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By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor
Editor’s Note: On Tuesday, President David Skorton issued a statement to the Cornell community following a series of incidents affecting Cornellians over Thanksgiving Break. ◆◆◆◆
A man charged with murdering a Cornell undergraduate on Thanksgiving Day appeared at the Village of Cayuga Heights Court in shackles and an orange jumpsuit Tuesday evening. Benjamin Cayea, 32, has been accused of choking to DARIEN KIM / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Dear Members of the Cornell Community, As a community we have had a difficult Thanksgiving Break, and our feelings of sadness and loss extend across our campus and beyond. I write to update you on the events of the past several days and to remind you of the resources that are available to help us through difficult times. We lost a member of our community on Thanksgiving evening when Shannon Jones, an undergraduate in the College of Engineering, was killed during an apparent domestic dispute at her
death his 23-year-old girlfriend Shannon Jones ’15, an engineering student at Cornell, following a “domestic incident” in Cayuga Heights. He was arrested Thursday evening. Just days later, approximately three dozen people packed the Cayuga Heights courtroom for a preliminary hearing as Cayea was CAYEA escorted into the room by police. Sitting in front of Cayuga Heights Judge Glenn Galbreath with his defense attorney Matthew Van Houten, Cayea waived his right to the initial hearing. He was then sent to the Tompkins County Jail without bail. “I’m not setting bail,” Galbreath said. “If you’re going See CAYEA page 4
Scene of the crime | Authorities found Shannon Jones ’15 dead at 400 Triphammer Rd. Thursday evening.
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Four Undergrads Hospitalized After Crash Jessica Williams By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer
Four undergraduates were hospitalized following a car crash on Route 13 in Chemung County as they were returning to campus after Thanksgiving Break Sunday, according to police. Only the identity of one student, Quoc-Daniel Hung Nguyen ’15, a member of the tennis team, has been released.
Nguyen was driving in the northbound lane of Route 13 when he hit a deer at approximately 4:30 p.m., according to the Chemung County Sheriff ’s Office. Nguyen then lost control of the car and drifted into the southbound lane, where his vehicle was hit by a car driven by Daryl Denning, a 65-year-old man from Corning. One passenger in Nguyen’s car was airlifted from the scene to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania, with “life-threatening injuries,” said
Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss in a press release. Nguyen and the passengers in his vehicle were also hospitalized with “what were thought at the time to be critical injuries.” Denning was in “critical condition” at the scene of the accident, according to Moss. He is also being treated at Robert Packer Hospital as of Tuesday morning, according to WHCU Radio. “We are hopeful as [those involved] See CRASH page 5
U.A. Continues Dialogue on Sexual Assault Prevention By ASHLEY COLLIS-BURGESS Sun Staff Writer
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Campus culture | At a University Assembly meeting Tuesday, Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president for student and academic services and other community members speak about ways to shape the culture surrounding sexual violence on campus.
At a University Assembly meeting Tuesday, members of the Cornell community discussed possible strategies to prevent sexual violence on campus, as well as ways to continue the campus dialogue on how to target such issues. Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president for student and academic services, said the entire Cornell community should be collectively involved in an open dialogue regarding issues of sexual violence. “As vice president, I know that if I am the one crafting messages to the students, there is going to be a disconnect, so we have to find a way to have the students take [on] more leadership roles,” she said. See U.A. page 5
Will Perform Next Semester By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor
Jessica Williams, an actress and comedian best known for her work as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, will perform in Statler Auditorium on Jan. 30, the Cornell University Program Board announced. The 25-year-old California native made her television debut in 2006, appearing on the Nickelodeon series Just for Kicks as Vida Atwood, according to her IMDb biography. She joined The Daily Show in 2012. Williams has also WILLIAMS guest starred in the third season of the HBO series Girls as the role of Karen. She has appeared in the CollegeHumor shorts “Official Spoiler Rules” and “Wings of a Dragon.” The board’s general body members prioritized bringing Williams to campus at the beginning of the semester and have worked since then to book her appearance, according to Zachary Zahos ’15, president of CUPB. “We were in talks with her agent back See CUPB page 5
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‘N’ Is for Nupitals as NYC Pair Weds on Subway Train NEW YORK (AP) — A young couple in New York City decided they spent so much time on the subway they might as well get married there. So Hector Irakliotis and Tatyana Sandler exchanged vows Friday on the N train as it crossed from Brooklyn into Manhattan. The Daily News reports that the 26-year-old groom boarded first with his groomsmen, who set about decorating the poles and seats with white ribbons. The 25-year-old bride and her maid of honor got on several stops later. An interfaith chaplain performed the ceremony as the train went over the Manhattan Bridge. Riders applauded as the couple were pronounced husband and wife.
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Prof.Cindy van Es: Statistics enthusiast,diversity expert By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Staff Writer
When she is not teaching statistics classes, Prof. Cindy van Es, applied economics and management, can be found advising one of her seven student organizations, running her diversity promotion programs or working with a Kenyan grade school. Van Es — who has been chosen as the “most influential faculty member” by Cornell’s Merrill Presidential Scholars Program eight times — has also won the Inclusive Excellence Award from Ernst and Young and was named one of the 300 Best C o l l e g e Professors by The Princeton Review. While van Es said she appreciates all of her honors, she said The Princeton Review award meant most to her because it was “largely” determined by student feedback. “What meant a lot to me for the 300 [best professors award] was that it was largely student driven,” van Es said. “That, in the end, is really what it comes down to: my impact on students.” According to van Es, her success in the classroom comes from her eagerness to work with students. “I think a lot about the atmosphere in the class,” she said. “I feel a lot like if they’re going to work, then I’ll do everything [I can].” Van Es added that she spends a lot of time both in and out of the classroom pursuing what she calls her
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“other love,” diversity and inclusiveness. Van Es, who also teaches smaller classes and advises student organizations that promote diversity, is responsible for the Dyson School Diversity Program, which awards the Perkins Prize for Interracial Harmony. While she said that Cornell is likely similar to other schools in terms of diversity, she added that she believes the University still has to do a lot of work to achieve thorough inclusivity. “You have to learn to work with people different than yourself, and I don’t think there are as many opportunities as there could be,” she said. “One of the things I try to do is build opportunities for [students] to work with each other.” Though Van Es came to Cornell in 1988, she said she always knew what career track she wanted to follow. “Since [I was] about seven or eight, [when people would ask,] ‘What do you want to be?’ [I would say] ‘I want to be a math teacher,’” she said. Van Es added she was then drawn to the field of statistics due to its applicability and practicality to real-life situations. “I wanted a more applied math — I didn’t just want to do theory,” she said. “So I really liked statistics because it was math applied to real problems.” Van Es added that her dedication to inclusivity has enabled her to build lasting relationships with many students. She said she receives anywhere between 60 to 70 Christmas cards from former students every winter and usually attends at least one former student’s wedding a year. According to van Es, these relationships with her students have proven rewarding because of the unique character of the Cornell student body.
“They’ve done great things in this world — they’re smart intellectually, driven and ambitious, and yet ... a lot of them have just a lot of kindness,” she said. Van Es also shared an anecdote about a student who had been involved in one of her extracurricular programs several years ago. She described him as “serious” and “disciplined,” but said she knew there was “a lot going on underneath.” “And then I remember I got a call [from him] … and he’s like ‘Cindy, I want to start a program to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for women who have obstetric fistulas,” she said. This particular idea turned into Mountains for Moms, a club which van Es said she still advises. Van Es said she has recently spent much of her free time planning a two-week South African study abroad trip that she will lead next month, adding that she took a sabbatical last spring to design the program. Van Es said she usually spends a lot of her time outside of the classroom working on a partnership that she helped establish between her kids’ school and a grade school in Kenya. She said she has visited the school twice — once, inadvertently, at the outbreak of the Kenyan civil war — and helped to expand its facilities and capabilities monumentally. “[Working with the Kenyan school] is kind of my hobby, to be honest,” she said. When students come to her for career advice, van Es said that she always tells them the same thing. “Get all the information about all the jobs out there. … Talk to your parents, talk to your friends, your professors, your advisors, whoever mentors you — collect that information,” she said. “Then, go for a walk in the Plantations, and stop and say, ‘Where do I want to go?’ and listen to that voice.” Rebecca Blair can be reached at rblair@cornellsun.com.
In Light of Ferguson Riots,Cornellians Discuss Role of Police By OLIVIA LUTWAK Sun Staff Writer
In light of recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, lecturer Nila Nokizaru gave a presentation Tuesday night discussing the history and role of modern police and the riots in Ferguson. The presentation — which Nokizaru said was written before the grand jury “failed” to indict Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager — was about the “internal dynamics of the Ferguson riots and the liberalization of the anti-police struggle,” according to the event’s Facebook page. Nokizaru then described what he referred to a history of policing in America, connecting present-day policing with the slavery of the United States. He added that he thinks the “notion of black criminality” is perpetuated in the idea of slavery. “Policing and white supremacy are hopelessly intertwined,” he said. “Simply being black [results in] the possibility of being criminalized and being criminalized [results in] the possibility of being reenslaved.” Nokizaru also said the initial riots in Ferguson were “violent and combative” and read first-hand accounts of Ferguson residents from a piece of paper.
Following the presentation was a question and answer session that brought up issues of community, activism and white supremacy. The session soon turned into a discussion among audience members, laced with profanity, criticisms and anecdotes. Nokizaru said the public’s perception of protests and violence in Ferguson as “destroying” a community depends on an individual’s definition of what a community is. “It’s impossible for anyone in any group to agree with each other all the time,” he said. “If someone says this is bad for the community it makes sense to ask them ‘What do you mean?’ Anti-authoritarians need not fool themselves with the media narrative that what they’re doing is better for an entire community.” Nokizaru added that he does not like activists. “Activists have limited the revolts; the logic of activism is an art of begging and negotiating,” he said. In response to a question about whether he thought the outlook of police would change if a police force was more ethnically diverse, Nokizaru said he believes that even though the “mindset” of the police might change, their “function” would not. “A lot of laws that affect people of color exist as a way to criminalize day-to-day activities that are more easily policed with-
in those demographics,” he said. “If police exist, they will do things that are useful for capital and white supremacy. It’s entwined within their historical origins to continually enslave black people.” During the presentation, Nokizaru also referred to himself as a “nihilist” — someone who does not believe in traditional
morality. “You probably won’t agree with most of this presentation if you aren’t coming from an anti-authoritarian viewpoint,” he said. Olivia Lutwak can be reached at olutwak@cornellsun.com.
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‘Nihilistic’ Nila | Nila Nokizaru discusses his leftist perspective of riots in Ferguson, Missouri, with members of the Cornell community during a forum in the Africana Center Tuesday.
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to want a bail order you’ll have to seek that with the county court.” Following the brief proceeding, Cayea was escorted from the “I’m not setting bail. If courtroom you’re going to want a bail and several members order you’ll have to seek the that with the county court.” of audience left the Judge Glenn Galbreath courthouse. Cayea — who is charged with second degree murder — will reappear in front of a grand jury at the Tompkins County Court later this month on Dec. 18. In an interview with law enforcement Friday, Cayea admitted to strangling Jones follow-
ing an argument, according to police records. In a statement regarding multiple events affecting Cornellians that took place over Thanksgiving Break — including an apparent suicide and an automobile accident involving several undergraduates on Sunday — President David Skorton urged Cornellians to remember to ask for help. “As a doctor, teacher and father, as well as Cornell’s president, I want to reassure each of you — especially our students — that it is normal to feel sad or anxious at times, particularly when such tragedies occur,” Skorton wrote. “Pressures such as relationship problems, financial challenges and academic struggles can sometimes make us feel overwhelmed. Remember that your physical and mental well-being is the foundation on which your success is built.” Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
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residence near campus. Professor Mason Peck has praised Shannon’s role on Violet, the student satellite project team. “Shannon had an infectious enthusiasm for exploring space and building our future in it,” he said. “She helped figure out how to make Violet’s star tracker work, and when Violet launches next year and takes its first images of the stars, we’ll have Shannon to thank for it.” Early Sunday morning our campus felt the effect of the death of Andres Lozano, an 18-
year-old man from Miami, Florida. While Andres was not a member of our Cornell community, we feel his loss and our hearts go out to the family and friends who are grieving their more personal loss. Then, later that day, four of our undergraduates were in an auto accident as they were returning to Cornell after break. We are hopeful as they continue their recovery. We send well-wishes to them and to their family and friends. As a doctor, teacher and father, as well as Cornell’s president, I want to reassure each of you — especially our students — that it is normal to feel sad or anxious at times, particularly when such tragedies occur. Pressures such as relationship problems, financial challenges and academic struggles can sometimes make us feel overwhelmed. Remember that your physical and mental well-being is the foundation on which your success is built. You are not alone. Your friends, your family, your teachers, your colleagues, and an array of counselors and advisors are ready to listen and help you through whatever you are facing. If you learn anything at Cornell, please learn to ask for help. It is a sign of wisdom and strength. Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources and safety services, and Susan Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, join with me in asking you to reach out for help when you need it. There is a wide range of support services on and near campus. See the available resources at the bottom of this message. See the “Getting Care” section of share.cornell.edu for additional resources. Please consider taking advantage of these important services. We are a caring community, where the struggles of one of us are a concern for all of us. Check in with friends and classmates if they seem to be in need. Take time for yourself and please ask for help when you need it. We are here for each other, and you are an important piece of what makes us whole. Sincerely, David J. Skorton
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in September and October but we never could settle on a mutually acceptable date,” said Zahos, who is an arts and entertainment writer for The Sun. “Thankfully, she was still excited to come to Cornell — and obviously we were too — so we found a January date with ease. This gives us plenty of time to get the word out.” Zahos added that he believes members of the Cornell community “should [come] to love” Williams. “Friends [and] even strangers have approached me and others on our board requesting we bring her to campus,” he said. “She has grown as a comedian and a satirist over the almost three years she’s been on The Daily Show.” The topics of Williams’ corre-
spondent pieces on The Daily Show — including racism and catcalling — “[go] viral and deservedly so,” according to Zahos. “I think it’s no secret that [the] Cornell [community] is extremely engaged on those issues,” he said. Incoming CUPB President Michael Luzmore ’17 added that Williams will discuss issues that will “resonant with Cornell students.” “We look forward to Jessica bringing he same comedic, yet socially conscious message that she is known for to our campus,” Luzmore said. Tickets will go on sale beginning Tuesday, according to Zahos. Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.
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continue their recovery,” President David Skorton said in a statement to members of the Cornell community Tuesday morning. We send well-wishes to them and to their family and
friends.” The Chemung County Sheriff Office is continuing the investigation of the collision. Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.
NASA Gets New Countdown Clock in Time for Liftoff CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has a new stateof-the-art space capsule on the launch pad and a new high-tech countdown clock to go with it. The multimedia display was lit up Tuesday and counting down the hours, minutes and seconds until Thursday morning’s liftoff of Orion on an unmanned orbital test flight. It’s the nation’s first new spacecraft intended for true outer-space travel by humans since the Apollo moon program. What better way to usher in this new era of exploration, NASA reasoned, than with the latest flat-screen gizmo. So last week, down came the countdown clock that dated back to the Apollo 12 moon shot in 1969 and signaled every space shuttle launch for 30 years. And up went the new display in the same exact spot at the Kennedy Space Center press site that, along with the nearby flag pole, had once earned national historic designation. The new clock is just as long at 26 feet, but a foot taller at 7 feet. NASA spokesman George Diller said the old clock, while still working, had become too expensive to fix and maintain. Parts were hard to come by. It used 349 light bulbs to illumi-
nate the hours, minutes and seconds, the colons and the plus and minus signs. “It was just becoming an antique,” Diller said. The new $280,000 display, similar to those used at sports stadiums, can provide multiple images in addition to the countdown time. “An electronic billboard,” explained Mike Bolger, a NASA ground systems manager. On Tuesday, the countdown numbers ticked down in the lower right corner — far smaller than on the old familiar clock. But that’s because the left half of the display showed a real-time, close-up image of the Delta IV rocket launch pad. In the upper right corner, the words “Orion Test Flight” showed in red, sandwiched between an Orion emblem and the NASA logo. NASA took pains to keep the scene basically the same, with the clock and flag pole, according to Diller. Even so, more than a few space-age veterans were sorry to see the old, familiar clock hauled off. Diller tried to be philosophical about the switch: “We won’t have to worry about changing the light bulbs anymore.” Apollo 17’s launch on Dec. 7, 1972, marked mankind’s last trip to the moon — and the last crewed capsule to leave Earth’s immediate vicinity.
The Council on Sexual Violence Prevention has engaged in productive discussion with an individual from the Ivy League community on topics regarding sexual culture and violence on campus, according to Murphy. The council, established by President David Skorton in 2013, is comprised of staff, faculty, students and local community members. “This fall, we had a very engaging and interesting presentation at a council meeting about a month ago from a faculty member at Yale named Melanie Boyd,” said Murphy, who is co-chair of the council. “She spoke about how we can move the conversation away from, ‘How do we prevent rape from happening?’ [and] ‘How do we prevent sexual violence from happening?’ to a conversation about what is the culture on campus we want to have in place.” Mary Opperman, vice presi-
dent for human resources and safety services and co-chair of the council, said Boyd’s explanation of the different meanings in the interpretation of consent — along a “simple continuum” of consensual welcome, consensual unwelcome and not consensual — will inspire further discussion at future council meetings. “It was a very eye-opening way of thinking about sexual culture and some of the issues that are emerging in [this area],” she said. Prof. Ronald Booker, neurobiology and behavior, said his personal experiences with campus life have led him to consider if the University should have a discussion on whether the removal of fraternities could be a possible solution to changing the sexual culture on campus. “I was in a fraternity in [college] and even though we may not want to acknowledge this, on a day-to-day basis in the house, guys are guys,” he said. “And when you’re together, there’s a chemistry. … I just wonder whether or not [stu-
dents and faculty] have enough courage … to think about one of the main cultural shifts that can be done on this campus — an elimination of fraternal organizations.” Although Murphy agreed with Booker’s statement and said that there may be a higher risk of sexual assault within fraternities, she added that the same can be said for a number of other organizations on campus. “There is a higher risk [of sexual assault] in athletics [and] a higher risk among Greeks for alcohol and other behaviors, but there are also some of the greatest gains in outcomes that come from athletic teams and Greek membership in terms of engagement, leadership and active citizenship,” she said. “The founding values of these organizations have no part in this and [we should use our ability] to get them closer to the founding values.”
Ashley Collis-Burgess can be reached at acollisburgess@cornellsun.com.
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s the first semester of the 2014-2015 income of whites — could be another academic year comes to a close and explanation for the greater likelihood of we return from our gluttonous incarceration. While the riots and looting Thanksgiving binges, it is important to have unfortunately given fodder for claims take a minute to appreciate what we have of illegitimate cause, the deeply rooted relaaccess to as Cornell students and, more tionship between blacks and the police broadly, as educated young people with the must be settled. Draconian policing is not new to this intellectual capacity to tackle the many challenges that may come our way. Rest country. While it is unfortunate that many assured, this column will not be a glittery ethical and hardworking police officers pep talk by any means. Rather, before I may now be vilified because of their profesdive into more topical matters, the spirit of sion, it may be time to rethink how policThanksgiving justifies a paragraph-long ing is done in America. Brown was not the gushy and warm celebration of the place first, and probably not the last black man that has been my home — for better or for to be wrongfully murdered by a white cop. A 2013 drama, Fruitville Station, told the worse — the past two and a half years. It would be a disservice to withhold pos- story of another black man, Oscar Grant, itive remarks for this institution in the days who was murdered on New Year’s Eve by a before finals, when droves of students will cop who had mistakenly pulled his pistol frantically rush into Olin Library for cease- instead of taser while Grant was resisting less studying (don’t forget, all work and no arrest. Although Grant was a flawed man, play makes Jack a dull boy). Thanksgiving, he is humanized in this movie, and his however, does provide a brief respite from wrongful murder and harsh treatment by the semester-long grind and an opportuni- the police was eye opening. Some might argue, though, that the ty to both indulge in paralyzing Netflix marathons, and underhandedly compare prejudice actions of police officers may be college experiences with high school reflective of a societal norm. In a 2003 study at Washington friends. While Cornell University, psycholohas not provided lethargic days at the beach or With these forms of sen- gists found that students who were vodka-fueled gameday “playing cop” were tailgates, it does create a tencing in place, there more likely to shoot nuanced and unique culture where one is on will be a continued adver- at a black man carrying an innocuous a daily basis surrounded sarial relationship object — such as a by highly motivated flashlight — than at and, frankly, interesting between our country’s a white man. These people. Interesting is a kind of broad, alllegal institutions and vul- biases, then, may not be unique to the encompassing word that nerable, “unarmed” police. leaves one unsatisfied. Surely, in light of There is a lack of specicommunities. Ferguson, the idea of ficity to the word that the cop has evolved makes it easy to use, yet spaciousness to it that makes it boring. So from the heroic true American — think when I say that the students at Cornell are Die Hard — to the antagonistic racist. I interesting, what I mean is that we each can’t help but attribute this evolution to the have something to say. Whether we want to growing incarceration rates in the United talk about environmental issues, neurolog- States. Die Hard — a movie that portrays ical research or why binge drinking is bad, John McClane as a cop who feels a civic we aren’t silent about matters. Being vocal obligation to protect even while off duty — is a deterrent to ignorance and complacen- was made in 1988 just prior to the outcy and moreover, makes for a unique cam- growth of the many “three strike laws.” The three strike laws, also known as habitual pus environment. Being a native New Yorker — which I offender laws, were developed in the mid make abundantly clear in each column — 1990s in many states as a means to deter it is always easy for me to find a topic to recidivism through increased sentencing. talk (complain) about. This week, some- With longer sentencing and now widely thing that I wish to be vocal about is the perceived latent racism behind police murder of Michael Brown and the nation- actions, it will be quite difficult for the wide protests that have occurred following movie industry to paint the modern criminal justice system in a positive manner. For the acquittal of officer Darren Wilson. Most media outlets that have followed example, there are punitively harsh penalthe protests and riots have repeatedly ties for repeated drug offenses — more referred to Brown as the “unarmed black than half of all those in jail for drug related man.” The growing rhetoric of the crimes are black. With these forms of sen“unarmed black man” paints the portrait of tencing in place, there will be a continued not just Brown, but of many black individ- adversarial relationship between our counuals across the nation. It doesn’t take an try’s legal institutions and vulnerable, English major to see the “unarmed” help- “unarmed” communities. It is time to be lessness of Brown as a metaphor for the constructive rather than destructive. Beyond Hollywood, now is a chance for vulnerable position of black people within the context of the criminal justice system. this country to evaluate how it should Black people are incarcerated at a rate six address biased law enforcement. There will times higher than that of white people. Is always be criminality in societies. It is the there something that predisposes black public’s obligation, however, in any democindividuals to end up in jail other than the racy, to determine what is just. color of their skin? Is it the environments they grow up in, where the prevalence of incarceration creates a vicious cycle of Philip Susser is a junior in the College of Human desensitization to police authority? Plainly, Ecology. He can be reached at higher poverty rates — the median income pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind of blacks is just over half the median appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.
CORRECTION A Dec. 2 news story, “Events Educate Students About Impact of AIDS,” incorrectly stated that the third annual Cornell AIDS Awareness Week is taking place. In fact, it is the fourth.
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OPINION
Sarah Byrne | Let It Byrne
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A Realistic Romantic Comedy
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Teresa Kim | Her Meneutics
isclaimer: This article is definitely not based on any real events. The author, after all, is a Biology and Society, not Animal Science, major.
Generic Girl is an Animal Science major, busy with vet school apps, who doesn’t really go out that much because she doesn’t particularly enjoy the sensation of losing hours of one’s life to alcohol-induced blackouts. Generic Boy is in ILR, and dreams of one day becoming a lawyer, but in actuality will probably go into consulting, because who is he kidding, that will be easier and he’ll make more money. Generic Girl’s friends drag her out to a party one night, saying that she needs to “have more fun” (direct translation, “get drunk more often”). Generic Boy is filling up his beer at the keg in the kitchen. Girl approaches with an empty cup, and he offers to fill it. She agrees, and they make small talk about their hometowns while the beer foams over the top of the cup, because he’s kind of that great at pouring from a keg. She doesn’t care that much, because he’s also kind of cute. And also funny. He asks her to play beer pong with him, and she agrees. They win their first three games, which is something on the order of a miracle, because she usually sucks at the game. She tells him as much, to which he replies, “We make a good team.” They do make a good team. She looks more closely at him. “Wait, did you take Dinosaurs! last semester?” she asks. He replies in the affirmative, and they realize that they sat a few rows away from each other for 15 weeks the previous spring, sometimes exchanging glances when the professor would say something ridiculous (which was all the time, because, let’s face
They kiss. He doesn’t use his tongue, and he doesn’t try to aggressively make out with her. It’s just a simple kiss. It is lovely, or as lovely as a first kiss on the porch of a fraternity annex can be. it, the class title has an exclamation point). They reminisce about how weird/easy/stupid the class and everyone in it were, and he asks her if she wants to step outside. She nods, suddenly shy. They exit the chaos of the party and stand on the porch. It’s quiet, but in a nice way, with the noise of debauchery now only a dull roar in the background. There are a few lingering drunk boys leaning over the railing, and usually she would roll her eyes at them for being such inebriated idiots, but she’s enjoying her night so far. She wonders why she doesn’t go out more often; this is actually kind of fun. Boy asks if she wants to sit. She looks at the moldy outdoor couch and sort of wants to say no, but also really wants to sit close to him, so she perches on the edge. He touches her waist in a way that would be a little forward, but she’s tipsy and happy and likes this boy. They kiss. He doesn’t use his tongue, and he doesn’t try to aggressively make out with her. It’s just a simple kiss. It is lovely, or as lovely as a first kiss on the porch of a fraternity annex can be. Girl and Boy sit out there, kissing and talking and kissing. After a while, her friends want to leave. They come out to check on her, and she tells them to go ahead and go home without her, she’s good here. They drunkenly stumble toward home, and he asks her what she wants to do. She thinks for a minute, wonders what the acceptable thing to do in this situation is. Then she thinks, who cares, and says she wants to go back to his place. They walk home, holding hands. They go inside, he offers her water, she takes it. They hang out in the kitchen for a while, even though they’re clearly going to hook up, but she appreciates the pretense of conversation. He kisses her again, and they go to his bedroom. The next morning, she wakes up and gets dressed. They make small talk, but it’s not super awkward. They hug goodbye, and she walks home. On the walk, she calls her friend, the one who made her go out last night. “You’ll never guess what happened last night.” Of course, she can guess, she knew exactly what was going on when she left, but she’s happy for Girl. Girl waits a day for Boy to text her, but he doesn’t. She is initially upset, but then thinks, who says I can’t text him? Girls can text boys just as easily as boys can text girls! You know what, I’m going to text him. She texts. Hey! I had fun last night, we should do it again sometime. Three hours later, a reply. Me too! We totally should. A week goes by. Generic Girl wonders if she should text Generic Boy, but doesn’t want to seem “clingy” or “needy,” so she doesn’t. Boys don’t like that. Relationships should be casual and easy, right? Girl wonders if she should text Boy, but doesn’t want him to think their hookup meant more to her than it did to him. And clearly it didn’t mean anything to him, or he would have texted her, right? If he cared, he would text, right? She waits. They never speak again. Sarah Byrne is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She be reached at sbyrne@cornellsun.com. Let It Byrne appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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Face to Face With Faith
ith each column pub- not Republican or any sociolished this semester, political, Tea-party-loving manthere also came a ifestation of it. Nevertheless, realization that I was actually university is a great time to unfit to talk about anything. I reckon with your faith systems named my column Her for there is no better time and Meneutics because I felt driven space to discuss and think to lead a discourse about about them with your friends. hermeneutics in a publication And it was two years ago when that was not really accustomed a friend suggested that I read to discussing hermeneutics. Malcolm Gladwell’s The The drive is still there, but the Tipping Point, which led me to willingness to augment the garner an intense curiosity of realm of hermeneutics for The behavioral economics and Daily Sun’s readership is not as social paradoxes. eager as it once was. It’s hard — This past summer I read especially because hermeneutics Gladwell’s most recent work, can directly correlate itself with David and Goliath. In the tradia discussion of faith and belief tion of The Tipping Point before systems — a discussion that it, he continues to talk about much of our generation, let paradoxes. But he talks about alone The Daily Sun, tends to them within the context of our typically ignore. And so it goes. modern-day understanding of Thus, I’ll spend the remain- David and Goliath and other der of my last column of the situations like it in which we semester in the very spirit of see where our power and what this column was supposed strength reside. What Gladwell to be about: hermeneutics. asserts is that we fail to recogThere are many definitions of nize the story of David and hermeneutics as this area of Goliath was not at all the oppressive study devel- giant he has been advertised to be. oped itself over time. ... So if David wasn’t truly an underBut I’ll dog, then what should we take begin with from the story now? Jacques D e r r i d a ’s definition when he coined the Goliath for what it actually is. term “onto-hermeneutics,” Today, we use the story of which is the continuously David and Goliath as a modunfolding continuity of under- ern-day metaphor to explain the hope of victory for the standing. Let me assure you that this underdog. But, contrary to won’t be an academic discussion popular belief and mythology, or paper by any means; we can Goliath was not at all the all agree that we get enough of oppressive giant he has been that within our ivy-covered advertised to be; instead, he sufconfines. I approach this term, fered from all sorts of physical instead, with a Gladwell-ian ailments, including near-blindgoal. In other words, I’m no ness, putting David in a much academic but a journalist with a better position for victory. So if keen desire to inform. And I David wasn’t truly an underhope that by picking up this or dog, then what should we take any edition of The Daily Sun, from this story now? The answer, according to you are also in on the desire to be informed as well — not let- Gladwell, is faith that endures a ting your education hinder you situation in which victory is from receiving an education improbable. The writer Joseph Epstein once admitted that he outside of the classroom. At first, I was hesitant to talk envied the deep, intelligent about faith (and note that I say faith that certain people seemed “faith” instead of “religion”). to possess during life’s dark I’ve had a lot of people tell me moments. He concluded, in his that Christianity equaled article in The Washington “The GreenRepublicanism, leading me to Monthly, be a lot less vocal about my Monster,” “Faith envy is envy, faith. I am a Christian but I’m alas, about which one can do
nothing but quietly harbor it.” But faith isn’t the mystery that you make it out to be, Epstein. But it can be if you let it. The problem with being unable to see and be faithful to a faith system is because we often found ourselves floating within a society that is faithful, instead, towards our many hierarchies. According to Freud’s theory of the “narcissism of minor differences,” we base our hierarchies on a constant struggle to set ourselves apart from others, legitimizing our own choices and careers over other choices and careers. Within a world of hierarchies, we turn our faith into a weapon, often labelled as “religion,” as we enter this hierarchical world of one-upmanship. Consequently, this hierarchical scheme of restless living can’t help but see religion as a system possessed by the kin of the narrow-minded folk. But there are some things in life being worth narrow-minded about. Just as we go about selecting a career, home or a future spouse, your type of faith should be chosen with great, selective care. The unfortunate thing about faith for our generation is that the American university system does not supply the average student with many courses on religious philosophy or theology to help get us to holistically and intelligently think about what kind of faith should anchor us through life. Instead, it submits to the world of hierarchies I spoke of earlier. So faith, like pleasure reading or other important, leisure activities, has to be daily tended to alongside our homework assignments, whatever this system of faith is. Especially during a period in which our campus thinks about suicide and self-inflicted injuries, I ask you all whether transcendent faith is really that mysterious or if we have just neglected its care. Teresa Kim is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tkim@cornellsun.com. Her Meneutics appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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SCIENCE
Astronomy
Animal Behavior
Plant Science
C.U. Prof Discovers Galaxies 12.5 Billion Light Years Away
Billions and billions | An international team of scientists led by Prof. Dominik Riechers, astronomy, are studying the small dots circled — a cluster of young galaxies forming about 12.5 billion light years away from Earth. COURTESY SUBARU/NASA/JPL-CALTECH
By DOMINIC NEUGEBAUER Sun Contributor
Gazing into the depths of time, more than 12.5 billion light years away, researchers have discovered a highly energetic starburst galaxy — AzTEC-3 — that is producing stars nearly 1,000 times faster than our Milky Way. This discovery was made by an international team of researchers led by Prof. Dominik Riechers, astronomy. While the Milky Way produces roughly two to three new sun-like stars a year, AzTEC-3 is churning out the equivalent of three suns per day, according to Riechers. This dust-filled, cosmic superpower is centrally situated among a triplet of smaller, less active galaxies. According to Riechers, the discovery of AzTEC-3 strongly supports the hypothesis of hierarchical merging — the theory that large galaxies are formed
from the mergers of smaller ones. As opposed to a theorist, Riechers said he describes himself as predominantly an observer. “In a nutshell, we are trying to test theories of galaxy evolution and refine our picture of galaxies by studying them at different epochs, and trying to understand what drives their star formation,” Riechers said. To best achieve this, Riechers and his colleagues search for and observe distant, young galaxies that were born shortly after the Big Bang. “Because the light emitted by stars travels at a finite speed, with every more distant object we are able to detect, we are able to look farther and farther into the universe’s past,” Riechers said. “Essentially it’s a way for us to peek back and see how galaxies have evolved through cosmic time.” To unlock the mysteries of the distant universe, Riechers
and his team use scientific instruments located around the world such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile. As its name implies, ALMA is a large, dispersed conglomerate of many precise antennas that collectively focus on single objects in the sky. According to Riechers, by placing many telescopes very far apart and linking them together, ALMA acts like a telescope of a much larger size, and therefore provides much higher resolution than any single telescope might. Using ALMA to look at distant galaxies, Riechers and his international team aim to observe the chemical composition of “cold gas,” an essential component in the early stages of star formation. According to Riechers, once gas has cooled down sufficiently to develop high enough densities, its gravitational pull becomes strong enough to condense down further to the level where a star is formed, which results in the onset of nuclear fusion in the center of the star. By comparing the chemical composition of the gas found in young galaxies to galaxies that are more mature, astronomers are able to able to build a more complete picture of how galaxies have evolved through time. “As you go back further in time, the chemical composition of galaxies changes because a smaller fraction of heavy elements has been synthesized,” Riechers said. Therefore, the abundance of these heavy elements influences the way that these stars evolve, according to Riechers. “This is one of the reasons early galaxies look different than they do today,” he said. However, even when the Universe was only 500 million years old, Riechers said he has found evidence that early galaxies such as AzTEC-3 may have been chemically enriched with dust and heavy elements — heavier than hydrogen and helium — by an even earlier generation of stars. Going forward, in the next decade, Riechers said he and his colleagues hope to look back even further, at this earlier generation of stars. “We can extrapolate and predict from models and simulations, but the only way to really understand what is going on is to observe it,” Riechers said. “What we hope to do in the next decade is to probe back to this earlier generation of stars and galaxies and see the very initial stage of things coming together.” Dominic Neugebauer can be reached at djn59@cornell.edu.
Chima Amadi ’15 Finds Hamsters Are More Aggressive in Winter By SHIRA POLAN Sun Staff Writer
Chima Amadi ’15 spent this past summer studying aggressive behavior in the most unlikely of animals: Siberian dwarf hamsters. Amadi, an animal science major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said a life-long interest in animals led him to initially pursue the preveterinary track at Cornell. However, he soon switched to pre-med in his junior year, fearing that he would not be able to save enough animals due to the prohibitive costs for owners. “If I can’t save lives, it’s not a good career for me,” he said. “Who is going to pay 20 grand to get an MRI for a small animal when you can simply buy a new one for very little money?” Despite no longer being pre-vet, Amadi joined a research team established by the joint efforts of Iowa University and Indiana University to investigate animal aggression. Amandi said that the project was not quite what he had expected when he
applied for the internship. “Honestly, I hadn’t read the information too closely, and I thought that the research was on Siberian tigers. Once I got the internship, I discovered it was actually on Siberian hamsters,” Amadi said. The research, taking place at the Center of Integrated Study of Animal Behavior at Indiana University, investigated changes in hamster vocalizations depending on season, sex and social conflict. “We hypothesized that the hamsters would be more vocal in the summer than in the winter,” Amadi said. “They can vocalize to express aggression, and we wanted to find out if day length could affect aggressiveness, and if that differs between sexes.” To do this, Amadi and his fellow researchers kept Siberian dwarf hamsters in enclosures and observed the interactions that took place when an “intruder” hamster was placed in the “resident” hamster’s enclosure. This occurred over a period of seven weeks, where the light exposure was altered to mimic seasonal changes in the wild.
While measuring the frequency of the hamsters’ vocalizations, the researchers categorized the sounds into broadband or ultrasonic frequencies. “Before the first attack, the hamster would emit a broadband call, which had an affect on the interaction — the intruder would back off,” Amadi said. “We also found that females were actually more aggressive than males, and would emit more broadband calls during interactions.” The researchers also found differences in aggression and vocalization during the short day photoperiod, which mimicked winter sun exposure. “Short day hamsters were more aggressive than long day hamsters,” Amadi said. “This makes a lot of sense, since in the winter, both males and females need to compete for the same, limited resources.” Amadi said that while there were no direct implications for humans in these findings, the research shows that Siberian dwarf hamsters can be used as an effective model for investigating the intertwined effects of factors such as season and gender on communication in mammals.
“Studying animal behavior can [also] tell us a lot about the environment,” he said. “If we know that behavior changes with changes in season, we can have a marker for issues such as global climate change.” Currently, Amadi has moved onto research at Cornell, where he is studying the origin of ovarian cancer with Prof. Alexander Nikitin, pathology, at the College of Veterinary Medicine. While he no longer works in the field of animal behavior, Amadi did visit the CISAB Exotic Feline Rescue Center after completing his internship, where he was finally able to observe tigers. “I stood five feet from the tigers, and I actually noticed them perform similar behaviors to the hamsters. They weren’t all that different,” he said. Amadi said he intends to take a gap year after graduation, and then attend medical school to earn an MBA and M.D. in oncology in order to study ovarian cancer. Shira Polan can be reached at spolan@cornellsun.com.
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SCIENCE
Marianne Collard ’15 Studies Potential Applications of Fenugreek By REEM KHONDAKAR Sun Senior Writer
Long before pills, vaccines and sour cough medicine, there were plants. The traditional use of plants to heal and cure has been recorded in various documents, some of which Marianne Collard ’15, a biological engineering major and Spanish minor, used for her research on the health effects of the plant Fenugreek, Trigonella foenum-graecum. Collard works in the lab of Prof. Manuel Aregullin, plant biology and molecular biology and genetics. She joined Aregullin’s lab, the Laboratory of Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry, in the end of her sophomore year after taking his class Plant Biology 3800: Strategies and Methods in Drug Discovery. “I was interested in plants, their medicinal properties and applying those to human health, which is the sort of research he does,” she said. Collard began studying phytoestrogens, chemical compounds found in some plants that, if consumed, can interact with human hormones. As the name suggests, phytoestrogens are similar to the human hormone estrogen. These plant compounds can bind to human estrogen receptors and mimic their effects. For example, according to Collard, both human estrogen and phytoestrogens are known to promote breast milk production in lactating women. In order to find a plant containing phytoestrogens, and one that had not been widely studied, Collard searched indigenous, ethno-botanical records for plants
used to increase breast milk production. According to Collard, such plants were likely to contain phytoestrogens. The least-studied plant turned out to be Fenugreek. “Now, the process of our research is to isolate the exact compound [in Fenugreek] responsible for the reported biological activity found in these records,” Collard said. The only engineer in Aregullin’s lab, Collard uses chemical techniques such as thin layer chromatography and spectroscopy to analyze Fenugreek. She works in the Biotechnology Building on cell biology assays, and in the Plant Sciences Building, where she does most of her chemical analysis. Greater understanding of phytoestrogens may have significant implications for women with some types of breast cancer. According to Collard, some breast cancer cells are known to proliferate in response to estrogen. “Those women may have to limit their estrogen intake,” Collard said. “If they regularly eat foods that contain phytoestrogens and are elevating their estrogen intake without being aware of it, it could cause potential health hazards.” But Fenugreek also has potentially beneficial effects on health. Indeed, major applications of Collard’s research involve both toxicological and medicinal applications. Depending on one’s particular health situation, one might be advised to avoid Fenugreek or eat it. These effects depend on what chemical compounds she finds in the plant. “In the long run, it could be used for
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Drug discovery | Marianne Collard ’15 is studying the compounds in Fenugreek, a plant that has a history of being used as a way to increase breast milk production. medicine, but right now we are just taking the first step,” Collard said. “Does it have estrogen activity, and if so, what compound is it? What does it tell us about how we can use it?” Aside from doing research, Collard is also captain of the cross-country team and runs for the track team. She has also been a Learning Strategies Center tutor for introductory chemistry. Collard said she is interested in applying to graduate school in pharmacology and eventually, running her own lab. “My ideal career would be to conduct clinical trials on more natural medicine and prove or disprove whether they work,” she
said. Through her research, Collard said she hopes to bring attention to a plant that may significantly affect human health. Much of this stems from the fact that the Food and Drug Administration does not regulate many plants that are used as complementary or alternative forms of medication. “By showing that there definitely is this compound that has estrogenic activity, we are raising awareness for people and saying, you might want to keep your eye on it,” Collard said. Reem Khondakar can be reached at rkhondakar@cornellsun.com.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Sun’s Top 10 Albums of 2014 Run the Jewels 2
Run the Jewels
Listening to Killer Mike and El-P’s music is a bit strange — they make it quite clear that they do not give a fuck about you. Instead, these guys make music because they love hip-hop; sharing it with fans is just a bonus. So when Run the Jewels 2 dropped in October, it was what the name implied: A rare jewel in a year full of forgettable rap. Exhibiting chemistry and charisma that is virtually unparalleled, Atlanta and Brooklyn were again united in throat slicing aggression, dope beats and engaging social intelligence. From the sexual explicitness of “Love Again” to the politically aware “Early,” every song on RTJ2 is a reminder of the strengths in storytelling and emotion that hip-hop enjoys. Ultimately, RTJ2 established itself as a career defining release without gimmicks: It was just rap, pure and simple. — Calvin Patten
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Benji
Sun Kil Moon
Faced by death and middle age and lamp shade purchases, Benji finds the narrator ruminating on the inequalities and bad rolls seemingly dealt by life. Generally over nothing but simple acoustic guitar, Kozelek simply opens himself up to anyone willing to listen. From the tragic murder/failed suicide of “Jim Wise” to the lip-quivering sadness of “Micheline” to the explicitly sexual “Dogs,” Benji was an unblinking therapy session — mass produced. The album closes with the jazz hinted “Ben’s my Friend,” possibly the perfect encapsulation of mid-life crisis, as Kozelek overcomes a down period to return to the studio. And thank god he did — Benji is a transcendent record deserving of all the praise it has and will enjoy. — Calvin Patten
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LP1
FKA Twigs
It’s time to hop on the bandwagon. FKA Twigs (Formerly known as Twigs), is an English singer/dancer/gymnast and a force to be reckoned with on her kickass album, LP1. On it she creates her own brand of slow, creepy, ethereal yet utterly beautiful and soothing R&B that is hard not to listen to again. It is electronic-infused, interestingly arranged, and Twigs’ voice is heartbreaking in the best way. For those just trying to get a feel, start with the more popular tracks “Two Weeks” and “Pendulum.” For those trying to get weird check out the video for her song “Video Girl.” It’ll be worth it. In the latter she talks about being “the girl from the video,” which she is. Before rising to fame on best of 2014 lists and spotlights on sites like Billboard and Spotify, Twigs, also known as Tahliah Debrett Barnett, was a background dancer for artists like Jessie J, Ed Sheeran and Taio Cruz. — Arielle Cruz
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You’re Dead! Flying Lotus
In just 45 minutes, FlyLo set out to explore the final moments before we pass on, aided by a bevy of guest acts and a commitment to throwing together a smorgasbord of musical trends. Rarely will you find an album informed in equal part by hard-bop, prog-jazz, hip hop, nu-soul and modern dance music, but Flying Lotus makes it look easy — and sound great. Flying Lotus is, above all else, a mad scientist. You're Dead!, a Frankenstein-esque assemblage of jazz instrumentation, hip hop rhythms, and electronic textures, is an experiment gone horribly right. — Sam Bromer (originally printed Oct. 6, 2014)
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Syro
Aphex Twin
The music of Aphex Twin holds no anchor to any time or genre. There are synthesizers in Syro, so we can say Aphex has gone retro, but only in the context of his work, which is always light years ahead or sideways of whatever else is happening in the world of IDM, EDM, pick your capital letters. Syro is more a summation of Aphex’s work prior — joining glitch and ambient, jungle and soul, maximalism and minimalism — than a drastic leap forward, yet there’s still no electronic musician distorting wave patterns with the depth and detail of any song off this album. From the underwater dance party of “minipops 67” to the 10-minute trip around the world of “XMAS_EVET10,” from the luscious funk of “produk 29” to the Satie tenderness of “aisatsana,” Syro cycles through styles with what would be randomness if not for Aphex’s mastery of texture, rhythm, dynamics, progression — you know, music. No album this year rewards repeated listens like it. — Zachary Zahos
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St. Vincent St. Vincent
If there’s one thing to be said about St. Vincent, it’s that Annie Clark seems to have had a shit-ton of fun making it. Disparate sounds coalesce into puzzlingly addictive melodies, from the phased-out hi-hats and slinking synths that lend the paranoia-brewing “Rattlesnake” its ramshackle funk to the squiggly start-stop dialtone insanity that becomes “Bring Me Your Loves.” Every track features at least one left turn, and even when they aren’t huge ones — “Regret,” for instance, sounds like Clark trying to write a breakup track that could fit on Zeppelin IV — St. Vincent’s compositional know-how and lyrical acuity keeps things fresh as always. After the assured adventurousness of St. Vincent, I think Annie Clark is very close to being one of the “heroes on every barstool” she sings so tenderly about — James Rainis (originally printed Feb. 27, 2014)
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Believe it or not, Swans makes great study music. Start with “Screen Shot,” the first track off To Be Kind, and let the slow build of quivering guitar, metronomic kick drum and whispered monosyllables lull you into a state of Zen. But that calm lasts only so long, before the snare head cracks and the guitars unleash a maelstrom of whirring, neighing entropy. The majority of songs on this album proceed in such a fashion, starting if not calm then tame before launching into a soundscape that may just approximate that of Hell. Yet this is not death metal or screamo or anything like that. Michael Gira is enamored with classical music and the avant-garde, so his songs obey a structure endowed to Beethoven, who was also no stranger to thrilling and deafening bombast. The result is two hours of abrasive yet oddly centering music. It’ll be torture for most people, but for me it’s Ritalin. — Zachary Zahos
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Lykke Li’s I Never Learn is the breakup album of the decade — not only does it wallow in pure agony on such eviscerating tracks as “Love Me Like I’m Not Made of Stone” and “No Rest for the Wicked,” it manages to find self-actualization and meaning in even the bleakest of moods. Li layers her already unfairly affecting vocals and employs a vast range of instrumentation — including a choir, probably a dozen violins and a steel guitar — to create a 33-minute album that somehow packs the emotional punch of the Gone With the Wind overture. 2014’s lonely didn’t have to look far for solace, or for shameless romanticization of their lovelorn sulking. I Never Learn is short, stunning and The Sun’s favorite bummer of the year. — Kaitlyn Tiffany
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Our Love Caribou
Our Love is an ethereal reflection of the best that electronic music has to offer. It’s soothing and trancey, yet simultaneously brings melodic distinctiveness. Singer Dan Snaith’s wispy falsetto is delicate and satisfying. He juxtaposes airy high notes against deep bass rhythms to create a lounge-like atmosphere. Snaith also brings together diverse instruments to add to the album’s complexity. Though the album picks up its pace at moments, it remains dominantly calm and contemplative. The repetitive instrumentation in conjunction with Snaith’s harmonic vocal lines makes this album a noteworthy musical experiment. Listen to this album and momentarily escape yourself; you may just find yourself in an infinitely pleasing delusion. — Anita Alur
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With the October release of Hell Can Wait, 21 year-old Vince Staples completed the transition from guest verse rapper to hip-hop heavyweight. Fellow California rappers Schoolboy Q and YG may have received much more attention for their pop influenced ghetto-glamour albums, but it Staples whose raps actually documented life. The seven-track album connected the ills and joys of being poor and black as succinctly as any release since Kendrick. From “Screen Door” detailing the horrors of his father selling drugs out of his house to “Limos” detailing the struggles of relationships where each side is concerned the other is taking advantage, Staples’ tracks are starkly focused and moving. Ultimately highlighted by the cruelly bleak singles “Blue Suede” and “Hands Up,” Hell Can Wait is a tape that celebrates the mere act of surviving. — Calvin Patten
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five to 15 minutes. The book moves fluidly between personal anecdotes organized in themed chapters and amusing nuggets of wisdom in easy-to-follow list format, such as “13 Things Should you be worried if you have a lot in common I’ve Learned Are Not Okay to Say to Friends,” and “17 with Lena Dunham? Things I Learned from My Father.” I learned from Lena Besides having an HBO show and book out, which is Dunham’s father: “Confidence lets you pull anything off, incidentally nothing to worry about. Reading Dunham’s even Tevas with socks.” I then learned what Tevas are from new book, Not That Kind of Girl, was a real Google. This diverse format is inside look into the soul, psyche and well-suited to readers with vagina of the ever-rising celebrity, but it short attention spans, but Not That Kind of Girl also, surprisingly, showed me a reflecit is not entirely light readtion of myself. I saw thoughts and feeling, either. Dunham By Lena Dunham ings I’ve expressed almost word-fortouches on, and selectively Random House word on some of the pages of her memreally delves into, the trials oir-meets-advice book. I wondered if of growing up, living with this was cause for alarm, not because OCD, rape, trying to be a she is a young and hugely successful grown-up at work, when a writer-actor, obviously, but because she fixation on mortality has has experienced her fair share of traugone too far, sleeping alone ma, not the least of which includes bat(when and when not to) tling a mental illness. And she’s pretty … and other key issues. let’s call it quirky? When I say that you should not be concerned about So when you read her book — which I do recommend relating even to Dunham’s least glamorous moments, I unless you are strikingly averted to nonfiction as a genre mean in part that her story is not so unusual. The yucky, or unconquerably queasy at the mention of a gynecologist nitty-gritty bits in her book are largely things that all — should you be worried when you inevitably draw sim- women go through, with an undeserving boyfriend ilarities between your psyche and hers? Should you panic switched out for a real or imagined vaginal defect here and that you, too, feel the urge to say humiliating things to there. In this lies both the beauty and the tedium of Not large crowds of people, reference an infection in the con- That Kind of Girl. It’s a compilation of some sparkling text of a pick-up line and/or to stay in relationships that tales that remind us that we can all empathize with one feel persistently, pervasively crappy? No. Though there another’s experiences and a few powerful moments that were points where I was uncertain of what it was, in the discuss what is too little discussed. But the other side of end I do think Dunham has a message in her madness, that coin is the question as to why we are reading a story which seems like there is hope for all of us. Though to that we already know. Why exactly should we read about speak to our dissimilarities, I will say that my mind has Lena Dunham’s “wonky” right ovary and fad diets and girl never “wandered to the future, post-college, when I’d cre- crushes when we’ve all got our own metaphorical wonky ate my own schedule that served my need to eat a rich ovaries? Well, because we can is one answer. If you’re looksnack every five to 15 minutes.” I, in fact, frequently ing for a second line of defense for when you’re cowering worry about the future, post-college, when I will likely behind the tattling black and pink cover on the subway, have a real job that prevents me from having snacks every however, then I think Dunham’s message is a worthwhile MADELINE C. JONES Sun Staff Writer
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one, even if it’s hidden among some convoluted and hilarious side notes. I think, in her own words, it is this: “I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, ‘It was all as it should have been.’” Madeline C. Jones is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at mjc37@cornell.edu.
2015: All Adventurous Women
he past few weeks have brought a barrage of bad news. I don’t know if it’s because I get a solid chunk of my news from Jezebel, or just because the world sucks for women, but it’s been difficult to be my cheerful self in the wake of Shannon Jones ’15, Cosby, the resignation of the head of my high school over mishandling the sexual harassment of students by a teacher I knew and liked and, finally, taking a deep breath and reading the Rolling Stone article about UVA. Because I am a 21-year-old history major with neither the time nor resources to be able to do much about any of those soul-crushing stories, not to mention the plethora of other non-gender-related tragedies, I will instead focus on something I can control: what television I’ll be watching in 2015. All of the following shows I am psyched about are written, directed by or starring
women, which is just the glimmer of hope that I need these last few weeks in this desolate frozen tundra. Most have won or been nominated for Emmys, so it’s not news that they’re phenomenal and admittedly pretty mainstream. They are enjoyed by audiences of all genders and they come with the official Julia Moser Stamp of Approval. 1. GIRLS S EASON 4, J ANUARY 11: While my opinion on this show and its controversial creator, Lena Dunham, has changed many many times, there is no doubt that it is objectively an entertaining and well-written series, even if sometimes I want to murder all the characters. But that’s why Girls is great: A small part of you identifies with them and is ashamed of seeing those less than likable qualities zoomed in on and dissected. Watching it is like a therapy session with an amazing soundtrack, cute clothes and lines such as: “You look like a slutty
Von Trapp child.” 2. PARKS AND RECREATION S EASON 7, J ANUARY 13: This season of Parks and Rec will the be last, and while I am sad to see it go, I am incredibly pleased that it will end on a high note as opposed to dragging on and on until Leslie Knope is elected president. I would watch that, however. I would also absolutely vote for President Knope. I have just finished Amy Poehler’s memoir Yes Please (also gets the Julia Moser Stamp of Approval because it makes you feel all the feelings) and I am filled with admiration. This show has been consistently funny and upbeat, and Jon Hamm will be a part of Season 7, so I’m pretty excited. 3. BROAD CITY S EASON 2, J ANUARY 14: I watched the first season of this Poehlerproduced web-series-turned-TV-show in two days. If you haven’t yet done that, I strongly suggest it as a means to procrastinate studying for your finals. It follows two friends in New York in their 20s, Abbi and Ilana, as they struggle to be adult people in the world, maneuvering creepy locksmiths, shellfish allergies and chiseled men who turn out to be in terrible improv groups.
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4. INSIDE AMY SCHUMER S EASON 3, A PRIL 21: Of the Comedy Central sketch comedy shows, Inside Amy Schumer is rivaled only by Key and Peele. Schumer is known for having a lot of material about sex (her stand-up special is called “Mostly Sex Stuff ”) but the show covers a much
more vast expanse of the human experience including the mocking of Aaron Sorkin and what to do when you find out you have herpes (Schumer tries to bribe God, played by Paul Giamatti.) 5. VEEP SEASON 4, A PRIL TBD: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, of Seinfeld fame, has won three Emmys for the past three seasons of this magnificent political comedy in which LouisDreyfus plays Selina Meyer, the f o u l mouthed V i c e Pr e s i d e n t Carrot Top of the Confessions United States. It’s like House of Cards, except instead of Frank Underwood’s successful schemes, Meyer’s plans crash and burn in the funniest way. If you have not watched Veep, I pity you for you are only preventing yourself from achieving true comedic enlightenment.
Julia Moser
Other reasons to be hopeful and excited for 2015 include the series premiere of Togetherness on HBO (created by the Duplass Brothers), The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (replacing Colbert’s slot on Comedy Central), Trainwreck (the Amy Schumer/Judd Apatow movie starring Tilda Swinton and Bill Hader) and, presumably, the 2015 we were all promised in Back to the Future Part II — hoverboards and all. Julia Moser is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com. Carrot Top Confessions appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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Red Has Strong Defensive Showing WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY Continued from page 16
Although the Red couldn’t clinch the win, the squad put up a strong performance overall. Voorheis (3-6-1) posted her best performance of the season, stopping 27-of-28 shots including a few standout saves during the second period when the foe rallied to find the equalizer. Voorheis said that the heated rivalry with Mercyhurst made the Red especially pumped to return to action following Thanksgiving break. “Going into the game against Mercyhurst, everyone was extremely excited and motivated to
bring everything we had because of our history with this team,” she said. “I thought the game was an extremely competitive, hard-fought match.” Voorheis was effusive in her praise for the defensive effort the squad put forth. “The defensive effort was a huge step forward for our team, as I thought our awareness in our own zone was on point,” she said. Next up for Cornell is a match against in-state rivals Syracuse on Tuesday, December 2 at home. Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.
UAB Shuts Down Football Program BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — UAB is shutting down the football program after one of the Blazers’ stronger seasons, the first school to make that costcutting move in nearly two decades. The university announced the decision Tuesday minutes after President Ray Watts met with the Blazers players and coaches, while several hundred UAB students and fans gathered outside for the third straight day in efforts to support the program. UAB made the decision after a campus-wide study conducted by a consulting firm over the past year. “The fiscal realities we face — both from an operating and a capital investment standpoint — are starker than ever and demand that we take decisive action for the greater good of the Athletic
Department and UAB,” Watts said in a statement released by the university. “As we look at the evolving landscape of NCAA football, we see expenses only continuing to increase. When considering a model that best protects the financial future and prominence of the Athletic Department, football is simply not sustainable.” UAB said in the release that it subsidizes $20 million of the athletic department’s operating budget of some $30 million annually, and said both those numbers rank fifth in Conference USA. The university said the difference over the next five years would be an extra $49 million with football, including a projected $22 million needed for football facilities and upgrades.
Tiger Woods Makes His Comeback WINDERMERE, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods is making his latest comeback in golf with an eye to the past. Equipped with a new teacher and a stronger body, Woods said Tuesday he is working on a swing that incorporates previous moves that date as far back as his amateur
days. He referred to it as “new, but old,” and the 14-time major champion will start testing it this week against an 18-man field of elite players at the Hero World Challenge. How old were some of those videotapes he watched of his previous swing?
“Actually, it’s pretty interesting trying to find a VHS recorder,” Woods said. “I have a lot of tape like that. Fortunately, my mom is of age where she has that still in the house. So that was very beneficial to look at some of the old tapes.” Otherwise, it’s another new beginning. This is the fifth time Woods has returned from injury — the back, this time — over the last five years. The breaks have ranged from four weeks to four months. He last competed on Aug. 9 when he missed the cut at the PGA Championship, ending his shortest season (eight tournaments) since his 2008 knee surgery and the first time he did not have a top 10. Woods said he had enough time off to let his body heal and to think about where he wants his game to go. First, he split with swing coach Sean Foley, ending a three-year relationship that produced eight PGA Tour wins but no majors. “I think that physically, I just wasn’t able to do some of the things that we wanted to do in the golf swing,” Woods said. Woods said there was no reason to look back at old swings at the time because he felt he was headed in the right direction — three victories in 2012, and five wins in 2013 in which he was voted PGA Tour player of the year for the 11th time. Those two years were relatively free of injuries. “But unfortunately, physically I was getting damaged doing it,” he said. “So in retrospect, you look at it. Was I ever hurt when I was little? Granted, I don’t think we all were. I think we all could jump off roofs and nothing would break. But playing detective and looking back on it, you have to somewhat have an understanding physically of where you are at the time.”
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athletes like Sisserson to get the ball rolling early in the season. “The most important things for me to work The Cornell men’s and women’s track and on right now are power and speed,” Sisserson field squads look to this weekend for a strong said. “Although the pole vault is extremely start to the 2014-15 season. The Red’s first technical, the majority of the vault is dictated challenge is the Greg Page Relays hosted in by the run. Becoming faster and stronger will Barton Hall on Saturday, December 6. The rel- yield the biggest improvements.” The Greg Page Relays atively small meet will are just the beginning for kickoff the season and “The most important this competitive team. hopefully get the Red off The Red looks to capitalto a constructive start. things for me to work ize on the momentum “The Greg page relays on right now are power from the cross country are actually a very early season in the Relays as season meet, and a lot of and speed.” well as future matches, [people] won’t be competGrant Sisserson according to freshman ing,” sophomore distance Oseoba Airewele. runner James Gowans “Although this is one said. “For those that are its an opportunity to run and evaluate the team’s of our less competitive meets, I think its pretty training early before the big competition important that we perform well. Even if we do well early on, as long as we don’t settle we won’t starts.” Sophomore polevaulter Grant Sisserson peak,” Airewele said. “Especially after the returns this year after a competitive and incredible season cross country had, some strong performances would continue the impressive freshman showing. “I think the team’s main focus for the Greg momentum and remind us that hard work Page Relays is just to get our bearings,” pays off. I expect both the men’s and women’s Sisserson said. “This meet doesn’t really carry teams to win soundly.” After the Greg Page Relays, both the men’s that much weight in the grand scheme of things and the first meet doesn’t always go as and women’s track and field team look towards planned for everyone. However, I’m certain the Southern Tier Collegiate Open to kick off that this meet will help us as a team in begin- the new year on January 9 in Barton Hall. ning to get used to the untold amount of success that awaits us.” Lisa Awaitey can be reached at The team looks to powerful and consistent lawaitey@cornellsun.com. By LISA AWAITEY
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Early start | Sophomore distance runner James Gowans said that the meet provides the Red with a valuable opportunity to evaluate its abilities early on in the season.
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bottom three of the standings, and the Championship teams that are promoted are the top two plus a third, determined by a four-team playoff. This game was the playoff final, a game in which the winning team would receive not only a place in the Premier League next season, but also the millions of dollars in extra TV money that comes along with it. Zamora’s goal gave the place in the Premiership to QPR, sending Derby County to another season in the Championship. This past summer, Cardiff, Norwich and Fulham were sent down from the Premier League, and Burnley, Leicester and QPR came up from the Championship. This past weekend’s round of games means each team has played 13 games so far, or roughly onethird of the season, thus it is fair to reflect on the promoted three clubs’ progress acclimating to the tougher opposition of the Premier League. Burnley has had a rough time so far. It took the club 11 matches to record its first PL victory, a 1-0 triumph at home to Hull. They followed that up with a 2-1 win at Stoke and a 1-1 draw versus Aston Villa. That’s three in a row
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unbeaten, and that is quite an achievement for a club that many see as punching above its weight. No one gave them a chance at survival to start the season, with many projecting them to finish dead last in the 20-team division, but they seem to have a shot at survival if they can find the right group of players up front. Goals will be the main concern for Burnley, and much of the goalscoring weight will be placed on Danny Ings’ shoulders. Ings has started well after being injured for several games, though it was the performances of Burnley’s other front men during Ings’ injury that will cause worry. Lukas Jutkiewicz, Ashley Barnes and Marvin Sordell failed to impress and have done little to show that Burnley’s strikers are Premier League quality. In the end, I would expect Burnley to put up a fight, but drop to 19th place and straight back to the Championship. Leicester City has had a roller coaster season so far. A wonderful start to the campaign, including a 5-3 comeback win versus Manchester United, led some to believe Leicester was a shoo-in to survive this year. However, they just completed a five-game stretch without scoring a goal, so any momentum they gained during the winning spell has dried up, and they now occupy last place in the Premier
League. One of the keys to their winning run was the form of Argentine striker Leonardo Ulloa. The club record signing from Brighton and Hove Albion in the summer had a stretch of five goals in five games. He has since faded and went five games without a shot at goal. For Leicester to stay up, they’ll need Ulloa and their talented attacking midfielders like Riyad Mahrez to contribute goals. At the end of the season, expect Leicester to struggle and fall to 18th place, straight back to the Championship. Queens Park Rangers is always a difficult club to figure out. Midway through the 2012-2013 campaign, they were in last place, so they went on a spending spree in the January transfer window, bringing in expensive players from all over the world. That certainly did not work. The team never jelled as a unit and the squad was relegated to the Championship. After a year in the Championship, they went straight back up to the Premier League on the aforementioned Zamora goal. This year, they have tried not to make the same mistakes, refusing to make major changes to their team. Charlie Austin has really emerged as their main goal threat in recent weeks, and they’ll need him to be firing on all cylinders to stay up. If the defense holds together, QPR could find
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themselves in 16th place and safe at the end of the season. QPR will be the best of these three clubs come the end of the year because they’ve shown they can get results against teams around them in the standings. When you run a team with a sole goal of survival in the division, like these three clubs, it doesn’t matter what happens when you play teams much better than yours like Chelsea or Manchester United — you know most of those games will be lost, and the teams you’ll be competing with at the bottom will lose those too. Even the games against middle teams like Stoke City and West Ham are decent chances for your club to pull an upset, but the games that really matter are matches against those rival clubs. The six matches that feature two of these three clubs — Burnley, QPR and Leicester — will be pivotal. QPR has shown that they can beat the teams around them, and their strikers seem a notch above the others, so I give them the nod as the best of the three with the most likely chance of survival. But fans of these three clubs will be in for a frustrating year as they struggle to keep up with more talented opposition. Kevin Linsey can be reached at klinsey@cornellsun.com.
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FINAL RECORD
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58-42
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SWIMMING AND DIVING
Cornell Squad Readies For Ithaca College Invite swim in events they wouldn’t normally swim and to compete in a championship atmosphere,” he said. “The team is excited This weekend, the Cornell men’s and … and we are ready to get back in the pool women’s swimming and diving teams will and swim fast.” Hallowell also added that the Red sees compete at the annual Ithaca College Invitational. Coming off a win against the the meet as an opportunity to prove its University of Pennsylvania and a narrow abilities and put up strong times that will loss to Princeton, the Red looks to have a help some swimmers qualify for the Ivy strong showing against its cross-town rival. Championships. “For some guys IC is The squad enters the an opportunity to make weekend match coming the travel team and prove off a series of rigorous “We are ready to get themselves as crucial practices, according to back in the pool and members on the team,” senior Timothy swim fast.” he said. “It is also an Satterthwaite. He said opportunity for the disthat he believes the Red Timothy Hallowell tance swimmers to put will be fatigued as a up strong times that will result. “We are going to be pretty broken qualify them for Ivy Championships later down as well be coming off of a few days in the season. We have always had a lot of of brutal practices. It will be interesting to overall success at the meet and it is always see how people swim while being so bro- fun to see guys swim really fast.” The IC Invitational offers the Red a less ken down,” he said. Senior Timothy Hallowell said the stressful non-Ivy League environment in meet provides some swimmers with the which the squad can practice and hone opportunity to compete in a broader range their skills in a competitive setting. Additionally, the invite is valuable in of events. “The IC Invite is always a fun meet preparing the Red for the Ivy League because it gives guys an opportunity to Championships later this season. By JOHN MCGRORTY
Sun Staff Writer
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Making a splash | The Red looks to defeat its cross-town rival this weekend when it competes at the annual Ithaca College Invitational.
Satterthwaite said that racing through fatigue will be the Red’s biggest challenge throughout the invitational. “Other teams there will be rested and shaved and we won’t be so it’s important to get good races out of that,” he said. “The Season so far has been stellar and going forward we just need to put our noses to the grindstone and train hard for the next 8 weeks before the end of the season.” On the women’s side, the Red also looks to continue to develop and excel this season at the Ithaca Invite. The women also recently beat the University of Pennsylvania and missed beating Princeton by a narrow margin. Both programs have put forward strong
results this season and have made names for themselves in the Ivy League. According to Hallowell, the Red is proud of its progress this season and is optimistic about the future. “This season has been unbelievable so far,” he said. “Coming off a few rough years we have been able to have more Ivy wins this year than in the past three years combined. To know that we are ranked high in the Ivy League and that our competitors see our success feels great. We know we have huge potential going forward and we are all excited to keep going strong this season.” John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.
WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY
Evaluating Mercyhurst Matchup Ends in Stalemate Three Newcomers Cornell explodes in the opening period to take the early advantage J
unior Hoilett dribbled in down the right side, drawing the attention of two Derby County defenders. As Hoilett worked his way down to the end line in the 90th minute, fans around Wembley Stadium in London waited in suspense. Surely there was not long left in the game between Derby and QPR, which was still scoreless, and both sets of sup-
Kevin Linsey The Beautiful Game porters knew how much this game would mean to the players on top of how much money and recognition this win could give the club. Hoilett, the QPR winger, delivered a cross into the box which bounced off Derby captain Richard Keogh’s knee, right into the path of QPR striker Bobby Zamora. He made no mistake, clinically finishing to give QPR a 1-0 win, sending Wembley into a frenzy just seconds before the game would end. Why did this game mean so much? In English soccer, and across the European continent, many leagues use a tiered league system. In England, this consists of a Premier League, and below that is the confusingly-named English Championship league. Each year, three teams from the Premier League and three from the Championship switch places. The Premier League teams sent down are the See LINSEY page 15
By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER
Sun Assistant Sports Editor
Coming off an eight-day layoff for Thanksgiving break, the Cornell women’s ice hockey squad returned to action on Monday night, playing host to long-time rival Mercyhurst. Despite a strong performance from the Red, the game was capped at a 11 overtime tie. Similar to past matchups in the series between the Red and the Lakers, the game remained tight for the fully 60 minutes of play. Both teams jumped out to a quick start in the opening period with strong offensive production. Additionally, both squads generated many scoring chances in the first, but the Red was the first to come through just over 13 minutes in. Cornell’s lone goal came from junior defenseman Morgan Richardson off a drop pass from senior captain Brianne Jenner. Looking for the equalizer in the second period, Mercyhurst racked up 14 shots on net during the frame. The Lakers couldn’t get one past Cornell sophomore goaltender Paula Voorheis, however, and the Red held the lead for the first half of the second period. Mercyhurst’s junior forward Hannah Bale managed to beat Voorheis at the 10:56 mark to tie up the score at 1-1. Freshman forward Brooke Hartwick set up the play, winning the puck battle in her own defensive zone and passing it up the rink to sophomore forward Taylor Accursi, who took it up the left wing.
Accursi took a low shot to the far post but Voorheis held on for the save. Bale capitalized on the rebound for the goal. Both squads were quieted in the third, each posting just four shots on net. The Red came close to running away with the win when senior forward Jillian Saulnier had a breakaway with just three minutes left on the clock. Unfortunately for the Red, senior goalie Amenda Makela pulled through for the Lakers on the save to send the game to overtime. The Red had another chance to steal the win in overtime when Jenner took on Makela alone off a pass from Saulnier. She launched the
puck towards the top right corner of the net and it looked like the Red had done it. Makela made a standout save, though, taking the puck on the fly to hold off Cornell and preserve the tie. Freshman Erin O’Connor said that the foe’s goal in the second period sapped the Red’s momentum moving forward. “I thought we started out pretty strong which helped us score in the first period,” she said. “However, after Mercyhurst scored in the second, we had trouble keeping our momentum going.” See WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY page 14
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Guarding the goal | Sophomore goaltender Paula Voorheis had a strong showing in the matchup, stopping 27-of-28 shots for her best performance of the season.