By April 6, 2005
After a hard-fought 5-4 loss in the opening game, the softball team came storming back to rout Canisius, 9-1, in the second contest of the day and get momentum on its side heading into the first weekend of the Ivy schedule. The Griffins (4-8) kept the Red’s (14-11) bats quiet in the first two and a half innings while building a 5-0 lead, capped by a three-run homer over the left field wall from the Griffins’ Jess Martin. Cornell answered in the bottom of the third, when senior co-captain Lauren May led off with a double. Sophomore first baseman Erin Murtha added an RBI single and sophomore designated player Beth Price cut the lead to two with a two-RBI single. “They got up first, but we hung in there,” said senior co-captain Erin Kizer. “We had a few bad breaks. It was a tough game — we fought hard.” May brought the Red within one with a homer that sailed over the scoreboard in left field in the bottom of the sixth inning. But Griffins reliever Courtney Piar only gave up one other hit in two innings of relief work to preserve the win. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh, Piar struck out freshman Ashley Wolf with to finish the game. Andrea Bunten pitched five innings for Canisius, giving up three runs and earning nine strikeouts. Freshman Jen Lesczinski went the distance in a losing effort, pitching a complete game and giving up seven hits. Yesterday’s action played out in a similar fashion to the Red’s doubleheader against Siena last Friday, when Cornell lost the first game and then regrouped to win the second contest. Kizer said that the team’s ability to step onto the field focused and ready to go from the start was a key factor in both doubleheaders. “We did a little better job today, but we can still do better,” she said. The Red had no trouble staying focused in the second game against Canisius, racing to a 5-1 lead in the first inning en route to a 9-1 victory in six innings. “I think we definitely wanted to get back at it,” Kizer said. “We were still riding on the end of the first game and really wanted to turn it around.” The Griffins scored one run in the top half of the first inning, and that was all they would get. Freshman Jenna Campagnolo — this week’s Ivy League rookie of the week — started the show with a single. May was walked, putting Campagnolo in position to score off junior third baseman Caitlin Warren’s double. Griffins pitcher Lindsay Garbacz walked Murtha next to load the bases and set the stage for Kizer, who smacked a grand slam to deep center field to put the Red up, 5-1. “The runners in front of me did a great job getting on, and I was just trying to get a hit,” Kizer said. Freshman Jenn Meunier kept the Griffins out of scoring position for the rest of the game, giving up only three hits after the first inning. Meunier is now 8-2 this season. Warren added another RBI with a single in the second inning to push the lead to five. Cornell sophomore Sarah Ruben grounded to Amanda Luukinen in the fifth inning, but Luukinen’s throw to home to force the out was misplayed by Martin, allowing two more Red players to cross the plate. May ended the game with her second solo homer of the day, hitting to right center field. “We played better defense today, definitely, than against Siena,” Kizer said. “That’s definitely a positive and hopefully it will hold up going into this weekend.” Warren went 4-for-6 in the two games with two RBI. May hit the same, finishing with two homers and scoring four runs. Kizer added a 3-for-5 performance, highlighted by her grand slam in the second game. Archived article by Olivia DwyerSun Assistant Sports Editor
By April 6, 2005
“It is necessary for him to commit crimes, more crimes, in order to appease his superego. As soon as successful offensive action becomes impossible, the man will become a victim of a long-repressed superego, a condition which will lead to suicide or mental breakdown.” Hitler, the man who eventually committed suicide and whose name today is synonymous with evil, is the subject of this 1943 pyschoanalysis that the University’s Law Library has recently put online at http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/don- ovan/hitler/. In the 277-page study, psychologist Henry Murray presents a detailed analysis of Hitler’s personality, predictions for Hitler’s future behavior and suggestions for dealing with the dictator and Germany before and after his surrender. Murray, a pre-World War II director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, wrote the profile during his time at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA. Intended to aid the Allied Forces in their strategy against the Nazis, the study assessed Hitler’s likely reactions to different defeats and offered the OSS suggestions on waging covert psychological warfare against Hitler that might eventually lead to his breakdown. Only 30 copies of the study were ever printed, and many of those copies are missing or have been destroyed. Thomas Mills, the international and foreign research attorney at the Law Library in charge of the Donovan collection and other rare books and special collections, said that he only knows of three or four copies in existence today, including the one in the Donovan collection. The Law Library has contemplated digitizing Murray’s work ever since Henry Korn ’68 donated the entire Donovan Collection to Cornell in July 1998. After obtaining copyright permission from Nina Murray, the author’s wife, the library forged ahead with its project. “Hitler is still a topic of discussion,” Mills said about the library’s decision to put the study online. “There’s a wide interest in who this person was.” Claire Germain, the Edward Cornell Law Librarian and professor of law, remembers talking about Hitler as a young girl growing up in Europe. “It’s important to publish and release studies like that because it reminds you of reality,” she said, adding that this is especially true for young people far removed from WW II who sometimes think history has exaggerated Hitler’s atrocities. In formulating his psychoanalysis, Murray made extensive use of Hitler’s own books, Mein Kampf and My New Order, and also drew upon data from the OSS as well as other studies of Hitler. One of the interesting things her husband did “was analyzing a person’s mind through his metaphors,” Mrs. Murray told The Sun. She recalled that her husband, with help from several of his Harvard students, found and analyzed every metaphor in Mein Kampf to help reach his analysis of Hitler. A key contributor to the theory of needs as personality, Murray considered the interplay of needs like achievement, dominance and recognition to determine a person’s psychological makeup and behavior. According to the study, Hitler has a “counteractive narcism” personality provoked by real or imagined insults. Characteristics include low tolerance for criticism, inability to show gratitude, desire for revenge and persistence in the face of defeat. The study continues that while Hitler exhibited these and other qualities to an extreme degree, he lacked the balancing forces that exist in normal individuals. Murray portrays his subject as a series of contradictions. Hitler persecuted Jews despite his ties to Judaism through his godfather and other family members; he advocated fertility in spite of his own impotency; and he emphasized masculine strength despite his many feminine qualities. Since the study became available online a few weeks ago, it has already received 500 hits from around the world, according to Mills. “It’s become a hot issue again,” Germain said about the document’s content. Murray’s work may interest military and psychology historians, Holocaust and WW II scholars and the general public, she told the Cornell news service. “I hope we get great research, access of information and sharing of information,” Korn said after learning the study was online. “Once you put stuff out there, it just produces. Everyone is hungry for it.” It seems that even during the war, others had their eyes on Murray’s work. Walter Langer, a noted psychologist who worked in the OSS with Murray, absorbed many of the study’s key points into his own book, The Mind of Adolph Hitler. Biographer Forrest Robinson writes in Love’s Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray, “Langer had indeed taken the best of his ideas, including the sexual analysis and the prediction of Hitler’s suicide, without a word of acknowledgement.” Archived article by Xiaowei Cathy Tang Sun Senior Editor