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H.S. Seniors Jubilant After C.U. Admission

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

Dec. 5 Death in Gorge Accidental, Cops Say

Body of former Ph

By SUN STAFF

A previous version of this stor y was published on cornellsun com on Dec 5

Emergency responders recovered the body of Alan Young-Bryant M A ’07 Ph D ’11 from the Cascadilla Gorge early on the morning of Dec 5

Young-Bryant’s death appears to have been caused by an “accidental fall” into the gorge, police said

A resident of Los Angeles at the time of his death, Young-Bryant, 32, was found in the gorge by Treman Triangle, near the intersection of Linn Street and University Avenue

Earlier on Dec 5, the University said emergency services responded to an incident “in Cascadilla Gorge underneath the Stewart Avenue Bridge ”

The Cascadilla Gorge trail runs from Stewart Avenue to Linn Street

Young-Bryant had been “back in Ithaca to celebrate the successful defense of his long-time partner ’ s Ph D thesis and to reconnect with their friends in the area, ” according to Prof Jonathan Culler, English, who was Young-Bryant’s thesis adviser

He was last seen on the night of Dec 4 at the Chapter House

“The couple had been celebrating the end of her exams at the bar before they lost track of each other,” a University press release said Young-Bryant’s partner then called the Cornell University Police and

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Skorton to Obama : Gun Control Now

By KERRY CLOSE Sun News Ed tor

In t h e w a k e o f Ne w t ow n , C o n n s c h o o l s h o o t i n g s , Un i ve r s i t y Pre s i d e n t Da v i d Skorton –– along with nine other university presidents –– has urged Pre s i d e n t Ba r a c k Ob a m a a n d members of Congress to take legislative action against gun violence

In a statement issued on Jan 2, the presidents –– who are members of the executive committee of t h e A s s o c i a t i o n o f A m e r i c a n Universities, a coalition consisting of 62 American and Canadian

re s e a rc h u n i ve r s i t i e s – – c o n -

demned the U S ’ “culture of violence, particularly perpetrated by guns ” “The Newtown slaughter is the latest in a series of mass murders, but the nature and number of its victims have caused Americans to devote special attention to this tragic event and its causes, ” the statement said “Our schools and c a m p u s e s h a ve u n f o r t u n a t e l y become centers of national mourning, from Columbine to Virginia Tech, and now Newtown ”

In the statement, Skorton and his colleagues encouraged political

leaders to combat gun violence through arms control, moderation of messages of brutality in the media and improved treatment of mental illnesses

“We know that there are no simple ‘solutions’ to violence in America, but we do believe that all three areas require focused and serious consideration by the president and the Congress,” the statement said

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c u l a r l y emphasized the need to minimize violent images in the media

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weather FORECAST

The next couple of day promise to bring the precipitation and cold weather that is so familiar to residents of Ithaca As Cor nellians retur n to campus, they will be greeted by ever ything the cold tundra has to offer : rain, sleet, snow and occasionally some sun Thes next week promises to provide perfect weather for hiber nation, warm drinks and one last chance at relaxation before classes begin

Hi: 30° Lo: 25° Par tl y Sunny

Hi: 24° Lo: 23° Snow Shower s

Classes begin on the coldest day of the week Be sure to bundle up as you trudge up the Ithaca hills for another semester!

Grab your umbrella because Saturday promises nothing but rain It’s a great opportunity to have a lazy Saturday spent indoors Sunday will tur n Ithaca into a winter wonderland yet again Make a snowman, have a snowball fight and get a warm cup of cocoa Hi: 23° Lo: 12° Cloudy

Compiled by Kerry Close Friday provides the best weather of the next week, with the sun peeking through upon occasion Still, grab your winter gear as temperatures will be below freez ing Hi: 46° Lo: 28° Shower s

Prof s Mo urn D eath Of Cornell Alumnus

English

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

A previous version of this story was published on cornellsun com on Dec 6

Cornell professors said that Alan Young-Bryant M A ’07 Ph D ’11, who was found dead in a gorge Dec 5, was a “brilliant” scholar with an erudite master y of the 19th centur y poems he studied Young-Br yant, 32, was found in Cascadilla Gorge on the morning of Dec 5 Police continue to investigate his death, which they said they think was caused by an accidental fall

Prof Jonathan Culler, English, comparative literature, said in an email that Young-Br yant ’ s thesis, an exposition of Victorian poetr y and its formal devices, was “remarkable ”

Young-Br yant, who earned his M A and Ph D in English language and literature, studied the works of poets Algernon Charles Swinburne, D G Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins for his dissertation

The man was also “ a ver y accomplished teacher whose assignment sequences won a prize from the Knight Writing Program,” said Culler, who was Young-Br yant ’ s thesis adviser

Through his time working with Young-Br yant, Culler said he grew to know him as “ a man devoted to serious reading and thinking and conversation, serious and amused, with friends and colleagues ” “ He w i l l b e g re

‘He will be greatly missed’ | Alan Young-Bryant Ph D ’11 died in December COURTESY OF

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m Cornell, had been back in Ithaca to visit Briley, according to Culler The couple was last together a t t h e C h a p t e r Ho u s e Tuesday night to celebrate Briley’s successfully defending her Ph D thesis and completing her exams

To Prof Debra Fried, English, Young-Br yant was astute, yet “ at the same time, such a gentle, understated guy ”

“I watched him lead students through poems with such a lightly guiding hand as brought them to such wonderful, complex insights, and made it all seem as though the students had arrived there all on their own, ” Fried, who also worked with Young-Br yant on his thesis, said in an email

Young-Br yant ’ s ability to teach without dictating showed a “ rare master y, ” Fried said

“I simply cannot take on board the idea that Alan won ’ t get the chance for a long, rich life as a teacher and scholar,” she said

Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun com

Judge Throw s O ut $2 Mil. Award To Ithaca Of cer, Orders Retrial

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

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Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun com

Mass. Court D ismisses Wrong ful Death Suit Against Har vard

By THE HARVARD CRIMSON

A Massachusetts cour t has dismissed the wrong ful death suit filed against Har vard and three of its employees by the

m o t h e r o f Ju s t i n D C D

Cosby

C o s b y, a C a m b r i d g e re s ident, was fatally shot in 2009 in the basement of Kirkland House during a dr ug deal gone wrong His mother, B Denise Cosby, filed a wrong ful death

s u i t i n M a y a g a i n s t t h e

Un i ve r s i t y, L owe l l C o - Ho u s e Masters Dorothy A Austin and Diana L Eck, and chemistr y and chemical biology lecturer

Ryan M Spoering, who was resident dean of Lowell at the time of the shooting

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Har vard had acted negligently by allowing the man who eventually would be convicted of Justin Cosby’s murder to live in Lowell House for months, in violation of University r ules Har vard’s lawyers argued that the University had no duty to protect Cosby I n

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her room such that a reasonable person would expect visitors to the University would be pro-

deadly conduct of the room

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against the University and its three employees “ There is nothing inherent i n

allowing a Har vard student to permit her boyfriend to stay in

e d around a Har vard r ule that requires students

t o s p e a k w i t h t h e i r House Master before hosting a non-Har vard

g u e s t f o r m o re t h a n two nights

Ja b r a i Jo r d a n Copney, the man convicted of shooting Justin Cosby, resided on campus for months

i n t h e L o w e l l Ho u s e d o r m room of his girlfriend in violation of Har vard r ules

T h e H a r v a r d C o l l e g e

Handbook for Students, which

w a s c i t e d i n t h e c o m p l a i n t , states that “ The hosts of repeated overnight guests who are not Har vard students must make their guests ’ presence known to t h e B u i l d i n g M a n a g e r a n d security personnel due to safety considerations ” The complaint alleged that Har vard was at fault because the three Lowell House officials e i t h e r “ k n o w i n g l y a l l o w e d Copney, a nonstudent, to live in the Lowell House for an e x t e n d e d p e r i o d o f t i m e , i n c o n t r a v e n t i o n o f H a r v a r d ’ s r ules, and allowed him to have unfettered access to the House and the rest of Har vard’s campus, ” or “negligently failed to d e t e c t C o p n e y ’ s c o n t i n u i n g , unauthorized presence ” Har vard in September sub-

mitted a legal filing saying the University could not be blamed f o r C o s b y ’ s d e a t h H a r v a rd’s lead attorney Mar tin F Murphy stressed that point when the two sides traded arguments in cour t during a hearing on Dec 19

“ Pa r t i c u l a r l y [ w h e n ] t h e p l a i n t i f f h a s c o m e o n t o t h e proper ty in order to engage in d a n g e ro u s a c t i v i t i e s , t h e l a w makes it clear that [Har vard] doesn’t have that duty of safety to [Cosby],” said Murphy in December

During that same hearing, attorneys representing Cosby’s m o t h e r a r g u e d t h a t t h e University had allowed a dangerous situation to develop by not enforcing its own policies r e g a rd i n g g u e s t s i n H a r v a rd dorms

Early Acceptances Elate Incoming Cornellians

“To be honest, I still can ’ t believe it,” Ramsden said

father and Cornellian sister in her bed to count down the minutes

his decision

By the time his phone alarm went off at 4:59 p m , letting him know it was time to check his admissions results online, Bloem said he was in a daze

“I didn’t even think it through at that point I had been thinking about and dreading the thought of rejection from the moment I sent in the application, but I just mindlessly pressed the ‘Click here to view your decision’ button It then took me about 15 seconds to process the fact that the word ‘ acceptance ’ was displayed on my screen, ” she said “At that point, I just felt a gigantic flurry of relief and happiness punching me in the stomach I was just overwhelmed and wildly excited ”

Bloem will be joined in Ithaca in the fall by Hanna Ramsden ’17, a senior at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City

Ramsden, whose sister, Sydney Ramsden ’14, is the dining editor of The Sun, said she has dreamed of attending Cornell for years After spending hours feeling “extremely nervous ” waiting for her admissions results, Ramsden said she feels “ so happy and relieved” to know she is a part of Cornell’s Class of 2017

Thousands of miles away, the sun had not even risen when Stephanie Slaven, a senior at the Singapore American School, received her acceptance to Cornell

Slaven, who will attend the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in Fall 2013, said that once she read the “Congratulations” on her computer screen, she “screamed and then just started bawling ”

“My sister, [Lindsay Slaven ’13], is four years older than me, and so like a lot of people who idolize their older siblings, attending Cornell became a dream for me and was a key motivator for me throughout high school Getting into my dream school? It’s actually quite indescribable,” she said Emotions ran high for every member of the Slaven household that morning At 5:45 a m on the day Cornell released its decisions, Slaven said she was joined by her mother,

“I think everyone cried when I got in even my dad,” Slaven said Although Slaven and her peers will get their first taste of college when they arrive in Ithaca next fall, other accepted students will arrive at Cornell having taken a much longer path to get to The Hill

Take Paul Tarpey A 39-year-old student who is currently attending community college in Chicago, Tarpey was accepted to transfer to Cornell from Harold Washington College only after facing a series of disappointments receiving acceptances from some colleges that did not offer him a large enough financial aid package to transfer, according to Harold Washington College’s transfer center Now Cornell-bound, Tarpey has his eye set on pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in statistical science and economics and a Bachelor of Science in operations research and information engineering

According to the college’s transfer center, Tarpey’s “biggest takeaways” from his journey to Cornell are “ to be persistent and to never sell oneself short ”

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Jersey Shore Town OK’s Deal to Rebuild Boardwalk

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N J (AP) The boardwalk where generations of families and teens got their first taste of the Jersey Shore and where the MTV reality show of the same name was filmed is about to be rebuilt following its destruction in Superstorm Sandy Seaside Heights on Wednesday night awarded a $3 6 million contract to have the boardwalk rebuilt in time for Memorial Day weekend

The walkway, one of the most popular and heavily used at the Jersey Shore, was destroyed in the late October storm, the state ’ s worst natural disaster Officials say it is the centerpiece of the borough’s tourism industry, which funds 75 percent of its budget

“A lot of people love Seaside and want to see what’s happening this year, ” Mayor William Akers said “If they don’t come back, we don’t eat ”

Florence Birban, a 47-year resident, said the boardwalk means a lot to homeowners

“We need a boardwalk here to bring in the revenue and keep our taxes from going up, hopefully,” she said “It just looks wrong without a boardwalk I look up the street, and I don’t see one, and it’s not right ”

The work should be done by May 10

Seaside Heights was famous for generations as a summer destination for families, teens and young adults It took on a new level of fame in recent years when MTV set its Jersey Shore reality show on the boardwalk, where a tipsy Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi tottered unsteadily and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino flexed his abs as cameras whirred

The contract approved Wednesday just covers replacement of the boards and the substructure beneath it Akers said a future contract will include ramps, railings and a protective sea wall

EPA Changed Course After Gas Company Protested

WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family’s drinking water had begun bubbling like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: A company may have tainted their wells while drilling for natural gas

At first, the Environmental Protection Agency believed the situation was so serious that it issued a rare emergency order in late 2010 that said at least two homeowners were in immediate danger from a well saturated with flammable methane More than a year later, the agency rescinded its mandate and refused to explain why

Now a confidential report obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with company representatives show that the EPA had scientific evidence against the driller, Range Resources, but changed course after the company threatened not to cooperate with a national study into a common form of drilling called hydraulic fracturing Regulators set aside an analysis that concluded the drilling could have been to blame for the contamination

For Steve Lipsky, the EPA decision seemed to ignore the dangers to his family His water supply contains so much methane that the gas in water flowing from a pipe connected to the well can be ignited

“I just can ’ t believe that an agency that knows the truth about something like that, or has evidence like this, wouldn't use it,” said Lipsky, who fears he will have to abandon his dream home in an upscale neighborhood of Weatherford

The case isn’t the first in which the EPA initially linked a hydraulic fracturing operation to water contamination and then softened its position after the industry protested

After Another Emergency, More Trouble for 787 Jet

NEW YORK, New York (AP) –– The federal government grounded Boeing’s newest and most

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y, declaring that the 787 cannot fly again until the risk of batter y fires is addressed

The Federal Aviation Administration said it would work with Boeing and U S airlines to develop a plan to allow the Dreamliner to “ resume operations as quickly and safely as possible ” United Airlines is the only U S carrier with 787s It has six

The FAA decision was the latest setback for a plane that was supposed to set a new standard for jet travel but has been beset by one mishap after another For the second time in two weeks, a smoking or burning batter y has been tied to an emergency aboard a 787 Almost half of the 787s that have been delivered have now been grounded for safety checks And the latest incident raises the risk that the jet’s electrical problems are more dangerous than previously thought

So far, no one has suggested that the plane’s fundamental design can ’ t be fixed But it’s unclear how much will need to be changed

The remedy could range from relatively quickand-easy improvements to more extensive changes that could delay deliveries just as Boeing is tr ying to speed production up from five planes per month to 10

On Wednesday, Japan’s All Nippon Air ways said pilots smelled something burning and received a cockpit message warning of batter y problems while flying from Yamaguchi Ube airport in western Japan to Tokyo

They made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in western Japan, and passengers evacuated using inflatable slides

An inspection found that a flammable liquid had leaked from the main lithium-ion batter y, which is below and slightly behind the cockpit Investigators found burn marks around the damage

“Anytime you have a fire on board whether it’s the batter y that has caused it or a passenger that caused it or another electrical component that's a ver y a serious situation on an aircraft and something not to be taken lightly,” said Kevin Hiatt, president of the Flight Safety Foundation

Japan’s Kyodo News agency quoted transport ministr y investigator Hideyo Kosugi as saying that the liquid leaked through the electrical room floor to the outside of the aircraft

The transport ministr y said the leak could have led to an accident ANA, which operates 17 of the jets, and Japan Airlines, which has seven, said they won ’ t fly their 787s until they complete safety checks That’s almost half of the 50 planes Boeing has delivered since handing the first one over to ANA in late 2011

Just last week, a batter y on a Japan Airlines 787 caught fire soon after the plane landed at Boston's Logan Airport It took firefighters 40 minutes to put out the flames

The 787 is the first plane to make extensive use of lithium-ion batteries, which have raised concerns

in the past for their potential to catch fire The Federal Aviation Administration has given the batteries extra scrutiny and issued a special rule for their use in the 787 The plane has two batteries the main one near the front and a second one in the rear Boeing and the airlines will need to move quickly to determine whether the problem is a flaw in the batteries themselves, in the plane’s wiring or in some other area that's fundamental to the plane's electrical system

Boeing has booked orders for more than 800 of the planes from airlines around the world attracted by its increased fuel efficiency

The jet’s lightweight design makes it more of a fuel-sipper, and it’s so lightweight in part because it uses electricity to do things that other airplanes do with hot air vented through internal ducts

So a 787 with electrical problems is like a minivan that won ’ t haul kids It goes to the heart of what the thing was built to do

Before it carried paying passengers, the 787 was closely reviewed by inspectors from Boeing and the FAA

Mike Sinnett, chief engineer on the 787, said last we

through a combined 1 3 million hours and never had an internal fault He said they were built with multiple protections to ensure that “failures of the batter y don't put the airplane at risk ”

The lithium-ion design was chosen because it's the only type of batter y that can take a large charge in a short amount of time

When he spoke last week, Sinnett said Boeing was not considering replacing the lithium-ion design with another type of batter y

Neither GS Yuasa Corp , the Japanese company that supplies the batteries for the 787, nor Thales, which makes the batter y charging system, would comment on the recent troubles

Japan Airlines and All Nippon Air ways are two of the 787’s biggest customers

ANA was especially proud of its 787s Its executives' business cards and the top of its website read “787” and “We fly 1st ” ANA got the first one Boeing delivered in late 2011, more than three years late Other 787s have had problems with certain electrical panels and fuel leaks

Back on Jan 9, ANA canceled a domestic flight to Tokyo after a computer wrongly indicated there was a problem with the 787’s brakes Two days later, the carrier reported two new problems with the aircraft a minor fuel leak and a cracked cockpit windscreen

Many of the 787s problems are typical of wellestablished planes around the world, Hiatt said, adding that he would have no qualms about flying aboard a 787

“ That airplane is the most scrutinized plane in the air,” he said “I would get on the airplane tomorrow ” Transportation Secretar y Ray LaHood dismissed any doubts that the FAA was not as diligent as it should have been when certifying the plane

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From Ithaca to Vegas: Guy ’13 Talk s Ab out Mi ss America Run

By DANYOUNG KIM Sun Arts Writer

On Saturday, Joanna Guy ’13 basked in the national spotlight as a contestant in the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas, Nev Guy, who is Miss Mar yland, reached the top ten participants in the national competition before she was eliminated In an inter view with The Sun Wednesday Guy spoke about her dreams of a law career, her passion for music and the commitment to ser vice she learned from her years of competing in pageants

THE SUN: So I’m not ver y familiar with the pageant system What’s it like behind the scenes?

JOANNA GUY ’13: In the Miss America Organization, there are different levels that you compete at So you start at the local level and if you win that, you advance to the state level Then if you then win your state, you advance

t o t h e n a t i o n a l l e v e l T h e re ’ s 13,000 girls competing at the local level, but it’s down to 53 by the time you get to [the national level] At the nationals, we go out there for ten days and we had t h i n g s r a n

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Mi s s America, [go] out and won a little money at blackjack

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SUN: I’m actually from Las Vegas; that’s cool that you spent some time there!

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S U N : So yo u h a ve l o n g - t e r m a s p i r a t i o n s i n l a w W h a t d o yo u h a ve i n m i n d f o r t h e i m m e d i a t e f u t u re ? J G : T h i s y e a r, a c t u a l l y a l o t o f g i r l s , f o r t h e i r s t a t e t i t l e s , t h e y t a k e t h e y e a r o f f, b u t I w a s r e a l l y f o r t u n a t e t o f i n d t h e

C o r n e l l i n Wa s h i n g t o n Pr o g r a m b e c a u s e I f i g u r e d , i f I ’ m g e t t i n g i n t o t h i s f o r s c h o la r s h i p m o n e y, i t w o u l d b e a l i tt l e b i t c o n t r a d i c t o r y f o r m e t o t a k e t i m e o f f o f s c h o o l So I d i d [ t h e C o r n e l l i n Wa s h i n g t o n p r o g r a m ] l a s t s e m e s t e r i n p u bl i c p o l i c y, a n d i t w a s f a n t a s t i c I l ov e d i t s o m u c h , a n d n ow I ’ m b a c k t h i s s e m e s t e r a t C o r n e l l f i n i s h i n g u p m y s e n i o r y e a r I h a v e m y c a r, s o I ’l l b e t r a v e l i n g b a c k t o Ma r y l a n d a l o t I a m g o i n g t o b e a p p l y i n g f o r j o b s i n t h e a r e a o f c o n s u l t i n g a n d r e s e a r c h , h o p e f u l l y i n D C , Ne w Yo r k o r B o s t o n A n d t h e n a f t e r a c o u p l e o f y e a r s d o i n g t h a t a n d e a r n i n g s o m e m o n e y f o r l a w s c h o o l , I ’ m g o i n g t o t a k e m y L S AT a n d a p p l y i n t h e e f f o r t s o f a c a r e e r i n l a w a f t e r t h a t

SUN: What’s the most important lesson you ’ ve taken away from your years of participating in pageants?

J.G.: I don’t know if this is going to sound cliché, but just the value of ser vice and how much all the girls participating hold that as just something that’s so fundamental and integral in t h e i r l i v e s Fo r m e , Mi s s Ma r y l a n d h a

d e d t h i s incredible microphone for me to speak through I grew up in a s m

n i t y with only 30,000 people and only two high schools and I led a ser vice project in my community and was able to mobilize them and we raised over $12,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network just through that small community I think that’s an incredible testament to what people can do and when they’re put in a position where they can speak and the impact that they can have by holding a public position For me, I think that was a really important lesson Whatever I pursue in life, if I do have the opportunity to speak publicly or to be in a public spotlight in any

advantage of that to promote causes that I care about and to really remain as an integral part of my community

Danyoung Kim can be reached at dyoungkim@cornellsun com

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Home Is For Hib ernation

Bean salad, red velvet cupcakes and raviolis filled my kitchen table, along with other treats It was an unusual meal; they always are A few days into the new year, I decided to have a group of high school friends over for a potluck During my senior year (of high school), I began these get-togethers so that we could spend more time together before heading to college I hosted one for each break before the start of the school year in August, another during Thanksgiving and at least one more during spring semester

For our first two years of college, the meetings were routine But as the years went on, things only grew more complicated We went abroad, had internships, were away for summers We were busy, we were growing up and it was weird Spending time with old friends was wonderful It’s strange that four years ago, we spent hours on end together daily and now we hardly know of the ever yday happenings in each other’s lives But when we ’ re all together, somehow, it works These people still remember which house is mine, they recognize my parents they know me

This winter break, I spent one month at home more time than I’ve spent in New Jersey since this same recess sophomore year In earlier years, it seemed to be among my favorite pastimes to whine incessantly about the suffocation of being in my childhood bedroom, under the same rules that applied when I was 12 I was itching to get out to the city, to friends, to Ithaca, to anywhere else

But this time was different When my dad picked me up from Ithaca this December, I was fried Sleep deprived for weeks, I woke only an hour before his arrival Hastily, I threw whatever I could into duffel bags, scurr ying to

finish errands and my weekly chore (to my roommates: I did clean the bathroom, thank you ver y much) Soon enough, my dad had scooped me up, packed the car and began the journey home Incoherently, I told him what I could about the semester It was crazy, this is weird, no I haven’t applied to jobs He tried to share some of the perks of the g-word My dad, an ever-logical engineer that always instilled a great deal of discipline and wondered about my questionable practicality, reminded me that next year offered inumerable possibilities “ You can start to make a life for yourself ” This attempt was better than our last conversation over Thanksgiving, where he found me in bed, vege-

the door

“ These are the best years of your life And they’re over! Hahaha ” He chuckled as I left the room, to weep silently in my pre-grad stupor

So, what is all this?

Afew weeks ago, just as I was starting to settle into the life of a pathetically lazy vacationer, I took a s h o r t b r e a k f r o m B r a v o T V

OnDemand and logged onto Facebook to find 17 of my friends sharing an article entitled “CM’s Most High-Strung

S c h o o l s ” Ac c o rd i n g t o C o l l e g e Magazine (admittedly not the most reliable of sources), Cornell University tops the chart as the most “competitive, chall e n g i n g a n d s t r e s s - i n d u c i n g s c h o o l ”

Citing the gray weather and the way

Cornell makes you feel like you are “ no longer at the top anymore, but no matter how hard you tr y, you never will be,” CollegeMagazine crowned Big Red the most high strung college in the countr y Congratulations in order? Perhaps not

Although some Cornellians have, in my experience, been rank-obsessed, I am certain that at least in this categor y out-performing MIT and Har vard is less than flattering In its feature, College Magazine factored Cornell’s “alarming number of suicides” in into its score Although certainly not the most statistically sound report

but was all kind of great Sometimes, it seems, average is good

Pressing pause has given me a moment to breathe, or more importantly sleep (also: I guess Professor Maas was right about one thing nine hours a night is divine) This week, my “wherever the wind may blow” schedule is getting old I am re-charged and I’m excited to return to the hill And perhaps even ready to own the idea that in six months, I have no plans It’s been fun to be a child under my parents ’ roof once more, giving me a moment of clarity and perspective

I realize that in just a few months, scarily, my friends

Being home for the last month has been sort of wonderful I went on no fancy vacation abroad, nor did I venture off into the great American countr yside with Kerouac on my mind I didn’t even do the art project I’d hoped to finish I did clean out my room, as promised to y ’all in a December column I watched nearly ever y episode of The West Wing I had a few infinite meals at the Pilgrim Diner I caught up with my cousins and fought with my mother Last week, I got sick and didn’t get out of my pajamas for a week Nothing was exceptionally exciting,

ever published, College Magazine’s article proves yet again Cornell’s knack for gaining (and maintaining) a rep as “the suicide school ” We talk a lot about emotional wellbeing on Cornell’s campus because our nationwide reputation has unfortunately left us no choice With programs like Counseling and Psychological Ser vices (CAPS), Empathy and Referral Ser vices (EARS), “Lets Talk,” trained R A ’ s and multiple public health campaigns driven by Gannett and student organizations,

and acquaintances from Cornell will be my “college friends” a thing of the past, not present It will surely be interesting to see who keeps in touch, who remembers birthdays and what grab bag group of fellow alums will end up in the same city But for now, let’s enjoy it ever y moment of it Happy 2013, ever yone

Katerina Athanasiou is a senior in the College of Ar t, Architecture, and Planning She may be reacched at kathanasiou@cor nellsun com Kat’s Cradle r uns alter nate Thursdays this semester

Cornellians are inundated with information daily about ways in which they can seek support if and when we need it And it works CAPS ser ves 3,000 students annually and, although there are no posted statistics for EARS, I have spent many afternoons in their offices, and the ser vice is used widely for problems of ever y shape and size In the wake of tragedy (although, by the way, it is still up for debate whether Cornell’s suic i d e r a t e i s a n y h i g h e r t h a n o t h e r schools’ of the same size or if the gorges just make them more visible), we have found an opportunity to grow as an

institution

Cornell has approached suicide prevention in two ways: Not only has the institution tried to reduce the opportunity by installing nets under bridges, but, perhaps most importantly, it has also worked diligently to disentangle why Cornell students are stressed, depressed and afraid to seek help As a community, we are more aware of what mental health is (and is not), and more willing to ask for support when we need it Reading College Magazine’s critique two short weeks after the Newtown t r a g e d y, I c o u l d n ’ t h e l p b u t b e reminded of the deadly combination of poor mental health and a means to do harm Although I say it rarely, I believe Cornell could ser ve as a role model for many Instead of focusing s o l e l y o n t h e a va i l a b i l i t y o f g u n s ( a l t h o u g h t h i s i s i m p o r t a n t a n d deser ves its own conversation), any fight to end mass shootings should start at the underlying determinant: the suffering soul Too often in popular press, politics and law, mental health is swept into a cloud of titles and black and white categorizations: bipolar disorder, s c h i z o p h r e n i a o r, m o s t c o m m o n l y, “mentally ill ” I wonder what would happen if instead of labeling people as “ crazy, ” we looked deeper into their lived experiences their tendencies, their environments and their beliefs I wonder what would happen if instead of fighting about arming teachers with guns, we talked more about training teachers to detect depression in early childhood I

wonder what would happen if instead of i n c a r c

m i n a l s w e looked at their misconduct as a product of their suffering and looked for ways to help them heal I wonder what would happen if T V and movies portrayed happy and healthy people living full lives

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counseling isn’t only for those on the extremes of the mood scale

We are emotional beings Our physical and social environments influence our biology Today, we know more about the emotional beings we are than we ever have before And yet, mental health is still far too often generalized into broad categories We focus on the negative effects of mental health without paying enough attention to its root causes We talk about the guns and the deaths, the drug deals and the violence without asking the important question of why Cornell has started to ask the important questions and has started to find answers However, College Magazine’s

s mourning families remind us all that we are emotional beings who change They remind us that “ crazy ” doesn’t have to be deadly, and that bridges and guns are only half of the picture I am willing to go to The Most High-Strung School if it means digging deep and asking why if it opens up a space to ask for help

Hannah Deixler is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She may be reached at hdeixler@cornellsun com Shades of Grey appears alternate Thursdays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

ZeroDark Thirty: A Film for Our and All Time

A previous version of this stor y was published on cornellsun com on Jan 6

9/11 introduced the world and the 21st centur y to a new kind of evil Al-Qaeda str uck unannounced and nearly unseen, inspiring fear and a gnawing sense of helplessness that no one has been able to fully shake since The r ules of war changed once again, and the U S government adapted with wiretapping and “enhanced interrogation” techniques If there was one boogeyman behind the madness, it was Osama bin Laden, though it would be an oversimplification, of course, to blame it on any one individual

The triumph of Zero Dark Thirty is that it takes what could have been jingoistic genre fare the pursuit and killing of bin Laden and tangles it in the global turmoil we have lived through over the past 11 years Director Kathr yn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, the Oscarwinning pair behind The Hurt Locker, open the film with a traumatic audio montage of 9/11 distress calls and dot the background and, in a couple of star tling moments, the foreground of the plot with other al-Qaeda attacks, like the 2005 London and the 2008 Islamabad Marriott bombings

The result is an epic of incredible focus, a 157-minute film that earns ever y second Zero Dark Thirty belongs to us, now, as a candid document of the anxiety and dislocation of our time The filmmakers closely follow historical record while creating a piece of ar t, a riveting cinematic experience and the best American film of the year

Like Argo and Lincoln, spoiler warnings are unnecessar y The foreknowledge of the main plot puts added pressure on the filmmakers to find other ways to generate suspense Bigelow, cinematographer Greig Fraser and editors Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg respond with a look and feel more polished and ar tful than a BBC news feed, though not by much That is a compliment, as the film

n e v e r b r i n g s a t t e n t i o n t o itself Sure, Fraser composes b e a u t i f u l i m a g e s A r a b fr uit markets never cease to dazzle and Bigelow packs

between reenactment and reality stays blurred CIA agent Maya ( Jessica Chastain) is, in her own words, “the mother fucker who found” bin Laden She tr uly is, but the film in one of the its boldest choices shies from granting its protagonist too much sympathy She often loses it with bureaucrats, from her Station Chief Joseph Bradley (Kyle Chandler) to the Secretar y of Defense Leon Panetta ( James Gandolfini, here for comic relief ), and not in a sassy, Sandra Bullock kind of way She is unhinged, bordering on insanit y Mult i p le cha r a cters at multiple times stress the impossibility of her goal or the incompetence of her c o l l e a g u e s ; m o s t memorable is a tirade by Mark Strong, remi n i s c e n t o f A l e c Baldwin’s “Always Be Closing” speech from Gl e n g a r r y Gl e n R o s s but with, you know, actual stakes While you may admire her r e s

sar y to locate bin Laden or to win this war, Zero Dark Thirty wants you to consider whether these two goals were morally bankr upt from the star t Far from lionizing President Obama or excusing Dick Cheney, the film sees past par tisan politics and quietly contemplates whether justice during war time can be called justice at all The final shot grants credence to this reading, and it is not heretical to consider the cost of a 10-year quest for vengeance In this way, Zero Dark Thirty approaches something akin to Direct Cinema (a documentar y film genre that aims to record objective tr uth) by staging some

refusing

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audience think for itself That last par

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final 30 minutes, when SEAL Team Six flies to, invades and clears bin

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s o m e p r o f o u n d j u x t a p o s itions into single frames a Nor th American map reflecting a white, Muslim CIA official (Fredric Lehne) practicing Salah in his office must mean something But there is a spontaneity to the film that keeps you constantly on edge, in constant fear that innocent people will die yet again And when a few dozen of them inevitably do, the film cuts to actual news coverage of the attack, and the line

Starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton

c o l d , internal and sexless, the opposite of the giddy Southern housewife she played in The Help She finds a friend in rival-turned-BFF Jessica ( Jennifer Ehle, unjustly shut out from suppor ting actress awards so far), but even when they trade texts with “brb” and “ u ” in them, Maya always bends the conversation back to bin Laden Chastain keeps Maya at arm ’ s length, which is incredible to think about somehow, the mastermind behind bin Laden’s death is just not ver y likable Parallel to the film’s treatment of Maya lies the big rhetorical question of Zero Dark Thirty: We killed bin Laden, but at what cost? This core, and obviously unanswered, question has gone over the heads of all the senators and columnists manufacturing a baseless controversy over the film’s alleged “ pro-tor ture ” stance Indeed, the first half-hour consists of graphic sequences where agent Dan ( Jason Clarke) and eventually Maya waterboard and emasculate an al-Qaeda suspect (Reda Kateb, in a thankless role), not to mention confine him to an awfully small box For one, the prisoner never seems to disclose any actionable intelligence, though that plot point is up for debate The larger issue remains Maya’s, and in turn the U S government ’ s, own morality in executing this mission Regardless if tor ture was neces-

, the experience will render you immobile (a special shout-out to sound designer Paul Ottosson, who engineers the mesmerizing stealth helicopter sound effect, and sound mixer Ray Beckett, who keeps the gunfights star tling and realistic) The deliberate pacing and night-vision lighting immerse you to an almost unbearable extent, like a fly on the soldiers’ helmets The sequence inspires fear, angst and awe, the latter of which stuns the soldier who took the final and fateful shots all he can say is “I shot the third floor guy, ” as his comrades scramble to vacate the premises Around this moment, I was on the verge of tears as a Navy SEAL handed one of Osama’s children a glowstick to quiet her down and coax out her father’s name for confirmation I don’t know how to explain this emotional impact or why it str uck me then The master y of Zero Dark Thirty is that it operates on an ineffable register, free to collide feelings and abstain from easy answers Call it relativistic or postmodern or any viable, theoretical tag All I know is that the world post9/11 has been one of confusion and contradiction Zero Dark Thirty also knows this, and by draping America’s triumphant moment of victor y under the same ambiguity, it has rewritten histor y while staking a spot in it, too

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com

Love Almost Conquers All in Les Misérables

BY MARISSA TRANQUILLI Sun Staff Writer

A previous version of this stor y was published on cor nellsun com on Jan 3

Les Misérables is a raw collection of broken dreams, pitiful ends and endless suffering The film’s haunting beauty filled theaters all Christmas; families across the countr y gave up sugar plums and gatherings for the power ful voices of Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe I left the theater after Les Mis with black mascara trails streaking down my face, but not with the feeling of unhappiness and despair that tragedies often evoke Rather, the hope that characterizes the stor y remained deep within my chest, fueling my ne wfound love of the film and all who were a par t of it

The film is beautifully shot, cast and directed (by Tom Hooper) Russell Crowe brings an excellent singing voice to Javer t, the inspector and main antagonist, and strikingly conveys the subtlety of the character's stoicism and passion Helena Bonham Car ter is, well, Helena Bonham Car ter, brilliantly channelling her usual insanity, hair and all Her onscreen innkeeper husband, Thènardier (Sacha Baron Cohen), joins her on the crazy train The gaudily overdressed pair rides that line straight until their last shot being kicked out of a wedding and stealing a fe w wigs along the way Cosette (Amanda Seyfried), Marius (Eddie Redmayne) and Èponine (Samantha Barks) are ver y well cast, although Isabelle Allen (a young Cosette) effectively steals acclaim from Seyfried Allen, with her beautiful voice and sweet per formance, presents a Cosette whose depth and intensity

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young actor, Daniel Huttlestone, carries the rebellion on his shoulders as Gavroche; he is undoubtedly the most vocal, mischievous and adorable revolutionar y the French have ever seen A

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a l appearance earlier this year in The Dark Knight Rises, Anne Hathaway has redefined herself as an actress, and her per formance in Les M

standard she has set for herself Fantine is beautiful and broken, as Hathaway lends her the per fect spirit and sense of both loss of faith

course, there is the character and the per formance that carries the entire film: Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean I t

h a t I might be slightly biased, as Hu

y favorite actor, but Jackman reconstr ucted ever y idea I’ve ever had of him, building them up stronger and better than they had been before It seems impossible to make a man who has been named the Sexiest Man Alive unattractive, but as

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manages to be repulsive and gaunt Almost unrecognizable due to the 36 hours of dehydration he forced upon h

ceeds in building his character without his usual charm and dashing smile at h i s d i s p

nearly ever y scene, supplying the film with raw emotion through his great expanse of character He revolutionizes the songs he per forms, moving beyond simple singing to muttered words, hear tfelt screams and plain spoken word

The costuming and sets are amazing and each actor goes above and beyond to achieve the realism of the film, from Hathaway’s pixie cut to Jackman’s near death appearance Nothing is pushed beyond what it is: ever y costume and set looks realistic but with a hint of the musical flavor n

Thènardiers' inn scenes) The over-the-top nature of the thiever y within the Inn and the song “Master of the House” requires nothing less than the scene ’ s delightful theatrics

It is difficult to comment on the songs or plot of the film, seeing as it has been a beloved musical and book for so long What is there to say that hasn’t already been said?

The songs are wor th vie wing on the big screen, I can provide that compliment to them There are some that have to be mentioned here: “I Dreamed a Dream,” “ The Confrontation, “In My Life and “ The People s Anthem Each one is breathtaking and beautiful in its own way Ever ything about Les Mis depicts the hope and despair that a c c o m p a n y l i f e T h e a c t o r s i n t h e m ov i e , e

Jackman and Hathaway, breathe new life into their characters and maintain what Les Mis tr uly is, and I don’t think they can receive any higher compliment than that

Marissa Tranquilli is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at mtranquilli@cornellsun com

Life Should Not Be Like A Bag of Campbell’s Go

If you ’ re Taylor Swift, your transition from innocent romance into jaded post-breakup bitterness is immediate

a n d m a rk e d w i t h e xc l a m a t i o n s l i k e , ” I hate you!” “ We break up!” “ We are never ever getting back together!”

Swift is entitled to feeling angr y about a failed relationship, granted, but it seems oddly controlled The message of “I kne w you were trouble! I don’t need anybody! I am an individual!” is repeated so endlessly that it sounds defensive But it would be unfair not to talk about how other popular musical acts also cater to how individualistic and unique we are Avicii: “ We will never look back at the faded silhouette!” fun : “ We are young, so let’s set the world on fire!” Drake: “ YOLO ”

Perhaps the most egregious example is

R a d i o h e a d - c o p y c a t Mu s e , w h o w o n ’ t s h u t u p a b o u t oppression and resistance (also the name

o f a n a l b u m a n d song title) Matthe w B e l a m y c o m e s u p with lyrics like “ You and I must fight for our rights!” and “ You and me fall in line to be punished for unproven crimes!”

is why this ideological “ per version” is so revolting that we recoil Pandering to our desires of uniqueness is just par t of the game, and ar tists must eat too It’s just a market demographic, simple as that But t h e r e ’ s j u s t s o

about Muse, as a financially successful

y Stadium, singing about being oppressed Swift’s lack of singing beyond how she’s her own person creates an uncomfor table realization throughout the album that she i s p a n d e r i n g t o “ i n d i v i d u a

m ” a n d “uniqueness ” L

ne w line of soups called “Campbell’s Go,” which are soups with “globally-inspired flavors” that are “developed authentically

with and for Millennials ” They are pack-

Answering why we lap up this stuff is easy: Our society is hyper-individualistic, mass culture compels us to differentiate, blah blah blah What is harder to answer

a g e d i n p o u c h e s ( a n “ ‘ u n c a n n e d ’ approach for a younger generation”) that are emblazoned with the faces of obnoxious young people There’s even a tumblr, with GIFs of “Moroccan Style Chicken,

Ne w York Style Life” and “Creamy Red Pepper’s Abbreviation Of The Day” L I L A B O C G : L i f e Is L i k e A Ba g Of C a m p b e l l’s Go T h i s s e l f - a g g r a n d i z i n g crap makes me fear for the future of marketing ( You know what’s ‘in’ nowadays? Vintage things Andy Warhol gave this to you for free) In theor y, there should be no reason why Campbell’s Go should elicit the same reaction from me as Ne w Coke Campbell’s did ever ything right they have a Facebook page, an Angr y Birds tie in, Spotify playlists and cat GIFs Ever ybody’s favorite superstar philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, provides an explanation with this Communist-era joke: “A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia He kne w his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends: ‘Let’s establish a code If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is tr ue what I say If it is written in red ink, it is false ’ After a month, his friends get the first letter Ever ything is in blue It says, this letter: ‘Ever ything is wonder ful here Stores are full of good food Movie theatres show good films from the West Apar tments are large and luxurious The only thing you cannot buy is red ink ’ This is how we live We have all the freedoms we want But what we are missing is red ink: The language to ar ticulate our non-freedom The way we are taught to speak about freedom war on terror and so on falsifies freedom ” We b u y i n t o t h i s “ i n d i v i d u a l i s m ”

because it implies “freedom ” Think of a car commercial set on a r ustic American highway But it is no longer tr ue that buying into one gets you the other: If we a r e h y p e r - i n d i v i d u a l i s t i c , w e a r e a l s o hyper-isolated We’ve focused so much on ourselves that we have forgotten ourselves

There is some danger here Once the epistemological cynicism star ts (that’s not real freedom, this is!), it becomes an endless cycle that is farcically Mar xist We d e p e n d o n c r i t i c i s m a

w e depend on individualism: Indeed, it is the way we become unique But, the line between criticism and unwitting parodyby-example is thin Collage Culture by Aaron Rose and Mindy Khan, for example, examines the “21st centur y ’ s identity crisis” to “make an impassioned call to arms urging the next generation of ar tists to end the collage era by adopting a philosophy of creative innovation ” Choice quotes like “ The outcasts in the world know something ver y impor tant ” make me wonder whether Rose and Khan are the same people featured on Campbell’s Go soup pouches They’re not but they are selling a limited edition box set containing the book, a spoken word LP, posters, postcards and individual portraits of the authors Order today!

Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at kng@cornellsun com

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ty strong and we were able to capitalize on our goal scoring chances ”

The Red now holds a 4-1 record all time against Syracuse and is now a perfect 7-0 at home in Lynah Rink Cornell lost its previous game against St Lawrence, 3-1, and has a losing 25-32-4 record overall The Red beat Clarkson in its last matchup, 2-1, in overtime and holds an 1810-2 record all time

“Momentum will be important for this weekend’s matchup,” Fortino said “Both teams are going to be challenges, so we must be on top of our game We will need to focus on defense first as they will try to capitalize on any holes in our defensive game ”

The Red enters the weekend in fourth place in the conference with 16 points, eight points behind Harvard, who is a perfect 11-0 in the ECAC Clarkson is second with 18 points, as the team holds a 9-1 overall record in the ECAC

"We must stay out of the penalty box as that was our problem in last game against Clarkson,” Fortino said “We are confident as a group going in, but we maintain the mentality of taking our season one game at a time ”

Scott Eckl can be reached at seckl@cornellsun com

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Red Heads to Ro ad for Iv y Lea gue Play

By HALEY VELASCO

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The break was an interesting one for the Cornell wrestling team, who competed in some massive tournaments and the beginning of Ivy League competition, with some very positive results to start the season, while the rest of the student population went home for the holidays

“As a team we expect to shut teams out We expect all of our guys to perform at an extremely high level and dominate every time we step on the mat, ” said senior Kyle Dake “The good thing about this is that our young guys are starting to realize what they need to do and how they need to wrestle every match ”

It all started with the Grapple at the Garden on Dec 16, which led to two losses for Cornell against the University of Missouri and Oklahoma State This showdown was the first time in the 133-year history of Madison Square Garden arena that collegiate wrestling has competed

The team also headed to Tennessee to compete in the Southern Scuffle on Jan 1, where the wrestlers took home fifth place as a collective with a few strong individual performances In that competition, Cornell crowned two champi-

ons, Mike Nevinger at 141 lbs and Dake at 165 lbs

To cap the break off the Red took home two wins against EIWA rival No 16 Lehigh on Jan 16

“It was a great win for us as a team We just got back from the Southern Scuffle but our guys showed up ready to wrestle, which was pretty awesome I personally was really excited simply because we lost to them my first two years here and I went up another weight class to help the team earn the victory, ” Dake said

The team also beat fellow member of the Ancient Eight, Princeton, in a 42-0 shutout on Jan 12

“[The win against Princeton] gives our younger kids a lot of confidence going into the Ivy schedule Historically we have been very dominant and I believe we will continue to that tradition,” Dake said

This upcoming weekend, Cornell will head on the road to face off against Brown on Saturday and Harvard on Sunday, where the Red expects to dominate the competition and the remaining Ivy members for the rest of the season

Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun com

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probably need Lowry to provide a spark on offense “[Lowry] brings that physical element to our team and plays with an edge,” Schafer noted “Combined with the goals he’s been scoring, but also staying out of the penalty box, he’s done a tremendous job of being more disciplined this year as he scores goals

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“I think we ’ ve just been trying to keep it simple it up front, play together, get pucks deep, make better plays at the offensive blue line, make sure we ’ re controlling the puck, and just trying to get to the net as much as possible,” Lowry responded when asked how the team plans to get back on track “I think when you get pucks and bodies to the net obviously you create chances I think that’s how we got our goal in the second [Denver] game We haven’t been having a lot of puck luck but I

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claim the Big East as a casualty

With former member West Virginia already having left for the greener football pastures of the Big 12, this is the last year of Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Louisville and even Rutgers all in the conference Connecticut may soon be defecting as well, and the replacements have been the likes of Tulane, Eastern Carolina Central Florida, Southern Methodist and San Diego State (notably, none of these teams with the exception Central Florida are practically eastern) The word lackluster comes to mind The Big East is becoming more western and crappy As the Big East gropes around in the dark, desperately trying to grab a school to fill their vacancies, Boise State (again, not really Eastern) has already reneged on the Big East, preferring to stay Mountain West For comparison, the second biggest program in the Mountain West is either one of Nevada, Reno or Nevada, Las Vegas It’s come to this A team chose the Mountain West over the Big East This is the equivalent of having a drowning man decline a lifesaver because the rescue ship is sinking as well

The Big East is rich in history, with all but one of its current 17 members (South Florida) having at least one final four appearance, a conference total of 16 final fours, and 6 national titles Yet, it’s all coming to end to soon and for the wrong reasons It is being broken up because of greed, and a power play by a few select conferences, namely the ACC and Big 12 Conference commissioners are after major markets and established fan bases that the Big East offers for more lucrative TV deals The conference was founded as the best basketball conference ever created, and now will be broken up at the expense of it The most unfortunate part of all this is that the Big East is still in its basketball prime The Big East is still, undoubtedly, one of the best basketball conferences in college (if not the best, they certainly were last year but the Big 10 is coming on strong this year) Connecticut won the title not even two years ago amongst a field that included a record of 11 total teams from the Big East, while last year ’ s NCAA tournament featured 9 Big East teams, including Syracuse as a No 1 seed And that’s just men ’ s basketball The UConn women famously won 90 games in a row longest win steak in Division I basketball history - before finally losing to Stanford in 2010 The Big East is going from the best to an also-ran, essentially overnight, not due to any gradual decline or the product of some consecutive down years

think if keep doing those things keep working on them in practice things will start to turn around ” Following two long weeks of rest and review, the Red seems prepared to pick up its first road victory since the ECAC opener against Colgate

“[T]he team is focused,” Schafer said “The games out [in Denver] were good games we probably played better there than we played at [Colorado College] last year and unfortunately we came out with no points [T]he practice and being at home has, I think, re-energized us and refocused us and we ’ re ready to get into the grind of our schedule with fourteen games to go from here until the end of the year We know it’s going to be very tough but we ’ re ready to handle things ”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun com

Against the backdrop of all this, there is talk of Villanova, Georgetown, Seton Hall, St John's, Providence, Marquette, DePaul and creating their own conference and recruiting similarly proficient basketball school such as Butler to join them I never thought one of the consequences of the Big East disbanding would be entirely new conference being created, but I greatly prefer this alternative than other conferences vultures picking at the Big East until its totally unrecognizable This solution puts the Big East out its misery with some dignity and creates sort of a daughter conference This new conference (which has no name yet, although I’m hearing the name “Catholic 7” being thrown around, which seems like a bad idea) is based on the same foundation of the Big East, putting football on the backburner and creating one of the best basketball conferences in the US If this does comes to fruition I believe the watered down Big East will lose its automatic and lucrative BCS bowl berth in football, and will hopefully change their name to something more reflective of the current geography (and quality) of the conference Yes, the ACC is probably going to become the best basketball conference in America, but its very top-heavy featuring Duke and North Carolina hogging the attention as the stars

The Big East was more of an ensemble cast, with UConn, Pitt, Syracuse, Notre Dame and West Virginia, and Louisville all having recent strings of tournament success And much like the great ensemble casts before it, its being broken far to soon

John Zakour can be reached at jzakour@cornellsun com

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff

Coming off back-to-back losses at Denver, the Red is gearing up for ECAC conference play beginning with Union and Rensselaer Polytechnic this weekend By the end of the team ’ s road trip against the defending conference champion No 17 Dutchmen (10-7-4, 4-3-3 ECAC) and Engineers (6-10-5, 1-6-3), the No 16 Red (7-6-2, 33-2) will have completed a stretch of six consecutive games away from Lynah dating back to December Cornell faces Union at 7 p m on Friday, Jan 18 and then RPI on Saturday at the same time

During the break in conference play, the Red traveled to Florida to battle Ferris State and Maine, and then trekked west for a double-header at the University of Denver The team is currently preparing up for its first action in almost two weeks

“We’re trying to focus on everything: our penalty killing and our special teams, all the details of all of our systems from breakouts to controlled breakouts to forechecks to everything that we do,” said head

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the game of our hockey we ’ ve hit over the last two weeks ” Sophomore forward Joel Lowry, who scored the Red’s lone goal in a 2-1 defeat at Denver, echoed his coach’s enthusiasm

“[ W ]e’ve really been getting detailed oriented.”

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“ [ W ] e ’ ve re a l l y been getting detailed oriented At the same time we ’ ve really been working on our compete level, our battle level to get our possession of loose pucks Every detail we have in

“I think our out-of-conference schedule [was] difficult but every single game in ECAC hockey is difficult too, ” Lowr y acknowledged “We have a really deep league and it’s tough to get wins Every single team plays hard every night in our conference I think those out-of-conference games, especially the ones that we came up on the short end of, really [make] the in-conference games more important I think we ’ re just going to have a lot of emphasis going forward on getting some wins [in] the

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Cornell Takes Syracuse in Big Win

The Red crushes Orange in 8-1 victor y at home

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

Coming off a tough overtime loss against No 2 Boston College, the women ’ s hockey team started its three game home stand with a big win, 8-1, against Syracuse No 16 Cornell (12-4-0, 8-2-0 ECAC) got off to a fast start scoring five goals in the first period against the Orange (10-11-1) and cruised to the seven-point win The Red continues the home stand this weekend against conference rivals St Lawrence (13-8-1, 8-2-0) and Clarkson (17-5-0, 9-1-0)

Junior forward Brianne Jenner scored a hat trick and recorded two assists in Tuesday night’s win It was Jenner’s second hat trick of the season, bringing her season goal total to 13 and her two assists brought her to 15 Sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier had a game and career-high six-point night with two goals and four assists Junior goaltender Lauren Slebodnick had 13 saves in her ninth win of the season

“We played really well as a team, ” said senior captain and defenseman Laura Fortino “Overall, we were pret-

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games we do have left and making them count ”

A 3-3-2 conference record puts the Red in sixth place in the ECAC with fourteen games to go Although the team has had some difficulty on the road this season, holding a 1-4 record in away contests, the Red is 4-1-2 when playing within the confines of Lynah rink

“I think that if we were to follow a great formula from here on in we’d want to split our games on the road right now and win all our games at home,” Schafer said “[T]hat’d put us at 10-4 [in remaining ECAC games] that’d be the kind of record we’d want going down the stretch And the kind of hockey we want to play, we got to play it very well to accomplish that ”

If the Red hopes to make a run in ECAC, the team will

Wannouncers mentioned that this was the last year of the Big East “ as we know it,” and that we should appreciate this and just sit back and enjoy while it lasts I can ’ t

help but agree with this Big East play is just heating up We only have one more year of the greatest collection of college basketball teams ever assembled and we should take it all in for a last time But while you ’ re at it, also take a moment of silence for the Big East I grew up on Big East bask e t b a l l Grow

u p i n upstate New York my fond-

est hoops memories were following the Big East, especially the local Syracuse Orange W

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dominant force in the best conference for college basketball I watched the Big East send a record nine and

then later 11 teams to the N C A A

Tw o different Big East programs have won the NCAA tournament in my lifetime I even saw the much maligned football programs send an undefeated Cincinnati team to the prestigious Sugar Bowl Despite this, the realities of conference realignment will