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Changes include redesigned lobby area, new exam rooms

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer

With Gannett Health Services currently unable to “accomodate current campus health needs,” the University plans to more than double the overall size of the center by 2017, according to University officials

The University will expand the center ’ s usable space from 25,000 square feet to 52,000 square feet and update the facility to comply with current health standards As part of a $55 million renovation, the expansion will allow space for patients in crisis, according to Sharon Dittman, associate director for community relations at Gannett

Gannett’s current building, which dates back to 1956, will expand primarily in the back of the building, Dittman said Other renovations will include a redesigned lobby area for general information, new visiting and examination rooms and a renovated and relocated entranceway facing Ho Plaza

The additional space will increase the size of waiting areas, offices and exam rooms, since many existing spaces are too small to accommodate Cornell’s student population, according to Dittman

Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board reviewed the sketch plan for the renovation which includes a summary and renderings of the project Tuesday The final plan will be reviewed in April, and construction will begin in March 2015 and end in Aug 2017, according to Dittman

Dittman said the University has been exploring

options to improve the health services facility “since the middle of the last decade,” though the project was originally tabled in 2009 due to the financial crisis

“The pressures on the Gannett facility had required several health services departments to move out of the building, staff in the building to work in increasingly tight spaces [and] the growing number of patients and clients to crowd into tighter waiting areas, exam rooms and counseling offices,” Dittman said

According to Dittman, Gannett was last renovated in 1979, when there were 5,000 fewer students, demand per student was lower and there were fewer regulatory

East Ave. Closure Will Af fect C.U. Events NPR Ho st to Give Lecture at Cornell

Events such as Dragon Day, Cornell Days to experience minor

changes

Students may have adjusted their routines to the partial closure of East Avenue, but those planning major events on campus may find the closure to be more of a roadblock, student leaders say

The closure of the road’s southbound lane until April 2015 may

cause minor changes to University traditions such as Dragon Day and Cornell Days, according to students involved with the events

The Dragon Day parade which occurs in March traditionally passes through East Avenue towards the Engineering Quad

With construction and road closures, however, the freshman architecture students who traditionally

organize the event are considering other options, according to Aya Maers ’18, co-president of the Dragon Day committee

The event ’ s organizers may be required to work with the University to potentially open the northbound lane, Maers said

“[ We] are looking into alternate routes and seeing if there are people we can contact to see if an exception can be made,” she said “Hopefully, the closure does not have a big impact on the route of the dragon it is really too early to tell at this point ” Because the dragon is made on a rolling frame and must travel along a flat road, East Avenue is a “critical part of the [parade’s] route, ” Christopher Andras ’18, president of the freshman architecture class said “Usually, the procession on East Avenue allows spectators to sit on the hill to the East and see the Dragon, but changing the route might do away with this,” Andras

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News, “University Officials Support Federal Sexual Assault Memorandum,” Thursday

Speaking about Obama’s new task force, which will suppor t students f ighting campus sexual assault

“This supp ort should come in the form of comp ens ation for students who are doing the work that administrators are getting paid for lending additional supp ort to over worked lower-level administrators who deal directly with students ” Anna-Lisa Castle 14, student ac tivist

Ne ws, “ Cornel l Caf és Cook U p Busi ness, ” Thursday

Sp eaking ab out building a customer base at the Fork and Gavel Café

“The law scho ol is small and wonderful but we need to b e ser ving more p eople to make this business sustainable We re working to build a stronger bigger customer base Fork and Gavel co-owner Kathleen Pasett y

nder to Di scu ss Ne w B ook at Cor nel l,” Thur sday Sp eaking ab out Alexis Ohanian’s up coming visit to Cornell as par t of f ive-month tour

“Ohanian is an angel investor and advo cate for op en-Internet He’s not only inspiring as a successful entrepreneur, but as an active angel seeding some of the most inf luential companies to day ” Ali Hamed ’14, event organizer

L et te r t o t he E di tor , “ De f end ing C orne ll At hle ti cs, ” T hursday

Resp onding to a Sun editorial, “A Call to Change the Academic Polic y for Athletes”

“The editorial implies that coaches are not sufficiently concerned with their student-athletes’ academic and athletic success Nothing could b e further from the truth During my 30-plus years at Cornell, the welfare of student-athletes has always b een our top priority ”

Andy No el, Meakem-Smith direc tor of Athletics and Physical Education

Cornell Diversity Initiative

Helps ‘Navigate Differences’

‘Breaking

Bread’ dinners foster student dialogue

By LUSINE MEHRABYAN Sun Staff Wr ter

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“The goal is ... to learn more about their differences and connect on a human level.”

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lic transpor tation or park in other areas on campus, the event does not bring much additional traffic to East Avenue, according to Tallman

said “My hope is that we can ask to clear the road for one day to allow Dragon Day to proceed without changing a tradition that has been upheld for over 100 years ”

Prospective students and other visitors to Cornell will also have to navigate around the closure during Cornell Days, according to Jacob Tallman ’14, a member of the Ambassadors Steering Committee

Still, the road closure is not expected to have “ any significant impact” during the event, according to Tallman “In the past, Cornell Days has occurred while the Thurston Avenue bridge was closed for constr uction, a n

Tallman said

Because many visitors do not drive through Central Campus during their visit and choose to walk, use pub-

Even if visitors choose to drive through campus, they may benefit from seeing some of the more scenic par ts of campus when directed to West Avenue, Tallman said “Driving through West Avenue will give visitors another oppor tunity to see more of the campus, including the West Campus housing area, as well as the gorgeous vie w up Libe Slope that they other wise may not have seen, ” Tallman said “ With our great student volunteers and wonder ful faculty and staff suppor t, we don't expect that the constr uction will make [the campus] more difficult to navigate ” Fo

Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, Depar tment of Transpor tation and Mail Ser vices officials said they have an established process to accommodate the increase in

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traffic

The process includes working “closely with event committees to identify routes to minimize the impact of increased traffic,” collaborating with “char ter bus and shuttle operators to move par ticipants from parking areas to events taking place on campus, ” and installing “wayfinding signage to direct motorists to their destination,” according to Transpor tation Ser vices officials

Despite any potential issues the road closure may cause, University officials are optimistic about the constr uction

“ We believe that visitors and prospective students will continue to enjoy our pedestrian campus, perhaps be encouraged to tr y TCAT, and see what a positive addition to the Ar ts Quad that Klarman will become,” Transpor tation Ser vices officials said

Si ze of Gannett Will More Than D ouble

compliance requirements

“The current facility was not designed to accommodate current campus health needs, nor to facilitate the provision of integrated health care services,” Dittman said “The project is envisioned as a transformation of the university health services facility ”

The project cost will be funded by a “unique partnership among the deans of all of the schools and colleges, the administration and donors,” Dittman said

Two-thirds of the project funding will be covered by the colleges and administrative units and are already in place, while the remainder is still being raised through philanthropy, Dittman said Last July, Cornell Board of Trustees Chair Robert S Harrison ’76 and his wife, Jane Harrison, donated $5 million to the project, The Sun previously reported

The project will be completed with assistance and design from local architectural firms Chiang O’Brien Architects and Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects LLP The co-founder and president of Chiang O’Brien Architects, Grace Chiang ’81, studied architecture at Cornell and has worked on projects for the University since the 1990s

“Chiang O'Brien Architects is delighted to be working on this extremely important project with the University to transform the

health center in a way that will allow the physical facility to support their expansive health care services,” Chiang said “We are extremely pleased that the University chose us to design this facility for them ”

Dittman said the Gannett staff looks forward to working with Chiang’s firm, as well as the prospect of the renovation in general

“The entire Gannett team shares a

sense of excitement and gratitude for this opportunity to engage with the architects, the campus community, and our generous benefactors to build a facility that reflects the centrality of health in Cornell’s values and mission,” she said

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com

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NEW YORK (AP) Tobacco companies and three trade groups representing cigarette retailers asked a federal court on Thursday to block a new law designed to keep tobacco prices sky high in New York City

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan, challenges a city ordinance passed last fall that set a minimum price of $10 50 for every pack of cigarettes sold in the city, and prohibited the use of coupons or other promotional discounts to lower that price The coupon ban also applies to other forms of tobacco Tobacco manufacturers and sellers say those restrictions on discounts are an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights

“The ban on coupons and promotional price discounts raise serious federal and state constitutional questions while also being pre-empted by federal and state laws,” said Thomas Briant, executive director of the National Association of Tobacco Outlets

The suit asks the court to block parts of the law from taking effect in March It does not challenge the most high-profile section of the law, which banned the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21

New York City’s pricing rules were signed into law in November by Mayor Michael Bloomberg They were the last in a string of anti-tobacco rules and laws that he championed over his 12 years as mayor that made New York City’s cigarettes the

costliest in the country Retail prices now often exceed the minimum set by the city, due to high taxes Bloomberg left office at the end of December

The city’s Law Department did not respond to a request for comment

Anti-smoking advocates have pushed for pricing controls as a way of making cigarettes so expensive that people won ’ t pick up the habit, or will be forced to quit

Courts have generally upheld laws establishing minimum prices, and the lawsuit filed Thursday does not challenge the city’s $10 50 pricing minimum

But in other jurisdictions, legal price minimums usually allow for consumers to pay less through manufacturers coupons and other pricing deals, like “buy one, get one free” sales The tobacco companies named in the suit, including giants Lorillard, R J Reynolds and Philip Morris USA, say they have the right to keep offering consumers those discounts

The tobacco industry filed a similar lawsuit against the city of Providence, R I , when it implemented a ban on coupons and discounts That legal challenge failed when the city’s rules were upheld by a federal appeals court

That decision is not binding in New York, however, Briant said he believes that different legal standards apply here that put this new challenge on better footing

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E xpandin g Ment al Health Counselin g O nline

FOLLOWING THE INITIATIVE OF OTHER universities such as the University of Florida, Cornell announced that this month it will begin to provide online mental health counseling, in the form of instant messaging In a high-pressure college environment, in which students may feel overwhelmed, isolated or even depressed, it is important that students who may feel uncomfortable talking to a counselor in person or on the phone can still seek help Though Gannett’s Counseling and Psychological Services already provides many resources to the Cornell community, this specific program is important because it targets a type of person who may not otherwise seek out Gannett resources We are glad the University’s Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service, a program under CAPS, is taking another step to offer a greater variety of counseling options

One benefit of this program is that instant messaging provides a level of privacy unmatched by the current resources available According to Micaela Corazón director of Ithaca’s Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services’ 24-hour telephone counseling service, Crisisline students may be more open over chat than on the phone or in person because of the feeling of anonymity Therefore, having counseling available over instant messaging will provide students a more private space to discuss their problems and feelings Instead of needing to physically go to Gannett or talk over the phone, students can take advantage of the chat to get the help they need from the comfort of their own home

In addition to making students feel more comfortable about seeking help, this program will also allow quick, convenient access to mental health services whenever and wherever someone needs it Rather than waiting for an appointment, a student can just use his or her computer to talk to a counselor right away Since students already have very busy schedules, avoiding additional appointments may help relieve stress

However, we recognize that instant message counseling is not without its flaws From behind a computer screen, a counselor cannot pick up on non-verbal or physical cues Additionally, the hours that online counseling is offered could be expanded to help more students Offering this service only three hours a day during the workweek from 6 to 9 p m may not be accessible enough for students seeking these resources We hope that if this program sees initial success, Gannett will expand the hours of availability until later at night, when many students feel the most stress Though we understand if this online service cannot be extended to a 24-hour program, we believe that by eventually extending this service later into the night and weekends, it would be more beneficial to students seeking immediate counseling

CAPS already strives to offer a range of counseling services to the Cornell community, including EARS, 24-hour phone consultation and group counseling Still, we believe that by adding online counseling services, CAPS may be able to reach even more students While it is not yet clear whether online counseling will be an effective substitute for in-person counseling, we applaud the University for continuing to expand its mental health services

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Q: I’m in a debate with my friend about the name of Libe Slope My friend thinks it’s named after a person, but I think it’s shor t for “librar y. ” Which is it? Str uggling with Abbreviations ’15

A: You won this round Libe Slope is simply shor t for Librar y Slope The abbreviated version appears in The Sun as early as 1926 (in a joke about the need for a fence on the Slope to shield against the wind) Cornell’s first dedicated librar y building opened at the top of the Slope in 1891 Originally just known as the University Librar y, it was renovated and renamed Uris Librar y in 1961, to honor donors Harold Uris ’25 and his brother Percy (Percy attended Columbia, which also has a Uris Hall ) The term “Librar y Slope” shows up as early as 1902, just over a decade after the librar y opened

Q: Did folk singer Pete Seeger ever per for m at Cor nell? Where Have All the Flowers Gone ’13

A: Seeger, who died Monday, was a frequent visitor of Ithaca He hosted an evening of folk songs in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room as early as 1946 and frequently returned throughout the subsequent decades for per formances at Anabel Taylor Hall, Willard Straight Hall, Bailey Hall and in the beloved American Folk Literature course (known to students as “Romp-n-Stomp”) taught by Harold Thompson, a former Cornell professor Seeger’s many campus visits in the ’50s and ’60s likely had a significant impact on the Cornell folk community The Cornell Folk Song Society formed in the 1950s Peter Yarrow ’59, who ser ved as the society’s president while a student, later formed the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mar y, reaching the Billboard Top 10 with Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer ” One of Seeger’s songs, “Garbage!,” was written by local folk musician and Cornell staff member Bill Steele ’54 And Cornell’s student-r un radio station, WVBR-FM, began airing Bound for Glor y in 1967, which is now Nor th America’s longest-r unning live folk concer t broadcast Seeger and his legacy were celebrated locally in 2009 when Ithacans gathered at Ste war t Park in honor of the musician’s 90th bir thday

Q: Is it the Dair y Bar or the Dair y Bar n?

Dair y-Deprived Senior ’14

A: Cornell has both a dair y bar and dair y barns, but the place where people buy ice cream is the Cornell Dair y Bar, which finally reopened this Januar y after closing in 2010 for a major renovation to Stocking Hall and a rebuilt dair y plant The cows themselves hang out in Cornell’s dair y barns In fact, Cornell opened a nationally-acclaimed stateof-the-ar t Teaching Dair y Barn in fall 2012 The best par t? The barn has back scratchers for the cows

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CORRECTION

A Jan 30 new story, “University Officials Support Federal Sexual Assault Memorandum,” incorrectly implied that President Obama’s memorandum was signed Wednesday, Jan 29 In fact, the memorandum was signed last Wednesday, Jan 22

Also, A Jan 29 news story, “Cornell Aims to Make Events Accessible,” incorrectly identified Erin Sember-Chase as an industrial labor relations professor In fact, she is a project coordinator for the Employment and Disability Institute within the ILR school

Nikhita Parandekar | Hoof in Mouth

New Year, New Pet Resolutions

Let ’ s talk about routine animal health care The start of the new year is stereotypically when people decide to lead healthier lifestyles: They make an effort to go to the gym, eat better and follow their doctors’ advice But what about healthier lifestyles for our pets? Routine wellness care is the bread and butter of many veterinary practices, but I’ve increasingly been hearing complaints from people that their pet ’ s veterinarian has recommended frivolous procedures and that appointment costs are higher than ever Somehow, the perception seems to have developed that many veterinarians are just out for money

I can see how this perception could have arisen First of all, there has recently been increased media attention regarding the high cost of a veterinary education and about how most vet students graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt Unfortunately, it is human nature to assume that veterinarians would do whatever possible to make more money in order to climb their way out of debt People fail to consider, however, that veterinarians do not choose their profession for the money I ve never met a single veterinarian or veterinary student who has said, “I decided to become a veterinarian because I want to be rich someday ” Most veterinarians do what they do because they feel passionate about the profession, and they completely acknowledge that they may face financial difficulties I’ve never met a veterinarian who would recommend a procedure purely for monetary gain or that would be detrimental to an animal

So what about these ostensibly frivolous procedures that veterinarians seem to be recommending? For example, I’ve heard several complaints about dental procedures that com-

It’s never too late to make a new resolution ––for 2014, consider pledging to stay on top of your pet’s medical needs.

panion animal veterinarians have recommended that often cost hundreds of dollars To pet owners, it sometimes seems as if the veterinarian has only glanced in their animal’s mouth before recommending one of these procedures However, they are not frivolous –– dental health is essential to maintaining our pets ’ well-being The veterinarian has likely seen signs of periodontal disease, ranging from gingivitis to calculus accumulation on the teeth Many of these conditions can be painful and even lead to the eventual loss of teeth Animals can be very good at hiding signs of pain, so owners often do not notice their pets are experiencing any discomfort But imagine what it would be like if your mouth hurt all the time –– especially when you tried to eat

Aside from the necessity of these procedures, many owners question the validity of their high cost Hundreds of dollars seems high for a simple dental procedure, but take into account that the costs of pet dental care are similar to that of human dental care and that animals must additionally be put under general anesthesia Maybe one day pet insurance will be commonplace, affordable and inclusive of routine procedures and office visits, but it isn’t there yet

There are two take-home messages from all of this Firstly, the real issue may not be the procedures or how much they cost, but the quality of the veterinarian-client relationship I think that clients have to make an effort to shop around, not for a veterinarian with the lowest prices, but for a veterinarian who they can get along with, who knows their animal and who they can trust From the veterinarian’s side, perhaps more should be done to explain to clients the rationale behind the procedures they suggest –– though handing out informative pamphlets may be quick and efficient, it doesn’t always help to build the most successful relationship between veterinarian and client The other message to remember is that routine animal care is important in order to maintain the welfare of our companions: Owners should take this into account when they consider acquiring an animal and should make an effort to stay on top of their animal’s needs It’s never too late to make a new resolution –– for 2014, consider pledging to stay on top of your pet ’ s medical needs

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Comm en t of the day

“Love and intimacy drastically help men and women to realize their full potential as human beings This prize is so ver y much worth the gamble of meeting a couple of ‘vampires’ along the way, especially if you are able to laugh it off like this and not take yourself too seriously. ... Who knows, even if it takes a while to find him or her, you learn so much about yourself and others by tr ying.”

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Re: “KUSSMAN: Does Love Conquer All? It’s Up to You,” Opinion, published Januar y 30, 2014

Mark Sonnick | What’s Up, Doc?

If You’re

Healthy and You

Know It, Wash Your Hands

Today’s hospitals are high-tech healing centers that feature the latest medical techniques Doctors are using robotic technology to perform surgery, and DNA sequencers are producing mountains of information about patients Physicians and scientists at medical schools like Weill Cornell Medical College continue to discover new technologies to heal people and keep them healthy

In spite of all the exciting health care technology available today, there is a scoundrel in American medicine a villain in the wards that is responsible for many hospitalacquired infections This villain is none other than the hand –– specifically, the hands of health care workers that are all too often full of germs As medicine continues to focus on the advancement of health care technology, low-tech hand hygiene procedures that are necessary to protect patients are not always followed

The necessity of hand hygiene, which includes hand washing and the disinfection of hands with sanitizing products, has been documented since the mid-1800s due to studies conducted by Boston physician Oliver Wendell Holmes and Vienna doctor Ignaz Semmelweis Both Holmes and Semmelweis realized that puerperal fever, a leading cause of death in women who had recently given birth, could be transmitted through the hands of physicians Despite Holmes’ and Semmelweis’ asser tions that diseases could be transmitted through doctors ’ hands, it was decades before the health care community and relevant

authorities took hand hygiene seriously The United States Public Health Service published a hand washing instructional video in 1961, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the first formal written guidelines in 1975 Federal guidelines aside, hand hygiene in health care facilities continues to be subpar Is it because health care workers are lazy? Not exactly Sometimes there aren ’ t enough sinks for good hand hygiene to be part of the workflow Even when sinks are available, health care workers complain

Presbyterian, it is hospital policy for a staff member to disinfect his or her hands whenever entering or leaving a patient’s room Also, all hospital employees and medical students are required to complete an infection control training course that includes a unit on hand hygiene

There are other factors driving the ongoing hand hygiene initiatives in health care facilities The advent of MRSA, a bacterial infection resistant to many antibiotics, and other hospital-acquired “ super bugs” have increased the need for excellent hand hygiene in

Be your own advocate. ... Ask your doctor if she cleaned her hands prior to entering the room If you can’t get an answer, it’s probably time to switch doctors

about the impact of superfrequent hand washing on their skin health To ameliorate this problem, facilities have installed sanitizer dispensers to permit employees to regularly disinfect their hands in a way that is less damaging to their skin

Even when there is adequate hand hygiene equipment in place, some hospitals simply do not make hand hygiene a priority One 2007 study found that only 44 percent of 40 hospitals sampled had a satisfactory hand hygiene implementation program As a result of this and other studies, the World Health Organization (WHO) notes the need for hospital administrators to make hand hygiene a central part of the workplace culture In response, hospitals around the countr y have implemented official hand hygiene policies At our teaching hospital, NewYork-

hospitals Limiting the spread of MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections isn’t only about saving lives It is also about saving money: Under the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, hospitals will be financially penalized for having high rates of hospital-acquired infections

Despite robust hand hygiene programs in many hospitals, driven by a variety of forces, there is usually room for improvement in employee adherence to the prescribed practices Now that hospitals have given employees an ample infrastr ucture for hand hygiene, how can they make it a part of their employees’ routine? The WHO has recommendations that range from the basic, like reminder signs, to the more exotic sanitizer dispensers that speak to employees and remind

them to clean their hands

The WHO also recommends that hospitals be well-staffed, lest employees feel the need to cut corners to compensate for an unreasonable workload

Another WHO recommendation is institutional feedback re warding employees with great hand hygiene and sanctioning employees with poor hand hygiene The New York Times recently repor ted this recommendation in action at Nor th Shore University Hospital on Long Island There, health care workers were filmed leaving patient rooms, and they were emailed if they were observed practicing poor hand hygiene Not surprisingly, the program greatly increased hand hygiene compliance If you ’ re not in the medical field, hand hygiene is still worth paying attention to Another important WHO guideline for good hand hygiene in health care settings is to empower the patient So the next time you are in a hospital or other health care facility, look around

Be your own advocate Do you see staff members using sanitizer dispensers and sinks to wash their hands? Ask your doctor if she cleaned her hands prior to entering the room

If you can ’ t get an answer, it’s probably time to switch doctors

For pre-meds, medical students, physicians and other health care workers, the bottom line is this: We need to do better Better hand hygiene prevents patients from getting sick

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B u r e a u c r a c y, B o r e d o m

A n d t h e B i g Q u e s t i o n s

BY ZACH ZAHOS Sun Senior Staff Writer

At Berkeley is four hours of lectures, labs, debates, administrative meetings and construction workers laying concrete It is, by definition, tedious and a test of endurance It is also distressing, alarming and above all, urgent

Beneath the mundaneness of what veteran documentarian Frederick Wiseman elects to show us, strife simmers at a medium boil In true U C Berkeley fashion, this discord breaks out into a rousing protest near the film’s end, yet it leads to nowhere Wiseman understands that our countr y is in a state of paralyzing crisis, and with that thesis in mind, At Berkeley looks and sounds less like a cut-up collage of video TakeNotes and more like a love letter to a system of higher education with an uncertain, frightening future

During a lecture on Walden, an English professor stresses that Thoreau may write “ a jumble of obser vations,” but that there is nonetheless a “ pattern ” to be discerned Wiseman must have included this line, about midway through the film, as a wink to his audience tr ying to draw conclusions from this seeming mess of raw footage He includes no lower-third captions (ever yone we meet, including that professor, goes unnamed), no didactic voiceover, no convenient graphics or cutesy animations Yet, of course, there is much to learn from the film to say nothing of the lectures themselves It helps to break At Berkeley into three rough acts: Education, Bureaucracy and Change (Or Lack Thereof )

For the first “ act ” (which runs over 90 minutes), Wiseman immerses us in the college classroom A current Cornell student may wonder why she or he would watch hours of lectures when we have enough of that already, and that concern is not unfounded: There are a few really, really boring slogs here While this just might be a symptom of my liberal arts education, I justify these tr ying sections for a dialectic they explore between STEM and humanities majors Wiseman shows us stud e n t s r a i l i n g a g a i n s t t h e i r money-obsessed peers in finance and whatnot, but he has a more fundamental opposition in mind than that oft-mentioned, though no less worrisome, cliché Early on, a professor leads a

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education today Yet he surely finds fascinating the back-and-forth that

prompt, where students raise their voices about debt, philanthropy and Tea Party rhetoric They do not arrive at a solvable conclusion, nor does the metaphysics professor who wonders aloud whether, in the realm of spacetime, we approach time or time approaches us These are questions wedded to the humanities, inherently unsolvable yet beautiful for the way it tests and expands the boundaries of the human mind

humanities student and “ not getting” what he has to say Rather, I see Wiseman allotting praise for the advances made in STEM fields yet advising those in them to flirt with the questions whether they be in partisan politics or abstract philosophy looming over the rest of the world

Directed by Frederick Wiseman

That is one side of the coin, and then Wiseman cuts to a pair of robot arms folding a towel with the grace of a wushu master This long, random and near-silent scene plays like slapstick comedy Wiseman does not belittle scientific pursuits, mind you, but, with this scene, he quarantines them from the insurmountable concerns currently engulfing the university and the world The focus on STEM education these days should, at least we hope, amount to a safer, healthier and more efficient world Yet the most torpid passages in At Berkeley isolate highly educated students to talk about their highly specialized scientific endeavors What star ts as an inspiring look at medical technology restoring a paraplegic’s ability to walk before long eschews the young man benefiting from this technology and

exhaustive detail about his Ph D I do not think this is me just speaking as a

This humanities-STEM tension permeates the first third of the film, while the rest hones in on the bureaucracy of the U C Berkeley establishment, and how it works hard, with good intentions, to fix problems beyond its control The smiling Chancellor Robert J Birgeneau leads most of the closed-doors meetings which Wiseman faithfully depicts as dull, occasionally delirious affairs In one shot, an administrator in the background talks business while a woman in the foreground drinks a Starbucks coffee, swirls it around for a good five seconds and drains it with gusto “Faculty meetings, in general, are just awful,” former Secretar y of Labor Robert Reich says during a standout lecture in the film Wiseman agrees, so he leaves in moments like that to remind us that, above science, politics and literature, we love the taste of something good

T

f Wheeler Hall (Berkeley’s equivalent to Goldwin Smith) Crosscutting between the hall and the offices where administrators scramble to quell the type of uprising so core to Berkeley’s culture, Wiseman escalates tension while acknowledging the intractable mess of the situation Some of the student demands conflict with one another and many more target the California government rather than anything within Chancellor Birgeneau’s pur view But, you know, these students are mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore! Wiseman remains stubbornly neutral throughout, to the extent that a “moderate” political group on campus complaining about the protest after the fact comes across as left of center, or right, or I cannot really tell

At Berkeley entertains in its tedium It takes the issues a vanishing middle-class, rising tuition, budget cuts to humanities in the midst of non-stop, over whelming oncampus construction (*COUGH*) seriously, while snickering at how intractable our problems appear to be Perhaps Wiseman, 84 years young, with a career of perceptive documentaries on American institutions behind him, senses the same issues of the past have only intensified over the years As one of his last projects, At Berkeley encapsulates the frustrations embedded within institutions, even one as exceptional as U C Berkeley But the higher education experience cannot be matched, whether you are studying spectroscopy, reading e e cummings or mowing the lawn all day because the school cannot afford another landscaper

Zach Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com

A Family Even Crazier Than Yours

MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

T h e c a s t i s a s t e l l a r ro s t e r o f a c t o r s , i n c l u d i n g Sa m Sh e p a rd , Ew a n Mc Gre g o r, C h r i s C o o p e r,

Ju l i a R o b e r t s , B e n e d i c t Cu m b e r b a t c h ,

Ju l i e t t e L e w i s a n d Os c a r - g o d d e s s Me r y l St re e p T h e a c t i n g i n t h i s m ov i e i s n e ve r a s h o r t c o m i n g ; e a c h o f t h e s e p e r f o r m e r s h a s a g re a t t i m e ro i l i n g u p t h e s c e n e r y i n t h e i r ro l e s T h e m ov i e ’ s m a i n p ro b l e m l i e s i n i t s re p e t i t i ve n e s s It i s a m ov i e a b o u t o n e o f t h e m o s t d y s f u n c t i o n a l m i d d l e - A m e r i c a n f a m i l i e s

yo u c o u l d e ve r c a re t o w i t n e s s o n s c re e n , a n d ye t i t d o e s n ’ t s e e m t o ve e r t o o f a r

f ro m e ve n t s yo u m a y h a ve g l i m p s e d i n y o u r o w n h o u s e h o l d A f t e r B e v e r l y ( S h e p h e r d ) , t h e h u s b a n d o f V i o l e t ( St re e p ) a n d f a t h e r o f Ba r b a r a ( Ro b e r t s ) , Iv e y ( Ju l i a n n e Ni c h o l s o n ) a n d K a r e n ( L e w i s ) , c o m m i t s s u i c i d e , a n u n w a n t e d

f a m i l y re u n i o n t h a t s h o u l d n e ve r h a ve t a k e n p l a c e i s s e t i n m o t i o n T h e y a l l d i sp a t c h t h e m s e l v e s t o O s a g e C o u n t y, Ok l a h o m a , i n t h e s we l t e r i n g 1 0 8 d e g re e h e a t o f t h e s u m m e r, t o e xc h a n g e g o o d w i l l a b o u t a m a n s o m e o f t h e m h a t e d In s t e a d , t h e y e n d u p r e l e a s i n g a t h o u s a n d re p re s s e d i l l f e e l i n g s Fa m i l y m e m b e r s t a c k l e e a c h o t h e r t o t h e g ro u n d , s p e w i n ve c t i ve a t e a c h o t h e r a n d c l a m p t h e i r m o u t h s s h u t t o p re ve n t a w h i r l w i n d o f d i s t u r b i n g s e c re t s f ro m e s c a p i n g T h e t h re e - h o u r Bro a d w a y s h ow i s c o nd e n s e d i n t o a t w o - h o u r m o v i e T h i s m

August : O sage County

Directed by John Wells

Starring Mer yl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor, Juliette Lewis

out loud more than once, a significant amount of the humorous dimension seems to have been lost There were many more chances for Wells to direct his actors to go for the ridiculous elements of the stor y instead of the tragic ones The tone of this f i l m s e e m s f a r m o re s e r i o u s t h a n t h e

wealth of graveyard humor Letts imbued his play with The last of the film’s many fights, for example, has the potential to be hilarious in a way, due to the cretinous nature of one of the characters, who covers herself with the line, “ Well, I suppose hindsight is always 20-20, isn’t it?”

I e n j oye d ove r t h re e - q u a r t e r s o f t h i s

m ov i e i m m e n s e l y, e ve n a s a m o re s e ve re

c h a r a c t e r s t u d y, i t w o rk s p h e n o m e n a l l y

we l l o n t h e s t re n g t h o f L e t t s ’ s c r i p t a n d

t h e s p r a w l i n g b u n c h o f t a l e n t e d p e r f o r m -

e r s Ne a r l y e ve r y o n e o f t h e m i s c o mp e l l i n g i n t h e i r ow n w a y, f ro m Me r y l

OIn Osage County, although I laughed

ver break, I overheard a stranger saying, “College boys! My god, don’t let them see this movie!” The speaker was a concerned adult, the subject was The Wolf of Wall Street

I’m guessing that she said this knowing that, inevitably, adolescents will do what adult’s most fear And with The Wolf of Wall Street, they have: college-aged males have seen the film and championed it, taking selective messages that director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Terrence Winters did or did not intend The celebration and controversy surrounding their film has become a cultural phenomenon, especially on college campus where fraternity bacchanalia and braggadocio crosses paths with political correctness and feminism That’s not to say that feminists unanimously dislike this movie and fratstars unanimously cherish it you could read the film into a labyrinth of defenses or critiques of white-collar crime and Wall Street excess The butt of the joke is ambiguous

I sympathize with both camps those who saw it as encouraging and those who

s a w i t a s s a t i r i z i n g t h e behavior of its characters, much as I imagine the ways people reacted to National

L a m p o o n ’ s An i m a l Ho u s e upon its release in 1978 (in fact, that film was said to

membership and the parallels between these two films warrants some discussion) On the one hand, I witnessed a frat-life friend with a frat-life mentality fill a break in conversation with the fist-pounding-heart, mouth-humming c h a n t t h a t f i n a n c e i n d u s t r y v e

H

n n a (Matthew McConaughey), introduces to industr y rookie, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), over lunch Belfort repeats the song later in the movie and it becomes synonymous with their Wall Street brotherhood It struck me that, oddly, my friend identified with the song, almost as if it was the mantra of a totemic clan of Wall Street hopefuls and

s p ec i a l l y i n t h e l o n g , p ro t r a c t e d f u n

St re e p ’ s v i c i o u s l y c o n t e n t i o u s m a t r i a rc h , t o Ju l i a Ro b e r t s ’ e q u a l l y v i c i o u s e l d e s t d a u g h t e r, t o C h r i s C o o p e r ’ s t o u c h i n g , f i e rc e f a t h e r f i g u re , t o Ju l i e t t e L e w i s ’ c u t el y n a i ve a u n t T h i s i s t r u l y a n a c t o r ’ s m

Who’s a Fan of the Big Bad Wolf?

wolf-worshippers After watching an assortment of films with bankers as villains or objects of ridicule (Wall Street, American Psycho), he had been waiting for a The Wolf of Wall Street to give bankers an overdue cinematic celebration Think of the fin de siècle readers who thanked Conrad’s Hear t of Darkness for its defense of colonialism On the other hand, I had friends who left the theater, citing boredom or outrage I read a Facebook status by a girl who left a screening in protest of the film’s lewd portrayal of women, writing “if I wanted to stare at boobs for three hours, I’d look in the mirror ” I couldn’t help but react that yes, these are bad things but that’s part of the point But is it? Is it a cautionar y tale for college Wall Street wannabes? Does the film give attention to this bad behavior for a redeeming purpose? Those who defend the film, including myself, would cite the ending, where the camera turns to face an audience listening to Belfort give a motivational speech and pauses until the credits appear Potentially this gives the question “who is the butt of the joke?” an answer: us We idolize Jordan Belfort and trust him when he telephones and encourages us to buy problematic stock We are the ones who desire Belfort’s ubermensch status and wonder, “ What would sex be like if you were that rich?” Maybe secretly we envy his freedom to be antisocial and get away with it (Belfort calls a pilot a “nigger” and flirts with his wife’s aunt without consequences, for starters) much in the way Joan Didion argues that people envy Howard Hughes because he is so rich that he can afford to be reclusive and strange With Hughes and Belfort salaries, you are above and outside the social contract Potentially, Scorsese is condemning us for contributing

to a culture of exceptionalism for these individuals We are watching the movie; are we not getting entertainment from Belfort’s vice? Potentially, Scorsese is drawing attention to our economy ’ s creation of false-needs Potentially, he wanted to make an entertaining film Tentatively, I would say that the film raises the the idea that the blame for white collar crime should not be placed solely on active promoters of it like Belfort The blame is also on the culture or audience that acts as a bystander or cheerleader to it But, in this dichotomy, I see one potential danger of showing the film to adolescents At the end of the day, do we want to be riding on the subway like Sergeant Denham (Kyle Chandler) or on a yacht like Belfort? How much does moral superiority compensate for financial inferiority?

The danger of showing The Wolf of Wall Street to us college-aged students is that it could give off the impression that you can be one of two things: a wolf or a sheep

Henr y Staley is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at hstaley@cornellsun com Politicizing Art appears alternate Fridays

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De Blasio Chooses to Stay Home To Watch Super Bowl With Son

NEW YORK (AP) New York City is co-hosting the Super Bowl this weekend but its mayor

w i l l n o t a t

s biggest sporting event

Bill de Blasio will not travel

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MetLife Stadium on Sunday to watch the Denver Broncos face the Seattle Seahawks in a game that will showcase the nation’s largest city to a television audience expected to top 100 million people

De Blasio said he would stay home to watch with his teenage son, but the decision not to buy tickets to the high-priced event and to publicly say so is in line with the image he crafted during his campaign: that he was a middle-class family man focused on fixing the city’s widening income inequality

“ I ’ m

e NFL is hosting the Super Bowl in our area, and we ’ re working

hard to be great hosts of the event, ” de Blasio said in a statem

participating in all the festivities l

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watch the game on TV, just like the vast majorit y o f Ne w Yorkers ” Elected officials are prohib-

joked about his lack of disposable income He has one child in college and another who will be going in two years Despite being an avid sports fan who lives near the new Barclays Center, he has yet to attend a Brooklyn Nets

“I’ve decided to watch the game on

”

requirement to pay with face

$2,500 can be difficult for those without deep pockets

De Blasio is paid $225,000 a year and made $165,000 a year the last four years as the city’s elected public advocate De Blasio, who hails from a middle- to upper-middle class

B r o o

prices

By contrast, his predecessor, M i c h a e l Bloomberg, was one of the richest men in New York, worth approximately $31 billion Not much of a sports

games, always sitting just a few rows from the action He once accidentally tripped and injured an opposing player while sitting c

Garden for a Knicks game

Tickets to the Super Bowl are among the priciest in sports The

according to guidelines spelled out by the

Elected officials can only receive gifts of up to $50, an amount that would barely cover a handful of souvenirs

The only exceptions, according to the board’s rules, would be if a ticket was given as a gift from a

member or if a politician could make the claim that he or she was attending the game in an official capacity to perform

Matthews, Tomic, Smith Spark Pro duc tion Of f Red’s Bench

in the open court, when it has room to drive to the basket, forcing turnovers is

e s p e c i a l l y important “ We just know that if we want to get open cour t, fast break situations, we have to get stops, ” he said “Our defense will turn into i n s t a n t offense ” A n o t h e r sign of good

things to come for the Red has been the play off the bench Senior Jake Matthews, junior Ned Tomic and freshman Darryl Smith all proved their ability to contribute last weekend Smith had 12 points and five rebounds in the first game and was named Ivy League Rookie of the week In the second matchup, Matthe ws had eight points, including two big threes and Tomic had 11 points and pulled down seven boards

Nolan Cressler

“All three of them bring something different to the table for us, ” Cressler said “Darryl uses his athleticism to make plays and get to the rim Ned plays with fire and provides energy for all of us Jake steps up and hits shots and always com-

petes ” Brown is just the first roadblock the Red will have to storm through if it hopes to move up the Ivy ranks Leading scorer Justin Hicks and Yale await the Red Saturday in New Haven The Bulldogs lost their most recent matchup to Brown, but defeated the Bears the week before “We are just taking it day by day, tr ying to get better ever y day,”

Cressler said “We know that if we do this, we will get some wins going in the league Road games are always tough in the Ivy League, but that is the fun of it ”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun com

Mowrey, Ferlin, Hilbrich

Make Up ‘ Physical ’ Line

Cornell looks to stall Brown’s recent momentum

l i n e w i t h [ s e n i o r f o r w a r d ] D u s t i n

[Mowrey], [sophomore for ward Christian] Hilbrich and [junior for ward Brian] Ferlin are playing unbelievable ”

W h i l e t h e t r i o o f j u n i o r f o r w a r d s

Bardreau, Joel Lowr y and John McCarron captured headlines early in the season, the Mo w r e y - Fe r l i n - Hi l b r i c h

h a s n o t c h e d p o i n t s i n

ve r y Cornell game dating back to the 2013 Florida Classic Ferlin

n ow l e a d s t h e Re d i n t o t a l p o i n t s ( 2 1 ) a n d g o a l s ( 9 ) , Mowrey leads in assists (14) and the 6’6” Hilbrich has been no slouch himself, placing second on the team with eight goals thus far

in the countr y in fe west goals against (2 26/gm) and buckled down late on the Cornell for wards in the Red’s 2-1 nailbiter win over the Bulldogs last November “ They’re a big group on D, they move t

instead of worr ying so much about them, I think we need to keep with our game plan: chipping pucks and getting deep, kind of just going to work and make sure we finish our hits on them kind of back them off a little bit I think when we do that, we ’ re a tough group of for wards to stop ”

“ W h e n w e ’ re p l a y i n g f a s t and we ’ re playing physical and we ’ re all on the same page, I t h i n k we ’ re p re t t y e f f e c t i ve , ” Ferlin said “ We’re moving our feet down lower [all three of us] are pretty big guys and we play pretty physical I think when we ’ re causing turnovers and playing fast and slicing in the neutral zone and in our zone and just moving pucks quick we ’ re most effective ” Strength will meet strength when the Red for wards collide with the Yale back line Friday The Yale defense ranks seventh

break out against the Bulldogs, they will get another oppor tu-

Brown defense (2 95 goals/gm)

Clarkson had the most even play between line rotations he has seen all season, and he is looking for the trend to carr y over into the weekend

“I think Mowrey’s [line has] been leading the charge the last fe w games, ” Schafer said “But I think all of the lines have kind of elevated their play ”

Bardreau said his line has the ability to score goals in droves “ We’re a little snakebitten as a line,”

Bardreau said “Once we get one [goal] here they’ll come in bunches ”

But where the Bears lag behind in defensive statistics, they make up for with momentum Brown is 5-2-2 in its past nine, including a recent tie against No 2

Dar tmouth both fall below Brown on the ECAC totem pole and this weekend’s second game becomes all the more impor tant in the chase for a first-round bye in the conference tournament

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c k t o t h e p ro c e s s , s t i c k t o t h e

l i t t l e t h i n g s t h a t we d o we l l , p l a y a p h y s i -

c a l g a m e a n d k i n d o f j u s t n o t g e t d ow n

w h e n we d o n ’ t g e t t h e b o u n c e s , ” Ba rd re a u

s a i d “ I t h i n k t h a t ’ s w h e n we g e t i n t ro u -

b l e , i s w h e n we g e t d ow n a n d t h e n we

s t r a y f ro m o u r g a m e p l a n a n d s t a r t t r y i n g

t o d o t o o m u c h Ju s t k e e p i n g t o t h e l i t t l e

t h i n g s a n d b u i l d i n g o f f a b i g w i n a g a i n s t

C l a rk s o n , j u s t l e t t i n g t h e l i t t l e t h i n g s a d d u p ”

One of those little things may be, in Schafer’s words, two days of “intense” practice earlier this week

“I feel great right now physically and I’m just ready to go, ” Ferlin said “I think a lot of guys are feeling good right now ” The Red will want to keep the puck rolling in another weekend where there is little margin for error Despite its unbeaten streak, Cornell is still only fifth in the chase to the top of the muddled 12-team ECAC

“ Teams in our league continue to win, especially teams near the top of the standings,” Schafer said “ We’ve got to focus on ourselves and win hockey games Now we ’ ve got Yale right beside us [in the standings] on Friday night and Brown who’s playing arguably some of the best hockey in the countr y on Saturday in their rink, so it’ll be a good weekend ”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun com

Athlete Ally Strives for ‘Accepting Environment’

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Continued from page 16

ing with a big weekend for us, ” Cudmore said “It means that hopefully we’ll put on a really good show, and we have a good cause and a good crowd to do it ”

On Saturday, Cornell’s chapter of Athlete Ally in its first year on campus will hold back-toback events at the women ’ s hockey game at 2 p m and the women ’ s basketball game at 6 p m According to Cudmore, there will be bracelets for sale in order to raise money for the organization, which will be working to host more events and bring speakers to campus in the future Athlete Ally is an organization centered around what founder and NCAA AllAmerican wrestler Hudson Taylor called, “empowering as many people as possible to have a voice ”

“Women’s hockey has always been a very accepting environment of homosexuals, of ever yone, ” Cudmore said “So for us to showcase the tolerant and accepting environment that Athlete Ally wants the entire collegiate and professional athletics community to be, for us to be at the forefront of that, is pretty exciting ”

Athlete Ally will also debut its own ‘You Can Play’ project video, which features some important figures from the Cornell athletics community, and will be on display during the games

The ‘You Can Play’ project was

founded by Patrick Burke, the son of NHL general manager Brian Burke Burke was inspired to start the program after his brother Brendan, who was a student manager for Miami of Ohio’s hockey team, came out of the closet and spoke out against homophobia in professional sports

“Basically the message is, it shouldn’t matter who you are, what you believe, what your sexual orientation is,” Cudmore said “If you ’ re good enough to play the sport, just by virtue of that, your teammates and ever yone else should judge you on that, love you for that ”

President of Cornell’s Athlete Ally Chapter and junior Atticus DeProspo asked that fans wear bright colors to Saturday’s game, “ to signify allyship and inclusion of LGBTQ people in sports ” According to Cudmore, Cornell’s chapter of the program has made significant strides in its first year

“For the first year of Athlete Ally to have the support it’s had across campus has been pretty remarkable,” she said “And then these are the first events this organization is putting on so our team is really excited to be a part of this, and hopefully it goes over well, and then we can move forward to do bigger and better things ”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun com

C.U. Takes Three Titles at Wint er Invit ational

By RYAN QUINN Sun Contributor

In its final preseason tournament before competitive non-conference play star ts, head coach Mike Stevens’ Red made a splash by winning three titles at the Cornell Winter Invitational this past weekend Freshmen Marika Cusick and Alexandra D’Ascenzo starred in a dominant 6-1 victory in the doubles championship against the pairing of Jamila Paul and Carolyn Pitman from Army The freshmen doubles partners

also went on to capture the “A-flight” and “B-flight” singles titles, as Cusick won the “A” bracket in a tiebreak and D’Ascenzo won the “B” bracket in straight sets over her teammate junior Lauren Frazier

The tournament, which started Friday,

y, Seton Hall, Binghamton and Niagara There were five different brackets featuring 15-player “A-flight” and “B-flight” singles brackets, an eight-player “C-flight” singles b

“A

bracket and another nine-team “B-flight”

Comeback kid | Senior captain Ryann Young, who was injured during the semifinals of the Winter Invitational, will likely retur n to play for Friday’s matchup against Buffalo

doubles bracket

With Cornell only entering four players across the top singles and doubles divisions, the “C” singles bracket went to Niagara, while the “B” doubles bracket went to Seton Hall Although the Red only fielded those four players, it was still able to compile a combined 17-3 record, 11 of those v

D’Ascenzo

Despite this only being their first year, the freshman duo has built an impressive résumé during the tournament season Cusick and D’Ascenzo have each won at least one match in ever y event The two titles Cusick captured were her first two of the tournament season after very solid showings throughout the first semester For D’Ascenzo, these were her second and third titles after she won the “Bflight” title at the Cornell Fall Invitational

in the semifinal round, she has led the team throughout the tournament circuit, including a title in the "A" bracket of the Cornell Fall Invitational

"I think everyone ’ s playing really well and I think we ’ re just going to keep getting better and better by playing more matches, " she said

The team can now look forward to its first two competitive matches this week against Buffalo (1-0) a n d Ma r y l a n d Baltimore County (11) Young will likely re t u r n f ro m i n j u r y Friday against Buffalo

“We just came off of a really good weekend and everyone’s really excited to play our first team match.” R y a n n Yo u n g

The two players have highlighted an impressive underclassmen group for this year ’ s team, which features only one senior on the roster

That lone senior, captain Ryann Young, said her team has lofty expectations for the season

“We definitely have our goals set high for the Ivy League season, ” she said “We’re just going to use each match to try to reach to some of those goals ”

Although Young was forced to retire from the Winter Invitational with an injury

Hom e Match e s in Thre e D ay s

By HAMDAM AL YOUSEFI Sun Staff Wr ter

C o r n e l l’s s q u a s h t e a m s a re gearing up to kick off an intense week of matches, with games against Franklin and Marshall, Har vard, Dar tmouth and Navy this weekend

With the women ’ s team currently 5-2 after last week’s 9-0 thrashing of St Lawrence, head coach Julee Devoy is confident of a positive result against F&M

“ D e f i n i t e l y, ” D e v o y s a i d , when asked if she was expecting a win “Hopefully, 9-0 again ” The Red is currently ranked No 6 in the College Squash

A s s o c i a t i o n r a n k i n g , w h i l e F&M is No 16

However, when assessing the matchup against Har vard, the Ho w e Cu p champions and

c u r r e n t No 1 ranked team in the CSA, Devoy

w a s m o r e guarded in her confidence

n e s s Un

h i n nature of the roster does not allow for this

“I only have eleven players on the roster and we need ten [for the game] I may pull someone i n a n d o u t d e p e n d i n g o n injuries and health but we don’t h a v e m u c h w r i g g l e r o o m , ” Devoy said The Red will also face off against Dar tmouth in a tough match Sunday

“I think we have a great chance against

F&M ”

B r y a n K e a t i n g

“ They’re No 1 in the league again this season, they haven’t lost to anybody so far and they really do have a solid team, ” she said “ The good thing about playing them is that ever yone takes us as an underdog, so there’s no pressure ” W i t h t h i s c l u s t e r o f v i t a l games coming up, Devoy would ideally like to rotate her squad to maintain an element of fresh-

“ We do, however, have a ver y i m p o r t a n t m a t c h o n Su n d a y a g a i n s t D a r t m o u t h , ” D e v o y said “[Dar tmouth] is the most impor tant remaining game of the six that we have We’re currently ranked 6th and they’re ranked 8th and we do not want to lose that game The girls need to come out fired up and know that they need to win ” After a r un o f f o u r g a m e s on the road, the R e d h a s a n equally extended r un at home i n B e l k i n Squash Cour ts

“It’s always nice to play at home; have a home cour t advantage You don’t have that travel factor, fatigue as par t of the preparation It’s nice not to have to get on the bus and have the girls come to play on a cour t they know,” she said The Cornell men ’ s team, currently 4-3 and ranked No 8, also face several tough challenges

over the weekend First, the Red will go up against No 6 F&M

“F&M are going to be really tough It’s going to be another close one, but I’m hoping to win i t , ” s a i d h e a d c o a c h M a r k

Devoy The Diplomats are currently 10-2 and are on a seven game winning streak

Devoy did stress the importance of getting positive results in the upcoming games

“It’s impor tant to get F&M, who are ranked 6th, and to beat Navy, who are 14th We need to make sure not to lose because that would upset our season terribly,” Devoy said

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Junior captain Br yan Keating

Red’s chances

“ I t h i n k w e h a v e a g r e a t chance against F&M We’re definitely not counting on beating Har vard They’ve not lost a single match all year so we ’ re setting our sights on F&M, and holding off Navy and Har vard so we can maintain our ranking,” Keating said

The Crimson has been leading the rankings this year and is

c u r r e n t l y 9 - 0 , w i t h s e v e n o f t h o s e n i n e g a m e s c o m i n g by impressive 9-0 victories

“Har vard is just too strong That’s the reality of life They’re just going to win the national title We’re going to compete, b u t w e ’ re n o t g o i n g t o b e a t them If we could beat Har vard, we w o u l d b e r a n k e d No 1 We’re ranked 8th,” Devoy said

W i t h t h i s w e e k e n d b e i n g

Although neither of t h o s e o p p o n e n t s a re ranked, Buffalo recently opened its season with a 7-0 win over St Bonaventure UMBC, on the other hand, has seen mixed results, including a blowout win followed by a blowout loss And while the team has competed in match play during a few of the preseason tournaments, these upcoming contests will likely have a much different air about them Going up against two teams that have already gotten their season-opening butterflies out of the way will be a challenge, but, according to Young, the Red is confident after last weekend’s results

“We just came off of a really good weekend and everyone ’ s really excited to play our first team match,” she said

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Underdog tale | The women’s squash team will take on Har vard Saturday, the No 1 team in the CSA

vital in terms of results, Devoy has been placing extra emphasis on training to make sure the players are in prime shape “ T h i s w e e k e n t a i l s g e t t i n g ever yone peaking for this weekend Especially looking at how my lower order players are perfo rm i n g, s o h o p e fu l l y ge t t i n g options of replacing a few players, ” Devoy said “I’ll be looking closely at how they train and how much they commit themselves That’s a big factor in who I’ll rest So my bottom order has

to be ready to step in ”

Keating said the team is in top form, prepared to put its best foot for ward this weekend

“I think the team is in good enough shape that we can play our strongest roster through all these matches We’ve been training since Januar y 4th, before school star ted We were doing t w o s e s s i o n s a d a y, ” K e a t i n g said

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C.U. At hle tic s

Play for Causes

Thi s We ekend

Women’s team s partner w ith A thlete Ally, D o It for D aron

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Two events will headline the women ’ s hockey and women ’ s basketball games this weekend On Friday, when the women ’ s hockey team takes on Yale, the No 6 Red will be partnering with Do It For Daron to raise money for mental health awareness The following day, the women ’ s basketball and women ’ s hockey teams will help spread the message of Cornell’s Athlete Ally chapter one of LGBT inclusion and acceptance for athletes of all race, sexuality and gender

According to senior Hayleigh Cudmore a member of Athlete Ally and also a forward for the women ’ s hockey team the Do It For Daron organization was founded when the Red’s sophomore defenseman Morgan Richardson’s younger sister committed suicide Richardson who was 16 when her sister passed along with her parents and her sister’s friends, created the organization to raise money for and increase awareness about mental health

Spor ts

Rallying behind a cause | The women’s hockey team will support Athlete Ally in its game against Brown Saturday by wearing rainbow-colored tape on their sticks and skates

“It started as just [Daron’s] friends and then it grew to something bigger, kind of the whole hockey community caught on, ” Cudmore said “Now it’s an event and a charity, that is widely recognized for mental health awareness ” Bell Canada, a media company based in Quebec, helped support the cause Tuesday with its fourth annual ‘Let’s Talk’ day Five cents were donated to mental health awareness every time #BellLetsTalk was retweeted, and the initiative

Red S earches for First Iv y Win

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

In a league where 14 games

d e c i d e w h o w i l l g o t o t h e NCAA tournament, the Red’s 0-2 star t in Ivy League is troubling, but cer tainly not crippling Only two teams in the Ancient Eight have undefeated conference records right now, and if the Red can catch fire, the title is open for the taking

The Red showed promising

s i g n s a g a i n s t C o l u m b i a t h i s weekend, one of the two undefeated Ivy squads, and a team that has won seven of its last

e i g h t g a m e s B o t h g a m e s against the Lions have featured first halves where the two teams traded baskets In the opening m a t c h u p , C o l u m b i a l e d b y three at the half, and in the second game, Cornell took the

same lead into the locker room

The final twenty minutes continue to plague the Red, as the squad turned the ball over a total of ten times in the second halves of the losses to the Lions

“It was good to play competi t i v e , b u t w e s t i l l l o s t b o t h games to them,” said sophom o r e g u a r d No l a n C r e s s l e r “ We are looking at what we did wrong and what we need to correct to get better and move for ward ”

This means looking ahead to the next obstacle: a four-game conference road trip that kicks o f f w i t h Br ow n Fr i d a y T h e Bears are 1-1 in the conference and are coming off a 73-56 victor y last weekend against Yale

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raised nearly $5 5 million

The Do it For Daron Foundation asks that fans show their support by wearing purple to Friday’s game, a color that, according to TSN’s profile of the story titled Purple Hearts, was Daron’s favorite

“It’s nice that a big event, or a big two events, is coincid-

L e a d i n g s c o re r Se a n McGonagill who is averaging 19 3 points per game, the highest scoring average amongst the A

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e e r g a m e against the B u l l d o g s , scoring 29 p o i n t s e n route to an Ivy League P l a y e r o f t h e We e k t i t l e T h e Re d w i l l also have to keep center R a f a e l Ma i a o u t o f t h e paint The junior is averaging 10 points and over eight rebounds per game “ T h e y r u n a v

r y g o o d offense, similar to Columbia,” Cressler said “ They are definitely improved this year They play hard and have a lot of different plays we need to be ready to defend ” The Red’s defense was one of the highlights in the series against Columbia Cornell held

point

h games, while forcing the Lions to turn the ball over 22 times Ac

Scoring machine | Junior forward Brian Ferlin leads the Red in points with 21

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

When Yale and Brown visited Lynah Rink in November, Cornell was only in the infancy of a 7-1-4 midseason spurt one that has included the nation’s fourth longest unbeaten run of seven games

The No 11 Red (10-4-5, 6-3-4 ECAC) will carry that streak into Ingalls Rink Friday night for a rematch against No 13 and defending national champion Yale (10-5-4, 5-4-3) The squad will then travel to Providence to play Brown (8-8-3, 5-6-1) Saturday

“I don’t think they’re concentrating on the streak,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86, concerning the team ’ s preparation this week “They’re not looking at the streak they’re looking at their effort and their play from game to game ” The Red’s recent performance has gotten a boost from the depth up front, contributing directly to the team ’ s grind-it-out three-point, seven-goal weekend against St Lawrence and Clarkson “ We have great lines going,” said junior for ward Cole Bardreau “That first