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After First Year, Mayor Reflects On Difficult Decisions,Hopes

By EMMA COURT Sun Senior Writer

Imagine facing a $3-million budget deficit three years after graduating from college.

That was just one challenge that Svante Myrick ’09 confronted in his first year as mayor of the city of Ithaca. The process of closing the city’s budget deficit, he said, required him to make “impossible choices.”

“With multimillion dollar deficits occurring each year, pain could only be deferred for so long,” he said.

In order to narrow the budget deficit, Myrick said he drew upon his experiences growing up with a single mother who worked multiple jobs to raise him and his three siblings.

“When you grow up in a household without enough money to make ends meet, you have to make difficult, and, within the family, unpopular decisions,” Myrick said. “My mom would … actual-

ly show us her paychecks every week and show us the bills every week, and we’d do the math together … I never expected that experience to be useful, outside of my personal life, outside of balancing my own checkbook, but it gave me a tolerance for making tough decisions.”

The ability to make difficult decisions characterized Myrick’s approach to balancing the city budget. His controversial proposal included decreasing the number of the Ithaca’s police and fire staff. It was passed in November over the objections of the Ithaca Police and Fire Departments, which said the See MAYOR page 4 RYAN LANDVATER / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Myrick looks back | Myrick looks out the window in his office. “It ends up looking like a to-do list,” he said of the view of the city.

After 33 Years in C-Town, Police Identify Suspect in Shooting Owner Plans Dunbar’s Sale

By NOAH RANKIN

IPD said McCargo remains at large and is “possibly armed and dangerous.” He was last Police have identified Tyrell seen in Cortland, N.Y., and T. McCargo, 22, as was also observed a suspect in a operating a navy reported shooting blue Acura, accordon Oak Avenue ing to IPD. Tuesday morning IPD describes — an incident that McCargo as a 6’3” caused a man to sufblack male, with a fer a gunshot thin face, brown wound to the buteyes and hair in a tocks. brush cut.

McCARGO On Thursday, The shooting

Sun Staff Writer

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

After 33 and a half years of owning Dunbar’s, Eddy Street’s watering hole, Dave Peppin is putting the bar up for sale.

“I’ve been there a long time. I’ve seen enough,” Peppin said.

Peppin said he will remain the owner of Dunbar’s for at least the remainder of the spring semester. He added that he hopes the bar will not shut down when he departs.

The decision to sell the late-night dive bar — spurred in part by a desire to spend more time with his family — comes with a “lot of mixed feelings,” Peppin said.

“We had the Stanley Cup in there twice. I don’t think any other bar could say that. Those nights — and drinking out of the cup — have got to be the highlight of my 33 years

there,” Peppin said.

Such memories will not make selling the bar, a Collegetown fixture that has seen hundreds of Cornellians pass through its doors, easy, Peppin said.

With several bars — including The Royal Palm Tavern, Dinos and Johnny O’s — having shut their doors in the last few years, Dunbar’s is “really the only hangout bar left” in Collegetown, Peppin said.

The bar’s trademark graffitied walls, scribbled-on ceiling tiles and pictures of Cornell Athletics teams plastered on the walls — these markings, Peppin said, are what he “would like to see continue” with the bar’s next owner.

“His thought is that it’s something of a Collegetown institution,” said Brian Rettger, manager of Dunbar’s, See DUNBARS page 4

JADE TABONY / SUN FILE PHOTO

Good old Dunbar’s | Dunbar’s has faithfully served beer to thirsty college students and alumni for 33 and a half years.

Campus Politicos Hope Economy Will Rebound In Obama’s Second Term

By EMMA JESCH Sun Staff Writer

As President Barack Obama enters his second term, Cornell faculty and students said the economy and unemployment rates must stay at the forefront of policymakers’ minds.

The nation’s unemployment rate remains a critical issue due to other difficulties it tends to create, according to Jesscia Reif ’14, chair of the Cornell Republicans.

“There are a lot of economic issues that need to be addressed,” she said.

“The unemployment rate is still the biggest issue, especially among young people. [Unemployment]

causes a whole set of problems: People are unable to pay student loans, and it decreases job opportunities.”

The unemployment crisis was preceded by a series of economic shifts that hurt job growth, according to Prof. Sharon Poczter, applied economics and management.

“In terms of jobs that we’ve had in the past 20 to 30 years, there is evidence that employment has undergone a paradigm shift,” she said. “Even before the onslaught of the Great Recession, the labor market was in serious trouble. Job growth between See POLITICOS page 4

was reported to IPD at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. Police received a 911 call notifying the department of “possible shots fired in the area of Oak Ave[nue] and of a dark-colored sedan leaving the area.”

IPD, along with the Cornell University Police Department, spoke with multiple residents Tuesday “who all heard the sound of four or five gunshots,” according to the IPD. See SHOOTING page 4

News Precious Tubers

Cornell received a $25 million grant to fund the development of cassava, a staple crop in Africa. | Page 3

Opinion Chumming It

Rudy Gerson ’14 says that being involved in a fraternity has taught him about true brotherhood. | Page 7

Arts Sundance Tier

The Sun talks to Prof. Austin Bunn, performance and media arts, who co-wrote a movie that premiered at Sundance Film Festival. | Page 8

Sports Ready to Recover

After losing three games, the men’s ice hockey team is ready to spring back into action in its next two games at St. Lawrence and Clarkson. | Page 16

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Today There’s Gold Out There: On Learning From Others 7:30 a.m., Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall Memory: Comparative Approaches to Culture 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Guerlac Room, A.D. White House Mechanisms That Contribute to HIV Latency 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Institute Germa Bel Lecture: The Economics and Politics of High-Speed Rail 12:20 - 2 p.m., Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall Cascades and Social Influence on Networks 3:30 p.m., 655 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall

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Sports, “Red Stuns Lions for First Ivy Win,” Monday Speaking about the Men’s basketball team coming back from a loss to defeat Columbia “[This game] was a huge confidence boost from a team perspective, to lose to a team in a pretty embarrassing fashion, then [to] go out and beat them in their own house. I think we showed a lot of toughness as a unit last night.”

Junior forward Errick Peck

News, “In Defense Of Native American Rights, Students Rally, Dance On Ho Plaza,” Tuesday Speaking about protesting the Canadian law that lifts regulations from waterways “Idle No More is not exclusively about First Nations sovereignty. It also stands for preserving and improving the land, water, and air for future generations. This should, and does, concern all people, regardless of national, ethnic or racial origin.”

NASAC Co-Chair Dajahi Wiley ’14

Arts, “Freedom From Forgetting,” Wednesday Speaking about the loss of popularity many musical artists face after a certain amount of time “With songs still as memorable as a cloud in the sky, Big Pop hasn’t changed much. Frank Sinatra was to Bobby Soxers as Justin Bieber is to Beliebers. Huge acts that win Grammys will be obscure in 20 years.

Reactionaries will still turn around and make their own left field music, like the punks did.”

Storm Tharp: Third Person 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Kai Sam Ng ’14

Design for Biodiversity Symposium 5 - 8 p.m., Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

News, “Vigil Honors Rape Victim,” Thursday Speaking about the need for awareness about sexual violence against women “Whether these things happen in Pakistan, another part of India, or anywhere else in the world, the basic right of every human being needs to be respected. If we acknowledge and then speak up about these atrocities and support others who do, you can bring justice to those who have already been victimized and protect countless others from being so.”

Faaiza Khan ’14

Chinese Spring Festival Gala 6 p.m. - 10 p.m., Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall

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C.U.Will Use $25M Grant To Engineer Sustainable Crop

By SHANE DUNAU Sun Staff Writer

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation –– in collaboration with the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom –– has awarded a $25.2-million grant to Cornell to improve breeding of cassava, a carbohydrate-rich tuber plant, in Africa.

Though cassava may not be familiar to many Americans, “[cassava] is a huge food staple and food security crop” in Africa, according to Linda McCandless, communications director for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

One of the ways the project hopes to improve the cultivation of cassava is by shortening its breeding cycle, which is currently five years, according to Erica Barnell ’13, a student who will be traveling to Africa this summer to work on the cassava project.

“Cassava is great in terms of energy density, but it has the lowest protein content of any food staple crop,” she said.

The grant will also allow Cornell to bring seven students from Nigeria and Uganda to campus. Four of these students will come to Cornell to earn their Ph.D.s in plant breeding and genetics, according to Dr. Hale Ann Tufan, the project manager for the grant.

The idea for the grant was sparked when members of the Gates Foundation convened at the 2011 Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego, in which attendees met to discuss research and future plans in the field, Tufan said.

“Everyone sat around a table and talked about how they could improve cassava,” she said.

Cornell scientists will work to improve the

efficiency of cassava by developing breeding methods to increase flowering using genomic selection, a new method that uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform in its environment, according to Tufan.

Tufan said that she hopes the grant funding will help “[shorten the breeding cycle] down to one year, or even two.”

The initiative will help improve cassava efficiency both through research on Cornell’s campus and through project implementation in Africa, according to Tufan.

“The [Bill and Melinda Gates] Foundation trusts in project implementation and the science run in our faculty departments, creating a natural collaboration with this grant,” she said.

The cassava grant follows several other scientific collaborations between Cornell and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to McCandless. “[Cornell] has a really good track record with the Gates Foundation because of the durable rust resistance in wheat project.

Scientists here also have great expertise in the genomic selection technologies that will be used in the cassava project,” she said.

In addition to improving cassava breeding, the grant will also be used to ensure the project is sustainable, according to Tufan.

“We are going to do a lot of training and give a lot of time over in Africa by running [plant breeding] workshops,” she said.

The importance of cassava as a staple crop is indescribable, according to Tufan.

“I had one Kenyan say to me, ‘Cassava saved my life; when everything fails, it is still there,” he said.

ZAC PETERSON / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Students drink free beverages at an event Thursday in Willard Straight Hall hosted by Coffee Hour, a student group that holds weekly meetings to promote friendships among students.

Shane Dunau can be reached at sdunau@cornellsun.com.

Ithaca’s been awfully cold lately, as usual. What is your favorite way of warming up?

“I’ve been inside The Sun’s offices all week, so I had no indication of the weather.”

Awards Recognize Custodians For ‘Going Above and Beyond’

By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Staff Writer

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“I am Indian. I am cosily warm on the inside. Bring it on, Ithaca!”

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Prof. Kevin Hallock, chair of the economics department, talks about his new book Pay at an event in Catherwood Library on Thursday.

Six custodians from the University’s facilities services were recently recognized for their outstanding work at Cornell with $500 awards.

The awards –– which were created by Phil Bartels ’71 and his wife Susan –– were started in 2008 after a custodian gave cookies to their daughter while she was studying in Duffield Hall late at night. That act of kindness prompted Bartels to create awards specifically for custodians at Cornell.

“The aim for this award is to reward our custodial staff within the department of building care for going above and beyond what they’re asked to do,” said Juliet Parsons, a project associate at facilities services.

Parsons said the awards — which were presented at a ceremony in December — also aim to recognize an often-underappreciated group of people on campus.

“Another aim is to bring more attention to the great work that our custodians do every day,”

Parsons said. “They are hard-working people.

They have difficult jobs and aren’t given a lot of credit.”

Patrick D. Sherry, a Martha Van Resselaer Hall custodian, expressed excitement and surprise at being selected as an award winner.

“I was shocked to win this award. It’s a great feeling to be recognized for the work that you do,” Sherry said.

Gloria Grady, a custodian who works on West Campus, echoed Sherry’s sentiments.

“I was shocked, surprised and humbled that [I won] an award for what I just consider just doing my job,” she said.

In addition to his award, Sherry’s daughter –– who is studying nursing at Monroe Community College in Rochester — received a $5,000 scholarship.

“The great part [about the awards ceremony] was my daughter was there and it meant so much for my family to have that kind of reward,” Sherry said.

Working as a custodian comes with a variety of challenges, the award win-

ners said.

“The most strenuous part is dealing with the weather, like [Tuesday’s] ice storm,” Sherry said.

“We make sure everyone can get to class without breaking an arm and limb … We’re dealing with extra precautions.”

Still, the award winners praised Cornell as an excellent place to work. “[Cornell] can’t be matched. I’ve been here for 12 years and it’s a great place to be,” Sherry said.

“It’s a tight-knit group. Its a great place for your career.”

Sherry also said he was grateful for the opportunity to meet the Bartels in person at the award ceremony. “[The Bartels] are such nice people to be able to talk to and they are also down-to-earth,” he said.

Grady also expressed appreciation for the Bartels’ generosity.

“It’s awfully generous of [the Bartels] to recognize the work we do,” she said.

Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun.com.

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Students, Prof Stress Need for Preparing for Sale, Compromise to Fix Economic Woes C-Town Bar Owner POLITICOS

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2000 and 2007 was only half what it had been in the preceding three decades.”

Jessie Palmer ’13, president of the Cornell Democrats, said the national debt ceiling is the most significant national issue in the wake of the recent fiscal cliff crisis which — without the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 — could have led to a sharp decline in the budget deficit, as well as a mild recession increased unemployment.

“We need heightened bipartisan behavior. Congress needs to figure out where we are spending, what do we need to do to save money, where we actually need to spend money,” she said. “Ultimately, we need to stop average Americans from feeling the brunt of [the debt ceiling].”

The average male high school graduate saw the largest drop in earnings over the last 40 years, according to Poczter.

“Employment grew in high-education, high-wage professional, technical and managerial occupations and in low-education, low-wage food service, personal care and protective-service occupations [while] employment fell in middle-skill, white-collar and blue-collar occupations,” she said. “The drop in middle-income manufacturing jobs was especially precipitous.”

The middle-income drop is tied to an increase in jobs that require post-secondary education, according to Poczter.

“Good jobs that do not require at least some post-sec-

ondary education or specialized training were becoming increasingly scarce, driving workers without the requisite skills into lower-wage jobs or out of the labor force altogether,” she said.

To combat unemployment, Poczter said policymakers should invest in U.S. education.

“Our education needs to emulate the evolution of our competitiveness,” she said. “We need to initiate more sector-wide collaborations to build consensus and share the costs of improving education.”

Fiscal motivations are critical to lowering the number of people who are unemployed, Reif said. “[To combat unemployment rates], taxes should be cut, specifically tax cuts that favor employers who are hiring,” she said. “We need to give financial incentives for employers to hire.”

The solution to the economic crisis will require bipartisan cooperation among from policymakers, according to Palmer.

“Both sides need to give and take a little,” she said.

“Politicians have said in the the past that it’s not going to be fun, it’s not going to be easy, but [to solve this issue], they need to compromise.”

Although the bid for the presidency has ended, the battle against unemployment should continue, Poczter said.

“Unemployment as a major issue should not be neglected simply because the election is over,” she said.

Emma Jesch can be reached at ejesch@cornellsun.com.

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who described the bar as a “divey sports bar.” “[Peppin has] made it clear that he wants it to stay pretty much the same,” Rettger added.

So far, Peppin said he has heard from three people interested in buying the bar. He said that, although it is too early to predict, he thinks the prospects for Dunbar’s sale seem promising.

“I’m not sure how interested they are, but I think as word gets around, someone will buy it. It’s in a good spot, it’s unique and with [The Palms, Dinos and Johnny O’s] closed, I think our business has been better on weekends,” he said.

Although Peppin said there have been times when he would have “rather been home or on vacation” than at the bar, he

recalled several fond memories formed at Dunbar’s over the years: seeing former patrons who frequented the bar decades ago return for a weekend, as well as welcoming hundreds of Cornell alumni into the bar over Homecoming and Reunion Weekends.

“I may not remember some of their names, but they come in and they still come back, and Dunbar’s is where they come,” Peppin said. “I’ve always appreciated that, and I hope to keep in touch with Dunbar’s and the people I’ve met.”

Peppin summed up his Dunbar’s experience in a few wistful words.

“I’ve enjoyed it. I’ve enjoyed the kids, and we’ve had a great crowd,” he said.

Akane Otani can be reached at news-editor@cornellsun.com.

Colleague: Ithaca Mayor‘Taking Us in New Direction’ MAYOR

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cuts would jeopardize public safety.

Myrick said none of the changes implemented in his budget were particularly innovative; they have been used by other cities and even by the University to solve fiscal problems. Still, he said, the changes did require him to stand firm in the face of opposition. ”What it took was a fair amount of willpower,” Myrick said. “Changes of this kind, you get a lot of pushback … But it was my job to explain that remaining the same wasn’t an option ... The way things were going [was] going to lead us to bankruptcy.”

Myrick –– who keeps an Ithaca College flag in his office –– said he

As the city struggled to close Jennifer Dotson (G-1st Ward) –– has worked to balance his commitments to the city with his status as the budget deficit, many Ithacans, who was the acting mayor in 2012, including Myrick, suggested that filling in for Myrick when he was a Cornell alumnus.

“Everybody knows I’m a Cornell — which, as a tax-exempt out of town or otherwise unable to Cornell grad,” Myrick said. “I’m non-profit institution, does not complete his duties –– praised just trying to send a signal to our pay city taxes on its land — Myrick’s work ethic.

“I’m impressed by what he’s friends on South Hill. Although I increase its contribution to the city accomplishing,” Dotson said. may have gone, in their eyes, to the budget.

Still, Dotson said, she remains Under an agreement with the wrong institution, I still have their critical of some of best interests in mind.”

Myrick’s decisions.

Myrick said he hopes “Everybody knows I’m a Cornell grad.

“He has really ambito encourage collboraI’m just trying to send a signal to our tious goals regarding tion between Cornell friends on South Hill.” changing the structure of and the city. city government and of “I was elected to Svante Myrick ’09 certain departments, look out for the best which is painful for some interests of the city, and I actually think the best interests of city, the University will contribute people,” she said.

Dotson and fellow Common the city and the best interests of the about $1.225 million to the city University collide quite a bit,” budget this year, according to Council member Ellen McCollister Myrick said. “Now, convincing the Simeon Moss ’73, deputy (D-3rd Ward) praised Myrick’s efficiency and ambitions for the city –– University of that fact has been a University spokesperson.

Still, Myrick said he hopes this as well as his sense of humor. bit tougher.” amount will increase in subsequent McCollister said Myrick has done an excellent job increasing commuyears.

“I don’t think it’s enough and I nication with the public through think the city needs more,” Myrick his social media presence, acquiring said. “And I actually don’t think more than 3,000 Twitter followers.

While McCollister commendthat’s me being tough on the ed Myrick’s abilities, she also University.”

Looking forward, Myrick said expressed hope that Myrick would he will use his second year in office incorporate a broader spectrum of to make sure the reforms of his voices into his policy decisions.

“Going forward, I’d like to see first year “do what they were intended to do, which is improve him appoint people of more our performance, make us more diverse viewpoints and experience to our various city boards,” efficient, and save us money.”

Common Council member McCollister said. “Administra-

tively, I also think he has opportunities to take fuller advantage of the expertise of senior City Hall staff.”

Dotson agreed, noted that Myrick’s young age — he is 26 years old — contributes to some of his bold decisions.

“He’s taking us in a new direction. We’re going to make some mistakes ... It’s not realistic to expect you’re not going to make any,” Dotson said.

Myrick –– who is both biracial and the youngest mayor in city history –– said his youth took a humorous turn when the 15-yearold black son of a staff member was mistaken for Myrick in the elevator of the mayor’s office.

“Someone turned to him and said ‘Are you the mayor?’” Myrick said. “[His mom] told me the story … She said, ‘No, you don’t understand. He came home and he was so excited.’ Because to be that age, to be a young black man in America, you get confused for a lot of things … People assume a lot of things about you … He had never had someone before … mistake him for a figure of authority and respect. And she said she saw in him that day something change in the way he thought about himself.”

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun.com.

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At the time, police searched the area but did not find any suspects, IPD reported Tuesday.

At about 2:05 a.m., Bangs Ambulance and IPD officers responded

to a call from 503 Hancock St. — approximately 1.5 miles from 100 Oak Avenue — for a 22-year-old man with a gunshot wound in the buttocks.

Collegetown Residence Hall Director Brandee Nicholson sent out an email

Tuesday morning advising residents to use available services, such as the Blue Light Escort Service, when traveling around campus or Collegetown late at night.

IPD encourages anyone with information about the suspect

to contact Ithaca Police Investigator Donald Barker, Senior Investigator Mike Gray or Lieutenant Chris Townsend.

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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Police: Teen Shot by Fellow Student at Georgia School

Dow Logs Best January in Nearly Two Decades NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow logged its best start to the year in almost two decades.

Stocks rallied in the first week of the year after U.S. lawmakers reached a deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” and then pushed higher toward record levels as optimism about the housing market recovery grew. Decent company earnings for the fourth quarter and an improving job market also helped lift markets.

The Dow Jones industrial average ended the month up 5.8 percent, its strongest January since 1994, according to S&P Capital IQ data. The Standard & Poor’s 500 finished the month 5 percent higher, its best start to the year since 1997.

“There’s not a whole lot of bears left here,” said Jeff Hirsch, the editor of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, adding that the market may struggle to gain further in February.

Stocks have also benefited as investors have put money into equities in January. By one measure, the monthly flow into stock funds was the largest in nine years.

About $51 billion in net deposits was moved into stock funds and so-called hybrid funds, which invest in a mix of stocks and bonds, consultant Strategic Insight said Thursday. That’s the most since $56 billion flowed in during January 2004.

On Thursday, stocks drifted lower as investors digested more earnings results and reports on the economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 49 points to 13,860.58. The S&P 500 dropped 4 points to 1,498.11 and the Nasdaq composite was little changed at 3,142.13.

The Dow is just 304 points from its all-time high.

Among companies reporting earnings Thursday, UPS Inc., the world’s biggest package-delivery company and an economic bellwether, fell 2.4 percent to $79.29. The company’s fourth quarter was hurt by weak global trade, and it forecast 2013 results below expectations.

January’s rally started to slow Wednesday after a report showed that the economy unexpectedly contracted in the fourth quarter of last year.

Stocks have gained against a backdrop of low borrowing costs and a slow, but steady, economic recovery.

However, the market may struggle to build on those gains in the immediate future as traders and investors turn their attention back to Washington, said Ernie Cecilia, chief investment officer at Bryn Mawr Trust.

The budget deal struck at the start of the year dealt with taxes, but across-the-board spending cuts were pushed back from Jan. 1 to March 1. While a showdown over the nation’s borrowing limits appears to have been put off, lawmakers have yet to agree on how best to reduce government spending. Those negotiations could be protracted and increase stock market volatility, said Cecilia.

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ATLANTA (AP) — A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-yearold in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said.

Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown about 1:50 p.m. and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said. In the aftermath, a teacher received minor cuts, he said.

The wounded boy was taken “alert, conscious and breathing” to Grady Memorial Hospital, said police spokesman Carlos Campos. Grady Heath System Spokeswoman Denise Simpson said the teen had been discharged from the hospital Thursday night. Campos said charges against the shooter were pending.

Police swarmed the school of about 400 students after reports of the shooting while a crowd of anxious parents gathered in the streets, awaiting word on their children. Students were kept at the locked-down school for more than two hours before being dismissed.

Investigators believe the shooting was not random and that something occurred between the two students that may have led to it.

Schools Superintendent Erroll Davis said the school does have metal detectors.

“The obvious question is how did this get past a metal detector?” Davis asked about the gun. “That’s something we do not know yet.”

The armed resource officer who took the gun away was off-duty and at the school, but police didn’t release details on him or whether he is regularly at Price. Since 20 children and six adults were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December, calls for armed officers in every school have resonated across the country.

Hours after the Atlanta shooting, several school buses loaded with children pulled away from the school and stopped in front of a church about a half-block away. Parents tried boarding the buses. Police who initially tried to stop the parents, relented and screamed, “Let them off!” about the students.

James Bolton was at work when his sister called saying a teen had been shot at his son’s school and was in the crowd as parents began swarming the fleet of buses.

“Move, I see my son, I see mine!” he said, running up to embrace James Bolton Jr. “As long as I got this one back I’m OK,” he said, holding his son’s head against his chest as parents nearby frantically searched for their children.

Bolton Jr. said he was in class when the intercom sounded and a school official announced the building was under immediate lockdown.

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50 Shades of Blame: Fault in Sexual Assault T

his winter break, I traveled to India, where the gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student by six men on a bus in Delhi has sparked a nationwide backlash. With more than 414 rapes reported in 2010, the national capital of India has aptly earned the name “Rape Capital.” What has driven the sense of frustration in India to such a level is not just that horrific crimes like this occur in Indian society, but also that there is a clear lack of sensitivity in the responses of several public figures.

From blaming fashion to blaming the

do their best on that front; the Delhi government also finally seems to be waking up and trying to do more than just blame the women themselves. But by and large, it isn’t a problem with the rule book but with the social norms that we live with. Global society has a problem when dialogue on sex is either completely repressed, like in Delhi, or takes place mostly in the form of lewd jokes and wisecracks on “forcible touching incidents,” like at Cornell. This problem isn’t restricted alone to the two places I choose to comment upon. It is

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Heroes & Villains

A Villainously Chaotic Week A VILLAINOUS individual shot a man in the buttocks Tuesday morning while HEROIC Cornellians slept soundly in their VILLAINOUSLY overpriced Collegetown apartments. The victim HEROICALLY walked more than a mile in the VILLAINOUS cold to seek treatment at an emergency room from HEROIC tweezer experts. Students who live in the area seemed HEROICALLY concerned about the VILLAINOUS act of violence because it occurred near the HEROIC Collegetown Bagels. The HEROIC police apprehended a VILLAINOUS suspect, putting HEROIC CTB-goers from Bryant Avenue to Stewart Avenue at ease.

In Greek life news, the University has emphasized that its HEROIC amnesty policies do not protect VILLAINOUS Greek organizations from charges of hazing.

HEROIC fraternity brothers, in a display of the HEROIC genius that has allowed many HEROIC Greek alumni to succeed in politics, feel that calling an ambulance to help a victim of VILLAINOUS alcohol poisoning should relieve them of all culpability for HEROICALLY forcing the victim to chug the VILLAINOUS vodka in the first place.

Meanwhile, Ithaca’s VILLAINOUS weather continues to express the sort of bipolarity we would expect of Batman VILLAINS. While the occasional appearance of the HEROIC sun has inspired some HEROES to don shorts and t-shirts, other days the VILLAINOUS cold gets closer to introducing us to the VILLAINOUS point where Fahrenheit and Celsius collide.

As cold weather and chaos threaten our HEROIC student organizations and those leg-exposing HEROES of winter, more VILLAINOUS instability revealed itself this week in the form of a VILLAINOUS campus-wide blackout. Luckily, students HEROICALLY persevered, powering up their smartphones and laptops to update their Twitter and Facebook accounts to HEROICALLY express their disdain toward the VILLAINOUS lack of electricity.

With HEROIC efforts from such Ithacans as the HEROIC walking wounded to the blackout social media HEROES, Cornell may very well survive the VILLAINOUS winter after all ... At least until we are exposed to the inevitable specter of Cornell’s greatest VILLAIN: prelim season.

influence of alcohol, movies and Western culture, the officials blame everything but the offender. Outrage reached a boiling point when the son of India’s president, a democratically-elected member of the nation’s parliament, declared that women marching in the protests are “highly dented and painted” and that “students who go to discotheques” had no right to be participating in demonstrations. For a country that has taken giant progressive strides since gaining its independence, we seem to be moving backwards when it comes to respect for women.

Cornell saw an unusually high number of sexual crimes reported on and around campus this fall. From reports of outright assault to complaints of attempted rape, the wave of sexual crimes reported has left the Cornell community reeling. Cornellians have responded with a wave of action — from the ramped up activity of the Women’s Resource Center to meetings held to discuss sexual safety and consent. And yet frustration continues over what many perceive to be a lingering sense of apathy in the Cornell community. The biggest roadblock for victims continues to be the ambiguous public understanding of what constitutes assault. From questions of whether an act was truly forced, and not a consensual act gone wrong, to comments about the influence of alcohol or the behavior of “sluts,” I have heard outrageous opinions expressed. And the people expressing them are not 16th century barbarians, but my fellow male and female students — perfectly rational, rights-respecting individuals who by no means condone the mistreatment of another human being.

So where does the problem really lie?

Strong institutional mechanisms are vital in creating a social structure where offenders cannot commit sexual crimes with impunity. I give full credit to the administrators at Cornell for trying to

pan global appearing from the Toronto police officer who suggested that “women should avoid dressing like sluts” to the Brazilian comedian Bastos who suggested that a rape victim “should be glad for the opportunity.”

Blaming the victim is an issue that is still very much endemic.

There isn’t much difference between the comments of a public figure in Delhi — who said that “If girls don’t stay within their boundaries, if they don’t wear appropriate clothes, then naturally there is attraction. This attraction makes men aggressive, prompting them to just do it,” — and the conversations at parties and bars at Cornell revolving around “sorostitutes” or “hos who were asking for it.” There isn’t much difference between victims in Delhi who are blamed for being too “modern” or those at Cornell who are blamed for being intoxicated or walking home alone at night. The thing is, normalizing conversation that either heaps moral opprobrium on all things sexual or relegates it to poor humor is the first step in creating the social categories of “good women” and “bad women.” This leads to a social construct that makes it okay to assault “bad women,” because society believes that such things don’t happen to “good women” — because their “good” behavior doesn’t raise any chance of assault. Whether that good behavior refers to not wearing makeup in Delhi or not acting like a “drunken slut” at a party, a society in which the victims can somehow be made to share the guilt is one that normalizes the occurrence of sexual crimes. With such attitudes and mindsets pervasive in our world today, it is no surprise that sexual crimes continue unabated.

Ratnika Prashad is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Feedback can be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

CORRECTION A previous version of a Wednesday news story, “C.U. Defends Medical Amnesty,” stated that Chris Sanders ’13 is the president of the Interfraternity Council. In fact, Sanders is the former IFC president.

A previous version of a Wednesday news story, “Vigil Honors Rape Victims,” stated that Karan Javaji ’14 is a woman. In fact, Javaji is a man.

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On Friendship S

o we’re just putting the cap on the second week of classes, and I’d say the spring semester is well on its way. For a certain group on campus though, this has been your third week back in Ithaca. I’m sure you all know which early arrivals I am referring to.

Now, this group gets lots and lots of press — some of it truly good, but most of it definitely bad. They hold a special week each year, and during this week, Cornellians decide whether they will participate wholeheartedly or avoid these well-intentioned activities. It’s time we address some of the controversies sur-

in the Greek system, do not stop reading. The concept of brotherhood found within Greek houses can be used to shed light on universal truths regarding friendship, comfort and trust. Brotherhood, that unconditional support you will find in joining a house, should mean more than just friendship. For many of you freshmen, that is precisely why you joined a house in the first place (granted, the dying bar scene and lack of alternative drinking outlets could have been a factor).

Greek houses are organizations comprised of real people who impose implicit (and sometimes explicit) social pressure on one another in order to adhere to a norm of thoughts and

Rudy Gerson Rooting Around rounding these folks.

I am referring to those in our campus’ notorious Greek system, which has recently undergone tons of changes. But something that hasn’t changed, and will not change, is brotherhood and sisterhood (the latter is a pretty foreign concept to me, so I’ll stick to brotherhood).

Please, the 70 percent of you who are not

conduct expected by all members. This organization will likely expect you to receive your fraternity brothers as your best friends and to define friendship by its standards.

For many of you, friendship will be defined by your fraternal brotherhood, but for many more, the friendship you share with your brothers will define what brotherhood means to you — fraternity brothers will

become real brothers. You will be asked to give yourself over to the house, to commit time, energy, love and even faith.

But the new member education process is when this social pressure is most palpable.

Some of this pressure will allow you to grow in ways you never thought possible. But there is a fine line between unselfish generosity to something larger than oneself and blind commitment to a group. New members are told, “This marks the beginning of a journey, of a new chapter in your life, of the future lifelong bonds you will make and break here at Cornell.” It might be truthful and sincere, but this is pressure nonetheless.

Know this: No one gets to tell you who is and is not your brother. You have your own personal barometer for defining brotherhood.

Like so many before you, if you sell yourself to your organization, you may find the greatest friends you have ever found — but you may also be selling yourself short.

The exclusivity of brotherhood is illusory.

You do not need a fraternity or ritual experience to find brotherhood. By allowing fraternal friendship in whatever form to dictate what friendship means to you, you take a risk in losing sight of your own personal definition.

Before coming to Cornell, I sure as hell never thought of my friends back home as my brothers. They were friends — some better than others — but still friends. My fraternity may have introduced me to the concept of brotherhood, but they don’t own it.

I own my brotherhood. Who I get to call my brother is my choice.

My true brothers are those whom I have selected and who have selected me. We have given pieces of ourselves to one another, shared vulnerabilities and reciprocated acts of kindness. They earned my trust as I earned theirs. I know what values they hold, and I know that they seek a deep, interpersonal connection.

When we’re done here and out in the “real world,” and we don’t have our social organizations to fall back on, who will we have to turn to for acceptance? If we don’t have the confidence to identify friendship and brotherhood for ourselves, we may never really find it. College is the time to develop that ability to discern the shallow from the meaningful, truth from illusion — to challenge ourselves to consider those big questions of life.

Fraternal brotherhood has introduced me to new frameworks of friendship and has helped me begin the pursuit of answers to those questions. It is a family I can always return to, but it’s only the beginning. The lessons my house has taught me about brotherhood have enabled me to find true brothers both in and out of the fraternity.

So gimme a try; I’m always looking for some more.

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.

Not the Decision,the Decider T

he Supreme Court will soon hear what some have already begun calling the defining civil rights case of our era. In 1996, Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act, which among other things, exclusively recognized traditional marriage for the purposes of the federal government. In 2008, the California Supreme Court found a right to gay marriage embedded in the California state constitution. Later that year, voters passed a popular referendum known as Proposition 8 that reinstated only the traditional definition of marrying back into California’s highest law.

The question before the Supreme Court now is whether DOMA or Proposition 8, both of which recognize only traditional marriage, violate the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendment rights of gay couples to due process and equal protection under the law. While the Court prepares to rule on these issues, proponents of gay marriage must recognize that the broader question of whether gay couples should be allowed to marry is a question that only the legislature can effectively answer.

Ten states, including New York, have adopted gay marriage. More recently, some states have even passed it through popular referendums. However, opposition is still widespread, and the vast majority of states refuse to recognize the institution. Twenty states have constitutional prohibitions against same-sex civil unions and gay marriage. Another 17 states ban gay marriage in either their state constitutions or laws. It is important to note that this opposition is not geographically limited, but extends to nearly every corner of the country. Commitment to traditional marriage remains a national, rather than a regional, political majority.

Some argue that recent Supreme Court decisions have paved the way for a constitutional right to gay marriage.

They point to: Loving v. Virginia, the decision that struck down bans on interracial marriage; Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down bans on homosexual sodomy; and Romer v. Evans, which ensured that local Colorado municipalities could pass anti-discrimination measures to protect gays. Proponents of gay marriage hope these cases indicate that the time has come for the Supreme Court to establish full gay marital equality.

As politically persuasive as these proponents’ arguments may be, their legal basis is somewhat questionable.

To start, equal protection and due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments have never been interpreted to include gay marriage. A large majority of states today still stand in opposition to that interpretation.

The majority in Lawrence, for instance, makes a point of saying that although bans on homosexual sodomy are

unconstitutional, the Court was by no means establishing a right to gay marriage. There is a constitutional distinction between conduct that a state cannot prohibit and conduct that a state has an obligation to endorse.

The Court’s reasoning in Loving was narrow and involved specifically the role that anti-miscegenation laws played in perpetuating a broader system of unconstitutional racial discrimination. Clear distinctions between who was “white” and who was “black” were pivotal in enforcing segregation, which anti-miscegenation laws accomplished by regulating procreation and genetically separating the races. But bans on gay marriage are not the key factor in the existence of homosexual discrimination, which is comparable neither in nature nor degree, to racial discrimination in the South.

In many states, including those that do not recognize same-sex marriage, gays enjoy legal rights specifically tailored to protect them as a group, such as hate crime legislation, as well as the rights enjoyed by all citizens (freedom to assemble, to vote, etc.). The same could not have been said for African-Americans living under Jim Crow who suffered mob lynchings with no public response and consistently faced state violations of basic constitutional protections. The reasoning in Loving was not that each American has a right to marry whomever they choose, but rather that anti-miscegenation laws were facilitating unconstitutional racial discrimination. That reasoning does not apply to gay marriage.

The best support for proponents of gay marriage comes in Justice Anthony Kennedy’s passionate majority opinion in Romer. He argued that discrimination protection for immutable characteristics such as homosexuality is not a unique or “special right”, but rather a basic entitlement of every American. A state cannot deny equal protection of this right on the basis of sexual orientation simply because the majority disfavors that particular group. Romer could be applied in the upcoming case to render marriage, like discrimination protection, a basic entitlement, rather than a “special right,” for all Americans including gays. Like discrimination protection, that basic entitlement then could not be rescinded without violating the rights of gay couples to equal protection under the law.

As I mentioned earlier, the Court is set to decide not whether gays should be allowed to marry, but whether the right for gays to marry is in our Constitution. Those are two very different questions and the distinction is important: The latter question is for the Court; the former question is for the people.

There is a vibrant political debate in this country regarding whether there truly exists a benefit to promoting exclusively traditional marriage. Do we want that debate within the democratic marketplace of ideas or stifled by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court decision? Consider that since the right to vote was democratically established for women, it has remained unquestioned. Contrast that with the right to abortion, in which a 5 to 4 decision interjected the Court into what was then, and remains today, a vibrant democratic debate. America has yet to

Justin DiGennaro Barely Legal resolve the issue of abortion because finality comes not from the Court, but from the democratic process.

The American people resist judgments rendered by the Supreme Court, sitting up high, which affect the fundamental institutions of our society. The polling evidence is clear: Younger Americans favor gay marriage far more than their parents do. Allowing the gay movement to continue to gain political traction is a better course than risking a social backlash to Supreme Court overreach. The important question for gay rights advocates ought not to be what affords gay Americans superficial recognition the soonest, but rather, what foundation will best secure gay rights for good. The democratic process, not the Supreme Court, is the only path that can ensure the legitimacy of full gay equality as a part of America’s identity.

Justin DiGennaro is a first-year law student at Cornell Law School. She may be reached at pvp9@cornell.edu. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Sex, Drugs and Beats: An Interview With Prof. Austin Bunn

Prof. Austin Bunn, Performance and Media Arts, started classes a week late this semester. But he wasn’t calling in sick. In fact, Bunn was at the Sundance Film Festival premiering a movie that he co-wrote, Kill Your Darlings. Earlier this week I had the chance to sit down with Bunn, an old professor of mine (so proud!), to talk about his new movie, Sundance and what is looking to be a very successful career in film.

Bunn has only been teaching at Cornell for about six months, but his name can already be heard around campus as that professor who is doing something amazing. He currently teaches screenwriting and dramatic writing and will be teaching screenwriting next semester.

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THE SUN: Tell me a little bit about your movie.

PROF. AUSTIN BUNN: So, Kill Your Darlings is the story of the origins of the beat generation, so it’s about Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Bill Boroughs when they were young men, long before they became the people that you know them to be. So if most biopics are about like great men at the peak of their lives, this is about them at point zero of their lives when they’re just kids and they’re still figuring out who they are and trying to become artists. One critics who reviewed the movie called it Beat Generation: First Class — these are these major American literary figures when they’re just punks, bad students, you know, dorm roommates, when they’re kids.

SUN: But this movie isn’t really about their published works is it?

A.B.: No. Not at all. Allen Ginsberg isn’t even a writer; he doesn’t consider himself a poet, he wanted to be a labor lawyer. So our movie is long before they became famous.

And it’s about really the relationships — how they met each other. They met through this “fourth beat”: This guy named Lucien Carr.

Who has never really been explored dramatically very much. He was a very charismatic, charming guy. He was also about 20 years old and he introduced Allen to Jack and introduced Allen to Bill Boroughs and sort of talked on that they were going to be great

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people. He really inspired them. But he also was someone who had a kind of, he had a darker side of himself, he was pretty manipulative and he ended up murdering a friend, a mutual friend of this group of guys named David Kamerer. The circumstances of the murder are quite suspicious: Not only did he stab this friend of his, but he dragged his body to the Hudson River, put stones in his pockets, tied his hands up, tied his feet up and basically drowned him in addition to stabbing him. So real malice. And as it turned out Jack Kerouac and Bill Boroughs were jailed as an accessory to the murder and Allen Ginsberg was involved in helping him design his defense. So the climax of our movie is what happened that night between the two of them and how it affects their lives.

SUN: So why did you choose to write about this topic?

A.B.: Well like a lot of young people, and, I don’t know, maybe yourself, I discovered the Beat writers in college and Allen Ginsberg really got me through my freshman year of college. He’s a very powerful poet and somebody who really taught me about the weight of shame and a certain kind of liberation, the power of a transformational friendship; that’s what the Beats really represent, is friends. Writers who are friends. So those kinds of lessons really gave me a lot of inspiration and made me want to park my butt in a chair and write. So if you read the back catalogue of the Beats, the Jack Kerouac books that people don’t read like Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, when you read the biographies the murder of David Kamerer is in all of them—but its just a little footnote. It’s almost like John, the director, would describe it as like The Manchurian Candidate: it was like they all had the same paragraph about it, about the murder. Why was that? Its as though they had kind of agreed that there was a certain narrative to it. So we started doing research, and this murder was the front page of The New York Times in 1944. I mean Lucien Carr was an undergrad at Columbia, why had he murdered this guy. I mean Jack Kerouac’s name was in the paper I mean this was a really big case. And when we started reading more I realized there’s more to this story that people don’t know. There’s a side of this murder that explains what happened.

SUN: So you’ve written a bunch of plays and screenplays and things like that before.

Have any of them gotten this big or is this the first one?

A.b.: No, this is definitely the biggest. You know, I have other scripts that have producers and directors attached floating around, but it changes everything when the thing gets made.

So, yeah, this is the biggest one, so this will be kind of my debut as a screenwriter.

SUN: So now you’ve made it to Sundance.

A.B.: Yeah!

SUN: So tell me about Sundance.

A.B.: Sundance was pretty freaking awesome. I think the thing that I most took away from it was that it’s a film lover’s heaven.

There are so many movies you’re seeing. And you’re seeing them without any movie reviews without critics telling you what’s good and what’s bad, just sitting down in a seat based on a title and a little bit of description, so you get a very authentic experience of the movie without any received ideas. So in that way it’s really fun. These are fresh voices, idiosyncratic characters, stories you don’t see everyday, and they don’t move in traditional ways, so that was really exciting.

SUN: Right. So, your movie did get picked up for distribution?

A.B.: Yep. Sun: When do you think it will come out?

A.B.: What they’re talking about, and things do change, is they’re talking about a fall release and that tends to be a time of year when things that are a little bit darker, a little bit smarter come out. And our movie is about literary figures you know, it’s a period movie and it’s a little edgy, well it’s a lot edgy, we’ll definitely have an R-rating. So that’s the time when it will probably come out. That could change.

SUN: Can you define edgy?

A.B.: I mean our movie is, I will joke with you, I don’t know if this is printable but one of the crescendo moments is what John affectionately calls the “death-fuck montage” (laughs) and there’s like 4 or 5 major characters and its just like violence, sex, drugs, violence, sex, drugs, violence, sex, drugs and it happens for like five minutes so it’s a big intense orchestral experience of huge decisions, you know. Someone’s getting killed, someone’s having sex, someone’s hearing about a friend dying, someone’s injecting drugs, you know its just like whoa. It’s a lot.

But I think John is a really smart director and it’s a powerful moment in the movie. All of these guys making fateful decisions. That was the idea.

SUN: So what did you take from the experience that you want to pass on to your screenwriting students? Was this experience a game changer in any way?

A.B.: Look at you [laughs], ‘game changer’. Well just so many things, I’m still processing the experience. You know it’s just a lot, a lot to take in. I mean maybe one simple clear lesson is you know I teach screenwriting, I teach short film screenplay writing and most students who come into the class are like, “What is this form? I’d rather work on a feature. I want to like go work in the film business.” You go to Sundance and you realize: 1.

Some of the best movies are in the shorts category. Because they have a whole ‘shorts’ category, just movies under, I think, 40 minutes or 30 minutes. So they’re really dynamic and

really quirky and fascinating. So there’s a real market for shorts. And almost all of the filmmakers who were in the dramatic competition also had a short that had been to Sundance or had gone through the screenwriting lab or the directing lab. So there’s a way in which Sundance pre-vets these people through those things. So when students want to know why I’m working on a short film, my answer now is like, because that’s how you get places. You know you can’t just go right in the feature film market, its very challenging.

Hone your craft with short stuff. So that’s one thing I’m going to take into classes and also I just saw so many movies that changed the way I think about films and how films get written and what stories are. So I’m trying to broaden my own principles about what success and excellence looks like.

SUN: Do you have anything else you’re working on right now? Gearing up for your next project?

A.B.: Well, I worked on an adaptation of a book already called Dancer From the Dance that Alan Ball, who was one of the executive directors of Six Feet Under, is hoping to direct, so he’s in the middle of attaching cast to that. That would probably be the next film that would go into production. And that would probably be the most public thing I could talk about.

SUN: You started out with plays though; do you think you’re going to kind of make the shift to screenplays now?

A.B.: people ask me that. I love playwriting and I love theater. The funny thing is, well, I’ll tell you this: What I’ve come to as a truth for myself, and I think other theater artists have different perspectives, but theater these days is really a cover band industry. And what I mean by that is that its theaters just want to produce other things that have been successful. You know, they’re a cover band.

They want to do plays that were successful in New York, that were successful on the West Coast. Film is in the business of new films.

That’s what film does. They don’t do the cover band thing. So as a creative worker, as a creative person, you want to work where there’s work, and you want to make the work that is needed by the industry. And there’s something really profound and really collaborative about film that’s exciting. Theater less so. Living in Ithaca it’s a little harder because there just aren’t that many theaters here. So with film I can still be a part of the process and stuff. That’s why, yeah, increasingly I’m thinking about it. I don’t know if I’ll forever be behind, film is just something I’m thinking about right now.

SUN: Thanks so much for talking with us.

A.B.: Of course.

Arielle Cruz is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at acruz@cornellsun.com.

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Mr. Farrelly, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. Given the scarce audience on a Saturday evening showing and a dastardly box office turnout despite extensive online marketing, it seems like most of the world Movie 43 is an exceptional film. I can honestly say that few agrees. films have made me feel as much emotion as this 90 minute There is certainly something to provocative films — see A anthology of no holds barred comedy.

Clockwork Orange, anything Tarantino, or even slapstick However, most of these feelings relate to disgust, revulsion ridiculous — for example, many of Farrelly and Wessler’s preand gagging. vious films.

I rarely get mad at movies. I believe in artistic license and Movie 43 can be forgiven for being gross and sloppy. Its audience interpretation. Yet, all that aside, Movie 43, produced biggest sin is that it’s just not funny. The thrown together

by Peter Farrelly and longtime partner Charles Wessler (There's amassment of skits being passed as a film is introduced to us Something About Mary, Dumb & Dumber, Shallow Hal) made via a frantic screenwriter (Dennis Quaid) pitching his screenme furious. play to producer Greg Kennear. At one point, following a Made over four years and starsequence that follows Kate Winslet ring every-working-actor-theyas she embarks on a blind date with Movie 43 could-get, the film was a special Hugh Jackman — otherwise perfect Directed by Bob Odenkirk, brand of painful that completely save a pair of balls hanging from his misunderstands the YouTube genchin — Quaid’s character returns to 11 others eration’s sensibilities. I think the scold the audience. That very Starring Emma Stone, Stephen added blow for me came from responsive male body part is, accordwatching Beast of the Southern Merchant, Richard Gere ing to Crazy Quaid, a metaphor for Wild the day before — a film that the boundaries we create to keep delicately addresses sensitive human experiences to paint a gor- from falling in love. geous story. Starring first time actors, it is the starkest contrast Fair enough Movie 43. I’ll play along. So maybe the sketch to the celebrity filled mess that is Movie 43. about a lifelike iBabe music player that mutilates the genitals Peter Farrelly even took to Twitter — urgh that’s a line I of teenage boys that try to have sex with its cooling fan is a never ever want to write again ever — to tell critics to lighten reflection on how corporations like Apple care only about the up. bottom line and not Chinese factory workers or consumer "To the critics: Movie 43 is not the end of the world. It's just safety? a $6-million movie where we tried to do something different.

Maybe the one about intensive homeschooling — where Now back off.” Farrley continued, “To the critics: You always the mother goes as far to makes out with her son to teach him complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then about awkward high school encounters — is about 21st cenwhen you get it, you flip out …" tury helicopter parenting?

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And perhaps if I squint just enough, Halle Berry’s “Truth or Dare” shtick with Stephen Merchant was a cute reflection on the difficulties of letting go and finding romance in our modern world?

Yeah, no. I don’t think so.

There is so much head scratching involved in why Oscarcaliber actors like Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, and critical darlings like Emma Stone, Kristen Bell, Chloe Moritz, Richard Gere and Gerard Butler would do this to us.

What happened, Kate? Were the Oscars and Golden Globes getting too heavy for you? Uma, are you getting back at the world for that We Need to Talk About Kevin snub?

Christopher Mintz-Plasse, was it it too much pressure to be associated with good crude comedies. Did it seem best to just rip that off like a bandage?

Stars ARE just like us. They probably also succumb to peer pressure (I mean, everyone is doing it in this move) and the temptation of back-end deals for a couple days of work with friends.

Of course, three sophisticated Cornell senior girls might not be the film’s target audience. However, behind us sat large groups of teenage boys — likely the key demographic for this — and they too seemed hardly impressed.

Mumblings —“What the f—“, “whyyyy”, and “I bet they’re going to bring up dicks noww” — were overheard.

Mind you, these were not in a tone of awe, but genuine disgust. I can’t even give Movie 43 the 15-year-old male endorsement.

It is my moral duty to warn you that this movie is not even worth a curiosity watch. Save your 11 dollars and self worth: Watch something — anything — else.

Tajwar Mazhar is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tmazhar@cornellsun.com

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s fans from all over the world wait excitedly for the next installment of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful HBO T.V. series, Game of Thrones, I feel like a spectator, divorced from the rising tide of Internet hubbub and wordof-mouth anticipation that accompanies pop culture events of this kind. Don’t get me wrong. I’m no Game of Thrones neophyte, unaware of what the fuss is all about. As a reader of the novels long before the TV series became more than a speck in the minds of HBO execs, I feel like I’ve been privy to the birth of a cultural meme, however modest. I was a Game of Thrones hipster, having read the books before they became cool.

The books were my companions growing up. My 13-year-old self spent happy hours following the violence, shadowy conspiracies and sordid sexual trysts endemic to the series. I read this series before I did Harry Potter. They accompanied me through some momentous landmarks in life. They were among my go-to books to re-read when I didn’t have money to buy new ones (somehow the teenage me never got it into his head to visit the library). The third volume was released in 2000; I was introduced to the series just in time for the fourth volume to come out after a half-decade long wait.

Eventually, however, the downtime between successive releases of volumes became too long. That, combined with my vastly expanded reading horizons as a result of financial independence, meant that my engagement

with the narrative of the series faded. It became more of a fond but fading memory of my childhood.

I did buy successive books when they appeared, of course — not that very many of them came out during these past five years (one, in fact). But the experience of reading them was never the same. It lacked an essential spark, that vital essence that hooked me in the first place. Many readers felt the same way. They attributed it to a decline in the quality of writing, of the sluggishness of pacing. Others thought that George R.R. Martin was getting too caught up in his world, and that the plot was growing too large and complex to control. I shared the same sentiments, but thought that part of it was my fault; the books were simply released too infrequently to sustain my engagement. So, perfunctorily, I Armchair read itss latest iteration, A Aesthetics Dance With Dragons, without having reread the first few books, which was my custom. I filled myself in on forgotten characters and events using the ubiquitous wiki pages created by more hardcore fans than I. So when the HBO adaptation was released to near universal acclaim, I was bemused by the sudden upsurge in interest in the series, now transformed and uplifted into an entire franchise. It was fun to hear people bemoaning the gratuitous sex and violence of the series, which apparently had more of a visceral impact on viewers of the television

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series than it did readers of the books. I sat, stoic, through the first few episodes, before I decided that the series wasn’t really for me.

The settings were too pedestrian, the budget too limited and the characters too different from my mental image of them, to be compelling. I did find interesting, however, other people’s reactions to the series. After one friend near clawed her eyes out over a momentous character death in the first series, I could only smirk and tell her that she ain’t seen nothing yet. In a way, it was almost like vicariously experiencing the books from a fresh perspective, and the schadenfreude moments didn’t hurt either. But actually watching the episodes? I wasn’t averse to doing so if an easy opportunity presented itself, but didn’t particularly feel compelled to actually making the effort.

I feel that if I do actually start following the series, it’ll take over as the dominant account of the story in my mind. Pictures speak a thousand words, as the stale old adage goes, and moving pictures more so. Martin’s prose is functional, lean and moving but his imagery isn’t particularly masterful, and the sight of floating castles does more to imprint itself on the mind than a mere description of it. When that happens, who knows what that might do to my subjective experience when reading successive novels, when they come out in a decade’s time? The Lord of the Rings movies, excellent though they mostly were, already did that to my subjective experience of the book. I can’t imagine Frodo as anything but a baby-faced Elijah Wood, or hear the Howard Shore soundtrack whenever I read sections of J.R.R. Tolkien’s prose. If anything, I should studiously refrain from watching the series if I really wanted to preserve that impression of the books that I have in my mind. But I know that if someone were to

hand me a box of DVDs as a gift, I’d still watch them. If only to see how they portrayed this or that from the books.

I think the HBO series has been a good thing in all. It’s given Martin a new legion of fans, generated exposure to the notion that fantasy can be legitimate literature and provided some swashbuckling action and intrigue to brainwash today’s generation into maintaining the capitalist status quo of class relations. Admittedly, Martin’s blog, formerly a place where he’d provide running updates about his writing process, has mutated into a platform from whence he relentlessly advertises HBO merchandise and posts trailers and pictures of behind the scenes happenings from the Game of Thrones set. But it’s rekindled a new interest in the series in me, and in people I know, who hitherto probably wouldn’t have touched the books with a ten foot pole. I loathed Joffrey’s guts before it was cool, and all that. But deep down, a selfish part of me thinks that it might’ve been better if it never happened. It’s a tiny little yammering voice, admittedly, but one that still lobbies for my attention. I’ve seen other franchises – Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials – receive big screen adaptations, and they’ve fundamentally altered the relationship between reader and book by introducing a loud, attention-seeking visual element to the mix. Some tiny part of me yearns for that antediluvian age where reader could curl up with a good book and not have to wonder which A-list celebrity would best fit his or her mental image of the protagonist.

Colin Chan is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at cc927@cornell.edu.

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away with two goals. According to Schafer, the team will need to focus closely on eliminating lost opportunities, especially during power plays, and avoiding penalties. It will also have to approach each game with a renewed intensity and the mindset that the team controls its own destiny every time it skates onto the ice, Schafer said.

“We need to go forward ... playing with just an undying, unrivaled passion for every loose puck and every possession. That’s the mentality we need to adopt right now,” Schafer said. “We can’t wait for someone to do it for us. ... You can make excuses for just about anything. We have to change our luck, we have to change our fortune and we have to change how we play as a group of players and coaches.”

This weekend will offer the Red the perfect platform to test out its new team mindset, playing against opponents Cornell has historically had the edge over. The Red leads the series against St. Lawrence (11-10-3, 4-5-3), 5641-7, as well as the series against Clarkson (5-13-6, 4-62), 58-49-14. Defeating both teams, 3-1, when the teams met at Lynah in early December, Cornell looks to move

to 2-0 for this season against the competitive northern rivals. “[The North Country is] always a tough place to play,” Birch said. “Clarkson and St. Lawrence are historically very hard-working teams — very physical — so it’s always a battle up there for us. This year we played pretty well against them in the series here, so I’m looking forward to playing against them, and it should be a good battle.”

The more relaxed mood heading into the weekend road trip could provide the Red the stability it needs to have a weekend of consistent, competitive action in two important conference games.

“The guys are much more relaxed,” freshman forward Christian Hilbrich said. “Since Sunday, it’s been a whole new atmosphere. Everyone’s just been relaxed ... The leashes are definitely shorter, but [Schafer] is letting the player’s feel comfortable in their own skin and I think that’s really ... paid off.”

Hilbrich received recognition from Schafer for his noteworthy contributions during last Saturday night’s contest against Brown.

“I thought Christian Hilbrich did a tremendous job [versus Brown,]” Schafer said. “I thought he had a big

impact all over the place, and I think [freshman] Gavin Stoick, never playing [forward before], had him playing forward for a long period of time had an impact. I would say that the guys who came in the line-up ... I thought those two young guys there did a real good job.”

Schafer has expanded the depth of his talented roster, substituting younger players into already strong front and back lines. Utilizing every player on the roster is becoming increasingly important as the Red approaches playoff season, especially with sophomore forward Cole Bardreau out for the remainder of the season with a neck injury. “[Playing in the game against Brown] was not something that comes along every day,” Hilbrich said. “It was [Schafer’s] kind of way of saying we’re going to get a fresh start and he needs the whole team to partake in the journey we’re going to have to go on here. We’re going to have to go on a run to make something of the year and make the playoffs.”

After this weekend’s trip to the North Country, Cornell will return to Lynah to play Quinnipiac and Princeton on Feb. 8 and 9, respectively.

Lauren Ritter can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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the highest total in the NFL, and by a large margin. His nearest competitor, the 49er’s Navorro Bowman, had 149.

Kuechly is already a dominant force on the inside and one of the surest tacklers in the NFL. For proof of his dominance, look no further than the Panthers’ week 16 17-6 win over the Raiders. Kuechly put up 13 tackles, one interception and two passes defended.

Defensive Player of the Year: Houston Defensive End J.J. Watt. The Houston Texans defensive end was the most disruptive force in the NFL this season. Watt simply had as statistically dominant a season as a defensive lineman can have. He recorded 40 tackles for loss, 12 more than his nearest competitor and made a serious run at future Hall of Famer Michael Strahan’s sack record. Watt still led the league with 20.5 sacks, coming short of Strahan’s total of 22 and a half. However, Watt also made his presence felt even if he couldn’t get into the backfield. Watt had a penchant for swatting away passes on plays where he didn’t get to the quarterback, racking up 16 passes defended, an astronomical number for a defensive lineman. Watt’s total broke Reggie White’s long-standing record of 13 passes defended for a defensive lineman. Watt’s 16 passes defended were good for 10th in the league, while the nearest front seven player — veteran linebacker London Fletcher — placed 37th. The next closest defensive lineman checked in at 98th place with seven passes defended.

Comeback Player of the Year: Vikings Running Back Adrian Peterson. The race for comeback player of the year is between Peyton Manning and Peterson. There is a video of Adrian Peterson on YouTube entitled, “Is this the hit that ends Adrian Peterson’s career?”

One year and over 2,000 yards later, the answer is a resounding no. As impressive as Manning’s

return was, he had more time to recover and does not play nearly as physical of a position.

Peterson tore his ACL in December of last year, meaning he essentially had just the offseason to recover, and unlike Manning, Peterson cannot avoid hits. Peterson’s return might be the most impressive season returning from injury in NFL history.

Most Valuable Player: Adrian Peterson. The Vikings standout running back is a bit of a throw back. In today’s era of multipurpose backs Peterson does not return kick or punts, nor does he catch more than the occasional pass (Peterson has never had more than one receiving touchdown in a season).

Despite this, he still led the NFL in yards from scrimmage along with rushing yards.

Peterson came just a handful of yards short of being the first back since O.J. Simpson in ’73 to average more yards per carry than his quarterback’s yards per attempt. Peterson’s 2,097 rushing yards were a mere 9 yards short of the Eric Dickerson’s all time record that has stood for 29 years. Alfred Morris, who came in second behind Peterson, tallied 1,613 yards, over 480 yards behind Peterson.

Perhaps more importantly, Peterson surprised NFL fans everywhere by carrying the Vikings to the playoffs. No team leaned on their running back more than the Vikings, as Peterson was second in the league in carries despite coming back from an ACL tear. In a must win game against the Packers, Peterson dominated by delivering one of the most clutch performances I’ve ever witnessed out of a running back. He put up two total touchdowns and 199 yards on the ground, including an important 26-yard run to put the Vikings in position to kick a short field goal for the win. To me, Peterson’s MVP case is clear — he carried his team to the playoffs, made history, almost took down two 30-year-old records, and distanced himself from his peers like no one else

in the NFL. My Super Bowl XLVII Pick: Joe Flacco, while not an elite quarterback, has been extremely proficient this postseason, especially throwing deep. Lost in the emergence of Kaepernick is the fact that the 49ers defense has been a little suspect this postseason and less dominant.

The extra week of preparation will help John Harbaugh and

the Ravens game plan for Kaepernick. Often, the factors that decide Super Bowls are role players and special teams. In Super Bowl XVLI, the Giants do not win without a huge catch from third receiver Mario Manningham (now on the 49ers) and a heads up play from fullback Henry Hynoski recovering a fumble. I have a lot more faith in Ravens kicker

Justin Tucker than in David Akers, who has been shaky all season, hit just 69 percent of his kicks during the regular season and is one for two in the postseason. I feel (as I don’t actually know anything) the Ravens will win a surprisingly high scoring game, 31 - 24.

John Zakour can be reached at jzakour@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

With First Ivy Win Under Belt, Red Battles Princeton,Penn

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After Harvard’s basketball program was battered by a school-wide cheating scandal at the beginning of the academic year, the Princeton Tigers (8-7, 1-0 Ivy) willingly stepped in as the Ivy League media’s preseason favorite in the conference. In a two-game road trip this weekend, the Red (9-10, 1-1) will try to take down the top-ranked Tigers at Jadwin Gymnasium before heading to Philadelphia, Pa., on Saturday for a bout with the struggling Penn Quakers

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Line ’em up | Senior forward Eitan Chemerinski emphasizes drawing fouls by attacking the paint.

(3-15, 0-1).

Coming off its first conference victory in a back-andforth battle on the road against Columbia last weekend, the Red hopes to continue its success away from the familiar floorboards of Newman Arena.

“Anytime you win on the road you get confidence,” senior guard Johnathan Gray said. “Everyone has to be mentally prepared to try to tough out another couple wins.

We have to have a swagger about us knowing we can win on the road.”

The Tigers, however, have been a recurring roadblock for the Red on the road. The squad has not beaten Princeton at Jadwin since its Sweet Sixteen run in 2009.

According to senior forward Eitan Chemerinski, Princeton’s length in the paint will likely pose the biggest problem for the Red. “They’re a big team, they’re disciplined and I think that’s one of their big advantages,” he said. “If we speed them up and keep up the defensive intensity we brought at Columbia, that’s the best way to take away their offensive threats.”

The Tigers’ most dangerous offensive threat comes from forward Ian Hummer, who has already earned four Ivy League Player of the Week awards this season and has scored double figures in 13 of his 15 starts. The 6-7 senior is second in the conference in scoring with 15.5 points per game and fourth in rebounding with 6.5 boards per game.

With Hummer’s formidable presence on the low block, the Red understands it needs to make a conscious effort to keep the ball out of the paint.

“In general, it’s going to be important to limit the post touches and to keep the ball out of the post,” Chemerinski said. “We can do that by denying the ball and not letting entry passes into the post and staying in front of [Hummer], making it difficult for him to catch [the ball].”

Hummer’s threat also comes from his ability to create his own shot, an uncharacteristic but particularly impressive talent from a post-player, Gray said.

“We have to have all five guys understand where he is on the court,” Gray said. “Princeton wants to go to him, he’s the one guy who can break the offense and look to score.

He can make plays any time, and we need to make sure we’re there to help when he tries to attack.”

The infamous Princeton offense that has been shaped and fit into countless college basketball programs across the country consists of a very specific mentality. The Tigers’ game plan is relaxed and looks to move into an offensive set that features constant motion with back-door and off-ball screens which can free shooters and post players.

“They’re going to try to slow the game down. They have

a particular set offense that they’ll use to get us out of our rhythm,” Gray said. “They’ll try to throw the ball in the post a lot and keep it in the 50-60 point range. Whoever dictates the tempo will win this game.”

The Red, however, thrives on attacking the basket in transition, as demonstrated in its 66-63 victory over Columbia. The Red went to the free-throw line 29 times in the win, with 12 of those opportunities coming from sophomore guard Galal Cancer.

“We’re always trying to play aggressive on offense,” Chemerinski said. “When we’re driving, trying to get to the lane, that’s often when we’re at our best so hopefully we can keep that up.”

Though the Red has relied heavily on its outside shooting this year and in the past, the squad only shot 25 percent from beyond the arc against Columbia and was much more successful when the ball went inside.

“We’re a better team when we’re attacking the basket,” Gray said. “We’re a good shooting team, but we have to make sure that we start inside and work out.”

After matching up against the Tigers on Friday, the Red will head to Penn’s home court on only half a day of rest.

The Quakers are coming off a 12-point loss to Princeton in its last Ivy game.

Penn was a contender for the Ivy title last season, losing a disappointing tie breaker game to Harvard to decide the conference champion. However, the Quakers lost a good portion of its scoring in Zack Rosen and Tyler Bernadini, who combined to score over 30 points per game in their senior campaign.

“Playing at Polestra is always tough,” Gray said. “[Penn] lost two big parts of their offense, but we understand that other guys will step up. [Miles] Cartwright will be a lot more aggressive in the offense, and they have shooters and guys who know how to play.”

Cartwright — the lone starter returning from last years’ team — is averaging 13.5 points and 3.4 rebounds for game. Junior forward Fran Dougherty is averaging just under nine boards per game in only 10 games.

Though the Quakers have struggled to find their offense so far this year, Gray said his team understands that the Ivy League is no place for underestimations — especially when a team is playing on its home court.

“Hey, it’s a road game; we have to treat it like any other team in this league,” he said. “We know each other inside and out, so we’re prepared. We have to make sure we take care of Princeton first.”

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

Jenner Scores 150th Career Goal For C.U.,Stacked Matches, W. ICE

Cornell has yet to play Union or Rensselaer this season, but the Red has defeated both teams historically. The Red has a 16-game the many years. As a group, we could not be winning streak against Union and has won 11 where we are today without him.” of 15 contests against Rensselaer.

Junior forward Brianne Jenner scored two Both teams are down towards the bottom goals and junior goaltender Lauren of the ECAC standings, but Cornell is not Slebodnick recorded 18 saves in the shutout. taking anything for granted.

“Tuesday night’s win was very exciting,” “Overall, if we play a strong team game we Fortino said. “We played so well as a team will be successful,” Fortino said. “Both games and came out from the drop of the puck with are going to be tough and we cannot undergreat energy and estimate either of intensity and “Both games are going to be tough them. At this controlled the point of the seaand we cannot underestimate either of son, every game is tempo of the them.” game.” very important Other mileand if we want to stones on Laura Fortino reach our goals at Tuesday night the end of the seacame from playmakers Jenner, Fortino and son, we cannot afford to lose a game.”

Slebodnick. Jenner scored her 150th goal in Union is on a five game losing streak, but her career off an assist from Fortino. The has played tight against quality teams. The assist was the 93rd for Fortino in her career, Dutchwomen fell to Harvard, 1-0 back in moving her into fifth all-time on the Cornell January and tied Quinnipiac, 2-2, earlier in list of assists. Slebodnick (14-4) earned her the season. Rensselaer is on a two game win41st victory, tying her for third on Cornell’s ning streak and has not lost since Jan. 18. The list.

Engineers swept Union last weekend in a “We knew going in how significant the home-and-home series. game was and we proved that we wanted it “In order to beat Union and RPI, we are more and battled hard to get a very important going to have to carry forward the habits we win,” Fortino said. “We used our team speed have been harping on all year: playing fast well, moved the puck quick and won the lit- and using our team speed, having a defence tle battles all over the ice. Also we capitalized first mentality which means strong on the on our scoring chances which helped us out a forecheck and blocking shots in the d-zone,” lot.”

Fortino said.

This weekend marks the beginning of the end for the Red’s season as the remaining eight games will be against ECAC opponents. Scott Eckl can be reached at Continued from page 16

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… I am hoping they will feel more rested and be a little quicker.”

Two matches in one day comes with its own set of challenges, both mentally and physically. The team will travel from one competition straight to the next, which could be a problem if the first one against Hofstra does not go well. Cornell will then have to head to Columbia to take on the Lions straight from the last.

“This weekend we wrestle two matches back to back, which is really hard to do. We should win both matches. It’s really hard to due [two], physically. If you lose, now you are feeling sorry for yourself. Now you have to hop on a bus and go and wrestle in the city in a little tiny gym,” Koll said. “It’s a hard place to wrestle. Even though we should come out with dual meet victories individually, they are some really important matches this weekend.”

After this weekend, Cornell will go up against Bucknell on Feb. 10 for Senior Night at Friedman before heading away for the National Duals midmonth and then on to NCAA Championships in March.

“I’m looking forward to the National Duals and to starting the journey towards NCAAs,” Dake said.

training and lots of practice to head into this upcoming weekend with the team heading on the road to face Hofstra at1 p.m. and Columbia at 6 p.m. on Saturday.

“Our biggest issue right now is to continue to get better on bottom. We have put a lot of time into that, and will continue to work on it,” Dake said.

Improving in that regard will give an edge at Nationals.

“It was a tough loss, but our thoughts are on Nationals and we still have plenty of time to improve and focus on that,” senior Joe Stanzione said.

Koll said that although some players will have tough competition heading into the weekend, individually each player seems prepared for the upcoming challenge.

“Chris Villalonga at 149, has a really good matchup [ahead] at Columbia as does Jesse Shanaman. Those are probably their two best kids. They have seen these guys before. The boy that Chris is wrestling, he has beaten that kid before, [Villalonga] beat him last year. Both wrestlers are ironically, very similar, they go very hard and wear you out. What I am looking forward too, is that this Haley Velasco can be reached at week we have had a full week of training hvelasco@cornellsun.com.

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Polar opposites | The Cornell women are on a six-game winning streak, while the men struggle in fourth to last in the ECAC.

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Wrestling Continues on the Road to Nationals

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Last weekend the Red came back to the hill to face off against two very different competitors: UPenn and Oregon State.

On Saturday, Cornell scooted past Penn, 24-9, in a packed Friedman Cornell Wrestling Center with tough matchups, which, according to head coach Rob Koll, were not reflected in vs. the final score. “[Penn] was a lot tighter than the score [showed]. I knew we were mildly favored in Hofstra a few matches, but with two overtime Tomorrow, 1 p.m. matches, if we had lost Hempstead, N.Y. two of those, then it’s really, really tight,” Koll said. “[Senior] Stryker Lane was out of the lineup, so it was nice that the kid who was his backup did a nice job. [Penn has] a very good team.

Between Cornell and Penn, the winner has gone on to win the Ivy title for the last 26 years.”

The day ended with seven wins out of a possible 10 for Cornell, including victories from senior three-time national champion and captain Kyle Dake, freshman Nahshon Garrett, sophomore Bricker Dixon, junior Chris Villalonga, junior Jesse Shanaman, senior captain Steve Bosak and sophomore Jacob Aiken-Phillips.

“I like wrestling Cornell here [at Friedman],” Koll said.

On Sunday, Cornell faced off against Oregon State, vs. failing to get momentum from the depths of its roster to close the day with a win.

Instead, the Red fell to Columbia the Beavers, 23-20, in front of a crowd of Tomorrow, 7 p.m. around 3,100 fans.

N.Y., N.Y. “We knew we had a tough weekend ahead of us, and both teams are very competitive. The only difference is we don't wrestle against Oregon State very often, and their style is a little bit different,” Dake said.

The dual came down to a tie going into the heavyweights, but Cornell just could

not grasp some crucial opportunities. It failed to add another “W” to the season tally.

“Wrestling is about matchups and we had some of our very best guys matchup up against some of their weaker kids. Our very best are as good or better than anyone in the country. We just didn’t have matchups with our best kids and their best kids,” Koll said. “It didn’t work that way. We ended up

losing as far as the number of matches we won. I knew on paper that we weren’t favored in 133, 141, 149, 157, 174 was a tossup and [not at] 197. That’s seven matches that we weren’t sure [about] and we won four [out of the seven].”

Coming out of the loss to the Beavers, the Red has been preparing all week with See WRESTLING page 14

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Big Red bear hug | According to head coach Rob Koll, junior Jesse Shanaman (above) and junior Chris Villalonga will face tough competitors this weekend at Columbia.

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After Losing Three,Red Travels to St. Lawrence, Clarkson

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

With a three-game losing streak hanging overhead, the Red prepares to travel to the North Country to take on ECAC rivals St. Lawrence and Clarkson, Friday and Saturday night, respectively.

Refusing to allow last Saturday’s 0-3 loss to Brown (7-9-4, 3-6-4 ECAC) create a sour mood in the locker room, head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said that the Red

(8-9-2, 4-6-2) used the past week to take a break and refocus on where the team is at 20 games into the season. “[The team] took [Monday] off; I think that was important for just to get a chance to regroup and talk about a few things and have them go out and just ... have some fun, get on the ice and just get away from everything for a day,” Schafer said. “We kept things pretty short at [Tuesday’s] practice — coming back out with high intensity and tempo.”

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The Red began the 2012-13 season with a strong run, winning four of its first six contests and tying twice. However, in recent weeks Cornell has hit a rocky patch — losing six of its last seven games. Despite the string of unanticipated losses, Cornell Cornell the team is looking to head into the contests against St. Lawrence and vs. vs.

Clarkson with a clean slate in mind, according to senior defenseman St. Lawrence Clarkson and tri-captain Braden Birch.

Today, 7 p.m.

Tomorrow, 7 p.m.

“I think as a Canton, N.Y. Potsdam, N.Y. group, we collectively decided that it’s almost like a fresh start [playing away this weekend] — getting some energy back into the program,” he said. “It starts with practice — getting some good practice in, lots of energy, really upbeat. Like I said two days ago, we’re so close to being a strong team. We have so much balance at forward and on defense. I just think it was a rough patch, and we just need to play some good games and score some goals.”

Part of turning over a new leaf for the team will include converting more shots on net into goals.

Against Yale and Brown over the weekend, the Red recorded 50 shots on goal, yet only managed to skate

Seven up | Last weekend, senior tri-captain and defensemen Braden Birch and the Cornell squad lost to Yale, 3-2, in overtime and the Red will take on St. Lawrence and Clarkson on the road this weekend.

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NFL Wrap-Up: C.U.Looks to Extend Six-Game Streak Season Awards WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

By SCOTT ECKL

Sun Staff Writer

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s the NFL season draws to a close, with only the Super Bowl left to be decided, it is time to reflect on the entirety of the season and sort out the awards of the year.

Rookie of the Year: Colts QB Andrew Luck. Easily the toughest call. Robert Griffin III deserves it as well, and I would not have a problem with him winning the award.

Colts with Peyton Manning.

In his last full year on the Colts, Manning went 10-6.

This year, the Colts were an identical 10-6.

Luck attempted 627 passes this year, over 200 more than Russell Wilson or Griffin.

Luck took the worst team in the league and made them a playoff team, while Griffin and Wilson also had Pro Bowl running backs behind

The Cornell women’s hockey team comes into this weekend on a six-game winning streak — having outscored opponents 28-4 in that stretch. Perhaps coming off the team’s most impressive win of the season on Tuesday, Cornell is still four points behind Harvard (17-21, 14-1 ECAC) for first place in the conference.

The weekend’s games will also help to raise awareness for mental

health in the “Do it for Daron Series.” The No. 5 Red’s (17-4, 122 ECAC) games against Union (716-3, 0-11-3 ECAC) on Friday and Rensselaer on Saturday (8-153, 7-6-1 ECAC) will comprise the charity event that will show support for freshman defenseman Morgan Richardson’s brother Daron Richardson.

Tuesday night’s 4-0 victory over No. 7 Mercyhurst was not only Cornell’s last non-conference midweek test, but also marked a historical point in women’s hockey at

Cornell. Head coach Doug Derraugh became Cornell’s winningest coach, passing head coach Bill Duthie with Derraugh’s 136th win.

“As a team, we are so proud of Coach [Derraugh] and his accomplishments,” said senior captain and defenseman Laura Fortino.

“He has done tremendous things for this program, which shows through his hard work, passion and dedication for our team over See W. ICE page 14

John Zakour Point Blank If you were to include the postseason, I would give the award to Seattle QB Russell Wilson, but it is a regular season award. Looking at where the Colts were last year, Luck’s regular season body of work is extremely impressive. Luck essentially replaced a sure-fire Hall of Famer in Peyton Manning, and did so effectively. No team has leaned more on their quarterback than the

them.

Defensive Rookie of the Year: Linebacker Luke Kuechly out of Boston College. Kuechly, who wears #59 for the Carolina Panthers, was the ninth pick of the draft and more than deserved the pick. Kuechly recorded 164 tackles (12 for loss) in his rookie campaign, See ZAKOUR page 13

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Gone streaking | Junior forward Brianne Jenner and the rest of the Cornell women’s ice hockey team look to continue their six-game winning streak with victories over Rensselaer and Union.