02-20-13

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dians but also speakers or lecturers to Cornell each year

Over the past year, five of the last six shows the Cornell University Program Board has brought to campus have been comedy acts including the likes of The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver and Saturday Night Live comedians Kenan Thompson and Seth Meyers In light of this trend, some students said they wonder there have not n more no medic shows Cornell R i c h m o n Wong ’14, president of CUPB, said that CUPB makes an effort to bri not only com

While the majority of the four to six shows CUPB hosts each year are “comedy, we also like to have speakers or large lecture events in one or two of the shows each year, ” Wong said Ultimately, CUPB decides what performer to invite to Cornell based on what types of shows it thinks students will attend, said Connor McMurtry ’14, selections chair of CUPB “We look for the hat we think he most popand that the ost people at the school want to see, ” Mc Mu r t r y said “ We b r o u g h t

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Gordon Levitt and those both sold out They were incredibly successful I think everyone that went to them enjoyed them ” Some students, noting CUPB’s tendency to bring comedic acts to Cornell, said that they hope the organization brings more lecturers, speakers and scholars to campus for future shows Amanda Cramer ’15 said that even though comedic performances can be “ awesome, ” they have a c a m p u sw i d e appeal

“[Comedians] only really target one group of people at Cornell I would really like to see someone who can come in to speak about real life issues,” Cramer said

Though comedic shows have been popular among the student body, some students, like Carolyn Scheinberg ’15, said that they are usually “hit or miss for a lot of people ”

such as the scholars featured on TED talks to Cornell

“It would be awesome to get some speakers like the ones you see on TED talks: poets, architects, musicians [and] psychologists,” Gilovich said

Echoing Gilovich’s sentiments, Laura Fitzelle ’15 said she “would love to see a few more noncomedic guests ” featured in CUPB’s future shows

“Though I am always happy to be entertained, I also like to be inspired,” Fitzelle said

“[People] tend to judge comedians really harshly,” she said Rebecca Gilovich ’15 said that while she has enjoyed attending C U P B ’ s m e d i c ws, she w o u l d like to see the organizaion bring ntellectual s p e a k e r s

Lawyer, Prof Debate Affordable Care Act

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

Although some students said that there could be more variety in CUPB’s shows, Wong said that, overall, CUPB has continued to invite comedians to perform on campus because of their suc-

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Weird News of the Week

Antics of ‘Houdini Horse’ Caught on Tape

MIDLAND, Mich (AP) With her escape-artist antics now caught on video, a horse in Michigan is being dubbed the “Houdini Horse” thanks to her knack for opening stall doors

The 9-year-old horse named Mariska somehow learned to open latches at Misty Meadow Farms near Midland in central Michigan

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“Peaceland: An Ethnography of International Intervention” 12:15 - 1:30 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Nonprofit and Government Career Fair

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The farm’s co-owner, Sandy Bonem, posted a video online of the horse opening numerous locks It catches how Mariska lets herself out, then unlocking stalls for other horses just not her mother’s

As of Monday, the YouTube video had more than 760,000 views

Bonem tells the Saginaw News that Mariska, “doesn’t like to be locked in ”

Bonem says Mariska played with things in her mouth when she was young, and “she just kind of progressed ”

9-11 Call Asking For Cigarrettes Leads to Arrest

GRANBURY, Texas (AP) A Texas woman wanted to make sheriff ’ s deputies the butt of a joke, but she picked the wrong audience when she called 911 to have cigarettes delivered to her home

Hood County sheriff ’ s Lt Kathy Jividen says the 48year-old woman was “ very intoxicated” when she requested the special delivery on Feb 11

Jividen says the caller instead received a visit from two deputies and was arrested She was charged with a misdemeanor count of abuse of 911 She was later released from the Hood County jail on a $1,000 bond

The woman lives in Granbury, about 65 miles southwest of Dallas

Jividen says the woman thought it would be amusing to call 911 to place her order

Nudes Check Out Nudes At Austrian Museum

VIENNA (AP) These museum goers didn’t just leave their coats at the coat check They handed over their shirts, trousers and underwear

Everything, in fact, except their shoes and socks After all, the stone floor can get chilly when you ’ re touring an art exhibit in the nude, which was what more than 60 art lovers did in a special after-hours showing at Vienna’s prestigious Leopold museum

For many, the tour of “Nude Men from 1800 to Today” an exhibit of 300 paintings, photographs, drawings and sculptures focused on the bare male was a goose-bump-raising instance of life imitating ar t

“I can ’ t say I’m sweating,” said office worker Herbert Korvas as he stood waiting in the atrium with other young men, wearing only socks, sneakers and a smile

C.U. Prof Testi es Before Congress

On USPS Crisis

By LAUREN AVERY Sun Staff Wr ter

As the future of the United States Postal Service, wreaked by financial crisis, hangs in the balance, leading economists including a Cornell professor testified before Congress Feb 13 to propose reforms that could stabilize USPS’ finances

USPS is facing a “critical shortage” of revenue, having seen its revenues drop nearly $40 billion and its total volume of mail decline by 25 percent since 2006, according to the U S Government Accountability Office

In his testimony before Congress, Prof Richard Geddes, policy analysis and management, proposed a two-step solution to USPS’ financial crisis: corporatization and commercialization

Corporatization would allow USPS to restructure itself to resemble a “large private corporation,” Geddes said

“That means having a Board of Directors instead of a Board of Governors, having board members who have private sector experience rather than political appointees [and] allowing the board to compensate senior management more in line with private sector standards of compensations, which are higher,” he said Additionally, by commercializing USPS abolishing its monopoly on the postal service industry Congress could help USPS evolve and become more “entrepreneurial,” Geddes said Pointing to the government ’ s “heavy regulation” of USPS’ prices and products, Geddes said that the service is currently struggling because it is unable to make important financial decisions on its own

“[USPS] can ’ t just venture into new markets the way a private firm can, ” he said “Also, its service quality is highly regulated, and it is not free to set the frequency or speed of delivery the way a private company would be ”

Geddes added that many other countries have already successfully implemented these kinds of postal reforms, including

the Deutsche Post, the Dutch Post and the New Zealand Post Additionally, all 27 countries that are members of the European Union have repealed their postal monopolies

“Virtually every post in the world that is in a developed country that I am aware of has undertaken postal liberalization, which frees up their postal service The U S is last in terms of taking serious postal reform,” Geddes said

He said that in addition to battling heavy regulations, the USPS has also struggled to adapt to electronic communication and online transactions, which he said have contributed to a rapid decline in postal revenue

“People aren ’ t sending as many letters as they used to, and I believe that this because of e-mail, phone, fax and other electronic substitutes to sending a letter,” Geddes said “This electronic communication revolution is just as big in terms of its impact and scope as the industrial revolution was The Postal Service either needs to adapt to that revolution, or it will disappear ”

Besides seeing a decline in the use of first-class mail, Geddes said that the Postal Service has suffered financial losses due to a decrease in billing services

“People feel comfortable paying bills, banking, and sending messages to individuals online,” he said “Utility bills used to be a big part of the Postal Services’ revenue, but people are increasingly comfortable to just let the utility debit their monthly charge from their accounts ”

Geddes urged Congress to help reform the USPS for the sake of the service’s immeddate survival and long-term stability

“The U S Postal Service has an enormously valuable asset in its universal delivery network that has been constructed over decades That asset deserves to be managed as effectively as possible These reforms will ensure that the Postal Service remains a sustainable, vigorous institution for decades to come, ” Geddes said in a University press release

C ALS Introduces Solar -Powered Trash Can to Cornell

By NIKKI LEE Sun Staff Wr ter

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Debate Tackles ACA’s Complexities

DEBATE

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a partner at law firm Jones Day, said the act remains contentious He described Obamacare, which was deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court last summer, as being “ very oddly schizophrenic ”

“There are parts of it that are really wonderful and other parts that are awful,” he said

One part of the act that Katsas said has been controversial is its requirement that religious-affiliated organizations cover contraceptives in their employees ’ health insurance plans While some Republican and conservative groups have pushed Congress to remove the requirement, Katsas said it would be a hassle to determine who should be exempt from purchasing health insurance plans based on religious affiliations

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“I don't know that a corporation can pray That's one of the complications with the free-exercise claim the definition of individual employees in religious institutions,” Culbertson said

Katsas said that his biggest issue with the act is how it labels the individual mandate the part of the act that requires all Americans to have health insurance as a penalty, rather than a tax

Although the act does not require all individuals to purchase health insurance plans, it allows the government to tax individuals who do not have health plans something Katsas said should be reframed as a tax

“The bill can ’ t force people to buy health insurance, but you can tax them for not buying health insurance The bottom line is that we are making a punitive penalty,” he said

“I don’t know that a corporation can pray That’s one of the complications with the free-exercise claim.”

Prof Tucker Culbertson, law, Syracuse University, said that he is concerned about the Affordable Care Act infringing upon people’s right to freely exercise their religion By requiring all corporations including hospitals that may employ religious employees who oppose contraception to cover contraception in their health plans, the act “would compromise the free exercise of religion,” he said

“I see opinions against free exercise [of religion] and it concerns me, ” Culbertson said, adding that he supports exempting church-affiliated universities, hospitals and charities from providing or paying for coverage of contraceptives

“We have exemptions not just for houses of worship, but [for] all non-profit entities whose work and leadership suggest and lead to a religious opposition on the use of contraceptives,” Culbertson said Culbertson, however, also conceded that it is difficult to define which individuals or what groups should receive exemptions to the act

Dan Hartman, law, president of the Cornell Federalist Society the organization that hosted the debate said that b

Culbertson highlighted

controversies surrounding the Affordable Care Act

“The Supreme Court decision went down last summer, but that doesn’t mean that it’s over This debate is proof that there’s going to be challenges in the future for the [Affordable Care Act]; it’s still an unpopular piece of legislation,” Hartman said Har tman added that although the act was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court, Americans cannot be sure that “it’s going to be a smooth ride from now on ”

Though there are still aspects of the Affordable Care Act that could still be discussed, Hartman said the debate Tuesday brought many remaining issues of the act to light

“I think it went really well Both speakers brought immense intellect from both sides; I don’t think it could have gone better,” he said

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun com

Tompkins County Court Convicts Sex O ffender For Repeat O f fense

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Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun com

Students Ask CUPB For Variety in Shows

COMEDY

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cess with the student body

“Seth Meyers sold out Bailey Hall in Spring 2012 Having [him] here was fantastic; everyone really loved him,” he said Other students also said they appreciate CUPB’s leaning toward comedic acts

“Jon Stewart was excellent I’d love to see comedians like him come back,” Caitlin Arens ’15 said

Like Arens, Steve Lezynski ’14 said he hopes CUPB continues to bring the likes of Stewart to perform at Cornell

“I’d [even] like to have Charlie Sheen come speak to see what he’s been up to these days,” he said

Both Wong and McMurtry said that, in deciding who to invite to campus, CUPB attempts to garner student opinion and suggestions each year They said that the University’s club fair, for example, is a useful forum in which to reach out to students for their opinions

“We try to get as much feedback as possible from the campus, ” McMurtry said “People are always welcome to put down any suggestions or contact us ”

Wong added that while the CUPB’s executive board consists of six representatives, the input from the organization’s general body members of which he said there are around 60 is paramount

“We try to make it as much of a conversation back and forth between the general body and the e-board,” McMurtry said

CORNELL CAMPUS OFF CAMPUS

Admissions Of fice

Africana Librar y Center

Alice Cook Dining

Alumni House

Anabel Taylor Hall

(One World Café)

Appel Commons

Baker Hall

Bar nes Hall

Bar tels Hall

Bethe House

Big Red Bar n

Carl Becker House

Carpenter Hall Librar y

Clark Hall

Cor nell Stor e

Cour t Hall

Dair y Bar

Day Hall Main Lobby

Dickson Hall

Donlon Hall

Duf field Hall

Envir onmental Health &

Safety Building

Flora Rose House

Gannett

Goldwin Smith

Ives Hall (ILR)

Ivy Room (WSH)

Johnson Museum

Kosher Dining Hall

Mac’s Café

Mar tha’s (MVR)

Mann Librar y Myr on Taylor Hall (Hughes Dining)

Noyes Main Lobby

Okenshields (Willar d Straight Hall)

Physical Science

Baker (Goldies)

Plantations

Welcome Center

Libe Café

Rhodes Hall

Risley Dining

Rober t Pur cell Community Center (RPCC)

Sage Hall Atrium

Sibley Hall (Gr een Dragon Café)

Statler Hall

Stocking Hall (fr ont lobby)

Tatkon Center

Teagle Hall

Trillium & Trillium Expr ess

Uris Hall

Vet Center (Shur man Hall)

Willar d Straight Hall Lobby

William Keeton House

Autumn Leaves Used Books (Ithaca Commons)

Bear Necessities

College Variety

Collegetown Bagels

Commons Market (Aur ora St downtown)

CFCU (Triphammer Rd )

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Hillside Inn

Hilton Gar den Inn

Holiday Inn

Ithaca Cof fee Co

Ithaca College (Phillips Hall)

Jason’s Gr ocer y & Deli

Kendal

Kraftees

Lifelong

Mayer’s Smoke Shop

P&C (East Hill Plaza)

Shor tstop Deli

Stella’s

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Judge Blocks NYC From Ken Burns Film Footage

NEW YORK (AP) A federal judge on Tuesday blocked New York City from getting footage gathered by documentar y filmmaker Ken Burns in research for his movie about the five men exonerated in the Central Park jogger rape case

U S Magistrate Judge Ronald L Ellis said the city had failed to show him a concern so compelling to trump the “precious rights of freedom of speech and the press ” when it last fall requested outtakes and other materials from the film The Central Park Five

The request was connected to a $250 million federal lawsuit filed by the men against the city nine years ago after their sentences were vacated The attack on a 28-year-old investment banker occurred in April 1989, when she was found in the park after being beaten and raped while jogging She was in a coma for 12 days and was left with permanent damage The men were exonerated after a man already jailed for other crimes confessed, and DNA evidence supported his claim

Ellis rejected arguments by the city that Florentine Films and filmmakers Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns were not independent journalists entitled to reporter ’ s privilege

He said Florentine had “established its independence in the making of the film” and may claim the privilege

He also said the city had failed to adequately address the requirements of relevance and significance of the materials it sought and had failed to demonstrate they are not available from another source

City attorney Celeste Koeleveld said city lawyers were “disappointed and reviewing our options ”

“While journalistic privilege under the law is very important, we firmly believe it did not apply here This film is a one-sided advocacy piecae that depicts the plaintiffs’ version of events as undisputed fact It is our view that we should be able to view the complete interviews, not just those portions that the filmmakers chose to include,” the lawyer said in a statement

Burns said that he and his co-filmmakers are “grateful for this important decision ”

“This adds a layer of important protection to journalists and filmmakers everywhere,” he said His lawyer, John Siegal, called it a “marvelous decision for the media industry generally and documentary filmmakers in particular ”

Man Charged With Taking Dali Work From NYC Gallery

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Ex, Current Peterson Lawyers Face Off in Court

JOLIET, Ill (AP) The attorney who led the defense team in Drew Peterson’s 2012 murder trial sat in the witness box Tuesday and faced questions from his former co-counsel the latest turn in a long-running legal saga full of strange twists

The rarity of former legal colleagues facing off as adversaries came at a hearing to decide if Peterson, a former suburban Chicago police officer, should get a new trial in the slaying of his third wife

His current attorneys contend that former lead attorney Joel Brodsky botched Peterson’s trial, which ended in September with jurors convicting Peterson of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio

Witnesses during the daylong hearing Tuesday included Brodsky, a law professor who teaches ethics and even a spectator during last year ’ s trial The hearing resumes Wednesday Peterson, 59, faces a maximum 60-year prison term for killing Savio, who was found dead in her bathtub with a gash on her head The former Bolingbrook police sergeant gained nationwide notoriety after his much younger fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, vanished in 2007 Her disappearance led authorities to exhume Savio’s body and change the cause of death from an accident to a homicide

The dispute between Peterson’s former lawyer and his current ones is in sharp contrast to the beginning of Peterson’s trial, when the limelightseeking defense team faced the media together Several times, they joked that Stacy Peterson who authorities presume is dead but whose body was never found could show up any day to take the stand

The most dramatic moment at Tuesday’s hearing came when current Peterson attorney Steve Greenberg who has engaged in an open war of words with Brodsky in recent months announced that Brodsky was his next witness

Brodsky at first did not appear, and eventually the judge ordered him to the witness stand

In public, Brodsky and Greenberg have denounced each other as liars, but the back and forth in court Tuesday was comparatively reserved and polite

Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty

In ‘Cathouse’ Case

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The former girlfriend of a man accused of killing four people, including a prostitute featured on HBO’s “Cathouse” series, testified Tuesday she overheard him plan the Oklahoma City shootings because he was unhappy with the amount of money he made from a drug dealer among those killed

Denny Edward Phillips, 34, is charged in the deaths of drug dealer Casey Mark Barrientos and three others, including two pregnant women One of the victims was Brooke Phillips, who had worked for a legal Nevada brothel featured on HBO She was not related to Denny Phillips

In testimony at Denny Phillips’ preliminary hearing Tuesday, his former girlfriend testified Phillips and a second man, David Allen Tyner, planned to kill Barrientos, 32, because they were unhappy with their take from Barrientos’ drug trade

“They were going to kill Casey and anybody who was in the house,” Karine Sanders testified in Oklahoma County District Court “I almost felt threatened by it ”

Investigators say Barrientos ran a drug and prostitution ring out of the south Oklahoma City house where the victims were killed Denny Phillips and Tyner, 31, allegedly were involved in illegal drug sales with Barrientos

Sanders said she dated Denny Phillips during the summer of 2009 and that they frequently visited the house

“It was like a party house,” she said “A lot of strippers A lot of drugs A lot of drinking ”

She said there was also a lot of money lying around and that many who visited the house were armed

A resident of the house who survived, Jose Fiero, testified that he saw Tyner walk into the home where the victims were shot but never saw Denny Phillips

Previous testimony indicates that Phillips told a fellow inmate at a federal prison that he was nearby when the victims were killed, but not actually present

Denny Phillips faces six counts of murder because Brooke Phillips, 22, and Milagros Barrera, 22, were pregnant when they were killed All of the victims, including Barrientos and Jennifer Ermey, 25, were shot and stabbed and their bodies were set on fire

The preliminary hearing, which began last week, will determine whether there is probable cause that Denny Phillips was involved in the shootings and should be tried for murder It’s scheduled to resume Feb 26

Denny Phillips has pleaded not guilty to the charges Prosecutors said Tuesday they will seek the death penalty if he is convicted

Tyner, whom Sanders identified as her cousin, worked as Barrientos’ bodyguard and complained to Denny Phillips that he was not being paid enough, Sanders said Denny Phillips was also not happy with the amount of money he made from drug deals with Barrientos, she said

“Let’s do something about it,” Sanders testified Denny Phillips said at one point during a conversation with Tyner in which she was present She said Denny Phillips made it clear that he wanted to personally kill Barrientos

“He wanted to shoot Casey, I know that,” Sanders said “He said he wanted to look in his eyes ” Sanders said she broke up with Denny Phillips in September 2009, two months before the shootings and did not report the threats because she did not take them seriously

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Plu g gin g Away

There is something odd about the fact that everybody on campus seems to be in his or her own world as they walk from class to class This is not because of the oppressive and isolating nature of Ithaca in the winter but because we all walk around with headphones plugged into our smartphones (or iPods for those of us Luddites who haven’t embraced smartphones yet or Zunes for those whose parents do not love them) Do the people playing Taylor Swift on the clock tower chimes know that I can ’ t hear them when I am blasting Taylor Swift in my headphones? This phenomenon, is of course, not limited to the Cornell campus Everywhere we go, people seem to be less and less attuned to their surroundings and more and more in tune with their iTunes

There is something anomalous about the fact that we are, for the most part, removing our sonic connection to the world and replacing it with our own personal soundtrack Every person is experiencing his or her environment in entirely unique ways based on what is playing in his or her ears This column, however, is not meant to be a diatribe against “the youths,” what with their “hipping-hop” and “walkymen ” I am actually a big proponent of listening to your MP3 player everywhere you go Yes, you might get hit by a car, or not hear the love of your life screaming at you to not board the midnight flight to Paris to marry the rich Scandinavian doctor your parents want you to marry but whom you don’t really love because he is dull and has genital warts But, actually with the immense rise in podcast

There is something deeply personal about an auditor y experience.

books, I have started to view listening to your device as a means of being more efficient It is also a way to engage with a form of programming that is not confined by the rigidity of much television and film

No longer must I waste the 20-minute walk from my house to campus with idle thoughts and fantasies Or sit in the Ivy Room eating my lunch while listening to a hungover sorority girl drone on about which a cappella group stole her jacket at the frat annex of the guy she used to kind of hookup with Instead I can listen to Ira Glass narrate perfectly constructed segments about a particular theme that often end in me weeping There are plenty of educational podcasts about new inventions or interview podcasts that provide freeform and in-depth conversations that could never exist on television Or, I can listen to an audiobook, like Tina Fey’s autobiography, which also often leaves me weeping (how does she juggle everything?) In the past few years, I rarely even listen to music on my iPod, and when I do, it is most likely another podcast that introduces me to current new music

In many ways, podcasts have begun to replace the role that radio played for so many decades as a place where new music was introduced and long form journalism existed in a manner that it does not today I was serious before about getting emotional listening to podcasts I have laughed, cried and everything in between, and all in public According to my friends, I know I am not the only one who has had such emotional reactions to podcasts Just this week I teared up listening to an episode of This American Life that examined Chicago high schoolers at a school plagued by gun violence At one point, I had to take off the headphones, lest I totally break down in the Ivy Room

There is something deeply personal about an auditory experience, in which we are complicit in creating the story in our imagination It also requires our full attention, making it much more difficult to multi-task like we might while watching television Moreover, since podcasts don’t need to meet rating requirements, they are not built to please everybody; the audience must come to them, allowing interviews and discussions to go in to depths not seen elsewhere People are able to find their niche, the show that speaks to them and their interests specifically Perhaps this is cliché, but maybe as we disconnect from the outside, descending into our individual worlds through the wires of our headphones, we aren ’ t actually excluding the outside world we are just connecting in a different way

The Death of Language

Some nights, when the s k y i s t h i c k w i t h c l

pollution and when the midnight mist catches like a dull prism in the glow of

whispering through empty b

g blades of grass, carries off the breath rising from my chest like a spoken word I will, on occasion, take 2 a m walks to escape the

moments of intense clarity, when life billows from my lungs and disperses in the cold air as if to offer visible evidence that I still exist Standing still for a moment with traces of my feet left amidst the streams of salt ghosts that litter the concrete walkways, I often cannot find any words to give the experience a conveyable meaning Why is l

k l e thing, so utterly useless in

m

n e n t that to watch it depart like a winter breath is almost heartbreaking? Words fail, and it is our fault

Weakened by generat i o n s o f ov

y t h e accretion of new definitions that leaves much of its original sanctity hopelessly diluted, language has been dulled by thoughtless

Te x p e n d i t u r e We h a v e crafted a culture terrified of silence, one that despises the absence of sound a n d s q u i r m s u n d e r t h e imagined pressure of needing something to say at e v e r y p a s s i n g m o m e n t

Life has become a lexical waste bin, an alleyway litt e r e d w i t h p o i n t l e s s q u e r i e s a n d h a l f - b a k e d clichés, awkwardly staving off the terrifying weight of soundlessness In our fear, our absolute loathing of s i l e n c e , w e h a v e d r i v e n

include “ some mousy kid’s helicopter mom ” and “that p o s s i b l y h o m e l e s s m a n with a speech impediment who shows up at random sporting events to collect a l u m i n u m c a n s ” ( t r u e stor y) Words are stretched so thin that to call someo n e i n c r e d i b l y c l o s e a “friend” is to say almost nothing at all

It is the result of a terrible insensitivity that we so brazenly strain and misuse l a n g u a g e It is th

Words are stretched so thin tha to call someone incredibly close a “friend” is to say nothing at all.

words to a near extinction of meaning

Consider, for instance, the transformation of the a d j e c t i v e “ a w e s o m e ”

O n c e e m p l oy e d a l m o s t exclusively in the description of kings and deities, it m i g h t n ow b e s l a p p e d onto a list of accolades for an above average taco at a greasy downtown Tex-Mex restaurant What of the w o rd “f r i e n d ? ” So c i a l m e d i a , n a m e l y Ma r k

Z u c k e r b e r g ’ s e x p l o s i v e l y popular brainchild, has so t h o u g h t l e s s l y e x p a n d e d the term that it might now

ing short of a tragedy that our tongues have become prodigal spenders, wasting words like pocket change as their value diminishes Imagine them as liquids, t h i c k a n d m e l l i f l u o u s , f l ow i n g l i k e h o n e y a n d rich with meaning Dilute t h e m e n o u g h a n d t h e y, l i k e r a i n d r o p s p a t t

t

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n s t t i n r o o f s , m a k e s o u n d b u t n e i t h e r s o a k our clothing nor wet our skin and chill our bones

When language becomes a r a i n s t o r m t h a t i s h e a rd and not felt, it becomes

nothing more than blank noise, static on a television f l a s h i n g b l a c k s n ow against an electric white “ The more we talk, the less words mean ” Given to me by a good friend not long ago, this spoken line f r o m Je a n - L u c G o d a rd’s 1962 film Vi v re Sa Vi e expresses in words greater than mine possibly could the importance of silence and the poignancy of lang u a g e ’ s s l ow d e a t h Perhaps I am not meant to describe those moments of staggering beauty on lonely winter nights; to truly explain things as dynamic

reflections on wet pavement is to go mute and quietly share them with someone else Let us not use words so frivolously; let us savor them and not

silence As literature proliferates and as we contin-

o speak, I can only plead

moments when language is simply inadequate and when we can use the word “f

y mean it

Matt Hudson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mhudson@cornellsun com Red in the Face runs alternate Wednesdays this semester

The Politics of Invisibility

hroughout the vast majority of my primary and secondary education, seeing a black or brown body in a history textbook was as rare as Cornell cancelling classes for snow

Whenever I did see a person of color in a textbook that wasn ’ t a shackled slave or a savagely depicted First American, they, likely Dr King or Rosa Parks, were forced into a tiny square situated in the margins of history Consistently depicted as a side note that was disconnected from the “real’ American narrative, people of color have been systematically and deliberately deleted from American history However, when February comes around, the reality supposedly changes

Black History Month, first started by Carter G Woodson in 1926 as “Negro History Week,” was the only time of year I was taught about select black Americans who were revolutionary enough to be included, but mild enough to not overly threaten the normative American narrative I use the word select” because as I began to self-educate myself on my people’s history, I slowly realized that the black history I did learn in school was over-simplified and purposefully made benign I never learned much beyond Rosa Parks’ sitting on the bus, Dr King’s Dream, the lies about Malcolm X and slavery However, something is better than nothing, so I cherished Black History Month, for allowing me to see my darker hue as somewhat American too In spite of this, every year I would tran-

sition into March with one question unanswered by my teachers: Why isn’t black history, or the history of any marginalized group, integrated into the rest of the curriculum?

The answer lies in the politics of invisibility deeming bodies legitimate by making their privileged identities so universal they become invisible In America, normal has been painted to be an upper-middle class, straight, white, Protestant, cisgender man To be the cov d All-American, yo must exist within this paradigm You are the lawyer instead of the woman lawyer, the doctor instead of the black doctor, the professor instead of the lesbian professor You are the host of the party because while your guests are hyphenated-Americans, you, my friend, are American To be white, or straight, or male, or cisgender, or upper-middle class, is to be the standard It’s the reason why every class I’ve taken at Cornell that doesn’t pertain to straight, white men has the word “ gay ” or “ woman ” or “American Indian,” “Latino” or “Black” in front of it If I wanted to study the work of Maya Angelou, its unlikely that I would do so in a class called Major Poets That class would be reserved for Robert Frost, Walt

Whitman, maybe Emily Dickinson if the instructor was into “diversity,” but the poets would likely all be white Frost, Whitman and Dickinson are, of course, brilliant, but so is Maya Angelou Removing these vital perspectives is political It makes the statement that the literary work of anyone who does not fit the narrowly defined standard is not fully legitimate This reality is why disciplines such as ethnic studies, women ’ s studies and LGBT dies must exist Just last week The ornell Review published an article boldly asking “Is Africana Studies Relevant ?” proving once again the ways in which the politics of invisibility work to delegitimize and silence certain voices in academia

Now let’s bring this back to Black History Month Due to common teaching styles, this politics of invisibility are frequently reinforced It encourages the study of a history without asking the critical question of why “(insert any minority name here) history” was separated from history in the first place These are the questions we ’ ve been told not to ask So, the next time someone asks you whether or not Black History Month should exist, I hope you’ll tell them that they’re asking the wrong question Tell them to stop looking amongst the branches and start discovering the roots

Ashley

SCIENCE

By AMIT BLUMFIELD Sun Contributor

If you want to increase your grade on your next prelim or exam, take the test in same room in which you learned the material. According to Prof. David Smith, psychology, this is a form of contextual memory, or memory that can be recalled with better accuracy if a person is in the same setting where he or she first learned the information.

Contextual memory is used by crime investigators to obtain more information from eyewitnesses. But eyewitnesses do not have to return to the scene of the crime to trigger contextual memories.

The simple act of closing one’s eyes and imagining oneself back at the crime scene, known as context reinstatement, can bring back a flood of memories that would otherwise be unreachable.

Smith focuses on pinpointing the areas in the brain that influence memory encoding and retrieval, specifically which area of the brain contributes most to the phenom-

Prof.David Smith Researches Memory Retrieval Triggers

enon of contextual memory.

To do this, Smith places rodents under general anesthesia and surgically introduces a tube into their brains, which is directly connected to the hippocampus, the area of the brain associated with memory.

Because the brain has no pain receptors, the rodents feel no pain or discomfort during or after the procedure.

Smith injects a small amount of Muscimol, a drug that shuts down the brain for a short period of time, into the rodents’ hippocampi.

According to Smith, without a functioning hippocampus, rodents can still learn and remember a signal in the form of an odor, but their ability to recall contextual memory is impaired.

The control group of rodents, which were not injected with Muscimol, were able to recall odors more precisely when they were in the same setting where they had first smelled the odors, but the experimental group of rodents did not show the same memory retrieval improvement.

According to Smith, previous studies on

contextual memory

precision at the same physical location they were learned.

In those studies, however, it was unclear which part of the brain was responsible for this phenomenon. Smith’s findings that the hippocampus controls contextual memory in rats can be translated to humans because rodent brain structure is similar to that of humans.

Aside from his research, Smith teaches Psychology 2230, Introduction to Biological Psychology, in the fall semester.

According to Smith, the class is “an introduction to how the brain works.” Students in his lecture learn about the functionality of the brain, including sensory systems, emotions and memories.

In the spring semester, he teaches a seminar that looks more deeply into one field within neurobiology. The topic changes each year, but this year, the seminar focuses on the hippocampus and its functions.

Smith also leads a year-round journal discussion, in which discusses a recent journal article in the field of neurobiology with students. The discussion is held every Tuesday and is open to graduate students and several advanced undergraduate students with permission.

Amit Blumfield can be reached at ab725@cornell.edu.

Three-PhotonTechnologyImproves

By NICOLAS RAMOS Sun Senior Writer

The brain has been an object of human curiosity for hundreds of years. Microscopy and imaging technologies used to study the brain, however, have not been able to provide scientists the depth and clarity they desire. Prof. Chris Xu ’96, applied and engineering physics, has developed a new method of microscopy that improves on past technology.

Traditional methods of brain imaging can be divided into two categories. The first, microscopic-level imaging, involves X-Ray or MRI technology. This allows researchers to see the entire brain, but it is slow and has poor spatial reso-

lution. The other category is optical imaging, which provides high resolution and fast speeds, but cannot penetrate the surface of the brain. The drawbacks of these technologies drove Cornell researchers Winfried Denk and Watt Webb to develop two-photon microscopy, in 1990, a valuable contribution to the field at the time.

“We pushed for three-photon technology in 1995, but at the time, the advantage wasn’t very clear,” Xu said. “Only in the last few years have we been pushing deeper and deeper into the brain.”

The limitation of two-photon microscopy is the depth it can achieve.

Scientists discovered two years ago that they had reached this fundamental limit

in a mouse brain.

“This prompted us to think of what to do next,” Xu said. “By going up to three-photon technology, we reached a new fundamental barrier, but one much deeper than what we previously faced with two-photon technology.”

The improvement allowed researchers to go deeper into the brain by a factor of about two or three times, Xu said.

Another key component of threephoton microscopy is the use of fiber optic technology to generate a laser of ideal wavelength. Using well-known techniques in the telecom industry, researchers were able to operate at a wavelength of 1.7 microns, but did not have sufficient power for optimal per-

formance. Xu proposed using an ordinary glass rod to generate a soliton, or a high-energy light pulse. The use of the glass rod magnified the strength of the laser, thus providing an essential component to the three-photon system.

In order to fully use this newly-developed technology, a new microscope had to be built. Nicholas Horton grad, one of the co-authors on the paper on threephoton microscopy, contributed to the construction of the microscope.

“The home-made microscope may not appear sophisticated, but it is flexible and open, which is advantageous because it lets us swap out components easily,” Horton said.

In addition to the three-photon technology, the microscope contains a sys-

tem to secure and stabilize the brain so it can be studied, as used as an imaging platform. allows researchers to change the scope orientation and image the the brain in different sizes.

“The beauty of multiphoton microscopy is its versatility. We the brain because it is probably mysterious organ. Understanding brain works will have huge impact science and medicine,” Horton

“But we can also use multiphoton ing to detect cancer cells in living mals, which is another research tion of our group. In the future, photon microscopy could be detect cancer in human organs having to remove tissue for convention-

Wonders of the Brain

By JACQUELINE CAROZZA Sun Staff Writer

Male zebra finches are born babbling: randomly chattering with no pattern to their singing. As they grow older, their chirps coalesce into a highly regular, repetitive song that is almost identical to that of their father. Prof. Jesse Goldberg, neurobiology and behavior, studies the learning process that is responsible for this behavior in songbirds in order to better understand how motor learning occurs in humans.

Goldberg uses the zebra finch as his model system because mammalian and songbird brains are similar. Both contain a collection of neurons in the brain called the basal ganglia, which controls trial-and-error learning and motor behavior.

As a medical student, Goldberg gained experience with patients diagnosed with diseases such as Parkinson’s, which affects both cognitive and motor behavior and originates from a malfunction in the basal ganglia. Seeing how damage to one part of the brain could affect both cognition and motion sparked Goldberg’s interest in the relationship between

Prof. Jesse Goldberg Uses Songbirds to Study Learning

motor control and learning.

“The reason we don’t understand the connection in humans is because it's insanely complicated. We need to go to a system where we think we might be able to understand it,”

Goldberg said.

He said the zebra finch provides a simpler means of studying trial-and-error motor learning.

“There is discrete, specialized pathway in the zebra finch brain, a collection of interconnected nerve cells that is similar to the electrical circuit that turns on a lightbulb,” Goldberg said.

This brain circuit responsible for zebra finch song learning involves the basal ganglia, he said.

In order to study vocal babbling and song learning trajectories, Goldberg records juvenile birds singing and graphs the frequencies of their songs in charts called spectrograms. These spectrograms allow him to see the evolution of a juvenile song to an adult one.

Goldberg then probes into the learning mechanism by measuring the neural activity of individual neurons in the basal ganglia via electrodes implanted in the birds' brains. According to Goldberg, there are more than

one million neurons in the songbird’s learning pathway, but there are far fewer distinct neuron types. By repeatedly measuring the firing of specific classes of neurons, Goldberg can identify which neuron types are important to learning behavior.

Once he narrows down which types of neurons play key roles in generating vocal babbling, Goldberg tests his hypotheses using optogenetics. Optogenetics involves genetically engineering certain cell types in the brain to be sensitive to light by introducing viral DNA that codes for light sensitivity.

The technique’s main strength is that it allows researchers to stimulate only specific neurons using light. Drugs or stimulating electrodes, which activate or inhibit large areas of the brain, do not exhibit the same resolution.

According to Goldberg, the trial-and-error process that relates to song learning in baby male zebra finches is the same as the trial-and error process behind motor control in humans.

“Virtually all human motor behaviors are learned through trial-and-error, a process by which the brain generates exploratory action through the motor system,” Goldberg said.

According to Goldberg, in the trial phase of

trial-and-error learning, humans experiment with a variety of motor behaviors. He provided the example of a beginning tennis player hitting tennis balls inconsistently at first while exploring different methods of holding and swinging the racket.

The next step of motor learning, the error phase, involves evaluating successes and failures. The tennis rookie decides if an action was good or bad.

Did a particular grip on the racket aid in the goal of getting the ball over the net? Whether or not the motor action was helpful dictates whether it should be repeated. This process of learning helps refine motor control in humans.

Last semester, Goldberg taught a course called “Neural Circuits for Motor Control in Health and Disease,” and this semester he is a guest lecturer in “Introduction to Neuroscience.”

Goldberg advises students not to take rejections too harshly.

“Failures are important to go through, and are a totally normal part of any learning

Jacqueline Carozza can be reached at jcarozza@cornellsun.com.

gyImproves Brain Imaging

e and stabilize the mouse’s can be studied, as well be imaging platform. This chers to change the microation and image the parts of different sizes. eauty of multiphoton is its versatility. We image ause it is probably the most organ. Understanding how will have huge impact in medicine,” Horton said. also use multiphoton imagt cancer cells in living aniis another research direcgroup. In the future, multiroscopy could be used to r in human organs without move tissue for convention-

al biopsy.” The significance of deep tissue imaging is apparent in clinical practice. Many neurological diseases are not wellunderstood, Xu said.

“If we don’t know how the brain normally functions, there is no way to understand why the brain malfunctions,” Xu said.

Xu envisions the technology to be used for brain mapping and the study of “emergent phenomenon”, or new capabilities granted through the collective action of neural networks. Three-photon microscopy allows for dynamic functional imaging, which will provide

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Shah Heads to Tournament Finals to Face Martinez

O’KASICK

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lightning-fast strikes and brutal ground-and-pound

Shah now faces Rad Martinez in the tournament finals on Feb 21, which will be broadcast live on Spike TV at 10 p m

Another triumph will earn the 145 pounder a $100,000 contract with the promotion and a shot at the Bellator Featherweight Champion

“I was very surprised when I received my first check,” he said

Shah earned $16,000 for his first Bellator fight, a modest sum for a top US promotion but up to twenty times what he typically earned with Russia’s leading organization, M-1 Global, after the sport was legalized in his countr y Underground fights paid as little as $200 or sometimes nothing at all

The Bellator wins brought Shah’s official record to 14-11, with his only loss coming back in 2009 to fellow Dagestani and current undefeated UFC rising star, Khabib Nurmagomedov He never lost an unsanctioned bout, but can ’ t even recall his fight total

Rad Martinez stands as a formidable foe aiming to stop Shah s winning streak At 14-2, Martinez paved his way to the finals with workmanlike decisions over two notable Brazilians A Division I All-American wrestler from Clarion University and bully-sized featherweight, Martinez will look to take Shah down early and keep him on the mat as much as possible

To counter Rad’s wrestling, Shah has sparred with a squadron of grappling-based fighters from Team Bombsquad, working laboriously on takedown defense It will be a classic wrestler-versus-striker battle

“It will be like a bullfight I will be the matador,” Shah said “Last fight, I had an injury and couldn’t kick legs This fight will be prettier ”

Besides facing Rad, the Dagestani might feel like he will be up against the entire crowd, as the finals will go down in Salt Lake City’s Maverick Center, less than 10 miles from Rad’s hometown

“I will be alone with him in the cage, ” Shah said “It doesn ’ t matter what the crowd shouts then ”

Man From the Land of Mountains & Fighters

With shaggy brown locks and a scruffy beard, Shah appears like a fighter nearing the end of his training camp and ready to step into the cage In his spare time, he goes to movies to improve his English, and while not fond of American cuisine, he enjoys the soups at the Ithaca Bakery

The food is still better, he said, than when he served in the 33rd brigade of the Russian army They served meat that seemed to have been frozen since the days of Khrushchev

Perhaps Lake Cayuga and Ithaca’s hills and gorges remind him just a little of the Caspian Sea and the Caucuses Mountains When Shah speaks about his homeland, his grayish eyes become wistful

Dagestan translates as “the Land of Mountains,” but it might as well be called the Land of Fighters Four of the six current M-1 Global champions come from the small republic, which has just 2 2 million people but more than 30 ethnic groups and languages

As in Chechnya, wrestling is the true pride of Dagestan, as it has produced more than 16 Olympic gold medalists over the years Wrestling teams from around the world come to train in Dagestan’s rugged mountains, and nearby countries, such Azerbaijan and Turkey, regularly recruit Dagestani

Red Looks Ahead to Ivy Classic

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GYMNASTICS Continued from page 20 Tucker Maggio can be reached at tmaggio@cornellsun com

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Besides contributing significantly to national wrestling in Russia, Dagestanis also comprised half the taekwondo team at the 2012 London games, and they are regular Olympic medalists as boxers, such as the former world heavyweight champion, Sultan Ibragimov, who retired with a record of 22-1-1

“The whole world has passed through Dagestan,” said Shah, who hails from Makhachkala, the republic’s seaside capital “We have many styles of fighting ”

Yet for all of Dagestan’s natural beauty and athletic triumphs, it has a darker side For one, like neighboring Chechnya, the predominantly Muslim republic has rebel factions fighting to break away from mother Russia Just last week, government security forces tracked and killed six Dagestani rebels plotting a suicide bomb attack Furthermore, centuries of clan and ethnic conflicts have produced violent cultures of honor in which minor offenses, like incidentally flirting with the wrong guy ’ s girl, can lead to death

“Generation after generation, everyone knows the rules,” said Shah “You have to follow the rules and respect the elders ”

Taking into consideration where Shah has come from, he seems to have been born to be a fighter He began learning sanshou at just five years of age and competing professionally at 17

Thus, it is no wonder that when asked about why he fights, he gave a warrior-like answer: “I am just interested in fighting It’s fun ”

J D O’Kasick can be reached at jokasick@cornellsun com

Women Take On Army

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“It’s definitely going to be a t o u g h m a t c h , ” s a i d j u n i o r Ryann Young “ We just played them in an individual tournament a couple of weeks ago, so a lot of my teammates got to play them in matches I think that we ’ ve been working really hard and playing pretty well, so hopefully we’ll come out on top ” Due to the cancellation of the ECAC tournament, the Red will not see any Ivy opponents until the end of March, which Young said is detrimental for the freshman players on the team She added that the team is now working on getting good matches in to prepare for the rest of the season “[ We want to work on] making ever y match count,

especially as a good warm-up for Ivy League season, ” she said “Just gaining the experience and getting the match play in is something that’s important for us ”

Although the men ’ s team just faced and triumphed over its first set of Ivy opponents, the men also maintain the same focus as the women on the upcoming par ts of the year

“It was a really good weekend; I thought all the guys played great and I thought our team played really well as a unit,” Iyer said “It’s a big moment for us to win the ECAC championship, but we have to use it as a stepping stone for the rest of the season ”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun com

Former Lacrosse Player, Coach Schimoler ’89

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Paul Schimoler ’89 died on Friday evening after losing his battle with cancer

Schimoler was one of the greatest collegiate goalies and a four-time All-American the first in Cornell men ’ s lacrosse history

He also helped lead Cornell to a pair of national runner-up finishes in 1987 and 1988

Memorial services for Schimoler will be held Saturday, Feb 23 at 1 p m , at the chapel of St Michael the Archangel on the campus of St Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt

There will be an additional memorial service in Long Island, N Y , at a future date

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Schmoles’ was one of my first i n t r o d u c t i o n s to Cornell Lacrosse as a high school player, and was a tremendous role model for me as a competitor, as a young man and as an alumnus coming up through the college coaching ranks,” said men ’ s lacrosse team head coach Ben DeLuca in a statement “Paul’s passion for Cornell University and Cornell Lacrosse, his selflessness and intense competitive nature and his unconditional love for his family, his teammates and his friends is truly legendary ”

In addition to being a four-time AllAmerican lacrosse goaltender, Schimoler was also a four-time All-Ivy selection, including first-team honors in 1987 and 1989 He was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 1989 and Ivy Rookie of the Year in 1986

When he graduated in 1989, he held

both the Cornell and NCAA record with 787 career saves He set nearly every goalie record on the Hill, including saves in a game with 34 against Syracuse in 1987; season with 241 in 1988; and career with 787 Schimoler also set the NCAA tournament record for saves, with 85 in 1988 a record that still stands

After his graduation from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, he was a member of the Team USA lacrosse team that won the 1990 and 1994 International Lacrosse Federation World Championship

He also served as an assistant coach at Cornell from 1991 to 1994 and was inducted into the Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame

“Paul’s passion for Cornell University and Cornell Lacrosse ... is truly legendary.” B e n D e L u c a Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun com

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S c h i m o l e r coached at St M i c h a e l ' s College in Vermont for eight seasons, from 2004 to 2011 He put

together the longest head coaching tenure in the program ’ s 30-year history and posted a school-record 61 wins His squads reached the Northeast-10 Conference Championship six times and advanced to the semifinals in four of those six runs

Recently, Schimoler returned to the Ancient Eight as an assistant coach at Dartmouth, where he would have started his second season this spring

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the “Paul Schimoler Fund,” for an educational fund for the children These donations may be sent to: Branch Manager, TD Banknorth, 100 Center Road, Essex, VT 05452

All-around star | Paul Schimoler ‘89 was a four-time All-American lacrosse goaltender and four-time All-Ivy selection during his career with the Red

The 2013 Ivy Fencing Round-Robins were rescheduled from Feb 9 and 10 to March 2 and 3 at Har vard’s Albert H Gordon Track The event was initially postponed due to the winter storm Nemo which ended up dumping more than two feet of snow in Boston In the opening round on Saturday, March 2 at 11 a m , the Red will face the Tigers before battling against the Crimson at 2:45 p.m. and the Bears at 4 p.m. On Sunday, March 3, the Red will take on the Quakers at 10 a m , the Bulldogs at 11:30 a m and then round out the day against the Lions at 1:45 p m

S h a h of t h e C a g e

When he first walked the streets of Moscow, Shahbulat Shamhalaev had just one thing on his mind: he needed to find a fight

The task might seem easy enough in a vodka-fueled metropolis where the bratva, or “brotherhoods” of the Russian mafia, have roots as deep as those of the Kremlin But Shamhalaev, also known as Shah, had not traveled 1,000

kilometers from his Dagestan home in the Caucasus Mountains merely to end up in a night club free-for-all Instead, he had sought entrance into the illicit Moscow underground of mixed martial arts

“Before 2009, MMA was illegal in Russia, Shah said “ We had to work to find fights ”

An expert in the Chinese military art of sanshou, Shah fought an untold number of bouts in casinos, circus rings,and undisclosed locales

The organizers did not strictly enforce rules or weight classes Headbutts might be allowed Fighters might differ by more than 30 pounds One thing did remain constant, though, for all competitions the gambling action kicked off at a furious pace before the night’s first bell and didn’t stop until after the last arm of victory had been raised

“They never asked me to throw a fight,” Shah said and smirked, alluding to the

match-fixing ways of the organizers “They knew what we are like from Dagestan ”

From the Red Square To Big Red Country Shah’s life today must feel like a light-year away from his MMA beginnings in Russia Moving to Ithaca six months ago to train with Team Bombsquad, the 29 year old scored two first-round TKOs in the Bellator MMA featherweight tournament, mixing

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Men’s tenni s defeat s Iv y foes to claim EC AC indoor title

Young team beats higher-ranked opponents for second title in three years

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Staff Writer

Back in action after the postponement of its Feb 10 game, the men ’ s tennis team was unstoppable last weekend en route to claiming the ECAC indoor tennis championship at Reis Tennis Center The Red (7-1) had previously won this prestigious title two seasons ago

The men entered this year ’ s tournament seeded four th and ranked No 73 in the nation The Red eventually topped the number one and two seeds to claim victor y Despite their lower rank, junior tri-captain Venkat Iyer said the men never considered themselves underdogs

“ When we go into ever y match, we ’ re pretty confident,” he said “ We know that if we play well, we have a good chance of beating most of the teams we play It was a question of having the confidence and desire to win ”

The Red first topped fifth-seeded Brown, 4-1, to make it to the semifinals The team won both completed doubles matches after Iyer and sophomore Alex Sidney beat the Bears’ opposing No 1 doubles team and sophomores Jason Luu and Quoc Nguyen won the No 2 doubles The Red also won three of the four singles matches it played

Iyer said the No 2 doubles tandem of Luu and Nguyen was integral to the team ’ s success in the tournament

“I think what was special this weekend was at doubles [with] Jason Luu and Quoc They played fantastic this weekend and got some wins that were critical for us, ” he said

After defeating Brown, the Red advanced to play topseeded Har vard in the semi-finals on Saturday The men secured wins at No 2 and No 3 doubles to claim the opening point The Red then again won three of four completed singles matches, this time in straight-set victories by Iyer at No 1, Nguyen at No 4 and Luu at No 5 The 4-2 win vaulted the team into the finals against second-seeded Columbia

The Red gained the opening point against Columbia in its closest challenge yet The team won at No 3 doubles, 84, but dropped the No 1 match-up by the reverse score The Red then claimed the point by an 8-7(2) tie-break victor y in the No 2 doubles face-off The team followed up that point with wins in No 2, No 3 and No 4 singles to round out a 4-0 victor y and take the championship

The Red also beat Columbia and Har vard two years ago for its previous tournament title The team was ranked No

1 that year and was a senior-led team, as opposed to this season ’ s ne wer squad

“ This time, we have several sophomores and I’m the only junior it’s a young team, ” Iyer said “It’s fun and refreshing to play with the guys; they’re young and know how to play hard ”

After the tournament, the men have next weekend off before returning to play against Binghamton and Colgate at home Iyer added that the men will have to work even harder heading into the rest of the season

“ We’re more hungr y than ever now, ” he said “It was a

g r e a t w e e k e n d and we ’ re really,

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r e a l l y e x c i t e d The other teams are going to be coming after us, so we ’ re going to h a v e t o p u s h even harder ” T h e w o m e n (2-0) had been scheduled to play in their own ECAC indoor tournament on Feb 8-10, but winter storm Nemo forced the cancellation of those matches The team plays t h i s we e k e n d , h

Saturday for its first official games in three weeks

“It was a g reat weekend and we’re really, really excited. The other teams are going to be coming after us, so we’re going to have to push even harder ” Ve n k a t I y e r

Gymnastics Posts Season-High S core, Places Second Behind Tow son

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

On Sunday afternoon, the Cornell gymnastics team earned its highest overall score of the season, scoring a 192 250 After three rotations the Red was in the lead at the Shelli Calloway

In v i t a t i o n a l a t Tow s o n University However, the Red posted its lowest score of the day

o n b e a m w h i c h a l l owe d Towson, with a strong performance on floor, to pass the Red Cornell finished second behind Towson’s 193 275 Finishing in third place was Temple with 190 600 and Ursinus finished

t h e m e e t i n f o u r t h w i t h 182 425 Although the second place finish is not what the team hoped for, they said there are plenty of positives to take from the meet

“This past week, we really tried to focus on building confidence and consistency in our routines at practice,” said senior

“ We’ve

important to be able to go out there knowing we ’ re going to hit, and I think that's what made the difference this week We went in with a different mentality, kept the energy up and didn’t hold back on any of our skills ”

mance Sunday was led by junior Alexis Schupp, who scored a meet high on the bars with a 9 725 one of five Cornell gymnasts who finished in the top three The Red dominated