02-28-13

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Student Found Dead in Watermargin Cooperative

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By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun Senior Writer

As Peter Lepage, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, prepares to step down in June, the pool of candidates to fill his position has been narrowed down to four individuals, according to Simeon Moss ’73, deputy University spokesperson All four candidates have a Cornell connection: One is a Cornell faculty member, two are Cornell alumni and one is both a Cornell faculty member and an alumnus

Bob D ylan Will Perform At Barton Hall in April

By DARA LEVY Sun Staff Writer

For the first time in nearly 15 years, singer-songwriter and musician Bob Dylan will perform at Cornell this spring Dylan will take the stage at Barton Hall on April 14, with rock b a n d D a w e s o p e n i n g t h e s h ow, according to Peter Schwartz ’14, executive director of the Cornell Concert Commission Wi t h p o p u l a r s o n g s s u c h a s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “ The Times They Are a-Changin’” and “Like a

always snowy in Ithaca

music has become emblematic of the C i v i l R i g h t s Mov e m e n t a n d o f protests against the Vietnam War Dylan has received no shortage of accolades throughout his five decadelong career, garnering 11 Grammy Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award He is also a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Dylan last took the Barton Hall

DYLAN IN ITHACA

MARCH 20, 1965, BAILEY HALL.

The Sun’s review: A “facility for jamming words together in what appears to be a random, rhymegoverned manner, but which proves to be a ver y sensible, sensitive and poetic arrangement” is Dylan’s most unique trait

NOV. 6, 1965, BARTON HALL. The Sun’s review: “His harp makes us want to dance Sharp, shrill, searing, soaring like Coltrane ”

OCT 29, 1989, ITHACA COLLEGE

• NOV.15, 1999, BARTON HALL

The Sun’s review: “The new Dylan voice has reawakened the attention of long-time fans, as he’s used the thinness to good effect ”

students who identify with the populations

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Je w i s h s t u d e n t s a re d e c r y i n g t h e anonymous distribut i o n o f a n t i - Is r a e l posters in the Noyes C o m m u n i t y Re c re a t i o n a l C e n t e r last week The proPa l e s t i n i a n g r o u p that later took credit f o r t h e p o s t e r s h a s defended its actions, calling them an act of necessity as tensions in Gaza continue to boil over Mo re t h a n 2 0 posters that were left in a newspaper bin in Noy e s l a s t w e e k s h ow e d a d e f a c e d p r o m o t i o n f o r a Cornell Hillel event that brought Israeli soldiers to speak on campus The posters, which were marked up with red scrawlings, denounced the “ e xc l u s i v e l y Je w i s h” soldiers asserting that they engaged in “ w a r - c r i m e [ s ] , ” n o t “combat,” and ser ved i n “ m a s s a c re s , ” n o t “missions ” O n Su n d a y, Students for Justice in Palestine, an organ i z a t i o n t h a t d e s c r i b e s i t s e l f a s b e i n g d e d i c a t e d t o “raising awareness of the Palestinian experience,” took credit f o r m a k i n g t h e posters SJP claimed i t p r o d u c e d t h e posters to “condemn the nature of Hillel’s event ” T h e e v e n t “ n o rm a l i z e [ d ] a n i l l e g a l m i l i t a r y o c c u p a t i o n a n d i l l e g a l w a r s o f aggression that have c a u s e [ d ] i m m e n s e suffering and death i n G a z a , t h e We s t Bank and Lebanon,” t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n wrote in a statement to The Sun “ We wonder why a putatively religious organization such as Hillel would choose t o s t e p i n t o t h i s issue,” the statement said “Did they consider how their glorif i c a t i o n o f m i

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Duff Ball-Inspired Alumni Fundraiser Raises About $40K

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More than 400 young alumni will gather in New York City this Saturday for the sold out, black tie-optional, red tie-encouraged Alumni Duff Ball-New York City a fundraising event modeled after Cornell’s annual Duff Ball Senior Prom that kicks off Senior Week

All alumni who graduated between 2003 and 2012 were invited to the alumni event, which is planned to be held at the Bowery Hotel on March 2, according to Patrick Burns ’09, associate director of Young Alumni Programs

Unlike the on-campus Duff Ball a fundraiser that benefits the United Way of Tompkins County the alumni event will support the Student and Academic Services Fund at Cornell, which aims to promote and sustain a diverse living and learning environment at Cornell, according to its website

Jonathan Feldman ’08, who started Duff Ball on campus in 2008 and organized the Steering Committee of young alumni for the event, said he decided to pitch the idea of a similar alumni event to Burns and Margaux Neiderbach ’99, director of Young Alumni Programs

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planned 400, she said

“From an alumni perspective, we feel so fortunate to have a sold out event the week before,” Gatta said “We are raising over $40,000 for the University from this event I am incredibly honored to help raise that much money for Cornell ”

The student chairs of the undergraduate Duff Ball use social media outlets such as promotional videos and Facebook events to promote the event on campus

an alumni perspective, we feel so fortunate to have a sold out event the week before ”

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Burns said the idea for an alumni Duff Ball was in line with the goals of Young Alumni Programs, aiming to increase the engagement of young alumni who have graduated in the last 10 years with their alma mater

After receiving positive reaction from alumni, the event will raise more than $40,000 for the SASF, according to Chloe Gatta ’12, marketing and communications chair for the event, who is also The Sun’s former business manager Because of the high demand for tickets, the event ’ s organizers sold an extra 30 tickets in addition to the originally-

The Steering Committee for the Ne w York City event used similar tactics to promote the event to alumni, according to Gatta

“We made a video this year as a step to incorporate aspects of the undergraduate Duff Ball experience into the alumni experience,” Gatta said “We are trying to make this event as integrated into social media as possible, so if you are not at the events you can still be a part of it ”

The alumni event ’ s YouTube video features short clips taken from each year ’ s undergraduate Duff Ball promotional video, ending with a message saying “the tradition you built, is all grown up, ” according to Feldman

According to Gatta, the organizers chose New York City as the location for the alumni event due to the large alumni base in the city

“In the future, we hopefully will see events like this in other cities to get students and young alums involved who do not live in New York,” she said

Gatta said she that she is looking forward to the event as a time to get together and reconnect with friends and other young alumni

“Once you graduate, you realize that there are far fewer opportunities to see your friends from Cornell in a Cornell setting,” she said “And I can ’ t wait to be able to see not only the people I graduated with, but also other alumni that I have not been able to see ”

According to Feldman, the event will feature food, drink, music and brief remarks from Susan Murphy ’73 Ph D ’94, vice president for student and academic services, and Bob Harrison ’76, chair of the University’s Board of Trustees Feldman said that Kent Hubble ’67, dean of students, and other University trustees will also be in attendance

HumEc Students Win Fashion Scholarship

By RACHEL WEBER Sun Contributor

Eight students from Cornell’s department of fiber science and apparel design were selected as scholars in the annual YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund competition at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Jan 9

Prof Anita Racine, fiber science and apparel design, and Prof Van Dyk Lewis, fiber science and apparel design, selected 10 students in the department to apply to the scholarship competition Eight were selected by the Scholarship Fund to receive a $5,000 award

This year, the topic of the case study was to create a fashion line for pre-teens, incorporating flash sale websites which offer high-end products for a reduced price for a brief time window such as Gilt or Rue La La The applicants researched pre-teen purchasing habits and trends as well as sales techniques of the individual flash sale sites

Brandon Wen ’15 said he used HauteLook a fashion apparel website as his medium to sell “The Looker,” a vest he designed to be directed toward “trendy” pre-teens, which he then marketed through product placement on television, Twitter and Instagram Fellow scholarship recipient

Katelyn Ridgeway ’13 received an additional $5,000 for ranking in the top six overall participants in the

competition Ridgeway’s case study marketed her line of seasonal colormatching basics to pre-teen clients with flash sales through the Gilt Groupe

Wen, who said he and the other students often spend more than 12 hours per day in the studio, sometimes sleeping among their designs, expressed gratitude for the scholarship money, especially after his personal expenses with the Cornell Fashion Collective, the annual runway show that showcases student designs

“I plan on saving a large chunk of [the scholarship] and using the rest to fund future projects We have to make all these things and no one pays for them except us all our fabrics, all our materials,” Wen said “It’s a godsend ” The students submitted their case studies in November and were informed that they had received the award by mid-December Scholarship winners were honored with a banquet at The Waldorf-Astoria, which Ridgeway described as “unreal ”

“It was this really happening moment, ” Ridgeway said “There were so many people from the industry there, they had us in the ballroom which was huge, and there were a thousand people ”

For Matilda Ceesay ’13, whose case study marketed magnetized accessories for pre-teens ’ bags, a speech by Alber Elbaz the artisitic director for Lanvin, a Parisian fashion

house was a highlight of the reception

“It was such a wonderful surprise and a great opportunity to meet someone that I look up to and that I aspire to be like,” Ceesay said “I was in bliss ”

Ceesay said she intends to use her scholarship money toward her line for the CFC, which will incorporate a revision of African crafts and textiles She said she also plans to use the scholarship for start-up money when she moves to New York City to design after graduating from Cornell Ridgeway whose CFC line will feature lifestyle hiking apparel inspired by her trip abroad to Australia echoed Ceesay, saying that the expenses for the CFC show accumulate quickly

“When we make our lines for the runway show, and you have between eight and 12 models, that’s 17 to 20 pieces,” Ridgeway said

For senior year collections, expenses on fabrics and other materials can reach upwards of a thousand dollars, according to Ridgeway The scholarship money can reduce the financial burden associated with the CFC show, she said

The other winners from Cornell were Caroline Delson ’13, Rebecca Dugal ’14, Emily

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Students

For Dylan Performance at Cornell

Student says he is ‘amped’ to see the iconic musician’s live show

but Schwartz said the organization has been attempting to bring a traditional rock concert to Cornell, as opposed to D J s and electronic music acts

Four Finalists Make Shortlist for Arts D ean

Candidates will meet with faculty, administrators in upcoming weeks DEAN

stage in November 1999 with the rock band Phil Lesh & Friends, according to the CCC’s website Dylan also previously performed at Cornell in March and November of 1965, according to Sun archives

Dylan’s upcoming visit at Cornell is part of a college tour during which he will perform at 11 college campuses during the month of April, according to his website

Many students expressed excitement about the announcement of Dylan’s upcoming performance Jack Rickles ’16 said he is eager for Dylan’s concert, noting that Dylan is a legend in the music world

“He’s a class act and one of the pioneers of classic and folk rock,” Rickles said “His songs are simplistic, but at the same time meaningful and entertaining ” Alice Anichkin ’16 also cited Dylan’s prominence in the music industry, as well as the longevity of his career

“His music has been inspirational for over 50 years and we'll all be able to take something away from his visit,” Anichkin said

Schwartz said CCC has recieved positive reactions from fellow students about Dylan’s upcoming show

“For a lot of people here, seeing [Dylan] is on their bucket list,” Schwartz said “The chance to actually see Dylan and have him perform here, I think, is just really exciting ”

Sage Hiller ’13 said he was “amped” about the variety that Dylan will bring to Cornell’s concert lineup this semester

“I appreciate the contrast of genre type given we have Kendrick Lamar and 5 & A Dime less than three weeks later,” Hiller said CCC was not specifically looking to book Dylan,

“We’re always looking to bring as much variety as possible into our shows so we can appeal to as many people as possible,” he said

Schwartz said there was overwhelming support for the show within the CCC general body

“We’re really excited to be bringing [Dylan] because we feel like he’s a musical legend,” he said “Basically [Dylan] came to us and said he’d really like to play a show at Cornell It really landed in our laps ”

Schwartz said that Dylan who started his musical career in the early 1960s still has social relevance, particularly for any Cornell student studying 1960s cultural movements

“[Dylan] is always in that conversation, so historically he’s important and his music is something that has affected America culturally,” he said

Schwartz said that pairing Dylan’s act with Dawes, another rock band, as an opener, shows that Dylan’s music is still culturally relevant

“I think pairing them with [Dylan] is a nice example of how his music has become current again and lives on in the new generation,” Schwartz said

Jessica Rashkovich ’15 said she was less familiar with Dawes than with Dylan, but said she was looking forward to seeing both perform live

“I’d never actually heard of them before but now I’ve been listening to a few of their songs and they sound great, so I’m really excited for the opening,” Rashkovich said

Student tickets will go on sale March 12 Others will be set aside for alumni and the general public on March 13

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the posters with feelings of fear, disappointment and fr ustration

When a friend told her that she had found “anti-Semitic posters ” in Noyes, Jordana Gilman ’14, president of Cornell Hillel, said she felt like she had been “attacked ”

“ This felt scar y There is someone on this campus who is threatening to me, ” Gilman said

The posters are not the first indication of polarization and aggressive of political expression on c a m p u s I n No v e m b e r, p r o - Is r a e l a n d p r o -

Palestine groups held a rally on Ho Plaza that ended in students screaming at each other and campus police ejecting one of the groups from the plaza

The anonymous nature of the posters, which did not indicate that they were created by SJP, left no way for students to respond or productively discuss Israeli-Palestinian relationships, Gilman said Ultimately, what was more fr ustrating than the content of the posters was the way in which they were distributed, Gilman said

“I don’t want to debate each and ever y point [the person who made the posters] made I want to say that I’m so disappointed it had to happen in this manner, ” she said

Gilman emphasized the need for improved dialogue between the two groups

“If what we want which is what I think we want is for the two governments to talk to each other, then we need to model that,” she said, adding that Muslim and Je wish community members did just that convene at a Shabbat dinner Friday

SJP, however, expressed its own fr ustration over the moderation of campus dialogue, saying that its posters had been ripped down and discarded

To Eli Shaubi ’13, co-president of the Cornell

Is r a e l Pu b l i c A f f a i r s C o m m i t t e e , t h e p o s t e r s showed a “lack of acceptance of any Israeli suffering by the other side at Cornell ”

“I am personally disappointed that some people feel the need to demonize Israel and delegitimize the political expressions of such a large por tion of the student body,” he said

Shaubi said CIPAC acknowledges that both Is r a e l i a n d Pa l e s t i n i a n c i t i z e n s h a v e “ s u f f e re d immensely,” and that CIPAC does not seek to “d e l e g i t i m i z e t h e Pa l e s t i n i a n

posters, in criticizing an event he said was meant

to share Israelis’ stories with the Cornell community, showed blatant intolerance for the pro-Israel movement

“Suppor ting the Palestinian people and accepting national Je wish self-determination are not mutually exclusive, and many members of CIPAC and the pro-Israel community at large have learned how to be both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian,” Shaubi said “I expect the same respect from suppor ters of the Palestinian cause, whether we agree politically or not ”

SJP in its statement, however, however, said that it felt “required” to respond to Hillel’s event

Through the posters, SJP said it intended to criticize and call attention to “manipulations of language and histor y in [Hillel’s] description of the event ”

Among the issues SJP said it took issue with was Hillel promoting the event as a par t of “Israel Week,” rather than “Israel Peace Week” an annual, pro-Israel event held on college campuses around the world

“ The omission of the world ‘ peace ’ illustrates the duplicitous nature of events that would celebrate Israel while ignoring the occupation,” SJP said

Countering SJP’s claim, Gilman said that Hillel had renamed the event held on Cornell’s campus “Israel Week” for an entirely different purpose: to remove the politics from the event and focus on promoting Israeli culture throughout the week “ We didn’t want to polarize the event A lot of people think of Israel and they think of barbed wire and tanks,” she said “I would like people to know the Israel I know, which is palm trees and clubs and people tr ying to figure out Israel’s identity ”

In promotion of its vie ws, SJP said it is organizing an Israel Apar theid Week to raise awareness of what it called the “racist, colonial nature of the Israeli occupation ” Gilman questioned why the event is not called “Palestinian Culture Week,” a name she said is less anti-Israel and more inviting of positivity

“I want to emphasize that not ever y Je w is a poster child of being pro-Israel, and I understand that not ever y Muslim is a poster child of being anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian I really want us to vie w each other as individuals, and the only way to do that is if we sit down and talk,” Gilman said

Whistle-Blower Suit Claimed U.S . Nav y Kickbacks in 2006

PROVIDENCE, R I (AP) A recently unsealed whistle-blower lawsuit claims a former civilian Navy employee from Virginia and a now-defunct Navy contractor engaged in a bribery and kickback scheme going back to at least 2004

The lawsuit, first filed in a federal court in Georgia in 2006, predates by more than four years criminal charges brought by federal prosecutors in Rhode Island in 2011 that allege a similar scheme by some of the same people cost the government $10 million

A spokeswoman for the U S Department of Defense would not comment on why the contractor and Navy employee were allowed to continue their alleged criminal conduct for years after authorities were first alerted to it

The lawsuit says the allegations were reported in May 2006 to the Defense Department and the U S attorney for northern Georgia Other filings say the government was deciding whether to intervene in 2007 but had not yet completed an investigation

A spokeswoman for the Department of Defense said she could not comment on investigations, while the U S attorney ’ s office in Georgia referred questions to its counterpart office in Rhode Island A spokesman in Rhode Island would not comment

Both cases center on alleged wrongdoing by former civilian Navy employee Ralph Mariano and Anjan Dutta-Gupta, founder of the Navy contractor Advanced Solutions for Tomorrow, or ASFT, which had offices in Georgia and Rhode Island and has since gone out of business

The criminal case and the whistle-blower suit say Mariano, who worked for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, had power to add or refuse millions of dollars in payments to contractors and used that power to orchestrate a scheme in which he would approve payments to ASFT, which would then funnel some of the money back to him and others through shell corporations

ASFT held $120 million in Navy contracts when the charges were first brought in February 2011 Mariano, of South Arlington, Va , remained in his job until 2011, according to court filings He has pleaded not guilty in the criminal case His lawyer, Robert Corrente, said his client had not yet been served by the lawsuit He would not comment on the allegations contained in the lawsuit

Dutta-Gupta and two others have pleaded guilty in federal court in Rhode Island in the criminal case Dutta-Gupta admitted paying $8 million in bribes over more than a decade His lawyer did not return a message seeking comment on the lawsuit

Patrick Nagle, a former executive for ASFT, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery for signing off on false and inflated invoices that were submitted by subcontractors even though he knew the work had largely not been done Another man, Russell Spencer, has admitted acting as a middleman for funneling kickbacks to Mariano through a company he owned He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery

None of the three has been sentenced

Mariano’s father, Ralph Mariano Jr , of North Providence, R I , and his girlfriend, Mary O’Rourke, a former executive at ASFT, have pleaded not guilty to the federal criminal charges The younger Mariano and O’Rourke are charged with counts including conspiracy, theft of government property and wire fraud Mariano Jr , who is in his 80s, is accused of tax evasion

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Homicide Suspected in Miss. Candidate’s Death

JACKSON, Miss (AP) A Mississippi mayoral candidate was found dead Wednesday and the case is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith said the body of 34year-old Marco McMillian was found on the Mississippi River levee Wednesday at about 10 a m

The 34-year-old McMillian was running for mayor of Clarksdale, a Blues hub where actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman coowns a music club with Howard Stovall, a Memphis entertainment executive, and Bill Luckett, who also is running for mayor

Meredith said the body was found between Sherard and Rena Lara and was sent to Jackson for an autopsy He declined to provide further details or speculate on the cause of death

The sheriff ’ s office said Wednesday in a news release on its Facebook page that a person of interest was in custody, but had not been formally charged

The depar tment also said authorities had been looking for McMillian since a man crashed the candidate’s car into another vehicle on Tuesday McMillian was not in the car The sheriff ’ s office said deputies responded to the two-car crash on U S Highway 49 South near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines on Tuesday about 8 a m

Will Rooker, a spokesman for the sheriff ’ s office, declined to release other details He said the investigation is ongoing

McMillian was a Democrat Campaign spokesman Jarod Keith said McMillian’s campaign was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi

Clarksdale, a town of about 17,800 people, is well known to Blues fans as the home of the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for skills with a guitar

The town is also home to Ground Zero Blues Club, of which Freeman, an Academy Award winning actor, is part owner

Dennis Thomas, 33, who works at Abe’s Barbeque, said McMillian’s death has been the talk of the town

“There’s a lot of people upset about it Why would somebody want to do something like that to somebody of that caliber? He was a highly respected person in town He’s been in the community helping out a lot,” Thomas said

McMillian was hoping to win the office being vacated by Mayor Henry Espy Jr , the brother of Mike Espy, a former congressman and U S Agriculture Secretary Henry Espy decided not to seek re-election after more than two decades in office Espy’s son, state Rep Chuck Espy, and Luckett were among the other well-known candidates in the race

Vegas Murder Suspect Brags Online About Fast Life

LAS VEGAS (AP) Las Vegas triple murder suspect Ammar Harris has a smirk on his face in a 90-second YouTube video that shows him flashing a thick stack of $100 bills

The video is just one of many online displays of bravado being examined by police in which Harris boasts of a high-rolling lifestyle of luxury cars, prostitutes and boat trips with scantily clad women The 26-year-old is the subject of a multi-state manhunt after a Maserati driver was shot dead on the Las Vegas Strip last Thursday and a taxi driver and passenger died in the fiery chain reaction crash that followed Wearing a red baseball cap and crisp white shirt with flashy sunglasses tucked in the collar, Harris asks nonchalantly whether viewers will “help me count something,” and then fans out a stack of bills

The video he took of himself in a bathroom cuts away to a pile of cash on the counter; Harris drops a bill and says “50 ”

“I could keep going, I could keep going but like, I don’t feel like countin’ anymore, ” he says “I got another bag But I think I proved my (expletive) point ” Las Vegas Police Officer Bill Cassell declined to comment on the video, saying it was open to the interpretation of individual viewers But he said detectives are getting plenty of leads on Harris, whose face is splashed across billboards along Las Vegas freeways

“I’m sure the widespread publicity, as well as the blatant, heinous nature of the crime, is motivating people to contact us, ” Cassell said Authorities believe Harris shot from a Range Rover he was riding in along with Tineesha Lashun Howard, a 22-year-old from Miami who has been arrested multiple times on charges including prostitution, trespassing, possession of a stolen vehicle and grand larceny Police have named Howard, who also goes by the name Yenesis “Yeni” Alfonzo, a person of interest in the case

Harris was arrested last year in Las Vegas in a 2010 prostitution case using the name Ammar Asim Faruq Harris He was charged with robbery, sexual assault, kidnapping and coercion with a weapon, and police sought charges of pandering by force and felon in possession of concealed weapon Court records show that case was dismissed last June

In Twitter postings attributed to Harris and reviewed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal before the feed was apparently disabled Tuesday, Harris brags that his house is full of women, and they’re all paying him In one August post quoted by the newspaper, he writes, “there’s nothing wrong with paying for (sex) as long as you paying one of my (women) ”

Harris posts pictures of a Bentley and an Aston Martin, and mug shots from his own arrests Harris was convicted in South Carolina in 2004 of felony possession with intent to sell a stolen pistol and convicted in Atlanta of a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge

N.Y. to Exempt TV, Movies Under State’s New Gun Law

ALBANY, N Y (AP) New York sought to combat violence by rushing the nation’s toughest gun control measure into law after the Connecticut school shootings that killed 26 people, but the state is now carving out an exemption to make sure movie and TV producers can stage running gun battles on Manhattan streets

Movie and TV productions have long been courted by New York and other states with tax breaks in exchange for the jobs and glamour of the industry Hollywood is also a major campaign fundraising stop for New York politicians

“We spend a lot of money in the state bringing movie production here, post-production here, so obviously we would want to facilitate that,” said Gov Andrew Cuomo, who wants to expand the film and TV tax credit

He said movies and TV may use fake guns that wouldn’t be subject to the new law but the industry wants “certainty ” The revised law would allow them to use real weapons without real ammunition

“There’s no reason not to make a change like that to give an industry comfort, especially when it’s an industry we want to do business in the state, ” the governor said

Film and television producers have spent more than $7 billion in New York since the state began offering tax breaks in 2004, the governor ’ s office says New York has been the stage for recent films including Spider-Man 3, The Nanny Diaries, Sex and the City 2, and The Sorcerer s Apprentice Most of Woody Allen’s films are made in New York City, and many TV shows including Louie turn to the city for their backdrop

The Hollywood exemption is just one of the revisions planned for the state law that was passed in January before the Obama administration and other states offered their legislative responses to the Dec 14 rampage in Newtown, Conn Other changes to the New York law would allow police officers to keep their high-capacity handguns and take a loaded gun on school grounds without permission from school officials

However, the need for a “cleanup” bill also means the fight over the law may not be over after all

An estimated 10,000 opponents of the new law are expected to descend on Albany on Thursday to try to persuade lawmakers to take advantage of an unexpected second shot at the law critics claim is unconstitutional

Defense Questions FBI Agent In N.Y. Cannibal Plot

NEW YORK (AP) A defense attorney for a police officer accused in a cannibalism plot pressed an FBI agent to explain where fantasy ends and reality begins Wednesday after the investigator read aloud several dozen Internet chats in which participants boasted of plans to cook and eat human flesh

Attorney Robert Baum attacked FBI agent Corey Walsh’s statement that 40 of the thousands of Internet communications of Officer Gilberto Valle that he reviewed contained “elements of real crimes ” Valle is accused in Manhattan federal court of conspiring to kidnap, kill and eat women he knew, including his wife

Baum’s cross examination aimed to show little or no distinction existed between chats or emails the FBI deemed real evidence of a crime and those dismissed as fantasy

The agent conceded both had similar elements: Valle discussing how to cook women, how much it would cost to abduct them and which women would make good targets

Walsh conceded that some chats or emails considered fantasies contained photographs and names of real women and dates and references to past crimes, the kind of factual information that prosecutors have insisted proves Valle meant to carry out gruesome crimes including kidnapping, rape, torture, murder and cannibalism

“Isn’t it a fact that some of the chats you found to be fantasies involved cooking women?” Baum asked

“It could have been,” Walsh answered

The agent also conceded that no women were kidnapped or harmed and that Valle never had contact with his supposed co-conspirators outside the Internet

In addition, the agent said, no evidence of a crime was found in Valle’s apartment besides a computer There was no rope, pulleys or chemicals to render someone unconscious despite Valle’s Internet boasts that he wanted to assemble a torture chamber or that he had an upstate property where he could cook women, Walsh said Valle, 28, has pleaded not guilty He could face life in prison if he is convicted of conspiracy and illegal use of a crime database, a crime prosecutors say stems from his use of a federal database to research potential victims

Prior to cross examination, Walsh showed jurors graphic X-rated communications between Valle and a butcher in India early last year as they discussed plans to torture and cook Valle’s soon-to-be wife and a former college roommate

“I have longed to butcher and cook female meat, ” Valle told Aly Khan, Walsh said Khan offered to provide a place in Pakistan to kill a woman once she was taken to India, the agent said

For two days, Walsh has testified about chats Valle participated in last year with a New Jersey co-defendant and two supposed co-conspirators, a man in Great Britain and Khan, both of whom posed on the Internet as veterans of cannibalism who could teach Valle cannibalism skills

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The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight

Inf luential Ideas

Despite my best efforts, every now and then, as I sit down to write my column, I have the sense of mind to think to myself: “Hey, maybe I shouldn’t expand some pretty trivial idea into a 700-word opinion column for everyone to read ” Most of the time, this is not that case Most of the time, I think what I have to say about a particular issue is pretty important and that everyone at Cornell should probably be aware of it Today, however, I decided that I have A LOT of things that are really important for everyone to hear and I am going to do my best to pack as many truly powerful and influential ideas into one opinion column:

• As we get older, there are lots of things that we used to do that become no longer socially acceptable For example, when a toddler throws a tantrum and starts knocking down boxes of the Fruit Snacks he wants but can t have, it isn t totally out of the norm I think most would consider it weird if anyone over the age of 12 did that, though There are, however, several exceptions to this rule For example, it is pretty standard to see people picking their noses like 12year-olds while driving I also recently found out that in certain social circles it is fine to defecate in your running shorts while running a marathon I’m not so sure

• I heard a funny idea for a prank the other day With April Fools’ Day not too far away, it might be useful for someone Cover an egg in

chocolate and call it a chocolate egg If everything goes according to plan, your unsuspecting victim will think that it is a standard Cadbury-esque April candy In reality, this person is about to get pranked on a level rivaling Ashton Kutcher’s Punk’d

• Gangster Rap artist, former Division I college basketball player and college graduate with an alleged 4 0 GPA in psychology, 2 Chainz tweeted not too long ago, “Jus picked a tomato out my garden and ate it ,pretty good ” I kept the original formatting for the sake of accuracy This means that 2 Chainz, who chooses not to put a “ t ” at the end of the word “just” and added a comma to the beginning of the word “ pretty, ” has a vegetable garden that he uses to grow tomatoes More than that, though, apparently his tomatoes are quote: “ ,pretty good” Additionally, 2 Chainz tweeted nine days after the tomato tweet: “Jus found out how many awards I got Thats wus up ” All around, congratulations to 2 Chainz

• The other day, I got onto the subject of dinosaurs Pretty standard for me Someone told me their favorite dinosaur is the Velociraptor Unfortunately, Steven Spielberg paleontologically blinded everyone with his film, Jurassic Park Just a public service announcement for the Cornell community: The Velociraptor from Jurassic Park is actually a different dinosaur from the Dromaeosauridae family, Deinonychus

• I am starting to get really sick of people not stopping me on campus to ask for my autograph after mistaking me for Denzel Washington

• With everyone preparing for job interviews a lot lately, I often find myself giving (unsolicited) advice for behavioral interviews My main piece of advice is to focus on answering the question: “What is your greatest weakness?” with something that is not actually a weakness My go to response is “Chocolate milk and girls with French accents ” Feel free to use it for your final round in New York City tomorrow

• In heaven, I imagine that Tom Hanks, James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman make up a threeman rotation of people to read me Goodnight Moon before I go to sleep every night

• Thank you to whoever writes all over the stacks Your comments offer me some of the finest entertainment I can get while studying in the library

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d your account (I assume, as there was no dialogue box for me to input my netID, and your netID header is on my printout) As I see it, I owe you about 30 cents I apologize for accidentally using your account If you want recompense, please let me know Also, please be careful next time Always restart the computer, no matter what ” This is the email I found when leaving my 11:15 class on Thursday I was so surprised that I read it twice I

took time out of his or her day to find my email, send me a message and inform me of my 30-cent credit In my experience, such considerate acts between two strangers

a re n o t s o c o m m o n a t Cornell This email reminded me of an earlier incident from last semester

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‘God Damn, You’ve Got to Be Kind’

student was particularly irritating He walked in with friends, en route to the gym When I asked him if he was interested in donating, he smirked and curtly blurted

o u t , “ I ’ v e d o n e e n o u g h ” Ever ything about the interaction left me uncomfortable How could someone be so rude?

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sweaty, they took a minute to hear our spiel, which I appreciated One girl didn’t have her wallet; she promised to come back later

He r f r i e n d o p e n e d h e r change purse “I actually had my purse stolen last night, so I don’t have anything more, but here’s a dollar,” she said I w a s a m a z e d He re w a s someone who could easily and explicably walk away, justified in not participating, yet she was the most willing Her generosity reminded me that there are a lot of good things that happen on this campus I do believe that friends

lend a helping hand to each other all the time But our daily interactions with rand o m C o r n e l l i a n s a re n o t always as such Kindness is a surprise, an exception, while r u s h e d i m p a t i e n c e i s t h e norm On most days, we justify being snippy or unnecessarily cold to the person who bumped into us in passing because we are a) stressed b) s l e e p

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re under over whelming stress, we act as if it justifies being unpleasant Mo re s o t h a n o n t h e streets of New York City or i n o u r f u t u re c u b i c l e s , Cornell is a contained community One might expect that this would encourage a greater level of daily humanity, a need to treat each other with just a hint of decency or consideration, yet that’s not our ever yday reality

Since my freshman year, I’ve noticed a dominant indiv i d u a l i s t i c c u l t u re o n o u r

campus The desire for pers o n a l s u c c e s s p e r m e a t e s ever ything from our social lives to our academic careers

To me, our self-centeredness explains why Cornellians are considered “hyper-competitive,” and perhaps why this school is considered a “ pressure cooker ” In our attempts to get where we want to be, w e o f t e n d e v e l o p t u n n e l vision I think a certain communal consideration is forg

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might be improved by a dose of kindness It seems simple, or almost juvenile, to suggest that “being nice” and “ treating others as you’d like to be treated” will solve Cornell’s systemic, historic problems But perhaps an altered order of daily conduct would produce more mutual consideration And that could lead to mutual respect

Who Do You Think I Am?

few days ago, my roommate rushed into the living room, grabbed the TV remote and proceeded to stand in front of the television for 25 minutes (unclear if she was breathing) until the final buzzer sounded at Madison Square Garden This isn’t an unusual scene; Zoe is a die-hard Knicks fan and watches every game (I, on the other hand, only know when the Knicks are playing because Zoe’s cheering can be heard from anywhere in the apartment building) A male friend was over during this particular game and, upon seeing this frenzy, blurted out “I can ’ t believe you follow basketball Last time I was here you were watching The Kardashians ” While I’m sure he meant no harm, I couldn’t help but feel a sting of chauvinism in his tone Realizing he had blundered, he quickly attempted to mitigate the awkward tension and avoid an angry Zoe (or an angrier Hannah) with, “It’s awesome when girls watch sports ” Recently students, faculty and administrators have started having difficult conversations about sexual violence on Cornell’s campus Women have felt more vulnerable than ever, and the University has done, for the most part, an admirable job in helping us find strength However, this completely casual and entirely harmless conversation about Zoe’s TV habits reminded me that while we have challenging conversations about how we, as women, can feel safe, we often fail to have equally important discussions about our identities within the University As educated and hard-working women,

Cornell’s female population has to juggle gender roles more frequently than our male counterparts and more delicately In the classroom, we are expected to be organized, precocious and high-achieving, but at the bar we ’ re supposed to be different human beings all together It’s accepted that we only watch The Kardashians or The Bachelor, but when we follow sports we ’ re told it’s really cool and different We’re supposed to believe in our strength and support our rights as women, bu

Earlier this week, Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer ordered employees who work from home to begin reporting to the office These employees, many of whom are women with children, are up in arms, calling Mayer a self-hating businesswoman who doesn’t understand the balancing act that working mothers struggle to perform every day

become too aggressive, we ’ re labeled “feminists” (GOD FORBID) We’re expected to perform in the boardroom, the laundr y room and the bedroom simultaneously, and when we show any sign of weakness, we ’ re whining, or worse, “sensitive ” The more I thought about it, the more worked up I got: We wear slacks to interview for high-paying, competitive jobs in traditionally male businesses, but wear mini skirts and stilettos to Pixel! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not asking for sympathy It’s true that we are fulfilling these stereotypically “female” expectations and failing to push (some) social norms on this campus But we ’ re not alone This gender debacle is widespread and evolving

I am glad that my strength is recognized and that I am, as a woman, taken seriously However, I think that when we issues of sexual violence on campus, it is important to put the horse before the cart and ask not just how can we make women feel safe, but how can we make women feel like the women they want to be? And, more importantly, we need to be asking, who are those women?

Whether we recognize it consciously or not, female Cornellians are expected to manage different versions of themselves throughout the day Men also undoubtedly navigate their environments and react accordingly, but I am certain that the mixed messages sent to high-achieving women are more taxing With that said, it seems important to start at square one when addressing delicate issues like sexual violence (or even working mothers at Yahoo): Who am I, and perhaps more importantly who do you think I am?

A Mixed Kind of Meal at Maté Factor

By MEGHAN FLYNN Sun Staff Writer

Maté Factor Café is pretty easy to miss It sits nested on the Ithaca Commons, and isn’t one of the more well-known establishments or go-to spots in Ithaca That being said, it is certainly an eatery worth visiting

Upon entering the café, I immediately noticed how unique the atmosphere was; I mean, there were actual trees in the corners In fact, the entire place felt a bit like a treehouse or a woodland cottage The rustic setup is definitely complementary to the menu, though, as it is quite healthy and organic I’m a vegan, so at times I can feel stuck with what to order when I go out to eat

However, Maté Factor’s menu is ideal for the vegan and vegetarian crowd, though all you meat-eaters out there won ’ t be disappointed, either I ordered the tofu-avocado wrap which was a wrap featuring baked tofu and avocado, as well as their salad mix, green peppers, onions, sprouts, tomatoes and olives I also asked for my wrap to be whole wheat, and added mustard, too I found the dish to be incredibly fresh and satisfying I also must compliment their generosity with the avocado; they put plenty in the wrap to satisfy my incurable avocado craving They gave me the choice between coleslaw or organic tortilla chips with salsa as a side, and I chose the latter Much to my dismay, the salsa was not very spicy, but I’m sure my more mild readers will enjoy it for this same reason It also definitely tasted fresh

The menu also features a pretty extensive array of teas, coffees and lattes However, I was more interested in the juice bar and smoothie options, of which there were equally as many I went for the “Essentially Green” smoothie, which is a mix of blue-green algae, spirulina, orange juice, honey and almond milk (which I requested as a substitute for coconut milk) I also asked my waiter to add a shot of ginseng I know the drink sounds bizarre and might be scaring off some of you, but hey, it’s extremely healthy and worth trying (you

only live once!) Would I necessarily try it again? I don’t think so, as each flavor and ingredient was a bit too prominent and detectable, instead of tasting like a blended drink But there are so many other types of smoothies on the menu (featuring everything from peanut butter and carob chips to pineapples and vanilla) that I want to try anyway, so I’m not too disappointed in my so-so experience with the “Essentially Green ”

My dining partner chose an equally healthy drink titled

“The Works,” which was a mixture of carrots, apples, beets, celery and ginger I wish I’d chosen this, too The juice was obviously thinner and lighter than a smoothie, which just made it a better option as a beverage

when ordering a (hearty) meal Additionally, the flavors blended together much better than my smoothie’s, and left me feeling rejuvenated after just a sample sip (and envious of my friend for getting to finish it) As far as her main selection went, she chose the waffles, which were recommended to her by a friend I’m not the biggest breakfast fan, but she had nothing but rave reviews for the whole-wheat waffles and fresh, homemade whipped cream, as well as the maple syrup (in which she drowned her dish) Afterwards, I felt satisfied by my healthy, vegan dish, so I decided to indulge in one of their homemade vegan nut clusters, and my friend went for a carob brownie (we were hungry, okay?) I appreciated the option of a vegan dessert in general, but as far as taste goes, it was a strange mixture of stale and chewy The carob brownie was softer and significantly sized, especially given the affordable price In fact, the menu as a whole

is very inexpensive, which is noteworthy, given how most of the dishes and drinks are fresh and homemade

As a whole, Maté Factor is a fine place to spend an afternoon conversing with a friend over fine food I wouldn’t recommend heading to this place for studying, as it is somewhat dimly lit (though I loved the interior otherwise), but to rejuvenate with some juice after hours at Olin? Absolutely There are fish and meat options for you carnivores, the staff is very accommodating and the menu offers a lot of variety many of them very healthy I suspect I will find myself craving the tofu-avocado wrap again in the near future, and I certainly intend to work my way through the juice and smoothie section Give Maté Factor a try, and join me! I’ll be sitting under the tree in the front corner

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

It seems a bit odd to ascribe the moniker “ supergroup ” to a project like Atoms for Peace Certainly, each member is extremely well known in his own right; Thom Yorke, Radiohead’s fantastically eccentric frontman, did not skimp on talent when he formed the group in order to perform his glitchy 2006 solo effort, The Eraser, live Besides Nigel Godrich, the recording engineer often referred to as Radiohead’s “sixth member,” Yorke recruited Flea, the sockabusing bass-slapper of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joey Waronker of R E M and Beck and famed studio percussionist Mauro Refosco

But unlike the many ill-fated “ super ” collaborations of the past (which usually included Eric Clapton), or even more contemporary bands like Audioslave, the members of Atoms for Peace seem more like a group of unbelievably talented friends than a contentious whirlpool of dueling egos As Yorke described in one interview, the group organically began to form after a few extended stays at Flea’s house, where they “ got wasted, played pool and listened to Fela Kuti all night ” It’s no surprise, then, that their new release, Amok, sounds a bit like Afrobeat played in an anti-gravity chamber and I mean that in the best way possible

The preceding analogy is an extreme simplification, of course Like just about all of Thom Yorke’s recent ventures, Amok is dense and ambiguous, merging traditionally recorded percussion and instrumentals with tracks created digitally until the line between these two formats is blurred beyond recognition Though this technique has been attempted by

other groups, it has never felt as natural as on this release Flea’s grooving bass lines, unusually smooth for an artist known for thumb-slapping funk, weave intricately with the ping-pong percussion, which combines traditional drums and unidentifiable electronic blips For best results, wear a good pair of headphones: Like a vintage Bordeaux or a Rothko, these rhythmic patterns beg to be appreciated Kuti’s influence really comes to light in these mesmerizing percussive arrangements, which sound like electronic interpretations of African drum circles Though incredibly dense rhythmically, these arrangements become strangely and addictively hypnotic Unlike Radiohead’s more electronic work on Kid A or The King of Limbs, or the complex rhythms of The Eraser, these tracks at points sound almost like dance music though any dancing to Amok will probably only be performed in the comfortable shame of one ’ s own room

Of course, Yorke’s aching falsetto forms a key part of Amok When legible, his lyrics are often powerful: On “Default,” his voice soars over the track’s eerie synths as he admits, “The will is strong, but the flesh is weak I’ve made my bed, and I’m lying in it ” Yet, as is evident in his other recent releases, Yorke has begun to use his voice as just another instrument On “Ingenue,” for example, his indiscernible or nonsensical vocals echo beautifully as they drift in and out between the simple electronic cries of a retro-sounding synth At other times, particularly during the bridge of “Reverse Running,” Yorke’s voice is distorted completely, and becomes

The original album cover for Autre Ne Veut’s second LP, Anxiety, recreated a photograph taken of Edvard Munch’s The Scream when it was being auctioned off at Sotheby’s This scene of iconized angst being sold for millions was intended to mirror how the album also placed the work's eponymous feeling “in the modern capitalist framework ” Now a void stands in place of the painting due to copyright issues, but the gap reflects the album’s concept much better anyway: Anxiety is less about anxious feelings and more about a generation of pure emptiness Like Jacques Lacan’s idea of manqué, Anxiety shows us that the desire only exists within this empty place

In opening track “Play by Play,” mastermind Arthur Ashin croons a refrain that shows up in too many R&B albums (“And I said baby ) over shimmering synths, before completing the sentence with the album’s single persistent theme: “I’m all alone ” The synths crash into silence then build up again to a momentous climax of slick beats We learn that neither Ashin nor his mystery woman will make the first move: He “doesn’t want to be there tonight,” but neither does she Still, this doesn’t prevent Ashin from endlessly imploring her to never leave him alone, as if repeating it enough times with enough gusto will make it true As he described it, he’s “ not afraid to sing about sex, ” but the album is “ more about the

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part of the rhythm section In both cases, the vocals are insistent but quiet against the pounding of the instruments; they are meant to complement, not to overwhelm

Despite its often disjointed rhythm section and highly unorthodox use of instrumentation and vocals, Amok is sometimes, dare I say, even catchy The heavily synthesized opening of “Dropped builds into one of the breathtaking highlights of the album as the synth is joined by Yorke’s longing vocals, before Flea enters angrily with a chills-provoking bass line The exhilaration of this build-up is on par with the most powerful moments of any Radiohead cut, and it showcases just why these musicians work together so well Atoms for Peace formed out of necessity, but the result of its efforts is incredibly promising Each of Amok’ s sonic elements work together in near-perfect harmony to create an album that works both on the track level and as a coherent whole Significantly, the album withstands repeat after repeat, becoming more and more impressive after every listen Though it seems impossible that any mere mortal could perform these tracks live, given how much they have already accomplished, Yorke and the rest of AfP will likely be able to beat the odds After all, they’ve managed to make a create an album of impeccable quality and precise detail that proves (did it really need proving?) that these artists are at the top of their game

Sam Bromer is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun com

anxieties and frustrations of trying to relate to other people in this world ”

Of course Anxiety is not just about missing lovers “Counting,” the clear highlight of the album, is about Ashin’s dying grandmother With a chorus as rousing as Kanye West’s “Power” layered over beats that are piercing yet smooth, Ashin cries that he’s “counting on the idea that you’ll stay alive,” despairing that “everything you say is breaking off ” Each time he visits his grandmother may be his last

While broadly R&B, the album’s sound is influenced by a very unlikely source: Ashin’s college roommate Daniel Lopatin, who makes haunting ambient drone music under the recording name Oneohtrix Point

Never Ashin himself admitted that “people who actually listen to R&B are not going to feel like this is a real R&B record, but that s the point Like the emotion, Anxiety won ’ t be the same for everyone Even within an individual the feeling morphs over time, just like each of Anxiety’ s songs What doesn t change how react to that feeling, consistently paralyzing and captivating, enticing us to transgress each challenge it poses

The derivatives and sub-genres of punk rock, including post-punk, pop punk, hardcore punk and dance-punk, are just as messy as the original form But there’s an easier way to categorize this diaspora than with varying hyphenated titles, using just two categories: those that are more commercialized and refined and those that are more do-it-yourself and industrial In You re Nothing, Copenhagen band Iceage falls so far into the latter category that it makes this subtle difference between the categories seem seismic

The best way to show this difference is to compare Iceage s album with the early works of Joy Division Both groups used perplexingly fascist symbols: the cover of Joy Division’s debut EP was a drawing of a Hitler Youth; Iceage started shows by flashing Nazi SS Iron Crosses (they’ve stopped and have admitted it was not a good idea) Both started out with brutal, simple punk songs: Joy Division’s “Leaders of Men” and Iceage’s “White Rune” come to mind But Joy Division then channeled its punk energy into introspection with Unknown Pleasures In retrospect, this shift was an indicator of where punk would head for the next 30 years postpunk, gothic rock, New Wave, alternative rock, emo Iceage, on the other hand, wants to make its sound as brutal as possible When it was released,

debut album New Brigade, with its screeching guitars, tribal rhythms and maxed out amps stood in stark contrast to the slick values of the Brooklyn punk scene

While Iceage still keeps the DIY noise from New Brigade, its followup You re Nothing is more grown-up The group ’ s sound has transitioned into a something more ambient (“Morals,” “Wounded Hearts,” “Awake”) while still reminding us that it can be brutally and purely punk if it wants to be (“Burning Hand, “In Haze, “Ecstacy ) The album s latter songs are focused, with simple guitar melodies “Burning Hand uses a simple two-note jammer at its loudest points Iceage’s sound applies to everything else Iceage Its shows are literally bloody It sells knives on its online store In this album, the songwriting is much more tight-knit without sacrificing its trademark industrial brutality Iceage is not the same group of 19-year-olds that came out with New Brigade, but it is not giving up its kicking and screaming It will leave the lame stuff to the other guys

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record-breaking score “ The Rocky Road to Dublin,” a collaboration with The Rolling Stones that won them their sixth Grammy When they sang “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” my friend and I were about to pass out this song is our jam They performed the classic “May Morning Dew” from the album Water From the Well, a song that can make you cr y if, like me, you ’ re ver y far from home They performed “I’ll Tell me Ma,” a beautiful song and a regular in Irish pubs, and “Maneo” from their album Santiago In “Maneo,” the Spanish guitar was simply mesmerizing, easily transporting the audience to the vast Spanish deserts They also performed “ Wabash Cannonball” and two particularly Irish songs one about getting far too drunk on Christmas and the

Deser ving Pi

With a skyward glance, Ang Lee thanked the “movie god” for his Best Director win at the Oscars Sunday night While many were expecting Steven Spielberg to take the prize, it didn’t seem like anyone was too unhappy about Lee’s victor y I really wanted Lee to win However unfairly, I’ve been rooting for Lee to win any award he’s been nominated for since I watched his 2007 espionage thriller Lust, Caution Lee’s adaptation of Eileen Chang’s short stor y is still one of my two favorite films (the other being Casablanca) because he perfects the look of love and other such ephemeral emotions As various critics have said, Lee’s gift lies in depicting the nuances of relationships, and I think that’s apparent in Life of Pi In Life of Pi, a boy emigrating to Canada with his family becomes orphaned and ends up adrift at sea with four animal companions after the ship he is on sinks For some reason (and this shows the extent to which I’ve forgotten the novel), I wondered if the animals would talk in the film version, but it was just as well they didn’t; the sadness in the eyes of a normal dying orangutan already says too much Whenever there was a close-up of an animal’s face, I’d wrestle with the lesson Pi’s father tried teaching him early in the film: Animals don’t have souls When the iconi c Be n g a l t i g e r, R i c h a rd Pa rk e r, ends his companionship with Pi by walking into the forest without so much as a backward glance, Pi is devastated The scene suggests that maybe Pi’s father was right, after all, but on closer inspection things get more ambiguous (as seems to be the case for many of the film’s key

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In the same way, I suppose I did like the film Some critics have suggested that Life of Pi is no more than Lee’s excuse for a glorious visual spectacle that masquerades as introspection A related charge is that Lee’s film oversentimentalizes religion I could not disagree more (though I suspect that Eat, Pray, Love is guilty of the second charge) Lee’s film is certainly ver y beautiful, and there’s an appropriately surreal air about most scenes, from the sun-drenched Indian swimming pool in which Pi learns to swim to the verdant selfcannibalizing island For the most part, I think the fantast i c a l , ov e r w h e l m i n g imager y is fitting for a f i l m t h a t t r e a d s s o f i n e l y b e t w e e n t h e real and the unreal Ever ything is heightened, as things tends to be in hindsight

m o m e n t s ) Pe r h a p s a n i m a l s j u s t value things differently than people animals might be far keener on looking for ward than on looking back

I had expected to like Yann Martel’s book, which won the 2002 Man Booker Prize I was told by almost ever yone who had read it that I would like it So I read the novel with great suspicion I think I did like the book, though it was not quite as poetically brooding as I’d hoped (At that time, I was drawn to vaguely philosophical, melancholic books with lush imager y ) I couldn’t quite get off that lifeboat, replete with dr y biscuits and a quaint sur vival

E a r l y o n i n t h e film, we ’ re told that Pi’s stor y “will make you believe in God ” That’s a ver y ambitious statement I won ’ t go as far as to say that the film actually makes an over whelmingly compelling case for the existence of God, but it does say a few things worth thinking about While Pi admits that being hungr y does strange things to you, he doesn’t descend into the depths of of savager y in a Lord of the Flies or Heart of Darkness fashion Perhaps this has something to do with the absence of other people competing for starkly inadequate resources Or perhaps it has to do with Pi’s reliance on religious philosophy Throughout

the film, he is periodically depicted praying on the boat, and during a particularly brutal storm he cries out to his creator, declaring his readiness to be taken home The scene exemplifies an ancient notion in at least one of Pi’s many religions God gives and then takes away What do you do when that happens?

The film is most remarkable for the two questions that it poses After Pi completes his astonishing account, he asks Martel, “ Why does it have to mean anything?” After Pi is rescued, he is inter viewed by representatives of the Ja

sunken boat When Pi’s inter viewers admit that his stor y is difficult to believe, he says, “Love is hard to believe, ask any lover Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist, God is hard to believe, ask any believer What is your problem with hard to believe?” I think these are great statements on religion that steer clear from sentimentality Too often, we tr y too hard to fit our lives into some kind of narrative (which is exactly what Martel tries to do with Pi’s stor y), and sometimes we choose a certain belief that helps explain the seemingly disparate fragments of our lives But we also are more averse to accepting things that defy our accepted ways of viewing the world; just because something is hard to believe doesn’t mean it’s unbelievable That Lee managed to convey these salient questions, which I think constitute the core of the book, makes his win a deser ving one

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Dutrow Seeks to Reverse Ten-year Drug-Related Ban From Racing With Lawsuit

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Kentucky Derby-winning trainer

Rick Dutrow has filed a federal lawsuit trying to overturn his 10year ban from racing in New York for drug violations

The lawsuit, filed this week in U S District Court in Brooklyn, says the 53-year-old Dutrow has been “irreparably harmed” by the New York State Racing and Wagering Board for what he says is effectively a lifetime ban Dutrow claims racing officials engaged in “wrongful and malicious actions” against him He’s seeking $10 million in damages for lost earnings, punitive damages and an order lifting the ban

Dutrow trained Big Brown to Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes wins in 2008 He recently tied for the training title with 110 victories at Aqueduct, his fourth title at the track where his stable is based It was the ninth time in the last 10 years he was the leading or second-leading trainer

“Any and every horse Dutrow becomes involved with during the 10 years his license is revoked

disqualifies the horse from any racetrack throughout New York state, ” the civil court complaint says “The order, in effect, also acts as a prohibition against Dutrow associating with any individuals who use the racetracks of New York state, including his family, who are connected to the racetracks ” Lee Park, a spokesman for the New York State Gaming Commission, the agency that succeeded the racing board, said Wednesday that they haven't been served with legal papers and declined to comment

Dutrow had unsuccessfully appealed the license revocation in state courts, with the punishment put on hold until the New York Court of Appeals in Januar y declined to hear his latest appeal

In October, that same court rejected his constitutional claim that his rights to a fair proceeding were violated by the appearance of bias by racing board Chairman John Sabini Sabini was also an officer of the Association of Racing Commissioners

International, which advocated revoking Dutrow’s license

The federal lawsuit claims Sabini and association officials acted in concert to ensure his license would be revoked, depriving him of due process

The three-member state board cited infractions including syringes containing an analgesic and sedative found in Dutrow's desk and an analgesic found in the urine of his horse Fastus Cactus in November 2010 after it won at Aqueduct Racetrack The board also fined him $50,000

Dutrow told a hearing officer he didn't know how the syringes got into his desk A blood test of Fastus Cactus didn’t show any of the analgesic, and Dutrow’s expert witness theorized that the urine test may have been contaminated

When the board issued the ban in October 2011, Sabini said Dutrow’s repeated violations and disregard for racing rules “eroded confidence in the betting public and caused an embarrassment throughout the industry ”

Defensive End Kelsay Retires From Buffalo Bills

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Rather than risk another injury, and go through another coaching transition in Buffalo, defensive end Chris Kelsay decided it was best to retire after 10 seasons with the Bills

“ I j u s t f e l t p h y s i c a l l y, a n d mentally, too, that I was ready to g o i n a d i f f e re n t d i re c t i o n , ” Kelsay said Wednesday during a conference call “There is a sense of relief there So I know that I made the right decision ”

The decision came this week after Kelsay spent months wavering on his future Rather than keep the Bills guessing, he traveled from his offseason home in Nebraska to personally inform general manager Buddy Nix at the team ’ s facility in Orchard Park

“As I kind of went back and forth on it, I believe if you think a b o u t re t i re m e n t t h a t m u c h , you ' re already retired,” Kelsay said “So I’m happy with the decision and look forward to the next chapter of my life ” The thought of retirement

first entered Kelsay’s mind after he tore a ligament in his neck during practice He missed seven of Buffalo's final eight games, and finished on the injured reserve list

Despite being cleared by team doctors last month, Kelsay was concerned about his health

“I did not want to leave the game broke down,” he said

Another factor that weighed into his decision was spending another offseason learning under a new coaching staff The Bills hired Doug Marrone last month to replace Chan Gailey, who was fired after three losing seasons

Starting with Gregg Williams, the Bills are on their fifth head coach since selecting Kelsay in the second round of the 2003 draft

“Any time you have an entire staff overhaul like we ’ ve had, it’s tough to come in and have to reprove yourself,” he said

Marrone, the former Syracuse coach, has brought in a new staff that includes former New York Jets defensive coordinator Mike Pettine, who is taking over the same role in Buffalo He becomes the Bills third defensive coordinator in three years

Kelsay made his decision early enough in the offseason to allow the team an opportunity to assess its plans before the start of free agency in two weeks

“It’s been weighing heavy on my heart for a while So it was as good of an opportunity and time to do it as any, ” said Kelsay, whose intention all along was to finish his career in Buffalo

He had two years left on his contract, and was scheduled to m a k e $ 3 7 2 5 m i l l i o n i n b a s e salar y this season Kelsay said there had been no discussions between him and the team to restructure his contract

Kelsay was among the longest serving members on the current team, and the latest veteran to depart

The Bills defense is already going through a transition after cutting three veterans over the past month: cornerback Terrence McGee, safety George Wilson and linebacker Nick Barnett

Kelsay was a three-time defensive captain, who finished with 32 1/2 career sacks to rank ninth on the team list A starter since 2004, he also proved durable in playing in 147 games, including 120 starts Last season marked the first time Kelsay played in fewer than 12 games

He is one of only three Bills defensive linemen to have at least t h re e i n t e rc e p t i o n s Ke l s a y enjoyed his best season in 2006, when he finished with 5 1/2 sacks and was credited with 88 tackles

Kelsay’s biggest frustration was being part of a team that has gone

1 3 s e a s o n s w i t h o u t a p l a yo f f berth the NFL's longest active drought During Kelsay’s tenure, the Bills enjoyed just one winning season, when they finished 9-7 in 2004

“Obviously, it’s something that is frustrating, something that we d i d n ’ t a c h i e ve , ” Ke l s a y s a

"We’re going to turn the corner It’s just a matter of time I see good things in the near future for the Buffalo Bills " In a statement released by the team, Nix called Kelsay a “ consummate professional” and someone who will be missed

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“I qualified for novice flat last semester, so I’ve been showing in intermediate for a while now and that has really prepared me to go back to novice for regionals,” Hooker said “My novice fences rides Saturday and Sunday had, as Todd puts it, ‘ some brilliant moments ’ I definitely had a few missed distances to the fences, but it’s IHSA, and we don’t always have to be perfect to win ” Freshman Meridith Meyer also qualified for regionals in the open flat and fences division In addition to this achievement, she placed second in the Cacchione Cup competition with 69 points behind Ithaca sophomore Maria Van Buskirk

The Cacchione Cup is an individual competition between the riders in the open division

The Cacchione winner in each region goes on to compete in a special class at IHSA nationals

Last season, Bronwyn Scrivens ’12 became the first Cornell rider to win the Cacchione She went on to place 11th at nationals

“I am very excited and lucky to be going to regionals in both my divisions as a freshman,” Meyer said “Coming in second in the Cacchione was really the icing on the cake I did not expect to do so well in my first year on the team, and I am unbelievably grateful for all the opportunities the team [has given] me to succeed ”

Since the Red’s semi-annual home show was canceled this semester, the entire team made the trip to Alfred, N Y , for last weekend’s doubleheader

“It was good to have everybody there and have that team camaraderie feeling throughout the day,” Hilton said Historically, the Red has been very successful at its home shows

The squad had a near-perfect day at its fall show this season, with all of the team riders earning first place in their classes Still, there is no telling how the second home show could have affected the season ’ s outcome

“It does give you the home advantage [because] you know the horses a little bit better,” Hilton said “Nobody can predict how it would have turned out, though ”

The Red may not have ended the season with a win, but the team still has a lot of positive moments to focus on

The biggest reason why I love Miller, however, is his voice He sounds a little like a mouse, and it’s wonderful The world would be a better place if we appreciated Andre Miller a little more

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Faried, the Manimal He has a game built entirely on athleticism and energy Despite being just 6’8” and weighing 221 pounds, he’s averaging 12 1 points and 9 6 rebounds a game, never leaving the paint in the process

Cheering for the underdog is always fun, but the way Faried got to the NBA is even better He was raised by two lesbian mothers, with his birth-mom suffering from lupus

“Even though we didn’t come in first in our region, I am so proud of all that [the] team has accomplished this season, ” Boub said “I think more than anything more than winning or the ribbons it is important that we are all able to support each other and really come together as a team, and I saw so many outstanding examples of this There were so many great individual moments that it is hard to be anything but happy with our results this past weekend ” blow by anyone, he doesn’t have great handles and he can ’ t shoot threes, yet he’s an aboveaverage NBA player because he’s so smart and crafty Go to YouTube and watch the highlights of him scoring 52 points against the Mavericks; it may be the least impressive way to score that many points, ever It’s really amazing seeing how little pure athleticism is needed to be a good player in the NBA Miller simply takes what’s given to him by the defense and makes smart decisions to succeed

since he was in fourth grade, and has stood up publicly for gay marriage He doesn’t judge by sexual orientation, wealth or race He grew up in Newark, where more than half the population is black, then went to school at Morehead State in Kentucky, located in a rural county which is 94 percent white He simply accepts people for who they are, and the world sports world especially really needs more people like him

The wings for the Nuggets are also a bunch of fun The lanky Corey Brewer described by head coach George Karl as “ a wild wild-card” might be the most energetic, reckless player in the league He looks like four flailing limbs with no body, just a mess of arms and legs swirling around endlessly, which fits perfectly into the Nuggets’ breakneck pace He’s a pesky defender, leaks out on ever y opportunity he has (which is not always a positive) and is absolutely fearless Just a joy to watch

Andre Iguodala is not as energetic as Brewer, but his presence is just as important He has the calm of a wily veteran, despite being just 29, and he does the things necessar y to win games His most important contribution to the team is his great, calculating defense and his countless hours scouting opponents Ever y night, he matches up with

the best wing on the opposing team, and it’s possible to actually see him take away the thing they want to do Some defenders play great defense because of their energy and quickness, but Iguodala relies on simply getting in the way of where they want to go It noticeably bothers the great players in the league

Despite loving all the individual players on the team and I didn’t even mention its two leading scorers, Danilo ‘ The Rooster’ Gallinari and Ty Laswon the biggest reason why I love the Nuggets is their team dynamic; they have no players who were even close to getting an All-Star nod, yet are 36-22 and sit in fourth place in the ultra-competitive West They legitimately seem to like each other and have fun goofing around together There don’t seem to be any rivalries or pouting because players didn’t get enough minutes; they just work their asses off when they’re called upon and let George Karl hand

unselfishness, youth and pure energy make them an exciting team to watch, and ever yone should be paying attention

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C.U. Se t to Take O n Mar yland Polo Club

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Staff Writer

The women ’ s polo team is set to play its first game in more than a month when it takes on the Maryland Polo Club this weekend at Oxley The Red is currently undefeated through 11 games including eight home wins and has only two games remaining before heading into the regional championships

Although the team had games scheduled for two of the past three weeks, a horse virus that swept through Cornell’s barns forced the cancellation of the match against Yale and the postponement of the match against top rival University of Virginia The men ’ s team also had its matches against the Bulldogs and the Cavaliers either cancelled or delayed

“We’ve missed a couple weeks of games, so that’s an unfortunate circumstance,” head coach David Eldredge ’81 said “The teams have stayed focused We’re feeling pretty good right at the moment ”

While the men faced the Mar yland Polo Club back in November and picked up a 21-6 win, the women have not competed against a non-collegiate team yet this season Eldredge said he scheduled the game against the Maryland team to give the Red’s highly skilled women ’ s squad which has outscored opponents 293-77 so far this season more of a test

“I’ve had to get in some club teams this year to challenge the team because in our region, we haven’t had a lot of really challenging competition,” he said Kelly Wells ’92 is the coach of the Mar yland women ’ s team During her time on the Red, Wells led the team to the championship title in 1991 and was named an All-American by the United States Polo Association her junior and senior years

Senior captain Ali Hoffman, a native of Baltimore County, Maryland, played for the club while in high school, and said she expects a good game

“They’re going to be a strong team to compete against,” she said “It should be a lot of fun ” The Red will enter the game against Maryland missing freshman Devin Cox, an integral part of the Red’s lineup Cox is one of four players, including Hoffman, junior captain Kailey Eldredge and freshman Anna Winslow, who

clock playing time during major games Cox is suffering from a strained ligament in one knee and will rest over the weekend

“Devin is a strong player, so obviously when you don’t have one of your core four players, it puts pressure on the others,” Hoffman said “All three people on the field need to make sure they’re keeping themselves motivated during the entire game ”

Hoffman added that the Maryland game and next weekend’s game the team ’ s only currently scheduled contests left before regionals are critical for the Red’s preparation going into the regional and national tournaments

“[ The games] are definitely important because we obviously haven’t had as many games or opponents to play as we have in past years, ” she said “It’s mostly about getting back into the playing mindset ”

Cornell, Skidmore and the University of Connecticut have all secured automatic bids for the women ’ s regional tournament

The final team to head to regionals could be either Harvard, Yale, the University of Massachusetts or the University of Guelph at Kemtville The final team will be decided by a preliminary tournament, and the winner of the tournament will likely be the team the Red plays in the first round of regionals

According to David Eldredge, there’s a chance that the postponed game against UVA will take place next weekend at Oxley, although the teams are still working out the details The women ’ s team has had its closest matches come against the Cavaliers, winning the first matchup, 13-12, after a threeround shootout, and claiming the second, 20-16, in the final of the Bill Field Invitational

While the lack of games for the women ’ s team over the past month may mean the women have a bit of rust to shake off this weekend, Hoffman said the rest was beneficial to the team

“It’s probably a good thing we didn’t have games, because we all have something we ’ ve probably needed to let rest, ” she said “We’ve really been in the last two weeks getting our chemistry back and building up our stamina again to get us back into competitive fitness level ”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun com

Ten Questions Columnist Reena Gilani caught up with junior Dominick Scelfo to chat about basketball, sea-otters and the Village People

1 How did you get involved with basketball?

I started at a really young age; my parents had me playing like every single sport I played baseball until ninth grade and football until like seventh, but basketball is the one I ended up sticking with

What has basketball meant for you here at Cornell?

I have a lot of friends on the team and [have had] a lot of different experiences The whole Division I basketball experience is something that’s unique and really interesting and something I have absolutely enjoyed

So you re from New Orleans but also Canadian how does that work?

My mom is from Toronto, and my dad’s from the New Orleans area They met somewhere in college and then they moved to New Orleans, so I’m a dual citizen

How did you end up at Cornell from Louisiana?

When I was coming out of high school, I was choosing between a few different schools and then actually got hurt so [I] decided to concentrate more on school than on basketball I picked Cornell for the great education

2 Who are your parents and your babysitters?

Pete [McMillan] says I act like a kid sometimes so he says that him and Dwight [Tarwater] are my parents He says my babysitter is Marshall Faulk

Can you tell me about the g-lin stock?

You definitely want to short the g-lin stock at all times

3 Do you have any pre-game rituals or traditions that you participate in?

Before every game I like to start a cheer for Peter, and then the whole team starts yelling Then Dwight holds me up when I start yelling It’s really, really weird

4 What is up with you and “king cake”?

My dad has a bakery in New Orleans and a king cake is the cake of Mardi Gras Every year, my dad apparently thinks I have 100 friends and he just keeps sending them I give them out to everyone on the team and anyone else

5 Jake [Matthews] caught you eating his Poptarts that he specifically told you not to eat Do you care to elaborate on this incident?

Jake likes to eat all my food, especially when I only have

one of them left One day I had Poptarts and he came in and said he would eat my last Poptart, and he did that’s what makes him a conniver and now he’s trying to turn it on me I don’t forgive him for that

So you never actually ate one of his?

Oh no, he only did it to me

6. What are your babaloonies?

I don’t know how this whole thing began but we started calling each other balloons and then it got stranger and we started calling each other babaloonies I have literally no idea how it happened

So it’s a nickname you all have for each other? Not a physical entity

Yeah, [that’s] just what we call each other Like I said, we ’ re pretty weird

7 Who would you consider your celebrity look-alike to be?

When we first got on the court at Duke, everyone was chanting “Justin Bieber ” I think it’s because of my hair, so I might have to trim it sometime soon

Have you ever wanted to be in a boy band or some type of pop sensation like he is?

I have filmed a few music videos They’re not open to the public, but at some point we are going to release them

Are they original songs or covers?

They’re covers, and they have great dance moves in them

Do you have any signature moves?

The grocery cart is a fan favorite for sure Then you have the sprinkler, of course, and the hammer and the nail Also, the dougie; Miles [Asafo-Adjei] taught me how to dougie

And what kind of music do you like to do covers of? Any stuff by the Village People?

We actually dressed up like the Village People for Halloween and did a lot of performances that night I don’t think we stopped singing “YMCA” and “Macho Man ” We did music videos of us as the Village People, but that’s not all that has been filmed

What other songs have you done?

A few Justin Bieber songs, of course

Is it just you in the videos?

Dwight and Jake are in them too I guess it started with the Cornell basketball music video

The video to “Let’s Go”?

Yeah, Coach told us a marketing group was doing it so

we decided to try it out That got us started on making other goofy videos on our own

Could you describe the Harlem Shake video you and your roommates just made?

I don’t think I can It’s not on YouTube yet but it will be coming out shortly, so everyone can get ready for that

What is the other group you ’ re a part of, Dope Vocals?

Dope Vocals is the group of Miles, Nolan [Cressler] and me, and we made our debut at Big Red Blowout Miles did most of the singing for that one in front of everyone on the stage It wasn ’ t planned and kind of just happened on the spot, but there were a lot of fans

8. How is your hoopmixtape coming along?

So if you ’ re good at basketball, you put together your cool clips and play that Miles has been filming me and I’ve been doing some really fundamental layups and nice chest passes for my hoopmixtape It’s a little different from the high-flying dunking stuff that other guys do

9 If you could be any animal, what would you be?

There’s so many options I’d probably go with a sea otter

Why a sea otter?

Because I saw one the other day He was dunking online and it was actually a really cool video If you haven’t seen it you should look that up

10 What’s the craziest thing that you ’ ve done during your basketball career at Cornell?

Probably play at Duke, because it’s been somewhere I’ve always wanted to play They are known for having one of the best arenas and one of the best college atmospheres It was a really cool experience even though we lost by 40 points

And do you have an exciting accomplishment off the court that you can share?

My roommate ’ s older brother is Olympic swimmer and gold medalist Davis Tarwater I actually beat Davis’ little brother in a swimming competition, so I’m pretty proud of that I’m probably going to retire after that win and retire the speedo

Did you train a lot for that?

I did almost an entire 10 minutes It definitely paid off, though Dwight’s not too fast so I guess that helped me

Reena Gilani can be reached at rgilani@cornellsun com

Cornell Finishes

Third at Alfred

By ARIEL COOPER Sun Staff Wr ter

It will take more than a loss to unhorse the equestrian team this season Despite the squad’s third place finish after its doubleheader at Alfred last weekend, many of the riders were still able to advance to the regional championships that will be held on March 9

Although equestrian is traditionally an individual sport, the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association features both individual and team competition At every show, each school chooses riders whose scores are combined for the overall team score Those who are not showing as part of the team still have the opportunity to ride as individuals, and the points that they earn eventually propel them into higher divisions With 257 points, Cornell was unable to surpass Alfred and Ithaca, who took first and second place with 271 and 263 points, respectively Alfred’s regional championship win earns the Saxons a spot at Zones as a team The Red’s riders who compete at regionals, however, will have a chance to advance to Zones as well

Senior tri-captain Emily Kowalchik felt that while the Red’s riding was strong, its opponents continued to kick up the competition as the season progressed

“They took last year as a learning experience and improved on it,” she said

Last season, the squad trampled its competition remaining undefeated until its last regular season show This season, the other teams were not prepared to let the Red steal

N u g g et s Na ti on

I’ma New Orleans Hornets fan; don’t ask I love their uniforms, their players and generally ever ything about them With the Hornets rebuilding, however, and hard to watch at times, this year I’ve adopted another team: the Denver

Nuggets The Nuggets have everything it takes to be a team you want to cheer for: they’re a good team, they’re exciting to watch, and most importantly, they have the wackiest players in the NBA

Let’s start with the man, the myth, the JaVale What’s there not to love? The answer is nothing Let’s go over some of the reasons I love JaVale McGee On Inside the NBA, Shaq has a whole segment called “Shaqtin’ a Fool,” pretty much dedicated to mistakes JaVale McGee makes McGee has a finger mustache tattoo that

Spor ts

their thunder

“We weren ’ t expecting the level of riding from the schools that we saw, ” senior tri-captain Zofia Hilton said

While the team is disappointed by the loss, the riders are pleased with the progress they made over the season and are looking forward to regionals

“It might not have been a successful season in terms of where we ended up but there is more than one way to have a successful season, ” senior tri-captain Emily Webster said “I feel like our team has made a lot of progress, and the ribbons will come ”

According to Webster, 12 Cornell riders qualified for regionals this year Seniors Erika Hooker and Briana Boub advanced to regionas for the first time in their careers Hooker qualified in both novice flat and fences, while Boub will compete in the advanced walk-trot-canter division Hooker has already moved up to the intermediate flat division, but will return to novice flat for regionals Her rides this weekend helped to prepare her for the upcoming competition, which will also take place at Alfred

R e d R e a d i e s f o r R o u n d - R o b i n s

he uses to celebrate He’s actually productive; he averages 10 points, 4 8 rebounds and 1 9 blocks in just 18 minutes a game He legitimately tries hard, sometimes failing spectacularly, but the effort is there His mom won back-to-back women ’ s NCAA titles,

Playing the Field

played and coached in the WNBA and may be the most supportive mother in the NBA aside from Flo Allen Most importantly, JaVale makes me happy and really, that’s all that counts Never change, JaVale

Other than JaVale, my next favorite player is obviously Andre Miller

At this point in his career, he literally has zero athleticism Watch him play; he just takes his time, uses his size, shoots ugly, flat mid-range jumpers that go in and makes great lob passes He can ’ t

By MARISSA VELASQUEZ Sun Staff Wr ter

The women ’ s fencing team looks to bring home a win in the RoundRobins Ivy League tournament at Har vard this weekend The tournament was originally set to take place on Feb 9, but was rescheduled due to Winter Storm Nemo

The Red (16-3) will take on Princeton (15-2), Harvard (8-6) and Brown (25-2) in the first round Saturday star ting at 11 a m The team will then battle Penn (15-4), Yale (510) and Columbia (17-3) in the second round of the tournament, with matches starting at 10 a m Sunday

According to junior foil squad captain April Whitney, the team ’ s biggest challenge will be overcoming the obstacles created by the Red itself

“ The biggest rival is ourselves as a team, ” she said “We are capable of beating anyone, and it really just comes down to how prepared we are that morning, our mindset and how we are feeling with the team dynamic ”

Although the tournament was previously postponed, the squad has been using its spare time to its advantage

“[Nemo] was pretty ter-

rible, but we have been taking it into stride, and it has been a great opportunity to extend our training,” junior captain Christine McIntosh said “Ivies are getting more and more challenging ever y year ”

McIntosh added that she hopes to improve her performance from last season

“Personally, I want to improve my record for last year, knowing that the pool of competitors is that much harder this year, ” she said “Being able to do that would be a really big accomplishment, as for anyone else on my team, and I’m just hoping that my squad will pull through and improve all of our records from last year ”

The tournament will be the first time the Red will encounter its fellow Ivy League competitors on the season According to Whitney, the team has improved over the past few seasons

“We get stronger and stronger every year, since my freshman year [the program] has grown tremendously,” she said “The freshmen this year are really strong and there are just more and more people that are committed to the team, and they do a lot of things outside of practice and

competing to establish that bond ”

During last year ’ s Ivies, the Red placed last in the women ’ s three-weapon team with a total of no wins and six losses, but this weekend McIntosh hopes for a different outcome

“Our philosophy is to make sure we beat everyone we are supposed to beat and fight as hard as we

can for those teams that we think are stronger, ” she said “That will [help us] push for wins against the even more challenging schools, and hopefully we will give them a run for their money ”

Marissa Velasquez can be reached at mvelasquez@cornellsun com