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more “comprehensive approach to support student well-being” and recruiting and retaining President Martha E. Pollack healthcare professionals, particuoutlined steps the University is larly underrepresented minoritaking to address mental health ties.

These efforts, Pollack noted, issues, diversity and inclusion on campus at a GPSA meeting on are part of a continuing focus on mental health.

Monday.

“We have this Pollack defendlong-standing comed her decision to mitment to support reject the estabstudents’ health, and lishment of an we’re continually independent menstriving to improve,” tal health task Pollack said. force, noting that B r e a n n e the University is Kisselstein grad, cocurrently particiPOLLACK chair of the GPSA pating in an external review conducted by the JED Student Advocacy Committee, Foundation, a nonprofit aimed told The Sun that she was excittowards youth suicide preven- ed Pollack discussed the issue of mental health policy at the meettion.

The JED Foundation, Pollack ing.

“It’s been an issue that people said, visited campus over the summer and is producing a have been bringing up … and it’s report that will be finalized this something that we’ve been trying spring. Pollack offered to share to figure out how to work on,” the outcomes of this review with she said. “People want more mental health initiatives for the the public.

Both Cornell’s own reviews graduate and professional stuand other reviews identified dents, so I’m glad she brought it three main problem areas, up but I also hope we see real according to Pollack. These areas solutions soon.”

At the meeting, Pollack also include increasing Counseling and Psychological Services staffing levels, investing in a See POLLACK page 4

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Politicians | Then-Vice President Dick Cheney (middle) walks out of the Pentagon on Dec. 15, 2016. He is speaking at Cornell less than a year after former Vice President Joe Biden delivered his Commencement speech.

Cheney to Speak at Cornell Former vice president to be hosted by Cornell Republicans

By MEGHAN FLANIGEN and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer and Sun City Editor

Former vice president Richard “Dick” Cheney will speak to Cornell students in Ithaca this spring at an event hosted by the Cornell University College Republicans, the group announced on Monday evening.

Cornell Republicans hope Cheney, who served as George W. Bush’s vice president from 2001 to 2009, will be a “conversation starter” and bring a wealth of knowledge to campus from his 40 years in and out of government, the group's president, Austin McLaughlin ’18, said in an interview.

“The man has been everywhere in govern-

ment besides the judicial side,” McLaughlin said, adding later that he is excited to hear from a politician who had served in government for so many years.

Cheney’s visit — which follows less than a year after his successor, Joe Biden, addressed graduating seniors at Cornell’s convocation — is likely to revive a debate over whether Cornell should subsidize security fees for private events.

The Cornell Republicans executive board has met with administration members and Cornell Police officials, McLaughlin said, adding that Cornell may be moving to a venuebased model of charging security fees. The University has not officially updated its policy.

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By fundraising without authorization, CJF volunteers trespassed on campus property The Children’s Joy and violated a university policy Foundation, a charity organiza- that requires fundraisers to subtion, has been harassing stu- mit their plans to the University dents by aggressively soliciting for review. donations, Students without unireported feel“She came up to me and versity authoing uncomrization and started patting my back and fortable at the often without volunteers’ use just kind of shoved the identifying of forceful tact h e m s e l v e s donation thing in my face...” tics, including since last m a k i n g Bipra Kundu ’18 semester. unwanted CJF volunphysical conteers are confirmed to have tact and refusing to take no for fundraised in Ho Plaza, Sage an answer.

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TED Founder to Speak at Cornell About Innovation Author and architect to reflect on his Jewish heritage while sharing his life story and new ideas

By STACEY BLANSKY Sun Staff Writer

TED founder and American author Richard Saul Wurman will speak on February 5 in Call Auditorium, as the first speaker of the semester for the Major Speaker Series hosted by Cornell Hillel.

Founded by Wurman in 1984, the

“[Speakers] usually talk about their story but oftentimes ... their experience with Judaism is interwined with that story.”

Julia Katz ’19 Technology, Entertainment, Design conferences bring together speakers from various disciplines to give 18-minute talks on new and innovative ideas, according to TED’s website.

Julia Katz ’19, student chair of the Major Speaker Series at Cornell Hillel, said Wurman was “an obvious choice.”

“We saw Wurman as this creator of the instantly recognizable TED Talks, a worldwide phenomenon,” Katz said. “We thought that students at Cornell would be interested in hearing the story behind that creation.”

Katz said that Wurman might also speak about his personal experiences with Judaism and how they led him to discover these commonalities between technology, entertainment and design. “[Speakers] usually talk about their story but oftentimes you see that their experience with Judaism is intertwined with that story,” Katz said. “We are

Cornell Hillel, so we are trying to bring in these Jewish speakers and hear both their story, through whatever field they are in, as well as its connection to Judaism.”

After receiving both a M.Arch. and B.Arch from the University of Pennsylvania, Wurman chaired the TED conference from 1984 through 2002 and the TEDMED conference, dealing with the health and medical profession, from 1995 to 2010.

He has been awarded several honorary doctorates, fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and was recognized as the Distinguished Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University.

Although hosted by Cornell Hillel, the event will be open to the public.

“I really encourage anyone and every-

“I really encourage anyone and everyone ... to understand and pick the brain of this incredible, innovative mind.”

Julia Katz ’19 one to come to this event and have the ability to understand and pick the brain of this incredible, innovative mind,” Katz said. “I think he has done so much for the world in terms of these conferences, and it would be incredibly inspiring to really understand his thought process.”

Stacey Blansky can be reached at sblansky@cornellsun.com.

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Burst Pipes Delayed Opening of Anabel’s Former World Bank Store opening this week after store was flooded, soaking merchandise

By KATHERINE HEANEY Sun Staff Writer

After suffering building damages over Winter Break, Anabel's Grocery, a student-run, on-campus grocery store, will reopen Wednesday.

Khansa Mahum ’19, public relations manager for Anabel’s Grocery, said that the Anabel’s staff had hoped to open on the first day of classes, but had to postpone opening by a week to repair some structural damages found

in Anabel Taylor Hall.

“There was flooding due to pipes that had burst throughout Anabel Taylor Hall over winter break, and there were damages done to the ceiling and some store product,” said Mahum.

However, she confirmed that the grocery was “fully repaired” and ready to reopen Wednesday.

Cornell paid for the repairs as the building is university property, according to Devon Rosen ’19, pro-

gramming team member.

“Multiple rooms in Anabel Taylor Hall were damaged,” Rosen said.

“However, the store was easily cleaned up, and the University was able to retile the ceiling.”

After years of planning and preparation, Anabel’s Grocery opened its doors at Anabel Taylor Hall in May 2017. The store was created with the goal of addressing food insecurity in See GROCERY page 4

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Reopening | Anabel’s Grocery will reopen on Wednesday, a week later than scheduled because of structural damage caused by burst pipes that flooded the shop and ruined some merchandise.

Economist Analyzes Indian Democracy

By GLORIA LEE Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Kaushik Basu, economics, former World Bank chief economist and former Indian government chief economic adviser, emphasized the importance of India’s democratic institution while comparing India’s economy to that of China and Russia’s in a lecture on Monday.

“India made a very early commitment to freedom of speech, openness, democracy, fearful of what had happened in Russia where socialism fell into a one party route,“ Basu said.

Basu explained that India’s democracy hindered short-term economic growth, especially when compared to countries with more authoritarian regimes like China.

Democracy reduced India’s flexibility in experimenting with new macroeconomic policies.

Nonetheless, Basu advocated for a democratic approach rather than a socialist one, because a coercive structure similar to China’s market economy “may work for some time but, in the long run, it backlashes.”

Although India’s gross domestic product did increase during his tenure in office, Basu expressed concerns about the nation’s nearly 10 percent rise in inflation rates a rate that does not impact places such as Latin America to the same degree but is detrimental to India’s production and redistribution of wealth and income.

“I realized after working in the govSee INDIA page 4

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Pollack Defends Rejection of Mental Health Review Ongoing diversity and inclusion directives making progress, some committee members say POLLACK

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discussed the progress of the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate, which was implemented to address diversity and inclusion on campus after several raciallycharged incidents last fall.

Kisselstein, who is a member of the campus experience subcommittee, told The Sun that the task force is making progress. Each subcommittee, she said, has already dis-

“She wants ideas. And they don’t need to be perfect we just need to be really creative and think of real solutions.”

Breanne Kisselstein, grad cussed how it will be run, when it will meet and which issues it will work on. “[Pollack] told us [that] we’re on a timeline, we’re on a very tight timeline, it’s going to be really hard work, but she wants ideas,” she said. “And they don’t need to be perfect we just need to be really creative and think of real solutions and then report them

by May.” In addition to the task force, Pollack listed three steps the University is taking in the area of diversity and inclusion.

The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council both implemented a new diversity program before spring recruitment began, the Usniversity created a new diversity website and the Center for Teaching Innovation is assembling an online course to equip faculty with skills to

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Mental health | Pres. Pollack addressed the GPSA on topics including mental health, inclusion directives and the recent tax bill. teach in multicultural classrooms, Pollack said.

Additionally, Pollack emphasized the need for a clear consensual relationships policy, praised graduate and professional

students for opposing a part of the recentlypassed Congressional tax bill and informed GPSA of a 40 percent funding increase and expanded eligibility requirements for the Student Child Care Grant program, which

provides financial assistance for students’ childcare expenses.

BreAnne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun.com.

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Money talk | Prof. Kasuhik Basu, formerly the World Bank’s chief economist and a former Indian government chief economic adviser, spoke to an audience at Cornell on Monday.

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ernment [of India] that there’s a lot of intelligence but some political restraints,” Basu said.

In particular, he argued that the Indian government’s decision to combat black money by eliminating 86 percent of banknotes in circula-

tion was one of the country’s largest mistakes. He said that it was a huge intervention without enough professional input.

Basu also said that it is not too late for India to reverse this trend but that carefully constructed policies addressing both short- and long-term difficulties would be necessary.

Basu’s lecture was the first in the South Asia Program Spring Seminar Series of 2018, which invites speakers to give informal talks every Monday on topics relevant to the program.

Gloria Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com

the Cornell community by giving students access to healthy and affordable food.

Anabel’s also provides food education and literacy, with access to healthy eating tips and recipes.

This semester, the grocery is launching a no-cost “Shopper’s Club,” which any student can register for online. The club will provide members with access to free cooking classes, promotions and giveaways, according to the Anabel’s Grocery website.

Additionally, students can fill out a web survey to determine if they qualify as “food insecure.” If they do, they will receive a 10 percent food subsidy, which will

be discounted from their entire in-store purchase.

The staff of Anabel’s is eager to reopen this week to put these programs into place.

“There was flooding due to pipes that had burst throughout Anabel Taylor Hall ... and there were damages done to the ceiling and some store product.”

Khansa Mahum ’19 “Thanks to the efforts of the Cornell maintenance staff, we made a speedy recovery,” Mahum said.

Katherine Heaney can be reached at kheaney@cornellsun.com

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Former V.P. Cheney to Lecture in March

under President George H.W. Bush.

Cheney has written several books, including a memoir with his daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, who is a U.S. representative from A Sun analysis last year found that Cornell Republicans had paid Wyoming.

While Cornell sponsored Biden’s address in May, Cheney’s visit is nearly $6,000 in security fees to Cornell over two years for conservative speakers, including $5,000 to former Sen. Rick Santorum, a funded by Cornell Republicans, its donors and the Young America’s Republican who was repeatedly interrupted during his lecture in Foundation, a conservative youth organization, McLaughlin said. He November 2016. The Cornell Political Union also chose to make a declined to say how much Cheney charged to speak at Cornell. A Tea Party leader’s lecture private rather than pay a $1,700 security fee. Politico report in 2010, citing a person familiar with Cheney’s speakLeft-leaning lecturers, meanwhile, rarely bring protests from ing fees, said the former vice president charged $75,000 in 2009.

Cheney does not appear to have any direct connection to Cornell, Cornell students, meaning security is not required: Cornell Democrats’ president at the time, Kevin Kowalewski ’17, said the although two Cornellians once named a slime-mold beetle after the group had never needed to hire Cornell Police during his time with vice president while he was still in office.

In 2005, Cornell Prof. Quentin Wheeler, entomology and plant the organization. science, and Kelly B. Miller, Ph.D. ’01, When Brigham Young University labeled 65 new species of beetles and announced in 2007 that Cheney would “He’s old and wise, as they say, named three in honor of Cheney, the speak at the college’s commencement, rare protests broke out at the largely- so I think it’ll be great to hear his younger Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, the former secretary of defense. Wheeler was Republican, Mormon university. perspective.” cryptic in an interview with The Sun at Following The Sun’s report, Cornell the time, saying his and Miller’s naming of Austin McLaughlin ’18 began a trial policy in which the the 65 beetles — one of which they called University subsidized 90 percent of securiA. cheneyi Miller — was neither a political ty fees. Cornell paid $4,500 of the $5,000 in security fees stemming from former House Speaker Newt decision nor based on the beetles’ features.

“When leaders do what they believe is the right thing and it is Gingrich’s lecture at Cornell last March.

“Most of it is out of our control, but we are very well prepared for popular we owe them our thanks,” he wrote in an e-mail at the time.

“When they do what they believe is right and it is unpopular, they whatever happens,” McLaughlin said.

The event will be free and open to the public, but attendees will deserve our admiration.”

Wheeler, now the president of SUNY College of Environmental need tickets to get in. Tickets will be available for pickup in Willard Science and Forestry in Syracuse, said at the time that he named the Straight Hall beginning sometime in March.

McLaughlin said Cheney is a “fresh” choice for the annual Cornell beetles after citizens that showed great “character and resolve sticking Republicans event, noting that Cheney has largely been out of the to their principles in the face of stiff opposition.” Neither Wheeler news since 2009. A movie portraying Cheney’s life — starring nor Miller immediately responded to emails on Monday night.

Asked about the beetle connection, McLaughlin said, “Is that worChristian Bale as the vice president — is expected to be released in thy of comment? I don't think so.”

2018.

Cheney grew up in Nebraska and Wyoming and studied at Yale “It will be exciting to get him,” McLaughlin said. “He’s old and before earning a B.A. and M.A. at the University of Wyoming. wise, as they say, so I think it’ll be great to hear his perspective.”

Before he served as vice president under Bush, Cheney, 76, was the CEO of Halliburton, an energy industry company. Wyoming voters elected Cheney to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, where Meghan Flanigen can be reached at mflanigen@cornellsun.com. Nicholas he served until 1989, when he was appointed secretary of defense Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nickbogel@gmail.com.

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A Scathing Condemnation Of College Boys S

ay what you will about Taylor Swift, but the girl knows a thing or two about writing a revenge song.

On her most recent album, Reputation, the song “I Did Something Bad,” contains the lines: “If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing / I don't regret it one bit, 'cause he had it coming.”

Well ladies and gentlemen, some men talked some shit.

My first ever column for The Sun was called “It’s Not You, It’s Me (But Also, Maybe It’s You)” — about how I’ve never experienced an orgasm, and the cultural implications that the conversation surrounding this issue represents.

Sometimes people think that because I speak so openly about my sex life, they can too.

It can be hard when everyone knows you’ve never had an orgasm — and I understand I brought that upon myself.

And mostly I love all attention, so it isn’t that big of a deal. However, as I oh-toeasily forgot, “slut shaming” is still very much a thing and sometimes people think that because I speak so openly about my sex life, they can to.

Last semester, after a night at one of Ithaca’s lovely bars, I went home with a guy who happened to be on an athletic team. We slept together and obviously I didn’t orgasm but I had a good time. I woke up to find that he had left the condom on the floor which is RUDE but other than that it was pretty uneventful. We exchanged a few drunk texts over the course of the semester but never met up again.

My last night in Ithaca before leaving for Winter Break, on my way to a party at the house of the aforementioned athletic team, I found out that this boy had written “I fucked Willow Hubsner” in the team’s GroupMe. This announcement prompted someone to bring up my “I can’t orgasm” column and then the team fined him — like made him pay money — for failing to break the curse. That was pretty funny, but as funny as it was, it was a hundred times more fucked up. This group of guys

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all felt comfortable using intimate knowledge of my sex life, even if I had published it myself, and that is quite irksome.

I decided to go to the party anyway. Upon introducing myself to some guy in the basement, he said “Oh, you’re Willow.

Want me to make you cum right now?”

As shocked and grossed out as I was, I’m great under pressure so I snarled and scoffed and said “you couldn’t possibly” and walked away.

The concept that guys can be shitty is not groundbreaking. And yeah, people kiss and tell, I get that. Actually, very few people were surprised by the first part of this story. Mine was not the first and won’t be the last name dropped in that GroupMe, not to mention all of the names spoken about by all the other fraternities and athletic teams on this campus. I want to use this story not just to highlight the ownership and entitlement that men feel over women — entitlement to our bodies and our information and our adoration — but also the culture that organizations like these, that are built on toxic masculinity, allow to fester.

Yes, men can be assholes individually, but groups like these should provide some kind of social accountability. Only one guy needs to say “not cool man,” but of course the group-think dynamics can leave ethics by the wayside, and the entire bunch can be poisoned by a few bad apples who normalize this behavior.

Obviously we cannot ban gatherings of men — believe me, I’ve thought about it and it just isn’t feasible. However, it is exactly this — the normalization of sexist,

Only one guy needs to say “not cool man.” racist, idiotic behavior — that has landed our entire country on this flaming steamboat headed to hell on a river of shit. I’m not blaming the Cornell men’s lacrosse team (whoops) for ruining everything, but I am blaming every single one of them for accepting this kind of behavior.

I know you aren’t supposed to complain when you step in pig shit after you walk into a pig sty, but maybe we should be holding our peers in higher esteem than pigs.

Willow Hubsher is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at wrh73@cornell.edu. This is Not a Sex Column appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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t 4 a.m. I am woken by the harrowing sound of the gong. In a large hall separated into rooms with the use of ropes and curtains people reluctantly begin their movement. It's 50 degrees in the room and even colder outside, and I wince at the thought of getting out. For the first time in

silence with their gazes fixed upon the metal door of the dining hall.

I should probably tell you about Goenka. Born at the beginning of previous century in Burma, he grew up in a rich family and built a career in international business. At age 30, wealthy but miserable, he

recuperate. The range of activities available is rather limited: you can either lie down on the mattress and look at the ceiling of walk circles around the few acres of center's territory.

Thinking thoughts is illadvised, but I can't help myself.

In a total entertainment-vacuum, my brain comes up with

After a week, you begin to develop superhuman sensitivity to your own body. You feel your eyeballs pressing into the eyelids, or the slow and quiet heartbeat. You observe how your pulse spreads through your arm into the hand and every phalange of every finger. Sometimes, when you concentrate on the breath, you begin to feel your own lungs. seven days I give myself a break and stay in the warmth of my sleeping bag for another 20 minutes.

Finally, I get out, put on a few layers of clothing and walk into the meditation hall, where 60 people are already sitting in complete silence with their eyes closed.

Breath in. Breathe out.

After watching my breath for a few seconds I begin to fall asleep, then catch myself doing this, notice few more breaths and start falling asleep again.

However, seven days of training weren't a waste, and after a few minutes I aquire a calm energy and sustaining attention on a single object is no longer the challenge it was in the first days. Breath in, breathe out.

My knees begin to remind me of their existence.

At 6:30, I again hear the gong, but this time it fills me with anticipation: breakfast. In silence, all men walk towards the dining hall. Breakfast is late, and for a few minutes I observe a comically surreal picture: 30 men standing in complete

became an avid meditator, and after 15 years of devout practice he brought the technique first to India and then to the rest of the world. In the ’90s his lectures were recorded and now, when we sit down in the hall and close our eyes, his charming and imperious voice comes from the speakers above us, just as it does in vipassana centers all around the world.

At 8 begins the Adhitanna, session of strong dedication: for an hour we are to meditate without moving a single muscle. We live our lives, Goenka tells us, reacting to an endless stream of craves coming from our bodies, and now it is time to break out of this sensory slavery. “Anicca,” he tells us, which in Pali means impermanence: all emotions and sensations will eventually fade away, so why waste your time trying to rid of them? Maybe that's true, but it sure feels like the pain in my knee is there to stay.

After the ordeal of complete stillness, we meditate for another two hours, and at 11, I have a couple of hours to eat and

ideas and games at mind-boggling pace. After classifying the local fauna I move on to giving nicknames to fellow meditators to studying the muscle mechanics of walking.

But today my creative energy has left me. "I'm bored!" I mentally scream in desperation.

Almost instantaneously I get a response from Goenka, whose

ning to feel how this insane undertaking yields a noticeable, although for now not very useful, progress. After a week, you begin to develop superhuman sensitivity to your own body.

You feel your eyeballs pressing into the eyelids, or the slow and quiet heartbeat. You observe how your pulse spreads through your arm into the hand and every phalange of every finger.

Sometimes, when you concentrate on the breath, you begin to feel your own lungs (it feels a bit like when you're sick and are about to start coughing).

Every inch of our skin, every second, emits a signal, but usually it gets lost somewhere in the upper level processing.

When you pay attention, you first notice the wind touching your cheeks, and then the pressure of your shirt on the shoulders. Finally you can feel a light sensation even in the areas seemingly untouched by anything. Spending days laserfocused on the sensation of touch you eventually observe how their solidity vanishes away and is replaced by a flurry of quick subtle vibrations. Finally,

In between the Buddhist tales and personal anecdotes he occasionally drops priceless practical advice. voice after countless of lectures and instructions have become a citizen of my consciousness — Observe boredom. What is it like to feel bored?

— But what if I'm too bored to observe boredom?

— Then observe that.

After the break another meditation session begins, four hours with a few five-minute breaks. Recently it was easier to stay motivated, as I am begin-

at the end of the course, I am able to see how the pain in my knee falls apart into these harmless little quants of muscle tension. How odd.

It's 5 p.m. now. There is no dinner here, but if you're a newbie in this you're allowed to have some tea and a fruit.

Consuming a banana, I watch the turbulent dance of the tea vapor, backlit with the sunset.

This is the emotional apex of

my day: the work is almost finished and the cold of the night hasn't yet crept up on us.

You obey the timetable with prison-like zeal. Timetable becomes a part of you, and your body knows what's going to happen next even if you aren't thinking about it. Repeating the same exact day 10 times in a row down to a minute can be an interesting experiment in itself.

You learn that boredom is not fatal, and that habit replaces willpower much faster than you imagined. You learn that your mood oscillates wildly up and down without the help of external intervention. How odd.

At 7, after another hour of staying motionless, I drag my body to the TV room, where they put on the evening Goenka lecture. In between the Buddhist tales and personal anecdotes he occasionally drops priceless practical advice, and I try to listen carefully, swearing mentally whenever he brings up karma and past lives. Goenka tells us that one can only reach success in meditation if one does not desire it, that desire is just an annoying distraction from what is happening right now. Goenka tells us about a bloodthirsty warlord who after meeting Buddha decided to dissolve his army and join his teacher under the tree.

At 9, after yet another meditation session, I finally drop onto my bed. My knees respond with relief and gratitude: "Thank you, Master!". I fall asleep before I can zip my sleeping bag and wake up from the gong a second later. It's 4 a.m., and it's time to get up.

Artur Gorokh is a graduate student studying applied mathematics at Cornell University. He can be reached at ag2282@cornell.edu.

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Laureen Andalib | Guest Room

T

he job market can certainly be a brutal process, especially for us recent grads.

I’ve recognized that the process of being “burned out” either reverses hope or makes you stronger. As some of us are meant to bloom later than others, it’s important to focus past any hurdles you’re facing to the best of your ability, to share your struggles with others as much as possible, and to recognize when you’re feeling depleted.

And yes, these past few months have been tough, but I’m very humbled (and actually empowered) to share that it took me eight months to acquire my first full-time job offers from some of my favorite companies.

What’s After Graduation?

Though I still have decisions to make, I wanted to share some wisdom for my friends who are soon to graduate, or still feel trapped in the job market.

wouldn’t have gained the insight and charisma I’d need to tackle the next interview with all the more strength.

For instance: networking, fig-

understanding the context of a role and your career goals. This is not something I learned during college.

With this being said:

So, if you’re a recent grad or job seeker: don’t ever give up! If you made it this far and are currently still trying, consider yourself an expert.

More than attaining a job, I’ve become thankful for the experiences I’ve gained from the job acquisition process itself: interviewing with and meeting employers from my favorite industries.

Without doing so, I

uring out the nuances behind a technical role, productivity hacks, understanding what makes an employer tick, selling yourself, understanding market needs and foreseeing a company’s growth are just as important as

take advantage of career services, mock interviews, resume critiques and job fairs as much as possible!

If you’re already graduated, take advantage of every interview you’re called for. Rather than focusing on X employer,

try to focus on understanding the steps of the hiring process rather than being hired. Don’t focus on the fact that you’re not being called, focus on why.

My recipe is this: failure, patience and resilience. Try, pick yourself up, refine your existing technique, get the most from your interview by interviewing the employer, study your strengths and weaknesses, put your best face forward again, stay up to date in your field (and keep learning), take care of yourself and take plenty of breaks to recharge again.

And yes, that’s a lot.

But this was the exact cycle my friends watched me go through. And I wouldn’t have made it this

far without them.

So, if you’re a recent grad or job seeker: don’t ever give up! If you made it this far and are currently still trying, consider yourself an expert. And as you continue to research, apply and interview for that dream job, remember it’s just as important to recognize when it’s time for a deep breath, reward yourself for all your hard work and stay strong. If you’re not hired, it’s not about you. If you focus on yourself and getting stronger, everything will come together at the right time because it’s meant to be — not because you’re simply an asset.

Laureen Andalib graduated from the School of Architecture, Art and Planning in 2017. Guest Room runs periodically.

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he Grammys have become, in some ways, less and and a host, reminding the audience during less meaningful with each passing year. As the music the performance that “the only thing more industry has moved from records to C.Ds to digital frightening than watching a black man be ownership to streaming, it has become easier and easier for lis- honest in America is being an honest black teners to sample large swathes of music without committing to, man in America.”

But while the Grammys flirted with makfor instance, a certain album as the year’s best. Online music platforms like Bandcamp and DatPiff have also undermined ing politics central to the show, they smoththe monopoly of popular music by record companies, but it is ered it with a whole lot of sugary frosting. difficult to qualify for a nomination if an artist is not signed to James Corden was a cloyingly saccharine a record label, which disqualifies many indie artists and rappers host, and standards like “Tears in Heaven,” Patti LuPone’s “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” who self-release albums or mixtapes.

At the same time, the Grammys have become more dis- and “Tiny Dancer” were familiar and boring cussed and anticipated than ever in the past few years, because (to be fair, Elton John killed it, as usual).

The mix of relevant and vital commen— just like the Academy Awards — they have become a measure of seismic changes in cultural conversations. As racial and tary with tone-deaf, cringeworthy sloganeergender inequity have become more publicly debated, nights ing was most irritating in the transition from like the Grammys offer a chance for aging societies run by white Kesha’s performance to U2’s. Kesha sang men to show that they “get it” — with some necessary prod- “Praying” after a speech by Janelle Monae about the #MeToo movement and gender ding, like the #OscarsSoWhite online movement.

The Grammys have not received the same degree of scrutiny inequity in the music industry. Kesha’s peras the Oscars have, but they have had their share of controver- formance became a kind of symbolic exorcism of her years-long struggle to escape a sies. Two particular contract with Dr. Luke, a producer who she standouts both claims serially abused her during their longinvolved Kendrick running business partnership. After Kesha Lamar — his loss to had finished her wrenching performance, the Macklemore and Ryan show switched immediately to a pre-recorded Lewis in 2014 for Best performance by U2, staged in front of the Rap Album and his Despite all the Statue of Liberty, which quickly degenerated loss to Taylor Swift in Amputations into Bono crowing something about the 2016 for Album of the American Dream into a flag-decorated megaYear. Both of these decisions caused commotion among critics who argued that phone. Apparently he said,“blessed are the shithole countries” Kendrick, the most vital and incisive artist of his time, was in reference to Donald Trump’s recent derogatory language. being snubbed in favor of safe, pop-radio choices that could However, not only was this censored for live TV, but my friends and I couldn’t understand a damn thing he was saying into that only deserve the award if “best” meant “biggest-selling.”

Kendrick used his early performance slot on Sunday night megaphone in the first place, which really encapsulates the to deliver a shock to the award show’s system: a high-concept “appearance over content” nature of the Grammys in general.

The Grammys made somewhat of a good-faith effort to and visually stunning piece that was announced via a screen over his head as a “Satire by Kendrick Lamar.” Men in combat make time for performances and speeches about serious and fatigues and hoodies marched in place around Kendrick, then topical issues, but the most remarkable thing about the night returned in red hoodies and were methodically shot dead was that the committee chose to give all of its top three awards onstage as Kendrick stood in the eye of the storm, rapping. to Bruno Mars — Record of the Year (for performance/producDave Chappelle operated as something between a hype-man tion), Song of the Year (for songwriting) and Album of the Year.

Jack Jones

In every single one of these categories, Bruno Mars was the safest, most anodyne choice — the one who wasn’t doing anything provocative, just doing it goddamn well enough. Jay-Z’s and Kendrick’s meditations on race and fame, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” — perhaps the most inescapable song in America in 2017 despite none of the lyrics (until the Justin Bieber remix) being in English — Logic/Alessa Cara/Khalid’s “1-800-273-8255,” a song named after the National Suicide Prevention Hotline that addresses timely mental health problems, and Lorde’s Melodrama, a gorgeous album about emotional crises, were all snubbed in favor of an artist who relentlessly mines nostalgia. Bono and the Edge introduced the Album of the Year award, and Bono offered a bizarrely halting and defensive assertion of the value of the award — which only underscores how little Bruno Mars’s win means. More than ever, the Grammys want to allow for and support radical speech, but they haven’t yet figured out how to actually honor any of it.

Jack Jones is a senior in the college of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun.com. His column Despite all the Amputations runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Vladimir Kara-Murza Is Not Backing Down

BY JACOB RUBASHKIN Associate Editor & ANDREI KOZYREV Arts Editor

Someone is trying to kill Vladimir KaraMurza.

Someone is failing.

The Russian journalist and democratic activist, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, is soft-spoken but full of life as we sit chatting about politics in the lobby of Gates Hall. Kara-Murza is in town for a screening of his documentary Nemtsov, which tells the story of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, and in an interview with The Sun he explained the story behind the film, and what he hopes to impart on his audience.

“Boris was the best of us… so they killed the strongest,” Kara-Murza says when asked about the brazen 2015 assassination of Nemtsov, just steps away from the Kremlin.

Just who “they” are is left unsaid, but it doesn’t take a Kremlinologist to see a pattern emerge when studying the fates of Putin’s most outspoken opponents. Before Nemtsov were Alexander Litvinenko, a defector who wrote about Putin’s rise to power and subsequently died of polonium poisoning, Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist murdered in her driveway, and Ukrainian president and Putin enemy Viktor Yuschenko, who in 2004 survived a dioxin poisoning.

If “they” targeted Nemtsov because he was the strongest, then they must also fear Kara-Murza, who has survived two attempts on his life in the past three years.

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It is easy to see why “they” are worried.

Over the past year, Kara-Murza, who currently serves as the vice president of the prodemocracy NGO Open Russia, has showcased his documentary on Nemtsov across Europe and North America. Before he was poisoned, Kara-Murza screened the film in 11 Russian cities, and as he made his recovery his colleagues and friends continued the tour, eventually visiting 36 cities across the country.

“It was most important for me to show it to the Russian audience,” he explains, “because that’s obviously where the main reach of the Kremlin propaganda is.”

Putin, Kara-Murza says, was quick to consolidate control over the country after coming to power in 1999, and in a few short years effectively shuttered the independent media and neutralized legitimate parliamentary opposition. The institutional supports of democracy crippled as such, it fell to singular men like Boris Nemtsov to carry forward the fight.

Had Nemtsov not been killed, he very well might have been the man to take down Putin. There is more than a hint of sadness in his voice as Kara-Murza outlines the political path his friend would have potentially taken, from the Yaroslavl Oblast regional legislature in which he served at the time of his death, to the Duma (parliament) in Moscow, to the presidency in 2018. But more than that, Kara-Murza says, “Nemtsov was family for me.”

Without Nemtsov or any other serious opposition candidate participating, the jour-

nalist laments, the outcome of the upcoming presidential election is clear. “It is not difficult to win an election when your opponents are not on the ballot.”

Still, Kara-Murza remains positive about the future of his country. Against all odds, he explains, the “Putin Generation,” young people who have known no leader but the steely-eyed former KGB officer, are among the most politically active and outspoken of Russians. He pointed to the protests in recent years that have rocked the Putin regime, including last weekend’s rallies in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

“It’s certainly a very worrying sign for the Kremlin,” he says of the recent protests, “and a very hopeful sign for Russia.” He points to the work his organization, Open Russia, does in the eastern regions of the country, far from the kleptocrats in Moscow — and he remains adamant that one day, Russia will have free and fair elections for a responsible, democratic government.

And on the international stage, KaraMurza sees improvement as well. Already, four nations have passed versions of the Magnitsky Act, named after the anti-corruption activist and lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died while in Russian government custody. The targeted sanctions in that legislation, Kara-Murza explains, are the most effective tools against a ruling class that “doesn’t care about Russia,” but only their own wealth.

He raises his voice for the first time during our conversation as he decries the “ulti-

mate hypocrisy” of the current regime, where the ruling elite rob Russians of their rights, savings and well-being, all the while preaching the necessity of their rule and vacationing on the French Riviera.

He stresses that the Russian people are not to blame for the actions of their government, and that any sanctions should be designed so as not to harm the general populace.

By taking Nemtsov to American and European audiences, and in particular universities, Kara-Murza says he hopes to show the next generation of Western leaders that “Russia is not just about Vladimir Putin .... and the corrupt kleptocratic thugs that are currently in charge.”

He pauses, and then calls out the Western political discourse for conflating Russia with Putin. “No, it’s not Russia! Name it for what it is. Talk about the Putin regime.”

Boris Nemtsov, he concludes, exemplifies what is “honorable, decent, and principled” about Russia.

Despite all the trials through which he and his movement have gone, Kara-Murza shows no sign of stopping.

“People,” he says, smiling, “are finally starting to pay attention about what’s actually happening in Russia.”

Jacob Rubashkin is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jrubashkin@cornellsun.com. Andrei Kozyrev is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at akozyrev@cornellsun.com.

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Monkey Cloning Sparks Ethical Concerns, Profs Say Threat to human dignity could outweigh benefits for genetic research SHAGHAI INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Monkey business l Newborn clones Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are named after the Chinese adjective “Zhōnghuá,” meaning “Chinese nation.”

By JOSH EIBELMAN

the embryo develops and a clone is born.

“You can produce cloned monkeys with the same genetic background Meet Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, except the gene you manipulated. This two cloned macaque monkeys. will generate real models not just for Chinese scientists first unveiled these genetically based brain diseases, but also monkeys several weeks ago, marking the cancer, immune or metabolic disorders first time primates have been successfuland allow us to test the efficacy of the ly cloned with the same method that drugs for these conditions before clinicreated Dolly the sheep in 1996. Just as cal use,” Qiang Sun, a senior author of it did then, the science research comthe study from the Chinese munity instantly raised Academy of Sciences, said. ethical questions and con“Personally, I feel it’s too bad that it may be Reproductive cloning cerns about human aside, the arguments for and cloning. possible to clone humans from existing adults. against therapeutic cloning Theoretically, human Evolutionary history demonstrates the recall the case for and against cloning could be achieved abortion. While both involve in two ways. Reproductive enormous advantages of sexual reproduction destroying an embryo, therahuman cloning would for populations of complex organisms.” peutic cloning would entail entail creating a living Prof. Thomas Fox creating an embryo marked human, identical to anothat the outset for destruction. er person previously or curCritics of human therapeutic rently alive. Therapeutic cloning would employ stem cells from a improved so that they eventually will be cloning believe that would undermine able to clone existing adults, as is possi- human dignity and respect for human human embryo to treat diseases. life.

Prof. Thomas Fox, molecular biology ble with several other mammals.”

According to the Center for Genetics Zhen Liu and his colleagues at the and genetics, underscores that these results could be “very useful” in under- Chinese Academy of Sciences in and Society, about 46 countries have standing genetic diseases in people. He Shanghai used a method called Somatic banned human cloning, including more does, however, agree with Prof. Marcos Cell Nuclear Transfer Animation to than a dozen members of the European Simoes-Costa, molecular biology and clone the monkeys. Using this process, Union. In 2005, the United Nations genetics, that there are ethical concerns scientists take out the nucleus from a General Assembly passed a non-binding about human cloning which need to be healthy egg and replace it with a nucle- resolution calling for “[the] ban of all us from another animal. The egg is then forms of human cloning, including thoroughly debated.

“Personally, I feel it’s too bad that it inserted into a surrogate mother, where cloning for medical treatment, as Sun Staff Writer

may be possible to clone humans from existing adults. Evolutionary history demonstrates the enormous advantages of sexual reproduction for populations of complex organisms,” Fox said.

“Cloning on a large scale would be a perilous step backwards.”

Fox added that the scientists were only able to clone cells from a monkey fetus and not a living monkey, but that “the methods will probably be

incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life.”

Although the United States has no such restrictions, the federal government does not fund research that involves using embryonic stem cells from human clones.

Scientists like Simoes-Costa believe that it is imperative to start preparing for the possibility of human cloning.

“While reproductive cloning of humans could be technically feasible in the short term, it does not mean that this experiment should be performed,” Simoes-Costa said.

He explained that it is not possible to guarantee “developmental abnormalities” will not occur in the process of cloning nor the welfare of potentially cloned children.

“It is important to foster discussion on the ethical implications of the procedure, so that the appropriate policies are in place when the time comes,” SimoesCosta said.

Despite the breakthrough in genetics, Fox argues that reproductive cloning will not become common-place anytime soon.

“It’s hard to imagine human cloning becoming more than a hobby for a few wealthy narcissists,” he said.

Josh Eibelman can be reached at jeibelman@cornellsun.com

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Puzzle #319

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Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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NEWS & SPORTS

Students Say Solicitors Are Overly Aggressive CHARITY

Continued from page 1

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I don’t carry my wallet with me,” Matthew Burke ’20 told The Sun. “After that she rubbed my shoulder and continued on to the next student.”

“She came up to me and started patting my back and just kind of shoved the donation thing in my face without

CJF seems to have little operating history in Ithaca. The Community Foundation of Tompkins County, a hub organization for local philanthropy, said they have “no history at all” of working with the charity.

“I’ve never heard of that foundation before,” said George P. Ferrari Jr., CFT Chief Executive Officer.

Cornell Police deputy chief

“She just wouldn’t leave. I ended up giving them $10 because I didn’t know what to do.”

Bipra Kundu ’18 explaining anything,” Bipra Kundu ’18 said. “She just wouldn’t leave. I ended up giving them $10 because I didn’t know what to do.”

CJF volunteers sometimes neglected to identify themselves while asking for donations.

“When they approached me [on two separate occasions], they didn’t tell me [what] organization [they work for],” said Michael Wenye Li ’20, The Sun’s assistant photography editor. “But the second time I looked carefully at the binder she was holding and I saw the name.”

Registered in the Internal Revenue Service database as a public charity, CJF aims to assist “the many marginal, poor and less privileged children in the Philippines and in Asia,” according to their website. The charity reportedly asked for donations at other universities as well, in some cases allegedly forging donation amounts to pressure students to donate more.

David M. Honan said that the fundraisers have not yet been reported to the police.

“If members of our community have concerns regarding unauthorized activity, they are welcome to give us a call and we will have an officer respond to determine if the activity has proper authorization,” Honan said.

While a CJF volunteer declined to comment on the organization’s fundraising activity at Cornell, she said that all volunteers should have proper authorization for their activities.

“I know that [if fundraisers] do anything, they have to have permission,” CJF volunteer Diana Locano said via phone call.

Locano then told The Sun she would return the call when a supervisor was available. At the time of the publication of this article, this had yet to happen.

Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun.com.

Red Fall To Lions Saturday W. BASKETBALL Continued from page 15

While the Lion’s top player, Camille Zimmerman, poured in another characteristically outstanding performance with 23 points, four other Columbia players were able to record double-digit nights on Saturday — a far cry from the previous weekend in which the Red was able to limit any player not named Zimmerman. “[Zimmerman] is a tremendous player and … I think the key is to limit her to maybe her average and really try to shut the others down,” Smith said. “We just did a really good job [during the last game, but] this game I thought their supporting players really stepped up.”

The Red will have two more Ivy tilts this weekend on the road against Dartmouth on Friday at 7 p.m. and Harvard this Saturday at 5 p.m.

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Red Ends Home Stand With Split W. HOCKEY

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tention for the ECAC regular season championship and heightened the importance of the match against St. Lawrence (14-9-3,10-5-1). “[The game against the Saints] was a super important game for us because St. Lawrence is most likely one of the teams that will be battling with us for a spot in the NCAA tournament,” Mills said.

Nevertheless, with the pressure on, Cornell rose to the occasion to secure a dominant 4-1 decision over the Saints.

“The St. Lawrence game was our most complete game so far,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91. “We remained consistent throughout and our special teams were good once again.”

The Red’s defense came up huge in the crease again, highlighted by Boissonnault, who recorded 15 saves in the contest.

Other highlights from the game include a goal from sophomore forward Amy Curlew, two goals and an assist from Mills, and a goal and an assist from O’Neill.

O’Neill’s goal during Saturday’s contest extends her scoring streak to seven games.

“We played a very consistent, high energy game for a full 60

minutes,” Gerace said. “That is something that we have been striving for since the beginning of the season. In order to have success against top 10 teams we are going to have to play the right way for the whole game.

We also were very defensively sound against them and limited their scoring opportunities.”

With the split against Clarkson and St. Lawrence, Cornell has now completed a six game home stand spanning two weeks. The Red will hit the road this weekend to take on Ancient Eight rivals Harvard and Dartmouth.

“It has been a while since we have been on the road so we need to prove to ourselves that we can compete as hard on the road as we do at home,” Derraugh said. “We have now seen all the teams in our league so our focus can turn to our team and what we need to do to get better each week. We now have to battle for a playoff position overall, and for home ice in the first round.”

The puck drops against Harvard in Cambridge at 6 p.m. on Friday and against Dartmouth in Hanover at 3 p.m. on Saturday.

Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SQUASH

Red Looks to Maintain Recent Success at Drexel

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

After slow starts to Ivy League play, the Cornell mens’ and womens’ squash teams are hopeful they can get back into title contention in the second halves of their seasons.

The men (5-6, 0-3 Ivy) started the season strong with two wins at the Williams Round Robin despite losing a multitude of key contributors. Top player Harry Freeman ‘17 graduated during the offseason while freshman Yohann Surti will be out until February.

Projected top-three player John Greenwood ’20 is also currently on leave after being charged with a hate crime earlier this academic year. Greenwood was cut from the team prior to his arrest for not participating in team training on a regular basis, according to the team's coach.

However, despite a solid start, the odds took a turn for the worse as the men went on to drop five consecutive matches, including three Ivy League contests to Columbia, Harvard and Dartmouth.

“We lost [Surti] and Greenwood before the season, both of which would have been top players for our team, so it hasn’t been easy,” said head coach David Palmer. “We’ve just had to adjust.”

But as the season has progressed, the squad has redefined roles and the Red are in the midst of a mini resurgence with three wins in its last four matches. Junior Andy Muran has clearly established himself as the top player on the team, going 3-4 at first singles this year.

Junior Perry Hanson has also put in solid work at both first and second singles with an overall 5-3 record on the year. “[Muran] and Perry Hanson have really stepped up for us so far this season,” Palmer said. “They have taken over the top of the lineup quite nicely, and while it ADRIAN BOTEANU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“I feel that now we have a group of about 16 guys who want to work hard, and I think that, come nationals, we can finish high in the main draw.”

Head Coach David Palmer [was] difficult to lose [Freeman], those two have done a great job for us.”

“I feel that now we have a group of about 16 guys who really want to work hard, and I think that, come nationals, we can finish high up in the main draw,” Palmer said. “I’m hoping that we can finish somewhere between tenth and 12th depending on how that week-

Stepping up | Despite losing a multitude of key contributors, the Red has been able to groom new players to take their places.

In particular, Hanson and Muran have spent majority of their time at the top two spots this year.

end shakes out.”

The women (8-3, 1-2) have also faced a similar up and down trajectory this season. After winning its first two matches of the season at the Williams Round Robin, the squad went on to lose two of its first three Ivy League matches, before a recent streak of four wins in the past five matches.

Last year’s top player Rachel Scherman ’17 graduated in the summer, but the trio of seniors Michele Garceau, Emma Uible and Margaux Losty have performed admirably in her absence. Despite a minor disk injury to begin the year, Garceau is 5-1, including two wins at first singles. Uible has gone 3-3, splitting time between

first and third singles and Losty has gone 4-2, splitting time between second and third singles.

“All three of our top seniors are nearly identical talent-wise, so that gives us good options going into matches,” Palmer said. “The top four or five girls have cemented their spot in the lineup, but the rest of the team is battling each week to round out the starting lineup.”

The teams will look to continue recent success when both squads travel to Drexel on Wednesday, Jan. 31.

Bennett Gross can be reached at bgross@cornellsun.com.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Hoopers Unable to Overcome Turnovers Against Columbia Samantha Clement each recording double-digit point totals. Clement had a team-high 15 points, while Widdman had After accumulating an impressive eight her second straight double-double with consecutive wins over Columbia across 13 points and 12 rebounds. Jorgensen also multiple seasons, the Cornell women’s added 14 points and handled four assists basketball team was unable to maintain its while playing the entire 40 minutes. The streak during last Saturday’s 72-54 home trio followed up noteworthy numbers from last weekend’s win against Columbia loss.

“I thought our defensive execution in which Widdman, Clement and wasn’t as good,” said head coach Dayna Jorgensen were once again the top scorers with 22, 15 and 9 S m i t h . points, respec“Columbia came “I thought they did a nice job of tively. in with a much However, the more aggressive setting the tone early with the speed main difference gameplan.

I and aggressiveness of their between thought they did offensive transition and ... we didn’t maker the two games a nice job of setrespond quick enough.” was not the scorting the tone ing but simply early with the Head Coach Dayna Smith sloppy ball-hanspeed and the dling. The Red aggressiveness of their offensive transition and ... we didn’t turned the ball over 22 times, leading to 22 chance points for the Lions. respond quick enough.”

“Our league is very good and teams Columbia (7-12, 1-3 Ivy) maintained its lead over the Red (5-12, 1-3) for the take advantage of turnovers and turn entirety of the game’s 40 minutes, bring- them into points pretty quickly,” Smith ing its lead to a height of 22 points for the said. “It’s definitely a key to the game, something we were very disappointed in last five minutes of the game.

Despite the loss, the Red put up a that we had done and have to work to corfight, with the squad’s top three scorers in rect quickly.” sophomore guards Samantha Widdman and Danielle Jorgensen and junior guard See W. BASKETBALL page 12

By CAITLIN STANTON Sun Staff Writer

BORIS TSANG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Ball handling | While the Red’s trio of Clement, Jorgensen and Widdman all posted solid scoring games, the squad was ultimately unable to overcome its 22 turnovers.

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WE’RE NUMBER ONE!

Red tops key USCHO and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls for first time in over a decade

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTGRAPHY EDITOR

“Red”- hot | With its recent weekend sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth, the Red has extended its unbeaten streak to ten games – a major reason why the squad tops the key USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls this week.

By DYLAN MCDEVITT Sun Staff Writer

The last time Cornell men’s hockey was ranked No. 1 in the USCHO.com poll, Michael Jordan was still playing in the NBA, 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” was at the top of the charts and Barack Obama had not yet been elected to the United

States Senate.

Now, a decade and a half later, the Red once again finds itself atop the poll as the nation’s top collegiate hockey team for the first time since March 28, 2003.

The Red was also ranked No. 1 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll, a feat the team has not achieved since Feb. 28, 2005.

Currently in the midst of a ten-game unbeaten streak, Cornell (18-2-1, 12-1-1 ECAC) clinched its 22nd Ivy League title in program history this past weekend with victories over Ancient Eight rivals Harvard and Dartmouth by scores of 3-0 and 3-1, respectively.

The last top-ranked Cornell squad earned a 30-5-1 record in the 2002-3

season and advanced to the program’s eighth Frozen Four — a feat the Red hasn’t accomplished since.

A major part of what has propelled the team to this point is Cornell’s nationbest defense, which has allowed only 1.53 goals per game. Never has this been more evident than throughout the past few weekends of play, in which freshman goaltender Matt Galajda put together the second-longest shutout streak in program history and 13th-longest in NCAA history at 227 minutes and 11 seconds.

While Galajda’s streak ended in the first period against Dartmouth Saturday, the team has given up just two goals in its last five games.

Offensively, the Red stands as the eighth ranked scoring team in the country, putting up 3.42 goals per game. Both combined, Cornell is the top team in the nation in goal margin per game at +1.95.

In the ECAC, the Red sits alone atop the conference standings, one point above No. 3 Clarkson. The Golden Knights handed the Red its first and only conference loss earlier this season at Lynah, setting the stage for a crucial rematch Feb. 9 in Potsdam.

This season’s team has been no stranger to historic accomplishments.

Seven straight wins to open the season was the program’s best start since the 1971-72 national runner-up team won eight in a row before its first loss.

Cornell will look to continue its impressive 2017-18 campaign this weekend at home in its first look at ECAC opponents Union and Rensselaer.

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Women Split Tough Weekend To Finish Home Stand of an early error by the Red just 22 seconds into the overtime period period to seal the win for the In front of boisterous home Golden Knights.

“Going into overtime we knew crowds, Cornell women’s hockey dropped a tough 4-3 contest we would have to have good puck against the Clarkson Golden management and play within our Knights in overtime on Friday, but system,” said junior forward Pippy rallied back to handily defeat the Gerace. “Clarkson has many danSt. Lawrence Saints 4-1 on gerous offensive players and they were able to capitalize early off of Saturday. one of our mistakes.”

“Going into overtime we knew we would Highlights have to have good puck management from the game include goals and play within our system.” from freshmen Junior Pippy Gerace forwards Maddie Mills and Willow The Red (13-7-2, 10-5-1 Slobodzian, two assists from senior ECAC) faced a daunting oppo- defender Sarah Knee, and a goal nent in the Golden Knights (22-3- and an assist from sophomore for1, 13-2-0) in its first match, but ward Kristin O’Neill.

On the defensive end, junior was able to remain unfazed by the challenge. The squad managed to goalkeeper Marlene Boissonnault stay even with Clarkson for much recorded 21 saves for Cornell.

The loss to the Golden Knights of the game, ending regulation tied knocked the Red out of conat 3-3.

However, Clarkson’s Loren Gabel was able to take advantage See W. HOCKEY page 14

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Crucial goaltending | Boissonnault's 15 saves against St. Lawrence helped the Red secure a bounceback win on Saturday after falling to Clarkson the day prior.