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Cornell Announces New Mandatory Health Fee

Students not in University health plan to be charged $350

By ANNIE BUI and SOFIA HU Sun News Editor and Sun Senior Writer

Under a new funding model announced by President David Skorton Thursday, students not enrolled in the Student Health Insurance Plan must pay a $350 fee at the start of the 2015-16 academic year

The change will affect approximately 70 percent of undergraduate, 30 percent of professional and 10 percent of graduate students, Skorton said in a statement to the Cornell community

Under the new funding model, students who visit Gannett will pay a $10 co-pay for most visits, among them medical, mental health and physical therapy, according to the University Skorton said the changes will allow for the

Far above | A rendering of the future downtown Ithaca Marriott, which is currently under construction on S Aurora Street near the east end of the Ithaca Commons It is set to open in Spring 2016

University to “maintain and improve accessibility of health services” in the face of a rapid increase in health services in recent years, which has led to a need for more revenue in order to continue offering a wide range of services

The fee is also intended to lower the financial barriers that discourage some privately-insured students from seeking medical care at Gannett, Susan Murphy ’73 Ph D ’94, vice president for student and academic services, said at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday

In addition, Gannett has a deficit in recent years following a “health crisis” in 2009-10, when the Cornell campus was hit with over 1,700 cases of H1N1 flu and a string of suicides, Murphy said

Healthy living | President David Skorton speaks at Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting about the new mandatory health fees

Work Begins on Downtown Marriott

By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer

Construction crews broke ground earlier this week on the much anticipated 10-stor y, 159-room, full-ser vice Marriott Hotel in downtown Ithaca, according to JoAnn Cornish, director of planning and development for the city

Cornish said the city worked with Jeffrey Rimland the owner of the lot where the hotel is being built for over six years to try to secure a project for his site During the economic downturn, financing and development were put on hold, according to Cornish

The Ithaca Marriott will be the only Marriott-branded hotel in the area and the first new hotel to open in the center of Ithaca in almost 10 years, according to a press release by the project’s developer

Cornish said she believes the

“For years we have wanted to get an anchor tenant on the [ Ithaca ] Commons.” J o A n n C o r n i s h

Marriott will have an overall positive impact on the local economy

“[The project] has been through several iterations,” she said “To see [the Marriott] being built finally we are very excited about it ”

“For years we have wanted to get an anchor tenant on the [Ithaca] Commons [to] bring people to the core of downtown,” Cornish said “The spinoff effect of having people stay in a

hotel on the Commons is that they can go to restaurants in walking distance, they can go shopping in our shops and they will hopefully be able to park their cars and not have to use [them] ” Cornish also said she hopes the new hotel will bring more people to the core of downtown

“Especially now that we are looking forward to the completion of the Commons, I think we are going to see a much livelier downtown, ” she said

In addition to the ancillar y spending of all the hotel’s visitors, the city will benefit from the taxes collected on the hotel’s estimated $5 25 million annual room revenue, according to Bruce Stoff, director of the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention

Gannett Of cials Readying in Case Of Measles Outbreak

By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Senior Writer

In the wake of a nationwide measles outbreak, officials at Gannett Health Services say they are taking precautions to keep Cornellians safe

According to Sharon Dittman, associate director of community relations for Gannett, New York state public health requirements and Universitywide vaccination mandates are expected to help protect the Cornell community from the disease

“Cornell students are well-protected against measles: 99 66 percent of the student body is immunized,” Dittman said

Every student is required to submit a health history form to prove that they have been immunized upon matriculation, according to Dittman There are only two exceptions, she said: students with certain medical conditions or strongly held religious beliefs may be exempt from the requirement Philosophical oppositions do not apply

Dittman said that given the recent outbreak, officials are monitoring the approximately 50 students who are not vaccinated against measles, warning them of the dangers of the disease and inviting them to get the vaccine

“Gannett has reached out to the small number of students who have received exemptions from the [vaccination] requirement to alert them to the recent outbreak remind[ing] them of the restrictions that will be imposed on them, according to public health law, should there be a case of measles in the Cornell community,” Dittman said

If there is a measles outbreak on the Cornell campus, those students who have not been immunized will be required to leave campus and will be prohibited from attending classes or participating in campus activities until the New York State Health Department authorizes their return, according to Dittman

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News, “Student Assembly Opens Referenda Process to Students,” Monday

Speaking about the new opportunity for students to voice their opinions

“The new referendum process will empower students to think about and speak up on campus issues encouraging dialogue and engagement in making the campus a better place

Emma Johnston ’16

News, “Rulloff’s to Reopen Tomorrow,” Tuesday

Speaking about the restoration of a Collegetown favorite

“There was a real void on College Avenue when Rulloff’s closed Locals who have been here for a very long time are very excited that we might bring Rulloff s back to its original luster ”

Gregar Brous, new owner of Rulloff’s Restaurant and Bar

News, “Cornellians Gather for Slope Snow Bash,” Wednesday

Speaking about Humans of Cornell University’s first bash

“Some people walk around campus with a large number of people sorrounding them yet sometimes they still feel isolated and alone This is the type of event that makes you realize we re never alone

Galbut ’14

Opinion, “Creating Community: Using Your Big Red Support System,” Thursday

Speaking about the importance of seeking support to relieve stress

“So we all forget to check up on each other in light of our daily struggles, and we wallow in our corrective misery Well no more!

Kevin Milian ’15

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New Center Will P r o v i d e Te c h Licensing Help

Budding engineers at Ithaca High School are hard at work tackling the “Recycle Rush” competition in this year ’ s Robotics Challenge, according to The Ithaca Journal

The contest, which is ongoing, hosts 73,000 students and almost 3,000 teams worldwide This year, students are tasked with the design of a robot able to recycle litter in an obstacle-filled arena, The Journal reported

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By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

In a restructuring of its commercializa-

designed to connect students with entrepreneurs and industr y leaders who can help get their innovations on the market

The Center for Technological Licensing is a reshaping of the former Cornell Center for Te

& Commercialization in order to “clarify its role in technology transfer,”according to a University press release

Alice Li Ph D ’98, interim director of the Center for Technological Licensing, said that under the new framework, the Center will work closely with Cornell’s business develop-

Advancement

“ The introduction of the framework aims to clarify the specific roles and responsibility of various units and offices at the University that are involved in these important parts of the University’s mission to ensure optimum cooperation in technology commercialization,” Li said

Under the new structure, the Center for Technological Licensing is responsible for

Entrepreneurship@Cornell will act as a liaison between the University and the general market for technological innovation The C

Advancement will help technology find a local footing, according to Li

“Close cooperation between these major components is ver y important for successful

partnership formation and entrepreneurship development at Cornell,” Li said

By connecting Cornell’s researchers with industr y partners and investors, the Center for Technological Licensing will help establish an environment at Cornell which will not only foster current technological innovation, but also encourage future research and venture development, Li said

One of the most successful projects to a

Agronomic Technology Corporation, which created Adapt-N, a software that helps farmers with nitrogen fertilization

Prof Harold van Es, soil and water management, one of the main contributors to Adapt-N, said the center for Technological Licensing was helpful in guiding his team through the commercialization process

“First, [the center was] ver y useful in offering advice and helping with the protection of the intellectual property Second, they took care of the licensing issues [ The center also] offers ser vices beyond that, like

neurs, ” van Es said

However, Greg Levow ’04, co-founder of Agronomic Tech, said he found the commercialization process challenging

“[ The Center] was a good partner but it was a reasonably complex process, ” Levow said “ The fact that the I P we licensed from Cornell and the nature of our business [software] doesn’t fit the typical mold of what [the center] generally deals with made this a more complicated process ”

Still, both Levow and van Es said the Center for Technological Licensing will play a vital role at the University “ I

research to become commercialized is ver y important, as it is critical to making technology benefit business and society,” said van Es “Given the challenges of this process, I b e l i e v e t h

Licensing does an excellent job ”

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun com

New ‘Awesomizer’Added to Olin Library

By OLIVIA LUTWAK Sun Staff Writer

A ne w device, which allows librar y-goers to digitally record their favorite books and movies, just made Olin librar y a little more “ awesome, ” according to Aw e s o m i z e r c o - c r e a t o r a n d Olin Librar y applications develo p e r M a t t C o n n o l l y ’ 9 9 M Eng ’00

The Awesomizer is a tool with a miniature computer known as a Raspberr y Pi hooked up to the Internet and a barcode scanner, Connolly said If students or faculty members

find a par ticular book or DVD interesting, they can use the Awesomizer to scan the barcode on the item The Awesomizer then adds the item to a collection of recommended material available online

T h e Aw e s o m i z e r, w h i c h launched two weeks ago, is the pilot project of a committee

c a l l e d L i b r a r y O u t s i d e t h e Librar y, according to Connolly

“ [ L i b r a r y O u t s i d e t h e Librar y] is essentially a group of librarians and librar y staff who think up and tr y out highly

e x p e r i m e n t a l p r o j e c t s t o improve or expand librar y ser-

vices It’s a way of testing out ne w ideas that may or may not w o r k i n p r a c t i c e , ” C o n n o l l y said “One of [Librar y Outside t h e L i b r a r y ] ’ s f u n d a m e n t a l p r i n c i p l e s i s t h a t w e ’ r e n o t afraid to tr y things that might fail ” D e s p i t e t h e f a c t t h a t t h e

Awesomizer has only been on display for two weeks, Connolly said it has already “generated some interest among students ” Gwen Glazer, Olin Librar y s o c i a l m e d i a c o o r d i n a t o r, agreed, said students have been “curious” about it

T h e Aw e s o m i z e r w a s i n s p i r e d b y a s i m i l a r p r o j e c t a t H a r v

Not wanting to “burden” the staff at the circulation desk with scanning the materials, Librar y Outside the Librar y decided to “ put [their] own twist” on the Awesome Box idea and users scan the items in themselves, according to Connolly Connolly said the project is “

plans in the works to set up a second Awesomizer station in another librar y “ [ T

d potentially be used to create other collections of items, such as a highlighted list of materials for a class,” Connolly said “If

proves to be popular, the collection of awesome items could one day be added to the

Skorton: ‘No Fee Is Popular’ New Downtown Marriott

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“Are we, [Gannett], in deficit? The answer is yes, ” Murphy said

Having a per-capita revenue stream would help guarantee a predictable source of funding for Student Health Ser vices in comparison to allocating money from the University budget, Skorton said at the meeting

“One could clearly argue that the University could have just increased the allocations you can ’ t count on that with the margins being so narrow, ” Skorton said

Some students expressed their discontent with the new funding structure, citing a “lack of transparency ” from the administration

Scheduled to Open in 2016

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are people for whom the fee will be a burden.”

Though Skorton admitted that students who do not use Gannett’s ser vices would not benefit from paying the fee, it would be crucial in maintaining the health of the “ common good ”

“If one of you never steps inside this health center, you ’ re not going to personally benefit from this fee,” Skorton said “[But] the health of a community is unpredictable The year of H1N1 outbreak had enormous strain on the community You don’t know a priori whether you ’ re going to get any personal benefit ”

“Obviously it’s pretty expedient to point to ‘tight margins’ when you ’ re imposing new costs on students,” said Joseph Fridman ’17, undesignated at large representative for the S A “ What many students are reacting to is a lack of transparency about how these financial needs came about and what alternatives were considered I’m hopeful that the planned public discussions on this issue will provide more information, which is crucial for any representative governance ” David Vakili ’16, Arts and Sciences representative for the S A , said he found the fee “disconcerting ” “ There’s students out there who don’t walk into Gannett all year, ” Vakili said Skorton, however, acknowledged that “ no fee is popular ”

“ There are people for whom the fee will be a burden,” he said

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“Sales tax on that is $420,000 annually and local room tax is $ 2 6 2 , 5 0 0 a n n u a l l y, ” h e s a i d

“Also, it’s a $25 million to $30 million project, so it’ll pay substantially more property tax than the current vacant lot ” With only 2,014 total guestrooms, including bed and breakfasts, Stoff said Ithaca will benefit from the addition of the new hotel

“In [the] summer and fall, particularly weekends, also during key campus event weekends sports, commencement, pare n t s w e e k e n d s t h e e n t i re county is sold out, ” he said Richard Adie, general manager of The Statler, said although there are many weekends during the year that rooms are hard to come by, the county occupancy r a t e l a g s b e h i n d t h e n a t i o n a l occupancy rate for hotel rooms

Last year the national occupancy of all U S hotels was 64 4 percent, with an increase of 3 6 p e r c e n t To m p k i n s C o u n t y ’ s o c c u p a n c y r a t e , h owe ve r, w a s only 58 9 percent, a 0 4 percent d e c re a s e f r o m l a s t y e a r, According to Adie

“ Ou r a re a d e m a n d i s ve r y high on the weekends and ver y

low on weekdays,” he said “New h o t e l s w i l l n o t c re a t e n e w demand It will just move people from one hotel to another ”

However, Adie said adding s i g n i f i c a n t m e e t i n g s p a c e s t o attract more groups to the county ’ s hotels may create a ne w, stronger demand “ The Hotel Ithaca has been d i s c u s s i n g a d d i n g s i g n i f i c a n t meeting space to attract more groups to the county that will create new demand,” he said “ This would be ver y positive as there are many state associations that would like to meet in Ithaca b u t c a n n o t

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space ”

According to the William H Lane Inc General Contractors, the hotel will have approximately 3,000 square feet of meeting and function space

Cornish said she is “blown away ” by the current demand and interest in building in the City

“ To have this kind of interest in Ithaca, a city in upstate New York, is amazing,” she said

The Ithaca Marriott is curre n

n spring 2016 after an estimated 18 months of construction

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun com

Of cial: Gannett Prepared To Combat Measles Cases

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Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun com

NEW YORK (AP) NBC News anchor Brian Williams found himself the story Thursday, his credibility seriously threatened because he claimed falsely that he had been in a helicopter hit by a grenade during the Iraq war

NBC News officials would not say whether their top on-air personality would face disciplinary action The “Nightly News” anchor for just over a decade, Williams had become an online punching bag overnight

Tweets with the hashtag #BrianWilliamsMemories joked that he blew up the Death Star, saved someone from a polar bear and flew with Wonder Woman in her invisible helicopter Photoshopped pictures showed Williams reporting from the moon, and riding shotgun with O J Simpson in his Ford Bronco

“How could you expect anyone who served in the military to ever see this guy onscreen again and not feel contempt? How could you expect anyone to believe he or the broadcast he leads has any credibility?” wrote critic David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun

Williams apologized Wednesday for telling the story a week earlier during a “Nightly News” tribute to a veteran he had befriended during a 2003 reporting trip to Iraq Before expressing his regrets on the air, Williams did so online and in an interview with the newspaper Stars & Stripes

He speculated online that constant viewing of video showing him inspecting the damaged helicopter “and the fog of memory over 12 years, made me conflate the two, and I apologize ”

His story had morphed through the years

Shortly after the incident, Williams had described on NBC how he was traveling in a group of helicopters forced down in the Iraq desert

On the ground, he learned the Chinook in front of him “had almost been blown out of the sky;” he showed a photo of the aircraft with a gash from a rocket-propelled grenade

The NBC crew and military officials accompanying them spent three days in the desert, kept aground by a sandstorm

But in a 2008 blog post, Williams said that his helicopter had come under fire from what appeared to be Iraqi farmers with RPGs He said a helicopter in front of his had been hit

Then, in a 2013 appearance on David Letterman’s “Late Show,” Williams said that two of the four helicopters he was traveling with had been hit by ground fire, “including the one I was in ”

“No kidding?” Letterman interjected

Williams described making a quick, hard landing in the middle of the desert

“I have to treat you now with renewed respect, ” Letterman said “That’s a tremendous story ”

Williams’ story was first questioned in posts to the “Nightly News” Facebook page It’s a touchy topic: Members of the military who are wounded or who come under enemy fire consider themselves members of a special kind of brotherhood and do not like people who try to intrude, said retired U S Army Col Pete Mansoor, a professor of military history at Ohio State University

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NEW YORK (AP) First lady Michelle Obama visited a school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Thursday to announce a $500 million donation funding the fight against childhood obesity

As she watched cooks prepare smoothies at the Edward A Reynolds West Side High School and visited a room of students taking a spin class, Obama noted that it was the fifth anniversar y of the federal Let”s Move effort

“Together, we started a national conversation on this issue and

we ’ re seeing changes at every level from individual schools to families to the halls of Congress,” she said, adding that average obesity rates have stopped rising, or even dropped among the youngest children

The money announced Thursday comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The initiative encourages educators and families to ser ve healthier food and to organize more exercise The foundation also donated $500 million in 2007 toward improving children's eating and life habits

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Further Justi cation Needed For Student Health Fee

STUDENTS NOT ENROLLED IN THE UNIVERSITY ’S Student Health Insurance Plan will be charged $350 under a new annual fee starting next fall, President David Skorton announced Thursday in an unexpected message to Cornellians Administrators have justified this fee which will affect nearly two-thirds of students as necessary to create a sustainable model for handling Gannett Health Services’ finances As health care costs skyrocket across the country, officials argue that University resources and SHIP payments are no longer sufficient to properly fund Gannett However, without providing concrete evidence to support these claims at the time of the announcement, we are skeptical of the justifications for charging Cornellians not enrolled in SHIP to have access to health care on campus

Under the new model, the annual fee and a $10 co-pay per visit will cover the costs of most health care provided by Cornell Dr Janet Corson-Rikert, associate vice president for campus health and director of Gannett, said in a statement that she hopes that by charging all students with private insurance, students can receive treatment “without incurring unanticipated charges ” While the fee may be beneficial for some students, we question the lack of substantiating evidence showing whether the additional charge is necessary For example, Cornellians who do not use Gannett during a school year will not see the benefits of their payment that year, and those who do use less than $350 worth of services at Gannett will still contribute to the overall operation of the center At Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting, Skorton conceded that those who do not use University health services will not see the benefits of paying the fee, but added that the cost is worthwhile given the importance of the health of Cornellians

We believe Gannett and the University have an obligation to provide its students, faculty and staff with a healthy and safe campus environment Skorton stressed at the S A meeting the importance of having health resources readily available to the Cornell community during epidemics, such as the H1N1 and string of suicides during the 2009-10 academic year, as support for the charge Yet, the question of whether a fee is necessary will remain legitimate until University officials release evidence supporting the need for the fee to all Cornellians

Eighty-three percent of students utilize Gannett each year, according to the University However, Skorton failed to provide statistics which exist, according to S A representatives, who knew of the creation of the fee before Thursday’s announcement when claiming that students often choose outside care over Gannett due to the cost of on-campus aid When informing the greater community of the fee, this evidence was missing

Skorton said in his announcement that Susan Murphy ’73 Ph D ’94, vice president for student and academic services, will hold on-campus meetings to discuss the new health care fee with students But in order to have an open conversation, the University needs to provide further justification to students and parents for the additional cost

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A previous headline for a Feb 5 news story, “Cornell Program for ‘Beginning Farmers’ Receives $712 5K of Funding From USDA,” incorrectly stated that Cornell’s Northeast Beginning Farmer Project received a $713,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture In fact, the program received $712,500

CLARIFICATION

A previous headline for a Feb 5 news story, “Common Council Passes New Noise Ordinance,” stated that police will now use decibel tests when addressing noise complaints However, the decibel tests are an option that police can use

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A Tale of Chocolate And Depression

If you walk into any convenience store in Japan, you will quickly become familiar with the brand Meiji, which adorns the labels of milk, chocolate and other sugar y food products

If you ’ re not familiar with Japanese histor y, Meiji means “enlightened r ule” and is the name of the government that transformed feudal Japan into a modern state in 1868 Envoys were sent to Europe to bring Western learning to Japan, par ticularly the science, medicine and technology of Germany, France and Britain as par t of this modernization project

Meiji, established in 1906 as Meiji Sugar Company, is now the four th largest confectioner y company in the world It might seem strange that the “enlightened” foodstuff of Japan today is milk and sugar, but milk, supposedly the building block of strong bodies, contains the promise of a superior physique Refined sugar, the ultimately commodity of a global trading economy, has long symbolized western sophistication

After a few decades of manufacturing condensed milk, this turn of the centur y Tokyo confectionar y company branched out into pharmaceuticals, producing penicillin in 1946 With the increasing integration of the American and Japanese economies after the war, the trajector y of the company ’ s products followed the changing domestic landscape of post-war America: Meiji produced baby formula, frozen pizza dinners and premium ice cream, all the while developing its own nascent line of pharmaceutical medicines

In 1999, Meiji Seika Pharma Company, the other subsidy of the parent company of Meiji Holdings, launched Depromel as Japan’s first commercialized antidepressant dr ug Manufacturing an antidepressant might seem highly idiosyncratic for a brand whose name is emblazoned across milk and sugar commodities, but the decision to produce what in America would be a blockbuster pharmaceutical is in line with the increasingly commercial nature of research and development at the turn of the millennium In a context where mood regulating dr ugs like Prozac have become a highly profitable American cultural phenomenon, lifestyle dr ugs are not too conceptually dissimilar from industrialized food products that also exemplify a modern way of living when milk and sugar, which have historically been scarce nutrients, are mass produced and individually packaged for convenience

Nineteen ninety nine was a landmark year for American pharmaceuticals in Japan The hormonal bir th control pill was made legally available for the first time, along with Viagra The development of these dr ugs for commercialized use in Japan in 1999 triggered a cultural change in how people thought about mood disorders In Japan and other East Asian countries, mental illness is often highly stigmatized Japanese psychiatrists had a term for utsubyo, a serious mental illness that is often treated in institutions No word in Japanese corresponds to the biomedical equivalent of “depression,” but why should there be? Par ticularly when a person ’ s experience of distress is highly subjective and immediate to his or her specific circumstances, it is unreasonable to expect a biomedical term to precisely translate across emotional worlds

Instead, Japanese people draw upon a different vocabular y for discussing the afflictions of mood Melancholic feelings may be understood as yuutsu, grief that can also be caused by the weather

Then there is ki, or “vital energy ” Ki ga fusagu is a ki that is clogged, ki ga meir u is leaky, and ki ga omoi is heavy and suppressed

The experience and expression of illness is shaped by culture, and in the case of depression in Japan, by capitalism To create a market for antidepressants in Japan, the American pharmaceutical industr y contrived a new illness categor y that avoided the stigmatization of utsubyo As direct to consumer adver tising is banned in Japan, companies developed educational campaigns about a disorder that previously did not exist in Japan By the time antidepressants arrived on the scene, Japanese people knew about “mild depression,” encapsulated by the catchy neologism kokoro no kaze, or the “cold of the soul ”

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In the end, perhaps one of the biggest benefits of clinics is not even the knowledge that we gain but that it helps us to develop healthy habits for the rest of our careers

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BALANCING HOPE AND CRISIS

BY LAURA BOLAND Sun Staff Writer

Cornell Cinema is screening the five Oscar-nominated short documentaries in the build-up to the awards ceremony on Feb 22 The titular subject of the first film, Joanna, is a Polish woman dealing with an untreatable cancer At the time of filming she had been given less than three months to live During her illness, Joanna started a blog of daily reflections and hopes that gained quite a following, although you would never know from watching the short The film focuses instead on the simple, intimate bonds between Joanna and her family She helps her son John do his homework and teaches him how to ride a bike Her husband Piotr makes her coffee while she rests on the couch There are no interviews to create a narrative, no director to contextualize these fragments of experience, because no context is needed to understand this family’s story Their love is apparent in every gesture

In the beginning of the film, Joanna asks her son why he would like her to write about him He replies, “Because I want to know what I am like,” a wise thing for a small child to say Joanna becomes a visual biography for its subject, inviting us to see Joanna’s world through her eyes and in that moment, know the essence of her character As with many people at the end of their lives, Joanna is concerned with defining herself Several times we hear Joanna read her writing aloud as she works through her thoughts on weighty subjects like death, gratitude, self-awareness and happiness Her words are not the most elegant, nor are her conclusions the most novel They are time-honored truths that everyone knows but mean little unless the weight of experience is behind them One day, we will come to know them, just as one day her son will be mature enough to appreciate the gifts his mother left him

Perhaps the greatest truth that art struggles with is that it can never completely capture the fullness of life. Director Aneta Kopacz navigates this issue by striving to make the camera as invisible as possible Often, it is far

away and when it is close it is hidden behind shelves, leaves or even subjects Kopacz also does not shy away from silence. It is in the quietest moments of the film that the most is conveyed In the sole encounter with a doctor that portrayed for us, we do not hear their conversation, instead, the shot lingers on Joanna’s face There, we can see a beauty and sadness that can never be described

The second short, Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 gets to the heart of the desperate present state of veterans ’ mental health Mournful trumpets play while American flags flap in the wind, as we learn that, “America’s veterans are killing themselves at a rate of 22 a day, nearly one ever y hour ” The small village of Canandaigua, New York, is home to the Veterans’ Crisis Hotline; the only one in the country that serves veterans specifically The hotline is staffed by 250 “responders,” who field over 22,000 calls per month Only 25 percent of the responders are veterans and everyone there seems eager to help despite the emotional toll this work must take It is fitting that director Ellen Goosenburg Kent frames this experience with war metaphors The responders are the “frontlines” of a great “battle” against suicide The call center feels like a war zone A series of rapid cuts reveals the variety of tragic conversations that are taking place at any given time, each totally unique but shot with the same despair and hopelessness Everyone in the building is occupied While responders talk directly to the veterans, other staff members contact local police departments to make sure that the veteran gets the immediate help they need People are rushing between cubicles, typing furiously and passing notes to each other In the one call, the veteran only provides a first name and his cell phone number, so four staff members spend the better part of a day track-

ing him down through his cell phone carrier

Watching the responders talk with the callers, who are sometimes thousands of miles away, is almost surreal It isn’t hard to imagine how isolated the callers must feel, to reach out to someone so far away The audience never hears veterans ’ voices but hears their stories through the responders, who make a point of affirming and repeating everything that is said We are asked to believe the veterans and see their invisible pain One responder says in an interview that ultimately, the decision of whether or not to commit suicide is up to the veteran The fleeting connection with another compassionate human being that this call center provides seems inadequate in the face of something so horrible, and sometimes isn’t enough But at this moment it is all the veterans and the responders have. Whatever the outcome, there is always another call on the line

Both of these documentaries will be screened at Cornell Cinema next Tuesday

Laura Boland is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at lboland@cornellsun com

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

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c o u r t s h i p a l l t h e m o re t h r i l l i n g It a l s o c l a ri f i e d t h e s u b t l e t i e s re q u i re d t o e vo k e t h e y i n a n d y a n g o f t h e i r g e n d e r p l a y To g e t h e r, t h e y we re t h e h u b o f a d i v i n e w h e e l , e a c h s p o k e o f w h i c h t o l d a va r i a t i o n o f a n i n t e rl o c k i n g s t o r y T h i s o n l y s e r ve d t o u n d e rs c o re K r i s h n a a s a w i l l i n g a n d a b l e p r i s o n e r o f R a d h a

Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun com

Wanking to Girls: The Pornography of Failure

Sunday night should be the worst part of the week There’s an unmatched dread that comes from hopping into bed knowing that eight siren-like alarms will attempt to jolt you awake at the ungodly hour of 10 a m the next morning Especially after finishing a paper, a problem set and a few dozen pages of reading, it’s not surprising for a casual “ my life sucks” to pop up under your breath It’s pretty involuntary and of course you don’t mean it, but, hey, that’s what Sunday night will do to you It’s odd, then, for me, an avid sleep-lover and homework-hater, to be spreading the gospel of Sunday night HBO’s Sunday lineup saves my week before it even begins Girls, Looking and, now, Togetherness are all viscerally satisfying on a layer one notch deeper than even the other great shows on television The level they’re on the level HBO has begun to curate very well fits squarely in the categor y I’ll affectionately dub “softcore failure porn ” I might mutter “ my life sucks,” but thanks to HBO’s Sunday lineup I can indulge in the spinetingling failure of others and be assured, if only until my Monday morning alarm, that those people whose lives I envy still have their own shit to deal with the proverbial Monday mornings of life These shows stir up a selfgratifying cocktail of empathy and reassurance that, in its antagonism, feels a bit dirty; hence, the “ porn ” part Granted, stroking your hard,

veiny ego to failure porn isn’t nearly as dirty as rooting for the failure of others in real life It allows you to get yer ya-ya ’ s out to the fake stuff so you ’ re not caught emotionally unprepared when the real thing (i e failure) presents itself But it’s still a tad concerning to get so much pleasure out of characters that seem so truly human

Looking begins with the glossy dream of being young in San Francisco, and then chips away at that façade more and more each week I love Patrick’s ( Jonathan Groff ) wide-eyed optimism and that despite his fumbling, he finally finds an emotional connection with someone; this person, however, is his currently-in-a-relationship boss Agustin (Frankie J Alvarez) has cheerfully found a new boyfriend as well, but only in the depressed aftermath of a rough breakup

Moving upward in age, Togetherness, a product of the brilliant Duplass brothers, presents the consistent failure of routine

a d u l t h o o d better than anything else on television

The well-off, beautiful family of four appears to have everything together, and serve as the liferafts for their deadbeat sister and best friend

But as the family crumbles every day under the weight of extended marriage and the stress of kids, the unmarried 40 year old ditz and the fat, bald, out-of-work actor are the shoulders to cry on On Sunday nights with homework up to

our eyeballs, we long to be those people that have all their ducks in a row, but softcore failure porn reminds us that ever yone else’s ducks are just as scattered as our own

As emotionally stabilizing as the others are, Girls is historically the gold-standard of HBO failure porn Ever since Tiny Furniture, Lena Dunham’s (decidedly not failed) career has been built on endearingly failing repeatedly Recently, characters other than her own have been perfectly assuaging the fear that we ’ re not on the right path Marnie (Allison Williams) and Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) are all floundering despite having the tools for success right in front of them And as much as we want Jessa’s ( Jemima Kirke) effortless cool and spontaneity, not getting arrested for public urination outside our A A meeting is a fine tradeoff Hannah, however, has become the bondage of failure porn I’m sure some people love that her failure continues to be exponentially more vulgar, but it’s way too much for me to get behind She fails so self-sabotagingly in every single situation, even the most preventable ones, that (like in an encounter with real bondage porn) I’m left squirming From falling off her bike with a squeal as if she were in The Princess Diaries 2 to systematically insulting

every single other writer in her program in hopes that they’d go easier on her work, I cringe at the inevitability of her failure

Whereas the failure in Togetherness is a therapeutic outlet for the Duplass brothers, Lena Dunham has passed the dangerous threshold from catharsis to self-indulgence with Hannah

While passionately disliking Lena Dunham’s own character should be a major barrier to enjoying her show, most episodes of Girls still fit firmly in the self-affirming canon of HBO’s Sunday nights Every seven days, HBO repeats the mantra that the menial shittiness of life is a reality for everyone As the last light of the weekend fades and the hell of the week seems to be closing in, television reassures us that bad things happen to good people other than ourselves, just like those god-awful Monday morning alarms happen to us

Mike Sosnick is a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun com A Ne w Cu l t Eve r y Da y appears alternate Fridays this semester

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Marshall Leads Cornell Into Games Against Penn, Princeton

BASKETBALL Continued from page 12

how we create in transition for one another through our three guards, we ’ re not taking care of the ball enough, so we have to understand that and value it a bit more We’re going to have to hit some shots There’s going to be open looks for us and we have to knock them down ”

After their matchup against the Quakers, Cornell travels to Princeton to play the No 18 Tigers Princeton handed the Red a 69-46 loss in early March last year In that matchup, both Aston and sophomore guard Kerri Moran had strong performances Moran had assists on three baskets as well as seven points

The Red looks to improve coming off of a week-

end split against Brown and Yale

“We’re trying to improve on the things we didn’t do very well against Yale and Brown, so worrying about ourselves,” Smith said “I think we have to tighten up the rebounding numbers and taking care of the ball a little bit more ”

Sophomore guard Megan LeDuc, senior guard Christine Kline and Moran will be counted on to take care of the basketball and continue their performance beyond the arc

“Penn plays a lot of zone, and both teams are very big, large, cover a lot of ground are very active with their hands,” Smith said “We’re going to have to be efficient on offense ”

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun com

The Many Ways of Dealing With Your Favorite Team Being Mediocre

CHIUSANO Continued from page 12

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Never Get Your Hopes Up

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Having hope as a fan of a losing team is a little like chicken pox Once you have it, and subsequently lose it, you can never get it back I’ve written before about the devastation of watching Carlos Beltran striking out to end the Mets’ 2006 season in the National League Championship Series That was only half of the disappointment Minus one Pedro Martinez to injur y and adding i n t h e l o s s e s o f C h a d Br a d f o rd , Ro b e r t o Hernandez and Darren Oliver to free agency, the Mets desperately needed to balance the equation in the offseason

Instead they signed Moises Alou and Damion Easley, bumping up the average age of the roster to about 90 years old Heading into the homestretch of the season (and defying all odds), the Mets held a seven-game division lead on the Philadelphia Phillies Alas, there was hope That beautiful thing! The Mets lost 12 of their last 17 games and Philadelphia clinched the division in the final game of the season The final one Hope is cruel

Don’t Go Bonkers Over Big Names

They’ll only take a wood bat to your heart and smash it to pieces The Mets have had their fair share of these over the years A guy by the name of Mo Vaughn might be familiar to you A three-time All-star, the Hit Dog was an animal for the Red Sox, winning the American League MVP award in 1995 and hitting over 300 in five consecutive seasons His numbers dropped slightly when he moved over to Anaheim and he missed the 2001 season due to injur y

The brilliant owners of the Mets figured that

picking up a 34-year-old, over weight slugger coming off a season lost due to injur y was a good idea Vaughn was a colossal disappointment (pun intended), hitting 259 in his first season and 190 in his second season in just 27 games played The Mets are notorious for going after big name, over-the-hill players think Moises Alou, Carlos Delgado, Jason Bay, Tom Glavine and the addition of Michael Cuddyer to the roster this year will likely prove no exception

There’s Always Next Year

You’ll catch yourself thinking this a lot as a fan of a losing team Don’t Focus on the now and tr y not to get caught up in the future because it can only lead to further disappointment The Cubs haven’t won a World Series in 106 years The number of fans alive when that happened is dwindling, if not already at zero “ There’s always next year ” doesn’t always apply

Don’t Stop Watching

It hurts when things aren ’ t going your team ’ s way when, year after year, you are disappointed But don’t stop watching Tune in to MSG and watch Lou Amundson and Langston Galloway lead the Knicks to a 30-point loss Your team needs you What else does it have but you?

It’s OK to Cry

Forget Tom Hanks telling you that “there’s no cr ying in baseball ” Sometimes there is If you can let the water works out when your team loses, the tears of joy will be that much sweeter when your team wins Someday it will happen (even for the Cubs) and you’ll be glad you cried You can only love winning if you ’ ve ever known what it’s like to be a loser

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun com

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ing more offensive oppor tunit i e s Fr e s h m a n d e f e n s e m a n Erin O’Connor said that the t e a m h a s s u c c e s s f u l l y d o n e these things in the past fe w matchups

upcoming games with determination and audacity “ We

groove and I can tell that the team is more fired up than anything,” Woods said “ The last three games were great

because we are prepared ”

“Our team ' s strengths in t h e p a s t t h r e e g a m e s h a v e b e e n p l a y i n g d e f e n s e f i r s t , g e t t i n g a g o o d a m o u n t o f s h o t s a n d c a p i t a l i z i n g o n most of our scoring oppor tun i t i e s , ” O ’ C o n n o r s a i d “ When we all focus on our [defensive zone] and make no mistakes, ever ything else falls into place ” W i t h a l o t o f p r a c t i c e under its belt and three great per formances this past week, t h e Re d i s g o i n g i

Danielle Letourneau can be reached at dletourneau@cornellsun com

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Red Faces Tough Weekend Slate of Ivy League Games

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s basketball team will face two Ivy League opponents on the road as they travel to the University of Pennsylvania (11-6, 2-1 Ivy League) on

University (19-0, 3-0 Ivy League) on Saturday

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fell, 50-43, to the Quakers Cornell forward Allyson DiMagno ’14 had a standout performance for the Red as she became the alltime Cornell rebounds leader, grabbing 938 boards in her four years on the squad

Of the four players that scored for Cornell against Penn

last year, sophomore forward Nia Marshall is the only one who remains Marshall has continued her standout performance this year, averaging 17 3 points per game while shooting 484 from the field Last year, Marshall totaled 14 points against Penn in addition to her six rebounds, four blocks, three assists and two steals Marshall’s experience against the Quakers will come in handy this week against a tough and aggressive interior defense Unlike many of Cornell’s previous matchups, the

Icers Look to Gain Momentum, Build on Three-Game Winning Streak

By DANIELLE LETOURNEAU

Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s hockey hits the road once again this weekend, this time visiting ECAC conference rivals Quinnipiac (21-4-3, 12-2-2 ECAC) and Princeton (11-10-2, 9-6-1 ECAC) In its previous meetings with the Bobcats and Tigers, Cornell fell short, losing, 3-0, and, 5-4, respectively The Red (13-7-3, 11-3-2 ECAC) heads into the weekend riding a three-game winning streak after defeating Union, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Colgate

In its early season matchup, Quinnipiac press u re d C o r n e l l f ro m t h e m o m e n t t h e p u c k dropped The Bobcats had nine shots on goal before the Red could get a shot off on Quinnipiac goaltender Chelsea Laden Late into the first period, Quinnipiac scored two more goals to seal

the 3-0 victory Although the Red stood its ground and created offensive opportunities throughout the game, it was unable to cash in on any of its scoring chances

Against Princeton, Cornell was unable to comeback from a three-goal deficit after the second period Senior forward Emily Fulton brought life back into the game, when she whipped the puck into the net on a one-on-one play Late into the third, sophomore forward Brianna Veerman snuck a shot past Princeton’s goalie in final push Despite the hard push from Cornell in the final 20 minutes of play, the Red fell short in its comeback attempt, dropping the matchup despite outshooting the Tigers 25-16

Nearly three months removed since the losses to the Bobcats and Tigers, junior forward Taylor Woods said she believes that the team ' s recent results are a reflection of the squad's discipline, progress and ambition

Penn squad plays zone defense designed to limit the success of two of Cornell’s biggest offensive weapons, Marshall and sophomore forward Nicholle Aston “Nia and Nicholle have to produce against these zones They’re not going to be able to put them on the block I think our guards have to take care of the basketball a bit more, ” said head coach Dayna Smith “As much as I love

H o w t o C h e e r f o r T h e L o v a b l e L o s e r s

Even for someone like me, who had little vested interest in the outcome of the game, the Super Bowl on Sunday was a roller coaster ride of emotions There were times when one could marvel at the beauty of the NFL at an improbable catch or an on-the-money throw before that wonderment gets

person who would let him do so

After the game was over and everyone had left to brave the compounding snowfall, my friend sat watching the Lombardi Trophy ceremony

There were tears in his eyes “It’s been so long,” he said

Maybe it’s just a winner’s mentality to think that 10 years is

“I think our team ' s strength is our tenacious mindset and preparation,” Woods said “The last three games that we have won did not come from that day, but it came

months The team established a vision together and we try to do everything we can on an individual and team basis to achieve it ”

The Red's strength lies within its communication on and off the ice, according to Woods The team ’ s organization has helped them capitalize on offensive opportunities in the last few games

“Our offensive ability has been strong by scoring 18 goals in the last three games What fans do not notice is that we are

erased by uppercuts to the helmet and players wrestling each other to the ground

Though, all of that aside, being able to watch the game alongside people who did actually care about the winner was equally entertaining One of my good friends, a long-time Patriots fan, stood throughout the entire game When Seahawks wide receiver Jermaine Kearse made his improbable catch, it looked as if my friend had just been punched in the gut When Darius Butler sealed the game with an interception less than a minute later, he was jumping around the room, hugging any

a heartbreaking drought for a championship (even though they appeared in the Super Bowl two other times during that span)

Good on Patriots, Yankees and Lakers fans for being so staunchly opposed to and unaccepting of defeat But what about the rest of us: the unlucky fans? The last time the Patriots won a Super Bowl, YouTube didn’t exist The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, television didn’t exist

Let’s keep things in perspective

So for all the downtrodden