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Resident Housing Survey

By CHLOE RIPPE Sun Staff Writer

The Tompkins County Planning Department launched a housing sur vey Wednesday to encourage people who live, work or study in Tompkins County to share their housing experiences and needs The survey, open through Feb 22, is intended to give the county an updated understanding of the housing needs of the residents of the county, since its last housing needs assessment survey was taken 10 years ago Megan McDonald, senior

Grads Criticize College of Business

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

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Oscar Winning Actress Marlee Matlin Shares

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer

“ The real handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, ” Marlee Matlin, renowned deaf actress, announced to a lecture hall packed with students Monday night “It lies in the mind ” Matlin, a renowned advocate for the deaf community, spoke with humor and conviction about the str uggles she has overcome as a deaf per former, she also made sure to thank the people who have suppor ted her in her life and career

Although she was diagnosed as deaf at the age of 18 months, Matlin said her parents sent her to a regular rather than a deaf s c h o o l , a n d h e r f a m i l y s u p p o r t e d h e r through her childhood

because my parents were dangerous foreign spies,” Matlin said through an interpreter Matlin also emphasized the impor tant role her Je wish upbringing played in her life, saying it “has helped me to achieve my dreams when others could not ”

“I was born into a family that never took ‘ no ’ for an answer and was all about a lot of attention and a whole lot of a word we call ‘chutzpah,’” Matlin said Matlin added that the day of her bat mitzvah was one of her most treasured memories

“[I studied] with a rabbi who signed and who spoke, and ever y day, I worked to phonetically pronounce the Hebre w that would be par t of my haftarah,” she said Matlin also discussed her friendship with mentor Henr y Winkler best known for

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Weill Cornell Team Finds New Human Migration Pattern

By SAMANTHA ACRICHE Sun Staff Writer

A team of genome researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine in Ne w York and Qatar have discovered that indigenous Arabs can directly trace their ancestors to migrants from Africa

A conclusion which the team published in Januar y ’ s edition of

sor of biological statistics and c o m p u t a t i o n a l b i o l o g y a t

Cornell and genetic medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

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“One of the exciting things of genomics is that more and more people are being sequenced.”

y press “ Ou r s t u d y shows that, if you look at the entire genome, not only was a

d after the out of Africa migration but indigenous Arabs currently residing on the Arabian peninsula can trace par t of their ancestr y b a c k t o t h i s a n c i e n t p o p u l ation,”said Jason Me zey, a profes-

According to Me zey, scientists have proposed multiple theo r i e s a b o u t t h e t r a j e c t o r y o f human migration Before this s t u d y, s c i e n t i s t s c o m m o n l y believed that the original strain of the population that migrated o u t o f Africa had u l t i m a t e l y d i e d o u t b e c a u s e t h e A r a b i a n P e n i n s u l a today is a m i x o f A r a b s , Europeans and other neighboring regions

I n t h i s s t u d y, r e s e a r c h e r s sequenced the genomes of 104 Arabian Peninsula natives and c o m p a r e d t h e m w i t h 1 , 0 9 2 genomes from worldwide popul a t i o n s , a c c o r d i n g t o t h e University They were able to g r o u p p a r t i c i p a n t s b a s e d o n genome similarities to create an

evolutionar y tree

“ The genomes of the Arab individuals were found to statistically cluster within the broad g ro u p o f n o n - A f r i c a n p e o p l e s but while they clustered within this broad group, the genomes of the Arab individuals also formed their own distinct cluster that was outside of to all other nonAfricans,” Mezey said “ This pattern in the clustering would only be expected if Arabs could trace a portion of their ancestr y to popu l a t i o n s e s t a b l i s h e d o n t h e Arabian Peninsula after the outof-Africa migrations ”

The publication notes that not only will such findings will have an immense impact on the indigenous Arab population as it provides them with information about their genetics, but it could also have an immense impact on modern medicine

“Beyond the importance for disentangling human migration histor y, an early split of Eurasian lineages in the Arabian Peninsula has implications for the study of disease genetics for indigenous people in the region,” the publication states “ This suggests that

for any genome-wide association study (GWAS) or rare variant association study (RVAS) of diabetes or other complex diseases i n Q a t a r, i n f e r e n c e o f d e e p a n c e s t r y i n t h e A r a b i a n Peninsula, using rare variation sampled by genome or exome sequencing, is critical for identifying new disease risk genes ”

Me zey explained that in the future he plans to expand the g e n o m e s e q u e n c e w i t h l a r

sample sizes

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Me zey said “Soon we will be able to look at the sequences of anywhere from 100,000 people

including this one

their work would not have been possible without recent

according to the University

Samantha Acriche can be reached at sacriche@cornellsun com

Peace Prize Winner Talks Catastrophic Effects of Nuclear War

By LAUREN KELLY

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D e m o c r a t B e r n i e S a n d e r s sought to play it safe on the eve of the nation’s initial primar y GOP contenders vying for second and third saw fresh hopes f o r s u r v i v a l a f t e r Ne w Hampshire as both par ties settled in for a drawn-out slog to the nomination

A s s n o wf a l l b r o u g h t y e t m o r e u n c e r t a i n t y to the race ’ s f i n a l h o u r s , H i l l a r y Clinton tried to move past

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Vying for votes in Nashua, Bush described his opponent variably as a loser, a liar, a whiner and the worst choice for president He blasted what he said was Tr ump ’ s proclivity for “ i

“Jeb [Bush] is having some kind of breakdown, I think. It’s a very sad situation that’s taking place.”

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a g a i n s t Te x a s Se n Te d Cr u z , who had bested him in Iowa, but against Jeb Bush The former Florida governor is one of three Republicans hoping Marco

R u b i o ’ s r e c e n t s t u m b l e s h a v e opened a fresh path for one of them to emerge as the more

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New Housing Survey to Capture Evolving Resident Preferences

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planner of The Tompkins County Planning Department, said that this survey will expand upon the 2006 survey by providing data with “finer detail” of the local population

The 2006 assessment gleaned light on a major trend in the Tompkins County housing market that the county ’ s population increase combined with slow housing unit growth, in addition to the decline in the number of persons per household, caused an increased need for housing development in urban areas within the county

According to a 2006 repor t, the countr y is expected to add 5,600 net residents in the next decade

Questions in the recent sur vey request residents’ income level, monthly housing payments, utilities covered by rent, location, household and employment The sur vey also includes general inquiries regarding satisfaction and dissatisfaction with Tompkins County housing options

“ The sur vey fits in with the bigger project of the housing needs assessment as a tool to get direct input from people living, studying or working in county, to find what their needs and preferences are and to conduct a market analysis of the current housing situation to create a model for needs not just now but for the next 10 years, ” MacDonald said “ The 2006 affordable needs assessment provided more general numbers, and in this sur vey we are looking more at different

seniors, people commuting from outside the city and people with special needs ” The Planning Depar tment seeks to accommodate specific demographics and lessen competition between different sectors of the population within the housing market by expanding the variety of housing options

For example, there is an increased demand in options like condos or townhouses with less maintenance and within a walkable neighborhood according to McDonald

“Unfor tunately we kne w there was a gap in housing after the 2006 sur vey, especially for people in greater financial need We have an aging

population as well, so we ’ re looking at affordable housing options for them that are easier to age in, ” McDonald said “It will be great to see the needs of seniors, families and students so we can hopefully lessen the housing competition based on their individual needs by making improvements so that the population as a whole can find the housing they need ”

Once data is collected from the latest sur vey, “the Planning Depar tment can update the housing strategy and create plans so people can find housing for the prices they need,” according to McDoanld

For example, the housing needs repor t from 2006 resulted in the creation of a housing fund for low income individuals

“One of the amazing things that came out of the assessment was the Housing Fund, now the Community Housing Development Fund, which par tners the county, Cornell University and the City of Ithaca, where each contribute money to fund rehabilitation of affordable housing for people with income limitations,” she said

The Planning Depar tment intends to use the findings of its latest sur vey, once they have received all of their submissions, to instill lasting changes in the housing market It also aims to help its par tner Cornell University, which is “gearing up to create a housing master plan,” according to McDonald

“Once we finish our sur vey, we will also use data from other sources and put all of the information together to find where gaps are and what we need in the next 10 years, ” she said “ When we know where gaps are we can star t to have con-

broader community to figure out what types of housing we need ”

Sur vey results will be summarized in a repor t in a repor t later this spring on current and future residential needs, according to McDonald “ We need to find what is lacking in housing now and what we need going for ward for people living here and for people who would live here if we had the appropriate housing,” she said

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i n g h e r O s c a r v i c t o r y f o r Children of a Lesser God, even when a film critic asserted that she had only been given the award out of pity

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a c t i n g r o l e s t h a t r e a l i s t i c a l l y depict deaf characters, such as her character in The L Word

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Terminator :

The Rise of the Rubio

In late 2015, a group of non-governmental organizations collectively known as “The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots” held several protests outside of the United Nations complex in New York City before being granted an audience with a committee of representatives from several nations The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is deadly serious Rather than focusing on more farfetched fears à la Skynet or the replicants from Blade Runner, the Campaign aims to stop the spread of the autonomous, computerized weapons that are the bedrock of the Drone Age I humbly propose that they also recognize the growing threat of another type of killer robot, one so advanced that it has existed under an international spotlight nearly undetected for years I like to call this type of robot the T-2016, but the public knows him better as Sen Marco Rubio (RFla )

The T-2016 was finally exposed on national television Saturday night Under the intense probing of former prosecutor and Tony Soprano body-double Gov Chris Christie (RN J ), the T-2016’s sweat glands went into overdrive, causing its hard drive to short-circuit The result was an increasingly damp “Marco Rubio” repeating the same line about President Barack Obama (who, and I know this will be a surprise for many Republicans, is not running for a third term), almost word-for-word, four times in the span of several minutes When Governor Christie explicitly called Rubio out on giving canned, memorized mini-speeches, the senator responded with another rendition of the same canned, memorized mini-speech That is not something that humans do That is not even something that lizard people do That is the sure sign of a computer helplessly stuck in an infinite loop

The next day, while working the Sunday morning talk shows, George Stephanopoulos asked the T-2016 to explain the incident from the prior night In typical robot fashion, Rubio picked up on the keywords in Stephanopoulos’s question and merely repeated the same response from the debate The damage done to the T-2016’s system Saturday night is clearly difficult to fix, because twelve hours later the mad scientists at the Republican National Committee had still failed to rewire Rubio’s learning processors This is unfortunate for the Republican Party, because it means that they may have to revert to their prototype candidate, the TC-2016, otherwise known as Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas)

After former Gov Mitt Romney’s (RMass ) devastating loss in 2012 election, the RNC realized that instead of nominating the same lizard person in a different rich old white man ’ s skin, they needed to put forward a more palatable alternative, something more in the mold of the undefeated Barack Obama Unfortunately for the RNC, that type of candidate doesn’t come in a Republican model

Never ones to take no for an answer (except when it comes to common-sense gun safety legislation), the party turned to the best biomedical engineers and roboticists they could find and charged them with creating the perfect candidate for president After months of tinkering, they produced their prototype, Ted Cruz

On paper, he is an exquisite candidate

Minority? Check Ivy League education? Check Not yet fifty? Check Excellent debater? Check Long career in public service? Check Ted Cruz was the Republican Research and Development Department’s best attempt at an Obama clone He even comes with the same birther baggage that Obama did

But it soon became apparent that something was off Where Obama was cool, Ted Cruz was awkward Where Obama was relatable, Cruz was alienating Where Obama was endearing, Ted Cruz was hated by literally everyone who ever had the displeasure of meeting him The RNC realized that they had grossly over-calculated the amount of professorial aloofness and disdain to put in an Obama clone Disappointed by their results, the RNC stuck the TC-2016 in Texas, where they hoped and prayed he would be swallowed by the desert

Of course, that was wishful thinking Against all odds, the TC-2016 managed to win a seat in the U S Senate (much to the

chagrin of the 99 other senators) and for years evaded allegations that he was a robot Despite his insistence that he is of flesh and blood like the rest of us, the signs are clear At the same debate Saturday night, it became apparent that the words “I screwed up ” are simply not in Cruz’s programming When confronted with concrete evidence that his campaign had used dirty tricks to steal Ben Carson voters, he managed to assign blame to everyone else but the dirty tricksters themselves (his campaign staffers) Even his “apology ” to Dr Carson felt cold, mechanical and utterly devoid of human feeling If you are still not convinced of the existence of the TC-2016, I urge you to watch “Ted Cruz” try and give “his daughter” a hug The fear in the child’s eyes is clear to see She knows

Once the RNC realized that their beta model was running amok, they redoubled their efforts to produce the next model The upgrades are instantly noticeable Instead of a face reminiscent of Grandpa Munster, the new T-2016 looks like the high school football star it claims to have been Its smile, instead of making little babies cry, looks completely at ease on campaign posters and buttons Gone are the pretentious Ivy League education and the over-emphasis on aggressive debate tactics Replacing them is sunny south Florida and a type of eloquence that, while impressive, always seemed a little too rehearsed Rubio, unlike Cruz, can actually claim to have friends in the Senate chamber, as evidenced by the numerous endorsements from his colleagues All of the fundamentals were kept the same Both are the sons of Cuban immigrants Both are young and very conservative, and both have the same wonky intelligence as Obama But unlike Obama, they are not real people They are robots If we really want to get serious about stopping the killer robots, let’s start by stopping the ones currently clawing for the United States’ nuclear launch codes

Jacob Rubashkin is a freshman

Alex Davies | Have I Got News for You?

Hillary Clinton’s Ideolog y Gap

Iwouldrather have Bernie Sanders as president, but Hillar y Clinton as the Democratic nominee Such is Sanders’ electability problem, distilled His policies and ideology may be more in line with mine but his chances in the general election are slim

D e s p i t e p o l l s ’ p r o j e c t i o n s o f Sa n d e r s ’ e l e c t o r a l strength against the top flight of GOP contenders, Americans’ ideological attitudes towards what they consider socialism will prevail in denying him victor y Why else would the Republican Party support and defend Bernie “Hammer and Sickle” Sanders? As Donald Trump summons fear of the far enemy of “ r a d i c a l Me x i c a n s ” a n d “ Mu s l i m s ” ( o r “ r a d i c a l Mexican Muslims ” I hear bin Laden loved Chipotle) it is not inconceivable that he could do something similar with the near enemy of “elderly socialists ” Hillar y Clinton’s faults run deeper her candidacy, indeed Clinton herself, lacks a defined ideological message or position Some may argue that the election of a woman would send its own message, but her electoral appeal cannot be founded solely upon gender Barack Obama’s message the appeal that catapulted him past Clinton in 2008 was not grounded in race but in a faith in change

The Clinton campaign, ably supported by the Democratic Party machiner y, has effused about why she is capable of being president whilst dodging why she should be president To compete with Sanders’ zealous tirades against a rigged system, Clinton offers extensive enumerations of her voluminous accomplishments from a life spent flitting about the flame of the presidency In an election cycle surging with irrational passions, Clinton’s laundr y list looks a little limp Sanders’ fier y ideological appeal is augmented by the dislike and distrust of his opponent that exists, subtly or not, amongst both progressives and conservatives Along the political spectrum, Hillar y and Bill Clinton provoke hesitation and doubt Questions about cozy relationships of var ying flavors have dogged the pair throughout their political lives From Bill’s interns and Hillar y ’ s emails to the Clinton Foundation’s donations the family’s chosen tool of nepotism which faces questions over political benefits received by donors the Clintons are suspicious product

The empire of the Clinton family was supposed to usher its matriarch into the nomination, supported p a r t i c u l a r l y by w o m e n a n d m i l l e n n i a l s Be r n i e Sanders has thwarted those political machinations, in no small part due to the support of younger voters Hi s c u r m u d g e o n l y g r u m b l i n g r i n g s t r u e r t h a n Clinton’s cringeworthy attempts to be “hip ” Millennials have grown up during the ascendancy of the Democratic left Clichéd as it may be, Obama evoked hope After two terms of realpolitik, those dreams have been quenched Now, Sanders evokes anger at a system that refused to accommodate the hope of 2008 Clinton, with her speaking fees and her perception as heir to the nomination, is ingratiated with an ossifying economic and political elite

Bernie Sanders, regardless of one ’ s opinions on the means he proposes, gives off the striking appearance of someone concerned with the collective good (like a communist, right?) The same cannot be said for Hillar y Clinton Her nebulous politicking (see gun control, the TPP, , Iraq) exposes a view of power as ends rather than means A life spent at the coalface of government has no doubt shaped her politics but her managed message and cyborg smile betray someone who more frequently asks not what she can do for countr y than what her countr y can do for her Clinton’s positions are unmoored from any identifying ideology, little more than wisps that flow with the wind We know what Sanders would do (or at least tr y to do) in office We do not know the same about Clinton

Yet she’s still more acceptable than a Jewish communist If Obama is Hitler, Sanders is Stalin (let’s p u r g e Se n Te d Cr u z ( R - Te x a s ) ) Ma y b e w h e n Sanders takes office and can ’ t get anything through a red-hunting Congress I’ll rue our naivete of what he could achieve Or maybe when Sanders becomes Party Secretar y and paramount leader of People’s Republic of the United States I’ll rue ever condemning Hillar y Clinton

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Do More Than Hate Martin Shkreli Comm en t of

MartinShkreli is one interesting dude I didn’t think I would come across anyone that could garner almost as much hatred as everyone ’ s favorite blondehaired, big-mouthed, billionaire presidential candidate, but Shkreli might just prove me entirely wrong

This past Thursday morning, Shkreli arrived on Capitol Hill for an engagement that was not memorable enough for me to justify the time I spent curled up in bed in a Nutella fueled rage watching it Friday night What I can justify, however, is the time I spent afterwards delving into Shkreli’s (ver y strange) life, in and out of the spotlight

He star ted off as your regular “I want to be on Wall Street” college student There really wasn ’ t anything special about Shkreli, minus the fact that while everyone else usually wants to be on Wall Street to make money, Shkreli dropped out of college as soon as he had enough credits to get hired at a hedge fund and then proceeded to draw the attention of the SEC by predicting the rise and fall of stocks too accurately Honestly, if I knew I could read financials well enough to know exactly when a major biotech company ’ s share price would fall, I would probably drop out of school too

Anonymous

Re: “Re-examining the Greek System,” Opinion Februar9 8, 2016

toxoplasmosis, a disease that can be fatal to H I V patients Not long after buying the drug, Turing raised its price from less than $20 per tablet to $750 per tablet In the judgement of many, experts and otherwise, this price was way too damn high Experts called the increase “unjustifiable” while others took to online forums to express their opinions in less controlled language Shkreli, at first, said he would lower the price, doing little to pacify his critics (One headline: “Martin Shkreli Lowers Drug Price, Is Still an Asshole ”) And not too long

ing those related to the one-of-a-kind, two million dollar Wu Tang Clan album he bought and the subsequent feud that occurred with the Clan’s greatest rapper, Ghostface Killah My point in bringing up Martin Shkreli and his really weird life today was not to simply detail his saga as it as played out over time, especially in the past week Instead, Shkreli is as interesting as he is to me for the argument that he invokes “One of the strangest things about the anti-Shkreli argument is that it asks us to be shocked that a medical executive is

Shkreli is interesting to me for showing what is legal so we may consider what we need to change moving forward.

after, he said he wouldn’t increasing outrage and thus leading many to label him a “pharma bro,” a characterization of the greedy American medical industry

What I like to think I wouldn’t do, however, is pretty much anything Shkreli proceeded to do after starting his second hedge fund, MSMB Capital Management one of the two firms he’s now undergoing investigation for securities fraud Not that this is where Shkreli’s notoriety stems from Instead, his time in the spotlight came long before his arrest and subsequent indictment for accusations surrounding the notion that he ran a ponzi-like scheme while at MSMB Capital Management and Retrophin You (along with most normal people that haven’t spent hours researching his life on Wikipedia) have probably heard of Shkreli for his actions as a class A pharma bro Turing Pharmaceuticals, yet another Shkreli-headed venture, bought a drug called Daraprim, used to treat

I’m not sure I would use the word “bro” to describe Martin Shkreli, especially not during interviews and his recent House committee hearing “Awkward,” “uncomfortable” and “kind of a douche” are terms I would use to more accurately describe Shkreli He speaks with little to no regard for anyone who can ’ t understand why higher prices and therefore higher profits would benefit the industry and patients alike For those of you that can ’ t figure out why jacking up the price of a drug almost 40 times the original price works in favor of patients, it’s because the profits can be used to fund additional research and development (not that anyone will be held accountable for apparent results)

As for Shkreli’s time in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week? Like I mentioned in passing earlier, it was in relation to his indictment on several counts of fraud relating to the hedge funds he co-founded Even the hearing itself took a turn for the ridiculous as Shkreli chose to invoke his right to the fifth amendment in response to most questions he was asked, includ-

motivated by profit And one of the strangest things about Shkreli himself is that he doesn’t seem to be motivated by profit at least, not entirely,” outlines a recent article in The New Yorker A truly profit hungry medical executive would have kept a lower profile than Shkreli did rather than jacking up the price hundreds of dollars in a matter of days, he or she would’ve gradually increased the price over longer periods of time, maintaining anonymity so as to avoid flashy headlines

Shkreli is interesting to me for showing us what is legal so we may consider what we need to change moving for ward Keep in mind, Shkreli is not facing a federal indictment for what people are most enraged about He is not facing indictment for what Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD ) decided to spend his allotted time during the questioning reprimanding him for He is in the public eye for a reaction other than rage, and it would do well for the American people to keep that in mind as they look to elect representatives in the future

Hebani Duggal is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun com Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Shay Collins

A rising tide may lift all boats, but the bloom of poptimism has not elevated mainstream pop-punk While Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Rihanna garner acclaim, their poppunk counterparts have plunged into cliché and empty glitz Panic! at the Disco’s latest release Death of a Bachelor is a testament to the strange monster mainstream pop-punk has become, slathered with cookie-cutter synths, disjointed samples and smarmy lyrics

Death of a Bachelor is credited to Panic! at the Disco even though lead singer Brendon Urie is the only band member who worked on the album It quickly becomes apparent that the album is a P!atD release in name only Urie has scrubbed away the pseudo-intellectualism and poetic lyrics that characterized the band s previous work In their place, he recycles the same topics (Hollywood) royalty, designer drugs, dance parties that Fall Out Boy and Cobra Starship described for years Baz Luhrmann is seemingly at the helm of mainstream pop-punk

Musically, too, Death of a Bachelor borrows heavily from techniques that Fall Out Boy developed on Folie à Deux and kicked into gear on American Beauty/American Psycho In a recent interview with Consequence of Sound, Urie refuted the long-running criticism that he simply reworks Fall Out Boy’s style, instead insinuating that his labelmates actually copied his sound on recent releases The most credence that Urie gave to complaints was to note that he and Fall Out Boy share “ a taste for sampling ”

“A taste for sampling” is a weak way of putting it “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time” opens with a “Rock Lobster” sample that imitates both the sound and idea of The Munsters theme sample that propels Fall Out Boy’s “Uma Thurman ” The most that can be said for Urie is that he is willing to push the sampling aesthetic further than Fall Out Boy The first ten seconds of “Emperor’s New Clothes” would be equally at home on an A$AP Rocky track Still, parts of Death of a Bachelor greatly resemble old Fall Out Boy material The palm-muted, funky lead guitar on “Golden Days” is indistinguishable from Joe Trohman’s trademark style on Infinity on High and Folie à Deux

The convergence of two pop-punk giants may be disappointing, but it is nonetheless predictable Just as Urie opted to use the P!atD name for a solo project, Fall Out Boy singer Patrick Stump has admitted that he steered his band’s later

Last Friday, the world heard “Ophelia,” the first single released from The Lumineers’ new album,

C l e o p a t ra A s e xpected, it is hauntingly beautiful The song is named after t h e i n g e n u e o f S h a k e s p e a r e ’ s Hamlet The lyrics state, “And I don’t f e e l n o r e m o r s e /And you can ’ t see past my blindness,” which is similar to t h e u n d y i n g l ov e

work to conform with his pop sensibilities Additionally, P!atD and Fall Out Boy have recently focused on wealth and decadence, topics that have long captivated pop-punk bands Cobra Starship’s “The City Is at War” is the exemplar poppunk track that laid a foundation for the genre ’ s tongue-incheek treatment of affluence Over icy synths, frontman Gabe Saporta croons, “Bless the young and rich/with designer drugs and designer friends ”

Pop-punk bands usually toy with images of and lyrics about wealth with an ulterior motive Mayday Parade details a casino adventure in “Jaime All Over,” but clarifies that the whole story exists only in the singers’ dreams Cute Is What We Aim For uses elitism as a foil for sexual anxiety in “ The Curse of Curves ” Death of a Bachelor, conversely, is simply the musings of a melancholy, rich 20-something who ambles between solitary dinners and drugged-up dance fests

Urie’s lyrics most often sound focused-grouped “Champagne, cocaine, gasoline/and most things in between” while lacking both tenderness and angst Obvious references and shoddy wordplay detritus of Pete Wentz’s lyrical legacy dominate the album Urie stacks together soundbites (“50 words for murder, and I’m every one of them”) and restates played-out Internet jokes (“I’m not as think as you drunk I am”), but hits bedrock with a lackluster Beach Boys reference on the cabaret-esque “Crazy = Genius ” “She says you ’ re just like Mike Love/But you want to be Brian Wilson,” Urie sings Unfortunately, Urie’s instrumentals have slipped just as much as his lyrics in the absence of former P!atD member Ryan Ross

could reach without sacrificing their melodic and emotional core A bona fide baroque pop release, Pretty Odd saw the band pivot away from the technophilic A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, swapping out drum machines for an orchestra and experimenting with British Invasion and f o l k s o u n d s a l i k e T h e o p e n i n

Gentleman” and the entirety of “I Have Friends In Holy Places” made the argument for P!atD as the most instrumentally innovative pop-punk group of all time The juxtaposition of Pretty Odd and over-produced, inoffensive Death of a Bachelor reveals the inexplicability of Urie’s decision to keep the P!atD mantle for any noncommercial reason

Death of a Bachelor was not a throwaway album, after all Urie and his co-writers crafted a pop anthem in “Hallelujah,” which succeeds due to the beauty of Urie’s multi-tracked, harmonized voice layered over brass lines

Furthermore, Urie’s lyrics sound earnest “And if you can ’ t stop shaking, lean back/Let it run right through ya ” and mesh with the track s festival-friendly energy Urie seems unable to break through the vagueness that plagues the entire album, but “Hallelujah” at least serves as a vessel for the emotion that Death of a Bachelor palpably lacks

Complaining that P!atD has grown too poppy implies that the genre is only enjoyable in opposition to pure pop Pop-heavy groups like Metro Station and Hellogoodbye that carved a niche in the pop-punk scene and toured alongside the big names contradict such a notion Rather, Urie seems stuck between two trapezes On Death of a Bachelor, he failed to either grasp the relatable nature of accessible pop lyrics or abandon the theatrics and cynicism that brought P!atD success Perhaps Urie will embrace his desire to be a pop performer on his next release

Maybe he will even appropriately label it as a solo release Maybe he will drop the half-hearted sampling, but I do not want to ask for too much

P!atD’s 2008 Pretty Odd still stands as the paramount example of the creative heights that pop-punk groups

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun com

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be sharper going forward, Realbuto said he is confident that the team will bounce back from this weekend’s loss

And while the wrestling team may not have met Koll’s expectations this weekend, fundraising efforts went above and beyond Over 4,000 fans came out to support the team for the Hospicare Challenge, a fundraising event where people pledged money for every person in the stands While the wrestlers are still collecting pledges, the team has raised somewhere between $7,000 to 8,000 for the cause

Moving forward, the Red will focus on clinching its 14th consecutive Ivy title this weekend when it faces the last of its two Ivy foes Princeton and Penn this weekend Koll said that after that, the team will have a chance to take a couple of weeks to prepare for the other championship matches

“We’ve had a challenging season thus far but all disappointments fad with a strong finish,” he said “We need to win out to claim our 15th consecutive Ivy League title After that we can take a couple weeks to prepare for the Eastern and NCAA championships ”

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He lost just one game at Blinn

The quarterback then transferred to Auburn, where he lost zero games, en route to winning a B C S Na t i o n a l C h a m p i o n s h i p and the Heisman Trophy and being the first overall selection in the 2011 NFL Draft Once his Fl o r i d a m i s t a k e s we re b e h i n d him, Newton seemed immune to losing Before 2015, Newton’s tenure in the NFL was solid – he won Rookie of the Year, and was named to two Pro Bowls but he wasn ’ t elite Good, but not elite

The skillsets of Cam Newton and Peyton Manning are different Newton is mobile; Manning is, well, immobile However, the two are similar in their minds for the quar terback position Manning has made a career of pre-snap adjustments His ability to read defenses is second-tonone The play clock is Manning’s ally and his mastery of clock management is a challenge for defenses This season, Cam Newton employed a Manning-like presnap competence He seemed to always be in control, calling audibles, manipulating defenses and using the play clock to his advantage And it took his game to the next level Of course, Newton’s physical tools are great, but his football IQ, which some pundits felt would be his main shortcoming at the pro-level, was crucial in his 2015 campaign, which was one of the greatest quarterbacking seasons in NFL history

The Newton versus Manning Super Bowl matchup was as satisfying as any quarterback Super Bowl matchup, because it was so unforeseen The Panthers were expected to have a top defense The offense was another story An ACL injury to top receiver Kelvin Benjamin prior to the season left the Panthers really, really thin at t h e p o s i t i o n Gre g Ol s e n i s among the better receiving tightends in the league, but Newton’s wide-receiver targets this season were Ted Ginn Jr , Corey Brown

and Devin Funchess Ginn Jr is best known as a special-teams playmaker, Brown was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2014 and Funchess is 21 years old This group was arguably the least talented wide-receiving corps in the league Yet, Newton threw 35 touchdowns to just 10 interceptions He also ran for 10 touchdowns, and the Panthers went 151 (they were 7-8-1 last season) They also won the NFC And Newton was named league MVP, deservedly so Manning, on the other hand, was not so good this season The 39 year old battled injuries and m i s s e d s e ve r a l g a m e s , l e a d i n g many to speculate that the starting quarterback job was Brock Osweiler’s to lose But Manning got his chance at the end of the regular season, and despite his nine to 17 touchdown to interception ration, the Manning-led Broncos defeated the Panthers in the Super Bowl Denver’s menacing defense carried the Broncos the entire season, but I mean, Manning played the games in the postseason, and he may not have played like 2005 Manning, but the Broncos won, so it counts It was not pretty, but in typical Manning fashion, he did what he had to do to win It also marked Peyton Manning’s 200th career victory the most wins by a quarterback in NFL history The guy is a winner

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replied, “We’ll be back ” He’s right Newton has proven that he just knows how to win football games He did it at Blinn He d i d

n A n d although he didn’t win his first Super Bowl, Newton showed that he is a winner at the professional level, too If Peyton Manning is indeed finished playing football, there is another savvy quarterback ready to follow in his footsteps

Ben Shatzman can be contacted at bshatzman@cornellsun com Calling the Shatz appears Tuesdays this semester

Down No.1 Quinnipiac

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Quinnipiac Leads ECAC; Union Still Winless

Blown out | Freshman Christian Higham and the Red only managed to score one goal over the weekend Cornell allowed nine goals in total to Quinnipiac and Princeton at Lynah

Ts hockey as the team dropped big losses

Quinnipiac and Princeton The squad lost at Lynah by deficits of three and five, respectively Quinnipiac continues to lead the E C AC

Colgate Saturday The Bobcats sit on top in the standings with 29 points and only two in-conference losses The Clarkson Golden Knights, who sit in second place, will have their shot at

Connecticut The ECAC’s leaders in points (41), Clarkson’s Cayley Mercer and Quinnipiac’s Taylar Cianfarano, will face off in a key game for both teams

Still winless on the season at the bottom of the standings is Union with 3 points The Lady Dutchwomen are 0-15-3 in the ECAC But the road does not get easier for Union, as three of their four remaining opponents are top five ECAC squads C

Cornell Shines Against Ivy League Opponents

Home victories over Brown,Yale help continue Red’s successful conference campaign

By JESSICA BROFSKY Sun Staff Writer

Senior captain Maddie Campbell stated on Jan 31 that the team aimed to have a sweeping victory the following weekend The Red (13-7, 5-1 Ivy) fulfilled this mission this weekend when they conquered two Ivy League opponents the Brown Bears (12 –7, 1-5 Ivy) and the Yale Bulldogs (11 -12, 2-4 Ivy)

“We always go into a weekend with the mentality of getting two wins and our hard work during the week really ensured that outcome, ” said junior forward Nicholle Aston

Both wins were relatively close in scoring Cornell won against Brown, 85-70, and Yale, 74-63

“The game against Brown was close in the first half, then we pulled away in the second half,” Campbell said “Yale was a close game the entire time, with four minutes left we were only up by six But we started to pull away in the final four minutes ”

Aston agreed that the games were close

“The games had their ups and downs but remained pretty close throughout,” Aston said “We were able to pull away eventually in the second half and seal the game with our free throws ”

The third quarter of each game was when

Cornell surged ahead and proved their strengths and capabilities to themselves and their opponents

“I am not sure if there were any single plays that changed the outcome of the game, but more so what we did in the third quarter, ” Campbell said “Both games we won were because of the work we put in the third quarter ”

Aston, too, credits the third quarter for their success

Q u a r t e r b a c k s O l d a n d N e w : S B 5 0

It was Sunday, Dec 6th, 2009, and Lucas Oil Stadium was filled to capacity The Indianapolis Colts, led by reigning league MVP Peyton Manning, were 11-0, on the verge of tying the NFL record with their 21st consecutive regular season victory

That same winter afternoon, 600 miles down the road in the city of Pittsburg, Kan , Blinn College was battling Fort

Scott Community College for the NJCAA National Football Championship Blinn faced a 16-point deficit midway through the third quarter but mounted a fierce comeback to steal the victory in the final seconds of the game The catalyst of that comeback, you ask? A young man from Atlanta named Cameron Newton

As Manning and Newton faced off in the Super Bowl on Sunday night, I couldn’t help but think about the paths each took to get there For Cam

Newton, talent has never been a question Newton’s season in junior college was different from that of Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who, having received little interest from major college programs out of high school, played a season at Butte Community College, and earned himself a scholarship to California Newton was highly sought-after out of high school

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He spent his freshman year of college as the backup quarterback to Tim Tebow at the University of Florida, but was arrested for stealing a laptop the charges were ultimately dropped and he decided to leave the school in January 2009 And that’s how Newton ended up in Brenham, Texas, playing for Blinn College It was there that he displayed his aptitude in the art of winning He lost just one game at Blinn

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“We had a great third quarters in both games on both ends, which really allowed us to get the wins,” Aston said

The Red had different strategies for both games because Brown and Yale have different styles of defense

“The strategy for Brown was to keep their guards from penetrating because that’s what they love to do,” Campbell said “With Yale, [our strategy] was taking care of the ball against their pressure defense and attacking

the basket ” Campbell discussed what she was zeroed in on against Brown and Yale

“Both games I was really just focused on the position, and doing what needed to be done to win that play,” Campbell said “Both games were big wins, and it took a lot of focus to get it done ” Aston also commented on her mentality against the two Ivy League opponents over the weekend

“As I was playing, I really was focused on helping my teammates to get the job done,” Aston said “Whether it was on offense or defense, I just really wanted to help my teammates in any way I could and I am sure they would say the same

The Red really came together this weekend, and head coach Dayna Smith definitely helped guide the squad to their two wins by motivating them at half time The evidence of her help is in the team ’ s extremely successful third quarters

“At halftime our coach really pushed us to make adjustments on defense on not give them as many open lanes which really helped us get two quality wins in the end,” Aston said

Jessica Brofsky can be reached at jbrofsky@cornellsun com

Win Streak to 71

Wrestlers Overcome Lions, Extend

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Editor

While wrestler Kyle Dake ’13 has become a household name for Cornell sports fans, junior Gabe Dean is another player to watch perhaps the next Dake even Dean saw a 52-match win streak over the last three seasons, earning himself fifth place at last year ’ s NCAA championships and playing a vital role in helping the Red win its 13th straight Ivy title However, Dean ended his winning streak this weekend with a loss to Oklahoma State’s Nolan Boyd

“Gabe allowed his emotions get the best of him,” said head coach Robert Koll “He has been sick and hurt, and I believe he worried about his preparation This is ridiculous because you don’t get out of shape and forget how to wrestle in two weeks I am certain he will use this as a motivation to prepare for the final stretch of the season ”

However, Dean’s loss was not the only disappointment for the Red this weekend The men ’ s squad, which has seen an abundance of injury and illness this season, struggled against highly ranked Oklahoma State, dropping its record down to 4-5 while the

Cowboys advanced to 10-2 on the season While the Red saw success against the Columbia Lions on Saturday, Koll still left the weekend feeling like his team did not perform well

“Overall, not a good outing,” he said “We need to be much sharper next weekend if we expect to extend our Ivy League winning streak ”

Despite the loss, there were some highlights to be noted from this weekend’s matches Both Koll and junior Brian Realbuto pointed to junior Dylan Palacio’s victory over the No 6 ranked OSU wrestler Joe Smith as one of the most exciting fights of the weekend

“The biggest highlight from the weekend was Dylan Palacio taking out the [No 6] ranked guy from Oklahoma State,” Realbuto said “This was a big win for Dylan We all knew he has been at that level for a while, but this win made it known that he is shooting for a spot on the NCAA podium this year ”

Overall, Realbuto is not discouraged by this weekend’s loss While Koll notes that the team must be sharper going forward, Realbuto said he is confident