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Cornell Research Funding

Unclear Due to Shutdown

O f cials say Univ. can keep spending

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor

As the government shutdown approaches its second week, with few signs of Congress reaching a compromise, University officials said there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding its approximately $500 million of federal research funding

During the 2012 fiscal year, Cornell’s Ithaca campus spent $304 million of federally provided funds for “sponsored” research, while Weill Cornell Medical College spent $163 million, according to Robert A Buhrman, senior vice provost for research

While the government is shut down, Buhrman said the University is allowed to continue spending, but cannot ask the government to refund it

“We can still run up the charges and we do have full expectation they will pay those bills when the government reopens, but right now we are running up a tab,”

Students Criticize Univ.’ s Response to‘Insensitive’ Campaign

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Staff Writer

Members of the Latino community at Cornell are criticizing what they say was the administration’s insufficient response to Cornell Athletics’ “culturally insensitive,” Cinco de Mayo-themed marketing campaign

The marketing campaign, which was launched last week to promote Cornell’s football game against Colgate University, encouraged community members to participate in a “photobooth” activity that involved the person with the “best costume ” winning a prize

At a Student Assembly meeting Thursday, members of MEChA a student organization that “ serves as the official voice of Chicano students at Cornell University” urged the administration to take a more active role in

responding to the incident Carmen Martinez ’14, cochair of MEChA, said there needs to be increased dialogue regarding diversity and cultural sensitivity on cam-

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“Many students were confused and outraged as to how this theme was allowed to be promoted around campus and Ithaca,” she said “In a University that prides itself on its diversity, we find it alarming that these incidents continue to occur ”

Martinez said she proposes the implementation of an academic diversity requirement in order to increase cultural awareness among Cornell students

“In moving forward from the issue, we propose the University consider advocating for a stronger, more

Censured for Failing To Comply With State Law

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Wr ter

announced Thursday that it has censured 13 public authorities,

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Sp eaking ab out furloughed federal workers and the government shutdown

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ortunity for fraternities to showcase one of the things they cherish most : their houses I’m optimistic that seeing these houses rich in tradition will comp el more freshmen and transfers to come out for rush week in the spring ”

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Sp eaking ab out Cornell and Ithaca’s recent spar over the Universit y ’ s MOU contributions

“The two parties though they continue to dis agree on substantive and impactful bugetar y issues, have not shattered the so cial contract that has goverened their relationship for decades There have b een harsh words exchanged (it ’ s p olitics, after all) but there has b een no hint by Cornell or by Ithaca that this dis agreement is a dealbreaker The lack of brinsmanship in this admittedly lower stakes budget battle brought me back to the resounding idiotic stalemate that has paralyzed the federal government ” Jacob Glick ’15 Run and Brunch

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Sp eaking ab out Congress’ inabilit y to come to an agreement on the budget

“What we are witnessing to day is what would b e exp ected under our system of government when a party shoves through an unp opular piece of legislation along party lines Obamacare, passed while Demo crats had a temp orar y monop oly on p ower created a backlash that has p oisoned the p olitical culture in Washington to such an extent that many on b oth sides have taken a no-compromise approach to the budget ”

Julius Kairey ’15

COE Gets New Director

By LINDSAY CAYNE Sun Contributor

Former charter school principal and outdoor guide Marc Magnus-Sharpe began working as the new director of Cornell Outdoor Education Thursday Magnus-Sharpe said he is looking for ward to “ combining ever ything in my life that I love to do” in his new position as the director of COE “ This job is the perfect merger of all my past experiences inside the classroom and outdoors,” he said He went on to say he is most excited about being “in a community of amazing people ” As director of COE, Magnus-Sharpe will be responsible for fundraising for the outdoor education department, an effort that will keep the cost of activities reasonable for students and help expand COE programs

“Marc’s fund-raising prowess can support us in extending our offerings to many underser ved groups and participants,” said Jim Volckhausen ’88, assistant director of the Cornell Team and Leadership Center in Cornell Athletics COE organizes and leads trips to places like the Hoffman Ropes Course, canoeing, rock-climbing on Cornell’s rock wall, cycling and snowshoeing Some trips go as far away as South America or Antarctica The program has 22 instructors, many of whom are students

Chris Leeming, land programs coordinator for COE, who worked under Magnus-Sharpe when he was a director of Outward Bound, praised MagnusSharpe’s commitment to “the development of people through outdoor experiences ”

Since their time at Outward Bound, a non-profit educational organization, both Leeming and Magnus-Sharpe have ended up at COE

“[Our whole department believes] that people benefit from doing new and different experiences Our role is to provide instruction and a safe environment for the Cornell community to engage in these activities,” Leeming said “ We also believe ver y deeply in the wellness component that is provided by COE classes, not only are people learning a new skill, but they are doing this with a group of people in a beautiful location ”

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By ANDREW LEE Sun Contributor

In the upcoming year, MagnusSharpe said he hopes to “take the time to meet individually with ever yone in COE, to listen closely and understand the priorities "

“I want to make sure COE is right there at the top when people start to mention programs that make Cornell one of a kind,” Magnus-Sharpe said

Although many students at Cornell likely spend more time in the librar y than outdoors, Magnus-Sharpe said he thinks COE can help students with their academics

“I love how COE helps take so much stress off students when they can go hike or climb for a while Even thirty minutes of activity can get the oxygen saturation right back to 100 percent You actually grow more neurons and learn faster,” he said

Magnus-Sharpe brings experience in both school administration and outdoor education to his new position He worked as the director of the Discover Outdoors Foundation which takes urban students from New York City outdoors for a day for the past two years

Magnus-Sharpe has also been a guide with Discover Outdoors, where he led many day and multi-day trips for groups with a wide range of ages into the Adirondacks and Catskill Mountains He has also worked as a New York Emergency Medical Technician instructor and a New York State Certified Wilderness Guide

Magnus-Sharpe also has a background in education He ser ved as a principal at a public char ter school in Brooklyn, Ne w York and as the dean of students at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, Ne w York

Imagine eating a meal that was entirely printed That’s what New York Times columnist A J Jacobs did early this summer with the help of a Cornell scientist

Jacobs discussed the process in his Sept 21 c o l u m n , “ Di n n e r Is Pr i n t e d ” A l t h o u g h Jacobs initially tried to print his own 3-D items by himself, he said he found the process “surprisingly hard” and “mind-numbingly slow ” He then brought in the person he described as “ one of the nation’s top 3-D p r i n t i n g e x p e r t s , ” Pr o f Ho d Lipson, mechanical & aerospace engineering, computing & information science

“ W h a t a d i f f e r e n c e a P h D makes,” Jacobs said Jacobs had a 3-D printed full course dinner in mind According to Jenna Witzleben ’15, a lab assist a n t w h o w o r k e d c l o s e l y w i t h Lipson on the project, the entire project was designed in-house at Cornell labs

Witzleben said that additional steps were needed before the 3-D printed tableware was safe to eat off

“ We had to coat the glasses with silicone so that [ Jacobs] could drink out of them,” she said

Additionally, 3-D printers also remain pricey for most consumers, a fact Jacobs noted in his column

“A few of the smaller printers can go anywhere from a few hundred to a couple thousand dollars, depending on where you get it from,” Witzleben said

Besides the printers themselves, the mate-

Jacobs described the resulting dinner as “perhaps the most labor-intensive meal in history,” and said that while the 3-D pizza “tasted like a sightly chewier version of non-3-D printed pizza,” the eggplant was “too gummy to enjoy.”

“Many of the actual objects were printed at Shapeways in NYC,” Witzleben said in an email

With 3-D printing, users can create solid, three-dimensional objects from digital models The printer builds the object layer by layer until the object is complete Cornell is a powerhouse in the 3-D printing field: early in Februar y, Cornell scientists created an artificial ear that looks and behaves exactly like a natural ear

Lipson, who is also the director of Cornell University’s Creative Machines Lab, has vast experience in 3-D printing The editor-inchief of the “3-D Printing and Additive Ma n u f a c t u r i n g ( 3 D P ) ” s c i e n t i f i c j o u r n a l , Lipson has been invited to speak about 3-D printing at various conferences in the past

Jacobs described the resulting dinner as “perhaps the most labor-intensive meal in histor y, ” and said that while the 3-D pizza “ tasted like a slightly chewier version of non-3-Dprinted pizza,” the eggplant was “ too gummy to enjoy ” As far as its use in food preparation, 3-D printing still has a few obstacles to overcome b e f o re i t c o u l d s e e w i d e s p re a d a d o p t i o n among consumers, according to Witzleben Safety concerns rank chief among them “ T h e f o o d i s s a f e , ” W i t z l e b e n s a i d “However, the 3-D-printed materials used to make the silver ware and dinner ware, with the exception of certain ceramics, have to be made food-safe using some type of foodgrade coating ”

rial used to create the object itself can be expensive, Witzleben said For example, a stainless steel fork would cost more than a plastic one

Jeffrey Lipton grad, the project’s head of c o n t a c t o n

required to print an object was another factor that made the entire process too costly for most consumers

“It takes too long,” he said “I can see 3-D printers being used a wide range of industrial and commercial settings ” Witzleben echoed Lipton’s sentiment, adding that people were more likely to use printers to create je welr y for a par ty or replacement parts to fix their bike

Still, Lipton and Witzleben remain optimistic about future 3-D food production Lipton added that multi-material 3-D printing was an example of an exciting prospect in the technology’s development

“It will enable the production of parts with different properties from what can be made today,” he said “I see automation of food production as being the next great challenge of robotics ”

Andrew Lee can be reached at al726@cornell edu

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Caroline Flax can be reached at cflax@cornellsun com or twitter com/csflax

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the directors said

Org. Censured by State

T h e b u d g e t o f f i c e w a r n e d

TC A D o n m u l t i p l e o c c a s i o n s with letters dating back to Oct 2008, according to the letter it sent to TCAD In March, the budget office gave an ultimatum stating TCAD had until April 30 to comply with state law

Stamm, however, argued that his organization is not a public authority and does not need to c o m p l y w i t h t h e r e p o r t i n g re q u i re m e n t

office outlines

“ They can tell us we should comply with the law, but they re a l l y a re i n c o r re c t w i t h t h a t judgement,” Stamm said, adding that TCAD has been expecting the censure letter and that they expect no impact from the censure

Stamm said that based on TCAD’s reading of the law and the organization’s legal counsel, TC A D i s n o t a g o v e r n m e n t

organization and does not fall under the budget office’s jurisdiction Currently, the organizat i o n h o l d s a c o n t r a c t w i t h Tompkins County

“ We’re a private not-for-profit organization Our mission is to create quality jobs for local residents,” Stamm said

C e n s u re l e t t e r s w e re sent to public authorities w h o f a i l e d t o c o m p l y with the law due to the “collective failure” of the d i r e c t o r s t o a c t i n r e s p o n s e t o p r e v i o u s warnings, according to a press r e l e a s e g i v e n b y t h e b u d g e t office

“ The board members of these 13 authorities were given ever y o p p o r t u n i t y t o c o m p l y w i t h state law,” David Kidera, director of the budget office, said in the press release “ We were compelled to take this enforcement action when directors neglected their legal responsibilities over s e v e r a l y e a r s a n d f a i l e d t o

respond adequately to previous warnings issued by our office ” TC A D ’ s l e g a l c o u n s e l w i l l send a letter to the Authorities Budget Office disagreeing with the censure, and TCAD will tr y

“They can tell us we should comply with the law, but they are really incorrect with that judgement ” M i c h a e l S t a m m

to put this issue behind them, Stamm said

“ We’re just one of dozens of organizations in Ne w York State that have received a letter like this,” Stamm said “ We’re going to spend our time more usefully focusing on our core mission and not allow ourselves to be distracted by this issue ”

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun com

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we h a ve a b o u t e a c h o t h e r ”

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Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun com

N EW YO R K ( A P )

In ve s t m e n t b a n k i n g g i a n t JPMorgan Chase said Thursday it has sold all of its exposure to short-term U S government debt out of its money market funds, following a similar move by other money market mutual fund managers

The announcement comes a d a y a f t e r Fi d e l i t y I nvestments, the nation’s largest

m a n a g e r o f m o n e y m a r k e t mutual funds, said it no longer h o l d s a n y U S g ove r n m e n t debt that comes due around the time the nation could hit its borrowing limit

In a s t a t e m e n t T h u r s d a y, JPMorgan said its money market funds no longer held any U S Treasur ys that mature or have p a y m e n t s s c h e d u l

n Oct 16 and Nov 6 The New

Yo r k b a n k s a i d i t h a s a l s o increased its liquidity position in t h e f u n d s J P Mo r g a n h o l d s about $257 billion in its money market funds, according to its website

Working On’ Simpson Ruling

LAS VEGAS (AP) The Nevada judge who will decide whether O J Simpson gets a new trial in a botched confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers indicated Thursday that she’s still working on her ruling

In her first public comment since hearings nearly five months ago, Clark County District Judge Linda Marie Bell issued a statement through a court spokeswoman saying the case is complicated, the file is thick, and she is addressing 22 claims raised by prosecutors and Simpson’s lawyers

“To adequately address each claim, a thorough review of the record is necessary, including the record of the 13-day trial and the weeklong evidentiary hearing,” the statement said

It didn’t cite a date for a ruling

Prosecutor H Leon Simon and Simpson attorneys Patricia Palm, Ozzie Fumo and Tom Pitaro, who handled the May 13-17 hearings before Bell, said the judge had a reputation for thoroughness and they were willing to be patient

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THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR IS REALLY SICK AND TIRED OF READING THE COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE THAT CONSTANTLY FILLS HER INBOX AND FRANKLY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT YOUR PATHETIC OPINIONS LET ’ S BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: NO, I AM NOT THE EDITOR IN CHIEF ’ S SECRETARY; NO, YOUR STUDENT ORGANIZATION CANNOT HAVE A BI-WEEKLY COLUMN; NO, WE CAN ’ T PUBLISH YOUR OPINION ANONYMOUSLY (REALLY?); AND YES, YES WE DO HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN RESPOND TO YOUR TWELFTH EMAIL AT 3 A.M. ON A SATURDAY. GET A LIFE.

HEY, IT’S

FRIDAY. AND WE — THE SUN’S EDITORS AND COLUMNISTS — ARE BACK AND MAD AS HELL. FALL BREAK MAY BE HERE BUT WE’RE DEFINITELY STILL READY TO ... ENGLISH, PLEASE O v e r h e a r i n g m a t e r i a l capitalists sneer at internal philosophical cultivation D Z

SHOWER SLEUTH

SOMEONE DIDN’T GET THEIR BEAUT Y SLEEP I hate how getting sleep is the lamest thing ever to do here Can ever yone be a little less o f a n ov e r a c h i e v e r ? I o v e r h e a r d t h i s s t a t ement on the Ar ts Quad today: “I like taking 8 a m s because when I’m sleeping, like, I’m not a c c o m p l i s h i n g a n ything ” S B

UNDER-DRESSED, UNDER-PREPARED

The one time I decided to go to a career fair, I don’t own a suit Had to b o r r o w o n e f r o m m y Ho t e l i e r o o m m a t e It s t h e c a re e r f a i r ’ s w o r l d and we ’ re all just living in it C F

SAME GRIPE, DIFFERENT DAY

The rent really is too damn high S K

I can ' t express what a joy it is to wake up to a small lake in the place of the shower in my apar tment To a friend who didn’t know this before t o d a y : L e a v i n g m a n y long hairs in the drain will clog it After you c l o g i t , y o u s h o u l d n ' t c o n t i n u e t o r u n t h e shower until it floods the b a t h r o o m T h a n k s f o r p u t t i n g a n i n d e f i n i t e hold on my showering I didn’t like being clean that much anyway K C

EXCUSES, EXCUSES

My roommate forgot to pay electricity so I

s l e p t i n e n g i n e e r i n g i n s t e a d o f m y a p a r tment A L

I HAVE A GUESS

Can’t decide which is s t u p i d e r, t h e g o v e r nment shutdown or my p r e l i m s c h e d u l e t h i s semester E C

SCHOOL SHUTDOWN

My Queer Rage

As I develop my queer identity, it is as if I am stoking the coals and fanning the flames of my queer rage so that it builds with ever more intensity each day

While I have queered myself to the point of no return, the world of rigidity and rationalism around me maintains its concrete structures I ache as I am relegated into a bathroom labeled by a gender with which I don’t identify; as I pull on a pair of pants to wear to my office job The rage within intensifies each time I confront the reality that I live in a world of strict, rigid, institutionalized norms

Because, as a queer-identified individual, I perceive the world of rigid norms to be a hostile environment It was cisnormativity (the assumption that every individual identifies with the gender to which they were assigned at birth) and heteronormativity (the assumption that everyone is attracted to members of the opposite sex) that made me deny myself of my own experiences with gender and sexuality for 20 years of my life 20 years that I will never get back

Hetero- and cisnormativity like all assumptions and norms filter images, sounds, knowledge, etc , so that we are left with an understanding of our surroundings and our own subjectivities that entails only a limited set of possibilities of being And the only being I perceived to be possible for myself under these conditions was a straight, feminine, girl

In a heteronormative world, it was impossible for me to understand the attractions I felt toward members of my own sex, because everything around me reflected the experiences of straight people only In a cisnormative world, I could not comprehend the humiliation I felt, at eight years old, when I received a “girl” bike for Christmas, because everything around me reflected the experiences of people for whom the color of their bike somehow aligned with their genitalia

I had no model of being before me that embraced gender and sexual variance no celebrities, no family members, no one In a world of strict norms, any variance cannot be accounted for, and so those experiences of variance are rendered invisible With no model, it was impossible for me to comprehend my own deviance from the set gender and sexual script, and so I ignored it I erased those variances so that I could walk the path I knew, the cis and hetero one laid out by every dominant movie, book, word, in my purview

But then, I began my freshman year at Cornell, and in an effort to make friends, I found the queer community Within those queer spaces, for the first time, I was surrounded by individuals that reflected my own variances Variances that hetero- and cisnormativity removed from my consciousness finally became visible to me Attraction to all genders became possible Not wanting to have sex became possible Gender neutrality became possible Anything at all became possible to me in these spaces without gender and sexual norms, or the structures, labels, and expectations they produce (’twas my initial reaction I am not blind to the discrimination within Cornell’s queer community)

I felt liberated I felt like I came into the person I had always been but whom I had beaten out of my mind No, not the person I had beaten out of my mind, but rather the shapeless person that I had battered down to fit into one of my culture’s designated possibilities of being I became queer beyond categories, beyond labels, beyond expectations, beyond normative restrictions

And yet, how quickly that joy of liberation transforms into rage when you consider the shackles that prevented you from achieving that liberation for 20 years of your life When you remember that in spite of your internal liberation, those norms are still concretely shaping the reality around you; that it will not be easy to create a different path and to burst out of your gendered box you will have to persistently resist the forces around you

And so I rage I rage because everyday I walk the streets of a culture that has and will continue to deny me I rage because we all deserve better we all deserve limitless possibilities of being I will be loud and aggressive about my queer identity because I refuse to let my experiences be invisible anymore invisible to myself, and to the people who are without a model for gender and sexual deviance I will be seen so it is known that my being is possible

In my rage, I demand an end to the rigidity of the world around me I demand the queering of the world Within queer spaces, you can be the shapeless being that existed before rigid labels and expectations hacked away at your being By queering spaces we begin to recognize what is not possible under normative logics and make spaces for those beings whether they vary by gender, sex, sexuality, race, class, ability, age, etc Queering spaces will make my identity all identities possible, legitimate and valued And I will demand that because there is space in this world for everyone

The revolution will be feminist It will be old It will be hairy, black, differently-abled, genderfucked, left-handed The revolution will be queer

Comment of the day Web

“Very articulate piece really strikes me as wrong headed though You write that this piece of legislation is contentious I’m interested to know how you perceive the Republican contention When I see Republicans criticizing the legislation, the points they make seem so thoroughly ideological and general, so lacking in detail about the consequences of the bill’s implementation, that I’m led to assume that they don’t care at all whether it’s a good bill or not ... they just seem to care that it’s ‘his’ bill.”

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Re: “ THROWDOWN THURSDAY: Obamacare, Shutdown and the American Constitution,” Opinion, published October 10, 2013

How to Ma ke P hi lo s o phy R e l e v a nt

What do Hegel, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Shoshana Felman and Angela Davis all have in common? The eminent public intellectual, Judith Butler, referenced all of these critical philosophers and activists during a lecture she delivered Wednesday in Uris Auditorium Butler’s lecture, “Plural Action,” focused on the public’s freedom to assemble, and how the State has enclosed on this freedom through privatization, mass incarceration and police action She drew on critical theorists abound and tied her ideas together with ease and technical expertise

However, Judith Butler fell quite short of what she could have accomplished standing in front of an auditorium filled 800 ears deep While, the content of her lecture rocked my socks off, Butler typifies the problem with contemporar y critical intellectuals

For those of you who don’t know, critical theory is a school of thought originating from the writing of Kant, Hegel, Marx and Freud that has developed into an interdisciplinar y umbrella term for all work that critiques society and culture Some thinkers approach their critical assessments from a strictly positivist perspective, emphasizing strict interpretation and explanation, while others take a more normative viewpoint, making qualitative judgments with the hopes of changing society through the philosophy itself

and even fewer calls for direct action

This is a problem This is a big problem Butler, like many other academics across the world, assumed a liberal stance on objective public discourse which, as a prerequisite, calls for the complete elimination of emotional subjectivity or concrete calls for a specific future In the name of objectivity, intellectuals theorize their ideas out in the open public sphere for the people to judge for themselves By their rationale, the truth will eventually reveal itself, because (according to their logic), all individuals are rational actors who can discern what is right for both themselves and society

But, in fact, the normative judgements she sought to avoid were built into Butler’s critique It took only a discernable listener to begin to hypothesize what

ing a round of applause for a message that should enrage, not amaze When less than 1 percent of society can even decipher her esoteric message, what does that say about its potential for change? When Butler’s message requires a 4-credit course worth of background reading just to understand the jargon in her argument, what does that say about how she, and academics in general, position themselves within society? While I have been privileged enough to be exposed to the theoretical background from which she drew, many of the students I talked to felt her message flew right over their heads

Butler’s called for liberation of the masses and a revolution of thought, but in speaking to only the elite that could understand her message, she reflected the self-aggrandizing problem of high theorists

She has the followers to begin movement and has every duty speak with the immediacy implicit in her critique

strong impassioned emotions that reflect the immediacy of the problems at hand

We were celebrating a person, not a message, for if the message was our focus, we would not clap for her at all How could anyone clap for the demonstration of our complete manipulation and collective oppression? Direct action is what’s called for, not some temporar y veneration suspended in the middle of a life unchanged

In my view, Judith Butler spoke from this positivist dimension of philosophy, and in doing so, delivered her ideas through sterile, disassociated and unemotional rhetoric

Basically, she attempted to come off as a completely objective academic, making few overt value statements

kind of direct action ending such oppression would require However, Butler left that up to us the listeners to decide, and I don’t think that’s right She theorized in the name of mass liberation, restructuring society to free us from the hegemony of modern political economy and dominant ideology, and in effect spoke for (using contemporary terminology) the 99 percent, yet she failed to deliver a message discernable to the 99 percent she hoped to enlighten and thereby galvanize

We can all support a message that seeks mass liberation from both overt and concealed oppression, right? But, what does “ support ” even look like in this case? I sure as hell don’t think support looks like a room full of college kids giv-

across the world With tenured posts at elite institutions, these intellectuals have little investment in the actualization of their critiques and thus, their desire to incite action is negligible

A message delivered with the same detached tone as a radio host describing changes in the stock market, “offends against humanity by being calm where one should be enraged, by refraining from accusation when accusation is in the facts themselves,” as Marcuse points out Quite ironically, Butler described how the public sphere has lost the oppositional function of its freedom to assemble, yet Butler lost her oppositional element when choosing to speak unemotionally when the facts themselves call for emotion

Some might say Butler was being strategic Disassociating a critique from a particular political viewpoint neutralizes the claim in a politically polarized world, thereby allowing for the information to speak for itself, untainted by a subjective messenger However, a non-choice is still a choice Choosing not to vote is still a vote a vote for nobody Likewise, to choose positivist and u n e m o t i o n a l o b j e c t i v i t y diminishes the message in a world of complete and total subjectivity It creates a false e q u i v a l e n c e that blinds the public from rational truth and blatant fiction

Perhaps, some would position her as the philosopher who inspires the activists However, I dismiss this claim She has the followers to begin a movement and has every duty to speak with the immediacy implicit in her critique For those who are affected every day in body and soul by the implications of society’s ordering, her message carries extreme gravity, and to not harness this is to miss an opportunity to change the course of history

Rudy Gerson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached a rgerson@cornellsun com Rooting Around column runs alternate Fridays this semester

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Gravity Will Leave You Breathless

MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Gravity, the new space opus by Oscar-nominee Alfonso Cuarón, is breathtaking That is to say, it sucks the breath straight out of your lungs and leaves you hovering suspended in space, inside an astronaut suit For the entirety of its 90minute runtime, your limbs will feel limp from the rigors of zero gravity This is not a film we watch, but a tour de force experience we undergo in vast depths of the void and one from which we emerge riveted to the core

The film is composed of balletic, lengthy shots as the camera glides through the endless emptiness above the earth, pausing to study the faces of two astronauts, who seem indescriabbly puny in comparison to the scale of their setting, one which threatens to pull them down to their deaths Thus, the film becomes a sur vival tale about an astronaut fighting the gravity of the Earth, and on a metaphorical level, the gravity of her inner turmoil The two astronauts that just about round out the entire cast are Matthew Kowalski (George Clooney) and Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), the latter of whom we spend most of the movie with

After a Russian satellite breaks apart in space, creating a chain reaction of orbiting debris that destroys their shuttle, Kowalski and Stone are left the sole sur vivors of their mission to repair the Hubble telescope Running low on oxygen and jetpack fuel, they are forced

t

to make us latch onto astronaut Stone and her impossible struggle, and she succeeds brilliantly

We

entirely engrossed in her desper-

because of the fear, the panic,

mance She’s a long way from The Heat or The Proposal here, and reminds us why she won that Oscar for The Blind Side Cuarón first became known to mainstream audiences when he brought his dark, brooding yet ardently human touch to Harr y Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban This he followed up with the magnificent Children of Men, one of the highest cinematic achievements of the last decade In the seven year interim, Cuarón has been sorely missed and is back now in a triumphant and much-needed return We should be only too glad to see this visionar y auteur at work again

Gravity Directed by Alfonso Cuaron Starring George Clooney,

Station floating over the face of the Earth where Stone is soon by herself Once inside the ISS, she must pilot an escape pod to the Chinese space station, before her last hope of returning to Earth is destroyed by shrapnel as well Clooney does a lot with a short amount of screen time, but it s Bullock who has the larger obstacle Doing little else but hyper ventilating and speaking to herself, Bullock is required

Hollywood spectacles, Gravity uses its special effects so subtly that the sheer power of the film s ability to place you in its setting isn’t thoroughly apparent until the ver y end The final five minutes of the film are the most rousing, haunting, spellbinding five minutes to be had in the dark of the movie theater this year

BY ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Associate Managing Editor

What a pretty mess

Whatever your feelings on Bill Morrison’s Decasia and Just Ancient Loops, two experimental films Cornell Cinema screened at Sage Chapel Tuesday evening, you should agree that this pithy assessment of mine approaches some objective, albeit cursory, truth For Morrison’s work discovers a beauty in what most would consider ugly, nonnegotiable trash: destroyed and/or decomposing celluloid film stock from the ancient, lesserknown annals of silent cinema By assembling these clips together and asking us to find meaning in their perceived deficiencies, Morrison works in a most peculiar mode of the “found footage” form These decrepit moving images take on new life, paradoxically, through the invasion of decaying, dying elements It is an awesome, sometimes startling and often maddening experience

I say “maddening” knowing that that was partly Morrison’s intent Why else would he commission Michael Gordon to compose a score for Decasia where the orchestra plays out-of-tune, in repetitious and shrill drones? As an admirer of Philip Glass and current experimental electronic acts like Oneohtrix Point Never, I am totally on board with cyclical, stubbornly non-harmonic music styles

Yet Gordon’s soundtrack does not traverse as wide a range as it should in a film with such cryptic, alien images, instead climbing up to the higher registers early on and just staying there, wailing almost the entire time Pairing these sounds with the film makes for a some-

Part of the reason for the hiatus is the extremely long and groundbreaking process involed in the making of Gravity Work on the film began in 2009, with a script written by Cuarón and his son Jonas, who were unaware that the film’s visuals would take over four years to create The camerawork stands as one of the greatest technical

plished, right up there with Lord of the Rings and Avatar I can ’ t think of a film in recent years that features such hypnotic camera operating, some of it lasting over ten minutes at a clip to the point where the editing becomes nearly invisible This is due to the absolutely masterful cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Life), who built revolutionar y technology to achieve the look of the film and hit a career high with the results Unlike most

what suffocating e x p e r i e n c e , piquing anxiety at times when the images provoke

f r e e - f l o a t i n g curiosity Perhaps I am overly irritable, or maybe the Sage Chapel’s speakers were too loud, but it narrowed my perspective on Morrison’s work

At the time, at least Reflecting on what Morrison actually did, on the ineffable tinge of Decasia’ s exploration of life and death how art, at least film art, suffers corporeal violence in the same way humans do, yet how it can potentially better from it I find it impossible not to be moved Some of these shots just stay with you An expressionless boxer punches at a stream of eaten-up n i t r o c e l l u l o s e , unknowingly battling a force more powerful and eternal than the human opponent it replaced White wisps of liquefied chemicals tear at the face of man and, later, a hook-nosed woman, resembling an effect similar to the Dementor’s kiss in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, or Stephen Gammell’s infamous illustrations in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Intensified film grain mingles with the ants crawling about a tight macro shot, confusing the iden-

Watching the film at first, I wasn ’ t quite convinced it was the masterpiece of 2013 critics had been saying it would be Then, as the final moments of the film dawned, I realized it had only appeared sluggish and tired at certain points due to its nearly unmatched prowess This is a film that immerses the audience in its environment with an impeccable use of 3-D, and then forces us to undergo a painful experience as we struggle for our lives along with a lone astronaut, in that harsh, unforgiving vastness James Cameron, whose Avatar is a landmark of how 3-D should be used to create immersive cinematic worlds, called Gravity “the best space film ever done ” As someone who has viewed 2001 multiple times and even watched an IMAX feature on astronauts that was filmed in space, I would have to agree with him No movie-going experience has taken us on such a quietly over whelming survival stor y, by inserting us in the far reaches of a menacing and treacherous atmosphere, until now Cuarón and his collaborators have crafted a space odyssey of transcendent power

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornell edu

tity of each Extreme reversals in contrast render Mar y Pickford, America’s golden girl, into a maniacal, glowing beast, and a sunny cloister into a nightmarish vision that could have been pulled from Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon

I mention other films and movie stars, old and new, because I believe Morrison operates in that referential, meta-cinematic mode Bookended by a shot of a whirling dervish, Decasia obsesses over movement some of it chaotic, but most of it rotational, like a projecting film reel Mechanical movement meets an arc light to create life, or recreate it, or, better yet, to revive it, as the subjects in these 100year-old clips take back that energy robbed by the grave Rather than obliterate meaning and function like a magnet to a computer hard drive, the deterioration of film stock amplifies backgrounds, hides protagonists, quite literally pulls apart human emotions and provokes them anew through the most abstract forms, like framefilling black and white blotches that become, on their own, lyrical films in the vein of Stan Brakhage Morrison probably wants you to

support film preservation after seeing how time and poor conditions ravage celluloid, but the unfamiliarity of most of the source material (culled from University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collections, by the way) just fascinated me more, encouraging my mind to go wild with associations Whether he intended to or not, Morrison created quite a decadent Rorschach test for cinephiles

I neglect to comment on Just Ancient Loops, Morrison’s most recent effort, which premiered just last year (compared to the original 2002 release of Decasia, his most famous work) Running 26 minutes compared to Decasia’ s 70, Just Ancient Loops concerns itself with a more explicit spirituality and the way we visualize such unknowable, unseeable divinity Ancient cinematic reenactments of Jesus’ resurrection (they look hand-painted, so we ’ re talking like 110 years back) coexist with clips of jungles, roller coasters and a playful moon The most jarring sequence comes as the film’s most serene: a CGI scale modeling of Jupiter and its four Galilean moons, with the perspective swooping back to dwarf each orbiting rock against the gaseous giant behind it This goes on for a couple of minutes, and I may have checked my watch at least once during that duration, but I look back and think to myself: Man, even if this all doesn’t make sense, isn’t fleeting boredom via a visionary artist’s exploration of the cosmos a beautiful problem to have?

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

Leaving the Curtain Hanging

Much of the literature of the 20th-centur y said Americans, though living in a ‘land of possibility’, are fated to confine themselves F Scott Fitzgerald’s maxim, “there are no second acts in American lives,” anticipated the dilemma of countless 20th-centur y protagonists with fantasies of reinvention or escape In Mike Nichols’ The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock wants to become something “different” and ne w but he can ’ t quite figure out what it is he wants to become In John Updike’s R abbit Run, Rober t Angstrom tries to leave his constraints family, profession but ultimately returns to his hometown and ‘high school-basketball-star reputation In Ar thur Miller s Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is plagued by hallucinations of the past, each of which highlights his failed potential His only reprieves are long drives through suburban Connecticut The road, for him and many other American characters, provides comfor t; it suggests escape and oppor tunity while having an easy route back to security Willy’s briefcase restrains him like an anchor and directs him back home Similarly, many other American heroes are unable to realize fantasies of ne w possibility and find divers tropes coiling them back to their old identities

In the current centur y, we seem even more determined to silence any possibility of reinvention Formerly, you could decide how big a par t your past played into your present Geographic location determined how often you’d r un into figures from past-lives (

Now, the specters of our former lives,

daily in photos,

more, unless you do a lengthy Facebook-friend clearing (I often hear people promise this but seldom see them actually do it), you never leave a larger network of people; you just inherit more people for you to watch over and to be watched by Thus, social-media is like a living and expanding yearbook It encourages you to scr utinize irrelevant and distant people via one-dimensional, exchangeable por trayals while being expected to subject yourself to the same treatment In light of the scr utiny of an expanding audience, we can only narrow our presentable image The larger the group, the more complexity one concedes to be a par t of it, leading us to curate a more refined and confined personas Given our inherent weirdness, this can

o n l y c r e a t e a m o r e n e u r o t i c f i s s u r e between self and presentable self

Now you may think that there is an obvious escape That there is the possibility of not

u s i n g Fa c e b o o k O f

c o u r s e , m a n y o f u s consider this until we

l o o k a t t h e c o s t s o f

a b a n d o n m e n t : t h e worr y that present-day media has made people so shor t-term minded that some friends will forget about you; the worr y that users ’ will think that you have corpses to conceal by not having an account; the worr y that par ticipation in Facebook creates an illusion of camaraderie that necessarily demands scorn to those outside of it (to maintain camaraderie), so that those that do not belong to it receive scorn; the worr y that people won ’ t be able to reach you; the worr y that you will miss out on scandals; the worr y that Facebook is such a reliable mirror to judge yourself against that your conscience will be missing a cer tain voice a cer tain ‘choir’ In shor t, the same reasons that keep people from leaving their social situations preclude them from leaving Facebook Thus, the cur tain doesn’t drop people continue to vie w you as you vie w them The costs of escape (the ostensible resolution to this problem) are too high and people do not choose to enter into the second act We find another reason to confine ourselves, this time due to fear of negative public opinion

So, today, the ‘ one-actness ’ and ‘one-dimensionality’ of Fitzgerald, Nichols, Updike and Miller’s world has been exacerbated Unlike 20thcentur y confinement, there are no roads of reprieve; our smar t phones remain in our pockets I’m led to think of the final scene in The Graduate, where Ben and Elaine have just escaped Elaine’s wedding and thrown away the respectability they held in their former social scene They sit in the backseat of a crowded bus They laugh at their ne wfound liberation until, upon seeing the confused gaze of their fellow passengers, they are quickened to seriousness and reconsideration One set of judging eyes has led to another, compounding the self-consciousness of escape

Henr y Staley is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at hstaley@cornellsun com Politicizing Art appears alternate Fridays

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Defense Focuses on Running Game

and a lot less complicated to defend,” Minor said “ We’re also focusing on taking the ball away and making the ball carrier uncomfor table when he is carr ying the ball ”

The Red is looking to break through the seemingly impenetrable wall Har vard has built in their series rivalr y The Crimson has won 11 of the team ’ s last 12 meetings, and the last time Cornell defeated Har vard was in 2005, when the Crimson was undefeated and nationally ranked

Last year, Har vard won the matchup handily on its own tur f, 45-13 Chapple threw for three touchdowns in the first 16 minutes of the game, and the Red was unable to climb back into contention

I n w h a t h a s b e c o m e a theme for the Red the past few weeks, senior quar terback Jeff Mathews will be challenging yet another conference record He needs 172 more passing yards to become the Ivy League’s all time leader in that categor y in conference games In last weekend’s loss, Mathews became t h e A n c i e n t Ei g h t ’ s ove r a l l c a re e r p a s s i n g leader, but he remained humble after the game, interested more in his team ’ s success than in his own

“Honestly, I haven’t had time to think about it yet, ” Mathews said of the record

“One day I’ll look back, but it’s not [time] for that in the middle of the season ” With two teams Yale and Har vard still undefeated overall, and two more teams in Princeton and Penn undefeated in conference play, Saturday would be an impor tant win to keep the Red in the race at the top of the Ivy League According to Minor, the two losses have not done anything to change the Red’s mentality, except to motivate them even further

“ T h e t e a m i s r a l l y i n g around ourselves,” he said “ We are focusing more on e x e c u t i o n a n d d o i n g t h e things we need to do, as well as being prepared for what we are going to face ” A c c o rd i n g t o M a t h e w s , t h e Re d h a s c o n t i n

d t o develop each week and to learn from the mistakes it has made in losses Should the Red be able to contain the Crimson’s offense in the second half, and minimize the r unning game of Stanton and Hempel, it will have the oppor tunity to give head coach David Archer ’05 his first win against an Ivy opponent “ We have grown each week,” Mathews said “ We will continue to get better at what we str uggled with We will also work to make what we do well, great ”

Another thing Rinow mentioned was the physical nature

Especially while defending the title of Ivy league Champions,

Cup Champions, and the Bruins are determined not to fall short again The Penguins, Flyers, Red Wings, Canucks and Kings are in top shape as always, ready to m

d Rangers are accustomed to making the playoffs and falling short

This season, one of them may take the next step Maybe the Ma p l e L e a f s w i l l f

y a d d defense and playoff grit to their immense offensive talent in order to end Toronto’s 45-year Stanley Cup drought Ignore my bias, b u t d o n ’ t u n d e re s t i m a t e t h e Devils They’ll be better than expected

The crop of talented young players in the NHL is bigger than ever The Islanders’ John Tavares, Rangers’ Carl Hagelin, Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskong and Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos may reach new levels of stardom The traditional group of wellestablished all-stars will continue to shine Crosby, Malkin, Giroux and Kessel, Toews, and Kane are all in the prime of their careers, and they can elevate their performance to even greater heights

forget the roller coaster of emotion in the gold medal game, from Zach Parise’s tying goal in the last seconds of regulation, to Crosby’s slick shot through Ryan Mi l l e r ’ s w i c k e t s f o r t h e w i n With an even greater selection of young talented American players, expect to see another tantalizing US-Canada battle for the gold

The new NHL Stadium Series is an expansion of the annual Winter Classic, an outdoor game on New Year’s Day between two promine n t rivals T he Winte r C

, attracting enormous viewership ratings by NHL standards This season ’ s Stadium Series includes six games, and the NHL expects significant boosts in popularity Some analysts are war y of oversaturating fan’s desire for outdoor hockey, but I think it’s a great idea It allows massive amounts of fans from both teams to attend one game, something difficult to accomplish in a standard arena So there will be no shortage of f

matchups Maple Leafs vs Red Wings, Ducks vs Kings (outdoor hockey in Los Angeles!!), Rangers vs Devils, Rangers vs Is

H a r v a rd , d e s p i t e i t s l o s i n g record, is still a tough opponent

“Har vard is a battle ever y year, [but we have to] get on them early and impose our system on theirs,” Rinow said

o f Iv y l e a g u e g a m e s He a d coach Jaro Zawislan explained that the focus of the team is always on the next game and improving day to day However, the team also understands that league play carries importance that regular games may not

immense importance, and uses that fact as motivation to be aggressive on the field

The Olympics are always fun to watch Putting a flag on the front of a jersey rather than a team symbol adds a whole new dimension of intensity and pride to the game, with fans from each countr y abandoning NHL loyalties in favor of national ones The men ’ s hockey tournament of the 2010 winter Olympics was nothing short of incredible Who can

Canucks A truly fantastic lineup

Last season ’ s finals between the Blackhawks and Bruins was an epic series, and this season will have many more memorable moments for fans to enjoy Stay Tuned

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Red Seek s to End Two-Game Skid

Har vard visits Schoellkopf in rst home Iv y game for Archer’s squad

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Coming off two straight losses to Yale and Colgate, the Red will host its first Ivy opponent at Schoellkopf this Saturday when it takes on Harvard at 12:30 p m

Woes of the second half have plagued the Red in those defeats Two weekends ago in the loss to Yale, the Bulldogs burst out of the locker room to score four consecutive touchdowns Last Saturday, Cornell carried a 20-17 lead into the half, but Colgate shut the Red out in the final 30 minutes, putting 24 unanswered points on the scoreboard

“As a team, we are refocusing on getting back to our fundamental five to help improve our consistency throughout the game, ” said senior captain and defensive lineman Tre’ Minor “ We’re going to work hard throughout this week’s practice concentrating on starting strong and improving each quarter, each play so we can be better and stronger at the end of each game ”

The Crimson (3-0) is coming off a thrilling 41-35 triple overtime win over Holy Cross, tying the record for the longest game in Harvard’s 140-year history of football Still unbeaten, the only other league opponent Harvard has played was Brown, defeating the Bears 4123 on the back of four unanswered touchdowns in the second quarter

“We are expecting Harvard as always to be a tough

Spor ts

team, ” Minor said “They are always disciplined and they are going to be well coached We are preparing to face a balanced offense and a good defense ”

Part of the Crimson’s balanced offense comes from junior Connor Hempel, who is a versatile, but relatively inexperienced quarterback Harvard graduated starting quarterback and reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year Colton Chapple, and Hempel has stepped in to fill his shoes In three games, the young signal caller has completed 55 of 81 passes for 803 yards He has thrown seven touchdowns and only two picks However, Hempel also has the ability to run the ball He

Heads held high | After dropping its first Ivy contest to Penn, Jake Rinow said his team’s focus is on moving forward

Red Returns to Berman for Ivy Foe

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Staff Writer

This Saturday, the Cornell men ’ s soccer team will take on Harvard in its second Ivy league game of the season The match will take place at four p m on Berman Field, the Red’s home turf, making it the first league home game of 2013 Cornell comes into the match with an impressive record of 6-2-2 However, after last week’s loss against Penn, The Red is 0-1-0 in league play Har vard, who comes into this weekend 1-62, is also 0-1-0 in league play and has struggled to get ahead of opponents in all but one game against UMass this season

“This

week

37 games against Cornell, while Cornell has only been able to win 22 However, The Red has the best overall record in the Ivy League so far and holds the title of reigning champions at the start of league play

has

been

all about moving forward.”

J a k e R i n o w

While the Red has been struggling these past two games, the Crimson still has a much weaker record, reflecting the trouble they have had this season Historically, the Crimson has won

“This week has been all about moving forward and focusing on Harvard,” said senior captain and defenseman Jake Rinow “In traini n g we ' ve h a d t o re c ove r physically and get sharper on both sides of the ball ” After losing in the first game of league play, it can be hard to recover and rally in order to play one ’ s best game of soccer just a week later

However, the men have really been working on focusing solely on Saturday’s game and not dwelling on the past

While the team is trying to regain confidence moving forward, it acknowledges that

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is second on the team in rushing yards with 69, and has one rushing touchdown

The Crimson’s leader in the running game as well as the hero in the overtime win over Holy Cross is sophomore running back Paul Stanton Stanton leads the team with five rushing touchdowns on 258 yards His 17-yard touchdown run in the third overtime period finally gave Harvard the win last Saturday

“As usual, stopping the run is the major priority, because then we can get them to be one dimensional

Dropping the Puck: NHL Season Preview

In a Fall season dominated by the thrilling NFL regular season and baseball playoffs, an exciting new beginning flies under the radar The start to the 2013-2014 NHL season is upon us, and hockey fans have many reasons to be excited My eagerness for hockey goes beyond the Giants’ rock bottom position in the NFL, or my diehard support for the New Jersey Devils This year the NHL will thankfully have a full season, which will include a fascinating mix of bitter

rivalries, surprise contenders, traditional powerhouses and the inevitable disappointments It also features a two-week February break for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, where NHL players will represent their countries on world hockey’s biggest stage Fans will also enjoy a series of outdoor stadium games, which are sure to be great successes for the NHL and memorable experiences for life-long hockey fans

Looking at the standings will lead to some initial confusion After all, the divisions are different this season The Atlantic, Northeast, Southeast, Central, Northwest and Pacific are now the Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and Pacific Atlantic and Metropolitan make up the Eastern Conference, while Pacific and Central make up the West Under this system, the Red Wings and Blue Jackets are in the East, while Winnipeg is in the West This realignment will reduce travel

time, while providing more frequent matchups between teams that had previously played no more than once a year Not to worry; traditional rivals such as the Devils and Rangers, Penguins and Flyers, Maple Leafs and Canadiens, will all face each other multiple times

Last year ’ s favorites remain this year ’ s favorites The Blackhawks have the talent to repeat as Stanley