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WRESTLING Nov. 24 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 30 All Day Dec. 16 10 a.m.

Jan. 1-2 All Day Jan. 6 2 p.m.

Jan. 12 1 p.m.

Jan. 19 1 p.m.

Jan. 19 6 p.m.

Jan. 26 2 p.m.

Jan. 27 2 p.m.

Feb. 2 1 p.m.

Feb. 2 6 p.m.

Feb. 4 3 p.m.

Feb. 10 2 p.m.

Mar. 8-9 All Day Mar. 21-23 All Day *Ivy League Meet

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at Journeymen Northeast Duals at Las Vegas Invitational at Grapple at the Garden at Southern Scuffle at Lehigh Princeton* at Brown* at Harvard* Penn* Oregon State at Hofstra at Columbia* Hofstra Bucknell at EIWA Championships at NCAA Championships

MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING (0-4, 0-4 EISL) Nov. 10 Nov. 17 Nov. 17 Nov. 30 Jan. 7 Jan. 12 Jan. 18 Feb. 2 Feb. 15-16 Mar. 7-9 Mar. 8-10 *EISL Meet

L, 93-207 Harvard* L, 93-207 at Penn* L, 87-211 at Princeton* All Day at Ithaca College Invitational 11 a.m./1 p.m. Yale* 11 a.m./1 p.m. Colgate 2:30/4 p.m.

Columbia* 12 p.m. at Brown* All Day at Ithaca College All day at Ivy Championships All day at NCAA Regionals

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING (0-4, 0-4 EISL) Nov. 10 Nov. 10 Nov. 16 Nov. 16 Nov. 30 Jan. 7 Jan. 12 Jan. 19 Feb. 2 Feb. 15-16 Feb. 28-Mar. 2 *EISL Meet

L, 109-186 L, 143-157 L. 90-190 L, 88-193 All Day 11 a.m./1 p.m.

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Harvard* Dartmouth* at Penn* Princeton* at Ithaca College Yale* Colgate Columbia* at Brown* at Ithaca College at Ivy Championships

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY (9-2-0, 7-1-0 ECAC HOCKEY) Oct. 13 Oct. 14 Oct. 20 Oct. 21 Oct. 23 Oct. 26 Oct. 27 Nov. 2 Nov. 3 Nov. 16 Nov. 17 Nov 23 Nov. 24 Nov. 30 Dec. 1 Jan. 12 Jan. 13 Jan. 15 Jan. 18 Jan. 19 Jan. 25 Jan. 26 Jan. 29 Feb. 1 Feb. 2 Feb. 8 Feb. 9 Feb. 15 Feb. 16 Feb. 22 Feb. 23 *ECACHL Game

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L, 1-3 W, 5-2 L,1-5 W, 5-1 W, 2-0 W, 3-2 W, 4-0 W, 4-3 W, 9-0 W, 9-2 W 2-1 L 1-3 7 p.m.

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Red/White Game Montreal Stars at Boston University at Boston University St. Lawrence Brown* Yale* Princeton* Quinnipiac* Colgate* at Colgate* at Dartmouth* at Harvard* at Clarkson* at St. Lawrence* at Northeastern at Boston College Syracuse St. Lawrence* Clarkson* at Yale* at Brown* Mercyhurst Union* RPI* at Quinnipiac* at Princeton* Harvard* Dartmouth* at RPI* at Union*

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD Dec. 1 Jan. 4 Jan. 12 Jan. 19 Jan. 26 Feb. 2 Feb. 9 Feb. 16 Feb. 23-24 Mar. 2-3 Mar. 8-9 Mar. 16 Mar. 23 Apr. 6 Apr. 13-14 Apr. 20

Cornell Relays Souther Tier Collegiate at Northease Challenge Upstate Challenge at Armory Invite at Skyes-Sabock Challenge Kane Invite Deneault Invite At Indoor Heps Championship IC4A Indoor Championship NCAA Championship at Aztec Invite at Irvine Invite Oxford/Cambridge vs. Cornell/Pen at Bucknell Invite at Upstate Challenge/Sam Howell Invite

MEN’S POLO (5-2) Oct. 14 Oct. 20 Oct. 28 Nov. 2 Nov. 10 Nov. 16 Nov. 17 Nov. 30

W, 19-17 L, 6-15 W, 26-11 W, 26-16 W, 21-6 W, 28-13 L, 23-24 7:30 p.m.

at Skidmore at Virginia at UConn UConn Maryland Polo Club Skidmore Colorado State Baltimore Polo Club

Oct. 19 Oct. 27 Nov. 3 Nov. 4 Nov. 11 Nov. 16 Nov. 17 Nov. 18 Dec. 1

W, 13-12 W, 26-7 W, 23-5 W, 32-4 W, 37-5 W, 28-6 W, 20-12 W, 20-16 2 p.m.

Oct. 27 Oct. 28 Nov. 3 Nov. 4 Nov. 11 Dec. 8 Dec. 16 Dec. 23 Mar. 9-10 Apr. 6 Apr. 20 May 2-5

3rd 1st T-3rd 8th 1st All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day All Day

at UVA Kentucky UConn at Skidmore at UConn UMass Kentucky UVA Stanford

EQUESTRIAN at RIT Show at RIT Show at Alfred Show at Alfred Show Cornell Show at Alfred State Cornell Show at Alfred University at Regionals vs. Zone Championships Ivy Championships vs. IHSA Nationals

MEN’S SQUASH (4-0, 0-0 IVY) Nov. 17 W, 9-0 Nov. 18 W, 9-0 Dec. 2 11 a.m.

Jan. 12 11 a.m.

Jan. 13 11 a.m.

Jan. 18 5 p.m.

TBA Jan. 19 Jan. 19 9 a.m.

Jan. 20 9 a.m.

Jan. 23 6 p.m.

Jan. 27 11 a.m.

Feb. 2 12 p.m.

Feb. 3 12 p.m.

Feb. 5 4:30 p.m.

Feb. 8 5:30 p.m.

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Feb. 10 TBA Feb. 22-24 TBA Mar. 1-3 TBA *Ivy League Match

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vs. TBA vs. Bates vs. George Washington Rochester Trinity at Dartmouth* at Harvard* Hobart Princeton* at Franklin and Marshall at Penn* at CSA National Champs at CSA Individual Champs

WOMEN’S SQUASH (3-0, 0-0 IVY) Nov. 17 Nov. 18 Dec. 2 Jan. 12 Jan. 13 Jan. 18 Jan. 19 Jan. 19

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Feb. 3 12 p.m.

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Feb. 9 Feb. 10 TBA Feb. 15-17 TBA Mar. 1-3 TBA *Ivy League Match

vs. George Washington Trinity Rochester at Dartmouth* at Harvard* William Smith Princeton* at Franklin and Marshall at Penn at CSA National Champs at CSA Individual Champs

GYMNASTICS Jan. 13 Jan. 19 Jan. 26 Feb. 2 Feb. 9 Feb. 17 Feb. 23 Mar. 2 Mar. 10 Mar. 15 Mar. 23 Apr. 6 Apr. 12-14

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at George Washington Invitational at Pittsburgh SUNY Cortland Towson Big Red Invitational at Towson at Ivy Classic at Rutgers at So. Connecticut State at Kent State at ECAC Championships at NCAA Regionals at USAG Collegiate Nationals

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (4-3, 0-0 IVY) Nov. 9 W, 69-65 Nov. 11 L, 50-58 Nov. 14 W, 60-56 Nov. 16 L 35-80 Nov. 20 W, 70-60 Nov. 25 L, 56-59 Nov. 28 W, 74-56 Dec. 1 1 p.m.

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Jan. 2 7 p.m.

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Jan. 19 12 p.m.

Jan. 26 4:30 p.m.

Feb. 1 7 p.m.

Feb. 2 7 p.m.

Feb. 4 7 p.m.

Feb. 8 7 p.m.

Feb. 9 7 p.m.

Feb. 15 7 p.m.

Feb. 16 7 p.m.

Feb. 22 7 p.m.

Feb. 23 7 p.m.

Mar. 1 7 p.m.

Mar. 8 7 p.m.

Mar. 9 7 p.m. *Ivy League Game

at Colgate Fordham at Binghamton Syracuse Manhattan New Hampshire at St. Francis Morgan State at Texas A&M at Texas William and Mary at Bucknell Buffalo Daemen Columbia* at Columbia* Princeton* Penn* Dartmouth* at Harvard* at Dartmouth* Yale* Brown* at Penn* at Princeton* at Brown* at Dartmouth* Harvard*

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Cover Story: Team chemistry is key to women’s success

Women’s Basketball: Squad relies on experience and depth Polo: Red looks to compete on the national level

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SWIMMING/WRESTLING Swimming: Tough training regiment breeds development Wrestling: Mix of youth and experience leads the Red so far

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SQUASH / GYMNASTICS Squash Preview: Freshmen class proves important Gymnatsics: Preparing to reclaim the ECAC Title

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Equestrian: Squad is back on track after Cornell Show Indoor Track: Red sets sights on another Heps crown

Team Preview: Program best finish at Temple boosts confidence

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he No. 2-ranked Cornell Women’s hockey is off to a strong start in the 2012-2013 season, continuing to show why it is one of the top teams in NCAA women’s hockey. It has won 9 out of 11 games played thus far, including 7 out of 8 contests against ECAC opponents. The Red has won the Ivy League title and reached the Frozen Four in each of the past three seasons, but fell short of winning the national championship each time.

“We always keep our eye on the ultimate prize, which is winning the NCAA championship,” said sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier. “But we make sure to consistently dedicate our time and our effort to all the other steps throughout the season, because it’s not just one big jump to the NCAA championship. First, we have to focus on the Ivy League Championship and the ECAC Championship. If we continue to stay committed to achieving our smaller goals, the NCAA championship should be in reach.”

Strong and effective leadership from every player is a key to the Red’s on-ice success, according to Saulnier.

“We have a good group of girls and different people hold different roles, but its really important that we have good leadership to keep our goals in mind and our path going in the right direction,” she said. “Even the freshmen on our team have a leadership role because everyone is held accountable for their actions on the ice. We have a lot of big games coming up, so it will be important for everyone to step up and bring their best when we hit the ice.”

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and there that you make or you don’t make,” he explained. “That’s basically what happened in the Harvard game. You talk about the importance of those details in practice all the time, and in the last ten minutes of the game, its going to come down to who can execute those details.”

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to learn on the fly and buy in to what our team is committed to do. So it was important for our upperclassmen to take on that role and all of the freshmen have blended in and are doing exceptionally well.”

No hockey team can succeed without quality goaltending and the Red has certainly benefited from that this season.

The goaltending crew is anchored by junior Lauren Slebodnick, who, according to senior Laura Fortino, has performed very well throughout the season.

“Our goaltending has been quite strong,” she said. “Lauren has been doing a great job for us. She’s kept us in games when we needed her, and has made great saves at key times in those games.”

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fter a few practice games, the Red began the season with two games against No. 3 ranked Boston University — a traditional rival.

The Red defeated the Terriers to reach the Frozen Four last year and was victorious in this season’s opener as well, but B.U. responded with a victory in the second contest. According to head coach Doug Derraugh ’91, the Red learned the importance of playing a full 60 minutes after that defeat.

“In the first game we came out with a lot of energy and played well on both ends of the ice, and in the second game we also came out with energy, but we didn’t keep that focus throughout the entire game,” he said. “So we learned from that not only do you need to be ready at the start of the game, but you need to carry that focus throughout the game.”

The Red went on to win six straight after that loss, but fell to Harvard in its last matchup.

According to Derraugh, the loss taught the team that each play and each detail can turn the tide of a game.

“The young players especially learned that when you're playing the top teams in our league, it’s going to come down to a couple of plays here

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ehind the bench, the Red is led by Derraugh, who is now in his eighth season coaching the team.

According to Saulnier, Derraugh is a strong leader and is well liked by all t h e players.

“We are blessed and honored to have him,” Saulnier said.

“He’s willing to do anything to make us better each individually and as a team. His dedication to this program is just exceptional.

He makes us, as players, want to d o well a n d perform well to prove that everything he puts into the team is working. We have a tremendous staff and we wouldn’t be where we are today if they didn’t put 100% into their jobs like they do every single day, so we’re very grateful for that.”

According to Derraugh, the team is a tight knit group with good camaraderie, which has been especially helpful in acclimating the freshmen to the rest of the team.

“I really like the chemistry of this team. They get along really well and really care for each other, and that’s really important, especially when you have a large group of freshmen,” he said. “Getting that chemistry is not always easy when you have a lot of new players and everyone is trying to get a feel for one another, but I feel very strongly about the chemistry of this team and the character of this team.”

C.U. Paves Path Back To NCAA Tourney

By BENJAMIN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer leaders were seniors, and a new freshman class has come in to fill the gaps they left. According to Saulnier, the Red’s upperclassmen made a strong effort to get the freshmen acquainted with the culture of the team, and the freshmen have already made important contributions.

“With losing all of last year’s seniors, it was important for other players to come in and fill those shoes,” Saulnier said. “Especially with a big class of eight freshman, our upperclassmen have done a good job of showing them how this program works, because it’s a process when you need

BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Team chemistry | Cornell hopes to build off of a strong season start, with the hopes of winning the Ivy League title and excelling at the Frozen Four again this spring.

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Red Dives Back Into Action AFTER TOUGH LAST SEASON, TEAM HOPES TO TURN THINGS AROUND

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Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men and women’s swimming and diving teams have been working diligently to produce better results than last season. The Red views its overall season success based on the team’s performance in the Ivy League Championship in March at Brown and not on individual dual success.

Thus far, the Red has fought four hard duals against Ivy League rivals Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton and Penn.

Although the squad has not had the success it expected in these duals, Cornell continues to post fast early season times.

mented a new training program this year, which focuses a great deal of time and energy on developing strength both in the pool and in the weight room. In the off-season, Cornell devoted a lot of time to developing each individual athlete. The focus on this development will pay off for the squad later in the season.

“Erika [Travis, our trainer] has been helping us get stronger and more fit, so I think it just might take a little longer before we start to see all the strength work we KATIE are doing transition to the pool,” said senior diver James O’Neil. “But once MORIN we do, I think we will see a lot more success, closer meets, and more wins Sophomore Katie for our record.”

Morin missed the The Red also looks to majority of last its training trip to Puerto Rico over season due to illness but is back in

SWIMMERS TO WATCH MEREDITH DRUMMOND Sophomore Meredith Drummond was last season’s team MVP and the highest scorer for the Red at Ivy League Championships.

She also set school records in the 200 IM, 400 IM and the 200 breast.

action for the Red this season and ready to score big in the distance freestyle.

break as a way to develop speed within the pool and a stronger team connection to one another. This trip will have a significant impact on the development of this year’s team.

“We have our big training trip to Puerto Rico in a month which really helps with team cohesion and the practices will definitely be hard enough to help us get to that next level,” said sophomore swimmer Bethany Douglas.

The team has been training hard for the upcoming Ithaca College Invitational — a race where the Red typically has won events on both the swimming and diving sides.

Following winter break, the Red will pick up again with meets against Yale, Colgate, Columbia, Brown and Ithaca College before Ivy Championships.

With faster times each meet and a constant team drive for continued strong performances, Cornell’s Ivy meets after winter break will be interesting. Yale, Colgate and Columbia are all meets at Teagle Hall post break.

“Post-break, I believe we will see more success for our team. We all have goals in mind going into our winter training trips and we should be able to swim and dive much better in our January meets. We are not going to let a few losses deter us. If we remain positive and continue training as hard as we have been, we should be able to see faster swims, better diving, and more wins overall for our team. I have no doubt we will improve throughout this season,” O’Neil said.

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Making a splash | With one meet left before winter break and a training trip to Puerto Rico coming up, the Red has ample opportunities to prepare for the Ivy Championships.

Wrestlers Look to Make National Headlines

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This season has looked different for the Red so far. After losing some key players to graduation and suffering a couple of injuries — especially senior Steve Bosak, who is expected to return soon — things didn’t seem promising for Cornell at the very beginning of this season. However, it seems that the Red has persevered and some younger guys have stepped up to keep the team’s ENOCH NEWKIRK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Getting down and dirty | Sophomore Billy George takes down his opponent.

momentum heading in the right direction.

“It has been a fun ride, seeing guys get better each day. Just coming in and wanting to get better is contagious. It makes the older guys want to get better too,” said senior Kyle Dake. “When you see those guys working so hard, we feed off of each other and I think that it will help us in the long run.”

A three-time national champion that comes in the form of Dake is a nice bonus too. He will be

competing this season in his fourth weight class since he arrived on the hill — he is currently at 165 lbs — and looks to secure his fourth national championship.

Head coach Rob Koll said Dake will “undoubtedly,” win this season again, citing his dedication, mental attitude and skill as the keys to his success.

The season began with Cornell’s first matchup against Binghamton on Nov. 16 at home where the Red dominated the Bearcats, 30-7. Highlights included a solid victory from freshman Nahshon Garrett who won his matchup with a 14-1 major decision.

Also, Dake, took on Adam Lepkowski in the 165 lbs. class and grabbed a win for the day. Rounding it out was freshman Craig Scott who took on Cody Reed at 184 and narrowly won, 6-4, in a back and forth battle.

Cornell then continued its jam-packed weekend as it hosted the New York State Collegiate Wrestling Championships on Nov. 17-18.

The Red won the team title thanks to four individual champions — Garrett, Scott, junior Mike

Nevinger and sophomore Jace Bennett — and 10 place winners for the weekend.

Thanks to his wins, Garrett was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Tournament and the EIWA

According to Dake,“Cornell is not to be messed with this year.”

Wrestler of the Week for that week.

“The adjustment [to college wrestling] was a bit difficult. I took last year off … and worked on a lot of things, that helped the transition … [be] easier. Once I got the hang of it though, wrestling in the college style is much like second nature [now],” Garrett said.

“I think the coaches and Nahshon were the only ones that believed he is as good as he is [in the beginning],” added coach Koll. “He reminds me a lot of a smaller Kyle Dake … People are really taking notice of Nahshon [now].”

Garrett went 5-0 for the weekend at the state tournament and is currently 13-0 for the season so far — an impressive feat for a rookie.

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An attempted rape reported to have occurred on campus this September did not in fact happen, Cornell police announced Thursday. Police say there is “irrefutable evidence” that the allegations were false and they may pursue charges against the person who made the attempted rape report, Chief Kathy Zoner said.

On Sept. 27, a female reported to the Cornell University Police Department that a male assailant had grabbed her on the Trolley Bridge –– which connects Oak Avenue and the Engineering Quad –– and dragged her into the adjacent woods before attempting to rape her. The female told CUPD that there she struggled against her attacker before she was able to strike him in the face and flee from the scene.

But after an “exhaustive investigation,” CUPD says the attempted rape did not occur and that the case has been closed.

Zoner said that video evidence, among other sources, refuted the complainant’s claims.

“For the times in question, I have video showing the [complainant] is somewhere else,” Zoner said. “There is video and other objective evidence showing that [she was not] in the place she said she was.”

Over the course of their investigation, CUPD officers conducted interviews with a number of people, including the person who alleged the attack and her friends, potential suspects and witnesses. The information from these interviews, along with the video evidence, proved “wholly inconsistent with the account provided by the complainant,” according to CUPD. Though the complainant has not been criminally charged, Zoner said this option is still under consideration. “[The report] caused considerable alarm among community members and resulted in the allocation of substantial resources that could have been devoted to other incidents currently under investigation by the Cornell police,” she said.

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Students discuss issues of HIV/AIDS in the Willard Straight Hall Browsing Library for Coffee Hour, a weekly event that promotes forging connections between students, on Thursday.

Dean Remains on Corporate Payrolls, Sparking Debate About WCMC Research

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

The dean of Weill Cornell Medical College has remained a highranking director at two of the world’s largest medical companies since she was named to WCMC’s top post in Fall 2011. While some experts question whether her multiple allegiances endanger the objectivity of research produced at the medical college, others dismiss these concerns and say that the dean’s ties to industry should

be viewed as an asset.

In addition to receiving an academic salary from Cornell, WCMC Dean Laurie Glimcher receives sixfigure salaries annually from pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Waters Corporation, a laboratory equipment company, according to the companies’ filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. There are no allegations that Glimcher has used her position at Weill to do anything illegal or to steer the school to purchase those

companies’ products.

But leading research ethicists say such close financial ties to big business can prove harmful in less obviously wrong ways. Having a medical college’s top official personally and financially invested in the profits of the medical industry can stifle academic integrity and stain medical research with a subtle, if perhaps unconscious, corporate bias, they said.

University Intensifies Efforts to Recruit Veterans to Work Force

By REBECCA FRIEDMAN Sun Staff Writer

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Our nation’s finest | Members of the military attend a Veteran’s Day Ceremony on West Campus in 2008.

As part of a Universitywide diversity push, Cornell is trying to recruit veterans to the University’s faculty and staff –– efforts that have greatly expanded and accelerated over the past few years, according to Lynette Chappell-Williams, associate vice president of the Department of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity.

“The initiative is moving quickly,” Chappell-Williams said. “We expect that the connections that we are making … will start to have a real impact.”

The University has

focused on identifying strategies to help it connect with military talent and ensure that veterans become acclimated to the Cornell workforce once they are hired, said Davine Bey, manager of talent acquisition in Cornell’s Recruitment and Employment Center.

In particular, the University hopes to recruit veterans for non-academic positions –– such as engineers, facility managers and Cornell police officers, Bey said.

One initiative that has aided this effort was the creation of the Veteran’s Colleague Network Group in November 2010. This group

brings together veterans with similar backgrounds or experience in order to help them cope with the challenges associated with returning to civilian life, according to Chappell-Williams.

“Veteran culture [and] military life … it’s a different language than civilian life,” Bey said. “There’s often a communication gap.”

Chappel-Williams said the group has proven effective in opening lines of communication about the specific needs of veterans.

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News, “Cornell Defends Plan for Tech Campus’ Corporate Ties,” Monday Speaking about the possible conflicts of interest between academia and corporate interests in the Cornell NYC Tech Campus “Is there a teacher being motivated by the all mighty buck or motivated by things that are educational?

The closer you get to industry, the more you have to be vigilant.”

President David Skorton News, “Critical Languages at Cornell Expand through $1.2 Million Grant,” Wednesday Speaking about the importance of having strong language programs “Generally, as a university that proclaims itself as the land-grant institution to the world, students need to be able to speak to that world in their own languages. President Skorton has said that 50 percent of students should have a meaningful international experience by the time they graduate, and I just wonder if you can have a meaningful international experience in a country where you don’t speak the language, where you rely on their translators ... Is that a meaningful experience?”

Richard Feldman ’69, director of the Cornell Language Resource Center News, “Cornell Greek System Faces New Wave of Changes,” Thursday Speaking about plans to alter new member education programs in the greek system “As a conditional member there’s that sense that because you’re trying to prove [yourself] worthy of gaining membership, you’re more willing to subject yourself to things [than] if it was a more balanced relationship. We’re trying to get to the sort of model where there is time for new members to learn about the fraternity but … focusing on providing an experience more in tune to personal growth.”

Chris Sanders ’13, president of Interfraternity Council

Opinion, “Silence on the Occupation,” Tuesday Speaking about remaining silent on the recent Israeli-Gaza conflict “You need to decide whether 160 Palestinians dead and six Israelis dead looks like Israeli self-defense to you. You need to decide whether an occupying force which has been implementing a systematic program of ethnic cleansing for decades has any foundation at all on which to claim self-defense. You need to decide whether you stand with the occupier or with the occupied.”

Tom Moore ’14

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After 2011 Storms, C.U.Receives Grant to Repair Gorge Trails Funding will allow University to make needed repairs to Cascadilla Gorge, and prevent future damage

By KERRY CLOSE Sun News Editor

In response to damage caused to the Cascadilla Gorge trail by both Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in Fall 2011, the Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded Cornell an $880,000 grant to repair the trail on Nov. 19.

The grant will help the University repair the portion of the trail between Stewart and College Avenues that was damaged by flooding, according to Todd Bittner, director of natural areas for Cornell Plantations and the chair of Cornell’s Gorge Safety committee.

The University has been rebuilding gorges on and near campus since 2009. While the portion of Cascadilla Gorge trail between downtown Ithaca and Stewart Avenue had been repaired by September 2011, and thus was spared significant damage from the storms, the section of the trail between Stewart and College Avenues had not been worked on when the storms hit.

As a result, Bittner said, “the area [between] Stewart and College Avenues … was quite vulnerable.”

The FEMA grant will supplement funds already committed by the University to repairing the trail.

Bittner said the University has committed $1.7 million to restoring Cascadilla Gorge trail –– $1.3 million of which has already been used. The grant, therefore, will prove indispensable to funding the remaining work on the trail, according to Bittner.

The grant will fund both debris removal and infrastructure repairs, according to Bittner.

“There’s been some rock and gravel and sand washed down into the trail and partially burying parts of the trail,” Bittner said. “Then there will be repairs to the trails themselves, staircases and railings.”

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Under construction | The Cascadilla Gorge trail (above) received a $880,000 grant from FEMA to fund repairs of the trail after it was damaged by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in Fall 2011.

The grant will also allow the University to make the trail “less likely to be damaged” in the future, according to Bittner.

“We want to make the trail more resilient to damage in the future,” he said. “So for instance, instead of replacing the railings we have presently, which are wooden, we will replace them with black, metal railings that will withstand flooding better.”

He also said the grant will allow the University to raise sections of the trail that are most vulnerable to flooding by between 12 and 18 inches.

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“That will give us some breathing room before the water eats into the trail again,” Bittner said in a University press release.

Bittner said he hopes the repairs will be completed by the end of 2013 –– though he acknowledged that the trail often sustains damage over the winter.

“If we don’t have significant new damage, it is our hope we will keep to that timetable,” he said.

Kerry Close can be reached at kclose@cornellsun.com.

Dear Uncle Ezra Shuts Down, Citing Need to Adapt to Web

By UTSAV RAI Sun Staff Writer

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The Student Assembly held its last meeting of the semester in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall Thursday.

After serving the Cornell community for more than two decades, Dear Uncle Ezra –– a website through which students, faculty, parents and alumni could receive answers to any Cornell-related question –– is on leave.

Dear Uncle Ezra was founded in the fall of 1986 and responds anonymously to readers’ questions, grew so popular that it was profiled in national publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek.

The website has not posted anything since May 10, with the expection of a post that states the website is “under construction” so it can more rapidly respond to its readers’ queries. “‘Dear Uncle Ezra’ will be closed as we explore faster and better ways to respond to your questions. The internet has advanced by leaps and bounds and our old and antiquated ‘Dear Uncle Ezra’ site is far too slow to meet your needs,” it states.

Since its inception, Dear Uncle Ezra has inspired similar online services such as “Go Ask Alice!” at Columbia University and “Ask Ralphie” at University of Colorado Boulder, according to its website.

Students say they will miss the website and the wisdom it doled out.

Joan Campos ’15 said Dear Uncle Ezra was an accessible way to obtain answers to questions she had about the University.

“I am sad to see that it is going offline, and I hope it comes back soon,” she said.

Campos said that Dear Uncle Ezra served as “an easy way to ask questions that students were sometimes too embarrassed to ask, either because they didn’t know where to find the answer or were afraid that it was a stupid inquiry.”

She also added that the site helped her

learn about “fun Cornell traditions and myths.”

Eleni Konidaris ’15 said she will miss Dear Uncle Ezra’s funny postings.

“Uncle Ezra was, by far, one of my favourite columns. It gave great advice that helped many students, including myself, especially the funny and random things one could learn about Cornell and fellow Cornellians,” she said.

Konidaris said she hopes the website will become active again in the near future.

“I will greatly miss [Dear Uncle Ezra], so fingers crossed it comes back online soon,” Konidaris said.

Sejal Shah ’15 loved Dear Uncle Ezra for the interesting facts that one could learn about Cornell among other things posted on the site.

“It’s really sad that Dear Uncle Ezra is temporarily closed. It’s a unique site that has great witty pieces of advice for students, helps answer questions, and provides ways to learn more about the Cornell community,” she said. “I do hope that the site is back soon.”

Laura Harter ’15 used the column as a valuable resource while she was researching Cornell as a potential school to join.

"To make my decision on whether to come to Cornell, I went on the Internet and looked up everything related to the school and one of the things that I stumbled on was Dear Uncle Ezra, which answered all my questions from surviving freshman year to the different quirks of college life," she said.

“It is unfortunate that it has stopped running for future students to use and love like I did,” she added.

Utsav Rai can be reached at urai@cornellsun.com.

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some great feedback about things that we can be doing to both hire more veterans, as well as to create a better environment for those who have served in the military,” she said.

Prof. Daniel Weed, naval science, vice chair of the VCNG, said the group is also focusing on reaching the community. It has partnered with veterans’ networking groups in the area, such as the Southern Tier Veterans Support Group, the largest in the Tompkins County area, he said.

Among the VCNG’s primary goals is helping veterans and other members of the Cornell community understand policies on matters such as taking time off before being deployed and taking care of someone who has returned from the military, Chappell-Williams said.

The initiative to recruit veterans has had to address the stereotypes and misconceptions hiring managers often hold toward veterans, according to Chappell-Williams. In response, the Division of Inclusion and Workplace Diversity has organized workshops within the human resources department “to work with those who are in hiring situations to understand how to translate military experience into civilian experience,” Chappell-Williams said.

When reading over applicants’ resumes, the language used to describe military experience is often hard for employers to interpret, she said.

“It’s hard to understand that if [a veteran] managed a battalion it

“There is tremendous community support for veterans in the area and veterans here greatly appreciate that.”

Lynette Chappell-Williams means that they managed a workforce,” Chappell-Williams said. “It’s the same thing, just a different way of explaining it.”

In order to overcome these challenges, the Recruitment and Employment Center is creating outreach and awareness strategies to educate employers within the Cornell community about the value of of hiring veterans, Bey said.

An additional challenge veterans must overcome is the stigma that many of them suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. To address this, “we are helping individuals understand these stereotypes and how they are not true across the board,” Chappell-Williams said.

In addition to addressing misconceptions, Cornell is undergoing rebranding efforts to send the message “that we are an employer of choice,” Bey said.

“You’re going to begin to see messaging and marketing campaigns that are specifically aimed at hiring veterans,” he said.

Weed said the initiative has already experienced success among both veterans and members of the Cornell community.

“There is tremendous community support for veterans in the area, and veterans here greatly appreciate that,” Weed said.

The University is also trying to take advantage of its location to attract more veterans. According to census data from 2000, veterans have a preference for smaller towns, which puts Ithaca in a great position for recruiting individuals, according to Chappell-Williams.

Weed echoed this sentiment, drawing on his personal experience moving to Ithaca.

“Once I came to Ithaca, I found that the opportunities here were outstanding. The community is exceptional,” Weed said. “So many of us, when we come here, want to stay because we enjoy the community, the people, the lifestyle and the opportunities here.”

Rebecca Friedman can be reached at rfriedman@cornellsun.com.

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commitment to thoroughly investigating all sexual assault reports it receives.

“Just because this particular incident was proven to have not happened does not in any way, shape or form affect how we investigate every crime,” Zoner said.

“We always take every fact given to us seriously. We approach everything with the belief that facts presented to us are true.”

She also said that CUPD remains concerned by the number of reports of sexual assault it has received this semester, emphasizing that the department intends to

continue with increased patrols on weekend nights and sending out weekly emails to the community encouraging people to take proper safety precautions. “[The false report] was by no means the only report of sexual assault,” Zoner said. “We want to reassure our community that we’re there for them and we are a resource. If someone has been assaulted, we want to provide … safety for them to report the crime to us. [The false report] doesn’t mean that a real report [of sexual assault] couldn’t happen.”

Kerry Close can be reached at kclose@cornellsun.com.

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Skorton: Glimcher Reeling Texas Cancer Agency Is the ‘Right Leader’ OK’d Faulty $11Million Award WEILL

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“If medical faculty know they’re basically reporting to Bristol Myers Squibb, does that make them change what they do? Be more afraid to criticize certain priorities?” said Roy Poses, president of the non-profit Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility.

“There’s a lot of evidence to [cause] concern [that it does] alter their behavior.”

Poses, who is also a professor of medicine at Brown University, pointed to board directors’ legal obligation to help the companies they work for.

“If you’re sworn to uphold these shareholders and you are good buddies with the management, are their interests always completely aligned with [those of ] students and faculty [and] patients of the medical school?” Poses said.

Cornell administrators, however, said that Glimcher’s secondary occupations do not detract from her work as WCMC dean. In fact, University officials stressed that these outside jobs are crucial to advancing one of its long-term goals for WCMC: dramatically expanding its partnerships with industry.

“We must move research findings beyond academia to the public sector and private industry through a variety of mechanisms, including formal partnerships,” President David Skorton said in a statement given to The Sun. “These kinds of partnerships are necessary ingredients to translating research findings into public benefits.”

Glimcher, he said, is the ideal person for this initiative. “[Glimcher is] the right leader to help all of us think through such new partnerships precisely because of her longstanding service on corporate boards that afforded her extensive experience in management oversight, corporate governance, corporate finance, accountability, leadership and the practical aspects of running a business and bringing therapeutics to the marketplace,” Skorton said.

While how Cornell will be affected by the synthesis between academia and business remains to be seen, the partnership has already proven to be both financially and professionally lucrative for Glimcher.

Glimcher received $259,500 in compensation from BristolMyers Squibb and $277,150 from the Waters Corporation in 2011, the most recent year for which figures were publicly available, according to the SEC reports. Glimcher, who ran an immunology laboratory at Harvard College before she was appointed to WCMC in 2011, has received millions of dollars from the two companies since the late 1990s, the SEC filings show.

In addition to the hundreds of thousands of dollars Glimcher receives annually from these companies, she also has a personal financial stake in their continued successes. Glimcher received $1.5 million in deferred share units from Bristol-Myers Squibb and tens of thousands of dollars in various stock options from the Waters Corporation in 2011, the SEC reports state.

While some deans of other Ivy League medical schools also retain ties to business, the vast majority do not have as many substantial positions for different businesses as Glimcher. Only Harvard Medical College dean Jeffrey Flier, who serves as co-chairman of Alinea Pharmaceuticals and a member of the Cantata Laboratories, has a similar number of secondary jobs.

Though Cornell defended Glimcher’s ties to industry, it outlined steps it is taking to prevent conflicts of interest from arising.

“The Office of the President and the Office of University Counsel have directed the formation of a conflicts advisory panel to recommend to President Skorton a conflicts management plan for the Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College,” a statement from John Rodgers, director of communications for Weill, stated. “This process is consistent with the University and Medical College conflicts management policies.”

Still, it may be more difficult than monitoring these types of conflicts of interest to prevent Glimcher’s connections from warping Weill’s research priorities. While not commenting on Glimcher specifically, Dr. Howard Brody, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, noted that big business has a clear reason for adequately compensating members of academia.

“The pharmaceutical industry has, over the years, been extraordinarily successful in terms of profit-making. They don’t waste money on stuff that doesn’t work … If their business model is to conduct research in a certain way and to pay sums of money to various people to get them on board with them and [to be] part of their team, there’s a reasonable assumption that they think this works,” Brody said.

Brody said it is important to push institutions to eradicate potential conflicts of interest whenever they may arise.

“The question is what are the other sources of bias, and can they be eliminated,” he said. “Financial conflicts of interest can in principle be eliminated where many other sources of bias can’t.”

Jeff Stein can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Leaders of Texas’ embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting effort approved an $11 million grant to a biomedical company even though the proposal wasn’t reviewed, according to an internal audit that deepens the troubles of a state agency that has been denounced in recent months by some of the world's top scientists.

The discovery was uncovered during an internal review of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, and its grant to Peloton Therapeutics Inc. in 2010 was among the first it handed out. The Dallasbased company's commercialization award remains one of agency's largest taxpayer-funded grants to date.

The Associated Press on Thursday first reported the audit's findings, which were later announced by the agency.

Tim Kutzkey, Peloton's acting chief executive officer, declined comment and referred questions to CPRIT. In a statement, the agency said the company was unaware that “CPRIT processes had not been followed.”

The cancer institute is home to the nation’s second largest pot of cancer-research money, behind only the National Institutes of Health, and has awarded nearly $700 million. But it has come under intensifying scrutiny as several scientists, including two Nobel laureates, resigned in protest claiming the agency was charting a new politically driven path that put commercial interests before science.

CPRIT said the internal review did not uncover problems with any other commercialization awards.

The Peloton revelation is the latest blow to CPRIT, which launched in 2009 to widespread acclaim among scientists and cancer survivors but has spent the past year unraveling. Dozens of scientists have resigned from the agency's peer review panels en masse in recent weeks, some of whom criticized the fund for “hucksterism” and “suspicion of favoritism” on their way out the door.

Pelton’s application would have been presented to the agency’s oversight committee by Jerry Cobbs, the agency’s chief commercialization officer. Cobbs announced his resignation this month, and his last day was set for Friday.

Members of the oversight committee are appointed by Gov. Rick Perry and other state elected leaders.

The panel has the final say on whether an award is funded, but under agency rules, all applications must be reviewed by an outside panel of peer reviewers who evaluate the scientific and commercial merits of the proposal.

The agency's statement did not explain how Pelton’s application made it through the process without anyone noticing that a review never took place. It only said that Cobbs “improperly included” the proposal in a slate of other recommendations to the oversight committee in 2010.

Attempts by the AP to reach Cobbs were not immediately successful Thursday evening.

Bill Gimson, the executive director of CPRIT who vowed that his reeling agency would recover from the growing onslaught of criticism at its annual conference in October, said in response to the audit's findings that the agency must have the state's trust. “We proactively initiated this comprehensive review in the effort to be transparent and ensure good stewardship,” Gimson said.

Peloton’s funding has been halted and the company's application is undergoing a second review, the agency said.

According to Peloton's most recent annual report to the CPRIT, which was obtained by AP, the company has attracted $18 million in outside investments since it was founded in 2010 by Steven McKnight, chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

“Peloton Therapeutics aims to become a leading oncology company through the discovery and development of superior therapeutics, delivering extraordinary value to its employees, investors, and ultimately, cancer patients,” according to the company's application summary.

CPRIT — started behind a push led by cancer survivor Lance Armstrong and Perry — spent most of its first five years basking in praise and industry awe of the unprecedented amount of taxpayer dollars committed to a state-run, cancer-fighting effort. But those plaudits abruptly gave way to rebukes starting in May,

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Palestinians Celebrate U.N. Statehood Vote

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians erupted in wild cheers Thursday, hugging each other, setting off fireworks and chanting "God is great" after the United Nations granted them, at least formally, what they have long yearned for — a state of their own.

The historic General Assembly decision to accept “Palestine” as a non-member observer state won't immediately change lives here, since much of the territory of that state — the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem — remains under Israeli control.

Yet many Palestinians savored the massive global recognition — 138 of 193 General Assembly members voted “yes” — following decades of setbacks in the quest for Palestinian independence in lands Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War. “It's a great feeling to have a state, even if in name only,” said civil servant Mohammed Srour, 28, standing in a flag-waving a crowd of more than 2,000 packed into a square in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “The most beautiful dream of any man is to have an independent state, particularly for us Palestinians who have lived under occupation for a long time.”

After the euphoria over the vote, Palestinians will return to their harsh reality. They lack most trappings of statehood, including control over borders, airspace or trade. In a further complication, they are ruled by rival governments, one run by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank and the other by the Islamic militant group Hamas in Gaza.

Yet, Palestinians say the recognition isn't just symbolic. They believe U.N. recognition will strengthen their hand in future talks with Israel, which has lambasted the the Palestinian move as an attempt to bypass such negotiations.

The warm embrace by the international community could also help Abbas, who led the recognition appeal, restore some of his domestic standing, which has been eroded by years of standstill in peace efforts. Hamas, entrenched in Gaza, has seen its popularity rise after holding its own during an Israeli offensive on targets linked to the Islamists there earlier this month.

After initially criticizing the U.N. bid as an empty gesture, Hamas has come around to supporting the popular move, with reservations.

Palestinians in the coastal strip also celebrated the vote, though on a smaller scale than after the massive eruption of joy in the streets after last week's cease-fire deal with Israel.

Some set off fireworks, others shot in the air and children in the streets cheered and flashed victory signs. “Today is a big joy for all of us,” Abu Yazan, a 29-year-old Abbas supporter, said.

Izzat Rishaq, a senior Hamas figure in exile, said he welcomed the U.N. vote an achievement, but that Hamas counts on “heroic resistance” to create a Palestinian state — underlining the group's deep ideological rift with Abbas who opposes violence.

In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the U.N. vote as meaningless and accused Abbas of delivering a “defamatory and venomous” U.N. speech “full of mendacious propaganda” against Israel. Netanyahu argued that the U.N. move violated past agreements between Israel and the Palestinians and that Israel would act accordingly, without elaborating what steps it might take.

The Palestinians reject Israel’s claim that the recognition bid is an attempt to dictate the future borders of Palestine. Instead, they say, it's a last-ditch attempt to rescue peace efforts threatened by Israeli settlement building on occupied land. Since 1967, half a million Israelis have settled on lands the U.N. says are part of Palestine.

Abbas aides say that with its vote, the U.N. is rebuffing Israeli attempts to portray these territories as “disputed,” or up for grabs, rather than occupied.

Abbas aide Nabil Shaath said it will no longer be up to Israel to decide whether the Palestinians can have a state.

“The notion that Israel should approve the Palestinians’ inalienable right to self-determination is simply illogical, immoral, and totally unacceptable,” he wrote in an opinion piece in the Israeli daily Haaretz.

The affirmation of the pre-1967 line as the border of Palestine also poses a direct challenge to Netanyahu who has refused to accept that demarcation as a basis for border talks with the Palestinians. Abbas and his aides have said that the Israeli leader's rejection of such a framework for negotiations, accepted by his predecessors, helped push them to go to the U.N. The Palestinians could also gain access to U.N. agencies and international bodies, most significantly the International Criminal Court, which could become a springboard for going after Israel for alleged war crimes or its ongoing settlement building on war-won land.

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AP Source: Strauss-Kahn, N.Y. Hotel Maid to Settle

NEW YORK (AP) — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her have reached an agreement to settle her lawsuit, likely ending a legal saga that forced the onetime French presidential contender’s resignation and opened a floodgate of accusations against him, a person familiar with the case said Thursday.

Details of the deal, which comes after prosecutors dropped related criminal charges last year, weren't immediately known and likely will be veiled by a confidentiality agreement that could prevent the two from speaking publicly about a May 2011 encounter that she called a brutally sudden attack and he termed a consensual “moral failing.”

Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn and the housekeeper, Nafissatou Diallo, made the as-yet-unsigned agreement within recent days, with Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon facilitating that and a separate agreement to end another lawsuit Diallo filed against the New York Post, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private agreement. A court date is expected next week, though the day wasn't set, the person said.

Strauss-Kahn lawyer William W. Taylor III declined to comment. Lawyers for the housekeeper didn't immediately respond to phone and email messages.

Diallo, 33, and Strauss-Kahn, 63, crossed paths when she arrived to clean his luxury Manhattan hotel suite. She told police he chased her down, tried to yank down her pantyhose and forced her to perform oral sex.

The allegation led to numerous accusations surrounding the married diplomat and economist's conduct with women; he now faces charges linking him to a suspected prostitution ring in his home country.

Egypt’s Islamists Race To Approve New Constitution CAIRO (AP) — Islamists on Thursday rushed to approve a draft constitution for Egypt without the participation of liberal and Christian members, aiming to pre-empt a court ruling that could dissolve their panel and further inflaming the clash between the opposition and President Mohammed Morsi.

The move advances a charter with an Islamist bent that rights experts say could give Muslim clerics oversight over legislation and bring restrictions on freedom of speech, women’s rights and other liberties.

The assembly that has been working on the constitution for months raced to pass it in a single marathon session that continued past midnight, with members voting article-by-article on the more than 230-article draft. The lack of inclusion was on display in the nationally televised gathering — of the 85 members in attendance, there was not a single Christian and only four women, all Islamists.

Many of the men wore beards, the hallmark of Muslim conservatives.

For weeks, liberal, secular and Christian members, already a minority on the 100-member panel, have been withdrawing to protest what they call the Islamists’ hijacking of the process.

The sudden rush to finish came as the latest twist in a week-long crisis pitting Morsi and his Islamist supporters against a mostly secular and liberal opposition and the powerful judiciary. Voting had not been expected for another two months. But the assembly abruptly moved it up in order to pass the draft before Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court rules on Sunday on whether to dissolve the panel.

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Building on Progress O

verall, The Sun has had a good semester. The paper continues to strengthen its multimedia presence. The paper’s news coverage is extensive and their opinion section frequently provokes discussion and debate (a positive thing). The editors are responsive to reader concerns, receptive

police officer (and the resulting manhunt) earlier this semester. A reader who regularly picks up The Sun will be kept well abreast of University announcements, new restaurants and bars on and near campus, changes in Ithaca, sports, arts and more. It is a good daily student paper, but The Sun could be more.

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to outside input and transparent about the steps they are taking to continually improve the quality of their journalism.

I hope they build on this progress with a stronger focus on investigative journalism.

The Sun does a great job reporting on the day to day happenings in Ithaca. The Sun did a particularly good job keeping us all informed with early morning updates on the shooting of an Ithaca

What I often find missing from The Sun is more sophisticated investigative journalism. I find myself yearning for more in terms of in-depth, detailed and thorough research as well as follow up on the issues of concern to the student body. News coverage of day-to-day happenings is excellent, but in-depth exposés seem to be rare or nonexistent.

Could it be Cornell University is so transparent, open and pure that nothing

merits serious watchdog journalism? Are the Collegetown landlords treating all of us so fairly and equitably that there’s nothing to examine? I somehow suspect not (but by all means investigate and prove me wrong). As a reader, I yearn for The Sun to take this bold journalistic jump from reporting the day’s happenings and University announcements to unearthing the deeper issues, discovering and reporting on what doesn’t make the press releases and University announcements pages. The Sun is a college paper, but that doesn’t mean it cannot, when necessary, shine the disinfecting light on unsafe, reprehensible or invidious practices that may affect the student body.

Who are the good landlords? Who are the bad landlords? Where and how, exactly, does Cornell spend our ungodly tuition?

To be sure, it is not that there is none of this type of hard hitting and labor intensive investigative journalism. As Jeff Stein ’13, the Managing Editor pointed out to me, numerous articles over the past year have required Sun reporters to comb through court documents, use Freedom of Information Law requests and conduct the type of interviews and follow up needed to “tell the stories beyond the press releases.” I urge

the editorial board to focus more on this type of journalism and to prioritize investigative stories moving forward.

Consistent with the current editorial board’s general responsiveness to feedback and concern with continually improving The Sun, the current Managing Editor recognizes that investigative journalism is an important area to improve and expand at The Sun. It’s reassuring to know that The Sun is aware of the necessity to take on this type of labor intensive journalism in this rapidly changing media landscape. It is important for the newspaper to, as Stein points out, “do more than regurgitate talking points.” In an era where President Skorton can (and does) email the talking points to everyone, the role of the newspaper must be to adapt and do more. I urge the next board to adapt quickly, to delve deeper into the stories and to keep apace with the changing times.

Nicholas Kaasik is a second-year law student at Cornell Law School. He assigns and edits submissions for Barely Legal. He may be reached at public-editor@cornellsun.com. The Public Editor column runs monthly on Mondays.

What’s in a Crime Alert?

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e may not admit it, but “crime alert” emails tend to catch our eyes. Well, “crime” and “alert” separately already spur excitement, but putting them together just gives them that distinct “oomph!” over all other Cornell emails, spam or otherwise. And, of course, our pointing fingers tend to follow suit by dragging and pointing those blinking things to click open those links. And, just like that, voila, we can read through the horrid details of the crimes and the usual promise of punishment — then done, we have satisfied ourselves of our craving!

But what gives Cornell “crime alert” emails that universal appeal that is even bigger, to my mind, than that of sports, freebies and bar tab emails? Yes, crimes exude a certain degree of drama and intrigue but so do sports, bar tabs and especially freebies. Proximity of the crime scenes, like the bridge we just crossed or the house along College Avenue, may be a factor, but we have gone to home games, the Big Red Store and Level B, too.

Chances are, we are more inclined to learn about where and how the crimes happened than which team won in which sports.

A simple explanation to the beckoning call of “crime alerts” is that we probably realize, wittingly or unwittingly, that crimes could happen to us. Being semitrapped in a small town, which is quite idyllic for a Hollywood B-movie horror plot inspired by true events, does not help appease our need for security. In other words, we react to a “crime alert” out of our natural instinct for self-preservation; seeing those two words somehow naturally turns our survival instinct mode on.

But in our eagerness to satiate ourselves with the nitty-gritty grimes of the crimes, we tend to forget in the process the more basic question of what really is the truth? Yes, we could be victims. But, from a legal standpoint, an innocent person dragged into this complex web of crime, punishment and truth could easily be a victim, too.

Our justice system tells us that a crime is not a crime unless proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Hence, to some extent, a “crime alert” is a misnomer of sorts,

because: one, the version of the “crime” is only one-side of the story (that of the victim); two, the assailant is still presumed innocent by law; and three, the crime charged may not be the crime committed.

For example, there are several hypothetical scenarios where the wording of the “crime alert” may not take into account the plurality of involved perspectives. Imagine a crime alert which accuses a 6’0”, 20-25 year old, Hispanic man of attempted assault.

Then imagine, you are 6’0”, 20-25 years old, Hispanic and you like to wear a ball cap. While going for lunch at CTB the day after the “crime alert”, the victim sees you and positively identifies you to the police.

You get arrested, informed of your right to remain silent, which you thought was convenient given your limited language, and brought to jail.

You try to explain as hard you can your side of the story: that you were in your apartment studying English on the night of the crime. But it was her word against your word, and you just had no chance against her tears.

And so, Cornell drops you as a student, your international friends do not want to be associated with you, and you are later on tagged by the local news as a criminal.

In this case, there was a crime, yes, but, having been wrongly identified and charged for the crime, you have become a victim, too. And maybe your ordeal as an innocent accused was as traumatic as that of the crime victim. There was a crime, there was a crime alert, but truth was wanting.

Now let us twist the facts a little bit. Let us assume that it was you who grabbed the victim that night, but

your intention was only to show her the mysterious bright lights somewhere deep in the heart of the woods.

You never intended to assault the victim. But the victim insists that assault was your intention and that she was spared because of her mental composure and physical prowess. Again, her word (and tears) against your word in front of a jury probably means jail time for you.

In this case, yes, there was a crime as correctly reported by the “crime alert,” but it was not assault. The crime actually committed was perhaps kidnapping because of

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the deprivation of liberty of movement or coercion. The “crime alert” correctly reported a crime, but it was not the crime committed.

Surely, it is tempting to conclude a certain narration as fact and a certain fact as crime. But the greater challenge is to train our minds to be more holistic in our appreciation of the facts. Legally speaking, a crime is a conclusion of law, and sometimes the so-called crimes in the “crime alert,” although they may be crimes, are not really the crimes they purport to be.

Still, we are all hoping that we will never receive any “crime alert” emails anymore, and so far our Cornell leaders have been successful in their efforts in ensuring that.

Ferdinand Redulla is an LLM student at Cornell Law School, graduating in 2013. He may be reached at fbr35@cornell.edu. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Science Editor

SARAH COHEN Sun Staff Writer

Winter 2012 in Ithaca has been notably snowless despite December’s rapid approach. The past decade has brought an increase in global temperatures, a decrease in arctic ice and an increase in destructive hurricanes – with Hurricane Sandy battering the Northeast this past month in an unprecedented series of weather events. What appears to be a drastic change in regional weather patterns, many scientists attribute to global climate change. The temperature changes occurring on the Earth are expected to have a cascading effect that may change the lives of many of the planet’s flora and fauna. This week in Science we take a look at what climate change it is and its possible effects toward extreme weather and species extinction, as well as how Cornell scientists are monitoring it to help create future mitigation plans.

The Mechanisms of Climate Change “Climate change refers to a long term change in the properties of the climate system,” said Prof. Charles Greene, earth and atmospheric sciences. Recently, climate change has been used to refer to man-made changes that cause global warming. Although many factors combine to produce climate change and global warming, greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons and nitrous oxide are some of the more wellknown factors. While the most concentrated greenhouse gas is water vapor, according to Greene, carbon dioxide is the most concerning greenhouse gas, because humans are changing how much of it is airborne most rapidly.

Although the climate is always changing, recent changes may exceed what some scientists can explain through natural variations in climate change. According to Prof. Arthur DeGaetano, earth and atmospheric sciences, the scientific evidence points towards human created increases of greenhouse gases as the primary cause for these changes. He said in an email “as the concentration of these “greenhouse gases” increases in the atmosphere, the Earth loses less and less to space. This in turn warms the atmosphere and oceans.”

DeGaetano referred to these processes as feedbacks. The feedbacks, he said in his email, often exaggerate the changes that increased greenhouse gases produce. “For instance, as temperatures warm, the area of the Earth covered by ice will shrink. Ice reflects large quantities of the sun's energy to space. With less ice, more of the sun’s energy is absorbed by Earth, further warming the climate,” he said.

According to DeGaetano, the warming may also lead to changes in precipitation that may cause normally dry areas to get drier while wet areas get wetter. Scientists are currently using climate models to predict future temperature changes cause by climate change over the next hundred years, and plan to use that data to create possible ways of mitigating its effects.

A Link to Hurricane Sandy?

Earth’s climate system is complex, so climate change affects almost all weather patterns in some way. But are these changes to blame for current extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy? Scientists have said that no one weather event could be linked to the effects of climate change.

“The question of whether climate change affected hurricane Sandy does not have a simple answer. I would say yes and no,” said DeGatano. “Climate change did not cause hurricane Sandy, it may have helped to increase the storm's strength.”

Scientists have compared the effects of climate change on hurricanes like Sandy to that of steroid use in major league baseball players. Although a player may increase the amount of homeruns he hits in a season while on steroids, it would not be possible to determine which specific homerun was the result of the steroid use. Only the increasing trend can be measured. This related to climate change and super storms because scientists cannot attribute an individual hurricane, whether it is Sandy or Katrina, to climate change. But they can attribute the increasing trend of strong storms to climate change in general.

“Scientists are expecting more extreme weather conditions like

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higher frequencies of heat waves and droughts in some regions, floods, harsh winter cold and snow storms in other regions,” said Greene.

According to DeGaetano the take home lesson from Hurricane Sandy is that it shows the impacts of climate change.

One of the impacts, he said, would be rising sea levels, which may reach more than two-feet in some locations.

“Most of Sandy's impacts were caused by very high storm surges. Her winds and motion caused sea-levels to rise by over 12 feet in some locations,” he said. Increased sea levels may strengthen typical storms, like the ones generally seen every 5 to 10 years, to be levels similar to that of Sandy, said DeGaetano.

Extinction and Climate Change In addition to impacting weather trends and sea levels, climate change has an effect on the lives of species on earth as well. Slight changes in temperature can make a once habitable location less than suitable for certain species to live in. As a result, many organisms that are sensitive to slight changes in temperature are faced with two options: relocate or perish.

“Species start trying to adapt to climate change, and if they can, then fine, they move somewhere else,” said Prof. Warren Allmon, earth and atmospheric sciences, and an author of the book Climate Change- Past Present and Future: a Very Short Guide. “But if they can’t move somewhere else, what do they do?

And that’s when they start disappearing.”

He said that climate change is a current threat for the extinction of many species living today. Increased temperatures have already caused certain species of insects, birds and marine species to change their geographic ranges. According to Allmon as little as two-degree increases in temperature could kill off coral reefs and push maple sugars outside of New York.

Allmon uses exhibits at the Museum of Earth, where he is director of the Paleontological Research Institution, to help explain the link between climate change and extinction. Many museum visitors ask him, if life goes on after certain species go extinct, why is extinction a problem? The problem, he said, deals with the quality of life on earth after certain extinction events.

“The short answer is, you wouldn’t have wanted to live on the Earth the day after the dinosaurs disappeared, and you wouldn’t want to live on the earth if global temperatures go up 5 degrees.

And you don’t want your grandchildren or your great grandchildren to live on that earth, either.”

According to Allmon, the rates of climate change that are occurring now may not be unprecedented in the history of the

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Earth, but they are most likely unprecedented in the 10,000 year history of our species. “The message from the geological record is not that this has never happened before, the message is that when climate change of this magnitude happens, large and unpredictable things can occur.”

A striking example of an extinction event happening now that is related to climate change is coral reefs. Currently coral reefs are suffering under multiple problems such as having pollutants dumped on them from people, silt dumped on them from erosion and warming ocean waters that are becoming more acidified.

Although corals could probably survive one of these insults, they may not thrive in the face of all of them, according to Allmon.

“It’s like with people,” he said. “Your roommate has one bad habit you can tolerate it, but if your roommate has ten bad habits you can’t.”

Coral Reefs and a Warming Ocean Coral reefs are the most biodiverse ecosystem in the ocean, providing shelter for 25-50 percent of the world’s marine life. In addition to providing fish with a place to call home, coral reefs also help create nutrients for other marine wildlife. The corals are like cathedrals of calcium carbonate that are covered with algae. The algae form a symbiotic, or a mutually beneficial, relationship with the coral. They act as the coral’s solar powered energy source using photosynthesis to fix carbon dioxide into organic compounds.

But coral reefs are currently threatened by warming ocean waters because slight increases in water temperature can make them more susceptible to certain diseases. Using a remote satellite study scientists have found that regions where the most warming has occurred also have the highest probabilities of coral disease outbreak. The worst damage from coral disease occurred in the Caribbean in 2005 and 2010, which were two of the warmest years on record besides this year.

“It’s kind of ironic,” said Prof. Drew Harvell, ecology and evolutionary biology. “Here you have these creatures that only live in the tropics, and yet a two-degree temperature increase totally blows their symbiosis. And it’s partly because the algal symbiosis are so temperature sensitive.”

Harvell studies coral microbial interactions, or how corals interact with a fungus or a protozoan, or bacteria. The central focus of her lab group is the immune system of the corals and how corals are susceptible to climate change. She said that the warmer ocean temperatures caused by climate change can create massive coral bleaching, which is when the normally brown, green, purple or orange coral turns white. Coral bleaching occurs because the algae attached to the coral break down as a result of the increased

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Climate Models: Predicting the Change T dentify the regions that are most susceptible to climate scientists have tools like climate models which help them changes in the atmosphere and predict future effects of change. Prof. Peter Hess, biological engineering, and Prof.

Mahowald, earth and atmospheric sciences, have used a modeling system known as the Climate Earth System CESM) to simulate past, present and future climate states.

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According to Hess, the models look at how heat moves within a box and transfers between boxes. The typical box in the computer simulation has incoming heat radiating from the sun. It also has outgoing heat, which can be lost transferred through wind and water processes like condensation and evaporation. The models can provide average temperature in a box over the course of years.

When predicting the climate under different scenarios, the scientists input different codes into the computer simulation. The CESM consists of millions of lines of code. Some of these codes are variables within the system that can be altered, such as CO2 emissions. The system will show what temperature changes occur when the variables for CO2 emissions are changed within the model formulation.

“If I add so much CO2 emissions for the next hundred years, [the model] will tell what the temperature will be over the US or over Europe,” said Hess.

There are many different types of scenarios that scientists use when predicting climate change. Two of the most reference scenarios are the “climate commitment” scenarios and the “business as usual” scenario. According to Mahowald, the “climate commitment” scenario portrays the climate in the future as it would be if CO2 levels stayed constant at the current level of about 390 parts per million. The “business as usual” scenario predicts what future climates would be if carbon dioxide emissions continued to increase at the same rate as they are now — about 1-2% per year.

Mahowald said that this scenario would increase CO2 levels by 3 or 4 parts per million per year into the atmosphere, bringing the total amount to around 700 to 800 ppm by 2100.

The “business as usual” scenarios is not synonymous with a worst-case climate change scenario, rather it’s the result of aggressive mitigation in future carbon emissions. The “carbon commitment” scenarios would occur if only a miniscule amount of carbon emission was produced in the future and alternative sources of energy came more prominently into play worldwide.

Mahowald uses climate models as one of her primary resources for providing as a scientific view on the current condition of climate change as well as its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment report. The report, which is one of the key documents in the scientific and policy debates on climate change, is due to come out sometime between 2013 and 2014.

Both and Hess and Mahowald pointed out that though the models provide useful estimates, scientists still need to treat the predictions with caution. Still, models like the CESM are the best methods for predicting future climate change effects according to Hess. He said that the model provides a way to interpret different chemical measurements in the atmosphere as well as shows how the different processes and observations are linked together.

“It lets you experiment with the system because the Earth isn’t something you could put in a laboratory, so one of the easiest ways to experiment with it is with one of these models.”

Mahowald agrees. “They’re one of many tools that help us assess how much CO2 we can emit safely as well as identify regions of vulnerability” Mahowald said. She also said that by identifying vulnerable areas, scientists could help make efforts towards creating resiliency in those regions for the future.

Kathleen Bitter contributed reporting for this article.

Nicholas St. Fleur can be reached at science-editor@cornellsun.com, Sarah Cohen can be reached at scohen@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Sun’s Top 10 Movies of 2012 Moonrise Kingdom

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Skyfall

Daniel Craig’s Bond is a gritty, emotive take on the beloved superspy. After the narrative mess that was Quantum of Solace, however, some thought that the Craig Bond was heading for the boondocks. Luckily, Skyfall vindicates this Bond with a vengeance. This Bond flick captures much of the old allure of the Sean Connery and Roger Moore days, with its eccentric villain, played by the inestimable Javier Bardem, chewing the scenery in the tradition of Dr. No and Ernst Blofeld. And it’s a relief that the silly gadgetry fetish of the Brosnan era (invisible car?) has all but disappeared from the franchise. Regardless, this Bond delivers action and a surprising emotive punch, delving into the depths of Bond’s vulnerable soul.

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The Master

Who ever said film has to be democratic?

Dictatorial director Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master throws off audiences with its unconventional storyline and daring style that still has critics and moviegoers scratching their heads since its September release. Come Oscar season, expect to see praise for the two leads, Joaquin Phoenix, who plays an impulsive, alcoholic World War II veteran, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, a polymath/evangelist promoting a Scientology-like creed, “The Cause,” who plays ego to Phoenix’s id. See the film and, like the rest of the film world, try to discover Anderson’s message. Who knows what it’s about? Only ‘the master’ himself.

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Seven Psychopaths

A struggling screenwriter, his mentally unstable best friend, an ex-Quaker, a mob boss, a Vietnamese priest and a couple more psychopaths (including one played by Tom Waits) all in one movie might seem like a bit much. However, Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths is a masterful comedy which pieces together a plot involving each of those elements as well as an adorable dog and a few white rabbits. The cast is made up of Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson and more.

These actors brilliantly execute this fabulous piece of writing to produce a film that is hilarious, bloody and tremendously entertaining.

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Set in 1965 on an idyllic New England island called New Penzance, Moonrise Kingdom follows 12 year-old runaways Suzie (Kara Hayward) and Sam (Jared Gilman) as they establish their own “kingdom.” An ensemble cast of director Wes Anderson’s go-to guys creates a fantastical set of characters that makes perfect sense in the surreal world of Robert Yeoman’s campy Super 16 cinematography. This tenderly-rendered romantic drama offers as much intellectually as it does emotionally, awkwardly contrasting the grown-up world with that of its juvenile heroes, ripping apart the labels that we give ourselves and the people around us and doing what Anderson’s movies do best — taking us out of the real world and placing us in one of his own construction. This movie is far from naive and is one of the purest and most poetic love stories to hit theaters since ironic detachment came en vogue.

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Argo

Who’d have thought that Matt Damon’s bratty best friend in Good Will Hunting would one day go on to direct a trio of wildly successful thrillers?

Argo is the latest of Ben Affleck’s efforts, a taut, superbly tense historical thriller about an exfiltration attempt on six Americans trapped in Iran in the wake of the 1979 Revolution that employs some creative methods. While all pretense of historical accuracy is thrown out of the window, the dramatic license that Affleck takes serves to transform a amusing historical anecdote into a heartthumping, edge-of-your-seat experience in the tradition of the best caper films.

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Cloud Atlas

Sure, make fun of Cloud Atlas all you want, for its nearly three-hour length or race and gender-bending actors or whatever. But, for the few of us who actually saw it, the film, directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, prevails as an unbelievably ambitious human story that engages from start to finish. Connecting six storylines that span as many centuries, Cloud Atlas juggles SFX heavy action, screwball comedy, tragic romance and countless other genres. It’s a bit rough around the edges, yes, but it’s all in service of a message that champions civil rights and kindness. Cloud Atlas is a sincere, spectacular epic that, by some mad miracle, exists at all.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild

There is no film like Beasts of the Southern Wild. The Sundance-winner is a coming-of-age fantasy set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina that serves as both a fairytale and a piece of gripping history. Hushpuppy and her alcoholic father live happily together in the impoverished Bathtub, a piece of land beyond the levees. When a great storm and mythical beasts charge towards the Bathtub, Hushpuppy must grow up quickly to save her sickly father.

First-time actors Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry are absolute powerhouses as Hushpuppy and her daddy, and young director Benh Zeitlin films his characters and the natural world that surrounds them with intimacy and love.

Painfully real and absolutely magical, Beasts of the Southern Wild restores your faith in original storytelling.

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The Avengers

There was an idea to bring together a group of remarkable movies, so that when we needed them, they could create the superhero movie we have all been waiting for. The Avengers smashed in 2012 with the largest opening weekend of all time, despite its mediocre plot. But who cares about plot with humorous, mind-blowing battles and amazing characters like these: cocky Tony, bipolar Bruce, do-gooder Steve. It is an ensemble piece through and through — even Stark only dominated the screen about 12 percent of the time. Amazing acting, directing, the works: Take the time, eat some shawarma and watch Earth’s Mightiest Heroes dominate.

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Lincoln

A dinner napkin with the sentence, “Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner and Daniel Day-Lewis are making a movie about Abraham Lincoln,” could sweep the Oscars by itself. Thankfully, Lincoln was actually made, and it will sweep the Oscars for being a passionate, intricate and even thrilling tribute to The Great Emancipator in addition to its nominal prestige. America’s 16th President is not some godlike savior here but a soft-spoken and conflicted man, not above dirtying his own hands as he pushes Congress ratify the 13th Amendment before the Civil War ends.

This is a capital-I Important Movie that marries history with art and education with entertainment like only Spielberg can.

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Brave

While not as universally hailed as some of Pixar’s previous efforts, Brave is nevertheless a competently written and directed animated feature. The story, like in other Pixar movies, revolves less around the clever gimmicks of its setting and more around a solid emotional core involving the rehabilitation of a motherdaughter relationship. The misty forests and mountains of what is presumably Scotland are beautifully evocative, and protagonist Merida’s fiery tresses alone are worth the price of watching. Brave may have problems wrapping up its story free of narrative cliches, but it certainly takes its place among the pantheon of Pixar’s greats.

A&E This article may be biased. After all, on Google+(whatever happened to that, anyway?), I describe myself as “an old, old wooden ship built in the Civil War era,” which is, of course, the definition that Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgundy ascribes to the word “diversity.” But, by the Beard of Zeus, I truly believe that Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, playing this Monday at Cornell Cinema, is, if not the funniest movie of the aughts, then at the very least the most instantly quotable film of our generation.

Anchorman is not high-minded, though Ron Burgundy does have “a voice that could make a wolverine purr and suits so fine they [make] Sinatra look like a hobo.” It’s not profound. There’s no moralizing, or some hidden message behind the absurdity. Yes, the film is put into the context of changing gender roles in the 1970s, but this backdrop is just that — a canvas onto which Ferrell and his compadres deliver lines with the precision of Michelangelo’s frescoes, if only his frescoes were made with bits of real panther and illegal in nine countries.

These lines have come to form an important part of our lexicon, and they allow us to express emotions in a way never before possible. Feeling down? Just scream incoherently about being in a “glass case of emotion.” Looking to get frisky? Look no further than Veronica Corningstone’s (Christina Applegate) impassioned cry to Burgundy, “Take me to Pleasure Town!” Craving milk? I don’t

Friday, November 30, 2012 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | 15 think I even need to state this last one.

But my admiration surpasses its mere lexical significance; it is also very personal.

When I was 10, and Anchorman was still just a forbidden playground love affair with a loud, dirty and obnoxious child, I was drawn to some of the film’s more ridiculous moments: Brick (Steve Carrell) asking Veronica to a “Pants party,” or Champ (David Koechner) yelling “Whammy!” During my most awkward years, I was a die-hard devotee to “Afternoon Delight,” though I knew neither the song’s folksy origins nor the sexual connotations its lyrics implied. I also, very regrettably, sometimes threatened to punch girls “straight in the Cornell ovary,” just like my Ron. Today, I Cinema hero, see myself as an erudite scholar of Anchorman linguistics, quoting with ease some of the film’s more “underground” lines; an outtake of Ron’s vocal exercises, when he asserts that “the human torch was denied a bank loan” is among my current favorites.

Ah, Anchorman. As Sportscaster Champ Kind once put it, “I miss you so damn much! I miss being with you. I miss being near you. I miss your laugh. I miss your scent … I miss your musk … and when this all gets sorted out, I think we should get an apartment together.”

But enough waxing nostalgic. For Anchorman lives on in all of us, every time we exclaim that something smells like a diaper filled with Indian food, or

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Sam Bromer

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argue that 60 percent of the time, it works every time.

If this article has not been a sufficient supplement for your Anchorman needs, I highly recommend attending. For those among you who have not yet seen this film, I deeply apologize for including so many references, and I strongly urge you to go see this movie so that you can one day understand these references. Just one

What’s the Buzz?

BY KATERINA ATHANASIOU Sun Senior Editor

Chances are you are familiar with Friday Night Lights, Buzz Bissinger’s best-known work. He’s also the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist who had unprecedented access to Philadelphia’s mayor, Ed Rendell, and recently wrote a memoir, Father’s Day. On Thursday, Bissinger visited Cornell as part of the Lawrence and Judith Tanenbaum Distinguished Speaker Series of The Sigma Phi Society to give a talk about college sports. The Sun sat down with Bissinger to talk journalism, corruption and the pain and joy of writing.

THE SUN: How did you transition from writing about court corruption to high school football?

BUZZ BISSINGER: Well, all journalists have a dream of writing a book. I had a Harvard Nieman Fellowship in 1985. It was an incredibly stimulating year. You can take any course at the university — you get to meet all these professors and amazing people. I took a trip out west with a friend and that’s when you would see these stadiums and they were immaculate — the grass would be watered even if there was a drought ... I decided there are a few places to do this — Texas, a town in Georgia, or Western Pennsylvania. Then I called a few college recruiters and they said you have to go to Texas. I went to Odessa — not technically a small town, but it felt like a small place because it’s so isolated. This was high school football — it was a really big deal.

SUN: Many students are interested in journalism but aren’t sure where to start. Where did you begin? Was it your education at Andover and UPenn or external influences?

B.B.: It was definitely my education. My uncle had been a photographer for Life after college. He had worked on the Princeton paper and he had actually also written on the Andover paper, too. And because of him, I became enamored with journalism and Andover had a weekly newspaper and I joined it and fell in love with it. And I really learned the basics of journalism. I often wonder if my life would have been different if I had not been afforded that opportunity. And at Penn, like the Cornell paper, it comes out five times a week. I went there the first day and basically lived there for the next four years. It was great — worked with really smart people and as you say, there’s a lot on the line.

You’re covering a community and a complex community,

more for the road: Stay classy, San Diego … err … Ithaca.

Anchorman is playing at Cornell Cinema on Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Sam Bromer is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com.

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and a community filled with some of the most thin skinned people there are — administrators. But you become a key source of news and that was great training and off I went to join the professional life.

SUN: Journalists are motivated by different causes — a drive for public service, a love for investigation, a passion for storytelling. What does your personal connection to journalism stem from?

B.B.: I was always drawn toward the storytelling part. It was a massive puzzle of public documents and interviews and trying to put them together to tell a story. That was the part that was most challenging to me, and that I loved the best. I think most of the great nonfiction writers, and most of the best journalists enjoy putting together a puzzle. There’s no greater feeling than finding that document you never thought you would find.

SUN: What has been your biggest challenge in all your years of writing — either situational or overall?

B.B.: I think my biggest challenge was writing A Prayer for The City. It was a long time, it was trying to write something exciting about government, and government moves slowly. You’re writing about things that aren’t inherently sexy — it’s not like high school football where kids are being sent out like gladiators to an early death. It’s politics. It took me five and a half years to write the whole process and it was hard. There were times when I got extremely depressed. I couldn’t find the voice for the book and I lost confidence.

But, you know, bit by bit you see pathways, and it’s the book I’m the proudest of. That and Father’s Day. SUN: We’ve been really lucky at The Sun to have different journalists come to Cornell and have had the chance to meet with them. Last spring, Ian Urbina shared a few stories about what he does as an investigative journalist. Do you have any stories about being an investigative reporter in Philadelphia?

B.B.: It’s endlessly arduous. Weeks and weeks and weeks to find a little crumb. When I was doing A Prayer for The City, the thing about Ed Rendell is that he is like a kid. He loved to give me access. So I remember, and it was a really

important piece in the story. It was at the beginning when the labor unions were up against the city ... It goes on for months. But all that matters is the meeting — they called it “the meet” between the head of the unions and Rendell.

There’s no way they’re gonna let me into that meeting. No way. So there was his head of security who said Rendell had two entrances to his office. And so he propped [the door] open — I sat on my hands and knees so I could hear their meeting. … That’s reporting, just a hell of a lot of work.

SUN: How did you keep yourself motivated on your long term assignments?

B.B.: It’s hard. I went through a terrible depression. I took medicine, which I still take now. ... What kept me going was that there were certain moments that were so magical. And so engaging. ...

So the best thing about writing is that when it goes well, it’s almost orgasmic. But when it goes bad, it’s really bad. You just get stuck. The best advice I heard from my friend who writes mysteries is that whatever you do, you have to write every day. And I keep to that ... When you become confident with where you’re going, that’s when it becomes really exciting.

Visit cornellsun.com for a video excerpt of The Sun’s interview with Buzz Bissinger.

Katerina Athanasiou is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at kathanasiou@cornellsun.com.

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because they have all been so helpful to me. Obviously the guys with success in college wrestling like Kyle, and Steve will have my full attention because they have done it, but I respect everyone’s opinions and constructive criticisms all the same,” said Garrett.

“Just to give a shout out, thanks guys: Joe Stanzione, Chris Villalonga, Billy George, Jake Arnone, Marshall Peppelman [and] Nick Arujau” The Red continued to Albany, N.Y. over Thanksgiving break for the Journeymen Northeast Duals where Cornell was able to defeat Drexel, Central Michigan and Oklahoma University.

The matchup against Drexel was a slaughtering, with Cornell beating the Dragons, 40-0. The last two were much closer with the win over Central Michigan being 17-15 and the victory over Oklahoma University being 2513 for the Red. For the day, Dake and Garrett went 3-0 and Bennett was able to earn bonus points in all three of his wins.

Cornell will head into this weekend at the Las Vegas Invitational for a two-day showdown against some tough competitors. “[Las Vegas] is one of our biggest tournaments historically and one of the tougher ones that we have gone to. It tests where we are. I am expecting the same thing this year. There are some tough teams this year — Michigan is going to be there. It is going to be a good test,” Dake said.

The team will continue on to the Grapple at the Garden for the first time on Dec. 16.

“We are going to be in front of a bunch of Cornellians … We are hoping to make it as much of a home event as possible,” coach Koll said.

The wrestlers for the Red will face up against the University of Missouri and Oklahoma State — two matches that are expected to be extremely challenging. The Red will then continue into next semester with the Southern Scuffle in Tennessee and then head into regular play for the rest of the season. The culmination of the season will be the National Duals which will be held in Ithaca at Friedman and then the team will continue into the EIWA and NCAA Championships in the early spring for those who qualify. “[We will] prove to the whole country that Cornell is not to be messed with this year,” Dake said.

Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.

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For those fellow students that I have scared with my yelling, I sincerely apologize. I have tried to explain to those who I have visibly offended, but I am sure that there are many more of you that have suffered emotional damage from my irrational displays.

While this shows my recent dedication to Northwestern, one of my first Northwestern memories also defines the way in which my family commits to college football.

I was probably four or five years old, and it was just me and my dad heading to the Northwestern game in Evanston. I wasn’t feeling well, and I got sick in the car.

Where most parents would quickly turn home and feed their child soup and take the day off, that was simply not an option for my family.

Rather my dad bought me a new t-shirt, we threw out the old one and then proceeded as if nothing had happened. While this may seem like an unreasonable decision, it is not only one that is not surprising to anyone that knows my family, but it is also a decision that I support in every way.

In this way, Northwestern football has always been a part of my life. I missed many birthday parties throughout my childhood, and from the age of four to eighteen, I only missed two home games.

My friends always struggled to understand the appeal of leaving our house on the weekend at precisely 7:00 a.m. to tailgate until precisely 10:30 a.m., head to the stadium to watch the pregame, watch the game and then stay at our tailgate until 5:00 p.m.

However, this is how my fall Saturdays have always been spent.

From there, it evolved into a matter of pride. No matter the weather, time of day or circumstances, the Newcombs would be at

Ryan Field. Through hot Chicago games at the end of August, through downpours (where my father always lovingly preached “Once you’re wet, you’re wet, you’ll live”) and through snow, we have stayed to support Northwestern to the very end.

I have understood throughout my life that this dedication was well past obsessive and into insanity, and it was only a couple of weeks ago at a Cornell football game where it started to hail that my friend turned to me to say, “Your family does this how many times a year? And for fun?”

Outside of our Northwestern family, it is clear that our decisions are not rational.

They are not reasonable, and many would not understand why they are a staple of my life.

I say all of this to try and help any reader to understand that in many ways my love of Northwestern is no longer a choice. It is truly a sick way to feel, and I guarantee that the stress that the “Cardiac Cats” (for all of their extremely close games) have caused will undoubtedly take years off of my life.

However, I am forever proud of my family and our commitment to Northwestern.

For the sports fans out there, there should be even more respect for this support given that Northwestern is not a team that wins consistently. While their history has much improved in my lifetime, there is still a lot of heartbreak as a Northwestern fan. A lot.

Where some families eat dinner together, spend holidays together, or share a hobby, my family shares Northwestern football. It is an activity that has brought us closer my whole life, and something that we will always do together. So yes, my family may be ridiculous, but yes, we do this for fun.

Annie Newcomb can be reached at anewcomb@cornellsun.com.

high quality women’s hockey programs and that’s what we’re trying to build here at Cornell so we definitely don’t take them lightplayers within the Canada hockey program,” ly as opponents.”

For the Red to emerge from the weekend Jenner said, “[but the] bottom line is we’re unscathed, it will need to play grind-it-out going there to win and they stand in the way hockey against a Clarkson team that has only . . . We’re thinking about our job and what we given up more than two goals twice this seahave to do.”

Despite having fewer than 4,000 under- son and a St. Lawrence squad that has done graduates, Clarkson’s Cheel Arena will remain so only once since playing Cornell on a hostile road environment in a battle of Top- October 23rd. “Both teams play a pretty 3 teams. “It’s a tough crowd to play in front physical game so we have to expect to battle of — Clarkson has a lot of wild and support- with them right away,” Jenner said.

Win or lose, Cornell will end 2012 with a ive fans . . . — but it’s fun,” Jenner said. winning “When you’re a record and at high-level ath“Our main goal is just to get back least seven lete, you like conference vicgoing into into the win column.” tories. With those not-sothis weekend’s friendly arenas Brianne Jenner road trip and seeing if marking the you can quiet last hockey action until January 12th at the crowd, so we’re excited.”

Northeastern, however, the team wants to Meanwhile, St. Lawrence has caught fire with a 7-1-1 record following an 0-5 start to finish the year on a high note.

“We’re going to be ready to go this weekthe season. The Red picked up a 5-1 victory end,” Jenner said confidently. “[Last weekagainst the Saints earlier this season, but St. end’s Harvard game], despite the outcome, ...

Lawrence holds a 32-26-4 record in the alltime series, including a notable 3-1 win in the just fuels the fire more ... I think we just want 2011-2012 conference playoffs. Despite hav- to get back onto the ice as soon as possible ing an even smaller undergraduate popula- and show that’s not our team — that’s not tion, 2,300, the Saints have also maintained a what we’re going to be like this year. Some strong hockey program. “[Both schools] have things happen and we’re going to learn from a history of having very strong women’s it and move on and be better from it.”

“Our main goal is just to get back into the [hockey] programs,” Jenner noted. “They’ve win column. We just want to go out and always been at the top end of the ECAC and we never take these teams lightly ... Clarkson’s sweep,” she said. given us a lot of trouble when we go there and St. Lawrence — obviously they beat us in the Chris Mills can be reached at ECAC final last year. They have a tradition of cmills@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Faces ECAC Rivals in Home Weekend

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The No. 12/12 Red (4-3-2, 1-3-2 ECAC Hockey) returns to Lynah Rink this weekend to finish out the fall semester with two home games against ECAC and upstate New York rivals Clarkson (2-5-5, 2-1-1) and St. Lawrence (6-4-2, 0-2-2). Cornell takes on Clarkson at 7

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#redhot | Senior Nick D’Agostino takes the ice for the Red to face off against Clarkson and St. Lawrence

p.m. on Friday Nov. 30 and then St. Lawrence on tain Erik Axell, who also scored his first goal of the season against Michigan. “Especially going into the Saturday at the same time.

“We’ve done the job non-conference, now obviously Christmas break, it would be nice for us to win these two in-conference we have to get the job done, and all we can games and get back in the middle of the pack and gain control right now are the two games we are looking at in some momentum.”

The match-up against the Golden Knights will feafront of us,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “Both opponents, Clarkson and St. Lawrence, have always ture some familiar faces, as Clarkson’s head coach Casey played us tough. St. Lawrence especially, they are very Jones used to be the Red’s associate head coach, until he similar to ourselves. They have had some great games out left to go to Clarkson two years ago.

“This league is so good and we play all the teams and of conference but not enough in conference so it’s going to be a tough weekend … But our focus has been really it’s all so close and everything like that, it’s always one of zeroing in on what we want to get accomplished. And we those weekends,” Axell said. “I mean, with Casey Jones, want to play with that same pace and physicality that we their coach for two years and then he comes back here, he’s played here, he knows our team very well and everyplayed with against Michigan on Saturday.”

The Red comes off a big weekend, where it won a thing like that so it’s going to be a really tough match-up commanding 5-1 victory over the Wolverines at and a really tough game … It’s going to be another tough test for us this weekend, but Madison Square Garden. we’re excited for it and we are After his 26 saves against “It would be nice for us to win these working hard. We are ready Michigan, junior goaltender for the weekend.”

Andy Iles earned another two games and get back in the This weekend will prove ECAC Hockey Goaltender of to be another charitable one the Week award on Tuesday middle of the pack.” for the Red, as the team is Nov. 27. This is his second Erik Axell supporting two different goalie of the week title this charities this weekend. On season. Additionally, freshman forward Teemu Tiitinen scored his first collegiate Friday night is the annual Teddy Bear Toss. Bears tossed onto the ice will go to the Cops, Kids and Toys goal at Madison Square Garden.

“These games are very important — it’s back to the Foundation, and the proceeds from selling the bears will ECAC so we need to get back on a roll here in our own go to the Franziska Racker Centers and to the Cancer league,” he said. “But I think if we just come out and Resource Center of the Finger Lakes.

On Saturday night, Cornell will host its annual Give play with the same intensity that we did against Michigan we’ll do fairly well, so we just have to come the Gift of Family Reading book drive. Fans can participate by bringing books to the game to donate to the out strong.”

Although the Red boasts a 3-0 record out of league, cause. The team is working with the Family Reading these two games are crucial to the team’s place within Partnership to help low-income families have these ECAC Hockey, as Cornell currently sits in eighth place books as gifts to give to their children over the holidays. in the leauge.

“Our league record right now isn’t very good, so these Dani Abada can be reached at games are huge for us,” said senior forward and tri-cap- dabada@cornellsun.com.

Wrestling

Cornell Falls to Stony Brook to End Two-Game Winning Streak for the Red

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After coming out of a strong weekend at the Journeymen Invitational, the Cornell wrestling team will head to one of the toughest competitions over the year this weekend in Las Vegas.

The Las Vegas Invitational will have the Red face up against 31 teams, inlcuding 11 that are ranked in the top 25 by InterMat.

The Red (3-5) could not overcome a 14-0 run by the Stony Brook Sea Wolves on Wednesday, falling 76-53 and snapping a two-game winning streak.

The Sea Wolves dominated the boards with a 36-20 advantage, led by freshman Jameel Warney’s 19 points and 11 rebounds in just 20 minutes off the bench. Leading the Red on the glass with five boards was sophomore forward Shonn Miller. It was only the third time this season Miller recorded fewer than six rebounds in a game.

Although senior guard Johnathan Gray posted a season high 17 points — hitting five of six long balls from beyond the arc — senior forward Eitan Chemerinski was the only other Red player in double digits with 11. In his third start of the season, freshman guard Nolan Cressler chipped in with 9 points, but the Red’s bench — normally an integral part of the offense —

was all but silenced on Wednesday.

Sophomore guard Devin Cherry — who has recorded double figures in five of the last six games — did not score on Wednesday, and senior forward Errick Peck was held to just one point.

The Red got within 12 points at the end of the first half and cut the deficit to 11 early in the second half after a three pointer by Gray found the bottom of the net, but the squad could not get any closer than that.

With one game left on Saturday before winter break, the Red will take on Colgate (3-4) at home. The squad faces off against a Raiders team that is coming off an 87-51 shellacking by nationally ranked Syracuse. The Red hopes to catch the Raiders while they are down and go into break with one more win under its belt.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

COURTESY OF WILLIAM DIBERNARDO ’11

The Red has one game left before winter break against Colgate on Saturday at 6 p.m. at home.

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Cornell Travels To Battle With Tough Rivals

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

After an exciting road trip against ECAC competitors Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend, the Red will head north to battle another pair of rivals — Clarkson and St. Lawrence — to cap off the calendar year.

The No. 3 Red (9-2, 7-1 ECAC) is looking to rebound from a 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Crimson but will face stiff competition from the No. 2 Golden Knights (12-2, 60 ECAC) and the Saints (7-6-1, 5-1 ECAC). Cornell plays Clarkson on Friday night at Cheel Arena and will then head to Canton, N.Y. to face off against St. Lawrence Saturday afternoon at Appleton Arena.

“This road trip is always a challenge for us,” said junior forward Brianne Jenner. “We have two of our toughest road trips in a row — Harvard-Dartmouth and now Clarkson-St. Lawrence. It’s always tough to go in [there].

The atmospheres are not always welcoming at those two arenas, which ... is a compliment to the program[s].

Clarkson took our spot last week in the national poll so

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Skating circles around the competition | After falling to the Crimson, Cornell looks to defeat rivals Clarkson and St. Lawrence this weekend while on the road.

obviously we want to claim that back. Our goal is to go in to sweep this weekend.”

Jenner’s return to Cornell following a brief interlude in Canada has been a much-welcomed addition. “It gets you into high-level hockey [as] everyone’s kind of getting into their in-season zone,” Jenner, who was named ECAC play-

er of the week on November 20th, acknowledged.

Although Jenner has some familiarity with the Red’s upcoming opponents, the rivalry on the ice will be anything but friendly. “I’ve played with a lot of the Clarkson See W. HOCKEY page 18

Your Family Does Red Heads to Ithaca Invitational This for Fun? I SWIMMING AND DIVING

By JOHN McGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men and women’s Swimming and Diving teams look forward to the upcoming Ithaca College Invitational to put themselves in a strong position going into winter break. The Ithaca College Invitational, from Friday November 30th through Sunday December 2nd, is a yearly meet in which Ithaca College hosts a variety of other Universities and Colleges in a weekend long swimming and diving meet. The Red will travel to Ithaca College’s A&E Center Aquatics Pavilion and compete throughout this weekend in attempts to win the entire Bomber Invitational.

The Red traditionally has a great deal of success at this meet. Last year both teams won the entire meet overall, with very strong performances on both sides. On the men’s side the Red won with an over-

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Dive in | The Red will head to the Ithaca College Invitational this weekend.

all score of 1,996 points, the next closest team scoring just 1,401.5. On the women’s side the Red won with 1,975 points, beating the next closest team with 1,316. The Red has the ability to have a very strong showing and establish a great deal of speed going into winter training. This meet gives the Red the opportunity to develop their times even further and to continue to make strides before their next Ivy League meet against Yale University after break.

“I believe that as a whole the team is feeling really good. We've put in some serious work this season and since we are resting a little and shaving for the meet, this will be a chance to see how much we've accomplished,” said sophomore Timothy Satterthwaite. The Red looks to improve on its prior results and have an outstanding showing at Ithaca College this weekend.

“The Ithaca Invite provides an opportunity to swim and dive in a Championship-like atmosphere in the middle of the season,” added Sophomore Diver Thomas Hallowell.

This year however, the Invitational will be different. This will be the first year that Colgate will be attending the meet. Traditionally, the first time the Red would face Colgate would be in a regular season meet. This year the Red will face Colgate both in its traditional dual setting and in the Invitational. “I think it will give us a great opportunity to see what Colgate's team is looking like this year. We beat them last year, and we're really hoping to beat them again. Having a chance to face them now will be a good opportunity to race hard and dive well,” Hallowell said.

This weekend gives the Red a great opportunity to put itself in a championship style environment and prepare itself for the type of situation that will be presented later on in March. With break just around the corner and training trips not too far in the future, the Red looks to continue to develop as a team going forward.

“This is a great opportunity to swim fast and have a good idea of how fast we can go mid season before the next month and a half of hard training in Puerto Rico and during the break,” Satterthwaite said.

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

t is often that I question the sanity of my family.

My mom, my dad, my brother, and I are not people that I would (under any circumstances) consider to be “normal,” and as I alluded to in my first column a couple months ago, one area in which our crazy behavior manifests itself is in our undying love of Northwestern football.

As the college football season comes to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to

culture of a Big Ten school and the Ivy League conference. It was a factor in my college decision, but I ultimately decided that coming to Cornell would simply mean maintaining a long-distance relationship with my Wildcats.

Over the past four years, this has meant taking 10 buses over two days to see Northwestern play at Army last fall, making my way to Syracuse for a game, as well as eight trips back to Chicago with the intention of

Annie Newcomb Sucks to Suck explain a little bit of our crazed obsession, and then to try to justify this behavior, if I can.

This past weekend I attended my last Northwestern game as a student at Cornell. While many would not take college athletics into their decision regarding their pursuit of an undergraduate degree, it was at the forefront of my mind when I chose to come to Cornell.

That is not to say that Cornell’s athletics are not a part of student life in Ithaca, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the football, hockey, basketball, swimming and other sporting events that I have seen while attending Cornell.

However, there is no comparison between the athletic

seeing Northwestern take the field.

This past weekend, as Northwestern crushed the Illinois Fighting Illini to claim the Land of Lincoln Trophy (the LOL Trophy if I may) I saw my first Northwestern victory since becoming a Cornell student. I had previously upheld an 0-10 record in the games that I had witnessed, which should help illuminate that often this is self-inflicted stress, not enjoyment.

For the games I have not been able to make it to in-person, I have watched many games at various locations on campus or at the fitness centers.

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to 11th place in the Cacchione class at nationals. At the moment, freshman Meridith Meyer, Kowalchik, and sophomore Georgiana de Rham are in second, third, and fourth places respectively in the Cacchione Cup competition.

For Meyer, placing this high in the Cacchione during her first year on the team is a big achievement.

“It’s really cool and unexpected,” she said.

Meyer came to the team with a lot of previous experience. In high school she competed on the A circuit, which are high level horse shows. In terms of her chances of moving up in the Cacchione, Meyer said.

“You never know,” she said.

“I’m not saying it’s not possible but I won’t be too disappointed

if I don’t because I still have three more years.”

For de Rham, improving her The equestrian team had a riding skills means more to her. rocky start to this season, strug“For me, it’s not really gling to match last year’s nearly about the point standings or undefeated record. While it has being the Cacchione rider,” she been difficult to adjust to the said. “I really care a lot about changes in its roster and coachlearning how to ride well and ing staff, the Red’s almost perbeing consistent and effective fect victory at its home show on a horse.” two weeks ago gave the team a Meyer, de Rham and confidence boost for the rest of Kowalchik are separated by the season. only a few points.

“We’re really confident now “This year has by far been after the Cornell show that we the closest race between Cornell can make up the point deficit teammates,” Kowalchik said. and end up the regional cham“At this point it’s hard because pions,” said senior tri-captain Maria van Buskirk from Ithaca Emily Kowalchik. ran away with the lead very early The Red currently sits in on. But we made a lot of headthird place in the region behind way at the Cornell show. We Alfred and Ithaca, according to closed the gap [and] there is no Kowalchik. There is only an longer anyone between her and eight point gap Cornell riders.” between the two Still, the Red teams. is confident that “I’m hoping it will go far as a 2012-13 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS that we can go team this season.

• First place finish in the Cornell Show on ahead and win The team plans the rest of the November 11 with 47 points. to attend a Tourhorse shows as a nament of • Currently in third place in the region. team and that Champions in the girls will do January, which well individually will mean that it to qualify for will have attendthe nationals,” head coach ed one more show than the rest Todd Karn said. of the region before the season However, regional champistarts up again. The last show on is not the only title that the before break falls on Dec. 8. squad is looking for this sea“This is the first time that son. There is another competiwe’ve ever had a show in the midtion, the Cacchione Cup, in dle of exams so I don’t know how which the team’s open riders that will go, but I think … [the] compete against other individgeneral attitude is so much more uals in the region. The rider positive after our huge win at the who gets the most points durhome show,” Kowalchik said. ing the season wins the Cup After his first semester and goes on to nationals to with the team, Karn is compete in a special class impressed by the against the other region’s team and the Cacchione winners. way that the “It’s the most prestiseason has gious award that an been going.

IHSA rider can achieve,” “It’s a real Karn said. team effort and Last year, Bronwyn it’s nice to be a Scrivens ‘12 won the part of and nice Cacchione Cup and rode to see.”

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Back in the saddle | After a tough start to the season, the Red got a boost of confidence from the Cornell show and is set to compete at Alfred State on Dec. 8.

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Red Ready To Make Strong Run at Heps

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

Coming off a solid 2011-2012 indoor season, the men and women’s track and field teams are poised to make another run at the Heps championship, which will be hosted this year at Harvard.

Both teams finished second to Princeton and Columbia, respectively, at last season’s indoor Heps championship, and the main goal this year is to bring the crown back to Cornell.

“I think overall we’re going to do great,” said senior co-captain Libby O’Brien. “I know we lost a lot of great seniors from last year but we’ve picked up some new great athletes.”

Notable returners for the women’s team include O’Brien — who was a part of the Red’s Heps champion 4x400 team — as well as shot put Heps champion Victoria Imbesi, high jump Heps champion Ailish Hanly and cross country Heps champion Katie Kellner.

The men’s team is also returning numerous strong athletes. They include NCAA finalists Montez Blair in high jump and Stephen Mozia in shot put, two-time Heps champion in the long jump Steven Bell, Heps champion Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom and Heps champion in the pole vault Peter Roach.

“I think we’ve got about five or six very good freshmen,” said head coach Nathan Taylor. “I think they’re real talents, and [I can] see some great things from them three months from now.”

“The freshmen are looking very motivated,” said senior sprinter Bruno Hortelano. “I see them with a real goal in mind, they’re really willing to work for a victory.”

Senior co-captain Ailish Hanly spoke highly of the freshmen class.

“I’ve been really impressed by the strength of these girls mentally. Their attitude is so positive,” she said.

One of the new faces on the men’s side is freshman decathlete Ryan Hynes.

“It’s definitely a big transition from high school to college,” he said. “My days are really long with a lot of really intense training.”

Aiding the Red in its quest for the Heps title is this year’s schedule setup.

“The schedule is favorable,” said women’s head coach Richard Bowman. “The Ivy League championship is being hosted this year at a banked track at Harvard, and we have a few meets ... that are going to have banked tracks.”

Notable meets for the Red this season include the Invite at The Armory in New York City on January 26th, followed immediately by the Sykes-Sabock Challenge at Penn State on February 2nd.

The Red will have five meets in Barton Hall this season — including the Cornell Relays on Dec. 1 and the Kane Invitational on Feb. 9.

“I think we’re poised to do very well,” said women’s senior co-captain Katie Kellner. “We’re returning a lot of big contributors and Heps champions from last year.”

Looking beyond the Heps, though, Taylor believes that his men’s team contains athletes who have a legitimate shot at competing on the national level at the NCAA finals.

“The men’s team has ten guys who have a real shot at making it to the [NCAA Finals],” he said. “I’m excited to see them compete.”

With a large number of returners, Cornell prepares to excel this season.

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BALANCED SCORING, DEEP BENCH KEY FOR RED

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Coming out of its fourth below .500 season in a row, the women’s basketball team has finally had the chance to rebuild. The Red has gone from a sophomore heavy team to a squad led by seniors and juniors who have the experience and camaraderie to bring the team back to the top half of the Ivy League.

In her tenth season with the Red, head coach Dayna Smith believes that the nine seniors and juniors she has on the roster this year have what it takes to move the team forward.

“They are whose leading us every day, on the court, at practice, off the court,” said Smith.

“They’ve played together for so long, they’ve gained a lot of experience through the years and they’ve learned how to lose, they’ve learned how to win.”

The Red’s starting five this year consists of two seniors and three juniors: seniors Clare Fitzpatrick and Spencer Lane and juniors Allyson DiMagno, Stephanie Long and Shelby Lyman. With the exception of Maka Anyanwu ‘12, this is the same starting five that took the floor for the Red last year.

“Last year was a nice step for this particular group. We have most of our scoring back, most of our minutes played back, and I think that’s what you have been able to see make a difference so far, especially in the close games,” Smith said.

With a record of 3-3 in its tough nonconference schedule so far, the Red’s offense has come from a variety of players. Although junior forward Allyson DiMagno is the only player averaging double figures, the squad has five other players averag-

ing six or more points per game.

“We’re not made up of super athletes, and we don’t have one superstar,” said senior forward Clare Fitzpatrick. “We’re a team of balanced scoring.”

The Red is also fortunate to have a significant portion of its offense coming from the bench.

The squad’s third leading scorer, Taylor Flynn, has come off the bench in all six games, averaging 8.7 points in just 19.7 minutes per game.

“We really stress team basketball and our offensive system is n o t geared towards one person, so we’ve been happy that our scoring has been balanced, and as of late

we’ve had some bench scoring,” Smith said. “[Senior guard] Taylor Flynn has come along in the last two games scoring 26 and 15, [senior forward] Kristina Danielak has come in and hit some big baskets for us, [junior guard] Aspen Chandler has come in and hit some 3’s.”

Although the offense is starting to come together as a unit, the

Red has struggled to score in some of its narrow defeats. Against New Hampshire last Sunday, the Red shot 33 percent from the field, 21 percent from behind the arc and missed 12 free throws.

However, the Red turned up its defensive pressure in the second half and fought its way back into the game.

“We shot poorly but o u r defense kept us in MCHELLE FELDMAN / the game,” SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER s a i d DiMagno. “ I t Under pressure | showed The Red has used its us that intense defensive pressure if we as support for slow p l a y offensive games. g o o d

defense, we will be in every game we play.”

The Red forced 19 turnovers as a team in the game.

“We know we can score, but defense is what creates our offense,” Fitzpatrick said. “Making teams feel uncomfortable is what will create our transition game and help us move into our offense.”

According to Smith, the squad’s strong man-to-man pressure was what kept it in the game.

“We pressed a lot, we had a very intense man-to-man, that was probably our best manto-man defense that we played in the half court the whole season so I was really happy with that,” she said.

The Red was also outrebounded that game, and has been outrebounded in all but two of its games so far this season. This has been a focal point for the team, as it struggled to compete on the boards last year as well.

“Rebounding is really what killed us last season. We played a lot of zone and it’s harder to rebound out of a zone,” Smith said.

“Although we’ve made some strides, if we can get our rebounding to come full circle, it will definitely go a long way,” DiMagno — who is averaging a double-double in her first six games — added.

With the start of Ivy League play lurking in the distance, the Red’s nonconference schedule serves as a jumping off point, a forum for the team to discover where it most needs to improve.

“I think this year we have the tools to compete with anybody in the league, we just have to learn in this nonconference season how to be consistent within a game, hold on to leads and finish the small plays,” Smith said. “We want to win, and I think this group is ready to do that, so our expectations are going to be very high.”

Competing at National Level

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Staff Writer

After solid performances at last year’s national championships, the men and women’s polo teams entered this season with high expectations. Success has been the story so far, with the women’s team riding undefeated — including first place at the Bill Field Invitational — and the men posting a 5-2 record.

Through nine games, the women outscored opponents by a staggering 236-68. While the majority of the matches have been relatively easy wins, both games against defending national champion UVA were competitive — ending in one and four goal victories for the Red. “I feel that we’ve made very good progress [in communication] as evidenced by the UVA game — once it clicks, it clicks,” senior captain Ali Hoffman

PLAYERS TO WATCH KAILEY ELDREDGE Junior Kailey Eldredge will continue to be a big scorer and a dominant force for the Red this year. Last season, in the matchup against Solena Polo Club, she scored 12 of the team’s 17 goals.

said. “Going into next semester, that is definitely going to be something we’re focusing on.”

Despite the success at the recent invitational, Hoffman cautions that

the t e a m shouldn’t underestimate anyone.

“Just because we won the field tournament, it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re a lock-in for nationals,” she said.

The men’s team didn’t make it to the finals at the invitational — it lost the semifinal game by one goal to Colorado State.

“For the men, I can honestly say that they have performed through the Field tournament a little bit higher than my expectations,” head coach David Eldredge ’81 said. “I felt that we were in the mix — I wasn’t sure that we were as close as we showed we were in the tournament.”

Following regular season play, the regional tournament kicks off in late March. Should the men and women’s teams either win the region or perform well enough to secure a wild-card bid, they will make an appearance at the National Championships in April.

For the men, the road to the National Championship

finals consists of difficult teams.

“It’s a tough hill to climb for the guys, but they’ve shown they’ve been able to compete so far with [the other teams].

Hopefully we can compete with them and climb that ladder to the top,”Eldredge said.

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Hoofin’ it | Both the men’s and women’s teams are at the top of the region, striving to compete for a run at Nationals.

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C.U. Continues To Climb Ranks

By OLIVIA WITTELS Sun Staff Writer

After an unprecedented run at the College Squash Association’s Potter Cup, the Cornell men’s squash team ended its 2012 season fourth in the nation. While two of the team’s top three players graduated last spring [Alex Domenick and Thomas Spettigue], senior co-captain Nick Sachvie returns to hold down the top spot in the lineup for the third consecutive season.

The Red graduated two other players last spring — Dave Hilton and Will Hartigan — but gained four new freshmen for the 2012-13 squad. Graham Dietz, Karan Kankariva, Abhijit Maljk and Geoff Keating (whose joins his brother, junior Bryan Keating) are the team’s newest additions.

The squad is certainly a young one this year — nine of the sixteen members are underclassmen — but the Red’s six seniors, including its other co-captain, Owen Butler, will certainly show the newest members the ropes.

“The older members of the team know how the team dynamics work and how the actual schedule works for us,” men’s head coach Mark Devoy said.

The Cornell women’s squash team also earned a higher national ranking at the end of the 2012 season, beating rival Stanford, 5-4, in the Howe Cup last February. As a result, the Red moved up from seventh to sixth in the country, and hopes to continue improving its standing this season.

The women only graduated two mem-

Underclassmen look to experienced players as season continues. bers of the 2011-12 team, [Clare Berner and Lauren Sachvie], and thus is optimistic that its returning players and newest members will continue to build upon the success that the Red had last spring.

Leading the Red this season are senior co-captains Jaime Laird and Maggie Remsen; sophomore Danielle Letourneau is also back, starting at the squad’s number one position. At the Cornell Round Robin two weekends ago, Letourneau defeated Stanford’s Pamela Chua, who she also defeated last season during the Howe Cup to give the Red a 5-4 victory and its No. 6 national ranking.

The squad also welcomes four freshmen this season: Brynn Daniels, Reut Odinak, Olivia Wherry and Abbey Foster.

The newcomers’ talents are promising, as Abbey Foster clinched Cornell’s 5-4 win over rival Stanford at the Cornell Round Robin. Foster played high up in the lineup during the tournament — she rotated between the No. 2, 3, and 4 spots — and is excited about her potential to help the Cornell squash program improve.

“Hopefully I can continue to play well, keep winning matches and help the team get better and move up,” Foster said.

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PLAYERS TO WATCH NICK SACHVIE Senior co-captain Nick Sachvie will continue to lead the Red. He is a third season starter and is ready to hold down the fort. Last season, he had an 11-8 record and was named first team All-Ivy League and second-team All-American honors.

Head coach Julee Devoy remains positive about this season, as the women went 3-0 at the Cornell Round Robin and also performed well at the Ivy League scrimm a g e three weekends ago.

“We were very competitive and we were very happy with our performance,” said Devoy. “[These matches are] sort of an indication of where the team’s starting out, and as I’ve said, we can keep building from here.”

JESSENIA PACHECO Junior Jessenia Pacheco is currently in the No. 3 spot for Cornell and will continue to battle this season. Last year, she posted an 11-7 record and earned a national ranking of 26.

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Red Holds High Expectations for Season

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The gymnastics team is ready for its season to begin, and with experienced veterans and a host of fresh faces, the squad has high expectations.

“We have the biggest and deepest team we have ever had and we expect to have the best season we’ve ever had,” said head coach Paul Beckwith.

This is no small compliment for the Red, which with four wins and four second place finishes is the most successful Ivy League gymnastics team in the past decade.

One of Beckwith’s main sources of confidence in the team is in the return of some very seasoned athletes. Junior Melanie Jorgensen on bars is an individual Ivy and USAG Collegiate National Champion, while senior tricaptain McKenna Archer on vault and junior Lexi Schupp on bars are ECAC Champions. Furthermore, Jorgensen, Archer and senior tri-captain Sarah Hein on vault are All Americans.

“I would say I have high expectations,” Archer said.

“Everyone has been working really hard and I’m hoping its going to be a good season.”

Archer has also had some success outside the gym, as she was awarded the Richie Moran Award, which honors “academics, athletes and ambassadorship,” and is one of the most prestigious awards given to Cornell athletes.

However, the Red looks quite different than it did last year, as nine new freshmen have been added to the roster.

“It brings in a lot of new talent, really changes the dynamic of the team,” Archer said.

Beckwith also expressed excitement for the wide variety of competition the Red will be facing this season.

“We have a really good schedule this year,” he said.

“We’ve got the first meet of the year against George Washington and North Carolina, and Temple and Penn, which is going to be a great meet, and then we have Pittsburgh and Maryland in

MCKENNA ARCHER • Finished second at the 2012 USAG national championships • Won the ECAC title on vault in 2011 • Named Richie Moran Award Winner for 2012 • Member of the Red Key Society and the 400 Club with a 4.0 GPA

our second meet. We see a lot of big schools this year and we are seeing some new schools, such as New Hampshire and Penn State …

Some really big schools and we have some smaller schools, so a good, varied schedule.”

The gymnastics team is looking to improve upon its record from last season and continue on the path to success.

“We have been Ivy champions four out of the last seven y e a r s , ” Beckwith said.

“Last year we had four kids with mono that really hurt our whole team effort, [so] last year was sub par, but there was nothing we could do about it — a lot of our starters were sick. So this year, people OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Turning things upside down | Squad hopes to return to ECAC Championships.

seem to be healthy and we are really looking forward to getting back. Two years ago we won the ECAC championship, and we’re really hoping to do that again and win Ivys again as well. We were second last year, which wasn’t bad but was a let down from where we [were].”

Although the team’s first meet is not until midJanuary, the squad has already begun preparing for competition. “ O u r goal is to have routines ready almost two months before we compete so that we don’t have to stop working new skills when it comes time for competition,” Beckwith said.

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FENCERS START SEASON OFF STRONG

Red Hopes to Continue Momentum

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

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he fencing team is off to a strong start, with two tournaments in the books as the Red heads into its last competition of the semester at Brandeis on Dec. 2.

Cornell kicked off the season competing in Philadelphia, Pa. on Oct. 27 at the Temple Open — the largest fencing meet of its kind — before travelling to Fairfield, Conn. on Nov. 11 to compete against eight schools in the Sacred Heart Invitational. The Red had a strong showing at both tournaments — with Cornell having its best performance to date at Temple. A few weeks later, the team emerged victorious in its second tournament of the year, recording a winning record against every school it faced.

“Our tournaments are getting progressively more difficult,” said assistant head coach Oleg Brusilovsky. “In our first tournament when we went to Temple and it was the best performance in history at the Temple Open. We medalled in every category and we were particularly impressed by [junior] foilist Christie McIntosh who beat a former world champion in the championship bout.”

Each squad has been experiencing a successful start to the season, from foil to sabre to epee. At Temple, in a competition featuring more than 30 universities and 600 individual competitors, the foil squad placed five fencers in the Top-32, with three placing in the Top-5.

“We all as a squad have been working really hard,” M c In t o s h said. “ A t every practice we a l l fence as many bouts as we can and no one has b e e n slacking.”

McIntosh bested the competition in a field of 81 foilists and earned a gold medal, with freshman Ediona Sera tying for third and freshman Angelica Gangemi placing fifth. Sophomore Allison Berdichevsky took 10th, while sophomore Alexis Mandon rounded out the group with a 32nd-place finish. The foilists had a program-best finish at the 33rd annual Temple Open.

“The foil squad has been really great so far [this season,]” McIntosh said. “We’ve got two freshmen starters who’ve had a great showing.

Angelica [Gangemi] went undefeated at the [Sacred Heart Tournament] and Ediona Sera came in third at Temple.”

The foil squad went undefeated while at the Sacred Heart Invitational, beating eight strong competitors. McIntosh dropped just one bout, finishing 19-1, while Gangemi stole the spotlight with her unblemished 19-0 record.

“Our season is picking up and getting more challenging, McIntosh said.

“We’ve had a great showing at Temple and Sacred Heart and that’s warming us up for Brandeis.”

Brandeis will offer the team its first real taste of strong competition for the year, according to the junior. Cornell will face off against teams from Boston College, North Carolina, Johns Hopkins, St. John's, MIT and host Brandeis.

“The toughest by far is going to be St. John’s,” Brusilovsky said. “This is a much stronger tournament overall than what has happened previously. The team is ready … with a great deal of enthusiasm.”

The sabre squad also had strong showings at Temple and S a c r e d Heart.

Going up against 78 o t h e r competitors in

Philadelphia, seniors Audrey Speer and Beverly Yang tied for third, while freshman Alaina Uhouse and senior McKellen Rattray were close behind, finishing in 28th and 29th. Sophomore Kristen Holl rounded out the group with a 53rd-place finish.

This season, the upperclassmen-heavy squad has been working hard to build a strong framework for the underclassmen and to transform a traditionally individual sport into a more team-focused activity.

“The sabre squad has four seniors, one junior, two sophomores and one freshman, so a lot of this season has been the seniors making sure that our sabre squad is going to be really secure when we leave,” Speer said.

“That means doing a lot of drills, watching each other fence and supporting each other during competition and a lot of team bonding at practice.”

At Sacred Heart, the squad continued its undefeated streak, as Speer led the way with a 22-1 finish.

Yang, the team captain for the Red, finished 18-3 for the day, while Uhouse split at 11-1. Looking to the future, the Brandeis Invitational and Ivies in the spring, Speer says the squad is working to remain focused and sharp.

“We are looking at continuing our undefeated streak,” she said. “Next semester is going to be even harder with the Ivy competition because the Ivy League is particularly strong in sabre.”

Rounding out the team, the epee squad is looking to build off of its strong start to the season as it approaches Brandeis and next semester.

“For the Temple Open, we did really well,” said sophomore Olivia Weller. “We had three finalists in the [Top-6] out of the five finalists we brought. We did really well and it was one of our seniors, Maria Napolitano, [sophomore] Khelsi Clarke and myself.”

Freshmen Ahley Muller and Taylor Wong rounded out the Cornell competitors, claiming 20th and 31st place, respectively. Sacred Heart proved a challenge for the squad, as it finished 6-2.

“We had room to improve where against certain schools we were 5-4 and just needed one more bout and we would have won,” Weller said of the performance at Sacred Heart. “There is room for improvement and that’s our motivation for Brandeis coming up. We want to pull more weight for the team.”

The Red will face a great deal of competition in the upcoming months, as the Ivy League Championship First Round will be in early February. According to Brusilovsky, in fencing at least 80 percent of the National Team is at Ivy or Ivy-like colleges, so the Ivy Championships will showcase a lot of talent.

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Ready for action | The foil, sabre and epee squads are prepared to take on tougher competition as the season progresses, culminating in the Ivy Tournament.

CHRISTINE MCINTOSH • Took 18th at the NCAA Championships last season • Took sixth at the NCAA Regional Championships last season • Posted the most wins (37) during the 2010-2011 season • Won gold at the Temple Invitational this season