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Univ. Of ci al s Di sc uss Campus Safety, Health

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer

In light of growing student concerns about campus safety and health, President David Skorton and Susan Murphy ’73 Ph D ’94, vice president of student and academic services, stressed the importance of sharing responsibility for others’ well being “I think we need to think more and more about how we can work collaboratively to help each other make good choices,” Skorton said during a Student Assembly meeting Thursday “At the end of the day, there’s nothing that

“We have a shared responsibility for this.”

University level or the Student Assembly level or anywhere else to stop people from making poor choices ”

Some students have raised concerns about the lack of walk-in health care at Gannett Health Services at night, which they say would assist victims of sexual assault and those who need medical attention While stressing the importance of student health, Murphy said Thursday that reinstating overnight services at Gannett which previously existed but was shut down 15 years ago would likely not be possible

Citing an analysis conducted by the University, Murphy said that, on average, only 1 1 to 1 5 students a night went to visit a doctor

By NOAH RANKIN

Moustafa Boyoumi, author of the 2008 book, How Does it Feel to Be a Pro b l e m ? : Be i n g Yo u n g a n d Ara b i n America, spoke Thursday about what Arab Muslim Americans say they face in a post-9/11 society Taking inspiration from civil rights

NY T Film Critic Visits Cornell

By DARA LEVY Sun Senior Writer

Audience members filled the aisles and lined the walls of Kaufmann Auditorium Thursday to hear A O Scott, chief film critic for The New York Times, speak about topics ranging from the 300 films he sees each year to a 2012 Twitter feud with Samuel L Jackson

Scott said the most common question people ask about his profession is, “what gives you the right to be a critic?”

Scott said criticism comes naturally in daily life, starting out as one of the first skills we master as children and being something we continue to perfect throughout life

He added that critics often land near the bottom of respected professions “along with lawyers, politicians, journalists and mafia hitmen ”

“There’s a sense that the work that critics do is at best superfluous and at worst intrusive,” Scott said Scott also spoke about the effects new technology and social media have had in changing the definition of who is considered a critic In May 2012, actor Samuel L Jackson took to Twitter upon reading Scott’s negatively-leaning review of The Avengers, a film that Jackson had starred in

“#Avengers fans, NY Times critic AO Scott needs a new job! Let’s help him find one! One he can ACTUALLY do!” Jackson wrote on Twitter

Scott said the incident ignited an online feud in which Jackson’s fans attacked Scott’s criticism

Boyoumi said he wanted to write a book chronicling stories he thought “ w e r e n

Americans

“ You often end up writing the book that you want to read,” Boyoumi said “I felt like if nobody was going to tell the stor y, then I would tell the stor y ”

Boyoumi said he had always been

aware of prejudices against Muslims After seeing the prejudices grow in scale after 9/11, however, Boyoumi said he wanted to record the stories of Arab Muslims living in the U S

“After 9/11, suddenly ever yone was interested in Islam and Muslims, especially the United States,” Boyoumi said “It’s as if a community went from living in the shadows to living under the spotlight And in both scenarios, the details of life are washed out It seemed to me ver y impor tant to tr y to rehumanize a population that’s being increasingly dehumanized ”

B o y o u m i , a n A r a b Mu s l i m w h o gre w up in Canada, said he focused on t h e s t o r i e s o f i n d i v i d u a l s l i v i n g i n Brooklyn, where he currently lives and t e a c h e s A c c o r d i n g t o B o y o u m i , Brooklyn can be vie wed as representing the future of American demography

“ No b o d y r e a l l y o w n s B r o o k l y n , ”

Boyoumi said “Ever ybody lives narrow l y s h o u l d e r - t o - s h o u l d e r, a n d yo u sor t of have to understand each other and work along those lines I think Brooklyn in some ways is the best of the Un i t e d St a t e s – – t h e Un i t e d St a t e s without its foreign policy ” Beginning in 2005, Boyoumi said he

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Although The Avengers went on to become the second fastest film to reach $1 billion at the global box office, according to Scott, the many people analyzing the film via Twitter showed that the role of “criticism is wobbling, that it is in a state of confusion ”

A newspaper deliverer driving by a house in Varna, N Y helped save its residents when he noticed a blaze and called the Ithaca Fire Department

At 5:00 a m , Joel Brockway was driving past 377 Snyder Hill Rd when he saw the blaze, woke up the house’s residents and called for help, the IFD wrote on Facebook Thursday According to the Facebook post, upon arriving at the scene, Varna Deputy Chief Vince Monticello saw a “heavy fire on the front porch of the two-story house ” IFD extinguished the fire According to IFD, the fire was only on the outside of the building, and the inside of the building only sustained smoke and water damage According to IFD, the fire started because of

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“How Does It Feel to Be a Problem, Still? Being Young and Muslim in America Today” 5:30 p m , Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall

Movie Dinner Discussion: Limitless 5 p m , Carol Tatkon Center

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News, “Former Cornell Sun Editor Appears on The Colbert Report, ” Wednesday

Speaking about the culture at Ruper t Murdoch’s organiz ations during the 2011 hacking scandal

There is the sense that he continually pushed his tabloids to find out greater and greater degree of gossip and news He pushed them relentlessly in an age of having to comp ete against the internet sites for gossip as well

David Folkenf lik ’91

Hillar y Clinton running for president in 2016

“With a strong platform and with Hillar y leading the charge, we will vanquish the Ted Cruz , Tea Party Republicans in 2016 and create a generation of Demo crats who will make sure the middle class gets what it needs ” S en Chuck S chumer (D-N Y )

Sp eaking ab out the 2012 presidential elec tion and how p olitical fer vor has decreased “For those few brisk autumn weeks we were the first-time voters the students the future that ever yone kept talking ab out We were the change, the civic ideal, that anchored stump sp eeches That will not happ en again ”

Jacob Glick ’15

“In systems in which founding do cuments have b een agreed up on as basic guides for the subsequent creation of p olicies, a citizen is justified in seeking to ameliorate inconsistencies b etween the spirit of the institution and the letter of the law Reform not revolution must b e the ultimate goal of the civilly disob edient ” Sam Kuhn ’14

Visiting Prof Researches Job Creation in War-Torn Africa

By AIMEE CHO Sun Staff Writer

Helping impoverished Africans start their own businesses could be the key to reducing violence in post-conflict societies, according to recent experiments conducted by a Columbia professor

In a guest lecture at Cornell Thursday, Prof Chris Blattman, political science, Columbia University, spoke about his research in post-conflict African societies such as Northern Uganda and Liberia There, many citizens have a difficult time finding steady work and making money, according to Blattman

“A luxury we have in developed countries is that we don’t have to be entrepreneurs [to support ourselves ] We can form a set of skills and get hired by a company But in post-conflict societies in Africa, they don’t have a lot of firms that are hiring Factories have long lines out the door for just 30 or 50 jobs,” Blattman said “This is a hard place to make money To help the people in postconflict societies in Africa go from $1 a day to $2 a day would be a huge accomplishment ”

Blattman said a key part of his research was based on the relationship between money and violence In designing his experiments, he said he wanted to determine

whether giving money and business training to Africans would make them less likely to join mercenary armies or participate in antigovernment violence

Blattman conducted several different experiments in various post-conflict African communities In one of the experiments, he said, he and his colleagues had groups of 20 men in northern Uganda apply for grants of $7,500 to receive training in a particular trade

“We wondered if dropping $7,500 ‘ out of a helicopter,’ unsupervised would work,” Blattman said

He added that after some time, he did notice a change in the work behavior

“After four years, work hours and earnings had increased But there was no change in social cohesion, aggression or political cations like protest It’s possible we didn’t obser ve violence because the people of northern Uganda weren ’ t particularly raucous to start with, or they didn’t have opportunities to be violent, since Uganda was a relatively peaceful place by then,” Blattman said

In his next experiment, he said, he targeted men who did have a tendency for violent behaviors: ex-fighters, illegal gold miners and urban street youth who were known for being pickpockets Blattman said he created an agricultural training program for

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these men to help them start their own farms

“When war broke out in Cote d’Ivoire next door, fewer of the men [in the program] engaged in mercenary networks The men were less likely to attend secret meetings, make plans to move or say they would go for cash,” Blattman said “It was easier for them to say no when they had their own farming business that they were making money from ”

Blattman’s final experiment, which he said he just finished this week, involved an urban area of Liberia where people were likely to be recruited by mercenary leaders Blattman said he gave the people he worked with training about self-discipline and a

$200 grant

“Basically, we handed out $200 to criminals and drug dealers,” he said “And we did see high rates of investment, more self-discipline and less crime and violence ”

In attendance at Blattman’s lecture was Prof Alex Kuo, government, who said he found Blattman’s lecture to be interesting and educational

“I really enjoyed the seminar I learned a lot about his research on employment in Africa in post-conflict societies He’s a really great scholar,” Kuo said

at acho@cornellsun com

C.U. Awarded 20 Fulbr ights

By GRACE HURLEY Sun Contributor

Cornell was the tenth highest producer of U S

Fu l b r i g h t St u d e n t s i n 2013-14, the Chronicle of Hi g h e r E d u c a t i o n announced last month

Twenty out of 67 applicants from Cornell were awarded grants this year from the prestigious prog r a m , m a k i n g t h e

Un i v e r s i t y ’ s a c c e p t a n c e rate fifth highest in the c o u n t r y a n d s e t t i n g i t above peers including Yale and Har vard

b a s i c a l l y w h a t e v e r y o u want I’m not exaggerating when I say, ‘do whatever you want ’ This is not an academic grant; this is not for a research dissertation

This is for whatever you want, ” he said during an information session for the Fu l b r i g h t p r o g r a m Wednesday

Ever y year, he added,

t h o s e a c c e p t e d i n t o t h e program travel abroad and

s p e n d a b o u t a y e a r engaged in research on a topic of their choosing or become English teaching assistants

ty of the applicants and increased University outreach “ T h e p r i m a r y re a s o n for Cornell’s excellent performance in the competition is that we have excellent students,” he said in a n e m a i l “ We h a v e strengthened our efforts to re a c h s t u d e n t s a t t h e sophomore and junior levels We have two advisors to meet with the students, and we have administrative staff at the Einaudi Center who keep in touch with t h e In s t i t u t e o f

“Nothing Ever ything there is mouthwatering and delicious I plan to live there for the rest of my life ” In Love With Jennie ’16

“Do they sell cider? If no get on that If yes keep on doing you ” Cider Obsessed ’15

“Alcohol All of the alcohol Did someone say alcohol? I could use some ” Jack Daniels ’15

“Maybe I would care if Chipotle moved in But I don’t ” Long Live Chipotle ’15 –– Compiled by Tyler Alicea

T h e Fu l b r i g h t p r ogram ’ s two main objectives are “ to provide an opportunity for U S students to e n h a n c e t h e i r a c a d e m i c , professional and intellectual growth and to strengthen cultural exchange,” said Pr o f E m e r i t u s Gi l b e r t

L e v i n e , b i o l o g i c a l a n d

e n v i r o n m e n t a l e n g i n e e ring, Fulbright advisor to Cornell graduate students and alumni The program is open to seniors, graduate students and alumni who have graduated in the last five years

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C o r n e l l u n d e r g r a d u a t e s , since the Fulbright mission is “ to get people together

t o re c o g n i z e t h e f e l l ow humanity of other human beings,” the Fulbright program has a flexible and unrestricted structure

A s a re s u l t , h e s a i d , there are no limits on what to study or how to study it

“ T h i s i s a w h o l l y unique experience in that you are fully funded to do

S e n d e r s said previous p r o j e c t s ranged from s t u d y i n g a rice planting

s c h e m e i n In d i a t o w r i t i n g a b l o g a b o u t lunch in Syria

“If we could attract even more students to the program, we could be even more successful.”

Ac c o rd i n g t o L e v i n e , Cornell’s involvement in t h e a p p l i c a t i o n p r o c e s s includes student outreach

t h r o u g h t h e Ma r i o E i n a u d i C e n t e r f o r International Studies and arranging and managing the various portions of the application process, such a s o r g a n i z i n g i n t e r v i e w committees

In a d d i t i o n , L e v i n e said, the Einaudi Center provides information and advice on applicants’ countries of interest, and can usually supply applicants with contact people within those countries Levine said he credits Cornell’s success in getting students accepted to the program to both the quali-

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and facilitate access for the students to the resources at the center ” Despite Cornell’s success in its production of Fulbright students, Levine said he still sees room to

future years

“Our rank this year is tenth in the number of awards, but our percentage a p

fifth in the

more students to the program, we could be even more successful,” he said

Grace Hurley can be reached at gkh29@cornell edu

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r e m p l oy m e n t t o b e i n g f o rc i b l y p l a c e d i n p r i s o n f o r m o n t h s by t h e Ne w Yo rk Po l i c e De p a r t m e n t a s p a r t

o f a t e r ro r i s m i n ve s t i g a t i o n b e c a u s e o f t h e i r n a t i o n a l i t y “ It’s o n e t h i n g f o r a s t e re o t y p e t o e x i s t a s p a r t o f t h e g e n e r a l c u l t u re , ” B oyo u m i s a i d “ It’s a n o t h e r t h i n g w h e n t h a t s t e re o t y p e o f t h e g e n e r a l c u l t u re a l s o f e e d

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, r i c h l y, f u l l y, f a i r l y a n d a c c u r a t e l y, t h e n yo u i n ve s t i n g a k i n d o f l i f e o n t h e p a g e , ” B oyo u m i s a i d “ T h e re ’ s a re a l p owe r t o s t o r y t e l l i n g i n f a c t , I t h i n k i t ’ s o n e o f t h e m o s t p o l i ti c a l a c t s t h a t

Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes were examples Scott said proved the vast quantity and prevalence of ratings and critiques on the Internet

“ There seems to be more of

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o t t said “A lot of the alarm about digital culture has exactly to do with that terrifying abundance, that there’s so much of it coming from all directions and this fear that we will not be able to pick and choose the right things ”

Scott said that when revie wing movies, there is not one standard to hold ever y film to He tries to keep a film’s intentions in mind while he writes a revie w, he added

For example, with Zero Dark Thir ty, Scott said, it would have been impossible to analyze the film without acknowledging the

However, when revie wing The Passion of the Christ in 2004, Scott said he remembers making sure he looked at it just as a movie, forgetting the cultural debates and media attention surrounding the film

Following an audience question about the use of the word “film” in an increasingly digital world, Scott said that a shift back to the term “moving pictures ” could better suit the fact t h a t p e o p l

screens

“Is a video of a cat jumping up on a counter that you watch on your phone ‘cinema’?” Scott asked “No, but it’s something, and all of these different types of screens have something to do with each other ” Adding to his point about modern technology’s influence on the film industr y, Scott said at some point people thought

players now, some fear the Internet will hur t cinema

“I think people will still go to the movies, but the question is which movies will be wor th leaving the house for,” Scott said

W h e n a s k e d a b o u t t h e Academy Awards, Scott said that they are a “fascinating thing ” Scott said that on one hand, he feels that the Oscars ser ve a positive purpose by giving bumps to cer tain films He added, howeve

industr y by affecting the coverage of movies and their release dates

“ This has been a ver y good year, with a fe w good ones yet to come, ” Scott said of the potential Oscar candidates

The talk, titled “Ever yone ’ s a Critic,” was the Daniel W Kops ’ 3 9 Fr e e d o m o f t h e Pr e s s Lecture, which is sponsored by the Kops Freedom of the Press Fellowship Program a

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when Gannett was open overnight She added that, with the increase of healthcare costs, the investment was not wise, forcing the University to close the services and allocate its overnight resources to the day

Murphy said the University has made up for the reallocation of health services by creating partnerships with community organizations like Cayuga Medical Center Currently, when a medical emergency occurs at night on campus, patients are taken to CMC

“As we are under increasing pressure to be able to meet the needs of the students during the daytime here, we may even have to do more of that partnering,” Murphy said

The two administrators also turned their attention to Greek life, which has undergone dramatic change since the death of George Desdunes ’13, who died in a fraternity hazing ritual in 2011 Among the biggest changes made to Greek life are that the new member period, which previously lasted 12 weeks, has been shortened to four weeks, and

that first-semester freshmen have been barred from attending fraternity parties

“We have a shared responsibility for this,” Skorton said “I really hope and expect that you will help each other make good decisions and not do things beyond a certain point, whether it’s in a Greek house, at a bar downtown or somebody’s apartment ”

Murphy said that the quarter system which has raised concerns regarding potentially pushing high-risk drinking underground, according to Cameron Pritchett ’15 will not be abandoned until the Greek system goes through four years of it She added she hopes fraternity members take advantage of the first quarter and build a robust social life among brothers

“Don’t assume [having freshman at fraternity parties during the first quarter is] the only way you can recruit students,” she said “Focus on creating a more vibrant social life during the first quarter ”

Skorton also apologized to Gabriella Lopez ’15 and her peers on behalf of the administration after Lopez asked a question regarding Cornell Athletics’ Cinco de-Mayo-

themed marketing campaign, which ran in early October

The campaign which was described as being “culturally insensitive” was used to promote a Cornell football game against Colgate University and encouraged those attending to celebrate “Ithaca: Cinco de Octubre” by donning sombreros and ponchos, The Sun previously reported

"As Cornell University’s faculty, staff and student body become more varied,” it would be beneficial for the University to be aware of and respond to the changing nature of the community, Skorton said

Skorton also added that, to promote a better campus climate, it would be beneficial to establish guidelines for how individuals should conduct themselves

“One thing that would be good to work together on collaboratively is good general guidelines for how to behave on campus day and night that we always have to keep reminding ourselves about as the population changes every year, ” Skorton said

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun com

Twitter Shares Leap Above O ffering Price in Wall Street Debut

NEW YORK (AP) Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time Thursday, instantly leaping more than 70 percent above their offering price in a dazzling debut that exceeded even Wall Street’s lofty hopes

By the closing bell, the social network that reinvented global communication in 140-character bursts was valued at $31 billion nearly as much as Yahoo Inc , an Internet icon from another era, and just below Kraft Foods, the grocery conglomerate founded more than a century ago

The stock’s sizzling performance seemed to affirm the bright prospects for Internet companies, especially those focused on mobile users And it could invite more entrepreneurs to consider IPOs, which lost their luster after Facebook’s first appearance on the Nasdaq was marred by glitches

In Silicon Valley, the IPO produced another crop of millionaires and billionaires, some of whom are sure to fund a new generation of startups

Twitter, which has never turned a profit in the seven years since it was founded, worked hard to temper expectations ahead of the IPO, but all that was swiftly forgotten when the market opened

Still, most analysts don’t expect the company to be profitable until 2015 Investors will be watching closely to see whether Twitter was worth the premium price

Thursday’s stock surge was “really not as important as you might think,” said Kevin Landis, a portfolio manager with Firsthand Funds, which owns shares in Twitter “What really matters is where the stock is going to be in six months, 12 months ”

The most anticipated initial public offering of the year was carefully orchestrated to avoid the dysfunction that surrounded Facebook’s IPO

Trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “ TWTR,” shares opened at $45 10, 73 percent above their initial offering price

In the first few hours, the stock jumped as high as $50 09 Most of those gains held throughout the day, with Twitter closing at $44 90, despite a broader market decline

The narrow price range indicated that people felt it was “ pretty fairly priced,” said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade

The price spike “clearly shows that demand exceeds the supply of shares,” said Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter

Earlier in the day, Twitter gave a few users rather than executives the opportunity to ring the NYSE’s opening bell The users included actor Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”; Vivienne Harr, a 9-yearold girl who ran a lemonade stand for a year to raise money to end child slavery; and Cher yl Fiandaca of the Boston Police Department Twitter raised $1 8 billion Wednesday night when it sold 70 million shares to select investors for $26 each But the huge firstday pop left some analysts wondering whether the company could have raised more Had Twitter priced the stock at $30, for instance, the company would have taken away $2 1 billion At $35, it would have reaped nearly $2 5 billion That’s a lot for a company that’s never made a profit and had revenue of just $317 million last year

If the price stays this high, or goes even higher, shareholders will no doubt be happy But the money that they might make from any stock sale doesn’t go to the company Named after the sound of a chirping bird, Twitter’s origins date back to 2005, when creators Noah Glass and Evan Williams were trying to get people to sign

up for Odeo, a podcasting service they created Odeo didn’t make it

By early 2006, Glass and fellow Odeo programmer Jack Dorsey began work on a new project: teaming with co-worker Christopher “Biz” Stone on a way to corral text messages typically sent over a phone

It was Glass who came up with the original name Twttr The two vowels were added later The first tweets were sent on March 21, 2006

By 2007, Twitter was incorporated with Dorsey as the original CEO and Williams as chairman Dorsey and Williams would eventually swap roles Both remain major shareholders, though neither runs the company Glass, meanwhile, was effectively erased from Twitter’s history, writes New York Times reporter Nick Bilton in “Hatching Twitter: A true story of money, power, friendship, and betrayal ”

Since those early days, the site has attracted world leaders, religious figures and celebrities, along with CEOs, businesses and countless marketers and self-promoters

The company avoided the trouble that plagued Facebook’s high-profile debut, which suffered technical glitches that had lasting consequences

T h e C o r n e ¬ D a i l y S u n

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Editor ANDY LEVINE ’14

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COURT 15

FLAX 15

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SARAH COHEN ’15

BRYAN CHAN 15

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A nd Wake Up

oday marks the first annual Medika Mamba Challenge a student-run campaign to raise money and awareness for Meds & Foods for Kids, a non-profit that supports Haiti’s sustainable development MFK assists local peanut farmers who supply the raw materials for the local manufacturing of Medika Mamba Todya, I’ll be eating just one bag of Medika Mamba today, in semi-fasting solidarity with malnourished Haitain children

If you haven’t heard of Medika Mamba, all you need to know is that its this succulent gooey substance made of ground roasted peanuts, powdered milk, oil, sugar and all the vitamins and minerals needed to treat adolescent malnourishment At 500 calories, this product is used as a $69 eight-week treatment that recovers malnourished children with an 85 percent success rate (60 percent better than the older milk-based treatments)

But why am I fasting instead of directly donating money right to MFK? Because fasting is a remarkable process A good fast cultivates discipline, cleanses our bodies and minds and brings renewed awareness to our habitual cognition Many religions caught onto the benefits of fasting a while ago: think of Islamic Ramadan, Jewish Yom Kippur, Hindi New Moon festivals, etc

These collective rituals have a therapeutic capacity that can help people connect with an energy beyond themselves Of course, fasting has a political dimension, with many protesting the social control inherent in our normalized public notions of a proper diet: Gandhi is the first to come to mind, but think of the scores of political prisoners on hunger strikes across the globe

While I do claim my semi-fast is in support for MFK and the Haitian children, I’ll admit I always love a solid fast Fasting for me isn’t as miserable as it might be for the average individual In a fast, I confront the daily convenience of my bottomless consumption I’m forced to self-reflect and question the boundaries of what my body is capable of I temporarily take charge of my impulse to eat In doing so, I stretch my limits of possibility

Typically, I eat when I’m not even hungry I ll eat out of boredom, to procrastinate, to socialize or out of sheer gluttony (I’m lookin’ at you, Insomnia Cookies) We’ve all experienced this before, and for those that have fasted before, I’m confident you identify with the empowerment of abstention

But for the rest of you, where can fasting fit in? Is it just a religious act? Only for political protest? Can it be spiritual for the secular? All of the above? Or none? In my opinion (t’s an opinion column, so this is all my opinion), fasting cuts right to the core of all our spiritual questions When I say spiritual,

I’m not referring to the Almighty God or the Heavens above or Buddha or any other religious relics built by man Spiritual in the most general sense is that universal human need for purpose, order and meaning in a world often void of all three

Spirituality can connect us with the sublime right here on this earth It’s not an escapist principle in the least Whether your “God” exists above, below, here, there, everywhere or nowhere, what really matters is what we do in the here and now

We have been taught spirituality and religion are synonymous, and recently the tre nding “I’m-s piritu al-b u t-n ot-re ligiou s ” types have sprung up in droves Honestly, when I’m asked about my religious preferences, I’ll self-categorize that way immedia t e l y Ye t , w h a t t h a t s e n t i m e n

y entails is quite murky and unexplored

Fasting can be the portal into a worldly spirituality, a grounded world-view that fosters positive thought and action for fellow people In denying oneself the pleasure of eating, we make a choice with intention and d i

thoughtless decisions Through self-refusal, we identify and empathize just a bit with those who don’t have the privilege to eat the normal amount we typically eat

Yet, fasting is neither wholly selfish nor absolutely altruistic Rather, it’s both giving and receiving While fasting, I (hope to) gain an increased awareness of how I relate to the world, thereby increasing my potential for empathy I fast to slap my ego in the face I fast to reclaim independent thought and choice by dissociating my habituated patterns of thought and action, so normalized in my daily routine, that I’ve lost selfawareness Fasting can undo our desensitization to the material excess of our existence

Neither trite nor disingenuously sentimental, there’s real spiritual work going on here Fasting can shatter the binary proselytized by modern religious ideology: We can experientially blend reality and myth, logic and faith, worldliness and transcendence

My fast tomorrow will release me from selfdoubt and alienation to bring about a realization of the significance of every decision I urge you to give fasting a try Skip a meal once and see how you feel Choose discomfort

To fast is to materialize the sublime to jar our core and bring the beyond within Only then can we realize that the Garden of Eden isn’t a myth or an artifact of faith We’re already here

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

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Bailey Dineen | Genderfucked

My Weapon of Choice

ueer To be queer is to be you in the most genuine, honest way I’ve been basking in the joy that is queerness since I discovered it about two years ago A whole new realm of possibilities for being and acting I felt had eluded me my whole life was suddenly open to me While embracing queerness has allowed me to look to the future to discover whatever it is that I want to be, it also has allowed me to look to the past to realize what I have been all along beneath the clothes, behind the actions, despite the façade

As I discovered queerness and embraced it, it is as if I unleashed this flood of memories, sensations and thoughts from my past that I had repressed my whole life because they complicated my heterosexuality and cisgender-ness (my identification with the gender to which I was assigned at birth) For the first time, these memories became chances for me to understand myself as a naturally queer person, rather than existing as anomalies to be ashamed of and to silence

Now, as I come in to my queerness, it is important that I return to those past experiences and read them and interpret them for what they were manifestations of my queerness To continue to ignore them would be to allow my future to be based on a heteronormative and cisnormative understanding of my past And if I allow that to happen, I run the risk of continuing to deny myself freedom

In terms of my gender and sexual identity, I identify as an asexual, polyromantic, gender neutral transwomyn Coming to identify with those labels was definitely a process, and I am sure the labels I use will continue to evolve I’m constantly tr ying to understand myself while resisting the pressures to identify with the heteronormativity and cisnormativity projected onto my body It’s tough shit! Understanding myself will always be a work-in-

progress, and I am totally content with that

The reason why I appreciate this torrent of memories and sensations from the past so much is because a new memor y is always popping up And with each new reading of my past, I come to understand myself differently and may choose to identify with a new gender or sexuality

To give you an example, most recently, I revisited one of my favorite memories from my childhood; but this time I read it differently I’m really happy about what I’ve learned from it, so I’d like to share it with you Humor me

It’s summer camp in the year 2000, and seven-year-old me was hanging out on the playground, talking to this

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older boy All of a sudden, though, I got pissed off I had never remembered what he did, or why I got angr y but for whatever reason I Was Pissed So, I took my pink Barbie lunch box and I started beating this guy up It was great My counselors had to pull me away from him, and I put up this huge fit in which I refused to apologize and give in to the injustice of it all Triumphant little Bailey walked away from the scene feeling like: “Fuck yeah, no one ’ s messing with me and my pink Barbie lunch box again ” I love that memor y It says a lot about the parts of my personality I’ve always been ver y proud of But, in discov-

ering queerness, I am only just now reading it in a new way During my most recent recollection of this memor y, my new-found queer perspective finally exposed to me why I was so angr y and why I chose to beat this kid up He was totally treating me like a girl! I’ve only recently learned to regard interactions from my childhood as gendering techniques Like my family telling me that I shouldn ’ t get facial piercings because that’s not pretty (and I’m a woman and women are supposed to be pretty) or my mom getting me a sparkly bike with streamers for Christmas (because I was a girl and girls are supposed to like that) In this case, this boy was teasing me about my pigtails and high-pitched voice in a way that assumed that because of these characteristics, I was this dainty girl who could be pushed around

And there was no way that was happening No, I didn’t realize the gendering at the time, but I knew that this wasn ’ t how I wanted to be treated Being treated as a dainty girl got so under my skin that I had to beat this kid up That just wasn ’ t me I have the words and understanding of gender to describe that now, but I guess, then, I just felt it It was the truth I just never bothered to remember

So there you have it I’ve been a hard femme genderqueer my whole life and I’m only now just recognizing it Damn I wish 20-year-old me and seven-year-old me could get together in our combat boots and denim vests to exchange lipsticks and stories of tearing down patriarchy The playground would tremble

Bailey Dineen is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Pronous: They, Them, There They may be reached at btd32@cornell edu Genderfucked appears alternate Fridays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY MARTHA WYDYSH Sun Staff Writer

Midori Goto, professionally known simply as Midori, has been professionally soloing with orchestras since the tender age of 11 Since her beginnings as a young prodigy, she has gained acclaim as a goddess of the violin Midori today is known for her special proficiency at performing top of the list violin concerti and showpieces; each year, she performs up to 100 concerts worldwide When concertgoers came to her recital at Cornell Tuesday, they may have expected crowd pleasers but this was not what they received She did not play Sarasate; she did not execute a single Paganini caprice She did not even tackle the cornerstone of violin sonatas, Beethoven’s Kreutzer, as her younger brother Ryu did when he visited campus just last month Known for sticking between the boundaries of Bach and Bartók in performance repertoire choices, Midori seemed to be broadening her horizons She chose a much more all-encompassing, albeit lengthy, program for those who came to Bailey Hall Tuesday evening Known for her eyebrow-raising taste in dresses, Midori floated onstage in a beautiful, free-flowing peach gown that fit snugly around her tiny midsection She and her pianist, Turkish-American Özgür Aydin, bowed to the audience in welcome and began Mozart’s Sonata in F Major without saying a word While this was certainly a Mozart sonata in all of its predictable levity, this particular sonata is not the obvious pick for a soloist In fact, top-notch violinists rarely record it True to classical sonata form, the piece lasted three movements, all of which fit comfortably into the concertgoers ’ ear By opening with a highly accessible piece, she allowed herself be vulnerable to the trained ear And undeniably so, Midori is a perfectionist In the opening movement, her brush strokes were pristinely clear and controlled despite the flighty character of the music The call and answer phrases passed between Midori and Aydin immediately revealed a close bond between the two; they played with a familiar ease through the second movement of theme and variations After a moderately slow and felt third movement, the duo came out for a commending two rounds of applause

The work of the night was Bloch’s “Poème Mystique,” Sonata No 2, a work she has recently recorded with the very pianist onstage with her This one movement work challenges the standard sonata form, but in a refreshingly engrossing

way; it was certainly a change of pace after Mozart The piece opens with unaccompanied violin, playing a mesmerizing, soaring melody; the piano echoed these smooth lines The music takes unexpected turns, launching into haunting harmonics and abrupt interval leaps in the violin part Suddenly, a pause in both solo and accompaniment leads the listener to think the piece has ended; this is not so Midori then launched into taxing, sul-G passages which she played with extreme control she did not even break a bow hair Wrapping up the piece with the drawn from its beginning, Midori gracefully leaned into the soft, muted phrases on tiptoe, as if she were a ballerina In the final musical moment, Bloch sneaks in a Christian ingredient, a Gregorian chant that the piano and violin share; this moment is in complete juxtaposition to the Jewish elements the piece puts forth in style The experience of hearing this distinctively crafted piece was certainly unrivaled all night

Next on the program was Hindemith’s Sonata in E Major Only two movements, the work was a short bridge to let the audience settle in again after intermission The first movement, slow and languorous, was made entrancing by Midori’s long sustained notes above ominous piano accompaniment The second movement picked up in intensity as violin battled piano for supremacy Despite Midori’s miniature frame, she is quite the charismatic performer Rocking back and forth as the melodies became more and more emotional, she drew listeners into the work before it ended, only a brief ten minutes after beginning Midori went straight into Gabriel Fauré’s Sonata No 1 in A Major, arguably the most well known piece played that evening The first movement held perhaps the most beautiful melody of the entire concert The piano opens with the romantic phrase, which is passed off between violin and accompaniment until the two join together to play the theme near the end Midori sweetly slid into each note of the matched theme without being too overdramatic; this moment was intensely breath taking The piece continues into a slow second movement, in which Midori demonstrated her unmatchable sound without holding back her fluid lines Through the fun, quick spicatto of the French scherzo movement and the shining character of the final, Midori maintained a dulcet balance with her equally adept pianist

To close, the “Rondo Brilliant” by Schubert was delivered as a sort of built in encore As Schubert is known for his unde-

niably catchy tunes, this piece was an enjoyable one to close on; it was the closest the audience would get to a well-known showpiece, that is for sure Midori spent her bow the perfect amount through the quick, scaled runs of the piece that are interspersed between brilliant lines of downtempo melodies In the end, the breadth of the music Midori played was illuminating for the audience By experiencing music that is not typically played by a professional touring soloist, those present received a unique gift We were able to hear lesser-performed music by a virtuoso; for many, we were hearing these works at the highest quality we may ever hear them While some may have left disappointed, this great range of works provided a much more erudite experience for the listener, rather than leaving us hearing the Tchaikovsky violin concerto for the umpteenth time

Martha Wydysh is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at mlw254@cornellsun com

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Blood Simple: A Twisted Peek at Brilliance

MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Blood Simple, released in 1984, is a quirky, twisted crime thriller More importantly, it is the debut directorial release of Joel and Ethan Coen, a treasure from a time before Sundance Produced on a budget of under $2 million, the brothers reportedly raised money for the film by carting around their trailer reel to the houses of local dentists and lawyers, who then bought equity in the project Despite being made on the cheap, however, Blood Simple is a rare first feature that immediately establishes a thoroughly original voice This film introduced the mainstream to the idiosyncratic sensibility of the Coens and exuded a distinct style would be seen, heard and felt in ever y one of their ensuing works

The plot is a mixture of gallows humor, seedy characters, bursts of violence and sharp plotting These are traits which have come to define the Coen brothers, and can be seen in nearly all of their efforts parallels to Barton Fink, Fargo, and Miller s Crossing quickly come to mind Somewhere down in the more noirish realms of Texas, a sleazy private investigator named Visser (M Emmet Walsh) is hired by jealous husband Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) who suspects his wife Abby (Frances McDormand) of cheating on him The suspicion proves true she has run off with another man named Ray ( John Getz) When Marty learns of this, he hires Visser to kill his wife and her lover, but Visser double-crosses him, setting off a chain of chaotic, strange events that are equally as shocking as they are darkly humorous

As P I Visser, M Emmet Walsh is by far the most interesting character in the movie The Coens have admitted to thinking the film amateurish themselves but in the figure of this unsavor y, 10 gallon hat-donning

Idetective, they have a ceaselessly entertaining creation To an extent, Visser would inform some of the other characters in their canon, from the two hitmen in Fargo to the assassin in No Countr y for Old Men to Rooster Cogburn in True Grit Highly professional at carr ying out immoral deeds to scratch out a living, Visser tr uly is

though given little to do in her role, shows plenty of early potential in the first of many coll a b o

husband Joel, which later leads up to her iconic turn as a ver y pregnant Minnesotan police chief

The writing of the film is fantastic As always, the brothers never show off They let their characters do all the talking for them it s never the author s voice you hear on s c re

Cornell Cinema Mark DiStefano

Tarantino picture Walsh spins the Coens’ lines into a vaguely amused, ominous drawl, particularly in one scene where he makes light of his employer breaking his finger “A friend of mine broke his hand a while back,” he intones “Put in a cast Ver y next day he takes a fall, protects his bad hand, falls on his good one, breaks t h a t t o o I s a y t o h i m , ‘ C re i g h t o n , I hope your wife loves you ‘Cause for the next five weeks you can ’ t even wipe your own ass ’”

Of particular regard are the opposing ends of this picture, which opens on the gentle plains of the Texan landscape and finishes on a sordid yet bizarrely comic note The movie’s subtle, twisting, turning narrative includes several Coen-esque situations a body disposed of in an incinerator, a recurring shot of a man slumped on his desk next

In Praise of Unhappy Endings

n a lecture last night, New York Times film critic A O Scott summarized a public feud he had with movie star

Samuel L Jackson Scott wrote a condemnator y review of a film Jackson starred in, The Avengers, accusing it of unoriginality (in his words, the film was an “ATM for Mar vel”) and of pandering to the common opposition of good and evil Jackson retaliated first via Twitter, encouraging Avenger fans to call for Scott’s dismissal from the Times, then via talk show, telling an inter viewer that Scott intellectualizes films where he should be enjoying them

Jackson’s idea that movies are not supposed to be intellectualized, in other words: ‘thought about’, is a problem This notion of movies as free from interpretation, uncritical and brainless is not unique to Jackson and likely a product of the movies themselves Oftentimes, producers can underestimate an audience’s critical capacity, fearing that more complicated films discourage movie-goers However, it is easy to find a genre that was motivated by a critical understanding of the world and put money in producer’s pockets

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Fi l m No i r, a s u b - c a t e g o r y o f crime movies that I’ll use to show an opposition in the genre between critical and

h issues and matters that surface in later hours when families and “moral” professionals surround a dinner table or television set Although the genre is typically defined by its aesthetic tropes streetlamp silhouettes, dripping alleyways, smoky interiors, experimental camera angles and deadbeats in top hats and overcoats true Noir is defined by its inherently subversive content These films cast light on both the overlooked, seedier characters of society gangsters, prostitutes, detectives, perverts, drug-addicts and the consequences of capitalist society avarice, heartless materialism, crime, corruption and violence Oftentimes, Noir’s cinematic and social rebellions go hand in hand: It is not unusual to watch a Noir film

with an unhappy ending where a moral character loses to the ugly, oppressive forces of society Looking at Noir, we see a successful intellectual genre It seduces audiences with snappy dialogue, melodrama and action while providing questions for thinkers and critics Wednesday night, Cornell Cinema screened a great example of this genre, 1957 s The Sweet Smell of Success Scott introduced the film as a document of a bygone New York; one of cigarette girls and squalor in Times Square, when newspapers were popular and journalists were successful The stor y, written by subversive leftist Clifford Odets, explores the underside of journalism through ambitious Press Agent Sydney Falco ( Tony Curtis) The stor y forces the audience to identify with a morally disinterested man, Falco, and questions the integrity of both bosses and workers: is it okay to be complicit with your boss’ unscrupulous demands? How much can you bypass ethics in the pursuit of success? How much should you trust what’s behind the print, the badge and the podium? The film has an especially noirish ending: Falco is condemned for his ambition and beaten by the corrupt journalistlaw authorities, leaving the audience

f American institutions

Whereas Nighttime movies undermine American political life, Daytime crime films reaffirm the righteousness of the system and espouse establishment ethics The professional is the moral A good example of a daytime crime film that pretends to be a nighttime movie is Martin Scorsese’s The Departed Even though Jack Nicholson’s Frank Costello makes a convincing argument that the difference between a cop and criminal is minimal and the film portrays a corrupt institution (Boston Police Department) and shows good characters doing bad things (Leonardo DiCaprio’s Billy Costigan beats up a pair of Providence Italians), the ending silences the film’s critical potential In the final scene, a good character, Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg), kills a bad one, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) The establishment triumphs over its crimi-

to a hook full of fish but the ending yields the most macabre and quintessentially Coen imager y Visser tails Abby to her home, intent on killing her, where a freakish climax, which would be appalling if it weren ’ t so ridiculous, unfolds To those who have yet to see the film, stick it out just for that last scene, which concludes with Visser studying a series of pipes underneath a bathroom sink

As the shady detective bursts into laughter out of nowhere, he calls out the film’s final line: “ Well ma ’ am, if I see him, I’ll sure give him the message ” It’s a line to end a movie that could only have come from the minds of the two madmen who gave us The Dude, the Anton Chigurh haircut and the Hebrew writing on the Gentile’s teeth

Blood Simple will play at Cornell Cinema Friday and Sunday at 8 p m

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

nal opposition and the audience leaves the theater undisturbed, complacent with a system that always triumphs in the end (albeit in an unorthodox way-murder) Endings like this bookend problems The audience leaves the theater unworried, confident that ever ything is in its right place and that nothing has to be questioned

So, there have, in fact, been cinematic genres with the enjoyment-factor Jackson touts and an analytical, subversive function Noir was certainly guilty of the ‘ sameness ’ that pertains to actions movies and, arguably most movies do have some sort of intellectual undercurrent But, whereas most movies affirm the status quo, Noir was unique in that its motivation was a sense of disillusionment with society and money It is no accident that the decline of Film Noir in the fifties corresponds with the Red Scare; cynicism and dissent were suspicious Noir encouraged thought instead of complacency It seized a political tool filmmakers take for granted: the opportunity to establish an antagonist that outlives the closing credits

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

D ynamo Top Red Bulls, Advance to Ne xt Round

HARRISON, N J (AP) Omar Cummings helped the Houston Dynamo advance to the MLS Eastern Conference finals

Cummings scored in the 104th minute to help the Dynamo oust the New York Red Bulls with a 2-1 victory on Wednesday night

Cummings scored in the second minute of stoppage time on Sunday to give the Dynamo a 2-2 draw in the first leg

The Dynamo moved on with an aggregate score of 4-3 Houston will face Sporting Kansas City in the East finals, which start on Saturday

The Red Bulls led Sunday’s game 2-0 before Jamison Olave committed a foul that led to a red-card ejection and allowed Houston to rally for a 2-2 draw

“It’s terrible, I guess you can ’ t exorcise every game this year from this club,” Red Bulls first-year coach Mike Petke said “Hats off to Houston, they’re a playoff team and they proved it the last three years We did it to ourselves these last two games ”

On Wednesday night, Red Bulls defender Ibrahim Sekagya’s errant pass led to the tying goal by Houston

“It was individual mistakes, and they happen,” Petke said

Cummings came off the bench in both matches and Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear went to him in the 64th minute Wednesday

“I was trying to put some fresh legs closer to the goal and hope that something would come out of it and Omar has made me look good for two games in a row here,” Kinnear said

Cummings got his foot on a ball that slipped past Red Bulls goalie Luis Robles at the near post

Houston, which won the 2006 and 2007 MLS Cups in its first two years in the league, reached the MLS Cup final in each of the past two seasons, losing in the final each time to the L A Galaxy

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position until Cole gets back ” Lowry currently leads the team with three goals, while McCarron, the team ’ s captain, paces the squad with seven points and is tied for fourth in the country in points per game The Red will have their hands full with Rensselaer’s junior forward Ryan Haggerty, ECAC’s October Player of the Month and the national collegiate leader in goals scored

“ R PI i s a t o p - t e n t e a m , j u s t l i k

Quinnipiac, so obviously it’s not going to be easy, ” McCarron said “But [we’re going to] make some simple adjustments and hopefully we can capitalize this weekend ” Union poses double defensive threats with the tandem of senior defenseman Mat Bodie and junior defenseman and Flyers p ro s p

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Schafer called two of the premier defenseman in the league Schafer added that Union’s style of play closely mirrors the system the Red uses

“They can be easy prep for us and we ’ re probably easy prep for them in that you know what you ’ re going to get, ” he said “Our systems play in the offensive zone and defensive zone are very similar, so it’s like practicing against yourself ”

“[Union] can be easy prep for us and we’re probably easy prep for them in that you know what you’re going to get ”

M i k e S c h a f e r

T h i s we e k e n d’s games will be the Red’s first league road games after playing a set of non-conference away games at NebraskaOmaha to open the season According to Schafer, the team seemed more frazzled during this past weekend’s home games than during the away games against the Mavericks

“I don’t know if it was because we were at home at Nebraska-Omaha, we were patient, we just kept playing our game and here at home, it just seemed like the crowd was getting going, and we got going, and we just didn’t settle down and make that one extra pass coming out of out own zo n e , o r g o i n g o u r weak side as opposed t o g o i n g u p t h e boards,” he said The Red currently r a n k s t h i rd i n t h e country in power plays with a 29 6 percent c o n ve r s i o n r a t e , despite going 0-6 in the game against Qu i n n i p i a c T h e Re d’s d i f f i c u l t y w i t h putting the puck in the back of the net against the Bobcats made a big difference in the game, Schafer said “In the first period, we had three unbe-

lievable scoring chances to get a goal on the power play,” Schafer said “Even though it wasn ’ t clicking, you put one of those in and score one of those goals on the power play, you ’ re talking about a much different scenario in the game ” McCarron added that the team is aiming to use last weekend’s loss to find flaws in their play and use that knowledge to improve as the season continues “I think we came back ready to work this week,” he said “Obviously, you dream of the undefeated season, but it’s not going to happen We got it out of the way, obviously a loss is learning process for us We can take a great Quinnipiac team, watch the video and learn from our mistakes and go forward from there ”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun com

D u c k s To p C oy o t e s t o R em ain L e a d er s in t h e N H L

ANAHEIM, Calif (AP)

For the first 8 minutes of the Ducks’ return to Anaheim, coach Bruce Boudreau thought he saw the residual effects of an eightgame, 15-day road trip

For the rest of the night, the Ducks dug deep and demonstrated why they’re on top of the NHL

Hampus Lindholm scored his first career goal, Corey Perry got the tiebreaking goal right before the second-period buzzer, and the Ducks stayed perfect at home

w i t h a 5 - 2 v i c t o r y ove r t h e Phoenix Coyotes on Wednesday Ryan Getzlaf, Lindholm and Cam Fowler each had a goal and an assist in Anaheim’s triumphant return from a 5-2-1 road trip

With six wins in their last seven games, the Ducks (13-3-1) lead the league with 27 points despite playing alongside Phoenix and San Jose in the competitive Pacific

Division

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Boudreau said “Then it seemed like it all kicked in again ”

Shane Doan put the Coyotes ahead in the opening minutes, b u t t h e Du c k s e ve n t u a l l y responded with the same aggressive play and balanced goal-scoring they’ve used to climb up the standings and the NHL’s worst power play even chipped in twice

“We knew tonight was going to be difficult, but we can ' t use being tired as an excuse for not doing what we have to do,” said Perry, fourth in the NHL with 10 goals “We learned a lot from the way we started last year, and we have to continue to do what we did ”

Even with largely awful special-teams play, the Ducks are off to their second straight outstanding start under Boudreau after

Anaheim moved to the top of the league table this season amid a brutal schedule that includes yet another East Coast road trip after the current three-game homestand

The Ducks are 6-0 at Honda Center, maintaining the only perfect home record in the NHL

“We were definitely treating this game with tons of importance, ” said Fowler, who matched his goal total from last season “ We k n e w t h e t y p e o f ro l l Phoenix was on, and it seems like nobody seems to be losing in our division right now We understood how important these two points were ”

Perry tipped home Lindholm’s shot during a delayed penalty with 1 1 seconds left in the period, and Fowler provided a cushion with the second man-advantage goal of the night for the

Ducks, whose power play had scored just four times all season

Jonas Hiller made 24 saves for the Ducks, and Andrew Cogliano added an empty-net goal with 1:02 to play while limping to the bench after Doan leveled him w i t h a b i g h i t a l o n g t h e f a r boards

Michael Stone scored a powerplay goal for the Coyotes, who h a d w o n f i ve s t r a i g h t Mi k e Sm i t h s t o p p e d 2 4 s h o t s , b u t Phoenix failed to earn a point for just the second time in 14 games

“We were in a back-to-back, and they were coming off a long road trip, so it was a pretty even playing field,” said Doan, who has five goals in his last seven games “But we know we gave it to them ” After Doan’s early goal in his 1 , 2 6 2 n d re g u l a r - s e a s o n g a m e , Lindholm evened it in his 15th

rookie defenseman, whose surprising emergence has catalyzed Anaheim’s fast start, converted a pass from Mathieu Perreault in the slot

After Stone put Phoenix back ahead, Getzlaf evened it moments l a t e r w i t h a s h o t o f f Ma r t i n Hanzal’s stick during a two-man advantage for his seventh goal Anaheim’s power play went one for 28 on the road trip

Pe r r y t h e n p u t t h e Du c k s ahead in the waning seconds, lightly deflecting Lindholm’s shot from the blue line

“You can ’ t win a game in this league if you ’ re going to turn the puck over and be undisciplined,” Phoenix coach Dave Tippett said “We knew it was going to be a hard game, and it was a good test for our team to see how we’d react When you ’ re chasing in the game especially when you ’ re p l a y i n g b a c k - t o - b a c k s yo u look tired But we just didn’t play smar t enough or execute well enough ”

Teemu Selanne returned to the Ducks ahead of schedule after missing the final three games of the trip for oral surger y The Finnish Flash, who was expected to be out for two weeks, lost four teeth and needed 40 stitches after taking an inadvertent high stick from Philadelphia’s Luke Schenn Ph o e n i x p l a ye d w i t h o u t defenseman Derek Morris, who incurred a lower-body injury in Tuesday’s win over Vancouver The Coyotes then lost right wing Radim Vrbata to a lower-body injury during the game

Boot ers to End Regular Season

At D ar t mo ut h

By JOSHUA BEHLER

Sun Contributor

Despite a disappointing four goal loss last Saturday at Princeton, the Red (7-7-1, 1-5-0) will seek to rebound Friday at noon as it takes on Dartmouth (76-3, 3-3-0) in Hanover, N H

The Red enters Hanover with a few injuries to players in the midfield, and expects this will change its pace and style

According to head coach Patrick Farmer, emphasis this week will be placed on quick counter attacks and scoring early

“Because of some injuries in the center midfield, we’ll have to tr y and play more outside and more up tempo this week,” he said “Ideally, we’ll come out of the gate strong and score some goals early so we can stay more compact in the midfield towards the end of the game ”

“With it being the last game for the seniors, it’s important to leave a good impression for the younger players ”

To r i C h r i s t

The Red’s season has been long and full of unfortunate injuries and bad luck Four games have been d e c i d e d by only one goal; i n t h e m o s t re c e n t s u c h game, the Red lost to Brown i n d o u b l e o v e r t i m e De s p i t e b a

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ule, the Red have still managed a 500 record, something both the coaches and players are proud of

“I think if you look at where we were a year ago

today we ’ ve definitely improved,” Farmer said “ We have a chance to finish over 500 and could easily have two or three more wins with some better luck ”

Senior goalkeeper and captain Tori Christ echoed Farmer’s sentiments

“I think we ’ ve had a really great year this year, ” she said “ The whole team has worked incredibly hard for us to be in a position where we can finish the season above 500 Despite some tough losses, [this] is something we ’ re proud of It says a lot about this team ”

The Red has not finished above 500 since 2002, when the squad recorded a 9-6-2 record

Hi s t o r i c a l l y, Da r t m o u t h h o l d s t h e e d g e ove r Cornell, with a 21-7-5 series record and a seventeen-

game unbeaten streak that extends back to 1995

Still, the Red likes its chances and knows that for this team, a win means a lot as it has the potential to end two streaks entering Hanover on Friday

While the season may be drawing to a close, the Red’s seniors emphasized the importance of continuing to improve, saying that a win would be a great way to go out for themselves and the program “ With it being the last game for the seniors, it’s important to leave a good impression for the younger players and continue the trend of improvement for the program, ” Christ said

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Match against Dartmouth provides chance to capture rst conference victory

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Red Set to Face RPI, Union

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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