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Cornell Store: Online Book Sales Grow 40 Percent in Last Year

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Although some students say they are shopping elsewhere for their textbooks in order to reduce costs, officials at the Cornell Store reported an increase in book sales by 40 percent between Fall 2012 and Fall 2013 due to the recent inclusion of more purchase and rental options.

According to Margie Whiteleather, strategic projects manager for the Cornell Store, and Chris Cave, academic materials manager, sales in certain areas of merchandise have increased in the past year.

Online textbooks sales saw the most noteworthy growth, but there has also been a steady increase in the number of books rented, Whiteleather said.

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Knowledge is power | Students will now be able to rent used books from the Cornell Store, resulting in the lowest prices possible, according to staff.

Commemorative Grove to Capture History Landscape project is part of University’s sesquicentennial anniversary

By JESSE WEISSMAN Sun Staff Writer

As part of Cornell’s sesquicentennial anniversary in

2015, a commemorative grove that honors Cornell’s history will be built on the top of Libe Slope behind the statue of Ezra Cornell, according to Prof. Isaac

Kramnick, acting chair of the Sesquicentennial Steering Committee.

The purpose of the landscape project is to “honor the history and spirit of Cornell for future generations,”

Kramnick said.

The grove will consist of a series of stone benches and walkways. Along the walkways will be a timeline of significant events in Cornell’s history, according to Kramnick.

Some of the notable events that will be recognized include the 33-hour takeover of Willard Straight in 1969 during the Civil Rights Movement and the University securing the winning bid to build Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island, according to Kramnick.

Room will be left at the end of the timeline for

For students looking to spend time away from Ithaca, off-campus programs such as Cornell in Washington and the College of Human Ecology Urban Semester program have become increasingly popular.

According to Prof. Sam Beck, director of the Urban Semester “It’s rare that a program, there has been an student doesn’t increase in have a good interest in experience in recent years for the program. the program.”

The CIW program has also Prof. Sam Beck been gaining more awareness around campus, according to Prof.

Robert Hutchens, industrial and labor relations, director of CIW. The Urban Semester and CIW programs allow students to spend a semester in New York City and Washington D.C., respectively.

Students take academic courses and work part-time at an internship, according to the programs’ websites.

Hutchens said that the opportunity to have an internship is one of the main factors that attract students to the CIW program.

“It’s an opportunity for them to sample the work world and see how they fit into it,” Hutchens said.

All CIW students also write a 50page research paper on a topic of their choosing and use the Library of Congress for research, according to Carolyn Krupski ’15, who participated in the program last fall.

“Our professor gives you the tools to do very exact and specific research, to write something you can be proud of,” Krupski said.

According to Beck, the Urban

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Brief Power Outage Inconveniences Students on North,Central Campus

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Senior Writer

Multiple parts of campus completely lost power for approximately half an hour on Monday, affecting roughly 40 buildings, students and

faculty.

Utility crews began responding to an outage affecting athletic facilities and buildings on North and Central Campus at 2:35 p.m., amd electricity was completely restored to all

affected areas by 3 p.m. according to Cornell Facilities Services.

University Spokesperson John Carberry said the outage occurred when “protective controls detected a problem with an electric feeder

circuit that supplies major circuits on the endowed campus.”

Buildings affected by the outage included Baker Laboratory, Kroch Library, Milstein Hall and Helen Newman Hall, Carberry

said.

“The main feeder circuit with the problem was installed and commissioned last fall and has been in service for months with no problem,” Carberry said.

Deborah Cook, public

services staff for Cornell University Library, said that said that library staff collaborated quickly to accommodate the loss of power.

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Willard Straight Theatre Receives Modern Update

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films to be transferred to new format, according to Savage.

“They’ve been restored and look better Renovations on the Willard Straight than ever before and that’s something that Theatre consisting of improvements in the we can now take advantage of,” she said. theater’s digital equipment, physical strucSavage added that the new digital cineture and overall audience experience were ma package was a needed addition because completed at the end of last semester. the theater had been using an older type of Kent Hubbell ’69, dean of students, film with its previous projector. oversaw many of the structural changes.

“35 mm film prints are becoming hardThe renovations included the restructuring er and harder to get, and new films aren’t of the stage floor, installaeven being released on 35 tion of an electric winch mm so it was necessary,” system for safely flying “[The new screen] is Savage said. scenery, new curtains and With the completion incredibly crisp and a new, state-of-the-art cinof these renovations, stunning to look at.” Cornell Cinema hopes to ema screen and digital projection system, accordoffer audience members a Railey Jane Savage ing to Hubbell. dualistic experience of Railey Jane Savage, both modern and classic manager of Cornell cinema.

Cinema, said the new screen significantly “Audiences are able to have a unique improves film quality. experience because not only do we have “It is incredibly crisp and stunning to this state-of-the-art equipment, but it’s look at,” she said. combined with the classic types of films The new equipment allows for older that we show, which is an experience that is

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Lights, camera, action! | Recent restorations to the Willard Straight Theatre bring a new state-of-the-art film experience to Cornell Cinema.

very hard to replicate,” Savage said. “I think that it’s neat to have this sort of theater brought into the twenty-first century with the advent of this new technology.”

The renovations began two years ago, with the final phase completed in the fall.

According to Hubbell, the changes were made possible by a donation from the Class of 1950 and an anonymous donor family.

Hubbell said that the next phase of renovations will include new lighting and

sound systems, which are planned to be completed within the year.

Hubbell said that the community will benefit from the theater’s improvements.

“The Straight Theater will enrich the cultural lives of Cornell students, faculty, and staff, as well as members of the Ithaca community,” Hubbell said.

Grace Hurley can be reached at ghurley@cornellsun.com.

New AEM Course‘Created From The Ground Up’ by Prof, Students Class to teach new students business communication skills

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The Ithaca Area United Jewish Community performs a staged reading of “Oh God” by Anat Gov in Risley Theater on Monday evening.

C ity News SUNY Trustees Give Local Charter School Three More Years The Charter Schools Commitee of the SUNY Board of Trustees voted Monday to renew New Roots Charter School’s charter for three years, The Ithaca Journal reported.

New Roots, an Ithaca public high school, was evaluated during a four year accountability period to have “an academic program of sufficient effectiveness that it is likely with additional time to meet or come close to meeting those goals,” according to The Journal.

The committee’s unanimous vote was based on a recommendation

by New Roots’ authorizing agency, the Charter Schools Institute.

According to The Journal, the Institute recommended New Roots’ application for renewal be approved to a limited extent and renewed for a period of three years, rather than the five-year duration that the school had sought.

Three Parole Officers Arrested for Falsification, Larceny New York State Police arrested three state parole officers on felony grand larceny charges, The Ithaca Journal reported on Saturday. The officers are accused of falsifying time sheets at the Willard Drug Treatment Center, where they worked.

According to The Journal, Police in Waterloo said the arrests followed a joint investigation with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Inspector General’s Office.

The three arrested are Cheryl L. D’Amico, 56, of Geneva, Mechela H. Cordeiro, 57, of Wolcott, and Debra A. Camillo, 49, of Ithaca.

All three were arraigned in the Town of Waterloo Court and released on their own recognizance, The Journal said. They are scheduled to reappear on Feb. 11 in the Town of Ovid Court for further proceedings.

A new Applied Economics and Management course offered this semester — AEM 2700: Management Communication — was designed from scratch by Prof. Kathy Berggren B.S. ’90, M.A.T. ’93, communication, and seven of her former students.

Berggren, who previously taught and directed Communication 2010: Oral Communication, was offered the new teaching position in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management last spring, with the task of designing an introductory Dyson class in management and communication that would incorporate both writing and speaking principles.

The new course looks to focus on business management communication techniques, according to Berggren.

“I looked at hundreds of syllabi of management communication courses and many business communication textbooks to get any idea of what is out there,” Berggren said.

“Nothing really spoke to me.

So then, I thought, I want to do this from scratch — an original course created from the ground up.”

The seven students who helped design the course consisted of current juniors and seniors in the Dyson School who had taken and been teaching assistants in Communication 2010, Berggren said.

Last semester, they participated in a 3-credit independent study to develop the

course. Each Friday morning, Berggren and the students would meet to collaboratively develop the course based off her vision for the course and the student’s experiences in the business world, Berggren said.

The course was divided into three different modules — individual business skills,

“I think that as a whole, the course would not be what it was without both student and faculty input.”

Thea Dickson ’14 audiences and group skills.

Thea Dickson ‘14, one of the seven students who helped Berggren develop the course, said she believes having student involvement in the course was valuable.

“I think that as a whole, the course would not be what it was without both student and faculty input, as the students were able to use their past experiences in internships to give real-world needs that the course could help fulfill for freshman as they enter the Dyson school and the business world,” Dickson said.

Berggren said that her experience with Communication 2010 helped her see how valuable student input and participation in a course can be.

“I’ve seen how powerful collaboration with undergraduate teaching assistants is in teaching courses, in critiquing courses, in peer teaching of

students, in just so many ways, and I’ve known that for a long time,” Berggren said.

Berggren also said that she collaborated with Thomas Ottaviano, a business and economics librarian at Mann Library, and Camille Andrews, a learning technologies and assessment librarian at Mann Library. Together with student input, the three developed a library resource tutorial designed for AEM 2700 students. “[The resource is] an interactive online tutorial to help students start learning the research skills they'll need not only for later assignments in this and other AEM courses, but also for future employers and their own research in the business world,” Andrews said.

According to Ottaviano, the online guide contains important resources for the course.

"We cover evaluating resource credibility, discovering market news, finding demographic, psychographic and industry information, writing and understanding citations, and we offer links to resources on developing presentations," Ottaviano said.

Berggren said she is excited about the new course, and hopes to continue to collaborate with students who have taken the course after its first semester.

“Development and learning is messy. It’s confusing,” Berggren said. “When you’re involving eight people, it’s time-consuming, but well worth the frustrations.”

Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun.com.

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“We share students’ concerns about the price increases textbook publishers continue to make, which is why we innovate every semester to provide more options to help students save money,” Whiteleather said.

The Cornell Store offers students the options to buy new, buy used or rent new books, but beginning this semester, the store is also giving students the choice to rent used books. This new option results in the lowest book prices possible, according to Whiteleather.

The store was able to expand its rental options to include to 700 titles, Whiteleather said.

Cave and Whiteleather said the store has received positive feedback on the price comparison tool built into their website. They said they “get excellent comments” about the feature from students, who can see at a glance the lowest prices from Amazon, Half, CourseSmart and RedShelf.

Whiteleather said that approximately 10 percent of books ordered using the comparison tool for the Fall 2013 semester were ordered from those alternate sellers.

“I save money by buying older editions of the textbook from Amazon as opposed to The Cornell Store, where everything is really overpriced,” Sanjula Singhal ’17 said.

Singhal said she only purchases older versions of textbooks if they do not differ significantly from the current editions, and if the professor permits the substitution.

Singhal’s sentiments were echoed by other students, who prefer purchasing their course materials online rather than at the campus bookstore. Students said they are drawn to other sites, because of both the wider variety of low prices and the special features that the sites offer.

“I’ve been saving on textbooks by renting from Amazon. They tend to have very competitive rental prices, and since I have [Amazon] Prime, I can get them in just two days,” said Logan Rosen ’16.

Other students value the convenience of on-campus shopping over the more involved process of scouring the Internet for deals.

Dean Hauser ’17 said the prices at The Cornell Store were “ludicrous,” but admitted that he would “probably opt to be lazy” and purchase his books there.

There are other issues to consider when buying books, according to Casey McClaren ’17, who prefers purchasing her textbooks from Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca.

“It supports local businesses,” she said. “Of course, they were cheaper than they would have been in the Cornell Store.”

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future important events in Cornell history, according to Kramnick.

In addition, numerous quotes that Kramnick said “capture the spirit of the University” will be engraved on the benches.

One of the first quotes along the grove will be “far above Cayuga’s waters … far above the busy humming of the bustling town,” which Kramnick called “fitting,” since the grove will be overlooking Ithaca.

Kramnick added that the grove has another historical dimension, due to the fact that it will be behind Morrill, McGraw, and White Halls, the three original buildings of Cornell.

Kramnick said he came up with the idea when he realized that Cornell’s centennial in 1964 had not left “a permanent mark.”

The Sesquicentennial Steering Committee approved Kramnick’s idea, appropriated the funds and formed a committee that would hold a contest to decide what architectural firm’s design would

be picked, according to Kramnick.

The design that was ultimately chosen came from architectural firm Weiss/Manfredi. The firm has already done projects in Ithaca, having designed the Museum of the Earth and currently designing the upcoming expansion of the Vet School, according to IthacaBuilds, a website about Ithaca-area development projects.

The grove will be installed this summer and dedicated in October, according to Kramnick.

Students said they were excited at the prospect of a commemorative grove on campus.

“It will be really nice to have a place to sit and to learn a little bit about Cornell’s history at the same time,” said Rachel Kaplowitz ‘16.

Emily Kling ’16 echoed Kaplowitz’s sentiment.

“I’d love to learn more about the history of Cornell … getting a sense of its history should definitely be an important part of being a student,” she said.

Jesse Weissman can be reached at jweissman@cornellsun.com

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Semester program accommodates students with interests in any profession. Recently, pre-med students have shown particular interest in the program because it “has a clear professional direction” and incorporates a community service project, Beck said.

“A lot of Cornell students are not only interested in themselves, they also want to do something for the greater good. That’s one of the reasons why the program, and medicine in particular, is so popular,” he said.

According to Beck, the experience of living in a new city can be similar to the experience of going abroad, without having to actually leave the country. “[NYC’s] different neighborhoods have different ethnic groups, and adjusting to New York if you don’t come from a big city is very much like going abroad,” Beck said.

Justin Lee ’15, who participated in CIW last fall, said the program aligned well with his government major.

“It made a lot of sense for me to work with people who work [in government] on a day to day basis. I’m much more interested in American politics than in international politics, so there was no other place to be [than D.C.],” Lee said. “Having that kind of backdrop for an academic program on public policy, it really offered unparalleled

resources.”

Lauryn Andrews ’14 said she enjoyed her CIW experience last fall because she had always wanted to visit Washington D.C. “I’ve always had an interest in the political sphere. I wanted to be immersed in the Washington culture; I real-

“A lot of Cornell students are not only interested in themselves, they also want to do something for the greater good. That’s one of the reasons why the program, and medicine in particular, is so popular.”

Prof. Sam Beck ly liked the live-and-learn aspect of the program,” she said.

“I [also] really liked being in Washington because I was still able to have a Cornell community in D.C. For me, it’s always nice to have that connection back to Ithaca.”

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ages before, but this one was campus-wide,” Cook said. “Certain places in the library were a little darker than others, so we had students go up with flashlights to make sure nobody was scared.”

Hannah Chapman, public services assistant for Cornell University Library, echoed Cook’s sentiments, saying that library staff members were able to effectively offset the impact of the outage.

“It was at about 2:30 and I was sitting at my desk in the back of the Uris and the power went out,” Chapman said. “I continued to help library patrons.”

Vasiliki Giannakakos ’15, who works at Uris Library, said the brief loss of power was an inconvenience due to the below-freezing temperatures outside.

“There was no heating because we use space heaters,” she said. “I couldn’t get coffee for a while because they wanted cash only.”

Giannakakos, who said she was caught off guard by the outage, also noted that library computers stopped working.

“Campus electrical operations are operating normally and no additional problems are anticipated,” Carberry said.

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Andrews said that during her time in Washington, she was able to have “once-in-a-lifetime” experiences such as observing the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington.

“I got to see our current president, past presidents and celebrities reflect on the original march. It was electrifying. I felt like I was a part of history,” she said.

Beck and Hutchens both said they have been promoting their programs to applicants through advertisements and information sessions. However, both also said that word-of-mouth has been the most effective form of promotion.

“Students come back very enthusiastic about the program. That’s one of the best sources of information,” Hutchens said.

Beck said he thinks more students should apply, because the completion of an internship during a program is a “major benefit” for future plans.

“Most of our students who apply to medical school get in. We [also] have a pretty good record of students getting jobs,” Beck said. “It’s rare that a student doesn’t have a good experience in the program.”

Aimee Cho can be reached at acho@cornellsun.com.

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s 2013 came to a close, much attention was given to the controversial remarks made in GQ Magazine by Duck Dynasty star, Phil Robertson. In the interview, Robertson exhibited an astounding lack of delicacy by likening homosexuality to bestiality, while also implying that African Americans are better off in the South pre-civil rights era. In response, the A&E network indefinitely suspended Robertson, although it eventually chose profit over principle, as the suspension lasted a mere two weeks. Perhaps not surprisingly, many conservatives came to the defense of both the A&E personality as well as to the First Amendment.

One of these conservatives is Tucker Carlson, who used his platform as guest host of The Hannity Show on Fox News to lambast those who were offended by Robertson’s remarks, and bemoan what he views to be the expanding list of taboo phrases in America.

Carlson defends Robertson by citing his First Amendment rights and stating that Robertson is not intolerant, because, “he never advocated anybody getting fired for being gay.”

This is part of a larger issue within the conservative base, as they seemingly take every conceivable issue or current event and turn it into an argument centered on the defense of the Constitution. In reality, the Robertson debate has absolutely nothing to do with the First Amendment. As far as I know, nobody is claiming that Robertson did not have a right to express his beliefs, just that he should be prepared and required to face the consequences of his actions. It is not as if the FCC came to A&E and mandated that they take Duck Dynasty off the air and fire Phil Robertson. The “totally authoritative behavior” that Carlson warns of on The Hannity Show is simply nonexistent, and he knows it.

Likewise, Republican politicians Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz both expressed their support for Robertson and protested against what they saw as a violation of Robertson’s rights to free speech and freedom of religion.

This is an absolutely incorrect and irresponsible notion. Implying that our Constitutional rights are somehow at risk is exactly the tactic conservatives use to further mass hysteria generated by the exploitation of the Constitution in order to maintain a perpetuating constituency based on the fear of change as a platform for the candidates they endorse. Constitutional rights protect us from government involvement, not from

potential repercussions issued by private employers with whom Robertson has signed a contract.

The thing is that Carlson and others like him are intelligent enough to recognize that the First Amendment is not actually under attack. However, they are also intelligent enough to realize that by turning non-issues into issues regarding the Constitution, they can attract voters who view Carlson and his counterparts as defenders of liberty and freedom.

Conservatives took this same approach in the debate over gun control. While the rest of the country was attempting to have a constructive discourse on the appropriate course of action to ensure the safety of individuals, the conservative base and the NRA were crying wolf about the Second Amendment to distract from the potential for productive legislation and to attract voters. It seems as though Tucker Carlson and the conservative base take seriously what the sitcom It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia sarcastically remarked, “The government of today has no right to tell us how to run our lives, because the government of 200 years ago already did.”

Therein lies the problem. Making everything about the Constitution takes away from contemporary nuances that must be considered while writing policy in order to most effectively govern. Tucker Carlson doesn’t want the discussion to be about the complete deficiency of common sense and decency found in Robertson’s comments, because he knows he will lose that argument every time.

The debate isn’t that Phil Robertson didn’t have a right to express his views; it’s that in the case of homosexuality, his views are clearly offensive and distasteful as well as dehumanizing to a group of people. His views on African-Americans can be considered at best to be incorrect, and at worst to be racist. This is not about protecting rights; it’s about preserving conservative power. As soon as Carlson allows the conversation to be steered towards the progressive movement in America, he loses his voice and the candidates supported by the conservative base lose their voters as well as their platform. Instead, the only way for Carlson to stay relevant is to create a straw man’s argument, and to defend a 200-year-old document that is not even under attack.

Jake Forken is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology. He may be reached at jrf285@cornell.edu.

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fled my fraternity house to seek a silent haven in which I could write an essay (that was due in 20 minutes). I sat in the library fervently writing, only to find that my blessed silence would be cut by a disturbing shriek produced from a hunched over student hidden partially by the stacks. I couldn’t imagine the pain that caused such a gruesome sound to come forth. Different scenarios began running through my mind. I pictured his beloved dog being run over by his neighbor. I saw his grandfather dying after a long battle with cancer. No, with the sound like that I had to assume that either his mother or father were killed in an extremely violent accident. I stood up and began to walk over to comfort him, and also to find out exactly what had happened, only to have my questions answered mid-stride.

He let out a stream of words that included the audible, “Why, Justin, why?” I quickly realized that he had just found out about Justin Bieber’s egging incident. How could his cherished hero betray him so maliciously? How could he possibly continue studying at a time like this? Some questions are better left unanswered.

The story I just told may be a bit of an exaggeration, but its basis is far from it. The shock and outrage our society goes through with each and every celebrity comment and action is getting more and more ridiculous. With technological advancements come more ridicule and praise.

Now that we can see everything celebrities do, and listen to everything that they say, people have begun to feel as if they are an omnipresent part of their lives. I lived alongside this strange obsession with celebrities for as long as I can remember; however, I began to see it differently after the recent Richard Sherman incident. Riled up after winning a huge playoff game, he made some cocky and seemingly ludicrous comments that were met with outrage from the media and many football fans. I was quite surprised by the reactions, seeing as he failed to curse or even make any unfounded claims (as an All-Pro selection, he is technically one of the best players in the league at his position).

As tempting as it may be, I refuse to focus on this specific incident or the details of it; I would much rather focus

If you are too invested in the lives of others, the simple response to maintain normalcy is to invest more deeply in your own. on the bigger problems at hand. The fact that the comments and actions of people that do not relate to our lives can bring ire, indignation and disappointment into our mental states is quite alarming. Why must this parasitic relationship exist in which we receive some sick pleasure from celebrities as they feel pressured to maintain perfect images? Why can’t we respect musicians, athletes and actors for their talents, and leave them to their own personal lives?

I do not believe that there is a simple answer to these questions. Nevertheless, I will dare to conjure up a solution.

In an extremely blunt way, I could tell you, as the title suggests, to get a life. However, I will refrain from doing so, because the negative connotations of that phrase detract from the deeper meaning. Keep in mind that I am not addressing those who are simply amused by celebrity news; I am directing these words to those whose emotions are subject to being affected by it. If you find yourself irate while watching E! News, or filling your Facebook statuses with paragraph after paragraph about your personal response to an athlete interview, please heed these words!

If you are too invested in the lives of others, the simple response to maintain normalcy is to invest more deeply in your own. I understand that you think that Justin Bieber can’t sing, but stop hollering at the television screen, pick up a microphone, grab a vocal coach and engage in singing as a hobby. If you’re upset about Richard Sherman’s interview, stop waiting for your “friends” to comment back on your status, grab a few real-life friends and join a flag football league. Those are very simple responses, but they get the point across. If you are ambitious enough, happy enough or busy enough with your own life, you will find yourself impervious to being affected by the lives of others.

I must request that the next time you find yourself shaking your fist at the television screen, remember to look inwardly! However, if you fail to take my words into account and find yourself being ostracized by all your peers due to your failure to curb your public shrieking habits, do not forget that it’s not me, it’s you.

Deon Thomas is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at dthomas@cornellsun.com. It’s Not Me, It’s You appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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All’s Not Fair In Sorority Recruitment L

ast week, my social sorority completed the formal recruitment process along with 11 other houses. Panhellenic women retreated from a tiring week to Bid Nights and celebrations of new member classes. Much of this excitement was for good reason — despite stereotypes to the contrary, sororities can provide college women with awesome opportunities to meet and develop relationships with other women. I’ve found my experience to be empowering, and know that that’s not a unique reaction.

But while Bid Night festivities wore on, some equally exhausted young women didn’t get to celebrate. Not every woman who completes recruitment gets a bid to join a house. Though this may seem obvious to some, an informal straw poll of friends and sorority sisters showed that as freshmen, many of us thought that participation in the recruitment process resulted in an automatic bid somewhere.

The Panhellenic Association, which oversees the 12 sororities on campus, describes the rush process as “mutually selective,” in that it whittles recruitment participants’ lists of houses down as they and sororities choose preferred matches.

This description is repeated to potential new members, or PNMs, repeatedly throughout the preparation and recruitment processes. It does not, however, imply exclusivity — there is nothing about “mutual selection” that states that women might not get bids. Indeed, because Panhellenic sets minimum quotas of women for houses to accept, that exclusivity is precisely in their hands.

Of course, sororities argue for lower quotas for a variety of reasons: financial strains, logistical burdens and the possibility that even wider sorority com-

munities will dilute the social experience. Panhellenic is making a serious move towards accommodating ever increasing rush numbers with the addition of a new house in the fall, rounding out the total on campus to 13. But the addition of one house will not solve the overflow problem, just as the addition of the last new house on campus, Phi Sigma Sigma, did not. Panhellenic needs to start more openly acknowledging to PNMs the very real possibility that they will end up without a sorority.

The numbers needing to be thusly warned are substantial. 871 women signed up for formal recruitment this year — a significant increase from last year’s 823. Only 676 received bids. Along the way, there were plenty of people

concept is reinforced by the absence of any information about the potential of not receiving a bid. Essentially, that possibility is only acknowledged if potential new members ask or find out upon receiving no matches for bids.

So without clear warning, some women go through the entire harrowing, evaluative and, in many instances, judgmental process only to find that they won’t be receiving a bid for membership from any of the houses. This is communicated by a phone call, or, in some instances, when women arrive at prearranged spots to receive bids. I know that the year I went through, some women who didn’t get bids spent hours getting ready for their final round conversations, only to show up

Panhellenic needs to start more openly acknowledging to PNMs the very real possibility that they will end up without a sorority. who dropped out because sorority life was not appealing, or because the rush process, with all its small talk, is banal and tiring. Women who dropped the recruitment process, however, don’t represent the entirety of the 195 women who didn’t receive a bid.

This year, freshmen and sophomores reported to me that the possibility of not getting a bid was only mentioned when specifically brought up by a PNM in a pre-recruitment meeting.

The Panhellenic Association provides comprehensive information on its website, including FAQs, outfit advice and financial information. The first reason it lists to join a sorority is that sororities “provide a good democratic social experience.” Its use of “democratic” implies inclusion and membership. This

and be told in front of their peer recruitment groups that they were not going to be final rounding anywhere. It makes Panhellenic recruitment leaders feel bad, it makes PNMs feel bad and is allaround a pretty sad way to carry out the message.

I never went through this experience, but after hearing friends talk about what it felt like to not receive membership, I think it’s a topic that needs to be discussed. A couple of friends felt it was ultimately a good thing, because they later concluded that sorority membership wasn’t for them. More frequently, however, my friends categorized it as a disappointment. Whether or not they think they would have stayed active in sororities, they wanted the

opportunity to participate in an extra community where they could meet more people.

Organizations repeatedly emphasize “fit,” and espouse the mutual selection process. Houses praise their peers and repeatedly mention that they’ll be happy for all potential new members regardless of where they join. While those sentiments are no doubt genuine in most contexts, they exclude the possibility that some women in the room will not find a spot in that house or any other.

This year, Panhellenic successfully carried 676 women along the recruitment process into sorority organizations. It failed, however, the women who completed the recruitment process and didn’t receive bids.

Poor preparation for that possibility and a system unstructured to accommodate inflow take the worst potentials of Greek life — the discomforts that accompany exclusive communities — and exacerbate them. While finding a solution to accommodate and find homes for the hundreds of women who go through recruitment is difficult, it would behoove the Panhellenic community to keep it more real about potential outcomes.

The Panhellenic Association is the largest women’s organization on campus. That women are not assured bids after recruitment is a pretty unattractive element of Greek life and the recruitment process. If we’re not going to guarantee bids, then we should be more forthcoming about discussing that reality so our peers can go through recruitment with clear heads and prepared for all outcomes.

Maggie Henry is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at mhenry@cornellsun.com. Get Over Yourself appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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56th Grammy Awards

BY JAMES RAINIS Sun Senior Writer

The Grammys, as they have downgraded from music’s Academy Awards to music’s Golden Globes, are a pointless exercise in artist aggrandizement, arbitrary award nominations and absolutely out-of-touch voting committees. So, naturally, The Sun asked me to sum up the winners and losers. While, in real life, the only winner was Kanye West, who declined to appear at the ceremony, I will give you the winners and losers in relative terms.

WINNERS Daft Punk: Five awards were won, their performance got the entire crowd — including a hilarious Steven Tyler and a somewhat confused-looking Yoko Ono — dancing and the helmets stayed on the entire night. 21st century pop music’s flagship electronic group may have found their biggest success by recording their least electronic album (and paying lots of lip-service to dance music forbears from Nile Rodgers to Giorgio Moroder), but nobody can deny RAM’s impressive scope or the sheer domination of “Get Lucky.” Let’s just thank Daft Punk for helping the Grammy committee wise up to dance music and for preventing total Macklemore domination.

Pharrell’s Hat: It’s truly been the Year of Pharrell: Not only did he come away with three Grammys (including Best Producer, Non-Classical), but he started a little bit of an internet sensation by showing up in the weirdest bolo-tophat-fedora combo he had in his closet.

Before the ceremony even ended, the hat had inspired responses from Smokey the Bear, comparisons to the Hogwarts Sorting Hat and the creation of an @Pharrelhat Twitter account. Here’s to wannabe hip kids adopting Pharrell’s look and the mountains of derision we will pile upon them.

Lorde: Lorde won Song of the Year for “Royals,” and she was simultaneously humbled and kind of over it. She shouted out some of her competitors and influences and got out pretty quickly; instead of diving into ridiculous retweet-worthy bombast, she kept it cool. If Pure Heroine’s sparse, grooving production or her left-of-center style haven’t won you over, I am guessing that you will never get used to her winning Grammys, and that is something that will likely be happening for a long time, hopefully in the same laid back fashion as Sunday night.

Beyoncé: So the campaign for Beyoncé’s eventual domination of the 2015 Grammys has begun, and what a beginning it was: her performance of “Drunk in Love,” Bey’s ode to finding sexiness in domesticity, was pretty

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winners awesome. Until someone can get me to stop saying “surfboard” at random points in lecture, Beyoncé is the undeniable favorite to crush it at next year’s ceremony and in the world in general.

Kanye West’s Grammy-related paranoia: Pre-2014 Grammys, Kanye said: “I have never won a Grammy against a white artist.” Post-2014 Grammys Kanye West has still not won a Grammy against a white artist, and this time he lost to freaking Macklemore after recording one of the most visceral, singular hip-hop records of all time. In the words of Kurt Cobain: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you.”

Vampire Weekend: Dressed up like your cool cousin’s friends who work for a financial services startup, these guys walked in, grabbed their Best Alternative Album Award and solidified their place as indie rock’s favorite pop-friendly, career-conscious quartet. Peace, safe investment strategies and rock and roll, am I right?

Queen Latifah: Yeah, she may have taken the LL Cool J route in undoing her hip-hop cred by involving herself in some silly, family-friendly bullshit, but she used to be Outkast’s manager, dammit, and that means she gets to officiate faux gay weddings at awards shows if she wants to.

LOSERS Kendrick Lamar: K Dot’s loss in the Best Rap Album category to Macklemore was a major, if expected, disappointment. Perhaps it’s Kendrick’s combative “Control” verse and good kid m.a.d.d city’s street-level tales of drugpushing and violence that kept him from usurping the Grammy from rap’s resident nice guy, but come on: If Kendrick can make an Imagine Dragons song sound good, he deserves all the Grammys we can afford to give him.

Justin Timberlake: Lesson learned, JT: Talk shit about your haters in GQ, they’ll make sure you do not take home any hardware from their annual antiquated circle jerk. Sure, you will take solace in your millions of dollars, beautiful wife and amazing lifestyle, but it will always haunt you that you lost to Bruno Mars, especially after he bombs so hard at the Super Bowl this weekend we wish a nipple popped out.

Rock Music, as a genre: Led Zeppelin won a Grammy for Best Rock Album, and Paul McCartney and the dudes from Nirvana won one for Best Rock Song after dicking around for two hours in Dave Grohl’s studio. Sheesh, if this was true rock and roll the genre would be on the verge of death. But it isn’t: Queens of the Stone Age put out the taut and muscular …Like Clockwork, Arctic Monkeys put out the sexy AM and, if not for the weird splitting hairs of what is rock/alternative, Tame Impala’s Lonerism stands as one of my favorite psych records of all time.

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good, new albums. Let’s leave the one-offs and reissues out of it and try to breath some life into a genre so many hold dear.

Taylor Swift: I am sorry, Ms. Swift, but America’s collective crush on you ended right around the time we figured out that all the songs on Red were about your relationships with other pretty, famous people (Jennifer Lawrence, realize that the honeymoon phase is fleeting and enjoy it). Still, that look of absolute, crushing disappointment in response to Daft Punk winning Album of the Year instead of you? Heroin for your haters. I am optimistic, though; take your lumps and knock them out with your next one (Team Swift for life).

WTF? Kurt Cobain: Kurt Cobain now has a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. That is all.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis: The weird gay wedding thing could have been sweet, but just felt contrived and pandering. Then Macklemore apologized to Kendrick for “robbing” him of the Best Rap Album Grammy, which would have been cool if he didn’t try to score brownie points by posting it on Instagram. Still, I don’t hate Macklemore; I just don’t get the love, and just want it to be ten years later so I can enjoy “Thrift Shop” again with feigned ironic detachment.

Jay-Z: “Daddy’s got a gold sippy cup for you.” If you wanted proof that Jay can do literally anything and get away with it, you got it.

James Rainis is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.

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The Self-Indulgent Academic's Guide to Ideology

BY TOM MOORE Sun Staff Writer

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Slavoj Žižek takes a swig from a warm bottle of Coke, breathing heavily on an arid hillside, as he preaches all about the commodity's “passage from sublime to excremental.” The goal of fascism is, he proclaims with characteristic bravado and gesticulation, “to have a cake and eat it.” The terrorist attacks in Oslo were “exactly like” the ending of the Hollywood classic, Taxi Driver. Clearly.

This is The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, a 2012 essay-documentary revolving around Slavoj Žižek, a psychoanalyst and public intellectual with a propensity for raising eyebrows. He spends the film transposing himself onto the sets of other films and articulating, directly into the camera, his Marxist/Freudian critique of ideology. The form of the film is somewhere between academic essay and documentary, an attempt to communicate relatively complex sociological and psychoanalytic theory using popular film.

I entered the film with high hopes. There is something of a cult of personality around Žižek, and I was curious to see what all the hype was about. More than that, though, I was excited by the project Žižek seems to be engaged in, with both The Pervert's Guide to Ideology and his previous film, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. In such essay-documentaries, Žižek has the opportunity to do the essential work of the public intellectual: taking the intellectual insights of often-insular academia and making them truly public. As an academic terrified of irrelevance, I believe this sort of “pop academia” to be very important work.

Unfortunately, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology does not do it very well. The film is neither accessible enough to reach much of an audience outside of the already initiated, nor rigorous and coherent enough to carry its own weight as an academic work.

It is not that Žižek does not have anything to say. On the contrary, he seems to have more claims than he knows what to do with. He informs us, for instance, that “Christianity is much more atheist than the usual atheism.” In the next breath, he is explaining how German metal band Rammstein “suspends the Nazi horizon of meaning.” At perhaps the weakest moment of

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the film, Occupy Wall Street protesters run across the screen and Žižek assures us that the key to dismantling capitalism is in dreaming “the right dreams.”

It may seem unfair of me to quote these fragments of arguments out of context. Watch the film, though, and fragments of arguments are most of what you’ll find. Žižek rarely feels the need to actually explain himself, or historicize the films and ideologies he's critiquing, or back up his claims with some kind of evidence.

Which is precisely his schtick. He describes unorthodox and counterintuitive theories as starkly as possible, in a thick accent and tone of presumed omniscience, while standing on a mock Titanic. It is unusual, disarming and very funny. For the first half hour or so. Then the gimmick gets old and you spend the rest of the two and half hours listening to a mediocre lecture. He does not seem to be making any central point and often seems more enamored with being elusive than interested in being lucid.

Pedagogically, the film feels like a bit of a failed experiment.

Exactly why it fails as a popularization of the critique of ideology and psychoanalytic theory is a good question. Part of it has to do with Žižek’s own over-sized personality. At the same time he is trying to explain something, he's simultaneously trying to create an aura of fascination around himself, striving to evoke a reaction of, “What the hell is this guy talking about?” Those two goals — communicating clearly and maintaining a fashionable aura of incomprehensibility — are unsurprisingly incompatible.

It is not just the Žižek-factor that gets in the way of Pervert’s Guide communicating strong ideas well. Much of the difficulty stems from the discipline of psychoanalysis itself, which from the very beginning has occupied an uneasy place in the academic world. Unlike the hard sciences, the social sciences or even the field of psychology, psychoanalysis is built on claims about humanity's internal workings The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology that are basically Directed by Sophie Fiennes unverifiable. That is to say, it is easy for Starring Slavoj Žižek Freudian ideas to sound like bullshit.

Not that they are bullshit, only that they can easily sound like it when you back them up using totally ahistorical evidence, or no evidence at all.

All that said, I more or less enjoyed Pervert’s Guide. I laughed, I thought and I got to experience Žižek’s undeniable charisma. I enjoyed some of his readings of films, too, particularly Jaws and The Sound of Music. But my sense that he was doing something important disappeared over the course of the evening. I had gotten my hopes up for a film that communicates to a broad audience how ideology shapes the way we experience reality. Pervert’s Guide, while good for a laugh and some conceptual gymnastics, is not that sort of film.

Tom Moore is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at wmoore@cornellsun.com.

Crystal Balls and Golden Globes: Predicting the Oscars

hat movie will win Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards is anyone’s guess, provided those guesses are Gravity, American Hustle or 12 Years a Slave. With the Golden Globes, Producers Guild and Screen Actors Guild spreading their love amongst them, you can rest assured that voters will choose one of these final three. Which one is the big question, although I predict a victory for 12 Years a Slave, a movie I also happen to think is the best from these choices.

But, as any scholar of Oscar-ology knows, film quality has little to do with a movie’s chances. Having fun with the Academy Awards requires accepting that they are meaningless indicators of artistry, innovation, genius, etc. The Oscars are more a game of sociological politics than anything else.

Say 12 Years a Slave wins Best Picture. Do you think most voters — 94 percent white and 77 percent male, according to L.A. Times — process the significance of a black protagonist struggling to retain his agency within his own story? Or the nuances of Steve McQueen’s direction, as he drapes Solomon’s face in darkness throughout his first beating?

I am floating critical readings of the film here, attempting to break down a daunting and daring mammoth in order to support my claim that, “12 Years a Slave is a great film” with evidence. A critic must do that, especially a pretentious amateur such as myself.

The Oscars do not reward films for their intellectual prowess, like, ever. Yet, that does not mean they do not reward complex, abrasive fare like 12 Years a Slave, which has two advantages: 1) The ending packs an emo-

tional wallop, reducing you to a puddle of tears whether you like it or not. The last dramatization of this sort to win Best Picture was Schindler’s List, a movie that does not skimp on the waterworks for its devastating final minutes, either. 2) And like Schindler’s List, 12 Years a Slave is capital-I Important, with History and Race and Human Suffering and The Banality of Evil populating its thematic lineup. 12 Years a Slave also has the ignominious honor of being the first high-profile slavery film since 1997’s Amistad, if we discount the subject’s pulp fiction treatment in Django Unchained. That means you can expect plenty of votes stemming from white guilt — the “We have to give 12 Years a Slave Best Picture so I can sleep again” mindset — more than deliberate appreciation.

All this could backfire, of course.

Academy voters could see 12 Years a Slave as too tough, too “brutal” (McQueen’s least favorite word) a slog and opt for American

Zachary Zahos A Lovers’ Quarrell With the World Hustle’s lighter, almost paper-thin touch.

However, American Hustle does not have what similar confections like Argo and The Artist had: It is not a movie about how movies — that is, of course, those made in Hollywood — are so great. If David O. Russell started his movie with a make-up girl

pasting Christian Bale’s dead rodent of a to be a Best Picture nominee, a film must toupee together and let Jennifer Lawrence pass a few preliminary tests: slick presentafrolic about a movie set, Singin’ in the Rain- tion; lofty, if not very provocative, subject style, the Oscar would be his. For now, he matter; coherence of narrative. Somehow will just have to hope his streak of nomina- American Hustle squeezed in despite failing tions over the past three years amounts to that last one, and I’m sure most of the enough goodwill to vote his fun, if decided- Academy denounced the fringe lunatics who ly flawed, movie to the top. If American got The Tree of Life in two years ago (my Hustle does, indeed, win, blame kind of people, by the way). the actors’ branch, the But pretty much any Best Academy’s largest and surePicture nominee looks and ly the most receptive to the feels like a “good movie,” energy Russell pulls from if not a surprising, or his actors. motivated, or layered, or Then, of course, we even smart one. have Gravity. Alfonso I sense that Nebraska, Cuarón’s passion project my favorite film of last year, has almost $700 million to received its nominations on its name in worldwide grossthe backs of its aging stars es, a figure Hollywood can more than the brilliant subfeel good about after exporttext Alexander Payne and ing a string of not only godscreenwriter Bob awful but, lord almighty, Nelson weave into underperforming blockevery scene. Then SANTI SLADE busters last summer. A 97 again, many movie lovers, SUN ILLUSTRATOR percent rating on Rotten inside and outside the Tomatoes speaks to a level of “univer- Academy, looked over Nebraska. I not only sal acclaim” that not even past CGI felt the power of that movie as I watched it pioneers-cum-critical darlings like but let it slide around in my mind for days Avatar, Hugo and Life of Pi had. With and weeks after. I realized how certain minute Academy favorite Sandra Bullock star- moments (like the Mt. Rushmore visit, or the ring as the latest sci-fi heroine since, brothers’ air compressor theft) spoke volumes what, Terminator’s Sarah Connor and to these characters and their rich history. a nifty 90-minute runtime, Gravity has Those epiphanies are mine and will stay with a few statistical perks up its sleeve. It me, despite what other critics may say, should also be noted that the Academy’s despite how much money it makes, despite prominent but faceless below-the-line fac- how many Oscars it does not win. tion (editors, sound mixers, visual effects programmers) surely love Gravity’s technical Zachary Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@corpowerhouse. nellsun.com. A Lovers’ Quarrell With the World What do we learn about the films by ana- will run alternate Wednesdays this semester, starting lyzing their Oscar chances? Nothing. Well, February 12.

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Golf Winner Follows Super Bowl Betting Gains Popularity In Tiger’s Footsteps SAN DIEGO (AP) — Scott Stallings had ambitions to be a baseball player until the Sunday afternoon he sat down to the watch the 1997 Masters with his father.

He watched Tiger Woods demolish Augusta National and the field to win by 12 shots with the lowest score ever.

For a 12-year-old in Tennessee, it was inspirational.

“At that moment, I quit everything, every sport I was playing, and said, ‘That’s what I want to go do.’ And every one of my friends thought I was crazy,” Stallings said.

On Sunday, he put his name on the same trophy that Woods has won so many times.

It wasn’t a replica of the Augusta National clubhouse or even a green jacket, but it was no less special.

Stallings crushed a 4-iron from 222 yards that barely cleared the water on the par-5 18th green and left him two putts from 40 feet for a birdie that gave him a one-shot victory in the Farmers Insurance Open.

Woods, the defending champion and seven-time winner of this event, wasn’t around to see it. He missed the 54-hole cut on Saturday, an oddity in its own right and especially because Stallings’ biggest win before that was at The Greenbrier Classic, where Woods missed the 36-hole cut.

Stallings’ seventh birdie of the final round gave him a 4-under 68 and capped a wild day in which eight players had a reasonable chance to win in the final hour.

K.J. Choi had the low round of the tournament on the brutal South Course with a 6-under 66 to post the target at 8-under par. Jason Day and Graham DeLaet each made birdie on the last hole for 68s to join Choi.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — With the Super Bowl approaching, fans are talking trash, buying snacks, and, more than ever, placing bets.

Fans bet an unprecedented $99 million on the Super Bowl last year, and the Nevada gambling industry expects to break the record again Sunday, barring a snowstorm. Nevada sports books collected record amounts of football wagers during the tail end of 2013.

All of this is changing the role of the humble sports book, which casinos used to see as a lowprofit perk that kept customers from going next door.

“It’s not just an amenity anymore; it’s not just icing on the cake, it’s part of the meal,” said Jay Kornegay, who runs the LVH sports book.

“We’ve seen crowds like we’ve never seen before.”

Professional gamblers and odds makers alike attribute the rise in wagering to the increase in televised games, and the increasing ubiquity of sports analysis.

Amateur gamblers are more likely to bet on a game they can watch, because the emotional journey is part of the fun.

The proliferation of sports podcasts, blogs and websites, as well as the debates that rage on social media, have all made fans feel more educated and confident in their opinions, according to Kornegay, who spent last week furiously working with four staffers to figure out hyper-specific data points like the number of receptions Denver running back Knowshon Moreno is likely to have.

Proposition wagers, in which gamblers bet on elements of the game aside from the final score, account for as much as 60 percent of Super Bowl bets in Nevada.

Johnny Avello, who runs the luxurious sports book at Wynn, where the chairs are made of fine leather and the carpet is thick enough to pass out on, believes the stigma is also falling away from the pastime.

Avello, who speaks with a Goodfellas-type Brooklyn accent even though he grew up in upstate New York, says this is the biggest change he’s seen in the past decades.

“Even Al Michaels on (Sunday) Night Football will say, ‘Wow, they covered the spread,’” he said, grinning in disbelief.

When casinos figure out how to attract fantasy sports players to the Strip, profits may soar even farther.

Some of this growth was hidden by the recession. People scale back on gambling before other discretionary spending, and the handle— the total amount of money wagered — plummeted in 2009. It was the only fiscal year of the past ten that saw a decline in sports betting.

Oddsmakers believe the previous Super Bowl record, set in 2006, would have been upended years before 2013 if not for the hard times.

Last fall, gamblers set records in September, October and November. In November, the last month for which statistics have been released, sports books handled $490 million in wagers.

Staal Brothers Carry Carolina Over Columbus RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jordan Staal scored the tiebreaking goal with 5:55 remaining to help the Carolina Hurricanes rally for a 3-2 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday night.

Eric Staal scored twice in the third period as the Hurricanes erased a two-goal deficit for their fourth consecutive victory.

Anton Khudobin made 22 saves.

R.J. Umberger and Derek MacKenzie scored for the Blue Jackets. Columbus lost its second straight after stringing together eight wins in a row.

After shutting out Carolina in the teams’ last meeting, reigning Vezina Trophy winner Sergei Bobrovsky made 32 saves for Columbus. The Blue Jackets had won seven in a row against the Hurricanes.

On the game-winner, Jordan Staal rushed into the zone against defenseman Ryan Murray. After cutting to the middle of the ice, he nudged a backhander past Bobrovsky while fighting off Murray.

Trailing 2-0, Eric Staal got the Hurricanes’ comeback started when he beat Bobrovsky between the legs after a pass from Alexander Semin. Staal then tied the score with 7:42 remaining after Jiri Tlutsy fed him in the slot. Staal’s shot fluttered, but the puck snuck inside the post.

Columbus jumped on Carolina in the first period, scoring goals 17 seconds apart to take an early two-goal lead.

MacKenzie got the Blue Jackets’ first goal. Fedor Tyutin took a wrist shot from the slot that hit the post. The rebounded bounced to MacKenzie, who put the puck in the goal before Khudobin could get back in position.

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Reports of Corruption Scans Link NFL,Brain Damage Plague Sochi Games SOCHI, Russia (AP) — An interactive website launched Monday by anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny paints a vivid picture of the suspected cost overruns and conflicts of interest at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Russia has spent about $51 billion to deliver the Sochi Olympics, which run Feb. 7-23, making them the most expensive games ever, even though as a winter event it hosts many fewer athletes than summer games do.

Navalny claims that Russia spent twice as much as necessary to build at least 10 of the Olympic venues — including the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the Fisht Stadium for the opening/closing ceremonies and the speed-skating arena.

Allegations of corruption have dogged preparations for the Sochi Games for years, as reported by The Associated Press and others.

Navalny’s new website — Sochi.FBK.info — combines data gathered during his own investigations along with media reports and other activists’ analysis.

Using colorful graphics, the website makes a wide range of data accessible in English and Russian.

“Athletes are not the only people who compete in Sochi,” Navalny, who finished a strong second in Moscow’s mayoral election last year, wrote on the website. “Officials and businessmen also took part in the games and turned them into a source of income.”

President Vladimir Putin has rejected claims about rampant corruption in Sochi, saying the inflated prices were due to the honest mistakes of investors who underestimated the costs.

“If anybody has got this information, please show this to us,” Putin said in a recent television interview. “But so far we haven’t

Criticism Hits Next World Cup SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil assistant coach and former world champion Carlos Alberto Parreira says it’s “a joke” that the Brazilian government took so long to start working on some of the infrastructure projects needed for the World Cup. With less than five months before the tournament, Parreira said he is disappointed with the country’s preparations and accused the government of missing a huge opportunity to improve conditions for Brazilians.

Parreira told Radio CBN in an interview first aired Sunday that he believes stadiums will be ready in time, but it’s a shame most infrastructure projects that could benefit Brazilians won't be completed until long after the World Cup. The World Cup-winning coach in 1994 is the latest past champion to blast Brazil’s preparations, following the recent criticism by former players Cafu, Bebeto and Rivaldo.

seen anything except speculation.”

A 2012 report by the government’s Audit Chamber found about 15 billion rubles (about $500 million) in “unreasonable” cost overruns in the preparations for the Sochi Olympics.

Auditors found that the work of some staff members at Olympstroi, the state company in charge of Sochi construction, between 2008 and 2010 was “conducive to incurring unreasonable cost overruns.” At least three criminal investigations against Olympstroi employees have been opened, but none of them has reached court. Olympstroi has since changed its management.

The Sochi Organizing Committee would not comment Monday on Navalny's new website.

When asked about it, Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said the IOC stands “against any form of corruption.”

“Whenever there have been concerns and accusations and information in the past, they have been passed on to the organizing committee,” Bach said.

Navalny does not seem to provide solid evidence of how money was stolen during the many Sochi construction projects. This has proven extremely difficult to do, because the games were not covered by Russian laws on tenders and procurement, making officials unaccountable for the money spent.

Olympstroi was given free rein

by Putin to “determine the ground rules for selecting investors and contractors” for Olympic venues.

This created fertile ground for corruption in the allocation of funds, according to Ivan Ninenko, deputy director of Transparency International in Moscow.

CHICAGO (AP) — After thousands of hits to his head and confronted with troubling symptoms, NFL Hall of Famer Joe DeLamielleure is sure he has the devastating brain disease CTE — even though the strongest scientific evidence says it can only be diagnosed in the dead.

He is certain because researchers trying to develop a test for CTE have essentially told him so, based on preliminary and unproven results.

To the 62-year-old DeLamielleure, the results are reassuring, offering a potential explanation for his sudden anger, depression and sleeplessness.

“They’re absolutely positive I have it. You can see it on the X-ray,” DeLamielleure said by telephone from his home in Charlotte, N.C. The former Buffalo Bills offensive lineman and several other retired players were tested last year at UCLA by researchers who told them that changes seen on the scans are consistent with

CTE. They were told their brains resemble those of retired players who killed themselves and were diagnosed with CTE during autopsies.

Dr. Julian Bailes, co-director of the NorthShore Neurological Institute in Evanston, Ill., is part of that research team — one of many groups racing to develop methods to diagnose and eventually treat CTE. Bailes and coresearchers at UCLA think they’re leading the pack with a PET scan technique to detect abnormal brain buildup of a protein called tau.

The test involves injecting a special chemical marker that is designed to bind to tau deposits in the brain; those areas light up on the imaging scans.

Their first results in living patients — five former NFL players, including DeLamielleure — were published last year. Research involving about a dozen more former athletes and others with multiple concussions is expected to be published later this year.

Broncos Tight End Faces Spotlight JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Broncos thirdyear tight end Julius Thomas began the season with more NCAA tournament trips (two) on his resume than catches in the NFL (one).

Now, the former power forward at Portland State is the key to Denver’s record-shattering offense, freeing up Demaryius Thomas, Eric Decker and Wes Welker, especially in the red zone.

The 6-foot-5, 255-pound late-bloomer is also a bulls-eye for some of Manning’s biggest moments, like when he caught his 51st TD throw that broke Tom Brady’s single-season record, one of a dozen touchdown passes he caught this year, breaking Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe’s team record for tight ends.

He was Manning’s main target in the AFC Championship, too, with eight receptions for 85 yards a week after his two clutch thirddown catches helped ice Denver’s win over San Diego.

“Sometimes I have to remind myself,” Manning said, “that he hasn't played a ton of football.”

A giant banner of Thomas hangs outside the media hotel in Times Square, an indication of just how far this relative football toddler has come.

“Is my helmet on?” Thomas asked sheepishly Monday while aboard the Cornucopia

Majesty ship, docked outside the team hotel across the Hudson River.

Yes. “OK, that’s good. So, I won’t get recognized too much,” Thomas said. “That’s a lot of people walking by seeing that thing.”

He might want to get used to the spotlight.

With the wintry weather and Seattle’s stingy secondary sure to stifle some of Manning’s other options, Thomas could be Denver’s X-factor in the Super Bowl.

“No, this isn’t something that I imagined doing when I was 20 years old getting ready to play in the NCAA tournament,” Thomas said.

“I wasn’t thinking, ‘Man, if you just fast-forward that clock a little bit, you’ll be competing in the biggest game in America.’ It’s just a blessing to be here. I’ve been very blessed in my athletic career, so I’m going to enjoy it.”

Thomas played just one year of football in college after exhausting his eligibility on the hardwood. He tried to line up with the receivers on his first day of practice but was ushered over to the tight ends group.

“I was like, ‘What? Hold on, I don’t know about all that,’” Thomas recounted. “But Coach (Nigel) Burton, he sat me down and we talked about it and he told me that he felt if I played tight end I’d be able to create matchup problems.”

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‘Solid’ NBA Players Are Anything But Average SHATZMAN

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That’s not his role on the Raptors. In the five games prior to Saturday’s matchup with the Clippers, Ross’ scoring numbers were were ten points or fewer in four of those five. This season, the 6’6” forward is averaging merely 10.2 points per game.

On Saturday, though, Ross netted 51 points on 16 of 29 shooting, and nearly doubled his previous career-high of 26.

“How in the world did Terrence *expletive* Ross score 51 points?” many NBA fans, including myself, asked upon seeing ESPN’s bottom line Saturday night. But after a bit of thinking, I realized that the answer is simple: if you’re in the NBA, you’re really good at basketball.

Like, really, really good.

Terrence Ross is already a solid NBA player at the ripe age of 22. Do not get me wrong. Heck, a couple years from now he could be an All-Star. For now, though, he is a solid player. But what does solid mean in the NBA? It can’t refer to scoring ability if Terrence Ross can score 50-plus, right? There are no objective standards in determining who qualifies as a solid NBA player or even what exactly solid means in the NBA, but

what Ross’ breakout game shows is just how much talent — and scoring potential — exists up and down all 30 NBA rosters.

To put this in perspective, think about players like Tu Holloway and Scottie Reynolds. The former college basketball stars, for Xavier and Villanova respectively, were both scoring machines in college.

Both currently play professionally overseas. They are only a few years removed from college and each could certainly play in the NBA at some point during their basketball careers. Players like the Pelican’s Brian Roberts and the Nets’

When you’re that good, there will be some nights when you can’t be stopped.

Alan Anderson both played overseas for several years before achieving success in the NBA. At this point in time, however, the former NCAA studs have failed to prove themselves worthy of an NBA roster spot.

Of course, success in college does not translate to success in the NBA. The

point is that guys like Holloway and Reynolds are talented volume scorers, and if they were magically warped into an NBA game tonight, I guarantee that fans previously unfamiliar with both would have no idea that both were overseas players, and, if given significant minutes, each could score plenty of points.

Remember “Linsanity”? The Knicks called up undrafted Harvard-product Jeremy Lin from the D-League, and in what coach Mike D’Antoni called a “desperate” move, Lin was inserted into the starting lineup. He went on to score 20plus points in nine of his first ten games as a starter, a run that became known worldwide as “Linsanity.”

Lin was called up from the NBA Development League, the same league that Scottie Reynolds thrived in for one season before going overseas, and a league that Tu Holloway could excel in had he not chosen the overseas route. If Reynolds or Holloway were given the same opportunity as Lin, who knows where they would be. Eventually Lin came down to Earth, but his successful stint with the Knicks ultimately brought him a cozy three-year, 25.1 million dollar deal with the Rockets.

I am not trying to convince you that Reynolds and Holloway are NBA-level players whatsoever; I am trying to provide a decent perspective as to how Terrence Ross topped the half-century mark when LeBron James has dropped 40 once in the last two seasons. It’s because Ross is a talented player in the NBA who has spent countless hours in the gym working on his jumper. When you’re that good, there will be some nights when you can’t be stopped. On Saturday night, Ross was unstoppable.

As for why LeBron James has scored 40 points just once since the beginning of last season? It isn’t his goal. One day LeBron will “go off ” but for now the four-time MVP is content with his backto-back titles and is focused on winning his third championship this June.

Could LeBron score 50 every night?

Yes. But he does not need to. He does what he has to do to win, and to him that means letting other talented Miami Heat players score, too. His strategy seems to work.

Oh, the Raptors lost on Saturday night, by the way.

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com.

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Gymnasts Vault Over Cortland Red takes fourth straight dual meet victory over Red Dragons more, earned plaudits from her teammates. Lexi Schupp was the next highest finisher for the Red, with her 9.500 good for a tie for fourth place.

The Red then went to the floor, an event Looking to claim its first top finish at a meet this Jorgensen said the team was looking to recapture its season, the gymnastics team emerged successful at Saturday’s face-off against Cortland. For the second form in.

“We came back strong on floor from our showstraight year, the Red won all four events against the Red Dragons en route to a comfortable win ing last week at Penn State,” she said.

Lexi Schupp continued her strong performances over the hosts. For the seniors, Saturday’s victory was the fourth consecutive time defeating Cortland in all events by scoring a 9.700 on the floor, which tied for the best on the day. The next best finisher in a dual meet.

This year’s team features many gymnasts who for the Red was sophomore Julohn Teixeira, who specialize in certain events, which can present finished in a tie for fourth with Sato.

The final event for the Red obstacles when the team is limwas the beam, with a trio of ited to how many members it Cornell gymnasts taking the top can take on road trips, senior “There were many outthree spots. Sophomore Hannah Mackenzie Sato said. standing routines and a lot Clark finished in third with a “As a very specialized team 9.500, just a few points short of this year, we had to accommo- of good saves to gain as her teammates. Juniors Maia date to team travel size rules,” many points as possible, Vernacchia and Jessie Starcevich she said. “I felt that we pulled completed excellent routines on together and adapted to that despite some of the tough the beam. Each earned a 9.550, obstacle well.” scores by the judges.” which was the top score for beam The Red started the day on at the meet. the bars and received consis- Mackenzie Sato Despite the limited number tent performances from the senior-heavy lineup. Senior captain Elise Kerner of gymnasts the Red could bring, and some harsh scored a 9.600 to lead off the event and was fol- scoring, the Red was not deterred by the distraclowed by Sato, whose routine earned a 9.525. The tions, Sato said.

“There were many outstanding routines and a only non-senior in the lineup, freshman Elena Molotsky, went third and scored a 9.675. Seniors lot of good saves to gain as many points as possible, Lexi Schupp and Melanie Jorgensen ended the despite some of the tough scores by the judges,” Red’s day on bars with two strong scores. Schupp Sato said.

The Red is currently gearing up for a trip to earned a 9.725, while Jorgensen earned a 9.800 to Philadelphia Saturday, where it will take on the make her the top finisher on bars.

On vault, the Red had the top two finishers in host Temple, as well as Ursinus and West Chester. sophomores Alicia Bair and Sara Schupp. Bair, who scored a 9.775, finished in first just a few tenths of a point in front of Sara Schupp. Sara Schupp’s Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at 9.700, which was a personal best for the sopho- thucek@cornellsun.com.

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK

Sun Staff Writer

Former Red Standouts Head To Olympics for Bobsledding Former Cornell athletes Chris Langton ’12 and Jamie Greubel ’06 are certainly experienced when it comes to braving the cold weather. They will be both be asked to recall their Ithaca memories of snow and freezing temperatures in a few weeks when they head to Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Olympic winter games.

Greubel, a former star of the women’s

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Switching sports | Chris Langton ’06, a former Red lacrosse player, was named as a one of two replacements for Team USA’s bobsled team.

track and field team, will be Team USA in the bobsled competition. She is the Cornell record-holder in the pentathalon (3,890 points) and the heptathalon (5,465 points), two competitions that test an athlete’s strengths in every area.

Gruebel also holds the Heps meet record in the heptathalon, and she is a four-time

Greubel has earned three World Cup medals since 2012.

Heps champion in her career, qualifying for the NCAAs in her senior year.

Greubel was named to the Olympic team after winning the World Cup Race in Austria, teaming up with U.S. Olympic sprinter Lauryn Williams.

Greubel has earned three World Cup medals since 2012, and this was her first gold.

Langton was a member of the lacrosse team in his time at Cornell and was named as one of two replacements for Team USA’s men’s bobsled team. These replacement athletes are substitutes that can enter the competition in case of an injury or illness.

Langton was a key player for the Red in his years with the lacrosse team, earning a second-team All Ivy selection after his senior campaign. As a midfielder, Langton scored a career-high 18 goals that season, while dishing out two assists and picking up 19 ground balls. Two of those goals were game-winners.

To watch Cornell athletes representing their countries in Sochi, tune in to the opening ceremony on Friday, Feb. 7.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

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Depth perception | The Red, which started the day on the bars, claimed a victory in all four of the meet’s events. The Red took the top two spots on vault and the top three spots on beam.

Super Bowl Boost Estimates Too High NEW YORK (AP) — Will the snowy New York City area really reap an estimated $600 million economic boost from the Super Bowl? Probably not.

Despite such lofty predictions, sports economists say the financial impact of the Super Bowl could fall far below expectations, in part because visitors often spend their cash at NFLsponsored or corporate events rather than at tourist attractions. Some hotels say Super Bowl bookings are running behind what they hoped for, prompting them to ease demands for minimum stays and room deposits. And academic studies show that at best, past Super Bowls generated tens of millions, not hundreds of millions.

“Move the decimal point one place to the left,” said Robert Baade, a professor at Lake Forest College in Illinois, who has studied the Super Bowl’s impact on local economies. “The NFL says $500 or $600 million? I think $50 to $60 million would be a generous appraisal of what the Super Bowl generates.”

The NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, which has worked closely with the NFL to prepare for the Feb. 2 game, has claimed in the yearslong runup that it would generate $500 to $600 million for the region, but it refused to provide any information on how it tabulated that estimate. An NFL spokesman said the league does not conduct economic impact studies on the Super Bowl.

A study Baade conducted in 2000 showed that the average Super Bowl from the 1970s through the late ‘90s only accounted for about $32 million each in increased economic activity at the most. The study, which examined tax revenue and other economic factors

before and after the Super Bowl, concluded that the 1999 Super Bowl in Miami, for example, only contributed about $37 million to the South Florida economy.

The NFL, by comparison, claimed that 1999 game between the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons generated $396 million, the study said.

County sales tax data in Jacksonville showed hardly any increase in 2005 when it hosted the Super Bowl compared to non-Super Bowl years, according to a study conducted by Philip Porter, an economics professor at the University of South Florida.

“No one’s ever been able to find a footprint that an event occurred,” he said.

Porter found that visitors spend money at NFL-funded events and buy NFL-branded memorabilia during Super Bowl week instead of frequenting local establishments.

Die-hard Denver or Seattle fans won’t necessarily attend a Broadway show or visit the Statue of Liberty during their stay, as tourist attractions often report lower attendance than usual during major sporting events.

They’re more likely to visit Super Bowl Boulevard in Times Square, which is filled with NFL-sponsored activities that funnel money directly back to the league.

Economic impact studies commissioned by past Super Bowl host committees — based largely on spending surveys distributed among fans at the game — claimed that the 2008 Super Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., generated a record $500 million and the 2006 game in Detroit brought in about $274 million. But those studies, which aren’t made publicly available, are widely disputed by economists.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Crushes Lions to Revenge Prior Defeat Women rebound from last week’s disappointing result

By JOEL COOPER

which the Red could not quite recover.

In particular, last week’s defensive discipline sank the Red, allowing Columbia The women’s basketball team recov- to hit seven free throws in the closing ered from last week’s heartbreaking loss two minutes of the game. During the to Columbia University by taking week of practice, however, the team down the Lions, 76-51, in a rematch said it worked hard to improve that eleSaturday. It was a dominant perfor- ment of its game. mance from the Red (9-7, 1-1), who “At the end of the second half [last came out and controlled the game from week], we began to foul Columbia way the start. too much and sent them to the free According to senior Joelle Davidson, throw line over and over again,” the team’s energy from the opening of Davidson said. “This past week, we the game helped spent a lot of time worksecure the victory. ing on our perimeter COLUMBIA @ CORNELL “We played with defense in order to much more energy decrease the number of 51 76 this past Saturday. We touching fouls we comGame: 2 ND FINAL 1ST were constantly talkmitted.”

34 51 ing on defense and Columbia 17 Along with this 27 76 making hard cuts on Cornell 49 improved defense, the the offensive end,” Red’s skillful attack on Davidson said. “We were crashing the Saturday completed separate runs of offensive and defensive boards, while 15-0 and 16-0, extending the score also hitting open shots. Every single margin to 42 points midway through member of the team brought fire and the second half. The Red’s aggressive energy to the game.” and focused tone at the start of the This weekend was a huge turn- match contributed to this offensive around from the previous week’s game, outburst, Davison said. where Cornell’s sluggish start let the “We definitely did attack Columbia Lions take a commanding lead from in the first half of the game,” she said.

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Dominating the court | Senior Joelle Davidson was named Ivy League Player of the Week after posting the best numbers of her career in Saturday’s victory. She scored 17 points and added 14 rebounds in the win.

“The atmosphere in the gym was crazy because of how hard we were playing in that first half. It was one of the most amazing halves of basketball I have ever played at Cornell.”

Key to this victory was the Red’s shooting, led by Davidson, who hit five of six shots and all of her free throws.

Davidson was named the Ivy League Player of the Week for her efforts, the first time she has earned that honor.

Freshman Nia Marshall, who scored 17 points, and junior Christine Kline, who scored back-to-back three pointers in the 16-0 run at the end of the first half, led the team as well.

“We all worked hard after our loss and got in the gym to shoot extra shots

in order to improve our shooting percentage,” Marshall said. “This week, we focused on executing our game plan to shut them down.”

Marshall added that the team aims to keep improving before next week’s match.

“There’s always something that can be improved, even when executed well.

We will continue to play hard and play together,” Marshall said. “Continuing to hit open shots and finishing around the basket will be key in the future.”

The Red is back in action Friday when it plays host to Brown University.

Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.

Low Scoring, But Not Low Talent E

very basketball fan enjoys watching a player “go off ” — you know, make shot after shot no matter how good the defense, scoring lots of points in the process. In that sense, January has been a fantastic month for basketball fans.

Kevin Durant has dropped 30 or more in ten consecutive games, including a 54-point out-

Ben Shatzman Guest Column burst against the Warriors. Carmelo Anthony lit up the Bobcats for 62 at MSG Friday night. We know superstars like these have the ability to do this on any given night, but often times it is not the superstar who limits himself from scoring lots of points, but rather the talent surrounding the superstar that holds the Durants and the Melos to 30 instead of 65.

See Terrence Ross. The Raptors’ swingman and 2012 lottery selection out of Washington has proven himself to be a capable NBA starter and ferocious dunker. He is by no means inept at scoring, but when teams prepare to face Toronto, they are game planning as though Terrence Ross will be taking 20-plus shots.

See SHATZMAN page 14

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Coaching catch | The men’s lacrosse team just got one member larger with the addition of former RIT assistant coach MJ Kiekebelt. Kiekebelt, an RIT standout during his collegiate playing career, was a two-time All American.

Men’s Lacrosse Adds New Assistant, M.J. Kiekebelt, to Coaching Staff The men’s lacrosse team picked up another member of its coaching staff this past week, announcing that it had hired former RIT assistant coach and alumnus M. J. Kiekebelt for the 2014 season.

Interim head coach Matt Kerwick revealed the news Jan. 27, noting in statement that Kiekebelt is “an accomplished competitor and leader.”

Originally hailing from Caledon, Ontario, Kiekebelt graduated in 2011 with a degree in business administration. Kiekebelt

made a name for himself with the Tigers as a long-stick midfielder and is currently sixth in RIT records with 338 career ground balls.

During his final season, Kiekebelt started all 20 games for the Tigers and was named Empire 8 Men’s Lacrosse Player of the Year as well as ECAC Upstate Defensive Player of the Year. A two-time All American, Kiekebelt helped lead his team to the NCAA Division III national semifinals in 2011.

In addition to serving as assis-

tant coach for RIT since graduating, Kiekebelt plays professional lacrosse, and was traded to the Rochester Rattlers in early January.

He finished last year’s professional season with 20 ground balls in 11 games played.

With the Red, Kiekebelt — whose Twitter bio has already been updated to read “Cornell Lacrosse Assistant Coach” — is expected to work on face-offs and defensive midfielders, as well as running the substitution box.

— Compiled by Emily Berman