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New in Big City, Tech Campus Has Friend: WCMC

By REBEKAH FOSTER Sun Staff Writer

When building a $2 billion state-of-the-art tech campus, getting a little help from your friends never hurt

The nearby Weill Cornell Medical College has begun to support CornellNYC Tech in the early stages of its research and real estate development, according to administrators at both campuses

“I would not be surprised if five years from today there are joint degrees being awarded” at WCMC and CornellNYC Tech ”

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“The Weill-Cornell campus is already actively engaged in the academic planning and faculty hiring for Cornell Tech, together with the Ithaca campus thus strengthening ties between all three campuses, ” said Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of the tech campus

WCMC administrators said they expect overlaps in research and academics between the colleges and perhaps even a joint degree somewhere down the line

While no joint degrees are currently available or being planned, Stephen Cohen, executive vice provost of WCMC, said academic collaboration in the future could increase through dual degrees

“I would not be surprised if five years from today there are joint degrees being awarded,” Cohen said Dr Rainu Kaushal, founding director of the Center

Students Propose Rape Prevention Center

By JINJOO LEE Sun Senior Wr ter

As the Cornell community seeks to address issues surro u n d i n g s e x u a l a s s a u l t , o n e p o s s i b l e s o l u t i o n h a s emerged: creating a new, physical center for sexual assault prevention Addressing a group of about 40 people, students and administrators discussed this and other ideas at a meeting of the Sexual Violence Prevention Working Group Monday

A center devoted to sexual assault prevention similar in function to, but organizationally separate from, the

C.U. Law Students Should Easily Comply

By SARAH MEYERS Sun Staff Writer

country to require that all law students applying to the state bar after Jan 1, 2015, perform 50 hours of pro bono work legal c

charge in order to be

law school officials and students have expressed concern, Dean of Cornell Law School Stewart Schwab said he is confident that Cornell law students will be able to meet, and even exceed, the charge of the new mandate and in doing so, boost the status of the legal profession

“Most of our students already would comply with this requirement,” Schwab said “We’ve done a study that shows that, even without this requirement, over 90 percent of the students that just graduated would have complied because we do have a series of clinics,

opportunities that qualify ” Schwab also emphasized

the pro bono work can be

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Contributor

existing Women’s Resource Center would centralize support services for survivors, according to meeting attendees

Rachael Blumenthal ’13, a member of the board for the WRC, said a stand-alone center would provide a single point of contact for reporting cases of assault or rape, which she said could help to alleviate some of the burden of that process

“Not very many [victims] would be willing to go straight to the Judicial Administrator,” Blumenthal said

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Student Creative Writing Cartoons

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and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

A nod Success “ Wow, so do you have a senior thesis coming along?”

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My feet were killing me We’d been walking around the galler y for at least two hours I assumed that an Art Histor y student would have plenty to say about the portraits It was Dali for God’s sake; anyone could say something about Dali We stopped in front of a giant galley with wide-winged butterflies as sails It was probably one of the more breathtaking things I’d seen today, but she didn’t react All she’d done since we met was open her lips to say “hello ”

“I really like this one I suppose as a layman, I can ’ t think of Dali without thinking of the clocks and the elephants, so it’s quite a surprise to find this here It’s a nice change, and the butterfly details are gorgeous ”

Silence

The next one was more butterflies, perched on the tops of sandy towers in the middle of a grassland The clouds moved, the flags atop the turrets fluttered, and the man in the grass seemed to be holding a tiny butterfly net

“ Wow I mean, wow ”

More silence

“Doesn’t that make you feel like life is so much bigger than it looks, that we ’ re just chasing dreams that are too big for our tiny butterfly nets, that maybe it’s better, and more beautiful, to just let our dreams live, grow, and fly free for ever yone else to enjoy?”

Yes, I was desperate I would have slapped her to get a reaction if there weren ’ t other museum patrons hanging around

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“Beautiful, dreamy ” Unreachable, deaf to entreaties, and absolutely silent Goddammit

“I wish I had a job like this I mean, accountants, who likes ‘em? All we do is count money, count assets, count sheep, haha, I bet your work must be fascinating ” Blank canvas “You’re a final-year student, right?”

That sounds quite riveting Actually, it sounds like nothing

“So what kind of art are you interested in then?”

“I like cartoons ”

“Like Warhol? I should have known, you re way too Bohemian for Surrealism – I’m so sorr y I’m sure we could find some local pop-art, if that would work for you I can find one of the guides and ask, or see if I can find a map or something ” Silence Shit I lost her

“Or would you rather take a break? We could go grab a coffee ” And I could have my first real communication with a living human being today

“Or would you rather take a break? We could go grab a coffee ” And I could have my first real communication with a living human being today

We headed over to the museum cafe, and I ordered a cappuccino and biscotti The guy who handed me the drinks was clearly staring at her, my well-endowed wax doll

“My change, please?”

“Oh, sorr y Here you go, man You are one lucky bastard ”

“Hah Thanks ” She sipped her cappuccino like a Madonna, perfect and serene

“So, Warhol I must be missing something, because I never understood those paintings Yeah, they’re colorful, but to my eye, they’re almost garish What do you like about them?”

Sip “I mean, not to be rude, but I really would like to hear your opinion I honestly don’t know much about art, so I thought it would be fun to come here with a real, live, art student ” Check cornellsun com for the rest of this stor y 1

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By JULIA PASCALE

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Julia Pascale can be reached at jp852@cornell edu

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Town of Ithaca Board Member Dies

Nahmin Horwitz, a member of the Ithaca town board, died on Wednesday He was 84 years old and in his third year as a member of the board, according to The Ithaca Times Horwitz was a member of the town ’ s Budget and Public Works committees and its Records Management Advisory Boards, The Times reported Horwitz was a retired professor who joined the town board in 2009, according to The Times

Schwab Responds to Pro Bono Mandate

the world, as long as it’s under the supervision of a licensed attorney ”

“Over half of our students will take a [clinical course], and many more work in public service their first summer after law school,” Schwab said “In their second summer, others will work on pro bono projects at firms or government agencies, or clerk for judges, all of which can be used to qualify ”

Schwab said he hopes the mandate will “increase [the Law School’s] interaction with legal aid providers ”

Both Schwab and Prof Susan Hazeldean, law, and director of the LGBT Advocacy Clinic, which provides free legal advice to LGBT people facing discrimination or harassment, said the mandate promotes lawyers’ public service work

“Some people wonder whether ‘ pro bono’ and ‘mandatory’ are oxymorons While I sympathize with that view, I also think the requirement will reinforce that the legal profession is a service profession, and the symbolism of this that applicants for the bar have to do public service is an important concept, ” Schwab said

Hazeldean agreed, stressing the need for legal aid among many low-income defendants in New York State Although the pro bono hours do not technically need to be completed in-state, Hazeldean said she thinks the mandate which is projected to generate 500,000 additional hours of pro bono work annually will contribute to addressing the “ enormous justice gap we have in New York ”

“There’s a crisis in civil legal services There simply aren ’ t enough lawyers providing services to lowincome people,” Hazeldean said “[The mandate] will encourage people who are joining the bar to take on and contribute to pro bono service as a professional responsibility ”

Though some law school administrators across the state plan to add staff to help students meet the new requirement, Schwab said he did not think this would be necessary at Cornell

“We aren ’ t planning to hire additional staff,” he said Although he said compliance with the mandate should not be a problem for Cornell law students who are pursuing a Juris Doctor degree, he noted that the new policy may pose more of a challenge to students enrolled in the University’s one-year masters of law program

“I am worried about the students in our one-year masters ’ of law program, which is mostly aimed at international students, who come for just nine months, and won ’ t have the summer [to meet the public service requirement], as J D students do,” Schwab said

Hazeldean agreed, conceding that others initially had some concerns before the specifics of the mandate were announced Still, she said she believes that the majority of Cornell students will have no trouble fulfilling the requirement

“I think the mandate has been crafted in a way that should make it possible for all applicants to the bar to meet it,” Hazeldean said “ Fifty hours is not a huge amount of time it’s enough to make a meaningful contribution, but it should be manageable for most students ”

Cody Herche grad, who is currently completing his final year at the Law School, will not be be required to complete the 50 hours the mandate will apply only to people who apply to the bar after Jan 1, 2015 Still, based on his experience at Cornell, Herche agreed that students should be able to meet the requirement fairly easily

“My understanding is that, since a lot of law schools already have clinical programs, which would qualify, most students are not that worried about fulfilling the obligation,” he said

He added that he likes the “emphasis on volunteerism” in legal education

“I think it’s absolutely important to open up the justice system to people who can ’ t afford quality legal representation,” Herche said

Sarah Meyers can be reached at smeyers@cornellsun com

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t h a t m e e t i n g “ I d i d n o t e x p e c t t h e l e v e l o f s t u d e n t e n g a g e m e n t t h a t o c c u r re d a t t h e m e e t i n g , b u t I w a s p l e a s a n t l y s u rp r i s e d b y i t , ” s h e s a i d

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“If they had someone to talk to, and then have the person sit with them [at a meeting with the J A ] and make them feel supported, the survivor is much more likely to take [judicial] action ”

Laura Weiss, director of the WRC, agreed, saying that the center would be valuable for centralizing the resources that Cornell already has in place for survivors of sexual assault Still, she cautioned that centralizing those resources into a single point of access could limit victims’ options in seeking help

“The fact that we are decentralized now there are some benefits about that For example, there are many access points for survivors to get whatever it is they need That would be one of the potential costs, because people would either use [the center] or they would not, ” Weiss said

Shuangyi Hou ’13, president of the Every1 Campaign, a student group that promotes sexual assault awareness, supported the idea of a sexual assault center but, like Weiss, also worried that certain people could be discouraged from using the center if it became centralized

“People might be less willing to use the center if by entering that space they might potentially be identifying themselves as survivors,” Hou said

While the costs and benefits of the stand-alone center were not determined, participants agreed that having a separate center for dealing with sexual assault would show that the issue is a priority for the University

“I think that having something that’s stand-alone would really show that Cornell prioritizes this issue and that, I think, would be valuable to the community,” Weiss said

Blumenthal added that in addition to showing Cornell’s existing community that the issue is prioritized, creating the center would show future incoming students that the University is serious about providing support of survivors of sexual assault

“For new students, [the existence of the center] could shape the kind of people who choose to come here Hopefully, for those that come, it will speak to their own beliefs,” Blumenthal said

However, even in preliminary discussion, some attendees said there are many questions to be addressed before such a center can be implemented

During the meeting, Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J D ’88 questioned how a stand-alone center would provide resources that differ from existing University support

“There seem to be benefits to the idea, but before such an idea can be fully endorsed, we need to better understand how it would meet the goals in better ways than what can be accomplished without a center I would hate for Cornell to throw money at at issue without knowing that the idea would help,” Grant said in an email to The Sun Monday night

Several other universities have separate physical centers to handle issues surrounding sexual assault For instance, the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response at Harvard University and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Center at Boston University offer 24hour hotlines and staff members dedicated specifically to assisting victims

“Having a space where someone can go, with a person who is trained in this issue would offer [sexual assault survivors] a sense of safety and validate their experience and support them, to me, is one of the most immediate needs of helping survivors,” Blumenthal said

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D isturbed and Unmoved

Movements for social change of all varieties often find themselves up against insurmountable odds Environmentalists fighting for stronger emissions standards and labor activists pressing for improved working conditions in developing world factories unsurprisingly come up against rich industrial lobbies that have the ability to outspend and outmaneuver them The most prominent and successful movements have involved campaigns that relied on mass education and mobilization

In the fight against environmental toxins, Rachel Carson’s pioneering book Silent Spring played a pivotal role in scaring a generation of political leaders to implement higher standards According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, President Kennedy was ruffled enough by the scientific establishment’s ringing endorsement of Carson’s work to ask his Science Advisory Committee to investigate the matter The Committee’s report eventually led to tighter national regulation of DDT and its eventual ban The more lasting contribution of Carson’s work was to inculcate her concern among a generation of future leaders like Al Gore, who attributes his early environmental consciousness to Silent Spring

Two more obser vations about Silent Spring are important to note First, it was a highly contested work and remains so even today The early rebuttals were often tainted with misogyny, aimed at Carson’s gender But, the set of criticisms that eventually dominated the debate involved questioning her fundamental thesis against DDT They argued that DDT had benefits, most notably controlling malaria and other mosquitoborne illnesses, that were given scant attention in the policy response that followed her book Second, Carson was up against powerful corporate lobbies that felt deeply threatened by her work, much like the determined opposition activists today face Her New York Times obituary describes the high profile campaign Monsanto launched against her,

satirizing her work Her response was a reiteration of her argument ’ s nuances, namely that she did not oppose the very concept of pest control but the harms of indiscriminate and senseless spraying

Next Monday, Cornell students will take on PETA’s (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Vice President on the use of sex and celebrities in promoting social change, including their use in PETA’s fight for animal rights After digging for arguments to use next week, I contend that there are two main lines of criticism against the type of highly sexualized, celebrity-driven campaigns that PETA runs

The first is that the campaigns demean women The traditional response from PETA, which tends to assert that the photo shoots in question were entirely consensual, falls short of the mark The thousands who are forced to witness these ads do not deliver any meaningful consent to the discomfort and the exaggeration of stereotypes these ads result in It is true that this society and others do not offer any right against being offended However, it is unclear why a movement advocating for a social cause should not have to offer a rigorous defense against its weakening of other equally important social movements In the case of PETA’s most controversial ads, including those that invoke scenes resembling domestic violence, any defense is unlikely to be sufficient

The second line involves questioning claims of the efficacy of such tactics Even if we leave aside for a moment the moral critiques against PETA’s methods, are they successful in furthering its agenda against animal cruelty? PETA’s website explains that the tactics are “ necessary to shake people up in order to initiate discussion, debate, questioning of the status quo, and, of course, action ” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk puts forth in a 2010 editorial for The Guardian that her organization, “could just hand out lengthy tracts about ethics, but how many people would stop and take one, let alone read it?”

However, this is a false dichotomy The choice is not between the listless handing out of dense scientific literature and the campaigns currently employed by PETA The middle ground includes, for instance, the intelligent advocacy of the kind Carson engaged in Silent Spring is not an isolated relic of such cultural production Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals and the

Academy Award nominated documentary Food Inc did more to persuade me of the brutality and filth of modern meat production than PETA s posters Food Inc let it be known that it provided space in the movie for food giants like Monsanto to respond but that they declined This measured response to the movement ’ s powerful opponents does more to shame them (much like Carson’s response did all those years ago) than PETA’s escalatory, at best silly and at worst deeply offensive, strategies

Not only do PETA’s shock tactics fail to invoke any deep introspection on the part of most people, they refocus the animal rights debate towards the character of the movement itself These meta-debates about appropriate forms of protest are important but PETA’s persistent emphasis on these methods silences other forms of discourse This is markedly different from the debate that followed Carson’s book Those who felt most threatened by Silent Spring responded with counterclaims about the effectiveness of DDT in reducing disease transmission These

attacks certainly included a lot of derision but the industry had to respond with a substantive counter claim, explaining its position In the case of PETA, such a reaction is often not necessary ridiculing the campaign itself often proves to be enough

The per capita consumption of meat in the United States has never been higher PETA might be able to claim some success in

Evaluating the Discontents

increasing the number of vegetarians and vegans but more animals are caged and slaughtered than ever before Studies by the National Institute for Health reveal that changes in meat consumption have largely involved a shift from red meat to poultry, not an overall decline in consumption Meat prices, links between meat consumption and chronic health problems and breakouts of Mad Cow Disease remain the real determinants of how much meat Americans consume Animal rights concerns do not show up as significant in these studies I look forward to seeing how PETA defends these campaigns against accusations of offensiveness and misogyny Even if they succeed in doing the impossible there, what these campaigns have achieved remains an object of my deepest skepticism

Kirat Singh is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at ksingh@cornellsun com Evaluating the Discontents appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

l t h e K i n g ’s M u s i c i a n s

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What expectations come with a night of Baroque chamber music? You would most likely expect an exper t per formance, with nar y a note out of tune You might expect to learn a little bit more about the 18th centur y music world Baroque music is characterized by its strict str ucture, its reliance on arpeggios and scales and dissonances that quickly resolve into major or minor chords You would not expect to leave the concer t both entertained and moved And yet, Les Violons du Roy, the Québécois chamber orchestra that per formed at Bailey Hall last Friday along with the Swiss-French flautist Emmanuel Pahud, received an enthusiastic standing ovation that lasted nearly two minutes for their sensitive and expressive per formance

The first half of the program featured the Pr ussian King Frederick II’s Flute Concer to No 3 in C Major, with a second movement both grandiose and poignant Franz Benda’s Sinfonia No 1 in C Major and Johann Quantz’s Concer to for Flute in G Major were equally enjoyable, particularly the haunting Arioso e mesto of the Quantz piece But it was the Symphony in B Minor and Flute Concer to in A Major by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that tr uly merited the standing ovation The compositions in and of themselves were lively and required the audience’s constant attention, rapidly shifting not only dynamics from piano to for te but also from the mysterious and sometimes sinister minor to the cheer ful major

The orchestra gave a glorious per formance It played in the Baroque style, with a brisk energy that was characteristic of Bach’s music The group moved as one and was notably cohesive Its staccato passages were immaculate, and ever y trill and half-note change in pitch were together The orchestra proved versatile; the movements that

called for a slightly more lugubrious tone were equally engaging as the raging allegro passages The instr umentalists produced a muted sound with smooth notes that glided together During these moments, the violas brought out a deeper, warmer tone

The dynamic between the celli and violins was just as

held between the two was

times tender but consistently exquisite

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who play the flute or enjoy flute music most likely have

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Pahud has played it

With these credentials, it seems almost redundant to s

was spectacular His technique was flawless, his fingers flying during the allegro r uns His dynamic contrasts were excellent, his piano passages a mere whisper and his for te passages full-bodied and robust While some critics claim that his sound is thin and overly bright, the controlled vibrato and silver y quality of Pahud’s playing are per fect for the music of the Baroque period His stage manner was unexpected but engaging; he paid rapt atten-

tion when the orchestra was playing and moved to the wonder ful music in the making Most of all, he was exceedingly charming, kissing the first violinist’s (Nicole Trotier) hand when he walked onstage, smiling at the audience and giving Labadie his fair share of credit during the applause Of course, it is his flute playing and not his manners that tr uly matter but suffice it to say there were many girls in the audience who wished they were in Trotier’s place

performing at Bailey Hall last Friday

Overall, ever yone enjoyed the concer t The Sun was able to talk with one of the violinists, JeanLouis Blouin, on his way to the group ’ s tour bus He expressed how “wonder ful” the experience was and commended Bailey Hall for its “ great acoustics, [resonance] and rare mix of clarity ” Blouin added that there was a “wonder ful audience,” a testam e n t t o t h e e n t h u s i a s t i c response of the crowd Not only the audience left feeling elated, but also the per formers thems e l ve s , w h i c h i s e x a c t l y a s i t should be After all, music is both an intensely personal and communal ar t form, and the Violons du Roy did a wonder ful job in creating a moving experience in both

Lubabah Chowdhury is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at lchowdhury@cornellsun com Danyoung Kim is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at dak257@cornell edu

N o t e s W i t h B e r n a rd L a b a d i e

BY DANYOUNG KIM Sun Contributor

The Sun conducted a brief, impromptu interview with Les Violons du Roy conductor and founder Bernard Labadie in his dressing room after the concert Labadie spoke about the origin of Les Violons du Roy, his time with Emmanuel Pahud and his work with opera

THE SUN: What made you found the chamber orchestra [Les Violons du Roy] in the first place?

BERNARD LABADIE: I had a love for [18th century] repertoire and this was a long time ago I was 21 when I [founded the orchestra], and [it] is in its 29th season now Also, the fact that there was no chamber orchestra in Quebec City back then [meant]

there was a void to be filled I started with friends A few of them are actually still there

The concert-mistress tonight is the only one of the two founding members we still have It’s been a long journey, but it’s getting more and more fun

SUN: How did you get to work with Emmanuel [Pahud]?

B L : We were actually paired by a festival called Le Domaine Forget near Quebec City some six years ago maybe, [so that was the] first time Then we played there [for] a second time a couple of years ago, and then the idea of that show came up

SUN: I read in your biography that you do a lot of things with opera

B L : I don’t do it anymore I used to I was Artistic Director of Quebec Opera for

nine years and then Montreal Opera for five years But I resigned in 2006 and I’m doing very, very little

SUN: You didn’t want to do it anymore?

B L : Well, it’s a different pace I just wanted some time away from the pit Also, because I was not only conducting but I was also artistic director for all these companies, which is very, very demanding I just wanted to be a musician again I did The Magic Flute at the Met two years ago, I did it last year in Cincinnati That’s all I did And I did a concert version of a few things And I m used to, now, that rhythm of when you almost have a different program every week I like that quick pace of learning a lot of stuff instead of just working with the same piece for five, six, seven weeks, especially if you ’ re in Europe, where the rehearsal

process never ends, it’s so long I’d like to go back to it, but under very specific circumstances only

Danyoung Kim is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at dak257@cornell edu

Vampire Plants Never Lose

YANA LYSENKO Sun Contributor

“Don’t feed the plant ”

For weeks, I’ve heard and seen this phrase ever ywhere Facebook pictures and campus-wide posters flaunted it Theater kids parroted it as if it’s the new craze The words did not seem particularly engaging to me because of my previous unfamiliarity with Little Shop of Horrors (affectionately known as Little Shop) Apparently, I have been missing out, because, over the

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p became one of my favorite musicals Call it an exaggeration, but Risley Theatre’s performance was nothing short of fantastic

Little Shop originally came to promi-

Howard Ashman turned Roger Corman’s 1960 low-budget comedy film into a hit musical Seymour (played here by Ben Elling ’13) is a quirky orphan in urban Skid Row, scraping by with a job at the local flower shop Working alongside him

secretly loves Constantly reprimanded by his bitter boss, Mr Mushnik (Steve Jenks, Risley’s current Residence Hall Director), Seymour adopts a plant he names Audrey II The mutant plant brings success to the struggling flower shop, but quickly reveals itself to be a man-eating monster when fed blood

The show kicked off with an impressive performance by the glitzy street girl trio Chiffon (Ashley George ’16), Cr ystal (Kaiya Provost ’14) and Ronnette (Lili Aguirre ’14) who sang the intro-

ductor y “Little Shop of Horrors ” Their energy was infectious, and the ’60s vocal vibe was a pleasant surprise to those of us not completely sure what we were getting ourselves into The trio made cameos throughout the musical, particularly in moments of distress and disaster Their non sequitur appearances became something of a running joke and kept the audience amused

monotonous commonalities

The acting was solid throughout the musical, with the cast mostly made up of R

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delight to listen to with her quasi-’60s accent, and Elling successfully won our

Although the entire cast did an excellent job, it was Chandler Waggoner ’15 who took the acting to another level With

Perhaps the greatest thing about Little Shop is its humor The musical playfully ridicules ’60s B-movie horror with blatant black comedy Audrey II eats about half of the already-small cast throughout the 90minute duration, yet in a manner so ridiculous that one cannot grieve even for a second The deaths are so frequent that it seems the writer used their abundance as his primar y tool to entertain the audience The cast nailed this, intentionally overacting the death scenes to make them hilarious The consistent satire also kept the audience laughing throughout the show Audrey’s heartfelt solo, “Somewhere That’s Green,” sounded sincere, but in reality it criticizes America’s mid-centur y

The Best 0f the Best 0f

“Best of ” lists come in all shapes and sizes, especially when it comes to music Following the classic format established in High Fidelity, music-knowit-all’s or people who just want to be our friends can spend hours reciting the “Top Albums of 2011,” “Best Punk B-Sides” or “Most Influential Use Of An Accordion On A Top-40 Single ” It gets pretty specific pretty quick Lists work because they (usually) compare music under a common rubric When making “best of ” decisions about a particular genre, you look for what exemplifies the traits identified with that style of music Even when including different genres “Best Album Opening Tracks” is one that comes to mind specificity helps, as you ’ re still attempting to determine what song, album or artist had the greatest achievement in one particular musical element It’s when you broaden the criteria that lists can get a little tricky

To me, it’s more rewarding to debate whether Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the best Beatles album than whether it’s the best album of all time (going off of Rolling Stone’s 2003 list) Comparing Sgt Pepper and Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, for example, is like comparing apples and oranges Not only do they have access to vastly different technology and ideas of music histor y (It Takes a Nation of Millions was released just over 20 years after Sgt Pepper), but their goals, identity and style are so radically distinct it is basically meaningless to say one is “better” than the other

Recently, I discovered two articles that stood out from the usual music nerd list-making One was a piece from Matthew Perpetua at BuzzFeed arguing that 1994 was the “ awesomest ” year for music In the other corner was Mark Beaumont at NME who claimed that, in fact, 1992 was the best year ever for music While they were released two months apart, and neither piece acknowledged the other, there seemed to be a

mutual understanding that evaluating music history as a hierarchy of years was appropriate and beneficial

In many ways, this is a natural progression from Rolling Stone’s landmark list and others like it If one album can be judged against another released decades later (or earlier), why can ’ t a period of time be looked at the same way? And, in both cases, the writers make strong cases for their argument, citing their chosen year ’ s diversity of sounds, artists’ ability to create something new and the continuing impact of the music produced I should also point out that identifying standout years for pop music is not a new exercise: I’ve heard and made arguments for the sheer excellence of music released in 1984 Earlier this semester my colleague and oftentimes “best of ” list sparring partner James Rainis ’14 waxed nostalgia for the recent past of 2009, and made a convincing case for its increasing importance

romance and drama, it was Waggoner who brought most of the comedy to the show His most significant role was a supporting one, as the maniacal dentist Orin, yet Waggoner could not keep himself off stage Within the second act, he came out in several different roles, all of them delightfully comical His portrayal of a wealthy, middle-aged blonde woman had t h e a u d i e n c e e s p

laughter

If there is any criticism of the show (and there isn’t much), it is with the casting of Audrey II (Danielle Warren) Her booming first words, “feed me, ” felt out of character and pushed the level of overacting necessitated by this campy musical to an irksome extreme In spite of this, Warren’s performance improved with the progression of the musical, and her acting became more convincing It is interesting, however, to consider the director’s choice in casting a woman as Audrey II, as typically the plant is voiced by a male I’m tr ying to think of anything else worthy of criticism, but the show was so solid that I’m short of anything bad to say Well, except for the fact that a couple of the songs, particularly “Somewhere That’s Green,” were surprisingly reminiscent to T h e Li t t l e Me r m a i d ’ s “ Pa r t o f Yo u r World,” though that’s no one ’ s fault Tori Dahl ’14 chose an excellent musical to direct, and her direction made for an impressive show Overall, the performance entertained as a hilarious rendition of a beloved musical

Yana Lysenko is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at yal9@cornell edu

However, this exercise gets interesting when two writers argue different points using the same examples, while ostensibly using similar criteria to judge them Both Perpetua and Beaumont use Pavement and Sonic Youth as proof of the emerging power of the American independent music scene, and cite Blur and Pulp as models of the new Britpop movement Writing across the pond from each other Perpetua is American and Beaumont is British their lists become significant not just for the arguments they put forward, but also for the cultural divisions they illustrate Although Perpetua argues the initial importance of these artists came two years later than Beaumont does, it’s not

that he is coming late to the party, but rather reflecting on how America consumed music in the 1990s While the British music industry had a massive network of independent labels and weekly magazines devoted to covering underground music, in the States, rock radio at the dawn of the ’90s was ruled by the same machine it had been for decades In 1991, Nirvana’s Nevermind helped to shatter the divide between independent music and mainstream acceptance, but it’s not surprising that it took a few years for a network to be established in America to get this music out to the masses Both writers name American and British bands to illustrate their broad arguments, so rather than a difference explained by national bias, Perpetua and Beaumont’s separate conclusions really show the history of pop music in their respective countries

So, while looking at “best of ” lists on their own may seem pointless in their inclusiveness or constricting in their specificity, comparing them reveals a lot about a moment in time, and how history can shape perspectives

And just to repeat for anyone interested: The best year for music is 1984, pretty much hands down But I’m happy to hear other arguments

Peter Jacobs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at pjacobs@cornellsun com Big Talk appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

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Cornell Recognizes Places to Improve

TENNIS Continued from page 16

After this fall season, Nguyen considers the squad to be a decent competitor in the Ivy League, but is certain that the time off will help Cornell come out on top this spring

“I think we stand in an okay position None of our guys did that exceptionally well in singles We did really well in doubles, but compared to the Ivies right now, I’d say we ’ re kind of in the middle,” he said “A lot of our guys played a bunch of Ivy guys we probably won fifty percent o f o u r m a t c h e s a g a i n s t Iv y League players, we lost fifty percent So at the moment, we ’ re j u s t l o o k i n g o k a y, n o t r e a l l y great But that’s just something we need to work on That was our last tournament, so we just gotta go back and work really h a rd W h e n i t c o m e s t o t h e spring we’ll be ready for sure ”

On the women ’ s side, senior coc apt ain Ch ris t in e Ordw ay als o made a run to the Round of 16 at Re g i o n a l s Ord w a y c a m e b a c k from a first set deficit on Sunday to upset Stony Brook’s ninth-seeded Nini Lagvilava in three sets, 16, 7-5, 6-3 She mentioned that exploiting her opponent ’ s weaknesses was a factor securing the win

“Obviously she was the 9th seed, so I knew she was going to be good,” said Ordway “The match sort of came down to finding a weakness, and I was able to realize

that obviously her backhand was a big weakness I was able to attack that and it went in my favor ” Later in the day, Ordway fell to Hannah Camhi of Brown, losing the second set in a tiebreaker, 6-0, 7-6(3)

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Tanenbaum both making it to the second round of the singles bracket on Saturday

“We have a really solid group of freshmen,” Ordway said “They all competed really well It’s great to make your first regional tournament and we had two of them in here, so that was awesome They know what they need to work on but [this weekend] showed them that they can compete at this level ”

Ordway reiterated that having the next few months off will definitely help the Red come out punching for the second half of its season

“I think the fall showed us that we can obviously compete, but we have things to work on in these next three months in order to hopefully come out and possibly win the Ivy League title,” she said “ We know what we need to work on going for ward As long as these next few months are productive and ever yone focuses on their weaknesses and gets better, I think we’ll have a really good spring ”

Olivia Wittels can be reached at owittels@rnellsun com

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Fall Season Play

R e d d e f e at s Cr im son in Iv y L e a g u e match play

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By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

It had taken 24 holes, but junior Zach Bosse was finally able to land the decisive blow in Cornell’s Ivy League Match Play showdown against the Harvard Crimson

“I hit a great shot out of the rough to about three feet and I forced him to concede after he missed a would-be par putt, ” Bosse said

The Red golf team wrapped up its fall season with the Ivy Match Play event this past weekend at Tournament Players Club at Jasna Polana in Princeton, N J Despite dropping the first and third-round matches to Princeton and Penn, respectively, the Red’s 3-2 second-round victory against third-seeded Harvard made the tournament one to remember

“It felt good We went out We had high hopes Jasna Polana is a great course I feel very, very blessed to have the opportunity to play such a tournament at a course like that,” Bosse said “And for me, individually, the match play was all about closing the season on a strong note My past few showings were not my best I did not post good scores scores I was happy about And I still felt like I had something to prove to close out this half of the season ”

“I spent this week working on the game both the physical and the mental game and trying to get my head in line for the tournament Coach [Matt Baughan] and I worked on some things during the week and I took him to heart going into the tournament ”

The Red began its round against Harvard Saturday evening before darkness forced the majority of the team to complete its matches on Sunday morning Freshman Brandon Eng who was one of the few players able to finish Saturday evening notched Cornell’s first match play victory of the tournament

“During the Big 5 Tournament, I was having a little bit of trouble with my swing, just sort of fighting it my entire round,” Eng said “But when I got the Ivy League match play I just let my instincts be my swing and I didn’t think about it as much, I just swung instead of thinking about

mechanics and I did better ”

Meanwhile, Bosse was locked in a tight battle against his Harvard opponent Following his opponents ’ untimely birdie on Sunday morning, Bosse began a six-hole playoff march, holding par before converting on a clutch chip shot

“My last playoff hole was a 430-yard par four that [had] a slight dogleg right and the wind was blowing hard right to left,” Bosse said “[My opponent] hit his tee shot down the center of the fairway and I put mine in the right rough, kind of behind some trees but it was still in view of the green I took my shot from the rough with a seven iron a gripped-down 7-iron punch shot if you will, to keep it out of the wind and it landed toward the left of the pin on a hillside which let the ball bounce and funnel down toward the back of the cup to about three feet ”

After failing to make par, Bosse’s opponent conceded the hole and, thus, the match

“You know when you play a team like Harvard, you ’ re going to have to play solid golf if you want to challenge them,” Bosse said “And that goes the same for everyone on the team who had their match, whether they won or lost It says a lot when every match is close and exciting to watch It just makes for a lot of fun in the tournament atmosphere Whether it was closing out the day before due to darkness or opening up really early in the morning to finish up your match, you had to find a way to carry over your good golf

from the night before into the morning, the morning after And in my particular case I found a way to do that ”

As the team goes dormant before a new slate of events in the spring, the Red will continue to work on its short game and general conditioning One area that won ’ t need work, however, is team chemistry which was on display during Ivy Match Play

When asked about his first collegiate match play experience, Eng said, “I loved it I wish there were more events like match play It was much more exciting because [with] oneon-one matches it’s a lot easier to see who’s winning and how close the matches really are and when you ’ re finished doing match play you can follow your teammates around along the course and watch them finish their matches ”

“I think the team dynamic this year was really brought to the forefront because we had a match-play event, ” Bosse agreed “In my time [at Cornell] we never had a match-play tournament until last weekend Match play is, in my opinion, more team-involved, because you have to get three out of five points to win the match Because we ’ re such a tight-knit group the match play event was something we really enjoyed because we ’ re so close ”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun com

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Cornell Falls in Brown Matchup

By HALEY VELASCO

The Cornell women ’ s soccer team went on the road for the last time this past weekend to face off against Ivy foe Brown The Red (1-12-1, 0-4-1 Ivy League) lost to the Bears 1-0 on Sunday in a tough matchup at Stevenson Field in Providence Both teams have had a tough go around this season

“It was very frustrating this game It is similar to a couple three other games that we had We started off well for a [couple of ] minutes and had some chances and couldn’t finish,” said head coach Patrick Farmer “Then, they go to the other end, and they finish on one of their only really good chances of the game Then, we had other good chances and we fought back really hard We had two or three chances; to score; their keeper made a good save; then, we missed a goal, and we ended up on the short side of the score ”

The Red couldn’t close and get its first victory until Oct 2 against Lafayette suffering a tough 14 game-losing streak Seven of the last eight matchups for the Red have come down to one goal

The team was also shut out in three games – much better than last season where the team was blanked out of eight games of the total sixteen For Brown, up until the game against Cornell, the Bears had lost five games straight including its first four Ivy League games

“I think, for one, it shows how tight the Ivy League plays every single game We are right there,” said junior goalkeeper Tori Christ “I think it’s frustrating

not being on the other side of these games We just need to focus on these next games, and hopefully by focusing and having those tough experiences, we will be able to come out on top ”

Christ made five saves in the 90 minutes of gameplay, only letting one by, while Brown’s goalie Amber Bledsoe only had to save three attempts from senior forward Maneesha Chitanvis, sophomore midfielder Kerry Schubert and senior forward Xandra Hompe who all made shots on goal in the first half Cornell just could not seize the opportunities to score against the Bears resulting in the loss The second half was different as both teams got extremely physical with each other, both trying to grab the victory and sneak out a win – Brown committed 10 fouls in 45 minutes

“I think that ‘frustrating’ is the word,” said Farmer

Cornell will finish out the rest of the season with two matchups at home over the next two weekends against Ivy League opponents The Red will play Princeton at 6 p m on Saturday and then will hold its annual Senior Day at 3 p m on Saturday where it faces off against Dartmouth in the season finale

“I think that [the games against Princeton and Dartmouth] will be very different They are first and second in the Ivies, so they can ’ t afford to lose any points to us I assume that they will be motivated by that,” Farmer said

Red Plays in First Games Of the Season

The Red hosted the U S National Team Development Program’s Under-18 squad on Fr i d a y a n d a t Bro c k University on Saturday The g a m e s we re C o r n e l l’s f i r s t competitions of the season On Friday, the Red came away with a 6-2 victory over the U S Under-18 team, and on Saturday, the duel against Brock ended in a 2-2 tie

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a g a i n s t t h e Under-18 squad got off to an interesting start, as freshman for ward Christian Hilbrich scored a goal on a failed pass to sophomore forward John McCarron but got pushed i n t o t h e n e t by a U S defenseman Six minutes later the Red scored again, with senior defenseman and tricaptain Nick D’Agostino and f re s h m a n f o r w a rd Jo h n K n i s l e y s e t t i n g u p s e n i o r Greg Miller for the goal Just a minute later, Cornell scored again Hilbrich got his second goal of the night off a deflection

At the end of the first, the U S De ve l o p m e n t Te a m scored a power play goal, and then scored again just six seconds into the second period The Red would not let its

opponent get any closer, and just five minutes later sophomore Joel Lowr y scored a power play goal Sophomore forward Brian Ferlin scored in the middle of the second period, and then 21 seconds l a t e r, Mi l l e r s c o re d a g a i n Junior goaltender Andy Iles had 23 saves on the night

The next night, the Red tied the Brock team The Badgers started the game off with a goal six minutes in T h e n s e n i o r d e f e n s e m a n Braden Birch scored on a 5on-3 opportunity Eight minu t e s l a t e r, s e n i o r Jo h n Esposito put another one past the Badgers Early in the second period, Brock scored its second goal Although many o p p o r t u n i t i e s c

u t , neither team was able to score again The Red had a fury of shots on goal at the end of overtime play, but none made it Although the game ended in a tie, the Red out-shot its o p p o n e n t 3 4 - 2 2 o n t h e night

The Red returns to Lynah t h i s we e k e n d t

Colorado College on Friday and Saturday

Compiled by Dani Abada

By OLIVIA WITTELS

The men ’ s tennis team closed out its fall season this past weekend with a solid performance at t h e U S TA / I TA No r t h e a s t Regional The Red did well in singles and doubles, reaching at least the Round of 16 in both

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Venkat Iyer and freshman Dragos Dima lost, 8-5, in the doubles Round of 16 to the third seeded team, Marc Powers and Daniel

Ho f f m a n o f Ya l e C o - c a p t a i n sophomore Sam Fleck made a dent in the singles bracket, also reaching the Round of 16 before falling, 6-3, 6-1, to the tourna-

ment ’ s number one seed, Matija Pecotic of Princeton

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Daniel Nguyen upset the fourth s e e d e d t e a m f ro m Brow n , Soufiane Azargui and Brandon Burke, in a tight, 9-7, win that put the duo into the semifinals

“A couple of the guys last year actually played that team and lost, so we kind of knew what to expect, ” said Nguyen “Coach [helped us] figure out a game plan to play them We were actually losing like, 6-3, and we were down a break We were just able to turn it around Me and Sam were playing really well and just fought the whole match

so that was a pretty big win for us T h a t w a s p ro b a b l y o u r f i r s t match against a really good team, and it just turned out really well ”

On Mo n d a y, Fl e c k a n d Nguyen battled against the seco n d s e e d s , C o l u m b i a ’ s A s h o k Narayana and Max Schnur, but this time the Red did not pull out another upset The duo lost, 8-6, to the Lions

“I thought we played pretty well, and they were a pretty good team, arguably one of the best [in the tournament]” Nguyen said “I know we lost, but I [still] thought we ended up having a pretty good tournament ”