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Cornell Tech Partners With AOL

To Create New Innovation Lab

Multimillion dollar gift to fund research and online services

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

With a multimillion dollar gift from AOL, Cornell Tech will form a new Connected Experiences Laboratory, where faculty, students and researchers alike will collaborate to create technologies that “will innovate the way we live ”

The partnership between the two institutions which was announced Wednesday will last four years and will also extend to the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, according to a University press release

The exact dollar amount of the gift was not released

According to Cornell Tech Dean and Vice Provost Dan Huttenlocher, conversations surrounding the partnership had “been going on since the late spring” and were initiated by Bill Pence ’89, AOL’s chief technology officer

“The idea for the Connected Experiences Lab was co-developed by the lead faculty [Prof ] Mor Naaman, [information science], and [Prof ] Deborah Estrin, [computer science], together with people from AOL,” Huttenlocher said

AOL’s gift will enable researchers at both

ALANA Adjusts to Stricter Funding Policies Since Byline Funding Cut

Board has fewer resources for direct programming, advisor says

By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor

Nearly one year ago, the AL ANA Intercultural Programming Board which helps fund organizations such as Black Students United, La Asociación Latina and the Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student Union was the center of campus-wide debate regarding how much the board should be funded by the University

Last November, the Student Assembly’s appropriations committee voted to slash ALANA’s byline-funded budget from $118,125 a year to $94,500 for 2014-16, citing frivolous spending and mismanagement in the previous byline cycle At the time, the cut was deemed “unthinkable” by ALANA’s e-board and was ultimately reduced to only $108,675 by the S A , The Sun previously reported

Transitioning into the present, Andrew Martinez ’12, ALANA’s staff advisor, said the experience has dramatically changed the way ALANA conducts its business

“ALANA definitely felt like they were under a microscope,” Martinez said “They really cut

their spending Overall I think ALANA’s in a better place in that they’re more accountable to themselves and they’re working more closely with the umbrella organizations, which is something that came up because of the whole process last year ”

ALANA distributes funding to five umbrella organizations representing various cultural groups on campus in addition to planning its own events geared toward promoting diversity and inclusion This year, however, ALANA has become stricter in how it allocates funds, according to Martinez

Previously, certain proportions of money given to ALANA would automatically be funnelled into accounts for each umbrella organization, according to Martinez Now, each organization has to continually apply each time they require funding, up to a certain amount

“ALANA had no way of knowing how they used the funding,” Martinez said “Now, we ’ ve developed a tier process where each organization has a number that they’re eligible to apply up to for the whole academic year ”

Cornell Tech and the Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology to focus on areas such as “ communication and coordination; food and wellness; education and safety,” as well as information and entertainment, according to the release

Researchers at the Technion will not only

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collaborate with Cornell Tech, but also with AOL in Israel, according to Huttenlocher

Huttenlocher added that Cornell Tech will also use the funds to support a wide range of people, from Ph D students to researchers and software developers

“The lab will not only do research, but will also build prototype online services and applications that help support engagement of small groups such as family and close friends with the

Noise Ordinance Policy Tabled

By DAVE JANECZEK Sun Staff Writer

Citing logistical issues, the Planning and Economic Development Committee opted to not send a revised noise ordinance policy to the Common Council for final approval

Wednesday

Alderperson Seph Murtagh M A ’04 Ph D ’09 (D-2nd Ward), chair of the committee, said the committee needs more time to review the proposed new ordinance because of its

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Vandalism Results in Dormitory Fire

By ANDREW MORSE ’96

A disaster was narrowly averted early this morning after a fire was purposely ignited in the mailroom of the Class of ’28 Hall

In an act described by Resident Hall Director Ollie MacMillian as “thoughtless vandalism,” a bulletin board inside the mailroom was set on fire, causing officials from the Ithaca Fire Department, the Cornell Campus Police and the Cornell Department of Environmental and Health Safety to rush to the scene

Sgt Charles E Howard of the Campus Police said the fire was started intentionally and that the situation could potentially have been much worse “Luckily there weren ’ t too many papers on the bulletin board If there were, we could have had a major structure fire,” he said

The fire did not spread, and all of the residents of the hall were evacuated without injur y Students were required to remain outside the building before being called in, two-at-a-time, for questioning by campus police

Howard stressed it was necessar y to hold the students outside of the building and question them individually “ We had to talk to ever ybody,” he said “ Tomorrow

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would have been too late to question them ”

Howard added that by containing the students outside the building, the police felt they had a better chance of apprehending whoever started the fire “If we let people go back to their rooms, they would have been locking their doors and going to sleep,” he said

The residents, however, generally did not agree with the way the situation was handled

“ They could have sent all of us to our rooms and questioned us later,” Holly Jurian ’97 said “It’s cold out here ”

Although Campus Police officers and Residence Life staff contended that they did ever ything possible to contain the situation, minor problems did occur as students waited outside the residence hall for more than an hour and a half

A group of apparently drunk men, identified only as members of an English soccer team visiting Cornell, disrobed and danced around naked outside the entrance to the hall

The students “for the most part were cooperative,” said Howard, although Resident Advisor Marguerite Duane grad said at least one student was “written up ” by Resident Life staff

Cancer Survivor Discusses Societal Misconceptions

By ASHLEY COLLIS-BURGESS Sun Staff Writer

Bre a s t c a n c e r s u r v i vo r a n d a c t i v i s t A n n Ma r i e

Giannino-Otis spoke at the second annual GOPiNK seminar at Cornell Wednesday about her experiences with breast cancer and societal misconceptions surrounding the disease

Giannino-Otis first spoke on the beginnings of her blog, “Stupid Dumb Breast Cancer,” where she writes and documents her experiences with breast cancer Although the blog was originally intended for her family, GianninoOtis said her readership eventually began to expand worldwide

“I have one of those really loud Italian families that has to know about my life, so I started a blog,” she said “Then, all of a sudden, [other] people started reading it because they connected with it ”

Seeking more connections within the online community, Giannino-Otis said she posted pictures of her body to her blog while battling cancer in hopes that other women would see and relate to the images

“I cried a lot when I looked at myself in the mirror and had scars across my chest when I had drain tubes coming out my body, and I didn’t know what was going to happen to me, ” she said “I wanted other women to understand that ”

Giannino-Otis added that there has been difficulty finding a cure for metastatic cancer because more often than not, attention is focused on early detection

“I think we have a hard time finding a cure for many reasons, ” she said “For one, I think that we are only focusing on early detection Advanced [stages of ] breast cancer need advanced research [as well] and that’s why we ’ re not stopping it ”

Giannino-Otis said she believes it is important to carefully research the breast cancer organizations one gets involved with, in order to make sure that donated funds go to the right places

“I love [the color] pink, and I love the pink ribbon because I really feel like it opens your eyes to the reality, but you have to look beyond the ribbon,” she said “Look at the organizations that you ’ re getting involved with not just with cancer, but with everything ”

She also said she believes that society needs to find ways to address the depression cancer survivors often experience for the entirety of their lives, even after overcoming the disease

“Cancer afterwards is a post traumatic stress disorder,” she said “For me to say out loud that I have cancer gives me chills now, almost three years later Our society needs to take a look at the depression aspects of cancer because it is real ”

Giannino-Otis added that men face a stigma with getting checked for breast cancer, since awareness surrounding

the disease is mainly oriented toward women

“Breast cancer awareness is not about women only, so get that out of your head,” she said “The problem is that society does not tell men to do self-breast checks ” GOPiNK is a non-profit student organization that seeks to educate and raise money in the fight against breast c a n

Wednesday’s seminar was one of two events that comprise GOPiNK’s annual event series

Baevsky said she hopes the next event a charity gala on Friday will be even more successful than the previous years ’ , which raised over $17,000 for the New YorkPresbyterian Hospital

“We are excited to be hosting the second annual gala and awareness seminar series and hope to raise even more money and help spread more awareness about the disease,” she said

Ashley Collis-Burgess can be reached at acollisburgess@cornellsun com

Dartmouth Students May Be Implicated for Academic Dishonesty

By THE DARTMOUTH

H A N OV E R , N H Fo r t y - t h r e e students may be implicated in an academic dishonesty case after religion professor Randall Balmer found a discrepancy between the number of students digitally submitting answers to in-class questions and the number of students present in class on Oct 30 Balmer held the accused students, enrolled in “Spor ts, Ethics and Religion,” after class on Tuesday so that judicial affairs director Leigh Remy could inform them of their rights and possible disciplinar y action

Ba l m e r s a i d h e w a s a l s o a w a re o f c h e a t i n g i n c i d e n c e s d u r i n g t h e c l a s s ’ s midterm exam, which was administered online He said multiple students told him cheating occurred during the test, even after he told students that they were not allowed to click out of the exam to Google questions

Balmer said he has not decided if he will remove the 43 students from the class Remy was not available for comment by press time and did not respond to emailed questions sent Tuesday evening

Unauthorized collaboration and giving and receiving assistance during an examination or quiz violate the academic h o n o r p r i n c i p l e T h e C o m m i t t e e o n

Standards saw 36 students for academic honor principle violations last academic year Thir ty-nine percent of violations

i n v o l v e d c h e a t i n g , a n d 1 7 p e r c e n t involved unauthorized collaboration

Two-thirds of students who were discip l i n e d f o r h o n o r p r i n c i p l e v i o l a t i o n s received suspensions, most spanning two and four terms Other sanctions included reprimands and separation

Balmer used clicker devices to assess

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Each clicker is registered with one student, who gains points for submitting answers to cer tain in-class questions A program integrates these answers into the class’s online grade book, which allows professors to track responses in real time

The class, held in Cook Auditorium at the Tuck School of Business, enrolls 174 more students this term than it did last fall, according to Balmer and the ORC timetable The class is the largest offered by Dar tmouth this term, and the nextlargest religion class offered this term enrolls 54 students

About 68 percent of students enrolled in the course are varsity athletes, according

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course than any other course in my 30 years of teaching. And to have things turn out this way it’s heartbreaking for me.”

to an analysis of the class roster conducted by The Dar tmouth About one quar ter of Dar tmouth students compete for the school

“I wanted to appeal to their interest, have a positive experience, allow them to s u c

remainder of Dar tmouth,” he said in an inter vie w on Tuesday afternoon, sitting in his Thornton Hall office “Obviously it’s a great disappointment to me that many of the students, including many a

ence ”

Several weeks ago, Balmer said, he began to suspect that students were skipping class and sending their clickers to class with friends to gain points for attendance On Oct 30, Balmer measured how many students were in class After asking the class a question to answer on their clickers, he passed out a paper version of the same question “In the w o r l d o f s p o r t s , w h a t h a p p e n e d o n August 22, 1926” to each student in the classroom

“ T h e TA s a n d I d i s t r i b u t e d t h e s e sheets to all the students in the class, being ver y careful not to distribute more than there were students in the class,” Balmer said “It turns out that 43 students who said they were there were not there “ Balmer repor ted the incident to Remy and learned that the honor code required him to repor t such violations for referral to the COS, he said He said he initially sought permission to offer a plea bargain for involved students

“I want to emphasize that this whole thing is ver y sad to me, ” Balmer said “I derive no satisfaction whatsoever ” Attendance and par ticipation account for about 15 percent of a student’s grade in the class, according to the syllabus Other projects include a midterm and a final examination, a book revie w and a debate

Based on what Remy told students Tuesday, Balmer said, he believes the C O S w i l l m a k e d i s c i p l i n a r y d e c i s i o n s based on precedent and prior infractions

Balmer, who said he has never experienced large-scale cheating in his classes, said he does not believe that the class’s large size is the reason for the incident, though he recognized that others may make that charge

“Any student who wants to cheat will find a way to do that,” he said

As ever y person who gave a clicker to a peer must have collaborated with an unknown number of students, Balmer said, there is no way for him to determine who exactly violated the honor principle Balmer said he will continue to use clickers in class, but he added that he is so discouraged that he may not teach the class again

“I’ve spent more time in this course, lost more sleep on this course, than any other course in my 30 years of teaching,” he said “And to have things turn out this way it’s hear tbreaking to me ”

A student in the class, who wished to remain anonymous because he did not want his grade in the class affected, said t h a t t h e i m p l i c a t e d s t u d e n t s i n c l u d e d only those who gave their clickers to friends on Oct 30, but cheating in the class was a term-long occurrence

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n t i n t h e c l a s s , w h o requested anonymity because he did not want his name associated with cheating, said that attendance worsened as the term progressed

Physics and astronomy professor John Thorstensen, who uses clickers in his classes, said that he has never experienced

Thorstensen said he learns the names and faces of those in his classes, which he said tend to enroll about 50 students or fe wer, tracking attendance in a larger class presents a greater challenge

In 2000, 78 students were investigated f o

course, but charges against all students were dropped After an investigation, the school could not determine who had cheated on a home work assignment Taylor Malmsheimer contributed repor ting

This story appeared in The Dartmouth Wednesday

Noise Ordinance to Be Revisited Next Month

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The major proposed changes to the ordinance involve adding objective decibel levels to the law that would make enforcement easier, as well as new property definitions, new standards for the Commons and city parks and new regulations for unamplified human voices and motor vehicles, as previously reported by The Sun

At the Wednesday meeting, the committee amended the proposal to lower the allowable decibel level in residential areas within 200 feet of commercial areas

“The reason that we ’ ve looked at this ordinance and done this revision is because the problem has been along those transition areas where theres been conflict between commercial establishments and nearby neighbors,” Murtagh said

In the previous proposal, residences within 200 feet of a commercial property had an

allowable noise level of 65 decibels during the day, according to Murtagh Under the committee’s amendment, daytime noise levels must be kept under the lower 60 decibel level in these “transition zones, ” even though they are within 200 feet of a commercial establishment

The committee also voted unanimously to remove a stipulation in the proposal that would have required continuous sound to be measured in three different samples within a one hour period in order for it to violate the ordinance

Robert Sarachan, assistant city attorney, indicated that he thinks this part of the policy would not work out in practice

“I don’t see any benefit I think logistically it doesn’t work,” Sarachan said “If somebody’s speeding the officer uses a radar to measure their speed and as soon as it exceeds the limit, that’s a violation ”

Murtagh expressed hope that increased enforcement of the noise ordinance would not be necessary beyond an initial period after the

ordinance is scheduled to take effect in June if approved

“My sense is that once the bar owners figure out what the standard is, they have the ability to self-police,” Murtagh said “They don’t want to be annoying everybody in the community, they want to run their business ”

The committee agreed to pick the issue up in December to allow for members to familiarize themselves with the complexity of the ordinance

“Th[ese are] a lot of changes, we’ll bring it back with those changes and amendments for passage in December,” Murtagh said

The initial proposed changes to the city noise ordinance come from a study done by Eric Zwerling, director of the Rutgers Noise Technical Assistance Center, in which he took noise measurements around the city and engaged the public in a dialogue about noise issues, The Sun previously reported

AOL Grant Will Support Ph.D. Students, Researchers

goal of improving their health and well being,” Huttenlocher said Prof Serge Belongie, computer science, who will also be a faculty member in the new laboratory, specified some of the research areas which he plans to pursue at the Connected Experiences Laboratory

“My role in the project centers on the use of computer vision and machine learning to classify imagery from wearable cameras to monitor health and wellness related behaviors,” he said

Pence said in the University press release that he was “thrilled” to partner with Cornell Tech and Technion

“Cornell Tech’s grounded, human-centered approach to developing cutting-edge technologies and systems aligns perfectly with the heart of AOL’s strategy where ‘Culture Meets Code,’” he said

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In Support

Of the Open Letter to President-Elect Garrett

ON OCT 27, STUDENTS BEGAN A CAMPAIGN VOICING the need to end sexual violence at Cornell The campaign, jointly created by Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood and Cornell Women’s Resource Center, aims to motivate students and the Cornell community to discuss sexual violence more openly As a main part of the campaign, students drafted an open letter to President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett, which urges her to prioritize issues of sexual assault, campus safety and gender equality during her presidency The online petition has received over 560 online signatures We at The Sun commend students for creating and signing the petition, and we urge Garrett to listen to the letter and address these issues

As the letter mentions, many organizations on campus as well as the administration have been working to better inform the community about sexual assault and to eradicate rape culture Yet despite these efforts, “incidences of violence, sexism, female exploitation and exclusion and racism persist at Cornell ” We at The Sun recognize that progress is being made, but also know that there is still room for improvement Over the summer, Cornell Chief of Police Kathy Zoner participated in “Campus Sexual Assault: The Administrative Process and the Criminal Justice System,” a roundtable discussion in Washington, D C , which focused on sexual assault and the response by colleges and law enforcement Zoner stated that while Cornell’s efforts to address sexual violence has expanded, she added that more can be done to address the campus climate surrounding these issues, especially preventative education

This time of transition in the administration gives the University an ideal time to evaluate the efforts that have been made recently and to reprioritize the important issues that need the most focus as we move for ward We at The Sun believe that Garrett should lead the administration to prioritize the issues stated in the letter that contribute to Cornell’s current culture Garrett has helped initiate more rigorous sexual assault policies at the University of Southern California In October, Garrett told The Sun that issues such as sexual assault and harassment are “incompatible” with the University environment and should not be tolerated We at The Sun hope PresidentElect Garrett continues to stand by this statement, further enhancing Cornell’s policies on sexual violence and working to better educate and inform the community about these issues

Feminism: What’s in It for Me

uys, I have a confession: I’ve been in the closet for a while now I have to get this right off my chest before it consumes me I think it’s time to finally come out: I am a feminist Wanting to identify with a terminology derived on its pursuit for equality, and not domination, truly became “uncomplicated,” as Emma Watson m e n

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t e d Na t i o n s speech I’ve been sitting in this dark dusty closet of denial for so long partly because of the way that the word “feminism” and any of its implications are seemingly stigmatized within American society Issues with regards to women ’ s rights, feminine pride and queer rights were never as salient to me before as they are now I also refuse to identify myself with anything that I have not done extensive research upon but all that has changed Feminism, according to MerriamWebster Dictionar y, is “the theor y of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes ” Well, I genuinely care about gender and sex equality, and I am aware that women not only in the United States but even more so around the world have been, and are still, disproportionately disadvantaged compared to their male counterp a r t C h e c k a n d

c h e c k So ye a h , according to this, I guess I am a feminist; Ta y l o r Sw i f t a n d I would also like to give k u d o s t o Em m a Watson for converting us her speech truly nailed it

Fe m i n i s m i s t h e

a c t i ve e m a n c i p a t i o n of femininity from the h i s t o r i c a l l y h e a v y shackles it never cons e n t e d t o we a r ; instead, these manacles have worn us all men, women and queer like some cheap accessor y around our bodies, but most importantly, around our identities

Then why not call us humanist? Well, the human individual, as much as they are independent, is also largely societal We cannot homogenize the experiences disproportionately faced by women On the other hand, we also cannot ignore the psychological effects faced by men who are deemed “ not masculine enough” by their environment, including individuals who identify themselves as queer (wherever in the spectrum they may lie) Humanism is literally too far fetched of a term, wishful thinking if you will trivializing and over simplifying deeply complex issues that have oppressed women for centuries; a tale as old as time (I won ’ t even go into how this further applies to the oversimplification of the idea of a post-racial America that accepts individuals who identify as queer with open arms, all because there was a Civil Rights Movement and a Gay Rights Movement)

“But, what is there in store for ME?” It says a lot when an entire branch of academia feminist, gender and sexuality studies at Cornell is dedicated to these ver y issues When we don’t care to look into these things through research, they appear seemingly trivial to us

Does it matter that when a man is called a “ p u s s y ” o r a n y t h i n g d e ro g a t o r y t h a t threatens masculinity, it happens to fall within a spectrum of femininity? The less feminine you are, the better you are treated; the more feminine you are, the more likely you’ll be taken as a joke

Do e s i t m a t t e r w h e n t h o u s a n d s o f women are having their private photos leaked in order to humiliate and/or have o t h e r s d e r i ve p l e a s u re f ro m t h e m ? Feminism addresses why there is a clear difference between having people leak your nudes online, and you deciding to post a

picture of yourself wearing a bikini on Instagram: You have a choice From politics down to the career force, other individuals, typically white males, have more of a say with what a woman should do with her body than the women herself

The way you portray yourself, especially on the Internet, is your stor y and only yours to tell It is your autobiography Other people violating the privacy of women online is, essentially, the exposure of the female diar y something that is meant for her eyes and her eyes alone Women have little choice in the stor y they choose to tell, because it has often been over written by others

The questions that we ask others shouldn ’ t be “what was she wearing” or “she asked for it by representing herself in that way ” We should be asking why the president of a university doubts rape allegations and why women are disproportionately sold into sex trafficking in, but especially outside of, the United States? The problem begins to solve itself once we stop asking “what does this have in store for me ” and instead we ask “why has society addressed the victim and not the perpetrator?”

These issues are fur ther exacerbated when you are a woman of color It is literally the double whammy hybrid of two histori-

Adding queer into the

s i t even more difficult We are privileged, so much so that we

re movement pushing for equality, just because it doesn’t seem to have anything in store for us But, it does so ver y much We literally have the luxur y of scrolling down our newsfeed, article after article telling the stories of child brides, prostitution, sex trafficking, rape, disadvant a g e

n careers, depression amongst young teenage boys, male victims of rape not being taken seriously, lack of attention with regards to veterans with PTSD, lack of attention with regards to male soldiers who are raped within the militar y (and the irony of an individual ser ving our countr y through his life, but us doing absolutely nothing to ser ve his peace of mind), acid thrown at faces of young women as a punishment for rejection, street harassment, domestic violence, the sexualization and objectification of the female body (not by her standards, but the s t a n d a rd s t h a t a re c h o s e n f o r h e r ) , #BringBackOurGirls, women not being allowed to vote in several countries and underrepresentation of women in political leadership positions But most importantly: There are hundreds of thousands of girls being denied an education, right as we speak, because this would be there way out, the golden ticket and we wouldn’t want that to happen, now would we? Thank you, Malala, for doing it anyways

Vulnerability isn’t weakness Empathy isn’t emasculating Dare to research at the expense of your dissonance

I’ll bring this up one last time: Why should this matter to you? Because while we can scroll past these things and go on with our lives, others can t Their stories, while they are not ours to write, are our stories as well I will not turn a blind eye away from reality; I am a feminist

Paola Muñoz is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology She can be reached at pmunoz@cornellsun com Midas’ Crumbs appears alternate Thursdays this semester

Eric Pesner | Dems Discuss

Fear, Hope and Change

The exciting thing about Senator Barack Obama was what he represented He was a personification of an ideal, of an idea of what America could be A majority of Americans embraced him as a messenger of hope and a bringer of change He spoke of an America that could be a united America of promise and possibility And his message brought out millions of people to vote for him But it didn’t last

Almost immediately, the newly-elected President Obama was met with a forceful and unrelenting opposition that threatened to undermine his ability to implement his agenda The stimulus to aid the flailing economy barely avoided the filibuster, and further attempts to stimulate growth were shut down before they got off the ground Meanwhile, the Republicans began to formulate their own vision for a future America

In 1994, Newt Gingrich formed The Contract with America which talked about lower taxes, a smaller government, and a reformed Congress Similarly, the Tea Party Movement began in 2009 as a rejection of the liberal ideas that brought Obama to the White House In both 1994 and 2010, the conservative backlash to a liberal governing ideal propelled the Republicans to overwhelming electoral victory

The problem with running a campaign on hope is that reality never lives up to the expectation Obama was supposed to end partisanship, government corruption and racism,

which clearly just could not happen When a human president could not achieve superhuman results, his supporters became disillusioned Obama accomplished many great things during his first two years, but he failed to deliver the world he promised, so the American people turned to the Republicans, hoping that their vision could bring about the desired results

But the Republicans’ message was, unlike Obama’s, not solely one of hope The

R e p u b l i c a n s tapped into a deep American fear about an ov e r - p o w e r f u l central government threatening their freedoms And this mixture of a positive vision and a negative view of the opposition worked wonders in the 2010 elections The Republicans had taken the mantle of change back from Obama and had used it to great success

emocrats ran a campaign on why ng for the Republicans was a bad dea, but they didn’t give the electorate a reason to vote for them

That brings us to 2014 This year, the Republicans walloped the Democrats in the midterms The Republicans offered no positive vision for the future, instead stoking fears about ISIS, Ebola and a dysfunctional government The Democrats, however, had the exact same problem I’m a committed and partisan Democrat, but I have no idea what vision we were trying to run on Every Democratic candidate had a scattershot message about their independence from Obama, their conservative bona fides on energy and how much the R e p u b l i c a n s want to ban birth control

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the Republicans never broke lockstep on their message their Senate candidates even used many of the exact same lines during the debates

moderates and liberals from turning out for Democrats

The Democrats ran a campaign on why voting for the Republicans was a bad idea, but they didn’t give the electorate a reason to vote for them So it’s hardly surprising that the voters that the Democrats rely on just stayed home The Republicans once again reclaimed the mantle of change, arguing that they would provide a relief to the floundering and directionless Obama administration Both parties tried to run a campaign based on fear, but the Republicans were simply better at it

But then, in 2012, it switched right back with Obama winning re-election with a majority of the vote While not able to promise change like in 2008, Obama cast Mitt Romney as an out of touch plutocrat who did not care about the people he sought to lead Obama tempered his message of hope with fear, just as the Republicans had two years earlier

The vision that Obama ran on in 2008 is gone The Democrats have completely abandoned whatever principles and ideals they held in order to try to appeal to a portion of the electorate that they were never going to win This year saw the lowest turnout in a midterm since 1942, largely because Democratic voters just did not show up Making conservative pleas to southern, white conservatives turned off many center-left

THROWDOWN

THURSDAYS

Julius Kairey | Always Right

TThe Democratic Party needs to reformulate its vision for the country If they don’t come up with something, then their voters just won ’ t come back And this isn’t too hard a task Much of what Obama promised in 2008 remains unfulfilled, from immigration reform to a living wage and paid leave to environmental protections And there are numerous other policies to push for and promote No party can please everyone, but they have to try to please someone The Democrats spent 2014 saying what they were fighting against, but unless they want a repeat of this year ’ s elections, they need to spend 2016 saying what they’re fighting for

Eric Pesner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at erp55@cornell edu Dems Discuss appears alternate Thursdays this semester

The Republican Moment

he Democratic Party is in political retreat Democrats not only lost the Senate last Tuesday, but had their membership in the House of Representatives brought to new lows Republicans are expected to hold more seats in the next Congress than at any time since 1930 Democrats were uncompetitive across most of rural America and the southern United States, while Republicans won governor races in the bluest of blue states like Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Massachusetts Hillary Clinton’s last-minute campaigning could not save Bruce Braley from a resounding defeat in Iowa, a state President Barack Obama won both times And those Democratic politicians like Mark Pryor of Arkansas who kept their distance from the President experienced the same sad fate as many of their fellow Democrats Republicans now have total control of the governments of nearly half the states, defined as controlling both houses of the state legislature and the governorship

Even in liberal Ithaca where voting Democratic is often considered an exercise in moderation strong support for Martha Robertson ’75 could not prevent a crushing 25-point victory for incumbent Republican Tom Reed in New York’s 23rd Congressional district The Republican win across the country was broad-based: Republicans won nearly half of women voters, along with more than one-third of Latinos

The so-called “ party of the rich” received tens of millions of votes from Americans across a wide demographic spectrum

The elections represent a stark repudiation of President Obama’s leadership At home, too many continue to suffer from anemic economic growth

Those under the age of 30 are graduating from college with degrees that saddle them with debt, but prove worthless when finding a job The future of America’s healthcare system faces further uncertainty in light of the failed rollout of Obamacare and the now infamous “if you like your health care you can keep it” promise Americans are waking up to the realization that our immigration policy as fragmented and incoherent as it is fails to incentivize lawful immigration over unlawful immigration President Obama’s hints at the possibility of a more comprehensive

amnesty have encouraged tens of thousands to flock to our border The federal government is failing to control who comes to the county, and the man responsible for securing the nation’s borders seems indifferent

It is time for Republicans to seize the political mandate given to them by th election, and, in so doing, prove thes comentators wrong.

Overseas, much of the world has taken note of the absence of American leadership Radical Islamists sense a power vacuum and are on the march ISIS has captured vast swaths of territory that America struggled to secure, virtually ensuring that Iraq and Syria will remain failed states for the indefinite future America and our western allies have watched thousands of our own citizens join ISIS, with a few even beheading western journalists on camera Israel fought its war against Hamas terrorists this summer with insufficient support from President Obama, who continuously pushed ceasefire proposals that would have prevented Israel from destroying the terror tunnels and protecting its citizens from rocket fire Russia feels no check on further expansion into Eastern Europe, and Iran marches on to acquiring a nuclear weapon

The President must be living in a different world While the nation looks to the President for leadership, he comes off as uncomprehending of the magnitude of the threat posed by America’s enemies Addressing the United Nations, he compared the war and instability raging across the globe to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson

While Americans call for a change, too many Democrats seem unwilling to acknowledge that last Tuesday’s election mattered A chorus of left-wing commentators are grasping for every explanation of last Tuesday’s result except that the election said anything about the popularity of liberal policies

It is time for Republicans to seize the political mandate given to them by this election, and, in so doing, prove these commentators wrong Americans want the country on a different track, and Republicans must prove that a better path is possible This means taking control of the agenda Approving the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which has been needlessly delayed by this administration, should be a priority Moderate Democrats in the Senate would almost certainly break against their party in a vote on this issue, politically isolating the President from a bipartisan majority in Congress

Simultaneously, Republicans should start chipping away at Obamacare through a piece-by-piece approach Congress should repeal the individual mandate, employer mandate and medical device tax in separate pieces of legislation If the President decides to veto, so be it He and his party will suffer the political consequences

On immigration, Republicans must put forward a sensible proposal that focuses on securing America’s porous border We cannot address the issue of what to do with illegal immigrants in the United States until we stem the tide of people coming here unlawfully Having a new amnesty every couple of decades is not an immigration policy; it continues to reward people who break the law while ducking the difficult policy questions

For Republicans, the work of putting the country back on track and challenging the President’s agenda starts now Republicans must show the country that they can govern in the nation’s best interest to improve the party brand at a time where Democratic Party favorability is at a record low If they can set up a strong contrast with the President and his party in both ideological outlook and policy preferences, they can break their Presidential losing streak come 2016 while doing a lot of good for the country

Julius Kairey is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at jkairey@cornellsun com Always Right appears alternate Thursdays this semester

Autumn-Inspired Foods to Be Thankful for This Season

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A z e a l i a B a n k s

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Listening to Broke with Expensive Taste, it is clear why Interscope struggled with rap malcontent Azealia Banks so much: This whole album is absurd Borrowing heavily from previous Azealia Banks releases (“212” is here, over three years after its initial release), Broke is a genre-shifting, radiorefusing and ultimately delightful project by one of rap, pop and R&B’s greatest talents Forget the Twitter feuds and the shock language, Banks is an artist with an excess of talent, incredible ambition and a great ear for beats Broke first started to buzz back in 2012 2012 quickly turned into 2014, and eventually Interscope had enough of Azealia’s antics, dropping her from the label Apart from a couple of singles (including the radio-aimed, Pharell-assisted flop “ATM Jam,” which ended up being left off the album), she had not released new music since 2012’s Fantasea mixtape Stuck in label purgatory, Azealia’s career was very much in doubt She certainly would not be the first break out rapper to struggle with the demands of major labels and ultimately end up a second rate DatPiff regular Instead, Broke founds her catapulting towards stardom, casually mixing explicit lyrics with smooth hooks, all over a range of beats capitalizing on Banks’ ability to flow comfortably over anything

It is her voice though that immediately pulls at you Husky and menacing, when actually rapping Banks hits

every syllable with a rare kind of focused intensity This helps her steal back the attention from house, trap and hip hop beats that aim for club stardom even without her contribution “Yung Rupunxel” is not a new track, but might be the best example Over The Internet’s thumping, morphing beat, Banks raps quietly, threatening “Who’s cooler than this, witch / maneuver then dip, hip like the ruger, this clip / bitches zooted and sipped, I’m suited and zipped,” before going into a screaming chorus It is courageous and brilliant Where most of the pop world would have stuck a chorus on it and attempted to force the beat to work for them, Banks embraces and meets the track’s ferocity

“Soda” immediately follows “Yung Rupunxel” and displays an entirely different side She sings the entire song with a pop sensibility that surpasses the Drakes of the world and aims for Charli XCX That she does so on one of the album’s deeper cuts (she is singing about the struggles of “self-medicating”) is representative of the confidence she obviously has in her voice and ear In slowing it down and gently singing, she ensures that her words are heard and her intentions conveyed

“Soda” is largely an anomaly on an album that is more predominantly focused on aggressive, battle rap boasts and sexually explicit lyrics This is certainly not a complaint though rap is meant to be confrontational She even does well making songs function on multiple levels For example,

on the first verse of the Theophilus Young featuring “JFK,” she brags about her sex appeal in an unstated recollection of the power she felt working as a stripper, before going into a chorus in which she is apparently attacking Lady Gaga over a disagreement from a year ago

The closing two tracks are “Miss Amor” and “Miss Camaraderie,” obviously intended to work as a set “Miss Amor” is the post break-up song, and includes lines not just about hooking up with people, but, per Azealia Banks’s Twitter, masturbating She sing-raps a variety of alliterative sounds here and throughout the album, using her voice both for lyricism and as an additive for the production In doing so she adds a dancehall quality to the tracks, making them even more impulsive and visceral “Miss Camaraderie” concludes the album with Azealia moving on from her break-up and pursuing and falling in love with a man, finishing off Broke with a triumphant horn section For all the posturing and bravado, Azealia Banks is a hopeless romantic just like the rest us

I am confused about the inclusion of ”212” on this album Broke did not need more material and “212” just overshadows everything else here For me personally, she is always going to be associated with the music video for this song, in which she is dancing, wearing a Mickey Mouse sweater and casually rapping “Imma ruin you, cunt ” For as much as she obviously has to say and share, Broke would have been best served moving on without the Banks anthem and demonstrating her growth as an artist

Broke with Expensive Taste is generally just so much fun

The whole album is an Easter Egg hunt find your favorite beat, your favorite line Maybe you want a verse in Spanish (“Gimme a Chance”) or an Ariel Pink feature (“Nude Beach a Go-Go”) These are not gimmicks though they are authentic offerings from an obstinate 23 year-old If nothing else, Broke establishes Azealia Banks as a person, an organic girl from Harlem with vision, talent and taste Just do not call her out on Twitter

Calvin Patten is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at cpatten@cornellsun com

A Wild Caw Fr om the Self-Conscious: Birdman

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Who are you to think your existence in the universe has any significance? What business does a human being have acting like they are important in an infinite realm of time and space? This could serve as a fitting prelude to a discussion of Interstellar, but it is also the underlying theme which carries the emotional power of Alejandro G Iñaŕritu’s brilliant new film Birdman

To be alive is to invariably see your life as the most important thing in eternal, boundless creation Birdman is a looney, crazy, balls-out dramatization of that extreme and elemental contradiction Each one of us has a radically different take on life, which can often be deflated by a few bracing kicks from reality How does one reconcile the two?

While Birdman doesn’t explicitly provide an answer, it demonstrates a potential kind of tonic alluded to in its subtitle: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance And it is clear, from the first frames of this movie, this is a tale that beats to its own drum Quite literally the opening credits are set to a broken, yet enthralling series of drum riffs, which suggest the overall rule-breaking tone The movie flies

in the face of a great many conventions and traditions, chief among them the ones endorsed by Hollywood and directly skewers them through its subject matter

The first shot finds the film s protagonist, Riggan Thomson, hovering in mid-air He can ’ t really be levitating, can he? Or can he? Yes, because in Riggan’s mind, sometimes represented by the seedy, growling voice of his alter ego and the film’s titular character, anything is possible In his mind, he is King of All Things The film finds numerous innovative ways to express this rift between Riggan’s wildly distorted worldview, and the harshness of an indifferent world, one partial to documenting celebrity foul-ups on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook Riggan is, as one character mocks, a celebrity, not an actor While he is trying to relaunch a career for himself as a serious thespian, he is bestknown around the world for having starred in a blockbuster franchise about a superheroic bird creature

Birdman

Directed by Alejandro G Iñarritu

Starring Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Edward Norton

As played by Michael Keaton, Riggan represents a bold and obvious selfsatire For those of you whose memory of Batman is eclipsed by C h r i s t o p h e r Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, and perhaps by G e o r g e Clooney in that nippleenhanced bat-suit, Keaton starred in Tim Burton’s first two installments of that franchise He slipped under the wire after the ’90s, occasionally resurfacing in such mainstream fare as Toy Story 3 and The Other Guys Birdman is an ironic and career-reinvigorating turn for Keaton, in which the actor lampoons his own career fearlessly and vibrantly For his dedication, expect some notice from the Academy Self-destructing reinvention also applies to Iñaŕritu, who has made no secret of the film’s basis in his own career struggles over the past ten years

IAs a filmmaker, Iñaŕritu is known for his moody, brooding dramas involving despair, death and fate, told in nonlinear structure and multiple perspectives from an ensemble While Birdman boasts a terrific ensemble that includes Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and, yes, Zach Galafinakis, like you ’ ve never seen them before, it’s a far cry from any other film of Iñaŕritu’s The director designed it as a self-liberating experiment, and the result is a liberating experience for the audience

Like Russian Ark, the movie is presented as a single, continuous Steadicam shot It weaves uninterruptedly through the corridors, changing rooms and the backstage drama of Riggan’s Broadway show, a Raymond Carver adaptation starring, directed and produced by him There are a couple of cheats, but the masterful Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, The Tree of Life), perhaps the greatest cinematographer working today, pulls off the ceaseless photography seamlessly To watch Riggan manipulate matter with his fingers and then feel his humiliation as he’s forced to walk through Times Square in his underpants all within the same shot gives us a true sense of the line between self-affirming delusion and reality This is a line the movie straddles and deliberately blurs into a wondrous no-man ’ s land where the most outlandish things are possible As Riggan stands poised to leap off a building, we don’t know whether others are right to be concerned for his sanity, or whether to be titillated because we know he can fly The ingenious quality of Birdman is that we often feel the thrill of self-aggrandizement and a rude awakening at the same time

“Face it Dad, you ’ re doing this because you ’ re scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don’t matter And you know what? You’re right You don’t,” Emma Stone’s wide-eyed character tells her father, Riggan One shot in Birdman observes the hostile neutrality of a backstage hallway, a la Taxi Driver, as Riggan and his cast are greeted with silence and then a chorus of applause on stage Riggan may not matter, but this movie sure makes it tempting to believe, in the words of the great beak of prey perching on his shoulder, “You are a god ” And by the end, when Riggan’s vision has spilled out of his mind and has others beholding his omnipotent powers, the film has us believing in ignorance not as an unexpected virtue, but a needed essential

Mark DiStefano is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun com

The Fiction of Reading in College

haven’t read a single unassigned book all semester, which is strange, because it feels like I read constantly; magical realist novels in Spanish, non-fiction about Barbadian immigrants in Brooklyn, Jay-Z’s autobiography, treatises on moral rationalism, critiques of utilitarianism, essays on transnational feminism, the social construction of race and textbook chapter after textbook chapter I am a tiny master of highlighting, underlining and bracketing These texts range from tedious to fascinating, but all their titles can be found on a syllabus, and none of them did I choose to read myself

So, when I considered what to write about this week I thought maybe I’d deviate from routine (lifestyle?) of thinking/writing about culture that I consume through a screen or headphones, and write about a piece of literature, it became disturbingly apparent that the last thing I read of my own volition was (rather questionably) The Fountainhead at the end of this past summer

A simple survey of friends and classmates informs me that I’m not alone in this situation This is more troublesome, because a lot of these people are formerly insatiable readers: Kids who would voluntarily chug through dry classics (even if only for bragging rights) and were always halfway through three or six novels in high school And the answer to why lots of these kids don’t read for pleasure in college is supremely obvious: They don’t have time

An 18-plus credit course-load, a job, research, meetings and clubs, neverending applications, a round of prelims and projects and papers every month and attempting to maintain a social life, as well as one ’ s mental health leaves exactly very little time for pleasure reading Very little leisure time at all, actu-

ally And when said burdened student does happen to find themselves hungover on a Saturday morning with little enough work that they can rationalize not doing homework, finishing up season six of Mad Men is often more appealing than picking up Don DeLillo’s latest If you ’ re a liberal arts major or taking liberal arts classes, you ’ re also probably assigned more pages of reading each week than you could complete even if you neglected all other responsibilities and locked yourself in stimulus-deprived study room for eight hours a day The fatigue of constant reading makes reading during downtime seem pretty gross (like I’m

legitimately sick of words and paragraphs) A lot of the reading I do has come to feel just like another form of oppressive academic labor, to be done with maximum efficiency and completed, a few key points gathered up, coherent comments to be made in class formulated and very foreign from the pastime it used to be Maybe my complaint, of being deprived of the time and motivation to read can be countered with the solution: “Take an English class ” Well, I do, and I have I’d argue that the enterprise of reading a novel in an English class in which you must continually interpret and analyze and identify effective quotes and decode metaphors and apply of theories of crit-

icism essentially alters the act of reading I m not ranting that the classroom process corrupts reading, or that our professors are pedagogically sucking out the all the joy and wonder of literature No, there’s undeniable value in these processes, as they teach you how to speak and think critically and academically about writing However, I posit that this kind of reading can ’ t replace reading for pleasure, without deadline or dissection, and it can ’ t fill the space in our lives that reading occupied and which our college schedules do not permit

So, this is kind of a bummer And it feels counterintuitive: We’re studying at an institution of higher education allegedly in a time of intellectual and artistic exploration, a time to learn how to think and what to think about, and I had more meaningful literary experiences in middle school (Island Of The Blue Dolphins? Maniac Magee?) Discretionary reading isn’t rewarded or compensated in college the way it was in previous stages of education

Our young minds are being freaking molded! And molded largely without meaningful literary influence it appears

So maybe it’s on us, as students? To rally from the endless reading and carve out the time and energy? To not cede our leisure time to Netflix and clicking infinitely around Facebook? I hope not, because television and wasting time on the Internet are two of my favorite pastimes and a mindless relaxation like no other, necessary for proper academic detox

Or is it a more systemic problem, rooted in the way higher education is structured? Maybe, but I don’t really buy into the sensationalized, d o n ’ t - s e n d - y o u r - k i d

they’ll-turn-into-anxiety-ridden-academiczombies theory, that college is too hard in all the wrong ways and that rigorous academics don’t engage students or teach them to be curious or creative Bottom line, school is really difficult and stressful But I feel engaged with most of the work I spend my time doing, and I’m exposed to so many voices and ideas in the classes that burden me with soul-crushing loads of reading, that would never penetrate my insular bubble just through the novels I (would) choose to read

The fact that I read so infrequently without obligation makes me uncomfortable But practically, I don’t foresee my circumstances changing in the near future, and I’m not sure I think that they should Nothing that I do in college feels inessential or expendable, and for the most part, the academic labor of reading that I do, as much as I grumble and resent it, is engaging and worthwhile Although it can ’ t replace the kinds of reading that it displaces, I think it’s a fairly valuable way to spend the time I’m not reading by choice Maybe I should instead begrudgingly accept that maybe college is not a time in the trajectory of my life that really caters to individual literary exploration

That doesn’t mean that I’ll stop buying stacks of novels that I almost certainly won ’ t even think about thinking about reading until winter break rolls around, or feeling bitter when I see them sitting unread on my desk But stressing or feeling guilty about the sight of them, to compliment the thousand and nine other stresses that threaten my sanity, is perhaps misplaced and counterproductive

Jael Goldfine is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun com Ob j e c t i v i t y Bi t e s r uns alternate Thursdays this semester

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Assistant Sports Editor and Ten Questions Columnist Anna Fasman ’16 caught up with junior captain Angelica Gangemi to talk about everything from Netflix to hip hop dancing

1 ) How d i d you g et yo ur s ta r t i n fe nc i ng ?

I started when I was six and a half I was doing co-ed kindergarten soccer at the time, but I was only one of two girls so I wasn ’ t having that much fun I had watched The Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan and there’s a scene where they’re fencing and I thought it was so cool I was living in New York at the time and my dad and I signed up for class He stopped after about a month but I kept with it

2 ) H ow d oe s on e p i ck a we ap on i n whi c h to s p ec ia l iz e for fen c in g ?

Because I started so young, they typically start new fencers with foil, just because tactically, it’s the most precise You start with foil to get the basics down, and if you want, you can switch weapons later on The club I was at was primarily foil, so I wasn ’ t really exposed to the other two weapons until I got much older, but I just fell in love with it People often refer to fencing as physical chess and I feel like foil definitely embodies that it’s very strategic and tactical

3 ) Do you hav e an y p re ga me ri t ua ls , ei t he r a lo ne or wi t h th e t ea m?

Foil is interesting in that you need to make a connection on a metal vest, so in order to do that you have to tape your weapons so that they don’t ground out The day before we leave for a tournament, I tape all my weapons over, even the ones that are fine The night before I typically eat pasta with a protein and I go to bed in the clothes

that I am going to compete in the following day It makes the morning a lot smoother

4 ) Wha t i s som et hi n g a lot of p e opl e d on ’ t k n ow a bout you?

All my close friends will say that they know this about me, but something that wouldn’t be so obvious from just seeing my on the street is that I would love to be a hip hop dancer It’s my life goal The Step Up movies are the bomb

Are you a good dancer or is this just something to aspire to?

I mean, no, but I can do the Dougie I like to do it for fun It’s a great stress reliever for me I’ve recently gotten into coffee, but when the caffeine fails me late at night, I just dance it out and it keeps me going for another two hours

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One bout that comes to mind is a bout that I fenced at NCAA Regionals this past season against a fencer from St John’s She is from Italy, and Italy is known for being a powerhouse, especially in foil That was one bout where everything really connected my body and what my brain was telling my body to do just sunk up and I fenced really well

6 ) Wh at e ls e a re you i nv olv ed wi t h on c a mp us?

I’m on the executive board of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee as well as Red Key Honor Society I volunteer once a week with Big Red Buddies, so I get to go to the childcare center and play with the kids for an hour I’m also in Big Red

Leadership where they basically sit down with athletes and teach them different leadership and communication skills, which has been incredibly useful, especially as captain of the team I also have an undergraduate research position in the Infant Studies Lab, which has been incredible, as well as the Cornell Filipino Association It has been great connecting with my culture and getting to meet a lot of people that way

7 ) Wh at i s your fa v or i te mome nt you ’ v e ha d wi t h t he t e am?

Fencing is a very individual sport, and I competed only in clubs nationally, so that’s how I experienced fencing until coming to college College fencing is a lot more team oriented and you really depend on your teammates This past weekend, we went to Vassar and we went undefeated The team dynamic was really different everyone was just super supportive of each other and I know that helps me when I’m fencing and I know a lot of the girls on the team said that that has helped them as well We had an amazing team spirit and that really helped us keep the energy going through a long day

8 ) A cc ord i ng t o your Twi t t er, you a re a Net fl ix fa n Wh ic h sh ows ha ve you b ee n wa tc hi n g la t el y?

I just finished How I Met Your Mother I also am a huge Say Yes to the Dress fan I really don’t like doing laundry, and they’re 22-minute [episodes], so it gives me just enough time for me to sit there and get all my laundry done Vampire Diaries, that’s a big one Vampire Diaries and Revenge are probably my two big ones

9 ) Whe re d o you se e your se lf i n fi v e yea r s?

Hopefully graduating medical school

and starting a residency I will be taking the MCAT and applying this coming spring and summer, which is super exciting and also super nerveracking I want to go to med school, specifically pediatrics, which explains a lot of my extracurriculars

1 0) You’re t he old e st si b li n g of four How d o you t hi n k e a ch of your si b li ng s ha s s ha p ed you?

It’s interesting because the girls sandwich the boys, so the two boys are in the middle I feel like my relationships with all of them are really close but they’re very different The older of the younger brothers is getting to the age where we can start to talk about more mature things He’s always looked out for me The younger brother, he’s a moosh He’s always been so much bigger than me, but he’s a teddy bear He’s always looked out for me, since we ’ ve been little With my sister, obviously we have the girl bond, so I get to talk to her about a lot of girly things Just in general, they have been so supportive of me, especially with fencing They made a lot of sacrifices when they were little since they would have to take me into fencing, so they couldn’t get involved with a lot of sports They’ve also just been such a great support system for me in all areas of my life

Have they seen you fence at Cornell?

Yeah! They’ve been to almost every tournament of mine My dad is my number one cheerleader and he’s made it to every tournament I’ve ever fenced at since the beginning It’s really nice to have them as a support system and now they’re starting to get involved with their own extracurriculars and I can be that support for them

Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun com

Red Resets for Upcoming Season

Several injured players return as team moves past last season ’ s disappointment

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Staff Writer

After a forgettable 2-26 season last year, Cornell men ’ s basketball looks to regain its footing and return to prominence in the Ivy League Last season was marred by injuries and the Red began 2013-14 with 13 consecutive losses Cornell stumbled to a 1-13 conference record and finished last or next to last in nearly every meaningful statistical category including points for and against, field goal percentage, rebounds and assists

But that season is history and Cornell is ready to start fresh and take on the 2014-15 season Head coach Bill Courtney said he is confident that the squad has moved beyond last year ’ s disappointing campaign

“Our biggest strength is our speed.”

Bill Courtney

“When you go through what we went through last year, you can go two ways with it It can either bury you, or you can come out of it and learn from it,” he said “I think all of our guys have learned from it ” Courtney said he believes in the Red After his team finished last in the Ancient Eight last year, Courtney has his sights set on the Ivy League title

With the return of forward Shonn Miller, this goal may be in reach Miller, arguably one of the best players in the Ivy League, returns to the team after missing all of last season due to a shoulder injury Miller, a 6’ 7” senior, was first team All-Ivy in his sophomore season, averaging 11 5 points, 6 8 rebounds, 1 9 steals and 1 9 blocks per game

“[Miller] should have an absolutely terrific year on both ends of the floor, offense and defense,” Courtney said “He affects so many things, we ’ re looking to him to have a player-of-the-year type season ”

Miller’s co-captain, senior Devin Cherry, will also be a huge factor this season Cherry averaged 12 3 points, 4 3 rebounds and 3 5 assists per game last season and will likely be tasked with more responsibilities on offense as he will

look to fill the void created by Nolan Cressler’s transfer to Vanderbilt Courtney said the 6’3” point guard has worked on his shot relentlessly and is ready for a big season

Miller and Cherry will be part of a strong senior core that also includes center Deion Giddens and guard Galal Cancer Cancer didn’t play last year and Giddens watched most of the season on the bench with a knee injury This year marks the first time the group has played together since their sophomore years

Cornell, with newfound depth, will try to press fullcourt on defense, forcing opponents into turnovers These turnovers should lead to fast-break buckets for the Red With this aggressive style of basketball, mistakes are more likely to pile up, but Courtney said that the Red’s discipline and conditioning will allow the team to be successful

“The guys have been working hard to be in great shape It’s working pretty good, but we ’ re a work in progress still,” he said “It’s definitely going to be an attacking style of defense where we want the opponent to react to us at all times ”

While last year the Red also ran an up-tempo style of play, Courtney says this year the squad is talented enough that they will be playing offense and defense at “ warp speed ”

“Our biggest strength is our speed and our quickness, and we ’ re going to try to play to that,” he said “It’s going to be an extremely exciting brand of basketball ”

Cornell tips off this season with a contest against George Mason on Friday at 7:30 The Red will travel to Fairfax, Virginia, to take on the Patriots who finished last year 11-20, including 4-12 in the Atlantic 10 Conference, good for 13th in the conference The team graduated several key weapons but sophomore Jalen Jenkins and senior Eric Copes could step up this season as offensive threats

George Mason will likely use its big front court to lock down the paint and force the Red to take perimeter shots

A key to the game will likely be whether or not Cornell can edge the Patriots in rebounding Last year, the Red was outrebounded by a margin of 4 7 rebounds per game

“We’re not the biggest team in the world, so we ’ re going

to have to do a great job blocking out, ” Courtney said “But if we can clear the boards, we feel that we can get the ball out and run ”

Five years removed from its NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance, the Red has yet to post a winning record under Courtney He admits he doesn’t quite know this team ’ s fate, but has faith in the squad

“We’re just going to go out and play as hard as we can and kind of let the chips fall where they may, ” he said “But that being said, we think we have a group that can do some special things ”

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