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President David Skorton speaks about various challenges he faced during his time at the University at a lecture given to students of American Studies 2003: Creating Contemporary Cornell Thursday.

Provost,V.P. position to be filled by next fall

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

The University announced the formation of two search committees Thursday morning to replace two of its departing administrators, the latest in the changing landscape of Cornell’s senior leadership.

The groups will seek to find replacements for former Provost Kent Fuchs and Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president for student and academic services. Fuchs, who will become the president of the University of Florida in January, left Cornell last week, while Murphy will step down from her post in July.

Both positions are expected to be filled by the start of the next academic year, according to Joel Malina, vice president for university relations.

He added that the committees, overall, will seek candidates “who can See COMMITTEES page 4

Weill Cornell in Qatar To Merge Pre-Med. And Medical Programs

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Town-Gown | Members of the Cornell and Ithaca communities discuss issues of housing and transportation at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday.

Community Issues Focus of S.A. Meeting

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer

Vying for increased communication between Cornellians and Ithacans about issues facing the community, the Student Assembly held an open forum Thursday where issues of housing and opportunities for public engagement were identified as areas requiring action.

Beginning the session with questions from the moderators — Kristen Reichenbach ’16, host of “Talk of the Town” on WVBR, and Nick Rasch ’15, vice president of external relations for the Cornell Forensics Society — four out of the five panelists cited

housing as one of the most pressing issues that the community faced.

“Housing, as far as I’ve seen, is the biggest issue we have in Ithaca,” said Alderperson Stephen Smith (D-4th), who is one of two representatives in the Collegetown area on the Common Council. “It’s not just an affordability issue. It’s an availability and quality issue.”

Tom Schryver ’93 MBA ’02, executive director for the Center for Regional Economic Advancement, said he agreed, stressing that problems with offcampus housing stems from a growth in employment in the Ithaca area, but not an increase in

housing.

In response to a question regarding the effectiveness of a spring 2013 law that aimed to combat the early housing rush, Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D4th) said it is important to recognize that the new law was never intended to solve all housing problems. The law required landlords to wait at least two months before renewing leases with current tenants or showing residential units to prospective tenants.

“I think this legislature was helpful in bringing the issue to people’s attention,” he said, adding that with new See COMMUNITY page 4

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar announced Monday that it will merge its two-year pre-medical program and its four-year medical program into one cohesive six-year medical program.

Previously, students looking to transition from the two-year to the four-year program would go through a separate admissions process, according to the college. With the new restructuring, however, students will only have to apply once to be admitted to the sixyear medical education program.

“This important innovation preserves the content, academic rigor and quality of our highly regarded premedical and medical programs while providing additional flexibility to our students and at the same time advancing their preparedness for the medical profession,” said Javaid Sheikh, dean of the medical college in Qatar, in a press release.

Students currently applying to the premedical program at WCMC in Qatar will undergo

the admissions process for the new six-year program by default, according to the college.

Initial discussions of the integration began a few years ago as a result of recommendations from the Joint Advisory Board — which provides advice and assistance to the dean of WCMC in Qatar —

“There is broad enthusiasm among the faculty and current students.”

Marco Ameduri Ph.D. ’00 with the idea arising “quite naturally in the mind of all stakeholders,” according to Marco Ameduri M.S. ’96 Ph.D. ’00, associate dean for pre-medical education at WCMC in Qatar.

“Integration will allow for a closer curricular focus in the first two years — when the students take undergraduate courses — and it will bring in See WEILL page 4

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News, “Upson Hall to Undergo Major Renovation,” Wednesday Speaking about why he believes Upson Hall is due for a renovation “At this point, everything about the building is very old and run-down. The computer lab, which is probably the most-used computer lab on campus, has a pretty sad reputation of being smelly and gross.

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Abhishek Sriraman ’15 Opinion, “How to Get Away With Graduating,” Thursday Speaking about the importance of staying positive in the face of uncertainty “Unlike many of my peers who are going to graduate school or already have job offers, I do not yet know what I will be doing come June of next year. In order to stay positive and appreciate what I have right now, I try to overlook the potential for disaster and enjoy Cornell while I can.”

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Team of Graduate Students Aid in Making of Interstellar Executive producer of hit movie approached students for images, video of a single black hole holes orbiting each other would look.

“Because the strong gravity near black holes bends the path of light rays travelling The research of three Cornell graduate in space, you end up seeing very distorted students — François Hébert, Andy Bohn images of the distant stars behind them,” and William Throwe — helped an executive Hébert said.

Unlike Hébert, Bohn and Throwe’s work producer of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar gain insight on visualizing black holes, a cen- — which focuses on binary black hole tral story-telling device used in the film’s images — the movie presents visuals for single black holes. A binary black hole consists plot.

Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist at the of two black holes in close orbit.

“Whereas our focus was on breaking new California Institute of Technology known ground by making for his work with astrophysics and a producer “I’m very pleased that this images of binary black holes, their focus was on for the film, asked the students to provide some film, with its foundations in making extremely high resolution, Hollywoodimages and videos of a science and relativity, is quality images for the “single black hole,” according to Hébert. getting so much attention.” film,” Hébert said.

Hébert added that “We were familiar these images were purely with Kip Thorne, as we François Hébert grad “reference material” that have collaborators at meant only to help the Caltech who work with him,” Hébert said. “[Because the images and producer learn how to create visuals for the videos] were relatively straightforward for us film.

“Nothing we did went into the movie,” to produce, we sent some his way.”

Hébert explained that the team’s research he said. “Thorne and the special effects team helps astronomers visualize how two black at Double Negative were responsible for all

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Out of this world | A group of graduate students at Cornell provided images and videos of a single black hole that helped a producer of Interstellar create visuals for the film.

the visuals in the movie.”

Hébert explains that although other images have been designed to demonstrate how single black holes look, his team’s work is significant because they believe they are the first to make binary black hole images.

The team — which initially consisted of Hébert, Bohn and Throwe — began working on their research about two year ago as a “side project,” according to Hébert. He explained that three other members, Mark Scheel, Nicholas Taylor and Darius Bunandar, joined around this time as well.

The team said they plan to continue their work and hope to make more contributions to the scientific community.

“We plan to continue exploring images of binary black hole systems,” Hébert said.

“We also want to try making images of neutron stars in orbit near black holes; we also think this would be a first.”

Although the team members said they did not play a significant role in the creation of Interstellar, they are happy to see a sciencebased film receive so much acclaim.

“I’m very pleased that this film, with its foundations in science and relativity, is getting so much attention,” Hébert said. “Black holes and wormholes are really cool, so seeing a science fiction film do its best to treat them well in the plot and render them so beautifully on the big screen is very exciting.”

Samantha Acriche can be reached at sacriche@cornellsun.com.

College Holds First‘Energy Smackdown’Competition Local Olympic Medalist Will Deliver Ithaca College Commencement Speech

Event hosted by the College of Human Ecology to continue reduction in energy usage

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Staff Writer

The College of Human Ecology kicked off its first-ever Energy Smackdown

Competition — a celebration of conservation and competitiveness — on Monday.

The competition, which will run through the end of 2014, is the second in a series

Olympic gold medalist, rower and Ithaca College alumna Meghan Musnicki will give Ithaca College’s commencement speech in May, The Ithaca Journal reported Thursday.

Musnicki earned gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, The Journal reported.

Ithaca Technology Company Sold for $230 Million

Ithaca-based company Binoptics, which focuses on laser technology, is being bought by a Massachusetts firm for $230 million in cash, The Ithaca Journal reported Thursday.

Binoptics has been in operation since 2000 and uses technology developed at Cornell, The Journal reported.

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Going green | The College of Human Ecology kicked off its first-ever Energy Smackdown Competition earlier this week.

of four sustainable topics that the college will be sponsoring over the next few months, according to Kristine Mahoney, director of facilities and operations at the human ecology college. “[This event] is a partnership between the academic and administrative programs of the college to encourage behavior change and decision making in favor of more sustainable actions, and [will] benefit support of President [David] Skorton’s climate action plan,” Mahoney said.

Five teams — each formed by buildings that are part of the college — Beebe Hall; the Human Ecology Building; Martha Van Rensselaer Hall’s main and east wing; Martha Van Rensselaer’s west wing; and Savage Hall and Kinzelberg Hall, according to Mahoney. The buildings will compete against each other in an effort to reduce their electrical consumption for a 45-day time period.

Mahoney said leaders at the college have realized that in order to take sustainability at Cornell to the next level, individuals need to increase awareness of their energy usage.

“Much of our effort thus far has been tied to capital projects,” she said. “To continue our reduction in usage, we need all building users to be aware and actively think about decisions they make to use power.”

One key tool for involving the student body is an online dashboard, where students can monitor their building’s

progress and check in on their competition, according to Mahoney. Because the buildings involved in the competition range in size and functional use, the dashboard compares a building’s specific usage this year to its usage last year during the same period of time to keep the contest fair.

“Because we have the tools to measure in real time, the occupants can see their results the same day,” she said.

The competition is part of the College of Human Ecology’s “Toward a Sustainable Organization” initiative, which began this fall, according to Mahoney.

In partnership with the Cornell Sustainable Campus’ Think Big Live Green Initiative, the college has developed four themes for engagement this year — green offices and green labs, energy conservation, waste management and community wellbeing, according to Mahoney.

This is the first year that the College of Human Ecology has engaged the entire community in this competition, according to Mahoney. Although the conclusion of the competition is more than a month away, Mahoney said she is encouraged by the amount of involvement she has seen so far.

“We have seen a tremendous amount of participation and effort, and we hope to be able to continue this tradition each year with the start of heating season,” she said.

Phoebe Keller can be reached at pkeller@cornellsun.com.

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Committees to Include Panelists Discuss C.U.’s Impact on City Students,Staff,Faculty

[and solutions] … if you sit and talk and brainstorm, there will be ways.”

Schyver, however, pushed students to not Collegetown zoning laws — as well as a num- just communicate more with members in the ber of new proposed developments — the Ithaca community, but to explore the downincrease in available housing “should at least town area.

“The biggest impact that can happen is stabilize rents, if not bring [them] down.”

Joel Malina, vice president of university Cornell students being willing to take the roll relations, also spoke about how issues of hous- downhill,” Schyver said.

Several students and panelists also spoke ing affected not only students, but employees about the importance of recognizing the impact at the University as well. “[Housing] is one of our top priorities,” he Cornell has on the community as a whole.

Responding to a question said. “We have over 25 perabout a call from Mayor cent of Cornell staff living outside of Tompkins “[Our staff] would like to live Svante Myrick ’09 last year County. For a large number closer to work. They would for Cornell to increase its voluntary funding to the of them, they would like to live closer to work. They like a shorter commute and City of Ithaca, Kerslick said would like a shorter com- those options aren’t always decisions made by the University impacted the mute and those options there.” entire Ithaca community. aren’t always there.”

“I think it’s more a call to Kerslick, who is also the Joel Malina recognize that when Cornell director of executive makes decisions, there is a sigCornell’s David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, added that nificant impact on the community,” Kerslick said.

Kerslick also cited recent cuts to some of increasing communication from students would be essential in alleviating housing-relat- Cornell’s programs as an example of a decision ed issues, as well as other problems the Ithaca that affected the larger Ithaca community.

“I don’t think it’s just a financial question, community faced.

Outside of housing, when asked how but I think it is about being more engaged and Cornell students could find out about and perhaps the implications on surrounding comwork with local nonprofit organizations, munities,” he said.

On the other hand, Malina spoke about posLeslyn McBean-Clairborne, deputy director of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, said stu- itive effects that Cornell has made to the local dents should not hesitate to reach out to orga- community, citing a recently conducted economic impact study that showed “the number nizations.

Particularly when students faced problems of students who choose to stay in Ithaca or of transportation or were unsure of how to vol- Tompkins County has skyrocketed.” unteer, McBean-Clairborne said, “organizations sometimes are able to find creative ways Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

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demonstrate appropriate experience, as well as the right demeanor, to guide President-Elect [Elizabeth] Garrett and the rest of the administration to the successful leadership of the University.”

President David Skorton, who will also leave Cornell in July to helm the Smithsonian Institution, said both the provost and newly renamed “vice president for student and campus life” positions are “critical to the success of the University.”

“I am grateful to the members of both search committees for their dedication to finding and recruiting the strongest candidates for these positions,” Skorton said in a statement.

The two individuals selected to become administrators will also have “substantial influence on Cornell’s future direction,” President-Elect Garratt said in a statement.

“We look forward to identifying inspiring and visionary people for these key positions,” said Garrett, who is chairing the Provost Search Committee.

Kathryn Boor ’80, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will serve as the chair for finding Murphy’s replacement, according to the University.

Each of the search committees will include faculty, staff and students, a fact that Malina, said is important to garner information from different aspects of the campus community.

“Different members of our community have different perspectives that we want to make sure we take into consideration,” Malina said. “We want to make sure that when these individuals are hired, they are the individuals that meet all the needs of their roles.”

Currently the provost position, which oversees academic programs, is being held by Interim Provost Harry Katz, who was dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations before being tapped to work in Day Hall.

The vice president for student and campus life, which is currently titled “vice president for student and academic services,” will oversee nearly 4,000 staff and student employees and a wide breadth of undergraduate and graduate services, including housing, dining, athletics and health services, according to the University. Cornell announced that Murphy, who served in the position for more than 20 years, would retire in September.

Cornell also named the search firms that would be conducting the two searches. For the provost position, firm Spencer Stuart, which aided in the search for Cornell’s 13th president this year, will again assist Cornell in replacing one of its top administrators, according to the University. Firm Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates, will assist in the search for the vice president position.

Although Malina said that changes in leadership can be “unsettling,” he added that administrators are working to ensure there is a smooth transition between the changes in leadership.

“We are very much, among the senior leadership, talking quite frequently about the need for smooth transition, coordination and close communication over the coming months,” he said. “We are engaging with the shared governance groups to make sure they are part of this conversation as well.”

Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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additional flexibility in the timing of key steps, such as the Medical College Admission Test,” Ameduri said. “The tighter curricular alignment over the six years will give the student more time to absorb the complex scientific concepts that are at the basis of medicine.”

The new integrated program aims to build upon this already-estab-

Arizona Sues General Motors PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s attorney general has sued General Motors Co. for failing to recall millions of cars and trucks with safety defects the auto giant did not disclose for years. The lawsuit seeks potentially billions of dollars in fines.

Attorney General Tom Horne said Thursday that he sued under the state's consumer fraud statutes and is seeking a $10,000 fine for each of hundreds of thousands of defective vehicles sold in the state. The lawsuit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix also seeks an injunction barring GM from similar actions and an order that it hand over profits it made from selling defective vehicles.

Horne took action independent of a group of 48 states that have been jointly investigating GM, which Arizona was participating in. “I made the decision that my job was to protect Arizona citizens and that I would be doing that better if we moved ahead with the lawsuit,” he said.

lished reputation by continuing to place postgraduates in residency programs at elite hospitals across the world, according to the release.

“At [WCMC in Qatar], there is a very supportive learning atmosphere, and students have the opportunity to do research and … engage in local and international service experiences,” he said. “So far, our graduates have been very successful as they continued their journey into their residency pro-

grams. We certainly expect this to continue.”

Ameduri added that early feedback for the new program “shows excitement and curiosity.”

“There is broad enthusiasm among the faculty and the current students, as we all prepare to welcome the entering students in the fall semester of 2015,” he said.

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

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Prof. Cyrus Samii, politics, New York University, speaks about Burundi’s Civil War at a lecture in Uris Hall Thursday.

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Obama Spurns GOP With Expansive Immigration Orders WASHINGTON (AP) — Spurning furious Republicans, President Barack Obama unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration Thursday night to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation and refocus enforcement efforts on “felons, not families.”

The moves, affecting mostly parents and young people, marked the most sweeping changes to the nation’s fractured immigration laws in nearly three decades and set off a fierce fight with Republicans over the limits of presidential powers.

In a televised address to the nation, Obama defended the legality of his actions and challenged GOP lawmakers to focus their energy not on blocking his measures but on approving long-stalled legislation to take their place.

“To those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill,” Obama said, flexing his presidential powers just two weeks after his political standing was challenged in the midterm elections.

As Obama spoke from the White House, immigration supporters with American flags draped over their shoulders marched on Pennsylvania Avenue outside carrying signs that read, “Gracias, Presidente Obama.”

The address marked the first step in the White House effort to promote the executive actions to the public. On Friday, Obama will speak at a campaign-style rally in Las Vegas.

ABC, CBS, NBC Decline to Air Obama Immigration Address NEW YORK (AP) — ABC, CBS and NBC decided against covering President Barack Obama’s speech on immigration live on Thursday, although the Spanish-language Univision network is delaying its telecast of the Latin Grammy Awards to show the address.

The news networks CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC all planned to air Obama live.

Obama is planning to speak at 8 p.m. EST to announce that he is ordering federal action on immigration, angering Republican leaders in Congress.

The major broadcast networks generally carry presidential speeches on matters of national security and other important issues. But there can be a reluctance in executive suites if an anticipated address is seen as heavily political in nature, as well as a fear that viewers interested in entertainment options will flee.

It’s not clear what the rea-

soning here. CBS News, through a spokeswoman, said it declined to comment on editorial decisions. ABC and NBC News also said they would not comment.

While the president is speaking, CBS will air “The Big Bang Theory,” television’s top-rated comedy. ABC will show an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” while NBC promises a sandpile challenge on “The Biggest Loser” in that time slot.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the networks’ decision was disappointing.

But he said the “time slot guarantees us a sizable portion of the growing Spanish language audience at Univision and Telemundo, a decent cable news audience, and it’s the optimal time to capture the attention of Americans on their smartphones and tablets, which, as the TV execs will tell you, is how a significant percentage of Americans get their news these days.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo begged drivers “pretty, pretty please” to stay off slippery, car-clogged roads in western New York.

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Snow fun | Snow drifts reach nearly to the roof of Eden Heights, an assisted living facility in West Seneca, N.Y., on Wednesday. Even in an area used to dealing with brutal winter storms, officials said they were struggling to cope with a storm that left as much as five feet of snowfall by Tuesday night, with more to come.

Roofs Collapse as Buffalo Clobbered by More Snow BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Roofs began to creak and collapse and homeowners struggled to clear waist-high drifts atop their houses Thursday as another storm brought the Buffalo area’s three-day snowfall total to an epic 7 feet or more.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo begged drivers “pretty, pretty please” to stay off slippery, car-clogged roads in western New York while crews tried to dig out.

Some areas got close to 3 feet of new snow by Thursday afternoon.

Things could quickly get worse: Rain and temperatures as high as 60 were forecast over the weekend, raising the specter of flooding and an even heavier load on roofs, where the snow could absorb the downpours like a blanket.

More than 50 people were evacuated from several mobile home parks in suburban Cheektowaga and West Seneca because roofs were buckling.

Bellevue Fire Department Lt. Timothy Roma said more than a dozen buildings and carports collapsed, as did a metal warehouse operated by a Christmas decorations company, where damage was estimated in the millions.

Local media reported that about 180 residents of a Cheektowaga assisted living facility were evacuated after staff members noticed the ceiling bulging under the weight of the snow.

Homeowners and store employees around the region climbed onto roofs to shovel off the snow and reduce the danger.

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A call for responsible journalism To the Editor: Re: “Employee Assembly Talks Turnover, Staff Complaints,” News, Nov. 20.

Responsible Journalism. What does that mean in a time when immediacy is the norm and success is determined by pageviews? Journalism is changing in format yet should not abandon its ethics. The Society of Professional Journalists’ code of ethics clearly states amongst its four principles of ethical journalism that journalists should “Take responsibility for the accuracy of their work. Verify information before releasing it. Use original sources whenever possible” and “Remember that neither speed nor format excuses inaccuracy.” The Sun recently published an article on the latest Employee Assembly meeting that grossly violated this code.

While we are excited shared governance meetings are being covered by media outlets, we believe that any article, no matter how mundane to the author, should be approached with a responsibility to the nuance of the subject. The author of “Employee Assembly Talks Turnover, Staff Complaints” flippantly interchanges the terms “staff ” and “faculty” in a way that ignores and undermines the identities, responsibilities and composition of each community and presents an article full of inaccuracies, misquotes and out-of-context information.

In fact, the Employee Assembly and Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources, work to advocate for staff interests in an effort to empower staff and improve the staff experience. Where V.P. Opperman and E.A. Member Michelle Stefanski-Seymour were quoted as commenting on faculty growth and programs at Cornell, they were actually commenting on initiatives for the more than 8,000 staff members working to keep the University operating on a daily basis. This community was profoundly affected by the economic downturn and yet continues to work every day to meet the new challenges Cornell, and higher education in general, face in this stiff economic climate.

We are disappointed The Sun did not contact individuals quoted in the article to clarify positions or to provide context in the broader scope of the quotations. For an organization that boldly claims independence since 1880, we did not see the responsibility that should accompany such freedom.

We expect better and the Cornell community deserves better.

Greg Mezey ’09 Chair, Employee Assembly B.J.R. Siasoco ’07 Executive Vice-Chair, Employee Assembly

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Questions can be submitted via email to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Or whisper them in the ear of the Ezra Cornell statue on the Arts Quad.

Q: Now that winter has suddenly appeared in Ithaca, what’s the coldest it has ever been here?

— Frosty the Snowman ’15 A: According to the Northeast Regional Climate Center, which is based here at Cornell, the Ithaca weather has occasionally dipped below -20 degrees Fahrenheit (-29°C). January 15 and 16, 1957 hit -25°F (-32°C), as did February 2, 1961. The Cornell Daily Sun editorialized on the frigid temperatures on January 16, 1957 with a typically Cornellian response: “We don't mind a little suffering here and there. We don't even mind occasional snow flurries, thunder showers or hail storms. We can even accept with some small bit of philosophy the afflictions of Ithaca's floods and snow-storms. But when we have to suffer through the coldest night in the history of Ithaca — more or less — then we draw the line. When such an event comes, it is only natural, we think, to question the cause for it all. Why should cars be stalled or stuck, hands cold or frozen, heat minimal or non-existant [sic]? There is only one answer that we can see. Cornell has not been Living Right. Someone who has been watching all the recent antics of all sorts around and about this campus has finally decided there was only one thing to do — punish us with freezing cold. We have only one consolation. Molecular action does not cease until -273 degrees.”

But don’t despair. Summer weather is just around the corner. A corner that is very far away.

If you need some warming up, Ithaca’s record high temperature appears to have been 103°F (39°C) on July 9, 1936.

Q: I just realized that Wednesday classes before Thanksgiving break are canceled this year.

When did this happen?!

— Calendar Impaired '16 A: The new calendar was officially announced back in September 2012, so many students have forgotten about the changes going into effect this fall for the first time. We experienced our first February break last spring, but many forgot that we’re also getting an extra day off before Thanksgiving. Most students probably didn’t notice since they’ve been skipping classes on that day since they were freshmen, which surely played a role in the calendar committee’s recommendations.

The battle over Thanksgiving vacation actually dates back to over a century ago, when the University Trustees resolved in 1893 that Thanksgiving break be confined to only Thursday.

A series of student petitions and protests in 1895 won an extended holiday, with classes suspended from Wednesday evening to Saturday morning. However, Thanksgiving break was once again reduced to a single day in 1915. Skipping class around vacations was such an issue at the time that the College of Arts and Sciences passed a resolution to put students on probation if they were absent immediately preceding or following a vacation day. In 1917, students were fined two dollars for taking vacation early. Following years of protests from the students, Thanksgiving break was finally extended again to Friday in 1927. With the exception of calendar changes during World War II, the Thanksgiving break has been largely unchanged until this year. So be thankful that you get all of Wednesday off. And that you won’t be fined or put on probation if you skip classes on Tuesday.

Q: Is it true that Cornell is required to build new buildings in the style of the times?

— Tear Down Uris Hall ’15 A: While I’m unaware of an official mandate regarding Cornell’s campus architecture, it’s true that at least the unofficial policy has been to maintain an architectural diversity reminiscent of the University motto’s emphasis on diversity of students and studies. Any person, any study, any architectural style. Instead of making every new building look like the Collegiate Gothic style of the Baker dormitories, it’s easy to see the progression through time as you look around campus, from the Engineering Quad buildings once described as “1950s elementary school” style to the modern glass-covered Physical Sciences Building and Gates Hall. The University Architect and University Planner work in conjunction to ensure that each new addition to campus fits the overall goals, needs and environment. Efforts have often been made to transition contrasting styles, like the beautiful atrium connecting Baker Laboratory and Physical Sciences. While the University Architect is responsible for building designs and the consistency of campus architecture, the University Planner handles the more holistic view of building placement, land use, transportation, infrastructure and the overall campus environment. For a glimpse at what Cornell might look like in 50 years, check out the 2008 Cornell Master Plan at masterplan.cornell.edu.

Curious about Cornelliana? Looking for Cornell lore behind a legend? Submit your questions to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Ezra’s Oracle appears alternate Fridays this semester.

CORRECTIONS The article, “Employee Assembly Talks Turnover, Staff Complaints” published on Thursday has multiple corrections.

Throughout the piece, Cornell University staff is incorrectly referred to as faculty.

In the first paragraph, the story incorrectly states that the Employee Assembly discussed the importance of maintaining staff morale in light of high employee turnover. In fact, the meeting was focused around development and there is not high employee turnover.

The second paragraph incorrectly states that Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources, discussed a recent increase in staff complaints and turnover. In fact, she was responding to a question regarding the trends in complaints after the recession.

The piece also states that, “Human resources has implemented a formal rotational program, which encourages faculty members at Cornell to explore different positions and increase their career-progression, as part of a new attempt keep employees satisfied, according to Opperman.” In fact, there have been a handful of pilot rotational programs created to test, including one in human resources.

When referring to the housing questionnaire sent out to graduate students and faculty, it incorrectly left out staff. Additionally, the piece says that the questionnaire was sent out in response to complaints about the lack of affordable housing. In fact, the questionnaire was sent out to get more information about workforce housing needs.

Additionally, the piece incorrectly says that the quote that follows from Greg Mezey ’09, chair of the E.A. and the director of food and beverage for the Statler Hotel is referring to the housing questionnaire. In fact, his quote was referring to the results from the 2011 staff engagement survey.

The piece also incorrectly stated that, “When asked about how the E.A. and faculty could form relationships with President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett, Opperman advised members of Cornell’s staff to directly contact her.” In fact, Opperman suggested that the E.A. contact President-Elect Garrett in order to foster conversations in the future.

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ne night, as graduate students are oft to do, I sat at the pub to dissect the most recent spate of theoretical texts that we were assigned. The theme for the night being “embodied knowledge,” our conversation drifted into a discussion about the residual trace of experience that remains in our bodies from having played musical instruments as children.

We spoke of the disconcerting feeling of being inhabited by ghost hands once the finger touches the keys after a long absence: suddenly, a scale happens, or perhaps something more complex.

Our professional lives reward the performance of cognitive functions like “analysis,” but what of our muscles that can somehow recall the patterns that our bodies internalized years ago?

The way we think about our bodies we inherited from a Western medical tradition that has not only split off mind from matter, but also condensed the ineffable qualities of personhood into a matter of … matter itself. In other places, souls exist, but here, we have brains.

In our society, we tend to treat the brain as the seat of volition, and also life itself. Our sense of ourselves as people begin when memory lets us construct our own autobiographies, and on the other side there is death, which in the U.S. is legally defined as the complete and irreversible cessation of brain function. The emphasis on the body as matter that is controlled by the executive functions of the brain reduces the experience of living into occupancy of a machine body. As evidence by pharmaceutical efforts in creating a “pill for every ill,” our current biomedical paradigm treats the body as mere biological material, entirely controllable through altering the chemistry of the brain.

And so we are confused when our bodies seem to take on a life of their own, animating themselves on their own accord.

Several days later, with these conversations from the pub fresh in my mind, I played in a repertoire class. It was late on a Friday afternoon, and musical performance has a way of introducing a kind of dissonance that suspends the seamless transactions between brain and body that would otherwise occur in our daily lives. One member of the group, voicing her frustrations with how the added element of having an audience affected her playing, complained that, “it was as if my fingers had brains of their own!”

A gruesome image: a hand full of Medusas certainly disrupts the way we think about how we relate to our bodies. Yet, this sentiment expresses how deeply we rely on the idea of the brain as the executive controller of our actions.

In the 1940s, the French phenomenologist Maurice MerleauPonty (1908-1961) proposed an alternative model of how we encounter the world through the concept of body knowledge. By adding this third element of body knowledge, he was one of the first to complicate the idea of imagined movement (“mind”) and motor execution (“body”) in explaining how we might move through the world. In Phenomenology of Perception, he refers to touch typing as “knowledge in the hands.” This particular type of knowledge is not distinctly explicit, conscious, or articulated; however, it is known by the body and acquired through practice.

We can find parallels to these ideas in contemporary scientific literature under the name of procedural memory, which refers to the processes that guide the performance of particular types of actions. Often said to reside below consciousness, procedural memory is retrieved without conscious attention to execute the kinds of habituated actions that seem to never leave the body, like reading or riding a bike. Procedural memory, developed through repeating an action until all neural systems involved are synchronized, is characterized by efficiency. Studies show, for instance, that experienced pianists use the motor network less than inexperienced pianists when performing the same complex hand movements. Did modern cognitive science provide a “scientific basis” to French phenomenology, or did it just rework the idea to once again reconfirm a worldview that prizes the dominance of the brain?

In performance at least, we refer to really knowing a piece well as knowing it “in the body.” Which invites the question: body memory or neural networks?

Body memory is a powerful refutation of the dualism proposed

by Western medicine that splits the body into consciousness and the physical body. While our education system encourages us to hone our cognitive prowess, these moments of dissonance (what we might refer to as “nerves”) that occur in musical performance, during an athletic match, or simply on the day of a big test gives us enough pause to reconsider the presumed power of the brain, which may come at the expense of mining what lies within our bodies.

In our society, life and sociality is defined by the well being of the brain. We demonstrate our personhood through the memories we recall and our ability to articulate narratives from of our lives.

Explicit memory, however, can only render the past as the past.

Body memory on the other hand — whether it be the whiff of the proverbial macaroon imbued with the sensation of lost love, or the reservoir of tactile experience that is recalled in the shaping of a trill — the memory of the body summons the living presence of the past, and who are we if we are not a living body informed by experiences past?

Shoan Yin Cheung ’09 is a fourth-year Ph.D. student studying medical anthropology in the Department of Science and Technology Studies. She may be reached at sc479@cornell.edu. What’s Up, Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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his past Monday, members of my class began taking the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination.

This test is run by the National Boards of Veterinary Medical Examiners so is also often called “boards.” We’re eligible to take it in our fourth year during which there are two testing periods — the first one is now and lasts around a month and the second one is for two weeks in April.

At its heart, the NAVLE is a standardized test. We pay money to take it, go to a Prometric testing center just like we did for the GREs, sit in front of a computer for roughly seven and a half hours, and then receive scores around a month after the end of the testing window. I think that by this point in our careers, most of us have become pretty good at the art of standardized testing.

I learned pretty early (probably taking AP tests in high school) that a lot of the time doing well on standardized tests is unfortunately more about learning the test than learning the material. For example, I don’t think the math portion of the GRE tests your mathematical acuity as much as your ability to figure out the quickest shortcut you can use to solve a math problem, and once you’ve learned the kinds of problems the GRE asks then you know which shortcuts to use.

The NAVLE, however, is different. It tests our ability to interpret information, the methodology which we use to think about problems and our general knowledge on essentially every animal species. There’s a little bit of the “learning the test” component to it too — certain buzzwords that we learn to recognize and certain scenarios that become familiar to us, but the vast majority of the exam seems to legitimately test the things we have spent the past four years learning.

I have a couple of thoughts on this. The first is about studying. It

was difficult for me to figure out how to study for a test that covers so much more material than any other standardized test I have ever taken. There are a couple of companies out there who produce review materials (with a hefty subscription fee, of course) that upperclassmen recommended, which is the way many of us have chosen to study, with additional supplementation from our own notes for clarification. It scares me a little to put so much faith into a for-profit organization, but it does seem like the best option. Also, scheduling studying while on clinics can be tricky — it’s recommended (by the testing companies…) that we start studying three months in advance but when you’re on rotations that run 14hour days then coming home and

learned things during school and are competent, there are many topics that we need to reinforce before being tested on just because it hasn’t been possible for us to continue to expose ourselves to all of them. Also, even the increased degree of knowledge that we have about our areas of interest can end up being a hindrance on boards because the degree of detail we know makes it so that we can very easily over-interpret the questions.

So, if the NAVLE was to be tailored to producing exceptionally competent veterinarians, then the test would have to be split into sections that allowed students to focus on the nuances of their interests. It’s a hard dilemma to deal with because one of the awesome things about veterinary medicine is that you can be a horse vet and then find a great job in a I think that the premise is lovely — mixed animal practice and that we should know everything then discover about everything so we can be that you really veterinarians who can treat enjoy working with cats and any species. And it does make want to be a me feel good to realize how cat vet. For much I’ve learned. now, it’s probably fine that the NAVLE is studying at the end of the day structured in such a way that it often isn’t the most fruitful. In the tests out general knowledge on a end, though, it’s all part of the broad variety of things, because we process I suppose — learning how can continue to pursue our indito juggle life and school and study- vidual interests outside of the test. ing and applying for I wonder what will happen though internships/jobs all at the same if students continue to pigeonhole time is part of the ritual involved themselves into certain areas (I in becoming a veterinarian. definitely see it happening now) My other thought is on the — will we begin to second guess functionality of the NAVLE itself. ourselves so much about our areas I think that the premise of it is of interest that we would get those lovely — that we should know questions wrong, and then also not everything about everything so have a good enough knowledge that we can be veterinarians who base about areas that we weren’t can treat any species. And it does interested in that we would fail the make me feel good to realize how test more frequently? It’s food for much I’ve learned. That being thought if nothing else. Now I said, however, the knowledge in should probably stop procrastinatthe field is increasing so much that ing and get back to studying. the test may be becoming outdated. We develop individual species or specialty specific interests Nikhita Parandekar graduated from throughout vet school and general- Cornell in 2011 and is a third-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of ly we tend to know a lot more Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at about certain areas than others. It’s nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in why we have to study for boards at Mouth appears alternate Fridays this all — even if we feel like we have semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Love, Loss and Robots: Disney’s Big Hero 6 SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

Disney’s latest animated release, Big Hero 6, tells a surprisingly realistic story about love and technology for a movie about a band of teen-to-college-age superheroes. Although the film indulges in fantastical and cliché plot devices at points, adult viewers can easily connect with its portrayal of grassroots innovation and authentic brotherly love.

Big Hero 6 follows the quest of precocious, rebellious technology prodigy Hiro Hamada, voiced by Ryan Potter. At the beginning of the film, Hiro uses his technological ingenuity to hustle other competitors in the underground “bot fighting” scene in fictional San Fransokyo. In typical Disney fashion, Hiro’s older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) and Aunt Cass (Maya Rudolph) raise him after the early death of his parents. Tadashi shares Hiro’s proclivity for technology, but follows a more traditional path and attends the robotics program at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology.

Tadashi successfully refocuses Hiro’s talents by introducing him to the Institute’s creative and lovably eccentric students, but tragedy strikes soon after, leaving Hiro depressed and uninspired.

In a wholly expected development, Hiro soon has an excuse to gather together Tadashi’s former classmates and latest research project — a klutzy healthcare robot named Baymax (Scott Adsit) — into a self-made, technological team of superheroes. Opposed to the jet-black, tactical-grade super-suits donned by Batman, the thereafter-named Big Hero 6’s suits are colorful, wildly imaginative and fill out a large movie screen with action and texture. Perhaps the two most creative costumes belong to Fred (T.J. Miller), the group’s stoner-cliché character, who wears a full-body, mascot-esque, firebreathing dragon/monster outfit, and Honey Lemon (Génesis Rodríguez), who sports a Tron-like suit and carries an impromptu chemistry laboratory in her satchel.

Plot-wise, Big Hero 6 writers Robert L. Baird, Dan Gerson and Jordan Roberts do not deviate far from the Disney archetype: orphaned protagonist with conflicted emotions, an equally goofy and supportive cohort, a loveable, non-human best friend and requisite twists and turns to settle into a neat conclusion. In hindsight,

Big Hero 6 even lacks a concrete antagonist and COURTESY OF DISNEY Hiro’s personal development takes up significantly more screen time than the team’s battles against enemies. However, the previous discrepancy evidences what I believe to be Big Hero 6’s strongest quality. Namely, the film tells a story with moral shades of gray complete with the realistic difficulties of young teenage life and a completely un-ironic testament to talking about emotions and reaching out for help.

Furthermore, Big Hero 6 presents a refreshing and realistic (nanobots and flying robots aside) portrayal of technology education and technological development.

The small-budget, smallscale development of Big Hero 6 much of the technology in the film is a welcome Directed by Don Hall contrast to the sprawling Starring Ryan Porter, Scott research labs in Adsit demeanor constructs a robot personality that I Christopher Nolan’s too would kill for as a sidekick.

Batman trilogy and the Additionally, viewers who still remember like. Rather than a statethe short films included before many of their of-the-art, cutting-edge animated Disney favorites (I still recall the man laboratory, Hiro builds playing chess with himself before A Bug’s Life all of his equipment with minimal resources in a small garage. The film includes the vast just as vividly as the movie itself) will love the introductory short number of late nights, trials and errors that both Tadashi and Hiro Feast. The short packs a punch even without dialogue and tells a endured building their projects. Are the end results unrealistic for sweet, heart-wrenching story of love and food from a dog’s eye the efforts of a fourteen-year-old in a garage? Certainly, but it’s way view, once again evidencing the power of Disney writers’ storymore fun and far less pretentious than scenes of stern-faced, solemn telling abilities.

Big Hero 6 is doubtlessly a kids’ movie, yet unlike other recent scientists rushing around in concrete facilities.

The very idea of Baymax, a robotic “healthcare companion,” no kids’ films, the movie does not contain one set of jokes for the longer seems like the stuff of science fiction. The film constantly younger audience and another for the older. As a result, even pokes fun at the limitations of introducing robots into traditionally teenage and older viewers can completely interact with the emohuman roles (see: Baymax asking Hiro if fighting a supervillain will tional world of Hiro Hamada. improve his emotional health), but the characters grow attached to it nonetheless. The coupling of Baymax’s effectiveness at his actual Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He job — diagnosing and treating injuries — and his bumbling, naïve can be reached at smc377@cornell.edu.

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Kaitlyn Tiffany Harry Styles may have snapped Taylor Swift’s pink Necco heart in half 20 or some-odd months back, Zayne Malik and Louis Tomlinson may toke up without checking the immediate vicinity for cameras and Niall Horan probably cuckolded his new bestie Ed Sheeran just because he could (he has the eyes of a curious infant and the jawline of Robert Redford), but One Direction is somehow still the reigning champion of boy bands who don’t appear to be jerks. In fact, let me quote Rolling Stone’s Jon Dolan who wrote recently, “They don’t appear to be jerks.” They write pro-woman lyrics (“Let’s have another toast for the girl almighty”), are buds with Paul Rudd, cry at concerts and put their kid sisters in their music videos.

Their fourth studio album FOUR is proof-positive of their nice guy status. It’s a nice record, with writing credits on more than half of the tracks for Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne, decent indie folk numbers (“Fireproof” and “Night Changes”) that go pretty much chord for chord with Midnight Memories’ “Story of My Life” and “Through the Dark” and two lovelorn but crackling, retro-guitar-backed bits of angst penned by Harry Styles (“Clouds” and “Stockholm Syndrome”). Who are they about? Is it T-Swift? Is it fucking T-Swift? Will there be a “Stockholm Syndrome”/“Blank Space” crossover vid?! These are the questions I have.

And though any long-time fan will find enough to love on this album, it is, if you’re coming in cold, a pretty mixed bag.

For every chance that the group takes — like with giving Tomlinson the punchiest of the parts to sing on the stand-out “No Control,” with naming their obvious new stadium-tour opener after a Whitney Houston chart-topper or with the overt sexiness of the Ed Sheeran-penned “18” (which might not have

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“Act My Age,” is a Flogging Molly-infused acoustic singalong love fest for bros, with a harmless EDM drop on the chorus (a style these free-wheeling dudes clearly have no idea what to do with, as evidenced by the robotic and confused vocals in these parts). Niall Horan has already step-danced to it publicly, so enjoy. I want to be excited that they’re finally acknowledging and playing up Horan’s Irish background but I’m too busy being depressed by the thought of this song being sung raucously and like, “hilariously” to him in a Mullingar pub when he turns 50 and looks like his character from the “Best Song Ever” video.

“Steal My Girl” is a smart single — with its truly addictive chorus, obvious radio playability and the choice to feature each member on his own verse (would you seek to please only the Niallers or only the Larry shippers?) — and it’s a good pop song, but as the lead single it’s nowhere near as fun as what One Direction has delivered in the past. The video mimics the epic scale of “Best Song Ever,” “Midnight Memories” and “Kiss You,” but nixes the enthusiasm — particularly from Harry Styles, who has apparently moved on from being the resident adorable rascal to like … weirdo in a leopard-print trench.

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These kids work well together, they’re determined to grow together and they’re certainly putting the work in. It’s also not irrelevant that they haven’t stopped touring in three years (next summer’s tour is called On the Road Again) — they need to keep writing arena songs, for the pure utility of them. The greats of the ’70s and ’80s that ostensibly inspire them spent years in the studio at a time working on masterpiece albums, a luxury that One Direction simply doesn’t have right now — boy bands can’t afford to take a break to write their Nebraska and expect to still be famous when they’re done. Anyway, I’m counting on a really great Christmas present from them in 2016.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ignificant attention has been paid to Taylor Swift’s much ballyhooed rollout of 1989, including where it was not rolled out: Spotify. Critical of what she considers to be low payment from the popular streaming site, Swift not only refused to release 1989, but pulled her entire catalog. She maintains that Spotify’s freemium model (where non-subscribers listen to music and advertisements) discredits the “value” of her music. And certainly, good music does offer great value, but contention over the “value” returned to the artist should be more relegated to the frequently draconian contracts

makes around half a cent. Of course, the key word there is “distributor.” Then money is paid to Universal Musical Group, who takes a cut, then moves it down to Taylor Swift’s label, Big Machine Records, who repeats the process, finally getting it to Taylor (along with song writers, producers, etc.). Without knowing the details of Swift’s deals, it is quite likely that the money she gets is literally decimated relative to the initial Spotify payout. Her music is not devalued by Spotify, but by her own contractual obligations.

This pattern is repeated across all forms of music sales. Royalties on a physical or digital album generally come out to about one dollar for an artist, although superstars, like Swift, often negotiate themselves into higher royalty deals. Many artists do not even see this, as the royalties are withheld until the artist has paid back the upfront costs of making the album, which can quickly run into the hunCOURTESY OF BIG MACHINE RECORDS dreds of thousands. While that artists sign with record companies. Instead, some very independent artists do make a signifby making Spotify the target of her music icant portion of the album sales, for the vast industry beef, Taylor has emasculated the majority of artists selling music is just a way to strength of 2014 music exploration and harmed recoup the cost of making that music. Instead, the one group of people that she is known for touring, merchandise and, for superstars, caring most about: her fans. endorsements are the champion profit lanes.

Spotify claimed that Taylor Swift’s distribu- Ultimately, if Taylor Swift really wants to receive tor would have been paid upwards of $6 M on compensation from the music itself, she has to global streaming this year, a fairly astounding exit the label artist paradigm and risk going number considering that each stream only truly independent.

“Music is art, and art is important and rare,” Swift wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed contending that music in and of itself merits substantial financial award. In a vacuum, I could not agree more with that statement, but I dis-

Calvin Patten Patten Pending agree with her about how to share that art.

Great art should be spread widely, shared and discussed. Putting “art” behind pay walls and in $15 jewel cases immediately makes it exclusive.

Are such costs exorbitant? No, but they do force a selectivity that runs counter the idea of music as art. Because by doing so, Taylor is absolutely forcing fans to choose her art and not someone else’s. From her perspective and well-being, maybe that is the sensible perspective. But from the point of view of someone who loves exploring, finding and listening to new music, it is destructive.

We are fortunate to live in a privileged era where we are truly our own DJs. We are not subject to radio choices and we do not have to actually buy an album to hear it. Instead, we can explore broadly, throwing never-before-heard bands and albums in our queues and seeing what sticks. With Spotify, we can do such exploration legally and with the comfort of knowing that some compensation is winding its way back to the artists. Then if we find albums we fall in

love with, we can buy them, go to a concert and tell all of our friends. Taylor Swift threatens this flattening of music availability by pulling her music from Spotify. Sure, she does not need Spotify, but for the thousands of lesser known artists, Spotify is a route into the ears and lives of millions.

And in pulling her music from Spotify, Taylor Swift has spited some of her most devoted and talked about fans: kids and tweens, many with little disposable income. She is effectively forcing fans to go to the store, give $13 to music labels and department stores so that she can make two dollars and feel like her hard work is validated. Taylor Swift has a right to make every single dollar that she can, but for someone who has staked a career on loving and rewarding fans (especially “little girls”), it is a tone deaf decision. She does not have to give away music for free (although I think there are really cool ways she could), but she should allow fans the opportunity to listen and decide if they want to own it. For someone seemingly so confident in her artistry, such a challenge should be welcome.

Taylor Swift is not the first artist to take exception with Spotify (Beyoncé is still not on Spotify) but she has been the most high profile about it. For the sake of fans, dilettantes and niche musicians alike, I can only hope that such a stance does not become the norm and that the legal sharing and exploring of music can continue unencumbered.

Calvin Patten is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at cpatten@cornellsun.com. Patten Pending runs alternate Fridays this semester.

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ALEX! No I’m not yelling for you because I need something. Novel concept, I know!

Jokes aside, it has been an absolute delight working with you. If not for you, I’d probably be lost somewhere in the depths of NYC. Also, we’re definitely the cutest lesbian hm/dm pair. Deal with it.

Love, Michaela

And now, because Z is for Z BEST, presenting the only REAL Rank Z in the Ivy League:

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Susan “almost too basic to function” Eichhorn Jessica “drops music gracefully” Hubbard Nick “what measure is the cartwheel” Cheng Julia “rank Z girl power” Joseph Melissa “safety rank-leading savior” Bravo Nir “gets a little too excited about football” Ravi

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Thanks for an amaZing season!

Love, your zzzzzzesty rank leaders, Jesse “marches left and stays there” Wu and Evie “it was definitely a bump and go” Murphy

And now because band without D would just be ban, presenting the dazzling, dynamic and da-best rank in the Ivy League: Alisa “Fixed piccolos are a girl's best friend” Lee Caitie “Always happy...especially with COFFEE” Kristen Rose “Les Mis Loving Band Baby” Baxter Martha “Lap tag and duct tape ninja” Wolfe From your de-lovely, devoted rank leaders: Emily “Most fearless pinball” Miller Kimberly “Lighting up the field, literally” Jack

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I present the Big Red Drumline, the line whose kicka** knows no bounds.

Drumline is the best.

SNARES EMILY FRECH SANGRAG GANGULI GORDON GUSTAFSON MARCO SANCHEZ AYALA WARREN SEARS TENORS VICTORIA DYE PETER FERENZ AVA JARVIS ALEX SETTLE KIRSTIN TORGERSON BASSES KELSEY BURGERS JOSEF BYRNE KIM FERREIRA MARIAH GOODWIN KAYLIN GREENE JORDAN RIOS VINCENT SHEPPARD CYMBALS NICKI BEGA LAUREN CHAN MICHAEL FOX KEVIN LEE MAXWEL LEE KIKI LI JACKSON SEMINARA ALYSSA TRIGG JAMES WU STEVEN YUE BELLS KARI MIYA ELLEN PATRIDGE Drumline – thank you for an awesome season. I am incredibly proud of you all and am honored to have been your section leader.

ROCK OUT AND BE BADA** Your 2013 14 Drum Captain, Warren Sears

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1 P ERSONALS Presenting the Jankiest, Jolliest, Jazziest Rank in the Ivy League, Rank J! Jesse “Dammit Jeff!“ Garcia Kelly “Which show is this?“ Yu Chris “Party band > marching band“ Harvey Alex “Several black uncles“ Marburgh Halie “-laughing noises-“ Hotchkiss Seouk “-more laughing noises-“ Hyun Yoon Geehyun “AMERICA!“ Kwon Jeff “Don't touch me!“ Crosby Ben “as Benita Sniper“ Siper

And now, presenting the only trul-EE Esteemed, Euro-living, Enviable rank in the Ivy League, Rank E(lastic rubber bands)!!!

Serena “Everybody’s EnvE“ Takada Claudia “Ecuadorable" Guinansaca-Aguilar Michael “so musical-EE Endowed“ Lee Julia “so arts-EE“ Cole Lisa “Elusivel-EE ECE ” Zhu Julia “towni-EE“ Ridley Julian “Entomolog-EE <3“ Whitman Love, your Effulgent rank leaders, Dan “Esotericall-EE Effusive” Hanggi Jess “so motherl-EE “ Wong

& now presenting the only rank leaders always injured, TEN(or) out of Ten(or) rank in the Ivy League, Rank &&&& Megan “& there she goes” Carpenter Cathy “A Papaya by any other name” Zhang Elizabeth “Size does matter” Chi Juan “You never forget your first (freshman)” Meriles Lukasz “Row, row, row your boat” Rzycki Michael “All about that bass” Stella Kyle “Saved the best for last” Skyllingstad & thats all folks!

Angie “I get knocked down” Estevez Elizabeth “but I get up again” Martinson

And now, becAuse right is sometimes left, presenting the only reAl flute rAnk with Atypical horn moves, Airborne Acrobats, and Ample Asses in the only reAl mArching bAnd in the ivy leAgue!

Stephanie “LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE” Tarlowe Maria “gimme a blood bag” Blechl Sarah “there’s rehearsal today?” Kimball Sam “selfies > studying” Primeaux Rie “2 busy 4 band” Seu Saakshi “Wobbles baby Wobbles baby” Singhal Briget “one show wonder” Williams Amy “HAWT heelclick” Zhong

And now, presenting the naughtiest, perfect, notorious, prominent, nastiest, popular, naked, and proudest rank in the Ivy League, Rank NePis 2014: Ayinde “Another Californian?” Crear Isabelle “Mario Party Demon” Mashkouri Katie “Needs to take OVENS 101” Wawro Kevin “Noble Steed” Palm Mayra “Koa-L.A.” Valadez Taylor “Indoor voice” Menetski

1 P ERSONALS And now presenting the most, bedazzled beautiful baddest, bizarre b*tchin rank in the Ivy League...

Kai“Kidnapped B*tch”lin All“Kosher Chicken B*tch”ie Ke“Waffles B*tch”vin Lind“Cosmo Jr. B*tch”say Rac“Twinsie B*tch”hel Brit“Acid-Basic B*tch”tany Ph“Goat-feeding B*tch”il Jo“Jzzzzwwwwooowwwww B*tch”hn Em“Strudel B*tch”ma Emi“Krafty B*tch”ly

And now, because MDIBAH starts with M, presenting the biggest and hairiest rank in the Ivy League!

Bethany “Disc Jockey” Angeliu Corey “Busy Being Asian” Chang Jatin “Put a Ring On It” Bharwani Steve “Not a Freshman” Galdi Daniel “Flops Like a Fish” Rong Corey “2013: Never Forget” Chang Love your rank leaders, Schwegger “Not 100% A Dick” Holmes Rachel “Lips Hotter than the Sun” Faust

Hey band!

The ref beats his wife The wife beats her kids The kids beat the dog The dog beats the cat The cat beats the mouse The mouse beats the cheese The cheese beats Gordon Gordon beats Chamberlain Chamberlain beats Meier Meier beats French French beats Cohen Cohen beats himself Cohen beats Frank Frank beats himself Frank beats Gerbracht Gerbracht beats Minster Minster beats Wolf Wolf beats John John beats James James beats Ball Ball beats Kerman Kerman beats Tucker Tucker beats Caulfield Caulfield beats Seery Seery beats Gerson Gerson beats Richmond Richmond beats Reno Reno beats herself Reno beats Albanese Albanese beats Olson Olson beats... herself!

Congratulations to your 2015 drum major, Michaela Olson!

Michaela –

Carolyn “200 cookies by tonight?...

No problem!!” Maskin Erin ”Is it hockey season yet?” Mathios Natalie “#47 took off his helmet!” O’Toole Dara ”There’s a second page?” Canchester Sarah ”I could have danced all night” Palmer Jeanne ”Bread Club Heir” Powell Lona ”Every day I’m struffling” Sharpstene Amanda ”Selfie superstar” Williams Anna ”Illness? Still marching!” Wideska

And now, because you’ve got a friend in us, Presenting the only rank $ in the Ivy League!

Sam “Bacon King” McCoy Steve “No, it’s MY Oc!” Slaughter Eric “Best dressed” Wu Sherry “Potato is bae” Ge Kevin “No, I’m David” Li Thanks for a great season!

Paul “525,600 square feet” Jackson Christian “Balake” Dauphinais

Now presenting the only Rank OMGMEAT(ICSCSCS) in any league!

Timothy “The Second Coming” Coda Melissa “Ready for Big Red Retirement Home” Harbert Mary “More dedicated than Big Time (RIP)” Amper Gennesis “#LetGennesisMarch2014” Meza Michelle “How I learned to stop worrying and love the shell” Yanda Paul “Part time rank leader, full time Two Chairz” Zhang Laura “Will have perfect attendance in 2015” Davidson Liz “Too busy doing AEP…I mean CS” VanDenburgh

Rank T?: Jordan “pi$$es Graham off” Gattinymouth David “already feelin’ it” Udelson Erick “our ancestors ate pudgies” Vargas Lewis “it’s for my blindness” Haber Nathan “Omnipresent” Ihemeremadu Istvan “Where’s your hockey now?” Burbank Jamie “Where’s Aurora?” Kellner Kevin “Bacon” Kruempelstaedter Ed “Sparkle Sparkle etc.” Crocker Graham “Definitely not hipster” Bastian “Mega Jordan X” Silver Marek “Looks like Śid” Kwaśnica Anjum “absent Tuba Dad” Malik T “Plays Tuba” $ Mike “Plays Magic” Byrne Love, Meat “Kevin ‘Gay?’ Mollica” ball Nate “Active Retiree” Floro Josh “Dear Leader” Reichler

And now, presenting the only REAL FSEXYMARCHING, FLESLIE-SPOTTING, FAJITAEATING rank in the Ivy League, Rank F! Kim “Fond Of...CHOCOLATE” Snyder Marcus “Fails At Showing Up” Foo Jason “Furiously Glaring” Hutzler Melvin “Foremost Brotato” Li Emma “Finally Bottom Female” Mosier Ethyn “Fine Knife Set” Leong Jessie “Filthy $n0w” Reeves Love your FEARLESS rank leaders, Bubbles “Female Slaying” Iadevaia and Ross “F-Prime” Widom

And now, presenting the only REAL 8 mile wide section in the Ivy League...RANK H! Adam "Marx Power" Davis Snigdha "Dat Face" Sharma Sachi "50 Degrees? Better wear a jacket" Koide Sean "Not getting this one Steve!" Shell Ethan "Weather God" Burwell Katie "Engaged before it was cool" Shaw Jordan "Which one?" Gless Steve "Closet Field Manager" Salerno John "Voice of the Band" Flanagan

I can’t think of any proper way to thank you for making this year amazing. You keep making fun of me for improper etiquette so I guess my personal needs to be “proper.”

Your loving ManMoms, Andrew "Mahler? I barely know her" Distler Alex "Aww look at that dog!" Schord

I think I will just go with “You da best. You da you da best.”

Love, Alex

And now presenting the the Kookiest, Kreamiest, Kraziest, Kleptoest, Kareokesingingest, Killerest, Kweenest rank in the Ivy League, Rank K:

Love, your rank leaders: Henry “Kid” Smith Green “Luigi” Mario

And now, presenting the lizardy, loveliest ladies in the band, Rank L(izard):

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And now, because no amount of event staff personnel will stop us from putting that podium up, presenting the only REAL Rank Sideline in the only REAL marching band in the Ivy League Marek “I’m just going to go and see if any one stops me” Kwasnica Annalee “Look at all those chickens” Tweitmann Jeanne “LET’S GO BREAD” Powell Sarah “Party Pact” Palmer Steve “Dressed to The Nines” Salerno Julia “Secret Weapon” Cole John “Reassuring Voice” Flanagan Love, Al “umpire, caddy, or Soccer Dad?” ex

And now presenting the most piratey rank in the Ivy League, Rank R! Zhengning “first trumpet casualty” Han Claire “so cute guys” Coulter Anika “ALL the giggles” Exum Gray “overworked, underpaid bone housekeeper” Ryan Josh “bone daddy” Schupp Natalie “pumpkin detective” Freidin Stef “fiddler on the Stoof” Lash

Cristian “Carlton Queen” Umaña Brandon “Drive Me to Sheldon Queen” Giraldo Chopper “how do I feet Queen” Weidman Michelle “Invisible Bee Queen” Szeto Jackie “addicted to Queen Queen” Horn Julia “Dance Cam Queen” Kelly

"And now presenting the slyest, skinniest, squarest, sesquicentennialiest, sassiest, suavest, spoopiest, second-to-noneest rank in the Ivy League: Rohan “floopityboopboop”Acharya Brendan “both a friend and a dad” Duffy Hannah “I love children<3 <3 <3” Smith Jordan “uh...goin’ in” Greissman Matt “I’ll pump ya silly” Gleason Ryan “god of thunder” Bart Love “All you need is Jake” Darby

And now, presenting the #swaggiest, #swerviest, #sassiest rank of the only #REAL #MarchingBand in the #IvyLeague: Tom ”#Кто я?” Eldridge Ray ”#Eb Identity Crisis” Beck Brian ”#DID YOU TAKE” Scaramella Adler ”#MY GINGER ALE” Smith Allan ”#Gloves?...meh” Chege Rafael ”#Age is only a #” Dal Bosco Ducatti Greg ”#tbt all the time” Struble Courtney ”#it’s called a pound sign” Stokes Serge “#hashtag” Preciado

1 P ERSONALS And now, because you'd rather see some stripping, whipping, and flipping than bunch of band geeks stepping out on broadly, the Big Red Color Guard!

Rachel “LOL” Langley, Venna “let’s sleep” Wang, Sarah “MEOW” Acre, Amanda “that’s too much p*nis” Morrison, Stephanie “such duck. very backpack. wow.” Xu, Emma “’MURICA” Rosenthal, Jenn “ballsack boy” Cooper, Daphne “what’s the password?” Shen, Odile “horny penguin” Maurelli, Suzannah “ouch my head” Bretz, and Lauren “sparkles & gogo boots” Russo.

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The Giants’ defense will look vastly different against the Cowboys Sunday than it did a month ago in the teams’ first meeting in Dallas.

With as many as six new starters because of injuries, the Giants could have its hands full with Tony Romo’s favorite targets.

Injured cornerback Prince Amukamara is no longer in the secondary and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie is still working through problems with his back and hamstring.

Because of his RodgersCromartie’s tenuous playing status, Jayron Hosley and Chykie Brown may have to alternate responsibilities guarding Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant. Despite the big-play wideout catching nine balls for 151 yards against Amukamara, the cornerback kept him out of the end zone while recording seven tackles, an interception, and two pass breakups.

Whether Rodgers-Cromartie can duplicate that effort depends on how much he plays.

He only participated in 15 snaps the first time around and it’s uncertain how he’ll hold up Sunday night.

There are times he has to come out of the game. The matchup part of it, we’d love to have him stay in,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said.

Rodgers-Cromartie said he plans to be aggressive against the speedster who leads the Cowboys with 56 catches for 793 yards and eight touchdowns.

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The hearing is scheduled before Judge Michael Shipp in a case that pits New Jersey officials against the federal government and major sports leagues.

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Gov. Chris Christie and New Jersey lawmakers hope that sports betting could help revive the state’s struggling casinos and horse tracks.

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a 2-2 tie, and against St. Lawrence the team mustered up no offense in a 4-0 shutout loss. Last season, the Red took November’s home match-up against Yale, 2-1, and won January’s rematch in New Haven, 3-2.

Due to a scuffle after Saturday’s game last weekend at Lynah, sophomore forward Matt Buckles and sophomore defenseman Holden Anderson will sit out Friday’s game.

With the Red’s defensive core already depleted due to a multi-week injury to senior assistant captain Joakim Ryan, Anderson’s temporary loss is another blow to the Red’s blueliners.

“We’ll be fine — I mean, we’ve been missing Joaks for a few weeks now, so that’s something that we’ve been living with and we’ve been having some success on the back end I think as a group of six,” said senior defenseman Jake MacDonald. “Without Holden, I think that’s a tough loss for a game that we’re going to have on Friday, but

that’s okay, we’re going to battle through it and we’ll be fine.”

Saturday’s matchup features the Bears visiting Lynah. Brown is 1-4 overall and 04 in conference play, receiving a 6-0 shellacking at the hands of Dartmouth last Saturday. The Bears didn’t fare much better against Harvard the previous night, falling to the Crimson, 6-2.

Brown’s porous defense — the team has been outscored 21-9 through five games — could provide an opening for the Red, which has seen frustrations mount over its lack of offensive production.

“We have to be comfortable with the fact that we don’t have a lot of guys that can put up huge numbers,” Bardreau said. “We have to be comfortable in close games and just push through the game … and be comfortable with the fact that we’re not going to have high-scoring games.”

To create the right attitude in the team — to keep from “hitting the panic button” — Bardreau said responsibility trickles down from the coaches and falls to the

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Panic on the ice | Senior forward Cole Bardreau said the Red is not hitting the panic button just yet, but is confident that it will turn the season around.

team’s voted leaders and its older players.

“It starts with the coaching staff, and once [the] coaching staff says their words I think it comes to us, that we have to come to the locker room and they’ve got to know from us captains and leaders and upperclassman we’re pissed off, we’re upset about

what’s happening but at the same time we’ve got to stay together as a team. We’ve got to accomplish our goals, but not run around like idiots out there.”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.

Young,Talented Roster Bodes Well for Future of Program FOOTBALL

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Quakers poses an opportunity to end the season with two consecutive wins. If history is any indication, the Red has a knack for doing just that — the classes of 2014 and 2012 both closed out their own careers on the Hill with two straight victories over Columbia and Penn respectively.

“[A win] would mean every- men who will determine the back Luke Hagy — who shoulthing to our senior class,” Shapiro future of the program. A young dered a significant portion of the offensive load this season said. “Obviously this sea— and with four young son hasn’t gone the way we “A win would mean everything quarterbacks who all saw wanted to or expected it time under center, the Red to, so to walk off the field to our senior class.” has a host of talent to in the last game of our develop for 2015. careers with a win would Lucas Shapiro “A lot of young guys be an accomplishment.” have gotten experience this According to Harris, a victory would also mean a confi- roster fell short this season, but year, including the QBs, which is dence boost for the underclass- with the return of junior running going to pay dividends next sea-

Garrett,Dean Headline Strong Returning Talent Red kicks off season in front of home crowd will be missing sophomores Brian Realbuto and Dylan Palacio at the beginning of the set for strong finales to their season, but will have plenty of campaigns on the Hill, with options who can step into bigger roles.

Garrett com“ I t ’ s ing in ranked tough to No. 2 in the “It’s early in the season lose two of nation in the your best 1 2 5 - p o u n d so we are still trying to weight class. make sure our guys are in w r e s t l e r s , but I am The twothankful to time All- good shape.” have two talAmerican ented and was a unani- Rob Koll experienced mous Ivy wrestlers in League and EIWA player of the year last sea- [sophomore] Taylor Simaz and son and finished with a 35-2 [senior] Jesse Shanaman to take their place,” Koll said. record.

The Red has two home meets “Two of our fan favorites are Nahshon Garrett and [sopho- before kicking off a grueling more] Gabe Dean,” Koll said. road schedule that begins with “These two always put on a the Northeast Duals and is show, and whether you are a bookended by the Southern wrestling fan or not you will Scuffle, the meet at which Dean appreciate their artistry and ath- defeated Ruth last season.

Against Oklahoma, though, leticism.”

Dean burst onto the colle- the Red is looking to start the giate wrestling scene in his season off on the right foot in freshman campaign, earning front of a supportive home All-America honors and a third- crowd.

“It’s early in the season so we place finish at the 2014 NCAA Championships. The highlight are still trying to make sure our of his season was defeating Penn guys are in good shape,” Koll State’s Ed Ruth, who went on to said. win a national title. Dean snapped Ruth’s 84-match win Scott Chiusano can be reached at streak with the upset victory.

According to Koll, the Red sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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son when other teams graduated a lot of seniors and have inexperience on their team,” Shapiro said.

“We have a lot of guys who have the drive to get a lot better in the offseason and will lead this team to a better season each and every year.”

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

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SPORTS

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Heads to Charleston After First Home Victory

By AMIR PATEL Sun Staff Writer

Just three games into the season and the Cornell men’s basketball team has already made it clear that last year’s woes are a distant memory. The Red equaled its 2013-14 win total in just the first home game of the season, as it knocked off regional rival Colgate, 58-52 on Tuesday night.

The win highlighted the squad’s offensive depth, defensive tenacity and willingness to run the floor, all of which will be tested against top competition at the Charleston Classic beginning tonight with the Red’s matchup against the South Carolina Gamecocks.

“Our guys have been executing the game plan well so far. We have stressed rebounding as a key to our success and our guys have done well at it,” said head coach Bill Courtney.

The return of All-Ivy First Teamer Shonn Miller, along with senior guard Galal Cancer, has proven to be a difference maker for the Red early in the season. After scoring 21 and 20 points in the first two games, Miller was held to six against Colgate, but his impact was felt throughout the game nevertheless. As a forward with the ability to stretch the floor and hit outside shots, the respect that defenses are forced to give him allowed openings for guards like Cancer and senior Devin Cherry to attack the rim. Against Colgate, Cherry stepped up with 21 points and five assists to lead the offense.

The game was fast-paced and physically intensive, forcing the Red to use a balanced bench attack to help it come back from a 17-point deficit. After scoring a combined total of nine points in its first two games, the Cornell bench doubled

that amount against Colgate. Sophomore guard JoJo Fallas scored eight points and freshman forward Wil Bathurst chipped in four points and four boards in 18 minutes of work.

“We fought hard throughout the game.

Having been down on the road against Loyola, we knew what was necessary and stepped up. Our guys stepped up the intensity in the second half to get us back in it,” Courtney said.

The Charleston Classic will be a significant early season test for the Red, with four big-name conference teams in the field — USC, Miami (FL), Penn State and South Carolina. The Red is in the bottom half of the bracket and is 13-point underdogs for the first game against South Carolina, which returns 11 players from last year’s team that finished second to last in the SEC for the second year in a row.

The Gamecocks do return highly-touted shooting guard Sindarius Thornwell, who finished second on the team in scoring last season.

“We are looking forward to challenging games in the tournament. There are several top teams at the event and I am looking forward to great competition. Our play is improved so far, and we want to keep that going in Charleston,” Courtney said.

The top half of the Charleston Classic bracket features USC, a team that is coming off a season in which it finished last in the PAC 12. The Trojans bring in top freshman point guard Jordan McLaughlin, who was the No. 41 ranked recruit out of high school according to ESPN. Miami, a team that had a down season last year after losing 2013 ACC Player of the Year Shane Larkin to the NBA, is also in the top half of the bracket.

The Canes also welcome a top point guard in Ja’Quan Newton, the No. 58 overall recruit according to ESPN.

ENOCH NEWKIRK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

In transition | Senior guard Devin Cherry led the Red’s intense fastbreak game in the first home victory of the season.

Cornell would not face either Miami or USC until either the tournament championship or consolation championship. The Red will face either Charlotte or Penn State after battling South Carolina tonight.

The Charleston Classic will be a true test for the Red, but it should prove to be beneficial down the line. With a matchup against No. 23 Syracuse on New Year’s Eve and a grueling Ivy League schedule high-

lighted by two games against previously No. 25 Harvard, the games the Red plays in Charleston will give the team experience against top competition early in the season.

The matchup with South Carolina will be broadcast via ESPN3 with coverage beginning at 7:30pm EST. Amir Patel can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

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CORNELL V. PENN

CORNELL

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

CORNELL

PENN

PENN

HARVARD V. YALE

HARVARD

HARVARD

YALE

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

DARTMOUTH V. PRINCETON

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

USC V. UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

ARIZONA V. UTAH

ARIZONA

ARIZONA

UTAH

ARIZONA

ARIZONA

ARIZONA

ARIZONA

UTAH

ARIZONA

UTAH

NEBRASKA V. MINNESOTA

MINNESOTA

NEBRASKA

MINNESOTA

MINNESOTA

NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

LIONS V. PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

LIONS

PATRIOTS

LIONS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

CARDINALS V. SEAHAWKS

CARDINALS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

CARDINALS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

CARDINALS

CARDINALS

DOLPHINS V. BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

DOLPHINS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

BRONCOS

COWBOYS V. GIANTS

GIANTS

COWBOYS

COWBOYS

COWBOYS

COWBOYS

COWBOYS

COWBOYS

GIANTS

COWBOYS

COWBOYS

LAST WEEK

4-6

6-4

4-6

9-1

8-2

6-4

6-4

5-5

5-5

6-4

TOTAL

56-34

60-36

54-36

53-37

62-28

59-31

59-31

56-34

50-40

64-26

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FOOTBALL

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2014

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Coming Off Its First Victory, Red Is Hungry for Another Seniors hit Schoellkopf last time with common goal The Red took advantage of that porous Columbia defense last weekend, and will look to do the same on Saturday.

However it is Cornell’s defense, which held the Lions scoreThe Cornell football team will less in a crucial fourth quarter, that has the ability to tip the enter its final game of the season as a scales in the Red’s favor against Penn. Cornell’s defense ranks fifth in the league (fourth in pass defense, third in different beast, one with a win interceptions), and can be successful again this now under its built, hungering for Cornell weekend if the unit can limit Penn’s passing game. one more victory as fuel for the Quaker quarterback Alex Torgersen is second in future. A Penn squad that has been the Ivy League in passing average per game, and also unimpressive so far this season stands leads the league’s signal callers in completions and in the Red’s way in what promises attempts. to be another showdown of teams vs.

“As a defense we have the same focuses and goals squabbling for position at the as we have had all season,” said fifth-year senior bottom of the Ivy League. defensive lineman Justin Harris. “We just have to The victory over Columbia was a play with extreme passion and especially this being relief for the Red, but one that senior our last game, we have to leave it all out on the co-captain and wide receiver Lucas Penn field.”

Shapiro said was a long time coming.

A blocked PAT by senior linebacker Taylor “We have known all season that we are a good team that can compete with any- Tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Betros and a subsequent return for a defensive twoSchoellkopf Field point conversion by junior cornerback Jarrodone, we just haven’t put together a full Watson Lewis proved a pivotal turning point in last game,” he said. “Finally against weekend’s victory. Coercing the Quakers into Columbia we executed our game plan coughing up the ball will once again be a driving factor for and played to our potential.”

Penn’s statistics this season have been no short the Red defense on Saturday.

“Of course as always it’s all about the ball. We are going to of underwhelming. Their total offense ranks third worst in the Ivy League, surpassing only Cornell and focus on forcing turnovers all game versus Penn,” Harris said.

For Cornell’s seniors, the 12:30 matchup against the Columbia, but their defense — which has allowed a total of 4,277 yards — is even weaker, only marginally better than the Lions’.

See FOOTBALL page 14

By SCOTT CHIUSANO

Sun Sports Editor

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Spikes up | Fifth-year senior defensive lineman Justin Harris said the defensive unit is preparing to force Penn into turning the ball over on Saturday.

WRESTLING

MEN’S HOCKEY

C.U.Welcomes Oklahoma Icers Search for For First Match Of Season Consistency in ECAC Matchups

By SCOTT CHIUSANO and ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Editor and Assistant Sports Editor

With some talented underclassmen joining the squad and other stalwarts coming back a year older and stronger, the men’s wrestling team is poised to make waves as it prepares for the first home meet of the season on Saturday at 6:30 p.m.

No. 21 Oklahoma visits Newman Arena boasting three Top-20 wrestlers including No. 3 Cody Brewer, a two-time AllAmerican at 133 pounds. Brewer will lead a squad that lost five

seniors to graduation last year, two of whom were NCAA qualifiers.

“We don’t get to see Oklahoma very often, but they always have a talented and athletic squad,” said head coach Rob Koll.

While Oklahoma brings a relatively young team to the mat this weekend, the Red can look forward to seeing some familiar faces returning to lead the team.

Seniors Nahshon Garrett, Chris Villalonga and Bricker Dixon are See WRESTLING page 14

BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Back on the mat | Senior Nahshon Garrett begins his quest for a national title in the 125-pound weight class this weekend.

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The men’s ice hockey team recorded its first win of the season last Friday, but inconsistent play resulting in a loss the following night meant the Red’s momentum was short-lived. With Ivy rivals Yale and Brown coming to town this weekend, the team looks to pick up the pace and earn some much-needed points against conference competitors.

“There’s a difference between a sense of urgency and hitting the panic button,” said senior assistant captain Cole Bardreau of the Red’s pressure to capture wins after its early season struggles.

“Yeah, there is a sense of urgency that we need to b e a r down, we “There’s a difference need to between a sense of start takurgency and hitting the ing care of our scorpanic button.” i n g chances.

Cole Bardreau … But at the same time, you can’t panic. It sends panic through the team and people stop thinking, and right now we need people to think instead of running around.”

The Red has struggled to find the back of the net this season, resulting in a 1-4-1 overall record and 1-3 conference record. Despite good offensive opportunities, the team has not been able to finish on key chances.

BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

On thin ice | The Red’s defense has lost some key parts, but senior defenseman Jake McDonald is confident in the unit nevertheless.

“If you look and break down the chances that we have, we are getting opportunities to score goals,” said assistant head coach Ben Syer, making the point that the Red will not drastically overhaul its systems after the slow start. “We’re staying with the process. As long as we feel as though we’re getting quality looks and quality chances, we’re going to continue to work the same way.”

The Red will take on the Bulldogs (3-2-1, 2-11) first in Friday’s match-up. The Bulldogs swept Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend, but struggled in their ECAC match-ups the weekend before. Against Clarkson, the Bulldogs strained to See M. HOCKEY page 14