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Amid Commons Construction, Retailers Face Drop in Sales By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer
Following multiple delays on the completion of the Commons construction project, downtown retailers saw a 10 percent decrease in foot traffic and sales in 2014 compared to 2013, according to a report from the Downtown Ithaca Alliance. Compared to last year, downtown businesses saw a six percent average decrease in sales for the entire year, with retailers experiencing a 14 percent decline for the holiday season. Of the 150 businesses eligible, 55 responded to the survey. The report — titled “Trends in Downtown Business Sales: 2014” and first reported on by The Ithaca Voice — sought to examine both the state of businesses downtown and the affect businesses felt during ALEJANDRO HERNANDEZ / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Snow slowdown | Stores in downtown Ithaca experienced lower foot traffic in 2014, as the Commons undergoes construction.
Lambda Chi Alpha Suspension Lifted By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer
The University restored recognition for the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity Friday following its suspension on Feb. 2, according to Joel Malina, vice president for university relations. “The chapter can resume all activities except social activities, and may not host guests at the house other than for chapter business, pending a Greek Judicial Board hearing later this semester,” Malina said in a press release. Malina announced Feb. 4 that the fraternity had been placed on interim suspension two days prior, pending an investigation. On the morning
of Feb. 1, the Ithaca Police Department responded to a reported sex offense at One Edgecliff Pl., where Lambda Chi Alpha is currently located as its house undergoes renovations. However, Malina’s announcement on the lifted suspension did not provide a reason why the fraternity was originally suspended. This is the second time this semester the administration has suspended a fraternity. On Jan. 30, Cornell suspended the Psi Upsilon fraternity following claims about an alcohol and illicit substance incident that were later found unsubstantiated. Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.
Contest Gives Cornellians Opportunity To Design College Avenue Complex By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Staff Writer
An architecture competition is providing Cornellians with the opportunity to personally shape Collegetown by designing a future apartment complex at 315 College Ave. Hosted by Lambrou Real Estate, the architecture competition ends its first phase today and was open to anyone affiliated with Cornell who wanted to design the planned development that sits north of The Nines restaurant. The development will set a “new national ... standard for student housing,” according to Evan Lambrou, who is leading the project. Lambrou said he hopes the development See COLLEGE AVENUE page 4 MICHAELA BREW / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Putting up a facade | Lambrou Real Estate is hosting a competition, open to all Cornellians, to redesign 315 College Ave., pictured left.
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Vacation time | Above: Students brave Libe Slope on a snowy day. Inset: Ithaca’s travel website urges tourists to visit Florida rather than Ithaca.
Ithaca Visitor Site: Visit Florida Keys Instead In the midst of a particularly frigid winter, VisitIthaca.com — the Ithaca Conventions and Visitors Bureau’s website — began urging potential tourists to visit the Florida Keys and Key West instead of Ithaca Sunday night. “That’s it. We surrender. Winter, you win. Key West anyone?” read the message, which was displayed at the top of a pop-up on the VisitIthaca.com website. The message linked visitors to the tourism site for the Florida Keys. “Due to this ridiculously stupid weather, Ithaca invites you to visit The Keys this week,” the website also read. “Please come back when things thaw out. Really, it’s for the birds now.” Bruce Stoff, the Ithaca Visitors Bureau director who came up with the idea, said he, along with millions of other Northeasterners, was fed up with the brutal winter and hoped the unconventional message would be a unique way to engage with customers, according to The Ithaca Journal. Stoff said he pitched the idea — which was not part of any Florida Keys advertising campaign — to the Florida Keys Tourism Council last week, according to CNN. Andy Newman, a spokesperson from the Florida Keys Tourism Council, said the idea was “the wackiest thing [he’s] ever seen in [his] life from a tourism marketing standpoint,” CNN reported. While the website no longer displays the pop-up, it has attracted thousands of online visitors, trended on social media websites and been covered by numerous news outlets, including USA Today, National Public Radio and The Telegraph. VisitIthaca.com had gained about 10,580 hits by early afternoon Monday, according to The Journal. — Compiled by Gabriella Lee
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Boar Causes Ruckus In Spain Airport MADRID (AP) — Spain’s airport authority says a wild boar that broke through a perimeter fence at Madrid’s international airport caused runways to be shut briefly and two landings to be delayed. The beast set off security alarms late Friday and when cameras focused on the spot, operators observed it turning around and loping off through the hole it had made. The incident happened 100 yards from the nearest stretch of runway. It delayed an incoming flight from London 20 minutes and a domestic flight from A Coruna 10 minutes, the airport authority’s statement said Saturday.
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Chef Hans Butler introduces local food to Risley Dining By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Staff Writer
Hans Butler’s colorful, more than 20-year-long journey through the restaurant industry has led him to become a chef at Risley Dining and remain at the forefront of local food trends. Butler said his path to Cornell Dining began when he entered the dining industry as a dishwasher when he was 14, and worked as a sous chef for Dano’s when it was on Cayuga Lake when he was 20. After leaving Ithaca to work and attending school in Texas and Michigan, he said he returned in 2005 to found his own restaurant called Watercress on Triphammer Road.
“That’s where I really transitioned from fine dining to fine dining that was sourced from local ingredients, utilizing the farmers market and [creating] very seasonal menus,” he said. After his restaurant closed, Butler said he worked at Cayuga Pure Organics, a company that sells grains and
dried beans. There, he said he taught classes and developed recipes on how to use whole foods and dry beans. He has also worked at a bean farm and at Mexeo, a former Mexican restaurant in Collegetown. Butler said he used to make his own cured, smoked and fresh sausages from scratch, which cultivated his passion for fresh, organic ingredients. “When I learned about breaking down whole animals, making sausage and pickling, that was a breakthrough. This was great,” Butler said. “You didn’t need to buy it in the store. You can make it yourself. You can put your own twist on it.” While Butler said keeping local food on the menu is “kind of challenging,” he has prioritized the quality and origins of food throughout his career. “You can do everything local, but we’re in a global economy so you have to pick and choose and be conscious of why you’re buying something,” Butler said. “So I think that it’s important to be conscious of making your decisions not just shooting from the hip all the time.” Butler said he felt equipped to tackle large-scale college dining because he worked as a catering supervisor at EatZi’s — which he described as “the closest thing I’ve done that was … comparable to collegiate dining.” Butler, who trained at the culinary school of the Art Institute in Houston, Texas, said he encouraged students
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interested in the restaurant industry to attend a culinary school or apprentice in a country where they enjoy the cuisine. “Even if you go to culinary school, that’s only one step,” he said. “You definitely need to be applying all that stuff you’re learning in a practical environment.” Butler, who began working at Cornell a year and a half ago, said he was impressed by the diversity of Cornell’s dining menu. “When I was researching and comparing Cornell’s dining menu, the menus were so creative and much more ethnically diverse than a lot of other collegiate dining menus,” he said. “We’re doing a lot of fresh food, whole foods, local foods and seasonal foods.” As a chef at Risley, Butler said he has been “tweaking stuff,” including the dishes that the North Campus dining hall serves. “We’ll have monotony breakers every once in a while where I’ll just delete the menu and we’ll come up with a theme,” he said. Butler said he uses these “breakers” to introduce new recipes that often include local goods. Beyond Risley Dining, Butler also said he competed with three other
“We’ll have monotony breakers every once in a while where I’ll just delete the menu and we’ll come up with a theme.” Hans Butler Cornell chefs in the American Culinary Federation cooking competition in January, where the team won silver honors. Butler made a French pastry with spiced sweet potato diplomat cream, walnut brittle and blood orange compote. “As a chef ... I’m allowed to be creative and come up with the recipes,” he said. Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun.com.
At Panel, Myrick ’09 Calls for Housing Plan to Combat Poverty By DANIEL ZIMMERMAN Sun Contributor
Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 stressed affordable housing as a means to tackle drug and poverty issues at a panel Monday. “If we can’t get you into housing first, then we can’t solve any of your other problems … because if it’s minus two degrees out there, you don’t want to be sober,” Myrick said. “It’s tough enough to sleep on the street when it’s warm.” Myrick, along with Gwen Wilkinson, Tompkins County district attorney and Andrew Taylor, substance use outreach specialist Southern Tier AIDS Program, addressed issues of drug criminalization and answered community members’ questions at a panel following a film screening of The House I Live In at the Cinemapolis. The film — which discusses the United State’s war on drugs and the harm that mass incarceration has caused to communities and lower-income families — acted as a building block for the question and answer session afterwards. The discussion focused on how action can be taken in the Ithaca community to change the current drug and criminalization cycle. “[We] have to change our priorities at the federal and the state level,” Myrick said. “We have got to get better health care and better mental health. We have to invest more in education instead of cutting it. We have to invest more in job training programs.”
In order to create the largest impact on drug criminalization, citizens must vote for leaders at the state and federal level who prioritize solving the “40-year-old problem,” Myrick said. Even though the issue is larger than just one municipality, it is not an excuse for the community’s inaction, according to Myrick. “Locally, we have to fight to make housing in the city of Ithaca more affordable,” he said. “We got to build more jobs into the city of Ithaca that people can lift themselves up [with]. We got to do all parts to just fix this system instead of waiting for someone at the
“We got to do all parts to just fix this system instead of waiting for someone at the state or federal level.” Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 state or federal level.” Myrick said he believes that providing affordable housing and transitional housing should be a means of preventing poverty in the Ithaca community. “[The addiction support resources are] far better than most any community you’ll find out there, but the one thing that I think we can really focus on is housing: both affordable housing and transitional housing,” Myrick said. Wilkinson, one of the panel speakers, said during
the question period that the film expressed “two important truths.” “First and foremost, substance abuse is a public health issue … and it’s public health solutions that we need if we are going to help people and ourselves,” Wilkinson said. “Secondly one of the not so obvious things [from the film] is the sort of a perfect storm of reasons causes and effects of the way we deal with substance abuse in our society and our country.” Taylor said he believes Ithaca “does not have a compassion problem” as a community when helping those suffering with substance use disorder. He said he embraces the idea that former addicts can find a way to do good and help others suffering with addiction. “Instead of seeing that population [of addicts] as a lost potential, we can start to get excited that when these policies change and when we get better rehabilitation, these people will be transformed into some of our best citizens,” Taylor said. “They were not programed incorrectly; they were not born with a problem, this is something that has generated and evolved.” The screening is a part of Myrick’s push to set a “new direction for drug policy” with the Ithaca Municipal Drug Policy Committee, which Myrick said he formed seven months ago. Daniel Zimmerman can be reached at dsz24@cornell.edu.
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Despite Efforts to Push Downtown Shopping, Retail Sales Drop in 2014 COMMONS
Downtown retailer Jerry Martins said that compared to last year, foot traffic for his store, Now You’re Cooking Ithaca, decreased. the Commons construction. While Martins said he attributes the decline to According to Gary Ferguson, executive director of construction, programs from the Downtown Ithaca the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, the report suggested Alliance that encouraged people to go downtown — that whether sales increased or decreased depended on such as giving customers two hours of free parking the type of business. with a stamped receipt — have helped. “We found that the retail field probably had the “A lot of the things we got the city to allow us to slowest time [in 2014],” Ferguson said. “There were do [like] the two hours of free parking, we now pay retailers who were down and there were retailers who for,” Martins said. “We’re very happy to make people were up, it just seems to be more that were down.” feel happier by coming down.” Stores in the restaurant and services sectors, howThe Downtown Ithaca Alliance has also hosted ever, had stronger foot several downtown events traffic and sales in 2014 “There were retailers who were down and launched a marketthan retail stores, with ing campaign to proand there were retailers who were mote downtown shopservice sector businesses even showing signs of ping, according to up, it just seems to be more that growth. Ferguson. were down.” “[If] you look at the “We certainly have restaurant sector, and continued and actually Gary Ferguson then even more so, the ramped up our special service business sector, events so that even durthey actually did progressively better,” Ferguson said. ing the construction we’ve been trying to bring people “So there were restaurants which were in the middle downtown to have a good time,” Ferguson said. and actually if you look at the service business sector, Michael Kuo, project manager for the Commons in general, some solid growth.” reconstruction project, said he hopes that following While Ferguson said the survey helps highlight completion of the construction, stores can begin seebusiness trends downtown, the direct effect of the ing better business and increases in revenue. Commons construction on downtown businesses is “We do everything we can to make this place as difficult to tell. hospitable as possible,” Kuo said. “Over the course of “It’s hard to tell. But I think what we can say is that two years that doesn’t feel good for them, but when certainly year over year, there certainly seems to be we’re working and solving problems and having to some,” Ferguson said. work in a particular area we’re always thinking about The commons project, which began in the spring pedestrian access into those buildings.” of 2013, was originally scheduled for completion in July 2014 and was later postponed to November. The Christopher Byrns can be reached at construction’s end date is now slated for this spring. cbryns@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1
Winning Student Design to Be Chosen in May COLLEGE AVENUE Continued from page 1
-ment will be “energy independent” and set “milestones for sustainability.” “[The competition] is incredibly open, and there aren’t many
rules or design constraints,” said Kelsey Kruse ’16, a student organizer of the event. The competition will accept any kind of design in any format. The future development will possibly include a restaurant, lounge and student residences,
according to Lambrou. Additionally, the new building will incorporate several products and services created by Cornellians. FiberSpark — an Internet provider founded by Jeff Shaffer ’12 and Jaeil Lee ’15 — will provide telecommunication service to the development, Lambrou said. The development will also use Yorango, an online platform for rental real estate created by Adam Kirsch ’15, for leasing and property management. “In light of the projects’ scope and benefit to students, the University, and the very favorable national — indeed global — publicity for Ithaca, I invited participation from the beautiful minds of the students, faculty and other stakeholders,” Lambrou said. The first stage of the competition involves submitting concepts and sketches by Wednesday. Finished drawings and schematics are due April 7, and the winning design will be chosen by May 17, according to Kruse. The competition will be judged by Ithaca Student Housing, Lambrou Real Estate and a panel of professors from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning who have yet to be determined, Kruse said. Ultimately, the competition aims to “normalize the concept of energy-efficiency for many students,” and “develop a new standard in student housing,” Kruse said. Ariel Seidner can be reached at aseidner@cornellsun.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Uber, the popular ride-hailing app, is hitting taxicabs where it hurts: the medallion business. Taxi companies make money by charging drivers for medallions, or licenses to drive their cabs. In a note to investors on Tuesday, Jefferies analyst Sean Darby said taxi medallions are not the “safe haven” in terms of investing that they used to be as taxi companies face increasing competition from Uber and similar services. “After many years of rising prices due to limited supply, the average price of a single [New York City] taxi medallion fell around 20 percent from their peak in 2013” because of the growing popularity of Uber and other car-hailing apps, he wrote. He said the situation is similar in Boston and Chicago. He said it might be time to bet against taxi medallions in 2015.
Report: Foreign Military, Businesses Targeted By Malware SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Did the National Security Agency plant spyware deep in the hard drives of thousands of computers used by foreign governments, banks and other targets under surveillance abroad? A new report from Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab said its researchers identified malicious programs or worms that infected computers in multiple countries. Targets appeared to be specifically selected and included military, Islamic activists, energy companies and other businesses, as well as government personnel. Without naming the United States as the source of the malware, the report said one of the programs has ele-
ments in common with the socalled Stuxnet computer virus that the New York Times and Washington Post have said were developed by the U.S. and Israeli governments to disrupt Iranian nuclear facilities. The malware was not designed for financial gain but to collect information through “pure cyberespionage,” said Kaspersky’s Vitaly Kamluk. NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines declined comment, but cited a 2014 presidential directive that instructed U.S. intelligence agencies to respect Americans’ privacy while continuing to conduct overseas operations necessary to guard against terrorism or other threats.
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Baseball Player Alex Rodriguez Issues Apology on Drug Use NEW YORK (AP) — It appears the only place Alex Rodriguez might detail his drug use is on a witness stand. The ever controversial New York Yankees star decided against holding a news conference ahead of his return to the team following a one-year absence. He issued a vague five-paragraph handwritten apology Tuesday “for the mistakes that led to my suspension” but failed to provide specifics about how and why he resumed using performance-
enhancing drugs for at least the second stretch of his celebrated career. Readying to report back to the Yankees following an unprecedented season-long ban for violating baseball's drug agreement and labor contract, Rodriguez apologized to team officials in person during a meeting at the ballpark on Feb. 10. They suggested he hold a news conference before the start of spring training this Friday and offered the use of Yankee
Stadium. Rodriguez declined. He held an apologetic session with reporters in 2009 at the team’s facility in Tampa, Florida, after he admitted using banned PEDs while with Texas from 2001-03. That was before Major League Baseball had a drug agreement with penalties. “The only thing I ask from this group today and the American people is to judge me from this day forward,” he said then.
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Some empathy for Deon Thomas To the Editor: Re: “A Call to Empathize With My Pain,” Feb. 3. You know Deon, as a black female, I empathized with every part of the struggle you describe because it so closely resembles my own. I paused when I read “My head quickly falls from the clouds and the insecurities come rushing back. Despite my successes, achievements and work toward assimilating, I can’t help but be reminded that, in the eyes of many, it doesn’t matter.” My heart sank. Then I thought, well, perhaps the reason you are so struck by someone calling you the N-word at this institution is because you forget that this institution — this space — was never intended for people like us. Attending this University, it can certainly feel like someone casually erased the words landed, wealthy, white, heterosexual and male from Cornell’s mantra, “Any person, any study,” considering the incredible amounts of racial and sexual violence we are expected to endure here on a daily basis. I mean, Goldwin Smith was a known anti-Semite and yet his name remains prominently plastered to the arts and sciences building. Don’t get me wrong, the fact that anyone called you that word is abhorrent and you are entitled to every ounce of anger it incited. Casual micro aggressions and blatant acts of racism, prejudice or ignorance no longer fill me with shock and awe, especially when they occur in predominantly white spaces they still hurt, though. They always hurt. I have yet to encounter someone calling me the N-word on this campus and it’s unlikely that I would have responded any differently. Nonetheless, I would not have been surprised. I mean my H.R. professor definitely said something along the lines of, “Yes, why would you teach kids you know are going to fail” just the other day. Apparently, she saw no faults in that logic or considered the racial and socioeconomic implications of that sentence. However, I’ve come to realize that these spaces with racism, sexism, indigenous genocide and all other manner of oppressive system irrevocably embedded within it’s very history, just can not and will not allow us to feel as at ease with ourselves and with our position here as we might like. In no way do I wish to demean or undermine whatever level of comfort you may have found here — please continue to write about our struggle. But, also consider that you don’t have to assimilate to whiteness or adhere to the politics of respectability. All of us black folk ought to be whoever we are to the fullest extent of whatever that means. Granted that can be exceedingly difficult having grown up middle class and surrounded by people who look nothing like you but that doesn’t mean we can’t explore the parts of our identity we haven’t been socialized to adopt. Though I would love to exist in a world where race is not a factor that tends to determine where you live, what your chances of graduating high school are, whether or not you are going to college, if you will be stopped by the police, if you will be incarcerated or if you will be treated either implicitly or explicitly as inferior or criminal, that is just not the way our society is currently structured. Despite the post-racial rhetoric many people love to invoke nowadays, King’s dream has been and is still a far cry from our reality. Also, you don’t need to ask any student here to recognize, accept and respect your human dignity. If this university is the great, “diversity-loving” place the University wants to claim that it is, then the question of legitimating your pain and righteous anger should never be asked. Some people will struggle to empathize with our struggle, some will wholly refuse to and others might be able to get close enough. I’m just saying: Don’t expect this institution or even most people at this university to hear you because “[This place] never loved us.” And that’s not a fact we have to accept quietly. Zakiya Williams Wells ’17
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A More Permanent Solution
his is not only about the fee. This is also about something far more important: The imbalance of power between students and the administration at Cornell University. The protests last Monday show that students are tired of the status quo. We have a system where the voice of students is rarely sought, often sidelined and freCornell is our quently ignored. University and it is time to demand a seat at the table. Members of the Student Assembly wrote an open letter to The Sun expressing their desire for the S.A. to become independent from the administration. This is a powerful first step toward the S.A. gaining the real power necessary to represent students. It is no secret that, as it exists today, the S.A. is a rubber-stamp for any new policies the administration hands down. But it does not have to be so. These are elected representatives who should have the power to enact change. The problem is that their power is severely limited by Cornell, and unjustly so. The way things currently stand, the S.A. can only recommend proposals for the administration to consider. The University always has the final say. Students are demanding change to this broken system. We are calling for the creation of democratic institutions that give students a seat at the table. The following proposal is a true model of shared governance. A Proposal for Reform: Under the current system, the Cornell University administration and Board of Trustees have unrestrained power in all aspects of University management. Various forms of self-governance on campus are a farce designed to shut out student and faculty dissent. This proposal lays down suggestions for a model of shared governance between the administration and students, but it is by no means complete. We hope Cornell students can use their collective brilliance to expand and then implement this model: 1. Create and maintain an indepen dent Student Union for the purposes of collective discussion, coordination of collective action and other purposes. The S.A. may serve as this union’s representatives, pending new elections. 2. Give the independent Student
Union and its representatives a right to consultation and discussion with the University administration regarding any new University policies before representatives of the student body bring such policy to a vote. A collaborative effort between the Student Union and the Administration will allow University business to proceed efficiently. 3. Grant this independent Student Union or its elected representatives veto power over new University policies. The veto voids all effect of a new University policy and can be obtained either by a two-thirds majority of elected Student Union representatives or by a simple majority of voting students in a campus-wide referendum. a. The purpose of this provision is to give students decision making power regarding policies that affect them. b. “New University policy” refers to any University policy that financially or academically affects students. Tuition hikes or reductions, fees and taxes assessed on students, unreasonable or unjustified staffing or compensation changes, and changes to student services all fall under this definition. c. “New University policy” does not include standard University policies related to the direct physical safety of students, such as the maintenance of sidewalks and roads, the administration of the Cornell Police or actions necessary to comply with local, state and federal law. The Ideal We Can Strive For: A University is a place unlike any other in the world. A good University is a place where students can devote themselves to the pursuit of knowledge so that they can make the world a better place. A great University is a place where any person could find instruction in any study. Our University can achieve these noble goals by holding itself accountable to students, faculty and support staff through democratic institutions. Together, we can build a better Cornell, one that everyone will proudly celebrate 150 years from now. Wyatt Nelson ’16 and Andrew Soluk ’15, are students in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and can be reached at wjn24@cornell.edu and abs322@cornell.edu.
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OPINION
Christo Eliot | The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight
Hope Diamond Microadventuring
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rom this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.” — Walt Whitman I came across the epigraph for this column in Rolf Potts’s novel Vagabonding. It comes from Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of the Open Road,” and I chose to include it at the beginning of this column because I think Uncle Walt says it much better than I could ever hope to paraphrase. Potts is a travel writer and essayist. In addition to Vagabonding, he has written a second novel called Marco Polo Didn’t Go There, and his work has appeared in publications like National Geographic, Slate and The New Yorker. When he is not traveling and writing, he teaches nonfiction writing to our Ivy League friends in New Haven. Seeing this impressive list of accomplishments and the words “Yale University” engendered the inferiority complex that drives so many Cornellians to keep their nose to the grindstone through the tedium of coursework, research, internships and extracurricular leadership positions. They do it all in hopes they will one day be able to fire someone from one of those lesser Ivies. Despite his collegiate allegiances though, Potts gets at something I, and I am sure many others, had not considered up to this point. According to Potts, travelling for extended periods of time is viewed as just an exotic pipe dream for most people. We treat it like we treat the Hope Diamond or the Mona Lisa — we marvel at it and wonder what it would be like to hold, but the thick museum glass keeps us from ever taking action. In Vagabonding, he argues there is no reason for this mentality and no reason for long-term travel not to be a reality.
Even after graduation you cannot drop everything and renounce all of your domestic responsibilities. For better or worse, taxes, careers, cars and cities are now a permanent fixture in human society. Here would be a good opportunity to turn this column into one of the classic, “Yes, you should study abroad” or “No, value your limited time on the Hill and stay in Ithaca” columns. If the past 22 years have taught me anything though, it is that I love to pass up good opportunities. Taking three classes in Copenhagen, drinking cheap bottles of wine with your friends in the street and going to a weed cafe in Amsterdam one weekend does not savor of adventure like spending three months riding a motorcycle across India or buying a one-way plane ticket to Warsaw does. When I did the math, I was disheartened to learn that I have spent 99.74 percent of my life in the United States. Although I would love to see this number on an exam that was handed back to me, knowing everything in the world about fluid dynamics is not going to keep you from embarrassing yourself with some faux pas in a foreign restaurant. It is not going to help you meet a beautiful Swedish woman and surprise your entire immediate family when you actually are able to provide them with a daughter or sister inlaw. I am not saying that Potts has cracked the code, as it were, with his motto of “abandon all material possessions to work on your Chaco tan in Singapore.” Thoreauvian “deliberate living” like at Walden Pond is an impossibility for those of us in the Cornell bubble (snowglobe?). Even after graduating, you cannot drop everything and renounce all of your domestic responsibilities. For better or worse, taxes, careers, cars and cities are now a permanent fixture in human society. According to Snapchat, there was some big pre-Lent party in New Orleans yesterday. I was not invited. The next six weeks however are an opportunity for both Christians and non-Christians alike to try and re-adopt their already forsaken New Year’s Resolutions. For example, I told myself on January first I was going to follow Alastair Humphrey’s “My Year of Microadventure.” The microadventure for January was to spend a night sleeping outside, so that resolution died pretty quickly. However I am planning to rekindle the adventurous spirit for 2015 in hopes that it will enable me to see the world for the beautiful spectacle it is. It will start with walking the Finger Lakes Trail in the Finger Lakes National Forest this weekend. I hope that maybe you will make time to go on adventures of your own. It is hard to set aside months to spend in a different country, but easy to find an hour or two of your day to do something new. Your life is not protected by the same bulletproof, inch-thick glass as the Hope Diamond. Try not to treat it like it is. Christo Eliot is a senior in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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“The statewide city speed limit is 30 mph in New York. Having speed limits inconsistent with convention results in confusion and confusion results in collisions. By looking at one dimension of a complex problem, you have settled on an action that can make the situation worse, not better.” DeReRustica Re: “TRUSTEE VIEWPOINT: Reducing Our Campus Speed Limit,” Opinion published February 13, 2015
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SNL Through Rose-Colored Glasses
veryone had on their colored glasses, we forget the rose-colored glasses this little things that irked us weekend when NBC’s about the past, and remember good, noteworthy Saturday Night Live 40th the Anniversary Special aired on moments — which is exactly Sunday night. Although it was what SNL tried to convey in hard to pack 40 years of com- its Sunday celebration. Unlike many entertainedy and talent into a three and a half hour special, plus an ment and variety shows, SNL hour long red carpet prelude, appeals to people of every age, SNL writers and stars past and both because of its lengthy present delivered a night of run and its content. Everyone reminiscing and laughter — could watch the special and relate to some aspect of it, for the most part. I don’t intend to write a whether it was Tina Fey, Amy review of the special — Poehler and Jane Curtin’s though Alessandra Stanley recurrence on Weekend wrote a great one in Monday’s Update, Mike Myers’ revival New York Times — but rather of Wayne’s World or Chris discuss why it was meaningful Rock’s hilarious tribute to the to so many people, and how surprisingly serious Eddie that meaning could possibly Murphy. This way, all groups lend itself to other current of people watching could look events. In the title of St a n l e y’s review, she In all areas of life, people tend to view says the spe- the past through rose-colored glasses. cial was, Phrases like “Back in the good old “Very Funny, Except When days” ... are staples in every day It Wasn’t,” critical conversation. which is a p e r f e c t homage to SNL’s reputation and one of back on their “good old days” the reasons it has stayed so of SNL fondly and appreciate successful. For 40 years, SNL its significance to their opinhas impacted generations of ions on pop culture, politics Americans with its humor, and — maybe even most social and political commen- importantly — comedy. However, we tend to have a tary, been the breeding ground for countless pop cul- problem when these rose-colture sensations and inspired ored glasses get cloudy or hard tons of international varia- to see through. Such a tions. Throughout it all, it moment occurred during was funny, except when it Jerry Seinfeld’s monologue, when he referenced NBC’s wasn’t. In all areas of life, people current scandal (on the NBC tend to view the past through broadcast): Brian Williams. rose-colored glasses. Phrases He joked that he recently like “back in the good old heard that Brian Williams was days” or “not like it used to one of the original cast membe” are staples in every day bers in 1975, but that he wascritical conversation, and peo- n’t sure if it was true. While ple love to reminisce. While they did not pan to the audiwe watched the special, my ence when they reacted to this parents remarked that the joke, I can assume that among show was much better in their the laughter, there was a lot of day, while I argued the show cringing. Just as NBC delivers relatwas better five years ago. We reasoned that maybe five years able content on SNL, they ago, we might have said the also delivered relatable news through Brian show was better five years content before that. Through our rose- Williams. He is (or should I
say “was”?) the type of news anchor that people felt like they knew. His charisma and genuineness led viewers to trust and respect him as a news source and as a relatable, fellow American. While people are shocked and upset by the news of his dishonesty, the word I would ascribe to many people’s feelings about it is disappointed. As someone we admire and (hope to) trust, we want to look at Brian Williams fondly, and people want there to be some explanation for his deceit. We want to be able to look at Brian Williams from the optimistic angle given to us by our rose-colored glasses, but our disappointment makes that difficult. In destroying his credibility, he forces us to reexamine not only the lies that have been uncovered, but by the other aspects that drew us in. Unlike the SNL special that only showed us the positive moments from its past, this incident only brings up the negative ones, and makes it difficult for our opinions of him not to change. Our memories of Brian Williams and the fondness we feel for him have been tainted, by a color far less radiant than rose. Among all of the controversy that this story has resulted in, I commend NBC for putting on a night of positive memories, hilarious revivals and a hopeful feeling for the future. Although sometimes it is hard to see the good, our purple-colored NBC glasses make it so that we remember well, forget our disappointment — and most of all — laugh. Samantha Weisman is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She may be reached at sweisman@cornellsun.com. A Weisman Once Said appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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SCIENCE
MICROBIOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
Sara Gonzalez ’16 Examines Parasitic Worms in Seagulls Early bird gets the worm | A specimen of Capillaria contorta, a type of parasitic nematode found in seagulls, is enlarged by a microscope.
By MICHAEL MERRILL
“It’s important to look at the biology of certain species on their own, but I’m really interested in how the whole On a typical July morning last sum- ecosystem functions together,” Gonzalez mer you could find Sara Gonzalez ’16 at said. Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledoor At Shoals, Gonzalez studied the presIsland, Maine, moving between seagull ence of these parasites in the feces of gulls nests on the hunt for microscopic and their chicks, as part of an internship worms. More specifically, Gonzalez provided by Cornell’s Lab of Orni studied endoparasites — small organ- thology. During the course of her work isms that carry out their life cycles inside she gathered fecal samples from chicks — which will “pretty much poop any time you come near them” “[Parasites] go through all of these — from 42 nests around the coast of the island in order to organisms in a way that really ties determine what types of parasite gull chicks and their parents are together the ecosytem.” commonly exposed to. “The gull’s parents will Sara Gonzalez ’16 regurgitate food for the chicks, so the gulls will get their meal and then the chicks feed on other creatures. that, so they’re eating directly what was One type of endoparasite, trema- inside the parent,” Gonzalez said. todes, begin their lives living in smaller Gonzalez took these samples and organisms such as aquatic snails. The diluted them with water in a test tube snail might then be eaten by a fish or a before adding a specific sugar solution crab, which is in turn consumed by a that altered the density of the solution, gull. The parasite passes into its new allowing any parahost’s digestive tract, where it lays eggs. sites that were preThe parasite and its eggs are then sent to float to the expelled through feces, at which time top. She then the eggs hatch and the young parasites placed a sample take up residence in another earthworm from the top of PHOTOS COURTESY OF or snail and the cycle repeats. the test tube under
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SARA GONZALEZ ’16
a microscope, and looked for parasites. “The parasites that I ended up finding weren't actually the ones that I expected to see,” Gonzalez said. However, she did find nematodes, another class of endoparasite, in gull chick stool. Nematodes are commonly found in earthworms, which gulls also eat and regurgitate to their children. Gonzalez found that nematodes were much more prevalent in chicks under 15 days of age. Since nematodes use earthworms as their intermediate host, this suggests that parents may switch the diets of their young to higher protein foods like fish as the chicks age. “Parasites I find interesting because they kind of connect a whole ecosystem; they go through all of these
organisms in a way that really ties together the ecosystem,” Gonzalez said. Michael Merrill can be reached at mmerrill@cornellsun.com.
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SCIENCE
Trenel Francis ’16 Analyzes ‘Hook-Up Culture’
Study finds little effect of hook-ups on perception of future long-term relationships, marriage By SHIRA POLAN
gram] wants you to do is to get undergraduate research experience,” Franci said. “I applied to While many college students a number of research programs may be familiar with the idea of outside of Cornell and was “hooking up” as a routine social accepted into the University of Research interaction, Trenel Francis ’16 Cincinnati’s analyzed the phenomenon more Experience for Undergraduates closely in a study she performed program for psychology.” Using data procured by Prof. last summer with the University of Cincinnati. Francis set out to Sarah Whitton and graduate see whether hooking up — student Eliza Weitbrecht of the which she defines as “a short- University of Cincinnati, term, casual sexual encounter Francis focused on analyzing between two uncommitted part- future relationship expectations ners” — has any effect on how of “emerging adults” based on future relationships are per- three variables — the perceived value of being in a long-term ceived. “I directly worked with [a relationship, perceived likeliUniversity of Cincinnati gradu- hood of marriage and the intenate student] who had been tion to be in a long-term relaworking on two projects at the tionship in the future. All of the time,” Francis said. “The first participants were also asked was on couples’ interactions via whether or not they have a private therapy study and the hooked up with someone. “We focused on the period “We found that hooking up is one of ‘emerging of the more prevalent behaviors adulthood’ because it is a that emerging adults tend to unique life engage in.” period in which many young Trenel Francis ’16 adults have the opportunity to second was about hooking up. explore their sexual identity,” The latter sounded more inter- she said. “We found that hookesting to me, as well as more rel- ing up is one of the more prevaevant to a college experience, so lent behaviors that emerging I decided to focus on hook-up adults tend to engage in. Emerging adulthood occurs culture.” A human development major between the ages of 18 and 25, and education minor, Francis which usually coincides with became involved in her research college years.” According to Francis, the last year through the Robert E. McNair Postbaccalaureate study evaluated 287 University Achievement Program, which of Cincinnati undergraduates provides research support to based on frequency of hook-ups undergraduate students from and number of hook-up partunderrepresented minority ners. Of the total participants, 136 had participated in hook groups or low-income families. “One of the things [the pro- ups and 151 had not. Sun Staff Writer
“We asked, ‘how important to you is being in a long-term committed relationship in the future?’ The participants had to rank this importance on a scale of zero to three, with zero being not important and three being
more likely to place a lower value on long-term relationships,” she said. “But despite the prevalence of hooking up and the current trend towards the delay of the onset of marriage, the vast majority of participants
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extremely important,” Francis said. “For those who hooked up, their average value was about 1.41, while those who never hooked up had an average value of 1.71, and there was a statistically significant difference between the two.” The findings of the study, according to Francis, were fairly surprising. “We found that those who had hooked up before were
question of the importance of being in a long-term relationship as right now as opposed to some time in the future,” Francis said. “Fifty-four percent of the participants were freshmen so it could be that they were thinking ‘presently.’” Francis also said she thought it would be helpful to follow up with the participants of the study to see if they committed to their predicted behavior. “It would be nice to see whether or not participants who had hooked up ended up actually having long-term relationships or getting married,” she said. Francis, who is currently is studying abroad in London, said she plans to explore other psychological topics that affect college students once she returns to the United States. According to Francis, she is set to work with Prof. Robert Sternberg, human development, on her next project. “I’m interested in Cornell or other Ivy League students’ perceptions of their own intelligence,” she said. Following her time at Cornell, Francis said she plans on participating in Teach For America or a similar education fellowship before pursuing her PhD in either education or education administration. “I’m actually torn between teaching kindergarten or first grade and teaching high school,” she said. “They’re obviously very different and I love kids, but my dream as far as teaching is concerned might be more fulfilled by teaching older children.”
still plan on getting married in as early as five years and value being in a long-term relationship in the future.” However, Francis added that the lack of explicit use of the word “future” in the poll questions and the fact that over half of the participants were freshmen may have influenced the results. “It could be that some of the Shira Polan can be reached at participants interpreted the spolan@cornellsun.com.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 50 shades of prey
Christian if he is gay for the COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES sole reason that he never goes out in public with a woman on his arm. In addition to conOn Valentine’s Day, Fifty Shades of Grey hit major firming the stereotype that men theaters like a riding crop. Despite being among the and women think differently many who abhor the premise of E.L. James’s bestselling by sheer virtue of their biologinovel of abusive male dominance, far be it from me to cal divergence and that both deny its fans’ fulfillments. But whether you see Fifty must fit into predetermined Shades the book as an abomination to women every- roles, the question of where or a worthy instruction manual for couples Christian’s sexuality reinforces wanting to spice the tepid gumbo of their sex lives, Fifty the notion that men — straight Shades the movie should frighten you. Director Sam men — are insensitive by Taylor-Johnson’s anticipated drama draws faithfully design. This double standard is enough from its source text, following the sexual awak- clearest in the film’s treatment ening of Anastasia “Ana” Steele at the hands of of the body at play. We can set Christian Grey, a billionaire Adonis with a tragic past. aside the camera’s over-emphaYet where the book is a fantasy crafted by a woman sis on Ana’s bare breasts and with women in mind, the film has only men and men’s concealment of Christian’s standards in its crosshairs. In confronting viewers with penis — this is in keeping with explicit visual suggestions of how one should consume the already sexist standards of what is permissible by she continues to pine for his increasingly violent affecthe exploits of characters better left to private imagina- the Motion Picture Association of America’s R rating. tions. In contrast to the young Christian, Ana is inunWe can even ignore that only the exploits of the film’s dated with responsibility, as he requires her to follow tions, the film undermost “beautiful” people matter — his every word, down to what she eats and drinks. mines any therapeuThough Fifty Shades the book has — affectionately, this despite the fact that on the page tic potential they 50 Shades of Grey I might add — been called “mommy porn,” the film is Ana’s roommate is described as might have held. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson “gamine and gorgeous,” while Ana more dangerous than pornography. In no uncertain For proof, one terms, Hollywood’s capitalization on the book’s film with her plain self-image. need only look at the Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie struggles What does deserve our attention is potential is a mirror of the story’s gross sexual politics: film’s technical Dornan, that Christian’s feelings matter far A patriarchal moneymaking machine dominating a grammar. From its more than Ana’s in the film. global market of feminized submissives without conoverwhelmingly gray Jennifer Regardless of the intensity of any sent. Some would point out that, because the film was palette (how many Ehle given sex scene, Ana never reaches written and directed by women (even if Marcel’s script brain cells got freaky orgasm on screen. While this might was tweaked by action veteran Mark Bomback, best to make that cineseem a clever way to avoid turning known for The Wolverine), it’s somehow okay. Such an matographic decieach of their encounters into a money argument, however, smacks of reverse sexism and puts sion?) and overt phallic symbols (to wit: Christian’s towering office building shot, it puts a question mark above the goals of the me in mind of Audre Lorde’s oft-quoted but rarely and the monogrammed pencils on his desk, subject to characters involved. Furthermore, this downplaying of heeded prophecy: “The master’s tools will never disthe occasional suggestive close-up) to Ana’s incessant Ana’s pleasure has two unforgivable side effects. First, it mantle the master’s house.” In this case, the master’s lip-biting (I stopped counting at 30 instances) and brightens the spotlight on Christian’s needs. It’s no tools — be they signs of wealth or the instruments of painless loss of virginity, the film’s pathos lends itself to coincidence that he obtains the greatest and most obvi- torture arrayed in Christian’s infamous “Red Room of effortless critique. Fifty Shades was filled with laughs — ous pleasure from Ana’s pain, as when he whips her Pain”— only intensify the questionable nature of his its makers didn’t take the film too seriously — but I’m with his belt in response to her demand that he dole reformation. None of the above criticism is about me being too willing to bet this was a calculated strategy to divert out the most extreme punishment of which he’s capagazes away from the injurious messages at its core. It’s ble. This incident moves Christian’s infatuation for Ana cool for the story (and in case you’re wondering, I’ve right there in the opening credits, over which Annie outside acceptable BDSM terms and into the realm of read it). It’s about the ongoing sickness of equating Lennox’s retread of “I Put a Spell on You” lays down the sexual sadism. Second, it proves that the fantasies put male domination with female empowerment. Let it be line: “I put a spell on you because you’re mine. You bet- forth by the novel can’t hold up on the big screen. known that at the end of the trilogy Christian admits ter stop the things that you do.” Christian may not be When he tells Ana, for example, “I don’t make love. I to Ana holding all the power in their relationship, but equipped with magic, but he has the next best thing: fuck. Hard,” one has to wonder how such a statement that it requires him to speak said power into being before she can claim it for her own. He is the one who Capital. During their first interview, Ana is as much could be in any way alluring. defines it. And if self-empowerment can only be had Whatever we may think of Christian’s physical attracted to his wealth and power — not to mention the rockin’ bod that seems to hug the skeleton of any- attempts at capturing her for his prey, they’re nothing through abusive trust, at what point does real abuse one in Hollywood with a few Benjamins to rub togeth- compared to the verbal tactics fed him by screenwriter begin? It’s a vague proposition, and one that recalls the kind of rhetoric recently spouted by Utah er — as to the broken child cowering COURTESY OF State Representative Brian Greene, who beneath it all. Were it not for his rare UNIVERSAL PICTURES questioned whether or not sex with an combination of material assets, Ana unconscious person counts as rape. As would have no interest in Christian. any BDSM practitioner will tell you, His wealth “justifies” his abusive trust grows not through blind submisbehavior. sion, but in active and mutual participaWhatever the reason, a connection tion. It’s about offering, not sacrifice. And is born that neither of them is able to if the end result of apparent love is selffight. Such is the film’s ridiculous gratification through the reinforcement attempt to justify all that follows: Both of a dominant male fantasy, then we are imperfect souls in a world brimmight as well throw away the last century ming with them, and it’s all they can do of feminist progress along with one of to keep from trying to perfect each Christian’s spent condoms. other. I get that. But as their relationAll told, my biggest worry is neither ship develops and the scent of their pheromones becomes too concentrated to sneeze out, a Kelly Marcel. By its third iteration, his “It’s the way I that men will think this is what women want nor that morbid game of give and take begins. Christian bids am” mantra loses all effectiveness and imbues the pro- women will think this is what they need. It’s that those Ana to sign a detailed sexual contract that outlines his ceedings with cheap desperation. The only function of who identify with neither Christian nor Ana will feel dominance and her submission in kind, while ensuring that statement is to pave Ana’s submission as a path to left out of the conversation, and that those who witness that love never enters the equation. Beyond the fact his devotion. Yet the film supports a greater hypocrisy this homophobic nightmare will never think to questhat even Bondage, Discipline and Sadomasochism when their conversations turn to a family friend who tion the outdated gender dichotomy on which its story (BDSM) advocates have balked at this unrealistic made Christian his submissive from age 15 to 21. depends. If this is what love looks like, then I shudder to premise (theirs, in fact, has been the most cogent Christian reveals that this relationship was a healthy denouncement so far), more troubling symptoms of one for him, insofar as it freed him from the burden of think what hate might look like. responsibility at an impressionable age, and that they gender bias lurk within. Fifty Shades is a master class in heterosexism. This is continue to be in regular contact. Ana grows jealous Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be obvious as early as the fateful interview, when Ana asks and condemns his “teacher” as a “child abuser,” even as reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com. BY TYRAN GRILLO SUN STAFF WRITER
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Music and Film: An Unnatural Pairing?
usic is sexier than movies, and I imagine few would jump to disagree. Movies follow people as they bumble and chat and fight, and the good ones will make you feel for those people and understand the context and causes of their unrest. Good music, on the other hand, rides a melody or groove or just a feeling from start to finish, sometimes telling a story through lyrics but more than anything expressing joy or longing — in a word, energy — toward some thing, which even if afforded a name (for Bob Dylan, Johanna, for Mac DeMarco, Viceroy cigarettes) can always, for the listener, stand in for something or someone else. This is my roundabout way of saying I saw Fifty Shades of Grey. The movie frontloads most of its heat, with bitten lips, steely eyes and rattled breaths overwhelming the first 20 odd minutes. It’s the kind of experience you’re implicitly paying for, and the kind of gazefueled desire that movies, whether they aspire to high art or schlock, do best. But when it’s time for the cuffs and cat o’ nine tails to come out, the film cools, stringing together flicks and shudders into montages only a notch hotter than the wind currently barreling over Cayuga Lake. Fifty Shades of Grey lacks music. Adapting an erotic bestseller for an audience wide enough to deliver a $94 million opening weekend presents few opportunities for music anyway. The sex scenes are the selling point, so they demand center stage, and not just the sex but the gear, too — leather and ropes and
slings, arranged before walls of red deep within Christian’s antiseptic Seattle penthouse. The 13th time Christian pesters Anastasia to sign her submissive’s contract, I swear the leather evolved to become the most sentient creature in the room. With too many studio notes to film a love scene as elliptical as Don’t Look Now or Out of Sight’s, and with too much money to just make pornography, director Sam TaylorJohnson settles on an aesthetic somewhere between bad camp and HGTV. The almost yearlong lead-up to Fifty Shades roped in the collusion of a real artist, that of course, being Beyoncé. Accompanying last summer’s debut trailer, her remix of “Crazy in Love” swaps fast for slow, horns for strings and her pop-perfect voice for a feistier tenor scratched up through a filter similar to Julian Casablancas’. In duration and texture, Beyoncé’s new “Crazy in Love” is a better Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation than the feature film, conveying and sustaining a dangerous intimacy for as long as an entertainment medium can. A Lover’s Quarrel For all the with the World conservative pushback on the sexualization of popular music, sex is something music not only sells but understands, and Beyoncé deserves all the praise for long fashioning the eroticism of her voice and image into messages of empowerment and pride. There is a lot of strong, lovely music making waves right now, Björk’s Vulnicura being one of the most notable. It aims to fill the heart just as it breaks it, with Björk’s infinitely malleable
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voice oscillating between COURTESY OF THE CINEMA GUILD defeat and hope as it is besieged by violins, synthesizers and drum machines. Björk is a capital-A Artist, the first popular musician to receive a full-scale career retrospective at the MoMA (due in March), and the indeterminacy of her music lends itself to unfiltered, bewildering expression, which makes her success all the more remarkable. Father John Misty’s I Love You, Honeybear, ly through the movement of camera and assemreleased last week, takes a more deceptive bly of images, to power through the awkwardapproach to the love album, tempering fuzzy ness and achieve a transcendent effect. Classic feelings with liberal irony and self-loathing. In Hollywood excelled at this better than the stu“Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins),” dios today, while the French, naturally, are masafter telling his love she is “something else I ters to this day. There is a moment in 35 Shots of Rum, a can’t explain,” Father John Misty adds, “You take my last name,” in effect mocking his gen- Claire Denis film from 2008, when the action dered obligation of ownership via marriage. comes to a full stop and the four main characThe song sounds blissfully radiant, with a mari- ters find themselves fortified in a bar on a nasty, achi band blasting over the bridge, but Father rainy night. Their taxi broke down, and they John Misty can never seem to give himself a missed their show, and not one of them knows break. There’s a poetic density, and not to men- what to do, until music starts to play: tion a stand-up’s hilarity, to his lyrics and his “Nightshift,” by The Commodores. It’s a slinky, particular pairing of word to melody produces funky song, bringing the characters, one by one, an album open to interpretation even as it to their feet and to previously untapped life. The dance ends on a note of discomfort, as a young serves many pleasures. You can say movies are too burdened by man carries his affection for a girl too far, but images, and thus some kind of aesthetic obliga- there is no disputing there was life on screen for tion to the real world, to capture and critique that brief glimpse of time, a connection between one man or woman’s personal expression. And clothed bodies more felt than seen. so, love and film is not the most natural pairing, Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts even if it is regularly attempted and often enjoy- Zachary and Sciences. He can be reached at able, if only in spite of its sincere intentions. zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel The sexiest films need the help of music, With the World rusn alternate Wednesdays this whether literally on the soundtrack or spiritual- semester.
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a shot on goal. Sophomore goalie Paula Voorheis saved the first shot but was unable to stop the rebound. Nineteen seconds later, Harvard capitalized on the resulting penalty when one of its players picked up a rebound and drove a quick wrister into the net. In the second period, Cornell was able to keep Harvard at bay and create some goal scoring opportunities. However, the team was unable to break through Harvard’s strong defense. With 5.6 seconds remaining in the period, Daniels backhanded the puck past Voorheis to extend Harvard’s lead by two goals. In the final period, Harvard gained another goal, winning 4-1. Fulton said she believes the team needs to be more steady and have a stronger defense. Once the team improves in this area, it will be stronger and more dangerous. “We definitely need to tighten up the defensive end of our game. We’ve been producing offensively, but we can’t continue to rely on scoring four goals [per] game in order to win,” she said. “If we can establish a consistent performance defensively in the coming weeks, we’ll be a greater threat to opponents.” The following day, Cornell honored the hard work of its three senior forwards, Brianne Jenner, Fulton and Jillian Saulnier, in an emotional ceremony after the game at center ice. The senior front line combined for both goals and all four Cornell points in its game against the Green, but this was not enough to overcome Dartmouth. Dartmouth jumped on Cornell’s defense 24 seconds into the game when its forward, Ailish Forfar, drilled a rebound into the net. However, Cornell tied the game when Saulnier chipped the puck into the Dartmouth zone, confounded a defender, corralled the puck at the right wall, decked out another Dartmouth player and then snapped a righter into net. Just five minutes later on a power-play, Cornell gained a 2-1 lead when Fulton and Jenner set
up Saulnier for her second goal of the night. The Red controlled the play for the majority of the game but Dartmouth snuck two goals past Voorhies at the end of the second and the beginning of the third. With 30 seconds left in the game, the senior line had one final push with three shots on net, but was unable to cash in on any of them. Even though the result was not what the team had wanted, Fulton thought the squad did a better job pushing the puck towards the net. “I felt we picked up our forecheck a bit more and started putting more pucks to the net,” she said. “We dominated Saturday’s game with shots but it was those few defensive errors that had us boggled down.” In order to achieve the team’s goals, Fulton said she believes the group needs to improve defensively and continue to push itself to the limits in games. “We definitely need to tighten up our defensive side of our game but as a team we are going to continue to leave it all on the ice. We want to own each moment and let it be ours,” she said. “Our goal is to win an ECAC championship and a National Championship. In order to do that we just need to take each moment one step at a time. We need to focus on the ECAC tournament and playoffs first and foremost.” While this weekend was filled with many ups and downs, Fulton is happy to have celebrated senior weekend with her friends, family and teammates. “This weekend was definitely an emotional roller coaster. It’s hard to believe my four years is almost up wearing a Cornell jersey, but I’m glad I’ve gotten to do it beside two of my best friends, Jill Saulnier and Brianne Jenner,” she said. “It also gave the team a chance to sit back and enjoy Lynah Rink and our friends and family and also a chance to refocus on what lies ahead for us in the rest of the season.” Danielle Letourneau can be reached at dletourneau@cornellsun.com.
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career has been shaped by his time traveling, the friendships formed within the team and the support of his coach. Villalonga said these are his favorite parts of being on a sports team at Cornell. “The [team is made up of] a great bunch of guys, and when you go through the types of things that we go through each season, you create friendships and a brotherhood that lasts a lifetime,” he said. While the end of the road is surely bittersweet, Villalonga noted that the support from his coaches stood out to him the most this past weekend against Drexel. “My coaches just told me to go out there and have fun, they reminded me that it was my last chance to do it here at Cornell, so that’s exactly what I did,” he said. Next weekend, the Red travels to Iowa City, Iowa, for National Duals where the men will face the
top eight colleges and universities in the country. “We are competing against the best teams in the country, and I’m most excited about showing the country how tough we are when our line up is at full strength,” Villalonga said. Next week Cornell will come into the duals ranked at No. 5 in the lineup of the Top-eight schools. The other seven schools will include the University of Iowa, the University of Missouri, Ohio State University, the University of Minnesota, Lehigh University, the University of Illinois and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. It will be Villalonga’s last time wrestling for the Red in this tournament and his last chance to show the intercollegiate world his success and stregnth as an athlete. Hannah Noyes can be reached at htn27@cornell.edu.
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matches. The team comes into its closing weekend riding a four-game winning streak. The Quakers will take on Princeton and Drexel this Saturday for their final two matches of the regular season before the EIWA and NCAA championships. While the team has looked good in its final half of the season, it struggled in its Ivy game against Cornell and its matches against Lehigh, Rider College and Iowa State. Despite these losses, the Quakers have seen success in the rest of its matches and was able to take 10th place out of 14 teams at the Keystone Classic and 14th out of 51 at the Midlands Championships. This weekend will prove to be a key set of duals for Penn, as it currently stands tied for second place with Princeton in Ivy standings. The Quakers will face the Tigers on Saturday at home, determining both teams’ final league positions at the close of the regular season. Although Cornell has secured its spot in first place, both teams have the chance to finish the season right behind the Red in second. While Penn fell to Cornell, 26-9, in one of its four losses this season, the squad has seen success against the Brown, Harvard and Columbia squads over the past two weekends of Ivy duals. With just two more meets before the end of the season, the squad prepares for post-season duals.
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from the game, including a very strong showing from its penalty kill unit. The Red knows that its not easy to win in the conference, and down the line it will have to be efficient in all facets of the game if it wants to make a run at a conference title. “Every team is going to give you its best shot. A team’s record doesn’t matter; it’s going to be a battle every night,” said head coach Mike Schafer. After the loss, the Red made the trip to Boston on Valentine’s Day to take on Harvard. The Red defeated the Crimson on a last minute goal at Lynah Rink just three weeks ago. It was another tight game between the two sides, highlighted by a 35 save performance from sopho-
more Red goaltender Mitch Gillam. The Red played a possession heavy first period, which sometimes led to transition opportunities for Harvard, but Gillam was up for the challenge and held the Crimson scoreless in the period. Bardreau gave the Red the lead in the next period with his second goal of the weekend. Halfway through the third, the game was deadlocked at 2-2, and it looked like the next team to score would be the winner. So, when Crimson junior Jimmy Vessey scored with five minutes remaining, the Red looked finished. However, an unlikely hero in freshman forward Jared Fiegl tied the game just 63 seconds later to secure a tie for the Red. “We were able to regroup after the goal and tie it up, which says something about this team. We played a great team in a great atmosphere and are now looking forward
to the next one,” Schafer said. The Red will take on RPI and Union this weekend, with an eye on gaining momentum heading into the ECAC tournament in a couple of weeks. Friday’s game against RPI will be the squad’s “Pink at the Rink” game. The Red will wear new pink uniforms and are encouraging fans to attend the game in pink attire in support of the fight against breast cancer. Saturday’s game against Union will be the final regular home game of the season, and will serve as the squad’s senior night. The Red will honor seniors Bardreau, Ryan, forward Madison Dias, forward Joel Lowry, defender Jacob MacDonald and forward John McCarron. Amir Patel can be reached at apatel@cornellsun.com.
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Senior icers | Senior forward Jillian Saulnier, pictured above, was one of the three seniors who was honored this weekend, along with teammates and forwards Brianne Jenner and Emily Fulton.
WRESTLING
Men Defeat Drexel, Head Into National Dual Meet By HANNAH NOYES Sun Contributor
The Cornell wrestlers came out of this weekend with yet another win under their belts. Drexel University traveled up to Ithaca and left with only six wins, trailing Cornell by 31 points. With only three meets left in its season, the Red has successfully held its record at 15 wins and one loss. Senior captain Christopher Villalonga fought in his last home meet this weekend. He explained that for him, this weekend was a chance to have one final strong home dual. “Being able to go out there for my last home dual of my career and put up a lot of points and give the home crowd a show was definitely my highlight,” he said. Villalonga competed in the 149 and 157 weight classes for Cornell and had a tremendous season last year. Winning the Binghamton Open and
the New York State Intercollegiates were two of the major highlights from his 2013-14 season. Additionally, Villalonga has been a NCAA Qualifier for his entire Cornell wrestling career. As a whole, Villalonga said the team performed “very well.” Conviction and endurance has led the men through a successful season, as well as the support of their three captains. “We went out, pushed the pace and dictated each match,” Villalonga said. Junior captain Nahshon Garrett, won his weight class and left the weekend as the 22nd man to successfully win 100 career matches. He noted that his team’s motivation has been a highlight for him this season. “My favorite part about being on the team right now is the goal oriented mindset of everyone on the team,” Garrett said. As a senior, Villalonga’s Cornell See WRESTLING page 14
Cornell women’s hockey (14-10-3, 12-6-2 ECAC) returned to Lynah for its last two home games of the regular season against Harvard (20-42, 15-3-1 ECAC) and Dartmouth (13-11-2, 9-9-2). Despite the team’s hard-fought efforts, it was unable to walk away with a win this weekend, losing, 4-1, to Harvard and, 3-2, to Dartmouth. In the first matchup on Friday against Harvard, Cornell stole the lead two and a half minutes into the game when junior forward Taylor Woods the passed “We definitely need to tighten up the puck behind defensive end of our game. We’ve been the Red net and up the producing offensively but we can’t continue right wing boards to on relying on scoring four goals per game.” senior forward Emily Fulton Emily Fulton, who cut to the slot and slipped a shot past Harvard’s goalie Emergence Maschmeyer. Until the last six minutes of the first period, Cornell possessed the puck for the majority of the time. However, 13:41 into play, Harvard’s Sydney Daniels gained possession of the puck, charged the net, fought through a holding penalty on freshman defender Erin O’Connor and got See W. HOCKEY page 14
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Upper class ice | Senior defender Joakim Ryan will be honored with other Red seniors.
MEN’S HOCKEY
Red Drops Game Against Green, Ties Harvard Match After Overtime By AMIR PATEL Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell men’s hockey team (10-11-4, 88-2 ECAC) hit the road for the first time since January to take on Dartmouth and Harvard this past weekend. It was a disappointing trip as the Red fell to Dartmouth, 2-3, and tied Harvard, 3-3, putting the squad in a tie for seventh place in the ECAC. The Red hit a wall early against Dartmouth, conceding a goal just 19 seconds into the game. At 8:11 in the first period, the Red went down, 0-2, when its defense scored an own goal to extend the Dartmouth lead. The Green then got into penalty trouble, which eventually led to the Red having a two-man advantage halfway through the first period. It took all of nine sec-
onds on the power play for senior forward Cole Bardreau to score on a one-timer off the face-off and make it a 1-2 game. Senior defender Joakim Ryan then tied the game off of a beautiful transition sequence that saw Bardreau pick up his second point of the night on a backhand assist coming from behind the net. He hit a streaking Ryan down the middle of the ice late in the first to bring the game to 2-2. Dartmouth’s Eric Neiley scored the winning goal with eight minutes left in the game to give the Green a 3-2 victory over Cornell. The Red defense was in a scramble off of a missed clearing attempt, giving Neiley space to work into the slot and score. Despite the disappointing performance, the Red had much to take away See M. HOCKEY page 14
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