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Chapter House Reconstruction Plan Approved

Building to resemble former bar, cost over $2M

By DAVE JANECZEK Sun Staff Writer

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The Ithaca Landmarks Preser vation

plans to rebuild the Chapter House on Tuesday, clearing a major

Collegetown building destroyed in a fire last April

The ne w plans call for a three stor y building with many of the same architectural features as the original str ucture, including a red brick facade with bluestone and wood accents on the ground floor that recall the iconic Chapter House T

We are first and foremost going to get the Chapter House open and then we will continue on and focus on the apar tments, ” Dietz said Interior plans for the apartments and the Chapter House bar are still being finalized, but Dietz said that preliminary

By ZACHARY SILVER

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

The founders of the Black Lives Matter movement will give a commemorative lecture as part of a series of community events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day next Wednesday Founders Opal Tometi and A l i c i a G a r z a , w h o w i l l b e accompanied by Black Lives

Ma t t e r a m b a s s a d o r Ja n a y a Khan, plan to address the public at Sage Chapel Garza, Tometi and community leader Patrisse Cullors cre-

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and political project which aims to fight racial bias against black p e o p l e

according to the Cornell United Religious Work

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Forbes Selects Lavin ’12 for ‘30 Under 30’ List

Mechanical engineer alumnus honored for work in machine learning, artifcial intelligence

By DAVID BROTZ Sun Staff Writer

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Director of Cornell Wine Lab

Remembered for Research

By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Staff Writer

cancer at age 59 Gavitt was born in Ithaca and graduated from Cornell i n 1 9 7 9

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Through his research, he h e l p e d t o i m p r ov e t h e taste and quality of wines produced worldwide Through research, he helped ensure the quality o f w i n e s a c r o s s t h e F i n g e r L a k e s r e g i o n , a c c o r d i n g t o C h r i s

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G e r l i n g , e n o l o g y e x t e n s i o n associate at t h e E xperiment Station, according to the University “Ben spent his career improving wine in New Yo r k , a n d w a s a g r e a t f r i e n d t o w i n e m a k e r s across the state, ” Gerling said

G a v i t t ’ s r e s e a r c h helped winemakers ident i f y f l a w s a t d i f f e r e n t s t a g e s o f w i n e p r o d u ction, as the Finger Lakes Region became internationally distinguished in wine production, according to the University

d e t e c t t r a c e e l e m e n t s including iron and copper which can influence wine stability and resolve issues that result from contamination and fermentation As a father and lifelong r e s i d e n t o f Un i o n Springs, Gavitt ser ved on the Union Springs School B o a rd f o r t h e p a s t 1 6 years as an advocate for t h e d i s t r i c t ’ s c h i l d r e n , according to the Syracuse Post Standard G a v i t t a n d h i s w i f e also created and operated t h e No b l e s s a C a t t e r y, from which they bred and s h o w e d m a n y Pe r s i a n cats, according to their website

Gavitt is sur vived by his wife and son

Ariel Seidner can be reached at aseidner@cornellsun com

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New Chapter House To Honor Original

Owner grateful for plan approval

indications are that the building will cost over $2 million to reconstruct

The final exterior plans resulted from a “ very healthy back-andfor th between the Landmarks Preservation Commision and the owner and architect,” according to Dietz

The owner of the Chapter House originally wanted to rebuild the str ucture while remaining loyal to the original building, according to Dietz Informal plans presented to the Landmarks Commission in November showed a white-brick building with a mansard roof, without the wood and stone facade of the Chapter House as it appeared last April

“It was really through conversations with the Landmarks Preservation Commision that we arrived at this building which is really a pretty handsome hybrid of what was originally built there and what was there the day it burned,” Dietz said

Approval from the ILPC for both the demolition and recon-

struction of the Chapter House was necessary due to the site’s location within the East Hill Historic District, according to Edward Finegan, Chair of the Landmarks Preser vation Commission

“The Landmarks Commission is concerned with how the massing, the scale, the general character of the building is fitting into the historic neighborhood,” Finegan said “It wasn ’ t really our objective to force a result that looked like the old Chapter House, something totally different could have gone in there if that is what the owner of the property wanted ”

Dietz called the round of applause from those in attendance after the Landmarks Commission approved the building “ very gratifying ”

“There’s a lot of wonderful support in the community for rebuilding the Chapter House” Dietz said “And there’s a great deal of gratitude being felt by the owner for the outpouring of interest and support ”

Dave Janeczek can be reached at djaneczek@cornellsun com

Five Arrested in Search For Escaped Inmates

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Those in custody none of whom are jail employees or insiders may not all have had direct ties to the escape, but the investigation of the breakout led to their arrest, sheriff ’ s spokesman Lt Jeff Hallock said Hutchens would only say they had “ some connection” to the inmates, adding that providing more information might tip off t h e i n m a t e s t o d e t a i l s o f t h e search The department is still investigating whether the men had help on the inside, she said

The men would have needed p o w e r f u l c u t t i n g t o o l s t h a t would not have been available to them inside to get through thick metal, and investigators are looking into how they could have obtained them, Hutchens said “ We don’t know what they are, but we know that they made a clean cut, ” Hutchens said of t h e t o o l s t h e m e n u s e d “ It’s n o t h i n g we t h i n k c o u l d h a ve

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The jail has revised its headcount procedures because it took so long to discover the men were m i s s i n g T h e c h a n g e s i n c l u d e requiring deputies to call and confirm that inmates who are in court, getting medical help or other wise out of the jail are actually where they are supposed to be

The men escaped Friday from the jail after cutting a hole in a m e t a l g r a t e t h e n c r a w l i n g through plumbing tunnels and onto the roof They pushed aside barbed wire and rappelled down using a rope made of bed sheets “ It’s e v e r y s h e r i f f ' s n i g h t

mare, ” Hutchens said “You never want to have an escape from any jail They do happen And you certainly don’t want maximum security prisoners who are a danger to the public to get out of your jail So it’s not a good day ” Jonathan Tieu, Bac Duong and Hossein Nayeri had all been awaiting trial for unrelated violent crimes

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Computer Science Prof

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and her team at Cornell On both a national and international scale, the network connects computer scientists and sustainability researchers

“CompSustNet is a large-scale collaborative research network, consisting of 12 academic institutions and over 20 collaborating institutions,” Gomes said “[It] will further nurture and expand the horizons

“Our effort will help further establish Cornell University as a research leader in both computing and sustainability.”

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computational sustainability research into policy and decision making for sustainability with direct real-world impact,” Gomes added “Computing and information science has had a transformative impact on the way modern society functions ”

To earn the grant, Gomes said she had to pass many rounds of evaluation against hundreds of competing proposals Finalists who went to NSF had to present their proposals to a scientific panel in one hour and 30 minutes, she said

“ The process is quite competitive involving several rounds,” Gomes said “In the first phase, over 200 proposals from teams around the nation were submitted It starts with a short presentation, followed by answers to the tough panel questions ”

Gomes said she believes the grant will help solidify the University’s role as a top-tier research institution

“CompSustNet brings together Cornell researchers interested in the new field of computational sustainability,” Gomes said “Our effort will help further establish Cornell University as a research leader in both computing and sustainability ”

Garrett Receives UVa Alumni Award

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included a challenge to administrators to cut costs and streamline processes, a reorganization of the upper level administration and most recently the controversial proposal for College of Business, which was announced last December

Mahoney also cited Garrett’s previous leadership at the University of Southern California, where Garrett previously served as provost, and her scholarship and work in the areas of democracy, legislative process and tax reform in his nomination of Garrett for the Distinguished Alumna

Award

Before her time at USC, Garrett served as a professor of law at the University of Chicago, where she also worked as the university’s deputy dean for academic affairs Garrett also clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall early in her career after graduating from UVa Law School In April Garrett will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award and speak at UVa The award, which was established in 1991, aims to “honor alumnae whose contributions at the highest level have brought about progress in a wide range of fields,” according to UVa

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David Bowie was my hero

Kurt Fritjofson

Each one of us has our own personal pantheon of inspirational figures; some venerate sports stars or actors

To simply say that the man inspired me seems insufficient, the written word incapable of grasping the impact he had upon me

When Bowie returned from seclusion for 2013’s The Next Day, I was jubilant “Here I am, not quite dying I took that to be an allusion to the story of Christ Now I know that allusion extended to the author

On January 8, I heard Blackstar The macabre feel was foreign to me; even in Bowie’s most desperate works, there were glimmers of humanity Even Diamond Dogs’ bleak future had “Rebel Rebel” and “Rock and Roll With Me” there was always esprit buried within the thinking man ’ s pop star and his weariness, but Blackstar was bereft of this ebullience

The morning he passed away, I listened to it again Amidst the global heartbreak all channels deciphering the man ’ s final days it became apparent that this album was intended as his goodbye Even in death, Bowie innovated; he turned his passing into an artistic work a brilliant eleventh-hour stroke So now Blackstar is viewed in an entirely different light; the hopelessness computes

In the opening song, Bowie bridges the haunting, Arabic tonality with the chorus by using a romantic bridge “Something happened on the day he died,” he aches “Spirit rose a meter and stepped aside ” He presages those who shall follow in his artistic wake “somebody else took his place and bravely cried, ‘I’m a Blackstar; I’m a Blackstar ’” (This

Ibecame a trending hashtag the man understood ) As the uplifting respite closes, this new entity proclaims what it isn’t

“I’m not a gangster, I’m not a porn star ” Are the new Blackstars that fall into the chasm Bowie leaves behind announcing that they won ’ t fit into tawdry celebrity categories? That they hope to be uncategorizable, as their primogenitor was?

“ Tis a Pity She Was a Whore begins with the sound of breath, pulled laboriously through the nose and a pumping, futuristic bassline Outside’s “I’m Deranged,” lays beneath the sordid tale of our contemporary decay in cross-gender relations “Man, she punched me like a dude she stole my purse, with rattling speed; that was the patrol this is the war ”

In many ways, “Lazarus” is the penultimate song on the record, oddly positioned as the third track Bowie’s voice is anguished and aged you can hear it when he cries “danger,” says “king ” More intelligent writers than I noted that the line “I’m so high it makes my brain whirl / Drop my cellphone down below” refers not to illicit drug usage, but to the chemotherapy treatments he endured during his grievous 18month battle with liver cancer “The clinic called the x-ray ’ s fine,” he sings in “Sue (Or In a Season of Crime) ” These continued allusions to medical treatment pepper the lyrics; of note is the fact that “Sue” was originally recorded for Bowie’s November 2014 compilation Nothing Has Changed, which means that those lyrics stem from that date also He was telling us he was ill a year and a half ago

Since the release of Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, Bowie

had been transfixed by the dismal world inhabited by Alex and his droogs With “Girl Loves Me,” the man finally encapsulated this fascination The shrill, atonal melody is Nadsat, mixed with bits of the lost gay code, Polari Bowie seems to be lamenting the fact that his death will take him away from his beloved, Iman cheena” means woman ” and many brilliant listeners noted that the mantra “where the fuck did Monday go? is hauntingly coincidental, given that Bowie passed away in the early morning hours of Sunday, January 10

The opening chords of “Dollar Days” are heartbreaking, and the acoustic guitar make it the most tender song on a dark record Amidst the chaos of a crumbling world, which now closely resembles Alex DeLarge’s, Bowie still holds the flame for the woman he will miss most “Those oligarchs with foaming mouths come now and then don’t believe for one second I’m forgetting you ” It reads like a final letter to a wife he doesn’t want to leave alone in a brutal, miserable dystopia “I Can’t Give Everything Away” closes the record, quoting the lush synthesizer tone of “Thursday’s Child” and the lonely harmonica of “A New Career in a New Town ” Many fans have found this to be one of the toughest songs to listen to He fought so hard just to say a proper goodbye

Blackstars inherit that challenge of tomorrow, with its promise of something hard to do For the sake of misfits yet to be born, let’s hope that they pass the test

David Bowie is my hero He deserves nothing less

Kurt Fritjofson is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at kf322@cornell edu

Dead Music Blogs and Living Music Bloggers

n an October piece entitled “The End of Music Blogs as We Know Them,” Pigeons & Planes founder Jacob

Moore deemed the medium dead He explains on his site, once a humble, independent blog itself: “This was before social media was the lifeblood of any online publication Back then [in 2008], a spot on a blogroll (remember those?) was more important than a social media presence Back then, there was an actual community of music blogs ”

He chalks up the slow demise of blogs to a government crackdown on illegal MP3 sharing which had already reduced many of the blogs to download link compilations with little emphasis on writing craft and the proliferation of social media platforms Carter Maness summed up the shift in a piece for The Awl: “Why deal with downloading and managing files when you can just click a link to play nearly any song in existence? Why bother wading through wordy recommendations from a dude who secretly just wants to listen to Pavement all day when your real friends constantly share music you actually like on Spotify and Soundcloud?”

“But the music blog isn’t dead! I get all my music news on the internet,” you protest Therein lies the gap created by the death of the independent blog: The vast majority of the websites we frequent aren ’ t simple blogs Pigeons & Planes is owned by Complex, and the site would have folded like countless other blogs if Moore hadn’t sold it As media giants continue to land exclusive premieres, develop expensive original content and promote themselves through wide social media reach, Pigeons & Planes would have fizzled

P&P isn’t an exception Stereogum, also originally an MP3 blog, is now owned by SpinMedia Pitchfork was bought by Condé Nast in October, around the same time Jacob Moore published his article That same month, The Village Voice, an alternative newspaper with a blog mentality long before the concept of a blog was ever hatched, was sold

to a fantastically wealthy investor

It would be easy to spin this as a “fuck the sell-outs, money is ruining art ” argument, but that’s only half the problem As easy as it is for aspiring music writers to share 140 characters worth of their thoughts on Twitter, there’s a dearth of outlets where they can share a long-form piece with a chance of anyone actually reading it It’s an intimidating catch-22: Without previously published clips, there’s only a slim chance their work will get published in an outlet that regularly hosts longform pieces And if they can ’ t do that, they’re back to square one without having anything published It’s as if we ’ ve moved back to the pre-internet age; today’s major outlets aren ’ t far off from most print magazines in their selectivity, and they dominate the music news market And if you want to self-publish (on Tumblr, for example), your lack of a dedicated social media taskforce makes competing with the big fish an absurd dream As fewer sites dominate a growing portion of our music curation, an almost antithetical problem has arisen simultaneously The long-form pop culture piece itself has fallen by the wayside as even the most powerful media organizations trade features for easily retweeted blurbs Online-only publications that started with a mission dedicated to long-form pieces are folding, the most notable of which being Grantland’s closure last year Despite institutional support from media giant ESPN, Grantland suffered its demise in you guessed it October The site’s death wasn ’ t due to lack of love; the announcement of Grantland’s closure led to a massive outpouring of sadness from readers and writers alike This intense fandom wasn ’ t enough to save the award-winning publication, though Naturally, it all comes back to money, and the sad fact is that a few enthusiastic readers of multi-thousand-word thinkpieces can ’ t compete with the revenue listicles, clickbait and a militant Twitter presence can bring

It’s in this hellish environment that I saw a high school classmate of mine post on Facebook about her new music blog Upon reading its first few posts, my friends and I imme-

diately began teasing her shoddy writing and uninspired taste (among ourselves, of course) Her first playlist included multiple popular Avicii tracks, she writes off entire musical genres (e g screamo) and includes the same adjective three times in a single sentence Her blog was an easy target, so we quickly fell into the trap of criticizing her for creating publicly available content, something most of us are too shy and ashamed to do

But she doesn’t lack self awareness In the “About Me” section of her blog, she urges readers to “ get past her middle school writing skills and amateur blogging execution ” While her blog won ’ t be the next Pitchfork, she’s using a viable platform to share her musical ideas at length For this alone, she deserves respect (even though her writing may not) And judging by the blog’s reception among her Facebook friends, her peers do respect her In an age where the music blog is a relic, her friends see making one as novel and cool, much like vinyl albums were perceived almost a decade ago

Does this mean music blogs are going to make the full vinyl loop ubiquity to obsolescence to chic to Urban Outfitters? It’s unlikely Streaming music is too dominant, and illegal MP3 download links are too easy to catch (let alone that people don’t download MP3s anymore) The current major-outlet-dominated, anti-long-form landscape is bound to change soon as technology, media and the music industry tend to do

So if you want to start a music blog, you should As long as there’s music, there will be pretentious dickheads writing about it and people reading what they’ve written We may not know what form this will take in ten years or how it will be monetized but that’s a stupid reason not to try your hand at it If you ’ re semi-talented now, you’ll likely be on the forefront of whatever the next frontier happens to be

It doesn’t matter if people tell you your opinions are wrong What you have to say about music is probably irrelevant anyway But if you shouldn’t share your pointless opinions in 1000-word columns, God knows I missed that lesson

Mike Sosnick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun com 40 Percent Papier-Mâché appears alternate Thursdays this semester

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CORRECTIONS

A Nov 27 news story, “U A Urge Tabling College of Business plans,” stated that the College of Business would combine the School of Hotel Administration, the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of management into one college However, this was inaccurate The proposed college of business would combine programs from these schools, not the entire schools Additionally, Gabriel Kaufman is a member of the Class of 2018, not the class of 2017

A Nov 27 news story, “First Deaf Oscar Winner to Speak at C U , ” incorrectly identified Marlee Matlin as the first deaf Oscar winner She is in fact the first deaf Oscar winner in her category, Best Actress in a Leading Role

Sexis arguably the most ubiquitous and important behavior across the entirety of the human race Without sex, humans would literally cease to exist Both men and women think about sex many times every day, and the focus on sex can be seen in a huge variety of contexts, from clothing advertisements to the hordes of single college students who pack themselves into sweaty bars, clubs and frat parties But despite the ubiquity of sex and sexual thoughts, many people are extremely uncomfortable talking about sex, even with those close to them Frank discussions on topics related to sex remain taboo in many areas of our society It seems strange, right? Why is a topic so fundamental, so important, still so taboo in many cultures? As it turns out, there are many perspectives on this question, ranging from sociology and evolution to psychology and the effects sexual thoughts can have on our mental state

Despite what Ken Ham would have us believe, we are all products of our collective evolution Humans were not always the kings of the food chain on an evolutionary timescale, it was not long ago that we found ourselves crawling out of the primordial ooze and struggling for survival just like every other animal in the world In this context, it makes sense that we (like most other animals) have fairly strong

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Why Is Sex So Taboo?

sex drives This strong sex drive worked well for our species when child mortality was high and life expectancy was very low But sometime in the recent past, human civilization evolved to the point where it was possible to have more kids than one could support Is it possible that aspects of human culture evolved to control the frequency and framework of sex?

According to Becker, sex is so taboo because humans have an inherent fear of death Crazy, right? It sounds really strange, but after unpacking Becker’s theory we can start to see how it might make sense Humans are constantly concerned with mortality and death, so we develop coping mechanisms by thinking of ourselves not as earthly, mortal beings, but as immortal, spiritual beings

Despite the ubiquity of sex and sexual thoughts, many people are extremely uncomfortable talking about sex, even with those close to them.

Many of the largest world religions impose strict rules on sexual behavior, usually teaching people to have sex only when they have entered a committed, monogamous relationship Could these rules actually be a form of evolutionary adaptation? Could premarital sex and promiscuity be so taboo because children born out of stable family situation have a lower chance of passing on their genes to the next generation? I don’t pretend to have the answers to these questions, but they are fascinating questions to ponder nonetheless

A slightly different (and somewhat bizarre) idea of why our society considers sex so taboo comes from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and anthropologist Ernest Becker

(e g a belief in some form of afterlife) But engaging in earthly, animalistic behaviors such as sex reminds us that we ’ re just bags of chemicals doomed to decompose when our time on earth expires

While the theory may still sound a bit wild, Prof Jaime Goldenberg, psychology, University of Southern Florida, has actually examined the relationship between thoughts related to sex and thoughts related to mortality His findings seem to indicate that people more preoccupied with thoughts of death show less interest in sex Other studies have found that sexual thoughts actually increase the mental “accessibility” of words related to mortality and death In one study, participants were given a fragment of a word

“Las if they stumbled upon an unfinished game of hangman, and were asked to complete the word When given a word fragment like “ g r a ” , people who were made to think about sex beforehand are more likely to complete the word as ‘ grave ’ instead of ‘ grape ’ While more research would certainly have to be done in order to conclude anything for sure, it seems as though Ernest Becker’s theory may actually have some merit

One fascinating aspect of the study results dealt with love and intimacy The results of the aforementioned study were actually significantly different depending on how the sexual descriptions given to the participants were framed When Goldenberg and his colleagues repeated the study, they framed the sex described to the participants beforehand as loving and intimate instead of physical and animalistic Shockingly, when they introduced sexual thoughts in the context of love and romance, the increased thoughts of death actually vanished Ernest Becker’s theory stated that sexuality ignites our natural fear of death But perhaps by placing the act of sex in a uniquely human, spiritual perspective, our natural fear of mortality is erased In other words, we may finally have found definitive evidence that love literally conquers death

Dong Burgundy is a student at Cornell Comments may be sent to dong burgundy@cor nellsun com Afternoon Delight appears periodically this semester

The Perils of Whisky Dick

et ’ s go back to my room, ” he said as he grabbed my hand and led me across the Keystone Light infused floor of his fraternity basement We stumbled up the stairs, tripping over alternate steps in a synchronized routine that could have only looked like bad physical comedy, and we eventually found ourselves in a cinderblock, sparsely decorated room that could only be described as prison-meets-privileged-yet-angsty-teen-boy We began the romantic courtship ritual of drunken 19-year-olds

There was not a moment to spare for conversation or niceties; rather it was time to get down to business (or for my more confused readers, do the dirty) Rolling into his bed clothes slowly piled up on his floor, I reached my hand downward, only to make physical contact with his completely flaccid penis, just small enough to take up the space of a third of my hand “Yeah, sorry it’s not happening,” he mumbled, clearly embarrassed, and I was left at the crossroads of sexual dissatisfaction

I have never quite known how to respond to a guy getting the colloquially known phenomenon of whisky dick (PSA: not just caused by whisky and can be induced by a fuckboy’s precious Keystone Light) while on the brink of having sex For those of you lucky enough to have never dealt with this situation, whisky dick occurs when an owner of a penis has become so drunk that he cannot become erect For the other person involved it is an uncomfortable reality

In fact, my responses have varied across a range of emotions, each worse than the next One solution was just trying to have sex anyway, while another was ordering the guy in question to go down on me my justification for this was the notion that, just because he couldn’t have a good time didn’t mean I needed to be deprived My best response, unquestionably, was with a more long-term hookup

Blackout drunk as I watched him fail to get it up, I apparently cried and repeated the phrase, “I’m not hot enough for you, am I?” (PSA: This is not in fact a tactic I would recommend at all Do not try this at home, kids ) The next morning he calmly informed that it wasn ’ t the case that I wasn ’ t hot enough it was just that “girls don’t know how dicks work ” Unconvinced, this article is the culmination of my quest to investigate the truth behind whisky dick, and remedy the sad nights of sexual dissatisfaction brought on by the

alcohol whatsoever, and instead be a result of anxiety or nerves

The hard truth of it all is that there’s nothing to be embarrassed about for either party Whisky dick is usually the cause of things totally beyond one ’ s control Nonetheless here are the tried and true solutions for this problem, which I personally can endorse as leaving you without totally awkward feelings about your hookup (although there will still be some I’m just here to do a little damage control Thank me later):

scary potential of attempting to shove a shrunken and limp penis into an unresponsive vagina

Essentially it turns out that there isn’t much scientific research on the subject of whisky dick beyond: if you think it’s a problem, just don’t drink While this is the exact response I would expect from the scientific community logical, cold, calculated and disinterested in young-adult shenanigans I wanted more Essentially, some people believe that alcohol causing your blood vessels to dilate can affect the way that blood moves in and out of the penis So while the blood may be going in, hypothetically it may be leaving too fast (mind you I am gathering this information from a Thrillist article so I can ’ t do enough to emphasize how unreliable it may be) The other potential cause of whisky dick is discoordination in your nervous system as your nervous system essentially becomes as sloppily drunk as you are Finally, whisky dick can have nothing to do with

For the newfound owner of a shockingly flaccid penis who does not want to disappoint their hookup partner: Provide oral sex If you do not want to provide oral sex, you don’t deserve to be getting laid anyway I firmly believe right to orgasm should be the 28th amendment, but I’m a Cornell student, not a congresswoman For the person forced to engage with a penis that now hangs like a limp sock and is potentially smaller than your index finger: do your best to be cool Obviously, as mentioned before, it’s easy to take it personally, but recognize that more often than not whisky dick has nothing to do with you More often than not you have to move on and just act like everything is going to be okay

Essentially: definitely don’t cry

That being said, as someone who doesn’t own a penis I cannot claim to understand the truth behind whisky dick Maybe I just really wasn ’ t that hot Maybe there is a true scientific explanation for the causes of this phenomenon In fact, Cornell pre-med students, I’m waiting on you Figure it out and let me know

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Red Aims to Move Past Rough Patch

Hockey takes on Clarkson and St Lawrence

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“Obviously the fans are disappointed we lost, but our guys are disappointed we lost in front of our fans,” Schafer said “[ The players] feel that pressure So getting on the road a bit will alleviate some of that pressure We can just play the game and have fun ” In turn, the lack of pressure may help focus Cornell to clean up its game There are some technical aspects of the Red’s game that Schafer and the team are looking to fix after last weeke n d ’ s d i s a p p o i n t i n g s h o w i n g Specifically, the team has been working on winning battles for the puck in the corner, according to Schafer

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“ I t h o u g h t w e w e re re a l l y poor at what we call ‘second to the puck,’” Schafer said “ When t h e re i s a o n e - o n - o n e b a t t l e , making sure we beat the defender or offensive player to that battle You see two guys go into the corner and both of them are fighting for possession in the offensive zone [Second to the puck means] not letting their second guy get there first if their guy arrives it’s two versus two and if their third guy arrives our guy better be there And that’s what we were ver y good at earlier in the year ”

Clarkson, while star ting off slow this season, has hit its stride as of late and has climbed to eighth in the ECAC

“It’s a tough league,” Schafer s a i d “ Yo u l o o k a t o u r n e x t opponent Clarkson, they beat Ha r va rd , 5 - 1 , t i e d Ya l e , b e a t Brown, 5-0 They’re on a roll They were a long ways down there [in the standings] and now they are going [up] ”

In Cornell’s last meeting with Clarkson, the Red handled the Golden Knights, winning 5-2 back in December at Lynah But C

home this season “ The game against Clarkson w

Schafer said “I thought we were able to put them away in the

hockey team They’ve got big

extremely hard and they have good special teams That’s what’s been carr ying them as of late, good special teams ” Cornell’s other opponent for the weekend, St Lawrence, sits

ECAC The Red also beat St L

with a 2-1 victor y on the hill T h

recently, going 1-6 in Januar y thus far

“St Lawrence was one of the

there,” Schafer said “ They’ve hit a real tough patch in Januar y and they play ver y well on their rink They have eight of their last 12 games at home in the regular season They have a lot of home games coming up and they're looking to catch up to ever ybody ”

The next two games are key for the Red if it wants to keep its chances of winning the conference alive There is a lot of hockey left to be played, and Cornell cannot afford to fall far behind with Quinnipiac (19-1-5, 10-03) and Har vard which are staying steady at the top

The team is handling its current str uggles well, according to senior for ward John Knisley

“ There are tons of banners in the rafters [at Lynah] and each team had their own setbacks No road was ever easy, and that is our mindset right now, ” Knisley said

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun com

Cornell to Face Two Strong ECAC Defenses

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Continued from page 12

a ver y good defensive scheme ” Coming off a loss that saw five goals from St Lawrence and likely facing two goalies in Union’s Melissa Black and RPI’s Lovisa Selander who boast save percentages of 935 or better, Cornell is keying in on keeping its opponents off the board and grinding out goals of its own

“ [ We’re ] f o c u s i n g o n o u r

d e f e n s e , ” s a i d j u n i o r H a n n a

Bunton “ We’ve got to get pucks and bodies [in the crease] shots in front of the net ” Ju n i o r g o a l t e n d e r Pa u l a

Voorheis said she agrees, describing past RPI matchups as “close and gritty” contests with “gritty goals ”

“ They use their bodies well,” Woods said of the Engineers in particular

Woods also mentioned the importance of not over-adjusting to an opponent to the point of c o m p r o m i s i n g C o r n e l l’s ow n strengths

“Stick to our game plan and m a k e t h e m p l a y o u r g a m e , ” Woods said “As a team, [we are] an interdependent team We’re being aggressive when we need to be aggressive ”

The Red now sitting in ninth in the conference after Yale leapfrogged the squad with a blizzard makeup-game victor y over Rensselaer faces two teams with lower overall winning percentages than its own 476 With teams so tightly packed in the standings, it is not out of the

question for the Red to jump a couple of spots in the standings this weekend That said, when Cornell faced these two teams on h o m e i c e e a r l i e r t h i s s e a s o n , Union skated to a 2-2 draw and R PI w o n , 2 - 1 , i n ov e r t i m e

Statistically, teams perform better a t h o m e t h a n o n t h e r o a d Cornell is not underestimating its upcoming opponents, according to Vorhees

“ T h e g a m e p l a n d o e s n ’ t c h a n g e , ” Vo o r h e i s s

Yo u come in with the exact same attitude ”

Bunton said she agreed, saying that while uncertainty in ever y single ECAC game is “good for women ’ s hockey,” it means there are no easy victories

“I think anything can happen in this league,” Bunton said

Woods said the team is disappointed in the end to last weekend and admitted on Sunday that “ energy is down ” Yet Bunton pointed out that ever yone on the team has had to come back from losses before

Derraugh said he is confident his team can ride out the fluctuations of the figurative in-season roller coaster

“I think our team is fairly good at ‘ not too high after a win, not too low after a loss,’” he said

When asked if the Red will be able to move on from last weekend and be ready when the puck

d r o p s , Bu n t o n ’ s re s p o n s e w a s quick and to the point

“Yeah, for sure, ” she said

Keith Bollt can be reached at kbollt@cornellsun com

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W R E S T L I N G

Wrestling Splits Four Dual Meets Over Break

By SHAN DHALIWAL

Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell wrestling team battled through injuries over winter break, picking up victories against Ivy League opponents Harvard and Brown but dropping matches to Lehigh and Missouri The Red had top ranked wrestlers Nahshon Garrett and Gabe Dean out of the lineup against Lehigh

Head coach Rob Koll said he was pleased with the performances of a number of wrestlers

“We had some guys who wrestled really well and had some guys who didn’t wrestle so well,” he said “It’s hard to have a great team performance when we have a lot of our top performers out of the lineup ”

T h e Re d’s w i n s ove r Brow n a n d Har vard improved the team ’ s winning streak against Ivy League opponents to 70 matches

Junior captain Brian Realbuto emphasized the program ’ s high expectations

“Dominating the Ivy League competition is kind of a staple in our program, ” Realbuto said “That’s just expected of us and we expect that out of ourselves every year ”

Re a l b u t o o n e e a c h o f m a t c h e s i n Cornell’s four matches over the break

Winter break is always the most grueling stretch of the season for the Red The team practices twice a day and essentially trains right through competitions

“We don’t really let up at all, which makes it difficult,” Realbuto said “It’s really important to stay disciplined and get a lot of sleep ”

“I think the kids on our team are probably the only Cornell students happy [that] school is back tomorrow, ” Koll added “They’re going to be rested [and] have a day off back to class ”

The winter break grind, however, is essential for the team ’ s postseason success, according to Realbuto

“It’s a good period for us to catch up to [bigger] schools and have that advantage and really get in a lot of work,” Realbuto said “This time is usually when we make the biggest jump, so going forward from here we ’ re kind of excited to see [our] younger guys ready to perform ”

This is the time of the season that will determine the Red’s postseason success

The team ’ s season goals are the same every year

“Our goals are number one; to win the Iv i e s Nu m b e r t w o ; t o w i n E a s t e r n Championships And number three; to get a trophy in the national tournament, which is [placing in the] top four,” Koll said

Claiming the national title is certainly not out of reach The Red (No 15) has fought some of the best wrestling schools in the country including No 5 Missouri, No 6 Lehigh, No 11 Nebraska and No 12

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Team success will largely depend on the development and improvement of the team ’ s younger members

“Gabe, Nahshon [and I] have been [helping] those younger guys [get] over their nerves a little bit,” Realbuto said “And with that success comes team success,

and the Red get a chance to move back up in ECAC when the team’s plays

Red Looks to Bounce Back on Road

After two homes losses, icers square off against ECAC teams

By JACK KANTOR Sun Staff Writer

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Cornell Gears Up for Pair of Rematches

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

The Mohawk flows into the Hudson, Januar y marches into Februar y and Cornell women ’ s hockey heads on the road this weekend With eight games left in the regular season to make a move in the ECAC standings, the Red (8-9-4, 4-6-4 ECAC) takes on Union (0-20-6, 0-11-3) 7 p m Friday night in Schenectady and Rensselaer (8-12-4, 6-6-2 ECAC) 4 p m Saturday in Troy

“Ever y single game matters, ”

Taylor Woods

Aside from their aforementioned positions at the confluence of two major New York rivers, head coach Doug Derraugh ’91 believes there are a lot of similarities between the Red’s weekend opponents

“ T h o s e a re s i m i l a r g a m e s , ” Derraugh said “I suspect both games will be close [Rensselaer’s] got good goaltending [Union] play[s] ever yone close They have