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Chapter House Reconstruction Plan Approved Building to resemble former bar, cost over $2M

By DAVE JANECZEK Sun Staff Writer

The Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commision unanimously approved plans to rebuild the Chapter House on Tuesday, clearing a major regulatory hurdle for the replacement of the Collegetown building destroyed in a fire last April.

The new plans call for a three story building with many of the same architectural features as the original structure, including a red brick facade with bluestone and wood accents on the ground floor that recall the iconic Chapter House.

The Ithaca Landmark Preservation Commission’s grant of

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a Certificate of Appropriateness for the design means initial foundation work for the new building will likely begin in late February. The Chapter House aims to reopen in the fall, even before other parts of the building, according to Jerry Dietz of CSP Property Man agement, the property manager for the building.

“We are first and foremost going to get the Chapter House open and then we will continue on and focus on the apartments,” Dietz said.

Interior plans for the apartments and the Chapter House bar are still being finalized, but Dietz said that preliminary

New and improved | This rendering depicts the approved design of the Chapter House reconstruction project, set to begin in late February.

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Prof Awarded $10M Grant for Computational Sustainability Work

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Staff Writer

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Stand up | Alicia Garza speaks after she is presented with a public service award at Harvard Memorial Church in Massachusetts in October.

MLK Event to Feature Heads of Black Lives Matter

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

The founders of the Black Lives Matter movement will give a commemorative lecture as part of a series of community events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day next Wednesday.

Founders Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza, who will be accompanied by Black Lives Matter ambassador Janaya Khan, plan to address the public at Sage Chapel.

Garza, Tometi and community leader Patrisse Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter Twitter movement after learning of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in 2013, following the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

The #BlackLivesMatter campaign has since become a widespread civil rights movement

and political project which aims to fight racial bias against black people and emphasize the importance of black lives, according to the Cornell United Religious Work.

The movement embodies the activism and beliefs of Martin Luther King Jr., and Cornell’s celebratory events aspire to create a “cross-campus and community partnership that makes accessible the life and legacy of Dr. King for contemporary times,” according to CURW. Noelani Gabriel ’16, Africana Studies major and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, said she believes “the Black Lives Matter Movement is a continuation of the long black freedom struggle.”

“The Black Lives Matter See MLK page 4

The National Science Foundation awarded a $10 million Expeditions in Computing grant to Prof. Garla Gomes, who plans to create a new subfield of computer science.

The grant, which supports “interdisciplinary, multi-investigator research teams working on transformative computing and technology” is one of the largest grants in the computer science industry.

“It was truly exhilarating to

receive the news of our award,” ambitious vision to create Computational Gomes said.

Sustainability as a new While this grant is subfield [in] computmuch larger than the er science,” Gomes standard grants NSF said. “It also conawards, Gomes said firmed to us that the she has been awarded results of our first the grant once expeditions have been before. To Gomes well received by our and her team, the community.” award serves as proof PROF. GOMES One of the major to the successes they achieved with the first NSF sucesses enabled by NSF grants is the research network called grant.

“This second NSF CompSustNet, led by Gomes Expeditions Award is a validation for us of our initial, highly See GRANT page 5

Garrett Named UVa’s Distinguished Alumna Will receive award in April ceremony on UVa campus

By GABRIELLA LEE

Garrett for her vision of higher education that she has advanced since arriving to Cornell’s camPresident Elizabeth Garrett pus last July. will be awarded the University Succeeding President of Virginia’s 2016 Emeritus David J. Distinguished Alumna Skorton on July 1.

Award, the University of Garrett has outVirginia announced lined a vision for Wednesday. higher education Garrett, who graducentered around ated in 1988 from the “enhancing the stuUVa School of Law, was dent experience,” selected for the award while defending by the Maxine Platzer the high costs that GARRETT Lynn Women’s Center. higher education When nominating institutions have Garrett, UVa Law School Dean come under fire for in recent Paul Mahoney commended years.

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“Our mission is to train the next generation of leaders, and to produce creative scholarship and work that moves us closer in the search for truth,” Garrett said in an interview with The Sun on Sept. 1. “We not only perform discovery-driven research, but we also work to bring that out into the world and have it make a difference.”

Since the start of her tenure, Garrett has prioritized expanding Cornell’s study abroad opportunities, the Engaged Cornell initiative, Cornell Tech and Cornell’s global presence.

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Council Supports Soviet Union Exchange

By TED M. HOFFMAN ’57

In an attempt to remedy the “definite lack of contact and therefore understanding between students of the the United States and the Soviet Union,” Student Council voted 25-0-1 last night that it favors a feasible student and academic materials exchange program with the Soviet Union and the Communist countries of Eastern Europe.”

To implement this resolution, Council further voted that the National Student Association form a subcommittee with interested individuals to investigate aspects of the possibility of such an exchange program at the University. The committee is to report back to Council next Tuesday.

In proposing the exchange, Council Treasurer Samuel Kaplan ’57 said, “We feel that all possibilities should be invesigated such as an exchange of newspaper articles, textbooks, academic papers... but the ultimate objective is a mutual student exchange.” Some schools already have started an exchange of academic and cultural materials, he said, but none have yet established a student

echange.

Support for a student exchange already has been tendered by the Anti-Fascist Committee of the Soviet Youth, which claims to be the national student union. In a telegram to the American NSA convention last August, Sergei Romanovski, chairman of the Soviet group, said: “Dear Colleagues... In our opinion exchange of representative student delegations would be a serious step toward consolidating friendship between students of our two countires.

Therefore Anti-Fascist Committe of Soviet Youth offers to organize, on a reciprocal basis, exchange of Soviet and American student delegations composed of 20 or 30 persons this year.”

Other major action last night centered on a proposal by Arts College Council Pres. Alan J. Cameros ’57 to “recommend that the Ivy League ban on all post-season games be amended to exempt the EastWest and the North-South charity football games sponsored by the Shrine Association.”

The ban referred to is part of the revised Ivy League football code passed by the League presidents in 1954.

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Forbes Selects Lavin ’12 for ‘30 Under 30’ List

Mechanical engineer alumnus honored for work in machine learning,artificial intelligence

By DAVID BROTZ Sun Staff Writer

Engineer Alexander Lavin ’12 is one of nine Cornellians to be named to Forbes’ annual ‘30 Under 30’ list, honorees who Forbes describes as “the future leaders of everything.

Lavin was one of 600 candidates selected from a pool of 15,000 applicants.

He was honored for his research at Numenta, a company that works in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Numenta is currently working to develop applications that incorporate the company’s machine intelligence technology called Hierarchical Temporal Memory, which is modeled after the human brain.

“At Numenta we’re working to reverse-engineer the neocortex to develop machine intelligence,” Lavin said.

“My motivation in joining Numenta was twofold —

learn from incredibly intelligent and passionate people, and work on challenging projects that advance the field of A.I.,” he said. “As of late I’ve been focusing on natural language processing, which is arguably the most challenging area of machine learning.”

Lavin said he was taken aback when he discovered that he had been selected as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30

“Even if you are not pursuing a career in software, you will inevitably interact with data in your career.”

Alexander Lavin ’12 candidates.

“I received an email a few months back that I was nominated and have been chosen as a finalist, along with a few-page questionnaire to send back,” he said. “I never heard anything until the morning they published

the list. It was a huge surprise.”

Lavin said his interest in computer technology began when he was a student at Cornell studying mechanical engineering.

“I had been pursuing my academic and professional interests, which along the way had gotten me into things like rocket propulsion research, working on a lunar rover, and research at the intersection of AI and neuroscience,” he said. “I was a mechanical engineer and did research with the flux-pinned spacecraft group in the Space Systems Design Studio.”

Lavin said he advises Cornell students to develop their computing skills regardless of their major and career choice. No matter what industry, Lavin said students should have a basic understanding of computing concepts.

“Be data-literate,” Lavin said. “With the availability of more and more data, the ability to leverage data analysis and machine learning tools is going to be necessary in all industries.”

David Brotz can be reached at dbrotz@cornellsun.com.

Director of Cornell Wine Lab Remembered for Research

By ARIEL SEIDNER

Through his research, he helped to improve the taste and quality of wines Ben Gavitt ’79, direc- produced worldwide. tor of Cornell’s New York Through research, he State Wine Analytical Lab helped ensure the quality in Geneva, NY, of wines died Dec. 25 of across the cancer at age 59.

Finger Gavitt was born L a k e s in Ithaca and gradregion, uated from Cornell according in 1979 with a to Chris degree in microbiGerling, ology, according to enology the University. He extension GAVITT ’79 then joined the associate at New York State the ExAgricultural Experiment periment Station, accordStation, an integral part ing to the University. of the College of “Ben spent his career Agriculture and Life improving wine in New Sciences, which focuses York, and was a great on producing high quali- friend to winemakers ty food products. across the state,” Gerling Gavitt returned to said.

Cornell as a research and Gavitt’s research extension support special- helped winemakers idenist for the Wine tify flaws at different Analytical lab in 1989 stages of wine producwhere he dedicated his tion, as the Finger Lakes career to analyzing the Region became internachemical and microbio- tionally distinguished in logical composition of wine production, accordjuice, wine and distillates. ing to the University.

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Outfit of the day | An example of a garment from the Recycl3D collection. This garment can change from a collared shirt to an athletic sleeveless top.

Beaudette’16 Honored For 3-D Printed Clothing

By GRACE HURLEY Sun Staff Writer

Eric Beaudette ’16 was awarded the Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship earlier this month for 3-D printing convertible, sustainable clothing.

Beaudette was one of four recipients of the $30,000 award, which is given

“I created ‘Recycl3D’ to redefine activewear as multi-functional, fashion-forward apparel.”

Eric Beaudette ’16 annually by the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund, according to the University.

Explaining his inspiration for the project, Beaudette said he wanted to “focus on clothing because of the market potential [he] saw for products that are recyclable and customizable.”

“I created ‘Recycl3D’ to redefine activewear as multi-functional, fashionforward apparel able to keep up with the changing environments and aesthetic needs of the active consumer,” he said.

According to Beaudette, modular accessories on the garments are used to

transition clothing from professional clothing to activewear.

“A user can simply attach or remove modular accessories to change the garment’s function and aesthetic,” he said.

“The Recycl3D locking technique makes snapping accessories on and off incredibly easy. This small piece is 3-D printed onto the surface of the garment and accessories to allow easy changing between variations.”

Beaudette, a senior in the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design in the College of Human Ecology, said he began working on his case study for the competition last April. Beaudette said when he began working he envisioned a brand of men’s multi-purpose apparel, created by 3-D body scanning technology and 3-D printing.

Prof. Huiju Park, fiber science and apparel design, a faculty member of the Cornell Performance Apparel Design Lab where Beaudette carries out his work, said the 3-D body scanning technology is unique because it “is capable of demonstrating the relationship between the body and clothing visually and quanSee 3-D page 5

The lab where Gavitt spent his career provided 25 different chemical, microbiological and sensory analyses of wine. The research the lab conducted allowed wineries to detect trace elements including iron and copper which can influence wine stability and resolve issues that result from contamination and fermentation.

As a father and lifelong resident of Union Springs, Gavitt served on the Union Springs School Board for the past 16 years as an advocate for the district’s children, according to the Syracuse Post Standard.

Gavitt and his wife also created and operated the Noblessa Cattery, from which they bred and showed many Persian cats, according to their website.

Gavitt is survived by his wife and son.

Ariel Seidner can be reached at aseidner@cornellsun.com.

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Black Lives Matter Founders New Chapter House To Speak on MLK’s Legacy To Honor Original Plan to discuss progression of civil rights over past 50 years Owner grateful for plan approval MLK

viduals and social movements, currently works as the Special Projects Director for movement has encouraged the National Domestic hundreds of thousands of Workers Alliance. She has people, black and white, won two Harvey Milk young and old, to no longer Democratic Club allow oppression to benefit Community Activist Awards from their silence,” Gabriel for her work fighting racism said. “This movement has in San Francisco. inspired us to reject fear, to be In addition to the lecture enough to courageous Wednesday, there will be perembody a sense of hope, howformances by Barka Kwa ever dangerous, to Wimbo — a female demand the right to gospel ensemble — “I believe we are in a determine our own and the Community destiny.”

Unity Music Edu moment that requires Amber Aspinall ’17, cation Program, which urgency, courage, faith and political action chair of provides music, media, Black Students United, and arts education for boldness.” said she hopes the disadvantaged youth.

Noelani Gabriel ’16 event will encourage According to the Cornell communiGabriel, it is essential ty to examine the legato take action on these cy of Dr. King, beyond his the Pan African Network in issues now. famous ‘I have a dream’ Defense of Migrant Rights, “I believe we are in a speech. that requires Black Immigration Net - moment “Too often his image is work,and the United Nations. urgency, courage, faith, and sanitized and repackaged to She has been published in the boldness — all of which are fit a particular narrative that Oxford Dictionary of African important parts of truly delegitimizes and shames cur- Biographies, and both the Los understanding Dr. King's rent organizing tactics,”she Angeles Times and ESSENCE legacy,” Gabriel said. said. “Like Dr. King, the magazine named her a “New #BlackLivesMatter movement Civil Rights Leader.” is building upon a tradition Garza, a social activist who Julia Greenberg can be reached at of Black resistance and radi- focuses on connecting indi- jgreenberg@cornellsun.com.

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calism."

Tometi is also the executive director at the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, a national organization advocates immigrant rights and racial justice together with African-American, AfroLatino, African and Caribbean immigrant communities, according to the CUWR. She has also worked with

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indications are that the building will cost over $2 million to reconstruct.

The final exterior plans resulted from a “very healthy back-andforth between the Landmarks Preservation Commision and the owner and architect,” according to Dietz.

The owner of the Chapter House originally wanted to rebuild the structure while remaining loyal to the original building, according to Dietz.

Informal plans presented to the Landmarks Commission in November showed a white-brick building with a mansard roof, without the wood and stone facade of the Chapter House as it appeared last April.

“It was really through conversations with the Landmarks Preservation Commision that we arrived at this building which is really a pretty handsome hybrid of what was originally built there and what was there the day it burned,” Dietz said.

Approval from the ILPC for both the demolition and recon-

struction of the Chapter House was necessary due to the site’s location within the East Hill Historic District, according to Edward Finegan, Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

“The Landmarks Commission is concerned with how the massing, the scale, the general character of the building is fitting into the historic neighborhood,” Finegan said. “It wasn’t really our objective to force a result that looked like the old Chapter House, something totally different could have gone in there if that is what the owner of the property wanted.”

Dietz called the round of applause from those in attendance after the Landmarks Commission approved the building “very gratifying.”

“There’s a lot of wonderful support in the community for rebuilding the Chapter House” Dietz said. “And there’s a great deal of gratitude being felt by the owner for the outpouring of interest and support.”

Dave Janeczek can be reached at djaneczek@cornellsun.com.

Five Arrested in Search For Escaped Inmates LOS ANGELES (AP) — The investigation of a daring California jail break has led to the arrests of five people, with more expected soon, but the three inmates who escaped remain at large, the Orange County sheriff said Wednesday.

Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said she definitely believes the inmates had assistance from the outside, and that the investigation is focusing on a local Vietnamese gang.

“They had to have had help,” Hutchens said.

Those in custody — none of whom are jail employees or insiders — may not all have had direct ties to the escape, but the investigation of the breakout led to their arrest, sheriff ’s spokesman Lt. Jeff Hallock said.

Hutchens would only say they had “some connection” to the inmates, adding that providing more information might tip off the inmates to details of the search. The department is still investigating whether the men had help on the inside, she said.

The men would have needed powerful cutting tools that would not have been available to them inside to get through thick metal, and investigators are looking into how they could have obtained them, Hutchens said.

“We don’t know what they are, but we know that they made a clean cut,” Hutchens said of the tools the men used. “It’s nothing we think could have

occurred with a jail-made shank.”

The jail has revised its headcount procedures because it took so long to discover the men were missing. The changes include requiring deputies to call and confirm that inmates who are in court, getting medical help or otherwise out of the jail are actually where they are supposed to be.

The men escaped Friday from the jail after cutting a hole in a metal grate then crawling through plumbing tunnels and onto the roof. They pushed aside barbed wire and rappelled down using a rope made of bed sheets.

“It’s every sheriff's nightmare,” Hutchens said. “You never want to have an escape from any jail. They do happen. And you certainly don’t want maximum security prisoners who are a danger to the public to get out of your jail. So it’s not a good day.”

Jonathan Tieu, Bac Duong and Hossein Nayeri had all been awaiting trial for unrelated violent crimes.

Nayeri was probably the mastermind of the escape, Hutchens said, saying his sophistication, his military past and a history of fleeing from law enforcement have investigators focusing on his role.

The search, however, has centered on a Vietnamese gang based in nearby Westminster and Garden Grove, where the other two inmates have ties.

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Computer Science Prof Recognized With $10M Interdisciplinary Grant

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and her team at Cornell. On both a national and international scale, the network connects computer scientists and sustainability researchers.

“CompSustNet is a large-scale collaborative research network, consisting of 12 academic institutions and over 20 collaborating institutions,” Gomes said. “[It] will further nurture and expand the horizons of the nascent field Computational “Our effort will help further Sustainability.”

Gomes said she looks establish Cornell University as forward to the possibilities a research leader in both this additional grant will computing and sustainability.” offer.

“We plan to transfer Prof. Carla Gomes computational sustainability research into policy and decision making for sustainability with direct real-world impact,” Gomes added. “Computing and information science has had a transformative impact on the way modern society functions.”

To earn the grant, Gomes said she had to pass many rounds of evaluation against hundreds of competing proposals. Finalists who went to NSF had to present their proposals to a scientific panel in one hour and 30 minutes, she said.

“The process is quite competitive involving several rounds,” Gomes said. “In the first phase, over 200 proposals from teams around the nation were submitted. It starts with a short presentation, followed by answers to the tough panel questions.”

Gomes said she believes the grant will help solidify the University’s role as a top-tier research institution.

“CompSustNet brings together Cornell researchers interested in the new field of computational sustainability,” Gomes said. “Our effort will help further establish Cornell University as a research leader in both computing and sustainability.”

Zachary Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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itatively.”

“The technology can provide 3-D data of human body and clothing with very accurate measurements, which cannot be achieved by using tape measure,” Park said. “It is noncontact measurement by reflection of light source on the body or clothing surface.

So the technology has been used for research on clothing fit and size for mass market or individual customers.”

According to Park, 3-D scanning and printing technology has not yet advanced enough in apparel design to reach a mass market. However, he said recycling 3-D printing materials can offer environmental advantages.

“Eric’s idea of recycling 3-D printing materials can also make eco-friendly apparel prototyping and production,” Park said.

“Conventional apparel prototyping and production is a very iterative process, consuming a large amount of materials which often end up going to landfills at the end of the material cycle.

Recycling 3-D printing can be a new eco-friendly way of apparel product development.”

After winning the competition, Beautdette said he was

inspired to further consider the relationship between sustainability and fashion.

“This case study competition opened my eyes to exploring innovations in green manufacturing and integrating technologies in a sustainable way, which I found offers a unique perspec-

“A user can simply change out a piece in a garment.”

Eric Beaudette ’16 tive to my designs,” Beaudette said.

In the future, Beaudette said he plans to continue working towards reducing waste in the production process.

“I will be pursuing an independent study in advanced product development this semester, collaborating with either a manufacturer or a company’s design team,” he said. “I hope to create tech packs for producing items, and then see if there is any room for optimization and innovations that could increase efficiency and reduce production waste.”

Grace Hurley can be reached at ghurley@cornellsun.com.

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The Cornell women’s swimming and diving team wins its meet against Colgate on Saturday in Teagle Pool.

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She has embarked on initiatives that included a challenge to administrators to cut costs and streamline processes, a reorganization of the upper level administration and most recently the controversial proposal for College of Business, which was announced last December.

Mahoney also cited Garrett’s previous leadership at the University of Southern California, where Garrett previously served as provost, and her scholarship and work in the areas of democracy, legislative process and tax reform in his nomination of Garrett for the Distinguished Alumna

Award.

Before her time at USC, Garrett served as a professor of law at the University of Chicago, where she also worked as the university’s deputy dean for academic affairs. Garrett also clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall early in her career after graduating from UVa Law School.

In April Garrett will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award and speak at UVa. The award, which was established in 1991, aims to “honor alumnae whose contributions at the highest level have brought about progress in a wide range of fields,” according to UVa. Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

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Each one of us has our own personal pantheon of inspirational figures; some venerate sports stars or actors.

To simply say that the man inspired me seems insufficient, the written word incapable of grasping the impact he had upon me.

When Bowie returned from seclusion for 2013’s The Next Day, I was jubilant. “Here I am, not quite dying.” I took that to be an allusion to the story of Christ. Now I know that allusion extended to the author.

On January 8, I heard Blackstar. The macabre feel was foreign to me; even in Bowie’s most desperate works, there were glimmers of humanity. Even Diamond Dogs’ bleak future had “Rebel Rebel” and “Rock and Roll With Me” there was always esprit buried within the thinking man’s pop star and his weariness, but Blackstar was bereft of this ebullience.

The morning he passed away, I listened to it again. Amidst the global heartbreak — all channels deciphering the man’s final days — it became apparent that this album was intended as his goodbye. Even in death, Bowie innovated; he turned his passing into an artistic work — a brilliant eleventh-hour stroke. So now Blackstar is viewed in an entirely different light; the hopelessness computes.

In the opening song, Bowie bridges the haunting, Arabic tonality with the chorus by using a romantic bridge.

“Something happened on the day he died,” he aches. “Spirit rose a meter and stepped aside.” He presages those who shall follow in his artistic wake — “somebody else took his place and bravely cried, ‘I’m a Blackstar; I’m a Blackstar.’” (This

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became a trending hashtag — the man understood.) As the uplifting respite closes, this new entity proclaims what it isn’t — “I’m not a gangster, I’m not a porn star.” Are the new Blackstars that fall into the chasm Bowie leaves behind announcing that they won’t fit into tawdry celebrity categories?

That they hope to be uncategorizable, as their primogenitor was? “’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” begins with the sound of breath, pulled laboriously through the nose and a pumping, futuristic bassline. Outside’s “I’m Deranged,” lays beneath the sordid tale of our contemporary decay in cross-gender relations. “Man, she punched me like a dude … she stole my purse, with rattling speed; that was the patrol … this is the war.”

In many ways, “Lazarus” is the penultimate song on the record, oddly positioned as the third track. Bowie’s voice is anguished and aged — you can hear it when he cries “danger,” says “king.” More intelligent writers than I noted that the line “I’m so high it makes my brain whirl / Drop my cellphone down below” refers not to illicit drug usage, but to the chemotherapy treatments he endured during his grievous 18month battle with liver cancer. “The clinic called … the x-ray’s fine,” he sings in “Sue (Or In a Season of Crime).” These continued allusions to medical treatment pepper the lyrics; of note is the fact that “Sue” was originally recorded for Bowie’s November 2014 compilation Nothing Has Changed, which means that those lyrics stem from that date also. He was telling us he was ill a year and a half ago.

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had been transfixed by the dismal world inhabited by Alex and his droogs. With “Girl Loves Me,” the man finally encapsulated this fascination. The shrill, atonal melody is Nadsat, mixed with bits of the lost gay code, Polari. Bowie seems to be lamenting the fact that his death will take him away from his beloved, Iman — “cheena” means “woman” — and many brilliant listeners noted that the mantra “where the fuck did Monday go?” is hauntingly coincidental, given that Bowie passed away in the early morning hours of Sunday, January 10.

The opening chords of “Dollar Days” are heartbreaking, and the acoustic guitar make it the most tender song on a dark record. Amidst the chaos of a crumbling world, which now closely resembles Alex DeLarge’s, Bowie still holds the flame for the woman he will miss most. “Those oligarchs with foaming mouths come now and then… don’t believe for one second I’m forgetting you.” It reads like a final letter to a wife he doesn’t want to leave alone in a brutal, miserable dystopia.

“I Can’t Give Everything Away” closes the record, quoting the lush synthesizer tone of “Thursday’s Child” and the lonely harmonica of “A New Career in a New Town.” Many fans have found this to be one of the toughest songs to listen to. He fought so hard just to say a proper goodbye.

Blackstars inherit that challenge of tomorrow, with its promise of something hard to do. For the sake of misfits yet to be born, let’s hope that they pass the test.

David Bowie is my hero. He deserves nothing less.

Kurt Fritjofson is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at kf322@cornell.edu.

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n an October piece entitled “The End of Music Blogs as to a fantastically wealthy investor.

We Know Them,” Pigeons & Planes founder Jacob It would be easy to spin this as a “fuck the sell-outs, money Moore deemed the medium dead. He explains on his site, is ruining art” argument, but that’s only half the problem. As once a humble, independent blog itself: “This was before easy as it is for aspiring music writers to share 140 characters social media was the lifeblood of any online publication. Back worth of their thoughts on Twitter, there’s a dearth of outlets then [in 2008], a spot on a blogroll (remember those?) was where they can share a long-form piece with a chance of anymore important than a social media presence. Back then, one actually reading it. It’s an intimidating catch-22: Without there was an actual community of music blogs.” previously published clips, there’s only a slim chance their He chalks up the slow demise of blogs to a government work will get published in an outlet that regularly hosts longcrackdown on illegal MP3 sharing — which had already form pieces. And if they can’t do that, they’re back to square reduced many of the blogs to download link compilations one without having anything published. It’s as if we’ve moved with little emphasis on writing craft — and the proliferation back to the pre-internet age; today’s major outlets aren’t far off of social media platfrom most print magazines in their forms. Carter Maness selectivity, and they dominate the summed up the shift in a music news market. And if you want piece for The Awl: “Why to self-publish (on Tumblr, for examdeal with downloading ple), your lack of a dedicated social and managing files when media taskforce makes competing you can just click a link with the big fish an absurd dream. to play nearly any song As fewer sites dominate a growing 40 Percent in existence? Why bothportion of our music curation, an Papier-Mâché er wading through almost antithetical problem has arisen wordy recommendations simultaneously. The long-form pop from a dude who secretly just wants to listen to Pavement all culture piece itself has fallen by the wayside as even the most day when your real friends constantly share music you actu- powerful media organizations trade features for easily retweetally like on Spotify and Soundcloud?” ed blurbs. Online-only publications that started with a mis“But the music blog isn’t dead! I get all my music news on sion dedicated to long-form pieces are folding, the most the internet,” you protest. Therein lies the gap created by the notable of which being Grantland’s closure last year. Despite death of the independent blog: The vast majority of the web- institutional support from media giant ESPN, Grantland sufsites we frequent aren’t simple blogs. Pigeons & Planes is fered its demise in — you guessed it — October. The site’s owned by Complex, and the site would have folded like death wasn’t due to lack of love; the announcement of countless other blogs if Moore hadn’t sold it. As media giants Grantland’s closure led to a massive outpouring of sadness continue to land exclusive premieres, develop expensive orig- from readers and writers alike. This intense fandom wasn’t inal content and promote themselves through wide social enough to save the award-winning publication, though. media reach, Pigeons & Planes would have fizzled.

Naturally, it all comes back to money, and the sad fact is that P&P isn’t an exception. Stereogum, also originally an a few enthusiastic readers of multi-thousand-word thinkMP3 blog, is now owned by SpinMedia. Pitchfork was pieces can’t compete with the revenue listicles, clickbait and a bought by Condé Nast in October, around the same time militant Twitter presence can bring.

Jacob Moore published his article. That same month, The It’s in this hellish environment that I saw a high school Village Voice, an alternative newspaper with a blog mentality classmate of mine post on Facebook about her new music long before the concept of a blog was ever hatched, was sold blog. Upon reading its first few posts, my friends and I imme-

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diately began teasing her shoddy writing and uninspired taste (among ourselves, of course). Her first playlist included multiple popular Avicii tracks, she writes off entire musical genres (e.g. screamo) and includes the same adjective three times in a single sentence. Her blog was an easy target, so we quickly fell into the trap of criticizing her for creating publicly available content, something most of us are too shy and ashamed to do.

But she doesn’t lack self awareness. In the “About Me” section of her blog, she urges readers to “get past her middle school writing skills and amateur blogging execution.” While her blog won’t be the next Pitchfork, she’s using a viable platform to share her musical ideas at length. For this alone, she deserves respect (even though her writing may not). And judging by the blog’s reception among her Facebook friends, her peers do respect her. In an age where the music blog is a relic, her friends see making one as novel and cool, much like vinyl albums were perceived almost a decade ago.

Does this mean music blogs are going to make the full vinyl loop — ubiquity to obsolescence to chic to Urban Outfitters? It’s unlikely. Streaming music is too dominant, and illegal MP3 download links are too easy to catch (let alone that people don’t download MP3s anymore). The current major-outlet-dominated, anti-long-form landscape is bound to change soon as technology, media and the music industry tend to do.

So if you want to start a music blog, you should. As long as there’s music, there will be pretentious dickheads writing about it and people reading what they’ve written. We may not know what form this will take in ten years — or how it will be monetized — but that’s a stupid reason not to try your hand at it. If you’re semi-talented now, you’ll likely be on the forefront of whatever the next frontier happens to be.

It doesn’t matter if people tell you your opinions are wrong. What you have to say about music is probably irrelevant anyway. But if you shouldn’t share your pointless opinions in 1000-word columns, God knows I missed that lesson.

Mike Sosnick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com. 40 Percent Papier-Mâché appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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don’t care if it’s old news by now; wanted to be something different, yet I I’m going to talk about David didn’t know how. Bowie helped give Bowie. I can’t say anything about me the confidence I needed to be my his life, on stage or off, that hasn’t own person. He took all his weirdness already been said, so I’m going to talk and otherness, and somehow turned it about what he meant to me as an artist. into something completely alluring.

It wasn’t until college that I reached This is by no means a summary of his life, or a compendium of his deeds, or his more coked-up works. Initially, I even a tribute. This is simply about was reluctant to give them a listen. I how his work impacted my life and was so enamored with his alien flair that I couldn’t imagine I would like how it continues to do so.

My initial introduction to Bowie this darker character he turned into. wasn’t anything special. My folks had But again, I found myself identifying Let’s Dance and Best of Bowie, which I with what he was singing and how he listened to occasionally growing up. presented himself (sans the cocaine The former I liked for its danceable addiction). The weirdness was still beats, but while the latter interested there, but added to it were elements of me, I don’t think I really got his music introspection, anxiety and even desperuntil later in high school. I didn’t ation; all feelings I found myself expeunderstand the lyrics or the weirdness riencing in my Cornell career. I was of his sound. I was at a point where I especially entranced by the B-side only listened to music if it was instant- instrumentals of “Heroes” and Low, ly palatable, and Bowie can sometimes whose haunting melodies and riffs expressed so much when words could be an acquired taste.

Thinking about it, it was actually not.

I was saddened by his death, but not Bowie’s music videos that truly drew me in. Don’t get me wrong, I liked his as much as I thought I would be. It was music (what little I had experienced), I was in high school at the time, probably but I didn’t around my junior year. Like everyone else at really get him that age, I had no idea who I was, but I until I saw the whole picture. knew I wanted to be something different, Before that, all yet I didn’t know how. Bowie helped give I was able to me the confidence I needed to be my picture was the blonde haired own person. boxer on Let’s Dance.

But when I saw his music videos and what an artistic and inspirational loss, to be he did in them (“Life on Mars” and sure, but I found comfort in his final “Ashes to Ashes” readily jump to mind), album, titled Blackstar. It is truly a I knew there was so much more to concluding work, reminiscing on prior experience. I was entranced by this accomplishments yet still boldly stridlanky, otherworldly figure who crooned ing in a new direction. It’s an album written in full preparation for death, and wailed about drugs and space.

So, I decided to get The Rise and and the result is unforgettable. Every Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders song is an emotional punch, and the From Mars, widely regarded as his best album concludes with a wistful, bitterwork and coming in at number 35 in sweet yet warm goodbye to the world.

Had Bowie died without releasing Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” And the more I listened Blackstar, I would not have had cloto it, the more I was blown away. It was sure. But because he was able to turn so glam, but not in a chintzy way. It his death into, in the words of his prowas the kind of glam that put on way ducer Tony Visconti, “a work of art” it too much makeup and made itself was somehow okay. It’s almost like known to the world, whatever the death was his final performance. world might think of it. The album Cancer is a terrible, remorseless, often tells the story of its titular character, arbitrary thing, but despite that Bowie who comes to Earth as a rockstar in its made it seem that he died as he lived: last five years of existence. He brings a on his own terms. There’s something message of love, but is ultimately comforting in that. He was not perfect, destroyed by his own wild lifestyle. It’s no one ever is, but the way he conductweird, electrifying and melancholy at ed his art and self will always be an inspiration to me. Farewell, Starman the same time.

It struck a chord with me in a way I and thank you for everything. did not expect. I was in high school at Soren Malpass is a junior in the College of Arts and the time, probably around my junior Sciences.

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ex is arguably the most ubiquitous and important behavior across the entirety of the human race. Without sex, humans would literally cease to exist. Both men and women think about sex many times every day, and the focus on sex can be seen in a huge variety of contexts, from clothing advertisements to the hordes of single college students who pack themselves into sweaty bars, clubs and frat parties. But despite the ubiquity of sex and sexual thoughts, many people are extremely uncomfortable talking about sex, even with those close to them. Frank discussions on topics related to sex remain taboo in many areas of our society. It seems strange, right?

Why is a topic so fundamental, so important, still so taboo in many cultures? As it turns out, there are many perspectives on this question, ranging from sociology and evolution to psychology and the effects sexual thoughts can have on our mental state.

Despite what Ken Ham would have us believe, we are all products of our collective evolution. Humans were not always the kings of the food chain — on an evolutionary timescale, it was not long ago that we found ourselves crawling out of the primordial ooze and struggling for survival just like every other animal in the world. In this context, it makes sense that we (like most other animals) have fairly strong

Why Is Sex SoTaboo? sex drives. This strong sex drive worked well for our species when child mortality was high and life expectancy was very low. But sometime in the recent past, human civilization evolved to the point where it was possible to have more kids than one could support. Is it possible that aspects of human culture evolved to control the frequency and framework of sex?

According to Becker, sex is so taboo because humans have an inherent fear of death.

Crazy, right? It sounds really strange, but after unpacking Becker’s theory we can start to see how it might make sense. Humans are constantly concerned with mortality and death, so we develop coping mechanisms by thinking of ourselves not as earthly, mortal beings, but as immortal, spiritual beings

Despite the ubiquity of sex and sexual thoughts, many people are extremely uncomfortable talking about sex, even with those close to them.

Many of the largest world religions impose strict rules on sexual behavior, usually teaching people to have sex only when they have entered a committed, monogamous relationship. Could these rules actually be a form of evolutionary adaptation?

Could premarital sex and promiscuity be so taboo because children born out of stable family situation have a lower chance of passing on their genes to the next generation? I don’t pretend to have the answers to these questions, but they are fascinating questions to ponder nonetheless.

A slightly different (and somewhat bizarre) idea of why our society considers sex so taboo comes from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and anthropologist Ernest Becker.

(e.g. a belief in some form of afterlife). But engaging in earthly, animalistic behaviors such as sex reminds us that we’re just bags of chemicals doomed to decompose when our time on earth expires.

While the theory may still sound a bit wild, Prof. Jaime Goldenberg, psychology, University of Southern Florida, has actually examined the relationship between thoughts related to sex and thoughts related to mortality. His findings seem to indicate that people more preoccupied with thoughts of death show less interest in sex. Other studies have found that sexual thoughts actually increase the mental “accessibility” of words related to mortality and death. In one study, participants were given a fragment of a word

as if they stumbled upon an unfinished game of hangman, and were asked to complete the word. When given a word fragment like “g r a _ _”, people who were made to think about sex beforehand are more likely to complete the word as ‘grave’ instead of ‘grape.’ While more research would certainly have to be done in order to conclude anything for sure, it seems as though Ernest Becker’s theory may actually have some merit.

One fascinating aspect of the study results dealt with love and intimacy. The results of the aforementioned study were actually significantly different depending on how the sexual descriptions given to the participants were framed. When Goldenberg and his colleagues repeated the study, they framed the sex described to the participants beforehand as loving and intimate instead of physical and animalistic. Shockingly, when they introduced sexual thoughts in the context of love and romance, the increased thoughts of death actually vanished. Ernest Becker’s theory stated that sexuality ignites our natural fear of death. But perhaps by placing the act of sex in a uniquely human, spiritual perspective, our natural fear of mortality is erased. In other words, we may finally have found definitive evidence that love literally conquers death.

Dong Burgundy is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to dong.burgundy@cornellsun.com.

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et’s go back to my room,” he said as he grabbed Blackout drunk as I watched him fail to get it up, I appar- alcohol whatsoever, and instead be a result of anxiety or my hand and led me across the Keystone Light ently cried and repeated the phrase, “I’m not hot enough for nerves.

The hard truth of it all is that there’s nothing to be infused floor of his fraternity basement. We stum- you, am I?” (PSA: This is not in fact a tactic I would recombled up the stairs, tripping over alternate steps in a synchro- mend at all. Do not try this at home, kids.) The next morn- embarrassed about for either party. Whisky dick is usually nized routine that could have only looked like bad physical ing he calmly informed that it wasn’t the case that I wasn’t the cause of things totally beyond one’s control. Nonetheless comedy, and we eventually found ourselves in a cinder- hot enough — it was just that “girls don’t know how dicks here are the tried and true solutions for this problem, which block, sparsely decorated room that could only be described work.” Unconvinced, this article is the culmination of my I personally can endorse as leaving you without totally awkas prison-meets-privileged-yet-angsty-teen-boy. We began quest to investigate the truth behind whisky dick, and rem- ward feelings about your hookup (although there will still be the romantic courtship ritual of drunken 19-year-olds. edy the sad nights of sexual dissatisfaction brought on by the some — I’m just here to do a little damage control. Thank me later): There was not a moment to spare for For the newfound owner of a shockconversation or niceties; rather it was ingly flaccid penis who does not want time to get down to business (or for my For the newfound owner of a shockingly flaccid penis to disappoint their hookup partner: more confused readers, do the dirty).

Provide oral sex. If you do not want to Rolling into his bed clothes slowly piled who does not want to disappoint their hookup partner: provide oral sex, you don’t deserve to be up on his floor, I reached my hand downward, only to make physical conProvide oral sex. If you do not want to provide oral sex, getting laid anyway. I firmly believe right to orgasm should be the 28th tact with his completely flaccid penis, amendment, but I’m a Cornell student, just small enough to take up the space of you don’t deserve to be getting laid anyway. not a congresswoman. a third of my hand. “Yeah, sorry it’s not For the person forced to engage happening,” he mumbled, clearly embarrassed, and I was left at the crossroads of sexual dissat- scary potential of attempting to shove a shrunken and limp with a penis that now hangs like a limp sock and is potenpenis into an unresponsive vagina. tially smaller than your index finger: do your best to be cool. isfaction.

Essentially it turns out that there isn’t much scientific Obviously, as mentioned before, it’s easy to take it personalI have never quite known how to respond to a guy getting the colloquially known phenomenon of whisky dick research on the subject of whisky dick beyond: if you think ly, but recognize that more often than not whisky dick has (PSA: not just caused by whisky and can be induced by a it’s a problem, just don’t drink. While this is the exact nothing to do with you. More often than not you have to fuckboy’s precious Keystone Light) while on the brink of response I would expect from the scientific community — move on and just act like everything is going to be okay. having sex. For those of you lucky enough to have never logical, cold, calculated and disinterested in young-adult Essentially: definitely don’t cry.

That being said, as someone who doesn’t own a penis I dealt with this situation, whisky dick occurs when an owner shenanigans — I wanted more. Essentially, some people of a penis has become so drunk that he cannot become erect. believe that alcohol causing your blood vessels to dilate can cannot claim to understand the truth behind whisky dick.

For the other person involved it is an uncomfortable reality. affect the way that blood moves in and out of the penis. So Maybe I just really wasn’t that hot. Maybe there is a true sciIn fact, my responses have varied across a range of emo- while the blood may be going in, hypothetically it may be entific explanation for the causes of this phenomenon. In tions, each worse than the next. One solution was just trying leaving too fast (mind you I am gathering this information fact, Cornell pre-med students, I’m waiting on you. Figure to have sex anyway, while another was ordering the guy in from a Thrillist article so I can’t do enough to emphasize it out and let me know. question to go down on me — my justification for this was how unreliable it may be). The other potential cause of the notion that, just because he couldn’t have a good time whisky dick is discoordination in your nervous system as Jackie Daniels is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to didn’t mean I needed to be deprived. My best response, your nervous system essentially becomes as sloppily drunk as associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this unquestionably, was with a more long-term hookup. you are. Finally, whisky dick can have nothing to do with semester.

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“Obviously the fans are disappointed we lost, but our guys are disappointed we lost in front of our fans,” Schafer said. “[The players] feel that pressure. So getting on the road a bit will alleviate some of that pressure.

We can just play the game and have fun.”

In turn, the lack of pressure may help focus Cornell to clean up its game. There are some technical aspects of the Red’s game that Schafer and the team are looking to fix after last weekend’s disappointing showing.

Specifically, the team has been working on winning battles for the puck in the corner, according to Schafer.

“I thought we were really poor at what we call ‘second to the puck,’” Schafer said. “When there is a one-on-one battle, making sure we beat the defender or offensive player to that battle. You see two guys go into the corner and both of them are fighting for possession in the offensive zone. [Second to the puck means] not letting their second guy get there first … if their guy arrives it’s two versus two and if their third guy arrives our guy better be there. And that’s what we were very good at earlier in the year.”

Clarkson, while starting off slow this season, has hit its stride as of late and has climbed to eighth in the ECAC. “It’s a tough league,” Schafer said. “You look at our next opponent Clarkson, they beat Harvard, 5-1, tied Yale, beat Brown, 5-0. They’re on a roll …

They were a long ways down there [in the standings] and now they are going [up].”

In Cornell’s last meeting with Clarkson, the Red handled the Golden Knights, winning 5-2 back in December at Lynah. But

Clarkson has been strong at home, notching 11 games at home this season.

“The game against Clarkson was kind of a weird game,” Schafer said. “I thought we were able to put them away in the third period with two quick goals, but they have a good hockey team. They’ve got big strong defensemen, they play extremely hard and they have good special teams. That’s what’s been carrying them as of late, good special teams.”

Cornell’s other opponent for the weekend, St. Lawrence, sits right above Clarkson in the ECAC. The Red also beat St. Lawrence earlier this season with a 2-1 victory on the hill.

The Saints have struggled recently, going 1-6 in January thus far.

“St. Lawrence was one of the preseason favorites to be up there,” Schafer said. “They’ve hit a real tough patch in January and they play very well on their rink. … They have eight of their last 12 games at home in the regular season. They have a lot of home games coming up and they're looking to catch up to everybody.”

The next two games are key for the Red if it wants to keep its chances of winning the conference alive. There is a lot of hockey left to be played, and Cornell cannot afford to fall far behind with Quinnipiac (19-1-5, 10-03) and Harvard which are staying steady at the top.

The team is handling its current struggles well, according to senior forward John Knisley.

“There are tons of banners in the rafters [at Lynah] and each team had their own setbacks. No road was ever easy, and that is our mindset right now,” Knisley said.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

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a very good defensive scheme.”

Coming off a loss that saw five goals from St. Lawrence and likely facing two goalies in Union’s Melissa Black and RPI’s Lovisa Selander who boast save percentages of .935 or better, Cornell is keying in on keeping its opponents off the board and grinding out goals of its own. “[We’re] focusing on our defense,” said junior Hanna Bunton. “We’ve got to get pucks and bodies [in the crease] ... shots in front of the net.”

Junior goaltender Paula Voorheis said she agrees, describing past RPI matchups as “close and gritty” contests with “gritty goals.”

“They use their bodies well,” Woods said of the Engineers in particular.

Woods also mentioned the importance of not over-adjusting to an opponent to the point of compromising Cornell’s own strengths.

“Stick to our game plan and make them play our game,” Woods said. “As a team, [we are] an interdependent team. ... We’re being aggressive when we need to be aggressive.”

The Red — now sitting in ninth in the conference after Yale leapfrogged the squad with a blizzard makeup-game victory over Rensselaer — faces two teams with lower overall winning percentages than its own .476. With teams so tightly packed in the standings, it is not out of the

question for the Red to jump a couple of spots in the standings this weekend. That said, when Cornell faced these two teams on home ice earlier this season, Union skated to a 2-2 draw and RPI won, 2-1, in overtime.

Statistically, teams perform better at home than on the road.

Cornell is not underestimating its upcoming opponents, according to Vorhees.

“The game plan doesn’t change,” Voorheis said. “You come in with the exact same attitude.”

Bunton said she agreed, saying that while uncertainty in every single ECAC game is “good for women’s hockey,” it means there are no easy victories.

“I think anything can happen in this league,” Bunton said.

Woods said the team is disappointed in the end to last weekend and admitted on Sunday that “energy is down.”

Yet Bunton pointed out that everyone on the team has had to come back from losses before.

Derraugh said he is confident his team can ride out the fluctuations of the figurative in-season roller coaster.

“I think our team is fairly good at ‘not too high after a win, not too low after a loss,’” he said.

When asked if the Red will be able to move on from last weekend and be ready when the puck drops, Bunton’s response was quick and to the point.

“Yeah, for sure,” she said.

Keith Bollt can be reached at kbollt@cornellsun.com.

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WRESTLING

Wrestling Splits Four Dual Meets Over Break

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell wrestling team battled through injuries over winter break, picking up victories against Ivy League opponents Harvard and Brown but dropping matches to Lehigh and Missouri. The Red had top ranked wrestlers Nahshon Garrett and Gabe Dean out of the lineup against Lehigh.

Head coach Rob Koll said he was pleased with the performances of a number of wrestlers.

“We had some guys who wrestled really well and had some guys who didn’t wrestle so well,” he said. “It’s hard to have a great team performance when we have a lot of our top performers out of the lineup.”

The Red’s wins over Brown and Harvard improved the team’s winning streak against Ivy League opponents to 70 matches.

Junior captain Brian Realbuto emphasized the program’s high expectations.

“Dominating the Ivy League competition is … kind of a staple in our program,” Realbuto said. “That’s just expected of us and we expect that out of ourselves every year.”

Realbuto one each of matches in Cornell’s four matches over the break.

Winter break is always the most grueling stretch of the season for the Red. The team practices twice a day and essentially trains right through competitions.

“We don’t really let up at all, which makes it difficult,” Realbuto said. “It’s really important to stay disciplined and get a lot of sleep.”

“I think the kids on our team are probably the only Cornell students happy [that] school is back … tomorrow,” Koll added.

“They’re going to be rested [and] have a day off back to class.”

The winter break grind, however, is essential for the team’s postseason success, according to Realbuto.

“It’s a good period for us to catch up to [bigger] schools and have that advantage and really get in a lot of work,” Realbuto said. “This time is usually when we make the biggest jump, so going forward from here we’re kind of excited to see [our] younger guys ready to perform.”

This is the time of the season that will determine the Red’s postseason success.

The team’s season goals are the same every year.

“Our goals are number one; to win the Ivies. Number two; to win Eastern Championships. And number three; to get a trophy in the national tournament, which is [placing in the] top four,” Koll said.

Claiming the national title is certainly not out of reach. The Red (No. 15) has fought some of the best wrestling schools in the country — including No. 5 Missouri, No. 6 Lehigh, No. 11 Nebraska and No. 12 Rutgers — and has improved greatly through intense winter training. The team

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Great grapplers | Nashon Garrett looks to return against Columbia Feb. 6 after an injury limited him over break.

will face No. 4 Oklahoma State on February 7th.

Team success will largely depend on the development and improvement of the team’s younger members.

“Gabe, Nahshon [and I] have been … [helping] those younger guys [get] over their nerves a little bit,” Realbuto said.

“And with that success comes team success,

so if we can get them to perform at that level then we’ll ultimately be able to achieve our team goals.”

The Red’s next match is against Columbia on Feb. 6 at the Friedman Wrestling Center.

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Cornell Gears Up for Pair of Rematches

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

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On the road | Junior Jake Weidner and the Red get a chance to move back up in ECAC when the team’s plays Clarkson and St. Lawrence this weekend.

MEN’S HOCKEY

Red Looks to Bounce Back on Road

The Mohawk flows into the Hudson, January marches into February and Cornell women’s hockey heads on the road this weekend. With eight games left in the regular season to make a move in the ECAC standings, the Red (8-9-4, 4-6-4 ECAC) takes on Union (0-20-6, 0-11-3) 7 p.m. Friday night in Schenectady and Rensselaer (8-12-4, 6-6-2 ECAC) 4 p.m. Saturday in Troy.

“Every single game matters,”

said senior assistant captain Taylor Woods.

Aside from their aforementioned positions at the confluence of two major New York rivers, head coach Doug Derraugh ’91 believes there are a lot of similarities between the Red’s weekend opponents.

“Those are similar games,” Derraugh said. “I suspect both games will be close. [Rensselaer’s] got good goaltending. ... [Union] play[s] everyone close. They have See W. HOCKEY page 11

After two homes losses,icers square off against ECAC teams

By JACK KANTOR Sun Staff Writer

There is an advantage to playing in front of the passionate Lynah Faithful at Cornell.

But with that advantage comes an added pressure, especially when the results do not please.

The Cornell men’s hockey team will look to get away from that pressure this weekend as the team leaves Ithaca and travels north to face Clarkson (1110-3, 3-6-3 ECAC) and St.

Lawrence (11-11-2, 5-6-1).

Cornell had been spectacular at home this season, winning its last five games before last weekend’s pair of losses to Dartmouth (10-8-1, 7-5) and Harvard (11-4-3, 7-3-3). In its own barn, the Red was shut out by the Big Green, 3-0, and silenced by rival Crimson, 6-2.

Senior forward Teemu Tiitinen said the men are looking to get back to consistency as they get away from the potential pressure of playing at

home.

“Getting on the road now, we know we can play that simple hockey, frustrate the other teams and kind of let them come to us,” Tiitinen said.

“The next four games are on the road so we can perfect that style.”

Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said he agreed that playing the next four on the road could be beneficial for his team.

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Upstate rivals | Cornell will play Union and RPI this weekend. Early in the season, Cornell tied Union and lost to RPI.