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Lacrosse head coach Ben DeLuca ’98 was dismissed from his coaching position Thursday. | Page 16

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By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

The Common Council’s decision to shut down a proposal that would have added two police officers to the City of Ithaca is “very disappointing,” the senior deputy chief of the Ithaca Police Department says.

Pete Tyler, senior deputy chief of IPD, says that, given the current staffing levels of the department, police officers may face additional pressures as they seek to keep the “I’m very disappointed in city safe.

“While the Common Council the decision to not and the mayor understandably approve the two positions had a tough financial decision to make, I’m very disappointed in for police officer.” the decision to not approve the Pete Tyler two positions for police officers,” he said. “When staffing is reduced, it lends itself to a number of different issues — some personal on the side of the officers, whether it means less time off or more stress, because you’re doing more work, have less recovery time and less time to do reports.”

Officers are concerned about budget constraints, especially as crime rates have increased. From 2008 to 2012, the yearly total calls for service the department has fielded increased from 17,573 to 21,398, according to IPD. The increase was partially caused by the departSee POLICE page 5

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President Barack Obama meets with workers during a visit to the ArcelorMittal Cleveland steel plant in Cleveland, Ohio.

Obama spoke about the comeback of the auto industry as well as the Affordable Care Act, according to ABC News.

Former Factory Inches Closer to Cleanup

Firearm,ammunition production contaminated site course of its occupation by Ithaca Gun Company from 1885 to 1986, according to NYSDEC’s work plan for the site. In the course of manufacturing A former gun factory located off West Campus firearms and ammunition, the factory also conentered the public comment phase of a government ducted activities like spray-painting, forging and program that aims to clean up environmental con- metal plating, according to the work plan.

“Prior uses by the Ithaca Gun Company appear taminants and promote commercial development. to have led to contamination of The site is participating in the Brownfield Cleanup Pro- The work plan states that both on-site and near off-site gram, which is administered by “prior uses ... appear to areas,” the work plan says.

Located on Lake Street and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. have let to contamination of approximately 1.6 acres in size, both on-site and near the property is currently vacant.

The program aims to address the Zoned for industrial use, it has environmental, legal and finanoff-site areas.” been home to the Ithaca cial barriers that often hinder the Manufacturing Company — a redevelopment and reuse of contaminated properties, according to a guide to the producer of manufacturing equipment — as well as another gun producer, W.H. Baker & Company. program.

The possibility of environmental contaminaThe draft for the cleanup of the former Ithaca Gun factory is now complete, and public com- tion on the site was first suspected when lead bulments about the plan will be accepted for the next lets were found in the gorge area near the property, month.

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By EMMA COURT Sun News Editor

Proposed Tax Break Concerns Ithacans

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

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General George W. Casey Jr., former Chief of Staff of the US Army, speaks about leadership in Statler Hall Thursday.

City residents expressed concerns at a public hearing Thursday over a proposal to give the developers expanding downtown Ithaca’s Holiday Inn a tax abatement.

Lenroc LP, on behalf of the Holiday Inn at 222 South Cayuga St., is applying for abatements on sales taxes and mortgage recording taxes. The sales and mortgage recording abatements are valued at $207,806

and $5,000 respectively, according to an Ithaca Journal article.

Lenroc LP claims that the Holiday Inn is in danger of becoming completely nonfunctional without renovations, and that without the tax abatements, the hotel may lose business.

Plans to renovate the hotel with new guest rooms and a conference center have been already delayed to avoid temporarily closing the hotel, according to the Journal.

Theresa Alt, a staff member of Tompkins County Workers’

Center and one of approximately 15 people who attended the meeting, said she disapproves of the proposed abatements. Alt said that a “quick look at the application” showed that, should the IDA grant the abatements and facilitate Inn renovations, there would be no increased property value or additional jobs available for city employees.

Alt said that many workers at the Holiday Inn are working for unlivable wages, a point that was See HOLIDAY page 4

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Opinion, “Newsflash: Women Aren’t Safe on Campus,” Tuesday Speaking about the safety of women on campus “The truth is women are not safe on this campus. That is an undeniable yet, unacceptable truth. I’ve received one too many crime alerts in my (almost) three years at Cornell to ever believe that my female friends are completely safe here. I’ve read about women being assaulted in fraternity houses, on the street and even in the “safe” confines of their own homes.”

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Opinion, “Questioning the Role of Cultural Relevance in Relief Aid,” Wednesday Speaking about the ethical dilema of international news coverage of crisises “While there is no question that the Philippines is currently facing a major crisis, international responses to crises often pose an ethical dilemma. In an effort to drum up the much-needed support for the people of the Philippines, news outlets and other aid organizations rely on the quintessential pull-at-your-heartstring stories and photos to get the reaction they desire and to allow audiences around the world a chance to connect with these populations in trouble.”

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Alumnus Raises More Than $4M For Int’l Student Scholarships University press release. In 2013, the percentage had risen to nine percent, according to U.S. News and World Report.

According to Walsh, the benefit of the A fundraising challenge led by Martin Y. Tang ’70, a graduate of the School of Tang Challenge has actually been two-fold: Engineering, Hong Kong businessman and While helping the University accommodate University Trustee, has increased the amount international students of all economic backof aid available to undergraduate internation- grounds, the challenge simultaneously al students at Cornell by 19 percent since enhances the Cornell experience for U.S. students. Due to the increasing presence of inter2008.

In 2008, Tang established the Martin Y. national students on campus, Cornell stuTang International Scholarship Challenge to dents are benefitting from exposure to a highsupport scholarships and fellowships for ly diverse student body that spans 120 nations, she added. international students at Cornell.

“All students will hopefully develop a “For Cornell and other institutions to maintain their excellence, they really should much more worldly view and a familiarity be able to attract the best and brightest from with and an openness to people of other cularound the world,” Tang said in a promotion- tures. This environment provides a broader educational experience that is better preparaal video he made for the challenge. tion for the real world,” In total, the Tang Walsh said.

Challenge has raised “[Tang] has always been very Tang, a Hong Kong $4.39 million in donaactive in helping students stay native, has been actively tions from 12 families, according to a connected to Cornell, find jobs involved in Cornell for 30 years University press release. after they graduate and helping activities and has been especially Fourteen new scholaryoung alumni network to find focused on helping ships have been established because of the better opportunities as they’re Cornell with its international presence and challenge, not including developing their careers.” impact, Walsh said. the ones set up due to “[Tang] embraces personal support proEllen Walsh ’76 what the University’s vided by Tang, accordpriorities are, works to ing to Ellen Walsh ’76, senior development officer for Cornell share those with others, raises money for the priorities and serves in a very key role in terms Alumni Affairs and Development.

As a result, about 15 to 20 students who of advising on international activity and previously would not be able to afford a involvement,” she said.

In addition to helping a significant numCornell education will now be able to take advantage of Cornell’s vast academic resources ber of international students afford a Cornell education, Tang also maintains close personal and majors, Walsh said.

While Cornell has been a leader in the relationships with many of the students he U.S. in enrolling high numbers of interna- helps, Walsh said. After graduating, many of tional students, very limited financial aid for these students keep in contact with Tang, as international applicants has prevented some he serves as a helpful mentor to them, she highly qualified students from attending the added.

“He has always been very active in helping University, Walsh said.

“Cornell is a global University and wants students stay connected to Cornell, find jobs to be able to admit highly qualified interna- after they graduate and helping young alumni tional students who are unable to come here network to find better opportunities as they’re developing in their careers,” Walsh said. without scholarship support,” Walsh said.

She also noted that international students “Cornell is extremely lucky that Martin are especially in need of more financial aid [Tang] is such a phenomenally committed leader and alumni ambassador for the due to costly travel expenses.

In 2008, before the Tang Challenge was University.” launched, international students constituted approximately eight percent of the total Jonathan Lobel can be reached at undergraduate student body, according to the jjl278@cornell.edu.

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Prof. Chris Bettinger, material science and engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, talks about the biomaterials of edible electronics on Thursday.

C.U.Prof Gets Posthumous Recognition for His Work Prof. Wu recognized for his work in genetics links between Cornell and China,” Earle said in an email.

Wu was a scientific advisor to One Cornell professor is get- the governments of both China ting recognition five years after and Taiwan and was influential his death for his work in molecu- on U.S.-Chinese cooperation in lar biology, particularly in genet- the field of molecular biology and genetics, according to a memorial ics.

On Oct. 24, Prof. Ray Wu, website for Wu. He was also key molecular biology and genetics, in helping establish the National was presented with the 2013 Ezra Institute of Biological Sciences, a Technology Innovator Award. research laboratory in Beijing, Wu died in 2008 at the age of 79. according to the website.

Wu also founded the “We use our biennial Ezra Technology China-United t a t e s Innovator Award to recognize a Cornell SBiochemistry and faculty inventor whose inventions have M o l e c u l a r B i o l o g y made significant impact.”

Examination and Application proAlan Paau, member of CCTEC gram. The program brought more than 400 of “We use our biennial Ezra the top Chinese students to the Technology Innovator Award to United States from 1982 to 1989 recognize a Cornell faculty inven- for graduate training and protor whose inventions have made duced more than 100 faculty significant impact,” said Alan members in major universities or Paau, vice provost for technology key members in industry, accordtransfer and economic develop- ing to Paau.

Wu’s generosity to Cornell ment, at Wu’s award ceremony.

Wu was born in Beijing, University and the scientific comChina and educated in the munity is still felt today, Paau United States, earning his Ph.D. said.

Paau also said that Wu “not in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in only reinvested his inventor share 1955. He joined the Cornell fac- of money back into his own research program at Cornell” but ulty in 1966.

Paau said Wu recieved the also donated his own money. award because Wu’s work is still Wu’s trust continues to contribute his money into two prorelevant years after his death.

“If we don’t recognize the grams: Cornell’s graduate proimpact of his many inventions gram in molecular biology and now, as years go by, an opportu- the genetics program in the nity may not present itself again,” College of Agriculture and Life Pauu said at the award ceremony. Sciences.

Throughout his career, Wu Wu led the way for many inventions at Cornell, such as his published 394 research papers, invention of synthetic stick ends more than 100 of them related to — or adaptors — that allowed gene cloning and sequencing. He cloning of genes across DNA also contributed chapters to 11 fragments. This invention books, according to Paau.

“His contributions to the “became a standard cloning modern day molecular biology, approach of genes,” Paau said.

Prof. Elizabeth Earle, plant especially with practical applicabreeding and genetics and a for- tions to address pressing agriculmer associate of Wu’s, said that tural challenges for food producWu was an important player in tion and supply, cannot be overcreating bonds between the U.S. stated,” Paau said. and Chinese scientific communities.

“Ray was a generous and mod- Frank Menz can be reached at est man who fostered important frm36@cornell.edu.

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revisited several times throughout the hearing by other attendees. Alt also mentioned that the contractor proposed for the project is from Buffalo, not Ithaca.

Alt said that her research and reflection on the project led her to think, “Why in the world is this application even here?”

Alt’s concerns were echoed by other attendees, who said local labor should be used for the renovation work.

Pete Meyers, director of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, said that he would rather see local businesses receive such tax abatements than a corporate business like the Holiday Inn. Meyers also criticized the idea that the contractor for the project would not be local, saying that if the IDA grants the abatements and Lenroc goes through with the project, they “should use local labor in construction.”

But other attendees supported the project, saying that the renovation would be a good investment.

Gary Ferguson, executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, said that improving the Holiday Inn would be a significant investment for the Ithaca community. Ferguson has previously said that the expansion of a conference center in a downtown Ithaca hotel would help reduce empty rooms during the weeks and draw visitors to Ithaca.

“It’s a key decision to reinvest in this property,” he said.

Ferguson added that the proposed conference center in the Inn has “been a community goal and objective for a long time,” and that it would be “making good use of existing infrastructure.” Ferguson went on to say the project “is extremely important to [the Downtown Ithaca Alliance].”

Bruce Stoff, director of the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau, also supported the proposed renovations to the hotel, saying the renovation to the Holiday Inn would be “a good investment.”

Stoff said that the purpose of the IDA’s incentive program is “to incentivize business owners to do something that’s hard to do” and suggested that this purpose would be met by granting the requested tax exemptions to the hotel.

“It’s incredibly important to keep this property fresh and modernized,” he said.

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IPD Expresses Concern Over Budget Pollutants Cleaned Up on Site POLICE

We need to balance the importance of public safety with the ability to sustain it,” he said.

ment’s shift from being proactive to more reactive, Tyler said.

The department has had to cut down on specialized units and assignments, such as Quality of Life patrols that aim to reduce issues caused by a surge in the student population in the beginning of each academic year, according to Tyler.

Although Tyler’s comments merely underline the concerns raised by other police officers about understaffing throughout the year, city officials maintain that the budget Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 put forth for 2014 allocates the largest amount of money the IPD has ever had. “[The new budget] does represent the biggest investment the city has ever had on the police department. It’s our most expensive department — it’s gone up by $1.7 million dollars from 2009,” Alderperson Stephen Smith (D-4th Ward) said. “It’s not that we’re cutting back on what we’re spending on police.”

Other city officials said it would simply have been economically infeasible for the Common Council to approve the addition of two new police officers.

The cost of hiring two additional officers “would have increased the city’s tax rate by an additional one percent and would encumber taxpayers more each year,” Alderpersons Ellen McCollister ’78 (D-3rd Ward) and Donna Fleming (D-3rd Ward) wrote in a joint email.

Smith echoed Kerslick’s sentiments, saying with recent changes in the IPD’s leadership, it would be better for the department to bring in new officers at a later time.

Not all was lost for the IPD in the 2014 budget. The Common Council approved adding a new deputy chief who will be charged with maintaining professional standards in the department — a move that Tyler said will help reduce pressures officers face.

“Just as anything else, the chief ’s office is short-staffed. This will allow us to be more balanced and maintain a consistent approach to when it comes to maintaining our general orders, our internal investigations,” Tyler said.

“It serves a wealth of purposes, and I’m glad that that survived the budget.”

Looking forward, IPD’s goal of providing top policing service remains the same, even as the force adjusts to the financial restrictions. In addition, the department will continue campaigning for an increase in its force, Tyler said.

“We’ll continue to try to express to the mayor and to the Common Council the need for increase staffing levels,” Tyler said. “We owe that to our police officers who are out there everyday, and it’s hard to comprehend what they see, what they have to do and the amount of stress they deal with as a police officer.”

In the meantime, the department and the Council are exploring other ways to lessen pressures on the department. Kerslick suggested, along with other measures, increasing the presence of Cornell and Ithaca College police in areas around campus in order to “improve the atmosphere of general public safety.”

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The Common Council hopes to add more police officers to the force in the future, when the cost of doing so would be more financially sustainable, Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D4th Ward) said.

“It’s not very helpful to add two officers one year and then defund the position the next year.

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There is no risk of this contamination reaching the drinkaccording to the work plan. ing supply in Ithaca, since “the The Environmental Protection area is served by a public water Agency led soil removal activi- supply that obtains its water ties mostly around the site — from a different source not although affected by there was this contas o m e The NYSDEC is concerned mination,” r e m o v a l about the presence of lead in according to activity on the NYSthe property the site’s soil and the presence DEC web— in 2000. of chemicals in the site’s site. site The However, owner in groundwater, among others. those who 2001 funded enter the a site assesssite could be ment and investigation; the affected by the contaminants if buildings on the site were they disturb the soil in any removed in 2009. way.

Since then, “post-demoli“Currently, there are no tion site investigation activi- buildings on the site, so ties have included surface soil inhalation of site contamiscreening, sampling and nants in indoor air due to soil groundwater sampling,” vapor intrusion does not repaccording to the work plan. resent a concern for the site in The NYSDEC is concerned its current condition,” accordabout the presence of lead in ing to the NYSDEC website. the site’s soil and the presence of tetrachloroethylene and Zoe Ferguson can be reached at trichloroethene in the site’s zferguson@cornellsun.com.

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Q: Where did Richard Feynman live in Ithaca when he was at Cornell?

— Physics Phanatic ’11 A: Richard Feynman was an assistant professor of physics at Cornell from 1945 to 1950, having previously worked on the Manhattan Project (among many former and future Cornellians). He won the 1965 Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics (inspired in part by a Cornell student spinning a plate in a dining hall). To track down his address, the Tompkins County Public Library has a collection of old Ithaca directories available online. The 1946 directory states Feynman was rooming at 611 E. Seneca Street. By 1949, he was rooming at 505 The Parkway in Cayuga Heights.

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Villainous Proclivites It’s Friday at last, and a weekly roundup of campus news reveals a cast of HEROES and VILLAINS. University staffers are at the heart of much of the buzz.

A HEROIC Cornell employee is fighting a VILLAINOUS lawsuit brought against her by an ex-boyfriend for HEROICALLY explicit blog posts she wrote about the dude’s VILLAINOUS sexual proclivities. The $1.25 million he’s HEROICALLY gunning for will probably help make up for the VILLAINOUSLY public descriptions of his “micro penis” and kinky preferences. Still, his HEROIC current wife may not see it that way.

In other University drama, the HEROIC king of the lax bros, Cornell’s head lacrosse coach himself, was VILLAINOUSLY dismissed from his job of HEROICALLY training the next generation of Big Red stick-wielding HEROES. This probably has something to do with the VILLAINOUS drinking scandal that led to the team’s VILLAINOUSLY harsh punishment of … not getting to play in games during the part of the year they usually don’t play in games. Huh. Fortunately, the University had a few HEROES on its payroll make the news this week. A HEROIC psych professor has discovered the secret to that VILLAINOUSLY elusive emotion we call happiness: self-knowledge. He’s HEROICALLY penned a book whose title is VILLAINOUSLY similar to that of a selfhelp book. Perhaps his HEROIC book can help our VILLAINOUS blogger and lax coach find their inner peace.

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Q: What buildings and libraries are open 24 hours?

— Night Owl ’16

A: The Cornell University Library website has a handy tool that shows what libraries are open on any given day. Uris Library is generally open 24 hours on Monday through Thursday. The study spaces in Carpenter Hall (Engineering Library) and Clark Hall (Physical Sciences Library) are also usually available 24 hours. The CIT website lists a number of 24-hour computer labs, including those in Mann Library, Phillips Hall, Upson Hall and Carpenter Hall. In fact, there are many campus buildings that stay open all day and night, whether its for nocturnal researchers or sleep-deprived students. Next time you stroll through campus at 4 a.m., enjoy the nighttime peace and quiet of a nearby building.

Q: Who was Willard Straight? I’ve heard some interesting stories.

— Happy Dave ’15

A: Willard Straight undoubtedly had a big impact on Cornell and the world, although he died at only 38 years old in 1918. A Class of 1901 architecture student, he spent his time on campus involved with numerous student publications as a contributor, artist and editor. He also served on the committee in charge of Spring Day (the predecessor of Slope Day) and is credited with organizing the first Dragon Day, a celebration for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. After graduation, Straight held a variety of diplomatic roles, becoming Chief of the U.S. State Department’s Far Eastern Division at the age of 29. He then left the consular service to handle financial investments in China for J.P. Morgan & Co. and the American Group, a consortium of American banks and investors.

Straight and his wife, philanthropist and social activist Dorothy Payne Whitney, helped found The New Republic political magazine and Asia Magazine. He maintained ties with Cornell, serving on the Board of Trustees and making substantial gifts, including funds for the construction of Schoellkopf Memorial Hall. Honored with the Distinguished Service Medal for service during the First World War, Straight assisted the American delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, where he contracted pneumonia as a complication of Spanish influenza and died. He was buried in an American cemetery outside Paris and his name is included on the Cornell University War Memorial on West Campus.

In his will, Straight asked his wife to “do such a thing or things for Cornell University as she may think most fitting and useful to make the same a more human place.” The eventual result was Willard Straight Hall, opened in 1925 as one of the first student unions in the country. It offered a common social and activity space for all students, bringing together those in Greek houses as well as the “independents” who lived in Collegetown. The building includes references to Straight’s life, such as the lobby murals with an East Asia theme and a fireplace inscription that comes from a letter written by Straight to his son.

Q: What are the biggest majors at Cornell? What are the biggest in Arts and Sciences?

— Majorly Curious ’14 A: The Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences claims to be the largest major in any college at Cornell, with about 740 students. Although Biological Sciences held the lead for decades, Economics became the largest major in Arts and Sciences within the last decade, reaching around 600 students in 2007.

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From Professional Student to Professional I

’m sure I’m not the first person to remark on the irony of being a “professional student. ” Technically, we are professional students because we’re enrolled in an academic program that results — hopefully — in a professional degree. Ironically, we are professional students because being a student is our profession – we’ve been in school for roughly twenty years. A handful of my classmates had other careers prior to veterinary school but they are by far the minority ... at some point I’ll have to ask them what it felt like to adjust to being a student again. Anyway, I’m rambling about this because last week, for the first time, I felt the balance shifting from being a professional student to starting to be a real professional.

First, I spayed a cat. If you’re unfamiliar with what this means, spaying a cat is when you remove the ovaries and uterus of the female so that it can’t reproduce. I’ve written a couple of columns about the benefits of spaying and neutering already. Admittedly, it wasn’t my first time doing this procedure because I went on a spay/neuter trip to Nicaragua last winter, but that time there was a veterinarian watching, directing and helping me the whole time.

This time, as part of our junior surgery

Maybe now that I have just a year and half left, that end goal appears more tangible. course, we spayed cats in teams of three students — one as the surgeon (me, last week), one as the anesthetist and one as the assistant. There were eight groups performing surgeries at the same time and two veterinary surgeons circulating around the room, as well as anesthesiologists and technicians. They were there to help us if we had problems and answer our questions, but for the most part we were on our own. All of the groups had successful surgeries and the experience made us (or me, at least) realize how much we had learned.

Then there was the day when, after class, I vaccinated my cats, sedated my horse for getting shoes put on (he’s very opinionated and sometimes needs sedation) and looked at the radiographs (x-rays) of his feet with the farrier (blacksmith) and actually understood what I was looking at. I then got a text, a phone call and a gchat about petrelated problems from three different friends (Disclaimer: I do follow these conversations with: “But you should also talk to a real veterinarian”). As I drove back to the barn late at night to make sure my horse was awake enough to eat (in line with what seems to be a general trend in my life: I am completely objective when it comes to other people’s animals but irrationally paranoid when it comes to my own), I reflected on the day and felt happily fulfilled. If this is a taste of the rest of my life, it seems like there’s a lot to look forward to. Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the future, especially on the weeks when we have three exams on one day and spend countless hours in windowless rooms in front of computer screens. I think our curriculum, in general, does a fairly good job of mixing in enough practical and laboratory experience so that we always have at least a vague conception of the end goal. However, maybe now that I have just a year and a half left, that end goal appears more tangible.

This is probably the second time in vet school that I’ve felt a transition in the way I perceive my role in the profession that I am pursuing. The first was after anatomy when I learned how to adjust to how incredibly different veterinary school was from my undergraduate experience here — essentially, when I fully embraced the role of being a professional student. I think that this one marks an acceptance of the fact that I’m graduating relatively soon and a realization that I will be as prepared as possible to handle the new challenges that I will face.

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a third-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Comment of the day “I don’t agree with hazing at all, but I think this is a bit too extreme. The coach is not a babysitter — he can’t be everywhere watching the players’ every move. He can’t prevent upperclassmen from hazing the younger players. It would be a different story if he actively encouraged the hazing activities. But, so far, no evidence suggests that.”

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Let the Non-Violent Prisoners Go Free

hy should a non- taking home only enough living in peace among us violent criminal for bare subsistence and gar- and must be removed from be imprisoned? nishing the rest as symbolic society until they no longer Let’s begin our inquiry with restitution to his victims? pose a threat.

Moving from violent the massively unsympathet- For a once-proud modern ic case of Bernie Madoff — aristocrat, perhaps groveling crime to non-violent crime, a living, breathing Jean for a heavily garnished min- our justifications for the Valjean he is not. But imum wage until he dies is modern penal code become should he be in prison? punishment enough. Surely murkier. Madoff, while not Does he pose such a contin- some will cry no, that some- engaging in physical vioued threat to society that he one who robbed others of lence, hurt many. Still, I must be removed from it? their life savings must be would not fear that Mr. Bernie Madoff was sen- sentenced to prison until Madoff would physically tenced to 150 years in the 22nd century. Their harm me or anyone else prison, guaranteeing that anger is understandable, were he forced to rake leaves the now 75-year-old man but our decisions about in Central Park. What of a will spend the rest of his whether we should deprive poor mother who lies about days waiting to die in a pen- another of his or her liberty her address so her children itentiary. Whenever we and spend $35,000 a year can attend a school not exercise the awesome in public funds on his or known as part of a schoolresponsibility of forcibly her incarceration must be to-prison-pipeline? Is justice depriving someone of his or based on reason and not served by sentencing her to her liberty, we should be base emotion. We should prison and, in doing so, absolutely convinced that such a drastic step is necesWe should not spend $35,000/year keeping sary. In Madoff ’s Madoff idle when we can, without serious case, and even more so with thousands risk of violence, compel him to contribute in and thousands of some small way to the betterment of society other non-violent criminals, it is not. instead.

A compelling case for sentencing non-violent criminals to not spend $35,000/year punishing her children? Is prison is hard to make. keeping Madoff idle when denying equality of opporGranted, there is undoubt- we can, without serious risk tunity to poor children a edly some deterrent effect, of violence, compel him to compelling enough state in which the behavior of contribute in some small interest to send the mother others is impacted by the way to the betterment of to jail? If the answers to these questions are obvious, threat of imprisonment. society instead.

We, as members of a why is she in jail?

There is also the idea that Continuing along the justice requires we punish country that imprisons far those who defraud, cheat or more of our fellow citizens spectrum, we come to those otherwise steal from us. than anyplace else on earth, who commit victimless Innocent people were cer- are hideously cavalier in our crimes. Imprisoning sometainly and seriously (eco- willingness to deprive oth- one who commits a crime nomically) harmed by ers of their freedom. without a victim is cruel Madoff’s misdeeds. Punish- Imagine a spectrum of justi- and unjust. The father who ment, however, can take fication for imprisonment. gambles his money without many forms. Some of these On one end, the justifica- the State regulating it as a forms are unjust, and it is tion for sentencing violent form of regressive taxation our moral obligation to criminals to prison is clear. on the financially illiterate is We have a right to not be a prime example. No one is change this.

If society should impose physically harmed and to better off if he is compelled its just revenge on Madoff, reduce the risk of violence to play checkers in prison couldn’t we get satisfaction upon innocents. Those who instead of poker in a parlor. knowing that Madoff must commit violent crimes have The imprisonment of these spend the rest of his days pretty clearly demonstrated victimless criminals often engaged in menial labor, that they are incapable of serves only the perverse and

counterproductive. A family is left without a source of income or a parent to raise his or her children. In this case, we again punish the children for the victimless mistakes of the parent.

Letting the non-violent prisoners go free does not mean that all non-violent crimes go unpunished.

Alternatives to prison such as restitution, rehabilitation, fines, community service, drug court diversionary programs and other forms of sentencing can (and do) serve as forms of punishment that deter crime while preserving some of the freedom our country is so rhetorically dedicated to.

True justice requires a massive rethinking of our euphemistically entitled justice system. Many of the non-violent criminals wasting away their lives and our tax dollars in prison are an unsympathetic sort. Many of them have stolen or cheated or vandalized or sold drugs or not paid their taxes. Letting them go free and imposing less draconian and less immoral punishments on them might not make for good politics, but in a country premised on liberty and freedom, one cannot help but wonder what exactly the thousands upon thousands of non-violent and/or victimless criminals are doing in jail. That they remain imprisoned should cause us to question whether our criminal justice system comports with these values of freedom and liberty we so loudly exalt.

Nicholas Kaasik is a third year in the Cornell Law School and the Sun’s Public Editor.

He may be reached at nek43@cornell.edu. Barely Legal runs monthly this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 12 Years of Harrowing Cruelty

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ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Staff Writer

Think back to elementary and high school, when you learned about American slavery as a young student. A chalkboard or PowerPoint slide relayed statistics of the Triangle Trade. You paid attention to key words and concepts that might appear on next day’s fill-in-the-blank quiz. Your life was comfortable enough that this grade seemed to be the only thing at stake. And that was that.

With blunt force, 12 Years a Slave reminds us that embalmed, quasi-objective summaries of America’s greatest shame do not approach anything close to knowledge. For in this draining, but necessary new film, history informs art, but it is art that realizes history. Like Steven Spielberg with Schindler’s List, director Steve McQueen knows that only emotion and, more precisely, pain, convey the true toll of our violent, oft-romanticized past. While you may feel battered around taking in McQueen’s manipulative, unapologetic style of filmmaking, you should also leave the theater grateful. At last, you have witnessed an image of slavery both lucid — for, like most Hollywood pictures, it follows one man and his struggle — and unflinchingly, savagely honest.

Our eyes into history belong to the incredible Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Based on the life and memoir of a freeman-turned-slave of the same name, 12 Years a Slave opens on a plantation where a dejected, much older Solomon hacks away, like a machine, at sugar cane before flashing back to an idyllic suburban family portrait in Saratoga Springs, New York, circa 1841. A gifted carpenter and violinist who has won the favor of the town’s wealthy white folks and its remarkably progressive shopkeeper, Solomon lives a pretty modern life with his wife, daughter and son. Enter Scoot McNairy and SNL’s Taran Killam as two genteel traveling musicians who look like the Mad Hatter and recruit

Solomon’s skills for a tour to Washington D.C. After a night standing frozen like mannequins at auction, rapping a man’s where his hosts made sure his wine glass was always filled to toned chest and lifting a girl’s smooth chin, with awful insinthe brim, Solomon wakes up on the floor of a dungeon, in uations. He sells Solomon, now known as “Platt,” and a rags and chains. A walloping from a studded paddle and the mother (Adepero Oduye) to Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), words, “You ain’t a free man,” welcome Solomon to hell. denying Ford’s half-hearted attempt to appease the mother’s If you would allow me the digression, I would like to look cries to buy her children too. Not the son, the slaver whispers closer at that turning point of a scene, when Solomon gets with glee, because “he will grow into a fine young beast,” and beaten. In the first long take and off-putting composition in not the prepubescent daughter, because give her time and, a film full with them, McQueen and cinematographer Sean well ...

Bobbitt spread Solomon across the foreground of the shot, If the slaver’s inhumanity brings out the gentleness in on his hands and knees, as a white man, out-of-focus in the Ford’s disposition, the scene also reinforces that Ford perpetbackground, strikes his back. Solomon screams in agony with uates this system with a bundle of cash. After Ford gifts every strike, but shadows shroud his contorted face. So, what Solomon a violin for good behavior, the lamenting mother do we have? Solomon, the white man makes sure Solomon doesn’t forand the weapon are all obscured or disget that, “given the circum12 Years a Slave torted from our sight in some way, yet stances,” Ford is still a slave the iconography of a slave receiving owner. after Solomon Directed by Steve McQueen assaults aAnd punishment, from Solomon’s supplisadistic overseer (Paul Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, cant pose to the abstracted colors of Dano, who, after Prisoners and both faces, is unmistakable. In this There Will Blood seems to be Michael Fassbender shot, Solomon stands in for any and all Hollywood’s go-to punching slaves, suffering not just bodily harm bag), Ford whisks his property but the first pangs of becoming someaway to Edwin Epps (Michael thing less than a person.

Fassbender), infamous for From this shot onward, McQueen “breaking” his slaves. By the and screenwriter John Ridley balance the way, this is immediately after two conflicting duties when depicting slavery: humanize your Solomon survives a daylong lynching by tiptoeing in the lead subject (here, Solomon) but do not elevate him above mud, which McQueen films for a suffocating, unbroken eterthe millions of others unable to tell their own story. While nity.

Solomon is more educated and well-spoken than most of his It is at Epps’ cotton plantation where the majority of the fellow slaves, he realizes he must play dumb if he wants to film remains, where Solomon befriends a doomed, kind soul survive in a white man’s world (not unlike Forrest Whitaker’s named Patsey (Lupita Nyong’o) and completes a transformaadaptive servant in Lee Daniels’ The Butler). Slavers look for tion of his own. Patsey has earned the bad fortune of Epps’ obedience to match a slave’s muscles — anything more stirs lust, and thus also his wife Mary’s (Sarah Paulson) cold-eyed revolt. Notice the sickening compliments a slaver (Paul contempt. The scenes between Patsey and the two Epps bring Giamatti) showers over the naked black men and women out a savagery in the so-called civilized white men and women who believe they have a biological mandate to own “inferior” humans. Thankfully, Patsey has Solomon, who has wised up to the dehumanized submission survival requires.

This leads to a horrible, albeit cinematically extraordinary, scene filmed in nauseating handheld, akin to Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible. Not long after, Solomon resolves his guilt and accepts his sorry state in another perfect long take, filmed in tight close-up, where he hesitates before joining in on a graveside Negro spiritual. The internal strife Ejiofor communicates with just his eyes — looking up to God, down to the dirt and, finally, forward ahead — pretty much grasps 12 Years a Slave from McQueen’s hands.

Like Schindler’s List before it, 12 Years a Slave concedes to a fair dose of Hollywood sheen. Mary Epps is so evil she’s lifeless. Hans Zimmer’s score, while effective, reuses Inception’s “Time” motif (which he, in turn, adopted from his Thin Red Line soundtrack). The 134-minute running time almost feels too short, stretching the believability that Solomon’s journey spans 12 years. Brad Pitt shows up near the end, to distracting effect. But if Pitt’s name sells one or 1,000,000 more tickets to see this film, I am on board. For once, a gimme-Oscar pitch has earned its merit through artistry and provocation.

You won’t remember the lashings as much as those despairing human faces. Those you won’t forget.

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

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film’s riveting third act is nothing short of astonishing — during the final moments, Halfway through All Is Lost, it occurred to your jaw will drop. me just how many laws in the cinematic rule- This is where we see book the movie had broken and gotten away Redford at his most with. It stars a character with no name or form intense, pushed to of identification, whom we only know as an near-annihilation in a auburn-haired, American-accented sailor, and lifeboat while sharks whom we better identify with as the legendary swam around him and actor who plays him. It gives its character no storms rage overhead. I backstory whatever and almost no words to found it hard to express his feelings, save for a few SOS calls believe that I could and one f-bomb. And to add to that, there’s continue watching this only one character. This is the territory of stranger whom I knew Gravity, Life of Pi and Cast Away taken to its nothing about; no most extreme, a survival film where we are fit- motivations, no histoted with a single human face to latch onto. ry, no exposition or There is no other human being, tiger or vol- insight into his head. leyball for company. Robert Redford sails the Redford’s role is 100% ocean alone, and it’s totally up to him to make externalized, and he is able to convey everyus believe in his odyssey.

Make us believe he does. Sandra Bullock thing about the was able to take us on an emotional roller essence of fighting for coaster ride by hyperventilating and talking to life out at sea in his mere facial expressions.

How is the plot? Basically, all that can be herself. Redford is an actor of such effortless gravitas that even his simple physical motions told is that the film puts us to work observing and trite behavior is fascinating. The way the a man as he sets sail alone, for unknown rea77-year-old actor climbs the mast of his sail- sons, from an unknown place. We know precious few things about boat, the Virginia him: that he is Jean, is a trip to resourceful, that he is watch. I would be All is Lost intelligent and that he hard-pressed to Directed by J.C. Chandor is doggedly deterthink of many mined, to the point of other actors (perStarring Robert Redford being nearly stoic in haps Jack the face of ferocious Nicholson,or danger. He carries a Daniel Daymap and a pen, which Lewis), who could become his most make such munimportant possessions dane acts as applylater on, as he charts ing glue to a hole in how far adrift his boat has gone. the stern, look interesting on screen.

Our man, who is also not given a name, is That being said, All Is Lost does drag at times. There are moments when it feels like out on the Indian Ocean on his 40-footer the buildup doesn’t justify the payoff, and at when a floating cargo crate rips a hole in his one hour and 40 minutes, the film could have boat and he has to set about repairing it. A done with a 10 minute trim. However, the storm then blows in, so he has to take refuge

A Man, A Boat, A Masterpiece

MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

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down in the cabin. Eventually the boat goes down and our man is reduced to crouching in an inflatable lifeboat, but his willpower never wavers. He baits a hook and waits for fish, sets off flares in the night to attract passing ships.

At one point he comes up with an ingenious way to collect condensation and use it as his water supply, when he realizes his jerry can has sprung a leak. This is the portrait of a man who seems impenetrable, and it builds up to one heart-stopping scene at the movie’s close.

All Is Lost also constitutes a wild departure in style for director J.C. Chandor, whose terrific 2011 Wall Street thriller Margin Call was highly underrated. That film was almost the polar opposite to this one; a dialogue-driven, fast-paced expose that depended entirely on language and discourse, much of it cloaked in lies and deceit. It also featured a large ensemble cast of superstar actors, including Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, and Demi Moore. In All Is Lost, Chandor seems committed to reinventing himself completely, by crafting a scant, slow-paced, meandering

meditation on man’s willpower, in which he drops all recognizable elements from his first feature. That is, except the outstanding talent.

That’s all contained in the work of the movie’s one and only performer.

After a career full of iconic roles, Robert Redford proves he still has an incredible amount of talent that has thus far gone unseen. He has suffered something of a slump in recent years, directing and starring in films like Lions for Lambs and The Company You Keep, but here he earns it all back in spades.

This is the kind of work that would frighten a lesser actor. How does one hold the attention span of an audience throughout the entirety of a film, when everyone’s eyes have nothing to focus on but one craggy face? Redford manages it, with only a wizened and uncannily steady grace.

Mark DiStefano is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

Winter Wubs and Wobbles

t’s officially winter. The first snow is behind us. The degree encroaching hysteria. Simply put, it’s full of the beautiful of windchill has become inversely proportional to my will delirium your masochistic side begs to partake in.

“OPEN” BY RHYE to live. Most store interiors now smell like the mulled The enigmatic neo-soul outfit Rhye has released a number cider spices incubating in Santa’s ass crack. And most importantly, Mariah Carey’s Christmas song started playing at of tracks that both lyrically and sonically speak to the pain Starbucks, filling me with equal parts joy and dread (okay, and passion of intimacy. “Open” was their first single, rife maybe 60:40 joy to dread). Nevertheless, it’s time to reluc- with their now signature sensual minimalism. Though not tantly abandon my summer playlists of rockabilly surf pop my favorite song by Rhye, I’m a sucker for a good opening best befitting warm nights of top-down cruising in lieu of line: “I’m a fool for that shake in your thighs / I’m a fool for some wintry mixes. Yes, in this season of unshakeable that sound in your sigh.” Body positivity and nauseating senMondays, I need the emotional distance of Daughter to lull timentality? Shit, it’s the aural equivalent of an ee cummings me into a state of impermeable melancholia. This probably poem — the cadence of a sorrowful lullaby with impossibly comes off as more somber than I actually am — I promise ethereal finesse. The vocals conjure many comparisons to, only to pretend to be this tragic — but there’s nothing like red well, satin sheets, with sounds so smooth no doubt 2003 holiday cups and the onset of beanie season to make me Usher must play Rhye as mood music. Bold statement: “Open” could be the modern day evolve past the wubs and Sade’s “By Your Side.” Boom. wobbles of hard-pounding “NO DIGGITY” hits for a sea of synth pulses

BY CHET FAKER and sparse falsettos. Here This Blackstreet cover comare some songs glacial bines two guilty pleasures of mine: enough to rival Ithaca’s arcghettofabulousness and lo-fi electic chill: tro textures. Together, it’s a song of “PARANTHESIS” Profanity velveteen luxury. Fortunately, “No

BY TRICKY FEAT. Prayers Diggity” comprises no lyrics of THE ANTLERS Chet Faker’s own imagination, ’90s trip-hop pioneer Tricky dropped this hit from his latest album, False Idols, as a which is to say, the dude possesses comparable lyrical artistry reworking of The Antler’s original track titled, “Parantheses,” to Ginuwine or Fabolous. Yeah, not good. Nevertheless, this from their second studio release. The Antlers’ debut album track’s got the right lounge-y feel and grizzly vocals to lean the Hospice was the go-to angst music of my high school years — song more towards Abel Tesfaye’s ironic sexploitation and not, as my friend so eloquently tweets, “Hospice, man: the album like, Nate Dogg’s overt barbarism — um, hopefully, I think.

“WINTER IS ALL OVER YOU (BAAUER REMIX)” responsible for approximately 47% of the tears shed in my

BY FIRST AID KIT lifetime.” I recently caught their set at Le Poisson Rouge in The same Baauer that brought you the “Harlem Shake” the City, and I shit you not, the entire crowd of faux-lumberjack Williamsburgites was teary from (Antlers’s vocalist) Peter internet phenomenon has a SoundCloud full of No Doubt Silberman’s fragile falsetto. It really just hurt that good. Yet, and Disclosure remixes. This one is most notable not only Tricky’s version is impossibly more morose, layering his own because it features the lovely and lovelier Swedish Soderberg dark mumblings under Peter Silbermann’s woozy vocals. sisters, but also for defying the standard trap and bass samAltogether, the track plays like a horror movie made sophisti- pling library in choosing, of all things, a folk remix. Yes, cated by the touch of an auteur, or like a battle against ever- because the only thing I’d want for my folk vocals, bereft of

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any distortion or sonic accoutrements, is, well, actually, some sonic accoutrements. Folk has never sounded less like a Bon Iver B-Side and more like hypnosis for drones … I mean, in a good way, of course.

“CLAIRE DE LUNE”

BY FLIGHT FACILITIES FEAT. CHRISTINE HOBERG Flight Facilities, the Australian electropop duo of aeronautical engineers, has really made the rounds with “Claire De Lune,” after it’s initial release in 2012. The track, which reportedly took an entire year to produce, has received numerous iterations in the forms of remixes by Motez, Crazy P, Them Jeans, and Prins Thomas. Ahhh, nothing like besmirching the fine reverence of Debussy with some skittering snares. It’s right in all the ways that’s it wrong. Truly though, this song is perfect for subzero treks to class. As Hugo, one-half of Flight Facilities, says, “All we really wanted was to make a bed time song that anyone could put on repeat and eventually become unaware of where it starts or finishes.”

Fortunately, with gloved fingers and dazed 8:40 existential crises, you won’t mind when you can’t swipe to a new track on your touch screen. In fact, it has just enough upkick in its tempo to wake you up in a chiming tropical reverie, just as the third repeat has you sailing into the Arts Quad.

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

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And now presenting the most bouncy, lactating, squeezable, udderly breast rank in the Ivy League: Rank N (ipple) 2013!

Christian “cookiepocalypse” Compton Jacob “ultra balls” Herrera Jon “trail of test strips” Altiero Jordan “tasteful nipple” Isenberg Kelly “r/ClopClop” Rico Kevin “fireball fetish” Palm Mihir “you where?” Marathe Paul “Asian centerfold” Zhang Sean “sidewalk nap” Li Love, your rank leaders Louis “drop pants” Widom Melissa “horny hobo” Harbert And now, becAuse “A” doesn’t AlwAys hAve to stAnd for “AttendAnce,” presenting the only reAl flute rAnk with Atypical horn moves, Airborne Acrobats, and Ample Asses in the only reAl mArching bAnd in the ivy leAgue!

Katie “master pumpkin gardener” Callaghan Natalie “elephantabulous!” Gonzalez Kristin “purky tofurkey” Hildebrant Maria “bitten and smitten” Blechl Sarah “the struggle is real” Kimball Sam “social media mama” Primeaux Stephanie “let me show you my hamster” Tarlowe Rie “real adorable” Seu And now, because four minds are as creative as none, presenting the only REAL rank $ in the Ivy League...

Steve “Not Sam” Slaughter Sam “Not Steve” Mccoy Isaac “Not Freddy” Kruger “Captain” Cameron Glass Ethan “Safety Dance” Green Thank$ for a $uper $ea$on!

Blake “Ne demeliyim?” Dauphinais Paul “Greatest Hits!” Jackson Jesse “Good at name quotes” Garcia Nick “Also good at name quotes” Webb

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1 P ERSONALS

1 P ERSONALS

1 P ERSONALS

17 H ELP WANTED

And now, because Magnificent, Mighty, Marching, and MDIBAH all start with M, presenting the only REAL rank M in the Ivy League.

Will “Oo-ee-oo” Milne Ellery “I’m coming to band this year, I swear” Smith Elizabeth “Little Mama’s House” Corteselli Henry “no ifs ands or butts” Smith Rachel “Doesn’t Settle” Faust Daniel “You’re Doing It” Rong Peter “Conquistador” Csernica Evan “has touched the hearts of more men than a cardiac surgeon” Holmes Thanks for a great semester, Rank M! Love, Buddy Holly and Schwegger

And now, presenting the only REAL 8 mile wide section in the Ivy League… Rank H Reade “This one time on swim team...”

Otto-Moudry Sean “The humor judge” Hardy Sam “He doesn’t even go here” Katz Katie “Dairy Queen” Shaw Alex “Hakuna Matata” Schord Steve “Hot pants” Salerno Jordan “ERMAHGERD ___” Gless Andrew “Sports!” Distler John “Back & better than ever” Flanagan All of our love, Nicole “Screw Mars, Imma study Uranus” Bardabelias & Jess “Grammy” Landis

Rank T: Ed “Betty” Crocker Kevin “PAM!” Kruempelstaedter Jamie “Cream Sauce” Kellner Anton “Wants a Hippopotamus for Hannukah” Gilgur Istvan “Wheat Grass” Burbank Marek “Consuela” Kwasnica Ava “Cookies R Good” Fan Anjum “Indescribably Grammy” Malik Colette “Slippery Panda” Trouillot Jonah “Kinky Boots” Pellechia Josh “The Fave” Reichler Jordan “Dalek Killer” Silver Tom “Listens to K-Pop Ironically” Perz Kevin “Nicknames are Too Mainstream” Mollica “Magic” Mike Byrne Thanks for the great year!!

Love, Brock “Sludgewrap Supreme” Mendoza Julia “Boyfriend” Buffinton and Nate “Enlightened Despot” Floro

“House keeper needed urgently...Also administrative work is also involved such as shopping, travel arrangements, pickup items,taking and screening calls,writing down messages..Might also be needed to travel with the family..Paid $500 weekly.

Send resumes to: myresume181@gmail.com.

Steve – we did it! Thanks for making this a great year. I can’t imagine having a better partner in crime to lead this crazy organization. My only regret is not DEMANDING carrot cake at BRBAA meetings…

Love, Shelby

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And now, because Rank F loves fajitas, presenting the only F’Leslie rank in the Ivy League: Emma “The Original F’Leslie” Mosier Hallie ”Abstract Show F’Leslie” Klein Jason ”Sassy Pants F’Leslie” Hutzler Kim ”Acapella F’Leslie” Snyder Marcus ”Ladder Carrying F’Leslie” Foo Melvin ”Not Jesse F’Leslie” Li Mike ”Bubbles F’Leslie” Iadevaia Rene ”Disappearing F’Leslie” Tsukawaki Ross ”Frat F’Leslie” Widom Love your rank leaders, Bri ”Momma F’Leslie” DeRooy and Dhanya ”Adventuring F’Leslie” Tadipatri And now, because to be honest a bunch of band geeks marching around isn’t all that visually appealing, the Big Red Color Guard!

Jenn “there’s no place like Ithaca” Cooper Kuen Kuen “more graceful than you” Sim Catherine “too classy for you” Nease Melissa “matching” Icaza Emma “onsies” Rosenthal Daphne “running through the band room” Shen Venna “flower child” Wang Ekemini “stop touchin’ me” Isaiah Rachel “it wasn’t me” Langley Sarah “what are we doing?” Acre Odile “BUUURP” Maurelli Suzannah “is this enough color for you?”

Bretz Hannah “honorary frat boy” Dunn Amanda “they’re coming for me” Morrison And now, because we put the O in OHHH JAAAAA, presenting the members of the only REAL Rank O in the Ivy League…

Tim “freshly squeezed waaatah” Coda Gennesis “Chi-town taco champ” Meza Katie “basement dweller” Wawro Julia “half-grizzly, all woman” Parrish Laura “see you on the trip” Davidson Josh “band?” Robbins Love, your rank leaders: Inky “ambassador to Lesbia” Lamson Michaela ”rainbow passport“ Olson And now, because we somehow avoided decapitating each other, presenting the most Radical, Rocking Rank: Rank ARRR! Jackie “identity crisis” Horn Claire “helicopter cat” Coulter Hannah “something something coffee” Smith Lyndsie “impromptu 7/4” Collis Crunch Wrap “Nate Baker” Supreme Tim “let me show you my pokemans” Healy Love, Your Rank leaders, Josh “code anywhere, anytime” Schupp and Stef “below 40°? shorts.” Lash And now, because Z is for terrible, if you’re terrible at Zpelling, preZenting, the only REAL rank in Ivy League Ben “Zection Leader” RobbinZ JeZZie “Marching JeZuZ” Wu Eric “ZancheZ” GatZby Julia “Not Ze evil twin” JoZeph MeliZZa “Zeriously, Zuper Zwell!” Bravo Evie “LickZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ” Murphy NicholaZ “Three beatZ behind and/or ahead” Cheng ChriZtine “Rather be Zzzzzz” MuZZianti And now, presenting the only truly EXCELLENT rank in the Ivy League, Rank E(STROGEN)!!!

Dan “hysterical” Hanggi Julia “Pika-chuuu” Ridley Michael “how many majors?!” Lee Liz “erotic Armenian husbands” Klueber Julia “lives in Millstein” Cole Julian “gotta Ketchum all” Whitman Serena “LESLEY!” Takada Love, your EXEMPLARY rank leaders, Jess “the mayor” Wong Anita “Joel on loop!” Mbogoni Shelbyyyy!

We did it! Who would have thought back in freshman year that it would have been the two of us running this crazy band?

Working with you this year has been amazing and I couldn’t have asked for a better partner in crime (terror?).

Love, Steeeeeeeeve

And now, presenting the only truly EXCELLENT rank in the Ivy League, Rank E(STROGEN)!!!

Dan “hysterical” Hanggi Julia “Pika-chuuu” Ridley Michael “how many majors?!” Lee Liz “erotic Armenian husbands” Klueber Julia “lives in Millstein” Cole Julian “gotta Ketchum all” Whitman Serena “LESLEY!” Takada Love, your EXEMPLARY rank leaders, Jess “the mayor” Wong Anita “Joel on loop!” Mbogoni

And now, presenting the J’azziest, J’ankiest, and J’olliest sax rank in the Ivy League...

Miles “Sold out for IBM” Pedrone David “Still can’t differentiate Steve and Sam” Li Joey “Freshman taxi driver” Fagnilli Chris “Getting his MR degree with Marcus” Harvey Julien “Strong but silent” Armstrong Ben “Safety Rick/Beyonce’s got nothin’ on me” Siper Serge “Rodeo clown” Preciado Sarah “Fashion AND function” Palmer Will “I give you my...” Blessing Kelly “I got this, guys!” Yu Thanks everyone for a great season!

Best, Courtney “Nana loves her grandchildren” Stokes Duncan “First Man” Hall

Hey band! The ref beats his wife The wife beats her kids The kids beat the dog The dog beats the cat The cat beats the mouse The mouse beats the cheese The Cheese beats Gordon Gordon beats Chamberlain Chamberlain beats Meier Meier beats French French beats Cohen Cohen beats himself Choen beats Frank Frank beats himself Frank beats Gerbracht Gerbracht beats Minster Minster beats Wolf Wolf beats John John beats James James beats Ball Ball beats Kerman Kerman beats Tucker Tucker beats Caulfield Caulfield beats Seery Seery beats Gerson Gerson beats Richmond Richmond beats Reno Reno beats herself Reno beats Albanese Albanese beats OLSON!!!!

Congratulations to your 2014 Drum Major, Michaela Olson!

Laura”MID: Missing in Daction” Chang Prabudhya”Which library should I go to after practice?” Bhattacharyya Alisa”TORTORO PUMPKIN” Lee Helen”WE WANT YOU BACK” He Isabella”Knitting-selfie” Swyst Kimberly”Never enough purple!” Jack Rachel”JINKIES”Gima Thanks for another wonDerful season!

Love, Your Rank Leaders Kristin”CAN YOU GUYS LEARN THE LYRICS ALREADY” Cantele Natasha”Being recruited for the NFL faster than the football team” Steinhall and Emily”IT’S THE FREAKING STATUE OF LIBERTY” Miller

Rank S: And Now, because Viscount Rohan the Dark is vegetarian, so that’s more bacon for us, Presenting the only Real Rank S in the Ivy League: Frank “Let my banana irradiate you!” Gonzalez Brendan “ “ Duffy Blaine “Nick Beibel” Gabbert Michelle “Fire Ferrets” Szeto Eric “Hell No, K Won’t Go!” Chang Ryan “Always watching you” Larkin Natalie “Excidered” Freidin Rohan “Should probably start running now...” Acharya

And now, because that podium isn’t putting itself together, presenting the only REAL Rank Sideline in the only REAL marching band in the Ivy League!

Marcus “I only have eyes for…” Foo Annalee “I LIKE TURTLES” Tweitmann Jess “whale hello there” Landis Jen “Bri’s apartment? Weekend home” Davis Love, Shelby “WHAT is the Princeton band DOING” Hulett Though it needs no introduction, I present the only REAL drumline in the Ivy League.

Drumline is the best.

SNARES FREDRICK BLAISDELL EMILY FRECH SANGRAG GANGULI GORDON GUSTAFSON WARREN SEARS TENORS NATE CHERTACK ALEX SETTLE ZACK STAIR KIRSTIN TORGERSON BASSES KIM FERREIRA EVAN GAO KAYLIN GREENE DAVE KELLY KEVIN LEE JORDAN RIOS VINCENT SHEPPARD CYMBALS LAUREN CHAN PETER FERENZ MICHAEL FOX CATHY HAN KIKI LI KELSEY PIEL KAIYA PROVOST JAMES WU BELLS VICTORIA DYE ELLEN PATRIDGE EMILY SHERTZER Drumline – you guys made this season awesome and I couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks for the memories. Good luck seniors!

ROCK OUT AND BE BADA** Your 2013 Drum Captain, Warren Sears

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no longer calling the signals for Columbia, and consequently, the quarterback position has been a problem for them. The Lions have split the quarterback position three ways, but none have proven particularly successful. Trevor McDonagh has thrown for 605 yards and two touchdowns on the season, but the other two quarterbacks have combined for only one more score.

For a team that has been shut out twice this season and has only put two touchdowns on the board one time, offensive production has been hard to come by. The Lions’ main threat comes from running back Marcorus Garrett, who has four rushing touchdowns, more than half of the team’s total. The Red is familiar with the play of Garrett, though, as he ran for 187 yards in the matchup last year, including an 86-yard touchdown run. Columbia’s offensive misgivings aside, Gellatly said his team is still looking forward to a battle.

“We are expecting a physical game Saturday against Columbia,” he said. “Last year they came out with more energy than we did and we know we have to play well and with a lot of emotion.”

That opportunity would be a long time coming for heach coach David Archer ’05 and his staff, who have yet to record an Ivy League win.

“This season has not gone the way we were hoping and we do not think we have played to our potential at points this season,” Gellatly said. “Coach Archer has given more to this program than anyone and all of us want to see him succeed.”

A losing record has not changed the players’ appreciation for the unique and improved atmosphere Archer brings to the locker room.

“Coach Archer is building a great culture around our program, and though we have not had the immediate success we would have liked, this program is headed in the right direction because of him,” Gellatly said. “A win Saturday would mean a lot because no one deserves it more than Coach Archer.”

Though Gellatly’s claim that Archer has put the program on the right track bodes well for the future of Cornell football, Gellatly and his fellow senior class will unfortunately not be able to see that turnaround. Saturday marks the final home game for 23 seniors on the roster, who will all be honored before the game.

“It hasn’t really set in yet that my time here at Cornell is coming to a close,” Gellatly said. “I try and stay in the moment and just enjoy every part of it. This university and this football program have given me so much and it is hard to think that Saturday is my last home game.”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS ROUND

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REBECCA SCOTT SHAILEE HARRIS CHIUSANO SHAH

AKANE OTANI

CAMUTI

LIZ

ARIEL COOPER

MILY SCHROEDER BEERMAN

ANDY LEVINE

HALEY VELASCO

CORNELL V. COLUMBIA

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

CORNELL

PENN V. HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

DARTMOUTH V. BROWN

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

BROWN

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

YALE V. PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

GEORGIA V. AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

FLORIDA V. SOUTH CAROLINA

FLORIDA

U.S.C.

FLORIDA

U.S.C.

U.S.C.

FLORIDA

U.S.C.

U.S.C.

U.S.C.

U.S.C.

JETS V. BILLS

JETS

JETS

JETS

JETS

JETS

JETS

JETS

JETS

JETS

JETS

RAVENS V. BEARS

RAVENS

BEARS

RAVENS

BEARS

RAVENS

BEARS

BEARS

RAVENS

BEARS

BEARS

RAIDERS V. TEXANS

RAIDERS

RAIDERS

RAIDERS

RAIDERS

RAIDERS

RAIDERS

TEXANS

TEXANS

RAIDERS

RAIDERS

PACKERS V. GIANTS

GIANTS

GIANTS

PACKERS

GIANTS

GIANTS

GIANTS

PACKERS

GIANTS

GIANTS

GIANTS

LAST WEEK

6-4

5-5

5-5

5-5

6-4

5-5

4-6

6-4

5-5

5-5

TOTAL

42-38

40-40

40-40

43-37

48-32

42-38

48-32

50-30

42-38

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Schafer, who just two weeks ago became the 35th NCAA hockey coach to notch 350 career victories, recounted how the Red has already battled No. 6 Quinnipiac (9-1-1, 3-0-1), No. 10 Rensselaer (6-2-2, 2-1-2) and what was once a top-15 team in Union (4-3-2, 3-1) this month.

In fact, after this week Cornell will have faced five of the ECAC’s top six squads in the team’s first six conference games.

“We need to play well this weekend and knowing that in the future we’ve got a lot more games back at Lynah Rink,” Schafer said.

One of the challenges for the Red on the road this week will be generating scoring opportunities. In the last three games, Cornell has been shut out twice and has had only one goal by an offensive player — senior forward Dustin Mowrey’s power play score from the slot in the closing seconds at RPI. Coach Schafer has continued to mix up his lines in the four games since junior forward Cole Bardreau’s undisclosed injury.

“We’ve missed Cole since he’s been out,” Schafer said. “His energy, you talk about playing with speed and focus. I was pretty hard on our guys Monday, and who was the guy who lifted their spirits on Monday — it was Cole Bardreau.

And when we came out in the first few shooting drills it’s him that’s kind of lifted their spirits — that’s the kind of kid he is.”

“He’s just one of those unique players,” Schafer added. “But hockey is like every other sport — when a guy goes down we’ve got to fight forward — he’s not there. So it’s a matter of other guys picking that attitude up.”

Despite failing to outshoot opponents in every game this season, the Red has relied on quality chances and the nation’s sixth best power play conversion rate to generate goals. Perhaps the biggest offensive contributor of late has been junior defenseman Joakim Ryan, who scored two goals and drew the penalty against RPI that sprung Mowrey’s tying goal — assisted by none other than Ryan.

“It’s obviously nice to always contribute to the team,” Ryan said. “Every point in our league’s tough. To get that one point is big and, it’s obviously nice to put a couple in the ... net.”

Ryan will likely be needed on both ends of the ice again this weekend. Cornell will enter Cheel Arena against a Clarkson team that just completed a road sweep of Dartmouth (0-6, 0-4) and Harvard (2-3-1, 1-3-1). The Friday matchup will be a reunion of sorts, as the Red will face off against former alumnus and associate head coach Casey Jones ’90, now in his second season as head coach for the Golden Knights.

Even if the contest is close, however, it could spell trouble for the Red. Clarkson is 6-0-1 in games decided by one goal this season.

The storyline Saturday at St. Lawrence will be similar, as the Saints currently boasting another impressive streak — five consecutive games unbeaten.

“St. Lawrence — they’ve got Greg Carey back, their big goal-scorer,” Ryan said. “He’s going to be a guy we’re going to have to focus in on.”

SLU senior forward Greg Carey led the nation with 28 goals in 2012-2013, and his freshman brother Matt has come onboard for the Saints this season. The duo has teamed up for a total of 14 goals and 18 assists in just ten games. It will be up to Ryan and the Red defense to quiet the fans at Appleton Arena and hold St. Lawrence to under their current average of four goals per game.

“Personally I like getting on the road with all the guys,” Ryan said. “Playing on the road you’re always facing adversity, the crowd’s not with you.

For the icers, it’s been a tough week of working to correct the mental errors that plagued the team against RPI and Union. But with that frustration has come the drive to grab a tough, physical road win.

“It’s a tremendous opportunity for us,” Schafer said. “[Clarkson and St. Lawrence] have always been good — fallen on some tough times in the last few years — but now you kind of see resurgence in these guys. Clarkson was picked twelfth in the poll in our league and here they are sitting at No. 1 in the league and No. 10 in the country, so they know it’s going to be difficult.”

“This weekend’s huge,” Ryan said. “We need a couple wins. We don’t expect anything less. If we don’t get two wins this weekend it’s going to be a disappointment.”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.

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team’s interim head coach.

Kerwick has previously coached teams at Hobart College and Jacksonville University.

Gilbane expressed his confidence that Kerwick, along with the team’s other coaches, will “keep the team focused and lead them in this difficult time.”

DeLuca has been a “fixture on the Cornell men’s lacrosse sideline for more than a decade,” Cornell Athletics says on DeLuca’s online profile, noting that the lacrosse veteran boasted a string of accomplishments dating back to his undergraduate years — including being a four-year letterwinner and serving as captain his senior year. Under DeLuca’s tenure as head coach, the men’s lacrosse team went 37-11 overall and 16-2 in the Ivy League, the Associated Press reported.

“He will always be a part of the Big Red family,” said Scott Austin ’12, former attackman for the team. “He gave a considerable part of his life to Cornell.”

The University said that while it recognizes DeLuca’s contributions to the lacrosse team, new leadership is necessary to “best serve our students and to continue our lacrosse program’s decadeslong tradition of excellence.”

DeLuca’s dismissal comes a little more than three years after the University named him head coach of the lacrosse program.

The University’s actions against the lacrosse team in September marked the latest of its efforts to stamp out hazing across campus, which gained national attention after former Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother George Desdunes ’13 died in a kidnapping ritual in Spring 2011. Penning an op/ed in The New York Times that August, President David Skorton pledged to end hazing on Cornell’s campus — especially that which involved “high-risk drinking.”

Since then, the University has disciplined numerous student organizations for engaging in “misconduct that exhibits hazing and/or a threat or disregard for students’ mental health or physical health and safety.” In the 2012-13 academic year, at least nine fraternities and sororities were disciplined for hazing, according to Cornell’s anti-hazing website, which details the incidents online.

Groups that self-report incidents to the University and eliminate the practices are not subject to the “Sunshine Policy,” which necessitates public disclosure of hazing incidents.

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Men’s Lacrosse Coach DeLuca ’98 Fired University states dismissal will‘best serve our students’

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

The University has dismissed Ben DeLuca ’98, head coach of men’s lacrosse, two months after the team’s upperclassmen were caught forcing freshmen to chug beer in a hazing incident.

“This was a difficult decision, but our students are our first priority and there is no doubt now that new leadership is “This was a required,” Andy Noel, director of difficult decision, Athletics and Physical Education, but our students said in a statement Thursday.

Neither Noel nor other are our first University officials were availpriority and there able to answer questions from is no doubt now the press about why DeLuca was dismissed. DeLuca was that new also unavailable for comment leadership is Thursday evening.

Multiple alumni and forrequired.” mer lacrosse players said they Andy Noel were shocked to hear the news.

J.J. Gilbane ’12, a former midfielder for the team, said the dismissal of DeLuca — who he said “lives and breathes Cornell lacrosse” — came as “a complete surprise” to both him and other alumni.

The news has left people “dumbfounded,” added Rob Pannell ’13, former captain of the lacrosse team, who told Bloomberg News the team and alumni believe hazing allegations were related to DeLuca’s dismissal.

“They had no idea this was coming and are very upset

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Dismissing DeLuca | Two months after a hazing allegation, followed by sanctions against the men’s lacrosse team, head coach Ben DeLuca ’98 was dismissed from his coaching postition yesterday by the University.

with the news,” Pannell told Bloomberg News.

Just two months earlier, the University announced it had suspended the men’s lacrosse team because of reports that upperclassmen had hazed its freshmen. After investigating the incident — which allegedly involved freshmen being asked to stand together in a circle and chugging beer to the point where some of them vomited — the University cancelled the team’s fall games.

While the nationally competitive team’s season does not start until the spring, University officials maintained that the punishment was a “tough penalty.”

“What it represents is an opportunity for the coaching staff to see the freshman and younger players in four competitions, and that is input that they find very valuable," Noel said following the fall games’ cancellation. The team was also asked to participate in anti-hazing education programs in the incident’s aftermath.

As the University launches a national search for DeLuca’s replacement, Matt Kerwick, who served as the Red’s assistant coach in its 2013 season, will work as the See DELUCA page 15

FOOTBALL

Nearing End of 2013 Season, Gridders Prep to Beat Lions

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

A 2013 football season that began on Schoellkopf field with a 45-13 rout over Bucknell is now just two games away from coming to a close, yet little has changed.

That win remains the sole victory for a Red team that has fought hard against Ivy powerhouses like Harvard and Princeton, but come

up short for seven weekends in a row.

Back on its home turf after a two-week hiatus, though, Cornell will take on another winless Ancient Eight team in Columbia (0-8, 0-5 Ivy), hoping to give the seniors a positive memory in their final game on Schoellkopf.

The Red is coming off a 34-6 loss to Dartmouth, the first time all season its offense has been held

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Ivy League for days | For the final home game of the 2013 season, the Red looks to face the Lions in a battle of the Ancient Eight.

to just one score. This was in large part due to Dartmouth’s formidable defense, ranked No. 1 in the Ivy League, which controlled the first half. The Red had only 83 yards of offense at the break, with senior quarterback Jeff Mathews completing an uncharacteristic five of ten passes for just 47 yards.

According to senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly, getting on the board early will be a focal point for the team this weekend.

“Our approach is to play a full 60 minutes of football,” he said.

“The last two weeks we have come out sluggish and have not executed to our ability. We have faith in our game plan, we just need to come out with more focus and cannot afford to make the mistakes we have made the past two weekends.”

Last season, the Red fell to Columbia, 34-17, in the Empire State Bowl. The Lions’ quarterback Sean Brackett threw for three touchdowns and 193 yards, providing most of the offense for his team. Brackett, a senior last year, is See FOOTBALL page 14

Back to the Empire State | The Red returns to N.Y. for two matchups.

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Cornell Icers to Face Clarkson,St.Lawrence

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

Fresh off a two-game road trip to the Capital District, the men’s icers will hop back on the bus this weekend for a trip to the North Country.

The No. 19 Red (3-2-1, 12-1 ECAC) will be looking to quell a three-game winless skid against surging No. 11

Clarkson (9-2-1, 3-1-0) Friday at 7p.m. and No. 17 St. Lawrence (6-2-2, 2-0-2) Saturday at 7p.m.

“Going into this weekend, it’s a tremendous opportunity for us,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said. “You go back to the teams we’ve played in the ECAC and it’s great for us.”

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