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Cornell Research Funding Unclear Due to Shutdown
Officials say Univ.can keep spending By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor
As the government shutdown approaches its second week, with few signs of Congress reaching a compromise, University officials said there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding its approximately $500 million of federal research funding. During the 2012 fiscal year, Cornell’s Ithaca campus spent $304 million of federally provided funds for “sponsored” research, while Weill Cornell Medical College spent $163 million, according to Robert A. Buhrman, senior vice provost for research. While the government is shut down, Buhrman said the University is allowed to continue spending, but cannot ask the government to refund it. “We can still run up the charges and we do have full expectation they will pay those bills when the government reopens, but right now we are running up a tab,” See SHUTDOWN page 4
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Dazed and confused | Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) listen to testimony from Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about the debt ceiling during a committee hearing Thursday.
Students Criticize Univ.’s Response to‘Insensitive’ Campaign pus. “Many students were confused and outraged as to how this theme was allowed to be promoted around campus and Ithaca,” she said. “In a University that prides Members of the Latino community at Cornell are itself on its diversity, we find it alarming that these criticizing what they say was the administration’s insufficient response to Cornell Athletics’ “cultural“Many students were confused and outraged as to incidents continue to occur.” Martinez said she proposes the implementaly insensitive,” Cinco de Mayo-themed marketing how this theme was allowed to be promoted.” tion of an academic diversity requirement in order campaign. to increase cultural awareness among Cornell stuThe marketing campaign, which was launched Carmen Martinez ’14 dents. last week to promote Cornell’s football game “In moving forward from the issue, we propose against Colgate University, encouraged community members to participate in a “photobooth” activity that responding to the incident. Carmen Martinez ’14, co- the University consider advocating for a stronger, more involved the person with the “best costume” winning a chair of MEChA, said there needs to be increased dialogue regarding diversity and cultural sensitivity on camprize. See CAMPAIGN page 5 By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA
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At a Student Assembly meeting Thursday, members of MEChA — a student organization that “serves as the official voice of Chicano students at Cornell University” — urged the administration to take a more active role in
Org.Censured for Failing To Comply With State Law
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Elizabeth Shuhan, a lecturer at Ithaca College, performs on flute at Midday Music in Lincoln Hall Thursday.
The New York State Authorities Budget Office announced Thursday that it has censured 13 public authorities, including Tompkins County Area Development, Inc., for failing to comply with state law. TCAD is an organization that assists local entrepreneurs in creating high-tech companies and helps existing manufacturers expand, according to Michael Stamm, president of the organization. Stamm disagreed with the censure — a form of public reprimand — on TCAD, arguing that his organization does not
fall under the jurisdiction of the state Authorities Budget Office. The office is responsible for overseeing public authorities in the state of New York to ensure they are more accountable. In a letter sent on Oct. 1, the budget office slammed TCAD for its lack of timeliness and transparency with its financial reporting, adding that the authority was warned multiple times that it was out of compliance with state laws. “This behavior demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of your fiduciary responsibilities and is a serious violation of your duty as a director or officer of this authority,” the letter addressed to See CENSURE page 4
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News, “Furloughed Students Interning in D.C. ‘Disappointed’ by Shutdown,” Tuesday Speaking about furloughed federal workers and the government shutdown “Regardless of partisan beliefs, there’s a feeling — at least here — that something has to get done. ... [Although I’m] an unpaid intern, people working for the government are in a state of uncertainty.
Beyond the Birth Day: Postpartum Care for the New Family Noon - 1 p.m., 163 Day Hall Preparing for the Job Market Noon - 1 p.m., 100 Caldwell Hall
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News, “MTV Cribs Spinoff Will Show Off Cornell Fraternity Houses,” Thursday Speaking about the upcoming IFC Cribs’ online video series “IFC Cribs’ provides a fantastic opportunity for fraternities to showcase one of the things they cherish most: their houses. I’m optimistic that seeing these houses rich in tradition ... will compel more freshmen and transfers to come out for rush week in the spring.” Cameron Pritchett ’15
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Opinion, “What the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership Can Teach Congress,” Tuesday Speaking about Cornell and Ithaca’s recent spar over the University’s MOU contributions “The two parties, though they continue to disagree on substantive and impactful bugetary issues, have not shattered the social contract that has goverened their relationship for decades. There have been harsh words exchanged (it’s politics, after all), but there has been no hint — by Cornell or by Ithaca — that this disagreement is a dealbreaker. The lack of brinsmanship in this admittedly lower stakes budget battle brought me back to the resounding idiotic stalemate that has paralyzed the federal government.” Jacob Glick ’15
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Opinion, “Obamacare, Shutdown and the American Constitution,” Thursday Speaking about Congress’ inability to come to an agreement on the budget “What we are witnessing today is what would be expected under our system of government when a party shoves through an unpopular piece of legislation along party lines. Obamacare, passed while Democrats had a temporary monopoly on power, created a backlash that has poisoned the political culture in Washington to such an extent that many on both sides have taken a no-compromise approach to the budget.” Julius Kairey ’15
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Former charter school principal and outdoor guide Marc Magnus-Sharpe began working as the new director of Cornell Outdoor Education Thursday. Magnus-Sharpe said he is looking forward to “combining everything in my life that I love to do” in his new position as the director of COE. “This job is the perfect merger of all my past experiences inside the classroom and outdoors,” he said. He went on to say he is most excited about being “in a community of amazing people.” As director of COE, Magnus-Sharpe will be responsible for fundraising for the outdoor education department, an effort that will keep the cost of activities reaMAGNUS-SHARPE sonable for students and help expand COE programs. “Marc’s fund-raising prowess can support us in extending our offerings to many underserved groups and participants,” said Jim Volckhausen ’88, assistant director of the Cornell Team and Leadership Center in Cornell Athletics. COE organizes and leads trips to places like the Hoffman Ropes Course, canoeing, rock-climbing on Cornell’s rock wall, cycling and snowshoeing. Some trips go as far away as South America or Antarctica. The program has 22 instructors, many of whom are students. Chris Leeming, land programs coordinator for COE, who worked under Magnus-Sharpe when he was a director of Outward Bound, praised MagnusSharpe’s commitment to “the development of people through outdoor experiences.” Since their time at Outward Bound, a non-profit educational organization, both Leeming and Magnus-Sharpe have ended up at COE. “[Our whole department believes] that people benefit from doing new and different experiences. Our role is to provide instruction and a safe environment for the Cornell community to engage in these activities,” Leeming said. “We also believe very deeply in “This job is the perfect the wellness component that is provided by COE classes, not only are people merger of all my past learning a new skill, but they are doing experiences inside the this with a group of people in a beautiful location.” classroom and outIn the upcoming year, Magnusdoors.” Sharpe said he hopes to “take the time to meet individually with everyone in Magnus-Sharpe COE, to listen closely and understand the priorities." “I want to make sure COE is right there at the top when people start to mention programs that make Cornell one of a kind,” Magnus-Sharpe said. Although many students at Cornell likely spend more time in the library than outdoors, Magnus-Sharpe said he thinks COE can help students with their academics. “I love how COE helps take so much stress off students when they can go hike or climb for a while. Even thirty minutes of activity can get the oxygen saturation right back to 100 percent. You actually grow more neurons and learn faster,” he said. Magnus-Sharpe brings experience in both school administration and outdoor education to his new position. He worked as the director of the Discover Outdoors Foundation — which takes urban students from New York City outdoors for a day — for the past two years. Magnus-Sharpe has also been a guide with Discover Outdoors, where he led many day and multi-day trips for groups with a wide range of ages into the Adirondacks and Catskill Mountains. He has also worked as a New York Emergency Medical Technician instructor and a New York State Certified Wilderness Guide. Magnus-Sharpe also has a background in education. He served as a principal at a public charter school in Brooklyn, New York and as the dean of students at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, New York. Lindsay Cayne can be reached at lnc36@cornell.edu.
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Prof. Harriet Dinerstein, astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, lectures about a new field of research using infrared spectroscopy on Thursday.
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Students from Asian American InterVarsity, a Christian student group, hold a bake sale on Ho Plaza for a campaign against human trafficking on Thursday.
Cornell Prof Helps 3-D Print Meal for New York Times By ANDREW LEE Sun Contributor
Witzleben said that additional steps were needed before the 3-D printed tableware was safe to eat off. “We had to coat the glasses with silicone so that [Jacobs] could drink out of them,” she said. Additionally, 3-D printers also remain pricey for most consumers, a fact Jacobs noted in his column. “A few of the smaller printers can go anywhere from a few hundred to a couple thousand dollars, depending on where you get it from,” Witzleben said. Besides the printers themselves, the mate-
Imagine eating a meal that was entirely printed. That’s what New York Times columnist A.J. Jacobs did early this summer with the help of a Cornell scientist. Jacobs discussed the process in his Sept. 21 column, “Dinner Is Printed.” Although Jacobs initially tried to print his own 3-D items by himself, he said he found the process “surprisingly hard” and “mind-numbingly slow.” He then brought in the person he described as “one of the nation’s top 3-D printing experts,” Prof. Hod Lipson, mechanical & aerospace Jacobs described the resulting dinner as engineering, computing & information science. “perhaps the most labor-intensive meal “What a difference a Ph.D. in history,” and said that while the 3-D makes,” Jacobs said. pizza “tasted like a sightly chewier verJacobs had a 3-D printed full course dinner in mind. According sion of non-3-D printed pizza,” the eggto Jenna Witzleben ’15, a lab assisplant was “too gummy to enjoy.” tant who worked closely with Lipson on the project, the entire project was designed in-house at Cornell labs. rial used to create the object itself can be “Many of the actual objects were printed expensive, Witzleben said. For example, a at Shapeways in NYC,” Witzleben said in an stainless steel fork would cost more than a email. plastic one. With 3-D printing, users can create solid, Jeffrey Lipton grad, the project’s head of three-dimensional objects from digital mod- contact on design, added that the time els. The printer builds the object layer by required to print an object was another factor layer until the object is complete. Cornell is a that made the entire process too costly for powerhouse in the 3-D printing field: early in most consumers. February, Cornell scientists created an artifi“It takes too long,” he said. “I can see 3-D cial ear that looks and behaves exactly like a printers being used a wide range of industrial natural ear. and commercial settings.” Lipson, who is also the director of Cornell Witzleben echoed Lipton’s sentiment, University’s Creative Machines Lab, has vast adding that people were more likely to use experience in 3-D printing. The editor-in- printers to create jewelry for a party or chief of the “3-D Printing and Additive replacement parts to fix their bike. Manufacturing (3DP)” scientific journal, “That’s easier than having to prepare an Lipson has been invited to speak about 3-D entire meal,” said Witzleben. “There was a printing at various conferences in the past. lot of preparation that went into it. The Jacobs described the resulting dinner as cheese had to be melted before it went into “perhaps the most labor-intensive meal in his- the printer, and the pizza and noodles had to tory,” and said that while the 3-D pizza “tast- be cooked after they came out of the printed like a slightly chewier version of non-3-D- er.” printed pizza,” the eggplant was “too gummy Still, Lipton and Witzleben remain optito enjoy.” mistic about future 3-D food production. As far as its use in food preparation, 3-D Lipton added that multi-material 3-D printprinting still has a few obstacles to overcome ing was an example of an exciting prospect in before it could see widespread adoption the technology’s development. among consumers, according to Witzleben. “It will enable the production of parts with Safety concerns rank chief among them. different properties from what can be made “The food is safe,” Witzleben said. today,” he said. “I see automation of food “However, the 3-D-printed materials used to production as being the next great challenge make the silverware and dinnerware, with the of robotics.” exception of certain ceramics, have to be made food-safe using some type of food- Andrew Lee can be reached at al726@cornell.edu. grade coating.”
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C.U.: Gov’t Will Refund Spending SHUTDOWN
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Buhrman said. Additionally, although current spending has not been stalled, the government has barred organizations from submitting new proposals, Buhrman said. “We cannot submit new proposals, and we cannot start new projects until this unpleasantness is resolved,” he said. Buhrman said he thinks the impact of the shutdown will not be dramatic if the shutdown ends quickly, except for the few projects that involve federal employees or agencies. “There are some current research projects that
“We are still trying to absorb the effects of the sequester and the shrinking budgets of the agencies that fund our reserach.” Dianne Miller involve federal employees or use of federal property — a limited number — that have actually been stopped, so overall it is not a major impact overall on Cornell research, but if you're the investigator or the grad student that is affected there is is a big impact in that case,” Buhrman said. The University is still trying to cope with the effects of the sequester, a series of across-theboard federal budget cuts that reduced some of its federal funding. If the shutdown continues for a prolonged period of time, it could add “this uncertainty because of the amount of work in the pipeline and no disposition on it,” said Dianne Miller, director of federal relations for the University. With approximately 450 projects from the Ithaca campus that are “in the pipeline,” uncertainty is worrisome, Miller added. Her concerns were echoed by the American
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the directors said. The budget office warned TCAD on multiple occasions with letters dating back to Oct. 2008, according to the letter it sent to TCAD. In March, the budget office gave an ultimatum stating TCAD had until April 30 to comply with state law. Stamm, however, argued that his organization is not a public authority and does not need to comply with the reporting requirements that the budget office outlines. “They can tell us we should comply with the law, but they really are incorrect with that judgement,” Stamm said, adding that TCAD has been expecting the censure letter and that they expect no impact from the censure. Stamm said that based on TCAD’s reading of the law and the organization’s legal counsel, TCAD is not a government
organization and does not fall respond adequately to previous under the budget office’s juris- warnings issued by our office.” TCAD’s legal counsel will diction. Currently, the organization holds a contract with send a letter to the Authorities Budget Office disagreeing with Tompkins County. “We’re a private not-for-prof- the censure, and TCAD will try it organization. Our mission is to create quality “They can tell us we should jobs for local residents,” Stamm said. comply with the law, but Censure letters were they are really incorrect with sent to public authorities that judgement.” who failed to comply with the law due to the Michael Stamm “collective failure” of the directors to act in response to previous warnings, according to a press to put this issue behind them, release given by the budget Stamm said. office. “We’re just one of dozens of “The board members of these organizations in New York State 13 authorities were given every that have received a letter like opportunity to comply with this,” Stamm said. “We’re going state law,” David Kidera, direc- to spend our time more usefully tor of the budget office, said in focusing on our core mission the press release. “We were com- and not allow ourselves to be pelled to take this enforcement distracted by this issue.” action when directors neglected their legal responsibilities over Tyler Alicea can be reached at several years and failed to talicea@cornellsun.com.
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Smith ’14: University Nevada Judge Says She Is ‘Working On’Simpson Ruling Must Do More on Bias CAMPAIGN
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realistic and engaging diversity requirement for all students, such as a course on racism and ethnicity,” she said. Ulysses Smith ’14, S.A. president, said that, when necessary, there should be an increased effort from University officials to minimize bias incidents and cultural insensitivity in the future. “If we, as a University, are going to make websites to shame people that haze and re-educate students in that sense, why do we not follow up in such a matter with bias incidents?” he asked. Students said they are still confused and disturbed by how such a campaign was approved in the first place. Gabriela Lopez ’15, political chair of MEChA, added that she thinks many students have failed to recognize the extent of Cornell Athletics’ insensitivity towards the Latino community in choosing a Cinco de Mayo-themed campaign. “We have been criticized by various parts of the Cornell student body who do not understand what it is we found so problematic about this,” she said. She said the campaign’s overall objectification of Latino culture is unacceptable. “Our cultural background is being used as a costume, as a contest: that is what is so problematic about this,” she said. “The Latino community works “Our cultural background is hard day by day to break stereotypes.” being used as a costume, as Echoing Lopez’s sentiments, a contest: that is what Sarah Proo ’15, a member of Cornell’s Latino community, said is so problematic about this.” she was personally offended by the campaign since it unfairly subjected Gabriela Lopez ’15 a marginalized group to further objectification. “They stripped our culture to a distorted image and exploited it for their use,” she said. Proo said that the theme could have been approached in a way that better celebrated Latino culture and did not involve football players in the dining halls dressed in traditional Mexican attire. Martinez stressed that the campaign demonstrates the need for dialogue regarding diversity between students and the administration. “It is necessary to have uncomfortable conversations about culture, race, oppression and privilege,” she said. “We need to be more willing to openly talk about these issues, ‘check’ our privilege, and start deconstructing the preconceived notions we have about each other.” Lopez agreed and urged the University to take a more proactive role in responding to the incident. “We appreciate the athletic department’s apologies. However, our intent was to find a way to move forward with this and not simply take the apology and move on,” she said. Just pulling the campaign and issuing a statement apologizing for it ignores the issue of cultural insensitivity rather than actively addressing it, Proo said. “Canceling everything feels like an attempt to shut us up,” she said. Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.
JP Sells Off Gov’t Debt NEW YORK (AP) — Investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase said Thursday it has sold all of its exposure to short-term U.S. government debt out of its money market funds, following a similar move by other money market mutual fund managers. The announcement comes a day after Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest manager of money market mutual funds, said it no longer holds any U.S. government debt that comes due around the time the nation could hit its borrowing limit. In a statement Thursday, JPMorgan said its money market funds no longer held any U.S. Treasurys that mature or have payments scheduled between Oct. 16 and Nov. 6. The New York bank said it has also increased its liquidity position in the funds. JPMorgan holds about $257 billion in its money market funds, according to its website.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada judge who will decide whether O.J. Simpson gets a new trial in a botched confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers indicated Thursday that she’s still working on her ruling. In her first public comment since hearings nearly five months ago, Clark County District Judge Linda Marie Bell issued a statement through a court spokeswoman saying the case is complicated, the file is thick, and she is addressing 22 claims raised by prosecutors and Simpson’s lawyers. “To adequately address each claim, a thorough review of the record is necessary, including the record of the 13-day trial and the weeklong evidentiary hearing,” the statement said. It didn’t cite a date for a ruling. Prosecutor H. Leon Simon and Simpson attorneys Patricia Palm, Ozzie Fumo and Tom Pitaro, who handled the May 13-17 hearings before Bell, said the judge had a reputation for thoroughness and they were willing to be patient.
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s I develop my queer identity, it is as if I am stoking the coals and fanning the flames of my queer rage so that it builds with ever more intensity each day. While I have queered myself to the point of no return, the world of rigidity and rationalism around me maintains its concrete structures. I ache as I am relegated into a bathroom labeled by a gender with which I don’t identify; as I pull on a pair of pants to wear to my office job. The rage within intensifies each time I confront the reality that I live in a world of strict, rigid, institutionalized norms. Because, as a queer-identified individual, I perceive the world of rigid norms to be a hostile environment. It was cisnormativity (the assumption that every individual identifies with the gender to which they were assigned at birth) and heteronormativity (the assumption that everyone is attracted to members of the opposite sex) that made me deny myself of my own experiences with gender and sexuality for 20 years of my life — 20 years that I will never get back. Hetero- and cisnormativity — like all assumptions and norms — filter images, sounds, knowledge, etc., so that we are left with an understanding of our surroundings and our own subjectivities that entails only a limited set of possibilities of being. And the only being I perceived to be possible for myself under these conditions was a straight, feminine, girl. In a heteronormative world, it was impossible for me to understand the attractions I felt toward members of my own sex, because everything around me reflected the experiences of straight people only. In a cisnormative world, I could not comprehend the humiliation I felt, at eight years old, when I received a “girl” bike for Christmas, because everything around me reflected the experiences of people for whom the color of their bike somehow aligned with their genitalia. I had no model of being before me that embraced gender and sexual variance — no celebrities, no family members, no one. In a world of strict norms, any variance cannot be accounted for, and so those experiences of variance are rendered invisible. With no model, it was impossible for me to comprehend my own deviance from the set gender and sexual script, and so I ignored it. I erased those variances so that I could walk the path I knew, the cis and hetero one laid out by every dominant movie, book, word, in my purview. But then, I began my freshman year at Cornell, and in an effort to make friends, I found the queer community. Within those queer spaces, for the first time, I was surrounded by individuals that reflected my own variances. Variances that hetero- and cisnormativity removed from my consciousness finally became visible to me. Attraction to all genders became possible. Not wanting to have sex became possible. Gender neutrality became possible. Anything at all became possible to me in these spaces without gender and sexual norms, or the structures, labels, and expectations they produce (’twas my initial reaction. I am not blind to the discrimination within Cornell’s queer community). I felt liberated. I felt like I came into the person I had always been but whom I had beaten out of my mind. No, not the person I had beaten out of my mind, but rather the shapeless person that I had battered down to fit into one of my culture’s designated possibilities of being. I became queer — beyond categories, beyond labels, beyond expectations, beyond normative restrictions. And yet, how quickly that joy of liberation transforms into rage when you consider the shackles that prevented you from achieving that liberation for 20 years of your life. When you remember that in spite of your internal liberation, those norms are still concretely shaping the reality around you; that it will not be easy to create a different path and to burst out of your gendered box — you will have to persistently resist the forces around you. And so I rage. I rage because everyday I walk the streets of a culture that has and will continue to deny me. I rage because we all deserve better — we all deserve limitless possibilities of being. I will be loud and aggressive about my queer identity because I refuse to let my experiences be invisible anymore — invisible to myself, and to the people who are without a model for gender and sexual deviance. I will be seen so it is known that my being is possible. In my rage, I demand an end to the rigidity of the world around me — I demand the queering of the world. Within queer spaces, you can be the shapeless being that existed before rigid labels and expectations hacked away at your being. By queering spaces we begin to recognize what is not possible under normative logics and make spaces for those beings — whether they vary by gender, sex, sexuality, race, class, ability, age, etc. Queering spaces will make my identity — all identities — possible, legitimate and valued. And I will demand that because there is space in this world for everyone. The revolution will be feminist. It will be old. It will be hairy, black, differently-abled, genderfucked, left-handed. The revolution will be queer. Bailey Dineen is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Pronous: They, Them, There. They may be reached at btd32@cornell.edu. Genderfucked appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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“Very articulate piece...really strikes me as wrong headed though. You write that this piece of legislation is contentious. I’m interested to know how you perceive the Republican contention. When I see Republicans criticizing the legislation, the points they make seem so thoroughly ideological and general, so lacking in detail about the consequences of the bill’s implementation, that I’m led to assume that they don’t care at all whether it’s a good bill or not ... they just seem to care that it’s ‘his’ bill.” nt Re: “THROWDOWN THURSDAY: Obamacare, Shutdown and the American Constitution,” Opinion, published October 10, 2013
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hat do Hegel, and even fewer calls for ing a round of applause for a Jacques Derrida, direct action. message that should enrage, Hannah Arendt, This is a problem. This is not amaze. When less than Shoshana Felman and a big problem. Butler, like 1 percent of society can even Angela Davis all have in many other academics decipher her esoteric mescommon? The eminent across the world, assumed a sage, what does that say public intellectual, Judith liberal stance on objective about its potential for Butler, referenced all of public discourse which, as a change? When Butler’s mesthese critical philosophers prerequisite, calls for the sage requires a 4-credit and activists during a lecture complete elimination of course worth of background she delivered Wednesday in emotional subjectivity or reading just to understand Uris Auditorium. Butler’s concrete calls for a specific the jargon in her argument, lecture, “Plural Action,” future. In the name of what does that say about focused on the public’s free- objectivity, intellectuals the- how she, and academics in dom to assemble, and how orize their ideas out in the general, position themselves the State has enclosed on open public sphere for the within society? While I have this freedom through priva- people to judge for them- been privileged enough to tization, mass incarceration selves. By their rationale, the be exposed to the theoretical and police action. She drew truth will eventually reveal background from which she on critical theorists abound itself, because (according to drew, many of the students I and tied her ideas together their logic), all individuals talked to felt her message with ease and technical are rational actors who can flew right over their heads. expertise. Butler’s called for liberadiscern what is right for However, Judith Butler both themselves and society. tion of the masses and a revfell quite short of what she But, in fact, the norma- olution of thought, but in could have accomplished tive judgements she sought speaking to only the elite standing in front of an audi- to avoid were built into that could understand her torium filled 800 ears deep. Butler’s critique. It took message, she reflected the While, the content of her only a discernable listener to self-aggrandizing problem lecture rocked my socks off, begin to hypothesize what of high theorists Butler typifies the problem with contemporary critical intellectuals. She has the followers to begin a For those of you who don’t know, movement and has every duty to critical theory is a speak with the immediacy school of thought originating from the implicit in her critique. writing of Kant, Hegel, Marx and Freud that has developed kind of direct action ending across the world. With into an interdisciplinary such oppression would tenured posts at elite instituumbrella term for all work require. However, Butler left tions, these intellectuals that critiques society and that up to us the listeners to have little investment in the culture. Some thinkers decide, and I don’t think actualization of their criapproach their critical that’s right. She theorized in tiques and thus, their desire assessments from a strictly the name of mass liberation, to incite action is negligible. positivist perspective, restructuring society to free A message delivered with emphasizing strict interpre- us from the hegemony of the same detached tone as a tation and explanation, modern political economy radio host describing while others take a more and dominant ideology, and changes in the stock market, normative viewpoint, mak- in effect spoke for (using “offends against humanity ing qualitative judgments contemporary terminology) by being calm where one with the hopes of changing the 99 percent, yet she failed should be enraged, by society through the philoso- to deliver a message discern- refraining from accusation phy itself. able to the 99 percent she when accusation is in the In my view, Judith hoped to enlighten and facts themselves,” as Butler spoke from this posi- thereby galvanize. Marcuse points out. Quite tivist dimension of philosoWe can all support ironically, Butler described phy, and in doing so, deliv- a message that seeks mass how the public sphere has ered her ideas through ster- liberation from both overt lost the oppositional funcile, disassociated and and concealed oppression, tion of its freedom to assemunemotional rhetoric. right? But, what does “sup- ble, yet Butler lost her oppoBasically, she attempted to port” even look like in this sitional element when come off as a completely case? I sure as hell don’t choosing to speak unemoobjective academic, making think support looks like a tionally when the facts few overt value statements room full of college kids giv- themselves call for emotion
— strong impassioned emotions that reflect the immediacy of the problems at hand. We were celebrating a person, not a message, for if the message was our focus, we would not clap for her at all. How could anyone clap for the demonstration of our complete manipulation and collective oppression? Direct action is what’s called for, not some temporary veneration suspended in the middle of a life unchanged. Some might say Butler was being strategic. Disassociating a critique from a particular political viewpoint neutralizes the claim in a politically polarized world, thereby allowing for the information to speak for itself, untainted by a subjective messenger. However, a non-choice is still a choice. Choosing not to vote is still a vote — a vote for nobody. Likewise, to choose positivist and unemotional objectivity diminishes the message in a world of complete and total subjectivity. It creates a false equivalence that blinds the public from rational truth and blatant fiction. Perhaps, some would position her as the philosopher who inspires the activists. However, I dismiss this claim. She has the followers to begin a movement and has every duty to speak with the immediacy implicit in her critique. For those who are affected every day in body and soul by the implications of society’s ordering, her message carries extreme gravity, and to not harness this is to miss an opportunity to change the course of history.
Rudy Gerson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached a rgerson@cornellsun.com. Rooting Around column runs alternate Fridays this semester.
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to make us latch onto astronaut Stone and her impossible struggle, and she succeeds brilliantly. We become Stone and are Gravity, the new space opus by Oscar-nominee Alfonso entirely engrossed in her desperCuarón, is breathtaking. That is to say, it sucks the breath ate survival attempt, largely straight out of your lungs and leaves you hovering suspended because of the fear, the panic, in space, inside an astronaut suit. For the entirety of its 90- and the sincerely tortured minute runtime, your limbs will feel limp from the rigors of nuances in Bullock’s perforzero gravity. This is not a film we watch, but a tour de force mance. She’s a long way from experience we undergo in vast depths of the void — and one The Heat or The Proposal here, from which we emerge riveted to the core. and reminds us why she won The film is composed of balletic, lengthy shots as the cam- that Oscar for The Blind Side. era glides through the endless emptiness above the earth, Cuarón first became known to mainstream audiences pausing to study the faces of two astronauts, who seem inde- when he brought his dark, brooding yet ardently human scriabbly puny in comparison to the scale of their setting, one touch to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This he folwhich threatens to pull them down to their deaths. Thus, the lowed up with the magnificent Children of Men, one of the film becomes a survival tale about an astronaut fighting the highest cinematic achievements of the last decade. In the gravity of the Earth, and on a metaphorical level, the gravity seven year interim, Cuarón has been sorely missed and is back of her inner turmoil. The two astronauts that just about now in a triumphant and much-needed return. We should be round out the entire cast are Matthew only too glad to see this visionary Kowalski (George Clooney) and Ryan auteur at work again. Gravity Stone (Sandra Bullock), the latter of Part of the reason for the hiatus is whom we spend most of the movie the extremely long and groundbreakDirected by Alfonso with. ing process involed in the making of Cuaron After a Russian satellite breaks apart Gravity. Work on the film began in in space, creating a chain reaction of Starring George Clooney, 2009, with a script written by Cuarón orbiting debris that destroys their shutand his son Jonas, who were unaware tle, Kowalski and Stone are left the sole that the film’s visuals would take over survivors of their mission to repair the four years to create. The camerawork Hubble telescope. Running low on stands as one of the greatest technical oxygen and jetpack fuel, they are forced feats of filmmaking ever accomto trek to the International Space plished, right up there with Lord of the Station — floating over the face of the Earth — where Stone Rings and Avatar. I can’t think of a film in recent years that is soon by herself. Once inside the ISS, she must pilot an features such hypnotic camera operating, some of it lasting escape pod to the Chinese space station, before her last hope over ten minutes at a clip — to the point where the editing of returning to Earth is destroyed by shrapnel as well. becomes nearly invisible. This is due to the absolutely masClooney does a lot with a short amount of screen time, but terful cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of it’s Bullock who has the larger obstacle. Doing little else but Life), who built revolutionary technology to achieve the look hyperventilating and speaking to herself, Bullock is required of the film and hit a career high with the results. Unlike most MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer
Hollywood spectacles, Gravity uses its special effects so subtly that the sheer power of the film’s ability to place you in its setting isn’t thoroughly apparent until the very end. The final five minutes of the film are the most rousing, haunting, spellbinding five minutes to be had in the dark of the movie theater this year. Watching the film at first, I wasn’t quite convinced it was the masterpiece of 2013 critics had been saying it would be. Then, as the final moments of the film dawned, I realized it had only appeared sluggish and tired at certain points due to its nearly unmatched prowess. This is a film that immerses the audience in its environment with an impeccable use of 3-D, and then forces us to undergo a painful experience as we struggle for our lives along with a lone astronaut, in that harsh, unforgiving vastness. James Cameron, whose Avatar is a landmark of how 3-D should be used to create immersive cinematic worlds, called Gravity “the best space film ever done.” As someone who has viewed 2001 multiple times and even watched an IMAX feature on astronauts that was filmed in space, I would have to agree with him. No movie-going experience has taken us on such a quietly overwhelming survival story, by inserting us in the far reaches of a menacing and treacherous atmosphere, until now. Cuarón and his collaborators have crafted a space odyssey of transcendent power. Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornell.edu.
At Sage Chapel, a Different Kind of ‘Living Dead’ BY ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Associate Managing Editor
What a pretty mess. Whatever your feelings on Bill Morrison’s Decasia and Just Ancient Loops, two experimental films Cornell Cinema screened at Sage Chapel Tuesday evening, you should agree that this pithy assessment of mine approaches some objective, albeit cursory, truth. For Morrison’s work discovers a beauty in what most would consider ugly, nonnegotiable trash: destroyed and/or decomposing celluloid film stock from the ancient, lesserknown annals of silent cinema. By assembling these clips together and asking us to find meaning in their perceived deficiencies, Morrison works in a most peculiar mode of the “found footage” form. These decrepit moving images take on new life, paradoxically, through the invasion of decaying, dying elements. It is an awesome, sometimes startling and often maddening experience. I say “maddening” knowing that that was partly Morrison’s intent. Why else would he commission Michael Gordon to compose a score for Decasia where the orchestra plays out-of-tune, in repetitious and shrill drones? As an admirer of Philip Glass and current experimental electronic acts like Oneohtrix Point Never, I am totally on board with cyclical, stubbornly non-harmonic music styles. Yet Gordon’s soundtrack does not traverse as wide a range as it should in a film with such cryptic, alien images, instead climbing up to the higher registers early on and just staying there, wailing almost the entire time. Pairing these sounds with the film makes for a some-
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what suffocating experience, piquing anxiety at times when the images provoke free-floating curiosity. Perhaps I am overly irritable, or maybe the Sage Chapel’s speakers were too loud, but it narrowed my perspective on Morrison’s work. At the time, at least. Reflecting on what Morrison actually did, on the ineffable tinge of Decasia’s exploration of life and death — how art, at least film art, suffers corporeal violence in the same way humans do, yet how it can potentially better from it — I find it impossible not to be moved. Some of these shots just stay with you. An expressionless boxer punches at a stream of eaten-up nitrocellulose, unknowingly battling a force more powerful and eternal than the human opponent it replaced. White wisps of liquefied chemicals tear at the face of man and, later, a hook-nosed woman, resembling an effect similar to the Dementor’s kiss in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, or Stephen Gammell’s infamous illustrations in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Intensified film grain mingles with the ants crawling about a tight macro shot, confusing the iden-
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tity of each. Extreme reversals in contrast render Mary Pickford, America’s golden girl, into a maniacal, glowing beast, and a sunny cloister into a nightmarish vision that could have been pulled from Maya Deren’s Meshes of
the Afternoon. I mention other films and movie stars, old and new, because I believe Morrison operates in that referential, meta-cinematic mode. Bookended by a shot of a whirling dervish, Decasia obsesses over movement — some of it chaotic, but most of it rotational, like a projecting film reel. Mechanical movement meets an arc light to create life, or Cornell recreate it, or, better to revive it, as the Cinema yet, subjects in these 100year-old clips take back that energy robbed by the grave. Rather than obliterate meaning and function like a magnet to a computer hard drive, the deterioration of film stock amplifies backgrounds, hides protagonists, quite literally pulls apart human emotions and provokes them anew through the most abstract forms, like framefilling black and white blotches that become, on their own, lyrical films in the vein of Stan Brakhage. Morrison probably wants you to
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support film preservation after seeing how time and poor conditions ravage celluloid, but the unfamiliarity of most of the source material (culled from University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections, by the way) just fascinated me more, encouraging my mind to go wild with associations. Whether he intended to or not, Morrison created quite a decadent Rorschach test for cinephiles. I neglect to comment on Just Ancient Loops, Morrison’s most recent effort, which premiered just last year (compared to the original 2002 release of Decasia, his most famous work). Running 26 minutes compared to Decasia’s 70, Just Ancient Loops concerns itself with a more explicit spirituality and the way we visualize such unknowable, unseeable divinity. Ancient cinematic reenactments of Jesus’ resurrection (they look hand-painted, so we’re talking like 110 years back) coexist with clips of jungles, roller coasters and a playful moon. The most jarring sequence comes as the film’s most serene: a CGI scale modeling of Jupiter and its four Galilean moons, with the perspective swooping back to dwarf each orbiting rock against the gaseous giant behind it. This goes on for a couple of minutes, and I may have checked my watch at least once during that duration, but I look back and think to myself: Man, even if this all doesn’t make sense, isn’t fleeting boredom via a visionary artist’s exploration of the cosmos a beautiful problem to have? Zachary Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.
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Leaving the Curtain Hanging
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uch of the literature of the 20th-century said Americans, though living in a ‘land of possibility’, are fated to confine themselves. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim, “there are no second acts in American lives,” anticipated the dilemma of countless 20th-century protagonists with fantasies of reinvention or escape. In Mike Nichols’ The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock wants to become something “different” and new but he can’t quite figure out what it is he wants to become. In John Updike’s Rabbit Run, Robert Angstrom tries to leave his constraints — family, profession— but ultimately returns to his hometown and ‘high school-basketball-star’ reputation. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is plagued by hallucinations of the past, each of which highlights his failed potential. His only reprieves are long drives through suburban Connecticut. The road, for him and many other American characters, provides comfort; it suggests escape and opportunity while having an easy route back to security. Willy’s briefcase restrains him like an anchor and directs him back home. Similarly, many other American heroes are unable to realize fantasies of new possibility and find divers tropes coiling them back to their old identities. In the current century, we seem even more determined to silence any possibility of reinvention. Formerly, you could decide how big a part your past played into your present. Geographic location determined how often you’d run into figures from past-lives (old classmates, neighbors, exes). Now, the specters of our former lives, intimates or strangers, visit us Politicizing daily — in photos, Art statuses and updates. What’s more, unless you do a lengthy Facebook-friend clearing (I often hear people promise this but seldom see them actually do it), you never leave a larger network of people; you just inherit more people for you to watch over and to be watched by. Thus, social-media is like a living and expanding yearbook. It encourages you to scrutinize irrelevant and distant people via one-dimensional, exchangeable portrayals while being expected to subject yourself to the same treatment. In light of the scrutiny of an expanding audience, we can only narrow our presentable image. The larger the group, the more complexity one concedes to be a part of it, leading us to curate a more refined and confined personas. Given our inherent weirdness, this can NIHAL MARIWALA / only create a more SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR neurotic fissure between self and presentable self. Now you may think that there is an obvious escape. That there is the possibility of not using Facebook. Of course, many of us consider this until we look at the costs of abandonment: the worry that present-day media has made people so short-term minded that some friends will forget about you; the worry that ‘users’ will think that you have corpses to conceal by not having an account; the worry that participation in Facebook creates an illusion of camaraderie that necessarily demands scorn to those outside of it (to maintain camaraderie), so that those that do not belong to it receive scorn; the worry that people won’t be able to reach you; the worry that you will miss out on scandals; the worry that Facebook is such a reliable mirror to judge yourself against that your conscience will be missing a certain voice — a certain ‘choir’. In short, the same reasons that keep people from leaving their social situations preclude them from leaving Facebook. Thus, the curtain doesn’t drop — people continue to view you as you view them. The costs of escape (the ostensible resolution to this problem) are too high and people do not choose to enter into the second act. We find another reason to confine ourselves, this time due to fear of negative public opinion. So, today, the ‘one-actness’ and ‘one-dimensionality’ of Fitzgerald, Nichols, Updike and Miller’s world has been exacerbated. Unlike 20thcentury confinement, there are no roads of reprieve; our smart phones remain in our pockets. I’m led to think of the final scene in The Graduate, where Ben and Elaine have just escaped Elaine’s wedding and thrown away the respectability they held in their former social scene. They sit in the backseat of a crowded bus. They laugh at their newfound liberation until, upon seeing the confused gaze of their fellow passengers, they are quickened to seriousness and reconsideration. One set of judging eyes has led to another, compounding the self-consciousness of escape.
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Henry Staley is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at hstaley@cornellsun.com. Politicizing Art appears alternate Fridays.
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REBECCA SCOTT SHAILEE HARRIS CHIUSANO SHAH
AKANE OTANI
CAMUTI
LIZ
ARIEL COOPER
MILY SCHROEDER BEERMAN
ANDY LEVINE
HALEY VELASCO
CORNELL V. HARVARD
CORNELL
CORNELL
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
CORNELL
HARVARD
HARVARD
CORNELL
CORNELL
YALE V. DARTMOUTH
YALE
YALE
YALE
YALE
YALE
YALE
YALE
YALE
YALE
YALE
PRINCETON V. LAFAYETTE
PRINCETON
PRINCETON
PRINCETON
LAFAYETTE
PRINCETON
PRINCETON
LAFAYETTE
PRINCETON
PRINCETON
PRINCETON
COLUMBIA V. LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
COLUMBIA
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
BROWN V. BRYANT
BRYANT
BROWN
BRYANT
BRYANT
BROWN
BROWN
BROWN
BRYANT
BRYANT
BROWN
OREGON V. WASHINGTON
OREGON
OREGON
OREGON
OREGON
OREGON
OREGON
OREGON
OREGON
OREGON
OREGON
FLORIDA V. LSU
LSU
FLORIDA
LSU
FLORIDA
LSU
LSU
LSU
LSU
LSU
FLORIDA
JETS V. STEELERS
STEELERS
JETS
STEELERS
JETS
JETS
STEELERS
JETS
STEELERS
JETS
JETS
SAINTS V. PATRIOTS
SAINTS
SAINTS
SAINTS
SAINTS
SAINTS
SAINTS
SAINTS
SAINTS
SAINTS
SAINTS
TITANS V. SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
TITANS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
LAST WEEK
6-4
6-4
8-2
9-1
9-1
8-2
8-2
7-3
7-3
6-4
TOTAL
15-15
15-15
14-16
15-15
20-10
15-15
21-9
19-11
19-11
15-15
Defense Focuses on Running Game NHL’s Young Crop of FOOTBALL
“One day I’ll look back, but it’s not [time] for that in the middle of the season.” With two teams — Yale and Harvard — and a lot less complicated to defend,” Minor still undefeated overall, and two more teams in said. “We’re also focusing on taking the ball Princeton and Penn undefeated in conference away and making the ball carrier uncomfort- play, Saturday would be an important win to able when he is carrying the ball.” keep the Red in the race at the top of the Ivy The Red is looking to break through the League. According to Minor, the two losses seemingly impenetrable wall Harvard has built have not done anything to change the Red’s in their series rivalry. The Crimson has won 11 mentality, except to motivate them even furof the team’s last 12 meetings, and the last time ther. Cornell defeated Harvard was “The team is rallying in 2005, when the Crimson around ourselves,” he said. was undefeated and national- “We’re also focusing on “We are focusing more on ly ranked. execution and doing the Last year, Harvard won the taking the ball away and things we need to do, as well matchup handily on its own making the ball carrier as being prepared for what we turf, 45-13. Chapple threw are going to face.” for three touchdowns in the uncomfortable.” According to Mathews, first 16 minutes of the game, the Red has continued to Tre’ Minor and the Red was unable to develop each week and to climb back into contention. learn from the mistakes it has In what has become a made in losses. Should the theme for the Red the past few weeks, senior Red be able to contain the Crimson’s offense quarterback Jeff Mathews will be challenging in the second half, and minimize the running yet another conference record. He needs 172 game of Stanton and Hempel, it will have the more passing yards to become the Ivy League’s opportunity to give head coach David Archer all time leader in that category in conference ’05 his first win against an Ivy opponent. games. In last weekend’s loss, Mathews became “We have grown each week,” Mathews said. the Ancient Eight’s overall career passing “We will continue to get better at what we leader, but he remained humble after the struggled with. We will also work to make game, interested more in his team’s success what we do well, great.” than in his own. “Honestly, I haven’t had time to think Scott Chiusano can be reached at about it yet,” Mathews said of the record. schiusano@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 12
Harvard GameWill Be ‘a Battle,’ Rinow Says M. SOCCER
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Harvard, despite its losing record, is still a tough opponent. “Harvard is a battle every year, [but we have to] get on them early and impose our system on theirs,” Rinow said.
Another thing Rinow mentioned was the physical nature of Ivy league games. Head coach Jaro Zawislan explained that the focus of the team is always on the next game and improving day to day. However, the team also understands that league play carries importance that regular games may not.
Especially while defending the title of Ivy league Champions, Cornell acknowledges that Ancient Eight games have immense importance, and uses that fact as motivation to be aggressive on the field. Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.
Talent Grows This Year HOROWITZ
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Cup Champions, and the Bruins are determined not to fall short again. The Penguins, Flyers, Red Wings, Canucks and Kings are in top shape as always, ready to make deep playoff runs. The Sharks, Blues, Capitals and Rangers are accustomed to making the playoffs and falling short. This season, one of them may take the next step. Maybe the Maple Leafs will finally add defense and playoff grit to their immense offensive talent in order to end Toronto’s 45-year Stanley Cup drought. Ignore my bias, but don’t underestimate the Devils. They’ll be better than expected. The crop of talented young players in the NHL is bigger than ever. The Islanders’ John Tavares, Rangers’ Carl Hagelin, Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskong and Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos may reach new levels of stardom. The traditional group of wellestablished all-stars will continue to shine. Crosby, Malkin, Giroux and Kessel, Toews, and Kane are all in the prime of their careers, and they can elevate their performance to even greater heights. The Olympics are always fun to watch. Putting a flag on the front of a jersey rather than a team symbol adds a whole new dimension of intensity and pride to the game, with fans from each country abandoning NHL loyalties in favor of national ones. The men’s hockey tournament of the 2010 winter Olympics was nothing short of incredible. Who can
forget the roller coaster of emotion in the gold medal game, from Zach Parise’s tying goal in the last seconds of regulation, to Crosby’s slick shot through Ryan Miller’s wickets for the win. With an even greater selection of young talented American players, expect to see another tantalizing US-Canada battle for the gold. The new NHL Stadium Series is an expansion of the annual Winter Classic, an outdoor game on New Year’s Day between two prominent rivals. The Winter Classic was a major success, attracting enormous viewership ratings by NHL standards. This season’s Stadium Series includes six games, and the NHL expects significant boosts in popularity. Some analysts are wary of oversaturating fan’s desire for outdoor hockey, but I think it’s a great idea. It allows massive amounts of fans from both teams to attend one game, something difficult to accomplish in a standard arena. So there will be no shortage of fans, and there are six great matchups. Maple Leafs vs. Red Wings, Ducks vs. Kings (outdoor hockey in Los Angeles!!), Rangers vs. Devils, Rangers vs. Islanders, Penguins vs. Blackhawks and Senators vs. Canucks. A truly fantastic lineup. Last season’s finals between the Blackhawks and Bruins was an epic series, and this season will have many more memorable moments for fans to enjoy. Stay Tuned. Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.
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Red Seeks to End Two-Game Skid Harvard visits Schoellkopf in first home Ivy game for Archer’s squad By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
Coming off two straight losses to Yale and Colgate, the Red will host its first Ivy opponent at Schoellkopf this Saturday when it takes on Harvard at 12:30 p.m. Woes of the second half have plagued the Red in those defeats. Two weekends ago in the loss to Yale, the Bulldogs burst out of the locker room to score four consecutive touchdowns. Last Saturday, Cornell carried a 20-17 lead into the half, but Colgate shut the Red out in the final 30 minutes, putting 24 unanswered points on the scoreboard. “As a team, we are refocusing on getting back to our fundamental five to help improve our consistency throughout the game,” said senior captain and defensive lineman Tre’ Minor. “We’re going to work hard throughout this week’s practice concentrating on starting strong and improving each quarter, each play so we can be better and stronger at the end of each game.” The Crimson (3-0) is coming off a thrilling 41-35 triple overtime win over Holy Cross, tying the record for the longest game in Harvard’s 140-year history of football. Still unbeaten, the only other league opponent Harvard has played was Brown, defeating the Bears 4123 on the back of four unanswered touchdowns in the second quarter. “We are expecting Harvard as always to be a tough
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On the run | Senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly — who led the Red with 13 catches and a touchdown last weekend — will be a main target for the offense this weekend against Harvard.
team,” Minor said. “They are always disciplined and they are going to be well coached. We are preparing to face a balanced offense and a good defense.” Part of the Crimson’s balanced offense comes from junior Connor Hempel, who is a versatile, but relatively inexperienced quarterback. Harvard graduated starting quarterback and reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Colton Chapple, and Hempel has stepped in to fill his shoes. In three games, the young signal caller has completed 55 of 81 passes for 803 yards. He has thrown seven touchdowns and only two picks. However, Hempel also has the ability to run the ball. He
is second on the team in rushing yards with 69, and has one rushing touchdown. The Crimson’s leader in the running game — as well as the hero in the overtime win over Holy Cross — is sophomore running back Paul Stanton. Stanton leads the team with five rushing touchdowns on 258 yards. His 17-yard touchdown run in the third overtime period finally gave Harvard the win last Saturday. “As usual, stopping the run is the major priority, because then we can get them to be one dimensional See FOOTBALL page 11
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MEN’S SOCCER
Heads held high | After dropping its first Ivy contest to Penn, Jake Rinow said his team’s focus is on moving forward.
Red Returns to Berman for Ivy Foe By ANNA FASMAN
37 games against Cornell, while Cornell has only been able to win 22. However, The Red has the best overall record in the Ivy League so This Saturday, the Cornell men’s soccer team far and holds the title of reigning champions at will take on Harvard in its second Ivy league the start of league play. game of the season. The match will take place at “This week has been all about moving forfour p.m. on Berman Field, the Red’s home ward and focusing on Harvard,” said senior turf, making it the first league home game of captain and defenseman Jake Rinow. “In train2013. ing we've had to recover Cornell comes into the physically and get sharper on “This week has been match with an impressive both sides of the ball.” all about moving record of 6-2-2. However, After losing in the first after last week’s loss against game of league play, it can be forward.” Penn, The Red is 0-1-0 in hard to recover and rally in Jake Rinow league play. Harvard, who order to play one’s best game comes into this weekend 1-6of soccer just a week later. 2, is also 0-1-0 in league play and has struggled However, the men have really been working on to get ahead of opponents in all but one game focusing solely on Saturday’s game and not against UMass this season. dwelling on the past. While the Red has been struggling these past While the team is trying to regain confitwo games, the Crimson still has a much weak- dence moving forward, it acknowledges that er record, reflecting the trouble they have had this season. Historically, the Crimson has won See M. SOCCER page 11
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n a Fall season dominated by the thrilling NFL regular season and baseball playoffs, an exciting new beginning flies under the radar. The start to the 2013-2014 NHL season is upon us, and hockey fans have many reasons to be excited. My eagerness for hockey goes beyond the Giants’ rock bottom position in the NFL, or my diehard support for the New Jersey Devils. This year the NHL will thankfully have a full season, which will include a fascinating mix of bitter
Looking at the standings will lead to some initial confusion. After all, the divisions are different this season. The Atlantic, Northeast, Southeast, Central, Northwest and Pacific are now the Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and Pacific. Atlantic and Metropolitan make up the Eastern Conference, while Pacific and Central make up the West. Under this system, the Red Wings and Blue Jackets are in the East, while Winnipeg is in the West. This realignment will reduce travel
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Benjamin Horowitz Guest Column rivalries, surprise contenders, traditional powerhouses and the inevitable disappointments. It also features a two-week February break for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, where NHL players will represent their countries on world hockey’s biggest stage. Fans will also enjoy a series of outdoor stadium games, which are sure to be great successes for the NHL and memorable experiences for life-long hockey fans.
time, while providing more frequent matchups between teams that had previously played no more than once a year. Not to worry; traditional rivals such as the Devils and Rangers, Penguins and Flyers, Maple Leafs and Canadiens, will all face each other multiple times. Last year’s favorites remain this year’s favorites. The Blackhawks have the talent to repeat as Stanley See HOROWITZ page 11