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C.U. Football Team Voices Support for Unionization

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State of the union | Members of the Cornell football team have expressed support for unions for collegiate athletic teams.

Members of the Cornell football team expressed their support for Northwestern University football players, who have been battling against their university for the right to unionize in a historic National Labor Relations Board hearing that concluded Tuesday.

Arguing against the NCAA rules that categorize collegiate football players as “amateurs” who do not qualify for employee benefits, the National College Players Association filed a petition on behalf of the Northwestern players that could potentially lead to landmark changes in national policies regarding collegiate athletes.

Given the “meteoric rise” of college football in recent years, the legal challenge

Center Forms Post-Abortion Support Group Group seeks to reduce ‘stigma’surrounding abortion

By ZOE FERGUSON

Center, which co-sponsors the group.

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A new support group that aims to address issues of post-abortion distress will begin meeting on campus March 16, according to professionals involved with the group.

The support group is intended to be a “safe space” for women who have had abortions to share their stories without judgment, according to Laura Weiss, director of the Cornell Women’s Resource

“There is a lack of open dialogue about ... experiences with abortion.”

Laura Weiss “There is a lack of open dialogue about individuals’ experiences with abortion, most likely due to the tremendous social and

political tension and stigma,” Weiss said.

Weiss said that the group’s overall presence, in addition to its services, is important on campus.

“I hope that just knowing that it’s being offered helps to break down the stigma that surrounds abortion,” she said.

Stephanie Haskins — a birth and postpartum doula that counsels pregnant women and new mothers — will run the support

posed by the Northwestern players was inevitable, according to Taylor Engstrom ’14, a member of Cornell’s football team.

“The amount of money being put into some of these programs is unparalleled by any other time in college sports history,” Engstrom said. “It’s easiest to see in the marquee coaches’ salaries. [Head Coach for the University of Alabama] Nick Saban makes $7 million a year. That beats out [most] NBA coaches and NFL coaches.”

Considering the high salaries of coaches and the profitability of college football teams, athletes such as Kain Colter — a former Northwestern quarterback who has testified on behalf of his team in the hearings — are “nearly impossible” to categorize as students-athletes rather than

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New York State Health Commissioner Nirav Shah speaks about reforming healthcare Wednesday.

Shah: Healthcare Journal Founder, Cornell Law School System Is‘Broken’ See SUPPORT page 5

Professor Theodore Eisenberg Dies at 66

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Theodore Eisenberg, law, died Feb. 23 of a heart attack, according to a University press release. He was 66 years old.

Eisenberg taught at the Law School for 33 years and developed empirical legal studies on issues like bankruptcy, the death penalty and civil rights, according to the Cornell Law School website. His classes covered topics such as con-

stitutional law, civil rights legislation and corporate taxation.

PROF. EISENBERG

Before arriving at Cornell in 1981, Eisenberg clerked for the

District of Columbia Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals and for Chief Justice Earl Warren, according to the Cornell Law School website. He also served in private practice and as a professor at the University of California, Los An geles.

Eisenberg was an active researcher, having authored or co-authored more than 125 scholarly articles and contributed to more than 20 books, according to the

University press release.

In addition, he founded the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and served as a visiting professor for universities including Stanford, Harvard and Tel-Aviv.

Eisenberg is survived by his wife and three children — one of whom is a Cornell Ph.D. student studying economics — and two grandchildren, according to the press release.

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

By TALIA JUBAS

Sun Staff Writer

New York State Health Commissioner Nirav Shah spoke Wednesday afternoon about his goals for improving the state’s healthcare system.

Since Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed him as state health commissioner in December 2010, Shah has guided the state Medicaid program toward over $6 billion in savings, while “improving population health and the quality of care,” according to Alan Mathios, dean of the College of Human Ecology, who introduced the com-

missioner.

Shah said he hopes to continue restructuring the healthcare system by moving from a fee-for-service model to a more preventative approach.

“We know that fee-forservice model of care has gotten us to a state of affairs that faces many problems,” he said. According to Shah, five percent of New York patients are responsible for 50 percent of the state’s healthcare costs.

Shah said such large costs have been hindering other state provisions — such as public education.

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Statler Receives Recognition for Green Efforts

By AIMEE CHO Sun Staff Writer

The Statler Hotel received the 2014 Good Earthkeeping Award — an award given by the New York State Hospitality and Tourism Association for eco-friendly hotels — which it will formally receive at a March 3 banquet.

Each year NYSHTA selects one hotel to receive the award as recognition for developing a culture of sustainability and environmentally friendly management practices, according to Nicole Meneveau ’15, a member of the EarthView EcoLeader Team that has been working on sustainability initiatives at the Statler.

Rick Adie ’75, general manager of the Statler Hotel, said he and the students have been working with The Hersha Group — a hotel management, investment and development firm — since last February to implement the EarthView sustainability program.

The program examines the environmental, financial and social impacts of sustainability initiatives, according to Adie.

Adie said that one of the Statler’s biggest conservation projects was the Energy Conservation Initiative, which included the installation of occupancy sensors to control heating ventilation and air conditioning.

“When the meeting rooms aren’t occupied, heating and air conditioning aren’t running. We also put variable speed drivers [which control the speed of motors] on kitchen exhaust systems and dish machines,” Adie said. “These are the sustainability initiatives that you don’t really see but they have a huge impact.”

The Statler has implemented green initiatives in its dining and conference services, according to Maria Casanova ’14, a member of the EarthView Eco-Leader Team.

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Sustainable Statler | One of the Statler Hotel’s sustainability initiatives includes having compostable products as well as stations for composting and recycling at its eateries.

“The kitchen tries to use as many local and sustainable vendors as possible. Everything is compostable,” she said.

“We changed the banquet tables to be linen-less, which saved thousands of dollars. And we don’t use bottled water for events — we use refillable pitchers.”

The paper products in the guest rooms — such as toilet paper, paper towels and tissues — now have a higher percentage of recycled content, according to Adie.

Another sustainability initiative involves working with the organization Clean the World, which helps recycle toiletries in the hospitality industry, The Sun previously reported.

According to Adie, housekeepers collect gently-used soaps and shampoos left in the guest rooms, and the toiletries are then sent to Clean the World where they are sanitized and shipped to homeless shelters and foreign countries to people in need of them.

“The housekeepers are so proud that they can retrieve

Foreign food

these soaps, that the soaps are being repurposed rather than going into the trash,” he said.

Housekeepers are also trained to use close windows to save money on heating and cooling, and use natural lighting and less electricity while they are cleaning, according to Jacob Schaffer ’16, a member of the EarthView Eco-Leader Team.

Adie added he feels that Cornell’s emphasis on sustainability has created an “inspirational” environment on campus.

“We challenge each other. There’s a lot of excitement about how far we’ve come, but we still have lots to do.

President [David] Skorton has established a goal that the campus will be carbon neutral by 2050, and everyone is really working towards that,” he said. “It’s going to create a better future for all of us.”

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

Comedy Club Looks to Set Itself Apart From Others Group to focus on stand-up,written humor

By ANDREW LEE

Patel said the only significant change she plans on making to C3’s formula is implementing a tryout process to perform.

The newly registered Cornell Comedy “The only thing we’re changing this year Club — an organization with a focus on is that we are making the whole process a litstand-up and written humor — will begin tle more formal and selective,” Patel said. holding weekly meetings Tuesday.

Silverman said the group is seeking to Conceived last Spring, C3 saw several of increase its visibility on campus. its initial members graduate and did not “[We] want to increase our membership hold fall meetings due to issues with recruit- and become a well-known comedy group on ment and scheduling, according to club campus and … just have a good time with president Roma Patel ’16. fellow performers and As a result, the club was “You don’t need to have lovers of comedy,” not registered with the said. any prior experience to Silverman University last semester.

Cornell students have Lyle Berstein ’16 said have a good time.” already expressed interest C3 differs from many in C3’s return. other comedy groups on Lyle Berstein ’16 “I think that there is a campus because it takes a distinct difference more holistic approach to comedy tech- between a comedy club and a comedy group niques. that performs,” Millicent Kastenbaum ’16 “We do everything, from stand-up com- said. “I think comedy clubs service a unique edy to improv,” said Berstein. “We are also niche that comedy groups do not.” working to create comedy videos for Kastenbaum said that the club may Youtube.” appeal to students that do not have the time Marguerite Silverman ’16, vice president to perform comedy and would instead preof C3, added that the club hopes to set itself fer to meet in an informal setting. apart from other comedy groups on cam“They may want to learn more about it pus. and meet with others who are interested in “Our goals for this semester are primari- comedy as well,” Kastenbaum said. “And I ly to introduce and establish a new style of think this is where something like a comedy comedy on campus that differs from other club comes in.” groups in that our focus is on stand-up and The organization encourages anyone written comedy as opposed to improv and slightly interested in comedy to join and sketches. attend its weekly meetings, according to Last spring, weekly meeting consisted of Berstein. developing jokes and practicing stand-up “You don’t need to have any prior experiroutines, according to Patel. ence to have a good time,” he said.

“People would contact us and ask us to perform, and we want to keep on doing Andrew Lee can be reached at that,” she said. alee@cornellsun.com.

Sun Staff Writer

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Prof. Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, University of Ghana, plant molecular genetics speaks on food security and food breeding in West and Central Africa in Mann Library on Wednesday.

Around the Ivies Yale to Build Solar-Powered House According to the Yale Daily News, a group of Yale University students plan on building a solar-powered house next year. The house will be shipped from Connecticut to California, where it will be entered into the U.S. Department of Energy’s biennial Solar Decathlon. This is the first time a Yale team has entered the competition.

Morocco Program Canceled Again Due to low enrollment, Dartmouth College’s Arabic foreign study program in Tangier, Morocco will be cancelled for the fall of 2014. This is the second

year in a row the program was cancelled, according to The Dartmouth.

University officials are working to revamp the program.

Harvard Drafts Privacy Policy A year after several Harvard University resident deans had their emails secretly searched against campus policy, a task force led by President Drew Faust has recommended a University-wide privacy policy for electronic information, The Harvard Crimson reported.

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Healthcare Should Focus On Prevention, Shah Says HEALTHCARE

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“There’s no question healthcare is broken,” he said.

Shah added that his goals to reduce costs do not involve downsizing care, and his focus remains on replacing inefficient healthcare methods.

“This is not about cutting Medicaid, it’s about right-sizing Medicaid,” he said. “Let’s start paying for things that are evidence-based.”

During the presentation, Shah presented the fundamental aspects of the healthcare industry’s cost structure and challenged their assumptions.

He proposed channeling efforts and funds toward more illness prevention.

“While today you’re spending 95 cents of your dollar on healthcare delivery … you’re only spending 5 cents of the dollar on prevention. Flip that ratio,” he said.

Shah said he supports the Nurse-Family Partnership Program — where a nurse visits a pregnant woman on Medicaid every month during her pregnancy and the two years following birth. The implementation of this type of antenatal care actually saves money, according to Shah.

Another preventive investment Shah cited was the fluorida-

tion of city water. Every dollar spent on fluoridation saves $14 on children’s dental bills, according to Shah.

In December, the New York State Department of Health published the State Health Innovation Plan, which outlines a five-year directive for state health policy. These goals — which Shah highlighted in his presentation — include improved access to healthcare and the integration of mental health in primary care provisions. Shah emphasized the role of data in making his plans a reality.

“We’re going to collect the claims and the clinical data, and give the data away to researchers and policy makers so that we actually have some insight as a state into what we have to do and where we have to go,” he said.

Shah also said that the health department has experienced vast improvements since it started implementing these ideas.

“We’ve seen that when you have high-quality primary care, use of primary goes up, emergency room use goes down, admissions goes down, and total cost of care goes down,” he said. “[The goal is] to move outside of healthcare delivery to health delivery.”

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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Football Team Talks Unions UNION

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employees, according to Engstrom.

“They drive ticket prices, merchandise sales and other profit generators associated with athletic teams,” Engstrom said. “Why aren’t they compensated, especially when they struggle to finish their degrees or afford basic living expenses?”

Universities such as Northwestern often make millions of dollars in profit while athletes are left without compensation, according to Niniva Kinikini ’17, a member of Cornell’s football team.

“Northwestern’s football revenue between 2003 and 2012 totaled $235 million and its expenses totaled $159 million,” Kinikini said.

“When you do the math, the compensation for each player is not nearly as much as the [profit that] universities make.”

Though the NCAA places restrictions on how many hours football players can be expected to spend on the field — a policy which they have highlighted in their categorization of student-athletes as “amateurs” rather than professionals — these limitations rarely reflect the time commitment made by players, according to Kinikini.

“The amount of time athletes spend preparing [for] and recovering from team activities such as workouts, film and meetings is probably is the same amount of time they spend doing those activities,” said Kinikini. “Essentially, athletes are doing double the ‘official’ time allowed to be spent on athletics.”

Other Cornell football team members echoed the sentiments of the Northwestern team in criticizing NCAA policies regarding student-athletes, according to Jesse Heon ’14, a member of Cornell’s football team.

“I believe the monopoly that the NCAA has on college athletes has become ridiculous to say the least,” Heon said. “All the revenues coming to the NCAA are earned by employees — student-athletes — that incur no cost to their overarching organization.”

The actions of the Northwestern football team and the National College Players Association are “blazing a trail for the rest of college athletes,” Kinikini said, and have highlighted the ways in which colleges prioritize profit over the scholarship of student-athletes.

“People do not truly understand how difficult it is to manage athletics and academics, and be successful in both,” Kinikini said.

Despite their support of the move to increase the rights of studentathletes, Engstrom said he felt that there is little likelihood of similar actions towards unionization at Cornell.

“I don’t think this could happen at Cornell,” Engstrom said. “While we spend just as much time and effort as Division 1 [Football Bowl Subdivision] guys like the [Northwestern] Wildcats, we are all nonscholarship athletes and we specifically attended an Ivy League school to be the quintessential student-athlete. We don’t expect to be compensated or felt sorry for and we embrace that.”

The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board is expected to decide whether the student athletes will be considered employees within the next four to six weeks, according to The Chicago Tribune.

Chris Yates can be reached at cyates@cornellsun.com.

Post-Abortion Group Will Offer Emotional Support SUPPORT

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group.

She said she has recently refocused her attention on abortion issues due to “various personal interactions” in her work.

Haskins said she was involved in a post-abortion support group when she was a student at the University of Massachusetts; this is the first time she will run the support group at Cornell.

The post-abortion support group at the University of Massachusetts was in high demand, according to Haskins.

“There were always more women interested in participating in the support group than we had space for,” she said.

Cornell’s support group will be limited to twelve women and those who wish to participate are encouraged to sign up early, according to Haskins.

“The size is limited to create intimacy, trust and enough time and space for everyone to be heard,” she said.

Women who have just had an abortion can experience conflicting emotions such as “grief, relief, joy and sadness,” Weiss said.

All the personal factors involved in a woman’s decision to have an abortion contribute to such varied emotional reactions, according to Haskins.

“There are so many different reasons abortions happen,” Haskins said. “Those myriad reasons create a myriad of possible emotions and responses.”

Haskins said the group will be tailored to meet the needs of participants.

“I will be feeling out the participants for what it is they need,” she said. “I think there is a great need in the community for such a group.”

Weiss said she hopes the group will meet a need in the community that is often goes unacknowledged.

“Too often, people are silenced about their experiences with abortion,” Weiss said. “I believe that creating supportive spaces that help people navigate their experiences is beneficial and meets a real need, one that is rarely voiced.”

The support group will follow a seven week schedule, meeting weekly on Sundays.

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

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Sex is not a game To the Editor: Donny J, columnist for The Cornell Daily Sun, promotes questionable behavior that objectifies women by measuring their worth in numbers. He has made sex a game in his column.

His points system in his Oct. 2 piece, “Kneel or No Kneel,” encourages predatory and manipulative sexual behavior, such as hooking up with a “grenade.” On the other hand, he penalizes cock blocking, something that can be used to protect individuals from the dangerous behavior he incentivizes.

These misogynistic acts, coupled with sleazy lines like, “There are times when I feel like an IKEA salesman, because I believe no bedroom is complete without one-night stand,” are disgusting.

Not only does Donny J's language promote behavior that is dangerous and incredibly rude to women, but he is also a misrepresentation of the upstanding college men on campus that engage in healthy sex lives. Our campus actively supports education on consent and healthy relationships through programs like SpeakAboutIt, ConsentEd, Wingman 101 and the Every1 Campaign. Donny J’s column completely reverses the positive movement of these programs and allows students who read The Sun to think that those behaviors and games are acceptable.

We aren’t saying that the removal and replacement of Donny J will change the viewpoint of every student on campus. Changing culture is a slow process with many hurdles. Womanizing is inexcusable and we should continue to create a community that defies rape culture.

What may be entertaining to some people is offensive and backward thinking to most. Why do we accept this? We are putting Donny J on a pedestal.

A sex column can be enriching, funny and entertaining without degrading human beings. To the writer behind Donny J, you have not used your column wisely. It’s about time that Donny J’s inkwell went dry.

To the esteemed Editor of The Cornell Daily Sun, the nation’s best college newspaper; we say take a stand against Donny J’s behavior. Hire someone who treats women with respect.

Drew Endick, Big Red Banter Juliana Batista, Student Assembly Women’s Liaison Representative

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here’s nothing like a little curveball gled to reach a consensus, I realized someright before you’re about to go on a thing: Maybe it didn’t matter.

Social norms are changing. Dates today date. This winter break, two nights before I was meant to go to a Broadway show seem to defy any sort of formal definition or (aptly named First Date: The Musical) with a checklist, so much so that when a guy does go boy named Dave, he graced me with a text out of his way to let a girl know that he conmessage that made my heart sink: “Yo, I siders their hangout a date, it can place a lot copped a ticket. Try to get one and maybe I of pressure on a situation in which people are just starting to get to know each other. can switch with the guy next to you.”

When we hang out with someone new, we The romantic in me died a little bit. He bought a ticket without me? Were we not should focus on feeling comfortable and havgoing together? Was this some sort of test of ing fun. Instead, we often find ourselves trymy interest? The only thing I knew for sure ing to decode intentions while looking to was that there is nothing romantic about the behavior for clues. But when we get caught up in the technicalities of who paid for what verb “copped,” and there never will be.

I did what any confused person in my or asked whom to go where, we lose sight of position would do; I struggled to think of a the more important checklist: Did we have a response, wrote three unsatisfactory drafts good time? Did we feel respected? Do we want to see this person again? Pseudo-dates and then didn’t respond for four hours. come in all In the end, I shapes and decided to go to the show.

When we hang out with someone new, sizes. They can be coincidenAs the lights we should focus on feeling comfort- tal, like when dimmed, it all realize that hit me: I had able and having fun. Instead, we often we we are hangliterally purfind ourselves trying to decode inten- ing out with a chased a ticket certain person to this show tions while looking to behavior alone for the with my own first time. for clues. money to sit They can be two rows accidental, behind this guy and stare at the back of his head. This was not like when we run into someone unexpectedly a date. This was an act of desperation on my and wind up catching up for an hour. These instances may not involve door holding or part.

The first song ended and people clapped any of the formalities that we associate with a as I fought back tears. I had never felt so “date,” but that doesn’t make them any less incredibly stupid. And then, suddenly, it hap- valuable. They all involve the opportunity to pened. In the middle of a Broadway musical, see how we vibe with another person.

I’m not suggesting that we keep our intenDave leapt out of his seat, over a row of people, and landed in the unclaimed seat next to tions deliberately vague, or that we put up with someone who refuses to treat us to anyme. He put his arm around me.

When I got home that night, my friends thing, lest it be too incriminating a gesture. attacked me with a series of questions, the There must be transparency at some point. most of important of which being: Was it a But in the beginning, when things are budding and fragile, a little bit of ambiguity can date?

The truth was, I had no idea. But the girls go a long way towards keeping things light wouldn’t take that for an answer. They fired a and making both parties feel at ease. A couchecklist of questions at me: Did he pay? Did ple of low-pressure pseudo-dates — and a lithe look nice? Smell good? Hold any doors tle bit of wiggle room — never hurt anybody. open for me? Walk me home? (No, yes, yes, yes, yes).

Liz Kussman is a senior in the College of Human These questions were meant to define Ecology.

She may be reached at ekussman@corwhat a date was. But after answering each nellsun.com. Up to Date appears alternate one, I was still clueless. As my friends strug- Thursdays this semester.

CORRECTIONS A Feb. 25 news story, “English Language Support to Help International Students,” incorrectly identified Joe Martin as co-chair and director of the Knight Institute. In fact, Martin is the Writing Workshop director at the Knight Institute.

A Feb. 26 news story, “Students Will Lobby Congress For Necessity of Financial Aid,” misidentified Dianne Miller, director of Cornell’s Office of Federal Government Relations, as Diane Miller ’88. In fact, she is not a Cornell graduate but had been confused with Diane Miller ’88, assistant director of Arts and Sciences Career Services. A photo of Diane Miller ’88 was also erroneously present in the teaser on the front page.

A Feb. 26 news story, “Skorton Rejects Faculty Senate Resolution Calling for Divestment,” erroneously stated in the drop deck on page 5 that the University is expected to exceed a $2 million dollar budget this year. In fact, the University is expecting revenue to exceed its $2.1 billion budget by $3.5 million this year, or by the small margin of 0.2 percent. In addition, the fourth paragraph of the article did not include this amount by which the budget would be exceeded (only mentioning a “thin line”), nor did it adequately attribute it as reasoning behind President Skorton’s opposition to divesting from fossil fuels.

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Amy O. | Some Like It Rough

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his past February break, I had the pleasure of meeting the girl my now ex-boyfriend hooked up with a few times while he was studying abroad. Don’t get me wrong, we were in an open relationship and I was kind of dating two guys pretty seriously at once, so technically he did nothing wrong. But anyone who has been in an open relationship knows that “technically” doing nothing wrong means you still have a right to be upset. Sure, I’m a bit of a hypocrite, but yes, my feelings were actually hurt.

I later found out that said ex-boyfriend had been in contact with another girl while we were actually officially dating. I hated this girl. Like her name would be mentioned and I would become a literal cartoon character with smoke coming out of my nose and ears because I was convinced she was tearing our relationship apart. Luckily, I’m now friends with the girl (she’s awesome), and have come to realize that she was not, in fact, the one ruining my relationship; my boyfriend was.

Some people come to college and have amazing, successful relationships. My brother (the lucky asshole) and his girlfriend are one such couple. They were friends freshman year, started dating sophomore year and have been together ever since.

They made it work when he was abroad, when she was abroad and

even after they graduated. They love each After that there was the resentful guy. other, take care of each other and really make With him, it was amazing when it was good, each other happy. and just god-awful when he got upset. And And then there are those of us who date lastly there was the guy who kind of forced really terrible people. First, there was the me to stay with him after the summer. He cheater: My ex-boyfriend who cheated on was great, but a summer fling should stay me during our relationship and cheats on his that way. current girlfriend, (sorry for that time he Around the beginning of this school year, watched me shower via FaceTime in I looked at my past relationships and said to December). I swear we were happy at some myself, “Wow, you have such a great track point, but his fear of being alone means he record!” Truly, I applaud myself. Maybe I’m can’t really do the commitment thing. the worst girlfriend/dater of all time (I don’t Then, think I am), or there was the maybe we’re I’m not even saying that college guy who just prowouldn’t text grammed to relationships don’t ever work out. I’m NOT date in me back for weeks at a college. For just posing the idea that perhaps time, but every one cousomehow still ple like my when we start hooking up with thought we brother and someone, we should keep it at that — his girlfriend, I were “dating.”

After six weeks countno labels and no next steps forward. watch of that bullshit, less others (all I told him I of mine…) fail had promised miserably. myself to someone else when he invited me So I would like to pose the idea that we to his date night in front of his friends (kind are not supposed to date right now. It’s not a of an asshole move, but whatever). He still new concept, (my mom has been telling me pulls the same text-ignoring thing (who to play the field for forever … go mom!), knew a, “Hi wanna grab a drink tonight?” and I’m not saying be like me and have sex text was so loaded), so I guess you could say with someone different every weekend. I’m we don’t talk anymore. not even saying that college relationships

don’t ever work out. I’m just posing the idea that perhaps when we start hooking up with someone, we should keep it at that — no labels and no next steps forward.

I spent a lot of time hung up on my shitty ex-boyfriend before I realized he’s more than a shitty ex; he’s just a bad person whose self-destructive attitude took me down with him. And even though I joke about all these horrible guys I dated (they really weren’t all that bad), they still sucked up a ton of my time.

Since I stopped dating people, I’ve done more yoga, improved my GPA, spent more time with my housemates and made a lot of amazing friends. Most importantly, I’ve learned to deal with hardships in my life alone. I’m not saying these things are because I don’t have a boyfriend, but that they might be because I don’t have a boyfriend — less time focusing on someone else inevitably means I get to spend more time focusing on myself. So maybe, just maybe, we should take our four years of college to focus a little more on ourselves (whether that means having a ton of sex or having no sex at all), and a little less on finding a partner. Just an idea; take it or leave it.

Amy O. is a senior in the College of Human Ecology.

She may be reached at amyo@cornellsun.com. Some Like It Rough appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Donny J. | Headshakes and High Fives

Make Her Laugh W

hen I’m writing an article, there are times when I actually happened): have briefly mentioned before, and always try to put in perforget that not everyone who reads them knows Method 1: Give a slight scare, then immediately redeem spective in most of my articles, there is a distinct difference who I am (though at this point, I think a significant yourself. If that aforementioned person were to climb on top between casual sex (or standard sex with someone you’re datnumber of people do). My sense of humor is often very sar- of you and say, “I’m going to give you the clap” and then pro- ing) and making love. Things that are acceptable for the one castic and joking, appearing misogynistic on the surface but, ceed to applaud you during sex, then chances are he or she is night with that girl from Level B are not acceptable every time in reality, not actually so. I’ve come to realize that, so from someone worth talking to outside of the bedroom. Or better with your girlfriend of three years. And they shouldn’t be, here on out, any such jokes made will be obviously sarcastic yet, tell him or her: “This is the best sex I’ve had since the because no one wants to be sweaty and out of breath after an instead of just subtly. operation.” Even if the sex physically is not that great, you’ll hour of some of the deepest, most soul-binding sex you’ve ever On the topic of humor, I find that nothing sets the mood enjoy yourself more because that’s simply what laughing does: had, only to lean over her shoulder and go, “I hope you better than laughing. Have you ever been in bed brought your raincoat because you are getting with someone who’s so uptight and serious?

SOAKED, girl!” No, just no. (And frankly, that Someone who just cannot seem to unwind a bit and isn’t acceptable to say to that girl from Level B Passionate love-making aside, what are you realize that frankly, sex is supposed to be fun? This either.) isn’t a job interview — but if it were, the only posidoes not mean that humorous sex, howgoing to get out of a standard sexual encounter ever,That tion available is missionary (though I imagine there is reserved purely for the casual bangers. If will be some openings soon *ba-dum-kssh.*) See? you like this person enough to at the very least that you cannot get with your best friends, Hopefully, I just made you laugh. Horny, yet? Well make yourself exclusive with him or her, then you you shouldn’t be, because that would be awkward. two should be comfortable enough asking each Left and Right Hand?

Today is a little how-to guide on lightening that other, while in the position, “Hey, why do they call bedroom mood, and trust me when I say that it’s it doggie-style? My dog hated it when we tried something everyone could use. Honestly, what’s sex without a anytime, anywhere. this.” Or, ladies, nickname his penis Excalibur. And if he doeslight-hearted atmosphere? Passionate love-making aside, what Method 2: Admit and own your deficiencies. Let’s say n’t get the joke and immediately try to roll over and hide, proare you going to get out of a standard sexual encounter that you’re a little late when you were supposed to meet up with ceed to remind him exactly what happened in The Sword in you cannot get with your best friends, the Left and Right said girl. This line works every (almost never) time: “Hey, I the Stone.

Hand? If you actually want to interact with another human know I’m late, but at least I always cum early!” Then hold The point is that there should be no such thing as boring being, then get ready to put your funny bone inside her, too. your hand out for a high-five and pray she finds that douchey sex, regardless of what your current relationship status is.

There is nothing sexier to me than a girl who can take a joke side of you at least a little attractive. Let’s face it, you two have What I find sexy may not be what you do, but from personal and dish one right back because I know that I enjoy her com- been naked on top of each other, using dirty talk not accept- experience there are a lot of people who want nothing more pany other than just for sex. able at most dinner tables. Humility was shed a long time ago, than to feel good inside and out. And if blowing raspberries Let’s say you have a bed buddy who you only speak to once so there’s no reason why now’s the time to be serious. into her sides and tickling her until she falls off the bed does a week with the words, “Hey girl, you out?” What are you Method 3: Catch the other person off guard. For instance, the trick, then just go for it. going to say to that person the rest of the time? Nothing. ask, “Hey what’s the difference between you and a bowl of You’ll awkwardly look down at your phone or wave to a friend mashed potatoes?” Then answer, “I didn’t put my penis in you Donny J. is a senior in the College of Engineering. He may be reached who’s not even there when you walk by her in Duffield. Here’s last night.” Works. Every. Time. at donnyj@cornellsun.com. Headshakes and High Fives appears alterhow you fix that, based on personal experiences (yes, these all Obviously, there’s a time and place for everything. As I nate Thursdays this semester.

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Foodie Face-Off: Viva la Viva

Battle of the Mexican Fare: Viva Taqueria vs. Mexeo

By CASEY CARR Sun Staff Writer

Food and Atmosphere

Before I even walked into Viva, my mouth was watering.

Just passing by the restaurant, I could get a sniff of its distinctive smell. If you’ve ever walked by it, you know what I’m talking about: that ambrosial smell of fresh, warm tortillas and roasting onion that scintillates the senses and leaves you lusting for Mexican food, no matter the time of day.

Walking into the sit-down portion of the restaurant, I felt as if I was being transported to an authentic Mexican cantina.

With its rustic brick walls adorned with suns, crosses, moons and hearts, with the

vivid pink, blue and yellow that blanket its walls and handpainted chairs, I’d say that Viva is eclectic desert chic. There are no cliché sombreros on the wall or cactus centerpieces here.

After browsing all of the delicious options, I finally settled on the chicken fajita: marinated chicken breast grilled with peppers and onions, served with four small tortillas, rice, refried beans, cheese, salsa fresca, guacamole, sour cream and shredded lettuce.

All eyes in the restaurant were glued to my server as the plate of sizzling marinated chicken, caramelized onion and peppers in a cast iron skillet was placed before me. In addition to this impressive platter, the server brought out two more dishes:

a large plate filled with accessory ingredients and wedges of lime, and a tortilla warmer housing four tortillas.

The salsa fresca was bright and full of zest, the refried beans were a mashed masterpiece enhanced by melted cheese and the marinated chicken, caramelized onion and pepper were flavorful with just a hint of lime. My taste buds were doing the macarena. My only qualm was about the guacamole.

Though it had the right ratio of avocado and seasoning, it was too smooth for my taste. Still, the fajita fillings were generous in portion size, so much so that my four tiny tortillas were not enough to finish them all.

Leaving with leftovers and a satiated stomach, the trip downhill to the restaurant made the trek back up worth it.

Service

The service was laid-back and amazingly quick. My dish came out within 10 minutes of ordering. Attentive, but not pushy, I really appreciated the service at Viva.

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THE HEIGHTS CAFÉ and GRILL

Ithaca’s Best-Kept Secret for Over Eighteen Years.

The Heights Café and Grill Community Corners • 903 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 257-4144 • www.heightscafe.com Cocktails, Lunch, Dinner • Private dining room available Reservations suggested

At a price of $13.49 for two plates of food, your dinero sure does go a long way. So if the tantalizing smell of its cuisine doesn’t at first excite your tastebuds, Viva’s generous portion sizes and authentic Mexican flavor and flair will.

Casey Carr can be reached at ccarr@cornellsun.com.

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Pollo Box

By CASEY CARR Sun Staff Writer

Food and Atmosphere

Mexeo is tucked away in one of those shopfronts in Collegetown you often pass without noticing. But if you do happen to enter the tiny establishment on Dryden Road, you’ll find that it’s as unassuming inside as it is outside.

When I walked in, I was underwhelmed by the lack of tables and chairs in the restaurant –– or more precisely, their nonexistence –– and the whitewashed walls with sad stripes of yellow, blue and pink smeared upon them.

Food orders are taken by checking off the items you want on a slip of paper. I chose the pollo box, which consists of bone-in, all-natural chicken thighs in a chipotle citrus sauce roasted with Spanish rice, refried pinto beans, seasonal fresh tomato salsa, seasonal slaw, avocado, yogurt sauce and lime.

As I sat down on one of the few benches in the restaurant, I noticed the chalkboard above the cash register. It listed all of the ingredients the restaurant uses and their sources –– all local. The peppers, tomatoes and onions are from Indian Creek Farm, the cheese is from Hillcrest Dairy and the greens are from Lucky Dog Farm –– all of which are based in Ithaca or nearby companies and farms.

Mexeo does beat Viva when it comes to locally sourcing its food: Only the tofu and beans at Viva are locally sourced. So despite my unfavorable first impression of Mexeo, I grew to be genuinely excited to try the

food.

As I awkwardly attempted to dig into my Mexican meal, balancing the food on my lap, I immediately noticed the absence of avocado, yogurt sauce and lime from the meal – – not to mention the lack of knives in the restaurant with which to cut my chicken.

The coleslaw, consisting of only pickled purple cabbage, was good enough; the rice and beans were generic. And the salsa didn’t appear to have any spices or juice at all: It was just a mix of raw, diced green peppers, onion and tomato. The highlight of the meal was the chicken. It nearly fell off the bone, and the chipotle citrus sauce added real character to the meal.

Service

Mexeo is a one-man show, which is an impressive feat.

However, the restaurant could probably benefit from a few extra hands in the kitchen. Still, the food came out quickly, and there was a steady stream of people coming in and out for lunch.

The traffic was handled without delay.

Value and Final Words

As a takeout joint, Mexeo does an adequate job. While the space may lack character, tables and some utensils, the food does a good enough job of satisfying a hankering for generic Mexican food. Though I would not go out of my way to hit up Mexeo, I would be willing to give it another try.

Casey Carr can be reached at ccarr@cornellsun.com.

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St. Vincent St. Vincent Republic Records

O James Rainis Annie Clark’s status as a modern guitar god is now indie nerd gospel, but prior to the plaudits of 2012’s Strange Mercy, her talents with the six-string went a little more under-the-radar. I was lucky enough to catch her performing at All Points West (basically Governor’s Ball Mach 1) following a blisteringly heavy set by the Arctic Monkeys, who were just then discovering how much they wanted to be Black Sabbath. I went over to catch St. Vincent on the recommendation of a friend and was a little wary of this porcelain doll-looking woman and her band of assorted woodwind instruments. If St. Vincent’s baroque pop setup was following Alex Turner and company’s stoner rock swagger, things were about to get a little sedate.

All concerns were washed away when Clark sent the band away and began to shred through Jimi Hendrix’s take on “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Despite stopping and demurely alerting us that she was “just kidding,” Clark began to play The Beatles’ “Dig a Pony,” playing a soulful and delightfully spazzy version of the Let It Be track. When she got to the solo, her guitar fizzed like Mentos thrown into a bottle of Diet Coke. Clark’s recklessness as a player gave the song an electric feeling that was entirely alien from the Monkeys’ bass-heavy thud. Here was a musician who, like a Miles Davis, let loose in order to discover something indelible and uniquely her own, twisting the guitar into a medium not only of notes and rhythms but of personality and emotion.

However, on record, Annie Clark’s always struck me as a bit removed from her music. The technical proficiency she’s exhibited over the course of her first three albums as St.

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Vincent is evident, but it’s always seemed so studied and strident. Those aforementioned baroque arrangements got her associated with masters of refinement like The National and Sufjan Stevens, but I craved an album that showed St. Vincent on the edge, peering inward and getting reckless. St. Vincent is that album.

First, though, let’s talk about that album cover: whereas past releases saw Clark staring vaguely in the direction of the camera, distant and emotionless, St. Vincent places Clark upon a throne pulled from a Star Trek set, her gaze fixed in a knowing, almost accusatory stare and her hair dyed white so that she looks like Storm from X-Men. She looks dreamy and ethereal, but her stare gives off the impression that she can strike you down when she needs to, just as she does in her music. Take “Huey Newton,” which juxtaposes a subdued A-section riding atop Dr. Dre synths and a light stomp-shuffle beat with an absolutely thunderous guitar coda. It’s a musical moment that rips the ground from under you, as Clark’s vocal goes from polite to sinister and her guitar growls with a sizzling ferocity.

If there’s one thing to be said about St. Vincent, it’s that Annie Clark seems to have had a shit-ton of fun making it.

Disparate sounds coalesce into puzzlingly addictive melodies, from the phased-out hi-hats and slinking synths that lend the paranoia-brewing “Rattlesnake” its ramshackle funk to the squiggly start-stop dialtone insanity that becomes “Bring Me Your Loves.” Every track features at least one left turn, and even when they aren’t huge ones — “Regret,” for instance, sounds like Clark trying to write a

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breakup track that could fit on Zeppelin IV — St. Vincent’s compositional know-how and lyrical acuity (“I’m afraid of heaven because I can’t stand the heights / I’m afraid of you because I can’t be left behind” she sings on “Regret”) keeps things fresh as always. On “Digital Witness,” perhaps the album’s best example of Love This Giant collaborator David Byrne’s influence on Clark’s songwriting, she skewers both sound and the exhibitionism of social media, asking, “What’s the point of even sleeping? / If I can’t show you you can’t see me / Watch me jump right off the London Bridge.”

There are still moments of austere beauty on St. Vincent, and their relative rareness makes them all the better for it. “I Prefer Your Love” is a slyly subversive ode to Clark’s mother — whose love Clark prefers to Jesus’ — that features an absolutely beautiful modulation as the bridge gives in to the chorus.

“Prince Johnny” sounds like a leftover from the Strange Mercy songwriting sessions, which is actually great because I totally forgot how awesome Strange Mercy was. And then there’s the album finale “Severed Crossed Fingers,” which sounds like a relieved sigh after the mania of the album’s second half. Its plaintive gorgeousness is far from straightforward, though, as Clark airs her insecurities (“Humiliated by age / Terrified of youth”) while pursuing a “calling (that) ain’t calling back.” After the assured adventurousness of St. Vincent, I think Annie Clark is very close to being one of the “heroes on every barstool” she sings so tenderly about.

James Rainis is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.

Beck Morning Phase Capitol Records

Sydney Ramsden

Is Beck our generation’s Bob Dylan? Not only is he still going strong after more than 20 years of iconic music, but he’s also a seemingly different Beck with each record. We have the DIY misfit Mellow Gold Beck, the flamboyant funk-master Midnite Vultures Beck and the skilled composer Guero and The Information Beck. And those are only three of the countless yet distinctive personas he’s taken on with each musical outing. Yet he remains shrouded in mystery, a figure of mystique who wears his feelings on his guitar strap but still manages to surprise us after all these years.

On the surface, Morning Phase Beck is quite similar to the mopey Sea Change Beck. String arrangements, lush melodies and melancholy lyrics hark back to his careerdefining breakup album, the 2002 equivalent to Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks. Beck himself even called this album a “companion piece” to Sea Change, recruiting not just a similar sound but also much of the same personnel. Take opening track “Morning,” for example: it is so similar to Sea Change intro “The Golden Age,” down to the very first note, that one can’t help but equate the two albums upon first listen. Morning Phase is like catching up with an old friend we haven’t heard from in years, and though he was

oh-so sad back then, he’s doing better now (but still plenty bummed out). This time around, the downtempo melodies are injected with a certain optimism that wasn’t there 12 years ago. Morning Phase lets us get reacquainted with that somber troubadour from years past, but now things are looking up on a record that finds Beck in top form.

Where Sea Change was full of doubt in despair, Morning Phase suggests acceptance of life’s misgivings and a willingness to persevere. As a whole, the record is a complete cycle of somberness; he starts moderately gloomy, sinks to his lowest point in the middle and rises from the ashes in the end. After lead single “Blue Moon,” the record gets quite dark with “Unforgiven” and “Wave,” the end of which has him chanting the words “wave” and “isolation.”

He starts to get out of this slump on “Turn Away,” which casts away self-doubt and encourages you to “turn away from the weight of your own past.” The hopefulness that distinguishes Morning Phase from Sea Change culminates in the remarkable album ender “Waking Light,” which ends the record with positive words of wisdom: “When the memory leaves you, somewhere you can’t make it home, when the morning comes to meet you, open your eyes with waking light.”

If anything, Morning Phase is a showcase of Beck’s exquisite composing talent. Take lead single “Blue Moon,” for example; Beck’s velvety vocals, muffled percussion and elegant guitar arrangements elevate the track’s delicate melody. Also like Sea Change, he has employed his father David Campbell for this album’s gorgeous string arrangements on “Cycle, particularly, as well as the record’s darkest track, “Wave” and stunning album standout “Unforgiven.” Morning Phase also marks another indication of Beck’s underappreciated knack for injecting a country twang into poetic elegies. “Blackbird Chain” is an orchestra-infused country ballad while “Country Down” is a bluesy slow-jam complete with a harmonica solo. Will the next incarnation of Beck be a cowboy armed with his guitar and bleeding heart? Time will tell.

So who is Morning Phase Beck? We may not know for sure what’s plaguing him. But he’s grown over the course of his (far too long) five-year hiatus — no matter how dark his world is, he’s doing his best to see the light. At the end of the day, he’s really just being himself.

Sydney Ramsden is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at sramsden@cornellsun.com.

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Schoolboy Q Oxymoron Top Dawg Records

Calvin Patten “Gangsta, Gangsta, Gangsta,” Schoolboy Q repeatedly rumbles to introduce his long awaited major label debut E.P. Oxymoron. And he is not playing around — Oxymoron stands firmly in the shadow of the gangster rap first popularized by N.W.A., Ice-T and Public Enemy. But where those acts used their rap as a political cry for equality and attention, Q attempts to turn the camera inwards, considering his thugging and drugging in the context of his love and care for his daughter, Joy. Q’s life story reads like a bad rap cliche. He grew up with his grandma and single mother, joining the 52 Hoover Crips when he was 12. He graduated high school, but quickly turned to moving (and abusing) drugs for a living. After serving some time for a felony and having Joy, he decided to clean himself up, the impetus for his rap career. Top Dawg Entertainment engineer and high school friend MixedByAli helped bring him into the fold, getting Q a job working as Kendrick’s hype man. Eventually Q started putting out his own material, with 2011’s Setbacks getting some buzz and 2012’s Setbacks and Contradictions establishing him as a legitimate up and comer, briefly even leading the internal TDE race for stardom. However, smudged by the fingerprints of new TDE partners Interscope and Aftermath, Oxymoron lacks the consistent edge and unpredictability enjoyed by the lengthy but fantastically frantic Contradictions.

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Q has not been subtle in sharing his album’s theme, connecting the dots between his contradictory gangbanging and child rearing in a number of interviews. The dichotomy even makes its way onto the album covers — the deluxe edition has Q in a ski mask, the standard has Joy wearing dad’s trademark bucket hat. But for all his selfmade hype, he is unable to make the concept seem earnest.

Whereas Danny Brown’s Old successfully alternated between terror, drugged out insanity and legitimate shame, Oxymoron feels like someone purposefully attempt to walk the line between honest, if cliched, artistry and bangerz. It is certainly not the transcendent follow up to the thematically similar Setbacks and Contradictions that I was hoping for.

Putting his major label advantage to work, Q secures appearances by 2 Chainz, Kendrick, Jay Rock, Tyler, the Creator, Raekwon and sponsors the resurrections of West Coast stalwarts Kurupt and Suga Free. He also gets some expensive production, with MikeWillMadeIt, Pharell, The Alchemist and Tyler each taking a turn on the boards.

Overall, the production on this album is superb, with the lesser known producers such as Sounwave and Nez & Rio holding their own against their more well-known counterparts. However, all the glitz and obvious radio reaches really bog down the record. Q bounces around the rhythms with abandon, but he often resorts to screaming ad libs

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The split track “Prescription/Oxymoron” is an album highlight, one of few cuts in which Q actually sounds repentant. Over a subdued, marching beat, “Prescription” finds Q solemnly getting faded to the point of unconsciousness on a mix of Percocet, Xanax, Adderall and lean.

The track fades out, and you can hear Joy saying “What's wrong daddy?” before a new beat starts and we find Q in full-on drug dealer mode. “I just stopped selling crack today!” he exclaims on a bouncy hook, before detailing how he is making more selling pills than he ever could on crack. It is the most convincing and unnerving depiction of drugs and dealing on the album.

“The Purge” also shines, largely thanks to Tyler’s raw production and nihilistic, violent hook. The Kurupt verse at the end is even well done, a delightful reflection of classic West Coast. The Raekwon featuring “Blind Threats” is also solid, with Q rapping about his sinning in the context of his desire to one day find salvation, while the Chef provides his standard don’t-fuck-with-me-or-I-will-shoot-you verse. They do not really connect, but getting Raekwon on a song is never a bad thing.

“Collard Greens,” with its bouncy production and prominent hook, is a misguided attempt at what I assume was supposed to be a club banger. Kendrick’s verse about sexing women is partially rapped in Spanish and, while as technically proficient as ever, is relatively boring. The 2Chainz-featuring and Mike Will produced “What They Want” fails similarly, with a surprisingly constrained beat

by Will.

This is not to say that the Oxymoron is unlistenable, it just falls short of what was expected. Many of these songs are forgettable, but few are actually bad (the notable exception being the creepiness of the pimping song “Grooveline 2”).

Hopefully future projects find Q less worried about moving records and more focused on sharing his own voice.

Calvin Patten is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at cpatten@cornellsun.com.

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TwitchPlaysPokémon ... and so can you

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remember my most intense Pokémon experience. It was a cable link battle with my camp counselor that we promised we would have for the entire summer. We were both down to our last, most prized Pokémon. Both were down to their last few hit points when we started to psych each other out — him reducing my attack and me weakening his defense. Finally after several attempts, I managed to pull off a solar beam and knock him out, earning bragging rights for the rest of the term as well as the only anecdote I told for the rest of the summer (I wasn’t a very interesting tween).

I hadn’t felt such Pokemon-related pride in almost a decade, but finally managed to while watching the gaming phenomenon that is TwitchPlaysPokémon. On Feb. 14, the website Twitch made a version of Pokémon Red that allowed commands to be executed by submitting comments into a chat box. If you posted “up,” in about 20 seconds you’d see your username come up. And, if there was space for a command in that time, the character would perform it.

You might guess that with a large group constantly inputting commands like this, the game would be total chaos. And you’d be right. Red, Pokémon’s main character, wandered frantically about the map, walking a few steps one way, then doubling back another. The act of walking along an edge a few steps without falling over took more than seven hours to achieve — there would inevitably be a few hundred trolls submitting “down” at the last second. But then something strange happened. We won a gym battle. And then we won another. And another. And it started to look like our ambling Red, as troubled as he was, stood a chance at playing this Check game. As such, the stream Your Mode gained popularity.

During the ledge debacle on the second day, the number of players in the stream peaked at 25,000.

Then things got weird. Due to the frenetic nature of the gameplay, it was a common occurrence for Red to open his item storage and select the Helix Fossil, one of the first items given to him in the game. For most of the game, the fossil is useless, but commenters in the stream started to think Red was looking to it for guidance. And so the Helix Fossil was seen as a spiritual force — Lord Helix — and a bird Pokemon that Red caught early in the game as Bird Jesus.

In order to progress through the game, Red needs to get a water-type Pokemon, either an Eevee or a Lapras. The stream decided to get an Eevee, but accidentally turned it into a fire type using a fire stone. So the stream called the Flareon that was created the “False Prophet,” a servant of Dome, the other fossil Red can collect. Fan art flooded the TwitchPlaysPokémon subreddit and other gaming forums. By the end of day three, the stream peaked at over 75,000 players.

Right around this time — the Sunday before last — I started following TwitchPlaysPokémon constantly. I had the stream in a tab on my browser at all times, stealing glances while attending lectures and writing essays. In an attempt to get rid of Flareon, we accidentally released our first Pokemon, “ABBBBBBK,” (The stream named Red’s Pokémon as well). The stream was devastated. Dome had struck again. Worse yet, we needed to get through a maze in order to defeat Giovanni, the head of one of the game’s criminal organizations. The stream spent 24 hours straight toiling through the maze before Twitch decided to switch things up. If enough players submitted “democracy” into the chatbox, the stream’s format would be changed so that, every 10 seconds, Red would initiate the command that is most submitted by the stream.

Players frustrated with the lack of progress rejoiced. Traditionalists called it a cop out. Red managed to finish the maze in Democracy Mode, but fissured the stream in the process. So not only was TPP about Red vs. Giovanni and Helix vs. Dome, but Anarchy vs. Democracy as well.

The stream approached 100,000 active players as it decided to switch back to Anarchy Mode and challenge Giovanni to a trainer battle. After five minutes, each was down to his last Pokemon, Bird Jesus for Red and Kangaskhan for Giovanni. Bird Jesus was brought down to literally one unit of health, but damaged Kangaskhan so much that he only needed to execute one move to defeat him. But the stream instead used Whirlwind, a move that cannot affect Kangaskhan, and with one fell swoop, Bird Jesus was defeated and Red had to recoup two full days’ worth of work.

I can’t remember the last time I got so riled up watching a piece of live media. Not the 2012 elections, certainly not the last few Super Bowls.

Watching Red’s slow, but steady progress through the game made tasks you wouldn’t think twice about if you were playing alone into momentous victories. Imagine if you filled the Rose Bowl to capacity and told everyone they would all be controlling the Bruins this time. Now that’s entertainment!

Watching the stream, you felt like you were participating in video game history, as nothing like this has ever been attempted, and the incredible outpouring of creativity from its progress is something that will no doubt be attempted to replicate for years to come.

As of writing this, Red has managed to achieve earn all the game’s the badges, and all that’s left is to travel through Victory Road and battle the Elite Four. Lord Helix has been freed from his fossil tomb and stands in Red’s party alongside Bird Jesus, a Zapdos, a Nedoking, a Lapras and a Venomoth. In other words, a God, a messiah, an angel, a king, a prince and an all-terrain vehicle (the Venomoth was named “ATV”). Better get in and start button spamming now so you can claim later that you were part of video game history.

Paul Blank

Paul Blank is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at pblank@cornellsun.com. Check Your Mode appears alternate Thursdays.

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Cornell Defense Helps Clinch Win M. LACROSSE

hat trick to give the Red the early lead. He also broke a record for fastest consecutive because of the gritty performance goals in Cornell history, posting by senior goalie Peter Zonino. his third goal just four seconds With 18 saves, he was one save after connecting on his second. short of besting his top perfor- Tesoriero had the assist, setting mance of his career. Hobart also up the goal with a successful put forward a strong offense, downfield pass to Lintner after with senior Jake McHenry post- winning the faceoff. ing three goals and AllThe Bearcats looked to overAmerican senior Alex Love come the deficit and responded recording two goals and one with a goal around the six assist. minute mark. However, Cornell The game was very close for would not relinquish its lead, the majority of the contest until firing back with a goal by the Red’s offense kicked its play Hogan to cap the first quarter into high gear after its fourth with a score of 4-1. consecutive T h e goal.

B e a r c a t s “It was ... a hard fought The scorrecorded ing streak be- battle between two teams another goal in who hold the longest gan when Dothe second n ovan came quarter, trigrivalry in college from behind gering a chain lacrosse.” the cage to of consecutive slip the ball Red goals that Doug Tesoriero into the culminated in crease, ty ing a 9-4 lead at the game at 8-8 with two min- the break. The scoring streak utes left on the clock. Hogan consisted of goals by Lintner, quickly connected on another Hogan, Donovan and Buczek. for the Red, showing up the Lintner tallied his sixth goal, opposing defense with a fakeout a career-high, in the third quarpass before launching the ball ter, helping the Red to extend from the 15-yard line. Hogan’s its lead. Binghamton reacted goal gave Cornell the advantage with a strong offensive push, with just over two minutes left burying three consecutive goals. to play. The Red extended its Donovan came back for the Red lead 13 seconds later, when with just over four minutes left Tesoriero passed the ball to in the third to end the Bearcats’ Donovan, who ripped a shot run. past Zonino for a goal. Refusing Cornell posted three goals in to let up, Donovan and Lintner the fourth to lift the squad to a tacked on two final goals to 14-8 victory over Binghamton. close the contest at, 12-8.

The Red will travel to The Red’s defense was also Michigan this weekend to cominstrumental in keeping the pete against the Wolverines for squad in the game until the the first time in NCAA history. offense picked up the pace at the close of the match, accord- Sydney Altschuler can be reached ing to Donovan. at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

“I thought our defense bailed us out against a very talented Hobart offense for much of the game,” he said. “By the fourth quarter, we were able to find a rhythm and go on a five-goal run to earn our first win of the 2014 season.”

Cornell’s win was significant for two reasons. First, it set the precedent for high-scoring play in the rest of a long season.

Second, the win gave the Red one more notch in its belt in a highly competitive series, with Cornell and Hobart having one of the oldest rivalries in the history of college lacrosse. The longtime series began in 1896 and the two teams have since met upwards of 100 times.

“It was a team effort and a hard fought battle between two teams who hold the longest rivalry in college lacrosse,” Tesoriero said. “We definitely have areas to improve on, but I can’t wait for all the pieces to come together and show everyone in the lacrosse world the identity of our team.”

Cornell was back in action on Tuesday, traveling to Binghamton to take on the Bearcats. The Red conquered Binghamton, 14-8, earning its second win of the season.

The match was exciting from the start, with Lintner scoring a Continued from page 16

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Scoring big | Senior Doug Tesoriero helped the Red to victory in its match against Hobart, winning most of his faceoffs and scooping 14 ground balls.

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Red Takes Home Two Victories

Squad beats Hobart,Binghamton in first games of the season

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER

midfielder Dan Lintner, junior midfielder John Hogan and junior midfielder Connor Buczek all contributed offensively for the squad. Donovan earned six points, This weekend, the Cornell men’s lacrosse team host- posting three goals and three assists, while Lintner neted Hobart to open the 2014 season. Though it was a ted a career-high four goals. Hogan and Buczek each tight contest, the men ultimately prevailed with a 12-8 contributed a pair of goals. victory. On Tuesday, the Red went According to senior Mike on to top Binghamton, 14-8, O’Neal, Cornell has a lot of young “I thought our defense improving its record to 2-0. talent this year and the squad was The Red saw many players rise to bailed us out against a very excited about the collective effort it their potential and break personal talented Hobart offense for put forward against a tough opporecords. Senior Doug Tesoriero was nent. much of the game.” the driving force behind the Red’s “We have a lot of new faces this success, showing an almost perfect year and it was exciting to see this Matt Donovan faceoff record, and dominating team fight for a tough win against a ground balls. He won 20 of the 24 good Hobart team,” O’Neal said. “It restarts, including the last consecutive seven, which allowed us to find our proved to be crucial to the Red’s comeback at the end of weaknesses. … That just leaves room for improvethe match. In addition to dominating faceoffs, ment as we move forward.”

Tesoriero picked up 14 ground balls, the most of any Both squads netted back-and-forth goals, with neiplayer on either team, and also tallied two assists. ther team leading by more than two goals at any point Though Tesoriero played a pivotal role in clinching during the contest. Hobart stayed in the game largely the win, the victory can also be attributed to a strong See M. LACROSSE page 15 group effort. Junior attackman Matt Donovan, senior Sun Staff Writer

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

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Sun Staff Writer

With Sunday’s temperature at a relatively balmy 46 degrees, it felt like the spring season was truly beginning as the women’s lacrosse team took the field for the first time this year. Enjoying the unseasonably warm weather, the Red came out with a scorching first game, beating Temple, 17-9.

With the score tied at 3-3 halfway through the first half, the Red broke out with 11 unanswered goals to build an insurmountable lead over the visiting Owls. The offensive eruption was fueled by standout performances from all four of the top attackers on the team. Senior Rachel Moody led all scorers with five goals, and she said she was proud of her team’s performance on the field.

“We’re really optimistic to see how many people were able to get on the board,” Moody said. “As an offense in general, it was great to see that we put up 17 points in our first game.”

Among those other three attackers, junior cocaptain Lindsay Toppe added four goals, freshman Catherine Ellis added four more and sophomore Emily Tripodi quarterbacked the offensive line with five assists.

One area where the Red held a sizable advantage over the Temple defense was passing. Junior midfielder Sarah Hefner and senior midfielder Amanda D’Amico combined for three more assists to go along with Tripodi’s five.

One of the more defensive-minded players on the team, senior midfielder Jessie Smith, spoke about the team’s passing prowess, especially the connection between Tripodi and Moody.

“I was really impressed by our attacking unit,” Smith said. “The sophomore-senior dynamic duo ‘Tri-moody’ did not disappoint” The Red is on pace to enjoy a high-octane offense this year, as five of the top six leading scorers from last year’s team are back. Even with the loss of last year’s captain Caroline Salisbury ’13, if this weekend’s performance is a preview of what it is to come, it appears that Salisbury’s spot will be filled quite nicely by Ellis.

While the offense performed at top, mid-season form, the defense also put together a solid effort against a team that scored a formidable 12 goals per game last season. Led by Smith and Hefner, the Red edged Temple in the ground ball battle, as well as

caused turnovers and draw controls.

The Red’s midfield and defense squads bested Temple in every single statistical category, and Smith looked at this game as a good sign for Ivy League play.

“Draw controls are always critical, and Sarah Hefner really came up big in that department,” she said. “Overall, hopefully the Temple game will serve as a solid building block for the rest of our season.

We hope to take what we learned from the Temple game into our preparation for Harvard this week.”

The Red will take on Harvard Saturday in Boston, Mass. in its first Ivy League matchup.

“It’s great to have Harvard as our first Ivy game.

It’s great to have a win under our belt going into any Ivy game,” Moody said. “We’re pumped to play them; they’re always a really aggressive team to play and they’re always a really good challenge for us.”

he XXII Olympic Winter Games have come and gone, and conveniently, host Russia won the medal and gold count, so everyone is happy. But the Russians also had one of the most disappointing teams in the most attention grabbing sport of the games: ice hockey.

Ninety-nine percent of the time I watch sports, I watch the events I am familiar with and have watched my whole life. I

Ryann Quinn can be reached at rquinn@cornellsun.com.

ent Olympic hockey feels.

Watching the USA prevail, and later disappoint massively, had a more communal feeling than any other sporting event.

The U.S. was the underdog, a role it plays so well in hockey, which felt more unifying than watching a team of All Stars such as USA basketball. Not only did it feel like the whole nation pulling for them, but also that they needed it, unlike their compatriots on the bas-

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Cradling victory | Junior co-captain Lindsay Toppe contributed four goals in the Red’s game against Temple.

know what is going on. I know who to hate and who to root for, and I crack jokes with my friends and heckle announcers.

But when the Olympics and its variety pack of winter sports come around, it is like I have studied for the wrong test. All of a sudden I become the clueless viewer, completely lost. The nuances of the sports are totally lost on me. So I take shelter in watching Olympic hockey.

An aspect of hockey that only the Winter Olympics makes possible is waking up early to catch a game. So I set my alarm, and watched the U.S. take on Russia at 7:30 a.m. sharp. Getting up early was a reminder of how differ-

ketball court, who are only trying to avoid disappointment.

And although it is not our national sport, it was still a blast to follow. It was a ride we do not normally get and one that comes around only every four years.

The 12-team hockey tournament was the highlight of the Olympics. The women’s gold medal game, featuring five Cornellians, was a classic. It had the closest finish of a championship game I have ever seen, with Canada surviving a near-empty-net goal, and ultimately winning in overtime.

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