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Police ‘Disappointed’ By 2014 City Budget

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Wr ter

The Common Council’s decision to shut down a proposal that would have added two police officers to the City of Ithaca is “ very disappointing,” the senior deputy chief of the Ithaca Police Department says Pete Tyler, senior deputy chief of IPD, says that, given the current staffing levels of the department, police officers may face additional pressures as they seek to keep the city safe

“I’m very disappointed in the decision to not approve the two positions for police officer.”

P e t e Ty l e r

“While the Common Council and the mayor understandably had a tough financial decision to make, I’m very disappointed in the decision to not approve the two positions for police officers,” h e s a i d “ W h e n s t a f f i n g i s reduced, it lends itself to a number of different issues some personal on the side of the officers, whether it means less time off or more stress, because you ’ re doing more work, have less recovery time and less time to do reports ”

Officers are concerned about budget constraints, especially as crime rates have increased From 2008 to 2012, the yearly total calls for service the department has fielded increased from 17,573 to 21,398, according to IPD The increase was partially caused by the depart-

Former Factor y Inches Closer to Cleanup

Firearm, ammunition production contaminated site

By EMMA COURT Sun News Editor

A former gun factory located off West Campus entered the public comment phase of a government program that aims to clean up environmental contaminants and promote commercial development

The site is participating in the Brownfield Cleanup Program, which is administered by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

The program aims to address the environmental, legal and financial barriers that often hinder the redevelopment and reuse of contaminated properties, according to a guide to the program

course of its occupation by Ithaca Gun Company from 1885 to 1986, according to NYSDEC’s work plan for the site In the course of manufacturing firearms and ammunition, the factory also conducted activities like spray-painting, forging and metal plating, according to the work plan

“Prior uses by the Ithaca Gun Company appear to have led to contamination of both on-site and near off-site areas, ” the work plan says Located on Lake Street and approximately 1 6 acres in size, the property is currently vacant

The work plan states that “prior uses appear to have let to contamination of both on-site and near off-site areas.”

Zoned for industrial use, it has b e e n h o m e t o t h e It h a c a Manufacturing Company a producer of manufacturing equipment as well as another gun producer, W H Baker & Company

The draft for the cleanup of the former Ithaca Gun factory is now complete, and public comments about the plan will be accepted for the next month

The site was likely contaminated during the

The possibility of environmental contamination on the site was first suspected when lead bullets were found in the gorge area near the property,

Proposed Tax Break Concerns Ithacans

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

City residents expressed conc e r n s a t a p u b l i c h e a r i n g Thursday over a proposal to give the developers expanding downtown Ithaca’s Holiday Inn a tax abatement

Lenroc LP, on behalf of the Ho l i d a y In n a t 2 2 2 So u t h Cayuga St , is applying for abatements on sales taxes and mortgage recording taxes The sales and mortgage recording abatements are valued at $207,806

and $5,000 respectively, according to an Ithaca Journal article

Lenroc LP claims that the Holiday Inn is in danger of becoming completely nonfunctional without renovations, and that without the tax abatements, t h e h o t e l m a y l o s e b u s i n e s s Plans to renovate the hotel with new guest rooms and a conference center have been already d e l a ye d t o a vo i d t

m p o r a r i l y closing the hotel, according to the Journal Theresa Alt, a staff member of Tompkins County Workers’

Center and one of approximately 15 people who attended the meeting, said she disapproves of the proposed abatements Alt said that a “quick look at the application” showed that, should the IDA grant the abatements and facilitate Inn renovations, there would be no increased property value or additional jobs available for city employees Alt said that many workers at the Holiday Inn are working for unlivable wages, a point that was

Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series: Ted Tang ’79, The Leading Hotels of the World 1:25 - 2:15 p m , Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall

Chasing Ice: Movie Dinner Discussion 5 p m , Carol Tatkon Center

Fandom Friday: Doctor Who 7:30 - 10:30 p m , Robert Purcell Community Center

Nerd Night Ithaca: “Making X-Rays,” “Release the Kraken,” “The Baddest Asses of War” 8:30 - 10 p m , Big Red Barn

News, “Filipino Students at Cornell Hope to Aid Philippines After Typhoon Haiyan,” Monday Speaking about how to respond to a disasters similar to Typhoon Haiyan I think that the most imp ortant resp onse is the reactive one rather than the proactive one but I b elieve that there is more outreach that can b e done to the communities who lack the means to b e as prepared as p ossible when such a catastrophe happ ens

Arahan 14 Remembering Lincoln at Gettysburg

tamp ering with the steel mesh or tamp ering with any of the monitoring systems in place We [also] haven t had any incidences of p eople going into the steel mesh ”

Sp eaking ab out the safet y of women on campus

“The truth is women are not s afe on this campus That is an undeniable yet unacceptable truth I’ve received one to o many crime alerts in my (almost) three years at Cornell to ever b elieve that my female friends are completely s afe here I’ve read ab out women b eing ass aulted in fraternity houses on the street and even in the s afe confines of their own homes

D eon Thomas ’15

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Sp eaking ab out the ethical dilema of international news coverage of crisises

“While there is no question that the Philippines is currently facing a major crisis international resp onses to crises often p ose an ethical dilemma In an effort to drum up the much-needed supp ort for the p eople of the Philippines news outlets and other aid organiz ations rely on the quintessential pull-at-your-heartstring stories and photos to get the reaction they desire and to allow audiences around the world a chance to connect with these p opulations in trouble ”

Sam Riholtz ’14

Alumnus Rai se s More Than $4M

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EEzra’s Oracle

zra s Oracle welcomes inquiries from members of the Cornell community about anything and everything related to the University We seek out answers to campus mysteries, research rumors and investigate issues of relevance to Cornellians Questions can be submitted via email to ezrasoracle@cornellsun com

Q: What is the histor y of Sibley Hall, and what is the height to the top of the dome?

Sibley Sleuth ’15

A: Many students don’t realize that Sibley Hall was actually built in three pieces The west wing was the original building, opened in 1871 East Sibley was built in 1894 as an almost exact replica The dome, which originally housed a 922-person auditorium, was finally added to connect the two buildings in 1902, with a height of 105 feet and 3 inches according to a 1901 article in The Cornell Daily Sun These buildings were the home of the College of Engineering before the Engineering Quad was built, with architecture students taking over in 1959 The donors and namesakes were Hiram Sibley and his son, Hiram W Sibley, who both served on Cornell’s Board of Trustees The elder Sibley was an industrialist and entrepreneur from Rochester who became involved with the telegraph Originally a major competitor with Ezra Cornell, Sibley eventually merged his telegraph interests with Cornell’s to form Western Union Cornell later recruited Sibley’s financial support for engineering education at his radical new institution, Cornell University

Q: Where did Richard Feynman live in Ithaca when he was at Cornell?

Physics Phanatic ’11

A: Richard Feynman was an assistant professor of physics at Cornell from 1945 to 1950, having previously worked on the Manhattan Project (among many former and future Cornellians) He won the 1965 Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics (inspired in part by a Cornell student spinning a plate in a dining hall) To track down his address, the Tompkins County Public Library has a collection of old Ithaca directories available online The 1946 directory states Feynman was rooming at 611 E Seneca Street By 1949, he was rooming at 505 The Parkway in Cayuga Heights

Q: What buildings and libraries are open 24 hours?

Night Owl ’16

A: The Cornell University Library website has a handy tool that shows what libraries are open on any given day Uris Library is generally open 24 hours on Monday through Thursday The study spaces in Carpenter Hall (Engineering Library) and Clark Hall (Physical Sciences Library) are also usually available 24 hours The CIT website lists a number of 24-hour computer labs, including those in Mann Library, Phillips Hall, Upson Hall and Carpenter Hall In fact, there are many campus buildings that stay open all day and night, whether its for nocturnal researchers or sleep-deprived students Next time you stroll through campus at 4 a m , enjoy the nighttime peace and quiet of a nearby building

Q: Who was Willard Straight? I’ve heard some interesting stories.

Happy Dave ’15

A: Willard Straight undoubtedly had a big impact on Cornell and the world, although he died at only 38 years old in 1918 A Class of 1901 architecture student, he spent his time on campus involved with numerous student publications as a contributor, artist and editor He also ser ved on the committee in charge of Spring Day (the predecessor of Slope Day) and is credited with organizing the first Dragon Day, a celebration for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning After graduation, Straight held a variety of diplomatic roles, becoming Chief of the U S State Department’s Far Eastern Division at the age of 29 He then left the consular ser vice to handle financial investments in China for J P Morgan & Co and the American Group, a consortium of American banks and investors Straight and his wife, philanthropist and social activist Dorothy Payne Whitney, helped found The New Republic political magazine and Asia Magazine He maintained ties with Cornell, ser ving on the Board of Trustees and making substantial gifts, including funds for the construction of Schoellkopf Memorial Hall Honored with the Distinguished Ser vice Medal for ser vice during the First World War, Straight assisted the American delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, where he contracted pneumonia as a complication of Spanish influenza and died He was buried in an American cemeter y outside Paris and his name is included on the Cornell University War Memorial on West Campus

In his will, Straight asked his wife to “do such a thing or things for Cornell University as she may think most fitting and useful to make the same a more human place ” The eventual result was Willard Straight Hall, opened in 1925 as one of the first student unions in the countr y It offered a common social and activity space for all students, bringing together those in Greek houses as well as the “independents” who lived in Collegetown The building includes references to Straight’s life, such as the lobby murals with an East Asia theme and a fireplace inscription that comes from a letter written by Straight to his son

Q: What are the biggest majors at Cornell? What are the biggest in Arts and Sciences? Majorly Curious ’14

A: The Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences claims to be the largest major in any college at Cornell, with about 740 students Although Biological Sciences held the lead for decades, Economics became the largest major in Arts and Sciences within the last decade, reaching around 600 students in 2007 Curious about Cornelliana? Looking for Cornell lore behind a legend? Submit your questions to

Nikhita Parandekar | Hoof in Mouth

From P rofessional Student to P rofessional

I’ m sure I’m not the first person to remark on the irony of being a “professional student ” Technically, we are professional students because we ’ re enrolled in an academic program that results hopefully in a professional degree Ironically, we are professional students because being a student is our profession – we ’ ve been in school for roughly twenty years A handful of my classmates had other careers prior to veterinar y school but they are by far the minority at some point I’ll have to ask them what it felt like to adjust to being a student again Anyway, I’m rambling about this because last week, for the first time, I felt the balance shifting from being a professional student to starting to be a real professional

First, I spayed a cat If you ’ re unfamiliar with what this means, spaying a cat is when you remove the ovaries and uterus of the female so that it can ’ t reproduce I’ve written a couple of columns about the benefits of spaying and neutering already Admittedly, it wasn ’ t my first time doing this p ro c e d u re b e c a u s e I we n t o n a s p a y / n e u t e r t r i p t o Nicaragua last winter, but that time there was a veterinarian watching, directing and helping me the whole time

This time, as part of our junior surger y

Maybe now that I have just a year and half left, that end goal appears more tangible

course, we spayed cats in teams of three students one as the surgeon (me, last week), one as the anesthetist and one as the assistant There were eight groups performing surgeries at the same time and two veterinar y surgeons circulating around the room, as well as anesthesiologists and technicians They were there to help us if we had problems and answer our questions, but for the most part we were on our own All of the groups had successful surgeries and the experience made us (or me, at least) realize how much we had learned

Then there was the day when, after class, I vaccinated my cats, sedated my horse for getting shoes put on (he’s ver y opinionated and sometimes needs sedation) and looked at the radiographs (x-rays) of his feet with the farrier (blacksmith) and actually understood what I was looking at I then got a text, a phone call and a gchat about petrelated problems from three different friends (Disclaimer: I do follow these conversations with: “But you should also talk to a real veterinarian”) As I drove back to the barn late at night to make sure my horse was awake enough to eat (in line with what seems to be a general trend in my life: I am completely objective when it comes to other people’s animals but irrationally paranoid when it comes to my own), I reflected on the day and felt happily fulfilled If this is a taste of the rest of my life, it seems like there’s a lot to look for ward to Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the future, especially on the weeks when we have three exams on one day and spend countless hours in windowless rooms in front of computer screens I think our curriculum, in general, does a fairly good job of mixing in enough practical and laborator y experience so that we always have at least a vague conception of the end goal However, maybe now that I have just a year and a half left, that end goal appears more tangible

This is probably the second time in vet school that I’ve felt a transition in the way I perceive my role in the profession that I am pursuing The first was after anatomy when I learned how to adjust to how incredibly different veterinar y school was from my undergraduate experience here essentially, when I fully embraced the role of being a professional student I think that this one marks an acceptance of the fact that I’m graduating relatively soon and a realization that I will be as prepared as possible to handle the new challenges that I will face

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a third-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun com Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester

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“I don’t agree with hazing at all, but I think this is a bit too extreme. The coach is not a babysitter he can’t be everywhere watching the players’ every move He can’t prevent upperclassmen from hazing the younger players. It would be a different story if he actively encouraged the hazing activities But, so far, no evidence suggests that ”

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Let the Non-Violent

Pris oners Go Free

Why should a nonviolent criminal be imprisoned?

Let’s begin our inquiry with the massively unsympathetic case of Bernie Madoff a living, breathing Jean Valjean he is not But should he be in prison? Does he pose such a continued threat to society that he must be removed from it?

Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, guaranteeing that the now 75-year-old man will spend the rest of his days waiting to die in a penitentiar y Whenever we exercise the awesome responsibility of forcibly depriving someone of his or her liberty, we should be absolutely convinced that such a drastic step is necessar y In Madoff ’ s case, and even more so with thousands and thousands of other non-violent criminals, it is not

taking home only enough for bare subsistence and garnishing the rest as symbolic restitution to his victims?

For a once-proud modern aristocrat, perhaps groveling for a heavily garnished minimum wage until he dies is punishment enough Surely some will cry no, that someone who robbed others of their life savings must be sentenced to prison until the 22nd centur y Their anger is understandable, but our decisions about whether we should deprive another of his or her liberty and spend $35,000 a year in public funds on his or her incarceration must be based on reason and not base emotion We should

living in peace among us and must be removed from society until they no longer pose a threat

Moving from violent crime to non-violent crime, our justifications for the modern penal code become murkier Madoff, while not engaging in physical violence, hurt many Still, I would not fear that Mr Madoff would physically harm me or anyone else were he forced to rake leaves in Central Park What of a poor mother who lies about her address so her children can attend a school not known as part of a schoolto-prison-pipeline? Is justice served by sentencing her to prison and, in doing so,

We should not spend $35,000/year keeping Madoff idle when we can, without serious risk of violence, compel him to contribute in some small way to the betterment of society instead

A compelling case for sentencing non-violent criminals to prison is hard to make Granted, there is undoubtedly some deterrent effect, in which the behavior of others is impacted by the threat of imprisonment There is also the idea that justice requires we punish those who defraud, cheat or other wise steal from us Innocent people were certainly and seriously (economically) harmed by Madoff ’ s misdeeds Punishment, however, can take many forms Some of these forms are unjust, and it is our moral obligation to change this

If society should impose its just revenge on Madoff, couldn’t we get satisfaction knowing that Madoff must spend the rest of his days engaged in menial labor,

not spend $35,000/year keeping Madoff idle when we can, without serious risk of violence, compel him to contribute in some small way to the betterment of society instead

We, as members of a country that imprisons far more of our fellow citizens than anyplace else on earth, are hideously cavalier in our willingness to deprive others of their freedom

Imagine a spectrum of justification for imprisonment On one end, the justification for sentencing violent criminals to prison is clear We have a right to not be physically harmed and to reduce the risk of violence upon innocents Those who commit violent crimes have pretty clearly demonstrated that they are incapable of

punishing her children? Is denying equality of opportunity to poor children a compelling enough state interest to send the mother to jail? If the answers to these questions are obvious, why is she in jail?

Continuing along the spectrum, we come to those who commit victimless crimes Imprisoning someone who commits a crime without a victim is cruel and unjust The father who gambles his money without the State regulating it as a form of regressive taxation on the financially illiterate is a prime example No one is better off if he is compelled to play checkers in prison instead of poker in a parlor The imprisonment of these victimless criminals often serves only the perverse and

counterproductive A family is left without a source of income or a parent to raise his or her children In this case, we again punish the children for the victimless mistakes of the parent Letting the non-violent prisoners go free does not mean that all non-violent crimes go unpunished Alternatives to prison such as restitution, rehabilitation, fines, community service, drug court diversionar y programs and other forms of sentencing can (and do) serve as forms of punishment that deter crime while preser ving some of the freedom our country is so rhetorically dedicated to True justice requires a massive rethinking of our euphemistically entitled justice system Many of the non-violent criminals wasting away their lives and our tax dollars in prison are an unsympathetic sort Many of them have stolen or cheated or vandalized or sold drugs or not paid their taxes Letting them go free and imposing less draconian and less immoral punishments on them might not make for good politics, but in a country premised on liberty and freedom, one cannot help but wonder what exactly the thousands upon thousands of non-violent and/or victimless criminals are doing in jail That they remain imprisoned should cause us to question whether our criminal justice system comports with these values of freedom and liberty we so loudly exalt

Nicholas Kaasik is a third year in the Cornell Law School and the Sun’s Public Editor He may be reached at nek43@cornell edu Barely Legal runs monthly this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Think back to elementary and high school, when you learned about American slavery as a young student A chalkboard or PowerPoint slide relayed statistics of the Triangle Trade You paid attention to key words and concepts that might appear on next day’s fill-in-the-blank quiz Your life was comfortable enough that this grade seemed to be the only thing at stake And that was that

With blunt force, 12 Years a Slave reminds us that embalmed, quasi-objective summaries of America’s greatest shame do not approach anything close to knowledge For in this draining, but necessary new film, history informs art, but it is art that realizes history Like Steven Spielberg with Schindler’s List, director Steve McQueen knows that only emotion and, more precisely, pain, convey the true toll of our violent, oft-romanticized past While you may feel battered around taking in McQueen’s manipulative, unapologetic style of filmmaking, you should also leave the theater grateful At last, you have witnessed an image of slavery both lucid for, like most Hollywood pictures, it follows one man and his struggle and unflinchingly, savagely honest

Our eyes into history belong to the incredible Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) Based on the life and memoir of a freeman-turned-slave of the same name, 12 Years a Slave opens on a plantation where a dejected, much older Solomon hacks away, like a machine, at sugar cane before flashing back to an idyllic suburban family portrait in Saratoga Springs, New York, circa 1841 A gifted carpenter and violinist who has won the favor of the town ’ s wealthy white folks and its remarkably progressive shopkeeper, Solomon lives a pretty modern life with his wife, daughter and son Enter Scoot McNairy and SNL’ s Taran Killam as two genteel traveling musicians who look like the Mad Hatter and recruit

12 Years of Harrowing Cruelty

Solomon’s skills for a tour to Washington D C After a night where his hosts made sure his wine glass was always filled to the brim, Solomon wakes up on the floor of a dungeon, in rags and chains A walloping from a studded paddle and the words, “You ain’t a free man, ” welcome Solomon to hell

If you would allow me the digression, I would like to look closer at that turning point of a scene, when Solomon gets beaten In the first long take and off-putting composition in a film full with them, McQueen and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt spread Solomon across the foreground of the shot, on his hands and knees, as a white man, out-of-focus in the background, strikes his back Solomon screams in agony with every strike, but shadows shroud his contorted face So, what do we have? Solomon, the white man and the weapon are all obscured or distorted from our sight in some way, yet the iconography of a slave receiving punishment, from Solomon’s supplicant pose to the abstracted colors of both faces, is unmistakable In this shot, Solomon stands in for any and all slaves, suffering not just bodily harm but the first pangs of becoming something less than a person

12 Years a Slave

Directed by Steve McQueen Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender

From this shot onward, McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley balance the two conflicting duties when depicting slavery: humanize your lead subject (here, Solomon) but do not elevate him above the millions of others unable to tell their own story While Solomon is more educated and well-spoken than most of his fellow slaves, he realizes he must play dumb if he wants to survive in a white man ’ s world (not unlike Forrest Whitaker’s adaptive servant in Lee Daniels’ The Butler) Slavers look for obedience to match a slave’s muscles anything more stirs revolt Notice the sickening compliments a slaver (Paul Giamatti) showers over the naked black men and women

standing frozen like mannequins at auction, rapping a man ’ s toned chest and lifting a girl’s smooth chin, with awful insinuations He sells Solomon, now known as “Platt,” and a mother (Adepero Oduye) to Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), denying Ford’s half-hearted attempt to appease the mother’s cries to buy her children too Not the son, the slaver whispers with glee, because “he will grow into a fine young beast,” and not the prepubescent daughter, because give her time and, well If the slaver’s inhumanity brings out the gentleness in Ford’s disposition, the scene also reinforces that Ford perpetuates this system with a bundle of cash After Ford gifts Solomon a violin for good behavior, the lamenting mother makes sure Solomon doesn’t forget that, “given the circumstances, ” Ford is still a slave owner And after Solomon assaults a sadistic overseer (Paul Dano, who, after Prisoners and There Will Blood seems to be Hollywood’s go-to punching bag), Ford whisks his property away to Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), infamous for “breaking” his slaves By the way, this is immediately after Solomon survives a daylong lynching by tiptoeing in the mud, which McQueen films for a suffocating, unbroken eternity

It is at Epps’ cotton plantation where the majority of the film remains, where Solomon befriends a doomed, kind soul named Patsey (Lupita Nyong’o) and completes a transformation of his own Patsey has earned the bad fortune of Epps’ lust, and thus also his wife Mary’s (Sarah Paulson) cold-eyed contempt The scenes between Patsey and the two Epps bring out a savagery in the so-called civilized white men and women who believe they have a biological mandate to own “inferior” humans Thankfully, Patsey has Solomon, who has wised up to the dehumanized submission survival requires This leads to a horrible, albeit cinematically extraordinary, scene filmed in nauseating handheld, akin to Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible Not long after, Solomon resolves his guilt and accepts his sorry state in another perfect long take, filmed in tight close-up, where he hesitates before joining in on a graveside Negro spiritual The internal strife Ejiofor communicates with just his eyes looking up to God, down to the dirt and, finally, forward ahead pretty much grasps 12 Years a Slave from McQueen’s hands

Like Schindler’s List before it, 12 Years a Slave concedes to a fair dose of Hollywood sheen Mary Epps is so evil she’s lifeless Hans Zimmer’s score, while effective, reuses Inception’ s “Time” motif (which he, in turn, adopted from his Thin Red Line soundtrack) The 134-minute running time almost feels too short, stretching the believability that Solomon’s journey spans 12 years Brad Pitt shows up near the end, to distracting effect But if Pitt’s name sells one or 1,000,000 more tickets to see this film, I am on board For once, a gimme-Oscar pitch has earned its merit through artistry and provocation You won ’ t remember the lashings as much as those despairing human faces Those you won ’ t forget

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

MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Halfway through All Is Lost, it occurred to me just how many laws in the cinematic rulebook the movie had broken and gotten away with It stars a character with no name or form of identification, whom we only know as an auburn-haired, American-accented sailor, and whom we better identify with as the legendary actor who plays him It gives its character no backstory whatever and almost no words to express his feelings, save for a few SOS calls and one f-bomb And to add to that, there’s only one character This is the territory of Gravity, Life of Pi and Cast Away taken to its most extreme, a survival film where we are fitted with a single human face to latch onto There is no other human being, tiger or volleyball for company Robert Redford sails the ocean alone, and it’s totally up to him to make us believe in his odyssey

film’s riveting third act is nothing shor t of astonishing during the final moments, your jaw will drop

This is where we see Redford at his most intense, pushed to near-annihilation in a lifeboat while sharks swam around him and storms rage overhead I found it hard to believe that I could continue watching this stranger whom I knew nothing about; no motivations, no histor y, no exposition or insight into his head Redford’s role is 100% externalized, and he is able to convey everything about the essence of fighting for life out at sea in his mere facial expressions

A Man, A Boat, A Masterpiece

Make us believe he does Sandra Bullock was able to take us on an emotional roller coaster ride by hyperventilating and talking to herself Redford is an actor of such effortless gravitas that even his simple physical motions and trite behavior is fascinating The way the 77-year-old actor climbs the mast of his sailboat, the Virginia Jean, is a trip to watch I would be hard-pressed to think of many other actors (perhaps Jack N i c h o l s o n , o r Daniel DayLewis), who could make such mundane acts as applying glue to a hole in the stern, look interesting on screen

That being said, All Is Lost does drag at times There are moments when it feels like the buildup doesn’t justify the payoff, and at one hour and 40 minutes, the film could have done with a 10 minute trim However, the

IHow is the plot? Basically, all that can be told is that the film puts us to work observing a man as he sets sail alone, for unknown reasons, from an unknown place We know precious few things about him: that he is resourceful, that he is intelligent and that he is doggedly determined, to the point of being nearly stoic in the face of ferocious danger He carries a map and a pen, which become his most important possessions later on, as he charts how far adrift his boat has gone

Our man, who is also not given a name, is out on the Indian Ocean on his 40-footer when a floating cargo crate rips a hole in his boat and he has to set about repairing it A storm then blows in, so he has to take refuge

down in the cabin Eventually the boat goes down and our man is reduced to crouching in an inflatable lifeboat, but his willpower never wavers He baits a hook and waits for fish, sets off flares in the night to attract passing ships At one point he comes up with an ingenious way to collect condensation and use it as his water supply, when he realizes his jerry can has sprung a leak This is the portrait of a man who seems impenetrable, and it builds up to one heart-stopping scene at the movie’s close All Is Lost also constitutes a wild departure in style for director J C Chandor, whose terrific 2011 Wall Street thriller Margin Call was highly underrated That film was almost the polar opposite to this one; a dialogue-driven, fast-paced expose that depended entirely on language and discourse, much of it cloaked in lies and deceit It also featured a large ensemble cast of superstar actors, including Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, and Demi Moore In All Is Lost, Chandor seems committed to reinventing himself completely, by crafting a scant, slow-paced, meandering

meditation on man ’ s willpower, in which he drops all recognizable elements from his first feature That is, except the outstanding talent That’s all contained in the work of the movie’s one and only performer

After a career full of iconic roles, Robert Redford proves he still has an incredible amount of talent that has thus far gone unseen He has suffered something of a slump in recent years, directing and starring in films like Lions for Lambs and The Company You Keep, but here he earns it all back in spades This is the kind of work that would frighten a lesser actor How does one hold the attention span of an audience throughout the entirety of a film, when everyone ’ s eyes have nothing to focus on but one craggy face? Redford manages it, with only a wizened and uncannily steady grace

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

Winter Wubs and Wobbles

t ’ s officially winter The first snow is behind us The degree of windchill has become inversely proportional to my will to live Most store interiors now smell like the mulled cider spices incubating in Santa’s ass crack And most importantly, Mariah Carey’s Christmas song started playing at Starbucks, filling me with equal parts joy and dread (okay, maybe 60:40 joy to dread) Nevertheless, it’s time to reluctantly abandon my summer playlists of rockabilly surf pop best befitting warm nights of top-down cruising in lieu of some wintr y mixes Yes, in this season of unshakeable Mondays, I need the emotional distance of Daughter to lull me into a state of impermeable melancholia This probably comes off as more somber than I actually am I promise only to pretend to be this tragic but there’s nothing like red holiday cups and the onset of beanie season to make me evolve past the wubs and wobbles of hard-pounding hits for a sea of synth pulses and sparse falsettos Here

a re s o m e s o n g s g l a c i a l enough to rival Ithaca’s arctic chill:

“PARANTHESIS” BY TRICKY FEAT THE ANTLERS

’ 9 0 s t r i p - h o p p i o n e e r

Tricky dropped this hit from his latest album, False Idols, as a reworking of The Antler’s original track titled, “Parantheses,” from their second studio release The Antlers’ debut album Hospice was the go-to angst music of my high school years as my friend so eloquently tweets, “Hospice, man: the album responsible for approximately 47% of the tears shed in my lifetime ” I recently caught their set at Le Poisson Rouge in the City, and I shit you not, the entire crowd of faux-lumberjack Williamsburgites was teary from (Antlers’s vocalist) Peter Silberman’s fragile falsetto It really just hurt that good Yet, Tricky’s version is impossibly more morose, layering his own dark mumblings under Peter Silbermann’s woozy vocals Altogether, the track plays like a horror movie made sophisticated by the touch of an auteur, or like a battle against ever-

encroaching hysteria Simply put, it’s full of the beautiful delirium your masochistic side begs to partake in “OPEN” BY RHYE

The enigmatic neo-soul outfit Rhye has released a number of tracks that both lyrically and sonically speak to the pain and passion of intimacy “Open” was their first single, rife with their now signature sensual minimalism Though not my favorite song by Rhye, I m a sucker for a good opening line: “I m a fool for that shake in your thighs / I m a fool for that sound in your sigh ” Body positivity and nauseating sentimentality? Shit, it’s the aural equivalent of an ee cummings poem the cadence of a sorrowful lullaby with impossibly ethereal finesse The vocals conjure many comparisons to, well, satin sheets, with sounds so smooth no doubt 2003 Usher must play Rhye as mood music Bold statement: “Open” could be the modern day Sade’s “By Your Side ” Boom “NO DIGGITY” BY CHET FAKER

This Blackstreet cover combines two guilty pleasures of mine: ghettofabulousness and lo-fi electro textures Together, it’s a song of velveteen luxury Fortunately, “No Diggity” comprises no lyrics of C h e t Fa k e r ’ s ow n i m a g i n a t i o n ,

which is to say, the dude possesses comparable lyrical artistry to Ginuwine or Fabolous Yeah, not good Nevertheless, this track’s got the right lounge-y feel and grizzly vocals to lean the song more towards Abel Tesfaye’s ironic sexploitation and not, like, Nate Dogg’s overt barbarism um, hopefully, I think “WINTER IS ALL OVER YOU (BAAUER REMIX)”

BY FIRST AID KIT

The same Baauer that brought you the “Harlem Shake” internet phenomenon has a SoundCloud full of No Doubt and Disclosure remixes This one is most notable not only because it features the lovely and lovelier Swedish Soderberg sisters, but also for defying the standard trap and bass sampling library in choosing, of all things, a folk remix Yes, because the only thing I’d want for my folk vocals, bereft of

any distortion or sonic accoutrements, is, well, actually, some sonic accoutrements Folk has never sounded less like a Bon Iver B-Side and more like hypnosis for drones I mean, in a good way, of course

“CLAIRE DE LUNE”

BY FLIGHT FACILITIES FEAT CHRISTINE HOBERG

Flight Facilities, the Australian electropop duo of aeronautical engineers, has really made the rounds with “Claire De Lune,” after it’s initial release in 2012 The track, which reportedly took an entire year to produce, has received numerous iterations in the forms of remixes by Motez, Crazy P, Them Jeans, and Prins Thomas Ahhh, nothing like besmirching the fine reverence of Debussy with some skittering snares It’s right in all the ways that’s it wrong Truly though, this song is perfect for subzero treks to class As Hugo, one-half of Flight Facilities, says, “All we really wanted was to make a bed time song that anyone could put on repeat and eventually become unaware of where it starts or finishes ” Fortunately, with gloved fingers and dazed 8:40 existential crises, you won ’ t mind when you can ’ t swipe to a new track on your touch screen In fact, it has just enough upkick in its tempo to wake you up in a chiming tropical reverie, just as the third repeat has you sailing into the Arts Quad

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

1 P ERSONALS

And now because Rank F loves fajitas presenting the only F Leslie rank in the Ivy League: Emma “The Original F’Leslie” Mosier

Hallie Abstract Show F Leslie Klein

Jason ”Sassy Pants F’Leslie” Hutzler

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Love your rank leaders,

Bri Momma F Leslie DeRooy and DhanyaAdventuring F’Leslie” Tadipatri

And now because to be honest a bunch of band geeks marching around isn’t all that visually appealing, the Big Red Color Guard!

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Catherine too classy for you Nease

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Shen Venna flower child Wang

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Sarah what are we doing? Acre

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And now because we put the O in OHHH

JAAAAA, presenting the members of the only REAL Rank O in the Ivy League

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And now because we somehow avoided

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And now presenting the only truly EXCELLENT rank in the Ivy League Rank E(STROGEN)!!!

Dan “hysterical” Hanggi

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Jess the mayor Wong

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And now, presenting the only REAL 8 mile wide section in the Ivy League Rank H Reade “This one time on swim team ”

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And now presenting the only truly EXCELLENT rank in the Ivy League Rank E(STROGEN)!!!

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Jess the mayor Wong Anita “Joel on loop!” Mbogoni

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Mollica

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no longer calling the signals for Columbia, and consequently, the quarterback position has been a problem for them The Lions have split the quarterback position three ways, but none have proven particularly successful Trevor McDonagh has thrown for 605 yards and two touchdowns on the season, but the other two quarterbacks have combined for only one more score

For a team that has been shut out twice this season and has only put two touchdowns on the board one time, offensive production has been hard to come by The Lions’ main threat comes from running back Marcorus Garrett, who has four rushing touchdowns, more than half of the team ’ s total The Red is familiar with the play of Garrett, though, as he ran for 187 yards in the matchup last year, including an 86-yard touchdown run Columbia’s offensive misgivings aside, Gellatly said his team is still looking forward to a battle

“We are expecting a physical game Saturday against Columbia,” he said “Last year they came out with more energy than we did and we know we have to play well and with a lot of emotion ” That opportunity would be a long time coming for heach coach David Archer ’05 and his staff, who have yet to record an Ivy League win

“This season has not gone the way we were hoping and we do not think we have played to our potential at points this season, ” Gellatly said “Coach Archer has given more to this program than anyone and all of us want to see him succeed ”

A losing record has not changed the players’ appreciation for the unique and improved atmosphere Archer brings to the locker room

“Coach Archer is building a great culture around our program, and though we have not had the immediate success we would have liked, this program is headed in the right direction because of him,” Gellatly said “A win Saturday would mean a lot because no one deserves it more than Coach Archer ”

Though Gellatly’s claim that Archer has put the program on the right track bodes well for the future of Cornell football, Gellatly and his fellow senior class will unfortunately not be able to see that turnaround Saturday marks the final home game for 23 seniors on the roster, who will all be honored before the game

“It hasn’t really set in yet that my time here at Cornell is coming to a close,” Gellatly said “I try and stay in the moment and just enjoy every part of it This university and this football program have given me so much and it is hard to think that Saturday is my last home game ”

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Schafer, who just two weeks ago became the 35th NCAA hockey coach to notch 350 career victories, recounted how the Red has already battled No 6 Quinnipiac (9-1-1, 3-0-1), No 10 Rensselaer (6-2-2, 2-1-2) and what was once a top-15 team in Union (4-3-2, 3-1) this month

In fact, after this week Cornell will have faced five of the ECAC’s top six squads in the team ’ s first six conference games

“ We need to play well this weekend and knowing that in the future we ’ ve got a lot more games back at Lynah Rink,” Schafer said

One of the challenges for the Red on the road this week will be generating scoring oppor tunities In the last three games, Cornell has been shut out twice and has had only one goal by an offensive player senior for ward Dustin Mowrey’s power play score from the slot in the closing seconds at RPI

Coach Schafer has continued to mix up his lines in the four games since junior for ward Cole Bardreau’s undisclosed injur y “ We’ve mis s e d Cole s ince he’s b e e n ou t, ” Schafer said “His energy, you talk about playing with speed and focus I was pretty hard on our guys Monday, and who was the guy who lifted their spirits on Monday it was Cole Bardreau And when we came out in the first fe w shooting drills it’s him that’s kind of lifted their spirits that’s the kind of kid he is ”

“ He’s j u s t o n e o f t h o s e u n i q u e p l a y e r s , ” Schafer added “But hockey is like ever y other spor t when a guy goes down we ’ ve got to fight for ward he’s not there So it’s a matter of other guys picking that attitude up ”

Despite failing to outshoot opponents in ever y game this season, the Red has relied on quality chances and the nation’s sixth best power play conversion rate to generate goals Perhaps the biggest offensive contributor of late has been junior defenseman Joakim Ryan, who scored two goals and dre w the penalty against RPI that spr ung Mowrey’s tying goal assisted by none other than Ryan

“It’s obviously nice to always contribute to the team, ” Ryan said “Ever y point in our league’s tough To get that one point is big and, it’s obviously nice to put a couple in the net ”

Ryan will likely be needed on both ends of the ice again this weekend Cornell will enter Cheel Arena against a Clarkson team that just completed a road sweep of Dar tmouth (0-6, 0-4) and Har vard (2-3-1, 1-3-1) The Friday matchup will be a reunion of sor ts, as the Red will face off against former alumnus and associate head coach Casey Jones ’90, now in his second season as head coach for the Golden Knights

Even if the contest is close, however, it could spell trouble for the Red Clarkson is 6-0-1 in games decided by one goal this season

The stor yline Saturday at St Lawrence will be similar, as the Saints currently boasting another i m

unbeaten

“St Lawrence they’ve got Greg Carey back, their big goal-scorer,” Ryan said “He’s going to be a guy we ’ re going to have to focus in on ”

SLU senior for ward Greg Carey led the nation with 28 goals in 2012-2013, and his freshman brother Matt has come onboard for the Saints this season The duo has teamed up for a total of 14 goals and 18 assists in just ten games It will be up to Ryan and the Red defense to quiet the fans at Appleton Arena and hold St Lawrence to under their current average of four goals per game

“Personally I like getting on the road with all the guys, ” Ryan said “Playing on the road you ’ re always facing adversity, the crowd’s not with you

For the icers, it’s been a tough week of working to correct the mental errors that plagued the team against RPI and Union But with that fr ustration has come the drive to grab a tough, physical road win

“It’s a tremendous oppor tunity for us, ” Schafer said “[Clarkson and St Lawrence] have always been good fallen on some tough times in the last fe w years but now you kind of see resurgence in these guys Clarkson was picked twelfth in the poll in our league and here they are sitting at No 1 in the league and No 10 in the countr y, so they know it’s going to be difficult ” “ This weekend’s huge,” Ryan said “ We need a couple wins We don’t expect anything less If we don’t get two wins this weekend it’s going to be a disappointment ”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun com

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Gilbane expressed his confidence that Ker wick, along with the team ’ s other coaches, will “keep the team focused and lead them in this difficult time ”

DeLuca has been a “fixture on the Cornell men ’ s lacrosse s i d e l i n e f o r m o re t h a n a decade,” Cornell Athletics says on DeLuca’s online profile, noting that the lacrosse veteran boasted a string of accomplishments dating back to his u n d e r g r a d u a t e ye a r s including being a four-year letter winner and ser ving as captain his senior year Under DeLuca’s tenure as head coach, the men ’ s lacrosse team went 37-11 overall and 16-2 in the Iv y L e a g u e , t h e A s s o c i a t e d Press reported

“He will always be a part of the Big Red family,” said Scott Austin ’12, former attackman for the team “He gave a considerable part of his life to Cornell ”

The University said that while it recognizes DeLuca’s contributions to the lacrosse team, new leadership is necessar y to “best ser ve our students and to continue our l a c r o s s e p r o g r a m ’ s d e c a d e slong tradition of excellence ”

DeLuca’s dismissal comes a little more than three years after t h e Un i v e r s i t y n a m e d h i m head coach of the lacrosse program T h e Un i ve r s i t y ’ s a c t i o n s against the lacrosse team in September marked the latest of its efforts to stamp out hazi n g a c ro s s c a m p u s , w h i c h gained national attention after former Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother George Desdunes ’13 died in a kidnapping ritual in Sp r i n g 2 0 1 1 Pe n n i n g a n op/ed in The New York Times that August, President David Skorton pledged to end hazing on Cornell’s campus espec i a l l y t h a t w h i c h i n vo l ve d “high-risk drinking ” Since then, the University has disciplined numerous student organizations for engagi n g i n “ m i s c o n d u c t t h a t exhibits hazing and/or a threat or disregard for students’ mental health or physical health and safety ” In the 2012-13 academic year, at least nine fraternities and sororities were disciplined for hazing, according to Cornell’s anti-hazing website, which details the incidents online Gro u p s t h a t s e l f - re p o r t incidents to the University and eliminate the practices are not

public disclosure of hazing incidents

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun com

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University states dismissal will ‘best serve our students’

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

The University has dismissed Ben DeLuca ’98, head coach of men ’ s lacrosse, two months after the team ’ s upperclassmen were caught forcing freshmen to chug beer in a hazing incident

“This was a difficult decision, but our students are our first priority and there is no doubt now that new leadership is required ”

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“This was a difficult decision, but our students are our first priority and there is no doubt now that new leadership is required,” Andy Noel, director of Athletics and Physical Education, said in a statement Thursday Ne i t h e r No e l n o r o t h e r University officials were available to answer questions from the press about why DeLuca was dismissed DeLuca was also unavailable for comment Thursday evening Multiple alumni and former lacrosse players said they were shocked to hear the news J J Gilbane ’12, a former midfielder for the team, said the dismissal of DeLuca who he said “lives and breathes Cornell lacrosse” came as “ a complete surprise” to both him and other alumni

The news has left people “dumbfounded,” added Rob Pannell ’13, former captain of the lacrosse team, who told Bloomberg News the team and alumni believe hazing allegations were related to DeLuca’s dismissal

“They had no idea this was coming and are very upset

Dismissing DeLuca | Two months after a hazing allegation, followed by sanctions against the men’s lacrosse team, head coach Ben DeLuca ’98 was dismissed from his coaching postition yesterday by the University

with the news, ” Pannell told Bloomberg News

Just two months earlier, the University announced it had suspended the men ’ s lacrosse team because of reports that upperclassmen had hazed its freshmen After investigating the incident which allegedly involved freshmen being asked to stand together in a circle and chugging beer to the point where some of them vomited the University cancelled the team ’ s fall games

While the nationally competitive team ’ s season does not start until the spring, University officials maintained that the punishment was a “tough penalty ”

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up short for seven weekends in a row

A 2013 football season that began on Schoellkopf field with a 45-13 rout over Bucknell is now just two games away from coming to a close, yet little has changed

That win remains the sole victory for a Red team that has fought hard against Ivy powerhouses like Harvard and Princeton, but come

Back on its home turf after a two-week hiatus, though, Cornell will take on another winless Ancient Eight team in Columbia (0-8, 0-5 Ivy), hoping to give the seniors a positive memory in their final game on Schoellkopf

The Red is coming off a 34-6 loss to Dartmouth, the first time all season its offense has been held

to just one score This was in large part due to Dartmouth’s formidable defense, ranked No 1 in the Ivy League, which controlled the first half The Red had only 83 yards of offense at the break, with senior quarterback Jeff Mathews completing an uncharacteristic five of ten passes for just 47 yards

According to senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly, getting on the board early will be a focal point for the team this weekend

“Our approach is to play a full 60 minutes of football,” he said “The last two weeks we have come out sluggish and have not executed to our ability We have faith in our game plan, we just need to come out with more focus and cannot afford to make the mistakes we have made the past two weekends ”

Last season, the Red fell to Columbia, 34-17, in the Empire State Bowl The Lions’ quarterback Sean Brackett threw for three touchdowns and 193 yards, providing most of the offense for his team Brackett, a senior last year, is

“What it represents is an opportunity for the coaching staff to see the freshman and younger players in four competitions, and that is input that they find very valuable," Noel said following the fall games ’ cancellation The team was also asked to participate in anti-hazing education programs in the incident’s aftermath

As the University launches a national search for DeLuca’s replacement, Matt Kerwick, who served as the Red’s assistant coach in its 2013 season, will work as the

off a two-game road trip to the Capital District, the men ’ s icers will hop back on the bus this weekend for a trip to the North Country The No 19 Red (3-2-1, 12-1