02-22-13

Kendr ick Lamar S et for Slope Day

Students express both elation and disappointment over choice

By ARIELLE CRUZ and SAM BROMER Sun Staff Writers

Breakout hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar will headline Slope Day 2013, the Slope Day Programming Board announced Thursday One of the two openers will be DJ 5 & a Dime, while the other has yet to be announced The Sun’s Arts and Entertainment writers and members of the Cornell community sound off on the decision

“Lamar

is a very up-and-coming artist [who] we are catching ahead of the curve ” Graham Chapman ’13

After waiting for almost a year for the announcement of this spring’s Slope Day headliner, the performance was unveiled today with a surprise: Kendrick Lamar, the much-hyped hip-hop sensation whose first major label release, Good Kid, M A A D City, garnered critical accolades and debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart has been chosen to headline the biggest event of the year at Cornell Unlike most hip-hop artists, including last year ’ s Slope Day headliner Taio Cruz, Lamar will take

the stage accompanied by a live band, rather than a D J Graham Chapman ’13, vice chair of the SDPB, said he was pleased with the choice of headliner, calling Lamar “ a very up-andcoming artist [who] we ’ re catching ahead of the curve ” He said that he hopes the concert will please fans of all types of music, so that “people who are unhappy with rap will have other genres they may prefer ” Lamar is the latest in a line of critically acclaimed hip-hop artists chosen to headline Slope Day before achieving prolonged commercial success Kanye West, who headlined the concert in 2004, released his highly acclaimed debut, The College Dropout, only four months before performing at Cornell, while Drake headlined Slope Day 2010 a month before dropping his freshman release, Take Me Home

Lamar’s rise in the world of hiphop began late last

Technical Issues Delay Fence Removal

the fences with nets hanging under the bridges Though work on the nets was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2012, the fences will remain on the bridges indefinitely until remaining issues with their technology are resolved, according to John Keefe, project manager

By JOSEPH NICZKY Sun Senior Writer

Two years after a string of suicides led the University to erect fences around bridges on and around cam-

Cornell decided it would replace

Each bridge is equipped with cameras that are designed to detect heat so that emergency personnel can be notified when someone has jumped or fallen into the nets and needs to be rescued Currently, however, the cameras are too sensitive, according to Keefe

“The basic problem is we ’ re getting

too many false alarms, and we need to calibrate the sensors so that they detect a human, but don’t detect a squirrel,” he said “We’re trying to find the sweet spot ”

Winter Storm Nemo and other storms may have caused problems with the heat-detecting cameras by creating “optics of extreme temperature variance,” or drastic shifts in temperature, according to Delgado

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Staff Wr ter

“We had the system basically operational before the recent storms, and after the storms we had to calibrate, so the weather may have had something to do with it,” Delgado said “The extreme weather revealed that we had to do some additional calibration work [on the thermal imaging cameras] before we commissioned the system ”

In addition to suffering delays caused by issues with the thermal camera, the nets ’ installation was held up in part due to problems shipping materials for their construction, an issue which has since been resolved

“The mesh system comes from Europe There was a minor hiccup at one point that affected the delivery of the mesh systems, ” Delgado said Keefe said that changes in weather may affect the effectiveness of the thermal imaging cameras in the future

“If there’s a branch in the way and

If Congress does not come to an agreement on how to cut the U S ’ deficit by March 1, it will slash the country ’ s budget by more than $85 billion leading to a six to eight percent reduction in Cornell’s federal funding University administrators warned that the so-called “ sequester ” cuts may lead to a decrease in research funding, jobs and financial aid that is supported by the government

The cuts would slash the budgets of government agencies, like the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health, which provide research funding to Cornell, according to Rober t Buhrman Ph D ’73, senior vice provost for research

“[The reduction] is not cataclysmic, but if you are the individual whose project is stopped, it is cataclysmic,” Buhrman said In 2012, Cornell’s research programs received $466 million from the fed-

says thermal sensors are still undergoing tests “If you are the individual whose project is stopped, [the cuts are] cataclysmic.”

eral government, which constituted 80 percent of all University research funds, according to Buhrman

About 70 percent of Cornell’s research funds support graduate students and research staff The remaining funds cover the cost of equipment, electric-

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Rebekah Foster can be reached at rfoster@cornellsun com

The Slope Day Programming Board announced that Kendrick Lamar will

Slope Day 2013 What do you think of the announcement?

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Timing for Removal Of Fences Undecided Due to Camera Issues

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The University is still in the process of determining how long it will take before the thermal cameras a re f u l l y o p e r a t i o n a l a n d t h e f e n c e s

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Police: Hotel Altercation Sparked Vegas Shooting

L AS VEGAS (AP) Bullets were flying from a black Range Rover at a gray Maserati as the vehicles raced toward a red light on the Las Vegas Strip

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Three more cars and a utility tr uck also collided at the crossroads home to Bellagio, Caesars Palace and Bally’s, injuring at least six more people as the Range Rover sped off in the pre-dawn darkness

The Maserati driver was pronounced dead at a hospital

The dramatic scene that more than one tourist compared to something out of a violent action movie set off a frantic search for the occupants of the Range Rover that continued into the night, and marked the latest violent episode on the Strip since the beginning of the year

Two people were critically wounded in a shooting at a parking garage Feb 6, and a tourist was stabbed Saturday in an elevator at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay

Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie told repor ters several hours after Thursday’s attack that it was sparked by an argument in the valet area of the nearby Aria hotel-casino, and that the violence at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road did not reflect the values of Las Vegas residents or visitors

“ What happened will not be tolerated,” Gillespie said He promised the shooters would be “found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law ”

On the Strip, which remained closed as daylight turned to darkness 12 hours later, the fier y rampage shocked tourists

“ We get stabbings, and gang violence,” said Mark Thompson, who was visiting from Manchester, England, with his wife, “but this is like something out of a movie Like ‘Die Hard’ or something ”

Police said they were contacting authorities in three neighboring states about the Range Rover Spor t with dark tinted windows and distinctive black custom rims and plates that fled the scene about 4:20 a m It had a car dealer’s adver tisement in place of a license plate

In Southern California, the California Highway Patrol aler ted officers in at least three counties to be on the lookout for the SUV

Las Vegas police Sgt John Sheahan said the Range Rover was last seen near the Venetian resor t as it headed nor th from the shooting scene on Las Vegas Boulevard

Witnesses also told police the SUV and Maserati had come from the nearby CityCenter area, the home of Aria, just south of the site of the attack

“ We have numerous witnesses to this,” Sheahan said “But what is the genesis of this? We don’t know yet ”

Predawn jogger Eric Lackey was on his way back to the Ne w York-Ne w York hotel when he snapped a cellphone photo of the blazing scene moments after the crash Black smoke billowed from the flaming taxi, amid popping sounds from the fire

Lackey, of Forest Hill, Md , said a security officer in a yellow shir t per formed CPR on a person on the side walk while police officers canvassed a small crowd of perhaps 15 onlookers gathering at the scene

“Police were asking if anyone was still in the vehicles and if they heard gunfire,” Lackey told The Associated Press “ That’s when I realized it wasn ’ t just a regular accident ”

Sheahan said police have video from traffic cameras at the intersection and were checking hotel sur veillance systems The video will not be made public, he said

Police did not release the names of the people who were killed, citing the ongoing investigation

The cr umpled, gray Maserati, which had no license plate, came to rest several feet away from the incinerated taxi

“ The people I feel sorr y for are the people in the taxi,” said Elvina Joyce, a tourist from Regina, Saskatche wan “Seconds made all the difference in the world for them Wrong place, wrong time ”

The area near the scene has been the site of high-profile violence in the past

Rapper Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996 about a block away under similar circumstances, as assailants opened fire on his luxur y sedan from a vehicle on Flamingo Road The killing has never been solved

More Tests Needed in L.A. Hotel Water Tank Death

President Barack Obama’s recently appointed White House chief of staff Denis McDonough supported Obama’s push for a more comprehensive immigration plan

More Elite Universities Offer Free Online Courses

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) More of the world's elite universities are joining the rush to offer "massive open online courses " that are broadening access to higher education But some experts question how much so-called MOOCs can help students trying to earn college degrees Coursera and edX, two of the leading MOOC providers, on Thursday announced major expansions that will roughly double the number of universities offering free online courses through their websites Cambridge, Mass -based edX, which was founded in May by Har vard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it will add six new institutions, including five outside the U S , which will offer at least 25 additional courses Mountain View-based Coursera said it will add 29 institutions, including 16 outside the United States Over the next several months, the schools

will offer 90 new courses, including some taught in French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese

"Having courses taught in other languages will enable more students to take our classes," said Andrew Ng, a Stanford University professor who co-founded Coursera last April

MOOCs have attracted millions of students and captured the public imagination over the past year, allowing people from all walks of life to learn from leading scholars at top-tier universities free of charge

But the question remains: Can these large-scale, highly automated classes help increase college completion rates or lower the cost of earning a degree?

So far only a small number of institutions are offering degree credit for MOOCs, but that could change if more colleges determine the digital classes meet their academic standards

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The Economy, Ethics and Euthana sia

One of the statistics we hear fairly often in veterinary school is that when the economy crashed in 2008, pet ownership declined with it We talk about this in order to understand the potential impact of a shrinking client base on the veterinary profession and to get a firmer grasp on what affects the economy can have on veterinary medicine We then understand why pet ownership has decreased fairly steadily; what we never talk about, however, is how this happens

The reason that’s easiest to stomach is that when older pets die, owners do not replace them with new additions to the family because they can no longer afford to do so However, there are also the people who cannot afford to have their current pet and have to find something to do with that young, healthy animal

One option is to give the animal up for adoption This is a feasible outcome for an owner if the pet is non-aggressive, because then the person can give the animal to an adoption-guarantee shelter that is obligated to keep it However, one of the problems with this is that most shelters are often full to capacity and an influx of pets puts a big strain on them The owner must also read the fine print in the shelter’s policy very clearly because even “no-kill” can be an ambiguous term with several exceptions

Another option is to simply release the animal on the streets I heard about this when I emester studying in nos Aires as an under-

There is clearly no easy solution to the unwanted animal problem

graduate Veterinarians there told me that when their economy crashed and people could no longer afford their pets, they often released them in local parks That being said, abandoning an animal who is accustomed to being indoors and cared for could be considered animal cruelty

The last option is to ask a veterinarian to euthanize the animal The owner has to pay for this and has to face the hard reality that they are sentencing their pet to death (which is a likely outcome in the other two options anyway) Also, from the veterinarian’s standpoint, it raises a serious ethical dilemma Is it acceptable to kill a healthy animal when your job is to improve their lives? My gut reaction is to say no I would help to try to find a new home for the animal but I wouldn’t put it down Practically though, that could make me, at least temporarily, the owner of several animals that I will have to support If I just refused and sent the animal home with the owner, then it is likely that that animal would face one of the aforementioned fates or be taken to another veterinarian who would agree to carry out the euthanasia

I’ve only been referring to house pets so far; the situation gets more complicated when we start to think about horses too Horses are even more expensive to keep than small animals and have even longer lives There are very few horse shelters in the country and most of them are consistently full It can be hard, practically speaking, to just abandon a horse in a field, which leaves euthanasia or simply not providing proper care (not feeding enough, skimping on routine care, etc ) So if an equine veterinarian faces the same quandary as her small animal counterpart, what’s the right decision? Personally, provided the horse was healthy and sound, I would try my hardest to help the client find another home for their horse instead But realistically, what I actually would do is to go to my boss for advice and hope that I’m part of a practice with ethical guidelines that I can learn from

There is clearly no easy solution to the unwanted animal problem It has to be attacked from multiple directions, such as educating potential new pet owners about all of the costs of keeping a pet, discouraging breeding “just for fun” when there are plenty of animals that need homes and trying to find a way to alleviate the financial strain of having a pet perhaps through discounted feeding programs for low income families or by taking a closer look at pet health insurance As the economy recovers hopefully this will become a less severe problem, but steps should be taken to ensure that animal care does not have to suffer again the next time the economy takes a nosedive

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a secondyear veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun com Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester

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that a cause which stood f o r a b e a u t i f u l i d e a l should demand the denial of life and joy If it meant that, I did not want it ‘I want freedom, the right to s e l f - e x p r e s s i o n , e v e r ybody’s right to beautiful, r a d i a n t t h i n g s ’ ” Fo r Goldman, dancing was her cause Her personal freedom in the movement sign i f i e d t h e

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political freedom that she h o p e d t h e m o v e m e n t would achieve The carnival on Sunday affirmed the e n v i r o n m e n t a l i s t m o v ement as one that embraces this identity It proved to be a protest in which people from all backgrounds can come and dance I s a n g w i t h p o l i t i c a l clubs of grandmothers I r e f l e c t e d a n d s t r a t e g i z e d with student organizations from around the countr y who are also working on d i v e s t m e n t c a m p a i g n s I d a n c e d t o a d r u m w i t h g r o u p s o f i n d i g e n o u s Nor th Americans who are f i g h t i n g a g a i n s t e n v i ro nm e n t a l d e g r a d a t i o n i n C a n a d a a n d t h e U S I chanted with into a bullhorn with members of a black community organi-

zation in Mississippi and c h e e r e d w i t h Q u a k e r s f r o m No r t h C a r o l i n a , B a l t i m o r e a n d Connecticut And yet this carnival did more than solidify our collective identity As we reve l e d t o g e t h e r, w e a l s o shared the work we all were doing in our various communities While the streets turned into a carnival, they also turned into a conference of sorts, s t r e n g t h e n i n g o u r ties with America’s e n v i r o n m e n t a l i s t network Now I can g o t o Mi s s i s s i p p i , V i r g i n i a , Sa

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Tyler-Lurie Spicer is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He may be reached at til4@cornell edu Personal Politics appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

BY ZACHARY ZAHOS Arts and Entertainment Editor

On Sunday Tim Squyres ’81 will walk down the world’s hottest strip of red fabric, maybe bumping into Anne Hathaway or Bradley Cooper as he makes his way into Dolby Theatre for the 85th Academy Awards One of the five nominees for Best Film Editing, Squyres shaped Life of Pi into the film that has captured hearts, minds and half a billion dollars in box office worldwide, but he isn’t losing any sleep over the attention Before Sunday’s ceremony and his March 10 visit to present Life of Pi at Cornell Cinema, The Sun spoke with Squyres about the awards season, his long-running collaboration with Ang Lee and how Cornell made him the film editor he is today

THE SUN: Are you enjoying the Oscar publicity?

TIM SQUYREs: You know, the whole Oscar season is fun, if you don’t get too hung up about winning and losing and all those kinds of things The nice thing about it is that it’s usually an indication the film was successful, and that’s part of what you do it for you want as many people to see your movie as possible, and an awful lot of people have seen Life of Pi So, the fact that a) a lot of people have seen it and b) a lot of people have really liked it, that’s great and really a validation of what you do The awards, per se, are not a big deal, but they are an indication of other things, which are really nice

SUN: To what extent does an editor have to campaign on the awards circuit?

T S : I don’t know how you would even do that There are screenings [for Academy members] where editors, DPs, production designers, writers will go and do Q&A’s after screenings But, no, there’s not a lot of campaigning The studios will sometimes run “For Your Consideration” ads sometimes for the whole film, sometimes for individuals but that’s out of our hands All that we do is go to screenings and do interviews and answer questions

SUN: Are you close with your fellow editing nominees?

T S : I only knew one of them before this whole thing started, [Zero Dark Thirty co-editor] Dylan Tichenor who I’ve known for years The others I’ve met this awards season Great guys and talented editors I don’t see them as competition at all They are other editors who I respect and it’s great to hang out with them

SUN: Moving to Life of Pi, what unique challenges did the 3D visuals present to you, as an editor?

T.S : Well, 3D is another whole set of variables Either you can shoot a movie in 2D and post-convert it to 3D, or you can shoot it in 3D Most films shot in 3D [are edited] in 2D We decided, right from the beginning, that we wouldn ’ t do that Because neither Ang [Lee] nor I had ever worked in 3D before, we didn’t want to have to be editing in 2D and intellectualize, imagine how it would be in 3D So we decided to take that step out and work in 3D all the time Right from the first day of cutting, I was wearing 3D glasses and wore them all day, every day for a few years, practically, while we were finishing the movie

There are a lot of things you have to do differently in 3D You perceive things differently Every dissolve, which usually works fine in 2D, has to be addressed There are things you have to do in 3D that make it work properly, to make it smooth to watch It was a little tough on the eyes there were a lot of headaches but it was very interesting, and there’s a lot to learn about 3D It doesn’t take very long to learn a little of it, but it takes a lot of time to learn all of it; I don’t know if I’ve learned all of it yet

SUN: The visual effects are such an integral part of the movie It was hard to tell, but apparently, the tiger wasn ’ t even real most of the time Does it ever worry you that you are the guy responsible for bringing not only the actors ’ work to life but also the visual effects work, which is the creation of dozens, if not hundreds of people?

T.S.: Or thousands [laughs] There were a lot of people Watch the closing credits and that’s just the tip of the iceberg

An awful lot of people worked on the visual effects

There are 23 shots in the film with the real tiger and hundreds with the CG tiger Usually, in editing, you are constrained by the performances that you can get on set What’s interesting about this film is that that was not true For one of the main characters, [the tiger] Richard Parker, we could control his performance in post-production We wanted to make sure that he always behaved like a real tiger That’s one thing we decided very early on: We would not anthropomorphize him at all He would look, move, behave, do everything like a real tiger We had a tiger consultant who came in and worked with us and the animators to ensure that his behavior was all real There were a lot of places where they shot it with one set of blocking in mind and we changed it to something else It was really nice to have that kind of input and control over the characters’ performance and we really looked at it as a performance Obviously, there are huge technical aspects to it, but in talking with the animators, we would speak, largely, in terms of emotion “He needs to look more nervous, or more hesitant More annoyed than straight-out angry ” We

talked in those terms, and [the animators] are so talented that t would be able to translate that into push pixels around [The experience] was great wasn ’ t daunting at all Similarly, one of the challenges of the film was that, for a large portion of the film, all we have to look at is the ocean, the boat, the tiger, the k , the raft and the sky It’s the same elements; we don’t have the scene in the shopping mall, or the car chase and all those things It was very important to us to make the ocean and the sky not characters, exactly, but to give them character Give them variety, keep it realistic and that’s what people go to effort into making the ocean, the sky and the environment very interesting but also realistic and plausible

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SUN: About that very long stretch of the film with Pi on the raft with the tiger: You’ve shown a talent with large ensemble pieces like Syriana, but here you have that “classical unity”of place and action For an editor, do these constraints separate the boys from the men so to speak?

T S : Well, it’s really great to have different sorts of material One of the things I have said to people in classes is that it’s really important not to have a personal style Style has to be appropriate to the footage In Life of Pi, the kind of editing you would do in Crouching Tiger is not really relevant It’s very specific material that needs to be handled in a specific way, and it’s about finding the right tone and right kind of pacing fast when you need to be fast, but I also enjoy films that take a bit of time, in places You need to be able to recognize what strengths of the material you have are and try to accentuate them Hopefully, that’s different with every film

The great thing about working with Ang Lee [is that] we re not making the same film over and over again; it’s a new challenge every time Life of Pi was a whole different set of challenges we hadn’t done before So I’m very glad that Ang doesn ’ t have a comfort zone of moviemaking that he stays in I don’t imagine I’d ever have the opportunity to edit a martial arts film, but you just do what is right for the film

SUN: Another sequence I would like to point out is the ship sinking, which really hit me It was thrilling, frightening yet had that human element, which makes it deeply sad For a sequence like that, are you gauging how powerfully it “hits” you as you watch it over and over again?

T S : Yeah An interesting thing about the sequence is that there’s no music in that scene until he goes underwater to look at the ship That was a decision I made right from the very beginning, not based on any theory of filmmaking, but because it felt right A different approach would be that this is an action scene, and [the action] that comes before it should have action music But that, for some reason, didn’t seem like the right way to do it, so we just relied on sound effects until he goes underwater to see the ship He sees the ship sinking, and it’s not just a ship sinking, but it’s his family, it’s his whole life So, then, the music is not about action; it’s about loss That brings out the emotional aspects of it, which is what we want people to be thinking about It’s a, technically, very complicated sequence but it’s important not to look at it as an action scene and ignore the actors performances An action scene usually involves danger of some sort, and that means danger to a character who someone cares about So it’s always important to stay engaged emotionally [when editing] a scene like that Our actor, Suraj Sharma, who had never acted before, did a really good job of portraying the different emotions that you’d be going through in a scene like that

SUN: Your long-time collaborator, Ang Lee, comes across as very humble and soft-spoken in the interviews I have seen of him How does he hold up in the cutting room, or is he even there with you most of the time?

T S : When he’s shooting, he never is in the cutting room; he’s busy shooting But once we finish shooting and screen the assembly [cut], he sits next to me all day, every day until we [finish] the picture For this film particularly, we did everything together, so, yeah, he’s extremely involved in editing For a director, when you ’ re on set, there is a lot to do and a lot of people to wrangle and a lot of stuff that needs to happen in a certain way, and there are procedures, hierarchies and all that In the editing room, it’s just the two of us We can do whatever we want We can goof off all day, if we want to We’re both pretty disciplined and know what we want to accomplish Temperamentally, we are pretty similar and, in tastes, we are pretty similar, but not completely similar, because if we agreed all of the time, we wouldn’t push each other to make

level of push, and we push been working together for many years and he s a real pleasure to work with The interesting thing about him is that he motivates and inspires everyone to do his or her best Everyone in the visual effects house always wants to work on his films, just because he inspires people

SUN: Shifting gears a bit, what’s your stance on the “film versus digital” debate? Well, financially, there’s not a debate any more

T S : Yes, that debate is settled

SUN: But do you have thoughts whether you ’ re losing something with digital filmmaking, or are you all for it?

T S : For an editor, it doesn’t particularly matter whether you record on film or digitally When it gets to me, it’s digital, anyways The first digital revolution in the film was in postproduction whether you cut on film or cut digitally Then acquiring digitally happened 15, 20 years later Like the first change, early on, you could make a case of why you should stick to film But digital cameras have become so good now, and you ’ re able to shoot in such a wider range of light that a lot of the arguments people gave don’t really apply anymore The cameras will be getting better If you ’ re shooting 3D, you have to shoot digitally; that’s not an option Ang had never shot a film digitally before, so he was initially reluctant, but the cameras really won him over The image quality you can get now is very film-like, so I would have a very hard time telling you why we should stay on film Perhaps a cinematographer could, but the amount of control we have in post is really impressive There’s a shot we shot as a night shot, and it’s in the movie as a day shot Now, going “day for night” is fairly easy but going “night for day” is much harder, and we were able to go into the shot and pull enough out of it to make it look plausibly like day If we shot it on film, there is no chance in the world that would have worked

SUN: I’d like to bring this back to Cornell before we end You are one of a few acclaimed film editors from this school: Michael R Miller ’74 being one and [Martin Scorsese’s editor] Thelma Schoonmaker ‘61, of course, is the big one

T S : Of course!

SUN: Is this all a coincidence or is there something or someone at Cornell that pushed you toward editing?

T S : No, I think it’s a coincidence Thelma was there quite a ways before me, and I don’t think there’s anything about walking through gorges that leads you to be an editor And I certainly did a lot of walking through gorges But, no, I think it’s just kind of a fluke that you have consecutive editing nominees

SUN: Well, how has your education from Cornell translated into what you do now?

T S : My education from Cornell was not primarily in film I was there as a physics major and got my degree in psychology I think having a technical background is very helpful in editing a scientific way of thinking A general education is really helpful If you ’ re going to be a storyteller, it’s important to know how to use the software, but it’s also important to know some things about life and to have interests outside of filmmaking When you ’ re telling stories, you ’ re trying to communicate with people, and my Cornell education was very helpful in that it was a broad and general education The film stuff was important, but the other stuff was important, too The math and science was important, psychology was important, the language was important, everything was important What’s so important in learning how to be a storyteller is having stories to tell understanding nature, understanding culture That’s where my Cornell education was the most valuable, I think

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com

o o d K i d , M a d C o r n e l l i a n s

ground success makes him “ a good choice for a college audience,” according to Drew Adler ’16

not achieved the national prominence of Nelly or Taio Cruz, two previous headliners of the event

At Cornell, reactions to Lamar were highly polarized Gizem Sakalli ’15 said that she was expecting “ someone more famous ” “I think we could have done better SDPB has a lot of money and C o r n e l l deserves better than this guy

K e n d r i c k Lamar,” she said “I have never heard of him Even the normal concerts that we have are better than this guy ” better than this guy ” T h o u g h Lamar is not well known by some Cornell students, his mix of mainstream hits and under-

“Unlike Taio Cruz, Kendrick Lamar is a legitimately good artist He offers a good blend of music you can enjoy and real artistic talent,” Adler said

In response to concerns about the performer’s relative obscurity to a portion of the Cornell population, Chapman said he was “really okay with that Maybe they don’t know of him now, but they have a few months to look into his music and get to know the songs ” 5 & a Dime, a Philadelphia-based D J , mash-up artist and producer, will open along with another performer that has yet to be announced Chapman said that in their search for a second opener, SDPB is “specifically debating between alt-rock and pop-rock bands like Neon Trees last year ” in an attempt to diversify music genres represented at Slope Day He expressed hope that the concert will please fans of all types of music, so that “people who are unhappy with rap will have other genres they may prefer ”

Other artists considered as headliners for Slope Day included Vampire Weekend and Weezer, but each was either unavailable or out of the club’s price range

Although either of these choices had considerable potential, Lamar is, without a doubt, a highly coveted artist It was recently announced that Lamar was also selected to play a number of major festivals this summer, including Governor’s Ball, Bonnaroo and Firefly Among music critics at least, Lamar is the act to book Lamar gained more attention in the public eye last month with his debut performance on Saturday Night Live, which included a collaboration with Lonely Island on their latest single, “YOLO (You Better Watch Out) ” Though some Lamar fans have expressed reservations about the rapper ’ s ability to perform live, his recent appearance on SNL revealed, at the very least, that he has the potential to give an commanding, energetic performance outside of the studio

Whether or not the quality of performance will be as

Igood in the open air, or if attendees will be sober enough to know the difference, the set list he will enter the day with is far superior to that of Taio Cruz Lamar’s Good Kid, M A A D City contains both crowd-pleasing radio hits and deeper cuts Often, the album blurs the line between mainstream and underground “Swimming Pools (Drank),” the album’s most successful single, has found considerable mainstream popularity through its catchy hook, which will have students answering its call to “Pass out, drank Wake up, drank ”

Yet the song also paints a harrowing portrait of the artist’s struggle with alcoholism: Lamar reflects on his grandfather’s death from the disease, laments the social pressure he feels to fill “ a swimming pool fool of liquor and dive in it,” and after a drunken bout with his subconscious presented with masterfully syncopated lyrical prowess comes to the conclusion that he will die from his addiction

This track is just one example of many Lamar tracks that can entertain as they inform Though some, like the 12-minute “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst,” lie on the more introspective side, the artist has more than enough exhilarating club-hits to avoid becoming a buzzkill on the Slope, such as “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe,” an ode to the good times that takes a moment away from the worries that plague him throughout the album, and “Backseat Freestyle,” a freewheeling flashback to Lamar’s formative years that unleashes the bravado of a naïve but insanely talented young artist

SDPB may be taking a risk bringing a “real” rapper who talks about real issues, but it is a decision that will likely pay off

As SDPB chair Yang Zhou remarked, “I think people are going to be happy ”

The Sun s arts section can be reached at arts-and-entertainmenteditor@cornellsun com

Four Perspectives on Four Freedoms

n the upcoming months, Cornell students will have the opportunity to attend three screenings and resume one TV series that feature four protagonists who typify the American male identity These men appear in stories that either question or champion the freedoms promised by American doctrine While steeped in American heritage and idolatry, these four icons are pitted against the attitudes of their times They are four departures from their era ’ s conventions that have since become conventions Each stands as either a torchbearer of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech, worship, freedom from fear, freedom from want or exemplars of the pitfalls these freedoms dig up

ATTICUS FINCH (To Kill a Mockingbird plays March 1 and 3 at Cornell Cinema): Finch, a patriot and father, represents “the freedom of speech” and the moral triumph of civic virtue over mob mentality While defending Tom Robinson from a raciallycharged, unfounded accusation of rape, Finch stands strong against the town ’ s disapproval Through the trial scenes, author Harper Lee proves that while provincial attitudes may be backwards, freedom of speech is there to safeguard against immoral positions Finch’s brave usage of the first amendment makes him our first hero American Film Institute’s “Heroes and Villains” poll voted Gregory Peck’s 1962 role as Atticus Finch the “Greatest Hero of All Time ”

tracking devices are unorthodox (stolen cars, hallucinogenic drugs, etc ), Jack Kerouac stated that his most acclaimed novel was really a story about two Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God,” taking “the freedom of worship” to its peripherals Moriarty is a devout cowboy who has seen the American frontier mentality spread west, then close back in on itself, spawning a post-war era of claustrophobia and cultural homogeneity Moriarty goes on the road to evade this narrow cultural atmosphere Fleeing a lifestyle of “settling” and following traces of God, Kerouac’s duo takes the ecstasies of sex, nightlife, danger and drugs as fleeting brushes with divinity The high priest of their new religion is undoubtedly Moriarty, the restless prophet that begot a generation of acolytes and imitators we called “hippies ” Although we now see this religion of hedonism as growing in response to America’s Judeo-Christian ethic and the ’50s Cold War mentality, Kerouac’s notoriously celebrated the McCarthy trials with marijuana-infused parties and defended himself as a normative American

DEAN MORIARTY (On the Road is currently in U S theaters and comes to Cinemapolis April 5):

Although Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty’s

Catholic His and Moriarty’s take on Catholicism embraced a new, more liberating mode of spiritualism, natural to those who were “mad to live

DON DRAPER (Mad Men Season Six begins on AMC April 7):

Draper, nestled in his suburban cushion of materials, traditions and lies, has come to represent the freedom from fear” of an America quickened into uniformity under the specter of an atomic bomb During the several days of panic over the Cuban Missile Crisis portrayed in the Season Two finale, Don negotiates the selling of Sterling Cooper to Putnam, Powell and Lowell to ensure his company ’ s financial stability The show’s creator, Matthew Weiner, said the episode shows how “Americans in particular always respond to crises by going to work ” From the manufacturing output surge in WWII to Cold War middle-class prosperity, Americans have many distractions to free them from fear Arguably, Draper’s whole lifestyle is meant to secure him from his fear of guilt, warfare, danger and his past His story is ironically cast against a map of the world where arms competition has made the bombs more destructive and the consequences graver, defying the “Freedom from Fear” promise that “ a world-wide reduction of armaments ” be ensured so “ no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor anywhere in the world ” When we catch up to Season Five, we find a conservative Sterling Cooper Draper Price fearful of a radicalized America and social change, but Draper in an Upper East Side apartment, safely distanced from the revolution in the streets

JAY GATSBY (The Great Gatsby opens May 10 nationwide):

Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) throws the best, rowdiest parties on Long Island, owns the biggest, gaudiest mansion in West Egg, New York and is in love with the dream girl of the American South, the most beautiful and sought-after belle, Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan) He aspires to the grandest heights of

success in quintessential American fashion, and his will to reward is so strong that he bypasses human relationships (no friends greet him in the novel’s end) and the law (his money is illicitly obtained) to get what he wants Since he has everything that cornerstones American success, he should have the “Freedom from Want,” right? Author F Scott Fitzgerald instead argues that want is menacing, ruthless and endless Gatsby is both consumed in want of the past (his times with Daisy) and want of the future and its fortunes, so consumed that he doesn’t attend his own parties and enjoy the present Surrounding him is a circus of “ wanters, ” ruthless Jazz Age socialites who attend his parties but abandon him when he has nothing more to give According to Fitzgerald, the “freedom from want ” is untenable and so are the things excessive want demands Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald argues that our rewards will infinitely tag behind our “capacity for wonder ” To Kill A Mockingbird and the two novels (On the Road and The Great Gatsby) have captured America’s wonder; let’s hope the two film adaptations and Mad Men’ s second to last season do as well

Henry Staley is a freshman in the College of Art, Architecture & Planning He can be reached at hstaley@cornellsun com Politicizing Art appears alternate Fridays this semester

N.Y. Knick s Lose Brewer, Receive Veteran Martin For Remainder of S eason

NEW YORK (AP)

The Ne w York Knicks traded swingman

Ronnie Bre wer to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday, opening up a roster spot that will be used to sign veteran for ward Kenyon Mar tin

Team president Glen Gr unwald said Mar tin will be signed to a 10-day contract with the hopes that he could stay with the team for the remainder of the season

Gr unwald said Mar tin will be insurance for injured big men

Rasheed Wallace and Marcus Camby, a pair of 38-year-old backup for wards who have both been battling foot injuries

“ We’ve always liked Kenyon, he’s a great competitor and good defender,” Gr unwald said on a conference call, adding that Mar tin was already familiar with many Knicks “ We think that there will be some synergies already built into the mix and we ' re just looking forward to adding a good defender who can help us in our quest this season ” Mar tin played with Carmelo Anthony, J R Smith and Camby in Denver before spending last season with the Los Angeles Clippers, averaging 5 2 points in 42 games He also teamed with Jason Kidd in Ne w Jersey on teams that reached the NBA Finals in 2002 and 2003

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“ We watched a lot of the tape of his season last year with the Clippers and he played ver y well,” Gr unwald said “ We’re hopeful that he’s going to show that he’s still got what it takes to be an NBA player ”

Bre wer was a star ter earlier this season who lost his spot and eventually his place in the rotation entirely after a shooting slump He was dealt for a 2014 second-round pick and cash

Bre wer was phased out once Iman Shumper t returned from knee surger y Never much of a scorer, Bre wer had played well during the Knicks' strong star t, but never recovered once things star ted to go bad and Gr unwald didn't really know why

“I’m not really sure, but he obviously was not playing and we just tried to look at what our team needed to move for ward,” Gr unwald said

Seniors Hope to Finish Strong

junior goaltender Andy Iles “Unfor tunately, we have not had the success at home, because it is such a special place to play and it’s so much fun to play in front of these fans It’s a big weekend for us We have some of our confidence back ” Saturday will also ser ve as Senior Day and may be the last time that the eight seniors Erik

Mihalek and Greg Miller will play in competition at Lynah Rink

“Being Senior Weekend, there is going to be a little extra energy in the building,” Iles said “[ The seniors} might never get another oppor tunity to step on this ice We are going to cherish it, use our fans and it’s going to be a fun weekend ”

The seniors will be honored in a post-game ceremony to commend them on their achievements in their four years on the Hill

Relax...

“ Those guys have been a great par t of the program for four years You tell them all the time to take ever y day like it’s your last,” Schafer said “As a freshman, you kind of shr ug it off As a sophomore, you don’t think about it much As a junior, you are like, ‘Oh, it’s next year ’ But then all of a sudden you wake up and here you are I think that time flies by so fast It is hard to believe that these guys are seniors ”

Schafer also said he especially hopes his team can pull off two wins this weekend so the seniors can finish their four years on a high note

“It’s unfor tunate because it is not the way that the senior class should go out I think that they want to play their best hockey and really get to the league championship,” Schafer said “ They are great and have committed themselves And now they find themselves in this unique position ”

Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun com

Red Faces RPI, Union on Road

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Red Visits Top-Ranked Penn, Princeton

By MARISSA VELASQUEZ Sun Contributor

The Red looks to bring home two wins when the women ’ s basketball team faces off against Penn and Princeton this weekend

Coming off of a loss to Yale and a win against Brown, the Red takes on the top two seeded teams in the Ivy League Conference

Cornell (11-10, 3-4 Ivy League) will travel to Philadelphia, Pa to take on No 2 Penn (12-9, 5-2) on Friday at 7 p m and then face off against No 1 Princeton (16-5, 7-0) on Saturday at 6 p m

“We are hungry for wins,” said senior captain and forward Clare Fitzpatrick “We are looking to come out here and prove that we ’ re experienced and win close games We have confidence going in, so I think that is something that will influence the games this weekend ”

The Red experienced a tough loss to Yale last weekend with a final score of 67-58, but then bounced back with a nail-biting victory over Brown on Saturday, 60-58 The squad will have another opportunity to battle both these teams again in the second half of conference play

According to Fitzpatrick, the team has been working hard individually and collectively to prepare for these two tough games

“We definitely need a win against Penn, we let them take one away from us here at home,” Fitzpatrick said “And Princeton is just a hard team, very talented, but we know that we can play with them and we just need to go out there and prove it to ourselves ”

Penn and Princeton both defeated the Red earlier in the season, which enabled them to clinch the top spots in the Ivy League The Red was neck-and-neck

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with Penn in the first half, but lost its momentum in the second and fell to the Quakers, 65-56 The team then faced Princeton and was unable to stifle the Tigers’ strong offense, losing by a final score of 77-46

“Just playing together as a unit and believing in each other will definitely help get us through those adverse moments, ” said junior guard Allyson DiMagno “If we can effectively execute in transition on offense, that will be a huge boost to helping us win the games this weekend ”

According to DiMagno, the Red will continue to strengthen its team defensive and offensive strategy going into the games this weekend The squad will have to place a large part of its focus on the defensive end on Princeton’s leading scorer Niveen Rasheed Rasheed is averaging 17 3 points and 9 4 rebounds per game, and she scored a game-high 21 points against the Red in their last meeting The rest of the Tigers’ starting lineup is balanced and DiMagno said it will be important to limit all of their scoring opportunities

“You can ’ t just shut down one girl, you have to shut down everyone, so it is definitely going to be a team defensive effort and it is going to be a lot of pushing up the defense to keep them off-guard,” DiMagno said

The Red sits in sixth place in the conference right now, but is only one win behind Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale

“Two wins this weekend will be huge for us It would definitely be a confidence booster,” Fitzpatrick said “We want to finish strong and we have a lot to prove still ”

Marissa Velasquez can be reached at sports@cornellsun com

Climbing out of a rut | After snapping a seven game losing streak

defenseman Nick D’Agostino said the

By HALEY VELASCO

L a s t we e k e n d , t h e Cornell men ’ s ice hockey t e a m g r a b b e d a 2 -

against Harvard and a 4-2 win over Dartmouth, ending a frustrating seven game losing streak The Red heads into its home games against R PI Fr i d a y a n d Un i o n Saturday on the prowl for two more victories to add to this season ’ s count

“We were coming off of a seven game losing streak I honestly think that [last] weekend was about putting some goals in the back of the net and getting some confidence as a team, ” said senior d e f e n s e m a n Ni c k D’Agostino “We had a big s

Dartmouth where we were able to score a couple goals Against Dartmouth, we really put the puck in the net and had a great third period and got a win We were able t o c a r r y t h a t ove r t o Saturday ”

The Red hopes to continue to reverse its luck this weekend Two more wins would increase its chances of earning home ice going into the championship tournam e n t He a d c o a c h Mi k e Schafer ’86 said a lack of offense was part of the reason the Red could not capitalize on other opportunities and pull out more wins this season so far

“The bottom line is that I don’t think we have been doing anything differently over the past six to eight

games We have been faulting the same recipe It’s just the fact that we were able to capitalize on some scoring c h a n c e s a t Da r t m o u t h I think that at Harvard, it was a very similar game that we have faced,” he said “We got down and then we made it 2-2 These guys kept coming along I think that we have been playing more consistently for longer periods of [time] and that has helped us out ” T h e t w o h o m e g a m e s against ECAC foes will close out the Red’s regular season schedule

“Lynah is something special and we look forward to every time that we get to play on the ice here,” said

Surging Red Battles Ivy Foes

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Coming off a sweep of its conference road games last weekend, the Red (13-12, 5-3 Ivy League) finds itself at a cruc i a l c ro s s ro a d s w i t h t w o home games against Penn and Princeton on Friday

a n d Sa t u rd a y Wi t h t h e Tigers losing their second Ivy game on Saturday, the Red has a chance to pull closer to the top of the Ancient Eight if it can come away with another sweep

Patrick Lucas-Perry leading the way with 14 points and four triples Though the Red defense held Penn’s top scorer Miles Cartwright to just eight points, Gray acknowledged that his team will need to pay more attention to the Quakers’ role players this time around

Cornell vs Penn

Today, 7 p m thaca, N Y

The Red squeaked by with a two-point win over Penn (6-18, 3-4) earlier in the month after getting off to a slow offensive start in the first half Sophomore guard Galal Cancer’s last second bank shot in the paint eventually allowed Cornell to escape the Palestra with a 71-69 victory

“Any time you get a win on the road you’ll take it, but we realize that we could have played a lot better,” said senior guard Johnathan Gray

The Red allowed the Quakers to shoot 50 percent from beyond the arc, with guard

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Free falling | Senior captain

Kyle Dake recorded his 16th fall of the season last weekend and now has the opportunity to break the school’s record of 17

W R E S T L I N G

Cornell vs Princeton Saturday 7 p m Ithaca, N Y

“We understand we have to improve on getting out to

“Some people hurt us who we weren ’ t thinking were going to score, so we have to

them ”

Coming out of the locker room down by three in that game, the Red was able to turn up the pressure on the defensive end, forcing 10 turnovers in the second half

“If we come out with the intensity we played towards the end of that game, we’ll be in good shape,” said senior forward Eitan Chemerinski “I think what we did best was pick up the tempo defensively and frustrate the passers and that helped to jump-start our offense ”

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C.U. Takes on Iowa in Quarter nals

By SKYLER DALE Sun Staff Writer

After defeating Hofstra and Nebraska this past weekend, No 9 Cornell will take on No 2 Iowa on Friday in the National Duals quarterfinals in what will be an opportunity to advance to the semifinals and pick up the program ’ s 750th all-time win

According to senior Joe Stanzione, Iowa is a formidable opponent, but the Red is capable of performing well against the Hawkeyes

“[Iowa] has a traditionally tough line up but not impenetrable,” he said

At 125 pounds, No 5 Nahshon Garrett will take on No 1 Matt McDonough Though McDonough has the advantage in the match, Garrett has won 33 matches this season the most of any other wrestler on the Red Bricker Dixon will take on No 2 Tony Ramos, who is 4-0 against ranked opponents this

season Dixon and Ramos wrestle at the 133-pound weight class

Though Cornell’s No 10 Mike Nevinger is ranked two spots below No 8 Mark Ballweg in the 141-pound class, Nevinger is no underdog He is 30-9 during the 2013 campaign

At the 149-pound class, Chris Villalonga will take on Brody Grothus Villalonga is favored to win in this match-up; Grothus is just 1-7 against ranked opponents this season

At 157 pounds, Jesse Shanaman will take on No 1 Derek St John Shanaman is still looking to prove that he is worthy of an NCAA spot and a win against St John would improve his resume

At 165 pounds, No 1 Kyle Dake will wrestle No 3 Mike Evans Winner of an NCAA championship at three different weight classes since his freshman year, Dake is highly favored to defeat Evans Dake also recorded his 16th fall of the season last weekend and is one fall shy of the

school record, which he will now have the opportunity to break

“He trains harder than anyone and with great training comes great confidence,” said assistant coach Mike Grey

According to Stanzione, Dake will need to pick up bonus points if the Red is to win against Iowa

The Red rounds off its lineup with Duke Pickett taking on Grant Gambrall or No 14 Ethen Lofthouse at 184 pounds, No 4 Steve Bosak taking on No 19 Nathan Burak, and Jacob AikenPhillips taking on No 6 Bobby Telford

Despite a challenge ahead, the Red remains confident going into the weekend as the underdog

“I think Iowa will also be a bit off guard with what we bring to the table,” Stanzione said “They are going to be expecting to hammer us, but I think they are soon going to find out that we are fairly capable of beating them ”

Skyler Dale can be reached at sdale@cornellsun com

As a departure from my normal commentar y relating to college football, football in general, or my family’s insanity as it relates to football, I’m moved this week to talk about a person who as a Chicagoan is near and dear to my heart: Derrick Rose

I grew up during the Bulls championship years, and I can remember watching the Bulls beat seemingly whoever they played at will throughout my childhood One of my earliest memories is asking my dad who had won the Bulls game the previous night His

response of, “Who did you want to win?” undoubtedly meant that the Bulls had been victorious (since my wishful thinking as a three-year-old was extremely powerful)

So in a city that honors, worships and otherwise glorifies Michael Jordan in every way possible, it would have seemed unlikely that within my short adult life, another basketball star would capture the attention of Chicago and the nation at large Enter Derrick Rose

There is a lot of coastal bias when it comes to national sports coverage If you are an

East Coast basketball fan, you are holding your breath until the Knicks start floundering, or otherwise Lebron James’ MVP season is blowing your mind

If you are from the West Coast, you cannot stop talking about how high on a scale of one to 10 the panic meter should be for the Lakers (but actually, this is a segment on SportsCenter almost ever y day) and whether or not Kobe is too old or too selfish or too whatever

In the beginning of last year ’ s playoffs, Rose tore his ACL and has been rehabbing for the past nine months

Adidas has even documented his road to recovery in short video segments called “The Return” on their website

So in between the coasts, Derrick Rose’s injury has been dominating the Chicago basketball scene, and it’s not just because of his playing ability; it is about the love and respect that Rose’s reckless and selfless play has earned him

Rose came to the Bulls in the 2008 NBA Draft due to what can only be called the ultimate miracle of miracles With only a 1 7 percent chance of winning the first