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Alexis Lee ’14, perfroms in Shimtah’s 11th Annual Concert last Saturday. Shimtah is a Korean percussion club.

In accordance with President David Skorton’s recently announced University-wide diversity initiative, Cornell is vowing to increase the number of military veterans it hires for faculty and staff positions.

As thousands of veterans return to the United States from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the University is currently preparing for the influx of veterans in the job market, according to Davine Bey, diversity recruitment consultant at Cornell’s Recruitment and Employment Center.

“We have stepped up our outreach efforts and participated in a number of events starting last year and in upcoming years,” he said.

In order to improve veteran recruitment, Cornell has committed to veteran employment programs such as Be a

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Hero, Hire a Hero — an organizationthat has helped thousands of veterans and their spouses connect with employers.

“Besides just having a presence in these programs, we will also be able to present to veterans and be able to talk to them about opportunities at Cornell University,” Bey said.

Prof. Daniel Weed, naval science, a Navy captain who is in his 30th year of service, said that Cornell can tap into a valuable pool of talent by improving its plan for the recruitment of veterans.

Weed added that he expects the number of veterans at Cornell to surge as more troops return from abroad.

“I think one will have to wait for 12 to 18 months before one starts seeing a very large increase in veteran population at Cornell,” he said.

Although the University hopes to See VETERANS page 4

Univ.Seeks Architect for Tech Campus Building

By JOESPH NICZKY Sun Senior Writer

Cornell is currently in the process of selecting an architect to design the main building of the New York City tech campus. As of Monday night, Cornell has narrowed down the candidates to six high profile architecture firms,

according to The Wall Street Journal.

Finalists include Skidmore, Owens & Merrill — the firm that helped put together Cornell’s intitial proposal for the campus.

Cornell administrators aim to select an architect by April in order to be ready to break ground by the end of 2013, when New York City

will turn land on Roosevelt Island over to the University.

“We would like to have an architect selected by April,” Whang said. “By March of next year, we have to have the final schematic design ready to submit to the city.”

The campus’ main academic building will produce “net zero

energy” — it will use the same amount of energy that it produces.

“You want to reduce the energy footprint of that building as much as possible … and then you generate then that equivalent amount of energy on site,” Whang said.

In addition to selecting an

Opinion Religious Consumerism

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Arts Mozart Masterpiece

The Sun reviews a performance of The Magic Flute at Ithaca College. | Page 9

Sports Strong Finishes

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Cornell Alumnus Will Run For Mayor of New York City “This is, ultimately, a strength because voters are fed up with ‘pay to play politics.’”

He pointed out that his camTom Allon ’84, president and CEO of Manhattan Media, paign will take place as the will prepare to launch his cam- University develops plans for its paign for Mayor of New York tech campus on Roosevelt City. He will be running on a Island.

“It is serendipitously coinciplatform of education reform, job creation and economic dental that a Cornell alumni might be running the city where development.

Allon said he decided to start Cornell is planning to expand his campaign two years before more with its new tech campus,” Allon said.

Allon said that “I am the only strength non-career politician ishishisbiggest “outsider” stain the race.” tus, which he said distinguishes him Tom Allon ’84 from the other candidates for mayor. the election because he is politi“I am the only non-career cally inexperienced and has politician in the race,” he said. never held public office. Allon “My background as a public announced his candidacy last school teacher, reporter, editor, summer. publisher and entrepreneur “I am not a political incum- gives me a unique set of skills bent who can dispense favors to and experience to lead the greatthe elites and potential donors over the next year,” Allon said.

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City Rejects Appeal from Food Trucks

By REBECCA FRIEDMAN Sun Staff Writer

City officials unanimously rejected appeals made by the owners of Louie’s Lunch and the Hot Truck of a new $2,153 fee

to continue operating in their current locations, at a meeting of the City of Ithaca Board of Public Works Wednesday night.

The fee, which was first assessed on the famed food trucks this summer, was pro-

posed by the board in response to a state audit that indicated the two trucks were selling on city streets without properly paying the city.

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City Will Alter Intersection to Increase Pedestrian Safety

By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Contributor

In an effort to promote pedestrian safety, the city will upgrade the giant “octopus” at the intersection of Elm, State, Hector Street and Floral Avenue near Ithaca’s West Hill using funds from a $250,000 grant, according to Ithaca’s city engineer, Tim Logue M.S. ’00.

Logue said that the current problem with this intersection is that cars tend to speed through it when traveling down West Hill, endangering pedestrians attempting to cross the street.

By using the grant, which was obtained for the city through the efforts of former Alderperson Maria Coles and Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton, to improve the surrounding sidewalks, install a mountable curb island and raise one of the crosswalks at Floral Avenue, Logue said the city hopes to change drvier habits and ensure the safety of pedestrians.

“We’re trying to make the intersection pedestrian friendly by using traffic calming devices,” Logue said.

Several city residents said the intersection is inconvenient for pedestrians.

“It’s a pretty hostile place to walk,” said Andrejs Ozolins, an Ithaca resident. “My wife tripped and fell at the intersection. She wasn’t watching where she was stepping, paying more attention to the cars.”

The intersection has also proven problematic for drivers.

David Nutter, a member of the Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Council, said that visi-

bility is poor for cars making left turns at the pedestrian refuge, Nutter said. A pedestrian intersection. refuge is a section of pavement or sidewalk, “The visibility is kind of cruddy at the completely surrounded by asphalt, where intersection,” he said. “A couple of problems pedestrians can stop before they finish crosswith [crossing] the intersection are the ing a road. curves, bridge railings and multiple lanes.”

Nutter said the addition of a pedestrian A more pedestrian-friendly intersection refuge would not effectively address safety would provide various advantages to the issues.

“Somebody could take you out on the Ithaca community, including an increased sense of safety, according to some residents. island,” he said. “They’re designing the In recent years, the nearby Lehman island to be ineffective.”

Alternative Community School has seen the An additional counterproposal to the number of bikes in its racks dwindle because current plan is to install an all-way stop sign parents are afraid to let their kids bike at the intersection. The all-way stop — a stop sign that through the instructs traffic intersection to approaching school, Ozolins “It’s a pretty hostile place to walk. My said. wife tripped and fell at the intersection.” from all directions to stop “It’s weird before prothat the inter- Andrejz Ozolins c e e d i n g section is only through the a block away from school and the speed limit is 30 intersection — would be cheaper and easier instead of the usual 15,” said Emerson to replace if residents are not satisfied with it, according to Nutter.

Millar, a junior at the school.

He also said that the stop sign is likely to However, Ozolins said the scope of the proposed changes to the intersection are not make this alternative more safe for pedestrias comprehensive as many residents had ans.

“Cars don’t stop unless there is a reason hoped.

“The proposal just puts down clearer for them to stop,” Nutter said.

Logue, however, argued that this solupaint, and doesn’t do anything to require tion does not meet legal requirements. cars to slow down,” Ozolins said.

“In my opinion, it did not make sense,” Additionally, some residents doubt the effectiveness of the proposed island that will he said. “There are guidelines for all-way stop signs dictated by the federal and state be installed at Floral Avenue.

The island will only be four feet wide governments and this intersection did not and can be easily run over by larger vehicles, qualify.”

Ozolins remained unconvinced that leading some to propose the creation of a

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stopping cars at the intersection would be any different from the current traffic impediments.

“They would back up at the railroad tracks anyways,” he said.

Professors in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning are uncertain that the allway stop sign solution solves pedestrian problems in general.

“Drivers can be paying attention, but if they are looking at the sign, they may not be looking for pedestrians,” said Prof. Michael Manville, city and regional planning.

Prof. Ann Forsyth, city and region planning, echoed this sentiment.

“You don’t want an environment littered with stop signs,” she said.

Forsyth also said the intersection improvement will most likely be effective at controlling traffic but does not change pedestrian habits and behaviors.

“What matters for pedestrians walking for travel to get places is that places are close ... for shopping and housing,” Forsyth said.

“These upgrades seem a fine first step, and the city can keep monitoring and if it needs to change it can do so.”

The details of the plans are currently being finished, and companies will be able to propose designs for the project in a few weeks. However, Logue said that the city could be furthering its efforts to increase pedestrian safety.

“This project is the tip of the iceberg,” he said.

Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jed276@cornell.edu.

Weill Medical College Creates Office for Faculty Development

By REBEKAH FOSTER Sun Staff Writer

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Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City recently established an Office for Faculty Development, which will help professors at WCMC forge connections with their peers, the college announced on Jan. 26.

Dr. Laurie Glimcher, dean of WCMC, said that the Office of Faculty Development will increase professors’ potential by providing them with mentoring and support services.

“I’ve found that many people can go further than they ever thought they could simply because someone else thought they could,” Glimcher said in the Jan. 26 press release. “This office will ensure that all our faculty receive the mentoring, guidance and support that will help them succeed.”

Dr. Barbara Hempstead, associate dean for faculty development at WCMC, said she shares Gilmcher’s passion for mentoring individuals within her own division.

“Being a mentor within this division has been one of the aspects of my job that I have enjoyed the most,” she said. “In many cases, this reaches across conventional departmental boundaries.”

In the month since its creation, Hempstead said the new office has increased the efficacy of WCMC’s existing mentoring programs.

“This is an important opportunity for Weill to formalize what had been being done already, but makes it far more cohesive, transparent and, hopefully, better,” Hempstead said.

In particular, she said, the office will help new faculty form relationships with clinicians and researchers who are in similar fields, learn to effectively apply for funding and write clin-

ical trials. New faculty will also have access to a large mentoring network, Hempstead said.

Faculty already at the school will also benefit from opportunities to increase productivity by forming new collaborations, she said. Additionally, the office will help faculty understand what is expected of them, Hempstead said.

“Unlike professionals in other fields, faculty in academic medicine, both scientists and clinicians, must excel in multiple areas to achieve professional success,” said Stephen Cohen, executive vice provost of WCMC, in an email. “Given those complexities and tensions, it is increasingly difficult for even the most talented faculty to know what is expected of him or her, evaluate priorities, and to be able to balance their workload.”

Cohen emphasized that the Office of Faculty Development will assuage some of the difficulties WCMC faculty face.

“For the first time, under Dr. Hempstead’s leadership, Weill will have a senior faculty member and the dedicated resources to mentor faculty and work with their departments to ensure that individuals advance in their career, contribute to the college and maintain some balance with their personal lives,” Cohen said.

Hempstead said she believes that the office will be particularly successful for WCMC’s “extremely interactive and collaborative faculty.”

“All these partnerships that can be made [through the Office of Faculty Development] will help a faculty member be a more creative scientist, a more creative clinical researcher and a better clinician,” she said.

Rebekah Foster can be reached at rfoster@cornellsun.com.

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C.U. Plans Building for Tech Campus University Plans to Hire NET ZERO

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architect, the University must select a third party to construct a second building on campus, which will house research and development for private companies. This building will not have net-zero energy usage, but must have at least a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification at the Silver level, according to Whang. To receive Silver LEED certification, the building must score at least 33 out of a possible 69 points in five categories of sustainable design features.

Cornell will lease one third of the second building to a third party developer and the other two thirds will be used for research by startups and other companies, according to Whang. The third party has not yet been selected.

“It will be built by a third party developer partners who will build buildings for us. We don’t have as much control over what the designs might be,” Whang said. “We are trying to put together as tight a contract — a lease contract — as possible so that we do have some level of control.”

This building will enable private companies to work with Cornell students and staff on research projects.

“This will be space for companies compatible with the mission of the campus who are interested in working closely with Cornell, Technion and our students, faculty, staff and alumni,” said Cathy Dove, vice president of the tech campus.

“We are already receiving inquiries from organizations interested in being located on our campus and working closely with us.”

Dove said that students will also profit from the tech campus’ partnerships with startup companies.

“Our students will benefit as they will have the ability to work closely with these companies right on the campus — there will be internships,

project work,” she said. “The partners want to be on campus to have easy access to the programs and activities at CornellNYC Tech, and develop close working relationships with our faculty and students.”

Both of the buildings will be 150,000 square feet — comparable in size to Duffield Hall — and will be completed by July 2017, Whang said.

The academic building will achieve net-zero energy usage by both reducing the energy it uses and producing energy on site.

“For now our vision is to use photovoltaic panels — solar panels,” Whang said. “We’re planning roughly four acres of solar panels.”

In addition to housing classrooms and offices, the net-zero energy building “will be designed to facilitate interaction and showcase research. In addition, there will be incubation space, room for workshops and seminars for the broader community,” Dove said.

However, Whang said that a definitive outline of the building’s design has not yet been determined.

“We don’t really have anything definitive as to how many of each we’re going to have,” Whang said. “All we know is it’s going to be classrooms and a lot of open space, so to encourage collaboration amongst people who are in the building — faculty, staff and students — give people a place to congregate and to meet and have chance meetings with each other.”

The University has not yet acquired various approvals from the city and New York State, which must be obtained before construction can begin in January 2014.

“Right now we’re going through an environmental and land use approval phase with several city agencies and state agencies,” Whang said.

“That’s what we’ll be doing the next two years.”

Joseph Niczky can be reached at jniczky@cornellsun.com.

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recruit more veterans to campus, there are currently nearly 350 selfidentified veterans already working at Cornell, according to Bey. “According to our VETS-100A — a survey conducted as a part of Cornell’s affirmative action plan — as of 2011, we had about 347 veterans working at the University,” he said. “That number is probably skewed as it is based on those who voluntarily recognize themselves as veterans. Arguably, it is double the number.”

Weed said that veterans fit in well at Cornell due to the overlap between the University’s goals and those of military service.

“Our core values, specifically for the Navy, are honor, courage and commitment … very similar to Cornell’s values and goals,” Weed said. “And so when they hire military people, they are very disciplined but flexible. They are intelligent and hardworking.”

However, Bey said that veterans may be beter equipped for some aspects of the civilian workforce.

“A squad leader, for example, has more experience after a year in Iraq than many people have after years of management because it’s instant, real time training,” he said. “But they have to be articulate and show the recruiter how these skills can be applied in the civilian world.”

Transition into civilian life is also difficult for veterans who are

“Our core values, specifically for the Navy, are ... very similar to Cornell’s values and goals.”

Prof. Daniel Weed now returning from war, according to Navy veteran Robert Stundtner, chair of the Veterans Colleague Network Group, a campus organization that aims to raise awareness of veteran issues and provide veterans a forum to share their experiences.

“Some veterans from [the] Afghanistan and Iraq War[s] who I have encountered in training sessions have had very painful experiences,” Stundtner said. “Fortunately, there were other veterans who reached out and helped comfort them in the course of their training.”

However, veteran Rick Roper, manager of shops construction services for the University’s facilities services, said that most veterans who seek employment at Cornell have positive attitudes and fit in well due to the leadership skills they learned in the military.

“It is not a tough adjustment,” Roper said. “I am working in the area of my expertise. I feel like I fit right in and it wasn’t a difficult transition at all.”

Still, Stundtner said he hopes the University will prioritize recruiting veterans.

“When we were civilians before military service, the saying was, ‘Uncle Sam wants you,’” Stundtner said. “At Cornell, I would like to see the saying for veterans be ‘Uncle Ezra wants you.’”

Manu Rathore can be reached at mrathore@cornellsun.com.

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Hot Truck Owners Contest Cornell Alumnus Runs for NYC Mayor Proposed Annual Fees MAYOR

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Both owners will have to pay the fee before April 1.

At the meeting, Albert Smith, the owner of Shortstop Deli on West Seneca Street and of the Hot Truck, asserted his “grandfathered right” to occupy the truck at that location, saying he has never paid an annual permit fee in the past.

The Hot Truck has had a “right to occupy its current location at least since 2003,” Smith said. This resolution recognized the “continuation of the Hot Truck’s existence and service at that location along with any rights that may be due by its grandfather status.”

Smith said that in purchasing the Hot Truck, he also bought a “grandfathered” right to sell goods on Stewart Avenue. Doing so, he said, gives him the right to occupy the land without paying a fee, just as Petrillose did for many years.

In the early 2000s, Smith bought the Hot Truck from longtime owner Robert “Hot Truck Bob” Petrillose, Sr. for $125,000. At a meeting of the Board of Public Works on Feb. 13, Smith said that the value of the truck and its equipment was about $15,000 “so basically we paid over $100,000 for the right to be next to campus.”

“I’m just talking about being fair and the city wants to collect a couple thousand dollars or a little more per year for me to be in that location,” Smith said at the Feb. 13 meeting. “I already paid for that.”

Board members voiced concern over two separate issues regarding the appeals made by the Hot Truck owners — whether the truck owners should pay a license fee and whether the city should allow more than one food truck.

Board member Govind Acharya said that he thought the City should allow more than one food truck but that the owners should be required to pay a fee.

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 agreed with Acharya and added that the Hot Truck should not be exempt from paying fees for the use of public land.

The city “has no reason to believe that an exemption exists or could have been issued for the Hot Truck,” Myrick read in the resolution.

However, Smith argued that the fee would create financial issues for the Hot Truck.

At its current location, it is difficult to keep the Hot Truck and it its tradition going,” he said. “If the city adds an annual fee, it will become even more difficult.”

Ronald Beck, the owner of Louie’s Lunch since 1997, said that in 2001, then-Mayor Alan Cohen issued a permit and filed a letter with the City Clerk’s office saying that the purchase of business was contingent on the rights to operate in its location.

“Eighty percent of the value of my business is the location and the ability to vend there,” he said. “Mayor Cohen had given Louie’s Lunch those rights. I’m here to respectfully ask the city to recognize that agreement and waive the application.”

The Board again responded that their decision would not dictate whether Smith and Beck could operate the trucks, but rather was made to institute a fee for use of the land.

“This is an application of a city-wide ordinance,” Board Member William Goldsmith said. “I don’t believe you’d find that the mayor had the right to make that determination.”

The Board applied the same reasoning to his case, stating that the resolution would require the owners to pay the fee for the use of public land, not for the right to operate their trucks.

“I just urge that here be a way one way or another that both trucks continue to thrive and be part of the culture of the city of Ithaca,” said John Schroeder ’74, a member of the City of Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board and The Sun’s Production Manager.

Rebecca Friedman can be reached at rfriedman@cornellsun.com.

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campaign were to gain recognition through various media outlets, including newspapers and television stations, and obtain the support of the Democratic Party. He was endorsed by the Liberal Party on Jan. 27.

Allon was a Senior Editor and Sports Editor for The Sun. Allon said he believes that his time at The Sun

-est city in the world.”

Allon said his decision to run for mayor was spurred by his concern for the future of New York City’s schools.

“Watching New York’s education system continue to drift into perpetual mediocrity, and wanting to make a difference in fixing it, “I want everyone to benefit, not just the motivated me to run for mayor,” he said.

Allon said he will also strive to imple- one percent, or the 10 percent.” ment economic and education policies that Tom Allon ’84 benefit all New Yorkers.

“I want everyone to benefit, not just the 1 percent, or the 10 percent,” Allon said.

Susan Kittenplan ’85, a former Sports Editor gave him a solid foundation for a future in poliof The Sun who worked with Allon while at tics.

Cornell, praised his decision to run for mayor.

“The Sun taught me about the intensity and She added that Allon’s previous work gives him brutality of the political process and the imporwith a unique perspective on city issues. tance of putting on thick skin when you go into “The fact that he has run micro-local newspa- electoral combat,” he said. pers [City Hall, The Capitol] and covered local Allon will be running against Scott Stringer, stories throughout the five boroughs means he Borough President of Manhattan, and Bill knows the constituents of these neighborhoods Thompson, former New York City Comptroller very well — their concerns, their hopes, their and Democratic Party candidate for Mayor in delis,” Kittenplan said. “He’s been listening and 2009. Incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving citizens a place where they have a voice. term limited and thus unable to seek re-election When he becomes mayor, he’ll be able take it a to a fourth term. step further and really help his fellow New Utsav Rai can be reached at Yorkers.”

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want

ometime around my senior year of high school, I made the fateful decision to stop pirating my music. I will admit that the transition was greatly aided by services such as Grooveshark (which, incidentally, is now being sued by all four major record labels), but the decision was still not an easy one. If I wanted to carry a track with me, I had to have paid money for it at some point. I was denied the ability to painlessly download all of the work an artist had ever done with a couple keystrokes if I heard a snippet that caught my fancy. Instead I had to pay nearly a dollar — 99 cents! count them — per track, a number that quickly ballooned into something unsustainable for my budget. I suffered — and still suffer — weird looks from people when I tell them that I don’t

ized that there was such a thing as music in the public domain. Stripped of the ability to fill my waking hours with the Top 100 chart in the United States on repeat, I was instead led to folk ballads and experimental electronica and Gregorian chant.

Though I was not necessarily keeping with the spirit of paying-artists-for-theirwork, I was exposed to entirely different types of sounds. My primary auditory cortex was astounded. My horizons were broadened.

My budget for non-essential items has thankfully since increased somewhat, and owning the latest frat anthem is no longer the emotional ordeal it once was. Happily, though, I find that I no longer need that instant gratification that once came with the BitTorrent icon. Once upon a time,

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Rethinking the Academic Year

A NEW PROPOSAL FROM THE UNIVERSITY’S Calendar Committee would add four days of break to the spring semester. Formed in the wake of a suicide cluster in spring 2010, this committee and its proposal seek to lower student stress levels at Cornell. Their proposed calendar, which would add a two-day break in February and extend spring break into April, is necessary and well reasoned. This revised calendar, if adopted, would be a welcome step toward institutional change at Cornell to address student concerns.

As the University calendar now stands, there is only one break in all of spring semester. This break, as scheduled through 2016, will always fall directly in the middle of March, leaving large stretches of unbroken work weeks on either side of it.

This stands in contrast to Cornell’s fall semester, which has at least one day off in every month. This system breaks up the schoolwork and stress of the semester, and allows for students to take time off for themselves during the academic year.

Currently, the spring semester lacks these consistent breaks, but the committee’s proposal should remedy that.

This proposal should be seen as an element of a larger initiative on Cornell’s part to address student stress levels. Cornell’s culture has shifted over the past two years to become a place where discussion and acknowledgement of mental health needs are more open. The University’s commitment to reducing student stress has been proven through a tonal change that has permeated the student body, but this proposal is a welcome move that could affect campus past just increased dialogue. This is an active step that will change the structure and flow of the University year to address student wants and needs.

Although it does seek to change the current University structure, this specific initiative should be successful in the long-term because it is focused. The committee’s calendar proposal targets a concrete problem. It does not ask for a decrease in Cornell’s workload, or anything else to address the University’s rigorous, but rewarding, academic standard. What it presents is thoughtful, and both addresses what would be best for the student body and doesn’t compromise the quality of a Cornell education.

pirate. “But … why?” is the most common question. There’s an annoying speech here about integrity even when the business model of the industry is obsolete and they refuse to admit it, but I find that the truest and easiest answer to that question is … well, not pirating has expanded my taste in music.

The first thing I did after making the decision was to find and rip all the CDs my family actually owned. After exhausting my older siblings’ collections of Switchfoot, Chinese pop and Disney soundtracks, I was left with … the collection of classical music recordings my stereotypically Chinese parents had purchased in bulk. Sigh. Perhaps this would be more painful than I had anticipated. I turned on the radio, hoping to rely on the airwaves for my steady infusion of 2008era Chris Brown and Boys Like Girls, but turned it off after realizing that radio commercials were orders of magnitude more annoying than I had remembered.

Lacking the spare cash and/or parental approval to buy 99 cent-tracks by the bushel or pay for a music subscription service, I turned in desperation to what was then the not-yet-seedy-underbelly-of-theInternet: I trawled the depths of Myspace for unknown artists desperate enough for an audience to offer up their tracks for free. Then I discovered the likes of Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Then I real-

downloading music was cycling through want-then-own-then-want with vicious rapacity. Now I wait, sometimes weeks, before deciding if I want to add work to my library. Presumably, a more carefully cultivated library is a better one.

If one endeavours to own a complete set of Lady Gaga’s musical work, the barrier between “not-having” and “having” can be vanishingly low in material cost. If we want, the price is only the smallest twinge of guilt — one that fades as we get better at justifying our actions, and one we often pay without a second thought.

But in my case, I found that years of taking shortcuts meant that I was missing the view.

But, cliché metaphors aside, what’s the moral of the story? Sometimes, not getting what you want right away comes with happy consequences. There’s a lot to be said for forcing yourself to do something the hard way. For delaying instant gratification in favor of meandering down the path of listening to indie rock.

Undoubtedly there’s also something to be said about my taste in sound, but I’m going to leave that to the experts. One does not, after all, simply listen to music.

Deborah Liu is a junior in the College of Engineering. She may be reached at dliu@cornellsun.com. First World Problem appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

CORRECTION A news story Monday, “At Cornell Banquet, Campus Mulls Place of Muslims in U.S.,” incorrectly reported the position of Noah Karr-Kaitlin ’13. He is the editorin-chief of the Cornell International Affairs Review, not the president.

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Higher Ed’s Identity Crisis

igher education is approaching something of an identity crisis. And three seemingly unrelated events, some national and some here in Ithaca, offer a glimpse of what the contours of the crisis might be. They also illustrate just how badly this country needs a discussion about the role of higher education in America.

The first event is the highly heralded CornellTechnion partnership to build the NYCTech campus.

Announced just a few months ago, the new tech partnership has garnered more excitement than anything else I’ve witnessed during my three years on the Hill. And for good reason: The chance to be an integral part of transforming New York City doesn’t come around every day.

But the decision to build a two billion dollar campus hundreds of miles away from Ithaca does more than just help Cornell in its effort to become the preeminent research university of the 21st century — it speaks volumes about what a preeminent university in the 21st century will look like. In Cornell’s conception, such a university isn’t merely an incubator for ideas; it’s a vehicle to transform society in a very real way. And while that might not be a novel idea in and of itself, the way that Cornell plans to go about it is.

At one point, higher education sought to transform society by educating citizens with a sense of duty to their nation. In 1896, Woodrow Wilson, who would become president of Princeton University, gave a speech that would forever change the discourse on higher education.

In “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” Wilson argued that the university has a responsibility to instill a sense of civic duty in its students. The university is to be neither simply a place of learning for self-gratification, nor a purely vocational institution. The “school must be of the nation,” promoting a sense of duty in its students lest they closet themselves off “while a nation comes to its maturity.”

The days when universities characterize their missions as particular to a specific nation are long gone. Indeed, Princeton amended its unofficial motto from “Princeton in the nation’s service” to “Princeton in the nation’s service and the service of all nations.” Cornell is now often referred to as the “land grant university to the world.”

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hat’s your major?”

“Religious Studies.”

“Oh. Interesting.” Pause.

“Are you religious?”

The question is nonsensical, but I get it every time I tell someone my major. It’s a little bit like asking an Asian Studies major whether or not he is Asian or asking a Horticulture major whether or not he is a vegetable.

“Yeah, actually, I’m a Buddhist.”

“Oh, cool!” Pause. “Do you think of Buddhism as a religion, or as more of a way of life?”

This question is almost as popular as

Surely this is a function of the diverse and increasingly global student bodies at universities around the country, as well as the feeling that knowledge — the currency of the university — should know no national bounds.

Increasingly, universities’ public service aims focus on producing “global citizens.”

The NYCTech campus, though, represents something of a new model of public service for the modern university. This conception of public service doesn’t necessarily seek to produce knowledgeable citizens with a fealty to the nation; it seeks to transform a local economy, create jobs and new technology and blaze new frontiers. It seeks to find ways to help New York and the United States, as well as the larger world community. And by doing so, it seeks to balance a particularistic mission — say, as the land grant university to the State of New York — with a universal aim, like being the “land grant university to the world.”

To be sure, the NYCTech campus represents just one model of public service for the university, and others surely exist. Tufts has a “College of Citizenship and Public Service” that seeks to educate “active citizens,” who aim to build “stronger, healthier and safer communities,” regardless of where those communities may be. The modern university, with an expanding global footprint, will undoubtedly have to reconsider what its public service mission entails and to whom its primary responsibility belongs.

The modern university will also deal with more pressing issues, foremost among them diversity in higher education. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last week to hear a case focused on race-based admissions, the state of diversity at universities across the country has the potential to undergo significant changes. Should the court find the use of race as a factor in admissions unconstitutional, Cornell and other universities will be affected in very real ways. Many believe that university demographics will change, with fewer African-American and

Nathaniel Rosen Bringing It Home But they need to be if any serious debate about diversity in higher education is going to take place.

What the NYCTech campus, Fisher v. The University of Texas, and President Skorton’s diversity initiative all have in common is this: They should all prompt a rethinking, or at the very least a rearticulation, of the modern university’s mission. What does public service mean in the 21st century? To whom does the university’s primary responsibility belong? What is the place of race and diversity in the modern university? And what is the place of morality and civic duty? The answer to these questions will very likely define the course of higher education in America.

We need a “Princeton in the Nation’s Service” for the 21st century.

Nathaniel Rosen is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at nrosen@cornellsun.com. Bringing it Home appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Consuming Buddha columnists are preachers. The Alma Mater is a ritual. George Washington is a mythical saint. We just don't refer to him as such because we’ve been on a secularity kick ever since the Enlightenment.

My point is that, from a sociological point of view, these sorts of thoughts and practices are all that religion is. Rituals, myths, metaphysical doctrines, ethical injunctions, mystical experiences, social institutions, all the rest of it, they're just things we do and thoughts we think.

Occasionally we look at a bunch of thoughts and behaviors, clump them together and give them a name: religion.

Tom Moore What Even Is All This? the “Are you religious?” question, but it takes longer to answer.

So is Buddhism a religion? We should start by defining religion, and that's where we first run into trouble. Religion is ... well, there's the old myth about George Washington and the cherry tree. And if you've ever stuck around for the second half of a Glee Club concert, you’ve heard those Cornellians in the crowd belt out the Alma Mater. And here’s me, putting out biweekly statements on what I believe is right and wrong in the world. Opinion

Hispanic students likely matriculating.

In near prescient fashion, President Skorton released a statement on Cornell’s commitment to diversity just days before the Supreme Court announced it would hear Fisher v. The University of Texas. In it, he reaffirmed Cornell’s commitment to diversity and announced that he and the provosts will be “directing the development of explicit institutional diversity goals.” If that sounds vague, it’s because it is. President Skorton has called for a revamped “University Diversity Council” to move these initiatives forward, but details about these “explicit institutional diversity goals” have not yet been forthcoming.

Buddhism fits about as comfortably into this category as Christianity, or, for that matter, American nationalism or Cornell pride.

But when people try to tell me that Buddhism isn’t a religion, they mean something else entirely. The claim mostly serves to distinguish Buddhism, which is hip and exotic, from all those boring Western religions their parents practiced. For the “spiritual but not religious” who consider themselves too clever and skeptical for the faiths of their forefathers, religion means

blind acceptance of dogma and meaningless performance of devotional ritual.

Buddhism, they claim, doesn’t have any of that silly religious mumbo-jumbo.

Well, maybe not the Buddhism for sale in the check-out lane of Barnes & Noble.

Spend some time in a Buddhist community, though, whether in Asia or right here in Ithaca, and you’ll get your fill of incense and chanting. Buddhism has its fair share of priestly bureaucracy, too. This is not to condemn Buddhism, but only to help it down from its Orientalist pedestal. Many Buddhists, just like many Christians, mechanically mumble along their prayer beads while thinking of decidedly mundane affairs. Asians are not inherently more “spiritual” than white people, and Buddhism is not inherently more “spiritual” than Christianity.

So why does it matter? What’s at stake in that banal, meaningless proposition, repeated to me every time I tell someone I’m a Buddhist, that Buddhism is not a religion?

For one thing, if Buddhism isn’t a religion, it’s open for business. None of us bat an eyelash at “Nirvana: Positively Pure,” a popular brand of bottled water, but we might think twice before endorsing “Jesus Christ Cola” or “Mohammad Corn Pops.”

Nirvana is the complete cessation of all suffering and desire. But yeah, I guess bottled water is nice too.

More importantly, if Buddhism is not a religion, spiritual consumers can pick and choose the parts they like and ignore anything inconvenient. If Buddhism is just some sort of vaguely wholesome spiritual

path, we can take all the metaphysical doctrines and codes of ethics with a grain of salt. Rituals and myths can be promptly disposed of, and the existence of a clergy is, of course, out of the question. Let’s just sit around and read the latest books by the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hahn. Maybe the Tibetan Book of the Dead will make for an exciting acid trip.

What troubles me are the implications of approaching religion not as religion, but as a “spiritual marketplace.” Such a pickand-choose mentality makes us consumers of truths, rather than devotees of Truth.

When Eastern religion is repackaged for Western consumption under the name of spirituality, I think we lose something. In a certain sense, we lose everything. The potency of religious traditions is in their particulars, in the daily practices and concrete understandings that transform the mind.

So if you ask me if I’m religious, I will answer, yes, I’m a Buddhist. I know it might be unfashionable for a modern young man to count himself as part of a flock, but I think that’s part of the problem. In an era of proud individualism, humility and submission to a tradition greater than oneself is out of fashion.

Religious content, when severed from religious tradition, becomes just another consumer good.

Tom Moore is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at tmoore@cornellsun.com. What Even Is All This? appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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BY GEORGE KARALIS Sun Staff Writer

Consider this fictitious quotation: “I have never seen a movie. I see advertisements for movies frequently and know that many other people enjoy them, but to me they seem uninteresting and a waste of time.”

I can imagine the incredulity. Likely you would want to express to this person the value of film — its ability to evoke wonder, nostalgia, compassion. While some films may indeed be a waste of time, others are surely meaningful, whether through educational, emotional or spiritual means. To whatever degree, I suspect that the average person would recommend for that hypothetical person to see at least a good film or two before discounting the medium entirely.

Now replace in the above quote “seen a movie” with “played a video game.” The situation becomes more plausible, since many people do not play games and have no interest in doing so. Images of Warcraft-addicted teens glued to computer screens, those horrible Farmville requests flooding your Facebook inbox, the children speaking of “pwning” and “n00bs.” To the outsider, games might seem juvenile, frivolous or inane. Indeed, gaming and the culture that surrounds it have become major issues to parents, psychologists, politicians and others.

But those who play games would argue on the same grounds as the cineastes. While some games may hold incredible time-wasting potential, others create profound experi-

ences only understood by the player. Players might reminisce on parts of a game that strained their abilities, or perhaps evoked emotion. They can also look back and see how they have changed and developed skills over the course of their play, a possibility not available in other media. And moving to the social realm, games provide enormous potential for players to have meaningful interactions with others.

In this article I cannot defend all these assertions, but I do hope to at least encourage those who have not played digital games for whatever reason to consider giving them a real shot. Albeit, games are not as accessible as films — they have technical requisites, skill assumptions and often-considerable costs.

But, today, many games welcome all. If you have a computer, thousands of games are available for less than a movie ticket, many for free. And as the population of players ages and matures, developers come up with richer and more thought-provoking interactive experiences.

Thus, welcome to The Sun’s first feature devoted to digital games. A lot of college students already play games, be it Skyrim or Words with Friends, but for the rest of this article, I want to address the readers who have made it this far but are still skeptical (seasoned gamers are welcome to tag along too).

The simplest argument to be made in favor of playing games is that they are fun.

There is a satisfaction and pleasure available to the experience of gameplay that is not so readily available when watching TV, seeing a movie or reading a book. This has to do with

the psychological concept of flow.

Flow is a positive psychology concept proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi to describe the mental state of becoming completely immersed in a task. When a task has the right balance between its difficulty and your abilities, you enter a flow state. You feel absorbed and in control; you might lose track of time or awareness of yourself. It feels really good.

You have experienced flow, whether in a well-matched basketball game, a challenging piano piece or a particularly interesting homework problem (no?).

But digital games are uniquely apt for generating flow since they are designed especially to do so. Games set clear and achievable goals, give immediate visual and auditory feedback based on the player’s performance and adjust difficulty as the player becomes more skilled.

Take, for example, BIT.TRIP RUNNER

by Gaijin Games (available on the game service Steam for $9.99, as well as Wii and 3DS). The game mechanics will be familiar if you have ever seen other “runner” games like Canabalt or the beloved Robot Unicorn Attack. But BIT.TRIP RUNNER has some elements especially good for generating flow.

Players control Commander Video, hero of the BIT.TRIP series, as he runs through colorful 2D levels. Each obstacle successfully jumped over, slid under or kicked through plays a sound, and power-ups enhance the visual and auditory experience. If Commander Video hits a single obstacle, he is sent back to the start of the level.

The game, while unforgiving, provides an extremely clear measure of progress: you can

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see yourself getting better as you run further away from the starting point, grab more gold bricks and upgrade the environment with power-ups. Crashing into an obstacle doesn’t stop the game. Instead it quickly restarts — you’re playing again before you can lament your failure.

One particularly difficult portion, where blocks approach in rapid succession, might be frustrating and push players out of flow. But getting through was one of the most joyous gaming experiences I have had. After many (many) failures, I was suddenly able to fly through with complacent ease. Mastering something so initially difficult is an extraordinary feeling, and with games it is possible to reach such elation several times in an afternoon.

Whereas I had a wonderful flow experience playing BIT.TRIP RUNNER, others have equated its gameplay to “psychological torture” (by the way, there is an easy mode).

But if you hate RUNNER, that’s alright too.

The diversity and inventiveness of games today is astounding. There’s more than one out there fo r you.

Not all games solely try to achieve flow.

Many focus on a story or aim to convey a specific mood. The flow model is a traditional way of looking at games, but interactive media harbors limitless possibilities only beginning to be explored.

So? Off to play some games?

George Karalis is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at gsk52@cornell.edu.

Joy and Glee in Mozart’s Magic Flute Sarastro, the leader of the Temple and sworn enemy of the Queen of the Night. However, not all is as it seems; while the Queen of the Night generously gives Tamino a magic flute which only has to be played to protect him from danMozart’s most beloved opera comes to life in Ithaca ger and begs him to rescue her daughter, Sarastro reveals her College Theatre’s presentation of The Magic Flute, which evil nature to the prince and Pamina. Sarastro agrees to chronicles Prince Tamino and the birdcatcher Papageno’s release Pamina, but only after Tamino and Papageno prove search for true love and enlightenment. This performance themselves worthy through a series of trials. The opera ends mixes the original German libretto and an English transla- on an optimistic high note, with Tamino and Pamina tion, resulting in a clear presentation of the story for the reaching enlightenment while Papageno achieves his lifeEnglish-speaking audience while still remaining respectful long dream of finding a maiden to share his life with. of the original material. The performances are all impresThe story in and of itself has much to offer, with its sive, particularly that of the Queen of the Night and warming themes on the power of love, knowledge and Papageno, and the orchestra more than achieves the beauty music. Director David Lefkowich has decided to highlight of Mozart’s score. the tension between the evil Queen of the Night and After seeing a picture of the beautiful Pamina, daughter Sarastro by keeping the text and libretto of Sarastro, of the Queen of the Night, Tamino falls instantly in love Monostatos and the other priests in the temple in the origwith her and vows to help her escape from the clutches of inal German while the Queen, the Three Ladies, Pamina, Tamino and Papageno sing in English.

Tamino initially trusts the Queen of the Night when she declares that Sarastro is the villain and not she, an opinion that is only reinforced by the unsettling atmosphere Tamino encounters in the Temple. In the program, Lefkowich notes, “by setting the text of Sarastro in German, it allows Tamino to at first find Sarastro’s temple unfamiliar and the characters untrustworthy.” Indeed, the unfamiliar language also disorients the audience, as up until this point, the dialogue and singing has all been in English. But slowly, the audience along with Tamino comes to realize Sarastro’s true goodness and to value the beauty and knowledge that he represents.

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Of course, the story would mean nothing without firstrate performances and acting, and it is here that the production truly delivers. All the characters match the appropriate talent, notably the amusing Papageno and the Queen of the Night, whose famous aria was not only pitch perfect but also terrifying in its earnest desire for vengeance and death. Mozart’s score for The Magic Flute contains some of the most vocally demanding arias in opera, with the Queen’s aria “Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen” (“Hell’s vengeance boils in my heart”) reaching the dizzying height of a high F, the very top of a soprano’s range, to the unbelievably low F that is required in Sarasto’s arias on several occasions. But it is easy to forget these technicalities while watching the performance; the singers are not only comfortable with the score, but they bring it to life with genuine feeling.

Many people hold the opinion that opera is a starched, antiquated art form, and, unfortunately, there are many performances that reinforce this assertion. However, this is not one of them. Papageno had the audience laughing more than once at his antics and contorted facial expressions. The Queen’s stage presence is so powerful, it is difficult to focus on the other characters when she is singing or speaking.

The orchestra was equally impressive. While the pit accommodated a fraction of the players usually found in such performances, the whole hall was filled with Mozart’s splendid music. The flute solos were particularly beautiful, and the conducting was dazzlingly enthusiastic, a show to watch in and of itself. Overall, everyone involved did a wonderful job in respecting Mozart’s work while creating a sweet and enjoyable performance for the audience.

Performances run this week, Feb. 28, March 1 and 3, at 8 p.m. at the Hoerner Theatre in Dillingham Center.

Lubabah Chowdhury is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be contacted at lrc57@cornell.edu.

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Three Ways to a Different Music Scene KAI SAM NG Sun Staff Writer

It has been open for less than a month and debuted its first show less than two weeks ago, but the lounge at Lot 10 is generating some well-deserved buzz for attracting quite an impressive lineup of shows for a place that just opened its doors. Actually, scratch that: their lineup is impressive for any place in Ithaca, period. The best part about this is that you will be able to see that lineup in person this Thursday at 9 p.m., when three bands — two from Ithaca and one from Montreal — will not only put on a memorable show but also jolt Ithaca with a burst of musical trendiness.

Situated at the place where the restaurant Delilah’s once occupied, Lot 10 is named after the property designation on which the building sits on. The name gives off a smooth casualness that matches the lounge itself. Its

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just-right size provides something that’s hard to come by in Ithaca: an underground, listening room environment where people (for it also hosts events like swing lessons) can interact candidly. But that sincerity hides the lounge’s goal organically adjust to trends outside Ithaca. This does not so much signify a departure from local music but adds to the scene by bringing in music other than the established roots rock, singer-songwriter and blues acts Ithaca already has.

The Ithacan quintet Kin Ship begins the show with summery, reverb-laden folk songs from their forthcoming album, Where I Live. Many other bands share the same aesthetic, but the band stands out from the competition with their ability to successfully fuse in a nostalgic 60s element many other bands strive for. Songs For a C.K. Dexter Haven, available for free on their Bandcamp page, is a collection of demos that gives insight into their sound. None of the songs surpass three minutes, but a lot happens in each short burst. Bright folk-pop melodies emerge from the turntable static, accompanied by soft percussion that supports delicate vocals. They are wonderfully produced, with ethereal strings and organs manifesting to add to the exquisite balance of the songs. Kin Ship describes its own music the best, saying it is “what you miss about your father’s record collection,” a wistful escape to simpler times.

Intensive Care comes all the way from Montreal in the wake of increasing attention from the internet music elite. The outfit is juggling the consequences that come with any band’s ascendancy into public attention: not only is it preparing for an album release and finalizing a record deal but embarking on an experimental tour through the United States to gauge demand.

Collaborating with Jace Lasek of the Besnard Lakes (also from Montreal), it already has a self-released album under their belt from 2009, Fairytales from the Island (which you can also get from Bandcamp). A prog-rock album at

heart, the album works in pop and folk within a postrock template to create deceptively simple songs that build up to towering climaxes. An EP, It Takes Time, released just this month, is much more straightforward in its indie rock influences, yet maintains what one commentator describes as their “soaring, trippy, hazy rock” elements.

Wrapping up the show are the garage veterans of Ithaca, Candy Pants. Though a favorite local band for years (they formed in 1997), a lot of time has passed since its last show. It’s also its first show with their new guitarist, making this show all the more essential for existing Candy Pants fans. To be fair to Cornellians who have never heard of Candy Pants, it is hard to find it because they share their name with two other bands. They also do not have a MySpace for people to check them out. But that is because we take the internet for granted and expect content to come to us, rather than us searching for it.

Those who do search are rewarded with the discovery of a great band with a lo-fi indie rock ethos like that of Pavement and the Dismemberment Plan. Its ability to get people dancing has been noted even by The New York Times.

Even through actively different approaches, all three bands fundamentally play a type of rock music that invigorates Ithacan music with a shot of something different.

This show offers a great opportunity for Ithaca to attract bands with different styles of music and make the city an even more attractive destination for new music trends.

Lot 10 is off to a great start, so keep your eyes peeled on the place.

Lot 10 is located at 112 South Cayuga Street, and can be reached by the Route 90 and 92 Bus. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5. Ages 21 and up.

Kai Sam Ng is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at kn298@cornell.edu.

A History of Violence

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amiliarity breeds contempt,” the saying goes. Anyone familiar with the current events of the world should harbor a little contempt at the way things are running.

On one side, GOP contender Rick Santorum spews outdated drivel demeaning women, gays and all other minorities.

Far more flagrant is the state-sanctioned massacre of civilians over in Syria. Videos from journalists — two of which were killed last week while covering the clash — and everyday citizens expose nauseating bloodshed that has spared no one; a clip went viral earlier this month that depicted a dismembered teen’s last moments. This continues on, with no end in sight.

But, hey, we love violence. A small contingent applauded Rick Perry’s boast that, last year, his state of Texas put to death more criminals than any other. A much larger majority cheered the death of Osama bin Laden. I will not lie to say I was not one of them. But, as a key passage from the Bible, Matthew 5:44, attests, “Love your enemies,” a principle so noble in theory because it is so difficult in practice.

Consider how many synonyms in the English language can substitute for “kill”: murder, slay, waste, snuff, whack, hit, ice … to take care of, to do away with, to make sleep with the fishes. How many different ways can we describe a field of flowers, or the connection with a loved one? Words appear futile in those circumstances. We have all, at least, seen glimpses of the best in life. Millions of songs have been written about how impossible it is to describe, the ineffability of beauty. Most of them are so bad they make us value this struggle even more.

Victims of rape assure the cozy masses that the extent of abuse similarly defies words. With a glazed stare, PTSD war veterans contend that taking life, for the noblest of causes, still rattles the soul. Hostile rhetoric can prove far more dangerous, for it indoctrinates subjects in intolerance, pushing objective detachment to subjective hatred. The images of war and the words leading to it remain ugly. Violence is the antithesis of beauty.

History tells us violence has forever been the answer instead of, to quote Elvis Costello, “peace, love and understanding.” It is easier, requires less thinking and compensates for the impotence of a long line of male leaders. “Kill, kill, kill!” we yell to this day. Demonize the enemy, for they could surely not be anything like us.

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The haunting quote from Jean Renoir’s 1939 film, The Rules of the Game, takes the just, if taboo, both then and now, approach to our history of violence: “The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons.” There is a side to every story, with emotions and values that lie not in black or white, but the grey in between. Familiarity breeds not contempt but identification, knowledge of another’s affairs that sit not far from our own.

Art uncovers these truths and, today, cinema most of all.

But now that Oscar season is over, I expect movie studios to once again focus on making money; that is, equate the lowest denominator as the entire audience. Sickly romantic comedies take a shot at cobbling together some immaculate depiction of true love while Michael Bay and Guy Ritchie wade in the unremitting tide of action blow-em-ups.

From post-Oscar February to pre-Oscar October, Hollywood attempts to ignore its unequaled ability to contemplate topics like peace and morality, values long stripped from Congress.

Some films like Harry Potter, Super 8 and The Third Planet of the Apes slip Man through the cracks, yet not even they, the sole breadwinners in the business, occupy the ballot for Oscar night. Why does intelligent fare have to be relegated to a narrow three-month window, and at the metropolitan poles of our two coasts, no less? For the rest of the year, sex is love and blood is war.

The best of cinema ponders themes greater than its own plot or mechanics. Iran’s A Separation, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and my Best Film of 2011, period, studies a simple but powerful domestic dispute.

Through its performances, subplots, editing and direction, the film upends the hostile image of the country and its people many of us have as well as any notion of infallible law.

No side of the conflict, between a recently divorced husband and sickly, pious woman, acted worthy of condemnation independent of one another. Innocuous events escalated until a mutual split in morality cast one vehemently against the other.

It is a fascinating, brilliant film that explores the simple violence in language and conduct, and how uncontested it would stand at each home base. Like the smallpox explorers

Zachary Zahos

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greeted Native Americans with, the origins of strife are invisible to one another.

I criticized last year’s Drive, a film I otherwise greatly admired, for serving its brutal, almost beautiful carnage with no footnotes. Director Nicolas Winding Refn framed the slitting of wrists and stomping of skulls with chill sterility and detachment. It disturbed me not for the bloody images but for its refusal for empathy. It took a Camus approach to violence, detached and detailed, not unlike the testimony of the BTK Killer or Ted Bundy.

That approach works for some, but I carry an agenda with the greatest of films. “Why?” I want the film to ask.

Violence is all around us, but it is born of mass ignorance and petty greed. Diplomacy seems impossible for a man raised to pull the trigger. If this is such a wonderful world, there should be nothing funny about peace, love and understanding. The Coen Brothers capture this complex perfectly in Fargo, after policewoman Marge apprehends four-time murderer Gaear. “And for what?” she asks. “For a little bit of money. There’s more to life than a little money, you know …

And here you are, and it’s a beautiful day.”

Zachary Zahos is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. The Third Man appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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“It feels pretty good. It’s good to know that my hard work pays off.”

The women’s team finished first in the 60m by senior co-captain Melissa Hewitt, in the shot put by junior Victoria Imbessi and in the 4x400m relay by a team comprised of sophomore Ebolutalese Airewele, senior Kelsey Reimnitz, junior Libby O’Brien and freshman Katie Woodford.

Freshman Rutger Admirand believes that it is very important for the Red to look forward to the next meets, not dwelling on what could have been or what should have been, but rather focusing on where the team is moving forward “There’s a point where you have to sit there and reflect on what happened and what you need to do,” he said. “But when it comes down to it you really just can’t sit there and wallow in it. You have to pick your head up, you have to look forward and you have to realize that you’re the

best one out there, or you’re on the best team out there. You’re going to see a lot of fire [from this team].

Losing at home just by eight points is ridiculous. Everyone is just ready to go.”

Taylor told his team that there is a lot to be learned from this Heps meet, and he is confident in the resilience of the team.

“I told them in our team meeting, ‘I think that pain and disappointment are two of the best potential teachers out there,’” he said.

“The challenge is what you do with that pain and disappointment. They won’t have any trouble getting back up.”

The Red now gears up to compete at the IC4A/ECAC championships this upcoming weekend in Boston. This meet is generating a lot of excitement on the team, according to Hagberg.

“I’m excited,” he said. “IC4As [are] looking big. We’re at our peak performances right now, so it’s another chance to show people what we’re capable of doing.”

Beyond this, however, the Red is looking to mount another successful campaign in the outdoor season.

Glantz is entering the spring season with high expectations for her team.

“After being here three years and seeing us perform indoor and outdoor, I think that we’re a better outdoor than indoor team,” she said.

“Everyone is just going to get faster and stronger.”

Taylor outlined what the Red has to do to come out and compete hard in the spring.

“It will be determined by who comes to compete; which team really comes to compete, which team confronts their fears and anxieties best.”

Hewitt is confident that the second place finishes for the men’s and women’s teams are going to serve as the right motivation for a strong spring season.

“We’re going to come back with a vengeance.”

Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun.com.

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faking, and was able to find Clare,” Smith said. “[Fitzpatrick] had a lot of composure … [on] a big finish right under the hoop. We had three seconds to play out, and were able to force a turnover for browns last possession.”

Lyman led the team in scoring with 13 points.

Senior forward Maka Anyanwu added eight points, and sophomore guard Stephanie Long scored seven. As a team, Cornell had 11 steals and shot 43 percent from the floor.

“It was a game our team really wanted,” Smith said. “We weren’t at full capacity [the last time we played] at Brown, so to be able to compete in that manner with that excitement and drama was great, the players were really excited.”

Yale proved to be a tough competitor on Saturday night. Cornell was defeated by the Bulldogs for the second time, losing 86-73 two weeks ago in New Haven, Conn.

“It was a tough couple first minutes,” Fitzpatrick said. “They went up 11-0, and we were never really able to recover from that.

It was a very physical game. We didn’t come out to play in the first couple minutes.

We never stopped fighting, but those first couple really killed us.”

Cornell kept the game close, but was unable to break a four-point margin.

“We had 21 turnovers,” Smith said.

“You’re not going to win many games with that. We

made some silly mistakes, things we could have prevented … We were disappointed with the outcome of that Game: game — a lot of Brown things self Cornell inflected.”

Anyanwu provided another solid performance, scoring Game: 17 points. Junior Yale Cornell guard Taylor Flynn and DiMagno also contributed to the Red’s scoring effort, but Yale’s aggressive style of play was ultimately too much for Cornell to fight back against.

“We are continuing to get better,” Smith said.

“We’ve got the fight with us, [Brown] was a great

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win, and we’re looking to get a couple more wins …

We have a lot more basketball to play this season.”

Rebecca Velez can be reached at rvelez@cornellsun.com.

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Leapin’ Lyman | Sophomore Shelby Lyman led the team in points (13) against Brown on Friday night.

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By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

Despite placing last over the weekend at the Ivy League championships hosted by Harvard, the women’s swimming team (2-6, 1-6 Ivy League) boasted a few standout performances.

The Red scored 630.5 points behind freshman Meredith Drummond, who broke three school records. The men’s team (1-7, 0-7) will have its chance to win big at the Ivies this weekend in Princeton, N.J. Drummond led the team with a total of 69 points, which she compiled throughout the three-day event. The rookie set the school record in the 200 IM, as well as in the 200 breaststroke, just five minutes after junior Jessie Holley set her own personal record. Senior captain Chiara Spinazzola was second on the team in points, after advancing to the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke finals.

“I was really overall pleased at how well they did,” said head coach Joe Lucia. “I think the most important thing was they handled themselves in the meet because it is not easy. They were mentally tough throughout the three days.”

Lucia also noted the performance of sophomore Kim Jerome, who set the fourth school record of the meet in the 100 breaststroke.

Sophomore Sarah Schlichte had her all-time best swim in the 500 freestyle and senior captain Emily Dean had a strong showing in her final meet, earning 34 points. Sophomores Melissa Mrozinski and Manita Herlitz-Ferguson also recorded their best performances of the season.

Lucia noted he was partially disappointed by the performances of the relay teams, which he felt did not fully express the depth of the team.

He said that he thought going into the last day of races, the team had a chance to pass Brown, but the Red was unable to overcome the deficit.

According to the coach, his proudest moment was when Drummond beat Holley’s record in the 200 breast.

“It was one of the best things I saw as a team,” Lucia said. “When [Drummond] beat [Holley]

after just setting the record herself, [Holley] was the first one to congratulate her and tell her great job.”

Lucia has no time to rest after last weekend, as he will travel with the men’s team to Princeton this weekend to compete in the Tigers’ version of the Ivy League championships. The Red departs on Wednesday for the three-day event, which kicks off on Thursday, March 1.

“The league got very competitive this year,” said senior Julian Chan. “But since our losses this year have been very close we have the confidence we need going into Ivies that we believe we can perform well.”

Both Lucia and Chan noted that defeating Harvard and Princeton are long shots for the team, but they remained confident in the Red’s ability to compete against other rivals such as Brown, Penn and Dartmouth.

“It is fully on the shoulders of the senior class,” Lucia said. “They have been here before and I am looking for them to step up and set the tone for the meet.”

The seven seniors — Kevin Brazitis, James Keady, Steven Kwatler, Chan, Zac MijaresShafai, Jake Sangren and Eric Anderson — were all on the 2009 team that had the best championship result in school history.

Despite failing to beat an Ivy League opponent this year, Lucia highlighted the team’s depth and how important it is in a meet like the one starting on Thursday. The coach also echoed Chan’s feelings that the diving squad, comprised of juniors James O’Neil, Jon Zollo and sophomore Phillip Truong, will have to have a strong meet record if the Red wishes to place well.

Sophomores Henry Scott, Harry Harpham and Taylor Wilson are expected to do big things as well, according to Lucia.

“It has been a season of perseverance,” Chan said. “But we expect personal bests from everyone on the team and if we can do that we can be stay competitive in the league.”

Scott Eckl can be reached at seckl@cornellsun.com.

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Water, water everywhere | The men’s swimming and diving teams travel to Princeton, N.J. this weekend to participate in the three-day Ivy League championships, beginning Thursday, March 1.

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Game face | The women’s tennis team will face Army at Reis on Wednesday.

Women’s Tennis Beats Binghamton; Men Wrap Up Play at Blue-Gray Over the weekend, the women’s tennis team toppled Binghamton (3-5), 6-1, winning its second straight match. Freshmen Gabby Sullivan, Sara Perelman and Rosemary Li, as well as junior Christine Ordway won each of their respective singles and doubles matches.

Cornell (6-2) began the match by sweeping the three doubles matches of the day. Junior Sarah O’Neil, who is ranked ninth in the Northeast Region by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, and Ordway combined at No. 1 and won their match, 9-8, in a tiebreaker. Freshman Courtney Malinchak and Sullivan joined up at the No. 2 position and breezed to an 8-6 victory. The last pair comprised of Perelman and Li, who won their match at No. 3, 84, improving the pair’s record to 80 on the season.

Ordway (No. 2) and Perelman (No. 5) sailed to singles victories without dropping a game, before Li (No. 6) won her match in a straightset win. Sophomore Ryann Young improved to 8-0 on the season, winning at No. 3. Sullivan (No. 4) also

claimed the win in her match.

The Red returns to action for a Wednesday matchup against Army.

The men’s team (5-8) concluded its weekend trip to Montgomery, Ala. in defeat. Ranked 59th by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, Cornell fell to 49th-ranked Alabama with a 4-0 loss on Sunday at the Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic.

The Red dropped doubles matches at the Nos. 1 and 3 spots against the Crimson Tide, then split the singles matches, losing 4-0, as two matches did not finish.

On Saturday Cornell played back-to-back against No. 14 Auburn and No. 15 Missisippi State, but ultimately fell, 4-2 and 40, respectively. Since matches were rescheduled for Saturday due to rain on Friday, the scoring format for Saturday was modified to play-todecision.

After playing the last six consecutive matches away from Reis Tennis Center, the Red returns home for a doubleheader on March 3 against Illinois State at 11 a.m., followed by Temple at 7 p.m.

— Compiled by Lauren Ritter

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At the No. 7 spot, Sachvie won in five against Stanford’s Serena Fagan, tying the match at four apiece. Freshman No. 1 Danielle Letourneau sealed the win for Cornell in another tough five-set battle versus Pamela Chu. Devoy praised both women for rising to the occasion on Saturday.

“Danielle … clinched the match for us right at the end.

[She] was under a lot of pressure, stayed strong mentally and

pulled through with that,” noting that although “you can fourth-seeded Quakers, but Devoy said. “Lauren Sacvhie, her single out the girls that won — according to Sachvie the loss was match went 12-10 in the fifth, and they did play exceptionally not for lack of endeavor.

“When we were playing Penn and if she had not won her game well — even some of the girls — who’s also then Danielle’s ranked higher [ m a t c h ] “You really couldn’t wish to finish the season than us — we wouldn’t have ended up takmade any difon a better note.” ing a few ference.

I matches off think I have to Julee Devoy them,” she said. single those “Everyone two out as being very mentally tough and who lost had great matches also.” played really well. We could have Even after achieving its sea- just settled with sixth, but we really playing their best for the team. They came through and son-long goal, the Red continued really wanted to get fifth. to fight hard in its final match Everyone played to get fifth and that was awesome to see.”

The coach mentioned the against Penn on Sunday. In the it just didn’t turn out for us, but efforts of rest of the team as well, end, Cornell fell, 7-2, to the that’s alright.”

“You really couldn’t wish to finish the season on a better note,” Devoy said. “Even though the Penn match was a little bit of an uphill battle … [the team] came out and played well. They didn’t get wiped off the court by a better team; they stood their ground and were extremely positive. It was a great way to finish the season … especially for the seniors having regained that No. 6 spot which was essentially our goal. It was a great finish.”

Olivia Wittels can be reached at owittels@cornellsun.com.

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TRACK AND FIELD

C.U. Hosts Heps, Places Second to Princeton

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

The men’s and women’s track and field teams entered the weekend with high hopes of coming away with the Heps championship. Both teams finished with three event titles, as well as many more scoring opportunities for the Red. According to senior co-captain Molly Glantz, although both teams finished second overall, Cornell athletes can hold their heads high knowing that they gave all they could for their team and for their school.

“I think we gave 110 percent in terms of effort and did all we could but I also think that things don’t [always] happen perfectly,” she said. “I think everyone can look back on their performances and say they could have done this or that, but at the end of the day we did all we could for the weekend and I think Columbia did a really great job.”

The men’s team came up just eight points shy of winning the meet, taking second to Princeton. Senior hurdler Dan Hagberg described how close the Red was to claiming the Heps title.

“We had a great day one, better than we normally do,” he said. “Then Sunday came around and we had a lot of great performances but just came up a little bit short at the end.

[We had] the highest points total at a Heps ever to not win the meet.”

According to men’s head coach Nathan Taylor, the difference between winning and losing in a meet like the Heps can be extremely close.

“I think it’s always tough when you think you can win and then not win,” he said. “When you think about it we lost the meet by one centimeter and two one-hundredths of a second.

It’s the blink of an eye; that’s the difference between winning and losing in this meet. If you gave grades, we’ve got a very good team; we got an A. The other team got an A-plus.”

The men’s team came away with first-place finishes in the

60m hurdles by Hagberg, in the long jump by sophomore Steven Bell and in the heptathlon by senior Nick Huber.

Hagberg was pleased with his first place finish.

“I was ecstatic,” he said. “I ran a [personal record], the first time I’ve ever gone under eight before [in the 60m hurdles].

That was a personal goal of mine, to break eight, so that was

good to get that out of the way with one of my last meets indoor.”

Bell pointed to hard work as the reason why he was able to defend his crown in the long jump.

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EMILY BURKE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Renaissance man | Senior Nick Huber placed first in the heptahalon, earning 5,446 points personally over the seven events.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Cagers Defeat Brown

By One in Friday Game

By REBECCA VELEZ Sun Staff Writer

TINA CHOU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Got a napkin? | Cornell served up Stanford a hot plate of revenge, as the Red beat the west-coast rival, 5-4.

WOMEN’S SQUASH

Final Score Not Indicative of Team Depth

By OLIVIA WITTELS Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the Cornell women’s squash team ended its season on a high note at the Howe Cup. After a 5-4 win over longtime rival Stanford on Saturday, the No. 7-seeded Red ensured it will regain the No. 6 spot in the national rankings for next year. The team suffered a 90 loss against Yale in its first match of the weekend, but according to head coach Julee Devoy, the final score was not

indicative of the squad’s performance.

“There were six very competitive matches that went 3-1 or 3-2, so it was definitely much closer than the score reveals,” Devoy said. “On paper, [Yale is] a better team than us, but we put up a good fight.”

Senior co-captain Lauren Sachvie echoed Devoy’s thoughts.

“We did even better than we did when we played [Yale] in the season,” she sad. “Even though the score seems like they maybe would have killed us, everyone

had very close matches … that we were just on the losing end of.”

The tough loss on Friday did not deter the women from preparing themselves mentally for Stanford.

“Our main goal for the weekend was to go and beat [Stanford] and try to regain our sixth seed that we had a couple years ago.

Before [the match] we were really pumped … and everyone really wanted to go out there and win,” Sachvie said.

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It was another weekend with split results for Cornell (11-14, 5-6 Ivy League), as the Red secured a win Friday night, 5150, against the Brown Bears (1610, 7-5), but fell to the Yale Bulldogs (16-10, 8-4) on Saturday, 69-58. The Red now stands at fifth in the Ivy League.

Friday night’s game proved to be a battle until the final few seconds.

“We went up a couple points, then they’d come back to tie it up.”

With 15 seconds left in the game, Brown made a layup to put the Bears ahead, 50-49.

Cornell then put the ball back on Brown’s side of the court, and Fitzpatrick got an open look with 11 seconds to go. Unfortunately the shot was off. Brown rebounded, but sent the ball out of bounds. Cornell took it in from under the opponents’ net, and with three seconds remain-

“Everyone did their job. With three seconds left, they didn’t ger another shot off.”

Clare Fitzpatrick “It was a good game — it was tight. Both teams were solid on offensive and defensive ends,” said head coach Dayna Smith.

“The lead margin wasn’t great for either team; it didn’t go over five.

It was really a good battle …

They’re a tough and scrappy team.”

Brown and Cornell traded points for the entire first half, finishing the first 20 minutes of the game tied, 25-25.

“In the second half we came out with a lot of energy,” said junior forward Clare Fitzpatrick.

ing, a good shot by Fitzpatrick secured the win.

“We got the ball, ran a play … [sophomore Allyson DiMagno] set a screen for me.

[Sophomore Shelby Lyman] threw a beautiful pass, and I got the game winner to put us up by one,” Fitzpatrick said. “Everyone did their job. With three seconds left, they didn’t get another shot off … It was an exciting game down to the wire.”

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