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Garrett’s Response to Issues In Qatar Frustrates Students

COLA members accuse administration of lack of action

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

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Lady of letters | President Garrett has written several letters to students regarding alleged Cornell labor abuses in Qatar, but students say they are unsatisfied with her response.

Students from the Cornell Organization for Labor Action are frustrated by the administration’s lack of action, after President Elizabeth Garrett acknowledged through a letter on Nov. 9, but did not approve, a Student Assembly resolution that calls for an investigation of labor practices at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar.

Resolution 16 —”Addressing Labor Issues in Qatar” — was sponsored by COLA and adopted by the S.A. in a 24-1-0 vote on Oct. 16. The resolution, which was then conveyed to Garrett on Oct. 25, calls for an independent third party investigation to

monitor workers’ rights across the Gulf region.

According to Paul Russell ’19, freshmanat-large representative, COLA and the S.A. were spurred to action by a report released by the International Trade Union Confederation in March 2014, which described alleged exploitation and forced labor of migrant workers in Education City, Qatar.

After COLA launched a campaign calling for the administration to address the issues raised by the ITUC with a letter drop earlier this semester, Garrett responded to COLA in a letter, writing that she had not See QATAR page 4

Myrick’09: Refugees Cornell Launches Search to Fill J.A.Position Welcome in Ithaca “receives, investigates and adjudicates complaints alleging viola-

By DAVID BROTZ

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Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 announced that he will do “everything in [his] power to welcome Syrian refugees to Ithaca,” in a Nov. 17 post on his Facebook page, echoing sentiments many New York State officials have also shown.

Referencing a Washington Post article about Americans’ negative attitude towards “If we turn away all accepting Jewish refugees at the brink Syrian refugees, we of World War II, are committing the Myrick wrote, “If we turn away all same sin.”

Syrian refugees, we are committing the Svante Myrick ’09 same sin.”

There is a strong historical precedent to accepting refugees in New York State and in the Ithaca area — nearly one-third of refugees from the former Soviet Union sent to the United States were resettled in New York, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

In 2014, New York had the third highest resettlement rate of refugees across the U.S. states, admitting a total of 4,082 refugees. Ninety-five percent of all New York State refugees were resettled to upstate New York that year.

In particular, the Ithaca and Syracuse area has a high population of Burmese refugees, with the area accepting over 3,000 Burmese refugees by 2010, according to data presented by NYU Steinhardt School.

Myrick’s stance aligns with many New York State legislators. On Nov. 19, when the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4038, the American Security Against Foreign Enemies SAFE Act, which calls for stricter vetting procedures for Iraqi and Syrian refugees applying to the U.S. for refuge, 14 of 27 New York Representatives voted against See REFUGEES page 4

The search is underway to fill the vacated position of Judicial Administrator after Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 assumed a new position three months ago as the senior dean of students for inclusion, engagement and community support.

The committee tasked with the search has launched a survey in hopes of receiving comments from the Cornell community about qualities it would like to see in the next J.A., who

Monday, according to Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life.

“We want the committee ... to have a “The survey was an more nuanced perspective when attempt to making hiring decisions.” gain broad feedback Juliana Batista ’16 about the search and tions of the Campus Code of the J.A.’s office,” Lombardi said.

Conduct,” according to the J.A.’s “The idea was proposed during our initial meeting and the comwebsite.

The survey, open to all stu- mittee thought it would be a dents, faculty and staff, has See J.A. page 4 received over 120 responses as of

Former Trustee Guilty of Corruption Charges Silver convicted on seven federal corruption counts Monday

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor

Sheldon Silver — the former speaker of the New York State Assembly and a former ex-officio member of Cornell’s Board of Trustees — was convicted on federal corruption charges Monday.

Silver, 71, was found guilty of seven counts of corruption that include charges of extortion, money laundering and honest service fraud See SILVER page 5

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In hot water | Former speaker of the New York State Assembly Sheldon Silver — who was also a Cornell trustee — leaves federal court Monday.

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Architect,Prof Speaks on ‘Infrastructure Space’

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Discusses how concept of ‘infrastructure space’ can bring aesthetic pleasure, shape politics

By LINDSAY CAYNE Sun Staff Writer

Graduate Student Wins Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Wendy Leutert grad was one of 86 doctoral candidates across the United States to win a 2015 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship — a grant that supports research in foreign languages and area studies for up to a year, according to a University press release.

Leutert’s dissertation will discuss “economic transition in post-communist states, the role of interest groups in nondemocracies and the evolving relationship between the state and market in China,” she said in the release. Leutert will travel to China to conduct additional research at Peking University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, according to the University.

Prof. Keller Easterling, architecture, Yale University, spoke about her recent book, Extrasatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, and the ways in which infrastructure space can bring aesthetic pleasures and affect politics Monday afternoon in Sibley Hall.

Easterling, who is also an architect, urbanist and writer, began her lecture saying that her book is an experiment “that rehearses a habit of mind about design.”

“It works on unfocusing eyes to see not only buildings of shapes and outlines but the almost infrastructural matrix space in which these buildings are suspended,” she said.

Clarifying what she meant by the word infrastructure, Easterling defined it as a “spatial, operating system for shaping the city” that is “coded of laws and formulas for making repeatable spatial products.”

Easterling went on to note that “radical changes” of the globalizing world are being written into this matrix space that is currently being coded by specialists. This coding, she said, was both “a secret weapon of some of the most powerful people on Earth” and “a secret best kept from those of us designers who are trained to make space.”

This coding secret is what led Easterling to argue that the infrastructure space “brings to [architect’s] art another relevance as well as another set of aesthetic pleasures and political

Space and design | Prof. Keller Eastering of Yale University speaks about her new book in Sibley Hall Monday afternoon.

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Across the Ivies Yale Corporation To Hold Open Meetings With Students The Yale Corporation — Yale’s governing board and policy makers — plans to hold open meetings with the university’s students in response to recent requests regarding the names of residential colleges, according to The Yale Daily News. A group of students of color and their allies, calling themselves Next Yale, asked the university’s president to name two new colleges after people of color and rename another college, The News reported. The naming request was the only one of Next Yale’s demands that the president could not address directly, and the Corporation will reach a decision on it by the end of the year, according to The News.

National UChicago Cancels Classes Following Threat Jabari R. Dean, a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was charged with making an online post Sunday that threatened to kill sixteen people on The University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus, according to the Chicago Tribune. The university canceled classes Monday in response to the threat after being notified about it by the FBI, The Tribune reported.

According to The Tribune, the FBI found Dean through his internet service provider and he admitted to posting the threat.

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capacities,” adding that architects need to find a way to hack this spatial operating system.

Easterling also pointed out three global infrastructure platforms and particularly highlighted and critiqued one platform called the Free Zone, which she has termed “extrastatecraft” because of the numerous sources that now have the power to influence or undertake the building of infrastructure.

“In a sense the zone swallowed the city and became the germ of a city-building epidemic,” she said.

According to Easterling, there are thousands of zones today and major cities and national capitals are creating their “own zone dopplegänger” so that the city and zone can use each other’s brand. She calls the zone “a form of market manipulation.”

She stressed that it would be more powerful if architects could also design an active form, objects similar to switches or remote controls that act as a “a multiplier that can use this infrastructure as a carrier.”

Additionally, Easterling said this active form would not replace the object but “works with it, empowers it.”

Connecting her ideas back to her book Extrastatecraft, Easterling said the book acts as a rehearsal for an encounter in space and rehearses a state of mind that is comfortable with interplay.

The different political capacities of the active form in infrastructure space “benefit from not only indirect but undetected action that can be initiated or removed in space and time,” Easterling said.

Easterling ended the lecture saying that architects and thinkers might be able to change something in space to dissipate the violence of binaries.

“This infrastructure space may be the secret weapon of the most powerful but two can play at this game,” she said.

Lindsay Cayne can be reached at lcayne@cornellsun.com.

Images of Glaciers From C.U.Expeditions on Display

By JENNA RUDOLFSKY

path.”

Once the entire collection was discovered, Pritchard contacted Prof.

Striking images of variAaron Sachs, history, to ous glaciers taken during help create a proposal in Cornell expeditions to order to receive funding Greenland and Alaska from the Grant Program from 1896 to 1911 have for Digital Collections in recently been digitized Arts and Sciences, Sachs through a $40,000 arts colsaid. lege grant and are on dis“My angle on it is that play in the Mann Library climate change is actually a gallery until early next year. historical problem as well The images in the exhias a scientific problem,” bition, “Historic Ice: Sachs said. “These Alaska and kinds of photographs G r e e n l a n d ’s G l a c i e r s “My angle on it is that climate can be really useful for field of environThrough the change is actually a historical my mental history to give a Lens of the problem as well as a baseline of how these C o r n e l l glaciers have changed Expeditions scientific problem.” over the last 100 years."

1896-1911,” To officially open were selected Prof. Aaron Sachs the exhibit on Nov. 10, from a collecPrichard gave a lecture tion of over sciences about the history of Tarr’s 2,000 photos from expedi- atmospheric Pritchard expeditions in Greenland tions led by renowned department, and Alaska and spoke geologist Prof. Ralph said.

“There was a professor about the glaciers specifiStockman Tarr, dynamic geology and physical geog- cleaning out his office in cally featured in the exhibour department, and he it. raphy.

“Some of these glaciers Most of the photos, had this box of glass slides which will be on display from 1906 taken by Tarr are retreating, just like the until Jan. 31 next year, and [Prof. Oscar Diedrich] majority of glaciers in have not been seen in over van Engeln 1888, [physical Alaska,” Pritchard said.

100 years, according to geography],” Pritchard Some are static, and there Prof. Matthew Pritchard, said. “We got really inter- are very few glaciers that earth and atmospheric sci- ested in how many more get undo attention that are pictures of this there were, advancing like Hubbard ences.

In addition to the pho- and that led us down the Glacier, but also have soci-

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tos from the expeditions that feature the glaciers and trip members, Cornell Archives also possesses some of the equipment used in the trips, with one of the cameras from the trip on display in the exhibit, according to Pritchard.

While some of the photos have been around until 1906, the collection was only recently stumbled upon in the earth and

etal importance.”

In addition to Hubbard Glacier, the exhibit focuses on pictures of the Nunatak Glacier and the Columbia Glacier.

During his expeditions, Tarr had a variety of undergraduate and graduate students work with him. Van Engeln, who also completed Cornell undergraduate

and graduate degrees, accompanied them and took many of the photos which are featured in the exhibit. Many of the cameras used had a panoramic ability with a spring activated system, allowing for the wide pictures seen in the exhibit. During the See EXHIBIT page 5

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A look back | Images of glaciers taken during Cornell expeditions to Greenland and Alaska more than a century ago are currently on display in Mann Library.

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COLA Members Frustrated Over Several Profs Approve of Garrett’s Response to Resolution Myrick,State’s Decisions QATAR

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found any abuses of labor in Qatar.

According to the resolution, however, Garrett’s response was “unsatisfactory to [COLA] as they were expecting the University to launch an investigation for these concerns.”

In response, the S.A. resolution continued to push for an “independent monitoring process,” a resulting report from the investigation and committed and timely action from the University based on the report.

In a letter to S.A. president Juliana Batista ’16, who conveyed the resolution, Garrett wrote that she appreciated students’ commitment to this issue, but added that the demand made in the resolution is “unrealistic.”

“Cornell’s mission in Qatar is to train a new generation of doctors (men and women) to enable the ongoing transformation of patient care and quality of life in the region. We have been doing this successfully since 2002,” Garrett wrote. “The notion, as put forward in SA Resolution 16, that Cornell would mount an effort with all foreign universities operating in the Gulf to monitor workers’ rights across the entire region is, frankly, unrealistic and threatens to divert resources from areas where we can be most effective.”

In her letter, Garrett also listed actions that Cornell has taken in an effort to protect workers at the Qatar campus. These actions include regular contact with contracted staff, collaboration with other branch campuses and the Qatar Foundation, provision of free meals and classes for workers and a new community outreach support initiative focused on assisting contracted employees.

“As I stated in my previous two letters to COLA, we are firmly committed to ensuring that those who work for us at WCM-Q, directly or through contracts, are treated in a manner consistent with our own enduring values,” Garrett wrote.

Despite assurances that the University is actively improving working conditions for WCM-Q employees, students are still disappointed by Garrett’s reaction to the resolution.

COLA member Michael Ferrer ’16 said he believes Garrett’s refusal to approve the resolution was “a bit discouraging” and showed that the administration did not want to actively solve a problem that it was aware of.

“The lack of transparency and lack of commitment to respecting workers rights and advocating for workers is very concerning,” COLA member Allison Considine ’17 said.

However, despite the disappointing response, Considine still said that COLA plans to continue pressuring the University to increase transparency about its Qatari labor practices.

Student organizations have also organized a rally announcing the Coalition Against Gulf Exploitation this Thursday at 12:45 p.m. on Ho Plaza, according to Ferrer.

While students are frustrated with the administration’s lack of action, some students were still hopeful that Garrett’s acknowledgement of the resolution would lead to future action.

“While I feel that Cornell's work to advocate for its employees is far from over, I was happy to see that progress is being made,” Russell said.

Julia Greenberg can be reached at jgreenberg@cornellsun.com.

Regarding Refugees REFUGEES

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refugees through additional programs not available all over the country. New York is one of just 14 states that participates in the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors program, which offers various forms of health, education, financial and case management to help minors entering without a guardian.

New York’s Bureau of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance also offers various refugee aid programs, including the local county-provided

its passing.

While states cannot determine federal policy on refugees, several Cornell law professors approved of Myrick’s and New York State legislator’s decisions.

Prof. Sital Kalantry, law, who specializes in international human rights, said she “welcomes” Myrick’s statement.

“Welcoming asylum seekers is consistent with “It is wise for New York State to the values welcome Syrian refugees. People do not of our c i t y, ” understand the careful vetting process.”

Kalantry said.

Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr Prof.

Stephen Yale-Loehr, law, said that while Refugee Cash Assistance and refugee policy falls under fed- Refugee Medical Assistance eral control, “New York State for those not eligible for other is doing the right thing.” federal assistance programs.

“States cannot accept Though the amount of refugees from country X and Syrian refugees that may refuse to accept refugees from potentially relocate to New country ,” Yale-Loehr said. “It York State is not yet known, is wise for New York State to nearly 50 Syrian refugees have welcome Syrian refugees. already settled in New York so People do not understand the far this year, according to The careful vetting process.”

Associated Press.

Though refugee policy falls under federal jurisdiction, Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at New York State admits aeskenazi@cornellsun.com.

Search for Next Judicial Administrator Underway Survey will garner feedback from Cornellians J.A.

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great attempt to inform our discussions.”

Following the initial meeting on Nov. 14, the search committee will meet again before Winter Break to discuss specific attributes and traits the committee is looking for in potential candidates.

The search committee aims to “attract the most diverse and broad pool of candidates as possible,” according to Lombardi.

The search process includes an internal and external search for candidates, according to Juliana Batista ’16, Student Assembly president. After find-

ing a list of qualified candidates, the Human Resource Department then selects which candidates to interview. The final decision will be made by President Elizabeth Garrett.

“The purpose of the survey is to find out what the students and the greater Cornell community expect from the next Judicial Administrator,” Batista said. “We want the committee and those involved in the search process to have a more nuanced perspective when making hiring decisions.”

The survey will close Thursday at 5 p.m.

David Brotz can be reached at dbrotz@cornellsun.com.

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Glacial Images on Display at Mann Fmr. Assembly Speaker, Cornell

Depict Prof.Ralf StockmanTarr’s 1896-1911expeditions GLACIERS

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expedition, a dark room tent was used in order to develop the pictures, according to Pritchard.

The pictures taken from the trip and held in the collection included glass slides, film negatives and prints, Pritchard said. All of these were processed with the funding in order to upload them online, making them accessible to the public.

“They have a facility over at Olin Library,” Pritchard said. “They do this now routinely where they have the grants to decide what are the highest priority to digitize. They did all the digitizing from the expeditions.”

Once the photos were discovered, Eveline Ferretti, public programs and communication administrator, Jenny Leijonhufvd, public outreach specialist and Liz Brown, gallery and exhibits coordinator, helped create the exhibit to display the photos.

“The idea for an exhibit related to Prof.

Pritchard’s work with historic glacier photos emerged from Mann’s plan to host a special year of programming around the issue of climate change,” Ferretti, Leijonhufvd and Brown said.

The three reached out to Pritchard and began working with him in order to develop the exhibit that related to the theme of Mann’s special programming over the past months.

“The aim of the exhibit is to show both the amazing adventure of those early Cornell expeditions, as well as their scientific contribution to our understanding of glaciers today,” they said. “Viewers of these

often haunting large-scale images may feel themselves transported to the ice and winds of Alaska and Greenland around the turn of the last century, but they may also witness the striking changes most of these areas have undergone in the last 100 years.”

In order see the changes that have taken place in the century since the photos from Tarr’s expeditions took place, the exhibit also displays recent photos. These photos, taken by Prof. Julie Elliot, earth, atmospheric and planetary science, Purdue University, depict the same glaciers that Tarr journeyed to with his students, and are featured side by side with Von Engeln’s in the display.

“One of the long term goals of the project is to figure out where the pictures were taken originally,” Pritchard said. “We’re trying to compare what it looks like then to what it looks like now. Julie’s goal is to go back on a trip to the spot where the original picture was from and take a new picture of it.”

Further analysis of these photos and the glaciers in them will continue even after the exhibit ends in January 2016.

“The long term goal is to figure out what information we can extract from the pictures that provides new insight,” Pritchard said. “We already know that most of the glaciers are retreating, but the scientific interest is that not all of them are retreating in the exact same way. Some of them are advancing. We’re trying to understand the mechanics of how that happens.

Understanding the mechanics is important to make predictions about future glacier behavior and the rate of sea level rise.”

Jenna Rudolfsky can be reached at jrudolfsky@cornellsun.com.

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arising from schemes in which he attained nearly $4 million in exchange for using his political power to benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers, according to The New York Times.

In addition, Silver is guilty of using his position, which he has held since 1994, to obtain large payments to a law firm that specializes in advocating reductions of New York City real estate taxes, according to Times.

Because of his conviction, Silver must forfeit his legislative seat, which he has held for nearly four decades.

The federal investigators, led by

Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, charged that Silver did not disclose the payments from the firm Goldberg & Iryani on his yearly financial disclosure filings.

The jury came to a decision on their third day of deliberations following a five week trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Silver is the highest-profile case of a large number of state lawmakers who have been convicted on corruption charges by Bharara’s office. ”Today, Sheldon Silver got justice, and at long last, so did the people of New York,” Bharara said in a statement released after the verdict.

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts Around Ithaca Dan Deacon

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8:00 p.m. at The Haunt

Tuesday to Friday evening, Sunday matinee at the Kitchen Theatre Catch The Kitchen’s final show of the semester, The Soup Comes Last, opening this Thursday. Finish off strong and diverse season that has ranged from the romantic, to the political to the hilarious, The Soup is a one-woman comedy of errors and a memoir of director, Rachel Lampert’s 1997 trip to China to stage the first ever production of West Side Story in the Peoples’ republic. The Soup is an inhouse production, first premiering at the Kitchen in April of 1998, during Lampert’s first season as artistic director. The playwright, director and choreographer has now lead the local playhouse for 18 years, and enchanted Ithaca with a growing number of her own works over the years. Don’t miss its revival, this time directed with a fresh take by artistic associate, Emily Jackson: it won’t disappoint.

— Jael Goldfine

Although he’s now headlining venues like The Haunt on (inter)national tours, Baltimore’s Dan Deacon got his start in DIY spaces around Charm City. Spearheading the development of the Wham City collective, Deacon was instrumental in driving the now-renowned Baltimore electronic scene that he continues to participate in to this day. Particularly known for his live performances, Deacon tends to perform in the crowd amidst a tangle of boxes, wires and gadgets. With seven full-length albums under his belt, the electronic artist will have a lot of material to choose from on Thursday.

Ranging from glitchy computer music to sweeping contemporary classical, Dan Deacon’s repertoire and his wacky live presence are sure to bring the unexpected to the Haunt.

— Mike Sosnick

Big Day In #11: Foxing, Brightside, Izzy True, Sammus, Downtown Boys, Guerilla Toss & More Noon to midnight at The Haunt Bummed that you’ve missed out on all of the sweet Ithaca Underground concerts you’ve been hearing about all semester? Seen every local concert of the year and don’t want to break your streak? Have no idea what I’m talking about but still want to spend your Saturday listening to some of the best live music of which you can possibly conceive? Either way, Ithaca Underground’s year-ending, all-day show this Saturday at the Haunt will be the place to be. Sixteen acts — including modern emo luminaries The World Is a Beautiful Place and I’m No Longer Afraid To Die and local rockers Shore Acres Drive — Big Day In will be jam packed with great music and, even better, great company. The show starts at 12pm and goes all day, and will only cost $7, which for 16 bands is an incredible deal.

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Chris Stanton A few weeks ago, I wrote a column in this lovely section discussing how Justin Bieber staged the comeback of 2015 with the help of a few great pop songs and a disgustingly disingenuous P.R. campaign. From crying at the VMAs to “opening up” on Ellen about his manufactured relationship with Selena Gomez, Bieber’s public appearances over the last few months have represented everything artificial and controlled about pop culture. While his new album intends to reposition Bieber as a mature pop singer who avoided the pitfalls that sideline most child stars, its promotional campaign has turned the guy’s life into more of a reality TV show than ever.

Recent efforts have involved a “candid” and “spontaneous” date night with off-again girlfriend Selena Gomez at a classy Los Angeles restaurant — an outing clearly not intended to coincide with the release of Purpose. In a series of viral Instagram videos, Bieber snatches the lounge singer’s microphone to serenade his love — perched atop the grand piano — with the Temptations’ “My Girl” and an acoustic rendition of his own hit, “Sorry.” It was a scripted attempt at appearing sensitive, made more difficult to dismiss by Bieber’s undeniable charisma and dynamic vocal performance. His PR stunts have often resembled the effect created by the casting of a talented actor in a contrived romantic comedy. Just as you spend the whole runtime hoping they can transcend the confines of a melodramatic script, you pray that the end game of Bieber’s penitence is a collection of killer music. Unfortunately, Purpose often plays like the musical equivalent to a plot point in Justin’s media campaign.

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And he’s right: Purpose suffocates under the burden of redundant apologies and corny appeals to faith. Nowhere is this more obvious than on the album’s title track, a wannabe piano ballad that concludes with a lo-fi recording of Justin preaching to his fans about not being “too hard on yourself.” It’s an ill-advised strategy that recurs on “All In It,” an otherwise decent R&Bpop blend that closes out the album’s deluxe version. These blind stabs at inspiration present condensed samplers of Purpose’s most glaring flaws. It’s difficult to imagine that, of the countless talents involved in the making of this album, not one person raised their hand to advise against such obtuse emotional appeals.

Justin Bieber is not good at earning sympathy, and Purpose thrives when he works on developing his sound rather than trying to convince parents that it’s safe to play his music for their kids. When his bland redemptive arc moves into the periphery, Justin’s skillsets shift into focus. As a vocalist, he possesses an upper register that’s indescribably pure and light as a feather, allowing his words to nimbly skip across the beat and — at times — become a part of it. It’s a singular ability he refined on this summer’s Skrillex-Diplo production “Where Are Ü Now,” which makes an appearance midway through Purpose’s tracklist.

The tropical house-inflected “What Do You Mean” and “Sorry” are fashioned in the same vein as that ubiquitous tune, and they’re some of the only album cuts on which Bieber doesn’t sound fatigued (I stand by the former as one of the best pop songs of the year.).

Beyond those upbeat singles, Justin excels most when his vocals are kept at close proximity and he is allowed to express

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some semblance of personality beyond head-hanging remorse.

“Love Yourself,” a song probably more than co-written by Ed Sheeran, is a middle finger disguised as a love song to a former flame. “I think you should be something I don’t want to hold back / Maybe you should know that,” Justin sings, seemingly building up to another forgiveness narrative before switching tones for the chorus: “My mama don’t like you, and she likes everyone.” It’s a beautifully immature response to heartbreak, just the kind of snark and personality that I wish characterized the album’s blander cuts. Justin’s charisma is sourced from the same pools of pettiness that fueled the antics he begs forgiveness for; egotism defines his appeal as much as it does Drake’s.

It becomes clear during Purpose’s R&B-inflected cuts that Bieber envisions himself as following in the footsteps of a certain other Justin, but his constant focus on power-washing his bad boy image undercuts him at every turn. If actual songwriting were the focus here, sultry beats like those on “No Pressure” could have made for another “Sexy Back.” What we get instead is toothless R&B-pop sandwiched between cheesy soliloquies on faith. What’s worse is that Bieber rarely sounds like he’s enjoying himself on these songs. He only really cuts loose on deluxe edition tracks like “Been You” and “Get Used To It,” fantastic blends of disco, pop and R&B that’ll make you wonder what could’ve been.

In an ideal world, Justin Bieber makes a proper album as his follow-up to Purpose. For now, what we’ve got is a marketing move combined with a handful of top-notch pop songs.

Chris Stanton is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at chrisstanton27@gmail.com.

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hat is the allure of fictitious criminals? It seems counterintuitive for there to be such huge entertainment value for an audience in having their moral compass tested by a sympathetic villain. Nonetheless, stories that feature criminals as their protagonists have been and continue to be hugely popular.

At their best, such dramas manipulate the audience’s sympathy for the criminals, punishing us for making excuses for evildoers. Here, I would like to focus on three examples of intelligent crime stories that intentionally twist the knife in the viewer: The Godfather films and the television series The Sopranos and Breaking Bad. Warning: Spoilers for all three will follow The first Godfather film earns the audience’s sympathy for the Corleone family easily by pitting the family against even more despicable foes: a crooked police captain, a heartlessly manipulative Hollywood director and other (less aesthetically pleasing) mob families. It’s possible to feel at the film’s conclusion that the Corleones, who represent old-guard class in a rapidly changing world, have upheld a certain set of values, and that their survival shows that those who respect a certain code of behavior are duly rewarded.

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Although I see The Godfather films as a moral indictment that punish the characters for the moral quicksand upon which they build their empire, the films do their fair share of glamorizing in their critique. Unsurprisingly, the mobsters of The Sopranos adore the films. They probably see them as an elegy to the end of the “golden day” of organized crime, when bosses held nearly unrestricted influence over politicians Despite all the and institutions. In their Amputations eyes, the real tragedy is the The Godfather Part II shreds this interpretation collapse of this order by depicting the disintegration of the Corleone because of government family, both in values and influence. It makes the crackdowns, rather than audience suffer the consequences of loving a mon- the collapse of the ster. By the end of the film, Michael Corleone, the Corleone family because of most sympathetic character in the first Godfather, the corruption that eats at has become a cold shell of his former self, a stranger it from inside.

The Sopranos characters’ to his wife and his brother’s murderer. There are few arguably ignorant interpreimages more haunting than that of Michael sitting tation of the Godfather alone at the film’s end, his face a blank slate of films contrasts with the despairing nihilism. moral arc of the The Sopranos itself. Of the three dramas explored here, it is the least ambiguous in its condemnation of its characters. It initially courts the audience’s sympathy for them by making the Soprano family in many ways a generically dysfunctional modern family. The father loves his wife and children fiercely but seldom finds the words to express it; the mother feels limited and struggles to define herself outside of her relationships to her husband and children; the children see through their parents’ bullshit but are unsure how to leave it behind.

However, as much as Tony Soprano may win over the audience with his childish neediness and occasional tenderness, the show’s brilliance is that it only sets him up as a hero to allow him to fail the audience. In a sickening third-season episode, one of Tony’s underbosses smashes the head of a stripper who is pregnant with his child into a rail outside of the strip club, killing her. In response, Tony hits and punches him — a tame response that is nonetheless criticized by other mobCOURTESY OF TV GUIDE sters, since the underboss is a “made

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man” and should not be harmed. Tony justifies his actions by saying that the underboss had “disrespected the Bing,” the strip club where the mobsters congregate.

Tony is set up here to fulfill the audience’s wish to punish the underboss’s horrific crime, and he fails spectacularly. He isn’t even able to explain his outburst as motivated by the girl’s murder; instead, he says the underboss disrespected the mob family by murdering her in that specific location. As the show progresses, the shallowness and moral blindness of the characters becomes more and more nauseating.

It’s impossible for me to imagine any viewers loving the characters of The Sopranos in the uncomplicated way that those same Sopranos characters love those of the Godfather movies.

Breaking Bad has, I believe, the most interesting division in its fans’ style of viewing. Many fans watch the show to its conclusion and never stop rooting for Walter White. Since the story begins with Walter as an unremarkable high school teacher and then pits him against astounding challenges, it’s easy for much of the series to get caught up in the intensity of the plot and not worry about the moral implications of Walter’s actions. But at what point does Walter become evil? Is it when he allows Jane to die from a heroin overdose? When he poisons a child? When he kidnaps his daughter? Or was he evil the moment he chose to create addictive poison, partly to support his family but increasingly because it made him feel like a god?

The same viewers who never stop seeing Walter as the protagonist often hate his wife, Skyler, with inexplicably vitriolic fury. She’s called a nagger and a bitch on online forums because she objects to her husband’s crimes. While she is imperfect, I find her

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significantly more worthy of sympathy than her husband, who for me crosses the line to irredeemably evil in the fourth season. In fact, I still feel that the finale, which allows Walter to play the hero again by making things right with his family, saving Jesse and murdering a bunch of Neo-Nazi scumbags, is a bit of a cop-out. Walter’s sins earned greater wages than a glorious death.

I believe that all three of these dramas are morally driven and intend that the audience not only see but also feel the consequences of evil. But I suppose that the real lesson here is that these stories aren’t necessarily even viewed this way. Viewers may say that Michael Corleone, Tony Soprano and even Walter White aren’t really evil — and this often feels true when watching these characters. But evil is created by actions, not identity, and what all three of these characters allow, condone and do is evil. The genius of all three dramas is that they make the evil nearly impossible to condemn on principle, and we allow the characters to make inroads in our hearts, until we can no longer distinguish with any certainty what is right and what is wrong.

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Addressing Student Housing at C.U. A NUMBER OF RECENT CHANGES in Cornell’s current supply of dormitories will likely exacerbate the long-standing housing issues facing the campus and Collegetown: steep rent, increasingly low vacancy rates and an annual frenzy to acquire housing for the following year. Last week, the University showcased plans to renovate Hughes Hall from dormitories, which currently house first-year law students, to administrative and event spaces. The decrease in available and affordable housing on campus will require action from the University before the housing crisis becomes even more detrimental for Cornell and Ithaca.

The renovations for Hughes Hall, which were planned as part of a larger, long-term renovation of the law school, will remove 47 dorm rooms from Cornell. Additionally, with the Maplewood Park Apartments closing at the end of this academic year for reconstruction, another 480 beds will be temporarily eliminated. While the rebuilding of the Maplewood site will likely yield an increase in housing for graduate and professional students over time, the shortterm consequences cannot be ignored. The loss of housing for a few years, with an overall trend in increasing student enrollment, highlights a need to address the lack of housing for students on and off-campus as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the administration aims to launch an examination of Cornell’s current residential and student life, which will be spearheaded by Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life. The study, according to administrators, will seek to determine what the University's strengths and weaknesses are in regards to housing, and will then outline avenues through which those concerns can be remedied — likely through Cornell’s next major capital fundraising campaign. An evaluation of this caliber is long over-due, and if it succeeds, a roadmap will likely be created as to solve the problems surrounding living at Cornell.

While this could lead to a long-term solution, students will likely suffer in the short-term if no action is taken by the University to address the decrease in housing. With the loss of these dorms, more students will likely be forced into the already saturated Collegetown market, which could result in higher prices for students and Ithacans alike.

is absolutely no proof that Israel planned to change this. Abbas’ message was simply intended to incite chaos.

These past few years, the Middle East These past months, there have been has been exploding, figuratively and literal- countless Palestinian attacks on Israeli citily. But there is one country that has made zens from within the walls of the Old City news headlines since its foundation. Israel and throughout the rest of the country. and her tumultuous relationship with her They are throwing boulders down on peoneighbors, especially Palestine, are at the ple and hiding mass amounts of weapons in forefront of the minds of most foreign jour- the Al-Aqsa mosque. 12-year-old children nalists. Matti Friedman, former correspon- are brainwashed to stab Jews. Knife-wielddent for the Associated Press says, “When I ing extremists have assaulted elderly was a correspondent at the A.P., the agency women. A young boy on a bicycle was had more than 40 staffers covering Israel assaulted in Pisgat Zeev. An Arab woman and the Palestinian territories. That was sig- pretending to ask questions of a guard sudnificantly more news staff than the A.P. had denly pulled out a knife and tried to stab in China, Russia or India, or in all of the 50 him. There is terror everywhere in Israel countries of sub-Saharan Africa combined.” right now. What have Palestinian leaders Yet, as Sarah Palmer noted in her latest blog done to condemn this? Nothing. Fatah post for The Sun, “Pop Culture, Politics encourages it. The few extremist Jews who and Perception; Importing Hate,” it’s not have attacked Palestinians are reprimanded an easy subject to disby almost everyone in cuss, especially for the country, and most those who aren’t so importantly by the [Palmer] opened up a Israeli government. Yes, familiar with it. Those who follow the situaall terrorism is awful discussion that, tion tend to be sincereand both sides have ly invested in it, often done wrong, but there because of the for personal reasons, is no moral equivalency and often have a diffi- situation’s complexity between the Israeli and cult time demonstratPalestinian leaders. and historical ing their understandThe Israeli governing of the conflict ment has responded by clearly, because it’s not significance, must be taking security measo black and white. that inconveclarified and put into sures Palmer is quite clear nience the lives of modin her piece that she is erate Palestinians living context. not an expert and conin the West Bank. As a siders herself as an outresponse to an attempt sider, meaning someto butcher everyone on one who has not invested time into analyz- a bus, Arabs living in East Talpiyot are now ing the current and past situation in Israel. forced to drive all the way through She opened up a discussion that, because of Bethlehem, an hour out of the way, because the situation’s complexity and historical sig- they can no longer drive through Armon nificance, must be clarified and put into Hanastiv. Abbas, Fatah, Hamas … they are context. all supporting the men, women and chilThe current state of turmoil in Israel dren of all ages who are risking their lives to began when Palestinian leaders incited kill Israelis. Unfortunately, the average attacks on Israelis by blatantly lying about Palestinian is suffering. an Israeli plan to change the policy at the This situation clearly does not boil down Temple Mount that prohibits non-Muslims to a rumor about the Temple Mount. from praying at the holy site. Abbas pro- Tension between Israelis and Palestinians voked religious Muslims with statements has only escalated since the establishment of such as “the dirty feet” of Jews don’t belong Israel in 1948. In the years leading up to in the Mosque. This is by no means the first this significant date, the Palestinians refused time Abbas has showed his support for ter- multiple proposals for a two-state solution, rorism. In 2012, the Palestinian leader glo- which would have established Israeli and rified the terrorists responsible for killing Palestinian sovereignty in the land. Rather hundreds of Israelis and two American than accepting any of the peaceful negotiadiplomats. In 2013, he awarded Nayef tions, the Palestinians and every surroundHawatmeh, the head of Democratic Front ing Arab country declared war as soon as for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Israel declared its independence. Since “highest order of the star of honor” for his then, the hostility between the two nations work in committing dozens of terrorist has only grown through decades of wars, attacks, including one assassination of 22 intifadas and terrorism. school children and 4 adults in Ma’alot. In The first step in breaking this cycle is to 2014, Abbas sent a letter to the family of change the education systems in Gaza and the terrorist who tried to kill Yehudah Glick Palestinian Authority-controlled Area A of in Jerusalem, praising him for his actions the West Bank. Leaders, school teachers, and calling him a martyr. Time and time imams and other role models indoctrinate again Abbas shows his support for terroriz- Palestinian children to hate Jews and ing Israeli civilians and the current situation Israelis. It is not only the harsh conditions is no exception. that some Palestinians live under that cause This tension surrounding the Temple this terrorism. Before we can move forward Mount dates back to 1967, when Israel was on the relations between neighboring counforced to defend itself yet again from the tries, we must address the distorted and vioconstant Syrian-sponsored Palestinian lent education of the Palestinian people. We guerilla attacks from Jordan and Lebanon, are all doing a disservice to the Palestinian and Egyptian war crimes, especially closing children by ignoring the hate propagated off the Straits of Tiran to Israeli trade. under the Palestinian leaders.

Regardless of Israel’s appeal to Jordan to There is no moral equivalency between stay out of the war, they attacked and occu- the Israeli government and the PLO or pied U.N. headquarters in Jerusalem, Arab terrorist organizations. While the bringing the conflict to the holy city. At the Israeli government is concerned for the safeend of the war, Israel found itself in control ty of its citizens, the PLO holds almost no of East Jerusalem, but the Temple Mount legitimacy among the Palestinians and orgaremained in the hands of the Jordanian nizations such as Hamas only advocate for Waqf. Although every part of Israel prac- terror. When Palmer states that “leaders tices religious freedom (which is why you have helped to sensationalize the violence,” see pictures of all different faiths at the it must but clarified that one side deals with Western Wall for instance), the Waqf only terrorism through trial and justice while the allows Muslims to pray at the Temple other applauds the attacks.

Mount and assigns specific hours of visitaSarene Shaked ’18 tion rights for other religious groups. There

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What Does Cornell Owe Us?

niversities are laboratories for ideas, scholarship and discovery. A university’s academic mission is its top priority.

At the heart of that academic mission is teaching students to become the next generation of thought leaders. But when students pay tuition and decide to attend a University, they expect more from the institution than just what they receive in the classroom. How much “extra” should the university be expected to provide?

There is such a thing as too much involvement in students’ lives. When our parents and grandparents were in college, the in loco parentis doctrine applied. Universities could interfere with students’ personal lives and repress what they considered immoral behavior. They routinely imposed curfews, regulated relationships between women and men and restricted free speech.

This doctrine has fallen out of favor, and I don’t think many people wish to return to it. Yet, we do expect our University to have an impact on our students’ lives outside of the classroom.

We expect tangible infrastructure and amenities — housing, dining, transportation, health services, physical fitness centers, student centers and libraries. We expect a rich community experience — student organizations, resource centers, Greek life, speakers and the arts. We expect a positive campus culture and climate — thoughtfulness, respect, opportunities for speech and expression, acceptance and kindness.

Still, the debate on college campuses and news outlets throughout the country has drawn increased scrutiny to the question: What does our institution owe us?

How much can Cornell dictate what our students, faculty and

We are right to expect tangible infrastructure and amenities, a rich community experience and a positive campus culture and climate.

Cornell is our home, our community and our cultural sphere. staff, think or say? How much should Cornell dictate what we think or say? What is healthy disagreement and challenging one’s own thoughts and beliefs, which should be encouraged? What is hateful speech that should be condemned? Where is the line?

Around that line, how can we and how should we stamp out the undercurrent of ignorance and judgment that runs through our campus?

These are not easy questions to answer. But in taking on the responsibility to provide an educational experience that shapes both our minds and our lives, Cornell owes it to us to work towards answering these questions.

We are right to expect infrastructure and amenities, a rich community experience and a positive campus culture and climate. Cornell is our home, our community and our cultural sphere.

But when we think about what Cornell owes us, “Cornell” does not just mean the administration. The responsibility for answering these difficult questions does not lie with a single actor.

The administration is responsible for enforcing the Campus Code of Conduct when bias incidents occur. But we cannot reduce the frequency of these occurrences without grassroots change.

Cornell is all of us: It is the administration, students, faculty and staff.

We must work together to confront the aspects of our campus culture that range from uncomfortable to hateful. We are all part of the Cornell community, and our climate will not change unless every corner of the community takes ownership over tackling these challenges.

Annie O’Toole is the graduate student-elected trustee. She can be reached a anniedotoole@gmail.com. Trustee Viewpoint appears on alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Ross Brann is Passionate About Engaging Students in Intellectual Inquiry,” said that Prof. Emeritus Isaac Kramnick, government, appointed Brann to be the first faculty-in-residence at Alice Cook House. In fact, President Emeritus Hunter Rawlings III appointed Brann as the first House Professor of the residential college.

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Reckless GOP Rhetoric Endangers Planned Parenthood

hree people were killed and nine others were injured following a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs this past Friday.

Though an official motive remains unclear, law enforcement officials report that, following his surrender, the suspect stated, “no more baby parts,” an apparent reference to leaked Planned Parenthood videos that surfaced earlier this year. Erick Erickson and Ben Shapiro — editors of RedState and Breitbart, media outlets influential on the right, respectively — initially attempted to cast the incident as a bank robbery, given that the shooting took place near a Chase Bank. Chase refuted these claims, and the tweets have since been deleted or retracted.

After the suspect was captured, Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers told CNN, “You can certainly infer what [the motive] may have been in terms of where it took place and the manner in which it took place,” and Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the attack a, “crime against women receiving health care services.”

The attempt of Erickson and Shapiro to represent the violence as a bank robbery gone wrong illustrates an effort to absolve the right of any responsibility for this attack. This is not to suggest that anyone on the right supports or condones such violence. In fact, most GOP presidential candidates have since condemned the brutality. It’s not clear if the suspect is politically engaged or at all aware of the antagonistic rhetoric continually employed in the Republican discussion surrounding Planned Parenthood.

But this is not an examination of what fueled one disturbed person; it is a consideration on the reckless rhetoric that has fostered a societal atmosphere that directs public mistrust and animosity towards an organization that provides women with healthcare.

In response to the shooting, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee declared it, “a little bit disingenuous on the part of Planned Parenthood to blame people who have a strong philosophi-

cal disagreement with the dismembering of human babies and with the selling of body parts.”

But in August, Huckabee made comments strikingly similar to that of the suspect when he asserted, “I would also invoke the 15th and 14th Amendments. This is the power that we have to stop this incredible, barbaric scourge of abortions … I would let those who want to slaughter babies, those who want to sell their body parts, let them sue me.”

While Republican candidate Ben Carson has called the attack a “hate crime” and suggested that, “If we can get rid of the rhetoric from either side and actually talk about the facts, I think that’s when we begin to make progress,” his previous sentiments, however, strike as contradictory.

In July, Carson told CNN that Planned Parenthood, “doesn’t seem to understand the sanctity of human life and is willing to destroy that,” as

preserve their body parts in a way that maximizes their value for sale for profit.”

This past Sunday, Senator Ted Cruz attempted to further deflect from the issue, labeling the suspect a, “transgendered leftist activist.”

One can be opposed to abortion without demonizing Planned Parenthood. In fact, abortion services constitute a minority of the care Planned Parenthood provides. And to be clear, Planned Parenthood never sold or profited from body parts obtained in abortions. Fetal-tissue donations are utilized in medical research using tissue samples to explore cures for ailments including spinal cord injuries, eye disease, cancer and HIV. Vilifying the organization with outright lies and deceptions simply serves to stoke misplaced fear for the sake of appearing tough on abortion.

Moreover, if such statements reflect legitimate internal opposition to abortion, as

Abortion services constitute a minority of the care Planned Parenthood provides. Vilifying the organization with outright lies and deceptions simply serves to stoke misplaced fear for the sake of appearing tough on abortion. well as calling the women’s health organization, “an organization whose founder believed in eugenics.”

These comments seem even more remarkable when considering Dr. Carson himself conducted research using fetal tissue from aborted fetuses during his medical career.

In the second GOP debate in September, Carly Fiorina maintained, in an egregious lie, that one of the aforementioned leaked Planned Parenthood videos displayed, “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’”

Responding to the Planned Parenthood videos in September, Chris Christie proclaimed that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton supports, “the systematic murder of children in the womb to

opposed to a formulaic appeal targeting conservative voters, then why not support policy that reduces abortions such as expanding access to birth control, providing healthcare, teaching sex education and/or implementing paternal leave.

Republican rhetoric didn’t cause the shooting in Colorado Springs, yet it did foster an environment that allows for hatred towards an organization whose primary goal is providing healthcare to women.

Presidential Candidates must be mindful of their rhetoric and carefully consider the balance between campaigning and unintended consequences.

Jake Forken is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. He may be reached at jrf285@cornell.edu.

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Red Beats Vermont, Boston on Weekend HOCKEY

Woods would effectively put the game on ice, and the Red cruised to an easy victory. with under a minute left.

Last weekend was a positive Boston actually outshot the Red sign for the Red going forward. the remainder of the game, by Over the first eight games of the an advantage of 17-11. The season, the team was averaging Terriers also doubled up on just over a goal per game. power plays, earning seven to However, the Red have been on the Red’s three. However, a tear as of late and show no Cornell freshman goalie signs of slowing down. In its last Marlene Boissonnault had a six games, the team averaged solid game, tallying 21 saves. close to four goals per game, one “We saw great things from of the highest rates in the counmany different people so it was try. Two weeks ago, the Red exciting,” Poudrier said. were amongst the bottom tier The goalie play was again teams in terms of goal producon strong tion — now Sunday, when rank “We saw great things they junior Paula amongst the Vo o r h e i s top 20 teams from mant different returned to in the nation people, so it was the net. with 2.50 goals Voorheis led per game. exciting.” the Red to “By moving Cassandra Poudrier first their puck the shutout of the quickly and year in a creating space strong showing over Vermont, for ourselves, we should be able tallying an impressive nine saves to find lanes to the net and be in the first period and then certain we are the first to any enjoying a two-period span rebounds,” said junior forward where the Red defense only gave Kaitlin Doering. “In order for up seven shots. us to initiate scoring opportuniThe Red flipped the script ties, we need to make sure we from the previous night’s game have a strong net presence and and dominated in power plays, aren’t limiting ourselves to the out-gaining Vermont, 7-3. perimeter of the ice.”

Cornell took advantage of these Besides an early season slip precious opportunities, scoring up against arguably the best goals on three of these posses- team in the country where the sions. Overall, the Red would Red gave up eight goals to outshoot the Catamounts, 23- Boston College, Cornell has 16. been one of the more stifling The first 15 minutes of the teams defensively in the ECAC. game were close, with each team If the offense can keep up the held scoreless. However, Knee current production, Cornell striked with three minutes left in seems to be in a good position the period and Poudrier carried down the stretch. on this momentum with a goal three minutes into the second. A Shane Lewis can be reached at late second period goal by slewis@cornellsun.com.

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The Weeks to Come in the NFL SHATZMAN

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Touchdown Tom. Cardinals (9-2): Carson Palmer is playing elite football, making the Seahawks look bad in Seattle last week. They still have to play them again in what is a difficult final five game stretch.

Bengals (9-2): 2015 will be remembered as the year “Andy Dalton” and “MVP candidate” were phrases that occurred in the same sentence. He’s played in four playoff games in four seasons and has lost all four.

Broncos (9-2): We’ve seen bad Manning and decent Manning this season. Brock Osweiler is much better than bad Manning. Osweiler will start for the next few weeks, but what about in January?

Vikings (8-3): Teddy Bridgewater does what he must to win ballgames. Call him a game-manager or call him a winner. Either way, the Vikings record is no fluke.

Steelers (6-5): They’ve been banged up, but they’ve done

enough to hang around. The Steelers play the Colts on Sunday night, then the Bengals.

Packers (7-4): Aaron Rodgers has looked human over the last month. The Packers have lost four of their last five after starting 7-0. It must be Jordy Nelson’s absence, because Rodgers’ targets aren’t getting the separation that they usually do.

Seahawks (6-5): The twotime defending NFC champs started the year slow, but grabbed a huge victory versus Pittsburgh on Sunday. They will be tested in Minneapolis next week against the scorching Vikings.

Chiefs (6-5): The Chiefs early-season woes were more the result of a tough schedule than anything else. Their defense is among the better in the AFC. Texans (6-5): Houston bounced back from its post-Hard Knocks hangover and has tallied six straight wins. With 13.5 sacks through 11 games, J.J. Watt is in line for his third DPOY award.

Colts (6-5): It seemed like Chuck Pagano’s run in Indy was

over until 40-year-old Matt Hasslebeck stepped in and started winning football games. The Colts have a great chance to win the not-as-bad-as-the-NFC-Eastbut-close AFC South.

Giants (5-6): Four tight losses have made the difference in the standings, but the Giants defensive unit hasn’t done its part. Still, the G-men are tied for first in the NFC East.

Bears (5-6): They upset the Packers on Thanksgiving at Lambeau and have a light last five games. 10-6 or 9-7 is a possibility for this banged-up Chicago team that started the season 0-3.

Jets (6-5): The Jets finish the season at home versus the Pats and on the road at Buffalo.

Those matchups should have major playoff implications.

To read the rest of this story, please visit cornellsun.com.

Ben Shatzman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com. Calling the Shatz appears every Monday this semester.

Sports

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

TUESDAY DECEMBER 1, 2015

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WRESTLING

Red Drops Matches to Nebraska,Rutgers at Grapple

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

Madison Square Garden is an intimidating venue for an athlete, no matter his or her skill level. The Cornell wrestling team traveled down to the Garden this past weekend to compete in the annual Grapple at the Garden, where it dropped two matches to No. 5 Nebraska and No. 14 Rutgers, a day after the Cornell men’s ice hockey team went up against Boston University at the same venue.

“For the most part, we wrestled tough and a lot of the younger guys got some experience, especially wrestling in front of such a huge crowd and a big arena,” junior and former All-American Brian Realbuto said. “It was a good experience for a lot of our younger guys and they went out there and didn’t hold back which was good.”

Realbuto finished with two victories, defeating No. 15 Micah Barnes of Nebraska and Phil Bakuckas of Rutgers.

Senior Nahshon Garrett and junior Gabe Dean also both finished the day 2-0.

There were not many other positives that came out of the matches. Both Rutgers and Nebraska defeated the Red handily, 21-13 and 21-14 respectively.

“We have a lot of work to do technically,” Realbuto said.

“I think something that comes with experience is just learning all of the little tricks and strategies to give yourself an advantage during a match, and I think our young guys still have a lot to learn in that regard.”

Garrett agreed.

“As a team, everyone has little things that they need to work on,” he said. “Just very little specific things that everyone needs to concentrate their time and focus on, whether it’s specific drills or specific situations that they can be more accustomed to, so when they’re in that situation they’re able to handle it better.”

An important part of developing as a team is helping the freshmen on the team acclimate to collegiate wrestling.

Realbuto said a lot of the older wrestlers know that helping with this transition is essential.

“We have a pretty close-knit team, and a lot of older guys make themselves available to younger guys for technique or strategy or mental preparation for matches,” he said. “I think that’s something that’s starting to show with guys like Jeremy [Sweany].”

Freshman Jeremy Sweany had an outstanding perfor-

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Fighting to the finish | Junior Brian Realbuto was one of three Red wrestlers, alongside senior Nahshon Garrett and junior Gabe Dean, to finish with two wins in this weekend’s Grapple at the Garden.

mance against Nebraska, defeating No. 13 Collin Jensen.

He was the only freshman to come away with a victory.

“We just expect a lot out of them,” Garrett added. “We expect that they’re going to be great.”

The Red will get a chance to turn things around this weekend at the Las Vegas Invitational, the team’s final tournament of the semester. The tournament will take place on Friday and Saturday.

Both Garrett and Realbuto said there is not much more the Red can do physically to prepare for the tournament.

“One of the best things we should do is to make sure that everyone is focused not on the past, but on the future and what we can do to get better,” Garrett said. “This week is going to be week of very small adjustments that will lead to greater success.”

Realbuto also emphasized the importance of each

wrestler sharpening his mental game.

“I don’t think that there’s much more we’re going to be able to do physically in the next couple of days besides getting in a good workout and managing our weight correctly,” he said. “Making some mental adjustments and some tactical adjustments is really going to make a big difference.”

The Red still have until Jan. 15 to prepare for Ivy League competition, during which time the Red’s postseason chances will be determined.

“There’s still a lot of room for growth, and we have a long season,” Realbuto said. “Showing guys what’s possible through hard work is important [for] helping them achieve their goals.”

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

Coming Up Icers Sweep Vermont Classic on Weekend In the NFL Squad wins games against University of Vermont, Boston University T WOMEN’S HOCKEY

By SHANE LEWIS

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Cornell women’s hockey team

swept the Vermont Classic this past weekend, dominating both Boston University and Vermont in the process.

The team clung on to its momentum

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Goals on goals | Senior forward Cassandra Poudrier, pictured above, senior forward Taylor Woods and freshman forward Pippy Gerace each had two goals in this weekend’s classic.

from last weekend, where it netted six goals against Mercyhurst. The Red tallied an impressive eight goals over the two games, defeating Boston, 4-2, and Vermont, 4-0.

Senior forwards Cassandra Poudrier and Taylor Woods, as well as freshman forward Pippy Gerace each scored two goals on the weekend. Sophomore defenseman Sarah Knee and senior forward Jess Brown added the other two goals for the Red. Saturday night’s contest with Boston started off as a tight match. Poudrier got the scoring started in the first period, netting a goal off a nice setup from Brown and freshman defenseman Micah Hart. However, Boston was quick to respond, notching two goals in a span of less than a minute. The Red equalized the game with five minutes left in the period.

After a tied first period, the Red tightened up on defense and mustered up enough offense to cruise to a victory. Gerace scored a goal in the second period’s opening three minutes, and Brown closed off the period with a goal See HOCKEY page 11

his week is a crucial point in the NFL season. With five weeks remaining and the majority of teams still in the playoff hunt, the next few Sundays will feature

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz do-or-die games across the league. Below I will examine the position of all 32 teams through 12 weeks.

Panthers (11-0): Through 12 weeks, Cam Newton is the frontrunner for MVP. Even with the weakest receiving corps in the league, I like Carolina’s chances of finishing 16-0.

Patriots (10-1): Minus Edelman, Amendola and Dion Lewis, the Pats nearly beat a great Denver team on the road in the snow. Both Edelman and Amendola should be healthy come playoff time. A seventh Super Bowl appearance may be on the way for See SHATZMAN page 11