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Years Later, Community Feels Effect of PMA

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer

Five years after $1 million worth of budget cuts transformed Cornell’s Department of Theatre, Film and Dance into the Performing and Media Arts department, some Cornellians and Ithacans say the cuts have negatively impacted Cornell’s relationship with the local community

Prior to the budget cuts which were implemented over a two-year period beginning in 2010 the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts drew audiences of about 20,000 people, according to Prof Bruce Levitt, performing and media arts

Now that figure has “dissipated to near nothing,” according to Brian Murphy ’16, president of the Schwartz Ambassadors a student group that promotes and plans performing arts events and welcomes prospective students

When the entire University faced budget cuts in 2010, the theatre, film and dance department was challenged to re-think the structure and curricula of the department under a new budget, according to Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the

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Thirteen Scientists Will Come to Cornell

Thirteen social scientists will begin as fellows-in-residence in the Institute for the Social Sciences in the College of Human Ecology next academic year, according to the University The program will allow the social scientists to focus primarily on research in their fields at Cornell Each will receive a grant of $10,000 to aid their research and scholarship

University Local

Ithaca Trash System Receives Tech Update

Ithaca residents who leave too much trash on their property will now receive an email notfication instead of a written ticket, according to The Ithaca Times

The aim of this change in protocol is to help residents keep better track of their tickets so no fine comes as a surprise, The Times reported The Common Council is also discussing a method of warning for first-time offenders

Around the Ivies

‘Honor Code Affirmation’ Before Exams Considered At Harvard

Students at Harvard University will likely have to profess their dedication to the Honor Code prior to each exam and final paper if a Faculty of Arts and Sciences resolution is passed, according to The Harvard Crimson The new procedures would take effect next academic year The official honor code was not instituted until May of last year, following multiple allegations of cheating at the University, The Crimson reported The meeting to vote on the procedure will take place March 3

National

Beagle Wins Westminster Kennel Club Best in Show

Miss P, a beagle and an underdog, won best in show Tuesday at the annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show, The Associated Press reported A 4year-old “big beagle,” Miss P beat out a competitive pool of dogs for the title The judge, a retired trial-cour ts judge in California, said it was her demeanor that won him over Westminster Kennel Club does not award a cash prize for the winners, The AP reported

Meteor Flies Over Pennsylvania

The Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA reported that the meteor spotted flying over Western Pennsylvania attained a speed of over 45,000 miles per hour early Tuesday morning, according to The Associated Press NASA speculates that the meteor originated from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, The AP reported

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Cayuga Mall Shuts Down Wednesday

A wall between Party City and a neighboring store at the Cayuga Mall collapsed Wednesday due to the weight of accumulated snow, according to The Ithaca Journal

The incident led to the entire mall being shut down for the day

The building had been constructed before 1984, when modern codes were enacted, according to Marty Moseley, code officer for the Village of Lansing

Nobody was injured in the incident, and Party City employees were evacuated before the snow could cause further damage, The Journal reported The mall will not reopen until the structural integrity is verified and the repairs are complete

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“As part of this new vision, the department changed its name to Performing and Media Arts and consolidated [theatre, film and dance] majors into one, ” Ritter said

In addition to the structural change, the department also lost 22 people, who were a mix of “tenure-track faculty who retired, lecturers and staff,” according to Levitt

As a result of a decrease in funding and a loss of faculty and staff members, the number and scale of productions at Schwartz Center has decreased significantly, according to Murphy

“The Schwartz Center used to produce at least six main stage productions a year prior to the budget cuts, ” Murphy said “Now, we theoretically do four, but in practice we have done three [in this year ]”

Murphy said the quality of the productions has decreased as well because there were less people working in the Schwartz Center

Three staff members from the costume shop were lost as a result of the cuts, which was one way in which the scale of productions were impacted, according to Levitt

“I directed Grapes of Wrath years ago, which had 37 to 38 people in it and over 100 costumes, ” Levitt said “We can no longer do anything like that ” Chandler Waggoner ’15, the last theatre-arts major enrolled at Cornell, also said he believes the nature of performance events at the Schwartz Center has changed

Ithacans also say the decrease in Schwartz programming has also been noticeable

Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward), who represents Collegetown on the Ithaca Common Council, said effects of the budget cuts were noticeable pretty quickly

“I think what dawned on people, and it didn’t take long, was that performances gradually reduced in number,” Kerslick said “They kept a number of performances going, but over a short period of time, the number of performances that were open to the public really fell off at Schwartz Performing Arts Theater ”

Kerslick, who described the performing arts budget cuts as a loss to the Cornell and Ithaca community, said local businesses were also affected by the cuts

“When they had regular performances of theater and dance up there, that was very good for local restaurants because people came not just to go to the performance, but they would often come and have a meal before or afterwards and the local businesses benefitted from those people coming in to attend the performance there,” Kerslick said Sam Schuepbach, owner of Aladdins Natural Eatery in Collegetown, also said he felt a decrease in business over the last five years

“[The Schwartz Center] is not just a geographic intersection, it also was, for the community, a cultural intersection.”

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“Obviously [the performance events] brought clientele to Collegetown,” Schuepbach said “We used to always have reservations before the plays ” Schuepbach, who said business from patrons of the Schwartz Center “disappeared,” added that prior to the cuts, he frequently received reservations from parties specifying that they needed to finish their dinners before a show began

“I think the big difference in productions is student versus faculty involvement,” said Waggoner, who said he declared his major before the theatre, film and dance department officially consolidated the majors under the umbrella of performing and media arts

According to Waggoner, every main stage show previously had a high degree of faculty and student collaboration, but that now faculty are less involved in every aspect of production

Despite a decrease in funding, Prof Nick Salvato, English and performing and media arts, said smaller productions have allowed students to think more creatively

Though Salvato who is also the incoming chair of the department acknowledged that there has been fewer faculty-directed theater productions for several years, he said that the current number of events was on par with numbers before the budget cut

“My department now sponsors as high and diverse a number of events as it ever has,” Salvato said

Although Salvato said the performance events had smaller budgets, the productions “ are every bit as fully and robustly imagined in artistic rather than merely economic terms as they were in the past ”

Waggoner agreed, saying that fewer departmental resources had both negative and positive ramifications

“I think with less you ’ re able to do more creative things because you have to think outside the box,” Waggoner said “But I will say that it’s increasingly complicated and hard to work within a system where you don’t even have the opportunity to build on a very large production scale, especially when it’s your education and you ’ re going to want the money to be here, same as everyone else ”

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“I’m obviously very sad,” Schuepbach said “[The Schwartz Center is] probably less than 200 feet away from my building ”

Kerslick also said the decrease in programming affected more than just business in Collegetown

“[The Schwartz Center] is not just a geographic intersection, it also was, for the community, a cultural intersection,” Kerslick said “It was one of the few places where students and the community and the public could come and see a performance I think it forms a kind of bond with the local community to see that talent ”

Waggoner, who said he has not been in a show that has sold out at Cornell, said he did not believe community members knew enough about the performances that were going on at the Schwartz Center

“I do believe wholeheartedly that the cuts directly affected the work we do which directly affected how we interact with the community and our relationship with Ithaca,” Waggoner said

In an effort to address issues that the budget cuts have raised, Murphy and Juliana Batista ’16, executive vice president of the Student Assembly, have sponsored S A Resolution 43, which calls for the creation of a task force to strengthen the relationship between the performing and media arts department and the larger community

“Our hope is that with this resolution we can create a call-to-action to reinvigorate the Schwartz Center,” Batista said “Much of the appreciation for the arts is lost on our campus with such a pre-professional and specialized focus of its students ”

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun com

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Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun com

Oregon Governor Sworn in Wed.

SALEM, Ore (AP) Kate Brown was sworn in Wednesday as Oregon’s governor following an influence-peddling scandal that prompted the resignation of fellow Democrat John Kitzhaber, who had been the state ’ s longest-serving chief executive

Brown assumed Oregon’s highest office during a ceremony at the state Capitol Brown, formerly the secretary of state, becomes the first openly bisexual governor in the nation In a speech to the Legislature

after her swearing-in, Brown praised Kitzhaber for his contributions but also said “ we must restore the public’s trust ” “There is a great deal of work ahead of us, and I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and get to it,” she said in a brief address

Meanwhile, Kitzhaber, in one of his final acts as governor, commuted the prison sentence of a young inmate who’s serving a 12year sentence for attempted murder and other charges

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c h i l d h o o d r o a d s i d e stop at the deliciously diplomatic International House of Pancakes Amidst the crankiness and fr ustration of a 12 hour car trip, I elected the cinnamon raisin toast filled with sweet cream and covered with berries and whipped cream to evade a future minivan meltdown And the moment that s t u f f e d Fre n c h t o a s t re a c h e d my tongue, all the miser y of the car trip dissipated behind me and I floated on a cloud as light as that whipped cream topping So in search of a comparable experience, I set out to the streets of Ithaca, sampling

French toasts near and far here are the final contenders

The Carriage House Cafe

The morning of my first tasting brought with it frigid temperatures and a frenzied wintr y mix Nonetheless, beckoned by the promise of the best brunch in It h a c a , I b r a v e d t h e b l i z z a rd down to the Carriage House The usually-crowded cafe was sparsely occupied on that snowy Friday morning, with the cottage ’ s stone walls offering a cozy refuge from the storm Within minutes, I was looking at a plate of brioche French toast The thick, goldenbrown triangles were stacked in pools of berr y coulis and maple syrup, lightly dusted with powdered sugar The fluffy brioche melted in my mouth, while the tartness of the berr y coulis perfectly complemented the syrupy sweetness Devouring this dish helped me forget that I would soon be trekking back to North Campus; no wrong could exist as long as this French toast was in m y l i f e A s t h e m o u n t a i n o f brioche on my plate gradually sank away well, maybe not so gradually it soaked up the syr up and coulis This syr upd re n c h e d , b e r r y - i n f u s e d b re a d offered a different but equally enjoyable experience I savored ever y bite My only regret was that I didn’t save room to tr y the brie-stuffed French toast I suppose I’ll have to wait until the next blizzard

The State Diner

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Ivy Room

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watching plate after plate of pancakes emerge from behind the grill, so I was ravenous by the time my order came out For a campus eater y, the plating far exceeded my expectations: Four thick, fluffy slices of honey-colored toast were nestled onto the

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So although I may need a few months to muster up a craving for French toast again, these three tastings opened my eyes to the myriad of French toasts Ithaca has to offer

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BY STEPHEN MEISEL Sun Contributor

It would be a criminal understatement to say that the most striking element of The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Kaguyahime no Monogatari, in romanized Japanese), which showed last Saturday and Sunday at Cornell Cinema, is its unique visual sensibility Indeed, it’s sinfully far off from a proper description of the role played by the film’s animation style Simply put: Kaguya becomes its animation, and that is a very good thing

The world of Princess Kaguya is an incomplete one The watercolor beauty inevitably stops somewhere in each of the film’s scenes Behind it lies a textural canvas, a landmark to the sense of absence found throughout the story, both in appearance and in plot

an extraordinary extent of believability, while never letting us forget that its world rests inside a canvas We are made to believe the half-completed images are real And in a skillful turn, we always remember they are also a sequence of wellcrafted paintings

If that powerful attention is shown to the shots of 10 seconds or less, it only attests to the aesthetic sweetness and tranquility found at the film’s most emotional moments We not only see these events pass on screen we see their pain, their sadness and their ecstasy expressed through Kaguya’s sometimes violent, sometimes peaceful impressionism But for all the animation is worth, it never amounts to overstimulation; rather, it is an excellent example of how less can mean so much more

However, Isao Takahata, the mind behind Princess Kaguya, ensures that the film’s semi-filled visuals never come across as lazy or pretentious In fact, they are the paradoxical cherry on top of the meticulousness and honesty felt in Princess Kaguya’s every frame They embody the film’s sublime joy in some moments and its corrosive loneliness in others More importantly, they give us the impression that we have seen a magnificent sketch come to life And like Princess Kaguya herself, this living sketch demands freedom from finality, predictability and grandiose ambition

Takahata’s artists even render the passage of wind through trees, the pastoral landscapes that breathe and sway and the choreography of shadows that scramble across a bamboo forest an intimate and heartfelt experience It is all animated to

BIn this sense, fans of Studio Ghibli of Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies, The Wind Rises and Howl’s Moving Castle will not find the typical

romantic lavishness or ultra-detail one could come to expect from Japan’s most formidable animation powerhouse Instead, in Takahata’s first film in 15 years, they will discover a brilliant minimalism subverting the onslaught of color and imagination that is the exemplary characteristic of a Studio Ghibli motion picture If Spirited Away is a mountain, Kaguya is a valley If The Wind Rises is fire, Kaguya is water We know now that the visual antithesis to a Studio Ghibli film exists They made it themselves

Yet in other ways, The Tale of Princess Kaguya doesn t depart too far from the familiar It carries in its plot the simple morals of past Ghibli movies, but underlying the occasions of dark humor and playfulness is a strong caution against the idealization of women Not just because it leads to bad times for a

man (according to the film, it does that too), but primarily because it results in the miserable disempowerment of a woman We should not force an ideal upon someone, stripping them of their ability to be flawed and human We should not give extravagant gifts or say outlandish things to someone whose actual personality we have no idea about We should not make a princess out of someone who never wanted to be one

The tale itself is based upon a medieval Japanese prose piece that describes a woman of fantastical beauty who, in her infancy, was discovered inside of a bamboo stalk by an old man For the most part, the film keeps somewhat close to the myth Unfortunately, this does not rid Kaguya of its storytelling inadequacies The plot slows down too much in some areas and speeds too fast in others, and the strange pacing of events leads Kaguya into the trap found in some other Ghibli movies: Because of the skeletal narrative and static supporting characters, the momentum wanes It feels as if there are fewer and fewer reasons to continue watching Though the animation protects the film from a deluge of boredom and shoves it back 10 times over As the saying goes, man cannot live on bread alone, and a movie can ’ t get by on animation alone either

Even though the pacing may lean a little towards the awkward side, this does not make The Tale of the Princess Kaguya a film unworthy of your time The visual strength of the movie does more than enough to propel its emotion and celebration skyward, and its poignant moments definitely tug at the heartstrings Most impressively, the expressiveness of Kaguya can ’ t be drawn fast enough The animation always comes with a sense of movement, liberty and evasion But that is, of course, the purpose of the film it encourages an escape from the bamboo-cutter or the Emperor and, best of all, it praises the pursuit of a free and honest life

Stephen Meisel is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at spm243@cornell edu

Entrails, Mutilation and All That Jazz

lood, entrails, carcasses, crucifixion, mutilation The preceding components all feature prominently in Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch’s aktions, which, for obvious reasons, terrify people Nitsch’s impor tance arguably lies in his ability to reveal the disgusting, unnerving complexion of flesh

Thus, when Museo Jumex’s administration announced on Feb 2 that it had cancelled Nitsch’s exhibition, they got it wrong Art blogs Artnet News and Hyperallergic speculate that Museo Jumex cancelled the exhibition in response to a change org petition that accused Nitsch of disrespecting animal bodies and gained nearly 6,000 signatures Museo Jumex and the protestors both failed to recognize that Nitsch’s work attempts to criticize societal disrespect for animal bodies, not perpetuate it

In aktions, Nitsch only uses “animals [that] were slaughtered for food supply for our supply,” according to a statement he made to Artnet News Nitsch, like his detractors, draws away the curtain that separates animal slaughter and meat consumption Although Nitsch pointedly refrains from making overtly political statements, he has openly criticized the industrial food system In the same statement, he writes, “From my point of view factory farming is the biggest crime in our society ” Why, then, have animal rights activists opposed Nitsch?

Nitsch forces viewers vegans and passionate meateaters alike to really examine animal carcasses His aktions show meat as carcass no Styrofoam packaging, no carbonmonoxide treatment, no pastoral packaging It’s difficult to look at these carcasses and disturbing to watch Nitsch’s collaborators mutilate them Even as I argue for the merit of Nitsch’s work, I feel repulsed when I look at photographs of aktions Nitsch forces the viewer to feel unnerved and, hopefully, to trace the roots of their discomfort Mimicking rituals, superstition and sacrifice, Nitsch’s

aktions push the boundaries of phenomena that many people interact with through institutions such as religion In a 2010 interview with Vice, Nitsch said, “It’s just that for most people it [flesh and blood] is hard to get used to because they don’t have to deal with it that much ” The protesters ’ attempt to censor Nitsch epitomizes the very attitude that Nitsch criticizes: an unwillingness to engage in the profane and disgusting An artist going by the name D J Hermann Nitsch stated that he believed that the protestors missed Nitsch’s message “ Those armchair hypocrites should throw a change org petition at every mercado in Mexico while they’re at it,” the artist said in a statement to Hyperallergic Interestingly, other artists have also used animal carcasses as a component of their works, but they have elicited much less criticism British artist Damien Hirst sought to “ create a zoo of dead animals,” w i t h h i s s e r i e s , Na t u ra l Hi s t o r y , according to a statement on his website The collection of nine works features various animals “injected with formaldehyde and preserved in tanks o f t h e s o l u t i o n , ” including cows split in half and skinned sheep carcasses Yet, a q u i c k Go o g l e s e a rc h

Damien Hirst’s works brings up only one protest of his works that involve animal bodies, and the protested work featured dead butterflies What unspoken distinction separates Hirst and Nitsch’s works?

Nitsch differs greatly from Hirst with regards to the presence of blood and bodily fluids in his works Hirst’s suspends his carcasses in tinted cases, preserved in a lifelike state If anything, his works evoke images of taxidermy more than slaughter With the exception of The Tranquility of Solitude (for George Dyer) and Mother and Child (Divided), Hirst does not show the inner organs of any of the carcasses In

contrast, blood, guts and entrails pervade Nitsch’s aktions; the carcasses he uses truly seem slaughtered Although Hirst puts forth “ a study of the failure of science in that you have to ‘kill something in order to look at it,’” his works are far more palatable and, I therefore argue, less effective at transmitting the terror and violence of animal deaths In none of his art works does it appear that the animal died in any manner other than simply collapsing instantaneously

Nitsch’s focus on animal slaughter aligns with the writing of food journalist Michael Pollan In a 2002 New York Times column, “An Animal’s Place,” Pollan argues that the separation of consumers from the production and slaughter of their food is unnatural and unethical In his column, Pollan writes, “Slaughter doesn't necessarily preclude respect For all these people [of ancient societies], it was the ceremony that allowed them to look, then to eat ” Despite their violence and vileness, Nitsch’s aktions restore respect to animal slaughter or, at the very least, observation

Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun com Morning Bowl of Surreal appears alternate Thursdays this semester

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because I’m a hopeless romantic And no, I’m not kidding, I regularly watch the hitanimated films: Thumbelina and Anastasia, my personal golden standards on true love (and great soundtracks) Sure, a lot of our childhood fair y tales brush over abusive re l a t i o n s h i p s , s u p e r f i c i a l i t y, St o c k h

bering days before cell phones, DVDs and popular Internet use Are we also stuck in that threshold when it comes to relationships? Too traditional, wanting what our parents and grandparents had, yet still modern enough to enjoy hooking up, casual relationships and dating apps like Tinder? Not that any of these “paths” are positive or negative, but we do seem to be at an intersection

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Syndrome, patriarchal relationship values and the plague, but their naive notion of true love still brings those fuzzy, warm feelings If Hollywood is going to pull the wool over our eyes, I’d rather have it in cheesy, vivid Technicolor than 50 Shades of bleh

It’s the middle of Februar y, we ’ re all sick o f t h e c o l d , Fe b r u a r y Bre a k has come and gone too soon and we ’ ve s u r v i ve d a n o t h e r Va l e n t i n e ’ s Da y For those of you who spent it with loved ones, I salute you To those of us w h o r a n t o Wal*Mar t for all t h e d i s c o u n t e d chocolate, I salute o u r c o l l e c t i ve weight gain! There are many reasons to both love and hate Valentine’s Day From a romantic POV, it’s a day to celebrate the love in your life, shower someone with affection and out-of-season flowers and even tr y out some lacy lingerie bought on discount in October For others, it’s another reminder of our crippling descent into solitude, or another mass-market celebration of heteronormative relationships

Similarly, we have to move away from this “careless culture” we’ve created, where we try to be the person who texts less, feels less and ultimately gets less in a relationship

So what’s a Nü Romantic to do on Valentine’s Day? How’s one to navigate the obstacle courses that are Cornell relationships? Many would say to calm down, to get our heads from out of the clouds and to stop fantasizing about a future, eternal love with that acappella singer I say forget that and relish in the love you feel! The first step for love is to love ones e l f, a n d ye a h that sounds horribly corny If we d o n ’ t l ove o u r l ov i n g s e l ve s , h ow d o we expect others to l ove t h e l ove we ’ ve g o t t o give?

Okay, I used t h a t w o rd s i x times in a sortof grammatically correct manner (LVB should be proud) Whether it’s waking up “***Flawless” and showing it to all your friends on Snapchat, to feeling yourself à la Nicki and Bey, we are slowly building a culture of self-love, where we forgo the Burn Books and instead affirm our friends and ourselves for being great It’s so much

A day to grumble, give couples the side-eye and order Capital Corner take-out since ever y restaurant is booked Then there are the Parks and Recreation fans who celebrated Galentine’s Day, and that’s a great compromise, though a bit too niche for ever yone to follow yearly

There’s definitely a place for those who abhor Valentines, and there’s obviously an entire day for people who support it but where do in-betweeners fit in? Where can casual people who enjoy (see: bingewatch) rom-coms and want to shower people with love, but are seasoned enough to not buy into a Hallmark holiday go? Like the hit Mexican film Ni de aquí, ni de alla ( No t f ro m h e re o r t h e re ) , we N ü Romantics can ' t seem to have our cake and eat it too

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“Someone New,” we just can ’ t help falling in love with the people of our ever yday, creating vivid scenarios with our built-in stock film Hollywood has given us

Why are we like this? Does it stem from our generation’s weird state as the transition between traditional values and modern thinking? For example, we were born d u r i n g t h e s w i f t b e g i n n i n g o f t h e

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Similarly, we have to move away from the “careless culture” we ’ ve created, where we tr y to be the person who texts less, feels less and ultimately gets less in a relationship There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be perceived as cool, but in the end, the truth comes out (they’re gonna find out a b o u t t h a t s e c re t u n i c o r n o b s e s s i o n ) Ever yone is equally cool and geeky at the same time tr ying to hide it just lessens the quality of future relationships

The marketing concept of perceived scarcity states that companies will unnecessarily label things as limited edition just to create demand for a product I think that mentality can be fun, but it should only be used sparingly with respect to relationships Go ahead and text people back, tell them you enjoy their company and find them funny The concept of “oversharing” or talking to someone “ too early” is a social construct based on context, and we undergrads don’t have time to waste on silly three-day rules Fall hard and fall fast because it’s part of the human experience, and it’s kinda fun feeling like a middleschooler again The only caveat is to take care of your heart No one should be able to hurt it without your permission, but even the pang of heartbreak is a pleasant (in hindsight) experience that makes us h u m a n Wi t h t h a t , g o f o r t h , N ü Romantics and make people uncomfortable with your encyclopedic knowledge of their Facebook profiles and baked goods They’ll appreciate it, and you, in the long run

Kevin Milian is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun com Milian Dollar Baby appears on alternate Thursdays this semester

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Being home for break is not always as fun and exciting as we think it will be More often than not, I find myself stuck inside all day while my parents are at work This past break was especially boring because all of my friends from high school were still in school at their respective colleges As the break started, I realized I would either have to result to helping my parents with their errands or find some other form of entertainment

Enter Tinder

I am not by any means a Tinder rookie I live in a coastal area that in the summer is often only populated by old people on their long weekend vacations However, in the winter it’s a college town filled with kids just like me looking for something or someone to do This was the first time I was home and actually finding people I wanted to match with on Tinder So I gave it a shot: I started swiping right on anyone who looked remotely interesting Until this point my Tinder experience had consisted of swiping right and having the same conversation consisting of a corny pick up line then a couple of messages back and forth until one of us got bored and moved on This time was totally different

When I Tinder at Cornell, chances are I know the person But, at home I have a whole new world of boys, who I know I will only have to see once Normally, I would block my fellow Tinder pals if they started to mention

anything about us having sex or started to say dirty things This time, however, I decided to act I started to play back and eventually secured an invitation to a party going on down the road at an off campus apartment The guy in question lets call him Chris invited me to swing by for what he promised would be a good time

So, I got ready and headed out on my Tinder adventure

When I showed up at the apartment, I discovered it was ’ nt exactly a party, and I had basically been called to just hook up with Chris As Chris’ roommates started to disappear

his other hand down my shirt, caressing my boobs After what seemed like a nanosecond, Chris was naked and on top of me He started to kiss my neck and slowly moved down my body, making sure to hit all of the right places along the way After he was done going down on me, he reached into the top drawer of his dresser and pulled out that little teal package many of us are familiar with, ripped it open and slid it on

into their rooms, I found myself alone on the couch with my Tinder Romeo We quickly launched into a full blown make out session I straddled Chris on the couch as we started to bite each other’s lips and kiss each other’s necks

Then, in one smooth motion, he lifted me off of the couch and carried me to his bedroom all while still making out with me He laid me down on his bed and started to unbutton my jeans with one hand, while he slid

What happened next can only be described as some of the best sex of my life It was the kind of sex where after both parties have climaxed, you just collapse because your body is so exhausted I then got up, located my clothes stre wn all over the room moments before and left No cuddling, no awkward walk of shame the next morning and the best part: No c h a n c e o f r u n n i n g i n t o C h r i s a t RPCC brunch on Sunday As I look back on my Tinder adventure nearly a week later, I think the reason the sex with Chris was so good was because I went into the night with a carefree attitude I knew there was no chance I would ever see Chris again after that night I used Tinder to find some entertainment and thats exactly what it provided me with: Good old-fashioned, no-strings-attached fun

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Goodell Embarrassing NFL

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Although it’s not known whether or not the official tried to sell the footballs after DeflateGate became a big deal, the official’s firing is just the latest public relations nightmare for Roger Goodell and the suits in the NFL offices in New York City

The news of potentially corrupt officials messing with the “integrity of the game ” that the national media made into a huge deal with the Patriots’ deflated football (NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that just one football was significantly deflated against the Colts) is incredibly ironic for Goodell In a year filled with scandal, Goodell handled each situation with as much grace as Homer Simpson would display as a ballerina

So given the disaster that was the 2014-15 season for Goodell, I can only imagine that he was pumping his fist when he had an opportunity to lay down the hammer on New England, the “perpetual cheaters” of the league All he needed to do was commission an independent investigation

Instead, as a result of that investigation commissioned to see whether or not the Patriots cheated, Goodell has, by some miracle, made the NFL look even worse than it already does

What we ’ ve learned this year was that Goodell was completely unprepared to handle players knocking out their wives in the elevators of casinos, players hitting their kids with switches and officials selling game-used footballs to their own personal profit Oh, and by the way, Goodell pocketed $44 million in salary last year I repeat, $44 million Literally enough money to buy 3,669,724 copies of Taylor Swift’s masterpiece album “1989 ”

Go find yourself a phone book and flip open to a random page Close your eyes and point your finger at a spot on the page The person whom your finger landed on is just as qualified and competent enough to run a multi-billion dollar corporation as Roger Goodell

Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who was one of Goodell’s biggest advocates when he was running to replace former commissioner Paul Tagliabue, demanded that the league issue an apology should the investigation of the deflated footballs yield no incriminating evidence

Given the amount of shadiness and lack of concrete evidence pointing towards the Patriots purposefully deflating footballs, it appears as if Kraft will be getting his apology sooner rather than later from Goodell It wouldn’t surprise me, however, if Mr Commissioner is too busy cleaning up the mess that he, once again, created for himself

Joon Lee can be reached at jlee@cornellsun com

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Bishop Posts School Records

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Meanwhile the women ’ s team marked over 30 Top-Five event finishes as well as seven event wins and three ECAC qualifiers The weekend produced some remarkable results despite the tough competition and the team ’ s division between the two Invitational meets

“It’s tough not having the group together as they have great spirit and fight together,” Bowman said “Spire was also our second road-trip in consecutive weeks and a very high level of competition, perhaps our highest of the season The team performed very well there and are proud of the efforts ” Next weekend, the Red will host the Deneault Memorial, an opportunity to continue to raise tune up before the Indoor Heptagonal Championships at Harvard University in two weeks

“The team has great momentum at this time and we hope to continue that this Saturday,” Bowman said “We’ll start to think about [the Indoor Heptagonal Championships] after the meet this weekend and not get too far ahead of ourselves A good weekend though with school records and continued improvements ”

Rachel Cherner can be reached at sports@cornellsun com

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time Cornell’s lead got as high as 22 points late in the second half, when Moran sank a jumper from just inside the 3-point arc

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University as the Red handed the Green a 66-46 defeat while dropping the Saturday contest to the Crimson, 6157 Despite the split, sophomore for ward Nia Marshall earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors with her impressive performances against both teams

On Friday against Dartmouth, the Red (14-8, 5-3 Ivy League) controlled ever y second of play, coming out strong after a disappointing away trip last weekend when they fell to Princeton Against the Green, Marshall scored 24 points despite playing only 26 minutes in the contest Marshall shot 75 percent from the floor, managing to convert on her shots despite aggressive fouls from the Green Marshall made the most out of the chance for points, however, sinking eight of nine shots from the charity stripe

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Dartmouth Marshall and sophomore for ward Nicholle Aston snagged seven rebounds apiece and senior for ward Sarah Poland collected six of her own as well

“ We played really well as a team against Dartmouth,” said sophomore guard Kerri Moran “Ever yone contributed their part and we were finally able to gain a lead and keep it It was really awesome to have ever yone get in the game and contribute to our victor y ” Cornell’s offense looked unstoppable in the first half as Cornell combined to shoot 61 9 percent from the floor while maintaining a double-digit lead nearly the entire

In Weekend Invitational Events

By RACHEL CHERNER Sun Contributor

The Cornell men ’ s and women ’ s track and field team had a successful competition at the Spire Invitational in Geneva, Ohio before returning home to Ithaca for the Sunday Invitational where the Red accumulated 34 IC4A and ECAC qualifications

At the Spire invitational, the men ’ s team produced 19 IC4A qualifiers, five event wins, and five all-time top 10 marks in school history The women ’ s team had 12 ECAC qualifications in Ohio, alone, as well as a school record, a freshman record, and four changes to the school top-ten lists, for the weekend overall

“I think any records set, this weekend, are part of the plan that individual team members set for themselves,” said women ’ s head coach Rich Bowman “The group is goal-oriented, all want to set personal bests, it’s what they strive for and many, when setting those PB’s are within range of school records

These records are not easy to attain as our women ’ s track and field team has a rich history and standards set by past teams are extremely high A record set or broken on our team is really a special occurrence and always difficult to attain Definitely a cause to celebrate ” The highlight of the women ’ s accomplishments was senior Eve Bishop, who performed notably at both meets Bishop placed second

in the pole vault on Friday night in Ohio with a clearance of 12’6 ¼ ”

Then, on Sunday broke the school record previously held by Natalie Gengel ’10 and Claire Dishong ’13, reaching 12’10” to place first overall

“I surprised myself this past weekend,” Bishop said “I have always looked up to previous record holders, and never really thought of myself as ‘ as good as them’ at pole vaulting So, just being in a position to attempt to break their record really surprised me I feel proud that my hard work let me to that opportunity ”

Bishop’s performance contributed to the competitive spirit that led to the team ’ s many personal and team victories throughout the course of the weekend

“I always feel inspired when my teammates have great perfor-

mances, ” Bishop said “Those great performances really push me to work harder, compete better, and represent Cornell to the best of my ability I hope that my performance had the same effect on others, and also adds to the team ’ s momentum heading into championship season ” Sunday’s event yielded similarly strong performances for the Red The men ’ s team enjoyed several more victories including Olympic alumnus, Muhammad Halim ’08, who returned to campus to win the triple jump at a height of 47’7 ” Senior Stephen Mozia also raised the bar when he threw the shot put of 63’6,” his best throw of the season, and moved into No 14 in the national rankings

“ We played with confidence and really keyed in on b e i n g a w a re o f

turnovers were really prevalent,” Aston said “Our mental game wasn ’ t where it always needed to be ”

The Red started off slow when they hosted the Crimson 24 hours later at Newman Despite the sluggish start, Cornell led the way throughout most of the second half

“ We had a slow start, [but] we started to gain momentum after the 16 minute mark and gained the lead,” Moran said “ Then we started to turn the ball over, making silly passes and mental errors ”

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Metoyer both registered in the double digits for points while leading the Crimson comeback in the second half that resulted in a Cornell loss Har vard for ward AnnMarie Healy outrebounded ever yone on the court, grabbing eight off the boards while putting the Crimson just ahead of Cornell in rebounds, 38-36

With the team within only a few points of each other for most of the second half, the Crimson tied it at 45-45 after seven minutes in the second half as Har vard eventually pulled away following a series of Cornell fouls

“ We feel like we ’ re in good shape physically,” Aston said “ We just can ’ t afford to break down mentally in close situations which results in poor decisions during key moments of the game ”

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