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By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Staff Writer

President David Skorton released a Climate Action Plan Acceleration Working Group report on Thursday, which recommended steps Cornell should take to become carbon neutral by 2035

Skorton acknowledged in a statement on Thursday that he pledged nearly eight years ago to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 However, motivated by a 2013 Faculty Senate resolution calling for increased urgency, Skorton said he “recognize[s] the need to accelerate [the

University’s] efforts by embracing the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2035 ”

Skorton said he will take action to address those practices recommended in the report that are not already in place

“Some of the report ’ s recommendations already are being implemented; others will require further and broader conversations,” Skorton said “As a first step, over the coming weeks I will engage our deans and administrative leaders in discussions on how best to move forward ”

The report contained 16 specific recommendations,

and prioritized six “key milestones” in particular, saying that “completion or significant progress ” on those six initiatives in the next year is vital “for Cornell to be confident in the 2035 target date ”

Among the six key milestones identified are a “ comprehensive education and engagement campaign to increase student learning,” purchase agreements for “wind, hydro, and solar projects” and the appointment of a Director of Strategic Partnerships for Campus Climate Action, according to the report

JONATHAN SWARTZ

Re c e i v i n g m o re c h a r i t a b l e donations than all but five other colleges in the country, Cornell raised a total of $546 1 million in gifts in the 2014 Fiscal Year, according to the annual rankings

re l e a s e d We d n e s d a y by t h e Council for Aid to Education

In a d d i t i o n t o s e e i n g a n increase from the 2013 fiscal year ’ s $474 9 million in gifts moving up in the rankings from seventh place for 2013 to sixth place for 2014 the University

set a new single-year record for cash gifts and also collected from the highest number of donors to d a t e , a c c o rd i n g t o C h a r l e s Phlegar, vice president for alumni affairs and development

“More than 55,000 individuals have given to Cornell this year, including more than 7,300 who gave to Cornell for the very first time,” Phlegar said

Of the $546 1 million raised last year, $36 6 million was raised by the Cornell Annual Fund, w h i c h p r ov i d e s i m m e d i a t e

Peter Mesko ’13 was convicted of firstdegree sexual abuse and second-degree burglary Thursday

The jury is still deliberating on whether to convict the former student and wrestler on a first-degree rape charge

Following the conviction, Mesko was taken to Tompkins County Jail, where he is being held on $50,000 cash and $250,000

bond, according to The Ithaca Journal

Mesko allegedly broke into a Collegetown residence in the early hours of March 30, 2013 and raped a female student while she was sleeping

The minimum sentences for first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree burglary are two and three-and-a-half years, respectively

The maximum sentences are seven and 15 years, respectively If convicted of rape,

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Opinion, “Far Above the Dead Sea’s Waters,” Monday

Speaking about the importance of addressing opportunities for growth in dialogue

“If The Sun will spend weeks covering and entertaining commentary on the moments when the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue on campus seems hopelessly deadlocked and shockingly infantile, it must rise to the occasion when our campus is graced with a potential moment for progress ”

Jacob Glick ’16

News, “Myrick ’09 Addresses Pedestrian Safety Following Fatal Accidents,” Tuesday

Speaking about the deaths of two Cornellians in traffic accidents this week

“We’ve been dealt a series of tragic blows The pain their families are experiencing is unimaginable and I know that the entire Ithaca Community holds them in our thoughts ”

News, “Amid Controversy, Cornell to Partake in AAU Survey,” Wednesday

Speaking about the controversial sexual assault survey to be administered

“By analyzing data from Cornell and other United States colleges and universities participating in the survey the AAU will help higher education institutions across the country understand, prevent and respond to sexual violence ”

Joel Malina, Vice President of University Relations

News, “Student Assembly Calls for Open Course Evaluations,” Thursday

Speaking about the new resolution proposing that courses be subject to open evaluations

“We are trying to realize the idea of ‘ any person, any study ’ but students have very little access to information about classes they’re choosing, especially compared to our peer institutions ”

Joseph Fridman ’17

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C.U. Students Create Insect-Based Tofu

Team behind ‘C-fu’ will compete for $10,000 seed funding in Portugal

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

A team of Cornell students developed “Cfu” a tofu substitute made from one hundred percent mealworm meat and were recently selected as one of 10 finalists to compete for $10,000 in seed funding at the global Thought for Food Challenge

According to Lee Cadesky grad, who leads the team behind C-fu, the product was chosen out of 336 other projects for the challenge and that his team will travel to Lisbon in two weeks to compete

“C-fu is not a just a single product It’s a

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reprocessed into hundreds of different and new foods,” Cadesky said “We want to change the paradigm surrounding insect foods from a dystopian imperative to gastronomic adventure ”

Cadesky said he first developed the idea for C-fu after studying a type of imitation crab meat known as “surimi ” According to Cadesky, the precursor to surimi was first

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developed as a way to process unwanted fish species into a desirable product

“My thesis research has to do with cheesemaking and how milk proteins coagulate to

form the gel network that makes cheese,” Cadesky said “Similar principles apply to tofu and surimi, so I wanted to explore whether or not we could do the same things with insects ”

Over the course of six months, Cadesky’s team developed a method of extracting and restructuring the proteins of mealworms, crickets, superworms and waxworms

Cadesky said the finished product was named “C-fu” by combining the Chinese word for “curd” with the letter C for “crickets, ” which were the first insects the team experimented on

“When we made it with crickets, it tasted

awful,” Cadesky said “We went to superworms for a while and they tasted even worse, and then we went to mealworms and they tasted okay ”

Eventually, the team moved to mealworms, an alternative that Cadesky said provided numerous health benefits

According to Cadesky, the C-fu made from mealworms consisted of about 13 percent protein and 23 percent fat, with smaller amounts of iron Cadesky also said that 75 percent of the fats are unsaturated, so C-fu is rich in omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturat-

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Alumni Develop Beer Pong-Playing Robot

The VERSABALL robot the creation of two Cornell graduates played beer pong on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Jan 16

According to John Amend Ph D ’13 chief technology officer of Empire Robotics, the Cornell technology startup that designed the robot the inspiration for the VERSABALL robot came to his team when they were working on a Defence Advanced Research Project Agency Programmable Matters project, which tasked programmers with creating robots that can change shapes to squeeze through passages

The CEO of Empire Robotics, who helped create the robot, is also a Cornell alumnus Bill Culley ’06 M E ’09 M B A ’12

“We came up with the jamming gripper technology while I was working with a team under Prof Hod Lipson, [mechanical and aerospace engineering], at Cornell, along with Prof Heinrich Jaeger at the University of Chicago,” Amend said

According to Amend, the aim of Empire Robotics is to “ commercialize this jamming-gripper technology ” While most robots need to be reprogrammed in order to pick up a variety of shapes, according to Amend, this jamming-gripper technology involves a squishy balloon-shaped bag of particles with the flexibility to conform to

the shape of the objects within a factory, and then place the object in the desired place

The robot VERSABALL is a leader in “fundamental change” in the automated manufacturing industry, according to Amend

“VERSABALL is in the shape of a squishy ball full of loose particles,” Amend said “Since it’s soft, it easily conforms around its target object be it gear wheels, light bulbs or plastic components and then, using suction to remove all air between the particles, VERSABALL hardens around the target enabling it to be picked up With a release of the suction, VERSABALL softens, releases its target and the object is placed ” Conventionally, creating specialized and diverse grippers for

industrial production required a great deal of both engineering time and resources, according to Amend

However, with VERSABALL, Empire Robotics has created an “out-of-the-box, multitask solution” that can be modified with ease to perform a variety of tasks

“In a matter of minutes, with a fraction of the engineering time and effort, VERSABALL can be programmed or reprogrammed to pick and place parts that vary, ” Amend said “VERSABALL’s great advantage comes with its flexibility in handling the varying parts as contracts change, its ease of integration and its agility as one consistent tool that can be used ”

The clients of Empire Robotics are major industrial production and packaging companies in the markets of industrial automation, according to Amend

“Our customers use VERSABALL for many kinds of manufacturing, packaging, kitting and assembly of mostly small to midsize plastic and metal parts ”

Amend said the beer pong demos “worked out really well” as promotion for the VERSABALL

“These demos at the consumer electronics show and on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon were meant to draw attention to our products and generate interest in what we are doing,” Amend said “We’ve seen a great response in the industry so far, but now we ’ re focused on our industrial customers once again ”

Of cial: C.U. Endowment Re ects ‘Any Person, Any Study’

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impact and unrestricted support to the University, according to Joseph Lyons ’98, director of the Annual Fund

The Cornell Annual Fund includes funds for undergraduate student aid, each of the undergraduate colleges and professional schools and the University as a whole as well as a fund for some of the university-wide units, such as athletics and Student and Academic Services, according to Lyons Lyons said the profitable donation year has impacted the campus on a broad scale

“Philanthropic support is what helps Cornell be truly exceptional,” he said “Increased financial aid allows more [students] to have access to Cornell, new and expanded program offerings, support for student teams and recruitment and retention of faculty ”

According to Prof Ronald Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations, the amount of money donated to the University highlights a well-documented resource gap between the nation’s wealthiest and less prosperous colleges and universities

“All the money we raise at Cornell is put to great use, ” Ehrenberg said “But the less fortunate [in terms of ] endowment and annual giving institutions find it difficult to compete for faculty and for students because they can ’ t afford to match the offers the richer institutions can make ”

Ehrenberg said this type of inequality is growing and that many public institutions have seen their state appropriations per full-time equivalent student decline over a 30-plus year period

“While a few [public universities] have large endowments Texas and Michigan are two that jump to mind many lesser publics have very little in the way of endowment or annual giving resources, ” he said

Phlegar said financial inequality may exist among institutions, but looking at numerical figures alone does not take into account the entirety of the situation

“It’s true that endowment levels vary widely among colleges and universities,” Phlegar said “However, those figures don’t tell the whole story when it comes to understanding the resources that universities have available to them to carry out their missions ”

Phlegar added that the University’s endowment appropriation fits its founding message

“Cornell was founded as an institution where any person can find instruction in any study,” he added “Our endowment use and financial aid policies support that founding notion ”

As colleges across the nation increase their efforts to connect with alumni through the growth of social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook, Cornell has made an effort to connect with its potential donors and graduates through social media, according to Phlegar

“We are tremendously grateful that so many donors have expressed their confidence in Cornell’s future.” C

In addition to last year ’ s stronger stock market and relatively stable economy, Phlegar said a number of other factors converged to encourage people to donate to the University

“Anticipation for the University’s sesquicentennial anniversary celebration year has been generating a high degree of enthusiasm and participation,” he said “Excitement over Cornell Tech in New York City is having a positive effect on fundraising across the University as a whole ”

“More than 60,000 alumni have connected with us on our social channels for Cornell alumni,” he said “The interactions that happen in those communities help us understand what our alumni care about, and help them feel connected to the life of the university and see the value in investing their time, talent or treasure in helping Cornell succeed ” Lyons said he believes it is hard to draw a direct connection between the University’s efforts to reach out to alumni on social media and its fundraising success, but that growing social networks are “critically important to keeping Cornellians engaged and connected with all that is happening at Cornell ”

Although it is too early to make a prediction about the 2015 fiscal year, Phlegar said he is hopeful about Cornell’s fundraising efforts for this year

“We know that there is a lot of optimism about Cornell right now among alumni, parents and friends, so we are certainly hoping for a strong year, ” he said “We are tremendously grateful that so many donors have expressed their confidence in Cornell’s future and in the difference Cornell can make in the world ”

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun com

‘C-fu’ Marries Entymology, Food Science

C-FU

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ed fatty acids

Despite these benefits, C-fu requires enormous numbers of mealworms to be produced in large quantities Cadesky estimated that 10,000 mealworms would only produce a pound to a pound and a half of C-fu at most

According to Rachel Saputo grad another member of the team the mealworms were ordered live by the thousands from Rainbow Mealworms, a pet s u p p l y c o m p a n y b a s e d i n Southern California

At a public tasting of C-fu at Mann Librar y Thursday, hundreds of tiny brown cubes prep a re d t h e n i g h t b e f o re w e re placed onto plates for curious students and faculty members to tr y Samplers were encouraged to fill out a brief form after ward to rate the taste of C-fu and answer a few food-related questions

Cadesky said students at a p re v i o u s t a s t i n g s e s s i o n l a s t November repeatedly told him that insect meat didn’t taste like

mealworms reportedly tasted the best, so the team decided to prepare only mealworms for this session

Despite its current incarnation, Cadesky said his vision for C

g potential for C-fu is to discover what the world of insects tastes like,” Cadesky said “ We’ve only experimented with four insect species, but there are 1,900 edible ones What do they all taste like?”

Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun com

Mesko Convicted Of Sexual Abuse; Jury Out on Rape

MESKO Continued from page 1

Mesko could serve up to an additional 25 years

During the trial, which began Jan 20, the defense argued that the victim’s actions following the alleged rape indicate that she was not sexually assaulted, The Ithaca Voice reported

The victim had contacted Gannett Health Center and gone to Cayuga Medical Center for a medical evaluation hours after the alleged attack

In his closing statement, defense attorney William J Dreyer said that the victim who appeared in court during the trial did not immediately call police following the attack, a reaction that he said suggests that she was not raped

Tompkins County Assistant District Attorney Wendy Franklin disputed Dreyer’s argument by noting that the victim sought help Franklin also said in her closing argument that male DNA was found on the victim and underwear, though there was not enough to test whether the DNA was Mesko’s

Mexico City Hospital

Gas Explosion Kills Two

M E X I C O C I T Y ( A P )

Injured and bleeding, mothers carr ying infants fled from a maternity hospital shattered by

a p o w e r f u l g a s e x p l o s i o n Thursday, and rescuers swung

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About 75 percent of the hospital collapsed, officials said, and the priority was to continue digging in search of any trapped sur vivors Authorities said they had confirmed that none of the children registered

in the hospital were missing, but said it was possible that

trapped

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3 weeks old He said 21 babies were injured, and nine of those and seven adults were in serious condition after being rushed to other hospitals

Thirty-five-year-old Felicitas Hernandez wept as she frantically questioned people outside the wrecked building, hoping f o r w o rd o f h e r m o n t h - o l d baby, who had been hospitalized since birth with respirator y problems

Skorton: C.U. Commitment to Carbon Neutrality ‘Intensifying’

SUSTAINABILITY

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According to Sarah Balik ’15, Student Assembly president and former S A environmental committee chair, adaptation of the report ’ s recommendations could help transform Cornell into a sustainability leader

“If we can actually accomplish this goal, Cornell would be at the pinnacle of sustainability compared to most American colleges,” Balik said Balik said she hopes that current conversations on sustainability will prompt increased environmental awareness from the student body

“Hopefully, these changes will inspire students to really think a b o u t h o w t h e y c o n s u m e resources and teach them how to make and keep their lives greener once they leave the Hill,” she said

of major universities that already has significantly reduced its CO2 emissions over the past 10-15 years

” Prof Stephen Ellner Ph D ’82, ecology and evolutionar y biology, was par t of the faculty group that wrote and lobbied for the 2013 Faculty Senate r

University is taking environmental concerns seriously

“Hopefully, these changes will inspire students to really think about how they consume resources ” S a

Skorton also said that adaptation of the report ’ s recommendations could have implications beyond Cornell’s campus

“By intensifying our commitment to carbon neutrality, we have the potential to develop new approaches, applications and technologies that will be valuable on our own campus and globally,” Skorton said

Prof Brian Chabot, ecology and evolutionar y biology, was a primar y sponsor of the 2013 Faculty

report He said he applauds Skorton’s leadership in “addressing the climate change issue ”

“ The AWG [report] outlines an ambitious but achievable approach to having Cornell become climate neutral ahead of the original 2050 deadline,” Chabot said “Cornell is one of a ver y small group

However, he also pointed out that comprehensive sustainability practices should enable Cornell to become carbon neutral before 2035

“As far as I’m concerned, [the deadline] is conser vative,” Ellner said

Emma Johnston ’16, arts and sciences representative for the S A , emphasized the need to involve students in the quest for carbon neutrality

“Further engaging students in the climate action plan will empower us to affect change on the ground, help us expand what we learn beyond the textbook, teach us how to encourage behavior change among our peers and most importantly will be absolutely necessar y if we wish to make this goal a reality,” Johnston said Cornell has increased its focus on sustainability

Management commenced a $2 3-million marine sustainability initiative in 2013, the University’s Snyder Road Solar Farm went live last September and just last month Cornell announced its decision to purchase all energy that will be produced by the Black Oak Wind Farm, The Sun previously reported

Rebecca Blair can be reached at rblair@cornellsun com

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depar tment, we recognize and understand the fr ustration of the faculty, who were told by their academic peers and leadership that their discipline was not considered as impor tant, or as necessar y, as others within the University While it may be tr ue for some students that “ per formance is definitely a marketing tool to get [them] to declare the major,” many find meaningful ways to engage in the practice of our diverse and often misunderstood craft Saying other wise mischaracterizes and trivializes the creative work faculty and students contribute to the campus The question should not be whether per formance exists on campus, but instead whether it is of an acceptable quality, both professionally and academically Undeniably, the quality of undergraduate education in the theatre, film, and dance disciplines has suffered in recent years There are fewer classes, fewer chances to practice the craft and, most impor tantly, fewer educators available to teach and engage students In this case, possibly unrecognized at the University level, the quantity of experience on the stage, behind the camera or even in a professor’s office can directly affect quality of education

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c a t i o n i s d i f f e r e n t t h a n o n e b a s e d i n s c i e n c e a n d t e c h n o l o g y , b u t i n n o w a y i s i t l e s s e r

S i o b h á n Brandman ’17, a student actor on c a m p u s w h o r e c e n t l y p e r f o r m e d i n Paula Vogel’s M A ’76 The Mineola Twins, expressed her fr ustrations and highlighted problems that have been felt across all students in the per forming ar ts community She is cer tainly not alone in the irritation she identified in her guest column We greatly appreciate and applaud her desire to call attention to the University’s deplorable treatment of the per forming ar ts discipline We would like to call attention to some points she made and fur ther discuss the degraded quality of undergraduate education in the per forming ar ts Surprisingly, even with the cuts made by Lepage, the number of PMA majors is not dwindling Recent enrollment data indicates at least a sustained number of m a j o r s i n c o m p a r i s o n t o c o m b i n e d enrollment of the theatre ar ts, dance and film majors Fur ther, we have seen s t u d e n t s f r o m a l l c o r n e r s o f t h e University experience greater access to t h e c l a s s e s t a u g h t i n t h e S c h w a r t z Center We believe that the “problem” with the PMA depar tment is not complacency, but a lack of suppor t from the greater University leadership and a lack of understanding about the numerous benefits of an education in the per forming ar ts It is impor tant to point out that any suggestion that the entire PMA faculty does not care about their students is misinformed and undermines the faculty members who are incredibly passionate about their work with undergraduate students A single interaction with one instr uctor should not be called upon to generalize an entire discipline’s f a c u l t y Pe r s o n a l l y, w e h a v e h a d resoundingly positive experiences with faculty and have engaged with them often on a one-on-one level to learn the nuances of their respective disciplines in an intimate setting

That being said, there are without question some members of the faculty who have become disillusioned with Cornell’s treatment of theatre ar ts, and this estrangement from the University has definitely been felt by many undergraduate students As students in the

h e y d e s i re a n e d u c a t i o n ro o t e d i n t h e l i b e r a l a r t s t h a t w i l l m a k e t h e m b e t t e r p e r f o r m e r s , d i re c t o r s , d e s i g n e r s , w r i t e r s , d a n c e r s , f i l m m a k e r s a n d a r t i s t s t h r o u g h a n u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f e a c h a n d e ve r y c o mp o n e n t o f p e r f o r m i n g a r t s T h e y d e s i re l e a r n i n g h ow t o t h i n k c r i t i c a l l y a n d a n a l y t i c a l l y w i t h i n t h e p e r f o r m i n g a r t s Eve n P M A g r a d u a t e s w h o c h o o s e n o t t o p u r s u e t h e p e r f o r m i n g a r t s p ro f e ss i o n a l l y b e n e f i t i m m e n s e l y f ro m t h e s k i l l s t h e y g a i n a s u n d e r g

Cornell does suppor t some of the

enough It must be suppor tive of all aspects of the ar ts Suppor ting only some of the subjects that comprise “the ar ts ” would be like claiming to suppor t “the natural sciences” and only suppor ting biology, but not chemistr y, astronomy or physics Contrar y to what our academic leaders believe, we argue that no academic discipline is more important or wor thwhile than another at a University that preaches “ any person, any study ” We call upon student leaders from a c r o

s o f t h e College of Ar ts and Sciences and the administration to help fix the issues that cause the fr ustrations of many PMA students The per forming ar ts at Cornell have been treated frivolously, a notion that is counterproductive to higher education’s goal of providing young minds with well-rounded educations An ar ts education is different from one based in science and technology, but in no way is it lesser

Chandler Waggoner is a senior, Laura Dera is a junior and Brian Murphy is a junior at Cornell Guest Room appears periodically this semester

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Net-Neutrality: Beware the Easy Path

Last June, the debate over “network neutrality” literally broke the Internet Well, at least part of it The night before, late night talk show host and Daily Show alumnus John Oliver delivered a scathing indictment regarding the potential loss of “network neutrality” at the hands of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) And at the end of his segment, he ordered any viewers who made a habit of commenting on Internet websites to petition the FCC to put in place new rules restoring network neutrality Or, as Oliver put it, “Monsters For once in your lives, focus your indiscriminate rage in a useful direction ” Oliver’s call did not go unheeded

The next day, concerned citizens launched over 45,000 comments on the FCC’s website, overloading it and causing it to crash

To understand why Oliver’s monologue struck such a nerve, some background is necessary Since its inception in the early 1990s, the Internet has been governed under a network neutrality system Network neutrality, at its core, means that all content on the Internet is treated equally Especially salient in the network neutrality debate is the issue of “anti-discrimination ” Here, “anti-discrimination” means that Internet service providers the Comcasts, Verizons, and AT&Ts of the world are not allowed to arbitrarily decide what content providers (e g , websites) receive better connections or speeds at the expense of other content providers So, for example, Comcast cannot charge Netflix a higher amount for maximum data streaming speed than it charges Hulu

The United States has been living under this anti-discrimination, network neutrality regime for the past 20 or so years, and the Internet has flourished during that time That regime, however, may be nearing its end The government agency charged with patrolling network neutrality, the FCC, recently lost a case in federal court regarding network neutrality There, the judge found that the FCC, in enforcing network neutrality, was acting beyond the limits of its powers

The lawsuit was brought by Verizon Wireless, an Internet service provider (ISP) ISPs, as one might imagine, are generally anti-network neutrality The FCC was the named defendant because Congress created the FCC to administer the 1934 Telecommunications Act, the act that regulates the Internet

So we currently sit in limbo, with the FCC poised to make a decision in February on the future of network neutrality Network neutrality advocates, of which I count myself, have generally coalesced around one solution, with which I disagree: The FCC should redefine the Internet as a public utility, such as electricity or roads Such a reclassification would place network neutrality back squarely within the auspices of the FCC’s power Interestingly, the entire reason the FCC lost the recent court case was because the agency ’ s current position is that Internet is not a public utility But that’s the amazing thing about government agencies: A line of Supreme Court cases has held that agencies can reinterpret a statute they are in charge of at any time, even if it flies directly in the face of their long-held, previously iron-clad interpretations

As alluded to above, many network neutrality advocates are pushing for the FCC to take a fresh interpretation of the Telecommunications Act and find that Internet service is a public utility Such adherents to the reclassification cause include President Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Tim Wu (the man credited with coining the term “network neutrality”)

But there is an unintended consequence of reclassification that some, including myself, find troubling While the FCC does have authority over the Telecommunications Act, which grants wide authority in this area, it is not the only government agency that can regulate ISPs at least not yet Another governmental agency, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), can also bring actions against ISPs if they violate certain consumer protection policies that the FTC has put into place The FTC has long been in the business of protecting consumers For example, the FTC recently brought an action against AT&T for slowing down customers ’ mobile Internet if they used more than an AT&T-imposed data limit, despite being grandfathered into an “unlimited” data plan However, if the FCC does reclassify the Internet as a public utility, the FTC will lose its jurisdiction over ISPs This is because companies that control public utilities are recognized as common carriers, and the FTC is explicitly prohibited from regulating common carriers Thus, a move to reclassify broadband would take the FTC out of the fight against ISPs that may violate consumer protection norms This is a problem for a couple of reasons First, it’s simply better for more agencies to protect the public But perhaps more saliently, the FCC hasn’t exactly been the poster child for taking strong stances against the communications industry Quite the opposite one watchdog agency has stated that the FCC “might as well be a subsidiary of Comcast, once you map out the [organizational] chart ”

A few examples should suffice: The current head of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, was the head of two major telecommunications lobbying groups He still keeps in contact with, and sends advance copies of speeches to, the new head of one of the lobbying groups, The National Cable Television Association (NCTA) The current head of the NCTA is Michael Powell, who is, of course, a former chairman of the FCC Indeed, the term “revolving door” may be a bit of an understatement between the FCC and the communications industry As Jay-Z once queried, “And this is with whom you want to place your faith?”

I agree that the Internet must remain a place where ideas have free reign to be discussed and tested without giant ISPs giving advantages to some content providers and hindering others But I think it is equally important that we do not simply pick the politically expedient solution when such a solution carries with it the seeds of its own destruction

Comment of the day

“The most important thing we can do is to stick to our principles and reinforce the idea of tolerance We don’t necessarily need to force immigrants to completely assimilate and lose their culture, but they can’t bring the ideas that speech can be censored or their way of life can be forced on others ”

Guest

Re: “ THROWDOWN THURSDAY: Our War With Radical Islam,” Opinion, published Januar y 29, 2015

OJake Forken | My Forken Opinion

Sacri cing Diplomacy

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Hiking Through the Psyche: Wild

REUT ODINAK Sun Contributor

When I went to see Wild a couple weeks ago at Cinemapolis, I had no idea what to expect Other than the two sentence plot synopsis and 90 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, my knowledge of the film and its inception was zero All I really knew was that Reese Witherspoon played a broken woman going on a ver y, ver y long walk

What I eventually learned is that Wild is based on Cher yl Strayed’s memoir, published in 2012, 17 years after her 1100 mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, to rave reviews In her book, she describes the harrowing and revelator y experience in visceral and poignant detail Her mother died in 1991, and Strayed, completely devastated, cheated on her loving husband, Paul (Thomas Sadoski), with myriad men, and eventually began experimenting with heroin In 1995, after a few years adrift, she decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, t h r o u

forests She walked from Mojave, California, to the Bridge of Gods, which is on

t h e O re g o n - Wa s h i n g t o n border

her shoes and socks, Cher yl begins to fiddle with her foot Just as I begin to wonder what she might be doing, a close up of her bloody, swollen toe appears on the screen Then, in agonizing clarity, she rips off her toenail We’re definitely too close, I thought again When she pulls the nail off, she also knocks one of her shoes off the cliff I sat with anticipation What was she going to do with just one shoe?

She pauses for a moment before picking up her other shoe and flinging it off the cliff screaming, “Fuck You!”

The audience bursts into laughter

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée Starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski

A few friends and I ran late to the movie While we stood in line outside in the freezing cold, a man walked out saying that Inherent Vice was sold out, but there were still plenty of tickets for Wild I sighed with relief That’s good, I thought Yet, once we got the ticket and walked into the small, cozy theater I was confused by what the man meant when he said plenty of tickets The theater was packed My friends and I shuffled to the front row and sat down with our heads bending back so that we could see the whole screen. We’re too close, I thought I can ' t enjoy this But, it was too late The theater’s lights dimmed

The film opens, like the book, in the middle of Cher yl Strayed's (Reese Witherspoon) hike It begins with the sounds of Cher yl's loud breathing and huffing followed by a shot of her sitting down atop a cliffy peak with a breathtaking view of the mountains behind her. After taking off

This first scene sets the tone for both the film and its heroine It is the perfect example of the many obstacles Cher yl must overcome during her journey It is the perfect example of the type of heroine Cher yl is, both defiant and a sur vivor (she ends up creating mock-hiking shoes out of duct tape and sandals) It is the perfect example of the way the movie treats the stor y as a whole It's dark It’s gritty It’s cont e m p l a t i v e Bu

despair and drama, there are moments of levity that cut through the darkness This humor, more often than not, feels like the shock of cold water suddenly being dumped on you, but through this shock, the film elicits emotions from the audience that they may have never realized they had Although this is a film adaptation, directed by Jean Marc Valee (Dallas Buyers Club) with a screenplay by Nick Hornby, it feels ver y close to Strayed’s book The film, like the book, depicts a tale that, although infused with shots of beautiful landscapes and exhilarating views, is largely internal Her stor y slowly materializes with layer upon layer of flashbacks peeled back as she walks along the trail Strayed keeps a journal where each entr y as well as the occasional chance encounter with a stranger, sets off memories of her devoted and incredible mother (Laura Dern), her husband and various other men The film intersperses the memories in mostly short scenes, sometimes just a flash

of images, and occasionally a back and forth between the past and present This visual method is a way to keep us inside Cher yl’s head and it, by and large, succeeds in its endeavor While there are mesmerizing shots of the hike, the flashbacks of Cher yl with her mother center the stor y At one point in the film, Cher yl tells her sick mother, played wonderfully by Laura Dern, “ you are the center of me ” The same goes for their relationship and the movie It is this relationship that grounds Cher yl’s flighty and sometimes acerbic behavior

Reese Witherspoon, in one of her richest and most compelling performances to date, abandons her cheerful, Legally Blonde persona before picking up her 75 pound pack and tackling Cher yl Strayed’s character with spirit, pulling you in from the first scene (remember that toenail?) She carries the film with true emotion and a whole lot of moxie The film itself eschews many conventions of commercial stor ytelling and opts for a complex structure that puts plot at the bottom of the hierarchy Instead, it favors images and emotions as the vehicle used to reach Cher yl Strayed’s truth By the end of the night, I had forgotten just how close I was to the screen I had been so enmeshed in the stor y that I felt like I had been with Cher yl on the Pacific Crest Trail, rather than a few feet away from Reese Witherspoon’s face in a small theater in Ithaca

Reut Odinak is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at rodinak@cornellsun com

A Lost French Classic Remembered

the film in 1967 and finally completed it 30 years after it was started under the new name, Le Roi et l'Oiseau

It is difficult to fully appreciate Studio Ghibli’s richly animated and delightfully scored films without an understanding of their origins Cited by both Studio Ghibli cofounders Hasao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata as a great influence in their work, The King and the Mockingbird is a film that spans the world of 1950s animation and 1980s symbolism –containing allusions to the medieval French town of Carcassonne and a certain infamous German dictator Hailed as a masterpiece of French animation, Le Roi et l'Oiseau or The King and the Mockingbird has been called a satirical rollercoaster of fantasy and adventure

Largely unknown to the English-speaking world, the film only became available with English subtitles when it was restored in October 2013, with critics declaring it a “ gorgeous lost classic ”

The film was initially named La Bergère et le Ramoneur, after the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep It was intended, by director Paul Grimault and screenwriter Jacques Prévert, to be a loose adaptation of the fairytale However, the film’s producer, Andre Sarrut, released the unfinished film in 1952 against both Grimault and Prévert’s wishes In what I imagine to be a battle royale over rights to the film, Grimault regained possession of

Traces of the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale reveal themselves only at the beginning of the film, while the rest of the film focuses on the dynamic between the cross-eyed king of the fictional kingdom of Takicardia and

ments However, unbeknownst to him, she and the chimney sweep in the adjacent portrait have been carrying on a secret affair at night while he is sleeping Sending his bumbling police officers on a wild chase, the king attempts to catch the two painting escapees as they traverse the 296 floors of the palace and encounter countless obstacles Playing like a

the mockingbird narrator Ironically named, King Charles V+III=VIII+VIII=XVI is an avid hunter despite being cross-eyed Often missing his target, the king uses the mockingbird’s children for target practice, causing the bird to develop a distaste for him and mock him at every turn

The main pitfall of the film emerges when the king falls in love with the shepherdess from the painting hanging in his secret apart-

vintage Disney work, The King and the Mockingbird is regarded as a nimbler and freer animated classic than most of its time

The subtlety of the lovers’ clasped hands between the picture frames, the surrealism of statues leaping into paintings and the optical illusions present in every scene are all hallmarks of Grimault’s unusual and delightful animation style It is easy to see how Grimault’s films have inspired Miyazaki in his

Japanese creations Most notably, it is evident that Studio Ghibli and the French studio, Les Gémeaux, both share a love for the bizarre Takahata reveals, “If I had not seen this film, I would have never imagined entering the world of animation ” Expanding on the admiration he and Miyazaki have for The King and the Mockingbird, Takahata says that Grimault “achieved better than anyone else a union between literature and animation ”

The most significant similarity in my mind between Grimault’s and Miyazaki’s films that I observed while watching Le Roi et l Oiseau was the musical score Tastefully expressive music written by legendar y Polish composer Wojciech Kilar beautifully accompanies Grimault s fairytale animation, making for a dramatic telling of the shepherdess and chimney sweep ’ s love story I could not help but be reminded of Joe Hisaishi’s masterful compositions in many of Miyazaki’s films I have such a long-standing admiration for Hisaishi’s talent in conveying the complex range of emotions felt by Miyazaki’s character that hearing Kilar’s music in Grimault’s work is enormously invigorating, invoking nostalgia of my childhood Cornell Cinema will be showing The King and the Mockingbird this weekend: The English-dubbed version on Saturday and the subtitled, original French version on Sunday

Amy Lin is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at alin@cornellsun com

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Mike Sosnick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun com

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Lynch Speaks Out About His Hesitance With Press Coverage

PHOENIX (AP) Marshawn Lynch changed the script and fired back at his critics

After two days of giving only scripted answers, the Seattle Seahawks’ star running back gave his most extensive comments of Super Bowl week, mostly telling reporters why he won ’ t talk to them “I don’t know what stor y y ’all tr ying to get out of me I don’t know what image y ’all tr ying to portray of me, ” Lynch said Thursday “But it don’t matter what y ’all think, what y ’all say about me because

w h e n I g o h o m e a t night, the same people that I look in the face my family that I love, that’s all that really matter to me So y ’all can go make up whatever y ’all

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and Wednesday, seemed frustrated that they were still tr ying

“I’m here preparing for a game And y ’all want to ask me these questions, which is understandable I could get down with that But I told y ’all I’m not about to say nothing All of my requirements are fulfilled ”

“I don’t know what story y’all are trying to get out of me. I don’t know what image y’all trying to portray of me ”

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enough for y ’all to go and put anything out on me ”

When Lynch arrived at the podium, a man with a reporter ’ s credential who said he was a teacher asked him to give his students a “shoutout ”

But Lynch wouldn’t bite and began his unscripted statement

“ Y ’all shove cameras and microphones down my throat,” Lynch continued “But when I’m at home in my environment, I don’t see y ’all, but y ’all mad at me And if you ain’t mad at me, then what y ’all here for? I ain’t got nothing for y ’all, though I told y ’all that ” Lynch, who had spurned reporters ’ efforts to get him to talk at mandator y news conferences Tuesday

Lynch praised his teammates, his hometown of O a k l a n d , C a l i f o r n i a , a n d h i s Fa m i l y Fi r s t Foundation When asked who the best player on the Seahawks was, he said: “All of them ” As he has all week, Lynch stayed five minutes before leaving A t Me d i a D a y o n Tuesday, Lynch repeated: “I’m just here so I don’t get fined” while talking to reporters

On Wednesday, he replied to all questions with: “ You know why I’m here ” Singer Katy Perr y borrowed Lynch’s catchphrase during her news conference to discuss her halftime performance

Asked which player she has her eye on, Perr y said: “I’m just here so I don’t get fined ”

Lynch has a histor y of avoiding reporters In November, the NFL fined him $50,000 for violations of the league’s media policy in addition to collecting the $50,000 fine that was imposed against Lynch for violations last season The fine from 2013 was held in anticipation of future cooperation from Lynch

Florida Panthers Notch Win Over Columbus Blue Jackets Thursday

S U N R I S E , Fl a ( A P )

Sean Bergenheim scored the goahead goal late in the third period to help the Florida Panthers get a much-needed win over the Columbus Blue Jackets, 3-2 on Thursday night

Aaron Ekblad and Jonathan Huberdeau also scored for the Panthers, and Rober to Luongo made 30 saves Florida snapped a five-game loss streak, won at home for the first time in seven games, and b e a t C o l u m b u s f o r t h e f i r s t time since a 5-2 road victor y on Nov 21, 2007 a span of 11 games A l e x a n d e r We n n b e r g a n d

McElhinney stopped 29 shots Bergenheim broke a 2-2 tie when he deflected a shot from Dmitr y Kulikov into the net w i t h 6 : 5 2 l e f t i n t

h i rd Kulikov shot from the blue line on the left side, and the puck d

e i m ' s stick, hit the ice in front and b o u n c e d i n T h e g o a l w a s upheld after a video review to determine if it was a high stick Bergenheim also took a stick to the face from a Columbus player on the play

The Panthers went ahead 21 on a slap shot from Ekblad

passed McElhinney and went high into the net at 11:26 of the s e c o n d Ek b l a d n ow h a s 2 8 points

The Blue Jackets tied it at 2 on an odd goal by Wennberg, who pushed in the puck off his stick after it bounced off the crossbar with 1:26 left in the second The play was reviewed and it was determined Wennberg hit the puck below the crossbar and the goal was upheld Columbus took a 1-0 lead on the goal by Johnson His one-timer from the point got past Luongo on the glove side at 1:08 of the second

OSU Defeats Maryland by More Than 20

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( A P ) Oh i o St a t e coach Thad Matta has been wondering about his team ’ s toughness

Not anymore

Ma rc L ov i n g matched his career high

w i t h 1 9 p o i n t s a n d

D’Angelo Russell added

1 8 p o i n t s a n d 1 4 rebounds to lead Ohio State to an 80-56 victor y over No 16 Mar yland on Thursday night

The Buckeyes (17-5, 6-3 Big Ten), at times a

t i m i d b u n c h o n t h e boards this season, domi n a t e d t h e Te r r a p i n s (18-4, 6-3) on the glass (51-32) and on defense

“ We played tougher,”

Matta said “ We were quick to the ball For the most part, guys did what they were supposed to We rebounded the ball well, we rebounded out of our area We did a good job of the rotations defensively and walled guys up ” T h e d o u b t s n ow belong to the Terrapins

“I guess we weren ’ t tough enough,” swingm a n Eva n Sm o t r yc z said “It’s as simple as that ” Coach Mark Turgeon added, “I don’t know if I’ve ever had a team get outrebounded like that I’ll have to look I doubt it ”

Jae’Sean Tate, starting his third game in a row, added 16 points and eight rebounds for the Buckeyes, who have won three in a row including the last two over ranked opponents at home

Loving was benched last week after a sorr y d e f e n s i ve e f f o r t He responded by hitting all five of his 3-pointers as the Buckeyes went 10 of 17 behind the arc “ My ro l e d i d n ’ t change,” he said of not starting “It was a good n i g h t I w a s a b l e t o k n o c k s o m e s h o t s down ” Russell, the nation’s

leading freshman scorer, flirted with a triple-doub l e He a l s o h a d s i x assists and two steals, a n d d i d n ’ t c o m m i t a turnover in 34 minutes He had an easy explanation for his rebounding “ The ball bounces to m e a l o t , ” h e s a i d “ That’s something that I decided to take upon myself, to rebound better as a 6-foot-5 guard I’ve got to do something down there ” A h e a d by e i g h t p o i n t s a t h a l f t i m e thanks to a 12-0 run, the Buckeyes took control early in the second half

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Red to Hold Cancer Fundraiser Saturday

HOCKEY

and Kaminsky recently combined for six points in Union’s two games against RPI last weekend

The contest against Union will take place on Friday at 3 p m and will be the annual Do It For Daron game

The event is in honor of Daron Richardson, junior defender Morgan Richardson’s brother, who passed away in 2011 The DIFD Organization was created to help spread awareness about mental health issues and start a conversation about the subject Fans are encouraged to wear purple and there will be fundraisers and other activities at the game

On Saturday, Cornell will take on RPI Last season, the Red won both games against the engineers The team won the first game, 3-1, however, the second game was much more intense The Engineers completed a two-goal comeback by scoring with 30 seconds left to tie the game, 5-5 Sophomore forward Hannah Bunton netted the game-winner a minute into overtime to give the Red a 6-5 victory While RPI has mustered just a 5-17-4 record this year, Bilodeau expects a similar competitive atmosphere at Saturday’s game

“RPI has always been one of the tougher, grittier teams in the league and you ’ re going to expect a physical battle every time you play against those guys, ” she said Cornell’s senior forwards Emily Fulton and Brianne Jenner have led the way for the Red’s offense, scoring 28 points and 24 points respectively On Saturday, they will both look to find the back of the net against the Engineers Cornell, currently ranked No 4 in the ECAC in terms of goals for, is averaging 3 1 goals per game Anchoring the defense will be goalie Paula Voorheis and freshman defender Erin O’Connor and junior defender Cassandra Poudrier Voorheis, along with Fulton, was player of the week two weeks ago, capturing her first shutout of the season against Yale on Jan 16 Saturday’s game is part of the annual Big Red vs Cancer Fundraiser This Cornell Athletics initiative helps raise money for cancer research That day, from 3 p m until 9 p m , there will be tables open in Bartels to sign up for the Bone Marrow Donor Registry Fans attending the game against RPI are encouraged to wear pink or orange in support of the event

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun com

Belichick and Lynch Are One And the Same at Press Events

Continued from page 16

Chicago Tribune, had an article on his website under the headline “Boycott Skittles: Marshawn Lynch monetizes mocking of media ” And if you didn’t think the headline alone wasn ’ t ridiculous enough, take a look at what Sherman had to say

“Sports journalists unite: It’s time to boycott Skittles Don’t let your kids eat them anymore, ” he wrote “Forget about handing out those small packets for Halloween Skittles should be considered poison to any sports journalist who asks for respect in dealing with athletes ”

That’s not even the worst part

“Frankly, Skittles aren ’ t that good anyway, ” Sherman wrote “Bad texture and way too sweet Also, while there aren ’ t any documented studies, eating Skittles reportedly makes your leads much duller

”

Saying Skittles aren ’ t good at being candy is like saying that The Beatles weren ’ t good at making music Or like saying that Ted Williams wasn ’ t good at hitting baseballs Or like saying that Tom Brady isn’t incredibly handsome The worst part for Sherman is that

his opinion on candy is just the tip of the iceberg of horrib l e n e s s i n h i s c ov e r a g e o f Lynch

Lynch, very clearly, is making the life of these writers a lot harder by not providing any insight in his press conferences

Deciding not to tell the media anything is equivalent, from a writer’s perspective, to a customer at a convenience store standing at the register refusing to pay the cashier for his shampoo it doesn’t help anyone in the situation get anything accomplished Lynch explained to Mike Silver of NFL com why he refuses to talk to the media

“I've never seen anybody win the game in the media,” Lynch said “But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot But that's not me ” It’s hard to imagine being in Lynch’s place, especially if you ’ ve never had a mob of people surrounding you, sticking microphones in your face and demanding you answer questions What bothers me most about Sherman’s complaints is that what Lynch is doing is no different from New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, refusing to say anything substantive to the media day after day

Most of the time, Belichick is less blatantly rude when he says things such as, “I don’t know,” or, “We’ll see how it goes, ” in response to questions during his daily media sessions But let’s think Does this provide any more insight than Lynch repeating himself over and over again instead of answering a question? At least Lynch’s antics as opposed to Belichick’s uninsightful nonanswers actually gave Sherman something to write about

The media hypocrisy with the Marshawn Lynch story has been over-the-top and unnecessary Maybe it’s Lynch making a show of saying nothing to the media at the Super Bowl that has made this a big deal, but Belichick behaves the same way with the Boston media every single day The only difference here is that Belichick never makes staying quiet into a big deal

Lynch and Belichick are one in the same, yet, somehow, I don’t anticipate any writer drumming up a storm of hyperbole anytime soon telling people to boycott hoodies with hastily cut-off sleeves

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee2@cornellsun com

Wrestling to Take On Loch Haven and Penn

By HANNAH NOYES Sun Contributor

The Cornell wrestling team had much to celebrate Monday morning, after a weekend of successful matches against the University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh University Coming off of two solid victories, the men began to look forward to the upcoming meets against P r i n c e t o n University and Lock Haven University this w e e k e n d Additionally, as the regular season comes to an end, the seniors of the squad are gearing up for their final chances to perform on their home turf

captain, Villalonga will be joined by 10 other senior men in their final dual at Cornell and one final chance to wrestle on their own mat

“I am looking forward to putting as many seniors on the mat as possible on Senior Night,” said Head Coach Robert Koll “We have ten seniors and I hope to have eight wrestle against Loch Haven ”

“I am looking forward to putting as many seniors on the mat as possible on Senior Night ” R

C u r r e n t l y , Loch Haven holds a 4-9 record compared to Cornell’s 10-1 While it is easy to assume success with Cornell’s strong performances this season, Koll does not look at this weekend as an easy victory

the 10 other seniors on the team, will wrestle for his last time at Friedman Wrestling Center tonight

toward the competition,” he said It is safe to say that this attitude has served the Red well this year One would assume that the team has bonded throughout the entirety of the season However, with a slew of injuries plaguing the team, it took the men some time to heal and have a full starting lineup on the mat

ers currently uninjured, it is the hope of Koll the entire squad that the team stays healthy

“This late in the season, I am always concerned with injuries,” Koll said “We are finally putting a complete team on the mat and it is my goal to keep it that way ”

Team captain and senior Chris Villalonga will be walking into Senior Night with a personal record of 18 wins and two losses this season Although the only senior

“Just because we feel confident as a team, does not mean that we are favored in every match with the dual meet For this reason, we can never have a laissez-faire attitude

“We finally had a complete team effort against Lehigh,” Koll said “[The men]have taken a little while to ‘gel’ as a team ” With a more cohesive team and all play-

The men will begin their Senior Night on Friday, Jan 30 at the Friedman Wrestling Center

Hannah Noyes can be reached at htn27@cornell edu

Basketball to Face Yale and Brown in Two Away Games

BASKETBALL

Continued from page 16

Haven, Connecticut to face to take on Yale Last year, in the series against the Bulldogs, each squad managed to notch one win In the first meeting Cornell won, 65-56, but was beaten by Yale, 60-52, during the second time they faced off Last year, Allyson Dimagno ’14 and Shelby Lyman ’14, were important contributors in the games against Yale and their presence will be missed on the court However, for wards Marshall and sophom

l b e more than capable of filling their shoes L

named Ivy League Player of the Week and Marshall has received that honor three times already this season The two women will be matched up against a couple of strong Yale players that have been getting a lot of attention

Rookie of the Week honors last week after Yale’s two victories against Brown Battling against Aston and Marshall in the paint is center Emmy Allen who scored a career high 17 points in the second game between Brown and Yale That last contest saw the Bulldogs and the Bears have a combined 47 fouls, and Cornell will have to amp up the intensity to handle that kind of physical play This weekend will set the tone for the rest of the in-league play for the Red

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun com

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Squashing Red | The Crimson, pictured left in a match against the Red, will face Cornell this weekend in Boston Both teams are tied league play

Men: Crimson to Fight for First This Weekend

In its most recent match at Franklin and Marshall, the Har vard men ’ s squash team came out on top, 9-0, dropping only two of the matches and sweeping the diplomats on F&M’s own cour ts

Although the team str uggled out of the gate, only winning one of its first three games of the season, the Crimson has notched victories in its last three competitions on the road, including its most recent F&M victor y The team holds a solid 4-2 record and remains undefeated in the Ivy League, standing in first place alongside the Columbia Lions

The Crimson will battle against its first place competitors on Sunday after it takes on the Red on Saturday The Red has str uggled in League play, only winning one of its three Ivy games this season and sitting in fifth place alongside Penn Columbia, on the other hand, is fighting for first place with Har vard and has defeated Cornell, Yale and Brown during Ancient Eight play

Crimson boast | The Harvard men ’ s squad, pictured here in a match against the Red, holds a solid 4-2 record for the season thus far The team’s only losses came against St Lawrence and Rochester

The Lions will prove to be a tough opponent for the Crimson, having already competed against 10 schools this season and holding an overall record of 9-1 While the two Ivies’ record may remain the same in league play, Har vard only has four season wins under its belt, while Columbia has five more to its name

The two teams will face off in Boston, Massachusetts this Sunday at 12:00 p m

Looking Back (Women’s)

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Red Attempts to Extend Winning Streak on Road

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

Tonight, the Cornell women ’ s basketball team will travel to Providence, Rhode Island to play Brown, then to New Haven to play the Bulldogs at Yale This is a big weekend for the Red since it will be tr ying to uphold its strong winning streak The women have won their past five contests, including both g

Columbia to open its Ivy season Its v i c t

i a Lions make Cornell undefeated in league play thus far, and put the squad in a great position to continue its rise to the top of the League

Though it walked away with the victor y, the Red had a tough fought battle last week

Although the team has seen success on the court, sophomore forward Nia Marshall notes that the team has

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struggled to keep up its level of play while in the lead

“For improvement, we need to work on playing a full 40 minutes and not letting up even when we have a lead,” she said

Cornell’s first opponent, the Bears, are coming off their own Ivy season opening Last weekend, Brown played Yale for the second time in two weeks, losing once again against the Bulldogs Their first game, played on Jan 16, ended with a close loss, 59-52, while their second contest against the Bulldogs finished at 79-69 The Bears’ star

Women to Face Union and RPI at Home, Try to Bounce Back From Loss

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Staff Writer

After a loss to Har vard ended the Red’s two-month long unde-

f e a t e d s t re a k l a s t Sa t u rd a y, t h e women ’ s ice hockey team welcomes

Union and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to Lynah Rink this weekend

Associate Head Coach Danielle Bilodeau explained that she sees a lot of positives in the recent streak that the team has put together and

believes that the team is ready to go this weekend “ There have been a lot of good things [in terms of ] defense, attention to detail, awareness of our responsibilities and commitment level to those responsibilities,” she said

A f t e r a s u c c e s s f u l r o a d t r i p, Cornell now sits at 10-7-3, 8-3-2 in the ECAC

T h e Re d w a s a b l e t o d e f e a t Union last year twice In the first matchup, Cornell blasted Union, 81 The second game featured strong defensive performances from both sides, but Cornell hung on for a 20 victor y This year, Union (4-18-4, 1-12-1 ECAC) has str uggled to score, averaging about 1 2 goals per game offensively, the fewest in the ECAC On the defensive end, the team has had limited success as well, surrendering 2 8 goals per game Bilodeau admits, however, that the game will be no walk-inthe-park for the Red “ [ Un i o n ] C o a c h C l a u d i a Barcomb always has got a high level of commitment from her kids,” she said “ You watch the level of execution on tape from those guys and it’s always ver y high level, even though maybe they don’t get quite the results they were looking for ”

Un i o n ’ s o f f e n s i v e a t t a c k w i l l likely come from for wards Kathr yn Tomaselli and Jessica Kaminsky, both of whom have 14 points this season, leaving them tied for first for the Dutchwomen Tomaselli

players, guard Jordin Alexander and for ward Natalie Ball, put up a combined 41 points in the second game against Yale The all-time series between Cornell and Brown stands at 47-23 in favor of the Bears, though in the last 20 years, the record is even at 20-20 Current Head Coach Dayna Smith has beaten the Brown Bears in four out of her last five meetings with the squad

After Brown on Friday, Cornell will travel to New

Put me down as someone who never expected to hear the words, “Shout out to my real Africans out there,” spoken at a press conference, let alone during a media session leading up to the biggest sporting event in the world However, Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch did just that during his media session on Thursday, before the Super Bowl

The amount of coverage that Lynch’s antics have received, within itself, is ridiculous to begin with By going into these meetings with the media ready to share amazing insights such as, “I’m just here so I won ’ t get fined”, Lynch is, after all, precisely following the Ron Swanson life lesson of, “I like saying no It lowers their enthusiasm ” While Lynch has been hesitant to talk to the media, living by this motto has never been a bad decision

But for the first time ever, a Swanson principle backfired

that have been thrown around the dungeons of the inter webs has crept close to the number of times I’ve complained to the television higher beings about how How I Met Your Mother had one of the worst endings ever In essence, way too many times for my own sanity The opinions, ranging from generally sane to incomprehensibly stupid, have overflowed my Twitter feed for the last couple of days

Instead of talking to traditional media outlets, Lynch, a self-professed lover of Skittles, set up a faux-press conference talking about his love of the candy sponsored by, no other than, Skittles In response, Ed Sherman, a longtime sports media critic and former writer for the

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