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College Rating System Unlikely to Affect C.U.

By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer

Though the Obama Administration is months away m releasing a universal, nationwide college rating sysm, Cornell professors and administrators are expressing oubt that such a metric would impact the University ignificantly

President Barack Obama first proposed the ratings system in August 2013 in an effort to improve access and affordability for students by holding colleges and universities accountable for their cost and performance The system will be released at the beginning of the 2015-2016 academic year, according to the Department of Education, and a current draft of he proposal was released Dec 19

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Prof Ronald Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations, said he believes the ranking system is still largely undefined and the Department of Education has only produced a “sketch of concepts ”

“We don’t know if institutions will be ranked high, adequate or failing [as] three [distinct] categories or [if ] within categories there will be more detailed rankings,” Ehrenberg said

“I think Cornell will be fine regardless of how we appear on that ranking ” P r o f R o

According to the draft, colleges and versities may be judged on graduation and retention s, the schools’ accessibility to low-income and first-genion students, the ability of their graduates to pay back r student loans and the percentage of students receiving Federal Pell Grants

Some faculty and University officials have voiced skepticism as to how much the plan will actually affect colleges like

Cuomo’s Student Loan Plan

Aims to Reduce Graduate Debt

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Ehrenberg added that he thought Cornell would “be fine” regardless of its position in the new system

“If the ranking scheme ever is tied to funding [for example,] high performing institutions would receive higher Pell Grant funds this will largely be irrelevant to us because only a very small share of the grant aid our students receive come from Pell Grant funds,” he said

However, Joel Malina, vice president for University relations, said that Cornell applauds the Department of Education’s goal to create a new metric

“We commend President Obama and the Department of Education for taking on one of the most important issues of our time how to make higher education affordable for and

y Bartels ’48, a presidential councillor and member of the Cornell

Bartels, who graduated with a degree in industrial engineering from Cornell, donated millions of dollars to the University for acade-

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Along with his wife, Nancy Bartels ’48, he established a world affairs fellowship in 1984 and made a $15 million gift to Cornell athletics in 1999

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

In addition, Bartels Hall which hosts a climbing wall, the athletic ticket office and offices for s e v e r a l c o a c h e s i s named in their honor B e f o re h i s t i m e a t Cornell, Bartels spent two years at Rutgers University and ser ved as a naval aviator in World War II After g r a d u a t i n g i n 1 9 4 8 , h e worked in metal manufacturing at Insilco Corp , according to the University Bartels is sur vived by his wife, two sons and four grandchildren

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u t i o n c a l l e d “ C a l l i n g f o r I m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f O p e n C o u r s e Eva l u a t i o n s ” Nov 2 0 In t h e re s o l u t i o n , t h e S A c a l l e d u p o n Pre s i d e n t Da v i d Sk o r t o n a n d t h e Un i v e r s i t y t o p l a n , d e ve l o p a n d i m p l em e n t a n o p e n c o u r s e e v a l u a t i o n s y s t e m t h a

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Student Assembly Halts Creation of Student Groups

By SETH SHAPIRO ’11

The Student Assembly passed Resolution 21 yesterday by a 12 to 6 margin, calling for a temporar y moratorium on the formation of new student groups It will take effect next Wednesday and terminate on June 1, 2009

In addition to the moratorium, Resolution 21 also created the Registered Student Organization Auditing Task Force The task force will examine and create solutions to a number of issues currently associated with the vast number of student groups on campus, as well as issues with the registration and funding processes

The resolution was sponsored by S A President Ryan Lavin ’09, Vice President for Finance Gregor y Mezey ’09 and Vice President for Internal Operations Anthony Miller ’10

The primar y reasons for the creation of the resolution include the constantly expanding number of student groups on campus, the duplication and redundancy among many similar groups, the strain on space and resources that need to be shared amongst all the groups and the inefficient method of funding over 900 student groups on campus

Representatives of the Student Assembly Finance Committee, Office of Assemblies and Student Activities Office met to discuss the matter weekly last semester They concluded that the only viable plan of action was to stop the creation and registration of new student groups while examining the issues and searching for solutions

One issue raised during yesterday’s meeting was over the rights of the S A to restrict students’ ability to create new organizations One response claimed that the time of the moratorium only one semester would not be detrimental to the ability of a new group to form

The other response to this issue was an amendment that was passed along with the resolution The amendment stipulated that “registration of new student groups will be permitted under circumstances of special necessity as judged by the SAO ” There was concerned voiced over a potential group that would be constricted by a timeliness factor For instance, if students wanted to form a group to raise emergency aid for victims of a natural disaster, the moratorium would severely limit the ability of the group to achieve its goals if it was not allowed to form until the following fall semester

Following Deaths, Skorton Sends Message of Support

In re s p o n s e t o t h e re c e n t deaths of two members of the Cornell community, President David Skor ton issued a state-

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University Local

Three Hospitalized Following Route 79 Accident in Enfield

Three people were hospitalized after a two-vehicle accident

o n R o u t e 7 9 i n E n f i e l d Wednesday morning, according to The Ithaca Journal The accident occurred when a pickup t r u c k c a r r y i n g t h e t h r e e injured passengers hit the left rear corner of a garbage tr uck Two adults were flown to R o b e r t Pa c k e r Ho s p i t a l i n Sayre, Pennsylvania and a boy w a s t r a n s p o r t e d t o C a y u g a Me d i c a l C e n t e r, T h e Jo u r n a l repor ted

Virgil Man Surrenders to Police After Barricading Self in Home

A Virgil man surrendered to police after barricading himself in his home for two hours, The Ithaca Journal repor ted Police were called to the man ’ s home,

l o c a t e d n e a r Gr e e k Pe a k Mo u n t a i n Re s o r t , We d n e s d a y afternoon after receiving repor ts of a man in a building with a rifle and a handgun threatening his own life

Around the Ivies

Founding Dean of Brown University Medical School Dies at 92

D r St a n l e y A r o n s o n , t h e f o u n d i n g d e a n o f B r o w n Un i v e r s i t y ’ s m e d i c a l s c h o o l , died Wednesday, according to The Associated Press He was 92 Aronson, who founded the medical school in 1972, was its dean from 1973 to 1981, The AP repor ted

Yale Community Mourns Death of Student

Yale College Dean Jonathan

Ho l l o w a y i n f o r m e d t h e Ya l e community in an email Tuesday evening that Luchang Wang, a s o p h o m o re a t t h e u n i v e r s i t y, d i e d i n a n a p p a re n t s u i c i d e , a c c o rd i n g t o T h e Ya l e Da i l y Ne ws

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LGBT students, allies post encouraging letters on blog

By MOLLY KARR Sun Staff Writer

The “Dear Queer Cousin Project” began as an online refuge and a place for LGBT students to turn to during their Winter Break Anyone whether an ally or member of the LGBT community can post letters, poems or stories onto the website about their own challenges to show struggling Cornell students that they are not alone, according to Christopher-James Llego ’17, who founded the site

“I gathered a group of Cornell’s queer and ally community emphasis on a single, unified community to write heartfelt letters of support addressed to an unnamed queer cousin,” Llego said Llego said he created Dear Queer Cousin after he realized the power of the “love and support ” the LG BT c o m m u n i t y a t Cornell had given him

“The project started as a way for me to give back t o t h e c o m m u n i t y t h a t saved me from my own self,” Llego said “It was in November that I finally accepted my depression and sought advice from my queer cousins on campus ” Llego said he wanted to create the same supportive environment that he found at Cornell for anyone whether on campus or at home at any time

“I almost gave up my life due to a case of h o m o p h o b i a - t r i g g e re d a n x i e t y, b u t t h e Cornell queer community picked me back up and got me to smile once more, ” Llego said “The Dear Queer Cousin Project is my way of giving back to the community it is my way of refusing to lose a queer cousin ” Llego who said he is “privileged” because he could go home during holiday breaks and feel supported by his family and

friends said he wanted to give other students living in “toxic or dangerous home environments” the same feeling of acceptance

“Dear Queer Cousin provides love and support for someone else that might be going through a rough patch,” Llego said

Students from any background, year or opinion can submit to the blog, according to Llego

“I decided to post in it because I really liked the idea of the queer community and allies coming together to support queer students who would be experiencing uncomfortable or homophobic environments at home,” said Annie Fernandez ’17, who wrote one of the 27 letters that have been posted on the blog as of Wednesday

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friends became a major, collaborative initiative that started a conversation and sparked a change,” he said

The project, which Llego said started with a few writers and editors, quickly expanded as he received correspondence from alumni and current students

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resource it has the potential to reach more people than any other avenue, ” said Emma Langston ’16, who posted her own Dear Queer Cousin letter on Jan 7 “I liked that everyone was coming together to stand with queer students having a rough time at home

” Veronica Freyvert ’18, who said she is an ally of the LGBT community, expressed support for the project but was upset by the reason it needed to exist

“It makes me sad that there are still those w h o f e e l u n a c c e p

d against because of their sexuality, and that those people struggle to find acceptance in a community like Cornell,” Freyvert said

The Dear Queer Cousin project was initially intented only to exist during Winter Break, but the site now has no end in sight According to Llego, raising awareness to other groups at Cornell would amplify its success

“I’m currently in talks with a few Cornell students about expanding the project to run throughout the school year one letter per week,” Llego said “I think it’s incredibly important to continue the project because homophobia, transphobia, heteronormativity, and all other forms of discrimination and oppression do not stop once the new semester begins ”

The Dear Queer Cousin project aims to help alleviate negative social pressure that a student may face on a daily basis, Llego said

“Students of the queer community face incredible adversities in their day-to-day lives,” Llego said “It’s important that they feel supported ”

Karr can be reached at mkarr@cornellsun

Louie’s Lunch Gets First New Truck in 20 Years

Iconic North Campus food truck now out tted with a television, better brakes

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

t re d , n e w l y p a i n t e d t r u c k Ro n Be c k , t h e t r u c k’s ow n e r, s a i d t h e p re v i o u s t r u c k w a s 2 0 ye a r s o l d , a n d i t w a s t i m e t h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t r e c e i v e d a f a c e l i f t “ It w a s r u s t y, t h e p a i n t w a s f a d i n g a n d i t w a s l e a k i n g f r o m a l o t o f p l a c e s , ” B e c k s a i d “ It w a s t i m e f o r i t t o g o ” Be c k s a i d h e s p e n t W i n t e r Bre a k re n ov a ti n g a n d p re p a ri n g t h e n e w t r u c k w h i c h h e s a i d i s p ro b a b l y t h e s i x t h o n e L o u i e ’ s L u n c h h a s u s e d s i n c e i t s f o u n d i n g “ I d i d e v e r y t h i n g m y s e l f , f ro m t h e w i r i n g a n d e l e c t r i c a l s t o t h e p a i n t i n g , ” h e s a i d “ In f a c t , I f i n i s h e d p a i n t i n g t h e t r u c k t h e m o r n i n g I b ro u g h t i t o u t ” T h e n e w t r u c k s p o r t s a t e l ev i s i o n a n d a r e d o f p a i n t C o m p a re d t o t h e p a s t o n e , t h e n e w t r u c k i s a s i g n i f i c a n t i m p rove m e n t , Be c k s a i d “ T h o u g h i t i s t o o e a r l y t o s a y i f t h e t r u c k h a s h a d a n y d i ff e re n c e o n t h e b u s i n e s s , t h e e n v i ro n m e n t i s c e r t a i n l y b e tt e r, ” h e s a i d Ac c o rd i n g t o Be c k , t h e n e w t r u c k a l s o h a s b e t t e r b r a k e s t h a n t h e o l d o n e L u c a s Ga n d y, w h o w o r k s a t L o u i e ’ s , s a i d t h i s n e w f e a t u r e m a d e t h e t r u c k “ m o re c o n v en i e n t ” “ It’s p re tt y s w e e t , ” Ga n d y s a i d “ It’s m o re c o n ve n i e n t s i n c e i t ’ s d r i

“I did everything myself, from the wiring and electricals to the painting. In fact, I finished painting the truck the morning I brought it out.”

College Rating System to Be Released This Fall

Obama plan to rate institutions based on accessibility enters public input phase

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accessible to all Americans and to lead to more Americans attaining a college degree,” he said

Malina also said he believes the Department of Education should responsibly allocate federal aid to colleges and universities

“We can all agree that the Department of Education needs to be accountable to the American taxpayer for dollars spent on financial aid and that colleges need to be more sensitive to costs, ” he said “However, it is unclear from the framework released on Dec 19 how this rating system would accomplish those goals ”

Over the course of the past year, Department of Education officials have sought input from government stakeholders on the pros and cons of each metric in its new college-ratings, according to Ehrenberg

“Public comment has been encouraged and many higher ed associations and colleges will most certainly be making comments, ” Ehrenberg said

The deadline for comments is Feb 17, according to the Department of Education

Ehrenberg said Cornell provides the majority of its financial aid from its own endowment, making a ranking system based on the percentage of students receiving Pell Grants unrelated to the University’s ability to make its education accessible

“Cornell projected at the start of our current year that our undergraduate students would receive about $12 7 million in Pell Grant funds and Cornell would provide grant aid out of our own resources of over $244 million,” Ehrenberg said

Months after Obama initially announced his plans for the system in August 2013, President David Skorton and Prof Glenn Altschuler Ph D ’76, dean of the school of continuing education and summer sessions, published a column in Forbes magazine criticizing the proposal In the October 2013 piece, Skorton and Altschuler called Obama’s plan to create college rankings tied to federal student aid “flawed ”

“‘Access’ is an important factor to consider, but the percentage of students receiving Pell Grants does not tell the whole story, ” Skorton and Altschuler wrote “Other types of aid, including aid from the institution itself, may also be crucial in enabling low-income students to attend ”

Malina said he hopes that the Department of Education will move “beyond measurements and report cards to more comprehensive solutions ”

“We must all work together educators, government officials, members of Congress to provide affordable education to all Americans,” he said

To see how the White House’s college rating system might play out, Time Magazine collected data on 2,500 of the nation’s colleges and universities and published its rankings last April In the magazine’s rankings, Cornell ranked 267

Prof Jordan Matsudaira, policy analysis and management, currently serves as chief economist for Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and said he is “heavily involved in the ratings plan ”

However, in response to a request by The Sun for an interview, Matsudaira said his role prevents him from speaking at this time on the content of the government ’ s proposed college ranking system

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun com

Cuomo Plan May Reduce Debt for N.Y. Graduates

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Chris Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun com

S.A. Open Evaluation Resolution Aims

To Inform Course Selection Process

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t i o n s , ” s a i d Jo s e p h Fr i d m a n ’ 1 7 , u n d e s i g n a t e d a t l a r g e re p re s e n a t i ve f o r t h e S A , w h o s p o n s o re d t h e S A re s o l u t i o n A c c o r d i n g t o Fr i d m a n , c u r r e n t l y a v a i l a b l e t h i rd - p a r t y c o u r s e e va l u a t i o n s i t e s l i k e R a t e

r a re o f t e n “ u n i n f o r m a t i ve ” “ Fi n d i n g a n s we r s t o s p e c i f i c q u e s t i o n s a b o u t

c o u r s e q u a l i t y, d i f f i c u l t y a n d f i t w i t h i n a n a c a d em i c p ro g r a m i s a n o n t r i v i a l a n d t i m e - c o n s u m i n g t a s k , ” Fr i d m a n s a i d “ In p a r t i c u l a r, s t u d e n t s s e e ki n g t o p u r s u e a c a d e m i c i n t e re s t s o u t s i d e o f t h e i r n e t w o rk o r p ro g r a m f a c e a n e ve n g re a t e r a b s e n c e o f i n f o r m a t i o n w i t h w h i c h t o m a k e

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun com

California Declares E-Cigs a Health Threat

SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP)

C a l i f o r n i a h e a l t h o f f i c i a l s Wednesday declared electronic cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products, joining other states and health advocates across the U S in seeking tighter controls as “vaping” grows in popularity

The California Department of Public Health released a report saying e-cigarettes emit cancercausing chemicals and get users hooked on nicotine but acknowledging that more research needs to be done to determine the immediate and long-term health effects

“E-cigarettes are not as harmful as conventional cigarettes, but e-cigarettes are not harmless” said California Health Officer Ron Chapman “They are not safe ”

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p e o p l e w i l l b e c o m e n i c o t i n e addicts if the products remain

l a r g e l y u n re g u l a t e d , C h a p m a n said Last year, 17 percent of high school seniors reported using ec i g a re t t e s , k n ow n a s va p i n g , according to the report

“Without action, it is likely that California’s more than two

decades of progress to prevent and reduce traditional tobacco use will erode as e-cigarettes re-normalize smoking behavior,” the report says E-cigarettes heat liquid nicotine into inhalable vapor without the tar and other chemicals found in traditional cigarettes A cartridge of nicotine can cost anywhere from $5 to $20 dollars and can be reused

California banned the sale of e-cigarettes to minors in 2010, but the report raises concerns about children consuming liquid nicotine with flavors such as cott o n c a n d y a n d g u m m y b e a r

Reports of children under 5 with e - c i g a re t t e p o i s o n i n

u m p e d from seven in 2012 to 154 last year

The California report says ecigarettes emit as many as 10 toxic chemicals, but advocates say there is no evidence those substances are released at dangerous levels

“Despite the health officer’s false claims, there is ample evidence that vaping helps smokers quit and is far less hazardous than smoking,” Gregory Conley, president of the e-cigarette advocacy

Denver Of cer Kills Girl

Mother of 17-year-old demands new autopsy following of cial investigation

DENVER (AP) The mother of a 17-year-old girl who was shot and killed by Denver police said Wednesday that she wants a second, independent autopsy because she doesn’t trust the official investigation into the death of her daughter

The demand by Laura Sonya Rosales Hernandez came as the Denver Police Department and an independent city official who monitors the agency disclosed that separate investigations were underway into policies regarding officers shooting at moving vehicles

The Monday shooting of Jessica Hernande z was the fourth time in seven months that a Denver officer fired at a vehicle after perceiving it as a threat

Police have said two officers fired after H e r n a n d e z drove a stolen car into one of them A passenger in the car disputed that account, saying police opened fire before the vehicle struck the officer Police said none of the five people in the car was armed

shooting at moving vehicles after a Justice Depar tment repor t found a pattern of excessive force

The Cleveland Police Department changed its policy before federal investigators concluded its officers too often used unnecessary force

In Denver, the Police Department and Independent Monitor Nicholas Mitchell are both looking at how national standards compare to Denver's policy, which allows officers to fire at moving cars if they have no other reasonable way to prevent death or serious injury

“I want to know, how did this happen? I want to know everything ” L a u r a S

Denver’s policy urges officers to try to move out of the way rather than fire “An officer t h r e a t e n e d by an o n c o m i n g vehicle shall, if feasible, move out of the way rather than d i s c h a r g i n g a firearm,” it says

“I want another autopsy on my daughter so we can know how much damage they did,” Hernande z said, speaking in Spanish inside the trailer home where her daughter lived with five siblings “I want to know, how did this happen? I want to know everything ”

The U S Supreme Court has held that officers may not use deadly force to stop a fleeing suspect unless the person is believed to pose significant physical harm Still, policies vary among agencies, and some departments have banned or discouraged the practice

The Albuquerque Police Depar tment, for example, ordered officers in June to stop

Association, said in an email “Smokers deser ve truthful and accurate information about the relative risks of different nicotine products, not hype and conject u re

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e d reports ” T h e U S Fo o d a n d Dr u g

Administration is also proposing regulations that include warning labels and ingredient lists on ecigarettes, although enactment could take years California health officials are calling for restrictions on the marketing and sale of ecigarettes and protections against a c c i d e n t a l i n g e s t i o n o f l i q u i d nicotine

A state senator introduced legislation this week that would regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products and ban their use in public places such as hospitals, bars and schools A similar bill was defeated last year over opposition from tobacco companies Chapman, the health official, would not take a position on spec i f i c l e g i s l a t i o n , b u t s a i d h i s department would be rolling out an e-cigarette awareness campaign with possible television and radio advertisements

The reviews will look at several cases in which Denver officers fired at cars they considered to be deadly weapons Those cases include the fatal shooting of Ryan Ronquillo, 21, who officers said tried to hit them with his car outside a funeral home in July Prosecutors have declined to file charges in that case

Experts say shooting and disabling a driver can send a car out of control

“If you were to shoot at the driver you would have an unguided missile, basically,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, which suggests departments forbid officers from shooting at moving vehicles unless there's another deadly threat involved, such as a weapon

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Ruben Bolling

“No se siente como casa, ” she said “Esto es un apartamento ” This doesn’t feel like home; this is an apartment My aunt ’ s crippling arthritis compelled her to find a new place where she would only resort to taking the stairs if she ever left the arroz con gandules cooking for too long Knowing how much shade she s thrown at me, using old faults of mine resurrected from years long gone that I couldn’t even recollect for myself, shade that, according to her, was completely warranted when I would “forget” to call her back during finals week her memory was far too sharp for that nonsense; that lady will forever take the elevator My aunt could have gone anywhere Manhattan, heck even Staten Island but she didn’t want to leave Something about the Bronx, something about us, reminded her of home; the Bronx the Grand Concourse was Santiago Sometimes, I wish she knew that there were other places besides the Dominican Republic that other places feel like Santiago, too Her new apartment in the Projects, whose doors she could barely pry open, a daunting task that is increasingly becoming more strenuous for her as the hours atrophy her hands, had a deafening emptiness to it; despite her collection of cheap china and saints, she was alone for the first time, again, since she immigrated into this country

Maybe only the sound of a dream, an American one, could be heard at night; she wakes up frequently, turning sharply towards my sister and me, then goes back to sleep

That day, when she confessed to me how much of stranger she feels within her own home, a thick haze seeped in through the narrow opening beneath the fire proof door The windows rattled My aunt turned on her small television, circa 1980s, turned to Univision, and watched her novela No matter how loud Alejandra screamed when she found out that Frederico cheated on her with her own sister, it was impossible to drown out the vecinos Have you ever tried sleeping through thunder and lightning? You can ’ t

A few hours prior to that, after leaving my dad’s house a couple of blocks away, we waited for the elevator on the first floor of her project

A swarm of teenagers pranced around noisily They crowded the entrance of the elevator, with an authority only those with rolled up skins between their fingers, some behind their ears, could possess But they weren ’ t hostile

“Let them in, man ” The eldest of the bunch, the shepherd, motioned his friends away from the elevator A Dominican elder stood by me More unsettling than my aunt grasping her purse tightly against her chest, or the two young sisters standing hand in hand, was his face He was mortified It wasn ’ t the kind of fear that shoots adrenaline through your system it was debilitating and familiar; he was tired He stood by me, the way a toddler stands by his mom amidst large crowds His eyes tugged at me: “Don’t leave me alone ” My aunt, the old man and the two girls stood by one another, anxious My younger sister, however small she might be, towered over us all she could see something that none of us ever could, like flashing a light to the closet, only to find that there weren t any monsters after all The elevator finally came They let us in first, the kids proceeding to shove themselves inside A girl, of around 14years-old, tackled her friend, while my aunt stood by, squeezed in right between them The urge to tear them apart was maddening, but not as pressing as my sadness Their behavior does not correlate with who they truly are with who they wish to become They have dreams far too large to fit inside of an elevator reeking of waste The shepherd stood by idly “Yo, why are you so quiet?” said the girl He was embarrassed

Searching For Home

“Go home,” I thought You don’t want to be here You don’t have to be here But it is not that easy No one here feels at home

“Home” was upstairs on the 17th floor of this project, packed into the apartment room right next door to my aunt ’ s Through the peephole of my aunt ’ s door, I could see it all The purple haze within the party dulled out the generational pain of homelessness The rattling music deafened the ears of those who’ve heard too much, by artists who are still looking for that place, too It was desensitizing Next door was escape Escape, as kind as it may be, is usually laced with regret Regret was heard in the transition between one song to the next, kids falling over each other intoxicated Regret was what shook the walls of my aunt ’ s bedroom, along with those of the other neighbors on that floor Regret threw itself at our doors, the moment the haze cleared the moment the music stopped for good

“Get out my face!” In the hallway, friends screamed, tugged, pushed, threw up gang signs, hurt and spat Friends carried weapons in their back pockets, at an age where the only thing I carried in that pocket was a rosary and crumbled up tissue papers for my bad sinuses The cops came I wonder which one of her neighbors had to reconcile with the catch-22 we all pondered about Do we call the cops, or do we let them be?

For my sister, the dilemma wasn ’ t complicated This is what she saw, when we all stood by afraid: kids She saw an insidious pattern, from one kid to the next, from parent to grandparent and so on They are the ones in danger, not us They were the same kids that let us into the elevator first, the same kids that, after work one day, when my aunt frantically hurried past them trampling onto the floor, they helped her get right back up These were the kids, black, Dominican, Puerto-Rican, kids like me, who wanted to escape You can only see so much through a peephole You can only listen to so much through a fire proof door and a story isn’t one of them

Frederick Douglass once said, “It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men ” While they fought like adults, as organized yet simultaneously incoherent as a war can be, they dream like the children they are They look for escape for some other place that will finally feel like casa Like Dominicans immigrating into the States, or disabled people seeking better services, “home” is not the easiest thing to find Maybe in that haze, maybe in the skins they carried between their lips, can they taste, can they see, that dream I don’t know what it is, just as I don t know what my aunt s dream is I do know that dreams shatter, just like the broken bottles left scattered all over the hallway that night, when they are deferred; when they are squeezed together under pressure They shatter when we reflexively call the cops, instead of a teacher (however idealistic that may sound) Their dreams fail to carry substance when we call them “criminals” instead of children I wish I opened that door, instead of watching them hurt through a lense, not more than an inch in diameter I wish others looked at my aunt and others like her holistically, rather than through a narrow, incomplete political and cultural peephole We are not “projects ” Our dreams are higher than the Projects you ’ ve built for us, immigrant and minorities, to live in and call “home ” You can only see so much

Paola Muñoz is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology She can be reached at pmunoz@cornellsun com Midas’ Crumbs appears alternate Thursdays this semester

CORRECTION

A Jan 28 news story, “Stedwell Remembered for ‘Endless Amount of Energy,’” stated that Angela Stedwell worked at the University’s child care center In fact, she worked at Cornell’s early childhood center

Eric Pesner | Dems Discuss

The Obama We Used to Know

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Julius Kairey | Always Right

Eric Pesner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at erp55@cornell edu Dems Discuss appears alternate Thursdays this semester

Our War With Radical Islam

ometimes, it is the actions of our enemies that remind us who we are and what we believe in We appreciate our values most when they come under attack, compelling us to unite in a common struggle against the forces of evil and barbarism

The terrorism that rocked Paris this month was one such incident It would be easy to pretend that the terrorists who perpetrated the attacks were mere criminals, acting without an ideological motive grounded in broader religious movements in the Muslim world It would be easy to pretend that they acted with little support, and that in the 21st century, few individuals sincerely believe that one should die for drawing an offensive cartoon, or for being Jewish

But the lesson of the shootings at Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in Paris is this: Sticking our heads in the sand, pretending that the radicalism and violent religious fervor raging throughout the Muslim world does not affect us, puts our security at risk Self-assurances that the problem of Islamist extremism is an exaggerated threat does not lessen the danger we face We are at war, and our enemies are prepared to slaughter as many innocent people as necessary to win

And there can be no compromise If we insist on living according to our values of free speech and tolerance for minorities, they will see us as standing in the way of their objective: a world governed by a fundamentalist interpretation of a puritanical law they believe God revealed to humanity nearly 1500 years ago They hate us because we resist their totalitarian ideology, marked by a hatred of and prejudice towards the rights of women, Jews, Christians, Hindus, “unbelieving” Muslims, gays and political minorities of every stripe basically everyone who is not just like them

Fighting this war is the price we pay for living in a free society

Charlie Hebdo’s decision to release a new edition of their magazine that included a picture of Muhammad led to despicable responses all over the Muslim world Churches were firebombed in Niger, leading to several deaths In Pakistan, protest mobs called for the hanging of those who insult Islam In the Philippines, protesters denounced the attack as a “Zionist conspiracy,” while burning pictures of

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel Many Muslims seem to have the misguided belief that the reputation of their faith is threatened more by offensive cartoons than Islamist killers

In France, some Muslims simultaneously praised the attack while insisting that Muslims could not possibly have anything to do with it The Daily Beast reported that in heavily Muslim suburbs of Paris some of which have been described as “ no-go zones, ” where non-Muslims dare not tread French Muslims explained that Jews had plotted this attack to make Muslims look bad Of course, the killings that resulted from this alleged conspiracy did not disappoint these Parisians When you mock Muhammad, they rea-

That Jews are fleeing 21st century Europe i worrying sign that the strains of the fascist that infected Europe in the past century has new manifestation in Islamic fundamentalis

soned, you get what is coming to you

It is important to emphasize that most Muslims living in the West are appalled by the terrorism committed in their name These Muslims are our allies in tackling the threat posed by radical Islam Indeed, winning this war which is ideological in nature without their support will be more difficult It is important that we accurately define our enemy, which consists of only a small fraction of the global Muslim population In fact, the first victims of Islamic radicalism are often Muslims themselves

That said, it is also important to realize that in the West, and particularly in Europe, there are an increasing number of Muslims who live in our societies without being meaningfully integrated into them These Muslims see themselves as foreigners who migrate to the West for economic opportunities and government benefits, but not to meaningfully contribute to the national fabric A number of them now constitute a fifth column that seeks to undermine national institu-

tions by terrorizing the population as a whole

And the extraordinary thing is that we have encouraged immigrants not to assimilate Western societies have determined that it is more important to foster multiculturalism than to forge national unity In Britain, the government has sanctioned nearly 100 Sharia courts, where British citizens can settle disputes outside the framework provided by law Members of the British Law Society were trained in drafting contracts and wills in accordance with Sharia law even though such law does not treat all people equally In France, Muslims have been permitted even incentivized to live in urban ghettos cut off from the rest of French society, breeding an atmosphere conducive to radicalization and violence

Taking this war seriously means making immigration conditional on people’s willingness to accede to the fundamental values that undergird our civilization It means shutting down hate preachers that urge and incite their congregants to violence and terrorism And it means ensuring that people who hate the West, no matter their religion, are preempted in their attempts to undermine our societies

This time around, the targets of Islamist violence were offensive cartoonists and Jews, many of whom will go to school and work in the coming months surrounded by armed French troops Thousands more will flee to Israel this year, one of a declining number of locations where it is safe to openly express Jewish religious identity, a place where people cannot afford to be complacent or politically correct about the threat posed by militant Islam That Jews are fleeing 21st century Europe is a worrying sign that strains of the fascist ideology that infected Europe in the past century has found new manifestation in Islamic fundamentalism Just as our ancestors brought down Hitler and Mussolini in their time, we too have it in us to win this fight

But if we are going to counter and defeat this threat, it is past time we take our streets and our societies back from the enemy within

Julius Kairey is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at jkairey@cornellsun com Always Right appears alternate Thursdays this semester

By ZACHARY SIEGEL Sun Staff Writer

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Wild Child Gets Wild at The Dock

BY TAMAR LAW Sun Contributor

A little bit of Texas heat swept into Ithaca’s jarring, fistclenching, teeth-chattering cold this past Sunday night by means of Wild Child, momentarily allowing those attending the concert to forget the polar arctic and validate their brave choice to leave bed The Dock (formerly known as Castaways), tucked beside the Ithaca inlet, was not the most probable location for the toe-tapping, hip-shaking, body-swaying band One would more likely expect the band to perform at a music festival, preferably in a large field with room for lots of twirling However, the smaller, darkly lit and somewhat low-roofed venue only seemed to amplify the band’s charisma, providing an authentic and intimate experience Prior to Wild Child, New York City band Pearl and the Beard warmed up the crowd with their animated music and easy banter Never having heard Pearl and the Beard before, I wasn ’ t quite sure what to expect After being thoroughly impressed with Jeremy Style’s beard (It’s like his head is upside down!), I was equally impressed with the band’s complex sound The trio managed to harness music that was equal parts soul, jubilation and quirk

While still located within the nebulous classification of indie music, Pearl and the Beard provided something truly unique with their refreshing combination of cello, accordion and drums, not to mention their random intersperses of a capella It was hard not to be carried away to another dimension by their energy, and sometimes it almost seemed as though Emily Hope Price herself was already there Her cello became part of her body, moving in sync with her sways, and she played with such passion that her hair obscured her face but didn’t hide the clear elation she felt In keeping with the vitality of the group, drummer and lead vocalist Jocelyn Mackenzie exuded an infectious cheerfulness, not only through her far-reaching voice and exuberant drumming but also through her non-stop, often unconventional repartee Before starting a new track that will be released shortly, Mackenzie announced, “This is dedicated to a wild animal of your choice!”

After a brief frenzy onstage to change from a smaller group ’ s set-up to that of a much larger one, the audience met Wild Child with raucous enthusiasm Even though the crowd was modest in size, the huddled mass at the very front of the stage created an ambiance akin to that of an extensive music festival Nestled amongst the constantly moving crowd and enveloped

Amidst the tonal and organizational complexities of contemporar y popular music, the simple, elegant giant that was blues music has begun to lose its traditionally per vasive influential gravity Despite the blues’ apparent decline from the present musical sphere, those of us who are increasingly nostalgic continue to look back and marvel at the extensively wondrous empire of blues music composed of stor ytellers, mythical figures, guitar revolutionaries and social ambassadors of immeasurable cultural and spiritual significance that have impacted nearly ever y aspect of popular music for the past 70 years One of these figures, who was relatively obscured under the reach of the mainstream blues umbrella occupied by B B King and Buddy Guy during his tenure as a Chicago bluesman, was J B Hutto, a showman of considerable stylistic diversity and vocal vigor The recent release of Chicago Slide the Final Shows 1984, a fair collection of Hutto’s most recent live performances, is a deser ving tribute to the legendar y performer and his trademark musical character, branded most notably by his cutting and raw slide guitar approach reminiscent of Chicago

by the effusive music, it was easy to escape the blustery reality outside and get lost in the moment Lead vocalists Kelsey Wilson and Alexander Beggins formed Wild Child in 2005 after bonding over mutual break-ups while on tour with a different act After writing several songs together as a duo, the full ensemble was assembled, creating an eclectic and dynamic group of musicians While both Wilson and Beggins were center stage for the entire performance, ever y musician’s unparalleled character received attention In the back, Drew Brunetti struck away at his drums with vigor, producing the backdrop of the music Keyboardist Evan Magers not only entranced the crowd with his melody, but also with the excitement of what his man-bun would do next Chris D’Annunzio, the multi-faceted bassist who also tried his hand at trumpet and harmonica, astounded the crowd with quicklipped agility during his harmonica solo in “Someone Else ” Lastly, the easiest to overlook but possibly the most interesting was Sadie Wolfe Her mousey appearance and petite stature were not as in-your-face as some of the others, but the concentration and love she put into the bowing of her cello was distinct, particularly the way she bit her tongue as her face morphed throughout the songs Even though the personality of each member was unmistakable, each element they provided fit cohesively into the effervescent music Wild Child is known for

Bird,” the group infused their set list with tenderness, showing their wide-ranging musical capacity “Bridges Burning” forged a feeling of longing and poignancy that spread amongst the concert goers Similarly, during “Here Now,” the atmosphere changed as the lead singers sat next to each other on a bench, without the other band members, accentuating the low-key, nostalgic lyrics

The group provided a performance that was equal parts brand new and belovedly known They announced that a new C D is in the works and tested the waters with some of its upcoming tracks This news was met by a happy buzz from the crowd, who showed their appreciation by dancing extra vigorously One of these songs was performed with crowd participation during the refrain The group seemed charmed by Ithaca’s morale and proclaimed that Ithaca had the best sing along they had experienced on tour so far While most of the songs played were an upbeat homage to the folk pop genre, such as “Crazy

Their song choices provided a concert that seemed to go by far too fast Despite this, I was thrilled that they performed “Living Tree,” my own personal favorite Although it lacked the duct tape they used as an instrument during the recording, the live performance held up to the high standards I had set Even in the midst of the tight crowd, the song truly made me feel like I was sitting next to the babbling brook where it had been written The crowd managed to convince the band to have a double encore, savoring their music until the very last trumpeted squeak As we slowly drifted back to reality on our way back into the abrasive sub-zero temperature outside, the warmth of the music stayed with us and made the grim realization of winter and the week ahead noticeably more tolerable

Tamar Law is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at tl432@cornell edu

bluesmen Elmore James and Muddy Waters and of Delta blues icon Robert Johnson While his performances were seemingly a visually distinct and entertaining mix of traditional blues focus with the flamboyant apparel of George Clinton and the discernible passion of James Brown, the recordings are able to dutifully capture the musical essence of his live performances

While Hutto’s material is not exceptionally distinguishable on the surface, his distinct jazz and boogiewoogie inspired vamps provide a graceful texture to his rather lengthy and fiercely complex improvisational line and vocal fills His music also incorporates the artistic

crescendos, which collaborate to liven up the orthodox blues formula, most notably in the track “Say Goodbye”

The collection also manages to showcase his impressive vocal qualities, regardless of his rather ordinar y lyrics

While Hutto often maintains the characteristic ruggedness and crudity of conventional blues vocals, his voice sometimes displays striking virtuosic tendencies derived from his early involvement in the The Golden Crowns,

a gospel group formed by Hutto’s preacher father

The most capturing aspect of Hutto’s repertoire, however, is his ability to play slide guitar Enthusiastically proclaimed by his show emcee at the beginning of the record, J B Hutto is the “king of the slide guitar ” While this notion is obviously questionable in its nature due to Hutto’s undeniable stylistic similarities to his predecessor Elmore James and fellow disciple Hound Dog Taylor, his ability is reasonably impressive and compelling, especially considering how commanding the slide sound is and how sparsely used the style is today

Despite his inconspicuous presence on the forefront of the blues mainstream, J B Hutto is nevertheless a refreshing hybrid of heterogenous styles from the everfading climate of blues influence The relaxed feel of the recordings, evocative of the slow-soul nightclub ambience of Sam Cooke’s record Night Beat, makes for quite a pleasant listen

Jacob Grossfeld is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at jmg488@cornell edu

“Come on!” a ponytailed, leatherjacketed ex-hippie dad-type shouts from the crowd “What do you mean come on?” She yells back “Fuck you You mean like straddle a bull, and go for hours? I’d rather read a good book ”

That said, Patti Smith puts her foot up on the speaker and begins to sing

Hands-down the best present I’ve ever received I got for Christmas this year from my sister: two tickets to see Patti Smith play at Webster Hall in the East Village My high school punk rock phase having been brief and excruciating, I had never heard of her until my dad finally nagged me into reading her autobiography, Just Kids Since then, she’s become something of our family icon, whom each member of my family worships in a different way

My sister and I became fixated on her first as an individual and writer, and then tangentially as a musician We fed our fixation with her book and with her music, album by album So when my sister presented me with the tickets we danced around, enthused to the point of hysteria

The venue, Webster Hall, was casual standing room only but still had the grandeur of the old rock hall it had been in its days as the famous Ritz The crowd was an interesting variety of veteran rock fans; baby boomers who worshipped her as a priestess of punk, fresh on the scene in the 70s, and cliques of trendy twenty-somethings, who discovered Patti Smith so may years postprominence perhaps in some deliberate

cultivation of a sophisticated music taste, through a parent or maybe, like me, through her writing It was a peculiar dynamic, and I found myself almost jealous of the older folks who could see her in context, not as something vintage or classic, but just as a rock star, an artist like any other

The first sign that the evening might be something special came when R E M lead man and close friend of Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, appeared as a surprise opener I’ll admit that his name rang no bells for me when his name was announced, but as the crowd lost it I quickly figured out who he was He played a brief set accompanied by Patti Smith’s daughter Jesse Paris Smith on

keyboard, including a few R E M songs, as well as covers of Patti Smith’s “Wing,” and somewhat unbelievably to me, my favorite Perfume Genius song “Hood ”

When Patti Smith finally came on, white wild hair floating around her shoulders, tall and gangly, wearing a black silk vest, combat boots and a Cheshire grin, I tried to picture her as the runaway kid living in the Chelsea Hotel with Robert Mapplethorpe it was easy I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone so unburdened by age, although she is 68

After a few chatty remarks she launched into her classic “Dancing Barefoot ” She performed explosively, like no one I’d ever seen before in a style that was two parts rock and roll, one part poetry reading, one part eulogy and one part spitting, screaming and whispering

Patti Smith tells great stories Or maybe she doesn’t; I can ’ t even tell because I’m so enchanted with her that every word out of her mouth that night was exactly what I wanted to hear Regardless, one quip among my favorites of the night began “I met Fred Sonic Smith (her late husband) in Detroit in 1974 He was my (giggling) boyfriend And I thought he was just awesome And I wrote this song for him ” The picture of a 30-year-old Smith first becoming infatuated with the man she would marry as she started to play her lover’s anthem “Because The Night” was almost too much for the crowd

Her next tribute was, as she put it, “A little song for Amy Winehouse ” She went into a dark, haunting rendition of “This Is The Girl” from her latest album Banga Next, “Ask The Angels” was played for Allen Lanier, the keyboard player of Blue Oyster Cult who passed away last year Then, she sang another song for her late husband, a cover of singer-songwriter Gregory Allen Isakov’s sad bluesy folk-rock number, “The Stable Song ” Her most flooring tribute was her legendary cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” which she played, of course, for Kurt Cobain, slowly, first like a ballad, then like a berserk, frantic anthem, accompanied by only banjo and quiet steady bass She played it hands outstretched, shaking, beckoning, screaming the words “I feel stupid, I feel stupid” to the crowd

Although she omitted all songs off her seminal album Horses due to its approaching 40th anniversary tour, her set somehow didn’t feel like it was missing anything “Rock and Roll Nigger,” (introduced, as always, with her famous adage: “Now I don’t

fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future”) melted into “People Have The Power,” after which she stopped singing briefly to read/chant a section of epic prose from one of her books of poetry I watched, astonished, disconcerted and totally hypnotized

It was a concert out of another era and not because she played rock and roll as it is no longer played, or because of her mom jeans or the age of the members of the band I’ll be transparent with the fact that I have an abysmally limited amount of concert-going experience That said, I have never felt so affected and excited by a musical performance

And I think the reason she was so affecting is that she performed with a sincerity and an unapologetic lack of concern with her own coolness that sometimes feels like it’s missing from contemporar y live performance; or for that matter, from a lot of music in general

It was fascinating to observe her patience with a crowd that has been conditioned to attend concerts with some sort of dignity; affairs where all parties involved are quite concerned with seeming cool, artistic and dignified the musician curbing, if not altogether avoiding, any reckless enthusiasm that might be labeled clichéd or commercial and an audience of dutiful hipsters resisting the urge to sing along, even to their favorite song in the whole world, so as not to seem unsophisticated, amateur or indulgent

Patti Smith played with a frenzied fervor: a merciless sincerity that is no longer tolerated, or at least rarely found in our contemporary musical climate After her final song, she transitioned, half singing and half shouting, into a rhythmic, radical, beatnik diatribe about the new year, living authentically and finding bliss, gushing phrases like “life is love, love is life!” and “be exactly what you are, make goodness in the world and fuck the rest!” all while ripping the strings one by one off of her guitar

But it wasn ’ t trite The hipsters weren ’ t rolling their eyes they were cheering and screaming for more Ever yone in the crowd wanted to be a part of it, to answer her invitation to be as recklessly sincere and enraptured as she was, but we didn’t know how A speech like the one she made at the close of her concert in any other circumstance would have seemed inconceivably clichéd and irritatingly passionate Instead, it was electrifying, and felt significant, like she was rhapsodizing some essential truth that we were just slightly too dazed to comprehend

Maybe I need to go to more concerts, but Patti Smith’s audacious sincerity and unchecked energy made for the best Christmas gift I’ve ever gotten

Jael Goldfine is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun com Objectivity Bites appears alternate Thursdays this semester

Blade Runner: The Final Cut Finally at Cornell Cinema

BY DANNI SHEN Sun Staff Writer

“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave ” It has been more than 30 years since Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) first premiered, so the futuristic setting of 2019 is no longer too far off Released during the height of the Cold War, apartheid South Africa and when the internet was no more than a mere fantasy, the sci-fi

thriller based on a Philip K Dick novel follows Rick Deckard, a blade runner with an assignment and a moral conflict His mission: To hunt down six replicants, androids produced to perform skilled slave labor “in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets,” who have returned illegally from off-worlds to earth Born fully formed, mentally equipped with artificial memories and the ability to develop human emotions, replicants are manufactured to be “ more human than human ” In navigating what has become a stunning neon o i r, f i r e - b e l c h i n g , Sh

clogged megalopolis on Earth, Blade Runner

human dystopia

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007) is the director’s definitive cut, the only version over which Ridley Scott exercised full artistic direction, a version rarely made available for public viewing In H D media, the film has been scanned frame by frame at ultra-high resolutions, making

the Final Cut an unparalleled master work, not only in terms of the sci-fi genre, but also within the histor y of film and cinematography Don’t miss the Final Cut at Cornell Cinema, screening today and tomorrow only

Danni Shen is a senior in the College Architecture, Art and Planning She can be reached at dshen@cornellsun com

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Super Bowl to Air Anti-Domestic Violence Ad

Anti-domestic violence ad to air during season when NFL botches Rice investigation

(AP) No celebrities or NFL players facing the camera, saying “No more ” This ad simply depicts a 911 call of a woman pretending to order a pizza while calling police with her attacker still in the house

The Super Bowl commercial by No More, the group tr ying to end domestic violence and sexual assault, is a stark contrast to ads in recent months bringing attention to the issue that has become central for the NFL since Ray Rice was suspended for punching his then-fiancee in a casino elevator

The new ad has become a topic for discussion around the Super Bowl American Idol winner Jordan Sparks, daughter of former NFL player Phillippi Sparks, said what the NFL has gone through with domestic violence has helped publicize where women can call for help or find a safe haven Sparks said it’s great that people aren ’ t being silent about domestic violence anymore

“So it’s unfortunate all the way around for whomever is involved in those sorts of things and for the teams having to deal with the media and all of those different things,” Sparks said “But at the same time for other domestic violence victims to know they can speak up that’s all that’s important, that’s all that matters ”

In the ad, the 911 call is a reenactment inspired by true stories of women using the tactic of disguising their calls while reaching out for help No actors are seen in the stark ad; video shows only a house where a hole has been smashed in a wall, with books and photos knocked to the floor

The ad concludes with the phrase: “ When it’s hard to talk, it’s up to us to listen ” It had already more than 482,000 views on YouTube by Wednesday

The ad will air Sunday just after the second quarter between Seattle and New England Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said it can only help by bringing more attention to the issue

“I think anytime you talk about domestic violence it is going to have a meaningful effect, you want to eliminate that as part of society, ” Sherman said Seattle linebacker Heath Far well said the ad is key to better communication

“Guys realizing this [is] an issue, and you know it’s not just football, it’s across this county, these are the issues we have to address and to get better at, ” Far well said

Domestic violence has been a critical issue for the NFL for nearly a year since Ray Rice was arrested Feb 15 over an altercation at an Atlantic City, New Jersey, casino The Baltimore running back initially was suspended two games, then indefinitely after video from inside an elevator surfaced showing him hitting his now wife, Janay

An arbitrator threw out the indefinite suspension in December He was released by the Ravens and has not signed with another team

NFL players have been featured in ads from No More since October airing weekly

Patriots coach Bill Belichick said New England supports the league’s efforts against domestic violence Belichick said it has been a priority for New England owner Robert Kraft since he was hired The Patriots gave up their draft rights to defensive tackle Christian Peter a week after taking him in the fifth round in 1996 because of questions about his histor y with women

Korda Leads Way During Ocala Event

Red Ready for Colgate

M HOCKEY Continued from page 16

team has faced on the season Only six players have played ever y game this year for the Red “ You take guys out of the lineup, but that’s pretty tough when you don’t have bodies to take out of the lineup and put back into the lineup,” Schafer said “ We are at bare bones with bodies so that kind of card gets taken out as a coach Accountability and ice time becomes the next card Putting guys on the bench and making them watch for a little bit It’s peer pressure We’ve got to get guys that want to win so they’re putting pressure on each other to play the right way and be focused”

Given the team ’ s strong defense, statistically speaking, and goaltending, the core of the team ’ s str uggles so far this season seemingly center on the team ’ s inability to hit the twine That the team doesn’t even have a player in the among the Top-100 offensive players speaks greatly to the extent of the team ’ s general str uggles with scoring and injuries

Schafer said that the str uggles on the offensive extend beyond just passing and shooting

“For us, you look at it and you follow a game plan where you get above teams and you ’ re physical and you ’ re s t ro n g d e f e n s i ve l y a n d o f f e n s e w i l l come I’ve always believed that In the last couple of game, we ’ ve str uggled defensively,” Schafer said “Creating the offense comes from great defensive posturing and that’s what our guys need to understand It’s about becoming solid defensively, solid fr ustrating

the other team [and] solid by being above them ”

So p h o m o re f o r w a rd Je f f Ku b i a k

explained that, while the team has tried to maintain positivity through their str uggles, it needs to find an emotional, mental and physical consistency in order to pull out a two-win weekend

“Guys are so emotionally high from the Friday night game that they can ’ t seem to put it out of their minds for Saturday night or they’re not as excited for whatever it is,” Kubiak said “It’s an intrinsic motivation to get ready for Saturday night and it’s a skill that we need to have moving for ward in your career and, obviously, as a player If you have a good game on Friday night and not a good game on Saturday night in your future careers and in college, you could find yourself not playing as much so you ’ ve got to intrinsically motivate yourself and that’s a given ”

At this point, Ryan said there’s really only one thing the team can do as it prepares to face the Colgate Raiders on Friday and Saturday

“ We have to change our own fortune and we have to be ready to come to play on Saturday and clearly, as a collective whole, we haven’t done that yet, ” Ryan said “ We’ve got to be mentally sharper and focus in on the small details more and all of those things come along with being ready to play, so we ’ ve got to be more mentally focused and locked in and make sure we ’ re doing the small things right ”

Joon Lee can be reached at jlee@cornellsun com

Time for Bosh to Step Up After Departure of James

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leave his reign in frigid Toronto to be able to improve the rarely utilized facets of his game He was undoubtedly the worst player in Miami’s “Big Three,” so why not get paid upwards of $19 million to finetune some skills while having the chance to win a few rings? Not only this, but he will also be playing with some of his most talented colleagues and arguably the most athletic player of all time, James Bosh can ’ t be blamed for leaving Toronto James said it best in an inter view with Sports Illustrated when he remarked, “Ever ybody makes mistakes I’ve made mistakes as well Who am I to hold a grudge?”

At the start of the current season, we saw Bosh on a massive contract-signing high “You just get your entreé and that’s it It’s like, wait a minute, I need my appetizer and my dessert and my drink, what are you doing? And my bread basket What is going on? I’m hungr y, ” Bosh said in an inter view with Bleacher Report But Chris “the Alien, the predator, Boshtasaouroux Rex, CB4 and former superstar ” Bosh, has the opportunity to achieve greatness once again while making NBA histor y in the process He has the weight of Miami on his shoulders (Wade’s weak knees could never support all of that weight)

As this season streams along, one can see that the Heat are not playing anything like t h e He a t o f t h e p a s t t h re e s e a s o n s

Obviously, this is due to the loss of James and ever ything he adds to the team The s q u a d t r a n s i t i o n e d f r o m re v o l v

majority of plays around James, to a more all round, spread the ball type of offense All Heat fans miss the sight of King James bringing the ball up the court and tr ying to selflessly help his team score by any means necessar y He would seamlessly dribble up, call a pick play, drive to the basket and score more often than not due to his Jordan-esque ferocity When he could not score, James would simply kick the ball out to the open man (more often than not to Ray Allen, or Shane Battier), who would drain the three w i

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defense, it’s surprising Miami lost to both Dallas and San Antonio in the Finals Hopefully, LeBron can find greatness again in Cleveland

Now it is time to see Chris Bosh achieve greatness, giving his team the ability to score by any means necessar y Let’s look for ward to seeing a new-and-improved Bosh, ready to become the reliable big man that he could have been in Toronto The odds are against him, but as any NBA fan would know, the only thing that matters is the post-season Now how entertaining would a Cavs-Heat Eastern Conference Finals be?

Welcome to the elite categor y, Chris Bosh

Ben Denson can be reached at bmd83@cornell edu

Slothing away | Junior gymnastics co-captains

to being teammates

Sun Assistant Sports Editor and 10 Questions columnist Anna Fasman sat down with g ymnastics juniors Kaylie Cronin and Hannah Clark to talk about everything from barista aspirations to dancing like “ a dad at a barbecue ”

1 ) Ho w d id yo u ge t yo u r s ta r t i n gym n a st ic s?

H C : My mom put me in little kid classes and thought it would be fun, and I guess it snowballed from there into a really expensive monster

K C : I was three and my older sister did gymnastics and I was always trying to copy her in the waiting room at the gym, so my mom put me in a class

2 ) W ha t i s yo u r fav o r i te t hi ng t o ea t o n t he Co r ne ll c am p u s ?

K C :There are so many good things to eat

H C : Yeah when you ask us about food

K C : If we ’ re talking about brunch, definitely [Robert Purcell Community Center] I’m also a big fan of Terrace salads, but they fill me up before practice

H C : I’m pretty similar Terrace salads are good, but RPCC brunch I love brunch

3 ) W hat i s th e b est c la ss yo u hav e t ak e n at Co r ne ll?

K C : I still think that Nutrition Science

1150 [Nutrition, Health and Society] is the best class I’m a nutrition major

H C : I took the same class, but I thought it was terrible I don’t science

K C : I really liked food lab also since we got to cook every week It was awesome

What did you cook?

K C : A lemon meringue pie, which was pretty good I made these black bean burgers which were terrible I don’t like beans and I had to eat them

H C : As much as I hated actual financial accounting, I loved the class because I love the professor That and Critical Reading and Thinking

K C : I loved Critical Reading and Thinking! Shout out to [Helene] Selco!

4 ) If yo u co u l d be o n a ny o t he r s po r ts t ea m a t C o r ne ll , w h ic h t e am w o u ld you w a nt t o be o n a n d w hy?

H C : The problem is they’re all outside

K C : Yeah, I’m definitely not an outdoors person

H C : I’m also too short for any other sport I also don’t have the hand-eye coordination for a bat

K C : Or any ball sports really Football’s my favorite sport but

H C : Yeah, football’s my favorite sport but I would die

K C : I think I could tackle pretty well

Powderpuff football in high school, I killed it

H C : My teammate Alicia and I have dabbled in the park with some long passes We could be recruited, Cornell football 2018 If pool therapy was a sport, I would do that

What’s pool therapy?

H C : You get to wear these belts and float and you just run around in water Cardio in the water We have to tread water with a brick

K C : I almost drowned treading with the brick Hannah’s good at it though

H C : I kind of did gymnastics because I couldn’t do anything else I haven’t even really tried any other sport

5 ) W ha t i s yo u r fu nn i est m em o r y w i t h t he gym n a st i cs t ea m ?

H C : The most entertaining thing for the team was at a meet I completely split the beam, which is where you fall completely straddling the beam It was freshman year and I didn’t want to fall off, so I flipped under the beam and held on

K C : She looked like a sloth

H C : I looked like a sloth I was just hanging there Then I got embarrassed and climbed back on the beam without touching the ground, which is even more embarrassing All the judges were laughing at me and the team was laughing at me

K C : It was our second meet ever freshman year and she “slothed” the beam

6 ) If yo u had to p ic k a ny no n -gy mn

hy?

K C : Morgan Freeman would be kind of fun

H C : He could be our announcer, too

K C : Narrate our whole routine

Michael Jackson would have an awesome floor routine And beam He could moonwalk on the beam better than anyone else People try to do it but it’s just not the same

H C : Those would be two top dogs

7 ) W

?

K C : Time management, big time In [high school] club, we would have four-hour practices every day You’d go from school to practice and then eat dinner during the car ride home Then you’d get home and have homework It wasn ’ t a huge adjustment to college because it’s the same thing here

H C : Perseverance It’s no secret that we get injured all of the time It’s a daily struggle Working through it, even though it sucks sometimes, is important In the end, we still succeed even when it hurts sometimes It’s worth it

8 ) H an na h, I he ar yo u a re a n a sp i r i ng b ar i st a ?

H C : Oh yeah I had a very brief summer job and I made barely anything, but with my summer earnings I went and bought an espresso machine and decided to reinvent Starbucks in my house If anybody wants a cappuccino, Café Hannah is open for business I know how to make them all

K C : You always know when her coffee machine is going because it sounds like a plane taking off She also has a milk frother and the syrups basically a whole Starbucks in her room

9 ) H a nn ah, w hy d o p eo p le c al l yo u “ Tr i p s?”

H C : I was hoping to grow out of that one I fall over my own feet every two seconds and, unfortunately, with everything being videotaped in the gym, whether someone sees it [live] or not, they do eventually Freshman year, I was warming up and I tripped over my own two feet and separated my shoulder so I was casually out for six weeks because I tripped

K C : Our coach made her a mug with the nickname on it

H C : Oh yeah, our coach made me a mug that says, “Trips, stop it ”

1 0) Ka yli e, so m e hav e c o m p ar ed yo u r d a nc in g t o C ia r a o r “ a d ad a t a ba r bec u e ” Tel l m e m o re a bo u t t hi s ?

H C : Kaylie is, hands down, the best white girl dancer

K C : I can show you some good moves

H C : She’s got the pointing down to a science

K C : I also have got the slowly raising the arms up, all the way to the top

H C : And then she’ll just jump for an hour

K C : One time I made a bet that I could learn the Ciara “Ride” dance and I was pretty sure that I could do it, but then I started trying it and I could only get one part down I have that one part down really well

H C : She practiced all the time

K C : I would lock myself in my room and practice I even tried YouTube tutorials I didn’t want to lose that bet

Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun com

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Fencing Drops Three of Five in Philadelphia

Gangemi shines as fencing picks up wins against NJIT, Temple

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell fencing team travelled to the annual Philadelphia Invitational last Saturday to compete against Temple University, Duke University, the University of North Carolina, Northwestern University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Junior foil Angelica Gangemi finished 10-3 at the competition Freshman Luby Kiriakidi, also on the foil squad, finished 11-3 The foil team as a whole finished 33-12, beating NJIT, UNC, Temple and Duke, dropping their match to Northwestern

The epee team finished 22-23 on the day, defeating NJIT and UNC, and the saber squad finished 16-29, beating only NJIT Cornell as a whole defeated NJIT (24-3) and UNC (16-11) and lost to Duke (12-15), Temple (1116), and Northwestern (8-19)

Gangemi said taht the quick turnaround of the tournament after Winter Break cause problems

“One of the biggest problems in this past tournament was that the girls were mentally focused but physically not conditioned as well,” Gangemi said “We’re going to work on conditioning so we can physically keep up with our opponents ”

As the team prepares for Ivy League play, which takes up the remainder of the season and culminates in the Ivy League Championships and NCAA Regionals, head coach Ir yna Dolgikh said the saber, foil and epee squads will all have to work hard to bring the team success

“Every success comes, ” Dolgikh said, “from a well-orga-

nized effort by everyone involved in the program ”

Dolgikh said she works with the team ’ s veterans to keep the squads organized and ready Three starters and two reserves are selected to attend each tournament

“College fencing is a lot different from individual national fencing,” Gangemi said “You win not just for yourself but for your team and for your school ”

Freshman foil Luby Kiriakidi said Gangemi has played the role of mentor for her

“She’s on top of everything,” Kiriakidi said “She’s amazing ”

“We just want to refocus and take what we learned from this past tournament and apply it to Ivy League play,” Gangemi said

The Ivy League poses a daunting task for the Red as one of the best fencing leagues in the countr y Princeton and Columbia always pose challenges for Cornell The Red, however, has qualified 10 players the maximum allowed on the team to compete at the NCAA regionals

Championship, where the team will compete against Dartmouth, Princeton, Brown, Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania on Feb 8

“As we will face our Ivy League opponents, we already [qualified] the maximum number of fencers for the season continuation at the NCAA Regionals,” Dolgikh said “This is a great sign that the work our team has done so far is what is needed for us to succeed in the upcoming matches ”

Red Looks to Improve Consistency

By JOON LEE Sun Staff Writer

If you had told Cornell men ’ s hockey coach Mike Schafer ’86 at the beginning of the season that his team would be ranked No 2 in the country in team defense and have the best goaltender in the countr y in sophomore Mitch Gillam, he would have been happy After all, the questions coming into this season with the Red did not center around whether or not the team would be able to put pucks in the back of the

net

A dynamic group of returning seniors such as captain John McCarron, alternates Cole Bardreau and Joakim Ryan and Joel Lowry should not bring those kinds of questions, yet the Red sits among the worst team offenses in all of NCAA hockey, scoring just 1 84 goals per game But as it looks for ward to its weekend home-and-home series against Colgate University, the Red (8-92, 6-6 ECAC) sits in the lower third of the ECAC conference with just 10 games remaining in the season

The weekend against Harvard University and Dartmouth College encapsulated the essence of the Cornell season: a year of very incredible highs immediately followed, almost prophetically, by devastating lows The Red has not put together a two-win weekend since late November, when it beat both Yale and Brown at Lynah

There is not much Schafer can do to spark his team, especially given the abundance of injuries the

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Counter-attack | The women’s fencing team, which has qualified ten players for NCAA regionals, looks to bounce back in the Ivy League Championship on Feb 8

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