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Garrett Gives Final Approval For Grocery

In the midst of a vibrant campus debate on how best to tackle food insecurity, President Elizabeth Garrett gave her approval of the plan to open a student-run grocery store in Anabel Taylor Hall on Nov 23, clearing the final administrative hurdle blocking the store ’ s proponents from turning their plan into reality

The resolution to open Anabel’s Grocery was originally approved by the Student Assembly last April as a way to address food insecurity on campus

After President Emeritus David Skorton declined to offer his judgement on the plan in his last months at Cornell, the S A debated the issue again this year, and passed a second resolution in favor of the proposal on Oct 5 It received the stamp of approval f ro m t h e C o r n e l l C o m m u n i t y C o o rd i n a t i n g

Committee a couple of weeks later, and needed only Garrett’s okay to proceed

Following Garrett’s announcement, the store ’ s proponents now only need to finalize certain business agreements and finish preparing the space in order to open the store next semester

The store will be accessible to the public, but will offer subsidies to help financially needy students better afford groceries Its initial start-up c o s t s w i l l b e f u n d e d by a $320,000 allocation from the Students Helping Students Grant, a $1 5 million endowment typically reserved to help students cover emergency expenses

This has drawn criticism from some community members who say that a start-up business is too risky an enterprise to spend Students Helping Students money on

In her letter of approval, Garrett said that Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and academic s e r v i c e s , i s

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FORECAST

Instruction Resumes 7:30 a m , Cornell Campus

Dyson School Seminar: Insider Trading Patterns 11:30 a m , 401 Warren Hall

Let’s Talk Drop-In Counseling

2:30 - 4:30 p m , 3335 Carol Tatkon Center

5 - 6:15 p m , Garden Room, Willard Straight Hall

Thrive, Don’t Just Survive, at Cornell

5 - 6:30 p m , Carl Becker House Employee Assembly Meeting 12:15 - 1:30 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Tomorrow

World AIDS Day Informal Faculty Presentation and Discussion On Women’s Education and Health 5 p m , 3330 Carol Tatkon Center

C U Music: Piano Studio Recital 4 - 5 p m , Auditorium, Barnes Hall

Graduate Resident Fellow Information Session 8 p m , 235 Hans Bethe House

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun Staff Writer

Brann Passionate About Engaging Students in Intellectual Inquiry

After he finished his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, Prof Ross Brann, Near Eastern Studies, said he knew he wanted to remain on a college campus

“Although I didn’t realize it at the time, the i n c re d i b l e e n e r g y a n d t h e o b v i o u s s i g n i f i c a n c e o f i d e a s i n t r a n sf o r m i n g p u b l i c debate on issues of r a c i a l a n

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This view of campuses has shaped Brann’s approach to teaching “As an educator here at Cornell, my job is to engage students in inquiry about matters typically spoken about as if they are simple or straightforward,” Brann said “My goal is to render these issues complex and rich ”

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Although he started out as a mathematics major, Brann said he was drawn to other kinds of complex issues, and he hopes even today that his students come away from his class with an appreciation for complexity “I’m drawn to inquiry concerning questions that are complex but that most people tend to oversimplify,” he said Brann said his commitment to humanities goes beyond the pre-modern Islamic and Jewish cultures he studies He said he believes that humans are “inherently curious ” about each other and that the humanities help humans understand one another

“Human beings are not simply curious creatures about the physical and biological world that we inhabit We are inherently curious about one another, about our behaviors, about for want of a better term, our diverse cultural practices,” Brann said “ The humanities employ tools we need to use in order to understand one another and appreciate differences across time and place They enable us, when we ’ re paying close attention and reflecting critically, to understanding the complexities of human creativity, human sensitivities, and human behavior in all its various manifestations ”

Brann was also among the original group of faculty members who created the current West Campus Housing System In the mid 1990s, when Prof Emeritus Isaac Kramnick, government, was the vice provost for undergraduate education, Kramnick appointed Brann to be the first faculty-in-residence at Alice Cook House

“Those houses were and still are the embodiment of connecting Cornell undergraduates to Cornell faculty across the seven undergraduate colleges,” he said

West Campus housing aims “ to assist students and faculty to understand that we ’ re here to work with one another in a variety of ways, ” according to Brann

“The House System is still a work in progress, but it was a real turning point for the undergraduate experience for some here at Cornell,” Brann said

Brann can recount many exciting stories from his time living in the Alice Cook House, from throwing a Saturday Night Live-style dance party for former Attorney General Janet Reno to the time a fire alarm woke up Bill Nye ’77 in the middle of the night while Nye was staying in the guest suite

“We really had a wonderful series of guests during those six years from every walk of national and international life,” Brann said

Brann emphasized that while the house community had a lot of fun with the guests they invited, they also developed intellectually from the guests ’ presence

“The idea is hold social and cultural events but also foster intellectual engagement for students outside of class,” he said “My goal was to have many Cornellians come and talk about how what they studied at Cornell bore no resemblance to what they ended up doing professionally To reassure students to not worry so much, but rather to utilize their time here at Cornell to expand their horizons ”

Brann said one of the highlights from his time at Cornell was addressing and arguing against islamophobia with a group of students and faculty in the central New York region following the September 11 attacks

“I’m very close to most of the students I did that with down to this day,” he said “We shared a very powerful social and educational and political experience as educators working to combat some of the hysteria that was prevalent in the United States, even in Ithaca, even in Tompkins County, even in Central New York and even on the Cornell campus during that particular period

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun com

Spitz Appointed Vice Provost for International Affairs

By MADELINE COHEN Assistant News Editor

Laura Spitz JSD ’06 has been appointed vice provost for international affairs, effective Tuesday, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced She has served as the interim vice provost since July, after her predecessor Fredrik Logevall accepted a position at Harvard University the same month

ships as well as exchange with research institutions around the world The office also welcomes foreign dignitaries and officials from international academic institutions to Cornell and provides information for senior administrators when they travel abroad

Spitz will also oversee Cornell’s planned international offices, beginning with one in Shanghai anticipated to open in 2016

was an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado, and also taught at Emory University and the University of New Mexico She received her undergraduate degree in history from the University of Toronto, her law degree from the University of British Columbia and her JSD from Cornell Law School

Spitz said she is excited to continue working

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As head of the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, Spitz will oversee programs including Cornell Abroad and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

P r e s i d e n t Elizabeth Garrett said in a release that she looks forward to working with Spitz

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She will also chair the Internationalization Council, which consists of leaders from each college and Weill Cornell Medicine The Internationalization Council works with the Office of Risk Management and Insurance and in conjunction with Cornell faculty and staff to oversee the University’s international travel policy, according to the University

Spitz will also be tasked with providing colleges and centers with support to help execute plans related to Global Cornell, a University enterprise aimed at strengthening the global dimension of learning at Cornell, according to the University

The vice provost ’ s office is in charge of supporting the University’s international presence by encouraging international research partner-

“I am excited about the tremendous energy and commitment shown by the faculty, students and staff who make global education a part of their ... lives.”

“I look forward to working even more closely with Laura to enhance Cornell as a global center for excellent research, scholarship and teaching,” Garrett said “The many aspects of our global portfolio including the education of our students as citizens of the world are critical to Cornell’s success and the impact we can have globally ”

Before she assumed the position, Spitz served as an associate dean for international affairs at Cornell Law School and executive director of the school’s Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies

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with the Cornell community to find ways to further the University’s international engagement

“I am excited about the tremendous energy and commitment shown by the faculty, students and staff who make global education a part of their everyday lives,” she said “They are the foundation on which the Global Cornell initiative builds ”

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun com

Garrett Approves Anabel’s Grocery

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located on the lower floors, while the upper floors will house new offices for the law school’s faculty The building will no longer maintain its current designation as a residence hall due to the renovation

Delgado said he hopes to use “architecture that harmonizes [with] what’s there, but that’s also of its time” in Hughes Hall’s redesign

open, with an exception of a couple of instances,” Delgado said “One of these instances is the terrace Our intention is to try and focus that work in the summer months [so the path isn’t blocked during busy months] ”

“The intention is to keep this pedestrian walkway open, with an exception of a couple of instances ”

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Though staging and construction will occur away from major thoroughfares, Delgado said there are plans to close the pedestrian walkway that passes between the Fork and Gavel Café and Cascadilla Gorge Trail for the remodeling of the dining terrace

“The intention is to keep this pedestrian walkway

The Hughes Hall renovation will seek to gain at least Silver certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program from the U S Green Building Council The council awarded the first phase of the renovation with Platinum certification, the highest possible accreditation, last December Delgado said preliminary plans for his renovations will be delivered to the board for review in January

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun com

Obama Joins World Leaders at Climate Summit

PARIS (AP) Facing pushback at home, President Barack

O b a m a s a i d Su n d a y t h a t American leadership was helping make gains in the global fight against climate change as he tried to reassure world leaders assembling for a historic conference in Paris that the U S can deliver on its own commitments

Obama was joining more than 150 leaders for the opening days of a two-week conference where countries are tr ying to negotiate an agreement aimed at avoiding a c a l a m i

temperatures In a Facebook post as he flew to Paris, the

“optimistic about what we can achieve because I ’ v e a l re a d y s e e n America take incredible strides these past seven years ”

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private spending to encourage g re e n e n e r g y i n n ov a t i o n , t h e White House said

For the U S , that means doubling government spending on clean energy research to $10 billion over the next five years

E n e r g y Se c re t a r y E r n e s t Moniz, in a conference call with re p o r t e r s , a c k n ow l e d g e d t h a t winning approval for those dollars would require “ a complex discussion” with the Republicancontrolled Congress But he predicted that spending for research and innovation was more likely to attract bipartisan support from

t h e l e a d e r s o f a f e w i s l a n d nations, to highlight “the existential challenge” they face from rising sea levels, in the words of the president’s deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes Obama, with just a year left in office, wants to lead the world by example on climate change But he faces opposition at home that makes it harder for him to credibly make the case on the world stage that the U S will honor its promises

“[I am] optimistic about what we can achieve because I’ve already seen America take incredible strides these past seven years ”

t ’ s opening Monday, Obama and Fre n c h Pre s i d e n t Fr a n c o i s Hollande were to join tech giant Bill Gates to announce new public and private efforts to dramatically increase spending around the globe on developing clean energy technologies that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The U S and at least 19 other governments will pledge to double their clean energy research and development spending in the next five years, even as Gates and wealthy businessmen from 10 countries pledge billions more in

lawmakers than has financing for a U N fund to help poorer countries adapt to climate change Senate Republicans have been w o r k i n g t o b l o c k O b a m a ’ s request for the first installment of his $3 billion pledge for the U N fund

Eager to leave a legacy of envir o n m e n t a l p r o t e c t i o n , O b a m a s c h e d u l e d m e e t i n g s w i t h t h e leaders of China and India to u n d e r s c o re h ow d e v e l o p i n g nations are embracing the effort to combat climate change Also on the agenda were sessions with

The U S is the world’s second largest climate polluter, surpassed only by China, and the president has pledged that the U S will cut its overall emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent by 2030

Bu t h i s c l i m a t e action plan has run into stiff opposition f ro m Re p u b l i c a n s who control Congress They say his commitment to reduce emissions from U S power plants w o u l d c o s t t h o u s a n d s o f American jobs and raise electricity costs for businesses and families

Half the states are suing to b l o c k t h e p ow e r p l a n t r u l e s , claiming Obama has abused his authority under the Clean Air Act The president also faces congressional opposition to committing U S dollars to a U N Green Climate Fund designed to help poorer countries combat climate change

E.U., Turkish Leaders Meet

To Discuss Refugee Crisis

BRUSSELS (AP) European Union leaders and the Turkish prime minister sealed a joint summit with a commitment to re-energize Turkey’s long-stalled membership talks and bolster their common resolve to deal with the Syrian refugee crisis

The 28 E U leaders were leaning hard on Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to stem the flow of migrants seeking a better future in Europe's heartland and European Council President Donald Tusk said the latest estimate showed that “approximately 1 5 million people” had illegally entered the bloc this year, a lot coming through Turkey

It left the E U in need of help from Ankara, even if their recent relations have been sown with discord On Sunday, it was hugs all around as Tusk and Davutoglu completed what they called a breakthrough summit to put relations on an even keel again

“Turkish membership will be an asset, ” said Davutoglu after “ no disagreements emerged” during the hastily-called emergency meeting

Both sides got concessions: The E U desperately needs Turkish help to contain the flow of migrants into the bloc, and Turkey resuscitated longmothballed hopes to join a bloc in which it would, by population, become one of the biggest member states

“Turkey must do its utmost to contain the illegal immigration into Europe and the number of refugees has to decline substantially ” D u t c h P

The refugee crisis has reminded European leaders just how much Turkey whether a bloc member or not is a pivotal partner for the E U and a buffer state from the bedlam rocking much of the Middle East in recent years

French President Francois Hollande said Sunday that the E U will need to monitor Turkey's commitments “step-by-step,” deal with the migrant crisis, fight extremism and help end Syria’s political crisis He said any funds for a 3 billion-euro ($3 2 billion) package to help Turkey deal with the migrants on its territory will be released progressively as the commitments are checked

Davutoglu said that money wasn ’ t earmarked for Turkey per se but for the refugees on Turkish soil Yet the hundreds of thousands of migrants coming into the E U this year have caused the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, and E U nations have been at pains to draw Turkey in as part of the solution

“Turkey must do its utmost to contain the illegal immigration into Europe and the number of refugees has to decline substantially,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said

As a sweetener it is again discussing issues that were long off the table

Davutoglu said Turkey stood committed to help, but couldn’t make hard promises

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Planned Parenthood Suspect’s Words Lend

Insight Into Clinic Shooting Motive

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h o o d c l i n i c , according to a law enforcement official, part of a rambling statement that investigators are parsing to understand the reasoning behind an assault that left three dead Colorado Springs police on Sunday said they would not disclose any information on the motive for the attack, a move that guarantees further speculation over the intention of Dear, whom acquaintances described as an odd, reclusive loner, as he prepares for his initial appearance in state court on Monday

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Thanksgiving Week Has Smooth Ending Due To Manageable Travel Conditions

NEW YORK (AP) Tens of millions of Americans return-

Thanksgiving holiday weekend Sunday had cooperative weather

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International in New Jersey and LaGuardia in New York, led to slightly longer delays, the data show

In Atlanta, officials are projecting 88,000 travelers to pass through the world’s busiest airport by the end of Sunday, making it their busiest day so far this y e a r A s p o k e s m a n f o r Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport says the previous record for the year was 80,000 people on Columbus Day

Lobbying group Airlines for America estimated more than 2 5 m i l l i o n p a s s e n g e r s w o u l d take to the sky on U S airlines during the 12 days surrounding Thanksgiving

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AAA estimated that nearly 47 million Americans were expected to travel at least 50 miles from home via car, plane or bus

But a large volume of passengers at Seattle-Tacoma International i n Wa s h i n g t o n , Ne w a r k

over the weekend the highest number since 2007

At Pennsylvania Station in New York City, college junior Seth Greenspan said the norm a l l y c h a o t i c t r a n s i t h u b appeared strangely calm as he awaited an Amtrak train back to the College of William & Mar y i n

n g Thanksgiving on Long Island

“Amtrak itself can be unreliable, whether or not it’s a holiday,” he said ahead of an eighthour trip “So far it seems OK ” Toni Baines and her husb a n d , Ma r l o n , w h o s p e n t Thanksgiving in the Bronx and were head back to their home in R i c h m o n

, Vi r g i n i a , s a i d i t appeared transit officials anticipated an influx of travelers and planned accordingly “ They’ve been running a lot of extra trains,” she said “So far we haven't had any problems ”

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Creed of Humanity and Heart

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Man, oh man, do I love Ryan Coogler’s approach to filmmaking Plugging in the small-scale indie director behind 2013’s searing Fruitvale Station to reinvigorate the Rocky franchise was a brilliant decision This method has been tried many times before with disastrous results ( Josh Trank, Neill Blomkamp), but this time it is a rare and immediately apparent success Creed shrewdly lands its hardest punches outside the ring, within the boxer’s friendships It is proof that in Coogler, we are witnessing the emergence of a true auteur who has a knack for effortless intimacy no matter the budget or scale The director has said that Creed was just as intensely personal for him as Fruitvale was, and it clearly shows He teams up again with bona fide star Michael B Jordan, and the two create a dynamic that is every bit as involving, engrossing and tactile as the heartrending story of Oscar Grant

You know this isn’t just your average studio product when, after the three logos of major corporations go by, the film begins in a juvenile detention center It’s an affectionate nod from Coogler to his former career he worked for years with incarcerated youth before becoming a filmmaker

In this environment we meet a little boy called Adonis

prove himself, he quits and moves to his father’s hometown of Philly to locate his dad’s cornerman

the one, the only Rocky Balboa (the one, the only Sylvester Stallone) He begins a touching relationship with downstairs neighbor Bianca (Tessa Thompson), a singer with progressive hearing loss who tells him, “I’m just trying to do what I love for as long as I can I think that’s all any of us are trying to do ”

Directed by Ryan Coogler Starring Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone

“Donnie” Johnson, embroiled in a fistfight over a crack some kid made about his mother He’s the biological son of Apollo Creed, conceived out of wedlock and a stranger to his mother, Mary Anne (Phylicia Rashad), who takes him in shortly after

Cut to 15 years later and Donnie has grown into the hefty body of Michael B Jordan, fighting on the side in bare-knuckle matches down in Tijuana, while working a blue collar job in Los Angeles Deciding he needs to pursue boxing full time to

After some persistence, Donny convinces Rocky to come out of retirement to train him, and it’s a real treat watching those montages as they jog up and down the river and pummel the punching bag Not only because of the joy of seeing Rocky back in action, this time as a trainer, but because of the rather beautiful emotional bond between Stallone and Jordan Both A-game actors take their time in building their performance detail by detail, and the screenplay is such that the film’s greatest focus is concentrated on the connection between these two In fact, there are only two boxing matches in the film but they’re good ones, expertly staged and rousingly cathartic Thanks to the strength of these two, when Rocky is diagnosed with cancer, the moment is downright devastating From then on, it’s an I-fight-you-fight kind of deal as Rocky trains Donny and Donny insists he’ll only carry on if Rocky goes through with the chemo Cue the tears, fist-pumps and whistles Stallone is back in his prime here, and he deserves notice from the Academy this dude in the Fedora is the one we all know and love, the same one who captured our hearts back in 1976

This is an art film that just happens to be a seventh installment and feature a character named Balboa, but it comes free of all the studio tentpole sheen

Strong box-office should ensue for this baby, but its core is wholly renegade Scenes are cut together with jumps and freeze frames displaying text alongside a handsome face Most discussions are shot hand-held and close-up, getting us right

Max Van Zile

There are two kinds of R&B sex jams: those in which the singer seems to actually like the women he sings about and those in which he doesn’t Unfortunately, Ty Dolla $ign remains a member of the second group This album, despite its personal touches about Ty’s family, is mostly about racking up as many bitches as possible, and that prevents Ty from ascending to the artistic heights of more inclusive, friendly singers like Frank Ocean and D’Angelo Yet, Free TC has a lovely orchestral sound, and Ty proves a charismatic and talented singer Though marred by weak tracks, there’s the skeleton of a great project in here Free TC has two themes The first is familial sadness over the conditions of inner-city L A , and for the imprisonment of Ty’s brother Big TC The second is Ty’s apparently action-packed sex life At times, these sentiments are an odd match with each other For instance, Ty follows his panoramic opener “LA” which deals with survival in a maad city with “Saved,” which lays out the mission statement for most of the album: “Dolla sign’ll fuck, but he won ’ t date her ” Eventually, the knuckle-dragging misogyny wears thin Ty lacks the female-friendly openness and sex-positive attitude of, say, Miguel Cuts like “Horses In The Stable,” while musically strong, are marred by their lyrics the titular horses, of course, referring to Ty’s women, whom he “ can ride any time ”

This dichotomy is perhaps best summed up by “Miracle/Whenever,” the epic eight-minute jam around

which the album is built The first half of the track is about the miracle of simply being alive in a violent city, and it features a showstopping verse recorded from jail by Ty’s imprisoned brother Midway through, the track dramatically switches gears It seems to ascend, built around a gospel choir and Ty’s lover-man falsetto, and returns to Ty’s favorite theme: getting busy wherever, whenever The lyrical contradictions inherent to the album are built right into this track

So, too, is “Miracle/Whenever” representative of the warm, complex sound that comprises the best parts of Free TC The beats on the first half of this album layer strings, massed choral vocals, acoustic guitars and vocal samples into huge walls of sound These tracks are mostly great “Straight Up” moves at a languid pace, pitting Ty’s syrupy tenor against choral “la-la-las” and orchestral touches Even better is “Solid,” in which Ty’s melody is matched by an acoustic guitar underneath This is lovely, catchy and thoroughly listenable R&B

Had Ty produced an entire album around this aesthetic, Free TC might have been stronger, but stylistically it’s all over the map The second half of the album is dedicated to transparent bids for radio plays, and these songs veer from sound to sound Bring It Out of Me” sounds like trapinfluenced EDM, and the dark Moog bassline on “When I See Ya” is a far cry from the pleasant, expansive R&B around which the album is built These tracks are filled with features designed to maximize mass-market appeal,

up close to the expressive faces of Jordan and Stallone, so that we feel all their nuances Then when the story enters the ring, Coogler films an entire round in one vibrant, energetic steadicam swoop In the climactic bout, the kinetics of Raging fricking Bull come to mind There’s one pivotal moment when our hero gets K-O’d and it looks like he’s down for the count

The shot plays out in painful slow-motion with little insert cuts back to Creed as a child, and it provokes a guttural reaction from everyone in the house

The real distinguishing factor here is the pervasive humanism of Ryan Coogler His direction is sensitive and attuned and his script finds the humor and the sorrow in all the ordinary moments Rocky’s cancer diagnosis stings a real nerve, because Donnie grabs him and ushers him to the toilet, then goes home to Bianca and swings him over his back Time is made for a dinner conversation between the makeshift family of three, so that Rocky can say he’s a lucky man to know them Sorry for getting sappy, but this is really sweet, genuinely affecting stuff and it confirms the guiding talent behind it as one of the best of his generation Once again, with a lot more money and the burden of a franchise on his back, Coogler has made one of the best films of the year vigorously entertaining and coursing with emotion

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

but Ty fails to get the most out of his guest artists Future’s hook on “Blasé” is, for lack of a better word, stupid, and Fetty Wap, Wiz Khalifa and R Kelly all stop by without making much of an impression Bigger names like Kanye and Diddy are featured on “Guard Down,” but prove irrelevant at best

Free TC has the feel of a project to which more and more was added until its original intent was compromised Ty’s take on the prison-industrial complex comes from a personal and emotionally effective place, and despite the lyrics his sex jams are melodic and well-written But the radio singles on this album sound unlike the tracks on the first side, and they’re worse The beats, too, seem to have been built like wedding cakes, adding layer upon layer to attempt to subdue the listener through sheer excess Ty himself is a charismatic frontman and a gifted vocalist, with potential star power His future projects should involve both a narrowing and a broadening: Sonically, his focus should be narrowed to the orchestral R&B he does best, and lyrically, he must expand beyond his “All we do is fuck when I see you ” ethos But despite its flaws, Free TC is an agreeable and listener-friendly experience at its best moments, the sound of a man transmuting his brotherly grief and voracious sexual appetite into glimmering, symphonic pop

Max Van Zile is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mfv23@cornell edu

Breaking the Mold: Netflix’s Jessica Jones

BY BRYNN RICHTER Sun Contributor

Jessica Jones treats its viewers to an engaging, suspenseful, neo-noir-inspired crime drama The title character just happens to be able to lift cars and punch through walls The emphasis Jessica Jones places on its plot and character development over its characters’ “gifts” makes the show widely accessible to even traditionally non-superhero fans and refreshing among the seemingly endless stream of superheroes

Throughout the 13 episodes released on Netflix, we are introduced to Jessica Jones, a smart, sarcastic private investigator When a mother and father arrive at Jessica’s door in search of their missing daughter, Jessica discovers that the man who once held her in captivity, Kilgrave, is still alive and luring her back to him through the kidnapping of the current couple’s d a u g h t e r, Ho p e Je s s i c a r e s c u e s Ho p e a n d returns her to her parents, only to be reminded of Kilgrave’s cruelty as Hope shoots both of her parents Jessica desperately tries to prove Hope’s innocence, beginning her mission of tracking down and capturing Kilgrave to prove that his mind control powers are real

The details of Jessica’s trauma, as well as Kilgrave’s true abilities, are revealed piecemeal throughout the show during Jessica’s PTSD episodes This method of dispensing information avoids clunky exposition, leaving viewers with just enough information to keep them on the edge of their seats Kilgrave’s range of control is revealed through examples, as he orders innocent people to do whatever he wishes, causing emotional, physical and, in Jessica and Hope’s cases, sexual abuse

him and gave him special powers From a young age, whatever Kilgrave said came true, and his parents, too frightened of him, never taught him acceptable behavior He does not consider himself a murderer because he’s never actually murdered anyone and because his victims deser ved to die

Kilgrave’s twisted outlook is further revealed as Jessica calls him out for raping both her and Hope Kilgrave recoils at the use of the term, saying that he had no way

the psychological damage left on Jessica and the other sur vivors of Kilgrave’s mind control Through a support group for victims and Jessica’s comforting of Hope, the show is subtle, but powerful in emphasizing that it is not the victim’s fault

Despite all of his cruel actions, I felt myself struggling to hate Kilgrave I know I should hate him, but David Tennant is incredibly charismatic His portrayal of Kilgrave is smart, charming and enjoyable to watch, and it evokes an odd sense of empathy A rarity in the Mar vel Cinematic Universe, Kilgrave is a deeply-written villain who provides an even match for Jessica

Kilgrave’s mindset is much scarier than his abilities, because he truly does not understand morality In order to save Kilgrave from a neurological disease, Kilgrave’s parents performed medical experiments that tortured

of knowing that Jessica and Hope didn’t want to have sex with him Kilgrave loves Jessica and is horrified that she views his actions as torturous and cruel Kilgrave’s reaction makes a strong point about rape in today’s society through this plot, as it mirrors a scarily common reaction in real life

Along with the psychological analysis of Kilgrave’s skewed motives and ethics, the show effectively addresses

I’m Mad as Hell, and I’m Not

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Do n ’ t f e e l b a d Tu r n s o u t n o b o d y d o e s I w i s h f u l l y, p ro b a b l y d o u c h e - f u l l y c o n s i d e r m y s e l f a j a c k - o f - a l l - a r t s , e q u a l l y k n ow l e d g e a b l e i n t e l e -

v i s i o n , f i l m , t h e a t re a n d v i d e o g a m e s My Ac h i l l e s He e l i s p o p m u s i c ; a l w a y s h a s b e e n , a l w a y s w i l l b e Bu t I t r y m y b e s t t o f a m i l i a r i ze m y s e l f w i t h t h e g ro ov y t u n e s t h e yo u n g s t e r s l i k e t h e s e d a y s I d o s o b e c a u s e I b e l i e ve ( k n ow ) t h a t l i f e l i ve d i n t h e a b s e n c e o f a r t i s n o l i f e Yo u

Jessica Jones is powerfully feminist, as Jessica’s character type is much more frequently played by men She is a tough, heavy drinker, doesn’t rely on anyone else and prefers to be alone, but none of these traits seem out of place in Jessica She is not written as a woman who is independent and strong (both physically and literally), but rather as a character who has these traits No one questions whether Jessica is strong or can do something just because she’s a girl, and if they do, Jessica had absolutely no problem throwing them into a wall to show them other wise

Jessica is by far the protagonist most capable of defeating Kilgrave, despite the efforts of Luke Cage, who is indestructible and strong, and Will Simpson, an overly-violent soldier turned cop, to convince her other wise Ultimately Jessica’s best friend, Trish, becomes her greatest ally Trish isn’t scared to take her safety into her own hands and does what she can to protect Jessica, acting as a moral guide for Jessica

Jessica Jones is at its best when it examines the emotional effects of trauma and morality Yet, even in its weaker moments, it still provides a suspenseful and genuinely enjoyable crime drama

Beynn Richter is a freshman in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at ber65@cornell edu

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Letter to the Editor

Hail, all hail

There's only one way to get through a football season that presented as many challenges as this past one did Together

Togetherness on the field Togetherness in the locker room Togetherness across campus Togetherness in the stands

The Cornell Big Red Football Family is a big, loud, proud supportive one And nowhere was evidence of that support bigger, louder, more proud or more supportive than in the collective unit that is the Cornell Big Red Marching Band

At home games, from the pre-game parade and concerts in the Crescent to your performances inside historic Schoellkopf Field, your musical motivation brought confidence and hope to hometown fans and left visitors full of envy On the road, from Yale and Sacred Heart to Princeton and Penn, you inspired the Big Red Football Family and put opponents and their fans on notice that Cornell University was in town

We cannot thank you enough for your passion, your dedication and support of Big Red Football, and the many sacrifices you made throughout this past season We're already looking forward to our 2016 campaign when we can once again join together in leading Cornell Football to even greater success

Rubin Danberg Biggs | The Common Table

Like Seeing Your Own Re ection

t ’ s n o t a c c u r a t e t o s a y t h a t

Islamophobia is new in American life

It was present in 2008, when critics of Barack Obama claimed that he was a Muslim, assuming that it would be damning if he were So too was it woven into the 2011 opposition to a mosque planned two blocks from ground zero in New York It was said that this mosque would honor the ideology of the attackers We understood Islam to be a violent faith then, and this sentiment has not changed

The same tenor rang in Ben Carson’s statement that a Muslim could

s a y Islamophobia is new in American politics, it is more accurate to say that over the last few w

s caught a glimpse of its own reflection This is a lucid moment, when f

y image into view It is an opportunity to reflect

What is new is how open and explicit politicians have been, particularly on the American right In various iterations, presi

e p r o p o s e d increased scr utiny and sur veillance of Muslims and mosques throughout the United States, and have flatly opposed the admission of Muslim Syrian refugees They say that these are the sacrifices to individual liberty that we have to make in order to protect our collective security

This is truly shocking to hear from a party that wouldn’t ask a clerk to process a marriage certificate or a baker to make a cake if it may tread on their religious coattails It is also surprising to hear rhetoric of safety over liberty from a party whose principled opposition to gun control has been founded upon just the opposite

Truly though, this is not just a criticism of the right There is a segment of the left that has been just as distrustful and inconsistent in its treatment of Islam When Bill Maher says, to the applause of his mainly liberal audience, that Islam is incompatible with liberal values, he nurtures fear and distrust He also betrays an ignorance to a vast amount of Islamic practices and scholarship, and a narrow and prescriptive liberalism that fundamentally misses its own objectives

Maher asks us only to look at the o p p re s s i v e Mu s l i m c u l t u re s o f Sa u d i Arabia and Iran, where women are treated as second-class citizens, and gender and sexual minorities are routinely abused Of course he ignores similar sexual oppression that exists on the basis of Christianity in Uganda, and the practice among a substantial number of Malian Christians of f e m a l e g e n i t a l m u t i l a t i o n He d o e s n ’ t

mention Judaism’s long histor y of gender inequity in its religious leadership, and the vast gender imbalance that still exists in economic and political life throughout the secular Western world The problem is that oppressive sentiment tends to run a lot deeper than the practice of religion Individuals and communities bring what they will to their faith; consequently, that faith will be a reflection of the people who a re p r a c t i c i n g i t , n o t t h e o t h e r w a y around

More important to this conversation, though, are the parts of Islam that go ignored by Maher’s left and Cruz, Trump and Huckabee’s right They miss the Islam

practiced in the secular states of Indonesia and Turkey So too do they miss the Islam practiced by American Muslims whose worship is quite simply not their business

Both the left and the right are guilty of overlooking the vast majority of peaceful Islam in favor of a view that incorrectly pegs the religion as more likely to be radicalized than any other Though it is true that radicalized interpretations of Islam have a unique power today, the failure to disaggregate this power from the religion itself and its practice

b y t h e re s t o f t h e world’s Muslims leads to the discriminator y p o l i c i e s a n d r h e t o r i c seen in much of the Western world

F u r t h e r m o r e , although Maher seeks tolerance and choice, he misses distinctly Muslim strands of feminism and LGBTQ+ advocacy seen throughout the Middle East that draw on a religious foundation to ground their progressive agendas Asserting differing interpretations of the Qur’an, groups from Egypt to Iran have advanced liberal aims This is where Islam creates goodness in a way that Maher’s left could never accommodate, and Trump’s right would never notice Really though, the past several weeks have been a reminder of the extent to which we fear lives that we do not understand, and threats from faces we do not recognize Murder in schools, movie theaters and churches can ’ t shake us, so long as the killer has a face and a background we c a n u n d e r s t a n d Bu t w h e n t e r ro r assumes the name of Islam, or wears a mask of a slightly darker shade, we renege on our promises and turn our backs on the huddled masses These are the terrible implications of our fear

What’s vital to remember is that the terror we feel today is not going away Though I pray other wise, there will likely be another attack; then there will be another One may be devastatingly close to home And the hardest truth to bear is that there is likely ver y little we can do to make ourselves feel safer Sure, we can banish refugees, who already passed an 18-month screening process, but it likely won ’ t have an impact on our safety, both real and perceived What meaningful steps we take abroad will help, but they won ’ t be visible enough to assuage the suffocating sense of helplessness that many feel

This is why an open and compassionate society requires such immense strength a n d a t

u i n e l y afraid Much of the countr y has discerned a difference between itself and the other Where the left says Islam is illiberal, the right says it is dangerous, so we find ourselves gripped with open hate Meanwhile many seem to turn a blind eye, acting b

n e x p e c t e d turn ” in American politics Truly, America has the capacity to offer relative safety, certainty and freedom in a world that is now severely wanting of the three But to do so we have to martial courage in the face of this oppressive feeling of fear and impotence, and avoid hatred at its most appealing moment

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at red243@cornell edu The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester

When I sat down to write this column, I couldn’t help but feel the shadow of past emotions lurking quietly behind me In writing, emotion seems to be the only thing more intoxicating than the potential for a beautiful description Two weeks ago, I had quite a lot of emotion because the glare of ignorance seared my eyes from all sides I wanted desperately to dampen this fire somehow, and so I let the tempestuous wrath of my own frustration, sadness and rage go wild As a result, the words kind of just forced themselves onto the page, propelled largely by their own momentum

Today, the emotion is still there, but now it simmers Now that the Trillium takeover is over and the demands have been sent, I guess I’m in a sort of limbo while I await the next wave of events

Though that’s not to say I don’t have plenty to write about in the meantime Like fear, for example I don’t usually get too caught up in social media and online comment sections, because I value my sanity But lately, I’ve found myself more and more drawn to these domains, if only because the ignorance is hitting so close to

The Ripping of the Canvas

home The fear that compels people to post anonymously on Yik Yak or to keep a safe and comfortable cybernetic distance between themselves and a Facebook friend is no longer an abstract entity No, now it has become the manifestation of a more deeply rooted fear of conflict and discomfort

This fear torments me in much the same way that paranoia did in the early days of freshman year, when my awakening as a person of color was in full effect and I felt as if my psyche was under constant siege

brush, dipping it into the paint and letting a few drops splatter Those drops will diffuse slowly outwards until they connect with other drops, and the canvas will slowly, naturally change color Or, at least, that is my hope when I’m feeling optimistic and patient But this only works if the people viewing the canvas are going to be receptive to a new color

I’m at a point now where I fee equipped to dismantl architecture surrounding the he not only my enemies but also m friends

After all, these kids were walking right past me on campus, bearing this fear while they refused to look me in the eyes And I felt powerless to change that

In my moments of idealism, I’ve often compared creating change to creating a painting In this really bad metaphor, the act of slathering an entire canvas in one single, perfectly distributed layer of paint is not only tedious but damn near impossible Rather, change comes only by taking the

When I see the uncertainty and fear in the words of strangers across the country, I know the canvas is not ready yet, as demonstrated by the reception this column has received I see my friends silently wondering: Has Amiri relinquished his “love of all people” mantra and become dangerous, or is he still someone I can trust to talk to about superficial nothingness while we avoid my distaste for the current events

Emily Hardin | Free Lunch

This year, college students across the country have united to demand the end of the systemic racism and classism that plague our system of higher education While the demands of student protesters vary from campus to campus, in the broadest sense the fight boils down to a call for increased representation and accessibility for historically disadvantaged groups of students and faculty as well as a demand for improved administrative accountability

Over the past 20 years, the share of Black undergraduates attending America's most elite four-year colleges, which include selective private colleges as well as large public research universities, has remained relatively flat at an average of 6 percent of the student body, due in part to an increased reliance on standardized testing that disadvantages minority students To put this in perspective, the U S Census reports that around 15 percent of college-age Americans are Black Additionally, the U S Department of Education reports that in 2013, Black and Hispanic individuals comprised only 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of the total number of faculty and staff members at American postsecondary institutions

Representation is important identity grants the experience necessary to achieve a wider range of perspectives but increasing numbers alone won ’ t solve the issue that these colleges primarily serve affluent students who already benefit from private resources composed of family assets, betterquality high schools and stronger social connections In addition to the need for student body diversity, we need diversity of curriculums, faculty and support systems for the students who are able to matriculate into these universities

There is a lot of work to be done In spite of this fact (or because of it), it is often tempting to flatten student protesters into two-dimensional versions of the complaints we ’ ve been ignoring for decades By characterizing them and Millennials in general

unfolding on college campuses? The answer is yes I am both the same and anew I am still loving, but more importantly, I am now dangerous Dangerous, because I’ve spent the past couple years growing and molding I’m at a point now where I feel well equipped to dismantle the architecture surrounding the hearts of not only my enemies but also my friends The tools I use allow me to reconcile dissonant viewpoints They have made me more aware of the lens through which I view an issue so that I can criticize myself as much as I do others But these tools are useless if people refuse to voice their opinions in my presence or engage with me in person I wish people would stop pretending like nothing is happening, or like they don’t have opinions Fear has the ability to tear asunder the canvas of society and is so good at doing this because of its toxicity, the way it trickles down like water Fear becomes oppression racism, sexism and

In Defense of Disruption

as entitled, selfish and lazy individuals, they become shadows of the hard-working, self-sufficient idealizations of previous generations Their claims, then, cannot be seen as material in value Our misguided faith in the meritocracy of the American college system, in which any individual can succeed with hard work and a little bit of luck, might cause us to mistakenly interpret the disproportionately small minority representation in postsecondary institutions as a product of their own choices and not as a result of the compounded disadvantages they face on the path to higher education

There should be little doubt regarding

with the simplistic assertion that these students are merely “overly sensitive ”

Furthermore, dismissing the need for tolerant campuses ignores the very obvious fact that the students who stand to benefit the most from more inclusive environments, typically minority groups who have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, have had, on average, the most persistent exposure to these “upsetting ideas,” which has become somewhat of a euphemism for general discriminatory speech

While the First Amendment contains no protection for “hate speech” (though it does contain exceptions for “ true threats” and

Demanding a fair campus does not need t incompatible with the tenets of free speech, these two forces are constantly presented being at odds with each other.

both the legitimacy of the demands made by these students as well as their legitimacy to make these demands in the first place As some of the most prominent institutions in American life, universities set the example for all to follow When Black students and allies call for the resignation of a college president in response to his failure to condemn racist remarks, as in the case of Ithaca College, they echo the lives of the 304 Black people who have been killed by police so far in 2015

These are not isolated incidents

Why, then, in one of the most racially divisive years in recent history, have claims emerged that college students are “coddled?”

No one is saying that students should be sheltered from every single idea that they may disagree with or that upsets them Besides being condescending and paternalistic, this dismissal of legitimate claims threatens to undermine the entire call for equality

the like which is the bane of every painter I mean seriously, the word “homophobia” has fear intrinsically built into its very definition! To those on this campus who are succumbing to the profoundness of fear’s powerful poisons, I say only this: The people who have disrupted your lives and angered you so much with their one, peaceful hour at Trillium clearly have reason to be upset if you feel so personally offended by such modest actions

And while I would love to do nothing more than write up the countless responses they have for your cowardice, I will instead request yet again that you stop floundering about in the muck of your fear and start seeking answers (Cornell Skin Deep Stories on Facebook is one great place to start) I anticipate that you will not listen, either because you think I’m not referring to you or because you know for a fact that I am Either way: Please, for once, prove me wrong

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun com Honest A B appears alternate Mondays this semester

need to threaten free speech; this is a false dichotomy Asking students, faculty and staff members to be conscious of intentional language choices is not the same as waging a war on free speech

“fighting words”), this is commonly accepted as one of its limits Groups that already suffer from systemic discrimination are more vulnerable to hate speech than privileged groups Universities, above all, should be promoting civil discourse and maintaining student safety; colleges should not be tolerating hate speech and hurtful actions as normal modes of expression Banning racist Halloween costumes (Yale) and questioning the need for buildings named after Ku Klux Klan apologists (Princeton) would be a good place to start

Demanding a fair campus does not need to be incompatible with the tenets of free speech, but these two forces are constantly presented as being at odds with each other Free speech is one of the most important American freedoms, and it is vital to the principles of our system of higher education

A tolerant and inclusive campus does not

At its best, this type of political correctness is an awkward and clumsy but well-intentioned attempt to be conscious of our language and to treat people with respect At its worst, it doesn’t really exist in any form other than as a dismissive rhetorical tactic used by those who feel uncomfortable when confronted with conversations that call to attention their own privilege On an individual level, confronting privilege requires a complete overhaul of our understanding of self There is immense personal guilt in acknowledging that levels of freedom and access to opportunities vary greatly based on arbitrary factors like country of birth, race, wealth, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few In response to this, our responsibility as individuals is to be consciously anti-racist by listening to the oppressed, recognizing the legitimacy of their suffering and taking action On a larger scale, addressing inequality on college campuses will require our collective acknowledgement that our institutions are fundamentally flawed

Before we worry about whether or not college students have become too sensitive, we should first ensure their safety, emotionally as well as physically We cannot remain indifferent to, or worse, critical of, the demands of student protesters and allies We are all exhausted But for what it’s worth, having to hear the complaints of these students every now and then is far less uncomfortable than having to live through the daily oppression they face

Emily Hardin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at enh33@cornell edu Free Lunch appears alternate Mondays this semester

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junior guard Megan LeDuc took three defensive charges for the team, as well as doling out the majority of the team ’ s assists

Just three days later, the team traveled down to West Virginia to play the Thundering Herd The home team entered the contest at 4-0 and after two relentless halves, extended that streak to 5-0, beating Cornell, 73-47

The Thundering Herd proved to be the opposite kind of team from the Bills, known for jacking up threes and pushing the tempo on offense compared to the high pressure defense the Bills showed the Red earlier in the week With such aggressive offense, Cornell got aggressive itself

Marshall had four fouls during the game and the three other forwards, Campbell, Caroline Shelquist and Nicholle Aston all had three apiece The fouls limited their playing time and gave Marshall the momentum it needed to keep racking up the score

“After our loss against Buffalo, we really wanted to key in on defense and running our offense efficiently,” Moran said “We also wanted to maintain 40

minutes of solid energy Throughout the game we had sparks of good defense or we ran the floor well, but we stopped playing well when Marshall took away our strengths ”

Campbell said the Red’s focus was on containing the players and the tempo of the game

“We were focused on containing their players since we knew going in they were fast and like to get to the basket,” she said “Offensively, we were hoping to control the tempo and make them make mistakes on defense ”

On offense, Cornell’s guards took the reins this time, with both Moran and LeDuc notching nine points, while the bigs rebounded down low Marshall and Campbell had six rebounds each

Despite the loss, the two teams the Red faced this past week offer unique ways to learn going forward

“Going forward, we are obviously disappointed with the results of this week,” Campbell said “Now we have to focus on learning from our loss and not making the same mistakes in the future ”

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun com

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By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Red Drops Two Games to Buffalo Upstate, Marshall Hockey Loses Trophy to Boston

Collegefootball and basketball are huge spectator sports Every year, h u n d re d s o f t h o u s a n d s o f f a n s watch the Rose Bowl or participate in brackets for March Madness with the same, if not higher amount of enthusiasm than for professional sports Teams certainly make a name for themselves when they are doing well, drawing attention with star players or playoff runs and bringing in masses of television viewers So if college sports are so huge and draw in that big of a following, that begs the question: should

collegiate athletes be treated like pros and compensated for their hard work? This is a tricky argument to make because of the understanding that student athletes are not just there for the sport, but to get an education, separating them from pro athletes who are just that athletes

There are scholarships, yes, but players, especially big names like Heisman trophy winners, definitely draw crowds and drive up ticket sales to college games However, these players are not compensated for the recognition and fandom they are bringing to their respective schools Is this fair or just the nature of the NCAA? This has recently been a hot topic of debate in the college spor ts world, despite the firm stance of the NCAA that no, athletes should not be paid

The argument that it is unfair for schools to make money off of their athletes without giving them any compensation is countered by the fact that in actuality, schools do not even make that much money from these star players In fact, they b a re l y b re a k e ve n Me g h a n Du r h a m , spokeswoman for the NCAA, stated that only 20 of the roughly 1,200 schools of the NCAA make more from sports than they

reported in March that over two-fifths of the teams that par ticipated in March Madness either broke even or lost money this past year

But are these schools breaking even because they aren ’ t making money or because they are spending too much of it?

Some argue that most of the revenue made during a year from sports goes to building new state-of-the-art facilities or paying college coaches salaries, which are equivalent to that of professional team coaches In that case, if the coaches are getting paid a professional-worthy salary, why aren ’ t the athletes? Working out as a collegiate athlete is like a full time job Most sports economists, such as Stefan Szymanski, argue that paying athletes would just be a simple matter of reallocating revenue and that most schools can in fact afford to pay their athletes

Some fear that giving athletes salaries would ruin the concept of college sports and lead to “bidding wars ” But essentially, this problem already exists in the world of college spor ts Athletes choose schools based on their reputations, the number of athletes they help go pro and the ones with the best facilities Naturally, this means the best schools already get most of the best recruits It wouldn’t be much different if we paid athletes Rather, it would be like going to college while simultaneously having a job and honestly, that would be a pretty sweet deal Many more college players would be able to set themselves up for a better futures due to already having had a source of income

College athletes work as hard as pro-athletes and dedicate themselves to their sport, especially if they are generating income for the school It would only be fair for them to receive compensation for their efforts To come out of college without any debts would be more than ideal and it would have the added bonus of feeling like you ’ re playing pro (and let’s be real, athletes on the top teams probably already feel like that)

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

This past week, the women ’ s basketball team traveled all over the East Coast for Thanksgiving break, first playing University of Buffalo Upstate and then Marshall University on Friday

Playing the University of Buffalo was going to be a challenge and the Red was preparing for the team ’ s speed and agility on both sides of the ball In order to counteract that speed, the Red worked on its defensive play as a team, and on the other side of the court, getting the ball off the perimeter and into the paint, where Cornell had the advantage in height

Forwards junior Nia Marshall and sophomore Christine Ehland led the Red in scoring, finishing with nine points each Freshman for ward Caroline Shelquist added eight of her own, keeping Cornell’s numbers solidly with the bigs

“We needed inside points, but they were effective with their double teams unfortunately,” said senior Maddie Campbell “Our shots didn’t fall and we were out-rebounded Overall it was a tough loss we are trying to learn from ” Despite having great possession time, Cornell’s shots just could not find their mark, and the team dropped its first game of the break to the Bills, 41-59

“Defense has been something we have really focused on so far this year, ” said junior guard Kerri Moran “We knew the Buffalo players were fast, especially the guards, and we prepared to play team defense, not just one-on-one defense Our shooting percentage wasn ’ t great against Buffalo, but we also didn’t finish plays where we needs to finish them and ultimately let them get too much offensively and we didn’t capitalize defensively ” Though team defense was the focus,