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Students: Food Lab Stained Reputations 1 of 3 Arrested Professor’s retractions disappoint students who worked in his lab

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Assistant News Editor

As the embattled director of Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab continues to face heavy criticism from researchers who accuse him of publishing papers with scores of data inconsistencies, students who worked in the lab told The Sun on Wednesday that the director’s retracted work stains the University’s reputation — and their own.

Prof. Brian Wansink, psychology, retracted a fifth paper after editors said the 2003 paper cited “unreliable data” and text duplication from an earlier soy consumption study co-authored by Wansink.

The retraction of the study by the journal Appetite marked the sixth retraction for Wansink — he retracted one study twice. Wansink, who founded the Food and Brand Lab in 1997 at the University of Illinois and moved it to Cornell in 2005, has also issued or is planning to issue eight total corrections, BuzzFeed reported.

Joel Malina, Cornell’s vice president for University relations, pointed to a statement from October in which he said Cornell is taking “the questions raised about Professor Wansink’s work quite seriously.” Cornell has launched an internal investigation “in compliance with our internal policies and any external regulations that may apply,” he said in the October statement.

John Carberry, the senior director of media relations, declined to comment on when the investigation began, what other studies are being examined or whether the investigation involves the Office of Research Integrity.

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Prof. Brian Wansink, under heavy scrutiny, recently retracted a fifth study.

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Historic Barista Union Ratifies First Contract

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

Baristas at four Gimme Coffee shops in Tompkins County — members of what may be the only recognized barista union in the country — have voted to ratify their first union contract with the coffee shop’s management.

“We’re no longer at-will employees, which for me is such a sense of relief.”

Samantha Mason The union, Workers United 2833, formed last May and includes all baristas at the Upstate New York cafes. Its members voted unanimously, 22 to 0, on Dec. 31 to ratify a three-year contract that includes wage increases and the establishment of a paid sick day program, according to a joint statement from baristas and Gimme management released by the Tompkins County Workers’ Center on Wednesday.

Baristas at Gimme’s original shops on State and Cayuga streets in the City of Ithaca, which opened in 2000 and 2001, are covered by the union, as are baristas at the Gates Hall and

Trumansburg locations. The union does not include baristas at the coffee franchise’s three New York City locations.

Samantha Mason, a barista who has worked at Gimme for about three years and led the baristas in their unionization effort, said in an interview that the union would allow baristas and Gimme to “create a more meaningful workplace where workers can participate and have a democratic voice.”

“We’re no longer at-will employees, which for me is such a sense of relief,” she said.

Mason said the union inserted a planned renegotiation of wages into the contract as a condition of agreeing to the management’s wage proposal, which the union found unsatisfactory. The union and management will negotiate wages in December of this year, per the contract, but the rest of the contract is valid for three years, Mason said.

While negotiations between baristas and management have hit some bumps, the union effort is unique in that it has not been publicly opposed or hindered by the company, as with other unsuccessful union attempts at Starbucks and elsewhere.

“I’m a proponent of people coming together to build a better world, and I look forward to working with the union

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

One of the three Ithaca residents arrested by immigration agents in January was released from a detention center on Tuesday, a local immigrant rights coalition said.

Somkiat Wandee, who goes by Art and is the head chef of Taste of Thai on the Ithaca Commons, was released on $7,500 bond after nearly a month in cus“I was so lost tody at the Buffalo Federal Detention Center when I got into in Batavia, the Tompkins the detention County Immigrant Rights Coalition said in a center, I didn’t statement. Wandee is no know what to do. longer listed as “in custody” on the U.S. Now I’m rejoiced Immigration and to be released.”

Customs Enforcement website.

Somkiat Wandee “I was so lost when I got into the detention center, I didn’t know what to do,” the coalition quoted Wandee as saying. “Now I am rejoiced to be released, with the support I have received.”

The coalition quoted Wandee as saying that he was thankful to the coalition and as saying, “I feel warm now to know that there is a group of people caring for immigrants like me.”

ICE agents arrested Wandee and Patithan Maiyodklang, both Thai nationals and Taste of Thai employees, on Jan. 9 in Ithaca, a sanctuary city. Maiyodklang remained in custody as of Tuesday night.

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Students to Build Independent Mental Health Task Force

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

As many at Cornell begin to question the University’s ability to provide adequate mental health services, two students have decided to take matters into their own hands.

Matt Jirsa ’19 and Natalie Brown ’18 announced their intent to put together an independent, student-led task force to investigate the University’s mental health policies, programs and practices.

“We’re not just going to Approximately 90 do things because we people expressed interest in the Facebook think they are right, we event, which resulted in want to find evidence and about 10 students go based on what we’ve showing up at Tuesday’s information session for seen.” the task force, which is expected to be comNatalie Brown ’18 prised of 10-15 students.

Jirsa told The Sun that they haven’t approached university administration with their plan yet, so it technically hasn’t been approved or disapproved. However, he said that he hopes for full cooperation and transparency between the task force and the Administration in working toward mutually beneficial long-terms results.

“We really want to work with the Administration,” he said. “We’d rather create change as mutual benefactors in order to see that change last over the long term.”

The two students said that they think this task force will be different from existing mental health organizations because of its focus on analyzing policies, making recommendations and going beyond discussion.

“We’re not just going to do things because we think

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Independent task force | Matt Jirsa ’19 and Natalie Brown ’18 seek to build a small team comprised of 10 to 15 students. they are right, we want to find the evidence and go ’14, a student who died by suicide while on a mental based on what we’ve seen either empirically or outside health leave of absence. Pollack addressed the the university before we make suggestions that we don’t University’s efforts to address mental health challenges at a recent GPSA meeting, and Greg Eels, director of necessarily have backup for,” Brown said.

Although Jirsa and Brown had been discussing the Cornell Health’s Counseling & Psychological Services, creation of this task force for almost a year, its revealed at a recent S.A. meeting that the CAPS proannouncement comes at a time when mental health gram was struggling to meet student demand for serissues have been at the forefront of campus discussions. vices.

Jirsa hopes that the task force would play an imporLast month, President Martha E. Pollack denied a request for an external, independent, mental health task See TASK FORCE page 5 force requested by the parents of Sophie Hack MacLeod

Alumni Aid Nonprofits With Site greater than themselves, to feel a genuine sense of accomplishment and satisfaction?” Mulligan said.

In January of 2011, Godert, A software platform founded by two Cornell alumni is rapidly expanding to Mulligan’s classmate at Cornell, joined become the nation’s largest “giving plat- as co-founder and head of technology form.” The platform, GiveGab, is for GiveGab. He has worked as both an named after the two critical compo- entrepreneur and technical leader nents in operating a successful nonprof- across industries, on the board for sevit — it allows nonprofit supporters to eral nonprofits, and is also the current both “give” donations and “gab” with president of the Cornell Club of Ithaca. the nonprofit leadership.

In addition to Mulligan and Gobert, The platform, developed by Charles Mulligan MBA ’11 and Aaron Godert, several of GiveGab’s leadership and M.Eng. ’05 MBA ’11, recently took a board members are Cornell alumni, large step forward by acquiring a including Hunter Rawlings, former national competitor, Kimbia, according president of Cornell University, who to their website. GiveGab intends to joined the board in December of 2013.

Part of the “giving” support 40,000 aspect of GiveGab is its nonprofits, and the “Giving Day” feature — acquisition pushes “Wouldn’t it be nice if there an online fundraising them in that direcwas an online tool used to mobilize tion.

Mulligan, who is platform that could ... inspire people within a certain geographic the current CEO of people to volunteer more” event, region, or institution by GiveGab said challenging them to Cornell was crucial Charles Mulligan MBA ’11 meet a fundraising goal to the success of his within a 24-hour period. startup.

Giving Days are particularly com“The University's commitment to startups in general and the support for mon at universities. They rally stuGiveGab, in particular, has been fantas- dents, alumni, faculty, and local comtic. We also have many customers with- munity members, and act as a way to in the Cornell community,” Mulligan strengthen community pride and said. “I came up with the idea while in engagement while raising funds and grad school at Cornell getting an MBA, awareness for a noble cause.

When asked how GiveGab is applicwhere I met my co-founder in that program, and the vast majority of our able to Cornell students, Mulligan said investors, employees, and board mem- that GiveGab is “about as Cornell as you can get.” bers have ties to Cornell.”

“We're the tech platform for Mulligan thought of his start-up idea in 2010 when he was struggling to Cornell's Giving Day, for Cornell's find volunteer opportunities online Alumni Volunteer Portal, and for many because most volunteer websites were student groups including Cayuga Watchers for example,” Mulligan said. merely “databases.”

“It occurred to me, wouldn’t it be “We'd be thrilled to help other Cornellnice if there was an online platform based groups raise money and engage that could not just help match volun- with their supporters." teers to one-off opportunities, but one that could help inspire people to volun- Katherine Heaney can be reached at teer more, to become part of something kheaney@cornellsun.com.

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Artistic family | A Cornell professor’s play stars his sister, Tony-nominated actress Tovan Feldshuh, who will be playing the male lead: a “wheeler-dealer boxing manager.”

Tony Nominee Stars in Cornell Prof’s Play Sister cast in professor’s play inspired by their parents

By ANGELA CHON Sun Staff Writer

A Cornell professor has assembled the full artistic force of his family of Pulitzer, Tony and Emmy nominees for his new play Dancing With Giants.

Pulitzer Prize nominee Prof. David Feldshuh, performing and media arts, will be acting in the play and will be accompanied by his sister Tovah Feldshuh, who has been nominated for four Tony Awards and two Emmy awards. The play also contains cartoons and music created by Feldshuh’s sons, Zach Feldshuh and Noah Feldshuh, respectively.

Tovah will be playing the role of Yussel the Muscle, a New York “wheeler-dealer boxing manager” according to Illusion Theater’s website. For David, his sister was an obvious choice for the role.

“I had seen a number of actresses [play a male role],” David said in an email to The Sun. “I believed that my sister, with her range of craft and experience, could bring both credibility and magnetism to the role.”

David also said that he decided to cast

his sister for her acting skills as well as to involve his family in “this tribute to my mother and father,” he said. “When my mother died, I decided to search for a story that might capture the time, place, and spirit of my parents and their youth,” he said.

David chose to write the play on “preWorld War II, the Bronx around the Yankee Stadium,” he said. “[The main character] is a figure whose sense of humor, physical energy, willingness to try anything and go for it, and ability to bounce back reflect the approach to life of people whose struggle was fueled by a determination to survive the Depression and make a life in a remarkable country, America,” he said in an interview with the University for the Cornell Chronicle.

Zach created cartoons for the play’s set while Noah, founding lead guitarist of X Ambassadors, created “The Song of the Low Blow Champion” to be used in the performance.

The song is a “biting, political satire of a pre-war German, Berlin cabaret,” David See PLAY page 4

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Retracted Food Research Stains Reputations, Students Say

The Cornell Food and Brand Lab’s founder and director, under intense criticism, has retracted five studies FOOD

“We already had the result that we wanted in our minds,” the alumna told The Sun, “and many of the studies the fellow students and I were involved in were internal investigation of Wansink’s publications and observational.” determined in initial reviews that while Wansink hanStudies testing whether overweight people sit closer dled data inappropriately, his errors “did not constitute to buffet tables and whether people tend to wear scientific misconduct,” The Sun previously reported. stretchier clothing at fast food restaurants led It’s unclear why that investigation failed to uncover the researchers to seemingly obvious — but unreliable — scope of Wansink’s questionable research. conclusions, she said.

Ellen Ransley ’19 said in an interview that she left “The conclusions we were aiming to draw were ‘sit the lab after a year of working as a research assistant in far from the buffet’ and ‘wear jeans,’ but this is quite the the 2017-2018 academic year as researchers began to jump,” she said in an email. question the lab’s research.

The alumna said that whenever Wansink’s name “I didn’t want to be associated with it,” she told The comes up, “I sigh and think, ‘but what did the numbers Sun. actually say?’”

Wansink “is very well established,” Ransley said.

Wansink, who holds degrees in business administra“The people that worked under him read the papers he tion, journalism and marketing, according to his CV, published and didn’t question the data and conclusions. has also been criticized for not holding a degree in food They assumed it was science. correct because he’s been Dean Hauser ’17, a working in field for a “Calling him a ‘Cornell Food Scientist’ inaccufood science major, told long time.”

The Sun he feels frusrately groups his dodgy ‘food psychology’ Ransley said Wansink trated as a Cornell food often encouraged memscience alumnus “pursuresearch with Cornell food science.” bers of the lab to proing an advanced degree Dean Hauser ’17 duce as many observaand having people ask tions and variables as about the Cornell Food possible for a given and Brand [Lab] scandal study, which she said often led to researchers chasing when [Wansink] is not even part of the department.” down unreliable conclusions.

“Calling him a ‘Cornell Food Scientist’ inaccurately “More people need to review his papers and spend groups his dodgy ‘food psychology’ research with more time actually reviewing his data,” she said, noting Cornell food science, and hurts the department’s great that some people believe Wansink, who has tenure, will reputation,” Hauser said in an email. have to leave Cornell. “He should hire people to specifIn March 2017, University of Groningen Ph.D. stuically go over data … a lot of what he did was very inde- dent Nicholas J. L. Brown noticed that Wansink’s 2003 pendent.” paper on soy consumption contained text copied from A Cornell alumna who worked in the Food and two previous papers Wansink co-authored in 2001 and Brand lab as an undergraduate in 2013 said members of 2002. Brown said there are “mysterious” statistical patthe lab drew broad conclusions based solely on correla- terns in all three papers. tions. The alumna, who spoke on the condition of “We have seen what appear to be impossible means anonymity because she feared professional repercus- and test statistics; inconsistent descriptions of the same sions, said lab members portrayed these correlations as research across articles; and recycling of text (and even, causations to journal editors and the news media. it would appear, a table of results) from one article or Continued from page 1

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said.

David’s wife and daughter also contributed to the creative process of the play by remaining “tireless and incisive critics and listeners to lines spouting from me day and night,” he said.

The play will premiere on Thursday at the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis, where Feldshuh spent time workshopping with professional actors.

“I can’t wait for opening,” Feldshuh said. “I’m excited to bring this work to an audience. Creating and directing a new play is a frenzied but exciting adventure. As a professional director-playwright, I have great respect and affection for audiences that take the time to show up for my work.”

Angela Chon can be reached at achon@cornellsun.com.

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book chapter to another,” Brown wrote in a blog post.

“The attitudes towards soy products reported by the … studies are remarkably similar, despite the samples having been drawn from very different populations,” he continued. “This similarity also seems to apply to the items for which the results give impossible test statistics.”

Wansink and seven other current members of the lab did not respond to a request for comment from The Sun. Wansink issued his most recent correction for “Attractive Names Sustain Increased Vegetable Intake in Schools,” a study he published in a 2012 issue of Preventive Medicine.

The original study claimed that its participants were children from 8 to 11 from five elementary schools, but the correction said the children participating in the study were actually preschoolers between 3 and 5, many of whom were enrolled in programs that met in elementary schools.

Wansink and his co-authors responded that “these mistakes and omissions do not change the general conclusion of the paper that attractive names increase vegetable intake in schools across a wide age-range of children.”

Other researchers disagreed.

Brown said the data in the study, “corrected or not, cannot be the basis of any sort of scientific conclusion about whether changing the labels on vegetables makes children want to eat more of them.”

Another researcher and vocal critic who first exposed some of Wansink’s mistakes, Tim van der Zee, said in a tweet that he found it “extremely odd” that Wansink issued a correction instead of retracting the study.

University of Pennsylvania Prof. James C. Coyne, psychology, said on Facebook that Wansink’s initial correction may eventually turn into a full retraction.

“Why does Brian Wansink keep getting ‘corrections’ to his dishonest science, rather than outright retractions?” Coyne said.

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun.com.

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another man in Ithaca who an ICE spokesman, Khaalid Walls, said was an “unlawfully present foreign national” but refused to identify.

The immigrant rights coalition, which runs the Rapid Response Network, said Navjot Kaur, who the coalition said is a Taste of Thai employee and Cornell alumna who has known Wandee for years, described Wandee as “incredibly hard working, reliable and humble.”

“He is the person that everyone relied upon,” the coalition quoted Kaur as saying. “[He] would treat the kitchen staff and servers like family. … We miss him and we hope to see him again soon.”

Thanomsinn Lislevatn, who the coalition said has been a chef at Taste of Thai for 12 years, said Wandee helped him with chores around his house, like helping to plant his garden and fixing the garden hose, the coalition said.

“He has a big heart, … he is like family,” the coalition quoted Lislevatn as saying.

Ithaca College Prof. Patricia Rodriguez, a member of the coalition’s steering committee, said in the release that “it has been powerful to see Somkiat’s friends and co-workers rally behind him,” including at Tuesday’s hearing in Batavia.

The coalition claimed, citing a witness,

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ICE out rally | Dozens protest on the Commons during a rally against immigration arrests that ICE agents arrested Wandee after posing as members of the Ithaca Police Department.

Rodriguez said in an email to The Sun that “a person present at the restaurant” when ICE arrived on Jan. 9 said that one of the three agents had a blue uniform but the others did not.

Rodriguez said the unidentified witness told the coalition that the ICE agents identified themselves as Ithaca Police officers, but said the unidentified witness is not willing to speak to The Sun. Walls, the ICE spokesman, declined to address the specific operation in Ithaca, but, in response to the coalition’s claim, said “all enforcement activities are conducted with the same level of professionalism and respect that ICE officers exhibit every day.”

“Additionally, as a standard practice, ICE agents and officers may initially identify themselves as ‘police’ during an

encounter because it is the universally recognized term for law enforcement and our personnel routinely interact with individuals from around the world,” Walls said in an email on Wednesday. “In the often dangerous law enforcement arena, being able to immediately identify yourself as law enforcement may be a life-or-death issue.”

Rodriguez said that as the coalition learns more about the case, “we realize that the arrest follows a pattern nationally where immigration officials allegedly disguise themselves as local law enforcement and uproot hardworking immigrants’ lives in unimaginable ways.”

“This is not acceptable, and the criminalization of people of color should be questioned and resisted at every step of the way,” she said.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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tant role in terms of collecting different perspectives and facilitating interaction between students and the administration.

“We don’t want to be blaming anyone,” he said. “Especially in today’s political climate, there is too much blaming assigned to one party and not enough compromise and commitment to each other to do something that we’re all passionate about, which is mental health.”

“We want to find the evidence and go based on what we’ve seen ... empirically.”

Natalie Brown ’18 Although Jirsa, who is vice president of Cornell Minds Matter, and Brown are both involved with mental health organizations on campus, the task force will be independent and not part of any existing organization.

“We want to come together not as student leaders, but as students,” he said. “More often than not, people in these positions of power tend to dominate the conversation. We want to make sure we have a wide breadth of people.”

The current plan is for the task force to go through four phases over the next year. The initial research phase will begin later this month once the group is assembled, and the final policy/recommendations phase is scheduled to occur by middle to late fall 2018.

“We don’t want to be blaming anyone.

Especially in today’s poilitical climate.”

Matt Jirsa ’19 “We’re scared, but we’re also tremendously excited because it’s a new thing,” Jirsa said. “It’s something we are really passionate about it, but we don’t know at the end of the day what’s going to get out of this, and that’s important to understand that. We don’t know if this is going to create change, but we want it to and we’re approaching it in a way that we think it could.”

There will be another information session held on Saturday night at 8 p.m. in Stimpson G01. Applications are due Sunday at midnight.

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

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statement.

Prof. Ileen DeVault, academic director of The Worker Institute at Cornell, said in an email to The Sun that baristas, “like other workers in food service and retail jobs, face a number of problems ranging from low wages to lastminute and uneven scheduling and more.”

“In recent years, there has been considerable effort made to address these problems through legislative campaigns at various levels as well as worker organizing,” DeVault said. “Gimme! workers’ success is part of this much larger movement. As many other workers have discovered over the years, coming together collectively in a union is one of the best ways to address workplace problems.”

Mason called the union effort “a journey” that has been hard for all baristas, but specifically lauded a portion of the contract that establishes monthly meetings between union members and managers.

“It’s really nice to just create this space to communicate and talk about what’s possible and really hear from people in the company,” Mason said. “It’s not something that is common in the work culture in this country.”

The contract also includes a clause that requires “just cause” to fire or discipline a barista and a grievance and arbitration process to resolve workplace problems, the statement said.

The county workers center and Workers United’s Rochester office collaborated to sup-

port the unionization effort. Workers said they believe the union is the first successful barista union in the country.

In a phone interview on Wednesday morning, Pete Meyers, coordinator of the Tompkins County Workers Center, said that Gimme’s union, composed almost entirely of young workers, is exciting for the future of organized labor.

“It’s a population that didn’t grow up with unions in their midst,” he said of the union members.

Meyers said he thinks the baristas are motivated, in part, by a realization that conditions may not improve unless they take matters into their own hands.

“There’s an intention here to organize a larger hospitality union writ-large” in the region, Meyers said. “There’s some efforts afoot that I can’t talk about in the hospitality industry.”

Meyers said that organizing in the hospitality industry is a tough task, and that while Gimme’s effort was at times difficult, it could prove to be easier than other hospitality workforces around Tompkins County.

Sophie Tantillo ’21, a part-time barista at the Gates Hall cafe since June, said she has felt supported by the Gimme management and enjoyed the wage increase she received the beginning of 2018, which she said was due to the union contract.

“It’s so nice to feel protected,” Tantillo said.

“It’s nice to have an actual, legal support system as opposed to just an emotional support sys-

tem.”

While the union ratified the contract in December, the workers center, management and baristas did not publicly reveal the successful vote in a joint statement until Wednesday.

Meyers said that the delay was because of negotiations between the union and management, which he did not specify.

“In the spirit of the union’s interest in collaboration with the company, we all took time to ‘do it right’ with cooperation between baristas, Workers United, Gimme! management, and TCWC,” he said of the delay. “This all by itself is a reflection of how the partnership of hospitality workers, the union, and the workers' center want to do things in general, when possible.”

Gary Bonadonna, Jr, manager of Workers United’s Upstate New York headquarters in Rochester, saluted Gimme baristas “for the dedication and hard work they put in to organize their union and negotiate an initial union contract,” calling the baristas “an inspirational group.”

He said workers trying to form a union often have “to walk through a minefield of threats and intimidation by their employer.”

“I want to recognize Gimme! Coffee management for not going down that road,” Bonadonna said. “My hope is that other employers in Tompkins County will follow this more ethical path.”

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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Letter to the Editor

Consider tobacco risk to young adults when voting in tobacco-free campus referendum To the Editor: As Cornell students debate and vote on the campus-wide referendum to create a tobacco-free campus, they may want to review recent legislation from the Tompkins County Legislature. On May 2, 2017, the Tompkins County Legislature adopted a local law raising the legal age to 21 for tobacco sale and purchase. The County Legislature held hearings on the proposed local law and collected information about the impact of the proposed law.

A study which appeared in a 2015 Institute of Medicine study included a projection that if the minimum age were raised to 21, then the tobacco use initiation rate would decrease by a little over 15 percent for people ages 18 to 20. The study also projects that 30 years in the future that by raising the age “would result in approximately 223,000 fewer premature deaths, and 4.2 million fewer years of life lost among those born in the first 20 years of this century.”

Moreover, the study included the salient findings that parts of the human brain responsible for key functions continue to change and develop through young adulthood, ages 18 through 25. Studies performed on animals suggest that adolescent brains are vulnerable to the effects of nicotine.

Finally, about 90 percent of adult smokers start smoking before the age of 18.

The exposure of the developing adolescent brain to nicotine enhances the opportunity that such a brain will become “hardwired for nicotine.” In terms of lifetime addiction to nicotine, the longer the use is delayed the lower is the chance of one becoming addicted for a lifetime.

I hope this information helps students as they decide whether to create a tobacco-free campus.

Henry Granison Tompkins County Legislature District 3, City of Ithaca (South Hill and Belle Sherman)

I Rushed a Sorority as an Undercover Journalist I

am not a sorority girl. I prefer sparkling water over beer and I don’t own a Gucci handbag or shiver in 6 inch heels in the middle of winter. But last week I found myself at rush event, plastering on a sorority girl smile.

Why? Because I wanted to figure out the system from the inside, so I rushed a sorority undercover.

Let me explain myself before you go all “oh my god” in an angry Valley Girl accent on me. I’ve never been fully satisfied with the coverage of the sorority system. Articles about the sororities are always either from people who hate it

When the first day of rush came, I threw on my heeled black boots and my best sorority girl smile. or who love it. Some people want to burn it to the ground, and others will lay their life down on a beer pong table for their sisters. Everyone who writes about sororities has an opinion — a strong one — and no one knows who to trust for the truth.

So this became my journalistic project — to rush a sorority as an undercover journalist, and finally get an unbiased perspective for myself.

When Asian sorority rush rolled around this spring, I knew I found the perfect opportunity. It incorporates a culture that connects directly to me, and unlike traditional Greek life, it’s covered less often, but no less “sororityesque.” The plan was to rush with no preconceptions, no agenda. Just a blank slate searching for the truth about sororities.

When the first day of rush came, I threw on my heeled black boots and my best sorority girl smile. I was walked into a room of 20 girls for the speed dating event, where I was hit by bright smiles and loud voices, chattering about how “Wow, we have the same class!” or “Oh my God, I’m a hotelie too!”

Girl by girl I moved across the tables, chatting in my perkiest voice on the multitude of reasons I wanted to be a sister, but in my mind I was taking down notes like an interview. They asked me every question that ever existed. Why am I an English major, where am I from (“Oh my God I totally knew you were from California, all Californians wear scarves!”), what’s my opinion on the word “moist.”

Adding me on Facebook after became a ritual. So did telling me they loved my lipstick, loved my nails, loved my shirt. Every sister was perky, “supported each other” and from what I could gather, wanted to support me too. They held my hand and widened their eyes when I was telling a story and laughed loudly when I made a joke.

They told me I would fit right in, told me I could be just like them. By the end someone even asked me to get dinner with them. I met them for two minutes.

And then there were moments when I truly enjoyed chatting with someone, when it wasn’t forced. There were quality people in the room who didn’t fit the stereotype, and every girl had

incredible interests and intellect. For a second, I even believed them when they said they cared about me, when they said “I’d fit right in.” But then the next girl came behind me and they gave her the exact same response.

Forty friend requests later, I realized two things: This is a group of people who are all human, with their own interests and unique personalities, but they are all shaped to mold into the same image. And this is a group of people who believe so deeply in a system that many will never see past it, and many will never realize what is wrong with it.

It always baffled me how so many people could collectively commit themselves to a system that faces criticism from left and right. It seemed cultish, and in some ways, oddly mystifying. How one group of girls who could all buy into the idea of wearing the same crop tops to parties and the same denim miniskirts to brunch, and still call themselves individuals.

But after rushing, I realized why so many people want to be a part of a sorority. It’s not because they’re “fake,” not because they are all about designer wallets, but because they’re a group of people looking for friends just like the rest of us, for a system that is reliable.

They’re looking for a crowd of people who will always love them.

But to the sisters I met, let me tell you something. A sorority is a great way to find friends, and you should choose your path with pride. It’s not for me, but doesn’t mean it’s “bad.”

But don’t get lost in the system.

Don’t see someone telling a girl she has to drink more, and think you need to be okay with it. Don’t watch someone

It always baffled me how so many people could collectively commit themselves to a system that faces criticism from left and right. It seemed cultish, and in some ways, oddly mystifying. stop eating because all her other sisters are skinnier. Don’t forget that you’re also smart and beautiful and genuine, and just because the stereotype says you’re “shallow,” doesn’t mean you have to fit yourself into that image too.

And to everyone in a sorority, there are things wrong with your system, whether you recognize it or not. There are things wrong with rush. There are things wrong with pledging. There are things wrong with the way girls are treated and stereotyped in sororities.

There’s nothing wrong with being in the system, but speak out when things go wrong.

Kelly Song is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ksong@cornellsun.com.

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OPINION

Veuve Cliq-Hoe | Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow

How to Eat Her Out

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HELEN HU / SUN STAFF DESIGNER

hen I gave my first blowjob, I was really nervous.

Sure, I had heard about it from my friends, who assured me there was no way I could fuck it up (unless I literally bit the guy’s dick off — ouch). I read countless Cosmo articles and “How-To” columns to make sure that I would deliver a top-notch, excellent blowjob.

Bottom line, I was really prepared for the first time I gave head. Let’s be frank, it really isn’t rocket science, but nevertheless, I felt slight pressure to be great at it. So I read some more, “practiced,” and asked for constructive feedback — basically the scientific method equivalent of sucking dick.

This set me up for a pretty disappointing experience receiving head from my male counterparts these past couple of years. In my experience, most of them suck. My first reaction was anger because I find it incredibly unfair that like me, most women I know have researched and care about giving amazing blowjobs, while our male counterparts get by flicking their useless tongues around for two minutes in the most ineffective manner. How hard could it possibly be?

Unfortunately, the female-equivalent act of pleasure isn’t as popularly depicted on TV or social media, and there is substantially less “how-to” literature and common knowledge about the anatomy of the female genitalia to guide our male partners. Along with the intersectional female-wage gap, this is a critical issue we must tackle as a society.

So here it goes. How to eat a girl out:

1. Start off making out and take your time. Unless this is a prearranged quickie, there’s no rush, and personally, making out is an excellent way for the vagina to get lubricated and excited for the rest of this adventure.

2. Get consent. Every woman is different, every time you have sex is different, and every sexual act is different, so make sure you both are comfortable as your adventure progresses. A simple and super hot way to do this is to whisper, “you like that/[insert act]” next to your partner’s ear.

3. Kiss, lick, suck and bite as you descend — especially the inner thigh area. Once you’re here, get comfortable. If you’re feeling bold, look up… yes, eye contact is hot.

4. Next, begin licking slowly. Like a painter, feel out your canvas, and once you know what you’re working with, find the clit, which is a fleshy, bean-looking body part found in the inner top part of the vagina. Think 12 o’clock.

5. Begin with gentle flicks and light pressure. Draw letters/shapes/numbers with your whole tongue and ask your partner if that’s working for her. Then, get creative with the pressure, rhythm and sucking mix, but if something specific is working, keep it consistent!

6. Depending on the comfort level of your partner, you may want to incorporate fingering. The objective isn’t to shove your fingers up her vagina aimlessly, but rather to stimulate the G-spot. To do this successfully, gently insert your index and middle fingers with your palm faced-up, and flex your fingers in a “come here” motion. Adjust tempo to your partner’s desire.

7. Use your free hand to explore and caress her thighs, breasts, booty, etc., and don’t underestimate the sexiness of simply holding her hand.

8. By this point, you’re probably driving her crazy — congrats! She may orgasm, she may not, she may pull you back up to make out, she may want sex, she may be done, she may give you head next… bottom line: communicate.

Ladies, I hope this is the most influential Sex on Thursdays column your Cornell male partners read, so be lavish with your feedback to them, and I sincerely hope you all receive mind-blowing head this Thursday!

Veuve Cliq-Hoe is a student at Cornell University. Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow appears monthly this semester.

ReykjaDick | Whoreoscopes

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ow many points would I be worth in the Zeta Beta Tau “Pig Roast?”

How do you assess the worth of someone that you’ve slept with?

How do we evaluate the young women on this campus?

Freshman year, I learned that I was worth one full entrance to a party when on my own, and half an entrance when I was accompanied by a man. It should be noted that this currency value was entirely dependent on the supposed quality of the party I was trying to attend — my value declined when I was attempting to gain entrance to the events of those “top” fraternities and sports teams. Also, whether or not I looked hot (and note that my value has been boosted by the fact that I am white). My hotness has been constantly measured, to my face, through comparison between myself and my friends; my value is how I look, how much I weigh, and it has been continuously assessed by men across this campus throughout my undergraduate career.

Over the past week outrage has erupted on our campus over the “pig roast,” a hazing event at ZBT that instructed new mem-

Check My Points bers to sleep with women in order to gain points — where ties would be broken based on which individual slept with the women who weighed the most. The IFC stated this practice won’t be tolerated and wasn’t normal.

Yet, the commodification of women at Cornell is unceasing.

From our first day on campus we teach men that women exist on this campus to help them get into parties, to feel better than their friends and to serve as anecdotes for Sunday brunch about how we were “hot but crazy.” Sororities are valued by how attractive their members are and men are praised based on how pretty their dates are for various formal events, whether for sports teams, fraternities or any other organization on this campus. My fellow Sun columnist, Willow Hubsher ’18, found out that a member of the lacrosse team was literally fined for not making her cum; a price tag was put on her own bodily functions. And yet we somehow think that ZBT is a radical outlier?

It is absurd to think that this was just one fraternity, or just fraternities on the whole — this is our campus. This fucked up shit

is Cornell.

Cornell obsessively commodifies women based on how they look and who they will fuck. Yet we flip around in surprise when it naturally progresses to a ranking system. We act as if there’s no world in which a “pig roast” could be tied to the insidious fact that 23 percent of undergraduate women have experienced nonconsensual sexual contact since entering Cornell.

Commodification is a defining portion of the female experience at Cornell University. So is sexual violence. The conversation surrounding the “pig roast” cannot be one that merely resigns itself to the debate over Greek life. It must be one about the progression of underlying societal practices and cultural norms at our institution.

It is imperative that we talk about how sexual assault inherently derives from the reduction of its victims to

sexual objects. This campus will not improve until we fundamentally change the cultural norms that pervade our lives. It’s time for Cornell to vastly transform.

If you thought ZBT, was the end you better strap in for a bumpy ride, because this campus’s awakening to the horrors in its midst is just getting started.

In the meantime, drop a line in the comments and let me know how many points

you’d give out to a boy who would fuck me! I’m always trying to keep my market value accurate and up-to-date.

ReykjaDick is a student at Cornell University. Whoreoscopes appears biweekly this semester.

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OPINION

Jason Jeong | Jeongism

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The College Protest Tradition In a Postmodernist America

o cater to the massive AsianAmerican population in the Bay Area, my local movie theater occasionally screens blockbusters that are currently popular in East Asia. As dutiful Korean immigrants, my family fulfils our patriotic obligation by going every time they show a new Korean movie. Over the

parents have never been particularly outspoken about the travesties of the Trump administration.

However, by the time they were my age, they had both been tear-gassed with classmates in protests, and my dad described his experience throwing Molotov cocktails shoddily constructed

Our generation can be a catalyst of profound reinvention for generations to come. break, my family went to watch 1987: When the Day Comes, a Korean film about the military dictatorship that interrogated and tortured pro-democracy protesters during the 1980s. It showed scenes of college activists of my parents’ generation being beaten and hauled away by policemen who resembled vigilante gangsters more than federal law enforcement. As the final credits rolled, the audience, comprised mostly of stoic, first-generation Korean parents, sat in their seats silently weeping, bound by a collective reminiscence of mutual struggle only their age cohort could fully appreciate.

Growing up, my family was like those of many Asian-Americans in that we were very much apolitical and ambivalent to developments in U.S. politics. Never once were the Iraq War or the Affordable Care Act discussed at the dinner table, and despite their philosophical opposition, my

from soju bottles. Pursuit of social justice, which once colored their formative years, has been diminished to a peripheral nuisance and replaced by the daily humdrum of driving to work and raising two sons.

We live in a 2018 spearheaded by a president who has turned the United States into a full-fledged postmodernist state. We belong to a Tide pod-eating, meme-idolizing generation that lacks the moral optimism and political clarity of past generations. Most of us are deep in so many levels of irony that the Earth seems to look just a tiny bit more flat every time we look at a map. The status quo has shifted to one that shrugs off pussy-grabbing and accepts the fact that our president deliberately and routinely lies to his constituents.

Fundamentally, there is nothing redeeming about our postmodernist irreverence towards institutions and truth. At

best, our behavior can best be described as trendy pseudo-nihilism, and at worst, complicit apathy. For the large part, our generation has been negligent in our duty to continue a proud tradition of college activism that once stood up to racial discrimination and protested the an unjust war in the 1960s. Perhaps it’s a product of cynicism and disenchantment, but there seems to be a collective acceptance of an absurdist and nonsensical society that provide absolutely no utility to affecting the very systems that we want to change.

At Cornell, we are comfortably situated far above Cayuga’s waters, hundreds of miles away from nationally televised social battlegrounds and removed both physically and, by extension, emotionally from tangible struggle. Our Ivy League degree gives us a distorted sense of intellectual superiority that entitles us to analyze and trivialize real world issues from our lofty perch in Goldwin Smith. We talk of sweeping, grand narratives in our liberal arts courses, unsuspecting of the fact that we might be a part of one right now.

Indifference is a shame, because change is a luxury we currently have time to dream of. The vast majority of us have no mortgage or hungry children to worry about; therefore, this is one of the few times in our lives we have the ability and awareness to devote our resources and energy to fight for causes bigger than us.

Our generation can be a catalyst of profound reinvention for generations to come. Just like college students in the ’60s fought for the full citizenship for all Americans, we have the opportunity to participate in movements that will define

our children’s understanding of racism, sexual assault, homophobia, transphobia, health care and an extensive catalogue of social injustices. If you need inspiration, go to the front page of The New York Times’ website, and I assure you will find enough worthy causes to last until 2020.

But as a college student, I think the most direct, convincing argument to march during these four years is not one based on moral or political persuasion, but one that is far more intrinsic and personal.

I believe the lingering question of “what if” is one of the most unfulfilling and frustrating feelings we will ever experience.

That is why second semester seniors frantically try to squeeze every last bit their final months that Cornell has to offer, and it’s also probably the reason why Nick Foles played out of his mind last Sunday in the Super Bowl. It might be difficult to grasp the gravity of a situation that seems so distant in our safe haven of Ithaca. But we have the chance to participate in something special these next few years — a movement that transcends any individual and a movement that will surely be more worthwhile than those hours you spend scrolling through Instagram memes.

The examples set by the millions of women and men that protested in the Women’s March and the waves brought forth by the struggle of Black Lives Matter activists are inspiring and will prove to be immortal. Where were you when they marched?

Jason Jeong is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jjeong@cornellsun.com.

Jeongism appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Shivani Parikh | Guest Room

New Brown America at Cornell

“This is new brown America.

The dream is for you to take, so take that shit.” — Hasan Minhaj paused Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King Netflix special when he said “And so I actually have the audacity of equality.” I stared wonderingly at the screen and replayed the sound bite two more times, reading and re-reading the subtitles that confirmed I was not mishearing his tenet. For months, I had felt largely alone in my desperate search for validation in joining the cause for South Asian social action and mobilization.

My social activism journey at Cornell has been rapid, and I look back at my freshman year self and wonder how I’ve come to be deeply invested in Desi visibility, embracing and reveling in my brown-skinned, daughterof-Gujarati-immigrants self.

At the end of a semester of Intergroup Dialogue Project’s race section, then being rejected as a peer facilitator, I felt embarrassed, invalidated and devastated, finding my throat burning with unshed tears of frustration at my own incompetence. I was not sure what I had to offer, but clearly lacked the ability to facilitate dialogue, and for two months carried a deep sense of failure because I was irrevocably convinced that my self-worth

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hinged on contributing to Cornell through this class. It was a semester that had given me more questions than answers, but also a semblance of clarity that encouraged me to try to find other Desis at Cornell that were asking themselves similar questions and looking for forums for discussion and action.

I found wonderful mentors and organizations — associate dean of students Sophie Sidhu, the Asian and the AsianAmerican Center, former vice president of South Asian Council Samir Durvasula ’17, the cool kids of Asian Pacific American for Action and more recently my executive board at South Asian Council. I joined committees that were meant to address diversity and inclusion — though now I question if these committees serve more to tokenize students all the while serving to make the Administration appear invested in structural and institutional change.

But in the social spaces I found, I often felt the sharp sting of having my person of color-hood questioned, affirmed by people’s entrenched belief in the model minority myth. I learned quickly that radical spaces are rarely open to criticism and self-reflection on their inherent toxicity. What right did I have to question the culture of

those spaces if South Asian people as a whole have been quite deliberate in avoiding discussions about racial and social inequality?

So I still ponder, how do we realize Hasan’s ‘New Brown America?’ In my ‘New Brown America,’ we center the margins of our communities and celebrate our individually nuanced and contoured relationships with our motherlands and heritages. We name what divides us internally — partitions, religions and the culture of colorism left by our colonizers and their centuries of exploitation.

We revel in the contributions of our diaspora here — to television, to science, to political and business leadership — all the while noticing the hurt that comes from fake accents, racial profiling, and stale ideals of what a successful Desi-American looks like. We name the things that affect our community’s safety and success — the bamboo ceiling, Islamophobia, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, caste and the lived realities of our community members who are working class and are stereotyped to be taxi drivers, Dunkin’ Donuts workers or 7-Eleven owners. We mourn Srinivas Kuchibhotla, Harnish Patel and Deep Rai, and the hundreds of South Asian folks that have been tar-

geted, assaulted, and killed on American soil because of prejudice, racism and hate. We become allies to all people of color and we strive repay our lasting debt to black folks, whose fight for civil rights established a more equitable America for South Asia’s first professional immigrants. We delve into the implications of brownness and immigration with Latinx folks and ask indigenous folks how we

has been widely portrayed as problem-free, comfortable and without cause for complaint in America.

Log kya kahenge, when other Desi students find this piece unnecessary and embarrassing, because of course with hard work, a good internship after junior year, a light dusting of desperation to assimilate to whiteness and anglicizing our names at the office, we can truly

My immigrant parents have paid their American Dream tax, I won’t be paying it again. can do better by them.

Having the audacity of equality means reckoning with the overlapping and coexisting privileges and oppression of our American diaspora and asking yourself if there’s anything you’re willing to do to make it known and felt.

Log kya kahenge? What will people say?

Last semester, after Samir and I published our guest column, “To Be Brown: South Asian Students Take a Stand,” we received comments that called us Schlemiel and Schlimazel, whiny members of a race that

overcome any obstacle, move into a nice house in the suburbs and make sure our kids do even better than us (even if they’re teased, mocked and bullied for all the same things we were).

Main kehta hoon, I say, that having the audacity of equality is uncomfortable and messy, but never lonely.

My immigrant parents have paid their American Dream tax, I won’t be paying it again.

Shivani Parikh is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Comments can be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Phantom of Daniel Day-Lewis’s Acting Career

BY BECKY FRANK Sun Staff Writer

I really did not want to see Phantom Thread. And honestly, I am not entirely glad I did. But I wanted to see every movie nominated for Best Picture, and was intrigued that Daniel Day-Lewis announced directly after production that it was his last movie ever.

Phantom Thread is set in 1950s post-war London.

Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a famous dressmaker of the British elite. One had to be worthy, both economically and in terms of character, to wear Woodcock’s dresses. Woodcock lives with his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville), who understands his every need and work routine. On a trip, Woodcock meets Alma (Vicky Krieps), and quickly forms a relationship with her. Alma soon becomes another one of Woodcock’s muses, but she is different than the others. Alma challenges Woodcock, and the film largely centers on their evolving and complex relationship.

There is a lot I admired about the movie. It tackles the dilemma of how to love while being yourself. The film was very unconventional, in a beautiful and exquisite way. It also illustrates how often men or women who are called “geniuses” in their field believe that they can get away with anything.

Woodcock is immensely rude and needy, but everyone puts up with him because of his dressmaking talent.

Without giving away any spoilers, I urge viewers to pay close attention to the role of food in the film. It is woven into the film in an intricate and ominous way, and eventually manifests itself in the climax of the plot.

I do wish the film focused more on the dresses. My biggest complaint, however, is that none of the characters were likeable. I was never cheering for any one. The plot develops into a strange ending, and leaves viewers with an odd taste in their mouth. Woodcock is arrogant and highmaintenance, and Alma is truly bizarre. It’s hard to sympathize with either character.

Perhaps this lack of likeability is why the film led to DayLewis’s retirement. Day-Lewis famously takes acting, specifically method acting, to his own unique level. For his Oscarwinning performance in My Left Foot, Day-Lewis essentially gave himself cerebral palsy to fit the character: he stayed in a wheelchair and was spoon-fed by crew members for months before and throughout all of the production of the film.

Before his role in Last of the Mohicans, Day-Lewis spent six months in the wild. Similarly, before his role in The Boxer, he tattooed his hands and trained for 18 months for his role.

Because of his scrupulous preparation, Day-Lewis takes

years off between roles. At the end of every movie, DayLewis describes a “terrible sadness on the last day of shooting.” Day-Lewis keeps a bit of each character with him, for example, he still competitively boxes to this day and is obsessed with the TV show Naked and Afraid.

Dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock must have affected Day-Lewis in a way incomparable to other characters. Some believe Day-Lewis merely does not want to experience the emotional toll at the end of a movie again, but I hypothesize that it might have more to do with the Phantom Thread character itself. Day-Lewis said that he had no intentions to ever watch the film, a decision cnnected to his choice to stop acting: “But it’s not why the sadness came to stay. That happened during the telling of the story, and I don’t really know why.” Becoming Reynolds Woodcock seems to have affected Day-Lewis in ways even he does not understand, and really may have caused him to end his acting career. DayLewis laughed at rumors that he would now become a dressmaker, though he did train for months and design his own dresses for the film. He plans to box, create shoes and explore a number of other passions in his new life off-screen.

Day-Lewis has said that ending acting is very liberating, and will change how he sees the world.

Considering the Academy Awards are in less than a

month, it is hard not to compare Phantom Thread to everything else nominated. For Best Picture, I would be genuinely surprised if it won given the other eight movies nominated. For cinematography, it was certainly beautiful and elegant but not quite as magnificent as Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk or The Shape of Water. Paul Thomas Anderson has a chance of winning Best Director. He is not my top pick, but he certainly did a stellar job with this quirky and thought-provoking film. The real chances for Oscar victories, however, lie with Day-Lewis (for Best Actor), Manville (for Best Supporting Actress), and Mark Bridges (for Best Costume Design).

Certainly my favorite part of Phantom Thread and a true Oscar contender is the original score. Jonny Greenwood’s music was playing for 90 of the 130 minutes of the film, making the equally lavish yet eerie music a character of its own.

Though Phantom Thread certainly left me feeling “weird,” for lack of a better term, it is worth seeing. Day-Lewis is outstanding in his final performance, and the story is both a subtle period-piece and a complex, meticulous drama.

Becky Frank is a junior in the college of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at bfrank@cornellsun.com

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Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread.

Discussing Death From Beyond the Grave: Denis Johnson’s Final Stories

BY VICTORIA HORROCKS Sun Staff Writer

Few authors can place their readers in wildly uncomfortable situations with unreliable characters and still leave them with a sense of poignancy like Denis Johnson. In his long-awaited collection of stories, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, Johnson weaves together five fairly disjunctive tales, all of which mimic the style of Jesus’s Son, one of his most accredited works.

However, in his most recent book, published posthumously in January 2018, Johnson’s writing is slightly darker than his previous works. There’s something more resonant about the lessons these stories teach the reader, considering that they come from the grave. Perhaps Johnson describes the experience of reading his work best in the opening of “Strangler Bob” when he says,

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“you hop into a car, race off in no particular direction, and blam, hit a power pole.”

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is in many ways a follow-up to Jesus’s Son in that it shares some of the same characters, but more so in the way it evokes the same sort of humanizing tone to discuss recurring struggles in his stories. Jesus’s Son, published in 1992, was noted for its whacky characters that illustrate the tragedies of American life, such as drug addiction, alcoholism, prison and mental illness. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden accomplishes a similar goal through the use of colloquial language that is direct and honest, sometimes even brutally so.

With characters ranging from rehab patients to writers, Johnson presents a diverse range of protagonists with similar pains. The segmented structure reflects the scatterbrained state of the characters, whether it be drug or life-induced. Many of them recount failed romantic and familial

relationships, such as Cass in “The Starlight on Idaho,” and just as many are metaphorically or literally stuck, such as the inmates in “Strangler Bob.” Nearly all of them, though, are confronted by pervasive images of death, whether it be their own or that of a friend or family member. The salient mortality of his characters painfully reflects Johnson’s own.

He completed the book while battling liver cancer.

Johnson portrays social outcasts calling to be accepted by the book’s readers. While nearly all of them have committed various crimes to different degrees, the characters are endlessly endearing. Take Mark Cassandra, or Cass, as he asks to be called. In “The Starlight on Idaho,” he attempts to earnestly write letters to all the people he knows, beginning with his fifth grade crush, Jennifer Johnston. But quickly his confessions to friends and family members devolve to reflect a profound anger and pain in let-

ters that address forces such as God and Satan. It is this kind of deep emotion that forces us to empathize with characters similar to Cass who are present throughout the book.

Despite the morbidity to the collection, Denis Johnson’s final works hold within them a redemptive sort of transience. The characters actively document the truth of their lives throughout various mental states and drug hazes, and in doing so memorialize themselves beyond death. This effort is another reason why the characters in this collection are inextricably linked with Johnson himself — The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is ultimately a memorialization of Denis Johnson and stands as an impressive monument to his literary career.

Victoria Horrocks is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at vrh23@cornell.edu

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By SPENCER SIGALOW Sun Staff Writer

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fter a semester of traveling through Europe and studying abroad in London, I refined my palate and honed my foodie skills. Among the various places I visited, perhaps my favorite guilty pleasure was London’s Chinatown, filled with an assortment of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese eateries. It was here where I truly came to appreciate the delicacy that is pho. Now, I do not want to claim that I am an expert in the realm of Vietnamese cuisine, as that would be an overstatement of my gifts. That being said, I genuinely believe that I am now a connoisseur of pho — a pho-natic if you will (and frankly, I will).

Naturally, I was ecstatic to learn that Ithaca had gained a new restaurant while I had been gone, BōL, which supposedly specializes in this gourmet treat. Upon hearing this news, I gathered three of my closest friends and ventured to the Commons to see if this new locale would provide a meal that would be one pho the record books.

When you first step into BōL, you are required to take a piece of paper and clipboard off the wall to place your order.

Although I like to think of myself as an intelligent individual, this process was a bit confusing, with several variations of order slips available. Once I stumbled across the paper for soup, rather than salad, I was able to choose between pho and ramen. Opting for the former choice, which includes rice noodles as opposed to ramen noodles, as well as a different selection of vegetables, I then had to choose

my broth and any protein options, which cost extra. I selected the chicken and pork broth and added egg ($1) and beef ($3.50) to complete the soup. Additionally, I was convinced by one friend to split an order of steamed pork dumplings on the side.

After handing the cashier my order slip and paying the relatively expensive price, I awkwardly lingered by the counter for about five minutes, waiting for my meal to be made. The ambience of the restaurant was very bright, yet mellow with a good collection of music playing. There was limited seating downstairs, all of which was occupied, so I balanced my large (and very aesthetically pleasing) bowl of pho on the provided metal tray and made the trek upstairs to find more seating, spilling minimal broth in the process.

The first item to note is the chicken and pork broth, which I found to be the high point of the meal. The temperature, flavor and overall taste were delicious.

The rice noodles were also tasty and came with a fairly generous portion. However, I was sadly disappointed with the rest of my bowl. The beef was too well-done, resulting in an almost burnt, chewy brisket that was not great. Furthermore, my chef was not very liberal with the vegetable add-ins, tossing in a couple raw green beans, minimal peppers and almost no bok choy (which happens to be my favorite). To make matters worse, the serving size of the bowl was not nearly as large as I had anticipated, leaving me hungry after I finished.

The pork dumplings were only okay.

We received four dumplings, served over sweet and sour slaw with hoisin sauce. The dumplings were lukewarm, and not

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extremely flavorful, but the accompanied side and sauce certainly helped. Although they were not amazing, they were definitely needed to complement the bowl of pho in order to satisfy my hunger.

While I wouldn’t say the meal was phonomenal, it was decent. Given the fact that BōL is a new restaurant, I would not rule out coming back to give it another chance.

However, I would likely vary my order, selecting different protein or noodles perhaps, to see if the meal could possibly be improved. All in all, it was around a $20 meal that left me fairly satiated, but not completely satisfied. I certainly hope that

BōL can improve its serving sizes and quality of proteins as well as simplify the ordering process to improve the overall dining experience.

Serves: pho, ramen, salads, dumplings Vibe: casual, bright, cheery, mellow Price: $$ Overall: Spencer Sigalow is a junior in the School of Industrial & Labor Relations. He can be reached at scs287@cornell.edu.

The (Unfortunate) Way the Jeca Cookie Crumbles

By MURALI SARAVANAN Sun Staff Writer

J

eca Bar is a new startup food company that produces energy cookies and energy bars.

According to the founder, Ree Dolnick, Jeca products are meant to be quick grab-n-go snack options that are naturally caffeinated through either coffee beans or matcha green tea leaves.

Ree claims that these all-natural energy products “feature complex global flavors,” including “intriguing flavor combinations creating sweet, savory and even spicy sensations.” Right now, these products are not available on Cornell’s campus, but Jeca hopes to feature them in oncampus locations by next semester.

Currently, you can buy Jeca products at the Greenstar Market in Collegetown. I bought three energy cookies, the Tokyo Cookie, the Tuscany Cookie and the Tijuana Cookie.

The flavors of the cookies are “rooted in the cuisines of the region that they are named after,” according to Ree. For example, the Tuscany cookie features ingredients that are staples in that area. When I asked Ree about where the ingredients are sourced from, she replied that they “try to source locally as much as we can but in some cases, we do need to source glob-

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ally. For example, we source our Matcha directly from Japan because we feel that the quality is superior.” Each cookie costs about three bucks.

I’ve had some great cookies in my life. Unfortunately, these Jeca cookies are not one of them.

Right away, the packaging for the cookies, although pretty, is impossible to open without a pair of scissors. It doesn’t make much sense to me that a product marketed as a to-go snack would not have perforations to make the package easy to open. My

roommate commented that the “packaging just sucks.” I don’t know about you guys, but I definitely don’t carry around a pair of scissors. In terms of texture, all the cookies had a very similar mouthfeel, which I can only describe as dusty. The cookies are incredibly dry and crumbly, and they left me parched.

The Tijuana Cookie incorporated peanuts, chipotle peppers, chocolate, coffee and lime juice.

This was by far my least favorite cookie. It was initially slightly sweet and then had a kick of a

spice. There are plenty of delicious dishes that combine sweet and savory flavors. But it felt like this cookie wasn’t trying to combine these flavors in a complementary way; rather, it felt as though this cookie couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a savory cookie or a sweet one. It just felt like a few muddled flavors were slapped together, combined with a ridiculously dry texture. I tried this cookie with three other friends, and the four of us together could not finish it.

The Tuscany Cookie, which contained olives, was also a confusing cookie. It was not that much better than the Tijuana one. It had an initial mild sweetness with an incredibly bitter aftertaste, probably due to the olives. It did not feel like one specific flavor stood out, and the cookie as a whole just tasted weird. The most tolerable cookie was the Tokyo cookie, which included ingredients such as peanuts, seaweed, soy sauce, mustard seed and matcha. It was much sweeter than the other cookies but still had a strange bitter aftertaste that I did not enjoy. I keep mentioning the texture, but to reiterate: I hated it. All these cookies were ridiculously dry and crumbly.

All in all, flavor-wise I did not enjoy these cookies, and neither did any of my friends. In my opinion, they tasted pretty

bad, and at about 300 calories a cookie, they’re very caloriedense. But they are all-natural cookies from a local company using mostly locally sourced ingredients. If that’s important to you, you should give them a shot and see if you enjoy them (let me know if you did, I’m curious to know what you like about them).

Murali Saravanan is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at mms396@cornell.edu.

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Men’s Hockey Hopes Red to Celebrate Senior Day To Clinch Playoff Bye Fighting for playoff position, Cornell hosts Yale, Brown W. HOCKEY

The head coach pointed to Fiegl, who tallied his first two goals since 2016 this past weekto happen again,” added senior end, as a great example of the forward Jared Fiegl. “We’re mentality the entire team going to learn from that. That’s should employ come Friday.

“Guttiest effort I’ve seen out our focus going into this week: get back on track and get back of a Cornell uniform in a while,” Schafer said of the after things.”

Notching just one win this senior, who had previously weekend would allow Cornell to missed four games due to illclinch a top-four seed in the ness. “He was zeroed in on conference postseason, but with exactly what he needed to do to a depleted roster due to injuries, get through that game and it nothing is set in stone. Among was a good lesson.” those sidelined for Friday and Staying in the moment will Saturday is junior forward similarly be a focus against St. Mitch Vanderlaan, who is out Lawrence, a team that, like RPI, for the remainder of the regular is near the bottom of the conferseason with an injury after ence standings with just two blocking a shot Saturday.

ECAC wins. In Cornell’s previBack in November, Clarkson ous matchup with St. Lawrence, issued the Red its first loss of the Red torched the Saints, 6-1. the season, a 4-0 defeat at Lynah But, due to injuries, the teams Rink. The win was part of the in those games are very different Golden Knights’ than the squads that fiery 14-game win will collide on “This little streak that catapultSaturday. According adversity is ed them to second to Schafer, in in the nation in the going to ... make November, Cornell USCHO poll. was nearly completely us come “They’ve got healthy, while St. together even Lawrence was fighting some great players and they’re well more, make us through injuries. coached,” Schafer Now, the “tables have said. “We knew that stronger down turned,” said the head going in last time. I coach. the road.” just didn’t think we With six games competed as hard as left, all of them Junior they competed.” against teams Cornell Anthony Angello has played before, the Since then, the Golden Knights Red can stake its have won once in their past six claim as the best team in ECAC games and have slipped in the and position itself well for postrankings. A pair of losses this season play. The loss against past weekend dropped Clarkson RPI may have been disappointfrom third to seventh in the ing, but it could provide the USCHO poll. fuel the team needs to finish out With the Golden Knights in the regular season and begin the a tailspin, it could be easy to playoffs, according to Angello. look past them, but that under“This little adversity is going estimating is exactly what to help us,” Angello said. “It’s derailed the team in its loss to going to make us come together RPI on Saturday. In that loss, even more, make us stronger Schafer said his players, fueled down the road.” by their status at the top of the The Red takes the road to rankings, thought they were play Clarkson Friday and St. better than they were. The play- Lawrence Saturday, both at 7 ers have the best chance of win- p.m. ning by focusing on themselves and not on the records or rank- Adam Bronfin can be reached at ings, according to Schafer. abronfin@cornellsun.com.

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The fourth-place position in the conference standings is key as the season winds down, as the top four teams enjoy home-ice advantage in the ECAC quarterfinals, while the other four who earn a postseason berth are forced to play on the road.

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Hoopers Look to Get Back Into Ivy Contention After two wins and a one-point loss, Red hopes to improve 2-9 road record as it travels to Brown, Yale

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

A home split with Dartmouth and Harvard has Cornell men’s basketball looking to get back in contention for the Ivy League tournament as they travel to Brown and Yale this weekend.

After two consecutive one-point victories over Ivy League foes Columbia and Dartmouth, Cornell (8-11, 2-4 Ivy) hosted Ivy League preseason favorite Harvard Saturday with a chance to attain its first three game winning streak under head coach Brian Earl.

Despite juniors Matt Morgan and Stone Gettings combining for 48 points against the Crimson, a late missed Gettings free throw was too much for Cornell to overcome, as they dropped their fourth Ivy League contest of the year.

“I was actually more proud of our guys following the loss to Harvard than after the win over Dartmouth, because we showed a high level of effort,” Earl said. “If you think about us trying to build a competitive program, I think that this actually might be a step forward.”

Currently, the Red is tied for sixth place in the Ivy League, but are just one game out of a three-way tie for third place in the Ancient Eight.

Cornell will first attempt to climb in the standings when they travel to Brown (10-9, 3-3) Friday. The Bears are coming off a miraculous 102-100 overtime victory against Princeton, a night after an overtime loss to firstplace Penn.

Offensively, Brown relies on guards Brandon Anderson and Desmond Cambridge, both of whom average over 17 points per game. Last weekend against the Quakers and the Tigers, Cambridge averaged 30.5 points.

Cornell will also look to take advantage of a down year for Yale (9-13, 2-4). Just two years off of an Ivy League title and an upset of Baylor in the 2016 NCAA Tournament, the Bulldogs are tied with the Red for sixth place in the league.

During the first week of the season, the Bulldogs suf-

fered a pair of devastating injuries to stars Makai Mason and Jordan Bruner. Yale has depended on the duo of Miye Oni and Alex Copeland to take over the scoring load after the season-ending injuries to the Bulldogs’ two best players. Copeland has averaged 12.6 points per game through 21 contests.

“As long as we fight and execute like we did this past weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard, I think that we will be fine,” Morgan said. “Yale is really talented defensively, and they really move well, but it is going to come down to how we stop them on defense. They have some really good offensive players, but I think that we

will have a game plan for it, and we just have to stick to it for 40 minutes.”

Despite a 6-2 record at home, the Red is 2-9 away from Newman Arena. Additionally, Cornell has dropped all three of its away games in Ivy League play.

Cornell will need to make up ground quickly, as after this weekend, Cornell will have just six more league games before the conference tournament.

The games tip off at 7 p.m. Friday at Brown and Saturday at Yale.

Bennett Gross can be reached at bgross@cornellsun.com.

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Playoff push | With only eight league games remaining, the Red will take on Brown and Yale on the road this weekend as it looks to play its way into the Ivy League tournament.

C.U. Boasts Eight Olympians Injuries Plague Men’s Hockey

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

With the Winter Olympics just around the corner, Cornell fans will have plenty to look forward to as the games begin this Friday.

Jamie Greubel Poser ’06, Josh Kirkpatrick ’10, Ben Scrivens ’10, Rebecca Johnston ’12, Laura Fortino ’13, Lauriane Rougeau ’13, Brianne Jenner ’15 and Jillian Saulnier ’15 will all make the trip to Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The eight Cornell alumni will compete for two countries over three different sports and will be the most participants the Red has ever fielded at a Winter Olympics. The number will also represent the most Red participants in any Olympics since Cornell sent eight representatives to the 1912 Stockholm Summer Olympics.

Bobsled

Poser and Kirkpatrick will be participating in bobsled for Team USA and Canada, respectively.

Poser follows up an Olympic appearance in Sochi in 2014, where she earned a bronze medal in two-woman bobsled.

Before her career as a bobsledder, Poser boasted four strong years on the Cornell track and field squad where she won four individual Heps championships and also holds the school record in outdoor heptathlon and indoor pentathlon.

Kirkpatrick will make his Olympic debut in the four-man bobsled after a successful tenure on the track and field squad as well. The former runner won five individual Heps championships during his time at Cornell. He also rep-

resented Canada in pole vault at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie.

Bobsled events will take place between Feb. 18-25.

Men’s Hockey

Scrivens will be making his Olympic debut for Team Canada’s defending Olympic champion men’s hockey team.

The former Red goaltender was a key member of the 2009-2010 ECAC championship team, which advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament, and left East Hill ranked second in career saves.

Following his college career, Scrivens had NHL stints in Toronto, Los Angeles, Edmonton and Montreal. He currently plays for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League in Russia.

Team Canada starts play on Thursday, Feb. 15 against Switzerland.

Women’s Hockey

Johnston, Fortino, Rougeau, Jenner and Saulnier will be representing Team Canada’s four-time defending gold medal women’s hockey team. Saulnier will be the sole Cornellian on the roster making her debut — the others are all Olympic veterans who will look to defend their medals from previous Games.

The five players were teammates on the 2010-2011 Cornell team that finished the season 30-5 and made it to the national semifinals before falling to the eventual champion, Minnesota.

Team Canada starts play on Sunday, Feb. 11 against Olympic Athletes from Russia.

Joshua Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun.com.

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weekend, according to Schafer. The sophomore forward has missed four games due to injury.

In Cornell’s last matchup with the Saints, a 6-1 victory inNovember, it was the Red’s opponent that was experiencing injury woes as Cornell enjoyed good health.

“The tables will be turned on us,” Schafer said. “We’ll be going into that game shorthanded and we’ll need to … overcome the injuries we have.”

Smith’s plus-minus of 19 leads the team, and Schafer called him one of the ECAC’s best “shutdown defensemen.”

Despite being plagued by injuries, the squad, with its sights on an ECAC title and NCAA run, has no time to feel sorry for itself.

“All teams go through this,” Schafer said. “Now we have a ton of guys out and we need to play hard and play smart and understand that we’re not a full roster but that doesn’t mean that we won’t be ready to compete.”

The Red’s depth has been one of its strongest assets thus far. Schafer said he plans to continue confidently playing four lines.

“If we have 12 healthy forwards, we’ll play with 12,” Schafer said. “We’ve got good depth and those guys will step in, whatever role they are, and they’ll do the job.”

“We have a really deep team, so it’s always that nextguy-up menality.”

Junior Anthony Angello “I think those guys know they’re expected to step up and we’re obviously going to hold them to a super high standard like we do for every player,” added junior forward Anthony Angello. “We have a really deep team, so it’s always that next-guyup mentality.”

Angello has been perhaps the primary beneficiary of Vanderlaan’s passing and playmaking ability, playing on a line with the now-injured captain and freshman Brenden

Locke. Angello leads the team with 12 goals.

“It’s tough to hear that [Vanderlaan is] going to be out for a little while, but that’s not going to change the way I think,” Angello said. “Whoever [my new linemate] may be, I’m going to treat him just like I would Mitch, and I’m going to help him get better, and he’s going to help me get better.”

The team has preached the “process” all season long, especially in the midst of success, including ascendance to No. 1 in the country. The process will be on full display as the Red responds to injury.

“It’s out of our control,” said senior forward and alternate captain Jared Fiegl. “We’re going to just focus on what we can control.”

The injury-depleted Red heads to North Country this weekend to take on the Golden Knights Friday and St. Lawrence Saturday, with a chance to clinch a bye in the ECAC playoffs.

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

After Upset Loss, Icers Prep for Conference Foes No. 3/4 men’s hockey travels to take on No. 7 Clarkson, St. Lawrence after surprising loss to Rensselaer

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Senior Editor

Just days after one of the worst teams in the ECAC toppled No. 3/4 Cornell men’s hockey at home, head coach Mike Schafer ’86 decided to give his team the day off.

The shocking loss — a 2-1 defeat that knocked the Red (19-3-1, 13-2-1 ECAC) from its perch atop the national rankings — caused a wide range of emotions for the men of the hockey team.

Disappointment. Anger. Regret.

And so, to help the team reset and return to its winning ways, Schafer did not schedule practice on Monday to allow his team to ready itself for a pair of away games this weekend. After some days of reflection, the players have been critical of their own performance yet are confident the defeat will be a learning moment.

“We didn’t come ready to work. We got outcompeted,” said junior forward Anthony Angello of Saturday’s loss. “We absolutely wanted to win but we weren’t willing to do the little things to help us win.”

Now, with a chance to avenge one of its three losses this season, the Red travels north to battle No. 7 Clarkson (19-6-3, 11-3-2) and St. Lawrence (620-2, 2-13-1) to try to secure a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs.

“Obviously, the loss is disappointing but our mentality going into this week is that it’s not going See M. HOCKEY page 17

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Old foes | Plagued by injuries and coming off an upset loss to RPI, the Red will take on North Country foes Clarkson and St. Lawrence this weekend, hoping to lock up a bye in the ECAC playoffs.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Red Downs Syracuse, Readies for Ivy Matchups Vanderlaan Out at

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Staff Writer

As it looks ahead to two Ivy League matchups and Senior Day this weekend, No. 6 Cornell women’s hockey had no problem taking care of business in a midweek contest.

Cornell (15-7-3, 11-5-2 ECAC) coasted to a 5-0 shutout of Central New York rival Syracuse (9-17-2, 85-1 CHA) on Tuesday, led by sophomore forward Kristin O’Neill’s first collegiate hat trick.

Junior goaltender Marlene Boissonnault stopped 24 shots in her fourth shutout of the season.

The Red got off to a quick start, with O’Neill registering the game’s first tally less than five minutes into the opening frame. Before long, O’Neill had scored another and junior forward Diana Buckley had netted a power-play goal, propelling Cornell to a commanding 3-0 lead at the first intermission.

“I thought from our end tonight, pretty solid effort across the board,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91.

“Obviously got off to a great start, that was key. Sometimes these Tuesday night games can be a little bit wonky ... so we're pretty happy with the effort overall tonight from

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Looking ahead | Kristen O’Neill’s hat trick and Marlene Boissonnault’s shutout led the Red to a 5-0 win Tuesday, as the team prepares to take on Yale and Brown.

our team.”

Tuesday’s game was the second time this season that Cornell had played against Syracuse, having defeated the Orange on the road, 6-3, back in early January. In that contest, the Red jumped out to an even earlier lead, but seemed unable to keep its opponent at bay, having not established a commanding lead until the game’s closing minutes.

This time, however, Cornell had no trouble imposing its will on Syracuse.

“We had a good start against them at Syracuse,” Derraugh said. “But the second period was not very strong for our part, so I think [the players] recognized that and didn’t want the same thing to happen again tonight.”

Freshman forward Maddie Mills had the primary assist on O’Neill’s first two goals and the secondary assist on her linemate’s third, which came with about five minutes to play in the second period.

“I definitely thought we as a line had a lot of energy coming into tonight’s game,” O’Neill said. “We didn’t really change anything but we were just feeling good.”

The victory marked Cornell’s 10th straight win against the Orange.

Now, the Red turns its focus to the upcoming weekend, which will feature two Ivy League and ECAC matchups against Yale and Brown.

Cornell clings to the ECAC’s fourth spot, two points ahead of fifth-place Quinnipiac and one point behind third-place St. Lawrence.

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Least Three Weeks

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Staff Writer

After a tough upset loss at home to Rensselaer Saturday, more bad news struck No. 3/4 Cornell men’s hockey in the following days.

Junior forward and co-captain Mitch Vanderlaan will miss the remainder of the regular season due to an undisclosed injury, head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said at a press conference Tuesday. The team has six contests remaining before postseason play.

Vanderlaan sustained the injury blocking a slapshot toward the end of the first period of Saturday’s game against Rensselaer, according to a team spokesperson.

Vanderlaan played the remainder of the game.

Vanderlaan has played in all of the Red’s 23 games this season, and his 13 assists lead the team.

His 26 blocked shots are by far the most

among Cornell forwards. Schafer said he hopes to have the captain back for the playoffs.

Schafer also announced that junior defenseman Brendan

“We’re not a full roster but that doesn’t mean that we won’t be ready to compete.”

Head Coach Mike Schafer ’86 Smith, who went down after taking an elbow to the head against RPI Saturday, and freshman forward Cam Donaldson, who missed last weekend’s contests, will not play this weekend as Cornell takes on No. 7 Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

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