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The Cornell wrestling team will take on Ivy rival Columbia at home this weekend. | Page 12

C.U.Law School Sees Decrease in No.of Applicants Career services:drop due to changes in legal market,cost of education

By ALISHA FOSTER Sun Staff Writer

Applicants to Cornell Law School decreased from 5,556 for Fall 2011 to 4,054 applicants in 2013, according to the school’s website, reflecting a trend occurring in law schools nationwide.

The volume of law school applications nationwide has been at its lowest since 1977, the Wall Street Journal reported. The number of first-year law students fell 11 percent in 2013, according to an American Bar Association statistic.

Jane Levy, senior associate director and prelaw advisor at Cornell Career Services, said the recent decrease in law school applications can be attributed to significant changes in the legal market in addition to the high cost of legal education.

“The National Association for Legal Career Professionals ... reported that the overall employment

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Back to the books | The number of applicants to Cornell Law School decreased by over 1,000 applicants over the past two years, reflecting a trend occuring in law schools nationwide. The law school library is pictured above.

rate for Class of 2012 law graduates was just under 85 percent, the lowest since 1994,” she said. “The percentage of graduates reporting they took a job for which bar passage was required was lower than ever.”

Despite a declining trend in law school applications across the country, Cornell Law students and University

staff maintain that there are still a wide variety of options for those choosing to pursue a career in the field.

Drew Singer law ’15 said he is hopeful that the recovSee LAW page 5

Cornell University Library to Celebrate Addition of Eight Millionth Volume

By AIMEE CHO Sun Staff Writer

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Listen up | Former Senator Scott Brown speaks about political polarization at Kennedy Hall Thursday.

Former Senator Scott Brown Visits Cornell

By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Staff Writer

Former Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) spoke at Kennedy Hall Thursday on the increasing polarization between the Democratic and Republican parties and how such partisanship is inhibiting progress in

Washington.

“We’re here to talk about labels and about dysfunction in Washington,” he said.

In his speech, Brown said there should be conflict and discourse between the two parties, but that they should be able to See BROWN page 5

photographs and will be housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Materials, Kenney said.

“There are camp scenes, images of soldiers preparing for battle, portraits of prisoners-of-war, officers

On Feb. 21, Cornell University Library will celebrate the addition of the eight millionth volume to its collection. The book, a rare album of Civil War photographs, was donated by “It is critical that every generation ... ensure[s] Beth and Stephan Lowentheil J.D. ’75, the continued growth of our great institutions.” according to a University press release.

The last time the University library Stephan Lowentheil J.D. ’75 hit a similar milestone was in 2002, when the library acquired its seven millionth volume. According to Anne Kenney, Carl A. from both the Union and Confederate sides and phoKroch University Librarian, that volume also hap- tos of both Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln,” pened to be a book of civil war photographs.

The “one-of-a-kind” book contains 265 rare See LIBRARY page 5

LGBT Student Org.Boycotts Conference

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

IvyQ, an annual Ivy League conference for LGBT-identified students, has been boycotted by several students in the LGBT community due to its alleged promotion of “hook-up culture” and exclusion of non-Ivy League students.

The four-day conference,

which is being held until Sunday at Princeton University, features a series of speakers and seeks to promote intersectionality, according to the IvyQ website. IvyQ has attracted over 400 attendees in each of its past four conferences.

However, students in Cornell’s Direct Action to Stop Heterosexism, a sub-organization of LGBTQ Student Union Haven, drafted a Facebook post

on Wednesday detailing reasons why they believe IvyQ is not a positive experience for the LGBT community.

“We will not support a conference that creates an exclusive environment uninviting to people outside of the privileged Ivy League and which alienates many even within the Ivy League,” See LGBT page 4

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News, “National Public Radio Host Michele Norris Reflects on Modern Race Relations,” Wednesday Speaking about creating honest dialogues regarding race and racism “People will stay away from a conversation about race rather than risk being called a racist or someone who is insensitive.”

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Profs‘Relieved’ After National Science Foundation Lifts Funding Limitations

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By GRACE HURLEY

Crucial surveys in the field of political science are often funded by the NSF, according to Weeden.

“The American National Election Studies and the Cornell professors are “relieved” that last month General Social Survey ... are major source[s] of high-qualiCongress repealed restrictions imposed on the National ty, nationally representative data on American’s social and Science Foundation and its ability to fund certain kinds of political attitudes and behaviors and how they have political science research. changed over time,” she said.

The initial restrictions were set last March in the Weeden added that the restrictions took advantage of Coburn Amendment, which prohibited the NSF from internal competition within the field of social science. funding any political science projects that did not promote “The bigger issue is that, by cutting federal funding for U.S. national security and economic interests, according to ‘basic’ research in the social sciences or attaching conthe Senate’s official website. straints to its content, the legislature is playing politics with Prof. John Abowd, industrial and labor relations, who American competitiveness in the social sciences and in conducts research on the U.S. Census and higher education,” Weeden said. related topics, expressed his relief at the According to Prof. Nicolas Van de “The NSF remains a repeal of these limitations.

Walle, government, the recent repeal may significant place to “I am relieved that the omnibus approhelp to alleviate some of the negative priations bill effectively lifted the restric- which we can apply for effects graduate students may have faced tions on NSF funding,” he said, noting from the earlier restrictions. support.” research contributions that come out of “Many [graduate students] have NSF funding transcend the field of politiapplied for NSF grants or are likely to in Prof. Van de Walle cal science. the near future so this is clearly important “NSF political science sponsors very for them,” he said. “Also, some of the important data collection activities which are used by social NSF’s bigger grants were really threatened and now are likescientists in many disciplines,” he said. ly to be restored. But Cornell is not currently a recipient.”

Despite the repeal, Prof. Kim Weeden, sociology, said Van de Walle added that, for the Cornell community, the former restrictions will have a lasting effect because the the lifting of these limitations “means that the NSF remains NSF was delayed in collecting data during the restriction a significant place to which we can apply for support, period. which is not always easy to get for political science “You can’t ask respondents in 2014 about their beliefs research.” in 2012 and expect to get meaningful answers,” she said. “If Prof. Robert Buhrman, applied and engineering physics, you’re trying to interview the same people multiple times senior vice provost for research, highlighted the role of over many years, the longer the time between surveys, the President David Skorton and Cornell government affairs harder it is to find respondents, and the lower the quality of representatives as active participants in raising the issue the data in the longitudinal panel.” with Congressional leaders during the ban.

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Brian Worthington ’15 passes out snakes at the Bio Open House in Corson/Mudd Hall Wednesday.

“Cornell was very much in the forefront of bringing the concerns to the attention of the right people in Congress,” he said. “We are certainly pleased that the NSF has been unfettered to now use its best judgment and peer review to determine what science to fund, including within the social and behavioral and political science areas.”

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

C.U.Partners With Financial Literacy Program

By ANDREW LEE Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment extended an invitation to all undergraduate students Wednesday to join SALT, a financial literacy and debt management program developed by nonprofit organization American Student Assistance to help students manage their money and student loans.

“Through in-depth courses and one-on-one counseling opportunities, students will better understand their loan options, gain real-life financial skills, and learn how to stay on track with loan payments,” according to the SALT website.

Enrolling in SALT grants students access to “Repayment Navigator,” a digital tool that allows users to quickly consolidate their loan information as well as

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Cashing out | Alexandra Sima ’17 uses an ATM Thursday in Robert Purcell Community Center.

find out ways to decrease or with a SALT Member postpone their monthly pay- Support representative via ments. live online chat.

Members can also use “The human touch makes “My Money 101,” a self- complicated financial jargon paced online resource, in a lot easier to understand,” order to learn how to build Liu said. “If you have any and maintain a balanced issues, they help you through budget and a positive credit your problem step-by-step.” score.

SALT membership, which “Today’s average student is free for students, also gives loan debt among graduating access to the program’s job students is $23,186,” accord- and internship database and ing to an ASA can help conbrochure for nect members My Money “I think it’s great that with nearly 101. “This 2 3 , 0 0 0 program posi- Cornell’s making it employers. tions students really easy for any“Access to to understand the database what financial one to learn more of employers a c t i o n s about things like loan is probably should be S A L T ’ s taken five repayment.” biggest draw weeks, five Jason Lee ’16 for me,” Kim months and said.

“It’s five years after pretty diffigraduation.” cult to get an Charles Kim ’16 said he internship today, so it’s great was “interested” in using to have access to an entire SALT upon learning that the network of connections.” program was designed for Jason Lee ’16 said that he students with little to no appreciated the Office of financial literacy skills.

Financial Aid and Student Echoing his sentiments, Employment’s effort in makSophie Liu ’16 said, “I’ve ing financial literacy accessitried other money manage- ble. ment services like Mint, but “I think the general idea I always felt a little bit intim- behind SALT is great,” Lee idated in the sense they were said. “I didn’t really get the geared more towards adults opportunity to take any rather than students.” money management classes In addition to its online in high school, so I think it’s tools, the SALT website also great that Cornell’s making it offers students the opportu- really easy for anyone to nity to talk directly with a learn more about things like team of trained advisors who loan repayment.” can answer questions students may have about managing loans and making pay- Andrew Lee can be reached at ments. Students can also chat alee@cornellsun.com.

Burning Question How did you spend your snow ‘day’?

“I lurked around the A-Lot and stole unsuspecting children’s sleds.”

— Snow Day Klepto ’14 “I made snow penises all day long.”

— Frosty ’15 “Wait, are you trying to tell me we didn’t have a snow day?”

— Didn’t Go to Class ’14 “Hoping that the precipitation was going to magically style my hair like Beyonce’s at the Grammys.”

— Woke Up Like This ’15 “Snowshoeing to class.”

— Disgruntled Slope-Walker ’16 “Catching up on the 9 a.m. lecture that had to miss. Ugh.” — What a Nerd ’17 “Went outside, frolicked around, made snow angels. It’s my first snow day ever!”

— Obiviously a Californian ’16 “I met Obama and rode a T-Rex. Because I was dreaming. And then I had class at 10:10 a.m.”

— Dreaming of a White Campus ’14 “I fell down. Twice. In public places. It hurt.”

— Bruised and Confused ’15 –– Compiled by Sofia Hu

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Org.Boycotts IvyQ For‘Hook-Up Culture’ LGBT

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DASH said in the post, which was shared by several individuals.

DASH wrote that the IvyQ conference’s mission to empower and connect LGBT students is overshadowed by attending students’ desires to engage in sexual activities.

“Students at our university have explicitly chosen not to attend because the hook-up culture is uncomfortable and unsafe,” DASH said. “The hookup culture marginalizes asexual individuals and privileges certain body types.”

According to DASH, there is notable discrepancy between IvyQ’s stated objective and the “hook-up culture” that they believe dominates it.

“This fundamental difference in the perceived purpose of the conference undermines the event and serves as a distraction for those with an honest intent to make use of the resources,” DASH wrote, adding that the pressure to engage in sexual activities during the conference potentially “verges on sexually aggressive and may lead to non-consensual sex.”

Despite DASH’s stance, several students from Cornell still traveled to the conference on Thursday, including Cornell IvyQ leader Terence Looi ’15.

Looi, who has been involved with IvyQ for three years, said that the conference does in fact aim to create an inclusive and positive community.

“We neither encourage nor discourage a ‘hook-up’ culture; we’ve always done our best to have a variety of programming to meet the needs of people with diverse interests and identities,” he said.

Justin Kondrat ’14, president

of DASH, disagrees about the inclusive nature of the event.

“I attended talks and co-facilitated at IvyQ last year, and I just felt very uncomfortable,” Kondrat said. “I was not really impressed with how things went, and it wasn’t very inclusive for many of my friends. The elitism and scent of privilege was overbearing and took away from true dialogue.”

According to Kondrat, the Facebook post, which received over 40 replies in one day, was meant to foster communication among the community.

“I just want to have more dialogues and conversations based around this issue that many people face within the LGBTQIA+ community and their feelings toward IvyQ. The value of conversation of dialogue is very critical within the community,” he said.

In opposition to the IvyQ conference, DASH mentioned plans to create its own conference that will share the resources of an Ivy League school with all attendees, and encouraged “others to participate in the same critical self-analysis in order to dismantle this culture and create new spaces that truly serve the queer community.”

According to Haven President Jadey Huray ’14, Haven will be holding an open meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 11 to talk about the letter and its responses, which Huray believes devolved into a personal argument.

“We want to make sure that we can have a dialogue that’s constructive and productive for IvyQ, DASH and the broader LGBTQQIA+ community,” she said. “We just have to make sure that people share their perspectives and opinions without attacking others.”

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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act cordially towards one another. However, he said that this sense of friendliness has been disappearing recently.

“The one thing we have in common is that we’re Americans first. And we’re in trouble,” Brown said. “We’re 17.3 trillion dollars in debt, and we have a congress that’s so divided they’re not talking in the halls.”

Brown said he self-identifies as a “moderate Republican,” who is more fiscally conservative and socially moderate.

In the speech, Brown also discussed his opposition to the Affordable Care Act, citing the new taxes to fund the Act as deterrents to job creation.

Describing himself as “part of the block in the middle,” Brown said that his, and other moderate politician’s, absence in the Senate is problematic. He lost his senate seat to Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the 2012 senate race.

Additionally, Brown said he believes that the country is not properly suited for “the road of big government.”

Brown said he believes that entrenched partisanship is a result of elected officials increasingly voting in favor of their own parties’ interests.

“We’ve lost a group of about 20 in the middle who could act as swing votes,” Brown said.

Brown asked the audience to examine congressional voting patterns for evidence of partisan politics.

“If you remember anything I said tonight: go back tonight and check your elected officials’ voting records to see if they’re voting on both sides,” Brown said.

Additionally, he asked the audience to challenge their elected officials to work together with members across party lines.

In many cases, members from both sides of the aisle are “putting the personal partisan interest before the country’s interest,” he said.

Brown closed by revealing that he had deviated from his intended plans for the speech.

“I have a speech, I didn’t even use it. It’s good when you have something that you’re passionate about.”

Kyle Ezzedine, chairman of the Cornell College Republicans, said the organization wanted to host Brown because of his experience during a period of “extreme political polarization.”

“We wanted to host Scott Brown because he has [a] notable record of bipartisanship … [that] can provide a unique insight into American politics,” he said.

Maxwell Schechter ’14, president of Cornell Democrats, added that the event was “a great chance to hear from a moderate Republican because … there aren’t many of them in office anymore.”

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

ery of the American legal market will accompany that of the economy.

“As perceptions change and the recovery gains more steam, I think legal employers will certainly look to hire more young, bright minds,” Singer said. “I don't think [job demand will] come all the way back before 2015 when I graduate, but luckily I go to Cornell Law School.”

Singer said that formerly many prospective law students were not truly passionate about the field of law.

“In the past, undecided students saw law school as a fallback plan if they did not have a job after graduation or a particular goal for postgraduate education,” he said.

Singer also said he believes the decrease in applications could be of benefit to prospective law students.

“Now, those students are beginning to realize that law school is too hard, too expen-

sive, and potentially too unrewarding to said. “[Cornell Law] is fortunate to be one of endeavor if they do not really love the law. I the best law schools in the world, and I feel think in the future, this like I've gotten a legal culling of all but those education that will prewho really love the law “Law school is too hard, too pare me to get and keep will strengthen law a job shortly when I expensive, and potentially school classes and ultigraduate.” too unrewarding to mately the profession,” Even though job endeavor if [students] do Singer said. prospects are not as According to Levy, bright as they once not really love the law.” many law school appliwere, those who do cants are facing better decide to pursue law still Drew Singer law ’15 prospects due to less have plenty of options, competition. according to Levy.

“With such a significant decline in the “I encourage students who are considerapplicant pool, applicants seem to be faring ing a legal career but haven't confirmed their somewhat better in the admissions process plans to take time after graduating from and in receiving scholarships,” she said.

Cornell to test their interest by doing lawSinger added that Cornell Law students related work and/or by gaining exposure to have less reason to worry about securing a other fields that might engage their interest,” job in the future due to the University’s pres- Levy said. tige.

“If anyone in this market is getting jobs, Alisha Foster can be reached at it is the people at the very top schools,” he afoster@cornellsun.com.

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Kenney said. “In this age of electronic access to materials, having such a wonderful book as this coming reminds us of the critical importance of special materials.”

Prof. Bill Gaskins, art, who will speak at the book ceremony, said that Cornell Library’s eight millionth volume being a Civil War photograph album is “timely.”

“The Civil War captured all of the issues and the promise

and the potential of the United States,” Gaskins said. “[The album] reflects the contemporary tensions over the presence of those defendants of slavery in the 21st century in the United States as well as 21st century assertions of the rights of states over the authority of the federal government.”

Gaskins said that the photograph on the book’s frontispiece, the page to the left of the opening title page, of a young African girl particularly impacted him and is the “most important” photo in the volume.

“[Africans] weren’t considered African-Americans or human at that time; they were simply property. This [photograph] establishes that this was the reason for the Civil War and the conflict,” he said. “To this day, there are many people who will come up with many other reasons for the conflict between the South and the North, other than slavery.”

Loewentheil said in the press release that the gift is his family’s attempt at helping to enhance the “tradition” of Cornell’s libraries.

“Cornell … is universally recognized as one of the great research libraries in the world. It is critical that every generation continue to build on the foundation of those who have come before us to ensure the continued growth of our great institutions,” he said in the release.

The book welcoming ceremony will take place Feb. 21 at Amit Bhatia Libe Café in Olin Library and is open to the public.

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

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GIVE US A BREAK Next week, Cornellians will embark on their first-ever February break, a four-day weekend announced last year in an effort to improve student mental health. As supporters of the continuing effort to promote student stress-relief, we at The Sun set out to investigate any spaces in the the academic calendar that would lend themselves to additional breaks. We sent out our best Berry Patch reporters — at least, the ones who hadn’t announced their own personal snow week — to interview passer-bys about the most-needed holidays at Cornell.

Mid-Easter and Passover Break: For students who celebrate both holidays, the one-two punch of chocolate bunnies and chocolate matzah can be a little overwhelming. For students who celebrate neither, the influx of related products into drugstores and Wegmans alike can provoke panic — what holiday does the tinsel and brightly colored eggs signify, again? And am I supposed to buy anyone a present? It’s probably best to give students off to contemplate these hard-hitting questions.

4/20: Need we say more? While unofficially celebrated by many Cornell students, this date causes unnecessary stress, giggling and munchies (read: clearly total CHAOS) when it conflicts with regularly scheduled classes. Not to mention all the firetrucks mistakenly deployed by the Ithaca Fire Department in response to plumes of smoke seeping from dorm room windows. In the name of all that is edible, we call on Cornell to legalize this holiday.

Grover Cleveland’s Birthday: He’s no Howard Taft, but for too long, this special man has — unfairly — been the subject of snickering upon the first mention of his name. We have George Washington’s birthday off now — who’s to say Washington is any more important than our boy Grover? It’s just wrong to not allow students a full day to ruminate about Cleveland’s multitude of achievements. Or at least, to Google them.

October 3: Students need a full day off from school so they can remember to make their Facebook statuses “On October third, he asked me what day it was. …

It's October third.” Scientists have shown that no matter how many prelims, papers and group projects students had due two days ago, this simple act relieves pressure by 200 percent and brings students closer to their inner Mean Girls.

The Day After Slope Day: ... Oh, wait.

ODE TO ITHACA I don’t understand why Cornell has to have terrible hills and terrible weather. Can’t we just pick one or the other?

Walking up Libe Slope with a blizzard attacking my eyes is not enjoyable.

— E.S. WHERE’S MY HUGH GRANT? I should really learn from The Mindy Project more. Like Mindy says, I am not Sandra Bullock.

If I get stuck in an elevator with a guy, he won’t see how charming I am; he’ll realize how annoying I can be in confined spaces under stressful situations.

— R.E. ASPEN DREAMS I don’t dread going to my 9 a.m. classes: I dread walking up Libe Slope to get to them.

The slush makes it 1,000 times worse.

Cornell, please consider installing a ski lift already.

— A.B SPEED RACER Why do people at Cornell walk so damn slowly? Don’t you have

things to do?

— N.Y.

CAUGHT THAT JITTERBUG Here’s to that awkward moment when you remove the headphones from your phone, and it begins to blast “Father Figure.” All at once you are outed as a shameless George Michael fanatic to your entire anthropology lecture.

— L.B..

HORNDOG Why does my human bonding class spend so much time talking about babies? Let’s talk about sex, baby!

— E.C. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS As if it isn’t hard enough to give up drinking, the pain really kicks in when the bartender looks at you with those sad eyes, knowing full well that you came here excited for the dinosaur in your friend’s fishbowl,

not for the $2 shots.

— M.R. SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERSTARS This one goes out to everyone who posted a joke about Cornell’s “snow day.” The first time I read that your 3 a.m. class was canceled, I giggled. The millionth time I saw it on my Facebook newsfeed, Twitter and Instagram, I realized that you are not original. You are just annoying.

— S.W. PENIS ENVY Cornell, get your shit together already. I’ve been waiting for a snow penis all winter!

— A.O. RACHEL BERRY-ED IN THE SNOW I like the snow. I would even say I love the snow. But when I feel like a New Directions member from Glee hit by a cold slushy, all bets are off.

— J.P.

CORRECTION A byline was omitted from a Feb. 5 news story, “Reddit Creator Talks Web, Career.” The story was written by Sun Staff Writer Helen Donnelly.

A Feb. 5 news article, “Cornell Launches First MOOC,” and a subsequent Feb. 6 editorial, “A Call to Clarify the Intention of MOOCs,” incorrectly stated that hundreds of people are registered for Cornell's first MOOC. In fact, more than 17,000 individuals have enrolled in the course.

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OPINION

David Fischer | Guest Column

East Ave.Closure: A Problem of Univ.Transparency W

inter break traditionally holds a place in the college experience as a respite from the annoyances associated with attending a pressure cooker of an institution like Cornell.

The month to month-and-a-half long stretch of freedom pleasantly punctuates the rigor of the academic year with a few much-needed weeks of relaxation. During one of my lazy afternoons on Facebook this past winter break, I happened upon an article that had been shared a number of times by my friends. The article, from the Cornell Chronicle, was headlined “East Avenue to Close to Through Traffic Jan. 8.”

My initial interpretation of the article’s headline was that East Avenue would be closed until January 8, 2014. I thought, therefore, that most Cornellians would not be affected. So I couldn’t understand why my friends had posted such inflammatory comments about the article on Facebook: I decided that more investigation was needed.

According to the article, “from Jan. 8, 2014 to April 19, 2015, East Avenue will be closed to through traffic from West Avenue to Tower Road due to the construction of Klarman Hall.”

Yes, you read that correctly. As I’m sure most of you have observed by now, East Avenue is closed for a year and a half. Well, the road is open to pedestrians, buses, emergency vehicles and bicycles, but any other vehicular traffic is subject to ticketing by Cornell Police.

Personally, as an English major, I am a huge advocate for Klarman Hall, which is the first building for the humanities to be construct-

I encourage the University to improve its communication efforts for similar construction endeavors in the future. ed at Cornell in more than 100 years. I believe that creating a central meeting place for students and faculty and adding more workplaces and classrooms for staff are much-needed additions to the perpetually-under-construction Cornell campus. However, I question the need to close an essential artery of Central Campus for such a long period of time. Although I am by no means an engineer of any kind, I believe that some sort of solution could have been devised in order to avoid the inconvenience created by the closure.

Ultimately, the shutdown of East Avenue is little more than a minor annoyance. In the grand scheme of things, the five-minute driving detour through West Avenue to your destination is not the most difficult or trying thing that most of you will experience during a typical Cornell week or even a typical day. The largest problem with the closure of this major road, as I see it, was the way in which the University communicated the news to the student body.

I can’t imagine that a closure of such magnitude was not planned for several months before it began. The earliest notification of the closure I can find is a press release on the University’s Special Conditions Information webpage, posted on December 13, 2013.

However, I can’t help but doubt the efficacy of disseminating important University information through a webpage that is also used to notify students about a “significant reduction in steam service to campus.” (That was posted on January 29, 2014, if you’re interested.) Furthermore, the timing of the announcement fell in line with the middle of finals for most students. It seems to me like the timing of the announcement was calculated to discourage any criticism of the construction.

The University’s poor communication of East Avenue’s closure underscores a greater problem between administration and the student body: transparency. Had the University notified us of the shutdown several months before it began and given a brief justification of its necessity, I’m sure that most students wouldn’t have had a problem with it.

For the most part, it seems like most Cornellians have accepted the closure as a necessary side effect of an ever-improving campus –– in the same vein as being unable to use the sidewalk in front of Myron Taylor Hall for a year during the recent Cornell Law School renovation. As was the case with Myron Taylor Hall construction, people will adjust. They will drive on West Avenue –– granted, complaining the whole way. But our days won’t change in any significant way. That being said, I encourage the University to improve its communication efforts for similar construction endeavors in the future.

David Fischer is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Feedback may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Columns appear periodically throughout the semester.

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“Instructors off the tenure track often are talented and motivated people. At the same time, their contingent status places them in an incredibly precarious position. It is not unheard of for contingent faculty to know only a week or so before classes start whether they will even be teaching that semester. Many walk on egg shells because you wouldn’t want to get on the bad side of some temperamental administrator or tenured professor.”

Theo Re: “University: Non-Tenured Faculty Bring ‘Different’ Skills” News, published Feb. 3, 2014

Tess Keppler | Barely Legal

Reimagining the Law In the Wake of 3-D Printing S

for auto-altering printcrypto- firearms. ince the 1970s, 3-D self-labeled To complicate mat- ed materials are truly printing technolo- anarchist, successfully gy has become printed a plastic gun ters further, engineers at boundless, especially in Massachusetts terms of large-scale conincreasingly sophisticat- that could fire lethal the ed and efficient. For rounds. He then tried Institute of Technology struction that would instance, last semester, to publicly post the are now collaborating conventionally require Stratasys to many on-site human Cornell researchers instructions for how to with printed a fully function- repeat his process. Not explore the idea of 4-D laborers. Skyscrapers al loudspeaker. And just only would plastic printing –– the fourth could literally assemble last month, Stratasys –– weapons like these easi- dimension being time. themselves anywhere. a 3-D printer manufac- ly pass through metal It is already possible to This alone brings to turer –– debuted a true detectors, but they can print 3-D objects that mind several internamulti-purpose, multi- also make it exponen- transform their proper- tional law and property material, full-color 3-D tially more difficult for ties when an outside law implications. If printing system –– the the government to stimulus of random building things in tradiharsh or first of its kind on the monitor and regulate energy is applied. For tionally territory weapons manufacture example, a geometrical- uncharted market. ly simple resin object becomes much easier, For those of you who and trade.

For now, we have the may be designed so it we may be headed for are new to the idea, 3-D printers create objects Undetectable Firearms folds up into a complex some seriously tricky from feedstock using Act of 1988, which stip- shape when exposed to property claims disp u t e s . source codes for International each custom waters may not object. The possieasily remain bilities for cusThere are an infinite number of obstacles so internationtomized 3-D and just as many exciting potential applicaal. And Dennis products are endHope, the man less, but so are the tions in the future of 3-D and 4-D printing who has been legal ramificaselling moon tions. technology. ... The legal and policy-setting acreage since Intellectual implications will undoubtedly be huge.

1980, may property issues finally have a are the most real chance to obvious type, shine. since the nature There are an infinite of 3-D printing allows ulates that it is illegal to water or a change in for a greater opportuni- possess, manufacture, temperature. With 4-D number of obstacles ty for infringement and sell or otherwise receive printing, objects will be and just as many excittheft. If you can access a firearm that can’t be programmed to trans- ing potential applicaor replicate the code for recognized by a metal form themselves with tions in the future of 3an object, you can detector. But this legis- no added stimulus but D and 4-D printing technology. Whether make that object for lation is now insuffi- time.

Let’s consider the you fear or embrace the yourself quickly and cient. Wilson can’t be relatively cheaply –– the only person in the problem of printed possibilities, the legal policy-setting not to mention cus- country who is capable guns again. The - and will tomize it to your heart’s of developing the neces- oretically, gun parts implications desire. As the technolo- sary kind of code to could be printed as undoubtedly be huge. his own unidentifiable chunks And if 3-D and 4-D gy becomes more acces- produce sible to consumers, it’s firearm, and others of plastic or other printing could create easy to imagine the could easily keep their materials that have self-constructed skyintellectual property own versions private. been programmed to scrapers on the moon, into let’s hope they could losses reaching and sur- Our ban on unde- self-assemble passing the level of the tectable firearms may functional weapons also help make some essentially after a certain amount room for a few new jobs digital piracy of music, become unenforceable.

We of time. in the currently uninvideos, etc.

Granted, making should pity whoever is spiring legal job market, Gun control is another area of trying to solve these weapons doesn’t seem to too. increased legal concern national security prob- be what MIT and following the advance- lems while simultane- Stratasys engineers have Tess Keppler is a student in the Cornell Law School. She ment of 3-D printing ously trying to avoid in mind. While the pos- may be reached at technologies. Last May, infringing upon impor- sibilities for 3-D print- tkk22@cornell.edu. Barely constitutional ing are astonishing, Legal runs alternate Fridays Cody Wilson, a law tant school dropout and rights to privacy and potential applications this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Heroes or Villains, Doctors or Murderers?

BRIAN GORDON Sun Staff Writer

Americans are more starkly divided between pro-life and pro-choice than they are on virtually any other topic. Yet when it comes to the allowance of late-term abortions (abortions during the final trimester of a pregnancy), Americans are largely in agreement — 80 percent are against them.

Delicately, the documentary After Tiller brings nuance to a topic where nuance often gets engulfed in the flames of feverous rhetoric and vitriol. The act of bringing the camera into the clinics of the only four doctors in the country who perform late-term procedures grants the viewer a fuller sense of the moral quandaries and human emotions that deserve to be weighed when discussing late-term abortions. Some of the patients at these clinics have recently discovered that their child has a rare multi-syllable abnormality that will render the child’s life short and painful. One of the patients was a victim of rape.

Others have put off an abortion for religious or family reasons and are now panicking over the prospect of parenthood as the fortieth week approaches.

Directors Lana Wilson and Martha Shane remain hidden, yielding the spotlight to the four doctors themselves to explain their decisions, indecisions and why they continue to perform procedures that many find abhorrent, even murderous. At a time when 58 percent of Americans identify as pro-life, the scenes and situations inside the clinic will shed new light on some under-

standable reasons why some may seek an aborPHOTOS COURTESY OF RO*CO tion in the final 15 weeks of pregnancy.

After Tiller illustrates that there are no real winners in the business of late-term abortions.

Because the abortions result in the “delivery” of a stillborn, many of the parents treat the “birth” of their child as a death. Several surreal scenes show parents saying hello and goodbye to their child at the same time. Memorial services and mementos, such as footprints, from the stillborn’s “life,” are provided by the clinic.

There used to be five late-term abortionperforming doctors until the titular Dr. George Tiller died by assassination outside his Wichita church on a Sunday in 2009. In spite of, and seemingly inspired by the death mies, particularly those in the Nebraska State of their dear friend Tiller, the Legislature, which passed one of the strictest antifour remaining doctors After Tiller abortion laws in the country. The law criminalizes demonstrate their desire to Directed by Lana Wilson abortions after 20 weeks, forcing one of the film’s press on despite the constant featured doctors on an odyssey across the country fear that their lives will end and Martha Shane in search of a more hospitable state to continue the same way as Tiller’s. This performing procedures. The views of these legisfear is made real when the lators are never explained beyond brief sound bites film follows the doctors’ lives and their personal lives are never explored. outside the clinics. We meet Perhaps then, After Tiller is best experienced as their families, see their a human interest story, not as an editorialized homes and learn their hobbies. The viewer sees these doctors as complete humans, in comment on where the viewer should stand on Roe v. Wade. contrast with the anti-late-term protesters, who remain name- The viewer could remain ardently pro-life yet still gain an appreciation for the four late-term doctors. The viewer can less and seem overzealous and irrational.

There is a slightly unfair manipulation of the viewer during appreciate that these are men and women who wear scrubs and these scenes — it is easier to view these doctors’ opinions on tell bad jokes and love their families just like the rest of us. their professions more sympathetically after watching them pet These are four people who antagonize over the impossibly diftheir puppies, kiss their sweet elderly mothers and ski down ficult moral decisions that they must confront each day. pristine mountain slopes. Conversely, it is easier to view the Whatever your politics, these are not people who desire to be anti-late-term abortion argument with more scorn when only gunned down on their way out of church.

Whether you find their defense of late-term abortions movthe most radical anti-abortionists are seen. The film shows the opponents who make hate calls to the doctors’ homes at mid- ing or not is almost secondary. night and who hold signs outside the clinics while verbally guilting young women with charges of sin as they walk in.

Brian Gordon is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor The film also positions right wing state legislators as ene- Relations. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com.

That Awkward Boredom: A Bromantic Comedy MARISSA TRANQUILLI Sun Staff Writer

That awkward moment when you walk out of the theater wondering, “Did I really just spend $11 watching that?” Writer and director Tom Gormican’s That Awkward Moment was exactly that: an awkward film that explored no new concepts and had very little entertainment value for anyone who has seen a romantic comedy. Ever.

The movie set the stage in a normal rom-com fashion: three separate storylines of love, loss and friendship are introduced rapidfire. Zac Efron, Miles Teller, and Michael B. Jordan star as Jason, Daniel and Mikey: three friends in their late twenties navigating their sex and romantic relationships. The chemistry between the friends worked well, but their dialogue was contrived and quite boring. The highlight of the male humor jokes essentially boil down to Daniel pooping in Jason’s toilet every time he visits and Mikey jacking off with self-tanner. These jokes were funny. The first time I saw them. In twenty other comedies. 10 years ago. The romantic entanglements and the effect they had on the bromance were the sole focus of the film. Unlike other films of the genre, there was no drama centered around characters’ families or work places.

Going into this film you had better be fully invested in how the three dudes’ love lives will affect their relationship as a bro-trio because there is no evidence that any of them have any other concerns.

When Mikey’s wife, Vera (Jessica Lucas) informs him that she wants a divorce and that she has been sleeping with her lawyer, Jason makes the decision that the three friends will vow to form no lasting relationships, in favor of simply partying and having COURTESY OF fun as “bros.” And in a plot that lost all of FOCUS FEATURES its surprise possibly as far back as when

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Shakespeare used it in Love’s Labor’s Lost, the three manage to fall and plot development moved away from the romantic entangleoff the ridin’-solo wagon almost immediately. Jason meets a ments and toward the friendship between the men, but not it a quirky, girl (Imogen Poots) for whom he has to overcome his way that was coherent. The film attempted to engage the viewfear of commitment issues and break the “bro” code in order to er in three different romantic plot-lines as well as the story woo. Daniel hooks up with his longtime wing-woman Chelsea between the friends, and in doing so, created three underdevel(Mackenzie Davis) and Mikey tries to rekindle things with his oped story lines and no true emotional investment for the viewwife. Within the first 30 minutes of the film, I could have prob- er. ably told you the entire plot line.

I spent the entire film wondering who the film’s creators Another element of discomfort within the film was the lack were attempting to convince to watch the movie. The plot lines of chemistry between each of the couples. were the contrived clichés of a While each character gave off his or her own romantic comedy, but the film That Awkward Moment spark, keeping you invested in their story, the was very obviously a “man’s” film. character partnerships were lacking. There The humor was directed towards Directed by Tom Gormican was nothing at stake in the plot and it was not teenage guys and at points I felt Starring Zac Efron, Miles only because the endings were apparent from the film a bit sexist; the women Teller, Michael B. Jordan the get-go — when the inevitable periods of were only present to further the dissention happened between the characters I plots of the men. My friends felt sympathy only for the individuals and was walked out of the theater comnowhere near shedding tears over the demise plaining about how the women of the relationship. The focus of chemistry were not pretty and it occurred to me that that was essentially the only gauge we had to judge them by.

Ellie (Poots) was some kind of writer. I think. Vera was a lawyer who cheated on her husband. Chelsea had an apartment? At the major climaxes where the audience should cheer for the couples coming together, I found myself wondering why the guys even wanted to be in relationships with these women.

Rom-coms are traditionally directed at women, but a sexist bromance comedy with male humor and romantic plot lines has no real audience it can appeal to. The film was a Frankenstein of overdone rom-coms and sex humor, nothing new and nothing interesting. If this is your first romantic comedy you may find it funny or sweet. If you have ever watched a movie with romantic or comedic plot lines this film is not worth the time.

Marissa Tranquilli is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at mtranquilli@cornellsun.com.

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Return to Mulholland Drive (Part Five)

ZACH ZAHOS Sun Associate Managing Editor

You can “solve” this film, I know, because Lynch thought of everything, plot-wise and otherwise, while making it. I also know that I do not want to piece together every little detail, align every event in chronological order and scrutinize what one blue key means against another blue key. The rush one feels watching this film — especially returning to it again and again, once the initial shock of the late-act reversal has worn off — comes from the act of “working things out” yet accepting that the fullness of Lynch’s vision remains beyond your grasp.

I just revisited Mulholland Drive, this being, I believe, my fifth visit. Cornell Cinema screened it on their brand-new screen with updated speakers and projection equipment. After watching it on big HDTVs, small screens and 480p projectors, I am now convinced it must be seen, at least once, across as large a canvas as possible, in the darkest and largest room you can find. This is a movie about movies, yes, but this is also a movie that downright cherishes the effect watching a movie can have on a person.

As far as breaking Mulholland Drive down and grasping for formal, narrative meaning, a little of this effort is necessary to at least ground yourself. You can go from there how you please, either pausing the film and taking notes upon every shot, or accepting that things just work out and that you will elect to bask in Mulholland Drive’s greatness only when watching it — which you do again and again, because you cannot stay away.

But, as for the film’s construction, I think most veterans accept that the first two-thirds are some sort of projection/fantasy of Diane (Naomi Watts). When she experiences this series of scenes is a good question, as well as whether or not she ever does. After the first

scene (the bizarre, obviously nostalgia-tinged “Jitterbug”), we catch a quick glimpse of, ostensibly, Diane’s POV on the bed with red sheets. She is sobbing, or at least gasping heavily, yet we don’t see her body. I don’t know what, exactly, happens during this shot, but I know it provides a tragic bookend for the film. This must be a moment, either before or, maybe, after (?) her suicide at the end, and the ambiguity of this one shot serves to remind us that this film works through mood much more than it does through cause and effect, plot-motivated narrative.

Picking apart the rest of the movie is a joy to be had in the cinema, while watching it.

However, I have gleaned much from the film by keeping one thing in mind, regarding the first two-thirds of the film: The characters, prior to the ‘blue box switch-up,’ live how Diane (in “real life”) wants them to live, yet stay at a distance because they also embody Diane’s worst tendencies. Like in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Betty (Diane’s innocent, plucky ideal of herself, or of how life should be lived, if it only could) molds Rita (Laura Harring) from a tabula rasa — courtesy of an amnesiainflicting car crash — into the perfect lover, and not to mention mother, too. The line between depiction and voyeurism of lesbian acts that some accuse Abdellatif Keciche of crossing in Blue Is the Warmest Color is not in question here. Lynch sort of lingers the camera on Rita’s breasts during that beautiful sex scene, but it’s from Betty’s perspective and connotes some mother attachment. Yet Rita lacks an interiority throughout much of the film, and acts like this obsequious doll that just so happens to have this ability for second sight. That is not a criticism, but a symptom of the fantasy and a telling sign that this fiction Diane constructs for herself will be short-lived, for Rita is the one that ends it.

Adam (Justin Theroux) is having the worst day of his life because he stole Camilla

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(or Rita) from Diane, and you can bet Diane subconsciously transfers her awful life onto Adam’s. “This is the girl,” Adam says about a girl (named “Camilla Rhodes”) he does not want for his movie (a.k.a. his life), which is a feeling Diane must suffer every day knowing she cannot have the one, the real Camilla, she wants. “This is the girl,” Diane says to the hitman who, very likely, kills Camilla sometime off-screen, before the demons (that unforgettable old couple) drive her to suicide. She tries to rationalize the murder, of course, by staging the hitman’s daily work as some slapstick farce, where one kill means two collateral deaths, a fire alarm and a whole lot of DNA evidence (I mean, he just throws his cigarette butt onto the fire escape!).

I should catch myself. As fun as the process of writing is, I should abstain from spending too much time dissecting Mulholland Drive. The gut feeling churning in one’s gut while watching this is proof enough that Lynch not only knows what he is doing but, like, knows close to everything,

as in in life. The movie makes sense because it works on that subconscious, surreal level, where “sense” is more like nonsense but lodges into our brains and bodies cleaner and quicker than the most lucid of narrative prose.

In that sense, Mulholland Drive is a movie I cherish above so many others because it lets me have it both ways: The visceral experience — of music complementing image, camera movement embodying the feeling of dreams and moments of silence swallowing us into the suffocating limbo of nightmares — is unmatched. Yet Mulholland Drive also knows that you are watching it to work it out, so it presents a mountain of clues and somehow reveals their secrets throughout its duration. When we finish watching it, we grasp for meaning and catch some of it — but not all. There is so much more in there, and that is why we return.

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

The Creativity Gap: Let Your Work Suck

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don’t talk much about myself in my column — not in any real sense, anyway. Personal articles require too much time, which I don’t have, for introspection, which I don’t need. But today I am tired of my regular M.O., slinging slang and snark in the name of projecting my sometimes ill-formed opinions on the public, so I’m going to be straight-up. And in light of the media frenzy about Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s death, a quote of his has quickly become relevant again: “For me, acting is tortuous, and it’s torturous because you know it’s a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, ‘That’s beautiful and I want that.’

Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great — well, that’s absolutely torturous.”

So this is the personal part. I’m in a creative field, and I would, in a hopefully non-pretentious way, consider myself a “creative.” Though my Daily Sun tagline has reported that I’ve been undecided in Arts and Sciences for the last two years, in actuality I declared a major over a year ago. I study design. I’m young, and I design — it’s a beautiful thing — but I find it otherworldly difficult to practice it and not hate what I create, not hate myself in turn. A therapist once told me that that just means I’m suited for the job because I have “an artist’s temperament” — a strange, nebulous label I’d like to shirk. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s still so damn hard to sit down to draft, feeling like I confront all the nasty bits of myself every time I put pen to paper. It’s like the cry-your-eyes-out therapy you know you need, but want to eschew to pretend you’re already all better. It’s tiring, and though it may sound awfully histrionic, it really is that histrionic.

Hoffman’s sentiments correspond with another poignant point, also again making the rounds on social media.

Recently revitalized as a stunning typographic visualization by photographer Daniel Sax in the last week, “The Gap” is a video referring to Ira Glass’s PRI series on storytelling. As

Glass of “This American Life” initially verbalized in 2009: “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.

And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I Profanity took longer to figure out how to do Prayers this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

Here, Glass so accurately illustrates the taste-ability gap.

It’s a “duh” revelation for all us creatives, who finally realize the obvious: your taste is the reason why your work disappoints you. It’s an easy thing to forget, especially as my neuroses grow impossibly more neurotic with each decidedly notglowing critique I receive (or gift myself). But it’s still a vital revelation in that it shows us that being bad is normal — and, sometimes even, being bad is good. As I bang my head on the wall, I know that I should keep plowing through, so that among all the well-intentioned turds I reluctantly crap out,

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there may be one shining nugget of brilliance. When that rare golden egg slides out, I’ll at least know it when I see it because, out of everything, it is my taste I can trust.

Miraculously, this also explains why really shit artists are so comfortable sharing their work. Do you ever notice that the absolute worst singers are always volunteering to perform? Truly untalented creatives have low standards that are met easily (and often). They become positively flamboyant in their self-promotion. Good on them for being uninhibited in all their misplaced confidence, but if I see another white girl who thinks she can draw try to humblebrag a shoddy still-life on Instagram, Imma cut a bitch. My technique may not be up there with my taste just yet, but I’ve got enough genuine humility to refine all my nasty bits before I debut them to the world. I know that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better, so I’ve got to suck a lot more before I may earn the privilege of sucking a little bit less, but I have hope of the gap closing.

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

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 __-de-sac 4 Consumes 11 Privately keep in the email loop, briefly 14 New START signatory 15 Unexpected result 16 Bit of cybermirth 17 Upper-bod muscle 18 With great energy, in music 19 Gp. that declared obesity a disease 20 Natives who met Lewis and Clark near modern-day Council Bluffs 22 Scent 23 Puts one’s feet up 25 Go the distance 26 Desire 27 Stopper, with “the” 28 Pretended to be 30 Bow tie preference 31 Likely to tax one’s budget 32 Corrida cry 33 Greenskeeper’s supply 34 Topographic feature represented in this puzzle’s circles 39 Inflate 42 Hyde’s birthplace?

43 Less furnished 47 Not good for a pro, usually 50 Traditional process for hammock making 52 “The Canterbury Tales” inn 53 Geometric fig.

54 Moderate pace 55 Dimwit 56 Small opening 57 Exobiologist’s org.

58 Voice actor Castellaneta of “The Simpsons” 59 Foolishness 62 Cotton __ 63 Storied vessel 64 Cheyenne allies

65 “Middle of Nowhere” director DuVernay 66 Ed.’s pile 67 First, second or third person?

68 Pinch for Pépin

35 “The Impaler” who inspired Dracula 36 “Who hath a story ready for your __”: Shak.

37 2014 Olympics airer 38 Moves quickly 39 1945 Big Three city 40 Online game icons 41 Proves fallacious

44 Xenon, for one 45 Soul-stirring 46 __ scan: ID method 48 Knock 49 Assembly-ready 50 Sister of Moses and Aaron 51 Big name in soul 53 Two-door vehicle 56 School gps.

60 __ Pacis: altar of Peace 61 Thither

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ANSWER TO PREVIOUS 5 Noritake headquarters city 6 Moves smoothly 7 John of pop 8 Hang-glide, say 9 Word of disdain 10 Impassive 11 Displays publicly 12 Opens one’s eyes 13 Butted heads 21 Direct 24 First Japanese prime minister born after WWII 27 “The Goldfish” painter 29 Print resolution letters 30 Clerical wear 32 Moon, e.g. xwordeditor@aol.com

PUZZLE:

Sun Sudoku

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Peace Dawg #V

Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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seen great success this season with notable wins against Harvard, Notre Dame and Penn State and may carry that momentum into Ivy play this weekend. The Lions’ Jackie Dubrovich returns this season after finishing second nationally in women’s foil.

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“To be honest, it has less to do with our competitor and more to do with our mindset.

All of the Ivies have powerful teams — some of them have Olympians — and each bout is going to be a challenge in itself,” she said. “We will need to rise to the challenge and stay mentally strong throughout the two-day event.”

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from last game has simmered down, but something new will always arise.”

The Red is coming off of a big weekend, beating Brown on Friday and Yale in O.T. on Saturday. Both freshman forward Jeff Kubiak and Iles received ECAC honors this week for their performances.

Cornell has also been climbing the polls and the standings. Right now, the Red sits at third in the ECAC, with Colgate just a point behind and Quinnipiac just a point ahead. However, it has taken a significant effort to rise to this point in the standings, something that Schafer has not neglected.

“We have to keep plowing ahead here, because we want to see what’s ahead of us and we want to catch those guys [ahead in the standings] and we’ve been doing that,” he said. “I think at one time we might have been in last place or

11th in the league ... and so it’s been a gradual climb. But these guys, they’re not done climbing.

They’re not worried about third or fourth or fifth, but we want to try to get to where we want to be, which is [to] try to get to first place in our league.”

As Schafer mentioned, the Red is taking it one step at a time and focusing its attention right now on this weekend’s matchup against Colgate.

“They’ve got those big boys, [like] Kyle Baun. … And just like anyone on the line we face all year, you have to take care of that line and take them off the score sheet throughout the course of the night,” Schafer said.

For Iles and the Red, there has been a lot of buildup to this game.

“Saturday is going to be a huge game,” Iles said. “And we’re all looking forward to it.”

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prised of underclassmen.

This also bodes well for the future, as all six will return next season, a year older and stronger.

Koll has been with Cornell for 21 seasons now and has built a successful program.

With 11 consecutive Ivy titles and seven consecutive EIWA crowns under his belt, Koll heads into this weekend with reason to have confidence in his team. He has more wins than any other wrestling coach

in Cornell history and looks to find another one against the Lions. However, Koll attributes his past success to the Cornell wrestling community as a whole.

“I have not built a dynasty.

I have been a small part in the program's success. Without the support of our administration, alumni, amazing assistant coaches and friends, we would never [have] realized such success,” Koll said.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Icers Battle Colgate in Tense Regional Rivals Matchup

By DANI ABADA Sun Staff Writer

This week, No. 8/9 Cornell (12-4-5, 8-34 ECAC) travels to Hamilton, N.Y. to face Colgate (13-11-9, 9-5-1) for the second

time this season.

“It’s a really big game,” said senior goaltender and assistant captain Andy Iles.

“They are right behind us in the standings and anytime someone is sitting behind you, they’re looking to climb the ladder. … They

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Breaking the tie | The last time Cornell met with Colgate on Dec. 7, the two teams tied.

Junior defenseman Joakim Ryan (above left) had a goal and an assist in the game.

are obviously a cross town rival; it’s going to be a pretty hostile atmosphere up there.”

This will be the second time the teams have met this season, the first being at Lynah on Dec. 7, when the game ended in a 2-2 tie.

“The game we had here was kind of a weird game,” said head coach Mike Schafer ‘86. “They scored two in the second period off of rebounds and another broken play, and then we scored two five-on-three goals in the game.”

The Red — currently unbeaten in nine games — will only face one opponent this weekend. Schafer discussed how this allows for some changes to the team’s regular practice schedule.

“This is a weird week: with only one game on Saturday, everything is shifted back, so [Tuesday] was like our Monday,” he said. “So the guys [who] are banged up sat out [Monday] and [Tuesday] and maybe even [will] sit out [Wednesday] and get ready for practice later in the week. ... To get that extra day, that can go a long, long way.”

Iles added that preparing for only one opponent this week gives the Red a break

from the mental stress of studying up on two different teams.

“You only have to worry about one team; every other weekend you have to worry Cornell about two teams [and] you kind of have to allocate your time accordingly as far as preparations are vs. concerned,” he said.

The last game between the regional rivals ended with a little tension, so there Colgate has been some speculation about whether Saturday, 7 p.m. or not it will carry Hamilton, N.Y. over into this weekend’s game.

“It always gets testy against [Colgate] — they compete hard, we compete hard and that’s what happens when two teams leave it all out on the ice,” Iles said. “I’m sure some of the stuff See M. HOCKEY page 11

FENCING

Fencers Prepare for Top-Ranked Opponents in Ivy Championship

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell fencing team will travel to Providence, R.I. to compete in the Ivy League Championships this weekend.

The Red holds a 14-4 record going into the Round-Robins, with three of the four losses accounted for by Top-10 teams.

In light of its recent success, the team hopes to capitalize on this positive momentum entering Ivys.

Cornell aims to make a name for itself this year among the top contenders for the Ivy championship title. Last year, the squad went 2-4 in conference play, tallying three losses on the first day to Princeton, Harvard and Brown, and then rallying the following day to rack up two wins against Penn and Yale. The Red could not find the equalizer in its contest against Columbia and lost, 207, to close the weekend. This year, the squad hopes to clinch

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The Athletics Department, with the support of the women’s hockey team, will host a Bone Marrow Donor Registry Saturday from 3-9 p.m. in Barton Hall to help fight leukemia.

tight bouts and steal the crown from Princeton, which earned it in 2013.

“The Ivy League presents a really strong force in the fencing community. Last year at the Ivy League Round-Robins, we had a lot of close matches that ultimately did not go our way,” said sophomore Angelica Gangemi. “This year, our goal is to turn those close matches into victories.”

The tournament will pose a challenge for the Red as the squad matches up against all the Ivy League powerhouses, with the exception of Dartmouth, which does not have a women’s team. Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, all sitting at the top of the national rankings, will be competing.

All five of Harvard’s NCAA national qualifiers will return for the Ivies, led by 2011 national champion Alex Kiefer.

The Crimson’s Emma Vaggo is another fencer to watch if her 16-2 epee performance at the Round-Robins last year, earning her All-Ivy status, is any indication of what she has in store for 2014.

No. 1 Princeton has swept the competition this season and currently holds a perfect 21-0 record after securing 13 wins at the Northwestern Duals this past weekend. The Tigers have claimed the last four Ivy titles consecutively and hold a 25match winning streak at the Round-Robin.

Similarly, Columbia has See FENCING page 11

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Hungry for more | Sophomore Nahshon Garrett said his team has its sights set on the NCAA Championships in March.

WRESTLING

Wrestlers Try for Twelfth Straight Conference Title

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the Cornell wrestling team will take on Ivy League foe Columbia at home with the hopes of winning its 12th straight Ancient Eight Championship.

So far this season, the Red has been able to maintain an untarnished record, winning all of its matches in both the Ivy League and against nonconference foes.

At this point, the Red is not only looking to take home another title in League play, but has also set its sights on the NCAA Championship in March. Five wrestlers who qualified for the NCAAs last year are returning to the mat against Columbia.

“We are motivated because our goals are always much higher than just another Ivy title,” said sophomore Nahshon Garrett. “We are a young, hard working team and we are gunning for a national title.”

Senior Chris Villalonga said that the Red’s goal at this point in the season is to prepare for the National Championship.

“As of now, all we want to do is build on this momentum as we approach some tougher teams in duals and conference tournaments and eventually NCAA’s,” he said.

According to head coach Rob Koll, there is a higher level of intensity in practice. Furthermore, with such a young team and a sizable group of freshmen playing significant roles, the team has been looking to tidy up its technique going into the postseason.

“At this point in the season, we are not trying to teach anything new, just to refine and perfect our techniques. Our practices are shorter and more intense,” Koll said.

Out of the ten men in the starting lineup, four are freshmen and two are sophomores, meaning that more than half of the lineup is comSee WRESTLING page 11