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Students, staff and faculty convened in the Biotechnology Building Monday for President David Skorton’s town hall meeting on University finances.

The town hall meeting — during which Skorton shared details on Cornell’s revenue sources, major expenditures, budget deficit and cost-cutting efforts — was held in an effort to enhance communication between the central administration and the broader University, according to Skorton.

“It is true, and I want to take personal responsibility, that I’ve been sluggish about bringing that area of more detail ... beyond the top leadership of the University,” Skorton said. “Today is an attempt to move forward with broader transparency.”

Skorton said the administration devised a system whereby financial information would be disseminated in a series of “concentric circles” about six years ago.

Though Skorton said that in theory, information would start with the central administration and then be distributed to the Board of Trustees and college deans, such information has not always successfully reached all

Cash Versus Accrual Deficits

Cornell’s upcoming decrease in provost allocations and recently-announced additional student health fee are necessary because of the University’s accrual accounting deficit, Skorton “We are at the point now ... said. where we need to very, very “If you look at the [Ithaca seriously reduce campus portion construction of new space.” of the] audited financial statePresident David Skorton ments for the University, you will see a deficit,” Skorton said. “If you look at the cash accounting, you will see a balanced budget.”

Skorton explained that cash accounting is the way most people operate financially, where account totals reflect the actual amount contained therein at any given time.

He added that accrual accounting differs because it does not only reflect an account’s current balance, but

also accounts for any future plans the University has committed to and is adjusted to reflect those future plans even before they are actually implemented.

“When you make a commitment to make an expenditure [or receive a revenue commitment], you book See

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Mr. President | President Skorton speaks about University finances to Cornellians at a town hall meeting yesterday.

Former Ambassador Speaks at C.U. Mayor Svante Myrick’09 Michael McFaul lectures about United States-Russia relations

By RUBIN DANBERG BIGGS Sun Staff Writer

Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, addressed the current diplomatic relationship between Russia and the United States at the Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture Monday.

McFaul, who said he played

a “large role” in President Barack Obama’s Russian foreign policy, spoke to a packed Statler Auditorium, in a talk entitled, “A New Cold War? Explaining Russia’s New Confrontation with the West.”

He began his lecture by saying that the nature of international politics, United States foreign policy and Russian domestic policy are the main factors affecting the current

diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia.

He added that relations between the two countries have shifted in recent years due to Russia’s recent rise to global power, and that this was most noticeable when current Russian president Vladimir Putin succeeded former president Dmitry Medvedev.

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Russian relations | Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, speaks about the state of affairs between the two countries in Statler Auditorium Monday.

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“I love this City and I love to Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 serve this City,” Myrick said in a announced Monday that he is follow-up post. “I feel like my currently “gauging support” for service has made a difference and I’d like to contina reelection camue.” paign.

In response to a He appealed to commenter’s question potential donors in a if donations would be Facebook post, linkrefunded if he chose ing to a contribution not to run for mayor, page for the Myrick responded C a m p a i g n “yes.”

Committee of Myrick “ … I won’t confor Ithaca. tinue just because I “Thousands of you supported me “I feel like my am having fun and service has feeling productive,” then, and every day Myrick said. “If Ithaca since,” he said in the made a feels like it's time for a post. “Your advice, difference change then I won’t work, criticism, and love have made the and I’d like to run again.”

Myrick, who City of Ithaca an continue.” turned 28 on even better place to Monday, was one of live. If you still Mayor Svante the youngest mayors believe in Ithaca and Myrick ’09 in history when he if you still believe in was elected in 2011. the path we’ve set, then I need your continued sup- His four-year term will conclude at the end of this year. port.”

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First Student-Run Record Company At Cornell Will Distribute Local Music

By KIMBERLY LEE Sun Staff Writer

Electric Buffalo Records, the first student-run record company created on campus, has plans to record, produce and distribute local community members’ music on a regular basis, according to co-founders Mike Sosnick ’16 and Jacob Grossfeld ’17.

The nonprofit organization hopes to release a compilation featuring musicians from the Cornell community later next month. Grossfeld and Sosnick — who is an arts and entertainment editor for The Sun — said they hope to establish a community among musicians and musically-inclined students at Cornell, to forge collaboration between like-minded individuals and to channel the rich talent and passion that exists on campus. “[The goal is] to provide an outlet for members of the Cornell community who are making music but don’t have a great way of getting that music recorded and distributed,” Sosnick said. “We want to benefit the musicians on campus and their art, as well as give the world the ability to listen to the great music they’re creating that hadn’t had the opportunity to be recorded.”

Grossfeld said the record company hopes to be a “stepping stone” for local artists as well. “[Given that] the music community here, while vibrant, is somewhat disjointed and has few accessible creative outlets...we want to mainly be an outlet for musicians in order to help them gain exposure,” Grossfeld said.

‘Marginal fame’

As a brand-new organization, Electric Buffalo Records is working on recording a compilation, which will feature mainly artists with pre-recorded tracks.

Proceeds from the compilation sales will go towards funding the necessary equipment to record a full band, according to Sosnick. Any profits made will be reinvested in order to benefit more artists.

Electric Buffalo Records plans to become a part of WVBR, a student-run radio station that broadcasts to Ithaca and surrounding areas, according to Grossfeld.

“We [want] to integrate into WVBR essentially as a department within the station for a variety of reasons, including its devotion to pre-professional training for students and its non-profit, community-oriented outlook,” said Grossfeld, who is on the station’s executive board.

The label has drawn interest from around campus, especially from the Just About Music program house and the University’s music department, according to Grossfeld.

Electric Buffalo Records will offer some Cornell musicians recording, production and distributing services, according to the founders.

“We aren’t going to tie ourselves down to any particular style because quality and passion transcend genre, and we want to be able to serve as wide a range of artists as we can,” Sosnick said.

Kimberly Lee can be reached at kimberlylee@cornellsun.com.

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Performance artist Dynasty Handbag speaks about her early influences and recent work in Milstein Hall Monday.

Students Release Android Puzzle Game ‘Beam’

By DAVID TICZON

best mobile game hands down” at an end-of-the-year showcase held for students in computer science A group of Cornell students courses. released Beam, an Android game “Beam displayed at showcase application, on Sunday after they eight times more content than first began designing it as a proother games,” White said. “They ject in a computer science course worked to create a large amount over a year ago. of levels.”

A puzzle game, Beam allows The team behind Beam owes a the user to move colored pieces great deal to White’s class, around the board, according to according to Et Tu Games coDanny founder Reese Glidden ’15.

Glidden added that makFood frenzy ing the game was a requirement of White’s course.

“During that semester the five of us put in around 10 hours a week, which we would never have been able to do in our free time,” Glidden said.

Throughout the course, the group brainstormed many ideas before coming up with Beam, according to Ryan Kozierok ’15, another member of the group.

“We’d been talking about some ideas involving pirates tying up rigging for their ship, and one about robots that shoot lasers at each other,” Kozierok said. “Then someone proposed the idea of a game where you have these colored discs and they get connected and disconnected.”

Out of that colored disc idea came the final game design for Beam, according to Kozierok.

“In Beam, the player has only a single, simple action — move pieces around a grid,” Sperling said. “The puzzle and complexity grows from the HAEWON HWANG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER primary interaction in the Students enjoy dinner and dishes from various cultures at the Taste of game — beams form Culture event in the Memorial Room at Willard Straight Hall Monday. between pieces of the same

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Sperling ’15, one of the cofounders of Et Tu Games. The organization is comprised of students who created the game during a course they took last spring — Computer Science 4152: Advanced Game Design.

The game was awarded the title of “Best-Polished Game” last spring by Prof. Walker White M.S. ’98 Ph.D. ’00, computer science. Additionally, White said he believes Beam was the “overall

color that are aligned and destroy pieces of different colors.”

During the year between Beam’s creation in the advanced game design course to its release this weekend, Et Tu Games worked “incrementally” to improve the game, according to Kozierok.

“We’ve been incrementally improving the game fixing things, updating visuals, changing levels and the like,” Kozierok said.

Because none of the members are artists, the group came across several challenges in creating the game’s aesthetics, according to Kozierok.

“Designing the aesthetics was a collaborative process, but we wouldn’t have succeeded without Reese's design skills and the huge effort he put into unifying the artistic style and making the art assets,” John Steidley ’15 said.

“He’s not an artist by training, but he's got a real talent.”

The group’s name references Julius Caesar’s famous line, “Et Tu, Brute?” in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, according to Kozierok. He said Et Tu purposefully released Beam on the anniversary of Caesar’s death — the Ides of March.

Seeing people enjoy the game, which is available for free on the Google Android store, is “a very rewarding experience,” Sperling said.

Additionally, Et Tu Games plans to bring Beam to a larger audience in the future by bringing it to the iOS platform, according to Douglas Samson ’15, another member of the team.

“Right now we are focused on getting Beam out into the world and making it the best we can,” Glidden said. “If it does well though, who knows? Anything is possible.”

David Ticzon can be reached at dticzon@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Tech Names Chief Administrative Officer Juliet Weissman has been named the chief administrative officer of Cornell Tech, the University announced Monday.

Weissman — whose appointment went into effect yesterday — will be in charge of overseeing the “administrative, financial and operational aspects of the school,” according to a University press release. She will also serve as an adviser to Cornell Tech Dean and Vice Provost Dan Huttenlocher.

A graduate of Harvard University with a B.S. in applied mathematics and economics, Weissman previously worked as the vice president of organizational effectiveness at The College Board, according to the University. She has also been vice president of business development at Primedia and a high school mathematics teacher.

Weissman said she decided to join Cornell Tech because it appeals to her “personal and professional passions.”

“I joined Cornell Tech because it is a unique institution in higher education where my … passions for applied STEM education, entrepreneurship and innovation converge in the world’s most extraordinary city, which I’ve been fortunate to call my hometown,” she said in the release.

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Figures and finances | President David Skorton presents information on the University’s revenue sources, major expenditures, budget deficit and cost-cutting efforts at a town hall meeting in the Biotechnology Building.

C.U.Financial Management Discussed at Town Hall Meeting Skorton aims to‘reestablish trust’during remainder of presidency FINANCES

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that expenditure [or revenue]” under accrual accounting, Skorton said. He added that accrual accounting also includes measures of the organization’s depreciation.

According to Skorton, the main reason the University’s accrual accounting reflects a deficit is because Cornell is not spending enough money to maintain facilities. While Cornell’s revenue sources are sufficient to finance actual expenditures, he said they are inadequate to maintain the Ithaca and Weill campuses at their current values.

financial crisis of 2008, he asked the Board of Trustees to substantially increase the endowment payout — a request which they unanimously consented to.

“There’s no one still working … who had lived through a greater economic downturn than you all lived through in the great recession,” Skorton said.

A Robust Financial Aid System

Despite the University’s financial hardships, Skorton emphasized that during his tenure as president, he has aimed to maintain a robust financial aid system.

While he acknowledged that students who do not receive financial aid inevitably pay more every year as a result of annual tuition increases, Skorton said the proportion of total costs paid by students who do Recession Repercussions University finances were also affected by the 2008 receive financial aid has steadily declined over the past global recession, which contributed to the accrual decade.

“In all quintiles of the U.S. population, Cornell accounting deficit, Skorton said. He added, however, that cost-saving measures enabled the University to students who qualify for need-based financial aid ... are paying less for tuition [at Cornell] as a proportion quickly eliminate the cash accounting deficit. of the listed price than they have in “When the great recession long time,” Skorton said. “In started … the University had a “The most closely held ainflation adjusted dollars, … those [cash accounting] deficit of about $100 million, and … we were progoal I have ... is that I students who qualify for needbased financial aid are paying less jecting [a] $160 million [cash accounting deficit for the next fis- can somehow help ... to in actual, inflation adjusted dollars … than they did at the beginning cal year],” Skorton said. “What reestablish trust and of the recession.” actually happened, though, was some confidence.”

However, Skorton added that that by the next year, we had a balfinancial aid has not been immune anced budget … and it’s remained President David Skorton to budgetary concerns. fairly balanced since then.”

“Financial aid was reexamined a The cash accounting deficit was eradicated largely through increased workload couple of years ago, and we slightly altered it so that a shouldered by a decreased staff complement, the work little more debt burden was placed on our families,” of faculty members and heightened tuition costs paid Skorton said. by students, according to Skorton.

Promoting Transparency Cornell can also cut costs further by reducing camDuring the question and answer period following pus construction, a step Skorton recommends the Skorton’s presentation, Wyatt Nelson ’16 — who recently University take.

“Much of the construction you’ve seen on campus wrote a guest column for The Sun criticizing the over the last 20 years has been supported by debt,” University’s administrative transparency — asked Skorton Skorton said. “We are at the point now, for at least a why University administrators outnumbered faculty.

In response to Nelson’s question, Skorton said that few years, where we need to very, very seriously reduce comparable institutions also bore similar faculty-toconstruction of new space.”

Forty percent of the Ithaca campus’ $2.2 billion staff ratios.

“For every minute spent in the class teaching, or operating revenue comes from student tuition and fees, while about 12 percent comes from capital the research lab researching, or the studio creating, returns on the endowment, according to Skorton. there is a vast infrastructure that needs to be handled,” Although the University has a large endowment rela- Skorton said. “The staff support the work of the factive to other private universities, Skorton said ulty and students in countless ways.”

Skorton added that promoting transparency is his Cornell’s endowment is low in comparison to many highest priority for the remainder of his term. of its peer institutions.

“The most closely held goal I have for this discus“Compared to the schools that [we] want to compare ourselves to, we are among the lowest in endow- sion now and for my last 100 days at Cornell is that I can somehow help, working with all you collectively, ment per student,” he said.

The University usually strives to liquidate about to reestablish trust and some confidence in the five percent of its endowment each year — a total that administration of the University,” Skorton said. should be smaller than investment returns in order to allow the endowment to grow, according to Skorton. Rebecca Blair can be reached at However, Skorton said that following the global rblair@cornellsun.com.

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Former Ambassador Talks ‘Contentious’ U.S.-Russian Relations LECTURE

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“[U.S.-Russian relations] are not the basket case that you read about 20 years ago,” McFaul said. “Russia isn’t a superpower, but it is a power. … This story is really driven by what happens inside Russia.”

Though relations between the two countries have recently been “contentious,” McFaul said this had not always been the case.

According to McFaul, Obama’s foreign policy of “resetting” relations between the two nations was partially responsible for allowing the United States and Russia to reach several mutually beneficial agreements that include allowing U.S. military shipments to Afghanistan through Russia and

“[U.S.-Russian relations] are not the basket case that you read about 20 years ago.”

Michael McFaul the release of high-profile Russian dissidents.

“It was an effort to develop a working relationship with us,” McFaul said of the Russian policy through 2014. “Even through [the] Sochi [2014 Winter Olympics], the goal was to maintain this relationship.”

McFaul, who said he was an architect of the reset policy, said it was the administration’s desire to find areas of mutual benefit with Russia by working with Medvedev and Putin. However, working with Putin proved “far

more challenging,” McFaul said, as Putin tried to turn public opinion against the United States by blaming them for Russian protest movements.

“Putin acted to revive the United States as an enemy,” McFaul said. “This was the United States that was making [2012 Russian popular protests] happen, and that’s the argument that Putin was starting to sell.”

McFaul highlighted the differences in viewpoints between Medvedev and current president Putin as examples of how U.S.Russian relations had changed.

“Putin sees the world in zerosum term. Medvedev sees the win-win outcomes; Putin sees the United States as a competitor, Medvedev sees the United States as a partner, and finally [Putin] sees the United States as a fomenter of regime change,” McFaul said. “We underestimated how far in Medvedev had leaned to try to make the reset work.”

Additionally, McFaul said he believes Putin does not have a “master design.”

“I think he’s overrated as a grand strategist,” McFaul said. “He hasn’t been sitting under a map since he was a kid dreaming of resurrecting the Russian Empire.”

McFaul added that he did not see an end to Russia’s confrontations with the United States in the near future.

“The bad news? I don’t see a way for Putin to back down now,” McFaul said. “He’s fighting a messianic struggle against Nazis, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the decadent.

We’re ISIS, remember. We’re evil.”

Rubin Danberg Biggs can be reached at rdanbergbiggs@cornellsun.com.

Gore in his glory

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Former Vice President Al Gore, an advocate of renewable energy, leads a meeting in his offices in Nashville, Tennessee about the increase in investment in renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.

Ferguson Shooter Claims Police Not Target LAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A man accused of shooting two officers last week in Ferguson was not targeting police or aiming at demonstrators at a latenight protest, his attorney said Monday as he countered an earlier police description of the crime.

Defense attorney Jerryl Christmas also suggested that St.

Louis County police may have used excessive force when arresting the suspect, Jeffrey Williams, saying his client had bruises on his back, shoulders and face and a knot on his head.

Police spokesman Brian Schellman called the lawyer’s allegations “completely false.” adding that Williams was seen by a nurse when booked into the

county jail, standard procedure for all incoming inmates.

“The nurse released Williams as fit for confinement,” he said.

Williams is accused of shooting the two officers Thursday outside Ferguson’s police station, which has been the scene of protests since last summer’s fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Why You Should Attend Campus Lectures

2015’s Richard Cleveland Memorial Reading with J. Robert Lennon & Valzhyna Mort

BY JOE DIGIROLAMO Sun Contributor

Cornell’s English department and MFA program are notable for their incredible track record of welcoming and developing novelists such as Vladimir Nabokov, Toni Morrison and more recently, Junot Díaz. Yet what is almost more remarkable than the department’s history is its ability to provide current students with the opportunity to work with writers who are just as gifted as those famous Cornellians. At 2015’s Richard Cleveland Memorial Reading, novelist Prof. J. Robert Lennon, English and visiting poet Valzhyna Mort (originally from Minsk, Belarus) reminded me and every other attendee of how lucky we are at Cornell to have the chance to learn from some of today’s most unique and significant literary voices.

This was not the typical authors’ reading, which begins with well deserved but often long winded descriptions of the particular guests’ achievements. In an inventive, welcome and comical break from tradition, Professor Lennon introduced Valzhyna Mort by reading unflattering and humorous teaching reviews from a few of her students. Past students have apparently found that Professor Mort “talks too much” (an observation echoed by Professor Lennon’s students) and one student claimed, “My own thoughts were generally more useful than hers.” However, another student did admit that while Professor Mort seems “a little frightening,” she possesses superlative poetic skill and knowledge.

Professor Mort then stepped towards the podium and began reading from a number of her poems, beginning with her piece “Singer.” By her own design, Professor Mort transitioned from poem to poem with almost no breaks and purely on the strength of her forceful and at times haunting reading, she was able to seize and hold her audience’s attention for half an hour. Rather than list each piece of work that she read, however, I will instead attempt to describe her style.

As anyone who has read either the inside or the back covers of a book will know, trying to summarize a writer’s work is a desperate venture that will inevitably conjure up statements like “X

novel is Harry Potter meets The Notebook.” So rather than struggling to avoid such nonsensical clichés, I’ll just say that Professor Mort’s poetry reminds me of Robert Frost’s talent for rendering the mundane magical, deceptively simple rhythms and dark, elemental tone. Does this sound a bit overdone and ridiculous?

Yes, of course it does. But that does not change the fact that her poetry is more memorable and perceptive than any I have come across in a very long time.

After Professor Mort finished, she repaid Professor Lennon with an amusing reading of some of his own students’ reviews. Students purportedly find Professor Lennon “random and full of tangents” and one student said that he was “a bit too disturbing for my liking,” but as with Professor Mort, many of Professor Lennon’s students feel that he has some redeeming qualities as a writer and instructor.

Before Professor Lennon began reading, he highlighted the vulnerability of the position in which creative writing students must place themselves when submitting first drafts of their fiction for peer review. As Professor Lennon related with considerable empathy, not only do his students take a certain risk in handing their first drafts over for close criticism, but like all fiction writers they also tend to present intimate pieces of themselves in those drafts that they personally might not have even recognized they included in their work.

In a courageous and demonstrative continuation on this line of thought, Professor Lennon then read for half an hour from his new and unpublished story, Ghosts. Although as with Professor Mort, I am unfamiliar with Professor Lennon’s work, I was similarly stunned by the insightful and engaging nature of his writing. Again embarking upon an ill-advised stab at comparison, I would liken Professor Lennon to Neil Gaiman. The excerpt of “Ghosts” that Professor Lennon read was related to Gaiman’s

Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon True Panther

“I’ve been in love since I was 14,” Tobias Jesso Jr. said in a recent interview with Pitchfork. “It’s always focused on someone or something, and it’s always unrequited. It’s led to a lot of cheesy lines, but it’s also the way I am. I want to be romantic, and songs are a good way to do that.” This earnest, unapologetically schoolboy romanticism shapes the 29 year-old singersongwriter’s full-length studio debut, Goon, a fully realized vision of love, loss and disenchantment that has earned him comparisons to 70s crooners such as Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman.

Yet Jesso’s output captures something more purely emotive than the glossy productions of those icons, likely due to his background in the ever-growing Soundcloud, DIY aesthetic, a sound he developed almost by accident. In 2012, a hurricane of bad news brought Jesso’s aspirational career as a songwriter for pop stars to a crashing halt. A Cadillac blindsided him in a hit-and-run as he pedaled his bicycle through the streets of Los Angeles, shattering one of his hands so badly he wondered if he would ever play guitar again. When Jesso recovered from the shock of the impact, he looked up to see a man riding his fallen bike in the other direction. This, following a messy break-up and the news that his mother had cancer, Jesso decided to give up on Los Angeles and move back home to Vancouver. Having left his music equipment in an LA storage unit, the defeated musician spent the following months teaching himself piano and writing songs, one of which would become the demo for 2014’s “Just A Dream,” an achingly beautiful ballad about a man talking to his newborn son in the face of an impending apocalypse.

Jesso recently said of the song, “That was the first one I ever

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adult novels (particularly his most recent, The Ocean at the End of the Lane) in its subject matter, clean prose and peculiar gift for depicting reality in such a way that the reader senses that another, unfamiliar world lies fully formed beneath its surface. Yet to Professor Lennon’s credit, I left the reading with the feeling that his language was more beautifully and carefully constructed than Gaiman’s, and I look forward to steadily making my way through Professor Lennon’s published works.

As with every other lecture or reading I have attended during my time at Cornell, I came away from this year’s Robert Cleveland Memorial Reading with useful and novel insights as well as a greater appreciation for our campus community. And just as importantly, I am now able to look forward to reading the work of two brilliant, funny and invaluable writers and professors, Valzhyna Mort and J. Robert Lennon, and I encourage any reader who is looking for something fresh and new to do the same.

Joseph Digirolamo is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jad362@cornellsun.com.

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wrote where I was like, ‘This is for me, and I’m singing it — take it or leave it.” Thankfully, personal doubts about his singing voice did not stop Jesso from sending the demo to Chet “JR” White (formerly of Girls), who agreed to work with him.

These meetings developed into a record deal for Jesso and attracted the all-star production roster of Patrick Carney (The Black Keys), John Collins (The New Pornographers) and Ariel Rechtshaid for Goon. Yet Jesso’s debut feels fresher and more inspired than anything those would-be sonic shepherds have released in years, simultaneously pulling from and building upon the vagrant piano man archetype that seemed lost to generations past.

While determined to carve new musical territory, Jesso proudly wears his influences on his sleeve. Album-opener “Can’t Stop Thinking About You” recalls the classic pop sound of mid-70s McCartney, or even Stranger-era Billy Joel, as Jesso the Piano Man spins his melancholic yarn of fading romance.

The song conjures the mental image of the singer — in all his gawky, 6’7” glory — drunkenly performing to a half-empty bar, hoping a fellow sufferer will relate and drop enough bread in his jar for one more drink. The album has several other tracks of the same breed, mellow but emotional self-reflections backed by soft keys and the occasional pop filter (“Without You,” “Bad Words”).

But where Jesso really shines is when his ponderings turn into desperate pleas for understanding, most notably on “How Could You Babe,” the album’s climax and emotional centerpiece. The perfect song to send your annoying friend who won’t stop whining about how shitty their break-up is, “How Could You Babe” is Jesso’s lament for how quickly love turns to

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hate. His voice, steady and on-pitch during the verses, explodes into a pitchy wail for the grand release of the chorus. Its last iteration during the song includes an impossible-to-ignore voice crack, a shrieking imperfection that sends chills with its soul-baring emotion.

Jesso goes on to manifest his themes of failure and breakups in the city of Los Angeles, a place he frames as full of false promises. The understated “Leaving LA” fails to convey this message with its confusingly dichotomous musical direction, but “Hollywood” knocks it out of the park. The sparse instrumental fades in and out, foregrounding Jesso’s mournful selfdegradation: “I don’t know if I can make it / And I don’t know if I should.” The song ultimately digresses into an atonal cacophony of horns, as if a planned symphony has somehow gone horribly wrong.

Goon does stumble in a few places, most noticeably the honky-tonk pop of “Crocodile Tears.” Jesso likely intended it to be comic relief from the gloominess that defines the album’s better cuts, but it falls desperately short. Other songs, such as “The Wait” or “For You,” offend not by being bad, but by failing to achieve the excellence on display elsewhere. The album version of “Just A Dream” — the song that got the world excited for Goon — tarnishes the original with its overproduced glossiness.

Missteps aside, Jesso’s crafted a remarkable debut with Goon, but also one that leaves you wondering exactly how many other directions this hopeless romantic can go with his music in the future.

Chris Stanton is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun.com.

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feel about Carly Rae Jepson’s “I Really Like You” the way that Jonah Hill was forced to feel about “African Child” in Get Him to the Greek. This morning, I literally brushed my teeth to it.

Despite the Pitbull and Flo Rida often echoing out of my room, I’d like to think I don’t fit the archetype of a pop music fan. I love listening to everything from arrhythmic experimental to dissonant post punk, and I’m nearly as excited as Anthony Fantano for Death Grips’s The Powers That B. But I also really (really, really … ) like, nay, love Carly Rae Jepsen.

“Call Me Maybe” was an instant classic, rivaling Rebecca Black in its idiotic simplicity but featuring enough major-release pop polish to get it stuck in the head of every summer-loving American. The other tracks on her full length, Kiss, ended up disappointing and the world seemed content to relegate Jepsen to one-hit-wonder status.

Thankfully for poor sods like me, whose grin widens and knees buckle at the first hint of a formulaically catchy hook, the British Columbian 29-year old (Is anyone else surprised by that number?) came back with a fire lit under her ass with “I Really Like You.” Right off the bat, I want to address the song’s sales’ ace in the hole: its music video.

Scooter Braun and his label, School Boy, might have been wary of the single’s potential given Jepsen’s fall out of the mainstream eye, so they ensured “I Really Like You” would become a guaranteed conversation-starter with its absurd

video starring Tom Hanks. For those to whom I have over-excitedly raved about “Carly Rae Jepsen’s new song,” the common clarifier has been, “Is that the one with Tom Hanks lipsyncing in the music video?” Why yes, yes it is, but you’ve just proved my point for me — the video is just a massive gimmick. Even though Braun’s business savvy won out, Hanks’s intentionally indifferent performance detracts heavily from the song’s relentless bliss. It’s a pisspoor artistic choice to have an unsmiling protagonist for a track that makes everyone beam painfully wide.

Braun shouldn’t have had any reason to doubt himself. However, Peter Svensson, the Swedish mastermind behind the writing on Justin Bieber’s “Love Me,” One Direction’s “Rock Me,” Icona Pop’s “On a Roll” and Ariana Grande’s “Love Me Harder,” is no stranger to penning brain-numbingly simple pop hits (with equally predictable titles).

With Svensson at the helm, “I Really Like You’s” radio-friendliness should have Mike come as a surprise to Sosnick exactly nobody.

The track’s obvious ear-grabber is its chorus, which is introduced by rests — a transparent pop trick to build excitement. The rest and swell combo is so predictably formulaic that you’d think it would get old, but it remains the surest way to get my fat ass onto the dancefloor and Carly Rae Jepsen pulls it off with aplomb.

Repeating the same word six times ensures that you won’t be forgetting the words to the chorus any time soon, but it also has the unintended consequence of masking the shimmeringly

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infectious synth hook. Enough about the chorus, though, you know it by heart already — that’s, unfortunately, what people seem to be remembering. But it shouldn’t be.

In “I Really Like You,” a song that truly approaches perfection all around, the verses are the most perfect part. The snare drums resonate in a way only ultra-expensive mastering can, forcing involuntary hand dolphins out car windows and heads bobbing in a silent library. Had the track been distilled to just the drum mix, the crashing chorus intro, the chorus synths and the bridge, it could have been nearly as strong.

Jepsen’s voice is vivacious, sure, but I’ll take it to the grave that even a donkey singing over that snare would make a pop hit.

The single’s lyrics read like the high-(low?) lights of weekend YikYak, when people take a break from homophobic chirps and complaints about school kicking their ass to pine longfully for the object of their romantic and/or sexual lust in the least romantic way possible. Tell me if either of these yaks (direct quotes from Sunday morning) couldn’t have come from “I Really Like You’s” Carly Rae Jepsen: “I had sex with a close friend last night and it was awesome” and “To all the guys thinking about messaging the girl from last night, just do it

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already please.” (Hint: They both could have.)

Long story short, the lyrics purposefully hit the crushing puppy lover’s sweet spot with a low blow of triteness.

The last pop song I felt this immediately and completely enamored with was Pitbull’s “Timber,” and I’m hoping it can avoid what became the track’s fatal flaw: “Timber” was released in October (2013), so it never got to live up to its deserved status as a summer smash. I got tons of super-smiley milage out of “Timber,” but by the time it was warm enough to bump it outside, it had become overplayed and stale. I’m already averaging four or five plays per day for “I Really Like You,” so I hope with all my heart that Jepsen’s early March drop will still be a banger come July.

Mike Sosnick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Scrutinizing Skorton’s Financial Presentation WEEKS AFTER WE URGED THE ADMINISTRATION to provide context to its financial decisions, President David Skorton began discussions surrounding Cornell’s finances with the greater University community Monday afternoon.

Though it seems his presentation comes partly as a result of student agitation and not meaningful, proactive or inclusive dialogue with community members, it is nonetheless a step towards mending the University’s relationship with its employees, students and stakeholders.

Though we at The Sun are pleased to see the beginnings of a discussion about Cornell’s operations, little of the specific data presented was not already publically available. And even though the presentation provides a more accessible resource that can empower individuals across campus to better understand Cornell’s finances, we cannot in good faith accept a narrativization of general figures as a meaningful increase in “transparency.” Rather, Cornell must provide enough information to allow for all Cornellians to analyze and compare alternate proposals that address the problems facing the University.

One challenge was apparent during Monday’s presentation: Students hoping for an end to the multi-decade trend of tuition increases should not be so optimistic. As credit rating agency Moody’s notes, “constrained net tuition revenue growth is a key driver of [a] negative outlook” on non-profit institutions engaged in higher education. In other words, the credit agency says not only must tuition continue to increase, it must do so even faster for Cornell and its peers to maintain their rating.

Moreover, like that of its peers, Cornell’s endowment and investment pool will continue to grow with tuition.

Yet even as tuition, revenue and the value of Cornell’s endowment will continue to rise, the depreciation of Cornell’s facilities, as noted in the presentation, could lead to unforeseen or mismanaged costs taking precedence over student, faculty and staffproposed projects in the future. Despite multiple successful fundraising campaigns, colleges now face cuts to balance the Provost’s budget. Even drastic increases to financial aid, one of President Skorton’s most treasured initiatives, could be on the chopping block.

President Skorton insists that we must find and discuss common values in order to make critical choices. We agree and do not expect the financial management of Cornell, which is by far one of the most complex and sizable institutions of its kind, to be carried out flawlessly. Still, as new administrators begin their terms later this year, we hope the University will focus on providing all Cornellians with continued dialogue regarding financial decisions. If this institution truly wishes to stand out among its peers, it must involve students, faculty and staff in finding solutions to difficult problems. Cornell’s founding principles calls upon the University to provide a world-class, accessible and affordable education, and continuing to do so will require transparent accounting and more accountability from the administration.

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hen it comes to the conversa- issue that is tainting the national tion of rape culture, especially debate. The attitude that needs to be amongst college campuses, I taken is one of “how can I help” not believe there is a stigma negatively “what do you expect of me.” When you affecting the national debate. Through put things into the context that sexual conversations I’ve had with many of my assault is happening around you friends about the national attention that whether reported or unreported, sexual assault has been given, there vicious or not, intentional or unintenseems to be a glaring misunderstanding. tional, it has to affect your stance on That misunderstanding is related to the efforts being taken to reduced incidefinition of the word rape. To many, dents of sexual assault. rape conjures up images of felons hiding However when you imagine that the behind bushes, wearing masks, waiting only rape that is occurring is by behind corners to violently attack unsus- masked felons that would commit the pecting women. crime no matter what efforts are taken, What people need to realize is that then not enough gets done to prevent it.

It not all skews the rape is What people need to realize is that not all conversaviolent. tion in a Not all rape is violent. Not all rape comes from negative r a p e w a y . comes someone with criminal intentions. Not all People f r o m someone rape is even intentional. But it happens, and itdisregard when w i t h criminal in your lifetime it will more than likely happen they don’t t h i n k intentions. to one of your friends or family members. t h e y c o u l d Not all commit rape is even intentional. But it happens, and it. But we need to get the message in your lifetime it will more than likely across that if the right efforts aren’t happen to one of your friends or fami- taken, any of us could commit sexual ly members. It upsets me when people assault without even thinking it was paint sexual assault as a white and possible. If friends aren’t watching black issue when it lies so deeply in its their peers to keep them from making shades of grey. That is why I believe bad decisions, terrible incidents can the national conversation needs to occur even if you thought you were change in a way that even people who looking out for your partner’s best attempt to ignore the cries of others interest. begin to realize that even the people I find myself constantly upset by with the best of intentions can commit the apathy I perceive whenever I talk sexual assault. about the issues at hand. All people Rape is technically a type of sexual think they are incapable of committing assault in which there is sexual penetra- any type of crime that they didn’t tion without the partner’s consent; intentionally commit, especially when whereas sexual assault is any non-con- it comes to sexual issues. But its easier sensual sexual act (forced kissing, grop- than you think to commit such a ing, etc.). These definitions force us to crime. All it takes is a lack of underrealize that is doesn’t take physical coer- standing between the two parties cion to rape your partner. Rape can involved. All it takes is a simple conoccur when your partner is too drunk to versation not taking place that needed give consent, when they feel mentally to. All it takes is for your friend to look obliged to engage but don’t necessarily away when they need to intervene. We consent and there are so many other sit- need to ask more of ourselves if we are uations in which your partner may not ever going to effect change in the resist your advances, but still do not give Cornell community. We need to realize that this issue affects everyone. consent.

A lot of people at this point in the argument ask questions like “then what Deon Thomas is a senior in the School of Industrial do you expect me to do?” I believe that and Labor Relations and can be reached at this is the poisonous outlook on the djt79@cornell.edu.

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CORRECTION A March 16 news story, “Veterinarian Prof. Francis H. Fox DVM ’45 Remembered for Humor,” said Fox died at his home in Florida. In fact, he never lived in Florida, and died at Cayuga Medical Center on Friday.

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“What happened to her as you describe was terrible. She was tortured to death. However, it’s not wise to extrapolate from specific instances of crimes and insensitive comments that an entire class of people is as heinous.”

Aaron Bholé Re: “BHOWMICK | India’s Daughter” Opinion, published March 16, 2015

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ndians, just as the citizens of most other nationalities, harbor a significant amount of national pride. We love our country, from the local vendors we can bargain with to the need for chai tea at least three times a day. We love our Bollywood movies and we love our cricket rivalries. Somehow this love for our country, this deep-rooted respect we have for the qualities that make us a nation, has translated into a push for more recognition on the world’s stage today.

We want to be heard and recognized as a nation that has come a long way, a nation that has developed into the prime example of a working democracy. I see this desire manifest itself in India’s push for a seat as a permanent member on the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), however, I am strongly against this idea, which springs from our strong nationalist sentiments. Last November, in a visit to the nation itself, President Obama cited “India’s long history as a leading contributor to United Nations peacekeeping mission” in supporting India’s bid for a permanent seat on an enlarged Security Council last November. While this remains an idea backed by the other permanent members of the Security Council and most other nations, it is an idea that does not deserve as much merit as it receives when discussing India as a major player on the world’s stage.

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To push for recognition with the state of the country being as it is now would be a mistake; it would be to ask for power that has not been earned and it would be to ask for power that India does not need. the UNSC should be fairly low on India’s current list of priorities. India needs to work on the infrastructure, education and quality of life for her people. India’s GDP per capita is much too low, and the state of her military is limited at best. Even the Space, Naval and manufacturing industries deserve more attention. With greater care tended to these issues will come a reputation of a nation that is independent in her endeavors and capable of taking care of her own people. Only then can India expect to be granted the privilege of sitting on the UNSC. To push for recognition with the state of the country being as it is now would be a mistake; it would be to ask for power that has not been earned and it would be to ask for power that India does not need.

Detailed arguments aside, the issue boils down to the heart versus the brain. The United Nation Security Council is supposedly an international body that represents all nations in an attempt to maintain international peace and security. So why is it that of the five permanent members of the UNSC, only one country is Asian? Why is it that Africa, Australia, and South America fade into the background? And above all, why should we, in today’s day and age, look to these five countries to stand as world leaders when countries around the world are increasingly emerging as powerful nations in their own right?

As an Indian immigrant that has been tugged along on her father’s assignments to one country or another, my heart feels for India and countries like India that struggle with these questions and struggle to push for their representaion alongside the power of the Europeans and Americans. I choose, however, to side with my brain and trust in my education to propose a solution to such a global issue.

In the bid to claim membership as a permanent member of the UNSC, India should realize she is not ready. She should look first within herself to assuage the situation of her people now and when she itches to feel the glow of international recognition upon her achievements, she should perhaps turn to organizations such as the World Bank and IMF. Canvassing greater influence in these organizations, which are dominated by Europeans and Americans today, will allow for India to gain experience in demanding and wielding influence in important international bodies This experience may, in turn, allow her to prove a stronger case for a permanent member seat in the UNSC — in the off-chance that U.N. reform actually does take place in the near future.

Hebani Duggal is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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The Paper of Record Joins Snapchat

he New York Times, still a user’s friends of whatever he or to Kristof’s concise report, Isaac’s regarded by many as the she might be doing, whether fran- dispatch features less reporting nation’s newspaper of tically cramming before a prelim in than just general ambiance of the record, recently joined Snapchat. the Olin stacks or dancing on a festival. There have been at least The latest messaging fad in a long table at Dunbars. This intimate two videos of Texas Barbeque, a line of Facebooks, Whatsapps, form of storytelling, I think, has video of a “pedibike” that resembles Instagrams, etc., has recently made attracted the New York Times to an a hipster rickshaw, and a video of a news for good and bad reasons. In app whose inherent transience is Bates Motel perplexingly adorned Nov. 2013, the then-fledgling antithetical to the paper’s mission with the A&E logo, an ominously startup turned down a $3 billion of chronicling all the news that’s fit flickering “no vacancy” sign and acquisition offer from Facebook to print.

Isaac’s own captioned advice: and last October the company’s lax The first story on the “theny- “Don’t go in here.” And although security led to a large-scale hack. times” Snapchat account featured one picture of Isaac is captioned More recently, and positively, opinion columnist Nick Kristof “Ugh. Long day of reporting,” Snapchat successfully raised their researching a story in Angola. The Isaac seems more preoccupied with valuation to a reported $15 billion 33 second long micro report fea- proving his tech credentials than with a $200 million investment tures Kristof showing off what he reporting on the goings on of the from online wholesaler Alibaba, terms as a “hero,” a gambian conference (in one video he says, and just launched an in-app news pouched rat trained to sniff for “right now I am taking an Uber service with channels from CNN, landmines. Although he seems back to my Airbnb because I am Cosmopolitan Magazine and fel- uncomfortable with the time con- fully tech friendly”). In short, low social-media darling Vice straint of particular video segments Isaac’s report seems to be more News. Snapchat has certainly been (the 10-second limit cuts him off a Travel Channel than news journalbusy, and it looks like its decision few times), Kristof’s report pro- ism. to turn down Facebook’s acquisi- vides an intimate look into his onHowever, what can you expect tion offer may not have been as the-ground reporting style. The from the Grey Lady’s first attempts foolhardy as critics of the decision missive that Kristof concludes at Snapchat? Kristof’s and Isaac’s screamed two years ago. Instead, with, “stay tuned for my column reporting ranges widely in content Snapchat has continued to raise about these hero rats from and intent mainly because the money, and attract new users, Angola,” points to the efforts of paper does not know the utility of including the New York Times. print journalists to adapt to the Snapchat—and, to be fair, these are For anyone who has not used changing standards of always-on the first two reporters who have the app, Snapchat ever used the at its core allows account. I think one user to send that there is ... The Times’s embrace of Snapchat — another user a tremendous utilpicture or video of and other similar moves by competitors — ity for traditional up to 10 seconds. is something that I will be following closely news organizaThen, after the in the coming weeks. tions to drive recipient opens digital engageand views that ment with new "snap,"it disappears forever (or at digital engagement that news con- platforms like Snapchat. I am lookleast until hackers rifle through sumers have come to expect. In ing forward to Kristof’s new colyour previously-hidden images). fact, with his journalistic beat that umn about his snapchat story’s There are also various features has him traveling to the far-reaches subject, and may even take a peek including ephemeral video chat, of the world and writing his opin- at Isaac’s filings. However, the quessnap stories and Snapcash — a ser- ion on a given situation based on tion must be asked: Will ever-fickvice that allows you to send cash to his experience, and through exten- le, oft-maligned millennials another user. All of these features sive use of Twitter, Kristof has been (Snapchat’s primary audience) buy rolled into one platform has creat- able to cultivate an extensive digi- into mingling their news with ed a market for the exchange of tial following somewhat unusual videos of their friends throwing naked pictures (against Snapchat for a print journalist. How does flaming pumpkins into gorges? I policies) — this market is not the “thenytimes” fare in the hands of am not entirely optimistic, but the reason for the New York Times’s another reporter?

Times’s embrace of Snapchat — entrance onto the smartphone Tech reporter Mike Isaac took and other similar moves by comapplication. control of the Snapchat account petitors — is something that I will The Times’s involvement cen- last Saturday to chronicle his cover- be following closely in the coming ters around the popular feature age of culture festival South by weeks. called the Snapchat story. Whereas Southwest in Austin, Texas. As of a singular snap is a message meant Sunday at 10:10 p.m., Isaac had David Fischer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at to be sent to only a select group of posted 143 seconds worth of dfischer@cornellsun.com.

Fischy Busifriends, a snap story allows for the videos and pictures of the festival to ness appears alternate Tuesdays this dissemination of an image to all of the Snapchat account. As opposed semester.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 Device in a jogger’s armband, maybe 5 Off-mike comment 10 Deck swabbers 14 Emperor with a bow 15 Language of 14Across 16 Mayberry kid 17 Bureau of Indian Affairs purview 19 Heating or cooling outlet 20 Nationality suffix 21 BB-shaped veggie 22 Pay attention to 23 1989 handheld gadget release 29 “Magic Mike” actor Channing __ 30 Disparaging 31 Have yet to pay 32 Prof’s aides 34 Stat for Madison Bumgarner 35 Chaplin of “Game of Thrones” 36 Manhattan landmark, and a hint to this puzzle’s circles 39 Word before drill or engine 41 Clothes drier 42 Fish-on-the-line sign 43 “__ knows?”

44 Gentle gaits 46 Implicit 50 Mr. Wilson’s bane 53 Comparable 54 Modern, in Berlin 55 Through 56 “__ go bragh!”

57 Polynesianthemed restaurant chain 61 Data unit 62 Ready to hit 63 Event with specials 64 1930s heavyweight champ Max 65 Oddballs 66 Mined materials DOWN 1 Sharply focused 2 Empire conquered by Alexander the Great

3 “Murder on the __ Express” 4 Driver’s lic. info 5 “Midnight in Paris” writer/director Woody 6 Light lunches 7 “Give __ rest!”

8 Racket 9 Come to a halt 10 “Philadelphia” or “Chicago,” e.g.

11 Test type 12 Force to make a commitment 13 Tennis match part 18 Theoretical evolutionary link 22 Bovary’s title: Abbr.

24 Helen Keller, to Anne Sullivan 25 In this world 26 Young lady 27 Alter to fit 28 Passing remark?

33 Planetarium projections 35 Liver or kidney 36 Longtime newsman with the catchphrase “And that’s the way it is”

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48 Spiky winter hanger 49 Pokes fun at 51 West Coast NFLer 52 Hooks up with 56 Partner of flow 57 License plate 58 Postal worker’s beat: Abbr.

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wanted Alonso out of Buffalo, for reasons unknown. Remember, in Alonso’s only season in the league, he put up All-Pro numbers, and was a DROY candidate. Why Ryan didn’t want him, well, only he can answer that question. Also, the 2014-15 Bills’ offense was bad — like, Kyle Orton started at quarterback for more than half the season bad. Thus, the acquisition of a stud running back like LeSean McCoy would seem like a beneficial move. But frankly, for the Bills, the move is difficult to understand.

In the NFL, a team’s run game is a result of the offensive line play.

A good offensive line equates to a good rushing attack. Take the Patriots, for example. The Pats have a solid offensive line year after year; a similarly solid rungame, and in turn they’ve made the playoffs nearly every season since Tom Brady was drafted. But at the same time, the Pats seem to have a different running back every season. Undrafted rookie Jonas Gray rushed for 201 yards and four TDs versus the Colts in November, and yet he hardly played after that game. He didn’t even suit up for the Pats’ meaningful games down the stretch. Their lead back in the Super Bowl, LeGarrette Blount, was signed at the end of the regular season. Any running back in the NFL can put up eye-popping numbers if he has dominant offensive linemen in front of him.

Now, there are a few exceptions to this “rule:” guys like Adrian Peterson, DeMarco Murray and even McCoy are all more valuable due to their raw talent, speed, and ability to elude defenders. But even so, they are still running backs, and in football, a running back can’t win a game by himself — especially with a mediocre O-line. Building a successful ground game starts with the offensive line.

According to Pro Football Focus, the Bills were 32nd — dead last — in the league in run blocking in 2014. Even stranger, the Bills had arguably the most depth at the running back position this season. Fred Jackson, CJ Spiller, Anthony Dixon, and Bryce Brown have all had success in the NFL. Why add another back? With the worst run blocking in the league and four decent backs, it clearly is not the running back that is the problem. McCoy is also among the highest paid at his position.

Buffalo could have added several O-lineman capable of, you know,

blocking, for the same amount of money they will have paid McCoy, who is now under contract until he’s 31 years old.

Don’t get me wrong. LeSean McCoy is a tremendous football player. But unless the Bills make major improvements to their offensive line, he will not be able shine in Buffalo. CJ Spiller, a McCoy-like speedster who the Bills picked ninth overall in 2010, has been labeled a bust.

With McCoy on the way in, Spiller’s now with the Saints, and behind a New Orleans O-Line that Pro Football Focus ranked ninth in the NFL, CJ Spiller could easily have a better season than McCoy in 2015. We have only seen Spiller run behind subpar O-lines. On the other hand, McCoy had great run blocking in Philly.

From Buffalo’s standpoint, the

But hey, I guess Rex Ryan has a plan.

All I can is ask: Why? Running backs don’t win Super Bowls. Teams win Super Bowls.

And right now, paying LeSean McCoy $40 million is a step toward further mediocrity. trade is the head scratcher of all head scratchers. Even in the worst-case scenario, say Kiko Alonso fails to return to form following his ACL injury (he’s expected to be fully healthy for the start of the season), the trade wouldn’t be a loss for the Eagles.

Trading McCoy has already freed space for the Birds to bolster their team in other, more important ways. They’ve already locked up DeMarco Murray — an upgrade from McCoy due to his success as a goal line back, combination of speed and power, and so on — and ex-Legion of Boom member Byron Maxwell. Furthermore, they are expected to have big-time draft plans.

But hey, I guess Rex Ryan has a plan. All I can do is ask: why?

Running backs don’t win Super Bowls. Teams win Super Bowls.

And right now, paying LeSean McCoy $40 million over the course of the next five years is a step towards further mediocrity — not Super Bowls.

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com.

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Red Drop Three Of Four During Trip to Florida

Work in progress | Despite a strong showing from Kevin Tatum and the rest of the offense, the Red went 1-3 in Florida.

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By SHANE LEWIS Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Red lost three of four games this past weekend at the RussMatt Invitational in Central Florida. Cornell (2-8) defeated Bowling Green 8-6, but fell to LIU Brooklyn 4-5, Maine 9-13 and Huntington 2-7. Teams play a predetermined schedule as opposed to a tournament style. The team’s early season struggles continue, having lost eight of the first 10 games.

Unlike previous efforts in the season, run support was second inning, however, the Red offense fell silent. Brooklyn not an issue for the Red. Cornell scored 23 runs in the four slowly clawed its way back in the game, scoring runs in the games, while in the six games leading up to the invitational, fourth, fifth, and sixth innings to tie it up and force extrathe Red scored just 12 times. Senior infielder Kevin Tatum, innings. The winning run for the Blackbirds would come in who served primarily as designated hitter last year, had a the bottom of the twelfth. strong showing in Florida, batting .375. Senior infield Dan Cornell responded on Saturday by defeating Bowling Morris also played well, driving in five runs over the week- Green (5-9). The Red again jumped on its opponent 4-1 by end. the third inning, and would hold an 8-1 advantage by the “On Friday and Saturday the bats finally came alive and sixth. The Falcons would rally with five runs over the next exploded,” Tatum said. “I’m confident if three innings, but still fell two runs “We just need to put it we string key hits together for big innings short. that our pitching staff will do the rest.”

In the second game of together for a full weekend. Saturday’s Though this pitching staff is usually double hitter, the Red Our hitting still needs reliable, they surrendered a significant took on Maine (8-13) and it was amount of runs over the weekend. an entertaining affair, offensively. to step it up.”

Through the first six games of the season The teams combined for 30 hits Kevin Tatum the Red gave up more than three runs and 22 runs. Four players for only once, and that one time came Cornell posted multiple RBI’s and against No. 1 ranked Virginia. It was a different story for the six players had multiple hits. The Red took a 2-0 advantage team in Florida, where it surrendered a total of 31 runs over early, but explosive third and fourth innings from the Bears the weekend. Brian McAfee was the sole pitcher to pick up were too much to overcome. Maine would score 10 runs a win at the invitational, his first of the season. over the two innings, and Cornell’s attempt at a late rally fell On Friday, the Red’s first game was a heartbreaker, falling short. to LIU Brooklyn (6-5) in 12 innings. Cornell jumped on the Sunday’s game against Huntington (1-3) saw a similar Blackbirds 4-1, thanks to a four run second inning. After the pattern as the previous three games, with the Red jumping

out to a quick lead. However, just like the game against Maine, two innings were the determinant in the matchup.

The Red pitching staff was able to hold the Foresters in check for most of the game, limiting them to only eight hits.

However, three runs in the fifth and four in the eight were enough to earn Huntington a victory. For the first time all weekend, the Red were unable to generate any offense, reaching base only six times. This was due to a strong outing from Huntington pitcher Tanner Wyes, who finished with seven strikeouts and no earned runs.

According to Tatum, the problem for the Red so far this season seems to be consistency. When the pitching has been good, the run support hasn’t been there. When the team finally generates runs, the team has lacked on the defensive and pitching side. Tatum said he thinks that if both aspects can come together, the Red should find more success.

“We just need to put it together for a full weekend,” Tatum said. “Our hitting still needs to step it up and we will show this versus Bucknell this upcoming weekend. Timely hitting and good defense win games.”

Up next for Cornell is a four-game series at Bucknell in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Bucknell (9-5) also recently played in the RussMatt invitational, winning three of five contests.

Shane Lewis can be reached at slewis@cornellsun.com.

McCoy Is a Bill? No.7 Men Take On Colgate at Home B After dominant win,Red hosts its first game of season at Schoellkopf MEN’S LACROSSE

uffalo Bills’ head coach Rex Ryan is a defensive whiz. That’s why the Bills hired him.

Ryan led the Jets to back-to-back AFC Championships appearances in ’09-’10 — when Mark Sanchez was quarterback, and offensive production was, well, meager. Off-field eccentricities aside, Ryan has proven his ability to coach in the NFL and is a perfect match for his former rival Buffalo Bills.

The Bills’ defense — playing in the competi-

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz tive AFC East — ranked in the top-five in the league in nearly every team defensive statistical category this season. They proved to be a shutdown defense and they did so without stud linebacker Kiko Alonso, who tore his ACL while working out in the offseason. Alonso was third in the NFL in tackles in 2013 — as a rookie. Ryan goes to Buffalo to coach a young, promising defense, with Alonso anchoring the unit. But last week, the Bills agreed to send Kiko Alonso to Philadelphia. For LeSean McCoy. Before I break-down this trade, let me make clear that it was reportedly Rex Ryan himself who See SHATZMAN page 11

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After six games on the road, the men’s lacrosse team finally gets to return to Schoellkopf Field. The Red will welcome Colgate to Ithaca in a battle of in-state rivals tonight at 7 p.m. Cornell is coming off of a dominant win against No. 9 Yale, knocking off the previously undefeated Bulldogs, 14-7.

Plagued by snow and poor weather all season, Cornell has yet to play a game on its home field. Games against Hobart and Binghamton were moved to an indoor facility. The Red flew to Texas to take on Albany only for the snow to follow the team yet again.

“It’s a little weird,” said senior attackman Matt Donovan of not playing at home so far this year. “But playing on the ’Kopf is something we’re looking forward to and something we really take pride in.”

The weather has also forced Cornell to practice inside, leading to problems in running some drills.

“The weather has been difficult.

That hurts riding, clearing, a lot of full field stuff, but when it comes down to it, we don’t make excuses here,” said

senior midfielder Connor Buczek. “We get done what we can as a team.”

The Red enters the game ranked seventh in the nation, looking to start a win streak after a couple of early season losses to ranked opponents.

Colgate began the season strong winning its first four games of the season, including an opening day victory against preseason No. 14 Bryant. Since then, the team lost backto-back games, including an 18-11 lost to B.U., in which B.U. finished the game on a 9-2 run.

Last year, Cornell soundly defeated the Raiders 15-10 led by senior attackman Danny Lintner’s five goals. After Lintner was held scoreless in the Red’s first three games this season, he has since caught fire, scoring nine goals in his past three games. Joining Lintner at attack is Donovan, whose 3.67 goals per game average ranks fourth in the country, and junior Bradlee Lord. The offense as a whole is ranked in the Top10 nationally, fueled by Domenic Massimilian’s outstanding face-off play.

Massimilian is currently eighth in the nation in face-off percentage.

Cornell has dominated the all-time series against Colgate and has won nine straight against the Raiders. After Colgate, the Red will host Penn on Saturday.

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

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Coming home | Danny Lintner and the squad will finally get to play at home.