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Cornell Store: Online Book Sales Grow 40 Percent in Last Year

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

Although some students say they are shopping else where for their textbooks in order to reduce costs, officials at the Cornell Store repor ted an increase in book sales by 40 percent between Fall 2012 and Fall 2013 due to the recent inclusion of more purchase and rental options

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ye a r Online textbooks sales saw the most note wor thy growth, but there has also been a steady increase in the number of books rented, Whiteleather said

Knowledge is power | Students will now be able to rent used books from the Cor nell Store, resulting in the lowest prices possible, according to staff

Commemorative Grove to Capture Histor y

JESSE WEISSMAN

As par t of Cornell’s sesquic e n t e n n i a l a n n i v e r s a r y i n

2015, a commemorative grove that honors Cornell’s histor y will be built on the top of Libe

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Kramnick, acting chair of the S e s q u i c e n t e n n i a l St e e r i n g Committee

The purpose of the landscape project is to “honor the histor y and spirit of Cornell for future generations,”

Kramnick said The grove will consist of a series of stone benches and walkways Along the walkways will be a timeline of significant events in Cornell’s histor y, according to Kramnick

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By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA

Multiple parts of campus completely lost power for approximately half an hour on Monday, affecting roughly 40 buildings, students and faculty Utility crews began responding to an outage affecting athletic facilities and buildings on North and Central Campus at 2:35 p m , amd electricity was completely restored to all

affected areas by 3 p m according to Cornell Facilities Services University Spokesperson John Carberry said the outage occurred when “ protective controls detected a problem with an electric feeder

circuit that supplies major circuits on the endowed campus ” Buildings affected by the outage included Baker Laboratory, Kroch Library, Milstein Hall and Helen Newman Hall, Carberr y

said

“The main feeder circuit with the problem was installed and commissioned last fall and has been in service for months with no problem,” Carberry said Deborah Cook, public

ser vices staff for Cornell University Library, said that said that library staff collaborated quickly to accommodate the loss of power “We’ve had power out-

PUPIL POETRY

Willard Straig ht Theatre Receives Modern Update

By GRACE HURLEY Sun Staff Wr ter

Renovations on the Willard Straight Theatre consisting of improvements in the theater’s digital equipment, physical structure and overall audience experience were completed at the end of last semester

Kent Hubbell ’69, dean of students, oversaw many of the structural changes

The renovations included the restructuring of the stage floor, installation of an electric winch system for safely flying scenery, new curtains and a new, state-of-the-art cin-

e m a s c re e n a n d d i g i t a l projection system, according to Hubbell

films to be transferred to new format, according to Savage

“They’ve been restored and look better than ever before and that’s something that we can now take advantage of,” she said

Savage added that the new digital cinema package was a needed addition because the theater had been using an older type of film with its previous projector “35 mm film prints are becoming harder and harder to get, and new films aren ’ t even being released on 35 mm so it was necessary, ” Savage said With the completion

“[The new screen] is incredibly crisp and stunning to look at ”

R a i l e y Ja n e Sa va g e , m a n a g e r o f C o r n e l l Cinema, said the new screen significantly improves film quality

“It is incredibly crisp and stunning to look at, ” she said The new equipment allows for older

, Cornell Cinema hopes to offer audience members a d

f both modern and classic cinema

“Audiences are able to have a unique experience because not only do we have this state-of-the-art equipment, but it’s combined with the classic types of films that we show, which is an experience that is

Ci t y Ne w s

SUNY Trustees Give Local Charter School Three More Years

very hard to replicate,” Savage said “I think that it’s neat to have this sort of theater brought into the twenty-first century with the advent of this new technology ”

The renovations began two years ago, with the final phase completed in the fall According to Hubbell, the changes were made possible by a donation from the Class of 1950 and an anonymous donor family Hubbell said that the next phase of renovations will include new lighting and sound

New AE M Cour se ‘Created From The Ground Up’ by P rof, Students

Class to teach new students business communication skills

By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Staff Writer

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The Charter Schools Commitee of the SUNY Board of Trustees voted Monday to renew New Roots Charter School’s charter for three years, The Ithaca Journal reported New Roots, an Ithaca public high school, was evaluated during a four year accountability period to have “ an academic program of sufficient effectiveness that it is likely with additional time to meet or come close to meeting those goals,” according to The Journal

The committee’s unanimous vote was based on a recommendation by New Roots’ authorizing agency, the Charter Schools Institute

According to The Journal, the Institute recommended New Roots’ application for renewal be approved to a limited extent and renewed for a period of three years, rather than the five-year duration that the school had sought

Three Parole Officers Arrested for Falsification, Larceny

New York State Police arrested three state parole officers on felony grand larceny charges, The Ithaca Journal reported on Saturday The officers are accused of falsifying time sheets at the Willard Drug Treatment Center, where they worked

According to The Journal, Police in Waterloo said the arrests followed a joint investigation with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Inspector General’s Office

The three arrested are Cheryl L D’Amico, 56, of Geneva, Mechela H Cordeiro, 57, of Wolcott, and Debra A Camillo, 49, of Ithaca

All three were arraigned in the Town of Waterloo Court and released on their own recognizance, The Journal said They are scheduled to reappear on Feb 11 in the Town of Ovid Court for further proceedings

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Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun com

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“We share students’ concerns about the price increases textbook publishers continue to make, which is why we innovate every semester to provide more options to help students save money, ” Whiteleather said

The Cornell Store offers students the options to buy new, buy used or rent new books, but beginning this semester, the store is also giving students the choice to rent used books This new option results in the lowest book prices possible, according to Whiteleather

The store was able to expand its rental options to include to 700 titles, Whiteleather said

Cave and Whiteleather said the store has received positive feedback on the price comparison tool built into their website They said they “ get excellent comments ” about the feature from students, who can see at a glance the lowest prices from Amazon, Half, CourseSmart and RedShelf

Whiteleather said that approximately 10 percent of books ordered using the comparison tool for the Fall 2013 semester were ordered from those alternate sellers

“I save money by buying older editions of the textbook from Amazon as opposed to The Cornell Store, where everything is really overpriced,” Sanjula Singhal ’17 said

Singhal said she only purchases older versions of textbooks if they do not differ significantly from the current editions, and if the professor permits the substitution

Singhal’s sentiments were echoed by other students, who prefer purchasing their course materials online rather than at the campus bookstore Students said they are drawn to other sites, because of both the wider variety of low prices and the special features that the sites offer

“I’ve been saving on textbooks by renting from Amazon They tend to have very competitive rental prices, and since I have [Amazon] Prime, I can get them in just two days,” said Logan Rosen ’16

Other students value the convenience of on-campus shopping over the more involved process of scouring the Internet for deals

Dean Hauser ’17 said the prices at The Cornell Store were “ludicrous, ” but admitted that he would “probably opt to be lazy” and purchase his books there

There are other issues to consider when buying books, according to Casey McClaren ’17, who prefers purchasing her textbooks from Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca

“It supports local businesses,” she said “Of course, they were cheaper than they would have been in the Cornell Store ”

Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun com

150 Years of C.U. Histor y to Be Marked in Slope Landscape

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future impor tant events in Cornell histor y, according to Kramnick

In addition, numerous quotes that Kramnick said “ capture the spirit of the University” will be engraved on the benches

One of the first quotes along the grove will be “far above Cayuga’s waters far above the busy humming of the bustling town, ” which Kramnick called “fitting,” since the grove will be overlooking Ithaca

Kramnick added that the grove has another historical dimension, due to the fact that it will be behind Morrill, McGraw, and White Halls, the three original buildings of Cornell

Kramnick said he came up with the idea when he realized that Cornell’s centennial in 1964 had not left “ a permanent mark ”

The Sesquicentennial Steering Committee approved Kramnick’s idea, appropriated the funds and formed a committee that would hold a contest to decide what architectural firm’s design would

be picked, according to Kramnick

The design that was ultimately chosen came from architectural firm Weiss/Manfredi The firm has already done projects in Ithaca, having designed the Museum of the Earth and currently designing the upcoming expansion of the Vet School, according to IthacaBuilds, a website about Ithaca-area development projects

The grove will be installed this summer and dedicated in October, according to Kramnick

Students said they were excited at the prospect of a commemorative grove on campus

“It will be really nice to have a place to sit and to learn a little bit about Cornell’s histor y at the same time,” said Rachel Kaplowitz ‘16

Emily Kling ’16 echoed Kaplowitz’s sentiment

“I’d love to learn more about the history of Cornell getting a sense of its history should definitely be an important part of being a student,” she said

Jesse Weissman can be reached at jweissman@cornellsun com

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Semester program accommodates students with interests in any profession Recently, pre-med students have shown particular interest in the program because it “has a clear professional direction” and incorporates a community service project, Beck said

“A lot of Cornell students are not only interested in themselves, they also want to do something for the greater good That’s one of the reasons why the program, and medicine in particular, is so popular,” he said

According to Beck, the experience of living in a new city can be similar to the experience of going abroad, without having to actually leave the countr y

“[NYC’s] different neighborhoods have different ethnic groups, and adjusting to New York if you don’t come from a big city is ver y much like going abroad,” Beck said Justin Lee ’15, who participated in CIW last fall, said the program aligned well with his government major “It made a lot of sense for me to work with people who work [in government] on a day to day basis I’m much more interested in American politics than in international politics, so there was no other place to be [than D C ],” Lee said “Having that kind of backdrop for an academic program on public policy, it really offered unparalleled

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Laur yn Andrews ’14 said she enjoyed her CIW experience last fall because she had always wanted to visit Washington D C “I’ve always had an interest in the political sphere I wanted to be immersed in the Washington culture; I real-

“A lot of Cornell students are not only interested in themselves, they also want to do something for the greater good. That’s one of the reasons why the program, and medicine in particular, is so popular ”

ly liked the live-and-learn aspect of the program, ” she said “I [also] really liked being in Washington because I was still able to have a Cornell community in D C For me, it’s always nice to have that connection back to Ithaca ”

Andrews said that during her time in Washington, she was able to have “once-in-a-lifetime” experiences such as obser ving the fiftieth anniversar y of the March on Washington

“I got to see our current president, past presidents and celebrities reflect on the original march It was electrifying I felt like I was a part of histor y, ” she said Beck and Hutchens both said they have been promoting their programs to applicants through advertisements and information sessions However, both also said that word-of-mouth has been the most effective form of promotion

“Students come back ver y enthusiastic about the program That’s one of the best sources of information,” Hutchens said Beck said he thinks more students should apply, because the completion of an internship during a program is a “major benefit” for future plans

“Most of our students who apply to medical school get in We [also] have a pretty good record of students getting jobs,” Beck said “It’s rare that a student doesn’t have a good experience in the program ”

Aimee Cho can be reached at acho@cornellsun com

ages before, but this one was campus-wide,” Cook said “Certain places in the library were a little darker than others, so we had students go up with flashlights to make sure nobody was scared ”

Hannah Chapman, public services assistant for Cornell University Library, echoed Cook’s sentiments, saying that library staff members were able to effectively offset the impact of the outage

“It was at about 2:30 and I was sitting at my desk in the back of the Uris and the power went out, ” Chapman said “I continued to help library patrons ”

Vasiliki Giannakakos ’15, who works at Uris Library, said the brief loss of power was an inconvenience due to the below-freezing temperatures outside

“There was no heating because we use space heaters,” she said “I couldn ’ t get coffee for a while because they wanted cash only ”

Giannakakos, who said she was caught off guard by the outage, also noted that library computers stopped working

“Campus electrical operations are operating normally and no additional problems are anticipated,” Carberry said

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As 2013 came to a close, much attention was given to the controversial remarks made in GQ Magazine by Duck Dynasty star, Phil Robertson In the interview, Robertson exhibited an astounding lack of delicacy by likening homosexuality to bestiality, while also implying that African Americans are better off in the South pre-civil rights era In response, the A&E network indefinitely suspended Robertson, although it eventually chose profit over principle, as the suspension lasted a mere two weeks Perhaps not surprisingly, many conservatives came to the defense of both the A&E personality as well as to the First Amendment

One of these conservatives is Tucker Carlson, who used his platform as guest host of The Hannity Show on Fox News to lambast those who were offended by Robertson’s remarks, and bemoan what he views to be the expanding list of taboo phrases in America Carlson defends Robertson by citing his First Amendment rights and stating that Robertson is not intolerant, because, “he never advocated anybody getting fired for being gay ”

This is part of a larger issue within the conservative base, as they seemingly take every conceivable issue or current event and turn it into an argument centered on the defense of the Constitution In reality, the Robertson debate has absolutely nothing to do with the First Amendment As far as I know, nobody is claiming that Robertson did not have a right to express his beliefs, just that he should be prepared and required to face the consequences of his actions It is not as if the FCC came to A&E and mandated that they take Duck Dynasty off the air and fire Phil Robertson The “totally authoritative behavior” that Carlson warns of on The Hannity Show is simply nonexistent, and he knows it

Likewise, Republican politicians Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz both expressed their support for Robertson and protested against what they saw as a violation of Robertson’s rights to free speech and freedom of religion This is an absolutely incorrect and irresponsible notion Implying that our Constitutional rights are somehow at risk is exactly the tactic conservatives use to further mass hysteria generated by the exploitation of the Constitution in order to maintain a perpetuating constituency based on the fear of change as a platform for the candidates they endorse Constitutional rights protect us from government involvement, not from

potential repercussions issued by private employers with whom Robertson has signed a contract

The thing is that Carlson and others like him are intelligent enough to recognize that the First Amendment is not actually under attack However, they are also intelligent enough to realize that by turning non-issues into issues regarding the Constitution, they can attract voters who view Carlson and his counterparts as defenders of liberty and freedom

Conservatives took this same approach in the debate over gun control While the rest of the country was attempting to have a constructive discourse on the appropriate course of action to ensure the safety of individuals, the conservative base and the NRA were crying wolf about the Second Amendment to distract from the potential for productive legislation and to attract voters It seems as though Tucker Carlson and the conservative base take seriously what the sitcom It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia sarcastically remarked, “The government of today has no right to tell us how to run our lives, because the government of 200 years ago already did ” Therein lies the problem Making everything about the Constitution takes away from contemporary nuances that must be considered while writing policy in order to most effectively govern Tucker Carlson doesn’t want the discussion to be about the complete deficiency of common sense and decency found in Robertson’s comments, because he knows he will lose that argument every time The debate isn’t that Phil Robertson didn’t have a right to express his views; it’s that in the case of homosexuality, his views are clearly offensive and distasteful as well as dehumanizing to a group of people His views on African-Americans can be considered at best to be incorrect, and at worst to be racist This is not about protecting rights; it’s about preser ving conser vative power As soon as Carlson allows the conversation to be steered towards the progressive movement in America, he loses his voice and the candidates supported by the conservative base lose their voters as well as their platform Instead, the only way for Carlson to stay relevant is to create a straw man ’ s argument, and to defend a 200-year-old document that is not even under attack

Jake Forken is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecolog y He may be reached at jrf285@cornell edu My Forken Opinion appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

Deon Thomas | It’s Not Me, It’s You

Get a Life

Ifled my fraternity house to seek a silent haven in which I could write an essay (that was due in 20 minutes) I sat in the librar y fer vently writing, only to find that my blessed silence would be cut by a disturbing shriek produced from a hunched over student hidden partially by the stacks I couldn’t imagine the pain that caused such a gruesome sound to come forth Different scenarios began running through my mind I pictured his beloved dog being run over by his neighbor I saw his grandfather dying after a long battle with cancer No, with the sound like that I had to assume that either his mother or father were killed in an extremely violent accident I stood up and began to walk over to comfort him, and also to find out exactly what had happened, only to have my questions answered mid-stride He let out a stream of words that included the audible, “ Why, Justin, why?” I quickly realized that he had just found out about Justin Bieber’s egging incident How could his cherished hero betray him so maliciously? How could he possibly continue studying at a time like this? Some questions are better left unanswered

The stor y I just told may be a bit of an exaggeration, but its basis is far from it The shock and outrage our society goes through with each and ever y celebrity comment and action is getting more and more ridiculous With technological advancements come more ridicule and praise Now that we can see ever ything celebrities do, and listen to ever ything that they say, people have begun to feel as if they are an omnipresent part of their lives I lived alongside this strange obsession with celebrities for as long as I can remember; however, I began to see it differently after the recent Richard Sherman incident Riled up after winning a huge playoff game, he made some cocky and seemingly ludicrous comments that were met with outrage from the media and many football fans I was quite surprised by the reactions, seeing as he failed to curse or even make any unfounded claims (as an All-Pro selection, he is technically one of the best players in the league at his position)

As tempting as it may be, I refuse to focus on this specific incident or the details of it; I would much rather focus

If you are too invested in lives of others, the simple response to maintain normalcy is to invest mor deeply in your own

on the bigger problems at hand The fact that the comments and actions of people that do not relate to our lives can bring ire, indignation and disappointment into our mental states is quite alarming Why must this parasitic relationship exist in which we receive some sick pleasure from celebrities as they feel pressured to maintain perfect images? Why can ’ t we respect musicians, athletes and actors for their talents, and leave them to their own personal lives?

I do not believe that there is a simple answer to these questions Nevertheless, I will dare to conjure up a solution

In an extremely blunt way, I could tell you, as the title suggests, to get a life However, I will refrain from doing so, because the negative connotations of that phrase detract from the deeper meaning Keep in mind that I am not addressing those who are simply amused by celebrity news; I am directing these words to those whose emotions are subject to being affected by it If you find yourself irate while watching E! News, or filling your Facebook statuses

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response to an athlete inter view, please heed these words!

If you are too invested in the lives of others, the simple response to maintain normalcy is to invest more deeply in your own I understand that you think that Justin Bieber can ’ t sing, but stop hollering at the television screen, pick up a microphone, grab a vocal coach and engage in singing as a hobby If you ’ re upset about Richard Sherman’s interview, stop waiting for your “friends” to comment back on your status, grab a few real-life friends and join a flag football league Those are ver y simple responses, but they get the point across If you are ambitious enough, happy enough or busy enough with your own life, you will find yourself imper vious to being affected by the lives of others I must request that the next time you find yourself shaking your fist at the television screen, remember to look inwardly! However, if you fail to take my words into account and find yourself being ostracized by all your peers due to your failure to curb your public shrieking habits, do not forget that it’s not me, it’s you

Comm en t of the day

“Wanting to combat poverty is of course a noble goal, but you don’t need to ‘harness the power of law.’ Laws are made to protect individuals’ rights, namely that you cannot steal someone’s property or physically harm someone without being punished ” Mark15

Re: “BARELY LEGAL: Mother Mink Eats Her Young,” Opinion, published Januar y 25, 2014

All’s Not Fair In S orority Recruitment

Last week, my social sorority completed the formal recruitment process along with 11 other houses Panhellenic women retreated from a tiring week to Bid Nights and celebrations of new member classes Much of this excitement was for good reason despite stereotypes to the contrary, sororities can provide college women with awesome opportunities to meet and develop relationships with other women I’ve found my experience to be empowering, and know that that’s not a unique reaction

But while Bid Night festivities wore on, some equally exhausted young women didn’t get to celebrate Not every woman who completes recruitment gets a bid to join a house Though this may seem obvious to some, an informal straw poll of friends and sorority sisters showed that as freshmen, many of us thought that participation in the recruitment process resulted in an automatic bid somewhere

The Panhellenic Association, which oversees the 12 sororities on campus, describes the rush process as “mutually selective,” in that it whittles recruitment participants’ lists of houses down as they and sororities choose preferred matches

This description is repeated to potential new members, or PNMs, repeatedly throughout the preparation and recruitment processes It does not, however, imply exclusivity there is nothing about “mutual selection” that states that women might not get bids Indeed, because Panhellenic sets minimum quotas of women for houses to accept, that exclusivity is precisely in their hands

Of course, sororities argue for lower quotas for a variety of reasons: financial strains, logistical burdens and the possibility that even wider sorority com-

munities will dilute the social experience Panhellenic is making a serious move towards accommodating ever increasing rush numbers with the addition of a new house in the fall, rounding out the total on campus to 13 But the addition of one house will not solve the overflow problem, just as the addition of the last new house on campus, Phi Sigma Sigma, did not Panhellenic needs to start more openly acknowledging to PNMs the very real possibility that they will end up without a sorority

The numbers needing to be thusly warned are substantial 871 women signed up for formal recruitment this year a significant increase from last year ’ s 823 Only 676 received bids Along the way, there were plenty of people

concept is reinforced by the absence of any information about the potential of not receiving a bid Essentially, that possibility is only acknowledged if potential new members ask or find out upon receiving no matches for bids

So without clear warning, some women go through the entire harrowing, evaluative and, in many instances, judgmental process only to find that they won ’ t be receiving a bid for membership from any of the houses This is communicated by a phone call, or, in some instances, when women arrive at prearranged spots to receive bids I know that the year I went through, some women who didn’t get bids spent hours getting ready for their final round conversations, only to show up

Panhellenic needs to sta more openly acknowledg to PNMs the very real possibility that they will up without a sorority

who dropped out because sorority life was not appealing, or because the rush process, with all its small talk, is banal and tiring Women who dropped the recruitment process, however, don’t represent the entirety of the 195 women who didn’t receive a bid

This year, freshmen and sophomores reported to me that the possibility of not getting a bid was only mentioned when specifically brought up by a PNM in a pre-recruitment meeting

The Panhellenic Association provides comprehensive information on its website, including FAQs, outfit advice and financial information The first reason it lists to join a sorority is that sororities “provide a good democratic social experience ” Its use of “democratic” implies inclusion and membership This

and be told in front of their peer recruitment groups that they were not going to be final rounding anywhere It makes Panhellenic recruitment leaders feel bad, it makes PNMs feel bad and is allaround a pretty sad way to carry out the message

I never went through this experience, but after hearing friends talk about what it felt like to not receive membership, I think it’s a topic that needs to be discussed A couple of friends felt it was ultimately a good thing, because they later concluded that sorority membership wasn ’ t for them More frequently, however, my friends categorized it as a disappointment Whether or not they think they would have stayed active in sororities, they wanted the

opportunity to participate in an extra community where they could meet more people

Organizations repeatedly emphasize “fit,” and espouse the mutual selection process Houses praise their peers and repeatedly mention that they’ll be happy for all potential new members regardless of where they join While those sentiments are no doubt genuine in most contexts, they exclude the possibility that some women in the room will not find a spot in that house or any other

This year, Panhellenic successfully carried 676 women along the recruitment process into sorority organizations It failed, however, the women who completed the recruitment process and didn’t receive bids Poor preparation for that possibility and a system unstructured to accommodate inflow take the worst potentials of Greek life the discomforts that accompany exclusive communities and exacerbate them While finding a solution to accommodate and find homes for the hundreds of women who go through recruitment is difficult, it would behoove the Panhellenic community to keep it more real about potential outcomes

The Panhellenic Association is the largest women ’ s organization on campus That women are not assured bids after recruitment is a pretty unattractive element of Greek life and the recruitment process If we ’ re not going to guarantee bids, then we should be more forthcoming about discussing that reality so our peers can go through recruitment with clear heads and prepared for all outcomes

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BY TOM MOORE Sun Staff Writer

Slavoj Žižek takes a swig from a warm bottle of Coke, breathing heavily on an arid hillside, as he preaches all about the commodity's “ passage from sublime to excremental ” The goal of fascism is, he proclaims with characteristic bravado and gesticulation, “ to have a cake and eat it ” The terrorist attacks in Oslo were “exactly like” the ending of the Hollywood classic, Taxi Driver Clearly

This is The Pervert's Guide to Ideolog y, a 2012 essay-documentary revolving around Slavoj Žižek, a psychoanalyst and public intellectual with a propensity for raising eyebrows He spends the film transposing himself onto the sets of other films and articulating, directly into the camera, his Marxist/Freudian critique of ideology The form of the film is somewhere between academic essay and documentary, an attempt to communicate relatively complex sociological and psychoanalytic theory using popular film

I entered the film with high hopes There is something of a cult of personality around Žižek, and I was curious to see what all the hype was about More than that, though, I was excited by the project Žižek seems to be engaged in, with both The Pervert's Guide to Ideolog y and his previous film, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema In such essay-documentaries, Žižek has the opportunity to do the essential work of the public intellectual: taking the intellectual insights of often-insular academia and making them truly public As an academic terrified of irrelevance, I believe this sort of “ pop academia” to be very important work

Unfortunately, The Pervert's Guide to Ideolog y does not do it very well The film is neither accessible enough to reach much of an audience outside of the already initiated, nor rigorous and coherent enough to carry its own weight as an academic work

It is not that Žižek does not have anything to say On the contrary, he seems to have more claims than he knows what to do with He informs us, for instance, that “Christianity is much more atheist than the usual atheism ” In the next breath, he is explaining how German metal band Rammstein “suspends the Nazi horizon of meaning ” At perhaps the weakest moment of

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What movie will win Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards is anyone ’ s guess, provided those guesses are Gravity, American Hustle or 12 Years a Slave With the Golden Globes, Producers Guild and Screen Actors Guild spreading their love amongst them, you can rest assured that voters will choose one of these final three Which one is the big question, although I predict a victory for 12 Years a Slave, a movie I also happen to think is the best from these choices

But, as any scholar of Oscar-ology knows, film quality has little to do with a movie’s chances Having fun with the Academy Awards requires accepting that they are meaningless indicators of artistry, innovation, genius, etc The Oscars are more a game of sociological politics than anything else

Say 12 Years a Slave wins Best Picture Do you think most voters 94 percent white and 77 percent male, according to L A Times process the significance of a black protagonist struggling to retain his agency within his own story? Or the nuances of Steve McQueen’s direction, as he drapes Solomon’s face in darkness throughout his first beating?

I am floating critical readings of the film here, attempting to break down a daunting and daring mammoth in order to support my claim that, “12 Years a Slave is a great film” with evidence A critic must do that, especially a pretentious amateur such as myself

the film, Occupy Wall Street protesters run across the screen and Žižek assures us that the key to dismantling capitalism is in dreaming “the right dreams ”

It may seem unfair of me to quote these fragments of arguments out of context Watch the film, though, and fragments of arguments are most of what you’ll find Žižek rarely feels the need to actually explain himself, or historicize the films and ideologies he's critiquing, or back up his claims with some kind of evidence

Which is precisely his schtick He describes unorthodox and counterintuitive theories as starkly as possible, in a thick accent and tone of presumed omniscience, while standing on a mock Titanic It is unusual, disarming and very funny For the first half hour or so Then the gimmick gets old and you spend the rest of the two and half hours listening to a mediocre lecture He does not seem to be making any central point and often seems more enamored with being elusive than interested in being lucid

Pedagogically, the film feels like a bit of a failed experiment

Exactly why it fails as a popularization of the critique of ideology and psychoanalytic theory is a good question Part of it has to do with Žižek’s own over-sized personality At the same time he is trying to explain something, he s simultaneously trying to create an aura of fascination around himself, striving to evoke a reaction of, “What the hell is this guy talking about?” Those two goals communicating clearly and maintaining a fashionable aura of incomprehensibility are unsurprisingly incompatible

It is not just the Žižek-factor that gets in the way of Pervert’s Guide communicating strong ideas well Much of the difficulty stems from the discipline of psychoanalysis itself, which from the very beginning has occupied an uneasy place in the academic world Unlike the hard sciences, the social sciences or even the field of psychology, psychoanalysis is built on claims about humanity's internal workings that are basically unverifiable That is to say, it is easy for Freudian ideas to sound like bullshit Not that they are bullshit, only that they can easily sound like it when you back them up using totally ahistorical evidence, or no evidence at all

All that said, I more or less enjoyed Pervert’s Guide I laughed, I thought and I got to experience Žižek’s undeniable charisma I enjoyed some of his readings of films, too, particularly Jaws and The Sound of Music But my sense that he was doing something important disappeared over the course of the evening I had gotten my hopes up for a film that communicates to a broad audience how ideology shapes the way we experience reality Pervert’s Guide, while good for a laugh and some conceptual gymnastics, is not that sort of film

Tom Moore is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at wmoore@cornellsun com

Balls and Golden Globes: Predicting the Oscars

tional wallop, reducing you to a puddle of tears whether you like it or not The last dramatization of this sort to win Best Picture was Schindler’s List, a movie that does not skimp on the waterworks for its devastating final minutes, either 2) And like Schindler’s List, 12 Years a Slave is capital-I Important, with Histor y and Race and Human Suffering and The Banality of Evil populating its thematic lineup 12 Years a Slave also has the ignominious honor of being the first high-profile slaver y film since 1997’s Amistad, if we discount the subject’s pulp fiction treatment in Django Unchained That means you can expect plenty of votes stemming from white guilt the “We have to give 12 Years a Slave Best Picture so I can sleep again” mindset more than deliberate appreciation

All this could backfire, of course

Academy voters could see 12 Years a Slave as too tough, too “brutal” (McQueen’s least favorite word) a slog and opt for American

Hustle’s lighter, almost paper-thin touch

pasting Christian Bale’s dead rodent of a toupee together and let Jennifer Lawrence frolic about a movie set, Singin’ in the Rainstyle, the Oscar would be his For now, he will just have to hope his streak of nominations over the past three years amounts to enough goodwill to vote his fun, if decidedly flawed, movie to the top If American Hustle does, indeed, win, blame the actors ’ branch, the Academy’s largest and surely the most receptive to the energy Russell pulls from his actors

The Oscars do not reward films for their intellectual prowess, like, ever Yet, that does not mean they do not reward complex, abrasive fare like 12 Years a Slave, which has two advantages: 1) The ending packs an emo-

However, American Hustle does not have what similar confections like Argo and The Artist had: It is not a movie about how movies that is, of course, those made in Hollywood are so great If David O Russell started his movie with a make-up girl

Then, of course, we have Gravity Alfonso Cuarón’s passion project has almost $700 million to its name in worldwide grosses, a figure Hollywood can feel good about after exporting a string of not only godawful but, lord almighty, underperforming block busters last summer A 97 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes speaks to a level of “universal acclaim” that not even past CGI pioneers-cum-critical darlings like Avatar, Hugo and Life of Pi had With Academy favorite Sandra Bullock starring as the latest sci-fi heroine since, what, Terminator’s Sarah Connor and a nifty 90-minute runtime, Gravity has a few statistical perks up its sleeve It should also be noted that the Academy’s prominent but faceless below-the-line faction (editors, sound mixers, visual effects programmers) surely love Gravity’ s technical powerhouse

What do we learn about the films by analyzing their Oscar chances? Nothing Well,

to be a Best Picture nominee, a film must pass a few preliminary tests: slick presentation; lofty, if not very provocative, subject matter; coherence of narrative Somehow American Hustle squeezed in despite failing that last one, and I’m sure most of the Academy denounced the fringe lunatics who got The Tree of Life in two years ago (my kind of people, by the way) ut pretty much any Best Picture nominee looks and feels like a “good movie,” if not a surprising, or motivated, or layered, or even smart one I sense that Nebraska, my favorite film of last year, ceived its nominations on e backs of its aging stars ore than the brilliant subtext Alexander Payne and screenwriter Bob Nelson weave into ever y scene Then again, many movie lovers, inside and outside the Academy, looked over Nebraska I not only felt the power of that movie as I watched it but let it slide around in my mind for days and weeks after I realized how certain minute moments (like the Mt Rushmore visit, or the brothers’ air compressor theft) spoke volumes to these characters and their rich history Those epiphanies are mine and will stay with me, despite what other critics may say, despite how much money it makes, despite how many Oscars it does not win

Zachary Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com A Lovers’ Quarrell With the World will run alternate Wednesdays this semester, starting February 12

Golf Winner Follows

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SAN DIEGO (AP) Scott Stallings had ambitions to be a baseball player until the Sunday afternoon he sat down to the watch the 1997 Masters with his father

He watched Tiger Woods demolish Augusta National and the field to win by 12 shots with the lowest score ever

For a 12-year-old in Tennessee, it was inspirational

“At that moment, I quit everything, every sport I was playing, and said, ‘That’s what I want to go do ’ And every one of my friends thought I was crazy, ” Stallings said

On Sunday, he put his name on the same trophy that Woods has won so many times

It wasn ’ t a replica of the Augusta National clubhouse or even a green jacket, but it was no less special Stallings crushed a 4-iron from 222 yards that barely cleared the water on the par-5 18th green and left him two putts from 40 feet for a birdie that gave him a one-shot victory in the Farmers Insurance Open Woods, the defending champion and seven-time winner of this event, wasn ’ t around to see it He missed the 54-hole cut on Saturday, an oddity in its own right and especially because Stallings’ biggest win before that was at The Greenbrier Classic, where Woods missed the 36-hole cut Stallings’ seventh birdie of the final round gave him a 4-under 68 and capped a wild day in which eight players had a reasonable chance to win in the final hour

K J Choi had the low round of the tournament on the brutal South Course with a 6-under 66 to post the target at 8-under par Jason Day and Graham DeLaet each made birdie on the last hole for 68s to join Choi

Super Bowl Betting Gains Popularity

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L AS VEGAS (AP) With the Super Bowl

snacks, and, more than ever, placing bets

Fans bet an unprecedented $99 million on the Super Bowl last year, and the Nevada gambling

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Sunday, barring a snowstorm Nevada spor ts

wagers during the tail end of 2013

All of this is changing the role of the humble spor ts book, which casinos used to see as a lowprofit perk that kept customers from going next door

“It’s not just an amenity anymore; it’s not just icing on the cake, it’s par t of the meal,” said Jay Ko

“ We’ve seen crowds like we ’ ve never seen before ”

Professional gamblers and odds makers alike attribute the rise in wagering to the increase in televised games, and the increasing ubiquity of spor ts analysis

Amateur gamblers are more likely to bet on a game they can watch, because the emotional journey is par t of the fun

The proliferation of spor ts podcasts, blogs and websites, as well as the debates that rage on social media, have all made fans feel more educated and c o n f i d e n t i n t h e i r o p i n i o n s

Kornegay, who spent last week furiously working with four staffers to figure out hyper-specific data points like the number of receptions Denver r unning back Knowshon Moreno is likely to have

Proposition wagers, in which gamblers bet on elements of the game aside from the final score, account for as much as 60 percent of Super Bowl bets in Nevada

Johnny Avello, who r uns the luxurious spor ts book at Wynn, where the chairs are made of fine leather and the carpet is thick enough to pass out on, believes the stigma is also falling away from the pastime

Avello, who speaks with a Goodfellas-type Brooklyn accent even though he gre w up in upstate Ne w York, says this is the biggest change he’s seen in the past decades

spread,’” he said, grinning in disbelief

When casinos figure out how to attract fantasy spor ts players to the Strip, profits may soar even far ther

Some of this growth was hidden by the recession People scale back on gambling before other discretionar y spending, and the handle the total amount of money wagered plummeted in 2009 It was the only fiscal year of the past ten that saw a decline in spor ts betting

Oddsmakers believe the previous Super Bowl record, set in 2006, would have been upended years before 2013 if not for the hard times

Last fall, gamblers set records in September, October and November In November, the last month for which statistics have been released, spor ts books handled $490 million in wagers

night Eric Staal scored twice in the third period as the Hurricanes erased a two-goal deficit for their

Anton Khudobin made 22 saves

MacKenzie scored for the Blue Jackets Columbus lost its

together eight wins in a row After shutting out Carolina in the teams ’ last meeting, reigning Ve

Bobrovsky made 32 saves for Columbus The Blue Jackets had won seven in a row against the Hurricanes

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Carolina in the first period, scoring goals 17 seconds apar t to take an early two-goal lead

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Jackets’ first goal Fedor Tyutin took a wrist shot from the slot that hit the post The rebounded bounced to MacKenzie, who put

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Reports of Corruption Plague S ochi Games

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activist Alexei Navalny paints a vivid picture of the suspected cost overr uns and conflicts of interest at the Sochi Winter Olympics

Russia has spent about $51 bill i o n t o d e l

e S o c h i Olympics, which r un Feb 7-23, making them the most expensive games ever, even though as a winter event it hosts many fe wer athletes than summer games do

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a spent twice as much as necessar y to build at least 10 of the Olympic venues including the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the Fisht Stadium for t h e o p e n i n g / c l o s i n g c e r e m o n i e s and the speed-skating arena

Allegations of corr uption have dogged preparations for the Sochi Games for years, as repor ted by The Associated Press and others

Na v a l n y ’ s n e w w e b s i t e Sochi FBK info combines data gathered during his own investigations along with media repor ts and other activists’ analysis

Us i n g c o l o r f u l g r a p h i c s , t h e website makes a wide range of data accessible in English and Russian

“Athletes are not the only peop l e w h o c o m p e t e i n S o c h i , ”

Navalny, who finished a strong second in Moscow’s mayoral election last year, wrote on the website “Officials and businessmen also took par t in the games and t u r n e d t h e m i n t o a s o u r c e o f income ”

President Vladimir Putin has

r e j e c t e d c l a i m s a b o u t r a m p a n t corr uption in Sochi, saying the inflated prices were due to the honest mistakes of investors who underestimated the costs

“If anybody has got this information, please show this to us, ” Putin said in a recent television inter vie w “But so far we haven’t

seen anything except speculation ”

A 2012 repor t by the govern-

$500 million) in “unreasonable” cost overr uns in the preparations for the Sochi Olympics

Auditors found that the work

Olympstroi, the state company in

between 2008 and 2010 was “ conducive to incurring unreasonable cost overr uns ” At least three crim-

Olympstroi employees have been opened, but none of them has

since changed its management

Committee would not comment Monday on Navalny's ne w website

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Committee, said the IOC stands “against any form of corr uption

information in the past, they have been passed on to the organizing committee,” Bach said Navalny does not seem to provide solid evidence of how money was stolen during the many Sochi c

proven extremely difficult to do, because the games were not covered by Russian laws on tenders and procurement, making officials u n a c c o u n t a b l e f o r t h e m o n e y spent

Olympstroi was given free rein by Putin to “determine the ground r ules for selecting investors and contractors ” for Olympic venues This created fer tile ground for corr uption in the allocation of funds, a

, deputy director of Transparency International in Moscow

S cans Link NFL, Brain Damage

CHICAGO (AP) After thousands of hits to his head and confronted with troubling s y m p t o m s , N F L H a l l o f Fa m e r Jo e DeLamielleure is sure he has the devastating brain disease CTE even though the strongest scientific evidence says it can only be diagnosed in the dead

He is certain because researchers tr ying to develop a test for CTE have essentially told him so, based on preliminar y and unproven results

To t h e 6 2 - y e a r - o l d D e L a m i e l l e u re , t h e results are reassuring, offering a potential explanation for his sudden anger, depression and sleeplessness

“ They’re absolutely positive I have it You can see it on the X-ray,” DeLamielleure said by telephone from his home in Charlotte, N C

The former Buffalo Bills offensive lineman and several other retired players were tested last year at UCL A by researchers who told them that changes seen on the scans are consistent with

CTE They were told their brains resemble those of retired players who killed themselves and were diagnosed with CTE during autopsies

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NorthShore Neurological Institute in Evanston, Ill , is part of that research team one of many groups racing to develop methods to diagnose

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researchers at UCL A think they’re leading the pack with a PET scan technique to detect abnormal brain buildup of a protein called tau

The test involves injecting a special chemical marker that is designed to bind to tau deposits in the brain; those areas light up on the imaging scans

Their first results in living patients five former NFL players, including DeLamielleure were published last year Research involving about a dozen more former athletes and others with multiple concussions is expected to be published later this year

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By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

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Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun com

For mer Red Standouts Head To Olympics for Bobsledding

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Super Bowl Boost Estimates Too High

NEW YORK (AP) Will the snowy New York City area really reap an estimated $600 million economic boost from the Super Bowl? Probably not

De s p i t e s u c h l o f t y p re d i c t i o n s , spor ts economists say the financial impact of the Super Bowl could fall far below expectations, in part because visitors often spend their cash at NFLsponsored or corporate events rather than at tourist attractions Some hotels say Super Bowl bookings are running behind what they hoped for, prompting them to ease demands for minimum stays and room deposits And academic studies show that at best, past Super Bowls generated tens of millions, not hundreds of millions

“Move the decimal point one place to the left,” said Robert Baade, a professor at Lake Forest College in Illinois, who has studied the Super Bowl’s impact on local economies “The NFL says $500 or $600 million? I think $50 to $60 million would be a generous appraisal of what the Super Bowl generates ” T h e N Y / N J Su p e r B ow l Ho s t Committee, which has worked closely with the NFL to prepare for the Feb 2 game, has claimed in the yearslong runup that it would generate $500 to $600 million for the region, but it refused to provide any information on how it tabu l a t e d t h a t e s t i m a t e A n N F L spokesman said the league does not conduct economic impact studies on the Super Bowl

A study Baade conducted in 2000 showed that the average Super Bowl from the 1970s through the late ‘90s only accounted for about $32 million each in increased economic activity at the most The study, which examined tax revenue and other economic factors

before and after the Super Bowl, concluded that the 1999 Super Bowl in Miami, for example, only contributed about $37 million to the South Florida economy

The NFL, by comparison, claimed that 1999 game between the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons generated $396 million, the study said County sales tax data in Jacksonville showed hardly any increase in 2005 when it hosted the Super Bowl compared to non-Super Bowl years, according to a study conducted by Philip Porter, an economics professor at the University of South Florida

“No one ’ s ever been able to find a footprint that an event occurred,” he said

Por ter found that visitors spend money at NFL-funded events and buy

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g Super Bowl week instead of frequenting local establishments

Die-hard Denver or Seattle fans won ’ t necessarily attend a Broadway show or visit the Statue of Liberty during their stay, as tourist attractions often repor t lower attendance than usual during major sporting events They’re more likely to visit Super Bowl Boulevard in Times Square, which is filled with NFL-sponsored activities that funnel money directly back to the league

Economic impact studies commissioned by past Super Bowl host committees based largely on spending surveys distributed among fans at the game claimed that the 2008 Super Bowl in Glendale, Ariz , generated a record $500 million and the 2006 game in Detroit brought in about $274 million But those studies, which aren ’ t made publicly available, are widely disputed by economists

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