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Concerned about drinking being pushed ‘behind closed doors’

By CHRIS BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Students on campus are continuing to call for the examination of the quarter system, a set of controversial changes made to the Greek system in 2011 controlling formal contact between freshmen and chapters.

Citing concerns over the limited contact between freshmen and those involve in Greek life, as well as the perceived pushing of drinking “behind closed doors,” Cornellians pushing for change saw a victory Thursday ALEJANDRO HERNANDEZ / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Indie rockers Willie B and Anna Coogan play music from their new album during Midday Music in Lincoln Hall Thursday.

S.A.Calls for Study Space on North New Measures Underway

By ANDREW LORD Sun Staff Writer

The Student Assembly, addressing some concerns over the absence of an accessible, public study space on North Campus, unanimously passed a resolution Thursday calling for the trial run of a quiet study area on the third floor of Appel Commons.

The resolution, which calls for a two-week trial run of the plan, will be revisited in January when Assembly members will examine its success based on participation and student surveys, according to Erinn Liu ’18, co-sponsor of the resolution and freshman at-large representative

for the S.A. Liu said she created the resolution following conversations with North Campus residents who are concerned that the closest quiet study space requires a “lengthy walk to Central Campus.”

“During the night, people want to study near their dorm,” she said. “They don’t want to have to walk all the way back to North if they go to a library [on Central] — especially in the winter.

It’s going to be dangerous for people to walk such a long distance in [bad] weather.”

Juliana Batista ’16, executive vice president of the S.A. and co-sponsor of the resolution, said See STUDY page 5

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Study spaces | Joseph Friedman ’17 speaks during a Student Assembly meeting Thursday. The S.A. unanimously called for the trial run of a study area in Appel Commons on North Campus.

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to interview and the point before an offer is made, according to Levitte. “[We] aimed to strengthen the One year after outgoing Provost Kent Fuchs initially accountability structures in the introduced new search account- hiring process to ensure we hire ability oversight measures for hir- excellent and diverse faculty,” she ing faculty, Cornell is implement- said. “These new measures are but ing these new protocols — which the latest feature in our compreinclude increased efforts to hensive and multi-layered strategy include more women and under- of enhancing faculty diversity represented minorities among fac- through training.”

Fuchs first ulty — across introduced the the University.

“These new measures new protocols The protocols require that are but the latest feature last fall with the expectation that each college put in our ... strategy of each college at in place “formal enhancing faculty Cornell would search accounttake approxiability measures diversity through mately one year that actively training.” to create a engage the unique plan dean’s office — Yael Levitte customized to or an equivalent that college’s college-level oversight function — at key junc- structure and needs, according to tures in the faculty search Levitte.

“We expected that each college process,” according to Yael Levitte, associate vice provost for would come up with a structure faculty development and diversi- that fits its size and structure,” ty. Each college must give author- Levitte said.

The institution of these new ity to this oversight function to pause or modify faculty search protocols was motivated by the progress several colleges at efforts, Levitte added.

Critical points at which the Cornell have made already, college must engage the dean or according to Levitte. The veteriother oversight authority include nary school and engineering colthe time of search initiation, the See FACULTY page 4 point before a candidate is invited

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Iceland’s President ToVisit University

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By OLIVIA LUTWAK Sun Staff Writer

Ólafur Grímsson, the president of Iceland, will visit Cornell next Friday to deliver a lecture as part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.

Grímsson’s lecture, which will be open to the public, will be about Iceland’s innovative sustainable energy and economic policies, according to the University. Grímsson will also be presented with the first-ever Atkinson Center Award for Global Leadership in Sustainable Development.

During his visit, Grímsson will meet with President David Skorton as well as with faculty in the College of Engineering and the Cornell Energy Institute, according to a University press release.

Grímsson will tour the Fiske Icelandic Collection, one of the three largest collections on Icelandic literature and civilization, according to Prof. Jeff Tester ’66 M.S. ’67, chemical engineering. He will also tour the Veterinary College, which is currently involved in a study of Icelandic horses.

Kerry Mullins ’18 said she heard President Grímsson speak last year at the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa, where she said he spoke about how “sustainability and energy conservation were top priorities for the country” but also “recognized the challenges associated with them.”

“In Iceland and globally, while great progress is being made in terms of creating a more sustainable planet, there’s still a lot of work to be done,” Mullins said. “A lot of the newest innovations are not very efficient, but

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics distinguished lecturer Todd Barber, a propulsion engineer from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses the history of Mars exploration Thursday.

[Grímsson] seemed hopeful that they will be eventually.”

Tester said Cornell students and faculty are already committed to sustainability, showcasing that there are “a lot of connections between what Cornell is trying to do” and what Iceland has “put into practical use.”

“We are dealing with a real climate action plan,” said Tester, who is also the director of the Cornell Energy Institute. “What we can learn is how people were actually

able to do it.”

The lecture will be held next Friday at 4 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall. Admission is free, but tickets, available at 170 Uris Hall, will be required to attend.

Olivia Lutwick can be reached at olutwak@cornellsun.com.

Students Celebrate 40th Anniversary of EMS Week Local Ithaca Mayor Receives National Award

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 was named a recipient of the 2014 John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, The Ithaca Journal reported Thursday.

The award honors those under the age of 40 who have used public service to make a difference in the world. Myrick is credited with “spurring economic growth” in the City of Ithaca, The Journal reported.

Police Increase Patrols For Cortaca Jug Game

Police from both the City of Ithaca and Ithaca College will increase patrols on South Hill due to the Cortaca Jug game this weekend, The Ithaca Times reported Thursday.

The increase in staff from both agencies will help to address “public safety concerns associated with the annual football game.”

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Cornell community overall,” Davis said.

EMS Week kicked off on National CPR Day on Monday, according to Davis. To mark the occasion, CUEMS offered free hands-only CPR training classes

This week, volunteers from Cornell University Emergency Medical Services helped host health-related activities in honor of the 40th anniversary of National Collegiate EMS “I have been very impressed Week.

The events hosted during by how many students ...

EMS Week, celebrating the services provided by colle- have so far come out to giate EMTs across the support our events.”

United States, are intended to promote healthful behav- Maggie Davis ’16 ior throughout the Cornell campus, according to Maggie Davis ’16, community education officer for across campus throughout the day.

CUEMS. Hands-only CPR is an easy “All the activities that we have hosted this week are aimed two-step technique which can at increasing the health of the be performed by anyone at the

scene of an emergency, according to a training video produced

by CUEMS. The video — which was produced this year — was played by many professors at the beginning of their lectures, Davis said.

Although students who completed the courses were not awarded free CPR certification like they were last year, Davis said she believes the turnout was still impressive.

“Hands-only CPR is a simple, yet life-saving skill that can double or triple a heart attack victim’s chance of survival,” she said.

On Tuesday, CUEMS partnered with Bangs Ambulance and Cornell Environmental Health and Safety for the annual EMS Week emergency vehicle exposé on Ho Plaza, where stu-

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Gas prices have sunken to below $3 a gallon — a level that has not been seen since 2010, The Times reported.

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A group of Cornell students in various forms of cold-weather attire walk to class during a snowstorm on the Arts Quad Thursday morning.

dents learned more about emergency vehicles, according to Davis. Wednesday marked the return of the “Got Soap?” campaign, an annual flu prevention program that was initiated by CUEMS in 2009, she added.

Volunteers on Ho Plaza Wednesday passed out thousands of bars of free soap and bottles of hand sanitizer, and CUEMS also held information sessions at Willard Straight Hall, Noyes Community Recreation Center and Robert Purcell Community Center to promote hand washing, according to Davis.

“Students were enthusiastic to receive [the soap] and CUEMS had a lot of fun distributing them,” Davis said.

On Friday, EMS Week will end with the distribution of free reusable cups at Willard Straight as part of the CUEMS “Mine Not Yours!” campaign, according to Davis. The campaign — which was added to EMS Week this year to prevent the spread of infectious diseases — will also aim to promote awareness of alcohol safety and date rape drugs.

Overall, Davis said she was “impressed” by the turnout of the events comprising EMS Week.

“I have been very impressed by how many students and members of the Cornell community have so far come out to support our events,” she said.

All EMS Week events were administered with the help of Gannett Health Services and the Department of Environmental Health and Safety, according to CUEMS. Melvin Li can be reached at mzl7@cornell.edu.

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Quarter System Criticized New Faculty Hiring S.A.unanimously calls for review of Greek policy

Order of Omega, said he believes it is “very important” for venues to be provided to curtail unsupervised drinking.

“I think the most important thing is that Greeks when the Student Assembly unanimously called for provide a safe and secure environment for all freshthe investigation of the system.

Sponsored by Blake Brown ’17, S.A. undesignat- men,” he said. “It is very important that Greeks do ed-at large representative, and William Bitsky ’16, not give off the Animal House impression.”

Panhellenic Council President Erika Whitestone S.A. College of Arts and Sciences representative, the resolution seeks to examine all consequences of the ’15 added that the quarter system makes it difficult quarter system, which separates the recruitment for freshmen to learn about fraternities and sororities. Additionally, she said partimeline into four quarters and ties in Collegetown can be places restrictions on freshman con“I believe that a “extremely unsafe since no tact with fraternities and sororities. event management guidelines The system divides the academic review of the are followed.” year into four quarters: In the first four quarter “It is important for freshquarter, chapter-wide contact man to experience Cornell between the freshmen and greek system is timely.” and have time to decide if chapters is limited to programmings Kent Hubbell ’69 Greek life is for them, which is events hosted by the chapters and by why we have deferred recruitthe IFC. The second quarter allows ment. But the quarter system for informal recruitment of freshmen isolates the Greek System,” Whitestone said. by fraternities and sororities but without alcohol.

All chapter-wide contact with freshmen was preThe third quarter, which begins at the start of the spring semester, consists of formal recruitment and viously prohibited, but earlier this semester, fraternipledging. Alcohol remains prohibited at all events ties and sororities were permitted to host late night throughout the third quarter. Freshmen who com- programming events for freshmen, including the plete the pledging process become full members of IFC-hosted “Go Greek!” dodgeball tournament.

According to Pritchett, the high turnout at the the fraternities and sororities in the fourth quarter.

Dean of Students Kent Hubbell said he thinks an event shows enthusiasm from freshmen to particievaluation of the quarter system would be appropri- pate in Greek life at an earlier time than the quarter ate particularly if the discussion involved all under- system allows.

“Hundreds of freshmen and fraternity members graduates.

“I believe that a review of the four quarter system attended,” Pritchett said. “This demonstrates a is timely, especially if it results in a thorough discus- desire from freshmen to have more engagement with sion that includes broad participation by undergrad- the Greek system earlier in the school year.”

Ben Bacharach ’18, a freshman-at-large represenuates, both Greek and non-Greek,” Hubbell said. tative for the S.A., said he expressed a concern for the safety of the freshmen.

‘Behind Closed Doors’ “I feel that an investigation of the quarter system A “large portion of social activity has moved both behind closed doors and off campus entirely” to is very important because it is vital for freshman to places such as Collegetown, according to the have the opportunity to meet upperclassmen in the Cameron Pritchett ’15, president of the safest way possible,” Bacharach said.

Pritchett echoed the emphasis that the quarter Interfraternity Council. These environments, according to Pritchett, tend to be of a higher risk system affects the community as a whole and not because “event management guidelines are not nec- just the Greek community.

“The quarter system’s impact is not felt exclusiveessarily followed.”

“When events take place on campus, in fraternity ly by the Greek community,” Pritchett said. “Any houses, bodies such as the IFC can regulate to ensure unintended consequences of the policy are felt by sober monitors are in place, no hard alcohol is pre- the entire student body, with a special focus on freshsent, etc. The same is not possible off campus men.” events,” Pritchett said.

Steven Henick ’15, former president of the Alpha Chris Byrns can be reached at Epsilon Pi fraternity and current president of the cbyrns@cornellsun.com.

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lege, which have already had accountability structures in place, “have made great progress in their hiring of underrepresented faculty by gender and race,” Levitte said.

Increasing Diversity Among Faculty

The College of Engineering received a $3.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program in 2006, according to the NSF website. With that money, Cornell created a program called C.U.-ADVANCE, which aims to have one third of all science and engineering faculty be women by 2015.

President David Skorton addressed C.U.-ADVANCE in the Diversity and Inclusion Report published in October by the Office of Diversity and Workforce Inclusion.

“The processes developed through C.U.-ADVANCE have now been institutionalized to address gender and racial diversity through the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity,” Skorton wrote.

Across the University, women do not represent even one third of the faculty: In 2013, only 29.2 percent of faculty members were female and 7.2 percent were underrepresented minorities, according to the report. These numbers represent an increase from 2010, when only 26.7 percent of faculty were women and 6.3 percent were underrepresented minorities.

President Skorton wrote in the report that although these

increases show “progress,” Cornell “must continue our efforts” to diversify faculty.

In addition to successful initiatives in the School of Veterinary Medicine and the engineering college, Levitte said the College of Arts and Sciences’ diversity faculty recruitment initiative can set a positive example for other undergraduate colleges.

Though the arts college does not have an accountability structure, the college does have two faculty diversity hiring initiatives, according to Levitte. These initiatives include “reserving facultyrenewal bridge funds to allow for extra hiring for opportunities that appear in regular searches,” as well as reservation of up to 10 positions for “target of opportunity hires” outside of regular searches, Levitte said.

She added that the arts college’s recruitment initiative is part of the college’s participation in Toward New Destinations — a Universitywide institutional framework established in 2012 that requires all colleges and administration to annually identify specific diversity initiatives.

Levitte said that the three colleges’ efforts can be instructive in adopting accountability oversight measures across the University.

“We believe that these colleges’ practices are examples of best practices in hiring and asked all colleges to adopt a form of these hiring practices,” Levitte said.

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

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Assembly Calls For Trial of Study Space on North

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she believes the creation of a quiet study area would benefit North Campus residents.

“I think this is a great example of a change on campus,” she said.

“I think this would be a great space for a lot of students from different [North Campus] dorms to study in.”

However, Yamini Bhandari ’17, vice president for outreach and women’s representative for the S.A., said she was concerned about the necessity of the initiative after reaching out to representatives from the Residential Student Congress, a student organization that consists of representatives from each residence hall on campus. “[The representatives] were questioning the need of the program seeing that there are some other study spaces [on North Campus] already existing,” she said.

Ariana Korman ’18 said she had similar reservations.

“If I’m going to study on North, I might as well find a quiet area in my dorm,” she said. “And if I do end up deciding to study outside of the dorm, I’d still rather go to a library on Central since I prefer its atmosphere to a multipurpose room in Appel.”

Liu reminded Assembly members that the purpose of the initiative is to give North Campus residents a “quiet” study area, placing emphasis on the fact that there are no other public quiet places to study on North.

“You can study at [Robert Purcell Community Center] but there are no rules that you have to be quiet,” she said. “Also, in the dorms there are study lounges, but no one is going to tell others to stop talking.”

In order to collect feedback over the course of the trial run, students who use the new study area will be encouraged to fill out a survey when they leave, according to Liu. “[The S.A.] always talks about building a freshmen community, but at the same time [freshmen] spend a lot of time on Central Campus,” Batista said. “Bringing together a study space is really important … to bring back North Campus culture.”

Andrew Lord be reached dlord@cornellsun.com.

Ex-CEO Indicted After Disaster CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Don Blankenship, the steely-eyed executive once dubbed “The Dark Lord of Coal Country,” is facing decades in federal prison in connection with the nation’s deadliest mine disaster in 40 years.

A federal grand jury indicted the former Massey Energy CEO Thursday on numerous counts of conspiracy, making him the highest-ranking executive charged in the April 2010 underground explosion that killed 29 men at the Upper Big

Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia.

The 43-page indictment said Blankenship “knew that UBB was committing hundreds of safety-law violations every year and that he had the ability to prevent most of the violations that UBB was committing. Yet he fostered and participated in an understanding that perpetuated UBB’s practice of routine safety violations, in order to produce more coal, avoid the costs of following safety laws, and make more money.”

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With posters, banners and musical instruments, striking food service workers demonstrate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Thursday.

Low Gas Prices Predicted to Stick NEW YORK (AP) — Those low gas prices on station signs aren’t going away soon, the government says.

In a dramatic shift from previous forecasts, the Energy Department predicted Wednesday that the average price of gasoline in the U.S. will be $2.94 a gallon in 2015. That is a 44-cent drop from an outlook issued just a month ago.

If the sharply lower estimate holds true, U.S. consumers will save $61 billion on gas compared with this year.

Rising oil production, particularly in the U.S., and weak spots in the global economy have led to a sharp reduction in oil prices over the past four months.

Not seeing much of a change ahead, the government cut its forecast for global oil prices next year by $18 a barrel to $83.

As a result, U.S. drivers will pay on average 45 cents less for a gallon of gas next year compared to this year. Based on expected gasoline consumption, that’s a savings of $60.9 billion.

That may not seem like a lot in the context of a $17.5 trillion U.S. economy, but economists say it matters because it immediately gives consumers more money to spend on other things.

Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of the U.S. economy.

“It would be a reversal of the trend over the last few years where consumers can’t stretch a dollar far enough,” says Tim Quinlan, an economist at Wells Fargo.

Quinlan says the price of gasoline is one of the three big drivers of consumer confidence, along with stock prices and the unemployment rate. “Lately all three are moving in the right direction,” he says.

After falling for 49 straight days, the average gasoline price in the U.S. Thursday is $2.92, the lowest since December of 2010, according to AAA. That was also the last full year when the average came in below $3 a gallon.

While it’s not unusual for gas to hit its low for the year in late fall, the government is now saying that these prices aren’t just a low point, but instead will be the norm next year.

Adam Sieminski, administrator of the Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department’s statistical arm, attributed the lower pump prices to lower prices for crude oil and weak fuel demand. The EIA did hedge its bet on lower oil prices

though, as it cautioned that OPEC could cut production in order to push prices higher.

The global price of crude has fallen by $37 a barrel, or 32 percent, since late June and closed at $77.92 Thursday.

Oil production around the world has been strong in recent years. A boom in the U.S. has pushed domestic production up 70 percent since 2008. At the same time, demand for fuels is growing more slowly than expected in Asia and Europe because of weak economic growth.

The U.S. economy is faring relatively well, but more fuelefficient cars and changing driving habits are keeping domestic gasoline demand low. The EIA expects demand to fall slightly next year despite the lower pump prices.

The EIA also slightly lowered its prediction for growth in U.S. oil production because lower prices will force some drillers to cut back. Production is expected to reach 9.4 million barrels a day in 2015, down from a previous estimate of 9.5 million barrels per day. Still, that would be an increase of 4 percent over this year and the highest domestic crude production since 1972.

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arlier this week, this nation’s oldest, isn’t cool, it isn’t satire and it sure isn’t continuously independent college funny.

Nobody needs to see a racist, sexist, daily published a eulogy to the word “faggot” in the form of an opinion piece by homophobic, violent viewpoint exaggeratDavid Zha ’15. Framed as a satirical letter ed to the point of absurdity to understand from “A Good Person” to the word in ques- it, especially since the absurd exaggeration tion, the piece laments the loss of what is not actually so impossible and is encounseemed to be the perfect verbal attack. tered on our campus every day.

“Faggot” “packed a punch that ‘dweeb’ just Categorizing columns like Zha’s as “educatnever could” — alas, its “unfortunate con- ed humor” is exploiting a position of privnections to the homophobic underbelly ilege in two ways: It shows the privilege means this has to be the end” of Zha’s char- some folks wield when they make the acter’s relationship with the word. choice to consider as humorous horrific Unfortunately, A Good Person just “can’t things they don’t have to endure and highbe seen in public” using this word any- lights the privilege the author has had in publishing their portfolio of defensively more, the end of a “good run.”

We don’t doubt that Zha and others in hedged, insincere and uninteresting “opinhis position would condemn publicly the ion” pieces while meaningful and imporuse of “faggot,” even though we have to tant opinions are silenced. Moreover, it play fast and loose with his tone and writ- implies something absolutely horrid. It is ing style to do so. What we do doubt are more awful to be called “bigot” than it is to the ethics of the rhetorical style that Zha be called “faggot,” betraying the ultimate evidence of privilege: and his satire demanding that masembody, one that sive power imbal“educates” by mockWe don’t try to create safe ances remain unading sensitivity despite dressed for the sake a dangerous world spaces so that they will of comfort. full of banal oppresspread magically through the Mocking sensitivsion. To explain his ity often has been an column, Zha wrote rest of society. We do it to invaluable weapon of on Facebook that make people safe. the oppressed. Biting “[t]he world is not a satires of language nice, safe place. control have a wellCornell is part of the world. Cornell is not a nice, safe place.” In deserved place in our cultural consciousresponse to yesterday’s column by Teresa ness — the modern world’s Orwells and Kim ’15, Zha snarkily thanks her for the Bulgakovs have shown us what horrifying “spread,” noting again that his reason for injustices are possible when thought and writing is to illuminate the false sense of word policing runs amok. We share this shelter that language policing presumably view and are fervently in favor of forums provides in spaces like Cornell. He goes on that promote satirical (or straightforward) to offer a bastardized argument for civility: dialogue, noxious opinions and a diversity “In language, some words are okay and of views. Our celebrated college daily others just aren’t. That’s why they exist. To should be a lively, biting debate full of never be said. You shouldn’t even think humor and passion and arguments that them, or Jesus is going to wash your brain have teeth, which this campus surely has with lye before sending you on a one-way the intelligence, passion, wit and diversity trip to the basement.” And that’s about it. of perspective to produce. Zha’s column is Presumably, to drive this point home, Zha decidedly none of these things.

We call not for censorship, but for betsloppily typed out this disaster to make the world even less nice or safe for his commu- ter editorial decisions. The Daily Sun has nity, because that’s the right thing to do. been running Zha’s column for months, Zha, then, is taking on the valiant task of columns which all deploy this same insinbreaking the pernicious and misleading cere and undirected satirical tone to justify sense of safety that the queer community Zha’s incessant referencing of women as feels on campus. After reviewing the facts objects (“chubby” if they are feminist, “tarfor about three seconds (the Hurtado gets” if they’re at a frat party), or his brilReport on Climate Diversity, the LGBT liant theory of race relations: “If we want to Resource Center’s historic lack of proper live in a truly raceless society, it’s on funding and the public record regarding minorities to be bigger and forgive the and our own experience with bias incidents crimes of the past.” At the same time that on campus) we can assure him that this is Zha’s characters takes up space, other voices are systematically marginalized, unnecessary.

Zha’s interpretation of the ethics and demeaned and shut out of the forum that functions of speech acts misses the point: defines this campus’ news culture. We urge We don’t try to create safe spaces so that The Daily Sun to take a serious look at this they will spread magically through the rest choice in the future. We urge those who of society. We do it to make people safe. It’s want to call out tropes of oppression to satnot that we avoid using words like “faggot” irize and tear them apart without becomor the litany of other epithets screamed at ing them, without needlessly invoking vioand burned into the bodies and memories lence against members of our community. of minorities because using those words Being asked to “watch one’s language” makes us lose street cred when we’re beat- seems like a big ask, almost an imposition. ing on a kid in middle school. We don’t use We assure Zha that being asked to endure those words because they carry etymologies attacks on one’s identity is an even bigger of violence, because they are jagged one.

The Daily Sun deserves better, and so weapons in the arsenal of oppression or because people use them every day against do all of us. disadvantaged groups. Zha’s is a deflated response to a very simple phenomenon: We Hutson is a junior, Joseph Fridman is a try not to use words that have been Jevan sophomore and Arthur Peterson is a senior at screamed at minorities while they are Cornell. Responses may be sent to associate-ediburned to death or lynched or have the shit tor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears perikicked out of them in the schoolyard. This odically this semester.

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The Virtue Of Sacrifice

ast weekend, I ran in my final cross country Heptagonal Championship, the Ivy League conference meet. After eight years of running cross country every fall, my final season is coming to a close. I am leaving behind something I have loved deeply, something that has been central to my identity. Now I am struggling to understand what it will mean to live as something other than a collegiate athlete.

Being an athlete at Yale is difficult. Yale has been for me, in many ways, a circumscribed experience. The track, the shuttle out to the field house and the training room are the places I know best here. I spent over four hours training almost every day. A constant worry has been getting to bed as early as possible, eating enough food, making sure my studies do not overwhelm me so that I can practice at the highest level.

Some of the sacrifices I had to make have significantly hampered my time here. Unlike at some other schools in the Ivy League, many high-level seminars happen during the afternoons, our practice time. The inability to enroll in the courses I am most interested in at Yale because I am an athlete representing Yale still angers me. Then there were the speakers, discussions and events I wanted to go to throughout the years that I have had to miss because practice was always there. Losing touch with friends because their lifestyle was not compatible with my training has been a difficult experience.

The life of a Yale athlete is a cramped one. But it is only within restrictions that the beautiful can develop. The mutual self-denial that the life of a student-athlete imposes has allowed my teammates and me to bond in a way that would not be possible other-

Our extracurricular activities make incredible demands upon us, to a degree not found on may other college campuses.

My peers have devoted semesters or years of their life to a single organization, making it far and away their top priority — above school, friends or sanity. wise. The shared toil of practice and the monotony of physical therapy have given us a common language. And the athletic bliss of a race well-run has given us a common purpose. The sacrifices are real, and can feel unjust, but in some way, they are necessary to reap the benefits.

In this sense, athletics at Yale are extreme examples of the intensity Yale students devote to their extracurricular activities.

Our extracurricular activities make incredible demands upon us, to a degree not found on many other college campuses. My peers have devoted semesters or years of their life to a single organization, making it far and away their top priority — above school, friends or sanity. For my friends at other schools, their clubs exist for their benefit; at Yale, it seems as if we exist for the benefit of our clubs. The downsides of this approach are many, but the benefits are very real. In life, we are given few chances to care passionately about a group, and practicing doing so is important; it serves as a bulwark against the cynicism that seems waiting to engulf us.

Now, in our senior year, my friends and I are stepping away from the things we cared so much about. I am lucky enough to be able to continue running, but many organizations on campus seem to have no room for seniors. We are left with ample time to reflect upon our collegiate experience.

The day before my sophomore Heps, I was running with a senior on the team. He seemed down so I asked him what was wrong. He said that he was not sure that running in college was worth all the sacrifices he had to make for it. I had never considered the question before, but I am grateful he asked it. I have carried it with me ever since.

There is no one answer to that question, but it’s worth keeping in mind. For the underclassmen, it can help prevent tunnel vision and keep you aware of the multitude of opportunities to be found here. For the seniors, it is a reminder of the consequences of our choices and a lesson for the future. In order to achieve anything important you have to give up a lot, but losing sight of what has been lost is a mistake. I could not be prouder of my time running for Yale, and that pride is strengthened by knowing what I lost in the process.

Isa Qasim is a senior at Yale University and is a staff columnist for The Yale Daily News. He can be contacted at isa.qasim@yale.edu.

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A Political Strategy Guide Leading to 2016

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n November 4, the growth rate and presidential vote Republican Party share, but no relationship emphatically regained between the nation’s growth rate control of the Senate. In the and Senate (or House) seat loss 2014 midterms, the GOP in midterm years.” emerged victorious in practically So, while economic growth every swing state and nearly didn’t give the Democrats any pulled a historic upset with help last week, come 2016, Republican Ed Gillespie coming Democrats may actually be safe up a mere 16,000 votes (.8 per- if the economy continues to cent of the vote) short of unset- grow. ting Democratic Senator Mark Moving forward, Democratic Warner in Virginia. Turnout was Congresspersons have two obviabysmally low, setting a 72-year ous options: continue to separate low of 36.3 percent, indicating themselves from the president or that voter trends observed last resume the bitter partisan poliweek may not hold come the tics in Washington. Either route 2016 elections. Nonetheless, it’s may prove detrimental to worth examining the governing Democratic chances in 2016. strategies each party may pursue If Democrats elect to avoid as President Obama manages his association with Obama, any last two years in office. passed legislation will be credited Now that Republicans con- to the Republicans, as the modtrol both chambers of Congress, erate Democratic Senators would many political pundits have stat- have either voted with the ed that the time has come for the Republicans or chosen not to filGOP to prove to the American ibuster GOP bills. The next step people that they are capable of in this process likely involves not just obstructionist rhetoric, President Obama vetoing any but actual governing. However, explicit Republican legislation with the evident end being a that lacks compromise. Now, in Republican president come 2016, Republican strategists can 2016, actual governing may not place the blame on the president prove to be the most effective means.

For whatever If the Democrats decide to back r e a s o n , Democrats cam- the president the next two years, paigning in 2014 then the partisan gridlock will were deathly afraid of the pres- almost certainly continue. ident, claiming that his presence on the campaign trail would be and paint him as an obstructiontoxic to their electoral chances. ist who prevented the GOP from While that approach clearly advancing a substantial agenda. failed, it may have succeeded in Obviously, President Obama creating a self-fulfilling prophecy cannot run again in 2016, but of the president’s national image, this caricature of the party will directly impacting Democratic undoubtedly damage the candidates naturally associated Democratic nominee. with Obama.

On the other hand, if the Funny thing is, the president Democrats decide to back the has given his party much to run president the next two years, on. The unemployment rate then the partisan gridlock will stands at 5.8 percent and the cur- almost certainly continue and rent string of continued job the blame will again be placed on growth month after month is the the Democrats for impeding leglongest on record. This lack of islation. It’s basically a lose-lose credit may because growing for the Democrats.

GDP hasn’t necessarily yet transIn other words, the GOP may lated in to a better-middle class benefit from churning out partieconomy — but this was also san bill after partisan bill; very true in the 2012 midterms, in well knowing that Obama will which the Democrats proved vic- veto the bill. Even if the bills are torious. Perhaps the more likely objectively bad legislation, the reason is, according to UCLA’s vast majority of the American Lynn Vavreck, “there is a strong people will simply see the presirelationship between the nation’s dent acting on his own behalf

and hurting the country. While the 2014 midterms demonstrate that the GOP clearly wasn’t negatively affected by their six years of blockading legislation, that’s because all politics are local.

Congress has an approval rating that hovers around a remarkable 15 percent, yet incumbents are consistently re-elected because citizens don’t believe their representative is the issue — but, in fact, on the aggregate, they are! Voters didn’t place the blame on individual GOP Congresspersons, but instead on the president, quite simply because at the end of they day the president is the face of the nation.

On the contrary, if the tables turn and the president becomes the obstructionist, no matter the content of bills he may be rejecting, he will be blamed, because, well, he is the face of the nation.

The only potential saving grace for the Democrats is the impending Establishment v.

Ultra-Conservative showdowns almost sure to play out in Congress. With Ted Cruz possibly vying for a presidential campaign in 2016, along with his already established TeaParty base in Congress as well as newcomers such as Joni Ernst and G l e n n Grothman, the conservative wing of the GOP may be unwilling to compromise even with their own Establishment leaders, much less the Democrats. If this happens, although gridlock will certainly continue as the GOP bickers amongst themselves, the Democrats will be able to campaign on the mantra that a GOP majority clearly can’t function.

While engaging in bipartisan legislation may aid individual Democrats in their reelection campaigns, there is little reason for either party to cede major ground with 2016 in mind.

Expect the gridlock in Washington to continue.

Jake Forken is a junior in the College of Human Ecology. He may be reached at jrf285@cornell.edu. My Forken Opinion appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 2014: A Space Odyssey ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Senior Writer

It’s odd, hearing Matthew McConaughey talk in space. His is a voice of the earth, American earth — the kind of slow, colloquial drawl to pass the time watching baseball games, driving past cornfields or losing your mind on HBO. In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, McConaughey’s hero Cooper leaves these icons of Americana (well, two out of three) behind in order to save them. Naturally, Cooper takes that star-spangled sensibility with him through the cosmos, and it’s that from-the-gut-ness, as Stephen Colbert might say, that wins the day, or something like that. Throwing McConaughey and all he stands for into a sci-fi retelling of The Odyssey is a simple but potent concept, one this clumsy and often visually pedestrian movie works hard to undermine. Yet Interstellar drops its sentimental payload with such aplomb that it’s futile to resist it, which makes it, intentionally or not, a pretty thoroughly American movie.

On a remote, dust-ravaged farmhouse in the near future, Cooper lives with his family, or what remains of it: daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy), son Tom (Timothée Chalamet) and the father of his deceased wife, Donald (John Lithgow). The days of Homo sapiens are numbered due to a disease called “blight” that destroys crops, but the timbre of the earthbound first act is quiet, even calm, as the adults adapt to or just ignore the intensifying hostility of their surroundings in order to provide for their children a comfortable existence.

Murph is daddy’s girl, a restless, red-haired intelligence nurtured by Cooper’s attention and playful humor. The rapport between father and daughter is sweet and just strong enough that their estrangement, once Professor Brand (Michael Caine) recruits Cooper, a former pilot, to lead an expedition through a wormhole adjacent to Saturn in search for hospitable planets, sets the emotional stakes for the rest of the film. With Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), the professor’s daughter, Doyle (Wes Bentley), Romilly (David Gyasi) and a sarcastic A.I. system named TARS (Bill Irwin) that uploads the comic relief of HAL 9000 into the shape of The Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Cooper sets off, determined, of course, to find a new home and return to his own.

Interstellar is as flawed as Hollywood tent-poles come. It’s worth noting that Nolan’s style has long been one of the most

compromised in the business, eschewing narrative concision for verbosity at every turn yet resorting to flat, recycled compositions to constrain actors hired to talk and talk and once in awhile act. That he and his brother Jonathan, who co-wrote the screenplay, so waste John Lithgow by sitting him down on a porch to listen to McConaughey spoon-feed purple prose (“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars.

Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.”) in static medium shots not once but twice should mandate a budget cut of 90 percent for their next film, with Lithgow and, I don’t know ... Sigourney Weaver as leads.

This visual and verbal blandness carries over into space, where the razzle-dazzle you’re paying for sits next to a lot of shots of astronauts sitting around espousing the themes or else questions of their movie. Of the half-dozen people I have spoken to about this, not one has failed to mention Amelia’s speech about how love “transcends time and space,” or mock vomit while doing so. During one of the protracted sequences that cross-cuts between the astronauts quarreling and Cooper’s now grown-up children (more on that in a bit) back home for no purpose other than to remind you how little use the latter have in the plot, I wrote in my notes, “This is bad. How bad?”

Yet, since watching Interstellar to its completion and

Interstellar Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway

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mulling over it quite a bit, I have taken a softer tone. This is not cohesive or exemplary filmmaking, not at all, but a bunch of moments in it land, moments that define Cooper and present him to us without pretense. In an atypically understated scene, we learn that Cooper walks around the cabin listening to sounds of rain, thunder and chirping birds, an ambience that calms Romilly and reminds us of the simple pleasures (and completely unique ecosystems) they are fighting to preserve.

For the stakes here are devastating, are they not? Cooper not only faces the easy

possibility of never seeing his children again but also, by exploring planets where time elapses at a slower rate (the relativity physics of which the film attempts to explain many, many times), of seeing them die before him. A parent’s worst nightmare, and Cooper grieves over those lost moments in one of the most affecting scenes in any blockbuster, ever. It’s the rare full stop in a movie that runs for almost three hours and yet always seems to be in a rush, and it cuts through all the talk of multiple dimensions and “quantum data” to get the heart of our heroes’ and Nolan’s endeavor.

For while he has gained a devoted (I’d say too devoted) following for his so-called “heady” themes and tricky narrative structures, Nolan has always been a closet sentimentalist, obsessed with dead family members mainly wives) and wringing these clichés for all the male angst, guilt and mopey faces they are worth. Here, at last, he has made an old-school tearjerker that starkly, painfully illustrates the new-school science of his plot through an intimate family drama that should resonate with just about anyone.

The trouble with Interstellar, then, is that it does not know how simple it is. The tension between inspiring awe and explaining that awe — a tension no doubt enforced by studio executives and the loathsome bunch that judges fiction for its scientific veracity — deflates a fascinating scene in the last act, where Cooper explores some Inception-like impossible architecture and refuses to stop postulating as to its origins.

Kubrick, the obvious precedent, let his mysteries just sit there, unnervingly silent, and the legacy of Interstellar will be a short one for wrapping up all its loose ends so neatly and anxiously.

Yet as much as this film wears an unearned intelligence on its sleeve, it is still about a man who is not a thinker but a doer.

No matter how much the directing or writing may saddle the purity of that man’s struggle, Cooper’s farm-grown charm carries him through a wormhole and pulls us in with him.

Perhaps it’s only fitting that he comes face to face with the secrets of the universe and can hardly contain his excitement, for he holds the instinctive assumption that he must share these stories with his children, in due time.

Zachary Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.

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Beauty in Simplicity: Insatiable Desires at Tjaden

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

In a starkly minimalist manner, Uroosa Ijaz’s, B.F.A., ’15, exhibit Insatiable Desires transforms the Olive Tjaden Gallery. Usually, photographs, paintings or videos decorate the walls of the gallery. Usually, I enter and stand in front of a composition for a few minutes, occupying my small space by the wall. I slowly circle from piece to piece, spending my perceived requisite amount of time in front of each work in the gallery.

Insatiable Desires requires a different method of viewing. The exhibit consists of a long, narrow white table, which holds seven sculptures arranged in a line. Six of the sculptures adhere to the same general form: a concave bowl and a small silver shaft that presents a grey, seemingly painted-over on its upmost tip. The bowls themselves appear to be translucent when viewed from above, but opaque when viewed from the side. The seventh and central sculpture is a shallow grey dish that contains four grey rings. Two lines of lights near the middle of ceiling illuminate the table and its contents and provide the only lighting source for the exhibit.

Ijaz’s artist statement, too, is consciously simple.

Insatiable Desires inspects the innate desire to consume objects,” the statement reads, “Uroosa Ijaz addresses desire through design and the cyclical nature of desire and consumption.” Thus, Ijaz’s choice to foreground rings as the central image of the exhibit conveys the importance of both desire and consumption.

Yet, Ijaz’s presentation of the ring-as-desired-object deviates from the luxurious, shining depictions in jewelry advertisements and rom-coms. Rather, the viewer sees rings slathered in matte grey paint and examined under direct lighting. The rings retain their basic form — even taken out of context and placed at the top of a sculpture — but they lose their desirability, especially their desirability for consumption.

However, Ijaz’s usage of lighting in the Olive Tjaden Gallery represents perhaps the most interesting and artistically striking part of the exhibit. The selection of minimal, angled lights emphasizes the geometric forms of the

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sculptures’ shadows. I spent the majority of my time at Insatiable Desires slowly circling the table, watching the shadows shift, expand, contract and connect with the reflections of the lights. I stared at a given shadow and closed one eye and then the other, watching as the shadow jumped from one location to another. The role of shadows, however, contributed more to a sense of magic or otherworldliness than to a dialogue about consumption and desire.

Although I appreciated the boldness of Insatiable Desires minimalism, I did reach a point where I wished that the exhibit contained something more. Consumerism and desire both promise a wealth of intense imagery, yet Insatiable Desires presents a series of small, abstract sculptures with little explanation. On one hand, I expected an exploration of the “innate desire to consume objects,” and yet faced a series of artworks that failed to convey a sense of desire. The exhibit, which examined “the cyclical nature of desire and consumption,” seemingly contained no representation of the consumption of the desired objects.

When viewed apart from the artist statement, Ijaz’s sculptures interestingly interacted with the four-dimensional space of the gallery, especially through Ijaz’s focus

on manipulating the shadows of the pieces. The artist statement, however, conveyed an almost entirely different message than the pieces imparted on their own. Either the sculptures or the artist statement could have benefitted from expansion; in its current state, the exhibit poses an interesting question, but largely leaves in unanswered by exposition in the artist statement or by clear, impactful symbolism from the sculptures themselves.

Overall, Insatiable Desires is a simple, beautiful exhibit, but it is also far more conceptual than moving. To borrow Roland Barthes’ terminology, Ijaz’s exhibit presents a fascinating studium, an interesting study of the ring as a desired object and of consumption as whole. Conversely, the exhibit lacks a strong punctum, a detail through which the viewer can emotionally connect with the works. With the exception of the ring, the exhibit is largely devoid of a human presence. Although initially striking and markedly minimalist, Insatiable Desires does not clearly evidence the connection between the stated focus on consumption and desire and its constitutive works.

Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

Equality: It’s Only a Day Away

hat is bullshit,” I decided. This was my official stance. There was no stopping me now — I was going to let people know at every opportunity, whether they wanted to hear it or not.

As those of you who know me are probably aware, I am a very stubborn person. Not unreasonably so, but when I take a well thought out stance I can be extremely difficult to sway. I like to paint it as my passion taking over, but in all reality, I am probably just competitive to a fault.

But really, it is hard for me to pull the “passion” card when I am getting into shouting matches about the upcoming Annie remake, when I am not even sure I ever saw the original.

But there I was, spitting piss and vinegar over producers taking Annie — a character trademarked by her bright orange hair and freckles — and casting her as a young black girl. This was the soapbox that I decided to stand on. And it was a soapbox that I was too ignorant and stubborn to step down from until just a couple of months ago.

To be clear, my original issue was not the introduction of more minority characters into the narrative section of the entertainment industry. The underrepresentation of minorities and women is an issue I have addressed before.

But now that I have done a turnaround on the issue, I would like to take the opportunity to explain both sides of the coin.

In the past few months, the changing of race and/or gender of established characters has been a bit of a hot topic. There has been outrageous attention paid to the announcement that the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot

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will feature a female troop of ghost hunters.

In the world of comics, we currently have a black Captain America, a female Thor and a half-black, half-Hispanic Spider-man.

And while these decisions have received a good share of supportive feedback from their concerned communities, there has been equal amount of negative responses. Many people shared the same stance that I did, and were angered about the straying away from tradition.

My personal argument in regard to Annie found its roots in three main points.

First, there was my simple frustration over the number of reboots and sequels in today’s entertainment industry. The lack of imagination and risk-taking in Hollywood in the past few years has been maddening.

Evan Needell Needell in a Crapstack Second, there was the perceived travesty of taking a character that is so known for her physical attributes and washing all of that away. If you are going to bring a character back, why are you changing one of their most significant characteristics? This was admittedly founded mostly in stubborn, traditionloving thinking.

But the third issue was my home run swing and my biggest problem with the casting decision. Why were producers going back

to white characters, and repackaging them as minorities? To me, it seemed as if Hollywood was admitting that it could not create new, enticing storylines around minorities, and producers were settling on trading in the good, old, white ones.

I thought these three points to be fairly well reasoned and justifiable. And I figured that most people who had issues with the trend of race and gender changing shared similar perspectives.

While you cannot deny that there are countless people out there whose frustrations about these gender and race changes are rooted primarily in bigotry, I like to think that majority of people who have a problem with this trend are a bit more reasonable.

However, my entire stance on the race and gender change issue was changed with one simple question from a friend. I was making my standard argument against race change. For all intents and purposes, the three points I outlined earlier. My friend listens silently. He then looks at me and simply asks, “Why should Annie be white?”

I began to answer, clearly frustrated about having to repeat myself. But he quickly interrupts me.

“No, I mean … when they were originally creating the character, right? Why did she have to be white? Why does it even matter?”

I sat there for a few moments in silence. I had no response. And that was that.

Does being white really bring any more depth to Spider-man? Is being a man essential to the character of any of the Ghostbusters?

Hell, given the against-all-odds, feel-good story behind Annie and the people she is meant to inspire, you could more strongly

argue that the last thing her character should be is white.

It was so clearly a non-issue, but I was blinded by my own comfort in tradition and privilege. And as somebody who has consistently advocated for the underrepresented in entertainment, it was really shocking for me to realize this. I was embarrassed to realize that my argument was so petty and could so easily be reduced to a child pouting and answering “just because.”

In hindsight, a fourth motivation I had was a childish reaction to giving things up. It is easy to say that everybody should have as much as I do. It is more difficult to give up what you have in order to level off the playing field. Like a stubborn child, I was a bit mad about giving up what I had, when I saw no reason why we could not just give others more.

But in reality, sacrifice is necessary if we want equality. And while this is a reality that is undeniable when it comes to more explicitly extreme issues such as pay inequality or political representation, it can be easy to forget this when considering the more peripheral ones.

When it comes down to it, if we want to see white guys sharing their screentime with minorities and women, it very well may mean sharing old characters as well. That means coming to terms with the fact that for a lot of these characters, being a white guy does not really matter.

Evan Needell is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at eneedell@cornellsun.com. Needell in a Crapstack runs alternate Fridays this semester.

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Red Looks to Improve Offense Raptors Lead NBA; Spurs Still Relevant M. HOCKEY

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shake line,” Bardreau said. “It means a lot that your coach has your back, and he obviously proved that he has the best interest of us in the back of his mind. Like he said, he probably could've gone about it in a better way, but it was huge for everyone in the locker room to know that he has everyone's best interest.”

Given the offensive struggles of the team so far this season, the Red cannot afford to have Bardreau, one of the team’s most gifted players with the puck and around the net, out for an extended period of time. Bardreau, who is listed as questionable for the weekend’s games, helps lead a Cornell offense that has scored 0.8 goals per game on 30.5 shots. For context, the Red defense has allowed 30.5 shots per game, but opponents have scored 1.5 goals per game.

While the team has created plenty of opportunities to score so far this season, the Red has failed to convert given such chances. The loss of senior captain and defenseman Joakim Ryan to a reported broken finger will hurt the team’s power play unit. Despite Ryan’s absence, Schafer, Bardreau and McCarron all believe that the tables will turn at some point and the team will begin to hit the twine consistently sooner rather than later.

“It's about everybody stepping up to the plate

and continuing to create good habits and work on and not let the fact that we're not scoring leak into any other part of our game,” Schafer said. “The fact that we're not scoring, you don't take your attention away from the back checking. You don't take your attention away from being in the proper spot. You don't start gambling and taking chances because it starts to leak the other way where, defensively, you start giving up. Great defensive position is a catalyst to creating offense and our guys need to continue to do that and they will.”

At the moment, McCarron said that the team needs to continue to stick to its game plan. While the results currently aren’t tallying up in the wins column, the trio of team leaders said that if the team continues to play well while zipping pucks past opposing goaltenders, the on-paper results will begin to match the level of performance the team has displayed so far this season.

“The guys, they feed off us leaders and we've got to stay positive and keep bringing the energy because if we keep getting down on ourselves for not scoring, they're going to look at us and think that if we're not going, it's going to be tough for them,” McCarron said. “I've just [got] to make sure I keep the guys motivated and high energy, continuing [to play] like we are, but [the wins] are definitely going to come soon.”

Joon Lee can be reached at jlee@cornellsun.com.

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point differential in the Eastern Conference. The Raptors don’t, and probably will never have, the talent to dominate the East, but they’ll be an entertaining team that’s around for awhile. Toronto fans should be happy with rooting for the Raptors now and in the future.

avoiding the hired gun persona that Shaq, Kareem and others are stuck with. Lebron can be a winner twice over, in a way that’s never really been done before.

Toronto could stay around for awhile. The Raptors were the three seed last year, It’s so unabashed; when winning the relatively sorry the Sixers come to town Atlantic division last year.

But they were eliminated in it’s a bit like a freak show heartbreaking fashion in game seven by the Nets, — come see the team and their all-star point with no talent! guard was set to become a free agent. So the Raptors locked up Kyle Lowry, and The Sacramento Kings are have a good young core with some intriguing prospects, good. Sorry for the lack of eloincluding the now infamous quence, but the Kings are good!

“Brazilian Kevin Durant.” The It’s been awhile since the Kings Raptors also feature, by the way, were noteworthy, and they are the best record in the NBA at 7-1 probably best remembered for (as of writing) and by far the best being the victims of the NBA’s refereeing scandal and being robbed of a finals berth and possible title in 2002. So forgive me If I’m overly excited at Sacramento’s 5-3 start. The Kings are composed of a lot of send-offs from other rosters, with players like Rudy Gay and Darren Collison logging big minutes. Their star, Demarcus Cousins, is emerging as the player many hoped he’d be out of Kentucky, averaging over 22 and 11 per game. If the Kings can continue their play, they could surprise a few teams in the brutal Western Conference.

Speaking of the Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs reminded everyone why they’re the defending champs and favorites by stomping Steph Curry’s upstart Warriors by 13 on the road. Same old Spurs. Never mind that 2-3 start. The Spurs will be a top seed when all is said and done.

A team that doesn’t seem to be on track for a top seed in the West is the OKC Thunder.

While absorbing the losses of Kevin Durant *and* Russell Westbrook, the Thunder are only 2-6 on the season. And yes, both are coming back. But the West is so tough, even with a few good months of the duo back, the Thunder could be scraping to get decent playoff positioning.

Which means some poor three seed in the West might have to deal with a loaded six or seven seeded Thunder. Grizzlies vs.

Thunder again? I’ll take that.

Just enjoy the Philadelphia 76ers. Not so much the basketball they're playing. Because it’s atrocious. But because they’re an NBA team in name only, with no quality healthy players on their roster now. It’s no given they’ll get to ten wins. All in the name of getting lottery picks. There’s no generational phenom in the draft, it's just kind of general tanking. And it’s so unabashed; when the Sixers come to town it’s a bit like a basketball freak show — come see the team with no talent! Just enjoy the Sixers, basketball fans.

John Zakour is a ssenior columnist. He can be contacted at jzakour@cornell.edu. Point Blank appears everyThursday this semester.

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SCOTT EMILY SYDNEY ANNA HALEY CHIUSANO BERMAN ALTSCHULER FASMAN VELASCO

TYLER CAROLINE ELIZABETH PHOTO SCHROEDER ALICEA SOWERS EDITORS FLAX

CORNELL V. COLUMBIA

CORNELL

CORNELL

COLUMBIA

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

PRINCETON V. YALE

YALE

YALE

PRINCETON

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

HARVARD V. PENN

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

MISSISSIPPI ST V. ALABAMA

MISSISSIPPI ST

ALABAMA

ALABAMA

ALABAMA

ALABAMA

ALABAMA

ALABAMA

ALABAMA

MISSISSIPPI ST

MISSISSIPPI ST

GEORGIA V. AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

GEORGIA

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

GEORGIA

NEBRASKA V. WISCONSIN

WISCONSIN

WISCONSIN

NEBRASKA

WISCONSIN

WISCONSIN

NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

SEAHAWKS V. CHIEFS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

CHIEFS

CHIEFS

CHIEFS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

CHIEFS

CHIEFS

FALCONS V. PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

FALCONS

FALCONS

FALCONS

FALCONS

FALCONS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

EAGLES V. PACKERS

EAGLES

PACKERS

EAGLES

PACKERS

PACKERS

EAGLES

PACKERS

PACKERS

PACKERS

PACKERS

TEXANS V. BROWNS

BROWNS

BROWNS

BROWNS

TEXANS

BROWNS

BROWNS

BROWNS

BROWNS

BROWNS

BROWNS

LAST WEEK

6-4

6-4

8-2

8-2

8-2

8-2

7-3

9-1

7-3

9-1

TOTAL

52-28

54-26

50-30

44-36

54-26

53-27

53-27

51-29

45-35

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C.U. Closes Out Season Against Lions on Road

Bittersweet goodbye | Goalkeeper Zach Zagorski and six other seniors will don their Cornell jerseys for the final time this weekend in a road matchup with Columbia.

By AMIR PATEL Sun Staff Writer

After losing 3-0 to Dartmouth in a disappointing finish to their home campaign, the Red (9-6-1, 2-4 Ivy League) will close out the 2014-15 season on Saturday when it travels to Manhattan to face the Columbia Lions (7-7-1, 2-3-1).

With the loss to Dartmouth eliminating the Red from contention for the Ivy League crown, Saturday’s game against Columbia serves as a bookend to a solid season for Cornell, and finishing with a win is a top priority for the squad.

The loss to Dartmouth ended the Red’s strong overall home campaign. After maintaining a 6-1-0 record going into the final month of the season, the Red lost two straight to Princeton and Dartmouth to put the squad out of contention for the league title. They were the Red’s first back-toback losses since it lost to Penn and Harvard to start the Ivy League Season.

Cornell certainly had its chances in the match, registering 19 shots to Dartmouth’s 15. However, the difference was Dartmouth’s ability to capitalize on top opportunities when they were presented. With goals coming in the 16th, 53rd and 74th minute, the Big Green was able to sustain its attack throughout the match, keeping the Red reeling for 90 minutes.

It was a disappointing loss for the seniors, who will be donning their Cornell jerseys for the final time this weekend at Columbia. Seven seniors said their goodbyes to Berman Field this past weekend including captains Zach Zagorski, Peter Chodas, Devin Morgan and Conor Goepel, who have

all been instrumental to the Red’s success over their respective careers in Ithaca.

“My time as a part of this team has brought great memories, and I want to make sure the younger guys on the team understand that they have a chance to experience the same things, and hopefully have even more success throughout their careers,” Chodas said.

Both Columbia and Cornell are primarily defensively focused as both are inside the Top-three in the league for goals against average. The game does not present any real value for either side, however the drive to finish strong is common to both.

“We are determined to finish the season positively at

Columbia, and I certainly want to have my last game be a win,” Chodas said.

Saturday’s matchup will be the only league game that does not have title implications. With Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard as the only remaining teams with a shot at the crown, all other games will be significant in how the final standings ultimately end up. If all goes well, the Red could end the season in fourth place, just behind three of the four teams who gave them losses in Ancient Eight play this season.

Amir Patel can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

Winless Ivy Squads Match Red Heads to Salt Lake for Nationals Up as Season Winds Down MEN’S CLUB WATER POLO

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Editor

For the third straight year, the men’s club water polo team has won the New York State Regional Tournament and is headed to Nationals. The team will travel to Salt Lake City this weekend to participate in the National Tournament, where it placed 12th last season.

“We were slightly unhappy with that outcome and are pushing to break the Top-10 barrier this year,” said senior Gavin Taves. “Given our level of competitiveness, I think we have a good chance of doing so.”

The Red has a long journey ahead of it in order to reach that goal, and senior captain Henry Frye said it all starts with winning the first game against Colorado State.

With an increased level of competi-

tion at the Tournament — which includes some varsity squads — Frye acknowledged that the team’s preparation has been different.

“We have been practicing for the higher level of physicality at the national scale,” Frye said. “Every goal will be hard fought and we cannot afford any unforced errors if we expect to perform well.”

For a club team, though, preparation for a tournament at the national level includes business outside of the pool as well.

“On top of amping up our training schedule we are simultaneously involved in a huge fundraising effort in an attempt to pay for our travel expenses,” Taves said.

According to Taves, the team’s extensive recruiting effort at the beginning of the semester paid off this season and will likely show through at the National

Tournament.

“While we usually have a balanced mix of players on the team, we pulled in a large, very talented group of freshmen this year,” Taves said. “This was a fortunate occurrence due to our loss of a few key players last year.”

Because there is no varsity program at Cornell, the club water polo team is representing the school at an especially high level, and is recruiting new members every year.

“Our entire team is extremely proud to represent Cornell in the regular and postseason,” Taves said.

“Attending the National Tournament is of particular importance and we relish the opportunity to perform for the school.”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Three-peat | The men’s club water polo team won the New York State Regional Tournament for the third year in a row and is traveling to Salt Lake City this weekend for the National Tournament.

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and working hard during the week so that we’ll be ready come Saturday.”

The Red has a golden opportunity here to snag its first win and generate some

through the air. Columbia also struggles to generate sacks and force turnovers, ranking near the bottom of the Ivy League in both cate“Columbia has a young team gories. If there was a and are able to do multiple game for the Red offense to have a field things on offense, but we’ve day, this would be it. been preparing.”

C o l u m b i a’s offense is not much Miles Norris better than their defense, ranking near the bottom of FCS teams in total yardage. positivity heading into the offColumbia has only averaged season. There have been few 8.6 points per game this year, teams in the FCS that have the worst scoring rate in the struggled as much as Cornell nation. One reason for the has, and Columbia is one of Lion’s struggles is their inability them. There is no reason that to take care of the football. The an improving Red offense Lions have turned the ball over should not be able to move the an astounding 23 times, almost ball adequately. three times a game. Last weekThis will be a battle of two end, Columbia turned the ball evenly matched teams and over a staggering six times. preparation will likely be the This all bodes well for a difference, according to Cornell defense that has strug- Shapiro. gled as of late, giving up a com“We just have to execute our bined 80 points over the last reps in practice,” he said. “If we two weeks. The Red is capable can go out there and do the of forcing turnovers, ranking same thing on the field then No. 3 in the Ivy League, and we’ll be in good shape.” has a great opportunity to do so The battle for a first win this weekend. Sophomore line- kicks off this Saturday at 12:30 backer Miles Norris, who leads at Robert K. Kraft Field.

Cornell in tackles and sacks, Cornell will close out its season said he is confident that the next weekend with a home team will perform well. game against Penn, while “Columbia has a young Columbia will finish at Brown. team and are able to do multiple things on offense,” Norris Shane Lewis can be reached at said. “But we’ve been preparing sports@cornellsun.com.

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Without Schafer ’86, Red Battles Clarkson at Home

By JOON LEE Sun Staff Writer

Cornell men’s hockey coach Mike Schafer ’86 would not stand for another coach accusing one of his players of flopping and embellishing an injury. Senior alternate captain and forward Cole Bardreau, who suffered a broken neck just two short years ago after a check from behind, was down on the ice again after being blindsided by a hit against the boards in the team’s weekend contest against Quinnipiac.

Schafer saw Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold raise his arms and gesture towards the officials, seemingly indicating his belief that Bardreau had embellished the impact of the hit. His post-game comments did not hesitate to reveal how he felt about Pecknold’s actions.

As a result of those comments, the ECAC handed Schafer a one-game suspension, which he will serve during the Red’s (0-3-1, 0-2 ECAC) Friday matchup against Clarkson (3-4-3, 1-0-1 ECAC), the first of two home games this upcoming weekend, which caps off against St. Lawrence (6-3-1, 2-0 ECAC) on Saturday.

While Schafer said he regrets how he made the comments, he does not take back the message made to Pecknold.

“I really don't regret in regards to what I said. I don't think there's any place for when players get hurt, there isn't a place for questioning them on the ice surface,” Schafer said. “I've been suspended before, more than once, and every time, it's been about the safety of the student athletes with [the] exception of maybe once. Doing the right things as coaches and officials and the league to the integrity and respect of the game and I've been outspoken against it and paid for it. I don't really care. I think to speak up for the

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Facing off | After being hit from behind into the boards last weekend, senior alternate captain and forward Cole Bardreau is questionable for this weekend. He has 13 shots on goal so far this season.

right things.”

The message sent by Schafer in his postgame conference clearly resonated with the team. Both Bardreau and senior captain John McCarron appreciated that their coach stood up for his player when their integrity was brought into

question.

“I liked that he stuck up for me and I texted him after and thanked him for doing the media and doing the handSee M. HOCKEY page 13

Don’t Count Out Two Ivy Cellar Dwellers Duke It The Cavs Just Yet Out for First Victory of Season H FOOTBALL

By SHANE LEWIS

Sun Staff Writer

Two teams stuck in the cellar of the Ivy League will be fighting to earn their first win of the season when Cornell and Columbia square off this Saturday in New York City. Both teams are coming off drubbings, with

Cornell (0-8, 0-5 Ivy) falling to Dartmouth 42-7 and Columbia (0-8, 0-5 Ivy) losing to Harvard 45-0. This game will be played mainly for pride, with the loser likely to finish the season winless.

Cornell’s offense will look to get

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The final countdown | Sophomore linebacker Miles Norris and the Red have two more chances to pick up a win this season.

back on track after a disappointing showing against the Green last weekend. The offense struggled to find its rhythm and barely surpassed 300 yards of total offense.

This was especially disappointing after the offense seemed to make great strides the previous week a g a i n s t Princeton.

The key to Cornell rejuvenate the offense, according to senior co-capvs. tain and wide receiver Lucas Shapiro, is getting back to the basics.

Columbia “It’s not about throwing in fancy Tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. plays or introNew York, N.Y. ducing new schemes for us,” Shapiro said. “It’s all about being brilliant in the basics and executing our ‘layups.’”

Shapiro and his fellow receiving corps should be salivating at the opportunity to go up against a Columbia defense that has been horrendous all season. Through eight games, the Lions have given up an Ivy League worst 550 yards per game and almost 250 yards See FOOTBALL page 15

ow many early NBA storylines can we appraise not even ten games in? Join me and we’ll see.

The Cavaliers are going to be really good… eventually. So the Cavaliers are a

a buzz saw.

There’s a new Lebron James. And I’m not just talking about the weight he’s lost. Now he’s a mentor and a clear leader. He’s the only key player on his Cavaliers team that’s won a

John Zakour Point Blank pedestrian 3-3, and started 1-3. So they lost to the Knicks. So they don’t quite play defense yet. They still have Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving and the best player in the NBA in Mr. James. The Cavaliers are going to be special offensively once they click. Love and Lebron can do things no other players in the NBA can. Together with a shot creator like Kyrie there’s almost no way they won’t turn into an offensive juggernaut. It’s only a matter of time before Love throws a 70-foot assist pass that Lebron slams home with authority. And it’s only a matter of time until the Cavaliers become

title, and guiding and yelling at young guys like Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters, a role he could never fully accept with Dwyane Wade already entrenched in Miami. No one has a career arc quite like LeBron James. He’s gone from the messiah in Cleveland, to the pariah, and now he’s the prodigal son savior. Lebron might create a new archetype of a superstar leaving his native franchise for a short time to hunt rings before eventually returning. Cement your legacy as a winner while See ZAKOUR page 13