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SJP:Dismantled Display Reveals‘Repression’at C.U. Placards stolen, thrown into trees over several nights including Reut Baer ’17, the Cornell fellow for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

Last week, dozens of signs put up by According to Baer and Emad Masroor Students for Justice in Palestine in the ’17, a member of SJP, the implication of Arts Quad were dismantled, removed all three students was a mistake, though and thrown into trees by unknown per- they were all present.

“It was one student, and I just perpetrators, sparking a social media outcry ceived them to be a part of the group,” by the organization.

According to Alec Desbordes ’17, an said Masroor, who is also a designer for active member of SJP, 50 signs depicting The Sun. “They were standing together, negative Israeli interactions with so that’s why the blog post said it that Palestine were planted on the Arts Quad way. [Baer] wasn’t the person who was actually pulling them at 8 a.m. Oct. 29 and were sanctioned by “I feel like it’s ridiculous, up.”

According to Baer, the University to remain until the but at the same time it the student who the signs evening of Oct. 31. was not unexpected.” removed was unaffiliated with “The placards any campus political included posters Alec Desbordes ’17 organization and from Visualizing took down the signs Palestine and various other sources, documenting Israel’s as part of a misunderstanding she had house demolition policy, the segregation over whether the display was properly of its transport infrastructure and the sanctioned.

“The student went to the resource recent assault on Gaza, among other issues,” according to a blog post on SJP center in Willard Straight and was told website describing the dismantling inci- at the time that if there’s no stamp of approval on each one of the signs, any dent.

According to Desbordes, the display student is allowed to take them down,” encountered opposition less than three Baer said. “But afterward the SJP memhours after being put up, when a stu- bers let her know that they did get perdent — who declined to give comment mission, the student looked into it … to The Sun — pulled up several of the and didn’t touch them again.”

Police were also called, due to a comsigns until she was confronted by memplaint that SJP members were following bers of SJP. SJP’s blog post incorrectly attributed the action to a total of three students, See DISPLAY page 4

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Talking taxes | Ithacans meet in City Hall Wednesday to discuss the city’s budget for the coming year.

City Budget Calls for Lower Tax Rate,Increases Revenue

By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Staff Writer

Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 proposed 2015 Ithaca City budget will reduce tax rates while slightly increasing overall tax revenue — a result of the increase in city property values since last year.

The budget has increased by 3.89 percent, but the median tax bill on the median home value of $190,000 is expected to decrease by $53. This decrease occurred because the taxable value of property has increased by 39.8 percent, bringing in more revenue in

property taxes to the city.

Revenue will also be collected in the form of two different flat fees — a $70 sidewalk fee for most residents and a $48 stormwater fee added onto residents’ water bill.

Sally Van Orman said she was concerned about the increase in taxes at a Common Council meeting Wednesday.

“My school property taxes went up 71 and a half percent at a multifamily home,” she said. Currently her income is only $26,000, she said.

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Majority of County Voters Sought Robertson’75 Victory

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

Although incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) bested Martha Robertson ’75 (D) in a landslide victory Tuesday evening in the battle for New York’s 23rd, voters within Tompkins County disagreed with the majority of the district.

In his victory speech Tuesday night at the Radisson Hotel Corning, Reed claimed that his success represented all residents of western New York.

“As we declare this victory tonight, I declare the victory on behalf of all 717,000 people of western New York,” he said.

“Together, we are all Americans.”

Yet, Tompkins County voting patterns reflected political views starkly opposing overall results for the district, according to unofficial general election data from the county. A majority of New York residents in the 23rd Congressional District, which spans across the Southern Tier, voted for Reed — 63 percent — and only 37 percent voted for Robertson.

The opposite was true in Tompkins County. The vast majority of residents — 68 percent — voted for Robertson, county data shows. Only 31 percent of local residents voted for Reed.

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“In the past two years I have found that college students in general are more appreciative of classical music than they have ever been,” said Jascha Heifetz, famous violinist, in a recent interview. “As a result,” he continued, “there is a great improvement of the attitude of colleges toward concerts.”

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School of Music in Vilna, Russia, where he was born, at the age of five years, and was graduated three years later.

He was taken to St. Petersburg, where he became the pupil of Leopold Auer, although he had made his first concert appearance several years earlier. At the age of seven he played the Mendelssohn Concerto, and when nine years old he gave his first recital in St. Petersburg.

At this time, he played a solo with the sympthony orchestra before an audience of 5,000 adults.

“I chose the violin rather than any other instrument because my father was a violinist,” he explained. “The training my father, who was also a rabbi, gave me was invaluable. It combined with my inherited love of music to make music my profession for life.”

Mr. Heifetz has no favorite composer, nor is he particularly fond of a single musical composition. Although his audiences in all the leading cities of the world have expressed their approval of numerous selections, he believes that the “Rondo” by Schulbert-Friedburg is especially popular.

His American debut was in New York in 1917. Since then, he married Florence Vidor, actress.

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Study: Restaurant Customers Favor Payment Technology

By SOPHIA HO Sun Staff Writer

Payment through advanced technology may take over the food and beverage service industry in the not-so-distant future, according to a study conducted by Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research.

In the study, Prof. Sheryl Kimes, hotel administration, and Prof. Joel Collier, marketing, Mississippi State University, examine the uses and customers views of payment technology — including Apple Pay, Google Wallet and other mobile wallet applications

“It will ... eliminate unnecessary processing steps.”

Prof. Rohit Verma — as a new frontier in customer service.

Kimes said the findings of the study are significant, though the availability of payment technology is not a major factor in consumer behavior. “[The issue is] what’s it like to go to a restaurant, have a great experience and then it’s finally time to pay for the bill,” she said.

“You look around for the server [and try to] get the server’s attention, but it takes forever for the person to get to the table … the process goes on.”

Kimes added that using payment technology may solve some issues that emerge during the customer experience.

“Think about what it would be like to be able to use a tablet that’s on the table to pay, or to be able to whip out your smartphone and use something like Apple Pay,” Kimes said. “It would make things much more convenient … you would have much more control over your time. Basically, customer satisfaction will go up.”

Prof. Rohit Verma, hotel administration, also said he believes that adapting advanced payment technologies will increase the efficiency of service processes.

“It will [also] eliminate unnecessary processing steps and also some of the associated transaction fees for service establishment,” he said.

Prof. Michael McCall, hotel administration, said the application of advanced payment technologies would be an asset for businesses.

“It is huge for convenience ... time is a sellable product, and anything that saves time is valuable,” said McCall, who is also editor of the Center for Hospitality Research Report Series at the Center for Hospitality Research.

According to Verma, research supports that the limited positive reflects the adapting nature of payment technology in restaurants.

“Customer preferences for payment technologies are relatively lower at this time probably due to the fact that a relatively smaller number of restaurants are currently using them,” Verma said. “In a companion survey of restaurant operators, we found that currently less than 5 percent of restaurants — from quick service restaurants to fine din-

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ing — have implemented new payment technologies.”

However, Verma said that he does not believe this is not indicative of the future of the restaurant industry.

“Close to two-thirds of restaurant operators are in the process of implementing payment technologies within the next two years,” Verma said. “I think [that] within the next few years, the customer preferences for — and use of — new type of payment technologies will increase.”

According to McCall, advanced payment technologies are generally more popular and better received by the younger generations, so he expects its demand to increase.

“Younger consumers are significantly more trusting of technology. ... [Just] note

the success of high end vending machines for iPads and expensive headsets,” he said.

Referencing her most recent studies, Kimes said that more than 55 percent of subjects under the age of 30 have paid on a smartphone or tablet, compared to 45 percent of subjects over the age of 45 who have paid through a smartphone or tablet.

Kimes added she believes that the results of this study align with the University’s goals towards using technology to improve service.

“The University is very interested in technology and how technology can be applied to improve service,” Kimes said.

Sophia Ho can be reached at sho@cornellsun.com.

Kroch Symposium ExploresTopics in Humanism

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer

A two-day international symposium exploring topics of posthumanism and the posthumanities kicked off Wednesday in Kroch Library.

The symposium — titled “Expanded Communities and Posthumanity” — featured presentations by the symposium’s coordinator, Prof. Marta Segarra, French literature and gender studies, University of Barcelona ,and Prof. Laurent Dubreuil, romance studies and comparative literature.

Posthumanities is an “emerging field in the discourse of disciplines,” according to Dubreuil.

“The core proposal is to look at what the humanities could be, once you are challenging [the idea] that the human would be at the core of the humanities,” he said.

One stream of post-humanities is linked to the field of posthumanism, which reassesses humanistic concepts “with the idea that animals, for instance, could have a place there that would not be a marginal place,” according to Dubreuil.

Another aspect stems from a growing interest in the sciences and technology and how scientific understanding can “revive the humanities,” Dubreuil said. The third stream is involved with reflecting on the philosophical

meaning of being something, whether that is a human or an object.

All of these approaches are represented at the conference, which is part of a greater movement to “reinvent the humanities,” according to Dubreuil.

“Reinventing means that we are not forgetting what humanists used to do,” he said. “The point is how are we able to take what is the strength of the set of disciplines we have been trained in and we believe in … and also have a kind of infusion of new disciplines and other disciplines.”

Presenters came from universities across the globe — with the largest constituencies from Barcelona and Ithaca.

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Are we human? | The two-day symposium — titled “Expanded Communities and Posthumanity” — is being held in Kroch Library.

“We have some of the best specialists in the post-humanities,” Segarra said.

Though studies in the posthumanities have gained traction in the United States and in some parts of Northern Europe, they have yet to take hold in Southern European countries — including Spain — according to Segarra.

Discussions in the posthumanities extend beyond academia, according to Dubreuil, who referenced a recent case in New York is questioning whether apes should be granted “legal personhood.”

The symposium’s concluding presentation, scheduled for early Thursday evening, will be given

by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, who is renowned for her work with great apes.

According to both Dubreuil and Segarra, Savage-Rumbaugh’s experiments examine what it means to be human.

“She was basically translating sets of hypotheses that you would find already being proposed by Greek philosophers in the fifth century and she turned that into some kind of experimental protocol,” Dubreuil said.

Dubreuil said he hopes that her lecture will offer yet another perspective to the conversation.

“Her work and her persona show that there is a dialogue taking place that it’s not only the humanities suddenly asking you questions, it’s also that these questions are really at the core of many inquiries in the sciences,” he said.

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

Local Ithaca Police Investigate Death on West State Street

Ithaca Police are investigating the death of Anthony Salino on Monday at the Rescue Mission on West State Street, according to The Ithaca Times.

Officers were called to the residential portion of the Rescue Mission, and Salino was pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy and toxicology examination will be performed to determine if drugs were involved.

National Princeton Mishandled Sexual Assault Cases, Inquiry Finds

The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights found that Princeton University has violated the law in failing to respond appropriately to student complaints of sexual misconduct and discrimination, The New York Times reported. The finding, released on Wednesday, said that Princeton failed to meet the standards set forth in Title IX. Voters Express Support For Marijuana Legalization

In Tuesday’s election, voters in Oregon, Washington, D.C., and Alaska voted to legalize recreational marijuana, according to The New York Times.

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SJP Posters Vandalized Last Week Tompkins County Leans

Student: Three quarters of signs were stolen or destroyed DISPLAY

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the other students after the brief altercation.

Baer said she thought the SJP members’ actions in following her and the other students was “excessive,” while Masroor said they had only wanted to explain the situation.

Though this altercation was ultimately resolved, SJP’s display continued to be dismantled and reassembled between last Wednesday and Friday, Desbordes said.

“The signs were vandalized throughout the night each time,” he said. “At first we had doubts, like it could be the wind or something, but when we started seeing signs in the trees and Thursday night two SJP members saw someone taking the signs and running with them, we understood it was manmade.”

According to Desbordes, three quarters of the signs were stolen or destroyed by noon on Friday, causing SJP to remove the signs at 5 p.m., hours before their planned removal.

“[SJP] has had a history of being repressed in freedom of speech on this campus. ... Each time it’s a hit, it’s a hard blow.”

Alec Desbordes ’17 “I feel like it’s ridiculous but at the same time it was not unexpected,” Desbordes said. “We’ve had a history of being repressed in freedom of speech on this campus. … Each time it’s a hit, it’s a hard blow.”

According to Desbordes, the situation is similar to others in the past in which SJP’s freedom of speech was not respected. One such situation, according to Desbordes, was the tabling of Resolution 72 — which called for divestment from “companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine” — by the Student Assembly last April.

“The resolution was not even being debated that week, it was just presented,” Desbordes said. “But the fact that it was tabled indefinitely right away before being discussed is kind of a similar way of closing that debate before it even

exists.”

Desbordes added that he and other members of SJP may choose to pursue other methods of getting the word out in the future due to the vandalism.

“Each time we try to go through the channels that are offered to us in the University, we get this kind of repression, which obviously does not make us keen to keep using these channels in the formal way,” he said.

Baer said that while she does not support the fact that the signs were dismantled, she said she thinks the messages on them were “problematic.”

“It’s concerning to me personally that SJP can have signs up and claim they’re there for justice in Palestine, but it was all just anti-Israel sentiment,” Baer said. “I’m personally an Israel student and that’s just not a nice thing to see at all.”

Baer also said she thought the placards were misleading.

“They had all these different figures without mentioning Hamas once, which is a little ridiculous to me,” she said. “On top of that, a lot of the things they had there ... weren’t necessarily fact. They had a sign up that said ‘Palestinian land lost since 1947.’ There was no such thing as Palestinian land in 1947; it was under mandate.

After that it was under Jordanian rule.”

Desbordes, disagreed, saying the placards accurately represented the history between Israel and Palestine.

“Most of [figures] are basically U.N.-certified numbers and events, all facts,” Desbordes said.

“There wasn’t any bias or point of view of SJP or any other group; they were what happened, what the situation is right now.”

Desbordes said he thinks that the incident does not involve a problem with University policy, as the signs were sanctioned. However, he said it exposes Cornell as an unhealthy environment for sharing ideas.

“It’s not a simple of question of policy.

Obviously people didn’t have the right to do what they did and they did it,” Desbordes said.

“It’s about the atmosphere and the environment that’s created by Cornell for us to actually be able to share knowledge and have conversation about these controversial issues.”

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

Left, Despite Reed Victory VOTING

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Within her campaign, Robertson, a Tompkins County Legislator from 2002 to 2013, has taken pains to emphasize her close relationship with the county. On her official campaign website, she is described as a “fixture” of the local community.

According to her website, she “fell in love with the region” after attending Cornell’s college of human ecology and decided to stay in the area.

“I have a bright vision of our region. We live here because we love it,” Robertson says on her campaign website. “I’ve been here for thirty years, and I wouldn’t live anywhere else.”

During the election, Incumbent Reed used Robertson’s affiliation with the region to portray her as “extreme” to a larger body of voters, and in his campaign against Robertson, Reed characterized Ithaca’s reputation as “extremist.”

In August, Reed’s campaign created a separate website devoted to mocking Robertson’s Ithaca ties. The header for the website, ExtremeIthacaLiberal.com, includes a colorful psychedelic pattern and a caption next to Robertson’s face that reads, “Extreme Ithaca Liberal.”

The website calls Robertson “just another extreme Ithaca liberal pushing her extremist agenda on Western New York.”

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

City Common Council Votes To Override Tax Levy Limit BUDGET

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She added that she believes many people, both young and old, cannot afford to live in Ithaca.

“I know that it’s very tough for everybody to come up with the money and it’s also tough for me too, because I’m on a fixed income,” Vannorman said.

J. R. Clairborne (D-2nd Ward) said he was was concerned with the effect of the tax increases on local residents.

“For people like Ms. Vannorman, moving properties is not an option for her,” he said. “At that point our business becomes personal, it’s really hard to figure out what works best overall.”

City officials at the meeting — including Myrick — tried to look for legal ways to reduce the financial burden the taxes have on residents with fixed incomes.

“It leaves something of a doughnut hole for the folks who don’t quite qualify,” Myrick

said.

According to Cynthia Brock (D-1st Ward), there is also an increase in the school tax levy from 17.19 percent per thousand dollars of property of value to 18.057 percent per thousand dollars.

Common Council members also voted to override the tax levy limit. The city can currently only increase its tax levy by the percent increase in the cost of living or by 2 percent, whichever of the two numbers is lower.

“Because the assessed value of the properties in the city has gone up, even leaving the same tax rate will have increased the tax levy rate higher than 1.6 percent increase,” Brock said. “So that way we can reduce the rate but still be above the tax cap.”

Additionally, the new budget calls for a 15 percent increase in the city’s police force, which residents have previously requested.

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

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Pot Proponents Look To California After Victories

SEATTLE (AP) — Marijuana advocates, fresh off victories for legal recreational pot in Oregon, Alaska and the nation’s capital, are already preparing for their next target, and it’s a big one: California.

They are aiming to ask voters in the nation’s largest state to legalize marijuana for recreational use in 2016, hoping to draw on a more liberal and larger electorate during a presidential election to help them avoid a repeat of their 2010 failed pot measure.

The victories in Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia came in a midterm election that saw a low turnout and a conservative electorate hand Republicans back control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 2006.

“This is a Republican wave year, so we’re excited for our prospects,” said David Boyer, who is leading Maine’s legal pot effort for 2016. “In a tough midterm, we gained steam.”

The results emboldened them — even from a loss in Florida, where a medical marijuana proposal earned 58 percent of the vote, just shy of the 60 percent required to pass.

Legalization opponent Kevin Sabet called the votes “a bit of a wakeup call before 2016,” noting that drug policy groups had spent millions on the legalization campaigns, vastly outspending opponents.

“This is going to make our side redouble our efforts to find donors who can put forth real money,” said the president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, adding that if they can get the resources to get their message out, voters could make informed decisions.

Sabet pointed to the result in Florida as well as votes in five Colorado cities banning marijuana dispensaries in saying, “I think we’ve slowed the legal marijuana freight train.”

The pot votes were considered by many to be the first real test of marijuana reform’s popularity since Washington state and Colorado passed the nation’s first legal pot laws in 2012, boosted then by the higher turnout among young people typical of presidential election years.

“It was an extraordinary day for marijuana and criminal justice reform, and all the more remarkable on a night the Democrats were getting beat up so bad,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a major legalization backer.

Judge Overturns Missouri Ban On Gay Marriage ST. LOUIS (AP) — A state judge overturned Missouri’s constitutional ban on gay marriage Wednesday in a ruling that immediately set off a rush among some same-sex couples to apply for marriage licenses.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison said in a written ruling that Missouri’s measure recognizing marriage only between a man and woman violates the due process and equal protection rights of the U.S. Constitution.

The decision mirrored ones handed down recently in several other states.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster immediately

appealed the ruling to the state Supreme Court, saying the constitutional challenge “must be presented to and resolved” at that level. But he said that his office wouldn’t seek a stay of the order, noting that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant stays after same-sex marriage decisions in Idaho and Alaska.

Koster previously chose not to appeal a ruling requiring Missouri to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

After hearing about Wednesday’s ruling, Kelley Harris, 35, and Kelly Barnard, 36, drove to St. Louis City Hall to apply for a marriage license.

Three African Presidents Press Burkina Faso on Civilian Rule OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Diplomats pressing Burkina Faso’s military ruler to return the country to civilian rule said Wednesday they are seeking names of people who could serve as interim head of state until elections are held.

The presidents of Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana are in Burkina Faso to mediate after the African Union gave Burkina Faso’s military a two-week deadline to hand over power or face sanctions that could cripple the landlocked, desperately poor country.

In a sign of growing tensions, though, a meeting that brought together the political opposition and others descended into chaos.

Burkina Faso’s president of 27 years, Blaise Compaore, stepped down Friday amid mounting opposition to his bid to seek yet another term in office. Compaore never identified a potential successor and his departure has created a power vacuum in which at least three people have tried to

take over control of the country in the past week.

Opposition members and other activists stormed out of Wednesday’s meeting shouting “We don’t agree!” after some from the former ruling party showed up for the session.

“We can’t sit in the same room as those who are to blame for the deaths of the victims whose bodies we have not yet even buried,” said Mathias Tankoano, a human right activist and member of the civil society delegation. “They should be prosecuted for the deaths and for acts against the constitution that have resulted in violence in our country.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon backed the mediation effort by the three presidents and reiterated his call for “an inclusive dialogue” to continue, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

The U.N. chief encourages all parties to reach an agreement for a peaceful civilian-led transition as soon as possible, he said.

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A boy holds an icon as he and Russian nationalists prepare to march on Unity Day, which celebrates a 1612 victory over the Polish Army, in Moscow, Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin’s inconsistent embrace of nationalist tenets may have hampered turnout at the traditional march.

Obama to Seek New War Powers From Congress WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he would work with Congress on new war powers to fight Islamic State militants and expressed cautious optimism about whether the international face-off over Iran’s nuclear program will be resolved — two issues that could prove harder for the White House to maneuver with

Republicans in charge on Capitol Hill.

Obama spoke at a news conference the day after his party was thrashed by Republicans in midterm elections, leaving the GOP soon to be in charge of both the House and the Senate.

When he approved U.S. airstrikes in late September against extremists who have captured territory across Syria and

Iraq, Obama used legal grounds of congressional authorizations that President George W. Bush relied on more than a decade ago. The White House maintained then that the Bush-era congressional authorizations for the war on al-Qaida and the Iraq invasion gave Obama authority to act without new approval by Congress under the 1973 War Powers Act.

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and bigger paychecks, but annoyed them to no end. I’m a stranger to my graduating class, save the few friends that I had for all my childhood and the ones who also did 1. Write a column. dual-enrollment. My memories of high 2. Edit said column school are going to college at the age of 16, 3. Plan your pre-enrollment schedule.

4. Ponder on the sad reality of your and juggling all that wonderful chaos with friends being more successful at life than the 80 or so other privileged, but deserving members of my academy. you.

So yeah, I’m not exactly Mr. School For those of you who don’t know, Lady Starlight is Lady Gaga’s best friend. They Spirit, and this group brings me back to started off as a duo in the early 2000s, back that weird limbo: belonging, but not. when Gaga wore disco ball-bras and wasn’t Instead of feeling happy about the success selling albums. For the past five years, Gaga of my vaguely remembered classmates, I feel has had Starlight open for all her concerts, an odd sense of inadequacy, seeing their and it always ends (starts?) poorly. Starlight, degrees and jobs posted proudly and lauded in some sort of illicit-substance-stupor, by my other classmates. And it’s not like I “D.J.s” for about 30-40 minutes while fans don’t have my own accolades to brag about, ponder why they paid $70 for this intermis- but I guess the disconnect still exists. My sion of biblical length. She literally plays on happiness towards them is an objective one, and vice versa. two drum machines, So it’s time to live repeating the same So it’s time to live in a bubble. in a bubble. Be that beats and hi-hats, while rocking out to ... No man is an island, but not shark, be the go-getter that only cares for her music in every island is home. It’s time oneself, or at least is unfounded euphoonly concerned for ria. for me to focus on my own oneself. No man is an I’d be so conisland, but not every cerned for her health career prospects and not island is home. It’s if I wasn’t so bored worry about the success of time for me to focus and annoyed at this on my own career sad excuse for an others; it’s game time. prospects and not opener. I get that worry about the sucGaga needs a long time to slip into her incredulous costumes, cess of others; it’s game time. We need to but putting on C-SPAN would be slightly worry about our own prelims instead of less boring than Lady Starlight’s “sets.” For wasting time talking to our friends about goodness’ sakes, I’m literally writing my col- them. Ditch your friends and go lock yourumn during this opening, in full Little self in Mann Library until you finish that Monster garb and with some intent to enjoy cover letter!

No, that’s too far — we still need friends this concert.

So let’s get to the deep-introspective part to like our FB statuses — don’t ditch them of my column, enough exposition, time to completely. But in reality it’s good to work give you advice: Don’t be a Lady Starlight. on our own advancement in life. Once Or don’t mooch off your friends. Better yet, we’ve reached a nice level of accomplishdon’t always live in the shadows of those ment is when we can start to brag and you perceive as “more accomplished” than “remember the good ol’ days.” For now you! Yeah that’s it, that’s the message of we’re just a work in progress. I don’t think I’m going to post on that Facebook group today.

“But didn’t you already write a column anytime soon. Not until I feel comfortable about your crippling anxieties from all your enough sharing something worthwhile. Not friends getting job offers?” you may ask. until I can write something sincere, without Yes. But this is slightly different. So, recent- being snarky or resentful.

So maybe I shouldn’t jeer at Lady ly, my high school is planning it’s 10-year anniversary (not reunion, but opening of Starlight. We shouldn’t plan to be like her the school, yes, it’s that young) and I was though; I think we should all aspire for added into the Facebook group. The group equal stardom. Let’s not be the friend eterwent from people being confused about nally under another’s shadow, but rather math (typical Doral) to a soapbox for every become our own accomplishment, rooted alumni to brag about their accomplish- on our own success but also with the supments and say how they all miss high school port of others. I’m currently reaching out, and blah blah blah. It’s so cheesy and I have far out into my network, to see what opportunity I can catch. Hint: Dear employed this weird resentment from it.

So what better way to explore my feel- readers, hire this snarky, ambitious, but ings for it than to air it out for everyone to honest columnist! In class we studied read? It’s not that I didn’t like high school, Milgram’s six degrees of separation, and I because I did. But, due to being an over- could easily plan a route from myself to achiever, and choosing to do a dual-enroll- Kevin Bacon, which goes to show what a ment program, my high school experience great resource alumni relations can be. The — at least from my original high school — trick is to become a part of the network, is soured to this day. I don’t love my whole another working node, not just someone graduating class from my high school, I who depends on the network. don’t have fond memories of my administrators acting foolish at pep rallies and I Milian is a senior in the College of don’t have “Bison pride.” My administra- Kevin Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached tors saw me as a thorn on their side, a logis- at kmilian@cornellsun.com. Milian Dollar Baby tic that brought the school a higher GPA appears on alternate Thursdays this semester. hings You Could Do During a Lady Starlight set:

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I’m Just Gonna Shake It

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quick Google search will present a myriad of female orgasm facts with contradicting statistics about how many women orgasm during sex, whether a vaginal orgasm is a real orgasm and whether the g-spot even exists. The jury is still out on these topics, so rather than pull misleading or contradictory facts from the Internet, I’ll just tell you about my personal experience with orgasms. Women respond differently to stimulation, and not everyone’s orgasms may feel the same, but since I’ve never felt another woman’s orgasms, bear with me as I present you my one-sided opinions.

I’ve read that a vaginal orgasm is actually a clitoral orgasm resulting from stimulation of nerves of the clitoris that extend up the vaginal wall. I’ve also heard that vaginal orgasms are different than clitoral orgasms and, finally, I’ve also heard that vaginal orgasms don’t exist. I have had both clitoral and vaginal orgasms, and while both pleasurable, they felt very, very different, so I believe the theory that both exist separately. I can have a vaginal orgasm with any guy that has at least an averagesized penis and who can rhythmically hit the

right spot enough times. This usually happens when we’re in missionary with my legs pulled up to my chest. Once I feel a vaginal orgasm building, it usually happens in less than a minute. My breath gets short and my body tenses and then there is a pleasurable release. This can happen up to three times for me in a single sex session. Vaginal orgasms are okay

while. It takes some mental relaxation to be 100 percent comfortable with someone’s tongue down there, but any inhibitions are forgotten as soon as the pleasure starts to mount. The buildup to a clitoral orgasm is warm and tingly and muscles tense up not only in the pelvic region, but also throughout my body. The moment of orgasm is pleasure so intense

whether it’s foreplay, in the middle or after one partner has already finished, but if you’re not going down on her, she’s unlikely to have a mind-blowing experience. The woman also has to be able to focus on her clitoris and the sensations, so personally I don’t like it if much else is going on. I don’t need my partner to grab my boobs or finger me or alternate licking and sucking, I just need consistency in tongue pattern. Again, other women may feel differently about this, but if you are unsure as a partner, just ask what she wants.

I would much rather have you try than not bother at all.

To the female readers — if you’ve been insecure or self-conscious about letting your partner perform cunnilingus on you, find someone who makes you comfortable and who looks for feedback in bed and let them try it.

Once you relax and your partner has some practice, I promise you won’t regret it.

Women respond differently to stimulation, and not everyone’s orgasms may feel the same, but since I’ve never felt another woman’s orgasm, bear with me as I present my one-sided opinions. for me. I would rather orgasm that way then not at all. But on a scale of one to clitoral orgasm, vaginal orgasms are a five.

Clitoral orgasms aren’t really disputed by scientists. They exist, and they’re amazing. Not every guy I’ve slept with has the patience, the skill or the desire to give me a clitoral orgasm, but I always say that the ones who have given me one were the absolute best partners. The best way for me to have a clitoral orgasm is cunnilingus, and it’s going to take a

that I temporarily lose control of my reflexes. The vagina contracts and my partner can feel the contractions if his fingers are inside me. My heart rate accelerates and I might not be able to help but make some noise. After the orgasm is complete, I am happy and sleepy. I’m also extremely sensitive down there afterwards, but it is possible to have a repeat performance.

If you want to sexually please a woman, give her a clitoral orgasm.

Timing is up to you as a sexual couple,

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Ruth M. is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at ruthm@cornellsun.com. I’m Just Gonna Shake It appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Embracing Monogamish

he day has finally cum. The “gays” have officially over this past summer, I found myself on Grindr (a gay means negated by the fact that we find other people to infiltrated The Sun’s weekly sex column. Quick! “social networking” application) chatting almost daily be sexually attractive and enjoy flirting with them Someone call The Cornell Review before I tear with other guys, although none of my conversations led (online or in person). Moreover, by renegotiating and down too many good ole “traditional” American family to physical encounters. I couldn’t help but think that deconstructing the arbitrary nature of monogamous values! SPOILER ALERT: You’re too late. there was something fundamentally wrong with me. To expectations, my boyfriend and I have been able to With that being said, I’ve come to a point in life make matters worse, having saved my boyfriend as a achieve a level of open and honest communication where I’m really not so keen on automatically accepting “favorite” on Grindr — which means that I can see that has enabled us to explore our innermost feelings the monolithic and ridiculously over-romanticized ideal whether or not he’s online and using the app — I and desires together — like having really, really, really that true, meaningful relationships must adhere to strict noticed that he was also online almost daily. How the hot threesomes. Seriously, I’m hard as a fucking rock fidelity. Quite frankly, our society’s right now just thinking about it. If rather pervasive use of monogamy as The Sun ends up letting me write By renegotiating and deconstructing the arbitrary nature of a barometer for successful relationanother guest column, I’ll make ships (instead of things like, you sure to devote it entirely to monogamous expectations, my boyfriend and I have been know, honesty or happiness) creates a divulging all of the juicy, intimate details. lot of unrealistic expectations for able to achieve a level of open and honest communication People can’t help having certain people and their partners. Now, I’m that has enabled us to explore our innermost feelings and desires or urges, and we really not saying that monogamy is inhershouldn’t lie to our partners about ently wrong or that it has never desires together. them. Some people need getting worked for anyone (straight or gay), kinky with floggers, some people but that our cultural obsession with monogamy is dishonest in how it blatantly ignores basic hell could we both be in love with each other and at the need flirting, some people need more than one sexual human sexuality. Seriously, why must your partner’s sex- same time actively flirt with and be physically attracted partner at a time and some people don’t need sex at all (shout out to all the asexual people out there). At the ual attraction to other people be mutually exclusive to other gay men?

The internal shame and guilt I experienced was the end of the day, the romantic relationships you have with with their love for you? Look, I’m not here today to lecture you on how monogamy is an evil invention of the product of a deeply ingrained, subconscious notion people ought be built upon a constant, honest commucis-heteropatriarchy like some FGSS windbag, as this is that in order for love to be true and valid one’s nication and (re)negotiation of each partner’s unique a topic and discourse that I am still actively grappling thoughts must be wholly consumed by that one single interests, feelings and desires, and not that of chaste preperson. However, after returning to campus this set relationship constructs. with in my own life.

Although my boyfriend and I have been together for semester and confiding in each other our shared feelabout a year now — and I’ve never been happier — ings of guilt that ate away at us over the summer, we Masc. Dom. Top is a junior at Cornell. Responses can be sent to associthere have been points in our relationship where I was ultimately realized that this was absolute bullshit. Our ate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodicallys this semesentirely consumed by insecurity and doubt. While apart love for each other was always real, and it is by no ter.

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Dining Out of My Comfort Zone At De Tasty in Collegetown

By IAN SIGALOW

ing our orders, the lights on our table illuminated and our miniature stoves were turned on. Our waiter placed in front hen I was asked to do of us metal pots (which I a review of referred to as cauldrons for the Collegetown’s newest duration of the meal) filled with eatery De Tasty, I did not quite chicken broth. We were not know what to expect. I had sure if the rest of the ingredients never heard of a hot pot restauwere sitting at the bottom, and rant, but being a food connoiswe proceeded to use a chopseur (or maybe more along the sticks to check lines of diletthat nothing tante) I hope I can offer some The novelty of being able to else was in the pot.

A few comments and recommenda- prepare the food myself and minutes later, our waiter tions for what to expect for add in all of my ingredients returned with a large tray full of future diners embarking on a was a lot of fun, especially veggies and noodles piled similar journey. high.

I had Going into the because I had no idea never seen a restaurant with majority of no expectawhat to expect. these vegetables tions, and not before, and due quite knowing what to order, was a bit of a that we wanted to order: Hot to the vast quantity of food on struggle, so hopefully these tips Pots, whatever that was. Our these separate trays, we were waitress did her best to explain faced with two questions: 1) can be of some guidance.

To begin, after walking down what it was that we were order- What do we do with all of this the steps to De Tasty, where the ing (keep in mind the menu is a food? and 2) Which of these Gates was previously located, I combination of English and items looks the most like chickwas greeted and led to a table, Chinese), and we ultimately en? Our waitress told us to which I immediately noticed decided to order the Chicken dump everything into the pot, Combo Hot Pot. which was and for the next hour it was like $11.95. We could see listed on I was the chef at my own the menu that the combo came Benihana. I was only further with bok choy, cabbage, corn, confused when the chicken — tofu, dried tofu skin, tomato, thinly rolled, and clearly not enoki mushrooms, black mush- cooked — was brought to the rooms, vermicelli and fried table a few minutes later. After bean curds. To be quite honest, I conquered my fear of salmoI did not know what half of nella, I placed the chicken into these items were, but we my hot pot, and thus began the thought it would make more first of many meals.

As I was getting more comsense to order the combo rather than randomly picking and fortable cooking my ingredichoosing items a la carte. Also, ents, I decided that I was going why not? The purpose of this to break up the meal into a ton meal was to stray outside of my of different segments to expericomfort zone and see what De ment with what I liked and did not like. We were given smaller Tasty had in store!

About 15 minutes after plac- bowls, a ladle, and a strainer to move certain items from the cauldron into our bowls, which seemed more suitable for eating in public. My first critique would be that, without the three sauces that were brought to the table, the food had very little taste to it. Tip 2: Use the sauces in your bowls. Make sure to put the sauces in the smaller bowls instead of the larger pot to try out the specific combination of sauces and ingredients. The soy sauce and peanut sesame sauce RESTAURANT definitely spiced the various RESTAURANT ingredients up a bit, and each HOME OF THE new bowl I prepared for myself HOME OF THE had new ingredients and a different combination of sauces, which made for many separate mini meals. Tip 3: The meal is 1213 Taughannock Blvd.

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had knobs sticking out of each seat spot. Shortly thereafter, I learned that these would control the temperatures for our hot pots. I was also presently surprised to have a large kettle of tea brought to our seats. Tip 1: Enjoy the tea.

However, when it came time to order, the struggle began. All we knew at that point in time is

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and half.

In the end, I really do not know how we finished our meals, considering the amount of food and broth at our disposal. I discovered some new vegetables that I had to look up afterwards in order to know the names of my personal favorites.

What I thought was the tofu was actually the fried bean curd, and what I thought were sprouts were actually the enoki mushrooms. Also, after looking up all of the ingredients, I learned that there were definitely more ingredients on my plate that weren’t listed in the combo. This included some different types of seaweed.

My final takeaway is that I really did enjoy the experience of losing my hot pot virginity.

The novelty of being able to prepare the food myself and add in all of my ingredients was a lot of fun, especially because I had no idea what to expect. As I refined my culinary skills and was able to experiment with what I liked best, the meal only got better and better. I must note however, that the service was fair at best. The restaurant was nearly empty, and we had to

ask several times for drinks in addition to spoons, which was odd considering we received ladles and the strainer beforehand. When I received the check I was shocked to see how expensive the meal was. I was under the impression that I had only ordered the Chicken Combo, but what is not explained clearly on the menu is that in order to get hot pot, you must order the actual hot pot in addition to the ingredients.

Thus, my meal was up charged an additional $4.50 for simple chicken broth. Tip 4: Make sure to add in the price of the specific hot pot. These prices are standard per person, which certainly drives your price up.

Yes, the meal was tasty (once I added the sauces), and the experience was quite enjoyable, but I felt that 20 plus dollars, post tip and tax, for a massive bowl of soup that I cooked myself was definitely a bit steep. All in all, I would recommend dining at De Tasty to see what a hot pot restaurant is all about, but for now, I’m in no rush to go back.

Ian Sigalow can be reached at ims48@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Prague Philharmonic Choir at Bailey TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

Program changes can be tricky. The world-renowned Prague Philharmonic Choir singing Rachmaninoff ’s Vespers, plus music by Dvořák and Janáček? Yes, please.

Sadly, this was not the case when the choir came to Ithaca for Sunday night’s concert with something else in mind. Thankfully the new set list, as it were, offered plenty of delights to make up for unfulfilled expectations. The music of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák carried over by way of three works not often heard stateside. His Moravian Duets (1876), of which the sopranos and altos sang five selections to piano accompaniment, imbued Bailey Hall with a transportive, fairytale quality.

Between the somber, overlapping lines of “The Maid Imprisoned” and the mélange of tones and tempi that was “The Ring,” these settings of folk poetry covered a wide and dramatic range. The Three Male Choruses on Folk Texts of 1877/78 followed, bringing contrast not only by the switch of roster, but also within the tripartite piece itself, marrying bright pianism with stark singing. With titles like “Sorrow” and “The Maiden in the Wood,” these songs engaged weighty and fleeting emotions alike, and did so with enough strength to withstand an underlying longing of epic proportion. Lastly, before intermission was In Nature’s Realm. Written in 1882, it boasts some of Dvořák’s liveliest choral writing.

For its five-song traversal the full choir assembled at last, underscoring the hymnal quality of “Music Descended on My Soul” and luxuriating in the echo effect of “The Rye Field” — the latter a memorable highlight, among

others.

In addition to enjoying the opportunity to experience this music live, one could very much feel the cultures and places it represented. Each piece was an illustrative vignette, to be sure.

Just as impressive, however, was Dvořák’s piano writing. More than mere support for the massive vocal forces, it held its own as an equal partner. Yet perhaps most enjoyable of all was principal conductor Lukáš Vasilek, whose superb direction — all of it without a master score, no less — continued on through the concert’s second half: the Liebeslieder Waltzes of Johannes Brahms. Composed 1868/69 and performed by the full choir and four-hand piano, it embodied, compared to the Dvořák, an integrated sound that was darker, more amalgamated. What the waltzes might have lacked in melodic oomph they made up for in rich choral textures, a quirky sense of humor (as in the invigoratingly stubborn “No, There’s Just No Getting Along”), and turns from alto and tenor soloists breaking the dense surroundings into smaller

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There’re a lot of people out there — the loudest (both literally and figuratively) of whom are mostly musicians — who are under the impression that 1963-1973 was undoubtedly, unequivocally, unarguably, unimpeachably the best span of ten consecutive years to have ever graced mankind. And with all the racial tension, civil unrest, the Vietnam War and throngs of smelly hippies, it’s pretty hard to argue with ‘em. Personally, I’m a bigger fan of the ‘90s: There’s something about the guillotine and powdered wigs that just kinda gets me going, I guess. Anyways, these devout ’60sists (as I like to call them) have been spewing nostalgia, with varying degrees of success, since about 1970.

A few were and are still doing pretty damn well at it, but the best of the sonic rubberneckers are not and have never been the fanatics: the ones who do it right take the ’60s as a suggestion; the ones who do it wrong as scripture. Falling into the latter category on their newest release, …And Star Power, are Foxygen.

Before even opening the record (if you scored yourself one of them fabled physical copies, for nostalgia’s and capitalism’s sake), you can tell that the band is aiming at something lofty. They ostentatiously name each side of the album (which itself clocks in at over 80 minutes). Side One actually gets two parts, “The Hits” and “Star Power Suite.” Side Two is “The Paranoid Side;” Side Three, “Scream: The Journey Through Hell;” and Side Four, “Hang on to Love.”

Taking the length of the record and the side naming into account (along with the existence of a suite, that supposedly long-dead psychedelic remnant that might’ve been wellimplemented once for every ten cheesy cracks at it), it’s clear that the intended effect of this record is to give the listener a sonic tour de force/compendium of just about everything that the yuppies thought was awesome about the ‘60s, but

chunks.

The choir encored with an ethereal arrangement by Swedish composer Jan Sandström of the popular Elizabethan carol “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen,” which split the singers into two groups and showcased their ability to be as airy as they had been compact. With downright orchestral expanse and a sublime bass section to its credit, the choir showed us the true meaning of a cappella, and a lot more besides. A real treat.

Tyron Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.

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The record actually starts off with something that’s pretty promising. The first minute of the first disc, otherwise known as “Star Power Airlines,” suggests some sort of postpunk noise throwback. That dream is pretty quickly slashed as soon as the second song, “How Can You Really,” takes over with its Rundgrenian instrumentation and lo-fi mentality. This actually could’ve been quite the ploy (ugly noise rock balanced by pretty Stereolab-channeled quasi-pop), but they don’t stick with it. Instead, the first side of the record is filled with more poorly conceived power-pop throwbacks (“Coulda Been My Love”), way-too-obvious and unsuccessful glances at Barretism (“Cosmic Vibrations”) and Beatles yearnings (“You & I”), followed by that aforementioned farce, the four-part “Star Power Suite,” which takes the Rundgren paradigm to the stars, which is a few light-years further than anyone should be channeling good ol’ TR in 2014.

Side Two (“The Paranoid Side”) sticks with the lo-fi power pop/psychedelia idea set up on its predecessor for the most part, but sneaks in some more prominent hints of New Wave/Industrial, which admittedly seem pretty out of place. None of the songs here are necessarily bad, but there’s nothing phenomenal either; it basically feels like a full side of filler. “666” is a pretty good ode to Aphrodite’s Child (I think), “Flowers” sounds alternately like a more utopian Throbbing Gristle on 20 Jazz Funk Greats and a slightly heftier Sister Irene O’Connor and “Hot Summer” could well be a lost track from the Suicide sessions (although one Vega and Rev would’ve cut for good reason, cuz it’s not too good). All of these songs seem a bit ill-conceived, like their influences are more prominent than the music itself. The

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most confusing track, though, is “Cannibal Holocaust;” I just keep on listening to it, and I still can’t figure out how the Chiltonian melody has shit to do with its namesake found-footage freak-out film, a favorite of mine which I really don’t want to associate with this mediocrity.

If there is a worthwhile side to this record, its “Scream: A Journey Through Hell,” which harks back to the true ’60s revolution, i.e. that of the Stooges and the Velvet Underground (and a little Rolling Stones). “Cold Winter/Freedom,” the side’s opener, is a noise rock dirge filtered through “We Will Fall.” It’s followed by “Can’t Contextualize My Mind,” which, despite being a direct and indirect ripoff of Link Wray and the Stooges’ Fun House, respectively, succeeds in its facsimile. The rest of the songs on this side seem to take pages out of the books of the ’60s’ psychedelic baddies and garage-rockers (i.e. the Deviants, the Fugs), which, while not being revolutionary, is at least worthwhile.

Side Four stretches for only ten minutes, and contains the half-assed Uncle Meat-era-Zappa-tinged “Everyone Needs Love” and the boring indie-psych “Hang.”

So basically, …And Star Power is a full double album that could’ve easily been distilled to a pretty good EP. At least three quarters of the record is filler, the rest is relatively successful ’60s and ’70s copycat work, and the work as a whole is underwhelming. It does deserve credit, though, for its near-exhaustive compilation of the sounds of the ’60s.

Whether or not Foxygen knows how to make a good song aside, they sure as hell know how to make themselves sound like a whole bunch of someone elses.

Troy Sherman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at tfs48@cornell.edu.

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High Stakes on a Train Snowpiercer is a post-apocalyptic film set in 2031 highlight of the film is how on a train that travels non-stop around the world. In the cinematography and set a misconducted attempt to combat global warming, designers create each section the Earth is plunged into an ice age. The only life that in its own distinct way. The survived has been placed on the train, Snowpiercer. visuals are reason enough to On Snowpiercer, a class system develops that has the go watch Snowpiercer. wealthy at the front of the train and the poor and Audiences are spellbound as weak in the back. The leader of the train is Mr. they view each compartment Wilford, the man who maintains the engine of with the same amount of Snowpiercer. Sick of the terrible way they are treated, wonder and awe as the tail the poor revolt and try to take over Snowpiercer in inhabitants do. The aesthetthis science fiction action film written and directed by ics produce a world that reels Bong Joon-Ho. Snowpiercer stars Chris Evans, Jamie you in. The constant transformation of the train comBell, Octavia Spencer and Ed Harris.

The film opens on the guards delivering blocks of partments keeps audiences protein to the people in the tail of the train. The con- fascinated with the film, ditions are horrendous; everyone is covered in dirt and eagerly anticipating what the grime, and the living quarters are tightly packed. The next section will be.

Snowpiercer delights audiguards have guns and treat the poor as if they were criminals. Curtis Everett, played by Chris Evans, is ences with action scenes and one of the leaders of the poor. His plan to revolt and its theme of socioeconomic take over the train is revealed as the poor begin justice, but the most interesting aspect of the film is its concept. With environmental concerns preparing. The group forces apparent everywhere today, Snowpiercer their way through several train Aishwarya Singh delves into the consequences of global compartments, beating their warming and how people would try to susway through the numerous tain life. The train has compartments guards. The first goal for the Cornell devoted to school, greenhouse and even an tail inhabitants is to reach the prison section of the train.

Cinema aquarium, to name a few. The details that go into sustaining life are carefully regulatThey free Namgoong Minsu, the man who created the security system on ed too. For example, the rich are only allowed to have Snowpiercer. With the incentive of Kronole, a drug, sushi twice a year so the ecosystem of the aquarium is Namgoong and his daughter join the tail inhabitants. not upset. Most post apocalyptic films focus on the Together, they fight their way through the train, even- protagonist, but Snowpiercer details how regular life tually leading up to the intense confrontation between would continue as well.

Along with the amazing visuals and interesting Curtis and Mr. Wilford.

The film is set up into several sections. As they concept, Snowpiercer displays incredible acting from travel from the back to the very front of the train, the the star-studded cast. Though Chris Evans is enough tail inhabitants cross through the different compart- reason to go watch a movie, he also shines as Curtis. ments. Each section is devoted to an idea, and a major He creates a character that is hardened from the

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depths of human depravity he has witnessed and participated in himself while continuing to demonstrate the action skills audiences associate with him. Curtis is a complex character that Evans expertly gives life to on screen. Jamie Bell and Octavia Spencer both play characters that are part of the tail inhabitants. They connect with audiences with their witty personalities and heartfelt moments. On the wealthy side, Tilda Swinton provides an annoying character audiences will love to hate. Overall, Snowpiercer contains a fascinating concept brought to life with incredible visuals and captivating acting that combine to form a noteworthy film that deserves its critical acclaim.

Snowpiercer is playing at the Cornell Cinema tonight at 9:30, Saturday at 9:45, and Sunday at 7:15.

Aishwarya Singh is a freshman in the College of Engineering. She can be reached at as2539@cornell.edu.

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t’s cold now. Soon, the subzero treks to class and daily existential crises before your 8:40 a.m. class will engulf us all into a doggedly Ithacan melancholia that not even the glorious prospect of beanie season and festively spiced beverages can rock. In this season of unshakeable Mondays, it’s easy to glamorize your delirium into something tragic and beautiful, especially when compounded with the potency of Seasonal Affective Disorder (get a Happy Light!) and moodiness of our Menses. But, as a firstorder caution from this first-order fella, you have been forewarned: Do not fall for the romance of the iceberg even as it sinks the ship. In this arctic tundra, maybe you have once gotten to the point of hating yourself where you hate yourself for hating yourself, but that does not make you Sylvia Plath, or Vincent Van Gogh, or Kurt Cobain. In Hollywood, the romanticization of mental

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illness has transformed the artist who falls on his sword for his work as the New Age martyr. The trope of the tortured artist has existed for centuries, but understand vitally that there exists a slippery slope between the overly critical eye you appraise your own work and the severe chemical imbalance of a depressive brain.

The correlation between creativity and mental illness has been a relationship that psychologists and neuroscientists have tried to support empirically for ages, with only shaky statistical significance. As a causality angsty teenage girls and Bushwick Brooklynites have championed for as long as creation and self-loathing have coexisted — which is to say forever — there is this infectious myth that great beauty must be wrought from great pain. And yet, conflicting research shows that creativity is best fostered by positive moods. Numerous examples of great art wrought without pain, or in the recent absence of pain, also prevail (Hello, Robert Downey Jr., post-rehab). Maybe stability sounds bland, but not every artist is a shaman, devoting his life to a singular vision, trading earthliness for brilliant mania. As Jonathan Franzen once said of the late, great David Foster Wallace, can you even conceive of “the sick mental pathways by which suicide comes to seem like the one consciousnessquenching substance that nobody can take

away from you?”

Now, six years after his passing, the great tragedy of this author’s death is not so much that Pale King was left unfinished or his stu-

Alice Wang Profanity Prayers dents left un-mentored, it’s that his suicide so intertwined his genius with his illness so as to make them altogether one. However, it was always DFW who said that he wrote Infinite Jest in his healthiest, happiest moments, post-depressive fugue. To oversimplify a public legend by his most hidden and least favored aspect, to flatten his many dimensions into his mere mental addictions, is to make hollow a man whose warring with internal demons had only stifled his genius, not fostered it.

We are not, as it turns out, ordered by Charles Bukowski who once advised, “If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it.” Admittedly, this is tempting. It’s true that there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. And it’s true that it’s easy to love a breakup song. And it’s true that because our mothers told us, “You can be anything,” we heard, “You have to be everything,” and we’ll always feel a certain amount of contempt for that. But if you are sick, you get help. I’ll say it again: If you are sick, you get help.

If you still think there is something romantic about the death of a creative, of the torment of an artist, please see the raw

remembrance of DFW in an elegy by Jonathan Franzen: “One of the last times I talked to [Dave] after that, in August, on the phone, he asked me to tell him a story of how things would get better. I repeated back to him a lot of what he’d been saying to me in our conversations over the previous year. I said he was in a terrible and dangerous place because he was to trying to make real changes as a person and as a writer. I said that the last time he’d been through near-death experiences, he’d emerged and written, very quickly, a book that was lightyears beyond what he’d been doing before his collapse. I said he was a stubborn control freak and know-it-all — ‘So are you!’ he shot back at me — and I said that people like us are so afraid to relinquish control that sometimes the only way we can force ourselves to open up and change is to bring ourselves to an access of misery and the brink of self-destruction. I said he’d undertaken his change in medication because he wanted to grow up and have a better life. I said I thought his best writing was ahead of him.

And he said: ‘I like that story. Could you do me a favor and call me up every four or five days and tell me another story like it?’

Unfortunately I only had one more chance to tell him the story, and by then he wasn’t hearing it. He was in horrible, minute-byminute anxiety and pain. The next times I tried to call him, after that, he wasn’t picking up the phone or returning messages. He’d gone down into the well of infinite sadness, beyond the reach of story, and he didn’t make it out. But he had a beautiful, yearning innocence, and he was trying.”

Alice Wang is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com. Profanity Prayers appears alternate Thursdays.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim once hired Louisville’s Rick Pitino as an assistant, coached against North Carolina’s Roy Williams in a national championship game and served as an assistant to Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski for two gold medal-winning Olympic teams.

The four coaches have crossed paths for decades, racking up a few thousand wins and nine NCAA titles between them on the way to the Naismith Hall of Fame.

Now they’re all chasing the Atlantic Coast Conference championship.

“I’m worried about the guys they’ve got on the court and how they’re doing,” Boeheim said. “It’s not head-to-head [among coaches] in the sense that everybody else thinks it is. It really isn’t. It’s not ever about that.”

Maybe not to the foursome, but it’s impossible to overlook the star power on the sidelines in the tradition-rich ACC with the arrival of Pitino and the Cardinals this season.

The quartet has a combined 3,350 wins, 29 Final Four trips, 84 conference regular-season or tournament titles and 132 seasons of experience, according to STATS. They’ve also won nearly 76 percent of their 4,411 games.

Krzyzewski, entering his 35th season at Duke, is the winningest coach in men’s Division I history with 983 wins. Boeheim, in his 39th year at Syracuse, is second with 948.

Williams, who is entering his 12th season at UNC after 15 years at Kansas, ranks fourth among active coaches with 724 wins and “It can get ugly on second to Gonzaga’s Mark Few some nights.” among active coaches with a 79.2 percent win mark.

Roy Williams Then there’s Pitino, who has 695 career wins in 29 years and was the first coach to win NCAA titles at two schools (Kentucky in 1996, Louisville in 2013) as well as the first coach to take three programs to the Final Four (Providence, Kentucky and Louisville).

“My gosh, a couple of years ago I said this: you better be ready to play regardless of who you’re playing or where or you’re not going to win,” Williams said. “Now you can exaggerate even more — you better be ready to play to the best of your ability regardless of who you play or where you’re playing or you’re going to get massacred.

“It’s a league that with the coaches and teams we have, it can get ugly on some nights if you’re not ready to play.”

Once Pitino gets his 700th win this season, the ACC will be the first league in NCAA history to have four active coaches with at least 700 career victories. The previous high was three by the Big East during the 2011-12 season with Boeheim, Connecticut’s Jim Calhoun and West Virginia’s Bob Huggins.

Buzz Williams coached in the Big East with Marquette that year.

Now entering his first year at Virginia Tech, he knows it’s a tough neighborhood.

“If we could get coach [Larry] Brown in the league somehow, maybe get SMU in the league, that would be every active Hall of Fame coach all in one league,” Williams said. “We’ve got 80 percent of the active coaches in the Hall of Fame. I don’t think that’ll ever happen again in the history of college basketball.”

That explains why Krzyzewski was quick with a quip when asked during the league’s preseason media day about the initiation process for Pitino as he transitions to a new league.

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Giants Season Subpar; Team Looks to Improve EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Heading into the second half of what has been a disappointing season, the New York Giants need a lot more than consistency on offense and fewer big plays allowed on defense.

Defensive captain Antrel Rolle wants more fight and more passion.

Quarterback Eli Manning would like to see the plays that the Giants run so easily in practice, run the same way in games.

Rookie wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. would settle for everyone simply making plays.

Whatever the Giants (3-5) are missing, they have to find it, and soon. They have been blown out in three straight games and the time to make a playoff push is running out as they prepare for Sunday’s game in noisy Seattle against the Super Bowl champion Seahawks (5-3).

“On our sideline, it’s very dead.”

Antrel Rolle A day after the Giants dropped a 40-24 decision to the Indianapolis Colts, Rolle complained about the Giants’ lack of passion in the Monday night game. “... I just think that’s something we’re missing a lot,” Rolle said in the interview of WFAN. “On our sideline, it’s very dead.

Throughout the course of a game it’s dead. We need a pulse.”

Giants coach Tom Coughlin didn’t have an issue with Rolle’s comments.

“What is Antrel’s interpretation of that, I am not sure,” Coughlin said Wednesday. “I know he is an emotional guy and he does wear his emotions on his sleeve. He is a passionate young man. Not all people are the same. I think our preparation last week was certainly good.

“I thought that the idea of playing hard, not looking at the scoreboard, staying with it and working as hard as we could, I think, for the most part, we did that. It wasn’t a ‘rah-rah’ situation most of the time on the sideline, but people were into the game and they were playing hard.”

Middle linebacker Jameel McClain wasn’t going to disagree with Rolle.

“Whatever Antrel Rolle sees, I take it as a challenge, for us to step it up, for me to give more,” McClain said.

The defense certainly has to pick it up. It allowed Andrew Luck and Colts to post eight plays of 20 yards or more on Monday night, and it has allowed more than 400 yards five times this season.

Defensive end Robert Ayers believes Rolle is right about the lack of passion.

“It is easy to be intense when things are good, but when things are bad, we still have to

keep it going,” Ayers said. “It starts with the players, it starts with the coaches and we just have to keep fighting and keep wanting it, it will come. When you lose, it is tough, but we have to keep working at it, and it will all come.”

Manning insisted the Giants are hurting themselves with their lack of execution and mistakes.

“We’ve got to keep working,” Manning said. “We have some different guys in there than we did at the start of the season.

We’ve got some new receivers playing and we can do some good things. I think we can make some plays. We are not executing every play like we need to. Sometimes the defense has a great call, sometimes they win, but we are letting them win too many times.”

Manning said the only thing he is focused on now is winning and ending the Giants’ slide.

The one positive that has come out of the slide has been the play of Beckham. The Giants’ first-round draft choice had a career night catching eight passes for 156 yards, including a 59-yard catch and run that set up New York’s first touchdown.

Beckham said he is taking his lead from Manning. The twotime Super Bowl MVP isn’t giving up and neither is Beckham.

“It is just one of those things where other guys, myself included, we all need to step up and come together as a team and decide — at the end of the day, you determine your own destiny,” Beckham said.

“We need to decide how we want to finish these last couple games and I think there is no other reason but to finish them all with wins.”

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team as whole is worse than Denver and Green Bay. My Revised Super Bowl: Broncos Over Packers

OK, OK, so my preseason pick of Seahawks over Bengals isn’t looking so great. The Seahawks are 5-3, with a bad loss to the Rams. The Bengals have been shutout and looked dominant. Same old Bengals. I was hoping to see more consistency out of Cincinnati.

Maybe some of their woes will be solved by the health of AJ Green, who has missed three games. Both teams can make the playoffs still and I’d still be surprised if Seattle missed out. However, Cincinnati is in a dogfight in a division where it once looked like they had the capacity to dominate. But it doesn’t look like Andy Dalton is leading the stripes to the AFC title anytime soon.

Moreover, the Broncos and Packers are on track.

I’m really tempted to pick the Cardinals, but I just have a hard time seeing them actually win the NFC, although they’re marching towards a division title and a bye. The Broncos did just absorb a thrashing by the Patriots, but the Broncos are still the most talented team in football. They still have the most dangerous receiving corps in football, a stout offensive line and the greatest statistical quarterback ever. The Broncos are simply the most talented team in the NFL. They’ll be OK. A Crazy, But Very Possible Super Bowl I’m Rooting For: Steelers Over Lions

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Lion’s den | Detroit Lions running back Joique Bell (35) with the ball in the third quarter of an NFL football game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Sept. 28, 2014. A 24-17 loss to the Detroit Lions at MetLife Stadium has plunged the New York Jets into a state of flux heading into a game at San Diego.

Watch out for the Pittsburgh Steelers. In two weeks, Big Ben Roethlisberger has put up twelve touchdowns. And that’s before he plays the Jets. Sure, the defense isn’t what is used to be. But they still have playmakers — after all, Troy Polamalu is still playing safety. The Steelers are a dynamic offense, led by Leveon Bell and Antonio Brown — an offense worthy

of winning a title.

The Lions, with a healthy Calvin Johnson, feature an unstoppable receiver and a well balanced attack.

Matt Stafford, although not an MVP quarterback, is good enough to catch fire and lead a team to a Super Bowl appearance. And let’s not discount their defense, which features a disruptive defensive line, anchored

by Ndamukong Suh, who may be leaving the motor city very soon.

Most Surprising Team: The Arizona Cardinals

The Cardinals were pretty good last year, missing the playoffs despite winning 10 games. This year, they’ve been the best team in the NFC, despite absorbing key losses. Their secondary is elite and the play calling doesn’t get any more aggressive than Bruce Arena’s. However, I still don’t see them actually winning it all.

Most Disappointing Team: Seattle Seahawks

It’s between them or the Chicago Bears. But the Seahawks were supposed to be the start of a dynasty.

One of the youngest teams to ever win it all, led by a third year quarterback in Russell Wilson, they’ve barely skated by to a 5-3 record, looking up at Cardinals in the standings. I suppose part of it isn’t their fault.

The departures of Browner and Thurmond from the Legion of Boom were not insignificant. Trading away Percy Harvin wasn’t a panacea. The Seahawks are only getting less talented. No team is infallible. The Seahawks are simply more flawed than previously thought, their cracks masked by the glow of a Lombardi Trophy. However, the division is still attainable. They still have to play the Cardinals twice, a perfect way to make up a two game deficit. If the defending champs get in, they’re a tough out.

John Zakour is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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1) How did you get your start in cross country and track?

I started running in eighth grade to stay in shape for swimming actually. I started out as a swimmer and then I just more and more fell in love with [running] and improved so I wasn’t bad at it anymore. Then, my sophomore year, I started doing cross country and the rest is history.

2) Cross country and long distance running in general can be a really mental sport. What advice do you have to people that have trouble getting over the mental hurdle of running?

I would always remind yourself what your goals are to keep you motivated day to day, but I also think that when you’re racing, it can be really helpful to not overthink things. That’s definitely been a problem I’ve had in the past. Just keeping it simple and reminding yourself what you want and why you are doing the training that you’re doing, while still not getting inside your own head on race day and staying relaxed is really important. This year, we’ve been really good as a team at staying relaxed and loose and kind of goofy on race day.

3) Do you have any secret talents or hobbies?

I bake a mean cookie, I will say. I really enjoy baking.

M E L L Y MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

What kind of cookies?

All kinds. I expanded my repertoire into apple pies this fall, which is really exciting. I made my own crust, didn’t use store bought. I will also say that my not-so-secret, not so much of a talent is that I’m probably the most enthusiastic, worst singer that’s ever existed.

4) Do you have any pre-game rituals, either alone or with the team?

This year, we’ve been taking our music selection really seriously when we go to our meets. In the van leading up to our pre-national meet, we played “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins because all of us are big Archer fans. My teammate Brian and I are also very insistent that the ideal pre-race music is Kesha’s. Actually, every season I will have a song that I personally listen to on my iPod right before I race, and this season it’s “Let it Go” from Frozen. I’m glad that that’s out there in the world now.

5) What is something you miss most about Boston and Newton while at Cornell?

Boston is actually a great running city. It’s funny how it comes back to that. It’s the perfect combination of not too big, but not too small, exciting, but also familiar and friendly. People there really love running. There’s the November Project, a sort of underground fitness group that started in Boston. There’s been a lot more pros there and the Boston Marathon is one of the coolest sporting events you will ever watch.

Brotherly love | Senior David Melly said he feels lucky to have been part of two such amazing teams during his time at Cornell.

6) If you could be on any other sports team at Cornell, which team would you want to be on and why?

and I think that reminds me how lucky I am and keeps me striving every day to do bigger and better thing.

I am super inflexible, so that gymnastics team, if I had that ability, would be really cool. Also, any sport that has a ball and involves hand eye coordination, I’m super admiring of because I can’t do that. I often joke that if I could play real sports, I would, but instead I’m just stuck with running.

9) What else are you involved with on campus?

7) If you could race anyone, dead or alive, who would you want to race?

I actually have raced Caroline Kennedy and Jake Gyllenhaal before in the same road race on Martha’s Vineyard, so that’s pretty cool, but if I could race anyone dead or alive it would probably be Steve Prefontaine. That’s a pretty standard answer, but he’d kind of the rockstar of the running world, so that would be really exciting.

8) As a senior, what have the crosscountry and track teams given you throughout your time at Cornell?

Where do I even start? I will say that the track and cross country teams are [two] of the most supportive, diverse, just incredibly accomplished communities at Cornell. I am just inspired every day by my teammates. They are so incredible in so many ways that go way beyond just what they’re doing on the track. I sometimes feel intimidated on my own team because a lot of them are just such incredible people. There’s also a lot of love on our team, and it’s rare to have a group of guys so invested in each other’s success and so across the board dedicated to the team. They put their time at Cornell to the best use possible,

I am the copresident of the Red Key Society, which is a student athlete honors society. I was one of the founding members of Athlete Ally, which is an awesome group started by my friend Atticus, who does great things for the LGBTQ and athlete communities and I am also the domestic policy director of the Cornell Roosevelt Institute, which is a student-run think tank. That indulges my political junkie side, which is a very different world from the track or cross country course.

10) What has been the funniest moment you’ve had with either the track or cross country teams?

I can think of one from just this past weekend. We were going to Heps and we were very insistent on following our schedule and getting everything taken care of. I myself am a very hyper-organized, tightly wound kind of person. I am always the one who plans and packs and I was taking care of about 15 things at once that morning and thought I had gotten everything under control. We got on the bus and the 24 runners and five coaches were rolling out of Ithaca. We had just passed Gates Hall when I realized that I had forgotten my running shoes. I had to make the entire bus turn around and go back because I had forgotten something, which is super embarrassing but funny in retrospect, I suppose.

Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

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FENCING

Cornell Snags Medals at Temple

By JOEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s fencing team got its season off to a great start last weekend at the Temple Open, winning a total of three medals. Sophomore Victoria Wines won gold in the epee event, while senior Olivia Weller took the silver. This was followed by junior Angelica Gangemi, who earned gold in the foil event.

Overall, the day was a huge success for the the Red, with seven Cornell fencers finishing in the top eight for their respective weapons. In foil, freshman Gabriella Zusin got her Cornell career off to a good start taking fifth place, while junior Ediona Sera took seventh in the same event.

Meanwhile, in saber, sophomore Anastasia Turin manage to earn sixth just ahead of freshman Regina Chen, who took seventh.

According to Gangemi, the Red owes its strong start to the season to an focused and revamped preseason.

“I think something different to this season, compared to previous seasons, is we restructured off-season. We wanted the preseason to be very logical, in that it was a natural progression forward to prevent injuries and make the most sense in terms of training,” Gangemi said. “We started off with a week of straight conditioning and then moved on to incorporating footwork and drills and then adding fencing. I think that really helped to get our bodies ready and then get back in the fencing mind set.”

The change in structure clearly paid off, with this being one of the best starts to a season ever by

a Cornell team. The Red came out of the weekend excited about the prospects for the year, according to Wines.

“I think we are very proud of ourselves,” she said. “We are looking forward to the season and we are all very excited for this weekend. We are hoping we can repeat the performance.”

Gangemi exaplined that one of the toughest aspects of fencing competition is keeping focus during long tournaments, with matches taking place throughout a whole day or two.

Overcoming this challenge will be a big focus for the Red as they look to improve.

“We had a meeting and a lot of girls voiced [concerns] about remaining confident and staying focused,” Gangemi said. “The Temple Open was a very long day and the Vassar Invitational is a long tournament against seven or eight schools.

The biggest thing will be making sure we stay mentally focused over the course of a long day.”

With such an impressive start, hopes and expectations are high, but, according to Gangemi, the Red will aim to keep improving as a whole unit as they search for even better results.

“I think we have a really strong team this year,” she said. “Each year our team gets better and better so I am just really looking forward to buckling down and working hard together and making sure that as a team, we are improving. I think absolutely we are going to accomplish that.”

Cornell will be back in action this weekend at the Vassar Invitational on Sunday.

Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.

Midseason Predictions For the Football Season It’s the season’s halfway point for most NFL teams, so it’s a good time to reflect on the biggest storylines developing.

MVP: J.J. Watt

As I polled my friends on who the NFL’s MVP is, a common response was either DeMarco Murray, Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck or maybe even Aaron Rodgers. And then I suggest my MVP, Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt. The

pletely changes the game from a defensive perspective. He has 39 tackles, one forced fumble, three fumbles recovered and 8.5 sacks.

If you let him, Watt will ruin your day. According to Pro Football Focus, which rates every play by every player (if you’re into that), Watt has had the best game they’ve rated. Ever. By any position. Watt is the best defensive player of this generation and deserves an MVP award.

Barring Watt taking some

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On point | Seven of the women on Cornell’s fencing team were able to snag positions in the top eight for their weapons.

Seven Red Players to Participate In Four Nations Cup The Four Nations Cup, taking place in British Columbia, Canada, will feature a mix of seven current and former Cornell women’s hockey players. The Cup, an annual women’s hockey tournament held between Sweden, the United States, Canada and Finland, is one of the first major hockey events of the season.

One of the players, senior defender Alyssa Gagliardi, will represent the United States, with the rest of players, senior forwards Brianne Jenner and Jillian Saulnier, and former players Laura Fortino ‘13, Lauriane

Rougeau ‘13, Rebecca Johnston ‘12 and forward Jessica Campbell ‘14, playing for the Canadian side.

So far, only the United States and Canada have won the Cup, which has been around since 1996. The tournament, which started on Tuesday, has seen the United States, Canada and Finland takes wins. The next game, set to be played tomorrow at 4 p.m., will be between the United States and Sweden.

— Compiled by Anna Fasman

John Zakour Point Blank response was generally the same.

“A defensive player can’t win!

How much impact can a DE have on a season, especially one on a 45 team?” To that I say why not?

Yes, the average defensive end cannot affect a game like a quarterback. And historically, MVP is a quarterback or running back's award. But J.J. Watt is more than an average defensive end. He scores touchdowns (including a game winner against Buffalo) and regularly swats away passes. He is also the best high motor pass rusher in the league. Watt com-

snaps under center, I know he won’t win. So if I had to pick an MVP with a shot of winning, I’d go with Andrew Luck. Maybe it’s just because my recent memory of Peyton Manning is being shellacked by the Pats, but Luck has performed tremendously this year. He’s turning the Colts into an offensive juggernaut again.

And unlike Rodgers or Manning, he’s had less bad spots. Luck is also on pace to break Peyton’s yardage record and the Colts See ZAKOUR page 14

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Red on ice | A mix of former and current women’s hockey players will play for both the Canadian and American teams in the Cup.