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Cayuga’sWatchers Expands Membership, Presence on Campus

By KEVIN MILIAN

Watchers have directly prevented alcohol-related incidents,” Silverberg said.

Since launching in October, Watchers are trained to nonprofit respond to risky actions and student-run Cayuga’s Watchers has work closely with the host of increased its an event, withpresence on “People don’t know we out partygoers and off camrecognizing are there. We are pus by helptheir identity ing classmates as a watcher, meant to blend in.” drink responaccording to Kendall Stokes ’15 sibly and preKendall Stokes venting alco’15, vice-presihol-related incident of training dents, according to Eric for Cayuga’s Watchers.

Silverberg ’14, President of “No one knows that we are Cayuga’s Watchers.

Watchers. The only people In four months, Cayuga’s that know we are there are the Watchers, which is based on a people that hire us,” Stokes similar service provided at said. “When we are there, the Dartmouth College, has seen president [of a social fraterniimpressive growth and results, ty] can introduce us to the rest according to Silverberg. of the board, but people don’t The nonprofit has expand- know we are there. We are ed to include 170 student meant to blend in.” employees and averaged Some partygoers said they approximately 15 cases of do not usually know who is or non-confrontational, peer-to- is not a Watcher, since they peer bystander intervention dress as normal partygoers and per event, according to do not act authoritatively or Silverberg. confrontational during events.

“We have both empirical “[At a party last year] I did and anecdotal evidence to suggest that the efforts of See WATCHERS page 4 Sun Staff Writer

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Rushing in the cold | Female students wait outside a sorority house during Formal Recruitment.

Nearly 1,700 Return for Rush Week Panhellenic Council sees record number of registrants

By ASHLEY CHU Sun Staff Writer

Approximately 1,660 Cornellians returned to the below-zero weather in Ithaca for the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council’s Formal Recruitment in hopes of joining the University’s Greek system.

Following a week of “rush,” a total of 481 students signed bids for fraternities and 676 students signed bids for sororities.

While the number of registrants for fraternities stayed consistent with last year’s number, the number of registrants for the Panhellenic sororities increased significantly, according to data

from IFC and Panhellenic.

“Last year, we had 823 women sign up for Formal Membership Recruitment, so we saw almost a 50-person jump in just one year,” said Angira Jhaveri ’14, vice president of formal membership recruitment for Cornell’s Panhellenic Council. “There is definitely an increasing demand to be a part of the Panhellenic community.”

Both organizations expressed generally positive sentiments about the rush process this year.

In particular, IFC was pleased that there were no reported alcohol-related incidents, which have See RUSH page 4

SNL Cast Member Kate First Spring ClubFest Finds Success McKinnon toVisit C.U.

By NOAH RANKIN

Sun Senior Writer

2005, according to CUPB President Zachary Zahos ’15.

Zahos said that McKinnon’s Comedian Kate McKinnon will gender was one consideration in be performing in the Statler the decision to bring her to camAuditorium on Feb. 13, Cornell pus.

“We got excited about the idea University Programming Board of bringing a female announced Sunday. comedian to campus McKinnon, who because it’s been too has been a cast memlong, but our number ber on Saturday Night one priority is to have a Live since April 2012, good show with the idea was previously a part that we’re never going to of the original cast of sacrifice quality,” Zahos the Big Gay Sketch said.

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Sixty student organizations — among more than 150 interested — stationed themselves in Duffield Hall for Cornell’s firstever full Spring ClubFest on Sunday.

ClubFest, has traditionally been a staple event of Welcome Weekend in the fall.

Hundreds of student organizations receive space in Barton Hall to advertise their groups and hand out information at the event, while Spring ClubFest was relegated to transfer students only. According to outgoing Welcome

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Club Fest | Ray Li ’14 signs up for a club at the first Spring ClubFest in Duffield Hall on Sunday.

Weekend chair Nicole Cleminshaw ’14, 320 organizations were present at the fall event, though 50 additional organizations had to be put on a waitlist due to space constraints.

“In the past two years we’ve noticed our registration fill up much quicker,” Cleminshaw said.

“There are over 1,000 student groups at Cornell, so we can only accommodate about a third of those organizations.”

Sunday’s event also had to turn away about 90 organizations for space-related reaSee CLUB page 5

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By ERIC OBERMAN Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Michael King, biomedical engineering, and a team of Cornell students have discovered a method to stop cancer from metastasizing, or spreading throughout the body, by attaching proteins called TRAIL and Eselectin to white blood cells.

Though researchers have been successful in fighting cancer cells in mice, the eventual goal is to treat cancers in humans, according to Michael Mitchell, grad, who worked on the project and co-wrote the study.

This research is especially important because metastasis is the function of cancer that allows it to harm or kill people, Mitchell said.

“Basically what we did is we developed a way to utilize the body’s own white blood cells to prevent cancer from spreading,” Mitchell said. “This targets a wide variety of types of cancer, [like] colon cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer.”

According to King, the TRAIL protein was the key to carrying out this method.

“We use a protein called TRAIL and attach it to lysosomes, or nanoparticles,” King said. “These lysosomes attach to white blood cells, called ‘unnatural killer cells,’ which collide with cancer cells and cause them to die.”

Contact with the blood cells causes the cancer to undergo apoptosis, or programmed cell death, according to the study published by King and Mitchell in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

So far, researchers have performed experiments with TRAIL in petri dishes and on mice. According to the study, the TRAIL method works much better in live animals than elsewhere because the flow of the bloodstream causes the cancer cells to come into contact with many more of these “killer cells.”

“Most times blood gets in the way [while targeting] cancer cells, but our approach works far better than others,” he said. “All the white blood cells are working for us.”

In order to see successful results in mice, the researchers injected lab mice with TRAIL proteins and introduced cancer cells intravenously, according to King. The success rate of these trials was almost 100 percent, according to a Cornell press release about the research.

“Two hours after injection, the cancer cells were completely eliminated,” he said. “The ones that you could find, the few, were clearly not healthy.”

Since this experiment was performed over a short period of time, a longer-term study must be done before the research can move to larger animals or humans.

In their current phase of research, King and Mitchell are now allowing cancer cells to develop more naturally in the mice, so that they can apply their work to more realistic situations.

Mitchell said that while he is optimistic about the results, it is difficult to determine whether researchers can apply these findings to humans at this stage of the study, especially because the next round of experiments can take months to complete.

“It’s too early to tell whether this could be applied to humans,” said Mitchell. “But it’s an exciting first step because no one’s ever really developed something like this. Targeting the spreading of tumors is very hard, so we think we found a way to cut off these cells from ever going anywhere.”

Eric Oberman can be reached at eoberman@cornellsun.com.

Last Week in Review Cornell Tech Begins Clearing Space On Roosevelt Island Demolition of ColerGoldwater Hospital, which currently sits on the site of Cornell Tech’s multi-billion dollar campus, officially began last week, according to Cornell Tech Vice President Cathy Dove.

Since Cornell signed the lease for the Roosevelt Island property with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in December, workers have prepared the ground, built a fence surrounding the construction site and started the interior demolition of Coler-Goldwater Hospital, according to Dove.

ILR Alumnus Returns To University From Department After nine years serving as

Deputy Secretary of Labor, Seth Harris ’83 returned to Cornell Jan. 22 as a Distinguished Scholar at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Cornell University Restricts East Avenue Traffic Until April 2015 The closure of East Avenue due to the construction of Klarman Hall brought about an assortment of traffic and transportation adjustments that will affect members of the Cornell and Ithaca communities alike for the next-year-and-a-half.

Until April 19, 2015, the Southbound land of East Avenue will be closed to all traffic.

— Compiled by Noah Rankin

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Claire Zhang ’16 tastes Jimmy Dean’s Bagel at the 11th Annual North Campus Food Show on Saturday. At the show, students enjoyed samples from a variety of food vendors.

Higher Ed.Split Over Benefit of Online Courses for Students Although studies show online education companies focus on profits, professors have hope for student learning

By ARIEL SEIDNER

Such classes can allow students to focus on the material over winter or summer breaks, including “students who are trying to get ahead [or] caught up for a variety of personal and acaDespite controversies concerning the demic reasons,” according to Shackell-Dowell. motives on online education companies, Online programs can be useful for students Cornell professors say online courses can be with disabilities, family burdens and classroom effective source of learning for students.

Recent studies by the Campaign for the anxiety, according to Livingston.

Livingston — who has been teaching online Future of Higher Education have revealed that courses since she was in graduate school — said much of the motivation behind companies there are still ways for the courses to be taught such as Udacity, Coursera and EdX moving in a way that helps students. toward online education and massive open “They can be done online courses is not quite well if the profesdue to efficacy or “Cornell does a pretty good job of sor is well-acquainted increased accessibility with the course materto students, but rather integrating online functions into the ial and the technology, enormous profitability. existing class structure, and they and if the professor Prof.

Beth cares about student seem to be going about building Livingston, industrial learning enough to use and labor relations, MOOCs with thoughtfulness.” the inherent flexibility said that while initial of online education to efforts toward online Prof. Beth Livingston meet student needs,” courses did not always Livingston said. have students’ best Prof.

Shackellinterests in mind, some Dowell further points out that students can use online education programs still offer benefits to these programs to “learn a course in a deep some students.

“Much of the early drive toward online edu- fashion… as opposed to combining it with a cation was likely fueled by for-profit companies bunch of other courses and activities and looking to provide cheap courses … without spreading themselves too thin.”

Livingston said Cornell’s online and much care for actual student learning,” MOOC programs seem to be effective in helpLivingston said. ing students, “so long as the expansion is done In 2012, the online education sector thoughtfully.” received investments of $1.1 billion, with 324 “Cornell does a pretty good job of integrattech companies earning $1.43 billion in profits ing online functions into the existing class during a 12-month period, according to the structure, and they seem to be going about Huffington Post. building MOOCs with thoughtfulness,” A report released in 2012 by Sen. Tom Livingston said. “Using online classes, and Harkin (D-Iowa) later revealed that these priother online tools, to help meet student needs vate, for-profit online higher education procan improve the educational experience for stugrams “spent more on advertising and recruitdents at Cornell.” ment than on instruction.”

The funding for many online education However, there are still online education programs, which was over $32 billion in 2011, programs that can be worthwhile for students, comes from over 25 percent of the Department putting money toward the quality of the eduof Education’s financial aid funds, according to cation, according to Prof. Margaret Shackellthe Huffington Post.

Dowell, accounting.

Online classes give students the opportunity to take the course in a manner that fits their Ariel Seidner can be reached at abs253@cornell.edu. schedule,” Shackell-Dowell said.

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Watchers Off to a More Girls Rushing to Recruitment Successful Start RUSH

weeks to four weeks.

According, to Bucher and Nord, these changes make it difficult for new members to gain a thorough understanding of the personalbeen seen during past “rush weeks.”

“Overall we are very pleased with the way ity and culture of each fraternity.

“Rush week is a process of matching regisrush week went,” said Charles Bucher ’14, vice president of recruitment for IFC. “While the trants with the chapters that will provide them recent years have shown responsible behaviors with the best possible experience,” Bucher said. among the chapters, this year in particular “Seeing fewer and fewer recruitment events in proved to be uneventful. We saw no major inci- the fall, each year puts more and more pressure dents of any sort and the Social Resonsibilities on rush week. Unfortunately, a week can not be Committee, IFC, and Cornell Police did not enough time to complete the matching process and registrants do occasionally end up in chapfind any violations of our policies.”

Spencer Nord ’16, vice president for ters that might not be right for them in the long Uuniversity and community relations for IFC, run.”

Despite these difficulties, though, Nord said echoed Bucher’s sentiments.

“From our end, this was one of the most suc- that the members of IFC have successfully cessful formal recruitment weeks in Cornell's adapted to this new member period change.

“The four week initiation deadline brings history,” Nord said. “Chapters willingly abode by the stringent standards put in place regard- difficulties in streamlining a process that only a ing the service and consumption of alcohol. For few years ago was three times as long, but our the first time in years, zero alcohol related med- chapters have worked not only with their ical transports occurred during rush week as a national organizations, but also with various Cornell administrators to develop comprehenresult of fraternity related events.”

Both representatives from IFC noted their sively safe new member education plans,” Nord said. satisfaction with the Among all parties overall changes in the “We are proud of our chapters involved in recruitrush process this year including rushes in comparison to last and how they have embraced ment, and current greek memyear, with regards to bers, the general sentiboth ‘suicide rushing’ the importance of safety and ment surrounding rush — or choosing to responsibility during the was one of simultanerush only one house ous exhaustion and — and alcohol recruitment period.” contentment. responsibility.

Spencer Nord ’16 “I’m glad I rushed “We have yet to because this process is hear of any issues surreally unique, and I rounding the ‘suicide rushing’ by registrants that we had last year,” don’t think I could ever experience anything said Bucher. “Essentially, more registrants are like I have in the past few days,” Hailin Liu ’17 keeping the options open and exploring the said. “[I remember] running frantically to West, diversity of the Greek system throughout the changing into heels when it was snowing outside and being outside when it was freezing duration of the week.”

Nord added that IFC adequately and respon- cold.”

While Liu said it could be difficult to sibly addressed another issue of debate from last ignore the “stereotypes of each house,” she year — hazing.

“We are proud of our chapters and how they ultimately felt that the experience was worth have embraced the importance of safety and the difficulties, particularly because it allowed responsibility during the recruitment period,” her to meet people she might not have met Nord said. “IFC Chapters have done a phe- otherwise.

“I felt that it was really hard to branch out nomenal job eradicating hazing from their new first semester [at Cornell] and this process realmember education plans.”

Despite the positive tone that was set by this ly gave me the opportunity to meet new peoyear’s rush, both Bucher and Nord noted diffi- ple,” Liu said. “Even though it was draining, I culties related to the University restricting the definitely don’t regret it.” number of fall recruitment events and shortening the new member education period from six Ashley Chu can be reached at achu@cornellsun.com.

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not actually know the Watchers were present until the party had ended and guests were leaving. Once I knew who the Watchers were, I was very appreciative of their help in managing the large and fairly confused crowd,” said Garrison Lovely ’16, president of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.

According to Stokes, members are sent in to events in small groups with a team captain. Watchers communicate via group-texts to assist each other should risky situations arise.

“We never send watchers in alone … If you send one person into a 200 [or] 300 person party it could be very dangerous,” said Stokes.

Gannett Health Services, the Cornell Police and Cornell University EMS assist Cayuga’s Watchers in recognizing and reacting to dangerous situations, according to Deborah K. Lewis, Alcohol Projects Coordinator of Gannett.

“I talk with Cayuga’s Watchers about the effect of alcohol on the brain and what that might mean in terms of interacting effectively with an intoxicated person,” Lewis said.

“I was very appreciative Both students and faculty see of [ The Watchers’] help in the Cayuga’s Watchers initiative as a positive response to high-risk managing ... the crowd.” drinking situations at Cornell.

Garrison Lovely ’16 “Everyone has a responsibility, especially student leaders, to say when friends and acquaintances are drinking too much and hold them accountable for their misbehavior,” said Prof. William Sonnenstuhl, industrial and labor relations, who is a Watchers faculty advisor.

According to Sonnenstuhl, Cayuga’s Watchers should not be a substitute for sober monitors at social events or responsible behavior, but rather a complement.

“The real question about changing perceptions of college drinking is whether students are willing to exercise that kind of leadership.

Cayuga’s Watchers are doing that,” Sonnenstuhl said.

According to Lovely, Cayuga’s Watchers are a better solution than other drink-curbing initiatives at Cornell, such as the quarter system imposed on Greek organizations. “[The quarter system has] merely pushed the most dangerous activity off campus or underground, where Cornell is no longer liable and regulations cannot be enforced,” Lovely said. “Cayuga’s Watchers preserves the principles of self-governance central to Greek Life while also being in a unique position to mitigate risk at a larger number of events.”

One of Cayuga’s Watchers goals this semester is to work with over 50 percent of the Greek community, according to Silverberg. Other goals include increasing membership by 25 percent and expanding social media presence.

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun.com.

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sons. However, this first Spring ClubFest was meant to be a “trial period,” according to Cleminshaw, as she hopes it will increase in size and eventually be comparable to Fall ClubFest.

Carly Silver ’16, who went to the event as a volunteer for her professional business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi, found the spring clubfest to be full of energy.

“I attended the club fair to promote my business fraternity and ended up signing up for a club I had no idea existed and leaving with several different student publications,” Silver said. “It was exciting to see so much enthusiasm from the campus groups, with students at the table across from me dressed as Pokemon and others quartercarding all across Duffield.”

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Current, a campus organization focused on current events and industry trends, also thought that clubfest was an ideal way to provide dialogue between student groups and those on campus.

“As a student leader, it is exciting to potentially meet future members and leaders of your organization,” Acquay

“As a student leader, it is exciting to potentially meet future members ... of your organization.”

Kwesi Acquay ’14 said. “Being a co-founder of Cornell Current and a senior, I want to ensure that the organization thrives well after I graduate. ClubFest brings about fresh new faces eager to get involved, which is certainly an encouraging sign.”

Acquay found the addition of a Spring ClubFest to have several benefits that the Fall Clubfest could not provide.

“I see Spring ClubFest in particular as a great way to ease the transition for transfer students looking to get acclimated to Cornell,” Acquay said. “It is not always easy to find one’s place at a large university like this, so providing an opportunity to get involved right away through extracurricular activities creates an ideal situation for transfers in the spring semester.”

Despite Fall ClubFest’s popularity, Cleminshaw did not expect the first full spring version be as successful as it was.

“Honestly, we were pleasantly surprised at the overwhelming support,” Cleminshaw said. “To know that there is really a demand for this type of forum for students and clubs to interact, not just once a year but also in the spring, is very encouraging for us.”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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Deterring Early Graduation

AS THE COST OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION continues to grow by the year, many students are choosing to graduate a semester early. While the University has policies in place to aid low-income students, for some the cost of that final semester can make a significant financial difference. At Cornell, which saw a record number of January graduates this winter, the number of students choosing to graduate early has followed a general upward trend. Graduating early should be individual students’ decision to make, determinant on economic, educational and other factors. But early graduation can harm students, whose educational and social benefits are curtailed, and the University, which loses out on spring tuition dollars. Establishing financial incentives to aid students who cannot thus afford their final semester would benefit both Cornell and its students.

The percentage of undergraduates who are graduating in fewer than four years has increased over the past few decades. Only three percent of students in Cornell’s incoming Class of 1980 graduated early, compared to an 11 percent rate of early graduation among students in the Class of 2010. Tuition increases, which have consistently outpaced the rate of inflation, likely contribute to this trend.

Although the University provides generous financial aid packages for low-income students, there are, of course, those who get left behind. For students who just miss qualifying for financial aid or whose packages do not suffice, the several thousands of dollars that can be saved by foregoing that eighth semester is significant.

In an editorial last February, The Sun argued that colleges should design their curricula with an eighth semester experience in mind — implementing educational incentives to encourage students to stay for their final semester. However, in light of the persistent trend of early graduation, and the number of students who are primarily motivated by financial pressures, perhaps academic incentives will not suffice. The University may need to offer financial support to help make that final semester feasible for some students. A targeted, need-based financial aid program, in which Cornell helps subsidize tuition for those who cannot afford an eigth semester, could help students in some way. Such a policy could also benefit the University, which administrators have said is financially strained by the tuition dollars lost as a result of early graduations.

A final semester at Cornell would allow students who are financially pressured to graduate early to take classes outside of their majors, meet new people and join new activities. Incentivizing a final semester for those students would also allow the University to regain some lost tuition. When students spend all four years at Cornell, both the University and the student body benefit.

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he origin of the slang term “yel- Nothing can make a girl feel more low fever” is derived from one of replaceable.

At first, the term yellow fever is somethe symptoms of the disease, jaundice, which causes a yellowing pig- what entertaining –– that is until I mentation of the skin. The racial epi- began to read into its implications. Since thet, therefore, has come to connote an attraction to Asian woman is labeled as attraction to people of Asian origin. This an affliction, the term insinuates that term was particularly interesting to learn normal or healthy behavior is to not be of as a young Asian woman in American attracted to Asian women, as if being society. Before coming to Cornell, I did- attracted to Asians is synonymous with a n’t know the term was rampantly used perversion or fetish. And interracial daton college campuses –– so much so that ing can become quite the experience one would think yellow fever has when students chalk a relationships up to Asian persuasion. become quite the epidemic.

I don’t mean to appear unappreciative My friends and acquaintances will often say at a party or bar that the peo- for being an Asian woman. Some women of different ple I am speaking with ethnicities than mine are victims of yellow have even expressed fever. Often, the indiThe yellow fever envy of the advantages vidual in question hasstereotype eschews of yellow fever, like n’t expressed an excluacceptance of unique attraction partners. sive attraction to Asian However, along with women and doesn’t women –– especially these so-called advanhave a romantic history those breaking the tages are a number of exclusive to one race. feminine mold. outdated stereotypes Instead, the individual and references to may have only been seen interacting with a woman of Asian misogyny.

For example, I recently viewed a blog origin once or twice, leading to an exaggeration through word of mouth. dedicated to creepy things said about Sometimes a fellow student will also use Asian girls on dating websites. On this the term derogatorily to refer to a period blog, men mention how Asian women of time during which his or her attrac- “know how to make a man feel like a tion to people of Asian origin was par- man.” Other individuals I have encountered at Cornell have presumed that ticularly fervent.

I’m not sure at what age I began to because I am Asian, I am passive and notice that yellow fever was a notewor- gentle –– and therefore easily controlled. thy term in society. However, I do recall There will be a slow, if any, attempt to in high school male students rated class- eradicate such preconceived notions if mates separately on a “Hottest Girls” list these stereotypes are erroneously considand a “Hottest Asians” list. This separa- ered to be advantageous.

Despite the abundance of assertive, tion suggested to me that there was something about inherently different ambitious women on campus, the prevaabout being Asian that necessitated spe- lence of the yellow fever stereotype isn’t cial acknowledgment when debating any less at Cornell. I’ve received comattractiveness. I mocked the lists as a ments both explicit and sexual in nature. product of childish preconceptions that These instances exemplify how this would fade with age and experience. archaic and somewhat sexualized view of Little did I know that upon attending Asian women not only create unjust college –– even at a school as progressive expectations for Asian women, but also as Cornell –– the yellow fever stereotype women in general. The yellow fever would not just remain but become a stereotype eschews acceptance of unique stubborn element of my college experi- women –– especially those breaking the feminine mold. And that’s not all right. ence.

Some of the bolder men I’ve encountered have occasionally referred to me as Cecilia An is a senior in the School of Industrial “that cute little Asian girlfriend” they and Labor Relations. Feedback may be sent to once had or to their weakness for opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Columns appear women of my ethnic background: periodically throughout the semester.

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Billy Lenkin |

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Pokémon and Apple’s Secret To Success I

n 1998, Nintendo released the Pokémon Red and Blue Version handheld games for the Gameboy and licensed the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

The very next year, Nintendo released Pokémon Stadium for the Nintendo 64 Console, and Pokémon premiered on television and in theaters. These were probably the best two years of my childhood.

I wasn’t the only kid who loved Pokémon. The original games sold about 20 million copies and evolved into a multi-billion dollar franchise. Why? If you play the handheld games on the Gameboy, play console games on the Nintendo 64 Console, save your lunch money for trading cards, see the movies or simply watch television during prime time, you can embark on the journey to “catch ’em all”. And of course, parents permitting, you’ll want to expand. If you watch the TV show, you’ll want to see the movie. If you see the movie, you’ll receive a complimentary trading card to start your own collection. While you’re at it, you’ll need the handheld games and the console games to battle your friends with improved graphics. Integrated seamlessly, it all worked together. Trust me –– I had it all.

Does this sound familiar? In 2001, Steve Jobs, in all his turtle-necked glory, announced the release of the first iPod. Suddenly, people on the go could enjoy the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and the other talented artists of 2001 with its whopping 5 gigabyte hard drive. Sure, there were other MP3 players and other external storage devices, but the iPod combined the two technologies and integrated them with the desktop computer via iTunes.

Over the past decade, Apple has relentlessly weaved

Cross-platform integration made both Pokémon and Apple successful. Fans’ access to some devices and not others doesn’t determine content –– their love of a franchise does. devices and software together with enough i’s on their products to rival the mantis shrimp –– they have a lot of eyes. Google it. In 2005, the iPod adopted a little brother, the iPod Nano. In 2007, Apple released the iPhone, and in 2010, the iPad joined the iFamily. Through these efforts, Apple propelled itself past ExxonMobil to become the largest publically traded company in the New York Stock Exchange.

What is Apple’s secret to success? iPhones, iPads and Macbooks all harmoniously interconnect through Apple’s software across multiple platforms.

If you have an iPhone, you’ll need to buy a Macbook to sync your music, photos and applications. Once you purchase your Macbook, you’ll realize you could benefit from an iPad, because your Macbook is too bulky. Having your devices in concert makes your life much easier, though it will also make you dread seeing your Apple Store receipt that much more.

Cross-platform integration made both Pokémon and Apple successful.

Fans’ access to some devices and not others doesn’t determine content –– their love of a franchise does. If you had a TV, a Gameboy, a Nintendo 64 Console or bought trading cards, you could play Pokémon. Similarly, if you have an iPhone, an iPad or a Macbook, you can use iTunes, iPhoto and iCloud.

However, Microsoft and Samsung have largely caught up with Pokémon and Apple’s winning strategy. About a year ago, Microsoft began manufacturing hardware and announced the release of Windows 8, which Microsoft designed to integrate tablets, phones and those weird touchscreen ultrabooks. Microsoft’s successful Xbox franchise also dominates console gaming.

And Samsung recently squeezed past Apple into the largest share of the global smartphone market, selling smartwatches to complement their phones.

Although the Pokémon television series, movies, trading cards and games are still going strong, Nintendo completely ignored the advent of the smartphone and the tablet –– two new and lucrative platforms created within the past five years. They’ve abstained from broadening Pokémon’s appeal, despite the transition of casual gaming to the smartphone and tablet. It’s no wonder why Nintendo’s stock is nearly one-third of its highest value within the past five years –– especially now that developers increasingly integrate gamers’ experiences across devices. Going forward, industry players that coordinate their products among mobile, tablet, console and handheld devices will dominate.

Pokémon and Apple built an integrated universe that fans could join because they enjoyed its creators’ imagination regardless of the devices they owned. So other companies like Microsoft and Samsung will eventually take full advantage of their presence in the console, tablet and smartphone market, because Pokémon and Apple’s secret to success isn’t so secret any more.

Eric Schulman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at eschulman@cornellsun.com. Schulman’s Schtick appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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This Column Will Change the Way You See Upworthy N

o one tires from calling people out on hypocrisy and artificiality in political discussion. Politics holds genuineness as a deal breaker: Without it, nothing you believe matters. Condescending politics, if anything, is a hindrance to social reform, and people can sense arrogance from a mile away.

Upworthy sticks out like a sore thumb among new manifestations of insufferable politics. Upworthy, for those who don’t know, is a website devoted to “meaningful content.”

With enticing headlines and a progressive bent, the site has achieved stunning success in two years, reaching over 49 million unique viewers each month and becoming the 38th most popular website in the United States. But the website’s claim to “meaningful content” is disingenuous: It claims to seriously engage with political issues, but it really doesn’t. It claims to be enlightened, but it isn’t.

“Watch The First 54 Seconds. That’s All I Ask. You’ll Be Hooked After That, I Swear.” “By Looking At Her, You May Not Know What She’s Hiding Underneath.”

Common complaints about Upworthy focus on its click bait headlines like these, but

that’s a silly criticism.

A link’s entire purpose is to be clicked on, and, by definition, every link on the Internet is click bait.

Harping on Upworthy’s exploitation of click bait is an easy argument to latch onto, but it’s not the true reason why people should be bothered

by Upworthy.

Up w o r t h y’s remarkable success has brought about website clones like Viral Nova and Distractify, mimicking Upworthy’s formula to promote apolitical content and relying on readers to share their sites’ stories on social media. Look,

sive political bent. It sells, not advocates, politics for page views.

It’s problematic to think that sharing a video of starving children on social media is meaningful to those starving children. “We launched Upworthy 18 months ago,” Upworthy’s blog says, “based on a pretty crazy idea: that if you can catch people’s attention, they actually care more about the most important topics in the world than they do about celebrity sideboobs.” So Noble.

Wow. How did Upworthy develop the assumption that we

Upworthy sticks out like a sore thumb among new manifestations of insufferable politics. if you’re sharing the Distractify story “NASA Has Captured Incredible Photos Of Saturn, And Trust Me, They Will Change The Way You See Space,” I don’t mind.

Although those photos circulated the Internet a month ago, it was cool to see them again. Going viral is how new media forms survive. There’s no harm in sharing a cool picture of Saturn.

But Upworthy is troublesome precisely because of its progres-

don’t care about politics as much as the “celebrity sideboob?”

Is it because everyday people don’t talk about banking regulation 24/7? So most people don’t care about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) shooting down banking regulators, but they do care about what’s happening to their mortgages.

Everyone, however, hates being told that they’re stupid for not knowing Warren’s schedule because

they’re more interested in Justin Bieber’s mugshot.

Upworthy has defended itself by claiming that their posts wouldn’t go viral if people didn’t believe their content wasn’t good enough to share.

On the contrary, sharing on social media is largely a method to show that you are in solidarity with a given viewpoint. Upworthy doesn’t change politics: It only reinforces beliefs for a subset of people who share them. As a result, sharing precludes discussion and skepticism –– harmless for cool pictures of Saturn, not for political advocacy.

To be fair, many of these criticisms are applicable to other ostensibly progressive publications that don’t follow the Upworthy viral formula. It is up to readers to recognize these websites’ lack of genuine political engagement and demand something better. So Upworthy does make a difference –– in increased page clicks.

It’s just not the political revolution it wants you to believe it is.

Kai Sam Ng is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at kng@cornellsun.com. Cross-Eyed and Painful appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Sexual Politics: The Play Within the Play Venus in Fur at Kitchen Theatre

NATASHA BERNSTEIN BUNZL Sun Contributor

Laughter, lightning and gasps filled the Kitchen Theatre on Saturday night at the opening of David Ives’ one-act play, Venus in Fur. A complex and shifting exploration of power dynamics in art, sex and gender, Venus in Fur offers up numerous questions but refuses to suggest any answers. Rather, it invites the audience into dizzying and thrilling confusion. In her curtain speech, director Rachel Lampert reminded the audience that “important conversations happen in the kitchen.” The excited and impassioned buzz that filled the theatre after PHOTOS COURTESY OF KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY

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the actors took their final bow certainly proved her right. Lampert’s direction is brave and self-reflective, for while the play examines and critiques power dynamics in all aspects of life, the role of the director certainly finds itself under special scrutiny. Sexually-charged and hilarious performances by both Maddie Jo Lander and Brandon Morris make these terribly enjoyable ninety minutes fly by all too quickly.

The lights go up on the character of Thomas Novachek, a playwright and director, who has just finished an unsuccessful day of auditioning actresses for the female part in his new adaptation of Leopold von Sach-Masoch’s 1870 erotic novel Venus in Fur. Just as he opens the

door to leave, in stumbles Vanda — beautiful, late, flustered and cursing. Oddly, she shares the same peculiar name as the female part in his play.

Thomas’ play within a play tells the story of Severin, an aristocrat, tortured by an erotic memory of being whipped by his beautiful aunt while lying on her sable coat. He has spent his life searching for a woman to humiliate, dominate and torture him, and when he meets a beautiful and free-spirited woman named Vanda at a health spa, he begs her to play the role of his mistress. She protests, claiming that by ceding his control, he is taking power nonetheless.

The modern Vanda hardly appears to be the serious actress that Thomas spent the day searching for. Her speech, inflected with “likes” and “you knows,” perfectly embodies the type of actress that Thomas bemoaned in a monologue prior to her entrance. Thomas claims that it is impossible to find an “actress who can actually pronounce the word degradation without a tutor.” Despite his obvious disinterest, she forces him to watch her audition, and even more impressively gets him to read opposite her.

When Vanda, the actress, enters the audition room, she throws off her coat to reveal fishnet stockings and a dog collar around her neck — a modern day S&M costume. She teases Thomas that her collar is a leftover from her days as a prostitute. It comes as a surprise to both Thomas and the audience when she pulls a white Victorian dress from her bag and begins to read the role of Vanda in a perfectly European accent. In fact, she does not even need to read the script. She knows it by heart, although she claims merely to have flipped through it on the train. Vanda’s transformation in the play impressively exhibits Ms. Lander’s own talent, for in this play she successfully portrays a character so complex that multiple voices, personalities and demeanors are called for. Vanda’s audition is inspiring and consistent. Only occasionally does she break from, in her own words,

her “phony continental accent,” to interject an “Oh my God, I love this!”

As the play progresses, Vanda’s validity as an airhead is increasingly called into question — she quotes interviews with Thomas, knows details of his private life and makes specific references to ancient plays. As she starts to expose more intellectual, sexual and artistic power, Vanda also begins to outwardly question the sexist undertones of Thomas’ work. The beginning of this shift in power, paired with the palpable sexual tension between them, holds the audience in gripping suspense. Brandon Morris’ performance also deepens as his character becomes increasingly vulnerable and unstable.

Power and reality hold constantly shifting roles in this play, yet its researched and witty dialogue never becomes confusing. It is rich with references and yet amusing, even to one who does not catch all of them. For instance, Vanda’s legitimacy is called to question when she claims she got her costumes at Screaming Mimi’s, an expensive Manhattan vintage store, for $3. She raises questions about her honesty enough times that those unfamiliar with the store, and thus this impossibility, lose nothing. Similarly, Lampert chose to stage the play to the song “Venus” by Television. This ’70s punk band has fallen somewhat into obscurity, yet their song’s narrative occurs in New York City and its lyrics about desire, pain and costumes clearly resonate with the play.

Venus in Fur is a play for those who want to think and be challenged. The show is perfect for those who want to laugh and be shocked, and who doesn’t fall into one of those categories most of the time? It is definitely not something to miss.

Venus in Fur runs Wednesday through Sunday at Kitchen Theatre until February 9.

Natasha Bernstein Bunzl is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at nhb35@cornell.edu.

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Arts Around Ithaca The Ring

Man Man

7:00 p.m. on Wednesday at Sage Chapel

9:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the Haunt This Wednesday, Dan Smalls Presents brings experimental Philadelphia band Man Man to the Haunt. Known for their use of non-conventional instruments such as noisemakers, pots and pans, children’s toys and audience members’ heads, the group promises to provide an interesting performance. Tickets are $15 general admission and doors open at 8 p.m.

Good People

Opening at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 3 at Kitchen Theatre The Homecoming Players of Kitchen Theatre’s Kitchen Sink will present a staged reading of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People on Monday (Feb. 3) and Tuesday (Feb. 4) at 7:30 p.m. Rachel Hockett will direct these performances of Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Lindsay-Abiare’s portrait of South Boston class structure. Winner of the 2011 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Good People has been hailed for its authenticity and for the care with which it handles its temporal and physical setting.

Tickets are $15.

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Cornell Cinema will present Alfred Hitchcock’s only original screenplay, The Ring, with live piano accompaniment by Philip Carli this Wednesday at Sage Chapel. One of Hitchcock’s best-known silent films, the story follows a love triangle set in the world of boxing and relayed with revolutionary-for-the-time expressionist film techniques.

Tickets are $9 for students and $12 for the general public.

Titus Andronicus

Opening at 7:30 pm on Friday at Blackbox Theatre Spencer Whale ’14 will direct the Cornell Department of Performing and Media Arts production of one of Shakespeare’s earliest and most violent tragedies, Titus Andronicus. Set in Rome, the story follows a vicious rivalry between the families of General Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, and unfolds around more than a dozen murders. While the play has become infamous for its superfluous violence, Whale believes that Shakespeare “was satirizing his contemporary theatergoers’ bloodlust by treating them to more than they could handle” and expresses a hope that the Cornell production will be able to incorporate Shakespeare’s original intentions as well as the play’s historical context. Tickets are $11 for students, $13 for the general public. Shows will be at 7:30 pm on Jan. 31, Feb. 1 and Feb. 6-8 with an additional matinee showing at 2 pm on Saturday, Feb. 8.

— Compiled by Kaitlyn Tiffany

The Worst Movie Ever Made

hroughout this semester, Brian Gordon ’14 and Harrison Okin ’15 will use this column space to cover topics close to their hearts. Today, they give their immediate reactions to what many claim is the worst movie ever made, 2003’s The Room.

“Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect.”

— Mark Twain

BRIAN GORDON: I doubt Twain ever saw The Room, but the quote above fits perfectly with the “so bad, it’s good” titan that is this movie. It was the worst thing I’ve ever seen, and I don’t think I’ve enjoyed myself so much during a film in years.

HARRISON OKIN: Often regarded as the most terrible movie of all time, The Room captures all the strange emotions I crave in a cinematic experience. I chortled at the absurdity; I unleashed one too many curses during the infidelity; I clutched my comfort-pillow after the catastrophe. Bravo to Mr. Tommy Wisseau, the master auteur who directed, wrote and starred in the flick that deftly (or unwittingly) leaves the audience flummoxed with the burning question: “What in the world did I just watch?”

B.G.: Easy on the spoilers, Harry. The plot’s really just your average Shakespearean tragedy. If Shakespeare had never met another human being before. And had Gene Simmons’s hair. This movie is tacky, frequently incoherent and impossibly sexist. I agree with the mother character — the daughter should marry the man she doesn’t love. He can buy her stuff. Stuff! It’s not a comedy, but I laughed to tears. It’s not a sports movie, but the football scenes would make Rudy blush. Or die. It’s not a porno, but its aesthetics suggest otherwise.

H.O.: Wisseau is the antithesis of Chekhov. Introduce a drug-fueled robbery in the first act and never address it again!

B.G.: Don’t forget about the breast cancer. Because everyone else in the movie does.

H.O.: It sounds like Wisseau learned English from watching Japanese anime, then refined his approach by taking speech classes taught by Dr. Nick from The Simpsons. And I dare say his endless supply of silk shirts (nearly all of which are subsequently ripped open) could rival the wardrobe of The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.

B.G.: All very true. We could go on ridiculing this thoroughly enjoyable movie until graduation. The sex scenes alone deserve their own column. Nothing this spectacular can be “the worst” in my eyes. It’s been dubbed “the Citizen Kane of bad movies,” but I’d rather watch The Room on loop than spend an afternoon watching a cranky Orson Welles yearn for a sled.

Brian Gordon & Harrison Okin Bring Da Ruckus H.O.: People are so fixated on the opinions of critics and the outcomes of award shows that they often forget the true essence of entertainment: enjoyment. We spend too much time marvelling over how much weight Jared Leto lost and quibbling about whether Jennifer Lawrence’s Long Island accent is better than her Philadelphia twang. Awards are great, but they are far from gospel in deciding what movies we should watch. If enjoying myself means seeking out bottom-of-the-barrel B-movie scum to ridicule, then dagnabbit, that’s what I’m going to do!

B.G.: Preach. I’d prefer to watch a B- or Z-movie over one of the many vanilla “A-films” that get nominated for Best Picture each year. “Non-descript” might be the single quality that makes a movie “the worst.” But being absurdly nonsensical can be better than nothing.

Attending a party at which someone screams randomly at a wall every half-hour provides something special that a party at which everyone just sits quietly in chairs does not. A random scream spurs a reaction, gives you something to think, talk and laugh about.

H.O.: If I’m understanding you correctly, which I never do, you believe bad movies can be saved by spontaneity?

B.G.: Maybe. At least, something that causes a strong reaction can’t be the worst movie of all time. Similar to the way I find your general disposition on life to be outlandish and occasionally unpleasant. But it’s unique, so you’re not my worst friend.

H.O.: “Friend” might be pushing it, Brian.

B.G.: I’m still cracking up over different parts of this film. Even the title. We both agree the major character development occurs in an alleyway with a football and tuxedos.

H.O.: The Room’s droll and random tuxedo-football moments were probably my favorite sequences ever filmed on camera, but perhaps that’s only because they eerily brought me back to the days of Bar Mitzvah photoshoots.

B.G.: I’ve had the company from Eternal Sunshine wipe my Bar Mitzvah from memory. They were instructed to leave The Room untouched.

Brian Gordon is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com. Harrison Okin is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at hokin@cornellsun.com Run It Back runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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Rangers Defeat Devils in Yankee Stadium Contest NEW YORK (AP) — Too much sun forced the boys of winter to wait to play at the ballpark in the Bronx.

Once clouds filled the skies over Yankee Stadium and snow began to fall — hockey weather for sure — Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers got the best of the New Jersey Devils.

Rick Nash scored for the fifth straight game during New York’s four-goal middle period, and the Rangers rallied for a 7-3 victory over the Devils on Sunday.

Sun reflecting off the ice delayed the start of the first hockey game at Yankee Stadium for about an hour. The wait was expected to be longer, so Lundqvist took a nap. Cloud cover took care of that problem more quickly than expected.

Suddenly the All-Star goalie was awakened and told warm-ups would take place in 30 minutes.

He put on his pinstripe pads, but still looked groggy in the first period when New Jersey took a 31 lead.

“I was half asleep, mentally somewhere else, but then I regrouped and I am happy with how I finished,” Lundqvist said.

“I’m not going to lie, when they scored the third one, I had a bad feeling about it. My first thought was, ‘Am I going to be able to finish this game? Then you kind of regroup and tell yourself, ‘I need to stop the next shot.

That’s it. There is no other way to do this.”

Devils counterpart Martin Brodeur had no such luck. He allowed six goals on 21 shots and was replaced by Cory Schneider at the start of the third.

“You rely a lot on instinct, and poise, and I couldn’t close my glove, it was so cold,” said Brodeur, who along with Rangers coach Alain Vigneault criticized the chippy ice that required repairs.

New York got within one before the first intermission and then swarmed Brodeur.

Dominic Moore and Marc Staal had goals in the first for the Rangers, then Mats Zuccarello scored two straight to put New York ahead for the first time. Carl Hagelin and Nash found the net, too, behind the beleaguered Brodeur, who angrily swatted the puck away after one of the tallies.

‘Most of their goals went in off our players, or a stick or skate, and that happens. It was just one of those nights,’ Brodeur said.

Nash has seven goals in his streak and 18 this season.

A day after the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks played in 60-degree weather at Dodger Stadium, the NHL returned to conditions more fitting for hockey.

“Within 16 hours, two of the most-revered venues in sports welcomed more than 100,000 fans to sit under the sky and enjoy two of the fiercest rivalries in the National Hockey League,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement. “The games were spectacular, the images were

unforgettable, and the sheer energy our sport creates was unmistakable.”

Lundqvist settled down and made 19 saves. He hadn’t allowed more than two goals in his previous seven outings.

The Devils took care of that in the first.

Patrik Elias scored twice, Travis Zajac once and Jaromir Jagr had two assists in the first to excite the large number of New Jersey fans who made the trek to the Bronx for what was a Devils home game.

“They changed their game in the second period,” Jagr said of the Rangers. “They were flying into our zone, and we didn’t react to it.”

Jagr past former Pittsburgh Penguins teammate Mario Lemieux for 10th place on the NHL career assist list.

The teams played through the second period as the snow started and increased in intensity, not long after they were forced to wait around an extra hour to drop the pick because of bright sunshine that created a dangerous glare on the ice.

The temperature was 24.9 degrees when the game started at 1:41 p.m. in front of a sellout crowd of 50,105.

Jagr said he and his teammates took in the scene, but perhaps a bit too much.

“I think we all did that in the second period,” Jagr said.

Yankee Stadium’s second hockey game will take place on Wednesday night when the Rangers will again be the road team in a matchup with the New York Islanders.

Zuccarello tied it 3-3 at 2:48 of the second when he redirected in a pass from John Moore, and put New York in front at the end of a 3-on-1 rush with 7:16 left.

Benoit Pouliot chipped the puck ahead at center ice to Derick Brassard, who sent a pass from the right side to Zuccarello for his 15th goal.

Hagelin made it 5-3 just 1:09 later when he flipped a shot from the right circle that appeared to hit Devils defenseman Marek Zidlicky before getting through Brad Richards’ screen and by Brodeur.

The Devils netminder was again victimized by an odd-man attack that Nash finished with 28.5 seconds left in the middle frame. Brodeur was serenaded with derisive chants of ‘Mar-ty ...

Mar-ty’ as Rangers fans in the stands made their voices heard.

He watched the rest of the game from the bench. Schneider, who made only four saves, gave up Derek Stepan’s penalty-shot goal with 9:54 remaining. The seven goals matched the Rangers’ season high.

NOTES: Schneider is 5-1-2 with a 0.96 goals-against average and .961 save percentage in his last eight starts, dating to Dec. 28.

Brodeur had played in only two of New Jersey’s previous eight games. ... New Jersey had won two straight. New York snapped a two-game losing streak.

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Women Unable to Bounce Red Scores Three Times in Second Period Back Against Clarkson M. HOCKEY

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freshman forward Hanna Bunton found the back of the net. However, the Red could not get on a run during the overtime period because at that point, “we hit a hot goalkeeper,” Campbell said.

Voorheis’ strong play kept the Red in the game, though, and the score remained tied at the end of overtime. Voorheis stopped twenty shots on goal in the match.

The following day, the Red took on Clarkson in another ECAC rivalry.

According to Campbell, the Red was

looking to rebound after the tough finish against St. Lawrence on Friday. “[We are] looking for a good bounce back, and [to] impose our game on Clarkson,” she said.

According to senior defenseman Hayleigh Cudmore, the game against Clarkson was an important one for the Red’s standing at the top of the conference.

“This game is a must win and we must win every game moving forward,”

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Cudmore said. “If everyone isn’t firing at their best tonight, we are not going to win.”

Coming into the game as the topranked team in the ECAC, the Red needed a win over Golden Knights — the third-ranked team in the conference — in order to extend its lead in the division.

Unfortunately, Clarkson went up 2-0 in the second period, and aside from Emily Fulton’s power play goal at 5:30 into the second period, the Red was unable to create enough offense to beat the Golden Knights, eventually falling, 3-1.

Next week, the Red will take on conference rivals Yale and Brown, returning home to Lynah rink.

Doug Berman can be reached at dberman@cornellsun.com.

back of the net and flipped it over the goalie for another goal near the crease.

St. Lawrence struck again on the power play at the opening of the third period. A bad deflection in the Red’s defensive zone sent the puck to open Saints forward Matt Carey at the bottom of the right circle, and Carey slid the puck behind Iles to tie the game at 4-4.

“As the game wore on, we started being cute,” Schafer said. “Early on, we forced some pucks to the net, got to the net for rebounds, capitalized in rebounds. In the third period, I don’t know how many chances we passed up on shots right in the middle of the slot trying to make that one extra play.”

The rest of regulation remained scoreless after Weninger saved a penalty shot attempt by junior forward Cole Bardraeu. The Red outshot the Saints, 91, in overtime but were unable to put another goal away.

“When you score four goals in a league like [ours], it’s tough not to win, but when you put yourself in a situation like on the kill there we took some not-sogreat penalties and it bit us

in the butt,” Hilbrich said.

The Clarkson game started with the Red dropping 1-0 two minutes into the first period. Golden Knights sophomore forward Patrick Megannety shot a far wrister that sailed past Iles’ blocker side.

Clarkson later got its second goal of the period off of a quick shot from a faceoff, sending the Red into the intermission down two goals.

“So it was just a bad start, but the effort and the intensity and winning battles from the start of the second [period] on was outstanding,” Schafer said.

The Red dominated the second period, scoring all three of its goals in the frame. Freshman Matt Buckles got the team on the board first, waiting out the netminder until he could lift the puck over the sprawled goalie. Buckles played as part of an allfreshman line consisting additionally of Jake Weidner and Jeff Kubiak.

“We know each other pretty well, we’re with each other 24-7 so we have some good chem there,” Buckles said. “I mean on that goal those guys made a great play and I was able to just feed off their efforts there.”

The Red notched its next tally one and a half minutes later, off a shot

from the same area. Junior defenseman Jacob MacDonald popped in a rebound around the goalie’s left side to tie the game.

The final goal of the game came with five minutes in the second period, again from the left side of the crease. Hilbrich stayed poised as he angled around the left side of the goalie, eventually flipping the puck over the sprawled netminder.

The Red sealed the scoreless third period with a five-on-four power play that turned into a five-onthree man advantage to end the game..

“I thought for the first time in a while that we kept going in the third,” Schafer said. “We pinched our [defense], we’re up tight to people and didn’t let them get going. I like what we saw of our hockey team that way.”

The sold-out Lynah crowd came to life in the second period of the game, continuing to cheer loudly throughout the scoreless third as well.

“It’s that camaraderie,” Schafer said of the relationship between the fans and the players. “You felt the electricity in this building this weekend.”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.

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Rensselaer Upsets Union; Brown Wins Ivy Showdown I t was an exciting weekend in ECAC hockey, as some of the top teams in the conference faced off, jockeying for position at the top of the division standings. Cornell hosted Clarkson and St. Lawrence, defeating Clarkson and putting the Red in a tie for the fourth spot in the conference. After jumping out to an early lead against St. Lawrence, Cornell was unable to hold on and finished with a 4-4 tie. Rensselaer shocked the ECAC with an upset victory over Union, the top team in the conference. The Engineers captured the Mayor’s Cup in dramatic fashion, coming away with a 2-1 win after sophomore Mike Zalewski broke the tie in the third period. Junior goaltender Scott Diebold made 28 saves, his only hiccup coming eight minutes into the first period. Otherwise, the junior was flawless in net. Colgate took two wins away from the weekend, defeating Clarkson and St. Lawrence by scores of 3-2 and 7-3 respectively. In an Ivy League showdown, Brown swept Yale, 3-1 and 6-0.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

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Tight race | Cornell remained competitive in ECAC play with a win and tie this weekend. Union, the No. 1 team in the conference, took a loss.

Yale,Brown Locked in Tight Ancient Eight Matchup

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Bears playing out a tight 2-2 draw. Freshman Phoebe Staenz put Yale ahead early on, before freshman Catherine Leboeuf brought Brown level. A frantic final third of the game saw both Yale and Brown score, followed by a goalless period of overtime to bring to an end a riveting

ome tight games were played throughout the women’s ECAC conference this week, as teams begin to settle back into the flow of regular match days following the winter break. Brown and Yale played each other twice over the weekend, with the Bulldogs and the

and 4-3 respectively. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College both also endured defeats against Harvard, with the Crimson comfortably coming out on top, 3-1 and 2-0 respectively.

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game. The two Ivy League foes faced each other again the next day in a game that saw Yale come out on top with a 3-1 win.

Dartmouth had a tense but successful few days as they emerged victorious in two tight encounters against Rensselaer and Union, winning both games 2-1

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Getting back on top | The Cornell women’s hockey team struggled this weekend, falling behind Harvard and Clarkson in the ECAC standings.

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Icers Undefeated at Lynah

Red ties St. Lawrence in overtime, tops Clarkson 3-2 on Friday

By EMILY BERMAN

Hilbrich contributed with two goals and an assist, and Ferlin with a goal and an assist.

“They carried our team with the four goals they The men’s ice hockey team won its second three- had throughout the course of the game,” said head point performance this weekend, losing an early 2-0 coach Mike Schafer ’86. “They did a tremendous lead in Friday’s 4-4 tie to St. Lawrence. The Red, how- job.” ever, rallied from a two-goal deficit the next night The Red’s 2-0 advantage did not last long, with the against Clarkson for a 3-2 victory.

Saints scoring two goals in a 24-secThe Red (10-4-5, 6-3-4) has lost ond span near the end of the first ST. LAWRENCE @ CORNELL just once in the past 13 games. period. St. Lawrence sophomore It took the Red less than two Brian Ward capitalized on an odd4 4 minutes to hit the back of the net man rush with a wrist shot from the 1ST 2ND 3RD OT Final against St. Lawrence, thanks to Game: right circle that sailed behind Iles St. Lawrence 2 1 1 0 4 senior forward Dustin Mowrey. Cornell 3 1 0 0 4 for the Saints’ first goal, and teamMowrey, who finished the night mate freshman Alex Dahl knotted with four points, collected his own the score half a minute later with a rebound in front of the net and laser from the slot.

CLARKSON @ CORNELL skated around the outstretched Hilbrich put the Red back on right pad of St. Lawrence goalie board with five seconds remainthe 2 3 Matt Weninger to find the open ing in the first period, outlasting the Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL net. goalie until he could flip the puck 0 0 2 Mercyhurst 2 Less than three minutes later, Cornell 0 over the sprawled netminder to up 3 0 3 Mowrey and linemates sophothe score to 3-2. St. Lawrence tied more Christian Hilbrich and the game on a power play less than junior Brian Ferlin found the back of the net again for four minutes into the next frame, however, after the the 2-0 advantage. Weninger made the save on Red was called for a charging penalty.

Mowrey’s initial shot, but the puck slipped into the Cornell regained the lead on a goal by Ferlin in the crease where Hilbrich tapped it in. final three minutes of the second period. Ferlin colThe Mowrey-Hilbrich-Ferlin line accounted for all lected the puck from his linemates, skated around the four of the Red’s goals and finished the night at plusSee M. HOCKEY page 14 four. Mowrey had one goal and three assists, while

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Late Game Struggles Down Men Against Columbia

Put me in, coach | Junior forward Ned Tomic gave the Red a strong performance off the bench, scoring 11 points and grabbing seven boards.

With ten minutes left in the game against Columbia on Saturday, freshman guard Robert Hatter drove to the basket and, finding Columbia’s big men waiting for him in the paint, quickly dished the ball out. Senior forward Dwight Tarwater was waiting on the perimeter, and his three-pointer allowed the Red to regain the lead for the first time since the opening possession of the second half.

However, a nifty spin-move in the paint by Columbia’s Maodo Lo on the following possession silenced the crowd at Newman Arena and tied the game at 51. The Lions carried that momentum into a 13-2 extended run that crippled the Red’s chances of its first Ivy League win.

Cornell came out strong in the first half of its second consecutive matchup against Columbia, who came into the game at the top

Offensive outburst | Senior forward Dustin Mowrey had a goal and three assists in the tie with St. Lawrence on Friday.

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of the conference standings. The Red shot 45 percent from the field and 40 percent from beyond the arc, but the Lions kept pace, trailing by only three heading into the locker room.

The final twenty minutes told a very different story for the Red, though, as the team was eight-for-27 from the field and threefor-nine from three. The final score was not indicative of the squad’s fight in the second half, though, as the two teams traded baskets for most of it. Columbia looked as though it was going to make a run midway through the half when two free throws by Alex Rosenberg put them up by six, but a three by senior guard Jake Matthews cut the deficit in half. The Red’s bench play was an important factor in keeping them in the game.

Matthews had eight points and junior forward Ned Tomic had 11 points and seven rebounds.

Hatter chipped in with 11 points and three assists, and junior captain and guard Devin Cherry had twelve points and pulled down five rebounds. Junior guard Nolan Cressler struggled from the field, though, missing all five of his threes and scoring just

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six points, almost ten points below his season average.

Now 0-2 in Ivy League play, the Red will try to climb its way out of the bottom of the conference when it takes on Brown next weekend in Rhode Island.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

Red Struggles on Road, Falls To Clarkson,Ties St. Lawrence

By DOUG BERMAN Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, after coming off a difficult home loss to Harvard, the women’s Ice Hockey team went on the road against St. Lawrence and C l a r k s o n .

Unfortunately, the Red could only come away from the two contests with a 1-1 overtime tie against St. Lawrence and a 3-1 loss to Clarkson.

This three-game winless streak is the first of the season for the Red, which is currently 9-2-3 in the ECAC. Against St. Lawrence, the Red did not get off to a very good start, with St. Lawrence controlling possession throughout the entire first period.

However, freshman goalie Paula Voorheis only allowed one goal in the period.

“Paula had an opportunity to step up and she definitely did,” senior forward Jessica Campbell said.

The Red finally tied the game with 5:59 left in regulation when See W. HOCKEY page 14

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On target | Senior forward Jessica Campbell had 10 shots on goal against St. Lawrence.