand found that I enjoyedschool a lot more. At the time, I thought it was because wejust weren’t in Block I anymore (Block I is the first set ofclasses where we learn anatomy and it’s supposed to be oneof the hardest parts of the curriculum), but looking backon it I think that I was actually enjoying the whole processof studying more. That being said, I still felt like I hadsomething to prove and my studying was geared moretowards learning for the exams than learning for myself.

Now that we’re in our third block of classes, I thinkthat I’ve finally remembered that I enjoy learning becauseI like to know things, and as long as I keep that mentalityI’ll (hopefully) know all that I need to know when it comestime for the exams. I’ve always wanted to try to be the bestat whatever it is I’ve decided to do (who doesn’t want that?)but I’m starting to think that “best” can’t be measured

quantitatively on tests, and instead I should look at howhappy and proud I am of the depth of information thatI’ve absorbed, instead of the breadth of information I’vecrammed. It’s possible that this is all just a nice philosophythat’s going to fly out the window when finals are a fewdays away, but even when I’m cramming for finals I hopeI can keep it in the back of my head. I’ve definitely comea long way since freshman year, and I think I’ve finallyfound the state of mind that will let me stay sane and (rel-atively) happy through the rest of vet school.

I’d like to end this column by thanking everyone who’sread it in the past year. You’ve sometimes been a toughcrowd, but I’ve learned a lot and hope I’ve given you somethings to think about as well. I’ll always respond to e-mailsas long as they’re not offensive or rude, but I love to hearyour comments and constructive criticism. I wish I hadone of those news anchor sign-offs right now, but since Idon’t, I’ll just end with thanks and have a great summer!

How am I going to get throughthis?

This was the first thought that flewthrough my head as I hung up the phoneand burst into tears.

Some say that when you’re confront-ed with the possibility of death, your lifeflashes before your eyes. In my case, thepotential future of my life did — I want-ed to get a job, to have a family, to growold. I didn’t want to be going throughthis: There was a chance I might havebreast cancer, the most common cancerand second deadliest among women.

Last Christmas break, I flew home toCalifornia and was greeted with theusual family gatherings and reunionswith friends. In the midst of the revelry,I had to complete the usual annualcheckups at the doctor, dentist andoptometrist. My eyes and teeth checkedout fine, but when my physician asked ifI had been performing regular breastself-examinations, I shrugged and saidthat everything felt normal — after all, ifsomething was painful or terribly wrongthen I would be able to sense it, right?Instead, I was told that starting in your20s, women should begin doing self-exams in order to determine what feelsnormal for their body. Self-breast examscan be helpful for noticing changes suchas swelling, discoloration and the devel-opment of lumps — the National BreastCancer Foundation states that nearly 70percent of cancerous lumps are foundwith these at-home exams.

As I was lying on the examination

table, my physician frowned a bit whenshe pressed her fingers against a certainarea. She informed me that the tissuewas denser than normal and that therecould be something underneath the sur-face. I was scheduled for an ultrasoundthe next week, but she reassured me thatmy age was on my side and that it couldjust be dense fibrous tissue. I was con-cerned, but not overly so, and the radiol-ogy appointment seemed to go smooth-ly. In just a few days, I was back atCornell to start off my second rotationin lab. Then the call came.

“There were some abnormalities in

your films,” my physician reported. Myheart pounded. She told me there weretwo masses in my right breast and thatthey appeared to be solid. In contrast,fluid-filled lesions (i.e. cysts) are almostalways non-cancerous. Ultimately, I wasin New York and my physician was inCalifornia, so she left me with the words,“You should really get a second opin-ion.”

In shock and in tears, I immediatelydialed the number of the professor I hadworked for during my first rotation,knowing that she was an M.D./Ph.D. Ina matter of hours, she had referred me tothe chief of breast surgery at MemorialSloan-Kettering, and I booked anappointment for the following week.

That day was such a blur — there wasthe consult with the surgeon, who sentme down to radiology to have more filmstaken, and then I had to go back up tothe physician’s office to discuss theresults and determine a plan of action.

The radiologist thought that the sus-picious lumps were fibroadenomas,benign tumors in the breast that have theability to grow or shrink as time pro-gresses. The surgeon told me that I hadthree options — to wait it out, which shedid not recommend because it involvedmonitoring the masses every half-yearwith radiology; to have a core needlebiopsy which would take out four to fivesamples to send to a pathologist; or anexcisional biopsy to remove the massescompletely. There was no sure way toascertain what the tumors truly were, shetold me, without doing a biopsy of somesort.

Since the beginning of this ordeal, Ihad been researching breast cancer andits contributing risks as well as diagnosisand treatment options. The lumps wereclassified as BI-RADS 3 and 4, based ona breast imaging reporting and data sys-tem. From a scale of 0-6 with 0-1 beingno abnormalities identified to 5-6 beingalmost certainly cancerous and biopsy-proven cancer, respectively, a 4 was moreuncertain but required diagnostic inter-vention. Even benign fibroadenomaslarger than 2-3 centimeters are usuallyremoved, and the two I had were already1-2 cm larger than that.

After discussing the options with myparents, who were (needless to say)extremely concerned, I decided that Iwould have the surgery. The lumps aren’tsupposed to be there in the first place, Ithought, and most doctors recommendexcision for women older than 30.Alternatively, a core needle biopsy wouldleave residual tissue that would requirecareful monitoring for the foreseeablefuture.

My surgery date was booked quicklyand the day came sooner than I hadanticipated. First, an ultrasound wasused to find the lumps. Once they werelocalized, a hollow needle was theninserted into the mass and a wire thread-ed through to help the surgeon find themass later. The first mass was nearer to

the surface and easier to locate, but thesecond one was deep and I needed a sec-ond shot of local anesthetic to getthrough the pressure and pulling of theneedle.

When I was escorted into the operat-ing room, I was introduced to the staffand then climbed onto the operatingtable where an I.V. was inserted in myarm and other sensors placed on mybody for monitoring vital signs. I wasput under twilight anesthesia, which islighter than general anesthesia, but Ionly remember waking up afterward inthe recovery wing. In the following days,I took prescription painkillers and spentmost of my time in bed because I could-n’t lift my right arm without some pain.Climbing stairs was difficult, and shortwalks became both an escape from myprison of a room and a nuisance becauseof the aches. My pathology reports cameback identifying the masses as benignfibroadenomas, which was a huge sigh ofrelief.

The whole ordeal has been a rollercoaster of emotions and physical pain,but I have gained so much from the pastfew months — an appreciation for lifeand an even deeper respect for thewomen battling breast cancer. It takesmuch strength, courage, and support towalk through such a difficult road. Withthe smallest scratch on the surface thatI’ve experienced, I’ve learned to be moreconscious and actively involved in main-taining my health as well as remindingothers to do the same. The Avon Walkfor Breast Cancer is in New York Citylate October of this year — come andjoin or raise support for the ones dedi-cated to fighting this fight. We’ll be in ittogether.

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A Personal Awareness of Breast Cancer

Changing Perspectives on Being a Student

NikhitaParandekar

Hoof in Mouth

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a first-yearveterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She maybe reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appearsalternate Fridays this semester.

DebbieTseng

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Debbie Tseng is a first-year Ph.D. candidate at WeillCornell Medical College. She may be reached atdgt2001@med.cornell.edu. What’s Up, Doc?appears alternate Fridays this semester.

As co-chairs of the Academic CalendarCommittee, our goal has been to con-struct a calendar that might reduce

student stress and also improve facultywork-life balance, while complying withNYS Education requirements. The latestversion of our recommendations is availableonline at [http://theuniversityfaculty.cor-nell.edu/calendarcommittee/calendar_main.html]. We’d like to thank students, facultyand staff for their many thoughtful com-ments and ideas, communicated throughemails, meetings, polls, articles and op-ed

pieces. In particular we would like toacknowledge the Student Assembly, whoseresolutions of April 12 and 26 have beeninstrumental in shaping our recommenda-tions. We discuss those here, with the hopeof clearing up some misconceptions thathave crept into the discussion.

The April 12 Student Assembly resolu-tion listed six imperative properties of anacademic calendar. One of these, item three,was the creation of a new break in the Springsemester that would occur before Springbreak. Such a break has been a consistentfeature of our recommendations, and hasbeen endorsed by the GPSA, EmployeeAssembly, Educational Policy Committee,Gannett’s Mental Health Director andmany individuals. This innovation is notonly beneficial in its own right, but alsoallows Spring Break to be moved so as todivide the semester into thirds, thus break-ing up long blocks of instruction during the

most stressful period of the academic year.The February break also helps familieswhose children have a Presidents Day recess.

Also, the proposed fall calendar hasalways included the elimination of the cur-rent half-day of instruction on theWednesday before Thanksgiving break. TheS.A. supported this idea with the resolution’sfifth item.

What has been more controversial —and misunderstood — are the committee’srecommendations to streamline study andexam period. The April 12 resolution listed

two imperatives: 1) “A minimum of 4 fulldays of study period” and 2) “A minimum of8 full days for exam period.” Both of theserequirements were met in the committee’srecommendations presented to the FacultySenate in April. However a recent Sun arti-cle erroneously stated that the committee’sproposed calendar would “condense theexam study period from seven days to four.”In fact, in the current academic calendar, thestudy period begins on Saturday and endson Wednesday (with the first exam beingheld during the 7 p.m. period onWednesday); this is officially 4 2/3 days, soour reduction was 2/3 of a day. In addition,The Sun article stated that exam weekwould be reduced from “eight days to six.”The exam period in the current academiccalendar begins with a single exam onWednesday evening, ending on Friday, for atotal of 9 1/3 days. Exams in the publiclydiscussed calendar recommendations would

be scheduled over an 8 day period, not 6 asthe Sun article states. This is a reduction of1 1/3 days.

Despite the fact that our recommenda-tions met these two imperatives of the April12 resolution, the S.A. passed a second reso-lution on April 26, requesting a longer studyand exam period and listing three optionsfor achieving this goal. Upon learning of thislatest resolution we met with the Dean ofFaculty and the Registrar, discussed the threeoptions and revised our recommendationsto meet this new request. The study andexam period has now been lengthened byinserting a break day into the exam period— options (ii) and (iii) in the April 26 reso-lution. Although, based on modeling con-ducted by the Registrar’s office, this “forced”break is not optimal for reducing the num-ber of student conflicts (e.g., back-to-backexams, three exams in 24 hours), we takeseriously what undergraduates are telling usconcerning the psychological value of such abreak in the middle of the exam period.

The fact that the April 26 S.A. resolutionprovided three alternative solutions forrelieving stress during exams was very con-structive, as it provided flexibility andimplicitly recognized that there must betradeoffs in creating a viable calendar. Weapplaud the S.A. for recognizing the relativebenefits of events that compete for a finitenumber of days available for achievingimportant mental health goals. However,adding a day to study / exam period doesbring our revised proposal in greater conflictwith the April 12 S.A. resolution’s item six:“A minimum of 4 full days for Senior WeekProgramming in the Spring Semester.” Ourprevious recommendations had SeniorWeek beginning on the Tuesday beforeCommencement; our proposal, as revised tomeet the demands of the April 26 resolu-tion, extends the exam period one day fur-ther into Senior week. However, as was truein the previous proposal, the Registrar willcreate a schedule in which few seniors have

exams on the final day.In the process of formulating our rec-

ommendations, the committee consideredmany other options and ideas that word lim-its preclude from discussing here. The issuesare complex and interacting, and we recog-nize that no calendar is perfect. Yet, we dobelieve that we are proposing a calendar thatbest meets the needs of all our constituen-cies, while addressing student mental healthconcerns. The committee voted to send thisset of recommendations forward to theFaculty Senate because the majority of itsmembers believed that it was the best set ofdifficult compromises.

Finally, we hope that we have laid to restthe erroneous assertion that the committeeignored input from undergraduate students(Sun editorial of April 25). Far from beingignored, the opinions of the two undergrad-uate members of the committee — bothmembers of the S.A. — were sought onevery issue. That in the final voting, one ofthese valued members of the committee wasthe lone vote against the resolution does notmean that he or she was “ignored.” It justmeans the arguments against waiting tobring the calendar to the faculty senate werenot persuasive enough to convince the othermembers. The committee has been respon-sive to feedback from many individuals andgroups, including a number of undergradu-ates who wrote to the committee’s e-mailaddress. We hope addressing the calendar inlight of the S.A.’s two resolutions makes thispoint clear.

Numerous studies and reports over the past severalyears highlight the risks posed to the Americaneconomy and national security if we fail to educate

a sufficient science, technology, engineering and math(STEM) workforce. Notable is the 2007 National Academystudy, “Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing andEmploying America for a Brighter Economic Future,” thatcalls for the nation to increase America’s talent pool byincreasing the numbers of students pursuing STEM degreesin the United States. As pointed out in the National ActionCouncil for Minorities in Engineering 2008 report,Confronting the New American Dilemma, “The answer tothe problem lives next door, around the block, or acrosstown. Increasing the presence of underrepresented minori-ty Americans in the study of STEM disciplines must be aprimary part of the ultimate solution to the problems of theUnited States’ endangered competitiveness.”

Under represented minority (URM) Americans includeAfrican Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives,and Latinos. A look at the numbers will tell you how muchunrealized potential we have. The current engineeringworkforce is 78 percent non-Latino white and 87 percentmale. Contrast that to the U.S. population which is 66 per-cent white and 50 percnent male. The white population isprojected to be 50 percent by 2050. Thus the population ofwhite males, from which engineers are traditionally drawn,is on track to fall to 25 percent. Our high tech and indus-trial economy will not thrive if we continue to underuse 75percent of the talent pool. Nationally, 13 percent of under-graduate engineering degrees are awarded to URM studentswhile these groups make up 28 percent of the U.S. popula-tion. Only 18 percent of these degrees are awarded towomen. The current engineering workforce is not sustain-able with business as usual practices.

The Cornell College of Engineering has long recognizedthe challenges and opportunities, and in 2004 createdDiversity Programs in Engineering. Core to the mission ofDPE is to improve the composition, inclusion, engagementand achievement of undergraduate students, graduate stu-dents and faculty from underrepresented groups. DPE pro-vides a full spectrum of programs aimed at an audienceranging from high school students to faculty. The DPE pro-grams span recruitment, academic and professional devel-opment, advising, mentoring, networking and community

development. For example, the summer programs CURIEand CATLYST expose female, URM and other high schoolstudents from underrepresented backgrounds to universitylife and engineering through hands-on projects while pro-viding graduate students and faculty an opportunity to learnmore about diversity through direct engagement with thehigh school students. Hosting weekends and recruitmentevents organized by DPE andEngineering Admissions haveplayed a significant role inincreasing the representation ofURM and women undergrad-uate students. In collaborationwith the Cornell GraduateSchool, DPE also manages anumber of graduate fellow-ships aimed at recruiting topURM talent. Mentoring andprofessional developmentopportunities for the Ph.D. students are aimed at enhanc-ing the students’ achievement and at encouraging them topursue academic positions where nationally, only 6 percentof engineering faculty are URM and 13 percent are women.

Many challenges remain both at Cornell and nationally.The graduation rates from Cornell Engineering of URMundergraduates, although improving and well above thenational averages, remain approximately 6 percent belowthe college average, a result that is not acceptable. Althoughthe percentage of URM undergraduates enrolled in engi-neering is on the rise, the percentage of African-Americanengineering students in the college remains low (2.3 percentof undergraduate students in fall 2011). This is not just aCornell challenge, as nationally the percentage of under-graduate engineering degrees earned by URM students hasbeen flat since about 1997. While the percentage of womenin engineering at Cornell has grown from 28 percent to 35percent over the past five years, placing our enrollment ofwomen at almost twice the national average, the fraction ofundergraduate degrees earned by women nationally hasbeen dropping since 2005.

The challenges related to diversity and STEM educationare significant, and at Cornell, are too large to be solved bythe five person DPE staff alone. Every engineering student,faculty member and professional needs to be engaged in

some way to increase the pace at which engineering movestoward a future of full inclusion. Reach out across differ-ences when you put together lab, project or study groups.Take advantage of the many gatherings and discussionssponsored by the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives,the Intercultural Center and other units designed to engageCornellians from different cultures and backgrounds. Open

your lab to visiting students and involve them in activitiesthat connect your research to real world challenges they canappreciate. Reach out to elementary, middle and highschools, especially those in under-resourced communities,to help engage their students in fun and interesting scienceand engineering activities. Once you graduate, don’t forgetthat you had help along your journey. Perhaps you earnedscholarships and / or you received financial aid. Give backto these scholarship programs, the University or the com-munity organizations that supported you along the way.Support public education at every level so that all studentshave access to an enriching science and math curriculum.Take the opportunity to speak with current students andinspire them to continue with their STEM education.These are all simple, but meaningful actions that will helpmake Cornell Engineering and engineering as a whole, amore accessible and inviting option to students from allbackgrounds.

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A New Perspective on Calendar Changes

Tomorrow’s Engineering Workforce

Alan Zehnder is the Associate Dean for Diversity and FacultyDevelopment in the College of Engineering and a Professor in the SibleySchool of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He may be reached atengdiversity@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semes-ter.

Jeff J. Doyle is a professor in the Department of PlantBiology and the Department of Plant Breeding andGenetics. He can be reached at jjd5@cornell.edu. Dr.Kate Walsh is Fred G. Peelen Professor of GlobalHospitality Strategy and Associate Professor ofOrganizational Management. She can be reached atkmw33@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodi-cally this semester.

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B.o.B. at Barton - 9/17 “Sun: What’s the coolest place you’ve been

or performed so far?B.o.B.: Uh...Cornell University!” - Patrick

Cambre ‘12

Janelle Monae at Barton - 10/2 “Monáe, a soaring rocket of talent and class,

ignited Barton Hall with an incendiary performance.” - Zachary Zahos ‘15

Meredith Gudesblatt ‘12 My Memory is Magni!cent For Forgetting at Tjaden - 10/24 “Descending on Buenos Aires with her lens, she creates testimonies of the steady yet

spectral trauma evident in a clean city nearly unsullied by the ‘dirty war.’” - Alice Wang ‘15

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Peter Jacobs ‘13 and James Rainis ’14

When Movies Were Made In Ithaca by the

Ithaca Motion Picture Project - 10/30-11/4

“And yes, you read that correctly: Once upon a time, people made movies in Ithaca.” - Fiona Modrak ’13

Passion Pit at Barton - 11/5

“As hordes of inebriated freshman alternated between shrieking ecstatically

and making out with each other, the electropop five-piece delighted fans with a

lively show that was anything but self-conscious.” - Gina Cargas ’14

Billy Joel at Bailey - 12/2

“The standing ovation that followed capped off the easiest and most pleasant

two hours that passed on campus this December.” - Dani Neuharth-Keusch ‘12

Cornell Cinema Winter Party, - 3/3

”At heart, it was the de facto annual summit for all Ithaca cinephiles.” - Zachary Zahos ‘15

Kony 2012 - 3/13

“No revolution is fought by the majority.” - Zachary Zahos ‘15

Seth Meyers at Bailey, 3/27.

“I have never been so aware of my table manners than I was when I was eating in front

of Martha Stewart. It was really intense.” - from interview with Julia Moser ‘15

John Waters at SCPA - 3/31

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crazy!” - from interview with Zachary Zahos ‘15

Lines of Control at the Johnson - 1/21-4/1

“The subjects of these pieces include many of the highly politicized and often war torn borders of both past and present

history.” - Julia Moser ‘15

GZA at Sibley - 4/7 “There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come.” -

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Raekwon at the Haunt - 4/15

“Ithaca, thanks for coming out and showing your support for real hip-hop. Peace.” - Raekwon

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Castaways Closes - 4/29

“I came to appreciate Castaways for what it was: a venue that brought in national acts of interest and nourished local talent … I hope it’s back soon,

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LUX at Milstein & Willard Straight - 2/12-4/15

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The Artist - 1/20

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Badlands of Modernity at Milstein - 2/27-3/4.

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For a lot of Cornellians, Slope Day is the last concert ofthe year. The barely-remembered boozefest marks not onlythe end of classes, but also the last display of musical talentbefore we head out separate ways for summer. Yet up hereon the Hill, we tend to forget that Ithaca, not to mentionthe rest of Central New York, plays host to a vibrant musicscene that really gets going once the snow clears up. If you’reone of the lucky few spending the next three months here,gear up for a concert-heavy summer on the shores ofCayuga. So while you’re slurring the words to “Hangover,”remember that Taio Cruz isn’t the best Ithaca has to offer.

To the surprise of pretty much no one, Central NewYork entertainment in the next few months will be domi-nated by Dan Smalls Presents. A local promoter that canseemingly do no wrong, DSP has provided a jaw-droppingsummer series with some-thing to please everyone.

The post-Taio seasonkicks off with two stellarIthaca shows on Sundaynight. Brooklyn-basedpsych rockers Bear inHeaven will headline TheHaunt in support of theirupcoming album, whileCalifornia kings of swingBig Bad Voodoo Daddywill light up The StateTheatre at the secondannual Benefit My Statefundraiser. Then, if you’reone of the lucky few whose finals wrap up early, be sure totrek over to Bethel to catch folk queen Suzanne Vega play-ing at the site of Woodstock on May 13. It’ll be an eveningof good, clean, talented fun — just the thing to wash thetaste of that Orgo exam out of your mouth. Forever.

Next, DSP and local music community IthacaUnderground team up to bring Maps & Atlases to TheHaunt on May 17. The Chicago four-piece last visitedIthaca in 2009 as Ra Ra Riot’s opener for a sold-out showat Castaways, and they’re finally back topromote last month’s Beware & BeGrateful.

June gets off to a running start whenFleetwood Mac guitarist and singerLindsey Buckingham headlines an inti-mate show at The State Theatre on the8th. Just one week later, it will be timeto break out the ol’ short skirt and longjacket combo, because Cake is appear-ing in Cooperstown. The innovative alt-rockers play the first show of the sum-mer at Brewery Ommegang, the pic-turesque brewery under the stars. The

second half ofthe month is amusical marathon that beginswhen indie folk group Bowerbirdsplays The Haunt on June 17. TheNorth Carolinian three-piece istouring in support of its emotion-al third album and it’s sure to be aphenomenal, if heartwrenching,show.

On June 19, baroque pop giantFiona Apple kicks off her worldtour at The State, and JeffersonAirplane spin-off Hot Tuna willoccupy the same stage just twodays later. Hot Tuna will bring

along the unbeatable Steve Kimock for a huge night of purerock. The month wraps up when emerging folk-punkSoutherners Midtown Dickens makes its Ithaca debut atLot 10.

And then there’s Grassroots. If you’ve ever spoken to a

townie (or, stepped inside my house) for more than fiveminutes, you’ve probably heard of the Grassroots Festival ofMusic and Dance. Billed as a “music lovers’ paradise,” it’sfour days of hazy tie-dyed fun and camping in nearby

Tr u m a n s b u r g .Grassroots is cen-tral to a trueIthacan summer, soexpect the usualcrowd. Raw veganyogis, Birk-cladmountain enthusi-asts, philosophicalstoners — they’ll allbe there. Better yet,this year’s lineupfeatures countrygiant GeorgeJones, T-burg na -tives Donna the

Buffalo, local favorites the Sim Redmond Band and abouta hundred other artists.

But if Grassroots isn’t your thing, there are otheroptions. Thanks to DSP, weepy indie superstars Death Cabfor Cutie will play in Cooperstown on July 21. In the verysame week, the reigning king of angst Conor Oberst putson a rare solo show in Albany, while Lyle Lovett and Wilcoplay Brewery Ommegang on subsequent nights. All fourshows are a bit of a challenge for our vehicle-less brethren,but unmissable if you can get there.

So, turns out Taio’s not the end. In fact, he’s just a blipon the CNY music radar. If you find yourself crossing num-ber 31 off The List and sticking around Ithaca this summer,start getting psyched about your entertainment prospects.Lie back, soak up some sun and be sure to tell us how it wascome August.

GINA CARGASSun Staff Writer

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Gina Cargas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. Shecan be reached at gcargas@cornellsun.com.

“If it was nice like this all the time, I would be such awaste of life,” a friend joked on a sunny day twoweeks ago. Every time I talk to someone from L.A.

about my alma mater I’m asked, “Why Cornell?” The weath-er is a key part of this schism between Cornell and L.A., butas with most conversations around campus, the ever-changingclimate of Ithaca and the constant one of L.A. is mostlyreserved for small talk rather than a 900-word column.

To my friends and readers, Happy Slope Day! One plusof going to print today is that you might read my columntwice unknowingly. As Alonzo Harris says in Training Day,“This is a newspaper. It’s 90 percent bullshit, but it’s enter-taining.” I hope you’ve found my arts articles and columnsentertaining, but know that it wouldn’t have been possible to“keep an Eye on L.A. like Chuck Henry” without your sup-port and feedback. Thank you.

Senioritis aside, I came to Cornell looking to break out ofthe Los Angeles Daze.

My column takes its name from “Los Angeles Daze,” the12th track off The Next Step, debut album of Los Angelesunderground hip-hop group People Under the Stairs. Theethereal keyboards and hard hitting drum kicks make for aperfect soundtrack to the city. I still remember the first timeI heard it while sitting onthe banister of myfriend’s porch, devouringMulberry St. pizza, star-ing at the endless streamof cars on the 101Freeway. It reminds meof entire days spent chill-ing with my friends, andnot doing much else.

“Los Angeles Daze”samples James Brown, who asks his trombonist JamesWesley, “Hey man, where you from?” Wesley responds,“L.A.,” to which the band members say “Uh oh!” and laugh.While I discovered later that Wesley really meant “LowerAlabama” when he said L.A., the sample makes it seem likeoutsiders might view being from L.A. as a bad thing.

Los Angeles, and to a great extent the State of California,

is more of a state of mind. I’ve outlined the good aspects ofit, but by the time I left L.A., I had relaxed to the point ofgeneral apathy. I term this the Los Angeles Daze. “EminenceFront” by the The Who explains this “L.A. Daze.” I loveL.A., but I can see now after four years at Cornell whereJames Brown might have been coming from.

People who live in L.A. look at the East Coast as if it’s adifferent country; while Angelenos value their lifestyle ofleisure, those from the East Coast are motivated to workhard. My friends from L.A. couldn’t understand why Iwould want to give this lifestyle up, even temporarily.

Cornell embodies the Protestant work ethic. Students hereare willing to work towards the promise of a great career anda fulfilling life, and have fun while doing it. “Work hard, playharder” is oft repeated, but it’s no less true. As a high schoolsenior, I figured that forcing myself into an environment inwhich I would be committed to learn had long-term payoffs.

However, my Class of 2012 has the dubious distinction ofbeing the only class to go through college during the entiretyof The Great Recession. As impressionable freshmen, we wit-nessed the near-collapse of the world financial system less thana month into school. All of a sudden, MBSs and CDOsbecame part of the introductory economics curriculum. While

the University struggledwith budget cuts andausterity, students lookedto bushwhack their ownpath out of Cornell andinto the frightening “realworld” of work.

Whether you havethree weeks or three yearsleft in Ithaca, let thechimes serve as a

reminder to not waste a minute of your time. Those fleetingmoments spent with friends lounging on the Arts Quad, talk-ing world politics in the Ivy Room, or sitting on a Collegetownporch have not been wasted; they are unique Cornell experi-ences that balance out the work we do. My friends and I havehelped one another find jobs we’re truly passionate about, butwe’ve also made each other better people.

Regardless of whether you find truth in an equation (ei!+ 1 = 0) or in letters (“above all nations is humanity”),Cornell has put it within your reach. All you have to do isreach out and touch it yourself. It is a challenge set in stoneon the Eddy Gate, the original entrance to Cornell: “Sodepart, that thou mayest become more useful to thy coun-try and to mankind.”

Taking off from Ithaca after bidding farewell to my won-derful friends won’t be easy, but the sense of possibilities stillahead brings me back to Los Angeles for a while. It’s thesame sense that brought me to Cornell, the same feelingexpressed in the final Calvin & Hobbes, where Calvin pointshis sled down a snow-covered slope and says to his pal, “It’sa magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy ... Let’s go exploring!”

Los AngelesDaze

Patrick Cambre

Patrick Cambre is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He canbe reached at pcambre@cornellsun.com. L.A. Daze appears alternateFridays this semester.

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Melanie StandridgeGymnastics

In her career with the Red, Standridge has been a domi-nant member of the team and a leader on the beam.Throughout her career she become a three-time USAG All-Americanand 2011 USAG national champion.

Rob PannellMen’s Lacrosse

Pannell battled through an injury in his senior season withthe Red. In the games he played, Pannell was on track tobreak NCAA records scoring 16 points over just two games.This year he was drafted by the Long Island Lizards and was the number1 pick overall in the 2012 Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft.

Alex LavinGolf

Lavin put up strong performances for the team at theCentury Intercollegiate Match and the HomeInvitational. He shot an 81 and 84, respectively, in the two match-es and his team finished seventh and eighth.

Nick HuberTrack & Field

Huber has had a standout season for Cornell this year. Hebroke his own school record at Ithaca College, scoring 5,550points — currently making him the 14th-best performance in the NCAAthis year and the third-best hep in Ivy League history.

Sean CollinsMen’s Hockey

Serving as alternate captain, Collins had a breakout seasonwith 26 points — the team’s second highest — of 13 goalsand 13 assists. These stats earned him the Sam WoodsideAward from his team. Collins was signed by the NHL’sColumbus Blue Jackets after the season ended, and has already racked up agoal and four assists in just eight games with the Blue Jacket’s AHL affiliate,the Springfield Falcons.

Alex BotteField Hockey

The coaches chose Botte, a co-captain this season, to be hon-ored with the team’s Sportsmanship, Leadership andDetermination award. She shares the Cornell all-time leader incareer victories honor at 19 and ranks eighth overall for shutouts in a careerwith four. Botte was named to the NFHCA National Academic Squad all fouryears at Cornell — only the second player in school history to do so.

Sidra BonnerWomen’s Soccer

The senior defender was named to the All-Ivy LeagueSecond Team for the second straight year. She hadseven shots and four shots on goal, while starting all 16 games ofthe season.

Jessi SteinbergWomen’s Lacrosse

The senior attacker has put up impressive numbers againthis season. She leads the team in all offensive categorieswith 44 goals and 20 assists. She was a unanimous selec-tion to the All-Ivy First Team and was also recently nominated for theprestigious Tewaarton Award.

Madeline PrzybylVolleyball

Przybyl earned both second-team All-Ivy honors and theteam’s MVP award this season. She finishes the year withteam second-best records in kills per set (2.40) and hittingpercentage (.211). Pryzbyl also ranks third on the team in blocks per set(.072), and 16th overall in program history for career block assists at 116.

Brandon LeeBaseball

Senior catcher Lee has been a solid force for the Red as it entersthe Ivy League Championship Series this weekend. Currently,Lee is hitting .305 and is third in the score sheets for best offen-sive play this season. One of his season highlights was when he went 3-for-5with a double against Yale to help Cornell take the game, 8-6, on April 8.

Erin KeeneSoftball

Last season Keene moved from second base to shortstop to fur-ther her power and influence in the middle of the diamond forthe Red. Currently, she is batting .286 and remains a force tobe reckoned with. One of her most notable appearances thisseason was April 3 against Albany, where she, along with junior Erin Bellese,knocked one out to give the Red a fighting chance against the Great Danes.

Alex DomenickMen’s Squash

After finishing the season with an 8-4 record,Domenick was named to the All-Ivy League FirstTeam. The senior helped carry his team to a historic upset over No.3 Yale this season with a win at the No. 2 spot.

Rashad CampbellFootball

Campbell had a strong senior campaign as a defensive back,leading the team in interceptions with four and in kick returnswith 994 total yards. He was named to the second team for theECAC Football Subdivision All-Star Team and received Ivy League SpecialTeams Player of the Week after his 85-yard kickoff return against Colgate.

Position: Defense

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Jim VoterMen’s Heavyweight Rowing

Voter served as co-commodore this season. He rows withthe first Varsity 8, and on April 21, helped lead the Red toits first Carnegie Cup since 2009 with upsets over Yale andPrinceton. Last year he represented the United States in the men’s straightfour at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships, where he con-tributed to the team’s sixth place finish.

Keir RossMen’s Hockey

Ross served as the Red’s captain this past season, posting twogoals and five assists along with a plus-15 rating, the highest ofhis career and amongst the other defenseman for the past twoyears. He was awarded both the Bill Doran Sportsmanship Award and theMark Weiss Memorial Award, an honor reserved the most dedicated and pas-sionate seniors. Ross was also one of 10 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award finalists.

Cecelia MadsenWomen’s Rowing

Madsen has rowed on the first Varsity 8 for the past threeyears. On April 28, she helped lead the Red to back-to-backParents Cup victories for the first time since the 2004 and 2005 seasons.During her sophomore year, Madsen was honored as a CRCA All Mid-Atlantic Region first-team selection.

Chandler KempMen’s Cross Country

While Kemp was originally a walk-on, he finished in the team’sTop-5 in five of six races as a senior and served as the team cap-tain. He finished 50th at the NCAA Northeast regionals with atime of 32:27.4, the fourth fastest on the Red. His senior season started offwith a second place finish at the Army-Binghamton meet, and he later placed10th at the Colgate Invitational and 18th at the Princeton Invite.

Tim DooleySprint Football

Dooley was named to the Academic All-Ivy Team as alinebacker. He had one interception on the season andwas second on the team in tackles with 44. He played inall seven of the Red’s games this season.

Morgan CawleySoftball

Last season was her first as a starter for the Red, but thisPennsylvania native has quite made up for it this year.Currently, she is batting .265 and has a strong fielding per-centage of .980. A highlight of her season was a match against Penn on April20 when she went 2-for-3, providing Cornell with the best offensive perfor-mance of the game.

Chris WroblewskiMen’s Basketball

Wroblewski ends a storied career with the Red this year asCornell’s all-time leader in assists. He also led the team inscoring with 11.5 points per game and was named to theCapital One Academic All-America Third Team. Wroblewski earned All- Ivyleague honors after his final season during which he reached the 1,000 pointmilestone.

Bronwyn ScrivensEquestrian

At the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association's Zone 2Championships, Scrivens finished second in the theCacchione Cup competition. This performance qualified her for theIntercollegiate Horse Show Association national championship. She will becompeting in IHSA Nationals this weekend in Raleigh, N.C.

Amanda MazzottaWomen’s Hockey

Amanda Mazzota spent her final season with the Red asthe squad’s starting goaltender. The netminder finishedher career with a Cornell record-breaking 53 wins. As a senior,Mazzotta had five shutouts and won ECAC Hockey’s Goalkeeper ofthe Week honors twice.

Jimmy LannonMen’s Soccer

Lannon served as captain of the record-breaking men’ssoccer team for his senior season. He finished with ninepoints overall (1 goal, 7 assists) the second most on theteam. Lannon will continue to serve as a leader for men’s soccer whenhe returns as the undergraduate student assistant coach next season.

Rebecca HirschfieldFencing

As captain of the squad this season, Hirschfeld put forthTop-10 efforts in foil at the NCAA Regionals, whichenabled her to qualify for the 2012 NCAA champi-onships. On March 13 at the Brandeis Invitational, she led the foilsquad to go undefeated for the day, with a personal record of 12-2,beating all of her opponents.

Tiffany ChenGymnastics

This season, Chen was named second-team All-American after completing a stellar bar routine. Lastseason, Chen was the team’s top scorer on the vault, which earnedher USAG All-America accolades as well.

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Position: Goalkeeper

Event: Open

Position: Point Guard

Position: Defense

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While Johnston had an outstanding careerwith the Red, one that will not be soon forgottenby the program and by the Faithful, all goodthings must come to an end. On May 27th,

Johnston, along with the rest of the Cornell Classof 2012, will receive her diploma and move on toother endeavors, leaving Cornell behind, but

taking the memories with her.“I’ll never forget our [triple] overtime win

against Boston University to get to the FrozenFour,” Johnston said, referring to this season’sexhilarating 8-7 win over the No. 5 Terriers inthe first round of the NCAA Tournament. “Itwas my last game at Lynah and it’s something

that I’ll never forget. It was the longestgame I ever played. We had a lot of fansupport — they stayed around theentire game — it was a pretty amazingexperience. I definitely don’t think I’llever forget that. Not for onemoment.”

That was the last win Johnston hadwith Cornell — a fitting way to end her playingcareer at Lynah. The next week the team traveledto Minnesota, where the No. 2 Minnesota

Golden Gophers delivered the Red a crushing 3-1 loss, a defeat that officially ended Johnston’scareer with the team she had called her own forfour seasons.

“We’re basically like a family,” Johnston said.“It’s going to be really sad leaving everyone andnot seeing everyone everyday, but I know we’lldefinitely keep in contact.”

While Johnston’s career with the Red may beover, her time as a hockey player has no end inthe foreseeable future. After graduation, theCommunications major plans to return home toCanada in order to play in the women’s leaguethere, although she has not yet decided on a teamto play for. Here’s to wishing her the best.

Last weekend, a Cornell sports team accomplished avery impressive feat — it won the Metro East RegionalChampionship to make the 20-team field for the NationalChampionship for the fourth straight year. The team I amreferring to is the Cornell men’s ultimate team, affection-ately known as the Buds. Although the team is not a var-sity team, it competes at the highest level of college ulti-mate and has built one of the strongest national programsin the country.

The Buds went through a drought in the mid 2000s,but recently, they have become a national powerhousemostly due to a group of 8 players who joined the team asfreshmen together and graduated in 2010.

“Most of the success recently was primarily due to [theclass that graduated in 2010],” said handler and tri-cap-tain Bo Li ’11. “The captains that year wanted to recruitthe tallest and most athletic guys they could find for theteam. They had a squad of about seven guys who playedfour years and developed good chemistry and into greatultimate players … and brought us to nationals for thefirst time [in this run of success].”

The achievements of this group have helped the entireprogram both play better competition to develop theirplayers as well as recruit some top high school players.

“Due to [their success], we were able to get so muchmore experience playing better teams and going to bettertournaments,” Li said.

“[When I came to Cornell], I showed up knowing thatI wanted to play [for the Buds],” said sophomore handlerJake Stevelman. “When I went to high school, I knewabout Cornell’s success in the years before.”

Although attracting talented high school ultimate play-ers helps, a lot of key players played other sports and nevertouched a disk in high school. The team finds much of itstalent through open tryouts at the beginning of the year.

“We try to get our name out there and have a lot ofexposure during orientation week so people can find out alittle more about the sport and how our program is,”Stevelman explained. “Arguably the best player on our

team right now is our main deep cutter on the [offensiveline] … Matt Chun. He ran track in high school and neverplayed ultimate until last year … He was athletic and fast,but didn’t really know how to cut or get open, but heworked really hard last year and during the summer andnow he’s our main cutter in the offense.”

This year, the Buds were not expected to win theRegional Championship, as they graduated many of theirtop players in the last two years, but they outperformedexpectations and earned their bid to nationals.

“Throughout the spring season, most of the countryhad been counting us out as a potential national candidatejust because they knew we graduated so many top play-ers,” said junior handler and tri-captain Nick Thompson.“Up until three weeks ago, a lot of our team kind of haddoubts because we faced a whole bunch of injuries andsickness. There was a time when we had maybe eight ornine people showing up to practice on a team of 22. Thisweekend everything just came together and we pulled itout.”

“Everyone else in the country did not expect us to win.The general consensus was that Connecticut had theregion on lock,” said senior handler and tri-captain AdamSalwen. “They were ranked in the Top-20 in the countryand we were ranked [62nd]. They were expected to run

away with it, and we had played them 3 weeks ago and …they beat us pretty handily.”

After establishing themselves on the national scenewith four straight national championship appearances, theteam does not expect any drop off at all in the near future.

“We are an underclassman dominant team and have alot of people who are freshmen or sophomores,”Thompson said. “They have an extreme amount of poten-tial and I fully expect that as this next round of playersgrows up in the program, they are going to become aneven stronger team than we currently are. I think whatwe’re looking at is another group of nine or 10 guys whowill do anything they can to get back to the No. 1 spot.”

Going into nationals, Cornell is being overlooked bythe other teams, but the Buds do not care. They have con-fidence that they will be able to make some noise, accord-ing to Salwen.

“We’re still improving and we’re excited to go tonationals because right now, everyone in the country iscounting us out, but we know how good we are,” Salwensaid. “We think because of our deep team, we should beable to create some upsets at nationals.”

Continuing to bud | The Ultimate team, nicknamed the Buds, expects to have another successful campaign next season withwith nine or 10 returning players to lead them.

COURTESY OF THE ULTIMATE TEAM

For Fourth StraightYear, Ultimate TeamHeads to NationalsBy ALBERT LIAOSun Staff Writer

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.

Johnston Leaves Red Behind, But Not the MemoriesJOHNSTON

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slowly.” Obviously, the national cham-

pionship was worth the push. Thisyear alone, Simaz won both theNCAA and EIWA titles in the 197lbs. weight class with a 96.9 per-cent winning average for the 2012season. In the 32 matches he wres-tled in this season, only oneescaped the champions’ grasp. Healso holds the current all-time

Cornell record for bonus points. “You can’t replace a national

champion. It’s just not the kind ofthing where you can just findsomebody else to win nationals,”Koll said. “Not only is Cam anational champion, but he alsoholds the all-time record for

Cornell in bonus points and that isamazing. Every time that hestepped on the mat, we expectedhim to pin them. I have never hadthat before.”

As if his accolades on the matwere not enough to prove the enor-mity of Simaz’s influence on theprogram, his teammates, coachesand anyone that seems to know thesenior, comment on his drive andmost of all his love for the sport.

“He has a heart the size of anelephant,” Koll said. “The kid

never gets tired and he won’t everstop. He’s not the biggest, not thestrongest, not the fastest, but hehas a heart like no other kid that Ihave ever coached.”

It took twelve innings, but sophomoreinfielder Ben Swinford’s homerun andfreshman reliever Kellen Urbon’s stellarpitching performance powered the Redto a win over Princeton last weekend.The dramatic 4-3 victory gave the squadonly its second outright Ivy League LouGehrig Division Title and earned it aspot in the Ivy League ChampionshipSeries against Dartmouth beginningSaturday at 12 p.m. on Hoy Field.

“When Ben hit that homerun, theentire dugout blew up,” said senior cap-tain and catcher Brandon Lee. “We knewwith Kellen on the mound we had ourbest chance to win it.”

The down-to-the-wire finish was onlyfitting for the squad, which has now wonfour extra inning games this season.

“Honestly that was one of the mostintense games I’ve ever taken part in,”said junior infielder Brenton Peters. “Itgives us a lot of momentum because weknow no matter who we play we can stillpull out a win in the end.”

The Red (29-14-1, 14-6 Ivy League)has already tied a program record forwins in a season with at least two gamesleft to play. It will be taking on the Green(23-16, 14-6) in a best-of-three series todetermine the Ivy champion.

The Red swept Dartmouth earlier in

the season, just squeaking out victoriesby scores of 2-0 and 5-2. The Green hasalso improved since that series; the squadhas won 13 of 16 Ivy games since thelosses.

Cornell rode the two victories on thebacks of its pitchers. Sophomore hurlerConnor Kaufmann tossed a no-hitter inthe first game and senior Rick Marksonly allowed two runs over eight inningsin game two.

“We had Connor throw a great gameagainst them last time, but we’re expect-ing two to three highly competitivegames,” Lee said. “They’ve doneextremely well since we last played themand they’ll be coming out hungry for achampionship.”

“Their seniors are going for their thirdIvy champi-onship in fouryears, so thoseguys will bee s p e c i a l l yh u n g r y , ”Peters added.

The Red’snormally productive offense did struggleagainst the Green last time though, onlymustering up four hits in the first game.The team is also preparing to see evenbetter pitchers from Dartmouth this timearound.

“We’re going to see a couple differentpitchers,” Peters said. “Last time weplayed them on their [second series] ofthe weekend so this time we’ll be seeingtheir day one guys.”

Once again, Lee acknowledged thatpitching would be the key for the Red tohold off Dartmouth’s offense.

“Our pitchers have done a fantasticjob all year,” he said. “It’ll be extremely

important to get first pitch strikes andget ahead on hitters and then pitch tocontact and let our defense make playsbehind them.”

The Red’s defense has been solid so farthis season, committing only 56 errorsfor a .964 team fielding percentage.

Peters also cited the importance ofkeeping the Green’s scrappy hitters off ofthe base paths so they could not get anymomentum going.

“We’ve got to keep their leadoff hittersoff base, because if we keep them off theycan’t move anyone over with a bunt or doanything to put someone in scoring posi-tion,” he said. “It puts pressure on thenext two guys to do something bigbecause there’s one out and no one on

base.”Though the two teams will likely not

remember come Saturday, there is somehistory behind this series. Just three yearsago in the Red’s first shot at an Ivy title,Dartmouth was victorious in threegames. If anything, though, that memo-ry is only making the seniors on the teammore prepared, according to Lee.

“We lost game three to [Dartmouth]my freshman year and we’ve been work-ing to get another opportunity at a ship,”he said. “It’s only fitting that now asseniors we’ll be playing them at home totry to bring back a championship.”

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The avengers | Senior catcher Brandon Lee said he and the fellow seniors would like nothingmore than to avenge a loss to Dartmouth in the Ivy Championship three years ago.

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Red Set to Battle Dartmouth in Ivy ChampionshipBy SCOTT CHIUSANOSun Assistant Sports Editor

“They’ve done extremely well since we last playedthem and they’ll be coming out hungry for achampionship.”Brandon Lee

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

Feeling the Loss ofA National Champion

SIMAZContinued from page 24

“Every time that he stepped on the mat, weexpected him to pin them.”Rob Koll

Haley Velasco can be reached athvelasco@cornellsun.com.

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After four prolific seasons on East Hill,it has come time for the Cornell women’shockey program to say goodbye to one ofits all-time great players: 2011-2012Cornell Daily Sun Female Athlete of theYear Rebecca Johnston.

Johnston made her way to Cornell fromSudbury, Ontario, a city in Canada’sNorthern Ontario region. Even before tak-ing to the ice for the Red, Johnston alreadyhad an impressive résumé, having spenttime with the Canadian under-22 nationalteam. She also won a gold medal withTeam Ontario at the Canada Games andwas named an alternate to the Canadiannational team.

It was October, 2007 when the LynahFaithful got its first glimpse of the forwardwho would soon become one of the mostdominant players in ECAC women’s hock-ey. In her first NCAA game with the Red,Johnston led the Cornell charge, scoringthe first Cornell goal of the season less thanthree minutes into the team’s first gameagainst the University of Vermont atLynah. While the Faithful are certainlyhappy to have had the pleasure of watchingJohnston play at home at Lynah for thepast few seasons, it was not always certainthat she would lace up her skates for theRed.

“I have two older sisters,” Johnston said.“My one older sister went to Harvard andmy other one went to Cornell and bothplayed on the hockey teams. I was kind ofdeciding between the two schools. I really,really enjoyed my Cornell visit. I really

liked the coaching staff — Doug Derraughwas really, really nice — and I knew that hewas an amazing coach. He had a lot toteach me … He was one of the majordeciding factors.”

Upon her arrival at Cornell, Johnstonwasted no time in making a big impact onthe team, leading the Red in both scoringand points her freshman year and becom-ing the first Cornell player to be namedECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year and tothe ECAC Hockey first team. This tenaci-ty remained a part of her in her second sea-son with the Red, again leading the team inboth goals and points. She subsequentlybecame the first Cornell player ever to earnthe title of RBK All-American. She wasalso named to the ECAC Hockey firstteam, All-Ivy first team and as a finalist forthe Patty Kazmaier Award, the highesthonor in women’s college hockey.

Johnston remained a member of TeamCanada throughout her time on the Hill,even taking the 2009-2010 campaign offfrom college hockey (and college in gener-al) to spend the entire season with theCanadian Olympic team, ultimately win-ning the Gold Medal at the 2010 WinterOlympics in Vancouver.

“I always like going to the national teamand playing for my country,” Johnstonsaid. “It’s really an amazing experience. It’sdefinitely difficult to miss so much school— I missed quite a bit each semester —but I always managed to catch up when Igot back. It’s a lot of fun going back andforth and being able to play for my coun-try but also playing for and representingmy school.”

Upon her return to Cornell in 2010,

Johnston didn’t miss a beat, being namedan alternate captain and, once again, lead-ing the team in scoring, tallying 26 goalsand 24 assists on the season. In addition,she was also, once again, named a finalistfor the Patty Kazmaier Award, as well as tothe ECAC Hockey and All-Ivy first teams.

While Johnston racked up the individ-ual honors, it is clear that, for her, it wasnever about anything other than the team.

“Winning the ECACs and making it tothe Frozen Four [twice are] my proudestaccomplishments and our team’s proudestaccomplishments. It’s something that,coming in my freshman year, I never wouldhave thought that that was even possible,”

Johnston said, referring to the programthat developed from an average team to anational powerhouse over the last threeyears. (In her first season with the Red,Cornell went 12-17-1, while in her lastthat record was improved to 30-5.)

In the 2011-2012 campaign, Johnstonagain earned the title of leading scorer, fin-ishing her career as number five onCornell’s all-time scoring list. For herefforts this season, Johnston was namedECAC Hockey Player of the Year, IvyLeague Player of the Year, a Patty Kazmaierfinalist and a First Team All-American.

Hard to say goodbye | The Red will certainly feel the loss of reigning ECAC HockeyPlayer of the Year Rebecca Johnston, who scored a team high 30 goals this season.

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The Sun’s Male Athlete of the Year:CAM SIMAZ

The Sun’s Female Athlete of the Year:REBECCA JOHNSTON

By ZACH WALLERSun Senior Writer

See JOHNSTON page 22

With a slew of honors and awards added to the trophy casefor Cornell Wrestling this season, senior Cam Simaz’s four-year career with the Red has come to an end.

“[Cam is] one of the models for work ethic and how towrestle hard and even live right. There is going to be a hugehole in the room and big shoes to fill for the younger guys [nextyear],” said former teammate, Mack Lewnes ’11.

In addition to his presence on the mat, the Michigan nativewon 145 out of a possible 161 matches in his career. Hisstrong performances have led him to four EIWAChampionships — a feat in and of itself, as he is just theeleventh wrestler ever to accomplish this. He also placed fourtimes in the NCAA tournament — garnering a first place vic-tory in 2012 — and was selected as the Ivy League Wrestler ofthe Year in 2011 and 2012.

“No one has ever worked harder than Cam in the 23years that I have coached and [when he] works, he workssmart as well,” said head coach Rob Koll. “This year hehad a couple of injuries and I told him early on that heneeded to be on himself. And when he needed to pullback, he would pull back. [This season] he was almosthis own coach.”

As if his slate of accomplishments were notenough, Simaz has definitely left a legacy on the hill.

“You can’t replace Cam, you can only refill theposition,” added assistant coach Damion Hahn.

Despite considering himself a “string bean” as he

mentioned in a press conference, Simaz is arguably one of thebest that Cornell and the wrestling community has seen inrecent years. After suffering a hamstring injury at the BodyBar Invitational in November, Simaz faced a choice. Hecould either red shirt this year and come back for the nextseason or push ahead and face what the rest of the sea-son had in store for him. He decided to go for it andsee what lay ahead.

“I was really worried [about his injuries]. He was soclose and so dominant,” said Koll. “Therewas no one even close to him. We madethe decision in December to bringhim back, but to bring him back

By HALEY VELASCOSun Assistant Sports Editor

See SIMAZ page 23

Heart of an elephant | Headcoach Rob Koll said National

Champion Cam Simazmaynot be the biggest

wrestler out there,but he makes up for

it with endurance,speed and

heart.

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