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S.A ., U.A. Agree: Table College of Business

Community members also vote against college plan

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

Following intense debate at the Student Assembly meeting Thursday, the S A voted 200-3 to officially recommend that the Board of Trustees delay approval of the newly proposed College of Business

The S A ’ s vote comes after the University Assembly passed a resolution earlier this week and the Faculty Senate passed a resolution in December that also asked trustees to reconsider the College of Business plans

The meeting, which opened with an open forum, saw many students split in their views toward the proposed establishment of the new college Kelly McDarby ’16 said after transfer-

Divestment On Trustee’s Weekend Agenda

ring from the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management to the School of Hotel Administration her junior year she recognized the value of its highly specialized programs

“Once I transferred I realized how strong the hotel program and its alumni network is,” McDarby said “All the classes are focused specifically on hospitality ”

She also said she feared the academic quality of programs would suffer if schools were merged

“The hotel school really is high value and this might be diluted substantially by combining it with [Dyson and the Johnson Graduate

By YUN SOO KIM

Staff Writer

A f t e r a l l f i ve o f C o r n e l l’s

s h a re d g ove r n a n c e a s s e m b l i e s urged Cornell’s Board of Trustees to divest the University’s endowment from fossil fuel and oil and gas companies last October, the trustees will discuss the possibility of divestment again during their meetings in New York City this

we e k e n d , a c c o rd i n g t o Jo h n C a r b e r r y, s e n i o r d i re c t o r o f University media relations

In an interview with The Sun in November, President Elizabeth Garrett said she anticipated the trustees would come to a decision on the issue of divestment during their first meeting in 2016

“The trustees are now putting in place a method through which they would think about these issues of divestment, because we anticipate that this is not going to

be the last request for divestment stemming from a policy concern t h a t w

h e board,” Garrett said “So they want to put in place a way for people to understand how to present these issues to the board and a way to consider them ” Garrett also said she believed the trustees took the views and concerns of Cornell students, faculty and staff seriously

During the open session of their full board meeting on campus last October, the tr ustees heard a presentation from Prof David Shalloway, molecular biology and genetics, who spoke on

Student Assembly, the

Students, Alumni Fear Business College Merger Will Lower Rankings

Garrett, Kotlikoff host phone conference to hear concerns

By JENNA RUDOLFSKY Sun Staff Writer

Ahead of the Board of Trustee’s vote on the creation of the College of Business this Saturday, 15 hand-picked students and alumni aired their concerns regarding the College of Business over a phone conference with President Elizabeth Garrett and Provost Michael Kotlikoff last Saturday

The phone conference originally slated to be an in-person meeting during the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in Philadelphia that was canceled during the East Coast blizzard Jonas was meant to be a

forum for dialogue between administrators and students and alumni that objected to the creation of the college

Since the announcement of the proposed College of Business last December, many Cornellians have expressed concern over or outright opposed the plans to merge the School of Hotel Administration, the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Numerous shared governance assemblies, which include the Faculty Senate, the Student Assembly, and the U n i v e r s i t y Assembly, have also passed resolutions or r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s urging the tabling of the College of Business plans

Multiple alumni have joined the movement, threatening to pull money from Cornell’s endowment and criticizing the administration’s lack of consultation with

C.U. Data Allowance Rises to 150GB Per User

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Users of Cornell’s wi-fi network now have an extra 50 gigabytes per month after Cornell Information Technology Services increased its free monthly data allocation to 150 GB per user this semester

Students who use the network will incur charges only after exceeding this initial 150 G B , a n d c a n m o n i t o r t h e i r monthly usage through Cornell’s Network Usage-Based Billing The University aims to have

90 to 95 percent of the users of the network covered by the allocation, according to Beth Lyons, associate chief information officer of Cornell I T Services After seeing that the percentage of users covered start to dip below 90 percent, she said Cornell I T made the decision to increase the data allocation

“Most of the usage comes from students, so our goal there is to balance what their allocation is against what the network can support, ” Lyons said She added that the University only covers 90 to 95 percent and

not 100 percent of users through the data allocation, to ensure that the additional five to 10 percent of users that exceed the usage allocation are not subsidized by the rest of the users “ We cannot overbuild the network [to] meet 100 percent of the needs and it would not be fair to do so, because then everyone else would be subsidizing the highest users, ” Lyons said To put the current data allocation into perspective, according to the online data usage cal-

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News , “Cor nel l t o C re at e Col l e ge of Bu si ne ss ” Mon day

Speaking about the union of departments from three different schools

“Cornell intends to establish a single unified College of Business with the goal of cementing the University’s position as a world-class center of teaching research and engagement for business management and entrepreneurship ”

Joel Malina, vice president for univeristy relations

Ne ws, “Kl ar man Ha ll Ope ns Af te r Two Ye ar s o f C onst r uc ti on , ” Tue sday

Speaking about the completion of the $61 million project

“It s an uplifting light-filled space to walk through and hang out in; all of us will appreicate that But it’s also perfect for more intentional gatherings receptions talks readings and performances things that add richness and variety to our intellectual life and that bring us together outside the classroom and lab ”

Prof Scott MacDonald, philosophy

Opi ni on, “A L ac k of Tr ans pare nc y, ” W e dne sday

Speaking about the Faculty Senate’s recommendation to table plans for the College of Business

“The purpose of involving the faculty in major decisions is to improve the quality of those decisions by engaging knowledgeable people whose interests are affected

Prof Matthew Evangelista, government

Ne ws, “Ch apt er H ouse Re con st ru ct i on P l an Appr oved, ” Thu rsda y

Speaking about the Ithaca Landmark Preservation Commission’s approval of plans

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

Jerry Dietz, property manager

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“Mingle has provided invaluable guidance to its presidents and members of the Board of Tr ustees, ” Garrett said

Maidbot, an Ithaca-based startup run by Cornell students that combines hospitality and robotics, has gained attention in several competitions around the countr y, most recently competing against 14 other college startups in the RECESS Pitch Competition earlier this month

Maidbot also took home the top spot in the LaunchNY Startup Pitch Competition last July The startup is also currently competing in the Cornell’s annual Hospitality Business Plan Competition, which was sponsored by the Leland C and Mary M Pillsbury Institute this past winter Competing against seven other teams, Maidbot will pitch their final concept in March this year to judges during the Hotel Ezra Cornell conference Additionally, Maidbot was announced as one of 32 semi-finalists in the Student Startup Madness competition a collegiate startup tournament at SXSW earlier this month If

Maidbot is to win in the semi-final round, the startup will be able to pitch to investors in Austin, Texas, in March

Inspired by the television show The Jetsons, Maidbot is a robot created to assist hotel room attendants with housekeeping tasks

Micah Green ’18, a co-founder of the company, had previously worked as a

“With this new automated system we were really excited to revolutionize and transform the hospitality industry ”

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room attendant at a hotel After recognizing flaws in the room attendant system, he said he saw an opportunity for robots in the industry

“Hospitality as a whole is very traditional and old fashioned,” Green said “With this new automated system we were really excited to revolutionize and transform the hospitality industry ”

Maidbot sets out to improve efficiency in hospitality by lowering the cost of cleaning rooms and the injury rates of

room attendants while increasing consistency of cleanliness in hotel rooms, according to the startup ’ s website

The current prototype was created to clean hotel room floors autonomously, however, Green said he hoped Maidbot will eventually be able to accomplish bigger tasks, including making hotel beds

Green said the founders of Maidbot used their understanding of the hospitality industry to create a commercial product for everyday use in hotels

“We’re designing this for a particular use, we specifically want to create a commercial robot,” Green said “A Roomba burns out, batteries melt, the time efficiency isn’t there, it doesn’t clean fast enough or well enough We know what [hotels] need ” The company has worked closely with Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration, and is based out of REV Accelerator Program a startup incubator located in Ithaca Maidbot was also supported by Life Changing Lab’s summer incubator program last summer

Three Cornellians Juliana Batista ’16, Atticus DeProspo ’15 and Andrew Schoen ’12 were named 2016 Schwarzman Scholars, the University announced Jan 11 This fall, they will live a

most prestigious universities

These scholars will pur-

economics and

according to the University

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from a pool of over 3,000 applicants from 135 countries Cornell is among five Ivy League universities to

Schwarzman Scholars, the University said

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and labor relations major and Student Assembly presi

winners was a strong personal narrative and an ability to conect their narrative to “the escalating presence of China on an international stage ”

“I hope that a year at Tsinghua University through Schwarzman College will allow the exploration of the world's complex intertwining economies from a Chinese perspective,” Batista said “I also anticipate shedding my normative assumptions to engage in a positive understanding-driven involvement there ”

After the program, she said she hopes to pursue a career in international investing at the World Bank

“I will bring my previous knowledge about financial markets, corporate social investing and macroeconomics to Schwarzman but build upon them to develop a global perspective,” she said “Ultimately, I would like to alternate between the public and private sectors and utilize my soft skills to impact both communities ”

Deprospo is an ILR alumnus, who was a member of the Cornell varsity men ’ s soccer team and the president and founder of Cornell Athlete Ally an LGBT organization that aims to make the

“I met over 123 people who challenged me to be a better person ”

’ 1 5 Isabel Ling can be reached at iling@cornellsun com

environment

D e P r o s p o credits his time at Cornell as a major factor in his decision to apply for a Schwarzman Scholarship

“I met over 123 people who inspired me and challenged me to become a better person and leader,” DeProspo said “The combination of my educational and extracurricular experiences provided me with the motivation and foundation to pursue the Schwarzman Scholarship ”

He added that he is excited to immerse himself in the intellectually stimulating community of scholars and to apply his new knowledge at the program ’ s completion

“I look forward to returning to the United States after my year in China and using the experience to continue to advocate for social justice issues,” DeProspo said

Deprospo also said he hopes to learn how young leaders can help shape global policies that

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School of Management] as far as education and alumni networking and loyalty,” McDarby said Casey McClaran ’17 was one of several students to support the creation of a combined business college, arguing the unification will allow for new opportunities such as expertise exchange and career exploration

“All undergraduate students will have more access to Johnson M B A candidates who are enthusiastic about sharing their expertise and skills,” she said “ The combination of career resources, research opportunities and a few, though certainly not all courses, will benefit all undergraduates giving us more flexibility ”

After a lengthy discussion, Gabriel Kaufman ’18, S A undesignated at large representative, said that regardless of whether or not the new College of Business is appropriate, the Cornell community had not been allowed enough time to provide feedback for the issue

Regardless, continued support from additional representatives prompted a unanimous 22-0-0 decision to vote on the recommendation The Student Assembly then voted 18-0-3 to adopt the recommendation Additionally, members of the community were allowed to take part in the vote After polling the audience, the community largely supported the recommendation, which resulted in two additional votes for a total of 20-0-3 in favor of the recommendation

S A members expressed varying levels of support for the recommendation especially as students in attendance remained divided on the topic Matthew Stefanko ’16, S A vice president for finance, said that he preferred that the S A not adopt a stance that large numbers of Cornell students were potentially against

“We all can agree that this appears to be more or less strategically done to not promote community feedback.”

“I think that whether you think this is a good idea or a bad idea we all can agree that this appears to be more or less strategically done to not promote community feedback,” Kaufman said “When [Provost Michael Kotlikoff ] announced this on Dec 14, half of the students were gone and for the next six weeks everyone was gone ”

Kaufman then motioned for the S A to adopt a recommendation that the Board of Trustees “table the proposal for the College of Business to allow more time for community feedback ”

S A President Juliana Batista ’16 raised concerns about the recommendation as the original purpose for the meeting was to gather feedback from students to present to the Board and not to take an official stance on the matter

“The Student Assembly isn’t necessarily the decision maker here,” Batista said “[ We will say to the Board,] ‘Here are the common threads of the conversation, these are specific quotes students in the community and S A said and we would like you to represent that student voice ’ That’s specifically why we tried to have this meeting today ”

“We only have 15 to 20 students in front of us here,” Stefanko said “There are clearly students who are very comfortable with [the decision] going to the Board of Trustees ” Diana Li ’17, S A undesignated at large representative, said that merging the Dyson and hotel schools into a single business school would take away from “the intrinsic value that draws a lot of people to the specific things that make Cornell what it is,” adding that prestigious programs such as the hotel school are “ part of our identity” and that incorporating them into a single business school would reduce what makes them special

She continued that more information is needed before a final decision is made She also compared the new business school to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, warning that separation within the student community could result

“Wharton’s campus is very much cult-like and is very polarized from the rest of the student body to the extent that you are basically not allowed into Wharton groups unless you have a Wharton email address,” Li said of her prior experience as a summer research assistant at the Wharton School of Business “That is not the not the example I want for this campus

Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun com

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which had all passed resolutions supporting the University’s divestment from the fossil fuel industry

“ This unanimity of campus constituencies, as voiced through their elected representatives, is unprecedented in Cornell’s history, ” Shalloway said during the October meeting “If shared governance is to have any real mean-

should be respected ” Fo

the trustees spoke seriously about

large number of Cornellians that have supported the movement

Ahead of last October’s trustee

divestment that was addressed to Garrett and the trustees gained over 1,200 signatures in just over a week of circulation, The Sun previously reported

However, despite the trustees ’ serious consideration of divestm

“oppose[s] divestment in fossil f

l c o m p a n

d u e t o t h e University’s need to ensure that its endowment continues to earn sufficient returns to continue to fund programs, scholarships and professorships

“I share a lot of the concerns that those who support divestment do,” she said “I just don’t

think divestment is the right way to go about addressing those concerns ” Additionally, Garrett said that due to Cornell’s marginal weight in the total value of the oil and gas companies, divestment is “ ver y unlikely to have any impact on any decision by an oil and gas company or fossil fuels company ” “The 100 oil and gas compan i e s w i t h t h e l a r g e s t c a r b o n reserves have a combined value of three trillion dollars,” she said “Our share of them is 0 00001 percent, or 24 million ”

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun com

Arrested for Helping Three Escape

Students, Alumni Fear

Hotel School, Dyson School Rankings Drop

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Cornellians before their decision They have also found fault with the lack of information available on the funding and structure of the proposed college

Additionally, alumni expressed concerns during the phone conference that while theJohnson School’s ranking would improve with the creation of the new college, the hotel school and the Dyson school rankings would suffer as a result, according to William Eaton ’61, who participated in the conversation and was a former member of the Board of Trustees from 2007-2011

“There were all these references [from administrators] on how [the College of Business] would improve the hotel and Dyson School,” Eaton stated “It’s tough to improve on number one You can get better, there’s no doubt there, but improve sounds like you ’ re going to get a better ranking, and along the way, Johnson gets to be top tier ”

Most recently, the Johnson Graduate School of Management was ranked the 16th best graduate business school by Bloomberg Business, while the Dyson School was ranked the third best undergraduate business school

“If we [the hotel school] lose our number one rating everything disappears, ” Eaton said “Nowhere has the placing of a hospitality school within a school or college of business been successful ”

While administrators hope that trustees will vote to change the University charter Saturday and approve the creation of the College of Business, Eaton said he had hoped the phone conversation would buy time before the trustees made their decision

“We want to at least get it on the side where we can slow it down and have some time to negotiate,” Eaton added

Kotlikoff will also host an open forum on Feb 2 to allow students to raise concerns or ask questions about the College of Business

Jenna Rudolfsky can be reached at jrudolfsky@cornellsun com

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Pre s i d e n t Ba r a c k O b a m a o n Thursday promised his most fervent supporters on Capitol Hill

t h e “ D e m o c r a t s w i l l w i n i n November” and said it’s going to take more than “phony tough talk and bluster” to defeat Islamic militants

Ap p e a r i n g b e f o re Ho u s e D e m o c r a t s a t a re t re a t i n Baltimore, Obama said the countr y is “doing a lot better” than w h e n h e t o o k o f f i c e , c i t i n g p r o g re s s a g a i n s t Is l a m i c St a t e forces and curbing Iran’s nuclear program as well as lower gas prices, 18 million people gaining health insurance and 5 percent unemployment

In a n o t - s o - v e i l e d s h o t a t GOP presidential front-r unner Donald Trump, Obama said the U S won ’ t strengthen itself “by a l l ow i n g p o l i t i c i a n s t o i n s u l t Mu s l i m s o r p i t g r o u p s o f Americans against each other ” Obama defended his global leadership against a chorus of GOP attacks from Trump and other presidential candidates He said the U S and a coalition of more than 60 countries continues “ to hunt down and destroy

I S I L , i n c l u d i n g w i t h n e a r l y 10,000 air strikes ” “ We’re n o t g o i n g t o b u i l d progress with a bunch of phony tough talk and bluster and overthe-top claims that just play into

Monthly Data Limit Expanded

University to increase data cap to 150 GB per month

DATA

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culator cableone net, the 150 GB would allow students up to 140 hours per month of high definition video streaming or four and a half hours of HD video streaming per day

The University has seen data usage on the network grow dramatically over time with the rise of numerous video streaming services and smartphone devices Cornell I T has been using the current allocation method since 2003, at which point each user was allocated only 2 GB, according to Lyons

To set the data allocation cap, the University tracks, monitors and projects data usage, Lyons said Typically the University does not change the data allocation more than “ once a year ” because it takes usually a year to track the data usage patterns that are established, she said

“We cannot tune it precisely month to month,

but some of it comes down to what the network infrastructure changes need to be,” Lyons said “In this case we just changed the allocation and the billing cap, and we already had a plan underway to change the four routers, so all of this is a constant effort to keep the network to what the University demands are ”

Some students have reacted positively to the University’s attention to student complaints

Danny Qiu ’19, who works as a service desk consultant with Cornell I T , said the changes will help reduce the number of students who exceed the cap

“Students frequently complain about how easy it is to use up all 100 GB of data,” Qiu said “Seeing this data cap increase leads me to believe that Cornell is certainly listening to the voices and concerns of the students ”

Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun com

Three Cornellians in First Schwarzman Class

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Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun com

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Obama chided Republicans for opposing him at ever y turn

“Sometimes I get a little frustrated that we don’t run back the tapes to what Republicans said back then” when predicting his policies wouldn’t work, Obama said He noted that his 2012 p re s i d e n t i a l o p p o n e n t , Mi t t Ro m n e y, p r o m i s e d 6 p e r c e n t unemployment but it has already dropped to 5 percent

“At each juncture, ever y single one of the steps we took, they said the opposite Wanted to go in a different direction, claimed that our policies would crush jobs and destroy the economy, ” Obama said “Do people remember that?”

On the upcoming elections, Obama promised that “ we will have a Democratic president succeeding me And the reason I can say that with confidence is because we focus on the things that matter in the lives of the American people ”

During the closed-door back

a n d f o r t h w i t h l a w m a k e r s , according to an aide in the room, Obama defended his administration’s deportations of migrants from Central America and said bipartisan action was possible on criminal justice reform and in c o m b a t i n g o p i o i d a b u s e He promised action on Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis

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by the Arikara

I really, really wanted to love Alejandro G Iñárritu’s The Revenant and I did to an extent but it does not have the emotional heft to match the operatic grandeur of its settings and cinematography Rumors drifted back all throughout last year about the painstaking shoot in subzero Canadian wilderness, Leo DiCaprio’s flea-bitten beard (not true) and Iñárritu’s insistence on photographing the film strictly with natural light, the last of which lends the film a magical glow perhaps only seen in the films of Stanley Kubrick or Terrence Malick The master director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki has shot several films for Malick, won the Oscar the past two years for Birdman and Gravity and will win again this year: bet on it

Thus, the primary star of The Revenant is the film’s stark natural beauty It overwhelms the senses with images and experiences as disgusting as consumption of a raw buffalo liver, refuge taken inside the innards of a hollowed-out horse and, of course, a gruesome, ferocious bear mauling This film aestheticizes the violence of the untamed frontier and the fury of nature in the way Francisco Goya’s paintings brought a stylized perspective to the horrors of warfare

The storyline is bare and mythic, the kind of tale told ‘round the campfire as the wind howls outside the cave

The sequence of this ambush is one of the most memorable, hugely spectacular action sequences ever put to film, right up there with Saving Private Ryan’s Omaha beach landing Iñárritu and Lubezki refuse to stop the camera, filming everything in long, evolving, gorgeous shots of bloodshed and mayhem as one poor unsuspecting devil is speared through the chest with an arrow and the Americans flee for their lives to their boat This scene also sets the tone for the rest of the film we know we ’ re in for a harrowing, tough but thrilling ride of crashes over waterfalls and horses ridden clear off cliffs

The Revenant

Directed by Alejandro G Iñárritu

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio Tom Hardy Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter

The year is 1823, an unthinkable time without iPads, TV, Spotify, lightbulbs or central heating systems The place is unsettled territory from the Louisiana Purchase (likely somewhere in North Dakota) during the dead of winter French traders have settled the land and maintain relatively nonviolent relations with the Native Americans, primarily the Arikara tribe Neither party takes kindly to the encroaching Americans making their way up there to trap fur One such expedition is led by Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), father to a half-Native son (Forrest Goodluck), and husband to a Native wife killed during genocide

A surly fellow trapper named Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) has it in for Glass from the start when the band is ridden upon and attacked

Sorry, lost my place there describing how awesome those sequences are! No sooner has the fur-trapping party regrouped then is Glass attacked by a bear This, again, is another stretch of unthinkably brutal yet mesmerizing filmmaking Glass doesn’t look like he’ll last the night, and Fitzgerald is eager to dispose of him The party ’ s second in command (Domhnall Gleeson) makes the mistake of leaving the mortally wounded Glass in the care of Fitzgerald and youngster Jim Bridger (Will Poulter) As the threat of another Native attack looms, Fitzgerald gets restless Glass’ son ends up dead and Fitzgerald dumps Glass in a hole and buries him alive From then on, it’s war Glass now has nothing to live for except seeing the blood of his son avenged He rises from the hole, claws his way through the rocky wilds and blistering temperature and becomes in and of himself, a force of nature

Leonardo DiCaprio has long been campaigning for an Oscar, and the man is long overdue (take your pick: Aviator, Wolf of Wall Street, Gilbert Grape, Revolutionary Road), but as thoroughly committed and relentlessly focused as he clearly is, this is not his best performance No, this movie makes a fine testament to one actor ’ s capability to hold attention for hours in the middle of nowhere (see Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Robert Redford in All is Lost), but unfortunately Hugh Glass is not particularly deep or complex It is that lack of complexity that works in the film’s favor, making it a simple and elemental tale of vengeance and sur-

vival, but DiCaprio personally has done better His penance served in the wilderness will probably convince the Academy to vote in his favor, but to me it would seem something of a consolation prize

The deal is, Leo is at his best when playing obsessives; characters drifting back and forth across the line between charismatic and psychopathic have an emotional landscape DiCaprio has mastered Hugh Glass, as compared to the neurotic enigma Howard Hughes, the cowardly depressive Frank Wheeler or the snake oil salesman-party boy Jordan Belfort, is relatively cleancut His son ’ s been killed, he himself has been left for dead and now he’s gonna hunt down the bastards who are responsible until he has their blood or they have his The plot is relatively straightforward, and there’s not enough darkness for Leo to tread in; it’s only in the murk where he really gets to show his acting chops Still, it’s a hell of a ride watching him stave off death and wander through the mountains like a specter risen from the grave, haunting the trail of his enemies

This story is an undoubtedly immersive experience, full of bold choices by cast and crew It demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible, with the best sound available, and if possible with a large audience Appreciate its impact as you watch your fellow moviegoers twist and writhe in their seats

Mark DiStefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msd97@cornell edu

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R e v e r e n c e f o r T h e R e v e n a n t COURTESY OF

An ode to the greatest musician / critic feud

Writingmusic criticism all too often feels like shouting into the void

When musicians remark on criticism, they often do so cautiously Consider St Vincent’s answer to Jessica Hopper’s question about her public image in a 2011 Village Voice article: “I have one answer for you if the tape recorder is on, and another if it’s off ” Thus, when musicians openly engage their critical counterparts, it is a rare and valuable occurrence As such, alt-country artist Ryan Adams’ rage-filled voicemail to concert reviewer Jim DeRogatis is an irreplaceable resource on music criticism, just as important as any Lester Bangs masterpiece In December 2003, DeRogatis at this point a longtime critic of Adams published a d e n i g r a t i n g review of Adams’ latest show in the Chicago SunTimes Adams responded by leaving a whiny, but eloquent, voicemail on DeRogatis’ answering machine The recording is immortalized online; you should listen to it Adams drops the f-bomb 12 times He sneers the words “old man ” He fluctuates between arrogance “ you can ’ t refute the music, obviously, it’s too fucking good” and sorrow “What’s your problem? You just have to come after me ” In the voicemail, however, music fans also hear a performer directly challenge, at points line-by-line, a critic’s

complaints

I definitely enjoy replaying the voicemail just to hear Adams’ lackluster, meandering attacks, but they are more than empty insults Towards the end of the voicemail he jabs, “You’re obviously one of these guys that comes to gigs that just bums people out, that

notepad ” After reading DeRogatis drag Adams for numerous perceived offenses goofy singing, making fun of Wilco, being a “ poseur ” it is satisfying to hear Adams go on the offensive DeRogatis describes Ryan Adams, the conceited, annoying frontman, and so Adams turns the mirror on Jim DeRogatis: a nitpicking buzzkill with a

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Adams complains that, despite trashing his past shows, “ you [DeRogatis] write about me every chance you can get, ” concluding, “ So

DeRogatis’ review bespeaks a lingering distaste for Adams and his “whole tired ‘ troubled artist’ routine ” Adams accordingly asks a crucial question: Should critics continue to slam artists against whom they are clearly

DeRogatis’ right to cover whatever he desires (and DeRogatis, to his credit, is a clever and observant reviewer) Yet, Adams fairly points out that DeRogatis is either jaded or missing something if he still feels the need to rail against a performer’s act after three reviews Similarly, I felt a stab of shame when Adams calls out DeRogatis for putting himself on a pedestal “You mention in the end that the fans eat it up, ” Adams notes, “but you ’ re different, you ’ re, like, the voice of reason ” This point is the core of Adams’ grievances: Who ever declared that a notepad and a couple of Replacements references makes your taste superior?

Adams does not, however, completely prove DeRogatis to be an out-of-touch, nettlesome critic In DeRogatis’ defense, if concert reviewers always deferred to the crowd’s preferences, it would be pointless to have someone cover concerts at all Similarly, in an April 2015 Washington Post article, Chris Richards complains about modern poptimism a tendency of (some) music critics to pile praise on to the most commercially successful artists writing, “Worst of all, it asks everyone to agree on the winners and then cheer louder ” So let us not condemn DeRogatis, along with his rock canon references and disdain for shtick Even without c row

DeRogatis and Adams’ interaction broadens how to think about why and how critics write

The exchange between the two parties is even more interesting because both sides seemingly want nothing out of it aside from

personal vindication The same cannot be said for many higher-profile music industry feuds Note, for example, how the Brand New/Taking Back Sunday beef resurfaces whenever either band has a new release to promote Conversely, if not for DeRogatis’ decision to broadcast the voicemail on his radio show Sound Opinions Adams’ words would never have gained notoriety DeRogatis may have collected a paycheck for his disparaging review and garnered some attention for his radio show, but I doubt that either opponent recruited many fans due to the fight If anything, Adams sounds remarkably vulnerable when he sighs, “You do this to me every single time ” It is a delicate counterpoint to DeRogatis’ accusations of his bravado and inauthenticity

In the end, when performers and readers scream at answering machines and type furiously in comment sections, it means that they are still reading the criticism I would rather wake up to a voicemail from every artist I have ever panned than write in a world where every music fan shrugs, mumbles “ to each their own ” and never challenges anything Towards his message ’ s end, Adams lays out a promise to DeRogatis: “You directly talk to me in your reviews, and I will call you, and you can be as much of an asshole as you like ” All I can say is: Ryan, yes please

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at

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Two years of construction and $61 million later, Klarman Hall finally opened its doors to eager Cornellians on Jan 19 The new building has been called “iconic, “uplifting and “light-filled The sapid scent of Temple of Zeus’ Creamy Zucchini and Minestrone soup wafts through the glass-enclosed atrium, delighting the noses of humanities students who feel giddily at home in Klarman and occasional engineering kids who are just there to fulfill a distribution requirement But they are not the only ones wandering in Klarman we ’ ve heard rumors that some sketchy characters have also taken up residence in Cornell’s newest building To figure it out, we asked our best Berr y Patch reporters to investigate who, or what, is living in Klarman Hall

Gh o s t o f Go l d wi n Sm it h Pas t : The namesake of the ‘uglier sister’ humanities building got lost and wandered into the wrong building He was confused by modern technology like windows and hasn’t managed to escape Klarman Hall since If you see him, lend a ghost a hand and point him in the right direction

Hov e rb o ard s: Banned from campus residences and with nowhere else to wheel to, the hoverboards you got on Christmas have collected in Klarman Hall They were planning a rebellion against the fire marshall, but are now embroiled in an existential debate on whether they actually are hoverboards even though they don’t hover We’ll update you when they’ve sorted out their identity crisis

Pre s id e n t E m e r itu s Da vi d Sk o r to n : SIKE, guys! The guy never had a job at the Smithsonian Despite his jazz flute skills and impressive bow tie collection, the job market has been tough for Skorton too, so he’s been rooming in Klarman to avoid the Collegetown prices ever since he stepped down

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What Do Scientists Know That We Don’t?

Peoplelove talking about the gap in scientific beliefs between Democrats and Republicans For example, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center, 71 percent of Democrats believe that climate change is occurring because of human activity, versus 27 percent of Republicans This degree of difference in opinions on science is a major roadblock to forming vital political policies, whether on genetic modification of food, climate change mitigation or vaccines There is another gap, though, that is just as telling when it comes to America’s division on science issues: the one between the public and the average scientist

Scientists’ views on science may be even farther from laypeople’s than Democrats’ vie ws are from Republicans’ Eighty-eight percent of members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science representing all scientific fields, and from here on referred to simply as “scientists” think that it is safe to eat genetically modified foods, compared to only 37 percent of U S adults 87 percent of scientists believe that the earth is getting warmer due to human activity, versus 50 percent of U S adults and 86 percent of scientists believe that childhood vaccines should be required versus 68 percent of U S adults

A 50 percent gap in opinion on genetically modified food can ’ t be ignored: clearly the average scientist knows something that the average member of the public doesn’t The historical view has been that if only people were better educated, their views would come in line with the scientific consensus Smack a layperson around a few times with enough scientific facts, and they’ll become a true believer in GMOs

Unfortunately, research has shown that simply giving people information is not enough to change their attitudes towards science In fact, being more scientifically literate can make people more polarized in their views on science As you learn more about a topic, you can appreciate it more, but you can also find new grounds on which to criticize it

This raises a major question: if having more facts doesn’t lead people to the same answer on scientific issues, then why do scientists have such homogenous views always closer to 100 percent agreement with each other compared to laypeople?

And why would scientists, in all their diverse expertise, be in agreement about specific fields like genetically modified food or climate change, about which most have no special knowledge? 89 percent of earth scientists agreed that climate change was occurring due to human activity – virtually the same as the 87 percent of all scientists who agreed A microbiologist or astrophysicist likely has no more knowledge of climate science than a layperson, but they hold the same views as earth scientists anyway So what do they know that other people don’t, if not scientific facts?

Scientists know that science is competitive Labs are generally competing with one another in a zero-sum game for limited funds from a predetermined budget, whether granted by the government or other organizations If a climate lab in Berkeley could show that a climate lab in London is wrong and they are right, it

is to their benefit to do so Scientists are happy to refute each other’s research in order to make their own mark on the field and win respect and funding far from being the uniform cabal the media likes to portray

Scientists know that science rewards novelty Research will get more prestige by countering the popular narrative, as opposed to adding to a chor us suppor ting it Alber t Einstein, for example, became the most respected scientist of all time by toppling the principles established by Isaac Newton, not by going along with consensus If there were credible research against the scientific consensus on vaccines, climate change or evolution, the person who published it would change the world and could clear a little space on their shelves for their future Nobel Prize

Scientists know that science is selfcorrecting Unfortunately, incorrect results do get published, whether through honest error or fraud This would be disastrous if scientists treated results like many newspaper editors do: “Scientists prove donuts cure cancer!” What newspapers don’t publish is the follow-up over the course of decades as competing labs from around the world validate or refute each other’s results It is a slow process, but in the end the truth does win out over errors and falsehoods

Scientists know that scientific fraud means the end of a career The public sees politicians and advocates regularly misleading them and logically assumes that every public figure blatantly lies to suit their own ends However, while a politician may lie twice before putting their pants on in the morning, a scientist need only lie about their results once to be out of a job and a profession The researcher who published false data linking vaccines to autism was barred from practicing medicine when his fraud was inevitably discovered This year, an assistant professor was not only forced to resign from Iowa State University for scientific fraud, but was also convicted of multiple felonies and sentenced to five years in prison Political commentators and online commenters casually accuse scientists of lying about their data, but scientists know that the consequences of scientific fraud are drastic and final

This specialist knowledge not about facts, but about process is absent in public discussions of science While talking heads yell about ice ages and solar cycles, they ignore the more salient point that it is impossible for a global conspiracy of scientists to manufacture climate change While alarmed parents cite rising rates of autism, they fail to understand that the research linking vaccination to autism was retracted years ago for being completely fraudulent

What scientists know is that facts are not enough if we do not understand the scientific process As the last centuries of tremendous human progress have shown (you read, on your iPhone, without polio), the scientific process works Even though each one of us can ’ t have all of the facts, we can point political policy and human progress in the right direction by trusting the process

Andre Pineda is a second-year

Jeremiah Grant & Alana Fallon | Gates & Ladders

EDeceptive Identities Of a Textbook World

very winter, spring and summer break, Cornellians can be found around the world volunteering their time to communities abroad Most students perform marvelous achievements, acts of good and return to campus refreshed to take on the next semester Yet, at the moment of return, the coming home to Ithaca, we are forced to ask ourselves if our work was truly in the spirit of service and cross cultural exchange This winter break my co-writer, a Cornell Traditions Fellow in the school of Hotel Administration, explored the complexity of crosscultural volunteerism with the organization Unear th the World, a nonprofit that prides itself on its mission to provide both opportunities for service and authentic cultural immersion

In the spirit of service-based learning, we had been sent articles to prepare us for our excursions, ranging from countr y ‘quick facts’ to the importance of ethical photography

the term ‘inequality’ takes into account the inter-relational histories of multiple people when worlds collide Using the term is necessary because it challenges the speaker to recognize and admit that the actions of the past have undeniably affected the current status of the country she/he visits It considers colonization, plundering of resources, brain drain, separation of families, mass genocides, cultural uprooting of individuals, language imposition, sexism, classism and racism The term ‘inequality’ takes a complete historical framework in understanding the mechanisms that underdevelop the economies, human capital and natural resources of nations In other words, the term ‘equality’ should not be

ities of their life down to single sentences? How must it feel to try to share richness of one ’ s heritage and national history into a simple, digestible statement?

The term ‘equality’ should not be a blinder to the realities of other people We cannot let it persuade us to believe that all nations compete on an even playing field to meet developmental goals

We were trained to reflect and journal our experiences, to think on global issues and our roles in the world around us and to understand how we define our own identities

One of these pre-departure pieces was Rachel Naomi Remen’s “In the Ser vice of Life” Remen asserts that the main concern of the international volunteer should be distinguishing between servicing and helping Remen writes, “Helping is based on inequality; it is not a relationship between equals Service is a relationship between equals Helping incurs debt ” Remen philosophizes an ideal world where every person sees every other person as equal Remen’s world is one where, regardless of tangible possessions, socioeconomic class, occupation or connections, everyone boils down to being a human Stripped down to our core, we are all equal It’s in our Declaration of Independence, right? Despite this, as international volunteers we must also be aware that recognizing equality means we do not close our eyes to the inequality we see in the communities we serve The term ‘equality’ should not be a blinder to the realities of other people We cannot let it persuade us to believe that all nations compete on an even playing field to meet developmental goals It should not be used as a paint brush over the stories of people and simplify it to one story where we believe that everyone has an equal shot at certain opportunities Using

used as an excuse to simplify people’s identities and histories into a convenient blurb

Imagine your identity as a book; the reams of paper are filled with the details of your ancestry, sociological imagination, moral practices, likes, dislikes and self-identity However, there is an interesting simplification of identity when it comes to international volunteerism and having to speak a language that is not their native tongue Perhaps it’s the feeling of vulnerability, or the presence of barriers that limit communication We are tempted to give the Sparknotes version of ourselves when an exchange becomes cross-cultural Is this interpretation a bad thing? The unique scriptures of your life soon dissolved into a shallower shadow for comprehension’s sake

“I love listening to music (I don’t know how to say ‘I love when rappers use old samples in their music’ in Spanish) ”

“I study business (Hotel Administration with a concentration in Hospitality Leadership is a very confusing, Westernized concept) ”

The core of our identities is shortened to the words we memorized in an AP Spanish course

If cultural differences force us to adapt our stories, how impactful is cross-cultural exchange? If we as English speakers feel this way, how might other people feel when foreign students come into their land and they are forced to distill the beautiful complex-

Cross-cultural service begs for the realization that countries are not their news headlines It requires us to not take things at face value and to challenge the simple headlines and simple explanations of history Learning the language skills to communicate with the members of the community you work in is critically important, yes However, are we simplifying people’s histories to only after the imposition of the Spanish? The histor y of romance languages in the Americas is younger than the histor y of indigenous languages Peru and Nicaragua are home to those who speak Spanish in addition to those who speak other languages such as Quechua and Aymara to name only a paltry few Search ‘Nicaragua ’ on the Internet, and details of the construction of a canal pop up; search ‘Peru,’ and a slew of Machu Picchu pictures litter the screen We cannot look at Nicaragua and confine our minds to the construction of canals We cannot look at Peru and confine our imaginations to the great architecture of Machu Picchu When we visit places such as Nicaragua and Peru, we must be aware of the full histories and diversities of the people with whom we interact We must understand the complexities of inequalities that face the people around the world with whom we work We must learn the languages of the communities we interact with, in addition to learning their histories We must journey, not because we wish to bring our textbooks to life, lest we rely on the biases and prejudices of certain educational textbooks written by conquerors oppressing its subjects under a banner of simplification We must not take information at the surface level, smiling at the grass and ignoring the dirt and skeletons underneath We must grasp the shovel of truth to unearth the world, dig deep within ourselves and be vulnerable enough to share our gems of life with others in the hopes of truly meaningful cross-cultural exchange

We must serve to be servants, not saviors

Jeremiah Grant is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences Alana Fallon is a sophomore in the School of Hotel Administration Jeremiah can be reached at jg856@cornell edu Gates & Ladders appears alternate Fridays this semester

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out like a Manchester City fan in the Stretford End Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool team will finish eighth In recent weeks, his team has improved, but I expect more growing pains in the German’s first season managing on Merseyside In ninth, expect Guus Hiddink to resurrect a horrendous Chelsea side from the season ’ s first half and make them a force in the second half of the season In 10th, I pick Stoke City, who has continued to evolve into an attacking juggernaut Quique Sanchez Flores has impressed in his first year in charge of newly promoted Watford, and he will lead one of the Premier League’s least talented clubs on paper to a stunning 11th place finish

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That said, I expect West Bromwich Albion, Newcastle, and Bournemouth to be the last three teams to survive West Brom and Newcastle have Premier League pedigree and thus will be able to avoid the disaster of relegation Bournemouth has an incredible team spirit and can avoid the drop However, I have worse news for fans of Norwich City, Sunderland, or Aston Villa, as these three teams are most likely to be relegated to the second division (which is confusingly known as the English Championship) Norwich failed in their last battle against relegation and might suffer the same fate this time around Sunderland and Villa have slightly different stories These historic English clubs have suffered in recent years after poor player decisions over the past decade They need a relegation in order to get fresh management, players and ideas Both teams, given the size of their fan bases, will eventually return to the top division after a restart

So there you have it my predictions for the standings at season ’ s end Given the unpredictability of this season so far, though, anything can happen Here in the Beautiful Game, I will cover all the action every two weeks Hang on; it will be a wild ride

Kevin Linsey can be contacted at klinsey@cornell edu The Beautiful Game appears Fridays this semester

Basketball Looks to Halt Losing Streak

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Without Hatter, freshman guard Troy Whiteside earned a pair of starts, combining for 19 points in the two games

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n Hatter’s place “It’s helped me grow as a player, knowing I can step up and help fill that role ” Whiteside and fellow freshman Matt Morgan were both

s games against the Lions Even though Morgan led Cornell in scoring both nights, he said he still has areas of his game to work on as Ivy League play heats up

Edosomwan is from the free throw line

“He’s had a terrific year so far, he’s hard to cover one-on-one, ” Courtney said of Edosomwam “We’ll have to do a great job of getting it out of his hands and do a great job of helping when he does get it But at the same time he can get pass the ball out to three point shooters It’s a balanced offensive team, you have to do a great job of containing him and also a great job of not letting the others get free ”

Limiting 3-point shooting has been a focus for the team since allowing the L

“We know we want to speed [Harvard and Dartmouth] up ... just playing fast like we always do ” T r o y W h i t e s i d e

“[I’m] working on getting my shot off a little quicker, looking at some things to get teammates better shots off of my drives,” Morgan said “I’m also tr ying to kick it back to our shooters like Stone [Gettings] and Jordan [Abdur-Ra’oof ], getting them better opportunities and better looks at the rim ”

Last Saturday, 6-foot-10 forward Luke Petrasek helped power the Lions to a 79-68 over Cornell Tonight, the Red battles another big man in Harvard’s Zena Edosomwan, who plays a completely different style than Petrasek While Columbia’s forward tended to drift out beyond the 3-point arc, Harvard’s big man prefers to bang around down low In fact, Columbia’s Petrasek is shooting a better perc e n t a g e f ro m 3 - p o i n t l a n d t h e n Ha r va rd’s

According to Morgan, Cornell wants to do a better job of

intensity

As has been the case since Courtney arrived to the team six years ago, he has placed an emphasis on pushing the tempo and getting opponents out of their comfort zone

“We’ve been practicing continuing to play our game as much as we can, ” Whiteside said “We know we want to speed [Harvard and Dartmouth] up, pressure the ball like we normally do with all teams, just playing fast like we always do ”

Courtney said that while he has stressed the same mentality all year, it all comes down to in-game execution this week

“It’s not really what you do,” Courtney said “It’s how you do it ”

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun com

Cornell Seeks First Ivy League Win

Following back-to-back losses to Columbia to open Ivy League play, Cornell men ’ s basketball will search for its first in-conference win when the team takes on Harvard tonight and D a r t m o u t h tomorrow

Despite the pair of defeats at the hands of the Lions, head coach Bill Courtney said he’s proud of the way the Red (7-9, 0-2 Ivy) played against Columbia (13-6, 2-0) Even still, he’s quick to point out the ways in which the team could have played better, particularly in limiting turnovers and upholding the team ’ s defensive pressure

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“I was proud of the way we competed, how hard we played in particularly down there,” Courtney said “We had a few more breakdowns here defensively I thought we dictated tempo when we were at Columbia and did a good job of that for about 30 minutes here ” Cornell competed in both games against the Lions without current Ivy League scoring leader Robert Hatter, who missed the games due to an ankle injury While he did limitedly participate in practice this week, his status is still up in the air for tonight’s game against the Crimson

Premier League Predictions

Agrueling 38-game season from August to May determines the Premier League champion The teams play most weekends, with several additional games squeezed in over the holidays Therefore, a good chunk of the season happens between early December and late January, which is inconveniently overlapped with winter break, devoid of Daily Sun soccer articles As a result, I could have written this week’s article as a laundry list of everything that happened in the soccer world in the last seven weeks

Yet, dear reader, this week I am going to look to the future instead of looking back I am going to predict the final standings for this season after the final fifteen games The top four teams at the end of the season qualify for the UEFA Champions League, the most prestigious European competition, and earn the prize money that comes with Champions League qualification So let’s begin with

Hopes to Continue Winning Streak

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

Coming off a two-win weekend over Columbia, the Cornell women ’ s basketball team looks to keep the momentum going against Harvard and Dartmouth this coming weekend The two wins over the Lions have Cornell perched atop the Ivy League standings alongside rival Yale

“We had two great wins against Columbia,” said senior guard Maddie Campbell “ The first we fought back from being 17 points down at their place ”

The task begins on Friday night, when Cornell hosts the Har vard Crimson Har vard

has managed to remain third in the Ivy with a 1-1 record, but Harvard has historically been one of the best in the league The Red has not won a game against their Cambridge rival in the last eighteen meetings Last year, Cornell lost to Harvard twice, 61-57 and 6054

“We're fired up from some great wins against Columbia and can ' t wait to move forward, making the necessary adjustments and learning from our mistakes in those games to keep it rolling this weekend,” said sophomore for ward

Christine Ehland

This year however, there are some new factors at play

Cornell has been greatly helped this season by two play-

ers in particular Freshman Caroline Shelquist is the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week and junior Megan LeDuc was named Ivy League Player of the Week on Jan 18 S h e l q u i s t notched a personal record of fifteen points in the second game against Columbia She went 5-8 from behind the 3-point line, forcing the Lions to pressure her to the outside She also put in work on the defensive end, recording two steals against the Lions

In the first game LeDuc played the full 40 minutes, scoring a game-high 19 points and managing zero

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Despite Cornell’s incredible strength in the backcourt, the focus against Harvard will be on the post Harvard’s Shilpa Tummala and AnnMarie Healy put up 16 and 19 points last week, respectively

post presence and look to push the tempo through transition baskets - similar to many of the teams we faced in the nonconference ” The second game of the weekend will be on Saturday against the Dartmouth Big Green, who are in an identical position as Harvard in the standings The Big Green has a 6-12 overall record, but the Red is not going to take them lightly Last year the two teams split the series, but team won their game in a blowout, with a final margin of 20 points both times Players to watch for the Big Green will be guard Katie Letkewiecz and forward Lakin R o w l a n d Letkewiecz put up an incredible 26 points against Harvard last week, and Rowland scored 18 alongside 11 boards

that most critical of standings sections, the top four

At the moment, Leicester shockingly leads the Premier League The Foxes sit three points clear of Manchester City and Arsenal I’ve covered their rise here in the Beautiful Game, but will they keep it up? In the end, I think Claudio Ranieri’s team will be able to pull it off and finish in first place Sergio Aguero’s return will boost Manchester City to second place, and a resurgent Tottenham Hotspur team looks a good bet to finish in third Arsenal has a penchant for finishing fourth in recent seasons, and late-season fatigue for stars like Mesut Ozil might be on the cards

Undoubtedly, Cornell’s post players, Nia Marshall and Nicholle Aston, will have their hands full

“We're very excited about the upcoming weekend and the opportunity to face new opponents, ” Ehland said “Both teams have some strong

“If we focus on the game plan and shut people down defensively, our offense usually comes easy to us Campbell added “So far we have shown we are going to keep fighting until the final buzzer goes off, even if we are down double digits ”

In fifth, I place West Ham United, which would represent a career year for the East London club The summer addition of French maestro Dimitri Payet has completely galvanized the side, unlike any transfer in recent memory Another traditionally average team, Southampton, should continue to overachieve and finish in sixth They pulled off the signing of Charlie Austin a few days ago, when the Queens Park Rangers striker had been linked with much more industrious and rich clubs Less than 10 minutes after making his debut off the bench, Austin scored the late winning goal against Manchester United last weekend United themselves will slink down to seventh, which would tie their worst finish in the Premier League era Their fans are tired of the sideways and backwards passing that coach Louis van Gaal mandates in order to maintain ball possession In a season where counter-attacking and direct play has tended to be dominant, van Gaal’s mantra has made his team ’ s dullness stick