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DEC 8, 2014: Cornell announces its plans to purchase all of Black Oak Wind Farm’s electricity See WIND FARM page 4

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Jury Selection Begins for Rape,

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

Jury selection in the trial against Peter Mesko ’13, a former student and varsity wrestler, began Tuesday morning at the Tompkins County Courthouse Mesko, 23, has been charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree robbery He allegedly broke into a Collegetown residence in the early hours of

March 30, 2013 and raped a female student while she was sleeping

The trial was set in motion Tuesday after Mesko rejected a plea deal offered by the prosecution to reduce his charge from first-degree rape to first-degree sexual abuse, according to court documents In April 2013,

Mesko plead not guilty to his rape charge Mesko was initially scheduled to go to trial in August after his indictment last February, but the trial was delayed because another case used up time set aside for the Mesko trial Approximately 100 peo-

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Instruction Begins All Day, Cornell Campus

Tao DuFour: Colonnofagia and the Dissolution of the Wall

8 a m - 5 p m , Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Milstein Hall

Employee Assembly Meeting

12:15 - 1:30 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Biophysics Colloquium 4 p m , 700 Clark Hall

Veterinary Senior Seminars

4:30 - 5:45 p m , Lecture Hall I, Veterinary College

Tomorrow Today

Advancing Genome Science With Next Generation Sequencing 10 a m - 10 p m , 226 Weill Hall

Adam Liptak: A New Deal for the First Amendment?

12:15 - 1:45 p m , MacDonald Moot Court Room, Myron Taylor Hall

The Nightlife of Astrocytes 4:15 - 5:15 p m , G10 Biotechnology Building

Student Assembly Meeting

4:45 - 6:30 p m , Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall

Argentine Tango Practice

7:30 - 8:30 p m , Baker Portico, Physical Sciences Building

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Psychology Professor Johnston Remembered for Behavior Research

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Prof Robert E Johnston, psychology, who studied the behavior of animals around the world, died Dec 20 at Cayuga Medical Center, according to the University He was 72 Johnston researched social behavior in animals, including olfactor y communication, scent marking and social recognition and memor y, according to the University He

Australia

Johnston taught undergraduate psychology courses on topics including the evolution of human behavior and olfaction and several graduate seminars

Through his research, Johnston studied hamsters Johnston discovered that hamsters use their sense of smell for memor y and communication, Prof Timothy DeVoogd, psychology, said in a University press release

He earned his B A from Dartmouth College in 1 9 6 4

University in 1970

Johnston was active beyond academia and liked to sculpt, oil paint and photograph, according to the University He also played squash, cross-countr y skied, ice skated, hiked and danced

“His dream was to spend time after retirement studying social interactions in the wild in novel species,” DeVoogd said Johnston is sur vived by his wife, two sons, brother, sister and uncle

Alumnus Raises Millions for Startup Linking Businesses to Vendors

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Newly Appointed

ILR School Dean

Cornell Police Discover Materials Used to Make Meth in Risley Hall

Continued from page 1

University Works Towards Carbon

“The future of ILR is bright, and Kevin will bring an energy that makes it even brighter.”

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Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun com

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“Although we have made very good progress towards achieving carbon neutrality, we still have much work to do and not rest on our laurels.”

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r e c e n t i n i t i a t i v e s , i t i s e s p e c i a l l y “ c r i t i c a l t o e n g a g e e v e r y o n e i n t h e C o r n e l l c o m m u n i t y ” i n t h e e

Olivia Lutwak can be reached at olutwak@cornellsun com

Trial Begins for Alleged Rapist

MESKO

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-ple were present in the courtroom, with the majority being potential jurors Jury selection is expected to last until Wednesday Mesko appeared in court alongside his lawyers, Lauren S Owens and William J Dreyer

Both are attorneys at the Albanyarea law firm Dreyer Boyajian LLP Judge Joseph R Cassidy is pre-

siding the case, with Assistant District Attorney Wendy L Franklin prosecuting

The trial is expected to go into next week, according to a statement read by Cassidy Mesko could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted of rape

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun com

First Charlie Hebdo Issue

Since Paris Terrorist Attacks

Sells Out in New York City

NEW YORK (AP) The first issue of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo printed since the Paris attacks finally arrived in the United States Tuesday, and it took just one hour to sell out at a Manhattan bookstore

Customers paid six dollars at the French-language bookstore

Albertine on Fifth Avenue, which got 100 copies of an issue that defiantly displays the prophet Muhammad

Two gunmen who shot and killed 12 people at the magazine’s office said they were avenging Muhammad a frequent subject of ridicule in the magazine’s cartoons

Until the Paris attack, the magazine was not normally distributed in the United States but in the days after the Paris shootings, New York magazine vendors fielded thousands of phone inquiries about it

Two other independent bookstores in Manhattan have sold out of their 100 copies each for a total of 300 available in New York

Another 300 copies are going to the rest of the countr y

“ We’re tr ying to get more, but I don’t know how many or even if we’ll get more, ” said Flora Greeson, manager of Book Culture on the borough’s Upper West side

Five million copies have been printed so far in France A digital edition is available online

Doctor Shot Inside Hospital; Gunman Kills Himself

BOSTON (AP) A man shot a doctor inside a leading Boston hospital Tuesday, critically wounding the physician before killing himself

Authorities said Stephen Pasceri, 55, entered Brigham and Women’s Hospital sometime before 11 a m and specifically requested the doctor, who police declined to name because he is a victim

Pasceri, of Millbury, shot the doctor twice just outside an examination room on the second floor of the Carl J and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center; he then turned the gun on himself, police said Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said officers conducting a room-by-room search found the gunman dead in an exam room with the weapon The doctor, meanwhile, suffered lifethreatening injuries

The hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, said the doctor was in surgery as of Tuesday evening It declined to release his name, at the request of his family

Police said Pasceri wasn ’ t a patient of the doctor’s and they didn’t specify a motive for the shootings

“We’re in the process of talking to witnesses, but it’s leading us to believe there was something in the

Brown University: Two Fraternities ‘Facilitated’ Sexual Misconduct

past that upset this guy, that made him go in and look for this particular doctor,” Evans said earlier in the day Police and hospital officials commended the fast response by police and hospital staff, who they said had been trained to respond to an “active shooter” situation

Evans said police were on the scene within seconds after getting the first calls of shots fired and had the area secured within 15 minutes Betsy Nabel, the hospital’s president, said Brigham and Women’s will evaluate its safety protocols She said there have been no discussions about installing metal detectors, which none of the city’s hospitals have Tuesday’s shooting prompted a temporar y lockdown at the Shapiro center Hospital staff were asked to remain in place and the building did not accept ne w patients

PROVIDENCE, R I (AP) Brown University officials on Monday announced that two fraternities on the Ivy League campus have been sanctioned for hosting unregistered parties last fall, including one where two students reported drinking punch laced with a date-rape drug

School leaders announced the discipline against Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Chi in a statement to the media and a letter to members of the university community Brown officials said both fraternities created environments that “facilitated” sexual misconduct No members of the fraternities are accused by the school of sexual misconduct, and none of them face criminal charges

Phi Kappa Psi will lose university recognition for four years, including the loss of housing on campus, effective immediately School officials said the fraternity hosted a party in October and two students reported drinking a beverage containing a date-rape drug

Both students reported rapid intoxication followed by memory loss, and one of them reported being sexually assaulted Brown officials said the assault was non-consensual contact that did not happen at the fraternity and did not involve a fraternity member, but was the result of the student's

incapacitation

One of the students tested positive for gamma hydroxybutyrate, a date-rape drug also known as GHB, Brown officials have said Sigma Chi was put on probation and its university privileges have been suspended until the fall of 2016 Brown officials said the fraternity cannot sponsor social events, has lost access to the chapter room, lounge, library and basement, and is ineligible to conduct recruitment, rush or initiation processes

School officials said Sigma Chi hosted an unregistered party in October where a student reported an incident of non-consensual sexual contact, but the student wasn ' t able to identify the person who touched her

“The measures we are taking reflect our interest in preventing sexual assault by addressing the campus climate at Brown,” said Brown Executive Vice President Russell Carey and Vice President Margaret Klawunn in a letter to the campus community “All Brown community members need to be involved in preventing sexual violence, and all student organizations are expected to ensure that adequate security measures are in place to promote safe events and activities ”

Independent Since 1880

132ND EDITORIAL BOARD

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Business Manager

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Supporting Cuomo’s

‘Yes Means Yes’ Policy

JUST MONTHS AFTER ORDERING ALL State University of New York schools to adopt affirmative consent policies to combat the pressing issue of sexual assault on college campuses, Gov Andrew Cuomo (D-N Y ) proposed legislation on Saturday that could extend these same changes to universities statewide If passed, Cuomo said the policies would require consent before sexual activities to be “clear, unambiguous and voluntary” and would establish amnesty for students who report sexual assaults but are involved in other offenses such as underage drinking or drug use We applaud the Governor’s proposed legislation and his decision to expand affirmative consent policies to all universities across New York State and encourage the state legislature to swiftly adopt them into law

By adopting affirmative consent sexual assault policies, schools outside of the SUNY system will be able to move towards a system of accountability and communication before, during and after all sexual encounters In addition, proposed benefits that include immunity from corresponding offenses, a bill of rights for victims and the ability to report assaults to state police officers over local or campus authorities provide victims with more reasons to speak up about their attackers it is estimated that approximately 80 percent of victims on college campuses do not report being sexually assaulted, according to a study released by the U S Department of Justice in December

Although Cornell officials say they believe the University’s current sexual assault policy, Policy 6 4, aligns with Cuomo’s consent policies for the SUNY schools, sexual assault and rape are not just problems limited to Cornell As a result, we continue to urge the administration to lobby in support of this legislation not only for Cornellians but for all students across the state By passing this legislation, schools will be able to better protect students and make progress in changing our society’s culture surrounding sex from focusing on ambiguity and silence to accountability and openness

We reaffirm our stance against the “ no means no ” paradigm in favor of a comprehensive policy that revolves around affirmative consent While Cuomo’s proposed legislation is a good first step, we are hopeful that passing this legislation will provide both Cornellians and students across the state with a way to combat rape and sexual assault as well as the surrounding culture

The Value of Amateurism

On Jan 6, the NCAA announced that it would begin to pay families of athletes competing in the Final Four semifinal basketball games up to $3,000 and families of athletes who made the championship game up to $4,000 The money will go to hotel, travel and meal expenses for the families, allowing them to celebrate and support their loved ones

This announcement comes after years of mounting pressure from critics for the NCAA to compensate student athletes for their efforts on the field Highly successful football and basketball programs bring in millions of dollars in revenue and donations to their parent institutions and to the NCAA The increasing professionalization of collegiate athletics has made a mockery of the term “student athlete ” Scandals like the fake classes at UNC-Chapel Hill have highlighted how even well-respected institutions are sacrificing academic integrity in pursuit of athletic glory (and the money it brings)

As a result, there is mounting pressure for schools to appropriately compensate their athletes Players on the Northwestern University football team even voted on whether to form a union last spring, although the outcome of the vote is not yet known The NCAA has long opposed these calls, insisting on the importance of maintaining the amateur status of the student athletes To the NCAA’s critics, amateurism is a shibboleth, held on to as a convenient facade to secure the income generated by collegiate athletics

I am by no means an expert on college sports far from it, in fact and I do not know how to properly resolve the complicated web of competing interests at the heart of this problem However, I do feel that my experience as an athlete and a student at Yale gives me the perspective to comment on one aspect of this debate: the importance of amateurism

primary benefit of athletics lies in the personal development it engenders in the participants and that is then brought to the larger community

Amateurism ingrains the ability to work very hard to achieve a distant goal with no expectation of external recompense It gives us the ability to think in terms beyond material rewards to a higher self-justification It pushes us to meld into a team and to act without ego In a world where the value of things is boiled down to dollars and cents, amateurism reaffirms that some things cannot be so reduced The beauty of athletic striving cannot be put merely in terms of television deals or ticket sales

It is a shame, then, when amateurism is reduced on our college campuses Outside of a select few schools such as Yale, athletes of all types are essentially cordoned off from the rest of the school They have their own cafeterias, tutors and culture Even the scholarship system, which directly links performance on the field to financial security, reduces the power of amateurism as an ennobling force

Amateurism is somewhat out of fashion in our society, but it is fundamental to what makes a college athletic career rewarding.

Amateurism is somewhat out of fashion in our society, but it is fundamental to what makes a college athletic career rewarding This is because sports, by and large, are not about entertainment The vast majority of student athletes never appear on the television and no one but their family and close friends pay much attention to their effort If they go to watch a game, it is often just as much out of a sense of obligation as genuine enthusiasm

Nor is it about money I am certain that I have not generated a dollar for Yale in my time here and that is true for a large majority of athletes in schools across the country Rather, the

Increasingly, non-revenue generating sports are being squeezed out so that more money can be devoted to football and basketball For many schools, sports are no longer an end in themselves but rather a tool for money And in that world, it becomes incredibly hard to justify having a track or swimming team By turning our student athletes into professionals in everything but name, we lose out on what make college athletics so special Of course, amateurism is also a luxury If a person could be making money muchneeded by themselves and their family, it would be absurd and cruel to say that some abstract ideal should prevent that from happening It is an unfortunate artifact of history that, unlike in Europe, the development of professional athletes in this country is outsourced to our colleges

Some sort of arrangement must be reached to allow for de facto professional athletes to be paid for their work But at the same time, we should not simply declare amateurism dead In doing so, we would be killing a proud tradition that has meaningfully improved the lives of countless people, myself included I do not know if the NCAA actually cares about amateurism or not, but I do, and so should anyone who cares about the true value of college sports

Isa Qasim is a senior at Yale in the Jonathan Edwards College

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Com men t of the day

“When you look at this post from the standpoint of somebody who isn’t familiar with cultural appropriation, the sarcasm becomes a lot more understandable Where is the line drawn between appreciating a culture and appropriating it?”

OSijambo

Re: “MUÑOZ | Cultural Appropriation: We Are All ‘Others ’” Opinion published December 4, 2014

Anthony Goldstein, Ravenclaw, Jewish Wizard

n December 16, 2014, Harry Potter author J K Rowling tweeted this in response to someone asking if there are any Jewish wizards at Hogwarts The Internet went crazy hundreds of headlines (like mine) expressed excitement that there was officially a Jewish student at Hogwarts As one of the most obsessive Harry Potter fans and most involved Jew that many people know, tons of people reached out to me to share the “good” news But as a Jewish Harry Potter fan who is proud of my heritage (and my obsessiveHarry Potter-fan-ness) and loves seeing it represented well in media, I cannot help but feel a bit gyped

Just to clarify, it is possible to both love Harry Potter and still have some issues with it I know people might be confused reading a column from me condemning J K Rowling, but thinking critically about something you care about is valuable It is important to remember that anything can be problematic, even the things we love My biggest qualm with Rowling’s insanely popular book series is its lack of representation, which can be seen very clearly in her tweet about Anthony Goldstein

responded to a tweet about LGBT students at Hogwarts The image in the original tweet says, “If Harry Potter taught us anything, it’s that no one should live in a closet,” and Rowling replied, “But of course ” But of course, if there were LGBT students at Hogwarts, why didn’t she bother to write them into the actual story? This answer is lazy, and it seems like she wants us to think that Hogwarts was a diverse place, without having to do any of the work for it in the books: the only actual representation of the world she created

Clearly, media representation makes a difference Mae Jemison, the first black female astronaut, was inspired to join NASA after watching a black character, Lieutenant Uhura, on Star Trek Had the character been played by a white actress, it is possible that

Saying that Anthony Goldstein is Jew in a tweet, or that Albus Dumbledore gay in an interview, does not mean t those groups of people are represented in the series

Representation is the idea that various groups of people are present in a story or a world, beyond just adding a few diverse characters for diversity’s sake Representation is important because it allows readers to see themselves reflected in a character, gives children people to look up to and can give readers a stronger sense of cultural identity or validity It also just more accurately represents the population I should not be able to count the diverse students at Hogwarts on my own two hands

In order for characters to be actually represented at all, they need to be written in the book as such Saying that Anthony Goldstein is Jewish in a tweet, or that Albus Dumbledore is gay in an interview, does not mean that those groups of people are represented in the series

On the same day as the Goldstein tweet, Rowling

missing These eight characters certainly do not accurately reflect the U K ’ s population, and there have been many qualms about how these minority characters have been written Cho Chang, for example, has been criticized as being written as an Asian stereotype for many reasons, one being that Cho is actually a Korean last name, not a Chinese first name I am glad that Rowling wants Hogwarts to be diverse, but writing it into the book and telling us after the fact are two very different things While I appreciate learning backstories and more information about the characters in the books, it does not make up for what was left out of the narrative in the first place

Jemison would not have been as empowered to become an astronaut, and might not have become one of the biggest role models or pioneers for young women

If the whole point of representation is so that readers can identify with certain characters, excluding that critical information about a character seems to defeat the whole purpose of including it at all Readers cannot see an author’s imagination just because Rowling says that Anthony Goldstein was Jewish does not mean Jews are well-represented, or represented at all, in her books

While Harry Potter does have some amazing female characters (have you seen the Buzzfeed article about Hermione as the main character of the series?), its representation of minorities is pretty lackluster Off the top of my head, I can think of eight minority characters: Cho Chang, Dean Thomas, Blaise Zabini, Lee Jordan, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Angelina Johnson and the Patil twins There might be more, but the fact that I can only name eight out of hundreds of characters, means something is

Rowling shouldn’t be getting praised for saying she included a Jew at Hogwarts when she really didn’t, since she just as easily could have written this detail into the thousands upon thousands of words she wrote in her books If she wanted LGBT readers to identify with D u m b l e d o r e , she could have explicitly stated his sexuality in the books

So I feel gyped For me, knowing that Anthony Goldstein a minor character who served in Dumbledore’s Army and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts was also Jewish would have been empowering to read as a kid Though I loved reading about the Hogwarts Christmas feasts in each book, knowing that there was a Jewish wizard among the other students (possibly even lighting a menorah in the Great Hall) would have made me feel more connected to the story

Until she corrects these problems in the Harr y Potter Encyclopedia, I’ll just be wearing my homemade Anthony Goldstein costume, writing Anthony Goldstein fan fiction and wondering what it would have been like if he had been the Chosen One

SCIENCE

By SUZY PARK Sun Contributor

Beginning with the School of Hotel Administration’s wine course as an undergraduate at Cornell, Prof Bruce Reisch ’76, horticulture, has become an expert in w i n e va r i e t y d e ve l o p m e n t a n d p l a n t breeding, having introduced 13 ne w grape varieties both wine and table grapes to the viticulture industr y Researching grape vines and developing new varieties of grapes has been Reisch’s focus since joining the Cornell faculty in 1980

“ With grapes, you are looking to re d u c e t h e c o s t s o f p ro d u c t i o n a n d increase quality,” Reisch said “And that comes down to being able to utilize wild species and leaving behind the negative fruit quality traits that come from the wild species [while] being able to bring in the genes for cold hardiness and disease resistance ”

According to Reisch, the development of a new grape variety is a long process that often takes around 20 years Much of this time is spent getting a young vine to produce fruit, followed by six to eight years of data collection

“It all starts with, first of all, envisioning what you want and finding the right pairs of parents that can give you what you want and have the right combination of traits that you are looking for in the new variety,” Reisch said

After setting the target features of the new variety, such as cold hardiness, dise a s e re s i s t a n c e a n d f r u i t q u a l i t y, hybridization follows

“In year one, it would start with a cross between two parents, a male parent and a female parent, ” Reisch said “We harvest the seeds then in the fall [and] plant the seed out next spring ”

Over the years, Reisch said he has o b s e r ve d t h e p l a n t b re e d i n g p ro c e s s become increasingly innovative

“Breeding nowadays starts with the

Prof. Bruce Reisch Develops New Grape Varieties

extraction of DNA from every single seedling and the testing of the DNA for the presence of certain genes that we absolutely must have in the new varieties that we are developing,” Reisch said “We can eliminate more than half and sometimes three fourths of plants we plant out [in the field] just by testing DNA ” Reisch plays a major role in a project with the aim of advancing seedling DNA testing VitisGen is a project headed by C o r n e l l Un i ve r s i t y a n d t h e U S Department of Agriculture to develop genetic maps of different grape populat

genes, such as those affecting fruit quality, according to Reisch, who is the grape breeding lead of the project’s breeding team

“What we are trying to do in the VitisGen project is to greatly expand the use of marker-assisted selection Instead of just one or two traits, we want dozens of traits available to us to prescreen our seedlings and to reduce the number of seedlings that go to field testing,” Reisch said “Science gives us a lot more tools to develop new varieties and that’s really been the fun part of the job ”

Using a combination of traditional approaches hybridization and planting seedlings and novel approaches genetic maps and DNA markers

Reisch has introduced 13 new grape varie

Chardonel, which have been very wellreceived by the industry, according to Reisch

“Sometimes you really can ’ t predict what will happen, and sometimes a variety will be a product of the time,” Reisch said “When we released Traminette, I thought it would be a little less successful I knew the wine quality was good, but I was surprised at how broad the success was, not just in New York State but in many other states ”

Ac c o rd i n g t o Re i s c h , p a r t o f t h e unpredictable nature of a new variety’s

success is due to the fact that of the many grape qualities, such as disease resistance and cold hardiness, there is no single quality that is most important

“If I have a disease resistant, cold hardy grape but it makes terrible wine, nobody would plant it If I have a disease resistant grape that makes fantastic wine but doesn’t survive the winter, very few people would plant it,” Reisch said “What is really important is getting the combination of traits into one variety ”

Another critical part of the development process is naming the new variety

“One of the guiding principles is that we want a name that is really marketable and we want to avoid any other possible use of the potential name within the industry,” Reisch said “So we have to avoid all other grape variety names and there are about 10,000 in use around the world and names applied to generic wines, as well as wineries ”

For the most recent grape varieties to b e re l e a s e d , A ro m e l l a a n d A r a n d e l l , Reisch’s team held a naming contest The idea started out as a suggestion in a conversation in Geneva, New York, but became viral as the story was picked up by multiple sources, and eventually made it on National Public Radio, according to Reisch

“In the end, we had over 1,500 emails and thousands of name suggestions,” Reisch said “We were getting suggestions from Australia, Singapore and China It was amazing how this stor y travelled around the world ”

In the coming years of research, Reisch says his goal is to develop highly disease resistant grape varieties, not just to one disease, but to multiple diseases

“It is really a major goal for us to without sacrificing quality or hardiness stack up genes for resistance to multiple diseases such that growers would not have to spray with pesticides, or could greatly reduce the use of pesticides [and] reduce the cost of production at the same time,” Reisch said “To make available a range of varieties that fit different niches in the wine industry, that would be a great deal of fun and a great career accomplishment ”

Cornell Team Finds Bacteria Are Unable To Establish Growth on Anodized Aluminum

By KATHLEEN BITTER Sun Science Editor

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Christopher Stanton is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun com

Meghan Trainor hails from the same little peninsula as me, and we don’t have a lot of famous people to claim, so I kind of had to like “All About That Bass”; good or not, she’s from where I’m from! At this point, though, that novelty has worn off, and the music is the only grounds on which I can judge her now And, well pass Her new track, “Lips Are Movin,” is a pop song in ever y sense of the term It attempts to excite with some vague doo-wop throwbacks, but as the whole picture forms, those are smothered beneath layers of bubblegum, bubbglegum, bubbglegum I feel like the human race should’ve evolved beyond pop gratia pop at this point At least “Bass” had some kernel of a message buried beneath the billboard yearnings “Lips” is about some girl who’s been cuckolded and her boy buys her diamond rings, or something? I really don’t know, because it’s such a radio xerox that any other person in the Top 40 could’ve been singing this song That being said, though, it’s good by any (frighteningly, depressingly low) pop-song standard But what does my opinion matter? Go have fun with it, if you ’ re so inclined As Frank Zappa said, writing about music is like dancing about architecture Then again, he also told us to kill ugly radio

Troy Sherman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun com

t h e o t h e r e n d o f t h e s p e c t r u m , t h o u g h , l a y s a t r a c k l i k e “ En t e r Sy l v i a Pl a t h , ” w h o s e e r u d i t e t i t l e m a s k s a s o n g t h a t e m b r a c e s t h e “ n e o - d i s c o ” t h e m e m o re t h a n Be l l e a n d Se b a s t i a n e ve r s h o u l d Gi rl s i n Pe a c e t i m e Wa n t t o Da n c e d o e s n ’ t e xc i t e , b u t i t d o e s n ’ t d i s a p p o i n t It d o e s n ’ t p rov i d e a n y d e l i c i o u s m u s i c a l t i d b i t s o r i d e a s , n o r d o e s i t o f f e r a n y n a u s e a ti n g p i e c e s o f m u s i c a l s a c r i l e g e R a t h e r, i t ’ s a b l a n d d i s h ; i t’l l f i l l yo u u p f i n e , b u t yo u w o n ’ t b e n e c e s s a r i l y t h r i l l e d n e x t t i m e i t ’ s s e r ve d Ba s i c a l l y, i t ’ s t h e e p i t o m e o f a t h re e - s t a r re c o rd

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Sharon Van Etten’s cool-yet-dignified songwriting made another appearance with the single “I Don’t Want to Let You Down ” Van Etten has mastered the concise poetic tradition; her tracks are somber and never excessive, inevitably leaving her listeners to interpret their meaning While I did notice these elements in her latest single, it fell flat against the songs from her 2014 album Are We There Van Etten attempts a more upbeat, poppy style in this tune She uses a repetitive chord progression through the verse and chorus, and I found myself hoping for changes to give the song some dynamism Van Etten has fallen into the trap of creating exceptionally high standards for herself; her album, in its poignant reminiscence to the Joni Mitchell days, gave her tremendous acclaim Thus, my expectations were left undeniably unmet with this stagnant and somewhat contrived tune Van Etten has brought tremendous intrigue to the modern music industr y, but this song fails to reflect her immense capabilities as an artist

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Track and Field Takes First Place

Women fall to second place at the Beantown Challenge

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Flyers Beat Penguins in Overtime

PHIL ADELPHIA (AP)

Claude Giroux scored 3:57 into overtime, lifting the Philadelphia Flyers over the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in a fight-filled game Tuesday night

After a throwback clash that featured one ejection and nearly 100 penalty minutes, perhaps this one should have been decided by the judges’ scorecards rather than goals

Philadelphia wing Zac Rinaldo was tossed and faces a likely suspension for plowing Kris Letang into the glass Flyers All-Star and NHL scoring leader Jake Voracek threw a series of fists in his first fight of the season And Pittsburgh forward Steve Downie gave a flippant wave to a jeering crowd as he skated to the locker room after his role in a brawl

Heated rivals for years, the

teams fought four times in the second period for a total of 66 penalty minutes

Pittsburgh’s Beau Bennett and Philadelphia’s Chris VandeVelde scored in the third to make it twoall

The fisticuffs started after Rinaldo sped toward Letang alone along the boards late in the first period Rinaldo rammed his right shoulder into Letang’s back and slammed the defenseman into the glass Letang crumpled to the ice and was down for several minutes

He slowly got up, hunched over and skated straight to the locker room He did not return

Rinaldo was slapped with a five-minute major and a game misconduct for boarding One of the NHL’s most penalized players, Rinaldo will surely sit out some games once the Flyers return from

the All-Star break He earned a four-game suspension last season for an illegal check to the head of Buffalo defenseman Chad Ruhwedel, who suffered a concussion

While Rinaldo’s check was certainly the most vicious hit of the game, it was just the start of the violence

Penguins center Zach Still squared off with Flyers forward Michael Raffl in the first bout of the second period Both helmets went flying and they tussled on the ice for a few moments before it was broken up Voracek and defenseman Rob Scuderi tangled in the second fight Voracek threw several rights to Scuderi’s head that sent him to his knees as he skated to the penalty box

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Struggles to Find Wins in Ivy League

he Cornell men ’ s swimming and diving team has won two of its six meets in the Ivy League so far this season Its two victories came against Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania, with the four losses resulting from

meets against Har vard, Princeton, Yale and Columbia

The Red stands at 3-4 overall, w i t h a w i n a g a i n s t Bi n g h a m t o n remaining as its only out of league competition and victor y However, the Red will travel to Hamilton,

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Men, Women Notch Victories

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Both the Cornell men ’ s and women ’ s track and field teams saw success over winter break, winning various events at the Southern Tier Open and placing first and second respectively at the Beantown Challenge

On the women ’ s side, the Red saw almost 30 TopFive finishes at the Southern Tier Open, winning an overall total of eight events Much of the team ’ s success came in the running events, with standout perform

senior sprinter and co-captain Katie Woodford and senior sprinter and cocaptain Zena Kolliesuah, as well as others However, the team struggled somewhat with the more with the non-running events

er Tobenna Attah won the 400 and senior co-captain David Melly won the mile Six others placed first in their events as well, including freshman Dominic DeLuca, who won the 800 meter

“ The biggest thing, like in recent years, is that we have the great privilege of having a well balanced and deep team We cover all of the events really well, so we can score a lot of points and win a lot of events It’s a reflection of the strong team, ” said Assistant Coach Zebulon Lang

“All looked fit but showed a ‘go for broke’ attitude that had characterized [Cornell] over the years.” R i c h a r d B e r m a n

C o a c h L a n g l o o k e d a t t h e Southern Tier Open as a “rust-buster” meet, giving the men a chance to get back to performance pace and adjust to competing after four weeks of break However, the Beantown meet was really a chance for the team to preview Har vard’s facilities and compete against Ivy teams Har vard and Brown, who the Red will meet later in the season in regular meets and at Heptagonals

“ The technical events [such as] jumping and throwing have had a harder time since they had a lack of specific facilities during break No pole vault pits, throwing circles or long jump pits, but that particular group l o o k e d m u c

t Har vard,” said Head Coach Richard Bowman

The men ’ s team also saw a strong performance at the Open, winning nine of its events While the women ’ s success came mostly from their runners, the men saw more well-rounded results Sophomore Wynn Curtis had a strong performance in hurdles, sophomore sprint-

One of the highlights of the meet at Har vard was sophomore Grant Sisserson’s pole vault at 17’3”, a new Cornell record The freshmen on the team also had a strong showing at the meet and the team finished in first place against five other teams overall

The women ’ s team was able to take second place at the Challenge, 33 points behind first place Har vard However, despite not finishing in the top spot, the Red had strong individual performances

Red Goes on the Road to Penn State and G.W. Over Winter Break

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Editor

The gymnastics team opened its 2015 season with two tough road meets at Penn State and George Washington The Red took fourth place b th k d but improved its from 186 725 to 18 Washington D C Sunday

Ac c o rd i n g t o s e n i o r Sa m m y VanderPutten, the o er at Penn State was team to get over so ner ves

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members Freshman Joy Gage tied for third on bars with a score of 9 775, just 025 away from first place Sophomore Elana Molotsky was the Red’s top scorer on bars with a 9 475, placing her 14th out of 24 gymnasts

“I am really proud of Joy’s performance on b nd Elana, like always, was ver y solid s, ” VanderPutten, who was the top l finisher on the floor, said “ The rest freshmen have a lot of potential and for ward to seeing them step up in ext few weeks and make a huge conution to our team score ” Though the outcome of the meet s not quite what the Red was expect, senior Christine Wong explained w the team plans to clean up its permance

We did pretty well with the limited unt of time we had to practice and re, ” she said “Our skills are there, so ll we have to do is focus on the little ails so we don’t give away any extra nths ”

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VanderPutten said the finish at Penn State was an important learning experience “ While we did have a lot of falls, e energy stayed great throughout the et, ” she said “I think we got a lot of ves out last week and as long as we confident, I know we can improve several points ” VanderPutten’s prediction for her am was correct, as the Red did just that on Sunday at the George Washington

John Moffit: Just Another Tale of an Athlete Gone Wrong

Aslow end to winter break and the start of the NFL playoffs had me scanning t h r o u g h f o o t b a l l h i g h l i g h t s o n YouTube, which eventually led me to an interesting sports web series

called “ The Real Rob Report ” You may ask, “ Who is ‘Real Rob?’” In fact “Real Rob” is former NFL fullback Michael Robinson, and the refreshing basis of his show is taking fans behind the scenes into the Se a t t l e Se a h a w k s l o c k e r r o o m , showing the inside life of profess i o n a l f o o t b a l l p l a y e r s It w a s Robinson’s way to explore an interest off the field as he inter viewed teammates and coaches, all the while gathering hundreds of thousands of views on the internet

As the series proceeded, a star d e v e l o p e d o n T h e Re a l Ro b Report It wasn ’ t Seattle’s loudm o u t h c o r n e r b a c k R i c h a rd Sherman or controversial running back Marshawn Lynch The star of t h e s h ow w a s a b e n c h p l a y e r n a m e d Jo h n Mo f f i t t T h e 6 ’ 5 ” offensive lineman became quite a

hit with his humorous interactions with locker room visitors and witty o b s e r va t i o n s o n t o p i c s s u c h a s higher consciousness and the real purpose of Area 51 His bright personality on the Real Rob Report

made me want to see where his career took him

Moffitt was a loveable locker r o o m c h a r a c t e r i n Se a t t l e He played there for two years until being traded to Denver in 2013, where after three months, a major change happened On November 5th, 2013, the then 28-year-old Moffitt approached the Broncos management and told them that he was going to retire, the reason b

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disillusioned with the fact that he was only playing for the money and did not want to risk his body and health anymore It was that simple

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