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Cornellians S ay Redesigned SAT Increases Access

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun News Editor

Standardized Achievement Test enables increased accessibility to low-income students, other members of the Cornell community criticized the College Board’s elimination of a mandatory essay in the exam

Beginning in Spring 2016, the SAT will revert back to a 1600-point scale, make vocabulary more relevant and eliminate the guessing penalty, the College Board announced Wednesday

The SAT currently consists of three parts critical reading, math and writing and is one of two exams prospective students have the option of taking to gain admission to the University, according to the Cornell admissions website

“My personal preference would have been to keep the writing section mandatory ”

Provost Kent Fuchs said the exam ’ s writing section promotes the development of critical skills

“My personal preference would have been to keep the writing section mandatory in both the ACT and SAT, due to the importance of composition and critical reasoning,” Fuchs said “The other changes in the SAT, such as changing the focus of vocabulary and math questions and not penalizing for guessing, seem reasonable ”

Fuchs said the University is still discussing whether the changes to the exam will affect the admissions process to the seven colleges

“It will take some discussion and planning in the admissions office and in the colleges and schools before we will decide if the SAT changes will influence our admissions procedures and requirements,” he said

Yamini Bhandari ’17 also said she was opposed to the College Board making the essay component optional

“The essay portion actually challenges students to think outside the box on issues and craft their own viewpoint,” she said

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Law P rofessor Will Appear on

New C N N P r o g ra m S u n d a y

By JINJOO LEE Sun Senior Writer

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Edward Lee Elmore walked out of prison, having spent

most of which he spent on the death row Despite evidence s

, Elmore had been convicted three times for sexual assault and murder Without the persistence of Prof John Blume, law, defense attorney Diana Holt and litigator Chris Jensen, Elmore may have never left prison

Proposed Memorial Would Honor Civil Rights Activists

By ALISHA FOSTER Sun Staff Wr ter

The Student Assembly voiced their support Thursday for the construction

young men including one who attended Cornell killed by the Ku Klux Klan 50 years ago

Current plans are for the memorial to be built in front of Anabel Taylor Hall

killed on June 21, 1964 while registering black voters in Mississippi All three were active par ticipants during the Civil Rights Movement and worked diligently for civil rights across racial, religious, and regional lines Project Coordinator Bill Schechter ’68 said the memorial should be

Elmore’s story, told by Blume and others involved in the case, will be featured in the first episode of CNN’s new series, Death Row Stories, which will premiere Sunday The series, directed by Academy Award-winning directors Alex Gibney and Robert Redford, will reveal “America’s most compelling capital murder cases, ” according to CNN Blume, who argued for Elmore’s third direct appeal, said the case showed everything that was wrong with the American death penalty system: incompetent counsel, racial bias, prosecutorial misconduct and what Blume described as “junk” forensic science Bl u m e w a s a n e xe c u t i ve d i re c t o r o f So u t h Carolina Death Penalty Center when he assigned

Celebrating Cornell's Relationship to the Civil Rights Movement: Remembering Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman 9 a m , Africana Studies and Research Center

Ritmo de Caribe: A Celebration of Our Roots 7:30 p m - 1 a m , Ballroom, Statler Hotel

C U Music: Cornell Chamber Orchestra 8 - 9:30 p m , Barnes Hall Auditorium

New Boys of Old New York in Concert 8 - 10:30 p m , Arts Quad

Falconry at Cornell and Around the World 8 a m , Mann Library

News, “BUSINESS NEWS | Engineers See Highest Starting Pay,” Monday

Speaking about repor t that says College of Engineering graduates earn the highest mean star ting salar y at Cornell

“It is short-sighted to lo ok at this data and base a career choice on top of that We have [many] alumni who graduated in more difficult economic times but even then if you lo ok at the alumni who graduated within the past 10 years, then they chose to do what they wanted to do and didn’t necess arily go after the highest s alar y and they are doing great ”

Christa Downey, assistant dean and direc tor of College of Ar ts and S ciences Career S er vices

Opin ion, “TR US TE E V IE WPO INT: Di vest men t: A Ne ed for Bet ter A rgum ents,” Tue sday Sp eaking ab out arguments b oth for and against divesting the Universit y ’ s endowment from the fossil fuel industr y “I enjoy a go o d debate; I’d like to take a p osition on this issue, but the rationales for supp orting or opp osing divestment are to o weak I challenge the University community to offer b etter arguments for or against ‘divestment of Cornell’s endowment from public holdings in companies with large fossil fuel reser ves ’”

Tomorrow N ews, “I thac a C om m on C oun ci l P asse s C hang es t o C oll eg et own Zon ing , ” Thursd ay Sp eaking ab out bringing the lo cal Ithaca p opulation back to Collegetown “Collegetown in the past few years has b een what I call a ‘college-only town To b e really successful, the area has to b ecome a fabric of the entire city again ” Alderp erson G eorge McG onigal (D-1st Ward)

sexual ass aults to rep ort b ecause of the disconnection with the p erp etrator ” Narda Terrones ’14

Ithaca Police Honor Man

For Ithaca Falls Rescue

By SUSHMITHA KRISHNAMOORTHY

Contributor

On Wednesday, Ithaca Police Chief John Barber recognized England resident John Garr y Smith for saving the life of an acquaintance who fell into Ithaca Falls in May 2013

According to police reports, Smith had been in Ithaca with Sureshnath Maturi of Houston, Texas on a business trip when Maturi slipped and fell into the water Maturi struggled to stay afloat and was drifting downstream when Smith entered the water, pulled him to the shore and continued administering CPR until personnel crews arrived and took over The subject made a full recovery, the report said

thinking and decisive actions,” Barber said “Your immediate response reached the pinnacle of public service: that of saving a human life ”

The Ithaca Police Department will ship a plaque and a letter of commendation as an award of appreciation, which will be presented to Smith at a ceremony next Friday in Sheffield, England, according to Jamie Williamson, public information officer for the IPD

“There is no doubt that your friend is alive today because of your quick thinking.” J

“There is no doubt in my mind that your friend is alive today because of your quick

Williamson said had Smith not acted, Maturi may have become a victim of the Ithaca gorges

“Our gorges are beautiful They’re a part of what makes Ithaca a wonderful place to live in But they’re also ver y dangerous,”

Williamson said “If you don’t obey the postit signs, if you don’t employ common sense, if you don’t think before act in our gorges, tragedy is just around the corner ”

Barber agreed with Williamson, reminding Ithacans and visitors of the falls to stay aware of their surroundings

“This is perfect reminder for anyone who visits our gorges to stay on the trail, off the

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C.U. Hosts Tenth Annual Chili Cook-Of f

Winning chili avors include ‘spicy three bean chili with bulgur, ’ ‘Pirate’s Cove’

By ANDREW LEE Sun Staff Wr ter

Cornellians sampled a variety of unique chili flavors from coconut to roasted poblano chili at the Willard Straight Hall Student Union Board’s 10th annual Chili Cook-Off Thursday Students said they were impressed by the efforts of the cook-off ’ s organizers to expand the amount of vegetarian options available

“I went to the Cook-Off last year and was kind of disappointed that they only had two different vegetarian chilies,” Emily Tso ’16 said “But they really did a lot to improve this year ”

Students sampled four meat and four vegetarian chilies, according to student union board executive director Andrew Newman ’14

Chicken chili, as well as macadamia nut seltan bean and barley chili were some of

the other flavors offered at the event

“I think we ’ ve really hit the perfect balance this year, ”

Newman said “Last year, we had six meat and two vegetarian chilies It’s a lot better to have half-and-half ”

Ne wman said he was grateful for the help he received from the seven dining halls that agreed to participate

“We have to make our reservations a year-and-a-half ahead of time, and we contact dining halls a month or two before the event to make sure they’re committed,” he said

Newman said though the Cook-Off was a success, the Student Union Board ran into a few logistical issues prior to the opening of the event

“It’s always a bit of a challenge making sure we have enough volunteers and dining halls sign up to participate on time, but that’s why we have to innovate,”

Newman said

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was a success due to the efforts of various organizations including the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity

Newman said he hopes to expand the Cook-Off ’ s offerings to incorporate more of Cornell’s ready-to-ser ve, ready-to-eat restaurants like Trillium and Martha’s Café in the future

“ These are places that aren ’ t necessarily dining halls, but they also serve chili, so we ’ re hoping to get them to participate as well,” Newman said

The winning entry in the vegetarian chili category was “Spicy Three Bean Chili with Bulgur” by Okenshield’s Chef Renee Heroux with 208 votes according to Jung-Ju Lee ’16, a member of the WSH Board of Governors

The winning meat entry was “Pirate’s Cove” by Rober t Purcell Marketplace Eatery’s Chef Kegan Selover with 160 votes

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“I think making that portion optional will really hurt student writing development because it takes the focus away from developing that skill ”

Bhandari added that the changes do little to address the “problem” of creating a test that captures the needs of today’s students

“Learning a breadth of vocabular y and being able to make cogent arguments in an essay are really valuable skills that our education system needs to emphasize,” she said

Application fee waivers for low-income students and free access to practice problems are among the changes being made, according to the College Board website

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c o m e d” t h e changes particularly those that make the exam more accessible to low-income students

“Now, with [the creation] of new programs to help low-income students, the College Board is not only better connecting standardized testing with the work of high schools, but also giving all

students a more fair testing ground,” he said Others, however, said they were concerned about the implications the changes will have for the test preparation industr y

“In a way, this is feeding into the test prep industr y because it now requires students to get all new prep books for this new exam that’s somehow supposed to measure someone ’ s intelligence in four hours,” Bhandari said

minority liaison at large, said he thought the test would require less extensive preparation as a result of increasing the relevance of tested material

“By realigning the SAT with actual coursework material, the test may actually examine a student’s wealth of knowledge, as opposed to their wealth of wallet,” he said “My parents sacrificed for me to have access to intense SAT coaching and tutoring other high schoolers may not have that luxur y ”

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun com

S.A. Voices Support for Memorial

MEMORIAL

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Professor Salah Hassan, history of art, interim director of the Africana Center, said his department fully supported building the memorial

“Of course the project [has] our full support in Africana and [we] will do anything to help facilitate it,” he said

A petition for the project secured over300 student signatures Fifteen organizations including Cornell Hillel and the

expressed their support, according to Schechter “[It’s] not just the historical remembrance and the cultural challenge about ser vice, but also how inspiring this is that they reached across race, religion and region to tr y to work together to d o s o m e t h i n g p o s i t i v e , ”

Schechter said Schechter said he thought the three young men were on “the right side of histor y ” “In the case of the [men,]

what’s a more defining contribution to a democratic society than to make sure that ever yone has the right to vote?”

The memorial will supplement a stained-glass window in Sage Chapel that Schwerner’s own graduating class dedicated to the three young men in 1991

There will be a public meeting regarding the proposal at 6 : 3 0 p m Mo n d a y i n t h e Africana Center

Alisha Foster can be reached at afoster@cornellsun com

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defense attorney Diana Holt who was then an intern to Elmore’s case

“It was probably the best decision I ever made, and I’m sure Eddy Elmore would agree with that,” he said during a Google+ Hangout with CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield

In 1982, Elmore, a mentally disabled African American man, was accused of sexual assault and murder of Dorothy Ely Edwards, a woman whose house he occasionally visited to wash windows and clean gutters, according to The New York Times

The prosecutor said 53 hairs were gathered from Edward’s bed, where the assault supposedly took place, with most of them being Elmore’s pubic hairs, The New York Times reported

But something seemed odd about the prosecutors ’ evidence, according to The New York Times Though the prosecutor had claimed there were 53 hairs, the actual count was 49, and there were only 42 left in the bag because seven were taken out for examination The bag of hair was not sealed, which meant that the hairs could have been planted in the bag at any point

Furthermore, two other pieces of evidence against Elmore disappeared: the hair that was found on the victim’s abdomen during autopsy and a fingerprint on the victim’s bathroom State officials said they could not find them After Elmore’s lawyers’ persistent search, the two items were found and then tested Neither the hair nor the fingerprint belonged to Elmore, according to The Atlantic

The investigators also seemed to have missed key pieces of evidence

Although investigators took almost 100 pictures at Edward’s house, they took no photos of the bed where they had claimed the sexual assault happened and they did not take the sheets from the bed for evidence because there were no visible stains present, according to The New York Times

Still, Elmore was sentenced to death in three trials

“My view on the criminals that should receive that death penalty have narrowed.”

In a turn of events, the Fourth Circuit of Appeals ordered a new trial in 2011, and the judge ruled that there was “persuasive evidence that the agents were outright dishonest,” and there was “further evidence of police ineptitude and deceit,” according to the Death Penalty Information Center

Elmore’s conviction was then overturned based on the prosecutorial misconduct However, Elmore pled guilty in exchange for immediate release when prosecutors refused to dismiss the case, according to the Death Penalty Resource website

Holt, Elmore’s defense lawyer, advised him to plead guilty, Blume said Otherwise, he may have had to stay in jail for more than a year awaiting trial Trials were no longer attractive for Elmore, Blume said, after three juries had already sentenced him to death

Elmore’s case was a struggle, and Blume said he was “ never convinced of the outcome until [they] won in the Fourth Circuit ” Blume said the case was his second most memorable case in his career The most memorable one, he said, was Richard Charles Johnson’s, his former client who was executed, despite what he thought believed to be overwhelming evidence of innocence

“I still have nightmares about his execution, which I witnessed, and I still wonder whether there was not more I could have done to save his life,” Blume said

Blume said he hopes the episode on Elmore’s case will expose the flaws of the death penalty system in the U S

“Hopefully seeing how an innocent person can be sentenced to death and spend more than three decades in prison for a crime they did not commit will give some people pause, ” he said

Even though Blume said he opposes the death penalty, some students that take Blume’s class, Law 405: The Death Penalty in America, said they support it

Gregory Braciak ’14 said he is in favor of the death penalty only in extreme cases, for “only the worst and vile crimes that indicate a depravity of mind and reckless abandon for human life ”

He said taking Blume’s class has changed his view on which criminals deserve capital punishment

“I was more liberal in applying the death penalty prior to [taking the class], but as the semester draws on, my views on the criminals that should receive the death penalty have narrowed,” he said

Julius Kairey ’15 said that while he believes in the death penalty of the “ most heinous of crimes,” he is taking Blume’s class to learn more about procedures that can “limit arbitrariness and bias in the system ”

Sixty percent of Americans said they favored death penalty for a person convicted of murder, according to a Gallup poll from October

Asked why he opposes the death penalty, Blume said, using an old Talmudic saying his mentor used to paraphrase: “The Justice of God may at times ordain that there are some crimes for which a man should die, but the Justice of man is altogether inadequate to determine who those people might be ”

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The lengths to which boycott supporters will go to defame the State of Israel are indefensible The narrative they put forward is always relatively simple: In a series of wars after World War II, Israel systematically threw Palestinians off of their land Israel then took steps to divide the country between Jews and Palestinians through apartheid policies Palestinians, largely innocent in the grand scheme of the conflict, have been helpless victims of Israeli brutality

The problem with this narrative: It isn t true

But before I get to attacks on Israel, I want to return to the issue of academic freedom as it relates to the boycott How can boycotters claim that telling institutions which schools they can collaborate with will not limit the academic freedom of the people who work for those institutions? In response to my column in this newspaper, a number of authors gave the following answer: Because the boycott targets institutions, and not individuals, academic freedom is not impinged

This would be a sensible argument if institutions did not consist of individuals The fact that the members of the Cornell government department would be prohibited from having an academic conference with the government department of an Israeli university does tell individuals who they may and may not interact with By the boycotters’ reasoning, banning Students for Justice in Palestine from campus would not limit the freedom of those individual students to advocate for their cause, because individual students would not be the targets of such a ban It is illogical to be basing an argument for the boycott of an entire nation upon that premise

Now let’s get back to the accuracy of the boycotters’ attack on Israel’s character Is Israel really the twenty-first century ’ s South Africa? As a matter of fact,

Why, or indeed how, could an “apartheid state” grant Palestinians living within Israel full citizenship rights?

Israel is a Western-style democracy quite unlike the repressive regimes of the West Bank and Gaza (try peacefully dissenting against Hamas in Gaza or the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank) Let me ask the boycotters something: Why, or indeed how, could an “apartheid state ” grant Palestinians living within Israel full citizenship rights? More than 20 percent of Israel’s citizens are Palestinians They exercise their right to vote, and some of them are members of the Israeli Parliament Anti-discrimination laws in Israel prevent, rather than foster, unequal treatment How many other countries in the Middle East foster such democratic diversity?

Another thing boycotters like to discuss is the construction of the security wall that physically separates many Palestinians from Israel But there is a reason why boycott supporters never tell you the reason why Israel built it The intent was to stop the killing of its citizens Before the construction of that barrier, dozens of Palestinians would strap bombs to themselves, cross into Israel, and blow up civilians More than 100 Israelis were killed by such attacks in both 2002 and 2003 In a world where Hamas continues to launch missiles into Israel, causing casualties and forcing their citizens to run in fear to the nearest bomb shelter, Israel must be afforded the ability to defend its citizens’ right to life Or do the human rights of Israelis not matter because Palestinian acts of terror are to be either justified or ignored?

The hypocrisy of boycott supporters would be comical if it weren ’ t so manifestly obvious If partnering with an Israeli university, as Cornell is doing, constitutes participation in genocidal Israeli policies, then every student on this campus, through their tuition, is investing in the “genocidal” Israeli state Are they serious about divestment when they seem so willing to hand over large sums of money to an apartheid-supporting university?

I am not asking that social activists be perfect people But I am asking that they not tell others to “divest from death” when they if we accept their argument invest in it every day by attending this university If these activists feel so passionately about their cause, why are they not willing to make the same sacrifices they ask from others? They seem like boycotters who do not want to boycott

As dozens of nations around the world deny human rights in brutal ways, we hear the loudest calls for the boycott of one country ’ s institutions: Israel What explains this application of a double standard that would be unacceptable in nearly any other context? Why is Israel singled out over the worst human rights abusers? What explains why boycott activists ignore real “ open air prisons” like China, Cuba and North Korea? Do they not deserve their attention? I suppose academics and students who constantly call for “symbolic action” against Israel fall silent when it come to countries that are either too hard to bully or where people do not have the luxury of being able to form civil institutions to call for boycotts

But regardless of the motivations of its supporters, this boycott does not deserve the support of any community devoted to truth and fairness

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Toppling the House of Cards,

One N.Y. Legislator at a Time

By now you are undoubtedly familiar with America’s favorite southern gentlemen the wily, ruthless, but irresistibly charming politician from South Carolina who narrates his machinations for power to the camera as we (binge) watch from the comfort of our homes Frances Underwood, the star of the popular Netflix series House of Cards, has captured the attention and adoration of mill i o n s o f A m e r i c a n s w i t h h i s unabashed thirst for power and willingness to do anything to attain it Bu

re a l Frank Underwoods out there? There’s an operating assumption by the public that politics is inherently dirty and that every

T h i s assumption, of course, does a great disservice to the count-

aid, extortion, misappropriation of “pork” funds, racketeering and petit larceny Oh, and that’s not including a recent scheme to rig the nominations for the New York City mayoral race in which o n

wheels ” So how can we help put an end to (or at least abate) such systemic corruption? Let’s use f i c t i t i o u s Ne w Yo rk

A s s e m b l y m e m b e r, Ha n k

Overwood, to flesh it out If I wanted to wield some influence with Assemblyman Overwood, I could legally donate the maximum amount for an individual ($5,000) to his campaign, create a couple of Limited Liability Corporations and contribute the

ment and need to be changed As suggested by several commissions tasked with tackling government corruption, it’s time we lower the felony bribery threshold, treat LLC’s as corporations (and not as individuals) and c h a n g e t h e “ a g re e m e n t a n d understanding” provision in the bribery law to a stricter standard All of these require simple changes to current state law that would show the public that New York is serious about cleaning up their government Public corruption doesn’t just rob taxpayers of honest service and their hard-earned tax dollars: It erodes their trust and encourages civic a p a t h y A n d w h i l e I e n j oy w a t c h i n g Ho u s e o f Ca rd s a s much as the next person, I want my elected officials to be men

No public official is perfect. Nor should we expect them to be. ... They are not, however, excused from ser ving with integrity to the best of their abilities.

y w h o serve honorably every day But the unfortunate reality is that public corruption is not that uncommon In fact, in many instances, it is legal These laws that make it easier for politicians to compromise the integrity of government belong on TV, not in our state capitals and, unfortunately, we don’t have to look far to see how bad things have gotten

In the last 15 years, New York has served as a dubious example of what happens when public corruption laws are weak Since 1999, 22 legislators to leave office did so in handcuffs or u n d e r e t h i c a l v i o l a t i o n s

Recounting their many discre-

t i o n s w o u l d p rov i d e e n o u g h material for six seasons of House of Cards, but know that over the years, New York officials have been charged with bribery in exchange for favorable legislation, theft from fictitious nonp ro f i t s re c e i v i n g g ove r n m e n t

maximum for each LLC they are treated as an individuals in New York offer his chief-ofstaff $9,000 in “pocket money ” and all of this, in and of itself, would not be enough to convict him of impropriety Under current New York law, Overwood couldn t be charged with bribery unless we had an “ agreement and understanding” that my “contributions” to his political endeavors were intended to influence his actions as a public servant So as long as I never explicitly asked Overwood for any favors, it would be very hard to convict him Similarly, New York law has no prohibition on creating multiple LLC’s for the sole purpose of contributing to campaigns and also h a s a $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 t h re s h o l d f o r felony bribery of a public servant These loopholes in the law contribute to the culture of corruption in New York govern-

e community, not of themselves No p u b l i c official is perf e c

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u l d we expect them to be They will inevitably make mistakes and take positions that are unpopular or contrary to the will of their constituents They are not, however, excused from serving with integrity to the best of their abilities Our public corruption laws play an integral role in ensuring that they do so and New York has the opportunity to gain back the trust of its citizens w

changes So sit back and enjoy the next

d schmooze his way to the top I know I will But let’s not forget that while we ’ re watching, there are real Franks out there, plotting their next move Hopefully some changes in the law will stop them dead in their tracks

Zellnor Myrie is a first year law student He can be reached at zym4@cornell edu Barely Legal runs alternating Fridays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

UpsTate’S FinEst: PErfect PusSy at The HaUNt

BY JAMES RAINIS Sun Senior Writer

Perfect Pussy’s ascent in the world of noisy punk rock has been ridiculously swift Armed with just their cacophonous (and insidiously addictive) four-track demo tape I have lost all desire for feeling and an alliterative, provocative band name “Are you going to call me a cunt?” asks singer Meredith Graves “Are you going to tell me I'm ugly? Well, here's my band name do your worst, motherfucker ” the band has gone from Syracuse hardcore also-rans to national subculture darlings Hell, Meredith Graves was even invited to write a Tour Diar y for style magazine Elle, a tribute not only to her band’s ascendency but to her own unique fashion and magnetism She’s a blunt woman, writing lyrics about backstabbing friends whose eyes are “low and heavy with shame and cum, ” and her band’s aural assault which includes a full-time pedals-and-pedalsonly guy along with the standard power trio is just as confrontational

Tuesday night, Perfect Pussy kicked off their largest tour to date with an absolutely stacked show at The Haunt, cos p o n s o re d b y It h a c a Un d e r g r o u n d a n d D a n Sm a l l s Presents The show ser ved not only as a sending off party for one of Upstate New York’s most celebrated young bands, but as a showcase for some of the region’s finest underground groups Even as Graves donned a fur coat and smoked cigarettes outside with her bandmates, those who

came early were not to be disappointed Hardcore revivalists King Sized Pegasus rang in the proceedings, and by “ rang in” I mean “pummeled the audience ’ s faces in ” Their brand of punk rock is not at all dissimilar to Black Flag or Minor Threat loud, concise statements played at breakneck speeds, they alternate between screams of misanthropy (one song ’ s only lyrics are “Fuck you!”) and sardonically silly songs about drinking gasoline and being bad at mathematics Naturally, their subminute songs ser ved as a moshing warmup for all involved, and they even got the crowd involved in some pithy banter (In response to a fan shouting “King Sized Pegasus for President:” “I’m in a punk band What makes you think I’m gonna be president? Fuck Barack Obama ”), which was charmingly bratty of them Keep an eye out for their upcoming merch: under wear with the label “King Sized” emblazoned on the front

Following KSP was the decisively mellower Cat Names The trio of embattled Syracuse natives sarcastically tried to convince the audience that their bassist was the man inside Otto the Orange (the Syracuse University mascot) costume; their bassist defiantly announced his allegiance to HobartWilliam Smith Their drummer sings and they have a song where the bassists uses a slide I don’t even need to say any more you already know these guys are cool but I will: Cat Names peddle in a classically twangy, yelping brand of indie rock not terribly far removed from Modest Mouse’s more rambunctious moments but with sweeter harmonies

They have a song called “Sexy Ghost,” which is damned fun, and a song in seven-

y titled “Seven ” The world is better off for the existence of these songs; thusly, the world is better off for the existence of Cat Names

next, and I get the feeling that the name is a bit of

these guys rock sludgy riffs that recall The Stooges or The Queens of the Stone A

Deaf) and sing about pain,

drinking and domestic violence I’d imagine these guys would be more accurately called Whiskey People, but I’m sure some bluegrass group stole the name and they just were like, Fuck it, warm weather is nice ” Jokes aside, these guys were absolutely baller: menacing guitars, thud-happy bass and hectic drums all give way to their singer, who is likely the genetically engineered spawn of Ronnie James Dio and Frank Black Sweating, strutting and occasionally playing the bongos, he was an absolute riot to watch and listen to If you ’ re lucky enough to live the kind of lifestyle where you drive around in Camaros while wearing sunglasses and beating the shit out of people who stole your meth, get some Summer People jamming in your tape deck I think you guys might get along

Finally, Perfect Pussy made it to the stage Meredith Graves sat demurely on a monitor while her band got ready, and her patient demeanor had me worried: Would Perfect Pussy be the hellacious noise-punk experience I had heard so much about? Short answer: yes The band’s songs grow nearly amorphous in small spaces: the pedal tones provided by synth and pedal guy Shaun Sutkus over whelm a place like The Haunt, but once the guitars and drums crash in, it builds into a typhoon of potent, noisy chaos as guitarist Ray McAndrew’s trebly riffs settle upon his rhythm section’s relentless churn Bodies were being hurled around the dancefloor with reckless abandon (at one point, I almost broke a girl’s tooth with my skull), and all the while Graves tapped into her inner Henr y Rollins, hollering her lyrics like accusations and calling the audience “babies” for not moshing hard enough She’s a natural star, with a stage presence that miraculously manages to emerge through the cacophony and a beautiful way with self-deprecation (“ This song is for anyone who’s ever had a drunk person come over to their house and invalidate their experiences,” she says as she introduces a song, “ We know you ’ re out there ”) Even when the band took their foot off the gas during the Sonic Youth-indebted “Interference Fits,” Graves and company maintained their fierce aggression

After a brief, 25-minute set, the hurricane of limbs and guitar squall was over Not only did Perfect Pussy prove their worthiness of all the hype with a set of boiling hot punk tunes (and, yes, amid the noise there are some hummable melodies in there), but Upstate New York’s finest made a statement: Groups like Perfect Pussy are not an anomaly I left The Haunt Tuesday not only satisfied by the promise of Perfect Pussy, but enlivened by the reaffirmation of an Upstate music scene that is young, eager, adventurous and ready to make a statement

James Rainis is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun com

If you really love movies, you must respect the genre film: the not-quite-blockbusters, shot for $50 million or less, serving time-worn action, horror, sci-fi and Western thrills To revere Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann and dismiss those following in their footsteps is a most common hypocrisy amongst film enthusiasts today Genre films bring home money instead of Oscars, yet the best of them exert intelligence and an impeccable command of cinematic technique NonStop is not the best of the best, but it is up there While Liam Neeson reprises a more nuanced take on the badass paternal figure he has been playing since 2008’s Taken, director Jaume Collet-Serra situates his actor in a story and setting packed with more post-9/11 commentary than its poster would have you expect It all starts pretty Screenwriting 101: In slow motion, a pair of hands tip a flask into a coffee cup, stir the drink with a toothbrush and reach for a wrinkled photo of a little girl Bill Marks (Neeson) is a grizzled alcoholic with a sad, yet-to-be-explained backstory sitting alone in his car when he receives a call that, yes, he has one last job to do He works as an air marshal, despite being scared of plane takeoffs, and this flight from New York to London should keep him on his toes There is a reticent Muslim (Omar Metwally), a non-PC cop (House of Cards’ Corey Stoll) off to see his “fairy brother marry a guy with a British accent, ” Julianne Moore yapping in the seat next to him and, worst of all, a giggling supermodel (Bar Paly) cuddled with her beau behind him It’s all clichés, tropes, been there, done that for the first few minutes

But you stick with it, because all Liam Neeson movies these days start the same, and this one gets a whole lot better than any of

Dthem, save The Grey Midway through the flight, Bill receives cryptic text messages over his secure network that if he does not wire $150 million to an account in 20 minutes, a passenger will die Neeson’s Savior Mode activates, as he recruits Moore and a familiar flight attendant (Downton Abbey’ s Michelle Dockery) to look for conspicuous cell phone use But this is 2014, so everyone is a suspect

The Agatha Christie vibe escalates once 20 minutes elapse and, through Bill’s direct actions, a passenger ends up dead in a bathroom stall The TSA traces the terrorist’s bank account to Bill Marks’ name, and it looks like our imperfect hero has been framed

Non-St op

At this point, I could describe the fight scenes, which are scarce but claustrophobic, intense and awesome When reviewing a bad action film, you can adjectivise h a n d - t o - h a n d combat and fill six paragraphs Thankfully, Non-Stop is quite good, so there is more going on than Neeson kicking ass and, therefore, much more to talk about In fact, the story ’ s momentum depends on Bill Marks backing himself up, through tactical miscalculations, into a corner for most of the movie Targeting the Muslim on-board proves to be a prejudiced and rushed judgment, as does singling out a black man wearing a hoodie for search The issue of profiling criminals according to race and gender vexes Bill throughout his mission, and the diversity of the flight’s passengers represents a microcosm of America at large

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra Starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Scoot McNair y

The matter of security its necessities, limits and enforcers in post-9/11 America also haunts Non-Stop When the possibility

emolishing my fourth Manndible’s burrito in as many days, I clicked between the umpteen browser tabs of food programming on my laptop As I watched David Chang scarf down street meat and Anthony Bourdain scarf down street meat and Eddie Huang scarf down street meat on their respective shows of nearly identical content, I looked to myself, scarfing down this infant-sized sack of meat and cheese unquestionably the height of gastronomical offerings here at Cornell and wondered A) why is guac always extra? and B) when do our appetites for culinary celebrity became bigger than our appetite for culinary fare?

This question is so commonly posed nowadays that, similar to the trend of the art-opsy (elucidated by Sam Bromer ’16 in his column on Monday), the constant media coverage on the rise of the celebrity chef pounds our newsfeeds ad nauseum And though culinary stardom is a relatively new phenomenon the Food Network was created in 1993 it’s a phenomenon that has existed for the entirety of our lifetimes So I can ’ t help but feel as if the world, like me, has always been weaned on the dulcet tones of Ina Garten’s horrific Hamptons humor and Jean Georges’s lava cakes Now that it has boomed, we may be cycling towards a bust or at least a mutation of what once was a scene dominated by the Marios, Gordons and Emerils of the industry Identifiable by their first names, celebrities without even the qualifier of “chef,” these former line cooks and dishwashers did their time in kitchens across the world Peeling potatoes and carving radish roses for years, they eventually amassed their swaggering empires of restaurants, foods, books, and television programs

And yet, today, you no longer need to be someone ’ s grill bitch before hitting it big with your ruddy mug on your own brand of spaghetti sauce More and more, the wholesome image of the TV chef, of wide-eyed and bushy-tailed Giada DeLaurentis and Rachael Ray, is nixed for something edgier Though the culinary industry was always surfeit of the under-

arises that Bill, their avowed protector, may be the terrorist, the passengers fret over what action to take They know what happened on United 93 and recognize that Hollywood and U S histor y posthumously (and rightly) valorized the civilians aboard it because they took decisive, selfless action Meanwhile, the irony that a federal agent assigned to defend would turn and hijack a plane proves too appealing for news pundits to ignore There is a great shot of passengers plugging in their headphones and watching, on back-of-headrest screens, talking heads accuse Bill of terrorism or worse The isolation of today’s media everybody has their own screen prohibits conversation and connection, for we prefer to take for truth the words of a suited man before a camera than whatever a real, beat-up human being seated next to us might say

The politics of Non-Stop are difficult to decode, but they are there Collet-Serra leans

ground, off-beat types (or so Kitchen Confidential had us believe), those same druggie-immigrant-vagrants are breaking onto the silver screen The most famous example of rock star chefs on TV is, of course, the aforementioned Anthony Bourdain However, my newest discovery, the freshest enfant terrible to burst onto the culinary scene, is Eddie Huang of Vice’s online mini-series, Fresh Off the Boat

Huang’s career spanned from bunked streetwear designer to one-time attorney to drug dealer to stand-up comedian before he saw some success with the 2009 opening of his casual East Village eater y, Baohaus Selling pork-tastic Asian buns, Baohaus’s positive reception led to the opening of his zero-star, Four Loko-slinging Chinese small bites shop, Xiao Ye, which promptly went out of business Huang’s career trajectory speaks to a fundamental change in food culture: It’s no longer about earning cred the hard way anymore especially if, like Eddie, you ’ ve started a hilarious food-memoir-hip-hop blog In an industry that increasingly intersects with social media and public image, the number of followers you have on Twitter has become its own remunerative commodity, greater than any decades spent under fine dining tutelage In turn, Huang’s blog has led to his book deal, which has led to his Vice show, which has led to an NBC sitcom pilot of his life story

Through these outlets, Huang has created a cult of personality, riding on his unique cocktail of charisma, luck and hustle Maybe his culinary chops are secondary, and maybe that’s okay I still derive massive enjoyment from his show as he smokes blunts with rapper Danny Brown in Detroit and devours sheep eyeballs in Mongolia Fresh Off the Boat is not unlike Chang’s or Bourdain’s formulaic travel-logue shows of general debauchery and food porn, but Huang’s dynamic persona has created programming that is part standup comedy, part philosophical musing and part Flavor Flav

Is he Bourdain’s second coming, now 60 percent more ethnic and 40 percent more incongruous? Maybe, as he once introduces himself on Fresh Off the Boat in a No Reservations-esque opener: What up? It’s your boy Eddie Huang Writer Chef

Jack Bauer conservative, in that homogenous bureaucracies often distort and lie while flawed but passionate agents wield their dogmatism to best unfavorable odds The script stoops to two sappy, on-the-nose speeches about such themes, but grandstanding is sort of a requirement in a movie like this Take them with a grain of salt, for Collet-Serra embeds his own perspective through camera placement, text message superimposition and other cinematic techniques alone

Prior to its release, Reverse Shot critic Nick Pinkerton tweeted, “What sort of human garbage gives a poor review to Non-Stop?” I don’t think he was being facetious, and neither am I Non-Stop follows the book, yet it fills in its margins with questions, patterns and Liam Neeson The challenge here is to enjoy the superficial thrill of it all while daring to appreciate it as, if not art, then seriously smart entertainment Balance those two tasks and you may just save America

Zach Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com

Human panda BangBros connoisseur and I’m horny for more ” Then he asks a passer-by for a joint Fresh Off the Boat truly reads as a Huang’s stream-of-consciousness, rife with all the DGAF word vomit and masturbatory self-indulgence As he lights a blunt in a Chinese-American restaurant in Shanghai, he says, “This city’s got the ugliest, ugliest fucking doo doo bombs, fucking poop weed I’ve ever seen ” As he passes by a few female employees at a soup dumpling joint earlier that morning, he hollers, “Bad bitches that also know how to use an abacus!” As he eats a German sausage casserole topped with broccoli in Taiwan, he makes an apt analogy for Asian dick size: “Don’t let your shrubbery look bigger than your weaponry ” As he attacks his camera crew with phallic popsicles and Taiwanese breakfast foods, the screen flashes with the disclaimer “Cameraman Eating Break: we feed our crew you fucking mouth breathers!” Huang is a bombastic raconteur, unapologetic in all his exquisite vulgarity His show is an endurance test of human indecency, of manic globe-trekking exuberance, of dick jokes and tiger-stripe jumpsuits, of “Fuck you, eat this ” Please, enjoy the verbal abuse and culinary education from the world’s most reputable human panda

Alice Wang is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at awang@cornellsun com Profanity Prayers appears alternate Fridays

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Laxers Face ‘First Big Test ’

With Visit From Cavaliers

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coach Ben DeLuca ’98 and several talented, graduating seniors, has changed since last year ’ s run to the Final Four “ [ We’r e ] a y o u n g t e a m , ”

Buczek said “ We’re a fairly inexp

I think a lot of these guys have been waiting a couple years and [are] finally getting their chance It’s a different game as soon as the scoreboard turns on; you get out there for your first posses-

sion You’ve got a few pre-game jitters early in the game so you want to make a play, so I think it’s one of those things where ever yone ’ s just star ting to get their feet under them, get a little game experience and you start really getting in the flow of the game ”

Slow starts have been an issue for the Red, and a visit from Virginia could tempt the laxers t

national powerhouse One of the weaknesses the team has been working to correct, according to

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game, playing patient, ‘hitting singles’ like coach always says, getting ever yone a touch, and playing as a team ”

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the Red’s showdown against the Cavaliers will be a major earlyseason measuring stick for the young squad’s in-game resiliency

“Our goal is always to go undefeated at Schoellkopf ever y year, so this is our first real big test where we see what we ’ ve got in that locker room, ” Buczek said “I think the guys are going to step up, have a great week of practice and we ’ re going to give it a great shot Saturday ”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun com

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“We were a little bit loose with our passes and not being sure w i t h t h e m , ” Ke r w i c k s a i d “ [O]ur guys responded well ”

Leading that response was

s o p h o m o re m i d f i e l d e r Jo h n Edmonds, who scored the next two goals for the Red and helped spark a 12-0 run that continued into the third

“This year we ’ ve been struggling to get that kick-start that

b i g l e a d a n d k e e p i n g i t , ” Edmonds said “So it’s good being patient Coach always says ‘[L]et the game come to you, ’ so that’s what happened ” Cornell opened the second period with five goals against the Golden Griffins over a threeminute span Junior midfielder Connor Buczek got in on the

a c t i o n w i t h t w o c o n s e c u t i ve scores of his own and Edmonds

t h e n f o u n d j u n i o r a t t a c k m a n

Matt Donovan to extend the lead to 6-2

“I was coming to the cage and [ s e n i o r a t t a c k m a n / m i d f i e l d e r Dan Lintner] threw me a pass, a little low, I mean it wasn ’ t here,” Edmonds said, holding his hands up above his chest “I kind of just went down for it and saw the defense coming to me and saw Don out of the corner of my eye and I just tried to get it to him as high up as I [could] and flick it across to him and he’s just going to put it away ” From there, the Red extended its lead to 13-2 by the early third period, and assistant coach Peter Milliman’s defense kept Canisius searching for answers until the clock hit zeroes to cap the 19-6 victory

A contributing factor to the w i n w a s a c o m b i n e d 4 6 - 1 9 advantage in ground balls that helped the Red control possession in every period

“It’s our number one stat, ” Kerwick said “We’ve done a great job all year In all four games we ’ ve been pretty dominant in the ground ball stat and that’s very important for us and that’s why we ’ re 4-0 right now ”

This Saturday’s showdown of unbeatens with the University of Virginia will give Kerwick’s team a new challenge on the field and in the ground ball department

T h e C a va l i e r s h a ve h e l d t h e ground ball advantage in five of the team ’ s six victories this season, including a recent 51-22 ground ball advantage en route to a 17-12 win over No 9 Syracuse

“This is what it’s all about; the level of play picks up quite a bit,” Kerwick said “Virginia’s one of the best in the country they always are ”

After beating the Cavaliers on t h e i r h o m e t u r f l a s t s e a s o n ,

Bu c ze k a c k n ow l e d g e d t h a t Virginia would be searching for revenge on Saturday

“ They’ll come to play,” he said “Last year we went down to Charlottesville and stole one from them I’m sure they weren ’ t too happy They’re going to give us a great shot ”

In addition to a No 2 national ranking, the Cavaliers will also bring a familiar name to Ithaca:

attackman James Pannell Pannell c u

Division I lacrosse with 26 points,

Ma rk Cockerton’s 31 He is also the

Cornell standout Rob Pannell

’13 Having a Pannell on the opposite sideline of Schoellkopf t h

ve a s a reminder of how much the team, which par ted ways with head

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Austin Jamerson finished third and fifth, respectively Both set personal bests in the process, with Jamerson breaking his own freshman record Freshman Grant Sisserson broke his own freshman record as well in the pole vault, moving to No 2 all-time at Cornell, with a second place finish in the event

In the weight throw, Mozia came in ninth, with sophomore Br yan Rhodes finishing in first Senior Montez Blair (No 2 in the nation) also impressed with a win in the high jump Blair, Hor telano-Roig, Mozia, Rhodes, Hairston and Weinlandt were all named to the All-Ivy first team after the meet

“The best things in life are not easily obtained ”

Udeme Akpaete won the 400 in 55 21

She later joined juniors Zena Kolliesuah, Elyse Wilkinson and senior Ebolutalese Aire wele in the 4x400 meter relay win, recording a time of 3:41 56, besting last year ’ s time by three seconds The quar tet was named to the All-Ivy first team as well, with Akpaete also earning the honor in the 400

Adding to the scoreboard were freshman Adrian Jones in the 200, senior Emily Shearer in the mile, seniors Anjelique Parnell and Dominique Corley in the long jump, Rachel Sorna in the 3000, Zaakirah Daniels in the 60 meter hurdles and junior Jennifer Markin in the pole vault All of them recorded Top-six finishes

Cornell’s next challenge is the IC4A/ECAC Championship at Boston University, which begins on Saturday

“[ T ]he success this team had was only possible because we kne w the taste of defeat all too well and we decided we had enough of it,” Hor telano said “ The best things in life are not easily obtained But ever ything is possible, if you believe it is ”

Lisa Awaitey can be reached at lawaitey@cornellsun com

Red P repares to Ride in Regional S how at Alfred

By ANNA JOHNSON Sun Staff Wr ter

On Saturday, the Cornell equestrian team heads to the regional show at Alfred as a favorite with a chance to advance to nationals

After clinching a convincing lead early in the season, the Red had a lock on the regional title ever since its own Cornell Show on Feb 16th According to sophomore Reina Baizan, this weekend’s event will be important in setting a precedent for nationals

“The team is doing fantastic this year, and we have so many excellent riders competing in regionals I feel like it’s very important to put in a good showing at regionals, because it really sets the tone for the upcoming zones and nationals competitions,” she said “Although regionals is an individual competition, the team as a whole has a very good shot at going to nationals, and I am so excited to be a part

of that Equestrian is so often thought of as an individual sport, which makes it all the more spectacularly satisfying to succeed as a team ”

Freshman Shana Coffey also said that the team is focused on the future

“Everyone is extremely dedicated to the team and to preparing for these upcoming shows,” Coffey said “Having won the region, the team is well poised to be suc-

c e s s f u l a t zo n e s a l s o t o h o p e f u l l y advance to nationals this year ”

Being this close to nationals is new to the team and, to many of its riders, college equestrian in general is, too This year, the Red’s roster features 12 freshmen, and senior Alexandra Cheng said this has given the team an opportunity to grow as a unit

“We’ve all had the wonderful opportunity of learning and growing together and our success in the region is simple proof that all of our hard work individually and as a unit has paid off,” Cheng said

On the individual end, her season has

not been without challenges, but Cheng said she is staying focused on the upside

“It's been an interesting year for myself as well I was sidelined for over half the season with a concussion and therefore could not individually qualify for my classes, open fences and flat,” Cheng said “Despite b e i n g i n j u re d , I ' ve been so lucky to be part of a group of girls w h o c a re s o d e e p l y about their sport ”

S o p h o m o r e

many dedicated members of the team there are, because riders who are not competing at regionals still work hard in practice

“I think that making it to the national level would really help us gain more recognition. ”

Elizabeth Drake faced a similar injury last year, and has had the chance to make up for lost time this season Drake has qualified for the regionals meet and, after last year ’ s injury, is now poised for a comeback

“Personally, I'm really excited to be showing at regionals this weekend Last year I missed a pretty big part of our season due to a concussion, so it was really great to be able to come back and qualify this year, ” she said

Though excited for her own chance this weekend, Drake, too, focused less on herself and more on her team ’ s success

“For the team as a whole, I'm so proud of the dedication everyone has shown in preparing for regionals and zones I think that winning regionals really helped bring our team together and get everyone excited for the rest of our season, which is really important going into these tougher competitions,” Drake said

However, Drake acknowledged that the team ’ s success has not come without diligence

“It takes a lot of commitment and dedication to practice like we do it was -11 degrees when we went to the barn for 6 a m practice this morning but everyone is being really supportive of one another,” she said

According to Drake, it is apparent how

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not even have been in the discussion after a season in which James came relatively close to averaging a triple-double His claims look absurd on paper,

b u t i t m a k e s m e c r i n g e i n h i n d s i g h t t o w a t c h t h e videos of Bayless acting 100 percent certain of himself, unwilling to entertain possibilities that the majority of NBA fans believed to be indisputable

Those predictions were a few years ago LeBron James has won back-to-back NBA titles since then He has won b a c k - t o - b a c k M V P a w a rd s

Since James won his first title, Bayless eased off on the hate,

b u t b a r e l y In t h a t s e n s e , Bayless reminded me of a 12year-old who is so afraid to

a d m i t b e i n g w ro n g t h a t h e

w h i n e s a n d c o m p l a i n s a n d makes it painfully obvious that he knows how wrong he was As a fer vent King James supporter, I relished watching Bayless continue to disrespect him I figured that at some point he would give LeBron the respect he deser ved So when I read the first sentence

of Skip’s “Angr y LeBron,” it

s e e m e d t h a t m a y b e , j u s t maybe, Skip had finally grown a pair He opened the column with this:

“ This no doubt has come as a discombobulating shock to LeBron lovers who watch ‘First Take’ in part to see just how

I needn’t quote the sorry piece of writing that to me resembles the lowest of the low in the Skip-LeBron Saga

much I will ‘hate’ on their four-time MVP and two-time champion ”

Fi n a l l y, Sk i p h a d c o m e clean So I thought I was quite mistaken

In w h a t a p p e a r e d t o b e writing supporting James that is what Skip said it was he offered sentence after sentence of blatant shot-taking at LeBron, both as a player and as a person I needn’t quote the sorr y piece of writing that to me resembles the lowest of the low in the Skip-LeBron saga The arrogance and self-promo-

which landed in the 20’s Skip holds so much pride in his utterly inaccurate predictions, knows now that he is obviously wrong, decides to write a column finally expressing support for LeBron James

become an insecure brat

graph to the final sentence

Please, please read the entire column Ever y sen-

Bayless’ inability to admit misjudgment He has no right to mention the name “LeBron James” after this blatant disrespect His basketball opinions

o other purpose than morning entertainment

Consistent brilliant journalism is published on ESPN’s Grantland It is a shame that lowly Skip Bayless is able to publish nonsense like this on the front page of ESPN Stick to TV, Skip

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun com

“Even the girls that aren ' t competing at regionals have been coming to the barn to help out with practice,” she said “While making it to zones and hopefully nationals is definitely a personal goal of mine, I think making it to nationals as a team is everyone ' s ultimate goal I think we have a really good shot this year we won the region by a significant margin and have a lot of exceptional riders ” Drake said that success at the national level would help to increase knowledge and recognition of equestrian at Cornell

“As one of Cornell's youngest sports teams I think that making it to the national level would really help us gain more recognition as a serious, successful team, which could mean a lot for our program, ” Drake said

With plenty of motivation, the team is prepared to do what it takes at regionals this weekend On Saturday, the Red will have its closest shot yet at securing a spot at nationals, and plans to compete Looking ahead to Saturday’s competition, Cheng said she was confident that hard work would pay off this weekend

“We have so many individuals who have worked tirelessly and have an amazing opportunity to shine on their own, ” Cheng said “I can definitively say that in terms of what we can control our preparation, riding style, fitness, both mental and physical our individually qualified riders are as prepared and ready to compete as they've ever been, and all that is left is getting into the ring on Saturday ”

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Men Bring Home Second Straight

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Wr ter

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w a l k e d a w a y w i t h t w o e ve n t w i n s , f i ni s h i n g f i f t h p l a c e ove r a l l i n t h e m e e t T h e m e n we re l e d by s e n i o r s Br u n o Ho r t e l a n o - Ro i g a n d St e p h e n Mo z i a ,

“I’m not one to believe in settling for anything less than the highest ambition.”

b o t h n a m e d He p t a g o n a l M V Ps o n t h e t r a c k a n d f i e l d , re s p e c t i ve l y Ho r t e l a n o a n d Mo z i a we re a w a rd e d t h i s h o n o r by a u n a n i m o u s vo t e m a d e by t h e l e a g u e ’ s c o a c h e s

C o r n e l l’s w i n w a s a re s u l t o f a t e a m e f f o r t , a s i t o u t s c o re d Pr i n c e t o n , 1 4 5 - 1 1 7 “ I ’ m e x t re m e l y p ro u d o f t h e t e a m f o r w i n n i n g t h e

i n d o o r c o n f e re n c e t i t l e , a n d I ' m h o n o re d t o b e n a m e d t r a c k M V P, ” Ho r t e l a n o s a i d “ St i l l , I ' m n o t o n e t o

b e l i e ve i n s e t t l i n g f o r a n y t h i n g l e s s t h a n t h e h i g h e s t a m b i t i o n , a n d I c a n ’ t s a y I w i l l b e f u l l y s a t i s f i e d u n t i l we e a r n o u r o u t d o o r c o n f e re n c e t i t l e , t o o T h a t w i l l m a k e s e n i o r ye a r t h e b e s t i t c o u l d p o s s i b

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By CHRIS

After a bumpy offseason filled with personnel changes, the Cornell men ’ s lacrosse has found its groove early in 2014

The No 15 Red (4-0, 0-0 Ivy) routed Canisius (2-2, 0-0 MAAC), 19-6, Tuesday at home for a lead-in to this Saturday’s high-stakes clash against out-of-conference rival, No 2 Virginia (6-0, 0-0 ACC) on Schoellkopf at noon

“I thought the guys were ready to play today,” said interim head coach Matt Kerwick following the victory over Canisius “We started a little bit slow, but overall we were very pleased with the effort, the intensity We’ve been doing some good things offensively, but haven’t been finishing with the ball as well as we’d like and I think today we turned the corner ” An opening-minute goal from junior midfielder John Hogan following a deflection off the post put Cornell up 1-0, but Canisius stormed back to take a 2-1 lead of its own with 8:01 remaining in the first period

Bayless vs. Lebron

Why Skip should stick to T V

Skip Bayless is an entertaining guy I enjoy watching him mix it up with Stephen A Smith on First Take He is perfect for television He has a knack for getting under his counterpart ’ s skin, a keen understanding of

playing “devil’s advocate” and is a character whose presence alone ensures that viewers will be entertained I respect his accomplishments and recognize that he is a veteran in the sports journalism world But over the past few years, my respect for Bayless as a sports connoisseur has dwindled Yesterday, that respect reached an all-time low when ESPN published his column titled “Angr y Lebron ” Ba y l e s s ’ u n b e l i e va b l y l ow opinion of LeBron James has been among the most publicized a n d s c r u t i n i ze d v i e w s o f a n y

would

h e Miami Heat and subsequently lost in the Finals to the Dallas Mavericks, Bayless jumped all over it After the series, he pointed solely to James as the reason for the Heat’s loss Bayless failed

to give any significant credit to that guy named Dirk Nowitzki you know, the 7-footer who put on an epic performance in that series He failed to entertain

h e He a t To Bayless, the only possible explanation for the Finals was that LeBron had lost it on his own There is more Bayless did not include James in his list of the Top-five NBA players at a time when LeBron was widely accepted to be the best in the league and if not, then a close second Skip then said that James did not deser ve to win MVP and should